Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast

By Kathy Fettke / RealWealth

Business Investing

What's Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast about?

Smart real estate investing will give you the time and the money to live life on your own terms! We call that real wealth. Host Kathy Fettke is Co-CEO of Real Wealth Network, author of the best selling “Retire Rich with Rentals" and the host of companion podcast, Real Estate News for Investors.

Kathy Fettke launched this podcast in 2003 to share her own secrets and those of top experts in the real estate investing field. She along with guests like Robert Kiyosaki, Peter Schiff, Doug Duncan, John Burns, Bruce Norris & other rising real estate stars offer insights on the creation of passive income through real estate, and how to avoid costly mistakes.
Learn how to build a portfolio outside the stock market with buy-and-hold strategies, single-family rentals, multi-family properties, syndicated deals, self-directed IRAs and 401ks, the highly-revered 1031 exchange, private money lending, creative financing, and much more in this podcast! Whether you're on the go, listening in your car or watching at home, we've got you covered!

If you have a specific question for Kathy, visit our "Ask Kathy" page here and fill out the form and she may answer your question on a future episode! https://realwealth.com/askkathy/

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03.17.2023

It’s been quite an economic roller coaster this last week with headlines about bank failures in response to the Fed’s inflation-fighting rate hikes. That’s created a lot of fear about the stability of the U.S. financial system and the risk ...

Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast episodes:

03.17.2023 Why 2023 Is the Year to Invest in North Dallas Real Estate! It’s been quite an economic roller coaster this last week with headlines about bank failures in response to the Fed’s inflation-fighting rate hikes. That’s created a lot of fear about the stability of the U.S. financial system and the risk ...
03.10.2023 LIVE from the Best Ever Conference for Commercial Real Estate Investors It’s been an amazing conference with more than 1,000 investors, operators, and syndicators at all experience levels! The Best Ever Conference in Salt Lake City is an event that takes place once a year, and provides attendees with economic forecasts, ...
03.03.2023 FIRE! - Financial Independence, Retire Early with Real Estate FIRE is the new buzzword among real estate investors, and it has nothing to do with the fire emoji that everyone uses on instagram to say that “you’re hot.” It’s a movement known as Financial Independence, Retire Early or FIRE! ...
02.25.2023 The Easy Way to Manage Your Real Estate Portfolio & Free Up Your Time!!! As your portfolio grows, it can become overwhelming to keep track of everything. Even if you have property management, you still need to oversee the property managers, respond to emails, organize your documents, make sure all the bills are paid, ...
02.17.2023 High-Tech Rental Property Analysis Before You Buy! With DealCheck! Buying rental property requires a lot of math and, for most investors, a lot of spreadsheet analysis as well. The process can be complicated and time-consuming but there is a new state-of-the-art platform that does the work for you, and ...
02.11.2023 Why The Next Few Months Will Be a Real Estate Investing Sweet Spot!!! Housing inventory levels continue to drop. In fact, in February, they were back down to 970,000. That's not a lot of housing available for a country with 330 million people. And, as interest rates drop, the number of people who ...
02.03.2023 Cash Flow AND Appreciation in Indianapolis? Update on the Indiana Real Estate Market Are you looking for cash flowing rental properties with steady appreciation? It may seem like an impossible task in today’s market, but they do exist. And one of them is a place that we’ve been tracking for 10 to 15 ...
01.27.2023 “Ask Kathy” - Kathy Fettke Shares Her 2023 Real Estate Investing Strategies This is our second “Ask Kathy” episode for the Real Wealth Show. Podcast host Kathy Fettke collected several questions about today’s real estate investing environment, and shares what she would do in those situations. Questions that she answers include: 1 ...
01.19.2023 Mortgage Expert, Barry Habib, On Why Mortgage Rates are Headed Down in 2023 Are you sitting on the sidelines waiting for lower mortgage rates? Are you wondering whether the Fed is “doing the right thing” to fight inflation? Would you like a clear, simple explanation as to why mortgage rates are so high ...
01.13.2023 How an Engineer is Engineering His Financial Freedom with Real Estate Podcasts are often filled with experts who make it sound too easy to reach those financial freedom goals. Many are often pushing their own agendas as well, and are trying to sell you something. That might create information overload for ...
01.06.2023 ATTOM’s Rick Sharga and His 2023 Real Estate Playbook Happy New Year and welcome to 2023! It’s time to turn the page on 2022 and look for new real estate investing opportunities! And we have ATTOM’s Rick Sharga to help us do that! He joins me in this interview ...
12.28.2022 How a Navy Seal is Using His Special Ops Experience in Real Estate We end the year with a special guest who’s transitioning from a long-term career in the Navy to what will be a full-time job in real estate. William Spekhardt has more than ten years of experience leading special military operations ...
12.22.2022 Meet the New RealWealth Husband-Wife Property Team Managers! In this episode of the Real Wealth Show you will meet two of our newest RealWealth members. Grant and Rebekah Anderson are the husband-wife managers of our property teams! They came on board about five or six months ago, and ...
12.16.2022 Kathy & Rich Fettke Share Big Ideas from Their Bestselling Real Estate Books This is a different kind of "his & her" Real Wealth Show! Kathy Fettke interviews her husband Rich Fettke about his new bestselling book “The Wise Investor,” while he interviews Kathy about the newly released 2022 edition of her 2014 ...
12.10.2022 Is Build-to-Rent Dead? Insights from IMN's Single-Family Rental Forum It’s the 10th Anniversary of the IMN Single Family Rental Forum and my 10th year as an attendee! I’ve been coming to this event every year and watching how the single-family rental industry is growing. There were 2,000 people at ...
12.01.2022 Why Wall Street Fund Managers Plan to Invest Billions into Single-Family Rentals in 2023 The majority of single-family rentals, and they are currently about 23 million of them, are owned by small investors, mom and pops. Wall Street landlords, who still get a lot of flack, own only about 350,000 units, or 1.5% according ...
11.22.2022 EU Citizenship Reward for Minimum Investment in Portugal! Investors are always looking for steep discounts on cash flowing properties in high-growth markets. But what if you could also get health insurance, a college education and an EU passport as part of the investment? And while you're at it, ...
11.19.2022 “The Investor Guy” Shares His Real Estate Success Strategies When it comes to buying real estate as an investment, you need to have a game plan. But that often changes when the market fluctuates making yesterday’s game plan obsolete and creating the need for a new one, or modifications. ...
11.11.2022 “Ask Kathy” - The Fettkes Share their Secrets to Real Estate Success This special episode of the Real Wealth Show is the first in our new “Ask Kathy” series where Kathy is the guest on her own show, answering questions from listeners. Her husband, Rich Fettke, joins her in this debut as ...
11.04.2022 Rental Demand Skyrockets as Chip-Makers Move Into North Texas With high interest rates pouring cold water on the housing market, many people are sitting on the sidelines waiting for a pause in the madness. However, seasoned investors are seeing things a bit differently. Many of them are looking at ...
10.29.2022 ATTOM’s Rick Sharga on What’s Next for an Unusual Real Estate Market As the Fed continues to raise interest rates to slow down a booming economy and unacceptably high inflation, there are a several questions on the minds of every real estate investor, including: 1 - Are we going into a recession? ...
10.22.2022 Cash Flow with Medium-Term Rentals vs. Short- and Long-Term Strategies If long-term rentals aren’t giving you enough cash flow, and short-term rentals seem like too much trouble, there IS a third option. By renting your property as a furnished home for 30-days or more, you can increase your cash flow, ...
10.15.2022 Where Single-Family Rentals Still Cash Flow, Even With High Interest Rates With real estate headlines forecasting a recession, many investors and potential buyers are sitting on the sidelines. This is creating an opportunity for seasoned investors to acquire better deals with less competition. In this episode, you’ll hear from two rock ...
10.07.2022 Beware of Title Risks! Protect Your Property from Unknown Liens Title insurance is something that many people don’t pay attention to. It’s required by lenders so it’s automatically part of the home-buying process for people taking out home loans. But for people who pay in cash, like many investors, it’s ...
10.01.2022 Home Price Declines Create Winners and Losers w/John Burns, Real Estate Consultant The Fed raised rates by another 75 basis points in September, bringing the overnight lending rate to a range of 3 to 3.25%. That’s the highest it's been since 2008. In this episode, you’ll hear how the impact these rates ...
