Passive Real Estate Investing

Welcome back to another episode where we’re going to talk about the Houston, Texas market. One thing that we’ve been getting asked a little bit about recently is the effects of Hurricane Harvey. As you know, Hurricane Harvey ripped through the Caribbean and beat up some of the islands down there and hit the coast pretty hard. However, the good news is that there was no bad news. We haven’t heard from any one of our clients that had invested in the Houston market reporting any kind of flooding or damage. That’s a good thing. There’s really one key reason why that was, and we’re going to talk about that today with my guest, Bryan. Houston is an interesting city. We’ve been there for many, many years. We’ve had a lot of happy clients and success there because it’s such an incredibly diverse and progressive city. It’s the nation’s fourth largest city, growing fast. It’s known as the city of infinite possibilities. It’s quickly approaching six million residents, that’s more than 32 states and it just continues to grow. Strong jobs, strong population growth, a friendly business climate, lots of cheap land to build on, it’s just a great market. Coupled with all that, we have a lot of what we refer to as STEM jobs. STEM meaning science, technology, engineering and math. When you have jobs in the STEM field, what you have are high paying jobs. Roughly 6% of employment in Houston is held by STEM job holders. That adds to equality rental pool, that just means more stable tenants. Houston is drawing businesses in from everywhere as well as new residents. These are not only people who are looking to buy and live there, but also people who are tenants. That’s good for you and I as landlords. That’s what we’re going to talk about today. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Passive Income with Syndications – Mauricio Rauld. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Kiyosaki once said, “Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and especially in investing.” On this show, we talk a lot about passive income and passive investments and how to create wealth through those vehicles, especially real estate. What about partnerships or syndications? Today, I want to explore the world of investment partnerships, they’re also known as syndications, and how you can potentially participate and profit from them as well. What is a syndication? In its simplest form, a syndication is just a pooling of investor money where the investor is typically a passive limited partner. The other partner to the deal is really a general partner or an active partner. That’s the person that puts the deal together. They manage the business plan. They provide the return and the benefits to all investors. You’ll hear general partner or GP often. They’re also referred to as the syndicate or the sponsor. These terms are used interchangeably. At the end of the day, a syndication is nothing but a group investment. It’s a pooling of investment capital to put into an investment opportunity that is managed by a syndicator. We have an amazing guest on today’s show, someone who I’m getting know quite well. In fact I’m meeting him for lunch here in a couple of weeks. We had a great opportunity to get to know each other recently. His name is Mauricio Rauld. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Deferring Taxes for Decades (and the Dangers of 1031 Exchanges). Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I just got back from Memphis, Tennessee where I had a great three days there. We had a two-day event. The first day was all about education, getting to know new things about things related to real estate and real estate investing and taxes and whatnot. Then we had a great networking event that evening where I got the opportunity to meet a lot of investors from all around. In fact, we had one person there from Australia, we had a couple there from Hawaii, and it was fun. These people are there to learn and they’re people who listen to this podcast and it was just a lot of fun to meet people who listen to and from their drive to work. It’s great to put faces and names to people who are out there listening and educating themselves, learning to better their financial future and create financial freedom for themselves. That first day was all about education, the evening was all networking. We got to sit around and have something to eat and have a few drinks and just overlook the Mississippi River. It was just a great time. The second day was all about a property tour. We got to go around the Memphis market, learn about various neighborhoods, get to see properties at different stages of the game; some being pre-renovation, some of them being in the middle of renovation, some of them having completed renovation. It was an exciting event. Then we had some more networking after that. It was great two and a half days of mingling and meeting other real estate investors. One of the things we got talking about there was taxes and taxation and whatnot. The question comes up, “Why do people hate paying taxes?” One reason is because they just simply don’t understand them. Albert Einstein said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” Aside from that, we just simply don’t like to pay any more than we have to. Some people feel that there is an obligation to pay, but at the same time I think you have an obligation to learn how to reduce, minimize or even eliminate the taxes that you pay when the