Our students have a leg up on where we were when we first started out in our real estate investing journey in so many ways!

As a dual physician couple, it took Kenji and I over 5 years to learn on the go as we invested and built up our real estate portfolio. A lot of it was trial and error, and tons of valuable lessons!

Our accrued knowledge gives you an incredible advantage, and means that you can get a head start on your own real estate investments!

In this week's podcast episode, we discuss the five reasons why we believe that our students will be more successful than us.

Mindset
End-to-end strategy through our Zero to Freedom Course
Our agent network
Our vendor network
Community support, including our Team Investing Groups

Tune into this episode to learn all the reasons why you will be so successful in your own real estate investing journey. So much more successful than us!

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Do you own a medical practice? Are you thinking about starting one? If so, you're not going to want to miss this episode!

If you own a medical practice, one the most important considerations is to start with the end in mind. In other words, how much are you going to sell your practice for when you're ready to move on?

In this episode, we speak with valuation expert, Chris Young. Chris is passionate about helping doctors, who "dedicate their life to service" set themselves up for retirement by maximizing the value of their practices.

During this episode, he breaks down the sources of value for a medical practice and how to maximize them at the time of sale. Just like we do with our rentals (or you can with any business for that matter!), you can "force" appreciation of your business by increasing income and decreasing expenses to raise the value.

If you're ready to learn how to maximize the value of your business, check this one out!

Contact Chris today!

Christopher W Young, PhD,  MBA, MAFF, CVA Red Maple Economics Contact: 347-522-0480 WWW.REDMAPECON.COM  

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If you've been following our podcast, you probably know about our journey to financial freedom through cashflowing rentals. What most people don't realize that it all started with a decision to change our spending habits and SAVE!

We don't talk about saving much but the decision to save is actually one of the big shifts that students from our Zero to Freedom course make when they start their journey.

They go from dreaming about buying a vacation home, nice shoes and handbags or a new car to thinking only about duplexes!

This decision to save coupled with investing your savings in cashflowing rentals is what helps you accumulate wealth rapidly.

You can get there too, and it only requires you to make a decision!!

Be sure to download our free Increase Your Savings Checklist (semiretiredmd.com/save) and get your real estate journey started on the right foot.

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This is the very first of our Student Spotlight series where we interview students from our Zero to Freedom Course. The goal of this series is to hear about their real estate journeys with the hopes that their stories will inspire you to take action!

We couldn't have asked for a better guest than Alisa for our first student spotlight. She took our Summer 2020 course and immediately started taking action. Since taking our course, she has purchased two duplex and three short-term rentals!

And oh by the way, she is a full time pediatric gastroenterologist, medical director of IBD Center, mother with four children (two are autistic) and doing all of this alone because her husband is not involved (though he is very supportive!).

So if you've ever thought to yourself, how am I going to work a full time job and build a rental portfolio, think of Alisa!!

Get ready to be blown away, because you’re invited to our first Virtual Summit: Fast Fire to Freedom! It’s a FREE Summit by doctors for doctors—where doctors and their families can hear about real estate investing from colleagues and peers, instead of experts who are light years ahead of them

Register for FREE! (https://semiretiredmdvip.mykajabi.com/summit?cid=092a8c94-aae0-4cac-8207-51766b5f9fab), and secure your spot for this premier experience! Our 4-day virtual summit will leave you FIRE’ed up to take your real estate investing to the next level!

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• Learn from more great content on our blog
  
  

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Hidden value or value add opportunities is one of our favorite topics!

Why? Because tapping into hidden value means more cashflow and forced appreciation!

In this episode we dive deep into a number of hidden value opportunities including:

• Identifying under-market rents
• Finding space for extra bedrooms or units
• Creating storage units and work spaces
• Billing back utilities
• Lowering utility bills by becoming more energy efficient

These are just some of the hidden value opportunities we covered in this episode.

If you are going to separate yourself from the average investor, you are going to want to become good at spotting hidden value!

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If you're thinking about investing in real estate or even if you've bought a rental property or two, you've probably asked yourself this question: should I invest for cashflow or appreciation?

In this episode, we give you our take on this question and let you in on a little secret: we don't have to make that choice because we invest for both cashflow AND appreciation.

Here are the highlights of this episode:

• Kenji has a lot of experience investing for appreciation so he shares what it "feels" like to gamble on appreciation, both when it goes your way and when it doesn't!
• We share why we focus on investing for cashflow and what it "feels" like to own a portfolio of cashflowing properties.
• We also share how it can be life-changing to have an alternative stream of income.
• We explain the difference between market appreciation and a different form of appreciation called forced appreciation.
• We explain how we can invest for both cashflow AND forced appreciation.

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Many accountants approach taxes as something to fear. You hear them saying that taking advantage of certain tax benefits will trigger an audit.

Tom and his team of accountants take the opposite approach. They view the tax code as a series of incentives and that it's their responsibility to help you benefit from these incentives and reduce your taxes.

In this episode, we cover a number of important topics:

• How you're "dead in the water" if you're just a W2 wage earner. To be able to take advantage of tax incentives, you need to be a real estate professional or own a business
• The importance of tracking hours for real estate professional status
• The secret to approaching audits the right way!
• We had an interesting discussion about the evolution of real estate professionals and what multi-million dollar real estate investors are doing differently than the average investor and what makes them successful

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Ever wondered what it's like to be a female CEO of a multi-million dollar business?

In this episode, we sit down with Letizia to learn what it's like to run Semi-Retired MD as a female CEO.

• What training/coaching have you implemented to help you in your journey?
• What does a typical work day look like for you? Can you walk us through your routine?
• What strategies do you use to balance being a mother and a CEO?
• Have you ever encountered any stereotypes as a real estate investor or as a female CEO?
• What's been the best part about owning and running a successful business?
• What advice would you give to women who want to be successful leaders?

These are the questions she covered in this episode and more!

Check out the SRMD blog post on this podcast episode as well! SRMD Blog: https://semiretiredmd.com/podcast/

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Are you a high income professional and paying too much in taxes? If so, this is the episode for you!

In this episode, we sit down with Chet Syverson of Curated Accounting to discuss all of the different ways high income professionals can shelter income.
For those following our blog, you know about Real Estate Professional Status (REPS), but there are in fact, several other ways you can shelter income without REPS.

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Have you ever wondered why so many people make poor investment decisions?

You might be surprised to learn that one of the main reasons is that that they don't take the time or space to stop and think.

When you encounter a new investment opportunity, most people can easily list all of the upsides. But how often do you stop to think deeply about the downsides? And how often do you then come up with a plan to mitigate any potential downsides?

In this episode, we go through a number of examples from students who have gone through our Zero to Freedom course. Here are a few of the investment decisions our students have asked us about:

1. You guys have liquidated your 401(k), should I do the same?
2. We just got the inspection report back on the property and it's a disaster! Should I run away from this deal?
3. The numbers on this property look great! What am I missing?

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