Real Estate Realities With Robert "the Rebelbroker" Whitelaw

Did home sellers miss the real estate boat in 2018? In todays show we are going to look at some national stats then take a peak at what I am seeing in my market. Some say that sellers missed their chance to get the best price in 2018. Is that true or is there still room for sellers to do well?     HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When prompted, text your email address and you are in! JOIN THE REBEL UNDERGROUND! SPONSOR Audible.com - Audible is offering real estate realities listeners a free audiobook of your choice and a free 30-day trial membership. Just go to http://audibletria

Discount brokerages have been around forever. The internet has created a new flavor, and its not good for most buyers and sellers. Over the years that I have been doing this show, I have shared with you many things that I feel work against the best interests of buyers and sellers. Normally, when we have discussed these kinds of things, we were talking about isolated cases where maybe one of these bad things was in play. What we have today, is a monster created by the internet. This monster promises to save you money while forcing you to subscribe to a process that has a good chance of costing you more than they are claiming to save you. That monster arrives in the form of some deep discount brokerages that tick every box on things I have suggested you should NEVER agree to in your relationship with your real estate agent or broker. Of course, there will be circumstances where using one of these discount brokers makes good sense. But those will be rare times. However, there is one condition on that. We will di

Every buyer, seller, investor or aspiring real estate entrepreneur should know this! No matter what your goals in real estate might be, being able to spot a market that is cooling down is a key skill that can make you money! Today, we are going to review what Realtor Magazine says are the 7 indicators that your market is cooling. Of course, like with all things, we will slather on a heaping helping of RebelBroker Mojo© to make this information even more valuable! For those of you just getting started, this is a GREAT place and time to begin exercising your future investor muscles!     HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker'

Lets talk about an article that points out some numbers that show the real estate market is better than we thought. In todays show, we take a look at some interesting numbers that put into perspective what we should consider "normal" for the real estate market.

Some interesting things are going on with the Reno real estate market. Today we are going to look at some numbers and get into details about why it looks like the southern Reno real estate area could be a great place to invest. Even better, Reno is only about a 5 hour drive from Silicon Valley, so for all you investors in that part of California, this could be a great place to start investing and still act as the property manager for your property. Todays Links: https://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/46815-nevada-set-for-next-housing-price-boom   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the bu

Real estate looks like it is continuing to see supply and demand converge We are pulling data from a few sources for todays show. While we have chatted about the apartment market, today we can talk a little about the areas of softness we are seeing in the single family residential real estate market. The data is interesting and will hopefully help you make the best possible decision when it comes to making your money work its hardest for you in the world of real estate. Todays Links: http://realtybiznews.com/prices-crumbling-ultra-luxury-real-estate-markets/98750350/ https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/california-bay-area-home-sales-decline.html https://www.redfin.com/blog/2018/09/redfin-housing-demand-index-july-2018.html https://www.nreionline.com/nrei-wire/manhattan-landlords-sacrifice-higher-rents-fill-apartments   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts an

The apartment rental market is facing challenges in some surprising markets! [caption id="attachment_11481" align="alignright" width="243"] Free-Photos / Pixabay[/caption] Metro areas that the media has been celebrating for their growth and unstoppable markets appear to be stalling. In terms of apartment rental markets, we are seeing softening in some amazing places! In todays show, we are going to take a closer look and try to figure out what we can learn from this amazing shifts in some of the countries most dominating metro markets!   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When promp

Lets look at the WalletHub list of the best places to flip houses - and more! [caption id="attachment_11473" align="alignright" width="248"] ArtisticOperations / Pixabay[/caption] While this list of best places to flip houses will tell us exactly that - where to flip houses - it will also give us insights into where long term investors and regular home buyers would be smart to focus their attention! As seems to always be the case, it is also interesting to see who the worst performers were in this area, and those results might just surprise a few of you! That will be particularly true if you have been getting most of your real estate information from headlines! One great thing about this list is that it also gives us data on what areas are getting the highest ROI! So we will cover all that and more in todays show! Don't miss it! Todays Links: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-to-flip-houses/23158/   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of

What is the biggest trick real estate agents use when working with clients? We will discuss that today! For those of you that have been listening to my show for a while, you know that I take a slightly different approach. In terms of what I consider to be the "Right" way to do things, the current dominant attitude in real estate just does not make the cut. Today, we are going to reveal the greatest weapon that real estate agents will bring out to get you to make an emotional rather than a rational decision. It is a tool  that is taught by EVERYONE in real estate. On its own, it is not a bad thing. To one degree or another, we all do it every day. However, when this tool is taken to the degree that you embrace the 'small deception' - which is standard operating procedure in the world of real estate - you are crossing a line that leads to an attitude that too easily can brush the truth aside for more and more critical issues - which is a bad thing. Now you see what I did there? I have teased the point of todays

That's right, Non Prime loans might be a new name, but it is the same old problem Both private and government backed lenders have been at it for a while. We have explored all the various ways bad lending has been creeping back into the financial world. Sadly, it has been this way for several years now. But now, we have reached a more critical mass where the practice appears to be getting a more common usage. This is not good. We are simply priming the lending pump for another downturn and the market is ripe for it. Sub prime loans or non prime loans end with the same thing, a economic meltdown that is likely to dwarf what we saw in 2007.  

