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The number 2 largest issue we hear about here at Flipping America is problems with contractors. For busy house flippers, it can be the very bane of our existence. Today - we take big steps toward solving this problem.  Fixing and Flipping homes is a business with a lot of moving parts. For that business to function properly, everyone must do their job. The biggest determiners of your profitability are your acquisition price and your renovation costs. And renovation problems kill many a good deal. But I can personally attest that if you have a great contractor, this business is much much easier.  Eric Ridenour is the Research and Strategy Director for Home DNB, Inc.  (design and build), on the web at homednb.com. Home DNB is an industry disrupter that makes the reno process easy. He worked his way through college in landscape and specialty tile/stonework construction before pursuing his degree in business administration. Now in his work with HomeDnB he was featured in AUTHORITY MAGAZINE’s series of articles “H

Just the other day I interviewed Marcus Carter, entrepreneur, author, real estate investor and creator of the website theblackwealthbuilder.org. I ended up having a frank and refreshingly positive conversation about racial issues and real estate investing.  I don’t really think about issues of race all that much. The color of a person’s skin is such a silly thing to worry about in my humble opinion. I know that it of course is a hot issue in our society but I’ve been unsure what, if anything, I can do to help. My good friends Ramon Tookes and Glen Glasper and I did a YouTube show with me titled, “An Honest Conversation About Race.” Well-meaning white people are being pushed into a no-win situation by some of the shouters out there. If we go about our business as usual, we are accused of being racist. If we say, “I’m colorblind” they will say, “if you have to proclaim it, that just proves you’re racist.” So what are we to do? Carry on as best we can, live the truth we believe and let our reputation over time s

“I’m broke and have bad credit. What can I do to start investing in real estate?” This is the number one question we get here at Flipping America. I just interviewed a guy who gave me the best answer I’ve ever had for that question. Steven Libman is coming up today on Flipping America. Steven Libman is a multi-family investor and syndicator from Bluffton, SC. He spent several years as a realtor and house flipper before taking the plunge into multi-family where he now manages or owns hundreds of millions of dollars of assets. His website, integrityhg.com tells you more and gives you the opportunity to join his investing club for free as well as take a free course in multi-family investing. You are going to want to hear what he says to me in response to several challenging questions.  How to contact us Follow Starr @realestateislifeatlanta on IG and Facebook www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our Nat

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to get started as a real estate investor. Today I’m going to talk about how to do that. There is a wealth of free information available to you if you have internet access. Google “learn how to flip houses” or “learn real estate investing” and you’ll get hundreds of thousands of results instantly. You can do the same searches on YouTube and get similar results. Information is not the problem. Helpful, actionable step by step information is a little harder to find. The toughest part about this is how to know what is hype and what is good info. We are going to sort that out for you today. How to contact us Follow Starr @realestateislifeatlanta on IG and Facebook 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.  Email your questions to questions@flippingamerica.net. Plea

The moratorium on evictions ended on Saturday July 31st. It cannot be legally extended. And on Wednesday Aug 4th, the President of the United States extended it anyway. We are going to talk about that today on Flipping America. I thought the eviction moratorium was a brazen and illegal power grab when Mr. Trump was President. I continue to believe the same under Mr. Biden. The CDC has overstepped its authority. This is now an established fact - all the way to the Supreme Court. Mr. Biden acknowledged this in his statement regarding the continuation of the ban, noting that the Supreme Court would almost certainly overturn this. But he hoped that in the meantime more aid could get to those who need it to pay their rent. I can’t help but think about what the result would be if I held a press conference and said, “I know that what I’m about to do is illegal, but it’s ok. I mean well. And when the judge tells me to stop I will.” Yeah. Well, we already know that our elected officials are usually held to a different

By far the top topic of the questions we receive are about contracting and contractors. Today we are going to sort that out.  Van Sturgeon is an experienced entrepreneur who has successfully created several businesses in the real estate industry, that cover areas of land acquisition, development, construction and renovation. Van personally owns over 1,000 properties across North America, and is semi-retired from the day to day operations of his businesses.  Van is passionate in helping homeowners and real estate investors overcome their fears of house renovations, and loves to be actively involved in helping people reach their goals. How to contact us Follow Starr @realestateislifeatlanta on IG and Facebook 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.  Email your questions to questions@flippingamerica.net. Pl

