If you’re asking your CPA how to not pay taxes, this may be the perfect episode for you. In fact, this episode is geared towards anyone making money in real estate, and listening could save you a massive amount in taxes over your lifetime. But isn’t tax reduction only for the ultra-rich? How can the average, everyday investor who has one, two, or a dozen rentals keep more of their capital so they can invest in more deals? Tom Wheelwright is the exact man to ask this question to. He’s so good at ...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 569
The housing market is an evolving beast that almost no one can accurately map. With so many investors on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to housing market crashes and corrections, it’s nice to hear the thoughts of someone who has accurately predicted past crashes. We’re honored to have Ivy Zelman from Zelman & Associates on today to discuss the modern housing market, supply chain shortages, and overbuilding problems. Zelman accurately predicted the 2007 housing market crash and has bee...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 568
The 1% rule, HELOCs, BRRRRs, cash-out refinances, and cash flow are all topics on this episode of Seeing Greene. As always, you’ll be joined by our jiu-jitsu loving, metaphor-creating, top-tier agent and investor, David Greene as he takes questions submitted via video, on YouTube, and through the BiggerPockets forums. With so many new investors getting into real estate, there is no better time than now to sit down, relax, and get into the mind of an expert. If you’re a rookie figuring out how to...
Feb 06, 2022•59 min•Ep. 567
How many rental properties do you own? It could be one or one hundred rentals. But, whether you’re a rookie or veteran real estate investor, it’s hard to not be impressed by Jason Rash’s story. Jason has put off investing in real estate for most of his working life, focusing more on passive income streams like investing in stocks. This all changed when Jason saw tens of thousands in stock value disappear from his accounts. He wanted something more reliable, stable, and calculated that he could c...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 566
Analysis paralysis is always lurking. Even the most experienced investors feel it before they pull the trigger on a new deal, business, or strategy. It’s not to say that careful consideration of an investment isn’t a crucial requirement to success, but the mental stuttering we feel when trying to make a decision can leave us in a foggy stupor. When we feel like this, we do fewer deals, build less wealth, and live our lives half full. Kindra Hall, bestselling author, master storyteller, and real ...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 565
Bad tenants? Funding hiccups? Scaling too fast? These are just some of the problems real estate investors have to deal with every day. What’s the prize for all this work? Financial freedom, personal fulfillment, and the time to do what you want, with who you want, wherever you want! It’s no surprise that real estate investing is one of the best ways for the average person to build wealth. But what do you do when things go wrong? Expert investor, agent, lender, and podcast host, David Greene, is ...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 564
Long-distance investing may sound like an impossible feat to achieve for many investors. What if something goes wrong in the house? What if something needs fixing? What if there are problems with tenants? As today’s guest Sarah Weaver puts it, “do nothing”, your core four can handle it all so you don’t have to stress. Sarah knows what she’s talking about—she’s been a nomadic landlord for years now, teaching agents and investors how to grow their businesses while living their dream life. Sarah wa...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 563
“How to invest in real estate?” is a commonly searched-for term across the internet. With home prices continuing to climb and inventory staying low, more people want to know how it’s possible to buy real estate in turbulent times like 2022. It’s no surprise there’s been an uptick in investors—real estate offers consistent, reliable returns, paired with big tax benefits and the ability to scale with ease. But don’t you worry, we’re not going to make you go through all the trips and stumbles unedu...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 562
House hacking, renting by the room, co-living, boarding houses? These are all things that author, investor, real estate agent, and expert hacker of houses, Craig Curelop, is used to. Craig got his start in real estate investing by renting out rooms in his own home, having his roommates pay his mortgage for him, and eventually skating on to financial freedom. Craig is joined by another familiar expert house hacker and real estate investor, David Greene, to answer questions around lending, leases,...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 561
Co-living (coliving) may sound a bit scary at first to a landlord. You have a bunch of young professionals living under one roof. What if there is an argument over cleaning, what if there is a fight that breaks out, will my property be ripped to shreds? Let today’s guest, Sam Wegert, quell your fears—co-living and house hacking can rake in cash flow, with way less of a landlord headache. Sam is no stranger to entrepreneurship and real estate investing. He bought his own martial art studio at the...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 560
