Passive Real Estate Investing

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

On today's episode we are doing something a little different. We are having one of Norada's newer active clients interview Marco Santarelli with some common, and not-so-common questions. Be sure to listen for some history, thought provoking questions, and motivation to pull the trigger or keep the momentum going for yourself. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to One Financial Advisor’s View on Real Estate Investing. Enjoy the show!

I just got back from IMN's 5th Annual Single Family Rental Investment Forum in Miami, Florida. I was on a panel there speaking. What I enjoy about these events is that I get to network with people from all around the country and even out of the country and talk about the future of real estate investing, what is happening in the markets, the tightening of inventory, the growing rental pool, the effects of policy, monetary and fiscal, as well as geopolitical events. There's just a mixed bag of topics. It's all fascinating. This is a good segue into today's show. Sometimes I talk to you about tactical items, whether it be asset protection or evaluating a neighborhood or finding a good deal. But you need to counter that with understanding some strategic related topics. It's good to understand the tactical side of things, but it's also good to understand the bigger picture, the strategic items, things that can or will affect your real estate investing, the strategy you have, where you invest, when you invest, that kind of stuff. Today's show is more about macroeconomic stuff. We're bouncing all over the place talking about different subjects but they all tie in. It's good to have that big picture, 50,000 foot level view, of your real estate investing. It doesn't matter whether you don't have property yet or you only have one property or maybe you have a large portfolio of a hundred units. It doesn't matter. You just need to understand this even if it's at a high level. Thomas Friedman, he is a US journalist but he's really an author and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He's a very smart guy. He's written many books on the subject of world events, economics, geopolitics, and how that all plays into the US economy. I like one of his quotes. He said, “In Globalization 1.0, which began in 1492, the world went from the size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. Then somewhere around the year 2000 came Globalization 3.0. At that point, the world went from being small to tiny.” You can see that the smaller the world gets, the more we are affected and impacted by events that happen outside of our borders. All real estate may be local but that doesn't necessarily shield one market from major events occurring thousands of miles away. In today's global economy, important geopolitical events have consequences that can easily ripple across the planet. It can and will affect you. Election results, economic policies and international relations all have spillover effects on global real estate, whether directly or indirectly. These create incentives for buyers to be drawn toward or even repelled from various geographic markets. You’ve got to watch these bigger picture items because it can give you clues as to when or why to move into a market or when or why to move out of particular markets. Some factors are purely financial in nature, like changes in currency values or tax treatments. For example, the provincial government of British Columbia in Canada imposed a 15% tax on foreign investment last August. That's a law that would have added $300,000 to the price of a $2 million home in the Vancouver market. We all know that Vancouver is very, very expensive. It's much like the San Francisco market here in the US. There are many parallels to that. There's a lot of investment capital coming in from other countries, foreign capital. As a result of this tax, house prices in the area fell 5.3% in November and that’s the largest monthly decline since 2012. From January 2016 to January 2017, house prices in Vancouver fell a whopping 18.9%, that’s almost 19% in one year. It reduced the foreign investment rate from 13% prior to August of last year to a low of about 4% right now. The foreign investment capital has dried up considerably and that lack of demand,

The financial services industry has fashioned itself into an overly complex machine in an effort to cause confusion, encourage mistakes and justify fees. All to the benefit of its own bottom line. That reminds me of a quote from Donald Trump, “Sometimes your best investments are actually the ones you don’t make.” Today’s show is about financial advice, financial planners, Wall Street and really, who do you believe? My guest today is Brent Sutherland from Ntellivest. Brent has worked in financial services for over eleven years, both in the corporate accounting and investment world. He has a boutique financial planning business today. His objective is to help individuals turn off the noise and challenge the traditional approach to financial planning and thinking. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Think and Grow Rich for Real Estate Investors. 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

Think and Grow Rich is one of those books you see most often on the recommended reading list of people who have achieved really great things. The book was written by the commission of Andrew Carnegie. Based on interviews of over 500 people in history who now we know as great men in the early 20th century, he’s commissioned this book. He interviewed people, such as Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, Howard Taft. This book is amazing. I read it so long ago. It was first published in 1937. It has sold more than 70 million copies. It gives it the distinction of being the all-time best-seller in the personal success category. Today’s episode is about Think and Grow Rich or real estate investors. The perfect person to bring on for this is a person who I know and respect, a friend of mine. His name is Mani Vaya. Mani is the founder of 2000Books.com where he interviews some of today’s top authors. Over the last five years, Mani has read over 1,000 books in the field of business and personal development. Get this, over the last few years, he has been reading seven books a week, which basically averages out to one book per day. The first book that revolutionized his thinking was Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. As a real estate investor, it made sense to bring him on to talk about the book and how it ties in with real estate investing. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Proper Estate Planning for Real Estate Investors. 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