opportunity is there. The thing is you may not know what opportunities exist because it’s just a simple matter of honest ignorance. I always say that ignorance is expensive, but knowledge leads to increased wealth and the ability to lower your taxes. If you don’t, you would think that your tax adviser would be well-educated on this stuff, but that’s just simply not the case as you’re going to learn today with my guest Bruce Jones. I had a great interview with Bruce. Something that he’s going to share a few things actually are things that I’ve looked at in the past but never quite completely grasped because it’s just what most financial planners and advisers don’t really know or understand. This is a great episode and there’s some stuff that we’re going to talk about today that might go over your head. Don’t let that get you lost just because we’re getting deep in the weeds. You could always go back and listen to this episode over again, or better yet, you can just contact Bruce and his team and learn more about it. It’s just free education. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Sheltering Your Rental Income from Taxes. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before we get on our show here, I want to remind you about our upcoming Memphis Investment and Property Tour that will be on October 6th and October 7th. It’s a Friday, Saturday. This is a great event. If you can make it, get in touch with our investment counselors here. We are offering free tickets, the tickets are normally $450, and we would love to see you and maybe your spouse down there or your business partner. What we are doing is hosting a unique event in Memphis, Tennessee. It will be a weekend of property tours, speakers and networking mixed with a little Memphis culture. Not only will you see great investment properties but the first full day is where we’re bringing together speakers from all over to address various aspects of today’s real estate investing. That’s going to be a breadth of information and topics. We would love to have you down there and see what we have going on in that great market. Again, this is October 6th and 7th. You can come in as early as Thursday, October 5th. I’m not sure if we have an event on Thursday but we definitely have an event going on on Friday evening. It’s a dinner and a networking mixer. Saturday is open-ended on Saturday evening so we can do whatever we want to do unless you want to fly out that night, but I think a lot of people are going to fly out on Sunday. Contact our office or send us an email through our website at NoradaRealEstate.com and we’ll tell you more about it. Today’s episode is about sheltering your rental income from taxes and maybe some other tax tips. When it comes to taxes, I pay my taxes, it’s not my favorite thing to do, but it’s something we just all have to come to grips with. Paying taxes just seems to be part of the American life now and ever since the Income Tax Act of 1913, there’s really no way around it. There’s a lot of code in the tax code. Unfortunately, you have to pay your taxes for any types of income you make. Fortunately, the US Tax Code has many, many rules that allow rental property owners to reduce their taxes and save money. If you own property, it’s a huge part of your tax strategy because it is the most tax-favored investment that you can get your hands on, that you can put your investment capital into, and the IRS rewards this type of behavior. If you don’t have property, you really should have some because the tax benefits are fantastic. I’m not a tax professional or a CPA but I do know many people who are tax advisors and specialists in that area and the fact that they are in the niche, that they deal with real estate investors, that really helps in helping educate you through this podcast, through articles as well as clients because we can put you in touch with them to minimize your tax impact or defer that taxable impact or in some cases, even eliminate completely and forever the tax impact of your income. Our show today is about sheltering and reducing your rental income from taxes. I have a great guest on who is a very, very sharp individual, so just stay tuned. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to >Investing in Memphis and Our Upcoming Property Tour Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I want to just say thanks for your patience. I've been away for about eight weeks. I haven't done an episode in almost two months. The reason for that is because I've been traveling extensively here for actually the whole year but mostly throughout the summer. I spent about two and a half weeks traveling through Italy and up to Paris. That was a family vacation. The rest has been all business related. I've been traveling everywhere from Kansas City to Dallas to China. I actually just got back from Shanghai, which was just an amazing trip. I might talk a little bit more about that in my next episode because it's quite fascinating what is going on in terms of investment capital and foreign investment in the US. Aside from that, I plan to get back on a weekly recording schedule here as best as I can. I still have a lot of travel coming up here over the course of this month and the rest of the year. I'll do my best to continue to deliver content and bring on some great guests. In the meantime, I want to announce something that we haven’t done for a long, long time and we rarely do, and that is a combination of an educational