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12/21/14: Fun in the Sun and Income Too – Hospitality Update from the Caribbean

12/21/14: Fun in the Sun and Income Too – Hospitality Update from the Caribbean

It’s amazing how many real estate investor overlook hotels as an investment vehicle. Sure, the numbers are big…and renting nightly instead of monthly, plus all the other services (housekeeping, restaurant, room service, etc.) are much more labor intensive than simply renting out little green houses month to month. But anyone that’s ever played Monopoly knows […]

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12/14/14: Stocks or Real Estate – Which is a Better Investment?

12/14/14: Stocks or Real Estate – Which is a Better Investment?

In a recent article published by CNBC, famed economist Robert Shiller (yes, that Robert Shiller of the oft-referenced Case-Shiller index) is quoted as saying he thinks stocks are a better investment than real estate over a lifetime. REALLY??? That’s like kicking a sleeping dog.   So we got up off the couch and decided to do

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12/7/14: Financing Update – The Latest in Residential and Commercial Lending

12/7/14: Financing Update – The Latest in Residential and Commercial Lending

Money makes the world go around.  But when you don’t have enough, loans are pretty handy. Real estate financing has changed a LOT in the years following the Great Recession. To get up to speed on the state of the art of lending, in this episode we interview two loan pros. Sitting in the broadcast

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11/30/14: Deep in the Heart of Texas – The Real Estate Landscape in Dallas

11/30/14: Deep in the Heart of Texas – The Real Estate Landscape in Dallas

The Dallas real estate market, just like the Dallas TV series and the Dallas Cowboys, just won’t go away.  It’s one of the most resilient, tenacious, dependable real estate markets in the world. To find out what’s doing in Dallas, we pay a visit to two of our boots on the ground team. Hosting the

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11/30/14: Deep in the Heart of Texas – The Real Estate Landscape in Dallas

11/9/14: Moving Markets – When and How to Go for Greener Pastures

What do you do when you suspect the grass really is greener in another market? In this episode, we field (sorry, couldn’t help it…and more to come) a question from a loyal listener in a far off market who’s considering making a move and wants to know how. Chewing the grass in the podcast pasture

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11/2/14: Clues in the News – Election, Market Direction and Alan Greenspan’s Warning

11/2/14: Clues in the News – Election, Market Direction and Alan Greenspan’s Warning

There’s lots of news affecting real estate investors…and most of it doesn’t have anything to do with real estate. In this episode, we read between the headlines to what’s in the news that real estate investors should be paying attention to. In the broadcast newsbooth for this informative edition of Clues in the News: Your

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10/26/14: Halloween Horror Stories – Terrifying Tales from the Trenches

10/26/14: Halloween Horror Stories – Terrifying Tales from the Trenches

Real estate investing isn’t always sunshine and unicorns.  In fact, sometimes it’s downright scary. But in every terrifying trial, there’s usually a valuable lesson…IF you’re willing to push through to the finish and then reflect on the experience. In this episode, we cobble together a series of interviews with real life real estate investors.  We

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10/19/14: Creative Financing for the 21st Century – Alternative Methods for Finding Funding

10/19/14: Creative Financing for the 21st Century – Alternative Methods for Finding Funding

Technology, laws and globalization are all changing how money moves into and around markets. In the last quarter of the 20th century, creative financing largely consisted of assumable loans, owner carry back financing and equity sharing. Fourteen years into the new millennium, there are alternative funding methods which didn’t even exist in the 20th century.

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10/12/14: Ask The Guys – Making Wise Choices in Your Real Estate Investing

10/12/14: Ask The Guys – Making Wise Choices in Your Real Estate Investing

Life as a real estate investors means making choices between the many options available. In this episode of Ask The Guys, we take on a pile of listener questions that have to do with choosing. Making the choice to be in the studio for this decidedly interesting episode: Your choosy host, Robert Helms His cheesy

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