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Episode 89: Is Travel Back? (Airbnb After Covid)

July 27, 2021
Economic and Market conditions, General Real Estate
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You are seeing it, aren’t you? The instagram photos popping up. The long-delayed weddings that are now taking place. Airline flights being oversold. New travel videos on Youtube. Yep, it’s happening, travel is back! This has been a long time coming. What else would happen bottling the world up for over a year and...

Episode 88: It’s inevitable rents are going up

July 20, 2021
Economic and Market conditions, General Real Estate
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Rents have been increasing quickly since the last crash in 2008 which has been great for real estate investors. But why exactly are they going up? The short answer is, Economics. Economics is the foundation for why prices do what they do. To break it down further, prices will always be controlled by supply and demand.....

Episode 85: How I Got An Apartment Building For Free

There are some opportunities with real estate investments that we just can’t find anywhere else. Not with the stock market, not with investing in crypto currency, not by investing in precious metals like gold and silver, and not by operating short-term rentals on a lease arbitrage model. Nope, they will just...

Episode 84: How To Cut Down One Of Your Biggest Expenses (Utilities)

We have quite a few costs that go in to operating our short-term rentals. Some of them are fixed, our mortgage or our lease payment for example, but most of them are variable. Meaning, most of our expenses will either go up or down and change over time. These are other expenses like housekeeping costs, maintenance...

Episode 82: On The Ground Market Research (Finding The Right Property In A New Market)

There are several steps to doing market research and deciding on the next place to invest our money in real estate. We’ve talked about many of them before in prior episodes: from the fundamentals of what makes a good market to the special considerations we need to take when we have the intention to operate short-term...

Episode 81: Can I Kick A Guest Out Of My Airbnb?

Can we kick a guest out of our properties? If you’ve operated a short-term rental for any length of time you may have asked yourself this question or possibly even had to deal with this very issue. It’s a bit of a grey area. Authorities (police) are different in every city and some may be familiar with short-term...

Episode 80: Sound In Your Rental and The Consequences

There are many components that go into ensuring your guests have a great experience but one that may trump them all is sleep! Getting adequate sleep is an essential piece to being a human being and when that gets disrupted then so do our attitudes, our moods, and our experiences. In short, a poor night's sleep leads to...

Episode 68: Operating Our Rentals Remotely The Secret Ingredient

If we look at our businesses and processes from the perspective of “how” we are going to manage them, grow them, operate them or accomplish them, than we are committing our time directly to those tasks. For every time we ask ourselves “how” we are limiting ourselves to our own resources and time. I read a book...

Episode 67: Control (The Beauty of Real Estate vs. Other Investments)

Many things are out of our control like the government policies of different nations, the news, or the weather but when it comes to our investment decisions we can absolutely maintain control. This is one of the main reasons more people become wealthy through real estate than any other investment class. Control of our...

Episode 66: Buying International Property Tips You Need To Know

February 16, 2021
General Real Estate, Property Acquisition
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It's such an exciting thought, isn't it? Owning property in another country. It has a nice exotic ring to it. And while purchasing international real estate can provide so many benefits beyond a simple investment return, it's not necessarily the easiest thing to get into. This week we'll cover a few lessons I’ve...