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Today we continue the Market Report with an in-depth look at the housing market. What happened 2019? What are the stories that will shape the housing market in 2020? What changes are taking place in the home reselling industry. The news segment today will bring you up to date with the latest in the housing market and in the second half of the show I’m going to share with you my top Ten real estate stories of 2019.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Follow us on Social Media: Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding FlipCalcs: One property, Many poss

We are continuing today with our shows to wrap up the year and look to the new year. Today I have a couple more lists for you - the top cities to invest in office space and the top 30 high-tech employment cities - also good places to invest in office space.  The primary focus for today’s show is the Market. Today we are looking at the overall economy. We will consider 2019 and peek ahead to 2020, but no predictions until the prediction show, coming up in a week. Next time we are going to zero in on the housing market and look back and peek forward like we are doing with the economy today.  To wrap up the year we are going to do the Crystal Ball show, where I make some predictions about 2020, and we will do the looking back, looking ahead show featuring some show guests from this past year.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave yo

One of the investment criteria used by nearly everyone across all asset classes is population growth. We want to know where people are leaving and TO where they are moving. If the communities receiving the influx of population has the job stability to accommodate the new people it’s going to need more housing. This is where we can step in either with flips, new construction, rental houses or apartments. So today we are going to take a look at populations trends across the United States.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/Civi

We are continuing today with our year-  end series on “Best Places.” Today we discuss the best places to own a short-term rental. AirBnB is the dominant player in the short term rental provider, but we should also mention VRBO, Vacation Rentals By Owner, and a variety of other AirBnb Competitors. In fact I’m going to share a list of them with you and try to list the distinctive differences, if any. But make sure you pay attention to the news. AirBnB is getting hammered in some cities, who in spite of their rhetoric seem to have found another revenue stream for themselves.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if

Today is the annual multi-family wrap up show for 2019. We are going to update you on the latest multi-family news, give you a few thoughts and tips about investing in multi-family and end up the show sharing with you the best places in the US to buy them, according to the statistics we have available to us.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding Announcements: We normally meet every Wednesday and Thursday but we are done for the holidays. No meetings in December.  Flipping America App is in the app store. You can l

Hey everyone! We are back with our Best Places Series and today we are going to be talking about the best places to own rental properties in 2019 and probably 2020 as well. I have a bunch of websites and a variety of opinions about this and again, it all comes down to the criteria and weighting factors used in developing the scoring system. Carissa from Macon, GA asked me to explain the weighting factors and what I mean by that. So I will. It comes from the world of statistical analysis. Let’s take for example the Flipping America Property Grade.  Mileage - a factor, but not as important as the profit.  Profit not as important as ROI, but profit still should be above 20k to make it worth your while.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please

We are in our “Best Places” series of shows to end up the year. Last time we talked about the best places to live. I reeled off more than 100 great places to live and pointed out that the lists were different because of the different criteria used and the relative importance of those criteria. Today we are going to talk about the best places in America to flip properties. I have several lists, although a few of them got their data from WalletHub and are therefore not original. What you will see is that even in a business driven by the numbers, there is still room for some disagreement. Although I don’t know what the heck Bob Vila was thinking in his list. But you’ll hear it coming up! How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us

We are winding down to the end of 2019. It’s been an interesting year to say the least! Over the next several shows we are going to review this past year, look ahead to 2020, and consider some of those lists we love. On the last show we started looking at some of the Best Places lists. We continue with that today and we will begin with the Best Places in America to live. If these are great places to live, they are also great places to invest. Some of the results will surprise you and there are several towns I’m betting you’ve never heard of. We have results from the usual suspects such as Money magazine, US News and World report, cnbc.com, and USA today, but we also have results from a couple of websites you may not be familiar with, Niche and liveability.com. These two sites add an interesting spin on the best cities. I can tell you right now we are going to name a LOT of nice cities and towns in the next few minutes - the lists are not identical - in fact they are remarkably different because they use diffe

