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Real estate comes in all shapes and sizes. Last time we talked about buying a hotel, today we will talk about buying a car wash.  Our Guest today, Steff Boldrini, started her investing career when she bought a car wash. That's pretty cool, but she's found something else she likes even better. Today she's going to tell you about it. Steffany grew up in Brazil, but her family ended up in Silicon Valley. She won awards in sales, worked in start-ups and later was an angel investor in startups. But she prefers real estate. She especially likes commercial real estate and that will be our focus today. You don't need me to tell you it's tough to find good house deals these days. Today's conversation is going to help all of us step back and look at the broader picture. If you have ever considered commercial investing, or if you're starting to think about it now, you will want to meet Steff. How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter

It’s no secret that we make our living in single family houses. But I’ve often wondered if I couldn’t translate the skills I have acquired in this business to something bigger - and maybe easier. Spoiler alert - the answer is YES. And today we’re going to talk about something bigger - MUCH bigger. On this episode of Flipping America. I had Nate Barger on the show not too long ago to talk about the BRRRR method and we didn’t get all the way finished with that subject before we started talking about hotels. I knew right then I had to get him back to talk about hotels. So that’s what we have coming up for you in just a little while today. But first let me comment on some breaking news. 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for y

What If you could double your money... even triple it without the headache of being a full time landlord? Stay tuned, because I have a guy who will tell you how he brings in more money in less time, with minimal hassle, and little to no maintenance repairs. 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business funding needs. FlippingAmericaFunding.com.   Legal Shield Announcements: FlipStarter November 2021 is sold out. But we’ve already scheduled it again for January.  Learn how to Find, Fund, Fix and Flip houses Four weeks of video instruction (2 hour sessions) Four weeks of group coach

Would you buy land halfway around the planet? Today I’m going to talk with someone who not only does it, it’s her primary source of income. Here’s a pretty cool idea. Alicia Jarrett lives in Melbourne Australia but she makes her living investing in land in Texas and Florida in the US. Let’s start this mental exercise by thinking about where you would like to live. Because we now know you can live anywhere if you have the right tools at your disposal. Alicia is going to talk about the tools she uses and how you can get access to them. 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business fund

Have you been thinking about adding probates to your investing portfolio? Well today is your chance to get started. We are going to hear how to get leads and add probates to your list of deal sources. 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business funding needs. FlippingAmericaFunding.com.   Legal Shield  Announcements: FlipStarter November 2021 is sold out. But we’ve already scheduled it again for January.  Learn how to Find, Fund, Fix and Flip houses Four weeks of video instruction (2 hour sessions) Four weeks of group coaching You’ll get my book, “Fantastic Deals and Where to Fi

I can’t find any deals! How often have you heard that lately? How often have you SAID that lately? Well, if you’re looking for rentals, after today you will have no excuse. Norada Real Estate is an award winning turn-key rental housing provider. Now to be clear, they do not provide the housing to the renters, they sell the properties to landlords. Norada does their homework, targets good markets with good returns, purchases properties and prepares them for rental use. All you need to do is speak with them and start buying.  But wait, before you head over to noradarealestate.com and check them out, spend a few minutes with us and listen in as I talk to Norada founder, Marco Santarelli. And yes, they are an award winning firm. I happened to be present three years ago when they won the prestigious Real Estate Investment Firm of the year at the Think Realty convention in Atlanta. That interview is coming up shortly, but first I need to talk for a few minutes with the real Star of the show - Starr Keels.  How to c

Do you run your business or does your business run you? If the latter is true, this show is especially for you.  Mark Dolfini is the author of the best selling “Time Wealthy Investor.” He is also a trainer and coach in the real estate space. He has observed that success in this business depends on the state of your mental health and processes. I’m giving him the floor to share a presentation on just how we can eliminate self-defeating thoughts and habits and tune our brains for maximum success.  Roger’s personal note: “I’ve known Mark for many years. His stuff on vision and mindset is some of the best I’ve ever seen. 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training,

