Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast

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These past few years, real estate media headlines have been filled with a word that is probably familiar to most investors:  syndications, and its cousin, crowdfunding. While syndications have been around for decades, crowdfunding is a more recent phenomenon, introduced by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act in 2012.  Both syndications and crowdfunding are a way for companies to raise private money for their projects, while offering investors a way to passively participate in deals they might not be a able to do on their own.  With so much money flowing, it’s become increasingly important that you know what you’re doing, so you don’t lose your money (or worse, someone else’s!) I have been to many events lately where I’ve met brand new investors who are now syndicating deals. One man had only been investing in real estate for 3 years and had already raised over $8 million for his latest multifamily project. He was just about to syndicate another one and asked if we could partner. When I asked a few basic questions about the pro forma, it became very clear that he was only using “blue sky” projections. He clearly has not looked at history to see that rents never rise forever, as nice as it looks on paper. He also hadn’t accounted for rising property taxes and interest rates, that would dramatically affect NOI. It’s vitally important for the syndicator and investors to keep in mind that we are at the late stage of this real estate cycle. The massive growth we’ve seen in real estate over the past 10 years won’t likely be the same over the next 10 years. Pro-formas need to reflect that.  Hunter Thompson is the Managing Principal of Cash Flow Connections a private equity firm that has helped more than 250 accredited investors diversify into recession-resistant real estate.  Find out:   What Major Questions Investors Should Ask When Conducting Due Diligence on any Passive Real Estate Investment Why the Loan of a CRE Investment Deserves a TON of Attention  What Causes CRE Investments to Go Wrong and What You Can Do About It How to Underwrite Opportunities For Achievable Results  www.RealWealthShow.com  

Rich and I were evacuated today. We are sitting in a cafe in Venice, wondering if we have a home. Here's how we prepared. www.RealWealthShow.com  

Thousands of investors are flocking to multifamily investments in search of high cash flow and high profits from increased rents. While some investors are net-sellers, putting all their holdings on the market for sale at top dollar. Is it a buyer's market or a seller's market? The answer is, as always, which market? Our guest today is invested in many cities across the nation and has his finger on the pulse of the multifamily industry. Robert Bollhoffer is Managing Principal of 29th Street Capital (Real Estate Investments) based in Chicago. www.RealWealthShow.com  

Investors, flippers, landlords and real-estate developers, listen up! The opportunity of a lifetime - the one you've been waiting for - is here! You have the chance to make a lot of money, and pay no capital gains tax on that money, if you invest in and improve certain select neighborhoods! And there are nearly 8,000 of these areas in the U.S.., plus all of Puerto Rico. www.RealWealthShow.com  

Ever wondered how to better motivate your kids? Or your employees? Or your spouse? Or maybe you just want to have a deeper connection with your loved ones, and get a long much better with others. If so, you are about to learn a very powerful secret that can transform relationships. I'm Kathy Fettke and welcome to the Real Wealth Show! We are going to get some life changing tips from one of America's top coaches today - that will surely make you a better business owner, investor, negotiator, parent, friend and spouse. Cynthia Loy Darst is a Master Certified Coach, and was actually my husband Rich Fettke's very first coach. And very first coach trainer back when he was getting certified. And while everyone really should have a personal coach, wouldn't it be cool if we could learn to also coach ourselves? Cynthia's new book, Meet Your Inside Team, How to turn Internal Conflict into Clarity and Move Forward With Your Life may help us do just that. And I'm so excited to share it with you! www.RealWealthShow.com  

No one wants to get sued, but if you plan to build a real estate empire, the question is not so much ‘if’ but ‘when.’ At least according to our guest exert today.    Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, TX. He graduated from Albany Law School and began his career in high-stakes corporate litigation. It was then he learned the key secret he now uses to defeat lawsuits: that they are a business. Through his defense work, he targets defeating lawsuits before they are even filed by making sure the business part of a lawsuit no longer makes financial sense for a plaintiff to proceed. Scott founded Royal Legal Solutions to offer tax, business, and legal strategies to real estate investors. He has spent the past 8 years of his career diving through case law, reading the ever-changing tax code, and analyzing real estate investment so that you don’t have to. He works with clients all over the United States and Canada who want to grow their businesses and protect their hard-earned assets. For reasons only he may know, he gets a particular thrill out of sharing the secrets he studied and worked very hard to learn with ordinary investors. He is a regular expert contributor to BiggerPockets.com and other real investment communities, and is currently writing an eBook on asset protection strategies to help educate the public. If you text "ebook" to (512) 607-9848 you will receive a free ebook from Scott!   www.RealWealthShow.com

How do you go from full-time techie to professional real estate investor? I know we've got a lot of Silicon Valley listeners, and I know how hard you work - sometimes 80 hours a week. I don't know how you do that, by the way! And unfortunately, even with all those hours with very high pay, many people are still struggling to get by day to day financially, since the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area is so high.  So how do you get out of the rat race? Our guest today did it and is here to tell us how. JC Castillo, welcome! You can join us at NorCal's AIN's event by visiting: https://www.facebook.com/events/261798161132167/   www.RealWealthShow.com

With home prices on the rise and politics not to everyone's taste, many Americans are looking to buy land overseas. But what should they know before they pull out their wallets? Our guest today is an expert in global real estate, in acquisitions, development, and project management. Scott Stay is president and CEO of CM&D, with 25 years of experience developing and managing over $23 billion in projects in hospitality, residential mid-rises, single family master plan subdivision, student housing, hotels, commercial retail and industrial campuses. He's also the design and construction manager of our project in Costa Rica. www.RealWealthCrowd.com www.RealWealthShow.com