Flipping America

FAR 188 Expected Air Date: 9/20/18 Opening I am Roger Blankenship and I teach people how to make money in real estate. There are dozens of ways to make money in real estate and they all can be summarized by one of three approaches: Buy with the intent to improve and quickly re-sell Buy with the intent to cash flow, grow equity through appreciation, and take advantage of tax structures. Invest in the activities of someone doing either or both of the first two categories. To that end, we are dedicated to providing you the best most accurate and up-to-date information we can to help you make the best decision for you, your family, and your money. We don’t encourage everyone to drop what you’re doing and start flipping houses like you see on TV, but we do encourage everyone to have real estate as a part of a balanced portfolio. As you can imagine we get lots of questions here at Flipping America and today we are going to address many of them. I’m also going to take time today to review the latest news in the re

FAR 187 Real Estate Leading Indicators Expected Air Date: 9/17/18 Opening Thoughts and Prayers: Hurricane Florence Nearly every event I attend or speak, someone is asking questions about the state of the market. Those who were paying attention 10 years ago when the market crashed are concerned it will happen again. We plan to continue to report on the state of the market as it goes through its inevitable cycles. We will talk about what we see, how we are applying it in our business and perhaps give you some ideas about yours. But we had a further thought about adding real value to your lives by sharing with you our data points and our sources for the information we share with you. Some of our data and research comes with a price attached, but today I’m going to give you some no-cost techniques that will enable you to stay on top of the real estate market. The question is always about the state of the current market, but what we really want to know is where the market is going. Are we going to crash? Is it goi

FAR 186 Expected Air Date: 9/13/18 Opening One of the great opportunities in front of you as a real estate investor is the chance to invest your money through a Roth IRA, make profit, grow that wealth and one day when you retire, pay NO taxes on the profits. That’s just ONE thing a self-directed IRA can do for you. We welcome to the show today a new sponsor, American IRA. American IRA is dedicated to helping investors grow their wealth through self-direction and there is a healthy focus on real estate. With offices in Asheville and Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA, American IRA is ready to get your started, point you in the right direction, and keep you safe as you navigate the sometimes murky waters of IRS regulations. American IRA founder and President Jim Hitt will be joining us in just a few minutes. Jim started his career in the restaurant business, got involved in real estate and just never looked back. He’s been in real estate in one way or another for three decades. His commitment is to help other invest

FAR 185 The Harvest Expected Air Date: 9/10/18 Opening Real estate investing is like the weather - it’s always changing. But it’s unlike the weather in that you usually have to wait more than 5 minutes to see the change. With real estate, a multi-trillion dollar industry in the United States, you have multiple impact points each with their effect, but individually are like using a bumblebee to steer a barge into port. Example, Compass, opening a new office in Atlanta, talking about their use of proprietary technology to dominate the realty brokerage market. They will no doubt gain market share because of their deep pockets. But will they dominate? Unlikely. They represent a generation of investors enamored with technology and blinded by their own preference to machines over human interaction. But the entire company misses the point. Real estate sales require presence, that presence requires supervision, the supervision requires a trust, a set of ethical guidelines, enforced by a regulatory agency and ultimate

FAR 184 Opportunity Spotting Expected Air Date: 9/8/18 Opening I get asked all the time about the market. When will this booming market end? Are we heading for a crash? When will it happen? How will it happen? What should I do to prepare? What’s it like to live through a market crash? Where is the opportunity now? What is the hottest market? Where should I be looking for deals? What’s it like to live in another country? Ok, that last one is a bit unrelated, but hey, during the crash, I considered finding out! Seriously though, everyone wants to know where they should be and what they should be doing. We spend time on this show figuring out just those answers and sharing them with you and we plan to continue for the foreseeable future. But today I’m going to teach you how to look for those opportunities yourself - just in case you want to know. So I’m going to provide the data points and the characteristics of a market that is, in our view, ripe for the picking. It’s like serving fish versus teaching you how t

FAR 183 Return Expected Air Date: 9/6/18 Opening Today we are going to talk about Returns. I’m not talking about tax returns - perhaps that’s another show. I’m talking about the Returns you receive. Yes I’ll discuss Return on Investment, but there’s also Return on Cash, Return on Equity Return on Assets. But there are other Returns in life beside the financial. There’s a Return on Effort, a Return on Deeds, a Return on Principles. Some of these things are difficult to precisely quantify, but we are going to do our best to provide food for your thinking. And I’m going to recommend you think through your investing decisions and using the ideas I’m sharing today, nearly every decision you make in your business is a type of investment and it will bring a “return.” There is a law of sowing and reaping discussed in the Bible. Some of us spend our youth sowing wild oats and then spend our adulthood praying for crop failure. Similar to this idea is the idea of Karma. We all have a few people that we would really like