Today we are hitting the headlines hard and taking some of your questions. We have green startups, best places to live and work, and the top 25 cities Americans can’t wait to leave!  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding Announcements: We normally meet every Wednesday and Thursday but we are done for the holidays. No meetings in December.  Flipping America App is in the app store. You can listen to the show, read the show notes, and the entire catalog of shows is now available to you. It’s a free download and there are no upsells or in-app purchases. Free to d

Today we are going to talk about a couple of BRAND NEW products and offerings from Flipping America. Quick Start and FlipCalcs. And later on, Jack Bosch is going to join us to talk about making a LOT of money in land investments. It’s relatively simple, uncomplicated, and the potential is staggering. Buy land for pennies on the dollar, sell for a deep discount and still make money.  Known as “the Land Guy,” Jack Bosch is a real estate investor, educator, husband, and father. Originally an immigrant from Germany who came over with just 2 suitcases and a bunch of student debt,  Jack (with his wife Michelle) have found their niche in Real Estate. Since 2002, they have been buying and selling lots and unimproved land and have flipped more than 4,000 transactions. It only took them 18 months to go from Zero to $1M. Since 2008, Jack and Michelle also have been educating those who either find houses too challenging or are unsatisfied with the competition and teaching them how to make more money from simple land and lot

It’s Q&A time again! We are going to devote a good bit of today’s show to answering your questions. If you have a question about real estate or real estate investing, we promise we will either answer it or if we don’t know, we will get an answer for you. You have a lot of options when it comes to asking a question. Most of you email to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Occasionally people will leave a question at our national comment line, 404-369-1018. Now you can leave a voicemail for me at my website, rogerblankenship.com. And you can always send us a question through social media. I don’t tend to see those right away, but whenever we get a question about real estate we answer it. We are not going to do your homework or your research for you, but we will go off of the numbers you provide and tell you whether we would do the deal. So sure, we will tell you whether it sounds like a deal will work. But there are always other types of questions as well, as you’re about to hear. So don’t be shy -- reach out w

We love American IRA and we love self-directed IRA investing. If you haven’t already done so, check out their website today - even right now while you’re listening to the podcast. I know you ladies out there can do this. I’m pretty sure the guys will have to choose looking at the website or really listening - I know I can’t seem to do both. Now THAT’s a great way to get in trouble right from the beginning of the show!  As much as I love self-directed IRA investing I have run into a couple of challenges. The first one was the limitation of contribution - around $5000 per year for most people. The second was the ELIMINATION of contributions. I got a note from my custodian telling me I made too much money and couldn’t contribute any more. Folks, when enterprising entrepreneurs get news like this we don’t just shut down. We find other ways to make our goals happen.  Enter the Solo-K and our guest today.  Dmitriy Fomichenko is the founder and president of Sense Financial Services LLC, a boutique financial firm spe

There are a number of websites you can visit to get community information when doing your research on a property. We will review 18 of them. them today coming up. Plus we are going to talk a bit about student loan debt. As a free service I’ll be sharing with you the ONE big tip to reduce or eliminate student loan debt. During this discussion I also share the best way to make money if you do not have a degree and the best way to make a lot of money if you do. Also in the news today is Rent Control. I’m likely to get on a little rant about this because rent control is not just a bad idea - it’s an evil scourge. The politicians who push for it have to either be complete morons or complicit in the evil scheme to damage or destroy urban life. And yeah, I might quit beating around the bush and tell you how I really feel about it.  In fact, I think we should schedule a show on rent controls. I’ll put that on the list.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagra

