Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast

LIVE from the Best Ever Conference for Commercial Real Estate Investors

It’s been an amazing conference with more than 1,000 investors, operators, and syndicators at all experience levels! The Best Ever Conference in Salt Lake City is an event that takes place once a year, and provides attendees with economic forecasts, presentations and debates, insights on how to grow your real estate business, and plenty of opportunities for networking.    I’ve been on stage three times at this conference, and have been soaking up a wealth of information from the pros. In this episode, my hubby and business partner Rich joins me for a conversation about what we’ve learned at this event, with an emphasis on multi-families versus single-family rentals. You can also check out the conference agenda to get a better idea of the topics covered, and get information about attending “next” year’s conference at www.besteverconference.com.    If you’d like to learn more about our single-family rental fund, which I mention during this episode, please go to www.growdevelopments.com. You can also sign up for a free RealWealth membership at www.realwealthshow.com and get access to our learning center, our market data for single-family rentals, our experienced investment counselors, our property teams and the opportunities they provide for investors.   As always, we ask that you subscribe to our podcast, and leave us a review!   Thanks for listening! Kathy Fettke  

FIRE! - Financial Independence, Retire Early with Real Estate

FIRE is the new buzzword among real estate investors, and it has nothing to do with the fire emoji that everyone uses on instagram to say that “you’re hot.” It’s a movement known as Financial Independence, Retire Early or FIRE! In this episode, you’ll hear from someone who is about to experience FIRE. Adrian Rish started investing in rental properties just a few years ago, and has now created enough passive income to become “work optional.” Adrian is a business owner, husband, father of two young children and financial provider for his mother. He purchased his first property in his hometown of Oakland, California, in 2013. After years as a do-it-yourself investor and property manager, Adrian discovered RealWealth in 2020. Attending some of our live events and real estate tours helped him diversity into other states and connect with like-minded investors. Now, having reached his near-term investment goals, he and his family are planning to make an international move to Portugal to experience life abroad, and potentially expand his portfolio to Europe. If you’d like to learn more about the FIRE! lifestyle, hit the join button at realwealthshow.com. Membership is free. You can tap into our educational material, get access to our investment counselors, see sample properties, and learn about different markets. You'll also find a schedule for upcoming real estate market tours where you can see properties in person and meet with other investors. Please subscribe to our podcast if you haven’t already. If you like what you hear, we’d love a 5-star review! Thanks for listening! Kathy Fettke  

The Easy Way to Manage Your Real Estate Portfolio & Free Up Your Time!!!

As your portfolio grows, it can become overwhelming to keep track of everything. Even if you have property management, you still need to oversee the property managers, respond to emails, organize your documents, make sure all the bills are paid, and every other little thing related to your investment properties. But how do you find the right person to help you without busting your budget? In this episode, I am joined by my husband, co-founder, and RealWealth CEO, Rich Fettke, and the CEO of a company that’s provided the kind of help that he needed to scale our business, our personal portfolio, and make it easier for us as time goes on. Our special guest is Tricia Sciortino of Belay Solutions. She earned a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Hartford. Worked as District Manager for the retail chain Pacific Sunwear for ten years. And the, she decided to take her chances with a startup called Belay, during the recession. Over the next ten years, she’s moved from Director, Vice President, President, and COO to her current position at Belay’s CEO.  Rich discovered Belay more than five years ago. He’s hired two executive assistants, and a couple of bookkeepers from Belay, and they’ve worked out so well that he wanted to share his experience with our listeners and other RealWealth investors. You’ll find out in this interview how Belay chooses only the top 1% of its applicants and how Belay carefully matches them with clients. No worries. You don’t have to hire someone full-time. You can start off slowly as you decide exactly how much help you’ll need. Rich began by hiring an executive assistant for three hours a week. That was expanded to ten hours a week. And now, Rich and I share an executive assistant who’s working for us full time. We also have a personal bookkeeper, and another bookkeeper to help with RealWealth finances. You can also get a discount through RealWealth to help get you started with Belay. Go to belaysolutions.com/realwealth to find out more about that. To find out more about real estate investing, please go to realwealthshow.com and join our network. It’s free and will give you access to all our educational materials and market data. And remember to subscribe to our podcast, and follow me on instagram @kathyfettke. Thanks for listening! Kathy and Rich

High-Tech Rental Property Analysis Before You Buy! With DealCheck!

