Finding a good real estate market to invest in can be scary. If you invest in the wrong market, you can find yourself stuck with the wrong kinds of tenants, a loss in value, or an inability to execute the business plan you envisioned. That’s why it’s so important to do your own due diligence on a market before you buy a property there.

In this episode, we’re discussing what we look for in a good market. We’re dropping some gems relating to metrics we pay attention to, what we like to see in a market, and what we avoid. Make sure to watch till the end to get all of the gold nuggets you need to find a great real estate market to invest in!

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Many newer real estate investors start with wholesaling properties. Wholesaling is when someone gets a property under a contract from the owner of the property and assigns that same contract to an end buyer for a fee. We (the Donis Brothers) started off with wholesaling, and used that business model to break into the industry. If you don’t come from wealth or money, wholesaling is a great way to break into real estate. Wholesaling allows you to not only generate active income, but it also gives you access to off-market properties that you can add to your own personal portfolio of cash flowing rentals.

Dedric Polite, alongside his wife Krystal have made millions in real estate, buying, renovating and flipping homes and properties. But they’ve strategically built long term wealth by also buying and holding property for rental, ensuring coveted financial freedom through passive income and consistent cash flow. Viewers can get a front-row seat to see how they do it all with their engaging home series “50/50 Flip,” premiering January 29 on A&E.

In this episode, Dedric and Kerwin talk about how wholesalers can build long term wealth by cherry picking properties from their own leads. Dedric also shares some advice on how to build unique property lists like he has that continue to generate leads for him, years after he created them!

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Social media is becoming more prevalent in our day to day society. Nowadays, it seems like everyone is on social media. While most people use social media as consumers of content, savvy real estate investors understand the power of using social media as a content creator. We understand if the idea of making social media content seems intimidating. It can be scary to put yourself out there and make content that you think is good and are confident will bring value to the audience of your choice.

That’s why in this video, we’re diving into the benefits of using social media as a real estate investor, and how you can approach it. It doesn’t have to be complicated or complex, and in this video, we demystify how you can use social media to get closer to your real estate goals.

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Many investors start out flipping houses or buying single family rentals. While single family investing is a great path, there are multiple reasons why investors choose to scale up and move into larger unit properties. We know the thought of buying a larger property can be scary, but it can be worthwhile to make the jump. Carmen Dettloff made the leap from single family to multifamily investing, and has not looked back!

Carmen is an experienced real estate investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Bigfoot Equity. Carmen started her real estate career over 15 years ago and has broad investment experience in flipping, renovating, and adding value to properties. Carmen is currently passively invested in over 2,000 units and is general partner over 1,500 units. In additional to real estate investing, Carmen is a mathematician with 15 years of experience in revenue optimization in airline, telecommunication and banking industries. Carmen was also a math professor for 7 years.

Carmen has advice on underwriting deals, lessons learned as a lead sponsor, and the factors that encouraged her to pursue multifamily investing over single family. The insights she shared can provide invaluable guidance to help you make the decision of whether you want to keep buying single family properties or start looking into scaling up!

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Active investing is much different than passive investing. That’s why we made this video today! We’re breaking down the difference between both. This will mainly focus on multifamily investing, but there are gems for any real estate investor in this episode, so make sure to tune in!

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Finding deals in a competitive market can be daunting. If you’re last to hear about a deal, or are scratching your head wondering how investors are finding these off market properties, you’re not alone. Although it can seem impossible to do, finding good off market deals is more than possible (and Leka Devatha is proof).

Leka is a real estate developer and broker based in Seattle, WA. She is the President of Rehabit Homes, Inc. a company focused on residential and commercial redevelopment. She has spearheaded hundreds of transactions, developing around 100M in real estate. Leka brings 8 years of experience in construction management and redesign. Leka has been featured on numerous podcasts and other media including Business Insider and BiggerPockets. She is a chapter contributor in the recently published book 'The Only Woman in The Room'.

The key to Leka’s success in finding off market deals can be summarized in one word: networking. Leka made it her mission to meet all of the key players in her market, build relationships with these people, and find ways to bring them value. If this sounds complex, it isn’t! And during today’s episode, Leka will explain how you can do it, too. Leka had some major gold nuggets to offer involving how she finds off market deals, and what she’s learned about the importance of not just making money in real estate, but also building wealth.

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When you’re first looking into real estate investing, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the resources out there. Podcasts, books, Youtube channels, and meetups can cause some serious anxiety. Questions like, “Where do I start?” “What’s important?” “How do I choose?” might be floating around in your head.

When we were first starting out as wholesalers, we were in full on education mode for a few months. But, there came a point where we realized something major and decided it was time to take action.

In this episode, we dive into how you can approach educating yourself in real estate so you can make the most of your time and actually get closer to your real estate goals. What’s the point of listening to dozens of podcasts and reading multiple real estate books if you never put that knowledge into action? Whether it’s limiting beliefs or anxiety, and whether you’re 18 or 35, we’ll help you sift through all of the voices and get on the right track. Click play if you’re ready to kickstart your real estate investing journey.

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A lack of financial literacy is one of the main things that prevents many people from escaping poverty and reaching their financial goals. It’s important to understand how money works, and debunk some widely held misconceptions about investing in order to create new, improved financial habits and improve life overall. Financial literacy doesn’t have to be extremely complicated either— Dan Sheeks teaches teenagers how to achieve financial freedom and invest to reach their life goals.

Dan is a BiggerPockets Published author of First to a Million: A Teenager’s Guide to Achieving Early Financial Freedom. In the book, he introduces teenagers to the strategies, concepts, and mindset needed to achieve early financial freedom. In his 15+ years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Dan aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and frugality to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age.

There are multiple reasons Dan believes teens are easier to teach financial independence to than adults. He’s also identified some of the bad financial habits that kids inherit from previous generations. During the conversation, Dan dove into the 4 Mechanisms of Financial Independence that teens can employ on their journey to early financial independence. These financial literacy insights can save you time and help you reach your financial and life goals sooner than you might have thought possible.

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We interviewed Matt Picheny. Matt is a real estate investor, Tony award winner, and author of the #1 best-selling book, Backstage Guide to Real Estate. He is focused on developing passive income streams that enable investors to write their own story and choose how they want to spend their time. Matt has over 15 years of experience revitalizing and elevating communities through real estate investment and has invested in over 8,000 apartments nationwide. He is a licensed real estate agent and has earned both Commercial Real Estate & Real Estate Finance certificates from Boston University. Matt is a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, the Fast Company Executive Board, and is an advisor to a PropTech company. A PMI certified Project Management Professional, Matt is a digital marketing veteran whose 18-year career in the advertising world included working for some of the world’s largest advertising agencies, producing award-winning projects for Fortune 500 clients including Verizon, IBM, and Coca-Cola.

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We interviewed Brian Pownall. Brian started his journey in real estate investing to leverage capital to build generational wealth and improve local communities. He is an oil and gas engineering manager with 10 years of experience focused in asset management, acquisitions and divestitures, budgetary planning, and private equity. Brian has evaluated hundreds of deals, building complex cash flow models and delivering investor presentations to help lead deals such as a $500 MM acquisition. While working as an asset lead, Brian was responsible for overseeing a $800 MM annual budget in Oklahoma. Real estate investing provides an opportunity for Brian to utilize similar workflows and techniques to generate competitive returns for investors. As a former Texas A&M Aggie (Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering) Brian is a proud Texan and looks forward to future investments in the state and other Southern US markets. His private market investments currently include interest in a couple hundred multifamily units, a commercial real estate fund, and venture capital.

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