There's a quote by Ambrose Bierce, "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate." With this quote from this journalist and writer, today's show is about proper estate planning for real estate investors. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while because I've realized it's a little bit of a gap in the content that I've been putting out. Today, I brought on a guest who I found out about through a friend of mine. His name is Jules Martin Haas. He is a New York City based lawyer who provides clients with legal representation in various areas of law including real estate, trusts and estates, probate estate planning, and business law. With that amount of over regulation that we have out today, it's very important to have a good attorney. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Rental Income Protection – Sky Mikesell. 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

On today’s show, we have an interesting topic. It’s about how to protect your rental income. I have worked with this person for quite a while and I wanted to bring him on the show because he has actually been part of a new company that is offering a rental income product. It might be something of great interest to you, especially depending on the size of your portfolio and where it’s located. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Wealth, Wall Street and Real Assets with Buck Joffrey. 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

Today’s show is about wealth, Wall Street and real assets. I’ve brought Dr. Buck Joffrey on to the show to talk about this. Buck knows the old mantra of, “Investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds and mutual funds,” is simply outdated and dangerous, especially, for high paid professionals given the instability and the volatility in the markets today. He advocates entrepreneurship and investing, especially in hard assets and those that provide cashflow because that’s really the reliable way and the approach to building solid personal finance. I’m in line with his thinking and what he advocates. I want to get him on the show to talk about his perspective on these things. It was an interesting conversation, so I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy it.   If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to The Real Estate Investor Ladder of Success – Trevor McGregor. 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

Today, we have a very special show. It is not specifically about real estate per se, but it is tied to real estate investing, the psychology of it, and how you can be more successful in your real estate investing. I brought on someone who I truly admire, who I met back in Denver about three or four weeks ago. We were both speaking at an event, Joe Fairless’ Best Ever Real Estate Investing Conference. I was really impressed by Trevor McGregor, who is a Master Coach. Trevor has completed well over 10,000 coaching hours. He’s worked with hundreds of clients from around the world to achieve success and fulfillment, including Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, real estate investors and world class professionals. His mission is to assist others to achieve better health and more wealth and freedom and contribution than they ever thought possible. This really resonated with me. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Understanding Neighborhood Trends and Forecasting Property Values. 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

On today’s show, we have a special guest. He actually has been on our show before back in show number 35. I am bringing him back on today because he’s got some updates to share with us. This show is about things like forecasting property values, looking at appreciation trends and forecasts. My guest today is Dr. Andrew Schiller. Dr. Schiller is the founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Location Inc. He is responsible for inventing the search and neighborhood matching algorithms that powers Neighborhood Scout, which has been covered by CNN, Bloomberg Business and The Wall Street Journal among others. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to How to Stay Inspired and Driven – John Lee Dumas. 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

On today’s show, I was able to get John Lee Dumas on for about fifteen minutes. Now, it was a relatively quick and somewhat rushed interview but I was fortunate to get him on. He’s a very busy guy. He does a daily podcast with some of the most successful business entrepreneurs. If you’re in business, you can learn a lot from his show, although I have a lot of trouble keeping up with seven episodes a week. One thing that came out of this interview with John is his passion and that’s one thing that came through. We talked about it for a little bit. It seems that as he failed in his journey, it was because of a lack of passion. As I look around at other people, I see that people who are just getting by or coasting in life seem to have lack of desire, lack of passion, lack of drive and their just not inspired. It blows me away. I used to think that it’s because people don’t actually write meaningful, smart, specific goals. But I think there’s more to it than that. I think it all starts with a desire and a passion to get something done or achieve or accomplish something greater. It’s an interesting interview, as short as it is. But a few things about passion in itself, I had to look up the definition of passion and figure out what exactly does that mean. But really, passion is the energy that keeps us going. It fills us with meaning and happiness and excitement and anticipation. Passion is a powerful force, like energy. It motivates us and moves us in accomplishing anything that you set your mind to. This can be in work, in life. It helps you to enjoy life to the fullest extent possible. Ultimately, passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives. The passion you have for something really determines not only how successful you will be at it but also how far you’re willing to go to get to where you want to be. Think about that. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to New Construction Fourplexes in US Growth Markets. 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

On today’s show, I talk to Steven, one of our providers at Norada Real Estate. They focus on brand new construction fourplexes in growth markets in the United States. He discusses this niche in detail, as well as the three main growth markets that they are working in. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to 10 Lessons Learned From 100 Successful Real Estate Investors. 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

On today's show, I talk to Dan Lane, host of the Rental Income Podcast where he has interviewed to over 100 successful real estate investors. He has compiled 10 of his most important lessons learned from all of these interviews, and we go through each of them today. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Rich Dad Poor Dad Book Summary. 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

On today's show, I will be giving you a summary of Robert Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad book. This is a famous book that has been mentioned in past episodes several times, but just in passing. This book changed and influenced the lives of a lot of people, myself included. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Ask Marco – Is It a Peak Market? | When Should I Buy? | Avoiding Failures. 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

On today's episode I take some listener questions related to market timing and a "peak" market.  I also discuss the best time to buy rental properties, and how to avoid making mistakes leading to investment failures. If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to What To Expect When Buying A Turnkey Rental Property. 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