BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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On the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast, co-hosts David Greene and Rob Abasolo interview real estate investors and entrepreneurs about successes, failures, and hard-earned lessons. Through in-depth conversations, 1-on-1 listener coaching calls, and news analysis, you’ll get a breakdown of real strategies that work for different niches and experience levels. Tune into the #1 real estate investing podcast every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

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627: Seeing Greene: The Rea...

06.26.2022

Everyone has housing market crash predictions. Some media outlets will tell you the sky is falling, real estate is on the edge of a cliff, and the whole world is turning upside down. Meanwhile, investors who made it out alive ...

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06.26.2022 627: Seeing Greene: The Real Estate Winners and Losers Of The Next Recession Everyone has housing market crash predictions. Some media outlets will tell you the sky is falling, real estate is on the edge of a cliff, and the whole world is turning upside down. Meanwhile, investors who made it out alive ...
06.23.2022 626: How “Turnkey” Rentals Can Help You Build Real Estate Riches Faster Turnkey rental properties have become a fan favorite for rookie real estate investors and investors who don't have enough time to manage their rehabs and rental properties. Turnkey real estate is marketed as a way for real estate investors to ...
06.21.2022 625: Live Takes: How to Tackle the Tax Man by Buying More Real Estate Every investor wants to know how to avoid taxes. Many rental property investors get into real estate for this reason alone. And it makes sense—rental property write-offs are not only common in the world of real estate investing but can ...
06.19.2022 624: Seeing Greene: How to Get Around High Down Payment Requirements You need a 20% down payment to buy a house, right? Most people assume that the standard down payment amount, 20% down, is the acceptable average when buying a rental property or a primary residence. But this isn’t always true, ...
06.16.2022 623: 10th Grade Dropout to 400-Unit Apartment Complexes (WITHOUT Raising Money) Multifamily real estate investors almost always raise money for their deals, right? Some would call it almost impossible to try and build a huge real estate portfolio without borrowing money or partnering up to take down bigger properties. Sofia Castro, ...
06.14.2022 622: 7 Expert Negotiation Tactics That Will Put a Buyer/Seller/Tenant on Your Side The secrets to negotiation are often simpler than you think. There’s no double-talk, bribing, or harshness necessary to get what you want. If you know what the other side wants (which you probably do already), you’ll most likely have enough ...
06.12.2022 621: Seeing Greene: Is Paying Off My Mortgage Early a Mistake? Paying off your mortgage early—to some people, this sounds like a dream scenario. But to others, it could be a cash-tastrophe. We can already hear real estate investors yelling out “always use leverage”, “what about the low interest rates!?”, and ...
06.09.2022 620: Ed Mylett Foresees Huge Opportunity for “Small Investors” in 2022 Ed Mylett knows the housing market. He’s participated in real estate investing for decades and has become wildly successful thanks to his tenacity, relationship-building skills, and creativity when getting deals done. But, funnily enough, Ed Mylett isn’t most well known ...
06.07.2022 619: BiggerNews June: Why "DIY Landlords" Will Win in a Recession What do DIY landlording and inflation have to do with each other? Surprisingly, much more than you would think. As the year progresses and the housing market stays hot, more real estate investors are having trouble finding cash-flowing deals. At ...
06.05.2022 618: Seeing Greene: Is My Property Manager Skimming Off the Top? Property management is a crucial part of your real estate investing business. They make repairs, take tenant calls, and most importantly, collect rent. But what happens when your property manager stops contacting you, forgets to send signed leases, and doesn’t ...
06.02.2022 617: Why Every Great Investor Should Ask, “What Pisses Me Off?” Single-family rentals are where most real estate investors start. In one way or another, a new investor realizes that there is more to life than just their job. They save up, get educated, and buy their first rental property. Those ...
