Exciting, informative. Every Monday, your host Brian Hamrick interviews real world real estate investors and industry professionals to discuss topics, tips, and techniques designed to make you a more confident and successful rental property owner and real estate investor. Guests include buy and hold investors, flippers, wholesalers, property managers, brokers, legal advisors, insurance providers, mortgage brokers—you name it, we’re talking to some of the top names in the business.
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EP269 How Laundromats, Hair Salons and Car Washes can Diversify Your Rental Income Streams with Keith Leimbach
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My guest today has spent the last few years building and acquiring small businesses and real estate investments to create diversified income streams. He’s invested in franchises, hair salons, laundromats, short-term rentals, car washes, and other assets with lucrative returns but not a lot of information available on how to get started. Luckily, he…
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EP268 How He's Raised over $42 Million from Friends and Family to Invest in Apartments, Hospitality, Office, NNN Lease and Cannabis, with Al Vardya
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I’m excited to be talking with a good friend and mentor of mine today about raising equity from investors. Al Vardya successfully exited a 26-year career in the Information Technology Industry and began investing in Real Estate back in 2011. He started with single-family homes that he still owns and manages, and then began investing in commercial r…
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RPOA Special Announcement: Virtual Conference Kicks Off Thursday with Economics Professor Paul Isely
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The RPOA's annual conference will be held virtually in 2021! Each month beginning this Thursday, February 18th, we'll be bringing you an exciting new main event - national speaker, deal room, breakout sessions, or legislative and economic updates - in addition to each event having plenty of opportunity to network (up to 500 people per event!) and c…
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EP267 How She Went From Being Homeless to Building a 250–Unit Portfolio and a $14M Development with Terrica Lynn Smith
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My guest today can best be described as someone who has overcome great odds to achieve incredible things. Terrica Lynn Smith is a real estate broker and investor holding over 250 properties in Louisiana. She’s the developer of a $14Million mixed-use community and founding partner of one of the largest private real estate crowdfunding companies in h…
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EP266 Investing in Notes and Helping Homeowners Stay In Their Homes During a Pandemic with Martin Saenz
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According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one to four-unit residential properties has reached the highest level since 2010, when we were deep into the great recession. As of November 2020, over 7.6% of borrowers are 90 days or more behind on paying their mortgage. In the midst of this national crisis,…
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EP265 His First Syndication and How He Went From a Duplex to a 76-Unit Apartment Complex with Lee Fjord
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My guest today just completed his first syndication on a 76-unit apartment complex in St. Louis, Missouri, right in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Lee Fjord got his start in property management and began investing for himself in 2016. Through the Power of Partnerships he’s done a series of joint ventures and has built his portfolio up to 124 door…
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EP264 How He's Building Legacy Wealth Investing In Alaska Real Estate with Joe Bell
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What does it mean to build Legacy Wealth in real estate investing? Many of us are doing deals, making our offers, rehabbing and flipping our properties, and trying to make a profit. But when we look beyond our day-to-day workflow, what do we see ahead of us? Are we actually building Legacy Wealth that will allow us to retire with passive cashflow a…
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EP263 Legal, Title, and Property Challenges In Real Estate Investing and How To Fix Them, with Dickie Baldwin
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Real Estate Investing can present many challenges that both new and seasoned investors find difficult to overcome. If you’re investing out-of-state, it might be difficult to get a broker price opinion, title search, or secure a property that has gone vacant. In my own business, we quite often need someone to mow the lawn on an REO, or help us creat…
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EP262 How to Create your Own 'Hidden' Opportunities by Using Publicly Available Records and Data with Sean O'Toole
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When it comes to successful real estate investing, having access to reliable and accurate data can have a huge impact on your profit potential. Technology has brought us to a point where there’s an abundance of data available, you just have to know where to find it and how to use it properly. Today’s guest is levelling the playing field by helping …
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EP261 How He Created 72 Streams of Multiple Income with Bryan Miller
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My guest today could be called ‘prolific’ in many different ways. First of all, he’s an accomplished Film Composer in Los Angeles who has created music for many popular movies and tv shows. He’s also prolific in his Real Estate Investing in that he’s created 72 Streams of Income and enjoys his share of the cash-flow from over 25,000 rental units co…
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EP260 Taking Calculated Risks in Commercial Real Estate during the Coronavirus Pandemic with Johnny Merritt
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Many businesses are struggling to stay afloat during this Covid-19 pandemic, and Commercial real estate is no exception. So how can real estate investors and professionals stay ahead of the curve, and what type of calculated risks could actually be beneficial for commercial real estate? Today, we’re going to talk with an attorney who’s 30 years of …
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EP259 Success Tips on Short Sales and Pre-Foreclosure Investing with Dwan Bent-Twyford
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During the Great Recession there was a lot of opportunity for those who knew how to invest in short sales and foreclosure properties. As the economy improved over the past 10 years, these strategies were needed less and less for various reasons. But now with Coronavirus’ impact on our economy, is this cycle starting up again? My guest today not onl…