Real estate CRMs (customer relationship management) aren’t the most exciting things to talk about…that is until you look at the results they help build. Before building her own CRM, Stephanie Betters was struggling to grow her real estate portfolio. She had an original goal to acquire fifteen units before her children went to college, but realized that her taxing job as a nurse wouldn’t allow it. For her to hit fifteen units, she would have to scale, automate, and delegate tasks. She did just th...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 559
Cash flow is arguably the most important metric in real estate investing…that is if you’re talking to novice investors. Expert investors, like David Greene, know that cash flow is but one of many factors to consider when buying a rental property, and it’s arguably the least important. While rookie investors focus on building their cash flow, veterans focus on building their wealth while freeing up their time. On this week’s episode of Seeing Greene, your jiu-jitsu and real estate sensei is back ...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 558
Raising capital for real estate investing is a far more useful skill than most people realize. If you have a strong knack for networking and the social skills to connect with many different individuals, you could be the exact piece that almost every investor is looking for. As more investors get into the hot commercial real estate market, they’ll need private capital to fund their deals. So who better than you to connect the investor and the deal finder for a piece of the cash flow pie? If you’r...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 557
If you’re rehabbing a rental, performing a BRRRR, building an ADU, or even getting into new construction, now is a challenging time for you. With supply chain problems, limited materials, and all-time high housing prices, contractors are in low supply. Even when you do schedule a project, the likelihood of your contractors showing up on time can be slim at best. David Greene is back with another round of coaching calls to give his take on this current contractor crisis, as well as answer questio...
Jan 11, 2022•52 min•Ep. 556
If you’ve got real estate investing questions, David Greene and Henry Washington have answers. These two real estate investors have been through the good times and the bad times, dealing with dozens of tenants, plenty of 2 AM maintenance calls, and all the fun that comes along the way. Today, they open up their minds to help share answers to some of the most asked real estate questions. These questions were taken directly from real estate investors, just like you! You’ll get to hear exactly how ...
Jan 09, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 555
Profitable on-market properties are all around you, you just need to take the time to look. Oh, we hear what you’re saying, “all those on-market properties are bad deals!” While not all properties sitting on the MLS are home runs, today’s guest Cody Davis can confirm there are multiple cash flowing needles in the public housing market haystack. Cody and his partner have been able to grow their portfolio to eighty-one units, all through seller financing and all found on-market. These deals not on...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 554
It’s the new year, and that means it’s time for 2022 housing market predictions! Recently, Redfin compiled a list of their ten top 2022 housing market predictions ranging from things like interest rate bumps, to rent hikes, housing price cooldowns, and more. But, are these predictions realistic, and if so, how should investors prepare for them to come true? David Greene and Dave Meyer are back again to take a look at five of these ten predictions and give their informed, battle-tested opinions o...
Jan 04, 2022•53 min•Ep. 553
2022 goals are coming upon us. If you haven’t done so already, it may be a great time to sit down alone, with your partner, or with other fellow investors to come up with a rock-solid game plan for this next year. We all want toacquire more units, see higher appreciation, and rake in more cash flow, but without a system and plan to catapult momentum, it’ll be hard to achieve what we dream of. That’s why David Greene, your new head host of the BiggerPockets Podcast, is here to help you build smar...
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 552
Brandon Turner has been an essential part of the real estate investing community for almost a decade. Some could say that he is THE person most thought of when you say “real estate investing”. But, in a both sad and happy way, Brandon is taking time off from the BiggerPockets Podcast to spend more time with his family, build his business, and surf significantly more. Due to the magnitude of the occasion, we brought in BiggerPockets’ founder, Joshua Dorkin, to help hand off the keys to the castle...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 551
Tommy Christy has bought more homes than most investors you know combined. While he didn’t have to put up his own money to close on the deals, he did go through the process of lead generating, offering, auctioning, analyzing, and finally closing on them for his hedge fund employer. He was able to score twenty-seven hundred homes in just over two years, before realizing it was time for him to build his personal portfolio a bit more. When the market crashed in 2009, Tommy saw an opportunity to buy...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 550
Maria Friström is an investor, designer, mother, and business owner from Finland, and she’s one of the only few people that can match Brandon Turner in height. Maria was working in Silicon Valley before she voluntarily left her position to build an empire of her own. She took her down payment savings for a primary residence and on a whim bought a rental property in Fort Collins, Colorado. She and her husband then decided to move to Finland to raise their children. Through some challenging life e...