Buying rental property requires a lot of math and, for most investors, a lot of spreadsheet analysis as well. The process can be complicated and time-consuming but there is a new state-of-the-art platform that does the work for you, and it’s really slick. We are crazy about it here at RealWealth. It’s called DealCheck by a real estate investor who comes from a software engineering background. Anton Ivanov created this high-tech platform to help investors analyze rental properties, estimate profits and find the best deals before they buy. And he joins me in this episode to tell you all about his platform and the discount you can get if you put in the coupon code, REALWEALTH. You’ll also hear how Anton structures his own investments to avoid the risk of a big downturn, how he does his financing now that he’s met his conventional loan limit, how he finds solid property managers, and what he does to keep tenants happy and to avoid vacancies. Anton is a U.S. Navy veteran, real estate investor, and entrepreneur with a 40-unit rental portfolio spread out across 4 states. His portfolio generates over $15,000 in monthly passive income, and he spends one hour a week managing it. He created DealCheck to quickly analyze and compare rental properties, flips, and commercial buildings, and RentCast to help investors track, grow, and optimize their rental portfolios. Again, you can get a discount on the DealCheck platform by going to https://dealcheck.io/ and using the REALWEALTH coupon code. We also invite you to become a RealWealth member for free at RealWealthShow.com. Membership gives you access to all our data and deals on rental real estate investing.  And please be sure to subscribe to our podcast and follow me on instagram at @kathyfettke for the latest market updates and commentary.

Why The Next Few Months Will Be a Real Estate Investing Sweet Spot!!!

Housing inventory levels continue to drop. In fact, in February, they were back down to 970,000. That's not a lot of housing available for a country with 330 million people. And, as interest rates drop, the number of people who can afford to buy a home increases by the millions.  What does this mean? I take it to mean that we are experiencing a lull in home purchasing. But, if inflation continues to regress, mortgage rates will likely do the same.  And that could mean by summer, we'll find ourselves in another buying frenzy.  Right now we are in a sweet spot for investing opportunities where competition from retail buyers is down. Our guest today, one of RealWealth's preferred lenders, is going to share what he's seeing investors doing and what he believes will happen this year with the housing market and mortgage rates.    Richard Advani is a mortgage lender and real estate investor based out of Southern California at GuaranteedRate.com. He has been in the mortgage industry for over 16 years and specializes in working with real estate investors, including our own Real Wealth investors. He also owns almost 20 rental properties in markets across the country. If you’re a car racing fan, you may have seen him on the track. Richard is a professional race car driver with the Formula Drift organization.   For more about financing your investment properties. Check out Richard’s recent RealWealth webinar under the Learn tab at our website at realwealthshow.com. He’ll also be attending our free live event on February 11th. You’ll hear from 11 property teams and one commercial broker about their markets and the inventory they have for investors. You can also sign up for that at our website and join for free to become a member. We hope to see you there!

Cash Flow AND Appreciation in Indianapolis? Update on the Indiana Real Estate Market

Are you looking for cash flowing rental properties with steady appreciation? It may seem like an impossible task in today’s market, but they do exist. And one of them is a place that we’ve been tracking for 10 to 15 years. It’s a market that we have wanted to promote but inventory was so tight when interest rates were low, that there was nothing to buy.   The metro we’ll be talking about in this episode is Indianapolis. You’ll hear why Indianapolis is getting about the same cash flow as it has in past decades and why properties in this market are expected to appreciate.   This property team will also be featured in our virtual live event on Saturday, February 11th from 9am to 4:30pm PT. This very special event will not be recorded so be sure to register and attend the live event as there won't be a replay available! You can sign up for that as a member at realwealthshow.com. It’s free to join RealWealth if you haven’t already. You can also register for a webinar with this same property team on Thursday, February 9th at 12pm PT.   And please remember to subscribe to our podcast and leave a review!   Thanks for listening! Kathy Fettke  

“Ask Kathy” - Kathy Fettke Shares Her 2023 Real Estate Investing Strategies

This is our second “Ask Kathy” episode for the Real Wealth Show. Podcast host Kathy Fettke collected several questions about today’s real estate investing environment, and shares what she would do in those situations. Questions that she answers include: 1 - If you had $100k to invest today, how would you invest it? (from Karla) 2 - Is it a bad time to use a HELOC for a down payment? (from Jeff) 3 - Are 30-year fixed-rate loans still preferable? (from Jeff) 4 - What markets would you shy away from and why? (from Andreas) 5 - Does the 1% rule still matter" What's true now? (from Cynthia 6 - You talk about hot markets in Florida. What about cities outside the major metros? Doable? (from Cynthia) 7 - What is your outlook on short-term rentals? (from Karla) Kathy and her husband, Rich, co-founded RealWealth to share what they learned about real estate investing. At first, they did it to educate their friends, but that social circle has now turned into a network of more than 66,000 members! Their mission? "We help you create passive income and ongoing cash flow with real estate... so you can live life on your own terms." Kathy is passionate about helping others, and looks forward to collecting more questions for a future "Ask Kathy" episode. Send as many as you like to podcasts@realwealth.com and we’ll add them to our list! Kathy is an active real estate investor and a licensed real estate agent with more than 25 years of experience. In addition to her mission at RealWealth, she's the CEO of Grow Developments which helps people invest passively in syndicated real estate deals. She’s been doing the "Real Wealth Show" podcast since 2003, and "The Real Estate News for Investors" podcast since 2016. More recently, she was picked to co-host the Bigger Pockets "On the Market" podcast. If you’d like to learn more about how to create passive income with real estate, check out her newly updated bestseller “Retire Rich with Rentals" which you can find here on Audible. You will also find answers to your questions as a member of RealWealth. You can join for free at www.RealWealthShow.com And please remember to subscribe to this podcast and leave us a review!

