The Real Estate Guys Radio Show - Real Estate Investing Education for Effective Action

Broadcasting from the 41st annual New Orleans Investment Conference, we sit down to chat with Mark Skousen, Peter Schiff and Brien Lundin. Mark Skousen has been named one of the top 20 living economists. He's been writing a successful stock investing newsletter for nearly four decades. And he's a bull. Peter Schiff is a money manager, a multi-time best-selling author, and he famously warned a skeptical world about the 2008 financial crisis...in 2006. He says nothing's fundamentally fixed. In fact, Peter says the next crash will be even bigger than the last one. Some say he’s a bear. Brien Lundin is an expert in gold. He's the producer of the New Orleans Investment Conference and the publisher of a very popular newsletter on precious metal investing. Gold is an alternative to dollars as a store of liquid value. And the gold helps us understand what’s happening with the dollar. So even those you don’t hold gold can benefit from watching it. None of these guys are real estate investors. So they don't look at the world with a real estate bias. We like to visit with them because they help us discover blind spots we might have when we look at real estate. After four days in New Orleans, all our brain cells were fired up. So listen in as we talk about interest rates, the dollar, real estate, gold and what the future holds. The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Inspections are a very important part of real estate investing. Having trained experts objectively evaluate the condition of all components of a property help prevent unexpected, unpleasant and expensive surprises. Inspections also provide leverage when margins and negotiations are tight. In this episode, the Guys discuss some of the myriad of inspections available and how savvy real estate investors use them to get a good deal, avoid a bad deal, and protect themselves from unknown liabilities. Listen in and learn how inspections help you discover questions you didn't even know to ask! The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke is taking a victory lap and promoting his new book, The Courage to Act. Meanwhile, ex- Congressman and multi-time Presidential candidate Ron Paul is a well-known long-time critic of the Fed. One thing's for sure - The Fed is the most powerful financial force on the planet. Their decisions affect interest rates, economic activity, investment activity and the price of every product, commodity or service worldwide. Paper asset investors hang on every word the Fed utters...and real estate investors should pay close attention too. Both Ben Bernanke and Ron Paul appeared at separate events in separate cities within days of each other. So The Real Estate Guys decided to split up and cover both. Robert was in Dallas to hear Ron Paul. Russ headed to San Francisco is listen to Ben Bernanke. In this episode we compare notes and reflect on what we heard and how it affects real estate investors. Listen in and decide for yourself - is the Fed a friend….or foe? The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Equity happens.  But sometimes on the road to real estate riches, bad stuff happens too.In our annual "reality check" episode, we visit with several real life real estate investors who had things go horribly wrong and lived to talk...and laugh...about it.Of course, if you're going to have a bad experience it can be therapeutic to revisit it and look for the lesson.  After all, you paid full price for it.  And even better when you can get a great lesson that someone else paid for.So listen in as we talk trouble in this episode of Halloween Horror Stories!The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed.  Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Most people invest in real estate for building wealth to enjoy then pass on to their family. But because of poor or little planning, some investors lose huge chunks of their assets to lawsuits and taxation. So in an age of hackers, surveillance and money hungry governments, it's never been more important to structure your holdings for maximum privacy, protection and tax mitigation. It used to be good enough to set up a simple local structure. More sophisticated investors and businesses then began to use interstate structures. Today, it's becoming more common for investors to use global strategies to build and protect wealth, minimize taxes and maximize privacy. Because the easier it is for a predator to find your wealth and make a claim on it, the more likely you are to come under attack. In this epsiode we welcome back internationl asset protection attorney Joel Nagel who shares his strategies for going global to protect wealth and pass more if it on when the time comes. The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Lots of great questions from our fabulous listeners! Topics range include market selection, what to watch out for when investing in condos, whether inflation or deflation is on the horizon, and what to think about China's push to make the Yuan a reserve currency. So many questions, so little time! But stay tuned because as long as you have questions, we'll keep making up answers! The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Rock star is a term often used to describe HUGE success in any endeavor. Maybe YOU are dreaming of becoming a real estate rock star some day! So we thought it would be fun (and instructive) to sit down and visit with a real life rock star. We want to know how someone finds the passion and drive to fight the odds and achieve fortune and fame.  We didn't just settle for some one-hit wonder...not that there wouldn't be lessons there too... We got someone who's achieved ENDURING success. Of course, as great as fame and fortune are, we think success is bigger than that. It's also about health, relationships and a sense of purpose. So listen in as we visit with mega-band Def Leppard's lead guitarist, Phil Collen...and discover philosophies, principles and patterns for you can apply to your life as pursue big time success in fortune, fame, relationships and health. And you guessed it. This episode ROCKS! The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

So many opportunities...so little time! In this fifth and final episode of our series on getting off the beaten path to find better cash flows, we take a rapid fire look at a variety of real estate niches. We discover there are MANY places an intrepid real estate investor can go to find profits...without fighting with dumb money or institutional giants. So listen in and scratch your itch to get rich...in a niche! The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.

Commercial properties are alternatives for investors looking for profits outside of every day residential real estate. In this episode, we take a look at the big three of commercial real estate - office, retail and industrial...and some of the many sub-sectors inside of each. If all you've ever known or considered is houses and apartments, you'll be amazed at the many different ways to derive rental income from real property! The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed. Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com

Big banks and Wall Street have once again been accused of manipulating a major market.  As if the LIBOR scandal wasn't bad enough, the latest allegations of Treasury market shenanigans highlight the dangers of little fish swimming with big sharks. But with banks paying virtually nothing on savings, and high yielding residential real estate getting harder to find...where's an investor to go for higher yields and real assets? In this episode, attorney Mauricio Rauld talks with us about the growing popularity of private placements.  These are non-publicly traded investments where a sponsor organizes a group of private investors to purchase a single property or a portfolio of properties. These are deals typically too big for Mom & Pop investors to do, so you're not competing for profits with Johnny-come-lately novices who bid prices up.  But they're also too small for the big institutions to bother with, so there's often a "sweet spot" with private placements where deals still make sense...even in a hot market. The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training and resources to help real estate investors succeed.  Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter! Visit www.realestateguysradio.com.