Easy money caused hot markets to go super-nova. And when the music stopped these formerly high flying markets came crashing down in unprecedented fashion. Now, there’s a BIG MESS to clean up – and that’s bad, right? It depends on who you are and how you look at it. Without re-hashing several of our past […]
4/3/10: Wholesale Opportunities – Using OPM to Heal Hurting Markets Read More »
Listen now: Sometimes people confuse real estate investing with running a real estate business – especially when everyone says you’re supposed to run your investments like a business. Confusing isn’t it? That’s why many people simply turn their money over to Wall Street. It’s painless and easy. Like a scalpel. It’s all fun and games
3/27/11: Turnkey Rental Property Solutions for Busy Investors Read More »
Since we’re big shot jet-setters, we thought we’d fly our semi-private jet (the one we share with with 135 other Southwest Airlines passengers) over to Phoenix to visit Robert Kiyosaki in his Rich Dad studios. The author of mega-bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad has a new literary derivative (that’s financial lingo for “book”) called Unfair
3/20/11: Finding Your Unfair Advantage with Robert Kiyosaki Read More »
When we went to the National Hard Money Conference in Las Vegas, we met a guy who had over 30 years in commercial hard money lending. Based on that alone we wanted to talk with him. But because we’re busy prepping for our Secrets of Successful Syndication seminar, we were especially anxious to get perspectives
3/13/11: Commercial Lending Challenges and Opportunities – Be the Brainer Read More »
The idea of making big money as a real estate investment fund portfolio manager is enough to get most people all hot and bothered. But before you go too far, we encourage you to cool down and consider practicing safe syndication. In the broadcast clinic for this episode of The Real Estate Guys™ Radio Show:
3/6/11: Practicing Safe Syndication Read More »
Central banks around the world have been pumping “liquidity” into their respective economies since 2008. In the USA, the Fed has gone through two rounds of “Quantitative Easing” (QE1 and QE2) and has been talking about a third. Meanwhile, the government is piling up debt at a record pace. What does it all mean? And
2/20/11: The Coming Wave of Inflation – Profiting When the Levee Breaks Read More »
There’s no such thing as a stupid question. Well okay, there actually are some pretty stupid questions, but that’s why we take questions by email and not call in. That way we can filter out the bad ones and just bring you the really good ones! We really aren’t qualified to advise you on what
2/6/11: Ask The Guys – Who, What, Where, When, Why and How Read More »
Experts predict prices will either rise or decline. It’s that time of year where we like to take a look at what all of the real estate pundits are predicting for the upcoming year. Obviously, predicting the future is an inexact science….well, okay. It’s actually not science at all. More like alchemy. But it’s always
1/30/11: Forecasting the Future – Real Estate Industry Predictions for 2011 Read More »
I love you. I love you not. I love you. I love you not. Financing is the life blood of real estate – especially for real estate investors, developers and re-habbers. When times are good, lenders are BEGGING for your business. Do you remember when there was so much money chasing deals, if you had
1/23/11: Finding Financing When Funders Are Fickle Read More »
One of our favorite quotes comes from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Of course, a statement like that carries even more weight because the person saying it is highly qualified to have an opinion worth
1/16/11: The Age of the Entrepreneur – Creating a Future and Not a Job with Ken McElroy Read More »