05.31.2022 616: Making Money in The Metaverse and The Future Of Digital Real Estate If you’ve heard of digital real estate, there’s a good chance you’ve watched one of Ryan Pineda’s videos. Ryan is a leading figure in the world of real estate investing not only in the Las Vegas, Nevada area but throughout ...
05.29.2022 615: Seeing Greene: Lucrative Lot Splits & Lowering Your Liability as a Landlord Rental properties come in all shapes and sizes. You may be investing in short-term rentals, long-term rentals, glamping sites, or, maybe you’re trying to help someone else buy a rental property. Regardless of where you choose to hang your hat ...
05.26.2022 614: The Cash-Flow Boosting Businesses that Savvy Real Estate Investors Own Knowing how to buy a business is a lot like knowing how to buy a rental property. First, you’ll need to know the price of the asset, then the cash flow, followed by expenses, and finally the structure. Because buying ...
05.24.2022 613: 6 Bite-Sized Steps to Buying Your First Rental Property Buying an investment property is a lot like exercising. At first, you don’t know any of the verbiage, then you start learning the tools, and finally, after some repetition (and help from those around you), you can become a real ...
05.22.2022 612: Seeing Greene: Is a Headache Seller Worth Losing a Deal Over? Cash flow and appreciation are at opposite ends of the investing spectrum. One will fuel your current lifestyle while the other will slowly, silently build your long-term wealth. The cash flow vs. appreciation debate has gotten even stronger this year ...
05.19.2022 611: Using a "Miserable" Job to Fuel a Fast-Growing Flipping Portfolio House flipping is a very potent form of investing. After just one fix and flip, many investors find themselves hooked, leaving their stable jobs for the profit (and rush) or finishing another flip. This happened quickly to Jason Pritchard, flipper ...
05.17.2022 610: Live Takes: The 5,000 Mile Away BRRRR (REALLY Long-Distance Investing) Building a house vs. buying a house—which makes more sense for today’s investor? With home prices rising faster than many of us have ever seen before, more and more real estate investors are asking whether or not building their rentals ...
05.15.2022 609: Seeing Greene: Gift Funds, Crash Indicators, and Problems with Partnerships Why can’t I use gift funds on my down payment? What are the common housing market crash indicators that real estate investors should look out for? And why does David only invest with the short-term rental king, Rob Abasolo? If ...
05.12.2022 608: The “Golden Trio” Every Real Estate Investor MUST Have to Truly Profit First The Profit First system was revolutionary when introduced by Mike Michalowicz. In simple terms, Profit First allowed small business owners to take home bigger paychecks, reinvest in their business, and scale with ease, oftentimes while doing even less. The age-old ...
05.10.2022 607: Multifamily Q&A: How to Start, Scale, and Succeed in Apartment Investing Is multifamily real estate investing as complicated as investors make it out to be? If you’re Andrew Cushman of Vantage Point Acquisitions, you’d probably argue that although multifamily has a bit more complexity than single-family rentals, it’s still, by all ...
05.08.2022 606: Seeing Greene: The “Base Hit” Rental Properties That Will Make You Rich If you’re looking to buy rental properties, build a real estate portfolio, and level up your wealth?—you’re in the right place. But, as the housing market stays red hot, it can be a struggle for both new and old investors ...
05.05.2022 605: More Problems, More Money & Why Investors Should Search for Fresh Headaches How many rental units do you want? Depending on who you ask, the number of rental properties can differ dramatically. A young investor may be looking to scale their portfolio quickly, eyeing ten, fifteen, or even one-hundred units. But, for ...
05.03.2022 604: BiggerNews May: What the Media Isn't Telling You About a “Housing Crash” It’s a housing market crash! It’s a housing market bubble! It’s a relatively normal and stable housing market! Two of these statements might make you excited, anxious, or hopeful, while one simply makes you yawn. For years, we’ve heard numerous ...
