Today Joe and Mike get into the details of real estate investing and share strategies that can help along the way. Specific topics include:

Leveraging one old rental property into something with multiple income streams

What to do if you don’t have property to leverage

Accessing equity in current properties to purchase other properties

Partnerships

Temporarily renting your home while renters to cover your new mortgage

Mike’s new podcast and our special announcement!

Mike and Laura are taking over the RERL studio one final time. Today Mike and Laura discuss the upcoming golf tournament where all proceeds benefit underprivileged students in the Bay Area.

They then move on to today’s main topic which just happens to be the most important part of your transaction; the negotiation. Just because the market is hot doesn’t mean negotiations aren’t on the table and the best price doesn’t always determine the best offer.

Good, bad or ugly there’s a lot to insurance and it’s something you deal with every time you finance a home. Covering the field of home insurance is Kelly Corwell Cansler with Farmers Insurance. Our hosts get things started by asking Kelly to explain different types of property and the effects of insurance issues. Also in discussion:

• Airbnb and rental properties

• Insurance losses on properties

• Short and long term ramifications of filing water claims

• Electrical wiring issues

• Rent

Today Joe chats with Kathy Fettke, Co-CEO and founder of Real Wealth Network and one of our trusted advisors. Real Wealth Network is a real estate investor group that focuses on one of our favorite things, educating investors so they can build wealth through real estate. Topics include:

•Cyclical markets

•What could derail our move towards affordable housing?

•US regions that are recovering and those that remain problematic

•What Kathy is educating consumers about

•The next great transfer of

Today Joe and Mike walk you through the FSBO process and discuss the FSBO resources consumers are using. Specific topics include:

• Do you have the time to not involve professionals?

• A realtors home preparation checklist

• Emotional detachment, negotiations and pricing

• Contracts, liabilities, disclosures and other legal issues you will deal with

• Are FSBO helper and online lending sites actually helpful?

The mortgage industry is changing all the time with different things and different programs coming up. Whenever we start talking about new or different programs it helps to have an expert around explain them, an expert such as Jeff Trevarthen. Today Joe and Jeff discuss 30 year fixed alternatives and who the eligible candidates are. Specific topics include:

Asset depletion

Pledged assets

Cross-collateralization

Bridge loans

Reverse mortgages

NEW lower down payment programs

Military and Veteran Lending expert, Rick Elmendorf, calls in today as he tells Joe all about the niche market of VA loans. Specific topics include:

How Rick is able to close an impressive amount of loans without sacrificing customer satisfaction

Qualifying for a VA loan

What the Bay Area and realtors don’t know about VA financing

What you can and can’t do with VA loans

Today Mike talks with returning guest Cindy Carey and new guest Marissa who are officially announcing the launch of their new home maintenance app: House Hub. House Hub is an app that not only helps you store important information regarding your home and everything in it, but helps you protect your home with maintenance reminders, DIY instructions, contractor connections and more.

When you are constantly dealing with a challenging market you tend to feel like a broken record... but you can never have too much information right? Today Joe and Mike help us navigate our way around the market discussing inventory stats and how much income you need to buy a median priced home in the Bay Area. Will this housing crisis ever come to an end? Also in discussion: open house happenings and deciphering offers

You don’t know what you don’t know. A phrase such as this phrase can make doing your offshore retirement homework more challenging than before. Today Joe, Bobbi and Buddy tell us what they learned from Michael Cobb’s Consumer Resource Guide which pinpoints major decisions to make and 15 critical must ask questions before making the decision to retire in a different country. What things do we take for granted here that you should be checking out there?