Summer is over - Fall is upon us. The nights are getting chilly. It’s time to break out the BRRRR method. Wait - is that a cold weather investing strategy? We will set the record straight today. The BRRRR method is cool. Pun intended. I was doing this long before I knew it had a name. But it’s still cool. You can buy unlimited rental houses with the same pot of money over and over again - if you do it correctly.  Our guest today, Nate Barger, has done it hundreds of times. He has perfected the process to the point that he now has a course just on the BRRRR method. The spreadsheet analytical tool that comes with this is worth 5 times the cost of the course. You are going to want to hear this interview. And after hundreds of BRRRR houses, Nate has moved on to apartments and hotels. Yes - hotels. More on that coming up later this 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

Want to get started Wholesaling? You have to hear what we are about to bring you.  David Olds is joining us in a few minutes to talk about wholesaling, dispositions, and real estate in general. He’s a smart guy who can help you go from starting up to financially comfortable in a hurry.  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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business funding needs. FlippingAmericaFunding.com.   Legal Shield Announcements: Flipping America Funding is live! Monday May 16th.  News and Resources:    Mindset Moment:  Your life is the result of your decisions. Not just t

It’s not often I hear something new to me in real estate. Today for the first time I’m going to share with you how real estate novations are used by investors.  We have all heard of innovation. By definition it is the introduction of something new. Innovations are not inventions. They may use existing technology in a new way, or they may combine existing ideas. The focus is on the newness or novelty. So what is novation? According to the dictionary it is “the substitution of a new contract in place of an old one.” So what is the connection between novation and innovation? I looked it up on wikidiff. (Yes that’s a thing) and basically learned...they are not really connected. Novation is (legal) replacement of a contract with one or more new contracts, in particular in financial markets the replacement of a contract between a particular buyer and seller with contracts between the clearing house and each party while innovation is the act of innovating; the introduction of something new, ideas, technology, etc. 

Welcome to Show number 500. It’s a bit of a landmark for us. Today we are flipping the script - Starr is going to interview me and ask about where Flipping America came from, what we are up to and what we plan for the future. Coming up now.  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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business funding needs. FlippingAmericaFunding.com.   Legal Shield Announcements: Flipping America Funding is live! Monday May 16th.  News and Resources:    Mindset Moment:  Questions from Listeners: starr ask…”what would roger do”   Motivational Quote: “Intelligence will

Real Estate Investing is the Game. And today we are going to talk about coaching. Hello America! We don’t encourage you to drop what you are doing and start flipping houses like you do on TV, but we do encourage everyone to consider real estate as a part of a balanced investment portfolio. And to that end, we intend to bring you the very best news and information, statistics, demographics, how-tos, methods, techniques and strategies, along with inspirational stories and people. All of this will help you make the best, most-informed decision about your own personal involvement in real estate.  Today we are going to talk about getting into the game of real estate and you are going to hear Starr’s amazing and nightmarish experience with a real estate coach.  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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your q

Today we are going to talk about “No Money Down” deals. And my guest Henry Washington has a source that took me a little bit by surprise. His inspiration to become a real estate investor was born from a panic at night. He married his wife Jessica Washington after knowing each for just one year, and he knew that he couldn't afford the future that he felt his wife deserved. This is after they had conversations about their future home and kids. Currently, they are blessed with an amazing 2-year-old daughter and Jessica is pregnant with their second child. In our conversation I asked Henry how he got into real estate investing and you’ll hear his story in a little 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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Flipping America Funding : Get the m

“One who never asks anything either knows everything or knows nothing.” You’ve asked, and today we answer your questions.  We do this from time to time. As the questions build up, we just take a moment to answer them.  Email your questions to questions@flippingamerica.net. 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.  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: 877-55-ROGER (877-557-6437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Flipping America Funding : Get the money you need for your business, for your training, for infrastructure, and for your projects. Flipping America Funding is your one-stop shop for all of your business funding needs. FlippingAmericaFunding.com.   Legal Shield Announcements: Flipping A

Passive income is the key to your financial freedom. And passive income in real estate is achieved by owning income-producing properties. Today, we are going to get you one. You hear me say it all the time. We don’t encourage everyone to drop what you are doing and start flipping houses like you see on TV. We DO encourage everyone to consider including real estate in a well-balanced investment portfolio. To that end, this show exists to bring you news and information, strategies and techniques, inspirational people and stories, technology, demographics, statistics, and anything else we can find to help you make the best decisions possible about your relationship with real estate.  Contrary to what HGTV might have you believing, most people begin their investing career by owning rentals. I’m called the Flipping America guy, but I didn’t start out flipping. I started out with rentals like most of you. Today’s market is hard for buyers - especially for buyers looking for deals that make sense as income producers

