In this episode our guest Holly Williams talks about her best deal and how she got started in the industry. When Holly Williams began investing years ago, the returns were exciting, but even more exciting to her were the multitudes of advantages in the tax code for real estate investors. Put simply, the US Tax code is very favorable to real estate investment, and allows for strategies that legally shelter income.

Check out the latest episode of the Real Estate Nerds Podcast to hear Holly break down the steps she took to take advantage in the tax code for real estate investors and turn those advantages into a pattern of success.

Our guest this week is Eric Satz. Eric is the CEO of AltoIRA a leading platform for investors of any size and level of sophistication to use their retirement accounts for investing in alternative assets, such as private companies, real estate, unregistered funds, equity crowdfunding, and marketplace loans. Also known as the self directed IRA.

In this week’s episode Matthew Baltzell discusses worst deal where he lost a $1 million investor in his 138 unit deal in Jacksonville, Florida. Having your network established and having additional investors ready to invest as back-up in case of an investor backing out are two suggestions he makes when it comes to preparing a deal. He also points out the time to raise capital is not when you find a deal, raising capital should be raised years in advance. You must be able to close when you find a property otherwise you could lose your credibility.

This week’s guest is Terry White is the President and CEO of Sunwest Trust. He shares with us his passion for educating and inspiring potential investors to build their own self-directed IRA’s that are customized to fit their unique needs and financial goals.

This week’s guest Mark Kenney shares his bad beats story. It all started by working with a partner he had done deals with before, syndicating the deal and raising capital from other people. Tune into this week’s episode and learn from Mark’s mistakes in sniffing out a con artist. When these deals go south it is generally not a problem with the property but with the people involved.

This week’s guest Jake Koferl is an expert in the Airbnb market. He works in multifamily investing. Jake dishes on his Airbnb business Cozybnb and how he scored a best deal after only working on five or six deals. Tune into this week’s episode and learn how listening to your gut and going on instincts will lead you to the home run deals.

Working with clients that are eager to buy, sell, or close, and love the very first home they’re shown is rare. It’s far a more frequent occurrence that realtors encounter difficult clients. This week’s guest Art Kelly talks about his worst deal. Tune into this week’s episode that involves a for sale by owner seller that his clients located on their own. Art shares his story and lessons in managing difficult clients, learning the art of negotiating the “for sale by owner” sale and setting up expectations when bringing on new clients.

Austin, Texas has become a boomtown for investors. To say there is a lot of opportunity would be an understatement. This week’s guest Evan Kirkpatrick explains the type of nuts and bolts skills that you need to do syndication deals, run a real estate business, and gives some closing advice to the audience about finding where you can fit in when it comes to real estate.Tune into this week’s episode where Evan Kirkpatrick discusses his background as a CPA and how helps real estate investors with high net worth to small business owners just getting started with their tax strategies.

Mark Roderick fills us in on how the rich can take care of themselves and the non-rich need the government which is why he thinks crowdfunding is so important to the regular Joe. Since the JOBS Act of 2012, Mark has spent much of his time in the crowdfunding space. If you have ever thought to yourself the internet is a ruthless landscape slowly squeezing the middleman and driving human being up the value chain? Then you’ll want to tune into this week’s episode where Mark will explain everything from syndications to cryptocurrencies to crowdfunding, oh my!

For many business owners and individuals access to cash or having enough capital is a common problem for those who want to start up, grow, and generate more returns for their business. If you have limited resources it can be hard to expand without the capital you need. Tyler Crandall let’s us know there is a lot of capital out there if you just know where to find it. Listen now, and learn how you can too.