05.01.2022 603: Seeing Greene: Hold or Sell, Maxing Out on Mortgages, and Investor FOMO The ROI (return on investment) of a rental property is arguably one of the most calculated metrics when deciding whether or not to invest. Even veteran landlords tend to look at ROI as the sole metric that decides whether or ...
04.28.2022 602: Why The “Right Way” to Buy Rentals is Wrong If you want to invest in real estate, you’re probably taking a safe, slow approach to building a rental property portfolio. As a real estate rookie, people tell you that the safest way to invest is to get good at ...
04.26.2022 601: Why Hitting Your “Goals” Isn’t Enough & Where 95% of Investors Unknowingly Fail What makes a millionaire mindset? Everyone knows what it takes to become successful: hard work, grit, tenacity, and (usually) some form of intelligence. But with so many people (real estate investors specifically) working hard, day in and day out, why ...
04.24.2022 600: Seeing Greene: Questions from BiggerPockets' Best and Brightest (Episode 600!) Welcome episode 600 of the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast! Whether you’re a first-time listener or a David Greene addict, we’re happy to have you here. In today’s episode of Seeing Greene, David takes questions from some of the biggest names ...
04.21.2022 599: The Investing “Cheat Code” of Opportunity Zone Rentals Opportunity zone investing hasn’t always been around for real estate investors to take advantage of. But as the government began upping the incentives around this type of real estate investing, more tax-savvy investors started to pay attention. You may have ...
04.19.2022 598: How to "Invest on Repeat" with The BRRRR Strategy The BRRRR method can be taught by no one better than David Greene, author of Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat, and adorably dubbed “Sir BRRRR” by co-host Rob Abasolo. While David may be a master of BRRRR budgets, schedules, and ...
04.17.2022 597: Seeing Greene: Should You Pay Off Debt or Invest in Real Estate? Should you pay off debt or invest in real estate? Whether you’re young or old, rich or poor, in consumer debt or student debt, this is a question that almost everyone has. With inflation hitting decade-long heights, debt seems to ...
04.14.2022 596: The 3 Ways to Find Profitable Properties that Big Investors Won’t Touch w/Amanda Cruise Mobile home park investing wasn’t very attractive until a few years ago. Thanks to big names in the mobile home park space (like BiggerPockets’ own Brandon Turner), the mobile home investing game has become one of the hottest commodities in ...
04.12.2022 595: How to “Layer” Legal Protection So Lawsuits Won’t Touch Your Wealth w/Brian T. Bradley, Esq. Most investors assume LLCs for rental properties are the way to go in terms of asset protection. From a novice’s point of view, LLCs seem to provide everything you would need?—anonymity, simple tax filing statuses, and legal protection. But, an ...
04.10.2022 594: BiggerPockets Podcast 594: Seeing Greene: FHA Loans, Cash Flow Shrinkage, & Bidding $200k Over Asking Inflation and cash flow have been fighting against each other for decades. As soon as you increase the rent on an income property, inflation comes right in to eat some of that gain. So in today’s borderline hyperinflationary environment, is ...
04.07.2022 593: The Ethical Wholesaler: Putting People Before Property Profits w/Jamil Damji The words “ethical” and “wholesaling” are rarely used in the same sentence. For the most part, many real estate investors and agents look at wholesalers as deceptive, hard to read, and for the most part just looking to make a ...
04.05.2022 592: BiggerNews April: How to Counter the Biggest Risk of 2022's Real Estate Cycle w/Doug Lodmell The way the housing market moves largely depends on the real estate cycle we’re currently in. We all saw this during the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis as overleveraged homeowners saw their properties foreclosed on and later sold to investors who ...
04.03.2022 591: Seeing Greene: The Cash Flow Market “Mirage” That Traps New Investors Cash flow markets are a hotspot for new real estate investors. Why? They’re inexpensive to get into, show great cash flow (on paper), and allow many investors to map their date of financial freedom. The downside? Cash flow markets are ...