If you know how to put together a creative deal structure, you’ll be able to say “yes” to a lot more opportunities. Today we are going to share some secrets with you that will let you do that.    We will be joined in a little while by Scott Ulmer and Tan Michell. They appeared recently on a Flipping America REIA live event to talk about Subject-To Secrets. Scott is one of the principles at Little Pink Houses of America, a fine organization that is buying and selling all over the country. They are looking for affiliate relationships in many areas. If you want to learn how to do creative deal structures, both on the buy AND the sell side, you may want to consider becoming one of their affiliates. They provide the training, guidance as you go, and back office support for your deals. They don’t have to make repairs, hire contractors, or wait for rehabs to complete. They will pay an owner a fair price for their home with a deal structure and then sell to someone on their buyers list with another deal structure. It

How do you compare dissimilar deals?  Would you rather make $50k 70 miles away or $35k right around the corner? Would you rather make $70k on a $200k project or $50k on a $135k project? How about $60k in 4 months on a $250k investment or $75k in 7 months on $300k? What if you could make $60k in profit on two light rehabs OR you could make $80 on a “pop top” rehab deal? What if the property looks very profitable but is in a bad neighborhood? What if the deal looks great but it’s 100 miles away? What if you can make $150k, but the rehab will take more than a year and sales are slow there?   Investors face thousands of questions like these every day across America. Your answers to situations like these will depend in large part on the numbers, but not entirely on them. Sometimes an attractive set of numbers comes with a basically ugly house. Most big profits come from equally big rehabs. How do you “measure” market heat? How can we quantify the effect of distance on the project?    I tackled this problem years a

One of the top questions I get here at Flipping America goes something like this: “I want to keep my day job but I want to invest in real estate on the side. You have several options and today we are going to talk about them.  The REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) is one of the first passive real estate investment vehicles created. The REIT raises capital from ordinary investors who purchase shares, in a manner similar to buying stocks. The REIT then purchases and manages real estate. The laws governing REITS require almost all of the profits to be paid out to the shareholders. Your return will be based on the performance of the REIT.  Many REITs consistently provide returns of well over 10% annually and some approach 20% returns. And now you know why this is a topic we all should explore. Why would you go to all the trouble and effort of a fix and flip that will pay you a 10% return on your investment? Hint: You should not do that deal. You’re better off in a REIT.  I’m famous for saying “Compare everythin

We all have our various procedures we follow with our properties, which together are referred to as our system. But did you know there is a larger system that can be used not just with your properties, but with your entire business? That’s what we are talking about today on Flipping America. The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a set of common-sense, field-tested, proven principles that govern the planning and implementation of a business. It makes things run more smoothly, the company grows, profits go up, and life is good. Very few people have a natural ability to manage a company this well instinctively and when they do, guess what? They are instinctively using the principles codified in the EOS. This system is not just the latest business fad theory. It’s a practical approach gleaned from observations over many years of some of the most successful and effective businesses on earth.  Brian Sulka is a Professional EOS Consultant. He recently did a webinar for the Flipping America REIA that we called a De

In case you didn’t know this, I am a man. And as a man, I find it difficult - if not impossible - to see and experience life from a woman’s point of view. According to my beautiful and loving wife, one of the smartest things about me is I realize I don’t understand women at all. But there is a need for women to understand real estate, real estate investing, and financial literacy. But what can I - as a clueless man - do to make a difference? I can have people like today’s guest Kat Timpson on my show. Plus I’ve got updates on interest rates, 3-D printed homes, a couple of top 25 lists and a top ten list, and more questions from you than I’ll have time for today I’m sure.  Kathryn is President of the North Central Jersey Women’s Council of Realtors and is committed to helping women become financially literate and invest in real estate. She’s joining us in a few minutes to talk about her activities and plans.  How to contact us Follow Starr @realestateislifeatlanta on IG and Facebook www.RogerBlankenship.com. L