The REtipster Podcast | Land Investing & Real Estate Strategies

063: Facebook is an incredibly powerful platform for selling real estate (and a lot of other things, for that matter) and as the months go by, it’s only getting more and more influential.(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/63)As its importance continues to grow, real estate investors need to stay educated about how to effectively get properties sold with all the built-in advantages that FB has to offer.In this interview, we’re talking with Justin Melquist about how he has learned to leverage the power of Facebook to generate a huge percentage of the sales in his land business. Justin also has a full-blown course on this specific subject of selling properties on Facebook. I actually had a chance to go through Justin’s original course about 9 months ago and I thought it helped fill in a lot of gaps and explain things that I haven’t seen anyone else explain yet. If you have any interest in selling properties on Facebook, it’s a great resource to be aware of.The context of this conversation has a lot to do with the vacant land business, but there are many parallels to any kind of real estate you might be trying to sell online. Be sure to glean all you can from this conversation, because it's a pretty value-packed one. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

062: In today’s episode, we’re talking with Vinney Chopra – an expert in apartment syndications.(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/62)When he first came to the United States he had only $7 dollars to his name, and through hard work, determination and an insanely optimistic outlook on life, he has grown into one of the leading voices in apartment syndications.Vinney oversees a massive, $300 MILLION + multifamily portfolio with over 4,000 units under management. He’s an avid speaker, podcaster and educator – we’re extremely honored to have him on the show today. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

061: What's the deal with debt? Is it a crucial tool for building wealth or a detrimental curse to a person's long-term financial health?(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/61)In this episode, we're talking about two competing ideologies from two GIANT names in the business and personal finance space - Dave Ramsey and Robert Kiyosaki.Dave Ramsey is perhaps the most well-known radio personality who introduces each of his radio shows saying,"Debt is dumb, cash is king and the paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice."Robert Kiyosaki has sold tens of millions of books and is noted for saying things like,"Good debt helps you get rich, Bad debt makes you poor: If you want to get rich, load up with ‘good debt’. When you want to become rich fast, it is important to have enough starting capital, and borrowing ‘good debt’ helps multiply the capital that you start with."They can't both be right... can they?We'll explain our thoughts in this episode. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

060: Today we’re talking with a new friend of mine named Ryan Wright who runs the Income Hacker Podcast. Ryan is a real estate investing veteran and has been an active hard money lender and note buyer for many years now.(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/60)I was on Ryan’s podcast recently and during our conversation, I learned that he has a lot of experience in the world of hard money lending and underwriting notes. I had a feeling he would have A LOT of insights to offer the REtipster audience because we haven’t covered these topics in great detail on the podcast before.If you’ve got extra cash laying around and you want to find better ways of putting your capital to work in the real estate world (without doing all the hands-on work yourself), this could be a viable option for you. Likewise, if you’ve ever been in need of financing, my hope is that this conversation will give you a better awareness of what’s available in the world of hard money financing.Even if you don’t think this is for you right now, there will probably come a day when you’ll wish you knew about this stuff, because this is essentially how you can work smarter and not harder as a real estate investor... so stay tuned! 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

059: After a year of working behind the scenes to create content for our next big project, we are FINALLY ready to launch The Beginner's Deal Finding Guide, a course by REtipster, all about how to find incredible real estate deals.(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/59)If any single issue qualifies as the most important one to have a firm grasp on as a real estate investor, this is it.When I was getting started, I struggled a lot with finding great deals that would actually make money. I didn't have anyone to take me by the hand and show me how to spot opportunities that nobody else knew about. When I figured out that there was a multitude of ways I could find off-market opportunities without fighting against constant cut-throat competition, everything changed. When I finally had a competitive advantage that the average investor in my market wasn't aware of, the rest of the business got significantly easier.If the subject of finding great real estate deals is something you need help with, this is definitely an episode you'll want to check out. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

058: Today we’re talking with a recent acquaintance of mine named Clint Turner.(Show Notes: https://REtipster.com/58)Clint reached out to me recently because he’s been putting together a well-organized framework for selling vacant land properties (and even though Clint talks about this stuff in the context of the land business, I think a lot of this applies to every niche of real estate).He gave me the chance to look at a course he’s built and from what I’ve seen of it, I thought it brought some value to the table with some good ideas for people to think about if they’ve been struggling with the selling side of their real estate business.For a lot of land investors, “selling” is one of the biggest challenges and bottlenecks they have to deal with, so I thought it would make sense to get Clint on the podcast to hear more directly from him about how he does things differently than most land investors and why it works. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