FAR 182 Expected Air Date: 8/30/18 Opening I realized after we concluded Monday’s show that I had promised to make fun of a “news” story about real estate and I had just run out of time. So I’m leading off today by keeping that promise to you. Real estate is not a controversial topic and is largely apolitical. We try our best to keep politics out of this show. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised when a reporter’s bias sneaks through in subtle ways. That’s my reason for sharing this article with you - not because I deeply care about what she is wrong about, but because I want YOU to pay attention to the way words can reflect bias and shape opinion. So here comes the headline... How to contact us www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnLinkedIn We now have a profile at houzz.com for what it’s worth. Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message o

FAR 181 Expected Air Date: 8/27/18 Opening Good morning everyone! A year ago I predicted that by mid-2018 the real estate sales would be slowing down and heading toward a balanced market. Was I right? I’ve got the answer for you today. A month ago it looked like I had missed on this prediction but there is more news today that points to a conclusive trend. In a few minutes I’m going to dig into the new data. I’m also going to pick on a “not news” story disguised as news. Rather than just labeling it “fake news” and moving on, I’m going to show you how bias can affect a choice of words that could lead readers to a desired, yet not necessarily correct conclusion. Today we are going to dig into more of your questions about the opportunities out there and some of the challenges you are facing. All this is coming up in a few moments. How to contact us www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/Fli

FAR 180 Expected Air Date: 8/25/18 Opening We get one chance at this life. We owe it to ourselves to get it right. That doesn’t mean we should expect perfection. What it DOES mean is we should take enough time to think about what we are doing and where we are going to improve the quality of our decisions along the way. When it comes to real estate it’s easy to make a $10,000 mistake. But if you make enough of those you are going to wind up in trouble. Today we are going to help you get it right -- Get it right when you purchase a property. Get it right when you create a repair budget. Get it right when you make repairs. Get it right when you rent it out. Get it right when you sell it. You’ll find that if you’re willing to go to war with the details and get some things right, your business is going go better and let’s face it, if your business goes better, life goes better. In the news coming up we FINALLY have a reason to go to Baltimore. Ok, no offense to Pat Dornan with Ultimate Rehab Estimator, but Baltimo

FAR 179 Expected Air Date: 8/23/18 Opening We’ve had great feedback from the home technology show with Don DeRosa. If you missed it you can still listen to it both on the Flipping America App, where it is show # 147 or watch the video of the interview on our YouTube Channel. But we continue to get questions about technology, not just the technology we put into our properties, but the technology we use to make our businesses run and work. A little later on, I’m going to answer that question for you and tell you about the technology solutions we use here in our business. And I’m going to answer a question we get quite often: “How do you send out social media messages all day long? Do you have an employee that just sits there tweeting thing s out?” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are out with a new loan product this month which I believe will have a significant impact in 5 years and that impact won’t be a good thing. But take heart investors! With every dumb decision followed by inevitable loss and heartache, there i

FAR 175 Expected Air Date: 8/9/18 Opening www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnLinkedIn We now have a profile at houzz.com for what it’s worth. Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question. Announcements: Lunch with me every Wednesday. Thursday August 9th, speaking at Flipping Atlanta “Investing in Real Estate with Your Self-Directed IRA” Tuesday August 14th, speaking at Catalyst, “Contractor Impossible” Flipping America App is in the app store. You can listen to the show, read the show notes, and the entire catalog of shows is now available to you. It’s a free download and there are no upsells or in-app purchases. Free to download, free to listen. Go ahead and give it a try and drop me a line and let me know what you think. Want a quick analytical tool to tell you how strong a potential fix and flip deal is? Download the Pro

FAR 178 Seminar Seduction Expected Air Date: 8/20/18 Opening If you’ve been around this business awhile, going to networking meetings or REIA groups, you’ve seen it - the tire-kicker. Or as we sometimes refer to the person - the Seminar Junkie. It took me about two visits to the group to realize that the vast majority of people who attend these meetings or belong to the networking groups are never going to actually do anything. I am the official organizer of three meetup groups in the Atlanta area with a combined membership of just over 5,000 people, which sounds pretty impressive until I share with you that I think out of the three groups perhaps 50 people are active investors and maybe 10 of those are doing this as their full-time job. I’m not criticizing the other group members. Some are gathering information and considering their options. Some are highly motivated and are planning their new career as well as the exit from their current career. Some are just lonely and want to meet people, so they join mee

FAR 177 Expected Air Date: 8/13/18 Opening I have a great photo in my humor collection of a pig who looks like he’s smiling at the camera. The caption says, “I turn vegetables into bacon. What’s your super power?” I have an unsurprisingly large number of bacon jokes in this collection but this is one of my favorites. Humor aside, I want to ask you this question today. If you could have any super power, what would it be? What if I told you that you already have a power inside of you that is remarkable, perhaps even super? You have a few actually, but today I want to zero in on the power that is already inside of you to make your life count -- to live a life that has depth and meaning is within your grasp. You have the power! And in a few minutes I’m going to tell you how to unleash that power. www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnLinkedIn We now have a profile at houzz.c