Dec 26, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 549
Your real estate partnership may be closer than you think. Maybe it’s that seller you’re talking to on craigslist, maybe it’s your home appraiser, or maybe it’s someone you meet at a sketchy real estate investing company. Mike Nuss and Tyler Combs never planned on becoming partners when they linked up to discuss a potential sale of a property. But, when fate put the two together again in the same company, they decided to split off and use their complementary skill sets to build a real estate emp...
Dec 23, 2021•59 min•Ep. 548
Buying and selling real estate portfolios isn’t what Omni Casey was raised to think about. As a middle child in a large family, Omni was never given the “investing talk” and was often surrounded by people who thought landlords were greedy. But, Omni had the entrepreneurial spirit, and through trial and error, found real estate investing to be the most reliable, practical, scalable, and fun business around. He started with a single “condotel” in his native state of Hawaii before branching off int...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 547
Adversity tends to breed ingenuity and genius. More often than not, smart and capable individuals will find a way to use their hardships as fuel to build something better. This is exactly what house flipping, wholesaling, and rental property-owning partners Noah Evans and Jeff Fawson did. Noah and Jeff were both following different paths to real estate success, taking on apprenticeships under investors who had already made it big. It wasn’t until Jeff was doing some work on Noah’s house that the...
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 546
Sergio Altomare didn’t start out investing in self storage. He made a massive leap, making lots of mistakes along the way until he found this gold mine of an asset class. For years, Sergio was buying small multifamily properties, one of them being a “monster house” which he later had to sell due to some serious zoning issues. Once he was introduced to syndications, he knew he could take his portfolio higher, without the headaches of large multifamily. Now, Sergio has twelve self storage faciliti...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 545
Cameron Herold developed the “Vivid Vision” format years ago, allowing not only him but other high-level business leaders to peek into the crystal ball of their futures. This vision doesn’t magically come true once you write it out, but mysteriously, those who craft a "Vivid Vision" accomplish, if not exceed, their goals for the future. No one is more deserving of a call with Cameron than J.B. Klein, our winner of BPCon 2021’s coaching call giveaway. J.B. scaled quickly over the past year to hit...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 544
Gino Wickman’s name is synonymous with business growth, entrepreneurship, and freedom. He spent the majority of his youth building up his father’s company to later sell it for a substantial sum. After teaching others how to do the same, Gino took the time to write books that would pave the way for future entrepreneurial success. Books like Traction, Rocket Fuel, Get A Grip, and his newest book, The EOS Life. In it, Gino describes the five points of an ideal life: doing what you love, with people...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 543
Billy Dha Kidd is better known for his rapping than his real estate skills, but both careers are worth celebrating. Billy’s early life was anything but comfortable — growing up in El Salvador, he was used to no running water and no electricity. He likes to say that he didn’t start at zero but started at negative one-hundred. Billy’s family immigrated to the United States when he was 10 years old, moving first to California and then later to Nebraska. As a teenager, Billy began rapping as a way f...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 542
Will inflation sink real estate? Is Zillow out of the iBuyer game? And why does my cash offer mean less than it did last year? Dave Meyer, VP of Data and Analytics at BiggerPockets, has heard your questions through BiggerPockets forum posts, YouTube videos, and on Instagram. This data-loving sandwich connoisseur is back to walk you through the biggest stories in real estate. As incredible as Zillow Offers was, it looks like it won’t be around any longer (at least for a while) since having a half...
Dec 07, 2021•53 min•Ep. 541
How do you build massive wealth while keeping your passions, family, faith, and bank account intact? Successful real estate investors will tell you the same thing: you need to automate and systematize to make time for it all, and they aren't kidding. Whitney Sewell was working as a cop when he got his start in real estate. Looking at his $35,000 salary, he realized that the long hours and tiresome, but enjoyable work, wouldn’t allow him financial freedom. Whitney wanted more time with his kids, ...
Dec 05, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 540
