I have a special guest here on the Real Wealth show today. I'm sure you've heard of him. In fact, you may have heard him during our virtual live event last Saturday.  Ken McElroy went from being a janitor, to  buying his first single rental property in college to building a multi-billion dollar business in apartments.  Does the quality of life diminish as the portfolio expands? It can, if you don’t scale your business wisely. That’s exactly what we cover in our new book, Scaling Smart: How to Design a Self-Managing Business. To celebrate the book launch, we hosted a virtual even ..read more

I have a special guest here on the Real Wealth show today. I'm sure you've heard of him. In fact, you may have heard him during our virtual live event last Saturday.  Ken McElroy went from being a janitor, to  buying his first single rental property in college to building a multi-billion dollar business in apartments.  Does the quality of life diminish as the portfolio expands? It can, if you don’t scale your business wisely. That’s exactly what we cover in our new book, Scaling Smart: How to Design a Self-Managing Business. To celebrate the book launch, we hosted a virtual even ..read more

How do you build a real estate portfolio when you already have a busy career that takes up most of your time? Former NFL star, Devon Kennard, can tell you exactly what it takes to do that. Devon played for the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions before he signed with the Arizona Cardinals. As a pro football player, he knew his career wouldn’t last forever so he carved out just five hours a week to work on his real estate side hustle and turn it into a cash-flowing portfolio that would maintain his lifestyle after football. In today’s episode, you’ll hear the kind of discipline and dedication ..read more

Have you gotten a little dizzy trying to figure out today’s multifamily market? Investors have faced significant challenges. In addition to loans that need refinancing at higher rates and higher costs for things like property insurance and real estate taxes, rents have been softening or even reversing because of a massive increase in supply. That’s not an easy problem to overcome for many multi-family property owners.   In today’s episode, you’ll hear from the president of Break of Day Capital, Gary Lipsky. He’ll be talking about how investors and syndicators are dealing with challenges l ..read more

We are counting down the days until the release of our new book, “Scaling Smart: How to Design a Self-Managing Business.” My husband Rich and I co-authored the book to share what we have learned about business strategy as the co-founders of real estate investing company, RealWealth.  In this episode, we talk about some of those strategies with a woman we mention in the book – entrepreneur, real estate investor, and venture capitalist, Lisa Song Sutton. Before she launched and scaled several companies in various industries including real estate, she was a former litigation attorney in Las ..read more

Should Wall Street companies be kicked out of the single-family rental market? Would it improve housing affordability if Congress banned institutional landlords from owning rental homes and forced them to sell off what they now own? That’s exactly what U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and U.S. Representative Adam Smith of Washington believe is needed to improve housing affordability. They introduced legislation called “End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act” and it’s getting a lot of pushback from people in the real estate industry. I just got back from the IMN Single Family Rental Co ..read more

Are you energized by the thought of starting your own business but overwhelmed by the amount of work it will take? Or maybe you’ve already begun, but you feel like you’ve reached a plateau and don’t know how to get it going again? Or maybe you’ve just gotten through one major hurdle and can’t muster the enthusiasm to tackle another? These are just examples of the things we can feel when we don’t have the right tools or strategies to take our business goals to the next level, whether it’s for real estate investing or any other kind of business. Our new book “Scaling Smart, How to Design a Self ..read more

Are you familiar with the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad? How about the investing game Cashflow Quadrant? If you know about either of these, you’re probably also familiar with the legendary Robert Kiyosaki who wrote the book and created the game to teach people about wealth creation and real estate investing.    He was on our show many years ago at the very beginning of our podcast. Now, as we celebrate our 1,000th episode, he’s come back on to our show to talk about the importance of financial literacy and the building of wealth through the responsible use of debt. He also discusses the tr ..read more

Have you ever felt I coulda, woulda, shoulda bought some rental properties after the 2008 housing collapse? Prices were so low it was like getting a 75% discount in many cases! But it’s always easier to see what you should’ve done instead of what you might want to do right now. The truth is that when you're in it, you can't see it as clearly. So what are the signs you should look for to recognize those opportunities happening right now, and follow up with smart, timely decisions? In this episode, you’ll hear from Brenda Coleman who’s our latest Real Wealth Story guest. She's been investing for ..read more

*This is a re-posting of a previous interview with Zeona Macintyre on the topic of medium-term rentals.* If long-term rentals aren’t giving you enough cash flow, and short-term rentals seem like too much trouble, there IS a third option. By renting your property as a furnished home for 30-days or more, you can increase your cash flow, avoid local short-term regulations and occupancy tax, simplify your bookkeeping, and use your property as a guest home when it’s not rented. It’s a niche that seems to be growing in popularity and is known as medium-term rentals. In this episode, you’ll hear from ..read more