seminar/property tour where you can actually just kick the dirt and walk around and see various properties in a market at different stages of development; from acquisition to demolition to renovation through to completion, so you can see everything that gets done, who’s doing it and how it gets done. That’s combined with some amazing speakers, everything from finance to 1031s and whatnot. That’s all packed in about a day and a half. It won’t be a long drawn out four-day event. It will be short, sweet, you come in on one day, you have a day and a half of networking and education and property visiting. Then you could leave in the second half of that day or the following day. That’s what this episode is about. It’s investing in Memphis, Tennessee and some information about our upcoming property tour. I have a great guest. He’s one of our team members out in the local market. He knows the market very well. Memphis has been a great market for us. It always has been. It’s a perennial market. It’s very strong. The real estate market there in Memphis continues to grow. It has been what I call a perennial cashflow market. You don’t see wild fluctuations and appreciation. They’re strong, steady, stable rates of return in cashflow. If that’s what you’re looking for, it’s a perfect market because it’s got everything you could possibly want aside from hypergrowth in terms of price appreciation. We don’t have an inflated market but we do have what a lot of investors want, and that is solid, steady, consistent income and rates of return. We're going to dive into that and bring on James, our partner here. Stay tuned. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to >Daniel Amerman – Inflation, Deflation, Debt and the Coming Housing Crash? | PREI 088; (Edit)">Daniel Amerman – Inflation, Deflation, Debt and the Coming Housing Crash? Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vladimir Lenin once said the way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. It’s true, and it’s happening. Inflation and Real Estate Investors Financial industry insiders talk about monetary policy issued by central banks, exchange rate policies, and inflation rates, most of which are not fully understood – and are completely ignored – by the general public. What you need to know is that the odds are stacked against real estate investors in a more comprehensive and complicated way than most people are aware. The Advantages of Understanding Inflation Theory The good news is that, when you’re armed with this knowledge, you gain the ability to not only protect yourself from cost-push inflation and demand-pull inflation, but to also find new sources of wealth in unexpected places. The real return associated with these sometimes counterintuitive sources of wealth can be substantial because they work with the underlying flow of wealth rather than against it, notwithstanding the current monetary policy in place. How Inflation Rates Affect Real Estate Investors If you don’t understand inflation theory, stay tuned, because our guest today is going to dive into this with me. It’s something that will be an eye-opener for you and possibly even a paradigm shift. I strongly believe that understanding the three forces of asset deflation, monetary inflation, and taxes for inflation will be the single, most important thing you can do to protect and improve your standard of living over the long-term, whether there is price stability or not. I believe these forces will be the primary determinants of real financial success for investors in the decades ahead and that those who fail to understand these forces of economy will be a great risk in the future. Join me on this amazing interview with one of the smartest guys I know on the subject. It’s an episode you’ll want to listen more than once, so don’t go away.   If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity – Dean Graziosi. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The success habits of millionaires set them apart from everyone else. This is not to say that they are born with these habits, but they have perfected them. Learning them can also give you the success they worked hard for. Want to find out what millionaires do differently, and how their success habits have made them who they are today? Listen to the podcast, or read our outline below, and follow along with Dean Graziosi for valuable tips for building your wealth. Success Habits You Must Develop   Inspiration for Success Success does not come from nowhere and neither does the inspiration for it. If you are lucky, you may have already found the reason why you keep doing what you do. For some, this inspiration is yet to come. Inspiration is important because it’s the thing you hold onto during the long road to success. It comes in many forms: life experiences, encounters, books, certain events, and, for most people, a successful person. We have a very special show today and an incredible guest, someone who I’ve been looking to get on the show for a while now. About three months ago at one of my Mastermind meetings, I had the opportunity to sit down and meet with him. We got talking about his new book and habits and whatnot. I asked him to come on the show. It took me a while to get him on the show because he’s always traveling and he’s got a busy schedule. We’re going to talk about his new book and habits and some amazing content here today. Habits of Success and the Success of Habits One thing about habits I want to say is that habits are the basis of your success, and they could also be the basis of your downfall. Despite the importance of habits, few people know much about them or even how they work. Habits are thought about negatively — usually they relate to gambling habits or drug habits — but there are a lot of good habits and things that we should incorporate into our lives, such as exercising regularly or how we think or meditate or what we do and what we eat and how we treat our friends and our family. The magic of habit lies in its repeatability. By consciously and continuously exercising such habits, we form the core and foundation of the success we dream of having.   