Mortgage Expert, Barry Habib, On Why Mortgage Rates are Headed Down in 2023

Are you sitting on the sidelines waiting for lower mortgage rates? Are you wondering whether the Fed is “doing the right thing” to fight inflation? Would you like a clear, simple explanation as to why mortgage rates are so high and when they might come down? The economy has a lot of moving parts that can make it difficult to see the big picture and to know what’s coming next.    In this episode, you’ll hear from mortgage expert Barry Habib who has won the Zillow/Pulsenomics Crystal Ball Award three times in 2017, 2019 and 2020 for the accuracy of his real estate market predictions. He joins me to talk about the inner workings of the mortgage market, how inflation and the Fed's rate hikes are impacting mortgage rates, why Fed strategy failed to prevent inflation in the first place and how it’s attempting to make up for that failure, and most importantly… why we might see rates as low as 5% later this year.    Barry is a housing market and mortgage industry expert, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He’s the founder and CEO of MBS Highway which helps turn mortgage sales people into advisors. He’s a Certified Mortgage Advisor himself, with more than $2 billion in originations. He’s also bought and sold several businesses including Mortgage Market Guide, CPMS, Certified Mortgage Association, and Healthcare Imaging Solutions. His book “Money in the Streets” is an Amazon best-seller. He’s a frequent guest on CNBC and FOX Business Network. His podcast is called: "Inside Real Estate." If you'd like to learn more about what's happening in real estate this year, please join RealWealth. It's free to join and get access to all our data, sample investment properties, RealWealth investment counselors, and our curated list of real estate professionals.  Please don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and leave a review! Thanks for listening! -Kathy

How an Engineer is Engineering His Financial Freedom with Real Estate

Podcasts are often filled with experts who make it sound too easy to reach those financial freedom goals. Many are often pushing their own agendas as well, and are trying to sell you something. That might create information overload for new investors who are trying to figure out where they should begin. But even the most successful investors started somewhere, and that’s often the story you don’t hear – what it’s like at the very beginning of the journey. It’s an often untold story that could help new investors feel more confident about taking their own first steps. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from someone like that. Kyle Parker and his wife are both full-time engineers with a healthy income, but after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Kyle realized the value of passive income through real estate investing. He’s now in the midst of taking his first steps with a handful of real estate  syndications but he wants to increase his passive income paycheck so he can become job optional sooner than later. You’ll hear details about how he’s managing his finances right now, and how he’s deciding what he should do next with real estate. You can find out more about getting your own real estate operation off the ground at realwealthshow.com. It’s free to join and get complete access to all our information and services, including our experienced investment counselors and other real estate professionals. Please remember to subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review! Thanks for listening!

ATTOM’s Rick Sharga and His 2023 Real Estate Playbook

Happy New Year and welcome to 2023! It’s time to turn the page on 2022 and look for new real estate investing opportunities! And we have ATTOM’s Rick Sharga to help us do that! He joins me in this interview to talk about his data-based opinions on what the real estate market might do this year. That includes specific markets that are more likely to outperform or underperform other markets, along with the strengths and weaknesses of different asset classes.   If you don't know Rick, you should. He has more than 20 years’ of experience in the real estate and mortgage industries and is currently the Executive Vice President of Market Intelligence for real estate data firm, ATTOM Data. He is also one of the most frequently quoted experts on real estate, mortgage, and foreclosure trends by major media outlets.   Rick has also served as Executive Vice President at RealtyTrac, as an EVP for Carrington Mortgage Holdings and Chief Marketing Officer of the company’s Vylla business unit, and as the Chief Marketing Officer of Ten-X and Auction.com. If you'd like to hear more about what happened in 2022, check out my 2022 year-end review with Rick Sharga.  We discuss the ups and downs of last year's market, and what we think is important for investors to know about 2023. Join RealWealth and enjoy all the benefits of membership at: https://tinyurl.com/joinrealwealth Subscribe to the Real Wealth Show podcast:  https://tinyurl.com/RWSsubscribe  Thanks for listening! Kathy Fettke