FAR 176 Expected Air Date: 8/11/18 Opening We are going to take some time today to open the mail and answer a lot of your questions. Thanks for writing in and keep the questions coming. As always we answer every question that comes in and some of them we set aside to answer on the show. www.flippingamericanetwork.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica YouTube: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnYouTube Linkedin: bit.ly/FlippingAmericaOnLinkedIn We now have a profile at houzz.com for what it’s worth. Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question. Announcements: Lunch with me every Wednesday. Thursday August 9th, speaking at Flipping Atlanta “Investing in Real Estate with Your Self-Directed IRA” Tuesday August 14th, speaking at Catalyst, “Contractor Impossible” Flipping America App is in the app store. You can listen to the show, read the show notes, and the entire catalog of shows is now available to you. It’s a free download and there are

FAR 174 Expected Air Date: 8/6/18 Opening Ok, I’ve given away my content a bit with the title “Feelings are Overrated.” But I’m going to back it up. I’m reminded of a press conference with Coach Bobby Knight when, after a particularly difficult loss a reporter asked him how he felt. Even at the time I thought it was a dumb question, but Coach Knight didn’t disappoint. He tore into the reporter and reminded all of us what a stupid question sounds like. That hasn’t deterred reporters from asking the most obvious question over and over - “How do you feel?” First of all, the answer to that always goes without saying. The reporter asking it is not seeking news, but rather echoing the sentiment in our culture that we should be focusing on and thinking about our feelings. Today I’m going to challenge that notion and put forth the idea that while feelings are a part of our lives and should be acknowledged, 75 years of focusing on them hasn’t made anything better and possibly has made things worse. If you’re like me,

FAR 173 Expected Air Date: 7/23/18 Opening What are the guiding principles you use in your investing activity? We all think about returns, but do you consider other data points as well? Ok, some of you right now are asking, “what other data points?” If you are looking at a property to buy and hold and you are only looking at cash flow or only looking at capitalization rate, or only looking at net income, you are not looking far enough. Even if you are considering all three of those, and they ARE separate numbers btw, there is much more to consider. You need to think about the area, the past trends, the future projections, infrastructure, employment opportunities, and much more. So you need data. If you listen to the show much you know that our analysis is data driven. And we look behind the data for assumptions, theoretical models, and the methods used to combine data to reach conclusions. I realize that not all of you listening to this show can be that much of a nerd. It’s ok. We get our hands a little nerdy

FAR 171 Expected Air Date: 07/19/18 Opening In the business of flipping houses, the challenging part right now is finding that next deal. Everywhere I go, the word is “deals are hard to come by. Everyone is bidding properties up, by the time it gets sold, it’s no longer a deal.” What can you do? Well, one thing you can do is listen to today’s interview with Tony Lukashevich. Tony is the owner of Reno Georgia and has more than 200 rehab projects under his belt. He’s also the Atlanta area coach for the Flipping America mentoring program, working closely with our Atlanta operators to ensure they deliver their projects on time and on budget. In a few minutes Tony will be with us and share with us how he finds all the deals he needs using just ONE strategy with wholesalers. It doesn’t cost him anything but time and persistence. I know about 10 ways to find deals, but Tony gets more out of this method than anyone I’ve ever seen. It’s taken it to an artform and he’s going to share it with you. Don’t worry - he’s not

FAR 170 Expected Air Date: 07/16/18 Opening Your network is your net worth. We’ve heard that for years. The more you connect with people in this industry, or whatever industry you happen to be in, the more good things can happen. I can’t tell you exactly how or when those results might begin to benefit your life, but I can tell you that your best success as an entrepreneur will come from the people you meet, either investors, suppliers, customers, or even your fellow competitors. Today I’m going to talk to you about a giant in our industry, Connected Investors. They are one of the largest networking sites for real estate investors in the world. On their site you can find people in your area, or people in the area where you want to be, vendors, deals, money, just about anything you need. In a few moments we are going to be joined by Marty Coyne, the Chief Technology Officer for Connected Investors. We were talking at a conference recently - yes, NETWORKING! And he told me about a new product they had released.

FAR 169 Expected Air Date: 07/14/18 Opening I can’t say enough about today’s guest. Great heart, great energy, great knowledge, and willingness to share himself and his experience with everyone. Abhi Golhar is a 2x nationally syndicated radio host on the Wall Street Radio Network, author, blogger, and CIO of Summit & Crowne, a real estate investment firm in Atlanta. Golhar has been investing in businesses and real estate since 2002 and always used a “value-added” approach to identify acquisition. He educate thousands of people as a national speaker and on his daily radio and YouTube shows. Golhar enjoys working with investors to implement market-driven strategies which have the highest potential for success. Do you have questions about how you can set up your business to advance and finish well? Golhar has answers. Email him: abhi@abhigolhar.com. Abhi took a non-traditional route into real estate investing, he started in it while still young! You’ll hear his fascinating story coming up in just a few minut