We’ve talked a lot on this show about using free resources to perform property analysis. If you are a hobbyist or just breaking into the business and have a limited budget, you should check out our information on that at flipping. But as soon as you have some money to spend for your deal research and analysis, you should look into PropStream. This program is going to help you reach more leads, book more appointments, and close more deals with less work: Generatie highly targeted property lists using 100+ targeting criteria to find and create prospect lists and uncover properties within your target market Reach your prospects through customizable marketing tools -- perhaps before they even know they’re in the market PropStream gives you comprehensive data and context for market insight Visualize where your customers are and analyze your market Access the most current and accurate data from MLS sales and county recordings to generate instant comps You will be able to create your own custom marketing lists,

What if you could make $10,000 more on every flip, simply by paying less for capital? What if you could access large lines of credit with NO personal guarantees and not attached to your personal credit? That’s the topic for today on Flipping America.  How many more deals could you do? What would it add to your bottom line? How different would your life be 5 years from now if you could do two more profitable deals each year between now and then? These are the types of questions you should be asking when you begin to think about business credit. Now I’m not talking about the type of business lines of credit where you pay what amounts to 40% interest and you have to make daily payments starting the next day after you receive the money. I learned this business model the hard way about 8-9 years ago. I had a few conversations with some money guys in New York. Turns out they had clever ways to avoid having their interest rate labeled usurious, but they were workarounds. And they were a rip-off. Since that time I ha

Last time I shared with you how I’ve done hundreds of deals with none of my own money. This is due primarily to my ability to connect with people and raise private money. Today we’re going to show you how to do it.  I’ve done it pretty well over the years but have never created a systematic approach to it. Dave DuBeau has. His method works and he’s helped hundreds of people raise millions of dollars. Thursday night he is going to step you through the entire process.  Everyone who stays until the end of the show will be given access to a free Private Money Course Dave and I put together recently. And in this course you’ll get a coupon for an all-day workshop led by Dave.  I can say this with certainty: If you have your funding sources secured and a solid contractor on-hand, this business is a breeze. 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 (877-55

I buy and sell multiple houses every week. To date I’ve been personally involved in the selection, purchase and sale of nearly 2000 properties. I’ve used my own money maybe 20 times. You could say I know a thing or two about using other people’s money. And today I’m going to share my secrets with you.  Not only am I going to share with you how it works, I’m going to introduce you to a brand new resource at Flipping America that will help you put it all together.  You’ll understand the funding stack the big companies use to put together billion dollar deals and exactly how you can apply those principles to your own business. Get the rehab process right and you could be flipping multiple properties with none of your own money.  I won’t tell you it’s easy - because it’s not. But once you understand the process, and if you will apply yourself to gaining the skills you need to make it work, it will become second nature. How to contact us Follow Starr, @realestateislifeatlanta on Instagram and Facebook www.RogerBla

How do YOU manage your time? Today I’m going to introduce you to one of the best there is. She accomplishes more in a day than most of us get done in a month. Plus I’m going to talk to you about how to get your real estate deals funded with NONE of your own money. Today on Flipping America.  Jen Du Plessis is one of my favorite people. She’s an author, investor, AirBnb owner, speaker, podcast host, investor lender, competitive ballroom dancer, and grandma. We are going to talk about how she gets it all done. You will be informed and inspired, I promise.  In the second half of the show I talk to you about how I get rehab and rental projects funded with none of my own money. I’ll talk about all of your options and how to put them together. If you want to do real estate and are not already sitting on a few million dollars, you need every bit of this show.     How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAm

Today we are addressing two of the big issues that always confront real estate investors: 1. Funding your Deals. 2. Hiring good contractors.  Mark Willis is coming along in just a few minutes to talk about how to use your own money to buy insurance that will provide a cash value which you can borrow against to fund your own flips. It’s a process we call “Bank on Yourself”.  Then I’m going to interview Troy Good. He’s a real estate investor and general contractor from Pennsylvania. As part of his work he sometimes hires other contractors. So I am going to pin him down about how he finds and vets other contractors. I also plan to ask him what he does when a job goes bad and hopefully we will talk about paying contractors in advance for their work.  It’s a full show today - stay with us all the way through and you’re going to get some amazing actionable value from it.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @

What investments are held by your 401k. You don’t know? I don’t either, but I can tell you one thing for sure - it’s not real estate. Why? It’s too much hassle for 401k administrators. This reality has given rise to independent retirement account administrators called custodians to allow you to direct your retirement dollars into real estate. The trick is - you can’t do it with your current employer’s retirement plan. You have to fund it separately. Today I’m going to introduce you to one of the most powerful and successful Self Directed IRA custodians out there - American IRA. And we are going to talk about how you can invest retirement money into safer, better returns, which are tax-deferred and could even be tax free.  Sean McKay American IRA Senior Vice President talked with me and with the Flipping America REIA about your options to invest with a self-directed retirement account. You could be building tax-free wealth. Learn how to create an account, roll-over an existing 401k or other retirement account,