057: Today, we’re talking with Armaan Premjee.(Show Notes: https://REtipster.com/57)Armaan has been a member of the REtipster Club for the past year and he reached out to me a few months ago to let me know that he recently quit his job to focus on his land business full time.Part of what makes Armaan unique is that he’s fairly young (22 years old) and he’s also an immigrant who came to the US at the age of 18 from Mumbai, India.To be clear, quitting one’s job isn’t the right path for everyone and it doesn’t automatically mean you’re successful - but whenever I hear someone say this, it always makes my ears perk up because, for me, that was my dream for many years… and I know it’s a major step when someone actually makes this leap. If I could’ve done this when I was in my early 20's, holy cow, my life would’ve been pretty cool.In this interview, we’re going to dissect Armaan’s business and figure out how he was able to get to where he is.If YOU are someone who wants to take this same path, perhaps you’ll be able to reverse engineer part of this process and get a little closer yourself. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

#56: Today we are honored and excited to have the one and only Joe Fairless on the REtipster Podcast.(Show Notes: https://retipster.com/56)Joe is the host and founder of the longest-running daily real estate podcast on Apple Podcasts, the “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever” podcast.He currently controls over $400,000,000 worth of apartments in Dallas and Houston and consults for investors who want to raise money and buy apartment buildings.Jaren and I wanted to have Joe on the show because Jaren has been doing a lot of research on the apartment space and has been getting a lot out of a book Joe co-wrote called “The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book”.In this interview, we're going to talk about some of the basics of how apartment syndications work, what kind of investor they're ideal for and some insights to keep in mind if YOU ever want to put together apartment syndication project of your own. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

#55: In this episode, I’m talking with my friend Dustin Heiner.(Show Notes: https://REtipster.com/55)Dustin’s area of expertise is rental properties - the bread & butter most real estate investors aspire to work with at some point in their career.Right now, rental property prices are really, really high - in some markets, they’re higher than they’ve even been before, which makes it particularly challenging for real estate investors who actually want to find a good deal and continue expanding their business.What are we supposed to do when deals are so much harder to find? Where do we look? What’s the best acquisition strategy for finding the lowest-hanging fruit?In this interview, Dustin is going to walk me through his standard process for finding deals on rentals. We’re going to talk about where to start, what to look for in a market, what tools are most useful for doing this, how to know when you’re looking at a good deal, and how to find a great property manager that will make this business scalable.We're going to cover a ton of ground in this one!Related Links and ResourcesMasterPassiveIncome.com (Dustin’s website)Blog Post: Finding the Right Property Management CompanyCalculator: Cash On Cash Return – What it is, Why it Matters and How to Calculate ItREtipster Podcast Episode 038: The Most Misunderstood Facts About Property Management 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily

#54: Today we’re chatting with a good friend of mine who was one of the first big cheerleaders of REtipster.com and the REtipster Club way back when things were just getting started.(Show Notes: https://REtipster.com/54)I’m talking about my good friend Karl James. Karl was actually the first person I ever interviewed on the REtipster Podcast (you can hear it in episode 3) and he has always been very open to sharing the things that are working for him in the land business. It seems like every time I talk to the guy, there are a lot of valuable lessons and insights that come out of the conversation.The reason I wanted us to talk with him today (other than the fact that it’s just been a while since I’ve talked with him) is because the last time we spoke, he mentioned in passing that he’s been able to make over six figures in the land business over the past year, just by assigning contracts.In other words, he isn’t doing what most land flippers do, where we speculatively buy properties for a super cheap price with the plan of reselling them quickly for a profit. He’s getting properties under contract and assigning the contracts to other buyers for a fee - which means he's either:Not taking title to the property at all, he's just selling the original purchase agreement to another buyer and collecting an assignment fee, orHe’s buying and selling the property on the same day.In either case, this is kind of a big deal, because he’s able to make money without using much or any money of his own.I realize that sounds great, for obvious reasons, but I wanted to dig into this a bit more and understand the circumstances of how he’s doing this, where he’s finding these deals, where he’s finding the buyers and how other people might be able to reverse engineer this process in other parts of the country. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Get the REtipster Newsletter (It's FREE)!Stay updated with top real estate investing insights and strategies 🚀 Land Investor’s Action Plan (Free 5-Day Course!)Solve the 5 mistakes that keep investors stuck ⚠️ Land Buyer’s Survival Guide (Free 5-Day Course!)Avoid the 21 most deadly land-buying blunders 👉 10X Your Income from Land InvestingLearn how to start and supercharge your land investing business 😀 Join the REtipster Forum!Connect with experienced investors and get expert advice. 🛠️ All My Favorite Tools and Resources 🛠️The best software, services, and gear I use daily