Real Estate Realities With Robert "the Rebelbroker" Whitelaw

Baby boomers are starting to do things differently - and it could redefine the rental market Happy Halloween everyone! No scary stories today. We are going to talk about a shift in the rental market that could be a HUGE opportunity for investors out there! Baby boomers are not acting as they have in past years - and this spells opportunity for folks who are aware of it! Unlike past years, baby boomers are deciding to rent rather than buy. What is most interesting is what they are renting and where. With this information in your pocket, you can potentially appeal to a segment of the rental market that tends to be full of dream tenants! Todays Links: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-23/meet-americas-new-renter-class-baby-boomers https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/real-estate-news/todayrenterprofile-older-highly-educated-suburban/ 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 t

Is it time for home flippers to focus on the luxury real estate market? [caption id="attachment_9383" align="alignright" width="281"] This is the chart to find the sweet spot when it comes to selling for the highest price in the shortest time[/caption] Interesting numbers have come out that show an increased demand in the luxury real estate market. According to the latest numbers, there has been a drop in luxury home sales with an increase in prices. Inventory on million dollar plus homes is down. Builders have started to move resources into more affordable housing and this might just spell opportunity for folks involved with fixing and flipping. [caption id="attachment_9382" align="alignleft" width="178"] A more local view of the same data[/caption] Todays Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/luxury-homes-cant-keep-up-with-high-demand.html 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 t

Aaron Hendon is a top real estate professional and author from Seattle - sharing his insights! Aaron Hendons book is not quite out yet - but he was kind enough to share a pre-publication copy with me and it is definitely worth your time to take a look! His goal with this book is to give you the tools you need to work through the entire purchase process - from that first moment when you start thinking about purchasing or selling right through to close of escrow.  In addition to being an author, Aaron is also a top agent in the Seattle market. In todays show, he will share his years of experience and give us some insights into that growing market. For those of you long time listeners to the show, you are going to notice that Aaron shares our views on how to select your real estate agent - I cannot begin to tell you how refreshing it is to talk to someone in real estate who "gets it" when it comes to the things that should really matter to buyers, sellers and investors! HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audi

Lets talk about biggerpockets BRRRR & BARRRR strategies! No, not that kind of Brrrr[/caption] I love biggerpockets.com, I joined just under a year ago and they offer a great pathway toward achieving your goals in real estate. It is a program that really only relies on you to get where you want to be. If you follow their advice, you are going to achieve some level of success. For a long time I have been a fan of their BRRRR strategy but yesterday they offered up an enhanced version the BARRRR strategy that brings with it some great tax benefits. We are going to chat about that today! If you do decide to join biggerpockets.com, please look me up! Side note: This is NOT an advertisement or paid for by biggerpockets in any way - AT ALL. It is simply the most effective online tool/community I have found for real estate investors. Links: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/forget-brrrr-try-barrrr/ http://www.biggerpockets.com HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking

A great forward looking list of the Hottest Real Estate Markets for SFRs in 2017! The good folks over at Ten-X have compiled a ranked list of 50 cities that should give the best returns on investments in Single Family Residential properties. So this is about revealing what WILL BE the hottest real estate markets - not the markets you have already missed! So if you are looking for the best bets in terms of where to invest your real estate dollars - and single family residential homes are your preferred way to do it - then this list is for you. As always, this list is as interesting for who is at the bottom of the list as for who is at the top, so of course, we are going to check out both ends! Todays Links: https://mediaroom.ten-x.com/2017-10-17-Texas-Cities-Dominate-Ten-Xs-Fall-2017-List-of-Hottest-Single-Family-Markets http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/10/nahb-builder-confidence-increased-to-68.html HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the button at the top

Damion Lupo talks about the biggest obstacle to your real estate success - you! Hold on a second. I don't mean that you are a problem. What I mean is that the thing that keeps the vast majority of people I encounter for achieving real estate success is that they simply never start. There are always plenty of excuses. They will even seem completely rational, well considered and reasonable. Trust me, I know a little bit about this. There is not a single person in the world who is trying to hold you back - except for you. Now you can choose from hundreds of different ways that people do this to themselves. So what you need is a process that you can work through to help you figure out what YOUR SPECIFIC limiting factors are. Damion Lupo shares with us his new book, "Re-Invented Life" where he and his co-author, Christofer Ashby, help guide you through a process that is designed to help open your eyes to the personal truth of what you allow to hold you back but also to help you figure out what you really want and