To be aware of our habits and how powerful they are and what subtle changes we can do to affect the trajectory and the path of where we’re doing is just an amazing thing. I have an amazing guest today. Please stay tuned, right to the very end. He’s got a great offer for you. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to How to Properly Interview and Hire Your Property Manager. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hiring a real estate property manager is an essential component of maintaining a property and its value in the market (not to mention attracting good tenants). If you’re a property owner who is busy, owns several properties, or owns out-of-state real estate investments, you will certainly benefit from hiring a professional property manager. Why Should You Hire a Property Manager? Finding a reliable property manager who can efficiently handle the day-to-day management, maintenance, and repairs of your investment property, conduct tenant screening and rent collection, and stay on top of landlord-tenant law changes is absolutely essential. It’s not only for peace of mind but also to ensure the maximum market value of the rental property. What Does a Property Manager Do? A property manager’s job description includes taking care of all the details and busy work so you can focus on growing your real estate investments. Having a good property management company on your side goes a long way to ensuring easy, profitable, and stress-free investing. It can bring you hassle-free rentals and property maintenance while optimizing your cash flow and your return on investment. What Should You Look for in a Property Manager? It’s important that the property manager, the company, and the overall business ethics inspire confidence and trust in you so you’re completely comfortable in assigning the property over to them. I often refer to residential property managers as asset managers because if you stop and think about it, it’s not just the property that they’re managing, it’s really your assets. My guest and I will talk about some of the things that you should look for when you’re interviewing or hiring your property manager. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Why Should You Invest in Alabama? (Huntsville, Montgomery and Birmingham). Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a special show today because we’re going to do another market spotlight. Today, we’re going to talk about why you should invest in Alabama. In fact, there are actually three great markets to consider in Alabama. To discuss why you should invest in Alabama and these markets, I wanted to bring on one of my local market providers. He is a great guy, very knowledgeable. His name is Jared. Him and I were down at the IMN event in Florida a couple of months ago. He was on one of the panels, as was I on a separate panel. I really enjoyed listening to him talk because he is such a knowledgeable person. He’s very detailed, analytical; he really digs into the markets and market timing and trends and the economics and fundamentals. He understands why a market makes sense from many levels. I could literally listen to him all day long. Then I thought, “We work together, and we have a property in Huntsville, Montgomery and Birmingham in Alabama. Why don’t we just do a podcast episode and talk about these markets and why they make sense? Then you can take it from there.” If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Home Inspections: What You Need to Know. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s show, we’re going to talk about properly inspecting your rental properties before you buy them or even after you’ve purchased them. All of our clients at Norada Real Estate, we insist that they order a professional home inspection as part of their due diligence after they put a property under contract. That’s true for every single property they buy. Why? Because it’s important that you know the condition of the property and if there are any issues or red flags. There are still some amount of education that goes around this topic of home inspections. I wanted to bring on a professional, someone who really knows not only the industry, but the nuts and bolts of doing the actual inspections. My guest today is a gentleman named Tim Tucker. He’s with US Inspect. Tim is the Director of Business Development for US Inspect. They are the nation’s leading employee-based inspection services firm. They’re headquartered in Northern Virginia, but they have a very large network of inspection teams nationwide. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to What Clients Want to Know… Marco Santarelli on the Other Side of the Mic. Enjoy the show! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here’s how. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices