How Smart Investors Thrive When Markets Tighten (ft. Ryan Studner)

Real estate looks glamorous from the outside. Up close, the winners treat it like a craft and a job. We bring lender Ryan Studner into the studio at dawn to pressure‑test the strategies serious investors use right now: why new construction can beat heavy flips, how to keep capital moving while permits crawl, and what clean books reveal about “profits” that never existed.

Ryan opens the lender’s playbook—credit, liquidity, and experience—and shows how disciplined underwriting protects both borrowers and the broader private credit market. 

If you want a practical, lender‑tested way to build and hold through uncertainty—avoiding hidden losses, appraisal traps, and timeline drift—this conversation lays out the moves. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s scaling, and leave a quick review with your biggest takeaway so we can dive deeper next time.