The places with the biggest increases in foreclosures will blow your mind! Are we seeing a resurgence of foreclosures? The data shows that in about 44% of metro areas, we are. We have talked a lot about pivot points in markets and where to find them. Well, I would absolutely call an increase in foreclosures a pivot point! In fact, right here on this show we speculated years ago that the bad lending practices we began to embrace about 6 years ago would come back to bite us in exactly this way. It sounds like we might have just been pretty close to right. While it is interesting that we are seeing this increase, it is some of the specific areas we are seeing it that is most revealing. I am willing to be that some of the areas that are at the top of this list will blow you away! So tune in for our discussion of the recent increase in foreclosures. Today Links: https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/foreclosures/july-2018-u-s-foreclosure-market-report/ HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demo

  The bigger picture of economics directly effects real estate - so lets talk to Andrei Polgar, Economist and host of One Minute Economics on YouTube! Todays interview should be interesting! We are going to chat with Andrei Polgar. That name may not ring a bell relating to the world of real estate, but if you are familiar with the YouTube channel One Minute Economics, then you know todays guest has a talent for making complicated economic ideas easy to understand. I have been a subscriber to Andrei's channel for quite a while and I was pleased when he reached out to see if we could sit down and chat about economics and real estate! Of course, we talked about a variety of things, but real estate is a big part of any economy! So sit back and enjoy todays interview! Here is a real estate related video from Andrei's channel for you to check out:   [embed]https://youtu.be/eptjIngbcl0[/embed] HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Tak

Some interesting signs point to home inventory surpassing demand - and it might happen soon! Don't miss todays show where we will talk about some interesting headlines and try to get to the real truth behind them. We are seeing shifts in the market that could completely change the supply and demand dynamic that has propped up the markets crazy prices for a long time. When the home inventory finally does overtake demand, what happens then?     HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When prompted, text your email address and you are in! JOIN THE REBEL UNDERGROUND! SPONSOR Audible.com - A

Baby Boomers are becoming a huge force in rentals Lots of time gets spent trying to figure out what Millennials are going to do, but the Baby Boomer generation is a little bit easier to figure out. More importantly, 10s of thousands of them are entering the rental market - every day! This is a trend that will continue for at least the next decade and by offering Baby Boomer friendly amenities in your rental properties, you can be ready for this increased level of demand!   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When prompted, text your email address and you are in! JOIN THE REBEL UNDERGR

The good folks over at smartasset.com say that these are the most undervalued cities. We will take a closer look and see if that also means these are good places to consider for an investment. We will check out their methodology and see if the way they decided on this ranking actually results in things that make properties valuable to investors. We want to know, do undervalued cities equal valuable investments? Maybe your hometown is somewhere on this list! Todays Links Most Undervalued Cities In America - 2018 HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When prompted, text your email addr

Some new housing inventory numbers in from Sacramento! We have seen a big turn around in the housing inventory numbers in Sacramento. No big change in the days on market numbers or anything that would show us that the market has truly turned, but it is an interesting change for that market. I also want to take a quick glance at the international market in the UK since in the last downturn, we did see some parallel events - and what is happening there might just be a reason for us to worry.         HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click the button below. When prompted, text your email address and you are i

Some of the latest data shows that the housing shortage might just be winding down! While this may not be true in every metro market, it actually is looking like we are seeing some major metro areas moving in the direction of ending the housing shortage! Lets look at the data and see what makes sense. We will also get into the details of exactly is indicating that some areas are clearly seeing a big change in their inventory numbers that tend to indicate that in those areas, inventory problems might just be over!

  Chris Prefontaine will share his experiences and insights into the world of real estate! Chris Prefontaine is a bestselling author and real estate investor with over 26 years of experience in the field, including 18 years as a builder, realtor, broker/owner and investor. Chris founded Smart Real Estate Coach in 2014. The company coaches investors on how to scale & automate their business throughout the US and Canada- all without using their cash or credit. You can find Chris here: http://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/ https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/   HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top of the page titled "Take the survey to support the show". Follow the prompts and this will automatically enter you for a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift card! Interested in getting free content, advanced notice of upcoming events and real estate exclusives? Then simply join the Rebel Underground by texting the word 'rebelbroker' to 44222 - or click