Some of the hottest markets should be AVOIDED if you are looking for the best bank for the buck! We have talked about this tons in the past. The numbers prove it, you are better off buying in less known markets than the big sexy ones that fill all the headlines! When it comes to making your money work for you the hardest, you should stay away from places like San Francisco and San Jose. Todays show will also be a bit of an update on my personal real estate efforts and a discussion on investing in areas after disasters. Todays Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/rent-in-san-francisco-but-buy-in-detroit.html Interview with Al Beahn! Detroit Real Estate Investor Should Detroit be on your list of possible areas to invest? Ask Al Beahn We have talked quite a bit about Detroit over the last few years. Mostly, not in a good way - at least not when it comes to new investors that don't know the ground truth of Detroit. ... HELP THE SHOW GROW by filling out the audience demographic survey by clicking the butto

Kevin Bupp makes a good case for making a mobile home park part of your multi-unit investment strategy! In previous shows, we have talked about mobile homes from the standpoint of a buyer. Mobile homes can be VERY risky if you do not make sure you are buying them right and that the land beneath them cannot be sold out from under you. However, today we look at the world of mobile homes from a very different perspective - as an investment where you are not buying a mobile home but rather a mobile home park! Today we will chat with Kevin Bupp who has made this kind of investing the heart of his strategy - and it has worked out  very well for him. In fact, I think that once you have listened to this show, you will start to understand how purchasing a mobile home park deserves a spot in your multi-unit investment strategy! All the ways to find Kevin!: http://www.kevinbupp.com/ http://mobilehomeparkacademy.com/ https://sunrisecapitalinvestors.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/real-estate-investing-for-cash

Now we have buyers taking on riskier loans - if values drop - this will make things worse. Buyers are having to pay more and more for homes as a result of the low inventory. To do so, they are having to resort to more risky loans - and they are doing it in record numbers. We will also take a look at pending home sales numbers and how much home prices have increased with Augusts latest numbers. Links: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-27/pending-home-sales-plunge-nar-admits-housing-market-has-essentially-stalled http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/10/corelogic-house-prices-up-69-year-over.html https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/03/homebuyers-rush-to-riskier-mortgages-as-home-prices-heat-up.html 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 notic

An option from Linda Liberatore for those that don't want to pay a property manager but do want someone else to deal with their rental properties! We have spent a decent amount of time about the different ways you can manage your properties. Many first time investors are most intimidated by the idea of dealing with renters. Todays guest, Linda Liberatore, has an option for you that comes somewhere between doing it all yourself and paying a property management firm a percentage of your proceeds. This could be a great option that not only leaves dealing with your renters to someone else, but saves you a TON of money in fees! You can find Lindas service at her website - along with a free strategy session!   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

Looking at the top metros to make your single family investment sing! The good folks at HomeUnion have released their latest rankings list that is designed to tell us the metros that will perform the best over the next year! So not what have done the best over the last year, but trying to predict the future big players! We will run down the top 10 and chat a bit about metros that did not make the cut that just might surprise some folks. This is specific to single family investment, but the elements they use would benefit just about any brand of real estate investment in these metro areas. Todays Links: https://www.homeunion.com/blog/dallas-investment-housing-market-tops-homeunions-power-rankings-list/ 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

What does the increase in the apartment vacancy rate mean to you? [caption id="attachment_9333" align="alignright" width="300"] 3Q 2017[/caption] Today we are going to cover some interesting new data on apartment vacancy rates. With this most recent increase, we are seeing the logical end result of the dominant multifamily construction that we have been seeing for the last couple of years. Since apartments also tend to be the least desirable housing option, it introduces some interesting opportunities for real estate investors of all kinds - and even some current renters. Todays Links: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/09/reis-apartment-vacancy-rate-increased.html 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 esta

The Fed has issued TRILLIONS of dollars in bonds - now it is backing off To keep rates low and to get more money flowing out in the banking world, the Fed printed money and issued bonds. They bought the bonds. Yeah, it sounds confusing, but that is how they get the money out there to the banks. Now, they are planning a very slow reduction of those holdings. It is a good thing, but risky. It will also have an effect on real estate, so lets talk about that! Links: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41353-heres-what-quantitative-un-easing-could-mean-for-the-housing-market http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/09/corelogic-28-million-homes-still-in.html 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? T