Moneeka Sawyer is often described as one of the most blissful people you will ever meet.  But don't confuse her big smile and infectious laugh with naivete. Her multi-million dollar real estate empire is just one example of her ability to strategize, organize, and implement big business plans.  Sawyer is the best-selling author of the book "Choose Bliss: The Power and Practice of Joy and Contentment," which was recently honored with the very prestigious Woman of Impact Quill Award by Focus on Women Magazine. She has been investing in real estate for over 20 years, so has worked through several different cycles of the market. Through her strategies, she has turned $10,000 into over $2,000,000, working only 5-10 hours per MONTH with very little stress. She lives her dreams and won't let anyone tell her what she can and can't do.  Even though she was constantly told she couldn't get in, she graduated from Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, one of the top 3 colleges in the nation, and has been in business for h

Two shows ago I reviewed every consumer-facing real estate website I could find. This includes both broker and non broker-affiliated sites. I shared with you the sites I have used most of the time over the years, and in some instances still use. But last year a game-changer came into my world. Privy. That’s P-R-I-V-Y. And the website is bit.ly/getprivyprogram.    So today we are going to be joined in a few moments by Benson Juarez, one of the founders of Privy. Over the past year we have had numerous conversations, he has trained me in the use of the program, and my life is richer because of this technology. I’ll tell you right up front - Privy isn’t everywhere - yet. But in the markets where it is available, there is NOTHING like it for investors. If you want to find your next deal without costly marketing direct mail etc., you need to take a look at Privy. How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-3

I’ve known a few people who have been in real estate investing since the beginning of their career. This is how you become a multi-millionaire and even a billionaire. Start young, make good decisions, grow solidly. I have a rising star on the show today and you are going to want to hear his story. Hayden Crabtree is an Atlanta based Self Storage investor with 14 properties in 5 states spanning half a million square feet. His primary focus is on value-add storage deals that offer investors above average returns. Hayden got his start in the world of real estate during college after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad and finding a Real Estate mentor to shadow for over a year. His current focus is helping investors who want to build cashflow and equity find amazing opportunities and put their money to work passively side by side in his deals. How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your me

Technology is a huge part of the world around us and real estate is no exception. We have been researching the use of technology in real estate investing for some time now and are attempting to create a resource page for your use and reference. Today we are continuing with Part Three, I’ve taken the time to look at EVERY website designed to help consumers find properties. I consider usability, usefulness, the quantity and quality of information, and then I’m going to tell you which of these I use in my business and why.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding A

Technology is a huge part of the world around us and real estate is no exception. We have been researching the use of technology in real estate investing for some time now and are attempting to create a resource page for your use and reference. Today we are continuing with Part Two, Let’s take a closer look at some of the technology we use here in our business.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Announcements: Lunch with me every Wednesday. Baraonda My latest article in Forbes is out. bit.ly/findredeals. The FAN is here! Would you like to invest in the Flipping America projects across the country? Coming soon you will be able to for

Technology is a huge part of the world around us and real estate is no exception. We have been researching the use of technology in real estate investing for some time now and are attempting to create a resource page for your use and reference. Today as we open the subject, I’m going to share with you how we have tentatively outlined the subject, listed programs, websites, and apps to check out, and how we are going to open this up for YOU to contribute to the listings. This will likely become an ongoing feature of the show. We certainly won’t cover everything today or even next time, but we know it’s an important part of investing so we are going to make it a regular topic.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 404-369-1018, ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is

Welcome to show number 300! Today marks a milestone for us with the Flipping America show. Thanks to all of our sponsors for making it possible and thank you to YOU for making the show a big hit! It’s not a college football game coming down to the last few seconds, but for a real estate show, it’s pretty exciting! Making money YAY! Financial freedom YAY! Purpose, meaning, legacy, YAY! Wait, isn’t it just a bit odd that sporting events seem to get us a LOT more enthusiastic than these other things that actually are the warp and woof of our lives.    Speaking of woof, I had a rough afternoon Saturday, like a lot of you Dawg fans out there. I had to go outside and sit by myself for awhile. One of the many thoughts I was thinking while pondering Georgia’s unbelievable upset loss is “why does this matter so much to me?” I came close to an answer when I decided that I just really want to root for a team that wins a championship. I’m not much of a baseball fan but was delighted to be in the area when the Braves had