Real Estate Nerds

Scott Smith

Tired of feeling out of your depth when looking over real estate deals? Learn from the pros in our Contract Forensics episodes. Real estate attorney Scott Smith will be interviewing professional real estate investors and CPAs as they break down deals. Learn the basics of contracts, tips and tricks for success, and some of the fine print and common mistakes that turn money-makers into money-pits. Listen in for great advice, big personalities, and great conversations about real estate investing. You don't have to go it alone: let our dream team show you how to build your real estate empire.

  • 20 minutes 26 seconds
    Keep More with Holly Williams

    In this episode our guest Holly Williams talks about her best deal and how she got started in the industry. When Holly Williams began investing years ago, the returns were exciting, but even more exciting to her were the multitudes of advantages in the tax code for real estate investors. Put simply, the US Tax code is very favorable to real estate investment, and allows for strategies that legally shelter income.

    Check out the latest episode of the Real Estate Nerds Podcast to hear Holly break down the steps she took to take advantage in the tax code for real estate investors and turn those advantages into a pattern of success.

    30 September 2019, 10:00 am
  • 28 minutes 32 seconds
    HOW TO INVEST IN ALTERNATIVE ASSETS WITH A SELF-DIRECTED IRA

    Our guest this week is Eric Satz. Eric is the CEO of AltoIRA a leading platform for investors of any size and level of sophistication to use their retirement accounts for investing in alternative assets, such as private companies, real estate, unregistered funds, equity crowdfunding, and marketplace loans. Also known as the self directed IRA.

    23 September 2019, 1:50 pm
  • 17 minutes 7 seconds
    Nurture Your Investment Network When Raising Capital

    In this week’s episode Matthew Baltzell discusses worst deal where he lost a $1 million investor in his 138 unit deal in Jacksonville, Florida. Having your network established and having additional investors ready to invest as back-up in case of an investor backing out are two suggestions he makes when it comes to preparing a deal. He also points out the time to raise capital is not when you find a deal, raising capital should be raised years in advance. You must be able to close when you find a property otherwise you could lose your credibility.

    23 September 2019, 10:12 am
  • 21 minutes 1 second
    Personal Retirement Planning Professional

    This week’s guest is Terry White is the President and CEO of Sunwest Trust. He shares with us his passion for educating and inspiring potential investors to build their own self-directed IRA’s that are customized to fit their unique needs and financial goals.

    23 September 2019, 9:20 am
  • 27 minutes 52 seconds
    BUY INTO EXISTING LLC’S AT YOUR OWN RISK

    This week’s guest Mark Kenney shares his bad beats story. It all started by working with a partner he had done deals with before, syndicating the deal and raising capital from other people. Tune into this week’s episode and learn from Mark’s mistakes in sniffing out a con artist. When these deals go south it is generally not a problem with the property but with the people involved.

    23 September 2019, 8:33 am
  • 14 minutes 19 seconds
    GET COZY WITH AN AIRBNB BUSINESS

    This week’s guest Jake Koferl is an expert in the Airbnb market. He works in multifamily investing. Jake dishes on his Airbnb business Cozybnb and how he scored a best deal after only working on five or six deals. Tune into this week’s episode and learn how listening to your gut and going on instincts will lead you to the home run deals.

    23 September 2019, 8:18 am
  • 22 minutes 6 seconds
    DEVELOPING A LONG GAME VIEW IN YOUR REAL ESTATE BUSINESS

    Working with clients that are eager to buy, sell, or close, and love the very first home they’re shown is rare. It’s far a more frequent occurrence that realtors encounter difficult clients. This week’s guest Art Kelly talks about his worst deal. Tune into this week’s episode that involves a for sale by owner seller that his clients located on their own. Art shares his story and lessons in managing difficult clients, learning the art of negotiating the “for sale by owner” sale and setting up expectations when bringing on new clients.

    23 September 2019, 7:54 am
  • 22 minutes 13 seconds
    Hitting Syndication Out of the Ballpark – with Evan Kirkpatrick

    Austin, Texas has become a boomtown for investors. To say there is a lot of opportunity would be an understatement. This week’s guest Evan Kirkpatrick explains the type of nuts and bolts skills that you need to do syndication deals, run a real estate business, and gives some closing advice to the audience about finding where you can fit in when it comes to real estate.Tune into this week’s episode where Evan Kirkpatrick discusses his background as a CPA and how helps real estate investors with high net worth to small business owners just getting started with their tax strategies.

    20 June 2019, 10:00 am
  • 51 minutes 11 seconds
    Real Estate Nerds 68: Syndications, Cryptocurrencies and Crowdfunding, Oh My! with Mark Roderick – Bad Beats

    Mark Roderick fills us in on how the rich can take care of themselves and the non-rich need the government which is why he thinks crowdfunding is so important to the regular Joe. Since the JOBS Act of 2012, Mark has spent much of his time in the crowdfunding space. If you have ever thought to yourself the internet is a ruthless landscape slowly squeezing the middleman and driving human being up the value chain? Then you’ll want to tune into this week’s episode where Mark will explain everything from syndications to cryptocurrencies to crowdfunding, oh my!

    24 May 2019, 2:17 pm
  • 39 minutes 19 seconds
    Real Estate Nerds 67: Discover What’s Being Reported on Your Business Credit with Ty Crandall – Bad Beats

    For many business owners and individuals access to cash or having enough capital is a common problem for those who want to start up, grow, and generate more returns for their business. If you have limited resources it can be hard to expand without the capital you need. Tyler Crandall let’s us know there is a lot of capital out there if you just know where to find it. Listen now, and learn how you can too.

    16 May 2019, 8:31 pm
  • 17 minutes 58 seconds
    Real Estate Nerds 66: Ups and Downs to Section 8 Wealth with Sakar Kawle – Bad Beats

    Sakar busts some of the myths behind Section 8 ventures and debunks the misinformation out there. Sakar dives deep into the Section 8 real estate business model is a great one to get into. Check out the latest episode of the Real Estate Nerds Podcast to hear Sakar break down the steps he took to turn his Section 8 real estate deals into a pattern of success. Listen now, and learn how you can too.

    9 May 2019, 7:39 pm
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