So todays show started out with the idea of discussing some of the small deceits that get embraced in the world of real estate. I was planning on trying to point them out as a bad thing and help buyers, sellers, investors and real estate entrepreneurs be able to spot when they are faced with these deceits. I also was hoping I might reach agents who are embracing the idea of these casual deceits without really realizing it. However, things kind of snowballed. You all know that I can go off into the weeds, but in this case - I set fire to the weeds. You see, this topic skirts dangerously close to the very reason why I started doing this show in the first place. Way back in 2007, it all started with an article I wrote about the biggest lies told by real estate agents. Sitting down and writing that article is what fueled my initial desire to do this show. Well, I got too close to that fire today and ended up going the full monty on what I consider to be one of the biggest lies of real estate. So tune in, sit back

Real estate lending seems to manage to out do themselves again when it comes to bad lending choices! This is not a new topic, but these tidbits are sure new! Two more interesting and less than great lending options have been added to the world of real estate lending. Of course, we just have to add these to the ever growing pile of bad things. The industry has to learn that the problem is not lending - it is inventory. Todays Links: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-21/are-these-two-companies-proof-housing-bubble-back https://www.loftium.com/ https://qz.com/1081598/startup-loftium-gives-home-down-payments-to-people-who-continually-rent-their-house-on-airbnb/ 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 excl

Will California real estate problems be solved by residents moving away? Some very interesting data today on what people think about living in California. More frequently than ever, I am finding that the California real estate market is encouraging more and more folks to look into moving out of state.We will review some new data that shows the numbers we talked about last time have gotten MUCH worse and more people than ever want out of the state - particularly the working age population. Todays Links: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41342-bay-area-residents-consider-great-exodus-in-response-to-rising-home-prices http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-20/existing-home-sales-slump-1-year-lows-nar-says-theres-simply-not-enough-homes-sale 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

There really is no escaping the reality that you need to protect yourself when buying real estate. In todays show, I will discuss some real estate horror stories that could have been prevented with the right strategies. All buyers, sellers, investors and real estate entrepreneurs need to know how to best protect themselves from real estate issues. All across the country, disclosure requirements vary. What you need are ways to protect yourself no matter what those disclosure laws might be. What is truly important is doing everything you can to avoid getting yourself into a situation that would cost you time, money and sanity to resolve. There is good news tho. In the vast majority of cases, a few simple steps can dramatically reduce the chances of these things happening to you. So sit down and take a listen to what I can share about how to avoid the horror stories in todays show!   Todays show is an encore performance of a past episode!

There is a pretty standard line that you will get from real estate agents when you suggest that you want to sell your home yourself. Most of what they will say is true to one degree or another, but depending on market conditions and your expertise, you can sell your home by yourself. Today we will talk about an article I found where one agent talks about the "myths" of selling a home yourself and see how they stack up to a little analysis. More news on negative interest rates. We won't spend much time talking about it, but I will be linking to a good article on the subject that will give you some good background. Regulators are clearing the way for autonomous cars - that is cars with NO human driver in them! As we discussed in a previous show, the push is on the fast track these automated cars and the latest news from the folks in Washington back that up. Also, vacancy rates are at virtually zero in many communities. We are going to talk about that and see if we can make it work for us. For links to all the s

Is it time to re-think your house flipping strategy? Some interesting data was released the other day. It looks like house flipping is happening less and making less money. So today, lets take a look at the latest data on house flipping and see if we can't come up with smart ways to react to that new information. We are also going to take a little time to talk about the types of property flipping and which strategies are most risky given the latest data! Todays Links: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41319-returns-from-home-flipping-drop-for-third-consecutive-quarter 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 - o

Should Detroit be on your list of possible areas to invest? Ask Al Beahn We have talked quite a bit about Detroit over the last few years. Mostly, not in a good way - at least not when it comes to new investors that don't know the ground truth of Detroit. Todays guest is going to help with that! Al Beahn has built his real estate investing career in Detroit and provides that ground truth that is so important to success. Some of the greatest opportunities can be found in areas that are getting less than great media coverage. So today we will get the inside scoop on Detroit and what it has to offer! Todays Links: https://www.pioneerhomesus.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 j