Redefining Rehab Standards 

Clint Lien is the Executive Vice President of The Bluebook International, a company that provides solutions for real estate investors to help them estimate rehab costs efficiently and accurately. He has been in the industry for years, helping provide reliable resources for real estate investors, and he is on the show to help us better understand the work that goes into rehabbing properties and how we can be more efficient with them. Listen now to learn more about rehabbing properties and how you can be efficient with estimating and planning for the expenses that come with it! Quotables “Build relationships with contractors. Build relationships with realtors. Whoever is going to be interacting with you in that middle sphere, on that middle lever, build those relationships before you pull the trigger.” “There’s a risk, right? If there was no risk, everybody would do it, that’s what they say. There’s a risk, but you can limit that risk by educating yourself in multiple different ways.” “Ignorance is usually based on a conscious decision, so if you think about what happened, if you think about what went wrong, you can look back and say “oh, that’s where I made that ignorant decision that got me there.” Links Website: The Bluebook International https://www.bluebook.net/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Decoding Real Estate Investment Trends

John Beacham is the founder and CEO of Toorak Capital Partners, a company that works with lenders across the US and UK to originate business-purpose loans. He has decades of experience in leading financial institutions and building successful businesses and he is with us on the show to talk about things that we need to be focused on in today’s market if we want to succeed as investors. Listen now to learn more from an expert in financing and real estate investing, so you can be prepared to make better decisions for your business! Quotables “Don’t think about necessarily what it is, but think about what it could be.” “Single-family is unique as an asset class because you really have two different and somewhat independent sets of buyers.” “You don’t necessarily need to have a college education, but you need to have a good work ethic and a good business sense in order to buy and renovate properties.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Navigating Affordability Issues in the Real Estate Market 

Mike Tedesco is the CEO of Appraisal Nation with decades of experience in lending, banking, credit, title, closing, appraisals, and real estate investing. He has been around through different economic cycles and he is with us today to help us understand what’s going on behind the scenes in the real estate space. Listen now to learn more about the truth behind today’s real estate market and how you can remain profitable through these challenging market conditions! Quotables “The biggest thing that’s being overlooked right now is what’s happening in the affordability sector. As homes continue to rise, the median income is not catching up.” “More and more people want to be in a home and if they can’t afford to buy that home, then investors are gonna buy that home and they’re gonna rent those homes, and it’s limiting the market.” “Buying real estate today is always better than buying real estate tomorrow and there are so many programs out there for everybody.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Resisting the Influencer Temptation

Tarry Summers is a seasoned real estate investor, developer, and entrepreneur, with hundreds of doors in his portfolio. He has been in business through different market cycles and he has learned from some of the most successful people in the industry. Tarry is with us today to share all the things that he learned along the way. Listen now to learn the best tips, tricks, and strategies that will keep you profitable in the real estate space from a seasoned real estate entrepreneur! Quotables “The worst thing you can possibly do in real estate is wait. You need to get in, you need to get involved.” “Rich people do not get rich by making an income, they get rich off of buying assets and then borrowing off their assets.” “When someone is older and wiser than you, shut up and just listen because they’ve been there.” Links Podcast: The Scalers Only Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VgWK… Instagram: Tarry Summers https://www.instagram.com/tarrysumms Facebook: Tarry Summers https://www.facebook.com/tarrysummers/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Thinking Outside the Box to Solve America’s Housing Crisis

Robert Vazquez is a serial entrepreneur, national speaker, and one of today’s most influential real estate experts. Robert has years of experience under his belt investing in different asset classes. He is with us on the show to talk about his journey and what he’s currently seeing in the marketplace. Listen to this episode to learn more about the current real estate market, the strategies that work, and why thinking outside the box is critical in real estate investing! Quotables “Right now, poses the greatest opportunity in history to be able to pretty much take advantage of that – and what I mean by that is if you have the ability to build, build.” “When you think outside the box, you can create partnerships and relationships, and you can create a solution to the housing deficit in your given market.” “It is 1000% okay to fail, dust yourself off, and re-engage. I live by this as well – relentless forward progression.” “I’m extroverted because I have confidence. I have confidence because I built experience.” Links Instagram: Robert Vazquez https://www.instagram.com/passiveinco… Website: Countrywide Capital Group https://myreocountrywide.com/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Diving Deep into Real Estate Market Data

Daren Blomquist is the VP of Market Economics at Auction.com. His work is focused on gathering and analyzing data to help real estate investors find the best investments that will help them succeed in scaling their businesses and growing their portfolios. Listen to this episode to learn more about Daren’s insights on today’s market and why you should always be looking at the data before you invest! Quotables “We’re still at the point where foreclosures are about half of what they were pre-pandemic, which already was, basically at a 20-year low.” “People who are in default are just going in and out of default and staying in that seriously delinquent bucket. It’s just taking them longer to move down the drain.” “The foreclosure sale is the last opportunity for that homeowner to protect their equity. If it goes back to the bank, then the bank gets all the equity.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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