I want to invest in real estate but I want to keep my day job. How can I manage it all? Today I have answers for you. Passive income is (or should be) our goal. If you are starting with a big pile of money and/or good credit, you can skip flipping and go straight to rentals. Make money in your sleep and enjoy the tax advantages that come from owning income properties. But how do you go about it? What do you buy? What should the numbers look like? How do you manage them? When and how do you hire management? Get answers to these and all your questions.  Kim Kesterke, author of “The W2 Landlord” course joins me for a discussion of the ins and outs of owning single family rentals.  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.  Email your questions to questions@flippingamerica.net. Please always

“I have no money and no credit. Where should I begin?” We have the answer for today on Flipping America. Brandon Barnes is not only a master wholesaler himself, but he can teach you how to do it. Today on Flipping America. I’m going to let you in on a little-known secret. Along with everything else I have going on, I still wholesale houses. I have a great team bidding and offering on houses in multiple states across the country. Sometimes I close and wholetail. Sometimes I close and rehab. Sometimes I double close and occasionally I’ll flip a contract. I don’t talk about it much and I only tell you now to let you know I know this business - but I don’t know everything about it and there is always room to learn grow and improve. That’s when I turn to someone like Brandon Barnes.    Brandon has a degree from Purdue University and in spite of what looked to be a promising career, he opted to get into real estate and he’s killing it. I like him, I like his integrity and work ethic and I like the way he approaches

The real estate market has never been hotter. This is great news for home sellers. But every bit of good news in the financial industries comes with another side to the coin. It’s never been more difficult to find a good deal to flip. So is house flipping dead? No. But it’s different. Today I’m speaking with a guy who’s been flipping for 35 years - he knows what to do in any market.  Bruce Glenn joins us to discuss the state of house flipping in 2021. Bruce is a prolific investor and mentor from Birmingham, AL. We will discuss the unique challenges for flipping houses as the pandemic wanes, and lockdowns end. Homes have never been in higher demand than right now, which makes it great to sell, but difficult to buy. Bruce and I are going to talk about how to deal with this current reality. Then we will look into the short-term future to help us all prepare for what lies ahead after the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums end.  Bruce Glenn has been an appraiser for 30 years and a house flipper for 35 plus years

Louis Glickman said, “the best investment on earth is earth.” And today we are going to tell you how to invest in raw land.  Jack Butala and Jill Dewit joined us last night in a lively conversation about the whys, whens, and hows of investing in land. They shared some of their roadmap for growing wealthy through the buying and selling of land. Not only did they tell us how they have done it, they are offering you an opportunity to learn their exact approach. It’s a numbers game and everyone who plays can win.  Jack and Jill have worked for years to put together the resources that put this within almost anyone’s reach. Flipping houses isn’t for everyone and may not be your cup of tea. But here is one way to reach your financial goals without all of that hassle and complexity. 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 yo

It’s the hottest real estate market most of us can remember. Houses are being sold on the same day as listing, many times with multiple offers over list price. And this is happening all over America - big cities, and small towns alike. It is so difficult to find a house to buy right now, is it even possible to flip houses? I’ll have the answer for you today on Flipping America. Bruce Green joins us to discuss the state of house flipping in 2021. Bruce is a prolific investor and mentor from Birmingham, AL who has been investing for 35+ years. We will discuss the unique challenges for flipping houses as the pandemic wanes, and lockdowns end. Homes have never been in higher demand than right now, which makes it great to sell, but difficult to buy. Bruce and I are going to talk about how to deal with this current reality. Then we will look into the short-term future to help us all prepare for what lies ahead after the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums end.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a v

She’s a real estate millionaire, best selling author, host of her own top-rated podcast, and today Moneeka Sawyer is going to share with us her favorite method of creating cash flow.  Your ultimate success in real estate is going to come from your passive income. If you can get your passive income to support the lifestyle you want, you are financially free. You can retire to the beach, volunteer at your charity, work on that passion project, or finally start your own rock n roll band! Because you don’t need the money! Woo hoo! How do you get there? There are dozens of ways to do it and your options will vary according to how much cash you have to put into this.  Today I’m joined by Moneeka Sawyer, a successful investor 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.  Email your questions to que

We all know the value of hard work. But we also sometimes need to find a way to create balance in our life. The work itself can be addicting - the completed deals are intoxicating. And once we are in it, the opportunities can be overwhelming. How do we decide? How do we say yes or no? Where are the boundaries? What are the rules? Mark Dolfini discovered his path and received life-altering clarity after a near-death experience due to overwork and exhaustion. Today we are going to hear his story and glean some of the truths he learned.  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.  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.  Sponsors