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EP258 How He Went from Zero to 400 Units by Converting Owners into Sellers, with Sterling White
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What does it take to find off-market deals and convert the owners of these properties into sellers? My guest today is going to help answer that question. Sterling White is a multifamily investor who specializes in value-add apartments in Indianapolis and other midwestern markets. In just under 10 years he’s created a $19 Million portfolio through h…
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EP257 Is the Housing Boom About to Go Bust, or is it Just Getting Started? With Bob Fraser
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Housing values have been rising steadily since the Great Recession, and many people, like myself, have been watching from the sidelines while investors and homeowners pay prices we wouldn’t have dreamed of ten years ago. Many investors think the housing market shows troubling similarities to 2008, but my guest today disagrees and believes the housi…
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EP256 How To Pay Full Asking Price and Still Make a Huge Profit by Understanding Seller Psychology with Eddie Speed
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Anyone who has spent time researching notes and seller financing is going to be familiar with today’s guest. Over the past 40 years he has purchased more than 40,000 notes and his NoteSchool executive team has bought 3.5 billion dollars in notes. He’s an esteemed teacher of all aspects of real estate notes, won many industry awards and is an inaugu…
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EP255 Discover Her Blueprint for Short-Term Rental Success, with Avery Carl
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My guest today played goalkeeper for a Big 12 Championship-winning women’s soccer team, spent years touring the world as the lead guitar player in a punk rock band, and became a millionaire by the age of 31 by strategically investing in short term and vacation rental properties. Avery Carl owns a portfolio of 30 properties and is the CEO and founde…
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EP254 Getting into the GUTS of Rental Property: Electrical & Plumbing, Septic Systems, and Investing in Problem Properties with Mike Bonadies
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Today we’re going to talk about the dirty and gritty side of investing in real estate and the unglamorous aspects that most rental owners have to deal with, such as septic clean ups, eviction clean-outs, pre-1920’s construction and investing in C & D, and even F properties. These are the parts of our business that people rarely think about that can…
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EP253 Shifting Your Property Manager Mindset to Reduce Stress and Earn More Money with Gary Spencer-Smith
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One of the reasons people are reluctant to start investing in real estate is that they don’t want to deal with tenants, toilets & trash. And anyone who manages residential real estate will tell you that it can be very stressful and time consuming. My guest today is going to help us tackle those reservations head on. He believes that property manage…
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EP252 What Happened after 2 A.M. in this Haunted House? with Reverend Gerald Hunter
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Spend the Night with me in a Haunted House! Welcome to Part 2 of our Halloween Series on Haunted Houses, Apparitions, Paranormal Experiences, and the Roommates who don’t pay rent & can’t be evicted. In part one (episode #251) you were introduced to a retired reverend who has been experiencing paranormal activity and communicating with the dead sinc…
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EP251 Haunted Houses, Paranormal Activity, and the Roommates Who Don't Pay Rent and Can't Be Evicted with Reverend Gerald Hunter
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Welcome to our Special Halloween Edition with all new stories about Haunted Houses, Apparitions, Paranormal Experiences, and the Roommates Who Don't Pay Rent, and Can't Be Evicted. We did something similar 3 years ago on EP#94 and it was one of my favorite all-time episodes. Today we go even deeper into paranormal phenomenon and I know you're going…
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EP250 An Exclusive Inside Look at What Goes Into Making This Podcast with Brian Hamrick
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Hello & welcome to episode 250. We’ve reached the quarter-century mark and I thought I'd do things a little differently to celebrate this milestone. We’re not going to have a guest today, I’m just going to spend a little time talking with you about the show: giving you a behind-the-scenes peek at how we put it together, answering some of your quest…
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EP249 How She's Achieving 2X Returns in High Cost Areas by Investing in Rent-Controlled Properties and Converting Hotels to Multifamily with Sri Latha
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When you live in a high cost area such as the San Francisco Bay community, you have to apply some serious out-of-the-box thinking to achieve profit in real estate investing. Over the last six years, today’s guest has taken over 50 multifamily units from negative to high cash flow positions using the traditional BRRRR model as well as fix & flips. S…
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EP248 Structuring Successful Commercial Multifamily Investments with John Azar
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Today we’re going to talk to someone who has achieved huge success investing in commercial multifamily and apartments. Recently he’s grown his company’s portfolio from 2,500 units owned & operated to over 6,200 units. He’s raised money from both institutional and individual investors through syndications and closed-end asset funds. John Azar is an …
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EP247 How His Shared Residence Model Nets over $1,000 a Month per Property with Ron Thomas
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You may remember a podcast conversation I had with UK investor Susannah Cole several months ago where she shared the HMO concept – Homes of Multiple Occupancy. This is somewhat unique in the United States, but very prevalent in the UK, and it basically is a co-living situation where professionals rent out rooms in a shared house. I wasn’t really aw…
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EP246 Note Buying & Selling Tips from the RPOA Expert Panel with Donna Bauer, Gene Chandler, & Kyle Zimpleman
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Investing in Performing or Non-Performing Notes can yield incredibly lucrative results for those who know what they're doing. But if you are a beginner there will be many pitfalls and challenges you'll need to overcome in order to be successful. Back in February 2020 at the RPOA Annual Conference we held an expert panel roundtable to discuss best p…