Has housing market hysteria returned? For a few months, homebuyers took a sigh of relief as competition stayed low, prices began to drop, and the real estate market returned to reality. But it seems like the days of sweet deals and plenty of showings are now behind us as homebuyers are jumping back into the market. So what’s causing this housing market madne ... Show More
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Paycheck to Paycheck in His 40s, Millionaire in His 50s with “Boring” Rentals
At age 47, Neil Whitney and his wife were living paycheck to paycheck—one bad day away from losing everything. Now, less than ten years later, he’s financially free with $8,000/month in passive income from rentals. Neil started with almost no money, promising his wife he would ke ... Show More
39m 2s
Jan 21
Scott Trench’s $1,000,000 Bet on Real Estate (Update)
Last year, Scott Trench, former BiggerPockets CEO, made a big bet on real estate—selling $1,000,000 in stocks to buy rentals instead. A year later, he’s on the show, and we’ve got one crucial question to ask him. Was it worth it? The man behind the mustache (yes, he’s still got i ... Show More
34m 51s
Apr 2022
171: The 2022 Housing Market Explained: Is Now a Good Time to Buy? w/Dave Meyer
The 2022 housing market is off to a wild start. We’ve seen home inventory at decade lows, interest rates have finally started to rise, and more homebuyers are looking at fewer houses. As a real estate investor, it can be tough to navigate a market like this, especially when you’v ... Show More
57m 39s
Apr 2022
2: What the Average Homebuyer Can Learn from House-Hungry Investors
The housing market relies on many things: market sentiment, Federal Reserve policy, supply, demand, interest rates, inflation—the list goes on and on. For most homebuyers, it may seem almost impossible to crack the code of when (or if) it makes sense to buy a home or rental prope ... Show More
1h 1m
Mar 2024
203: Compass Settles for $57.5 Million, Inventory Jumps, Fed Talks Rate Cuts
Compass is the latest brokerage to settle after the recent NAR lawsuit made sweeping changes to agent commission payments. With NAR, Keller Williams, Compass, and more associations and brokerages paying out massive settlement fees and rewriting their agent agreements, could we be ... Show More
37m 54s
Jun 2022
11: Migration, Inflation, and Why Big Cities Are Losing Their "Desirable" Status w/Redfin’s Taylor Marr
Over the past two years, home prices have looked as if they’re never going to drop. With record-low interest rates, a newly formed remote work culture, and millennials at peak homebuying age, who would have thought that lower home prices would come so soon. Although traditionally ... Show More
58m 9s
Jun 2023
118: The Next “Wave” of Foreclosures and Markets With the Deepest Discounts w/Auction.com’s Daren Blomquist
The next foreclosure wave is already brewing. Over the past few years, monetary moves and rash home buying decisions were made that could cause even more foreclosures to hit the market. The question is, which markets will face the most foreclosures, and how low will prices go? Bu ... Show More
42m 56s
May 2022
6: The Not-So-Scary Way to Start Buying Real Estate in 2022
Maybe you wanted to know how to invest in real estate back in early 2020. You took some time to educate yourself by listening to podcasts and reading books. Then you went and got preapproved, found yourself an agent, and were ready to start hitting the pavement, searching for you ... Show More
1h 2m
May 2022
9: 3 Types of Real Estate Deals that Work in ANY Market Condition
Home flipping, wholesaling, and BRRRR-ing rental properties are all solid options in the real estate investing space. But, as most experienced investors know, different markets favor different strategies. In some markets, flipping outweighs the risk of renting out a property, whi ... Show More
1h 3m