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Real Estate Talk with Lisa

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We are so lucky today, we have Lisa Jeffery joining us. She is the host of Real Estate Talk with Lisa, which is on WBGR Network every Thursday from 2:30 to 3:30 ET, and she also streams that on her Facebook channel, so you can subscribe and get notified whenever she’s coming on. She is so knowledgeable about real estate and very committed to helping people get involved in real estate and become investors so that they can build some wealth.

Chris: Lisa, thanks so much for joining us today. How long have you been doing your video show, your Facebook Live?

Lisa: We started in 2017 is when I started, I really was not, I was not looking for that because for me, I’m thinking – I’m really not the info-mercial kind of girl. I’d much rather talk about other people, I don’t know who is gonna wanna listen to me talk about real estate for an hour. I don’t even wanna listen to me talk about real estate for an hour. There’s not enough real estate stuff to talk about for an hour.

But you know I’m a woman of faith, and so I prayed about it, I said “Okay God, this is what you want. I’m gonna say yes to it and we’ll just figure it out. So I went upstairs, and we talked in the studio, so I signed a little thing and said, Okay, I’m gonna do it then I thought, okay, what’s next? So, what I envisioned, though, was a show that really focused on the audience, on what the audience was looking for on the front end of the show. So our theme is Opening the Door with Keys of Independence. And so we look to educate, empower and motivate our audience to action in whatever area of real estate that they’re interested in.

So that’s what we do. And so, that’s our focus. So I interview lenders, we talk about grant programs, ways to finance, we talk about rehab financing. If you’re having trouble finding something that’s already done, how you can use that type of financing to get something that may not be gorgeous as one of our lenders says: ‘Not the shiny penny’ but something that you can make your own. We talk about things like, okay, let’s say you don’t want to be in a bidding war – which is kind of hard to avoid in certain areas – how you can look at new construction as a way to avoid that. So I’m looking to present for first-time homebuyers, we give insights about how the process works. We talk about contractors and home inspection, home warranties, some of the fears that buyers may have that will keep them from moving forward as well as concerns that sellers have in terms of when they’re gonna list their property. So, just as I continue to go forward, I saw that there was just a plethora of topics within the real estate industry: how you can be a building owner, commercial real estate.

And we talk a lot about community on our show, we have a segment called Rescue Resources and what we do there is different – like food pantries in our community. There’s one young lady, she’s doing shared housing for people that have had economic downturns but they need housing, so they have a room in the house, utilities included, while they’re getting themselves together. She’s partnering with other resources in the community to help them while they’re there: resume writing, job placement, things like that. So we highlight what’s going on in our community. Now this year, we’re broadening that to cover more economic development for areas and of course we have Amazon coming into the DC Metro area, so everybody wants to know what they’re doing.

I have a lot of the real estate investors, Sherman R