03.31.2022 590: From Struggling Renter to Cash Flowing Landlord Using $0 Down Loans w/Andre Haynes No money down real estate investing usually sounds too good to be true. It seems almost impractical that someone without much experience, money, or property can secure cash-flowing rentals without putting a dollar into the deal. Even more astounding, today’s ...
03.29.2022 589: 10 Actionable Steps Anyone Can Follow to Buy a Rental Property Want to know how to buy a rental property? If rising home prices, rent prices, and fierce market competition have you struggling to get something under contract, your real estate saviors, David Greene and Rob Abasolo are here to help. ...
03.27.2022 588: Seeing Greene: Climate Change, ADU Dilemmas, & Retiring with Rentals Want to retire with rentals? Want more cash flow? Want to put up a lower down payment? What about building an ADU on your land? All of these questions (and more) are coming up on this episode of Seeing Greene. ...
03.24.2022 587: Full-Time Flipping (Out-of-State!) at 24 by Doing What Most Don’t Know w/Dominique Gunderson Forty real estate deals is a lot, especially for an experienced investor. How many people do you know that have done forty flips, wholesale deals, or own over forty rentals? Odds are, probably not many. So how does a nineteen-year-old ...
03.22.2022 586: The 8 Steps That Will Stop You From Getting Burnt on Multifamily Deals w/Andrew Cushman Want to know how to analyze a multifamily property? Maybe you’ve analyzed duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, or even ten-unit apartment complexes before, but what about the big deals? We’re talking about multi-million dollar multifamily investments, with hundreds of units, large debt ...
03.20.2022 585: Seeing Greene: Boosting Your Appraisal, Backward BRRRRs, & Capital Raising Risks BRRRRs, property classes, raising capital questions and more are in this episode of Seeing Greene! As always, your investor mentor, top agent, and shiny-headed host of the BiggerPockets Podcast is back to walk through real-life questions and examples brought to ...
03.17.2022 584: The 5 Steps That Will Bring You More Deals, Friends, and Mentors w/Jonathan Greene If you’re new to investing in real estate, you may not have run your first real estate analysis yet. But as soon as you start looking at properties, you’ll become a spreadsheet wizard in no time! With so many investors ...
03.15.2022 583: Building Your “Passive Income Blueprint” Using the Right Real Estate Agent w/ Johnny Hoang The signs of a bad real estate agent aren’t very clear if you’re a new investor. But, after trial and error and a lot of deals done, you’ll be able to weed out the basic agents from the rockstar realtors. ...
03.13.2022 582: Seeing Greene: Investing in Paradise, Timing the Market, and House Hacking Should I invest now or wait? How do I set up my children for financial success? What do top agents do to stand out in the market? These are all questions of real estate investors, agents, and onlookers who wait ...
03.10.2022 581: The Hidden Passive Income Source in Your Own Backyard w/That ADU Guy What do you think of when we say ADU (accessory dwelling unit)? If you’re like most homeowners, you probably think of a back house, a mother-in-law suite, or a converted art studio. But what if you don’t have a home ...
03.08.2022 580: BiggerNews March: How a Surge of Foreclosures Will Impact the Housing Market w/Auction.com’s Daren Blomquist The word “foreclosure” is forever stained in the minds of almost every American who lived through the great recession. News stories in 2010 would talk about the slew of families that had been foreclosed on, with big banks taking back ...
03.06.2022 579: The Secret Sauce Behind Short-Term Rental Success (Part 2) w/Rob Abasolo You can build wealth with short-term rental investing quite easily. All you need is a great location, a solid property, a good strategy, some phenomenal cleaners…wait maybe it isn't all that easy. But it’s certainly doable if you’re willing to ...
03.03.2022 578: The Secret Sauce Behind Short-Term Rental Success (Part 1) w/Rob Abasolo Short-term rentals have taken the world by storm. Over the past two decades, the bed and breakfast type business has fallen prey to the more scalable short-term rental model. Real estate investors quickly realized that they could capitalize on the ...

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