09.23.2022 How to Get the Financial Freedom You Crave as a Multi-Family Investor Buying an apartment building might seem a little intimidating to mom & pop investors, but it doesn’t have to be. Like anything, you need to study the topic before you dive in. And that can be done in different ways, ...
09.17.2022 Former NFL Player Shares His Real Estate Success Story! How do you transition out of professional football into another wealth-building career? Dean Rogers lived the dream of a pro athlete with a big paycheck, so starting over was not easy. But once he started learning about real estate, he ...
09.10.2022 What You Need to Know About Property Insurance & Public Adjusters When you buy a property insurance policy, do you know what’s covered and what’s excluded? Many of us read the declarations page, but it’s the contract that has all the details. And it’s those details that could surprise us when ...
09.03.2022 How One Man Dumped His Job to Bike Around the World! In this episode you’ll hear about an amazing journey by someone who wanted to create a more meaningful lifestyle. It began more than 20 years ago, when Jamie Bianchini quit his corporate job, and decided to ride around the world ...
08.26.2022 Recession-Resilient Markets: Why Not Buy Real Estate with Other People's Money? Wealth is not created by trading time for money. It’s also not created by simply putting your money to work. In this episode, you’ll hear about a third option – the use of other people’s money or OPM to buy ...
08.20.2022 Postpone that Huge Capital Gains Tax Bill with a 1031 Exchange! When you sell an investment property, you are usually faced with a big capital gains tax bill, if you’ve held the property for more than a year. For properties held for less than a year, you’ll owe ordinary income tax ...
08.13.2022 Successful Investor Describes the Kind of Real Estate Market You Want Today! There are three important metrics to consider when you make a decision to buy investment property - job growth, population growth, and affordability. And with more than 400 metros across the U.S., you have lots to choose from but those ...
08.05.2022 Industrial Real Estate Just Adds up for this Math Professor They created a very simple five-year plan that focused on industrial real estate, and some family planning. It went something like this: "property, baby, property, property, baby". And it worked! They were able to ditch their jobs as UCLA professors, ...
07.30.2022 How to Stay Out of Jail as a Real Estate Investor & Syndicator It’s amazing what one person can accomplish in real estate with the right opportunities, knowledge and funding. But there are also a lot of rules to follow, and mistakes can have serious consequences. In the case of a real estate ...
07.22.2022 She’s an Immigrant, An Engineer, and a Successful Real Estate Investor! We love to hear inspiring real wealth stories and we’ve got one from a woman who immigrated from India at the age of 21. She became a respected environmental engineer but ditched that job for a career in real estate. ...
07.16.2022 What Are Homebuyers Doing About Higher Mortgage Rates Channel Mortgage rates did a big turn-around over the last two weeks. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped a half a percentage point to an average of 5.3%. That’s not as low as it was this time last year, but the two-week ...
07.08.2022 Why This Real Estate Investor Isn’t Waiting for Home Prices to Go Down! With home prices and interest rates up dramatically over the last year, does it still make sense to buy rental property? Should you invest in a rental when there’s very little cash flow, or even no cash flow at all? ...
07.02.2022 Finding Your Real Estate Sweet Spot from a Mobile Home Park Expert When it comes to real estate investing, there are five basic categories – residential, commercial, industrial, raw land, and special use. You can break those categories down into sub-categories. A few of the more common ones are single-family rentals, apartment ...
06.25.2022 How to Pay for a Multi-Million Dollar Vacation Home: The Power of Co-Ownership There are 10-million second homes in the US, yet, on average, they’re only occupied 8 weeks a year. That’s 440 million weeks that vacation homes sit unoccupied, unused, and unloved. But there's a new tech-driven co-ownership option that matches your ...
06.18.2022 Why 2022 Is a GREAT Year for Real Estate Investors As real estate prices continue to climb, you may be wondering whether it’s still a good place to put your money. Are we teetering at the top of the market or Is there further to climb? What about inflation, the ...
06.08.2022 Are Mortgage Rates Too High for Real Estate Investors? It’s not easy watching mortgage rates move higher when you’re in the market for a loan, but the rates we’re seeing right now are still low compared to what they’ve been historically. And you can’t beat real estate when it ...
06.03.2022 "The Wise Investor" Author Explains How "Rich Dad Poor Dad" Meets "The Alchemist “That was their dream back then – going places. Traveling the world. Now, twelve years later, he was forced to admit that they hadn’t gone anywhere.” - excerpt from “The Wise Investor” If you’ve longed to improve yourself, to reach ...
05.27.2022 What Real Estate Investors Need to Know About Rental Property Insurance One of the big benefits of buy-and-hold real estate investing is the protection you can get from insurance policies. But, most of us have no idea how to interpret the documents to truly understand what's covered, and to be sure ...
05.21.2022 HEADS UP on Tax Changes That Could Impact Investors! There’s been a lot of talk about potential tax changes under the Biden administration. They haven’t happened yet and it’s possible they won’t happen until after the midterm elections, but it’s good to know about these proposals ahead of time. ...
05.11.2022 Navigating New Real Estate Challenges w/Marcus & Millichap Analyst, John Chang Real estate investors are pivoting once again to keep up with changing market dynamics. There’s so much to consider when evaluating opportunities including inflation, interest rates, energy prices, housing prices, the kind of properties you should be buying, and how ...
05.05.2022 Investing Wisely During Times of High Inflation w/Navellier’s Gary Alexander The Fed is considering an aggressive rate-hiking plan to keep consumer prices from skyrocketing higher. Some economists feel the Fed’s plan could backfire and do serious harm to the economy, possibly triggering a recession. Should we be concerned now about ...
04.27.2022 A Woman's Vision to Create Wealth and Help Others Do the Same! How do you scale a multifamily business, build a rockstar team, and then empower other women to live a financially free lifestyle while living a balanced life of your own? Our guest today had a vision at a young age ...
04.22.2022 How a Former Romanian Refugee Became Job Optional in the Free World It’s okay to earn millions of dollars in the United States and many other parts of the world, but there are also places where that’s not possible, or hasn’t been in the past, like the former communist Romania. Our next ...
04.13.2022 24-Year-Old Refugee’s WILD Real Estate Success! Having the right focus and determination is often behind great success stories, and that’s certainly the case for the guest in this episode. Abbas Mohammed spent his childhood in Iraq sleeping on concrete floors because his family was so poor. ...
03.20.2022 Ground-Up Development: High-Risk, High-Reward w/Kathy & Rich in Park City Kathy and Rich Fettke take a break from skiing in Park City, Utah, to talk about the risks and rewards of ground-up development projects, including a RealWealth project in Park City. In this episode, Rich interviews Kathy on what investors ...

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