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Digitizing Data to Put in the Property Owner’s Back Pocket

Chuck Hattemer is the co-founder and CMO of Poplar Homes, a nationwide property management company based in California. Chuck and his team are focused on helping mom-and-pop investors across the country better manage their properties by giving them access to institutional power. He is with us today to talk about the importance of effective property management systems and how Poplar Homes is helping solve issues in property management today! Listen now to learn more about Poplar Homes, what’s going on in property management, and how you can better manage your rentals as a real estate investor today! Quotables “We kind of approached it from the consumer, the renter perspective first and it was a problem that all of our peers were talking about.” “That was all about this philosophy of don’t over-optimize and don’t build before you know exactly what the customer wants and what the pain points are.” “So many opportunities that come up in my experience, in our business, have come up because we’ve knocked on that extra door. We’ve asked the tough question when the time has run out to a mentor or to someone we want to make a deal with.” Links Website: Poplar Homes https://www.poplarhomes.com/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Safeguarding Pet Owners and Unleashing FIDO Scores

Victoria Cowart is the Director of Education and Outreach at PetScreening, a company that aids in helping residential and commercial spaces become more pet-friendly. Aside from that, Victoria also has decades of experience in property management and she is with us on the show to talk about property management and how investors can make their properties more pet-friendly while mitigating as many risks as possible. Listen now to learn more about the current rental market conditions, how the tenant bill of rights may affect landlords, and how you can make your rentals more pet-friendly with PetScreening! Quotables “It just seems our industry is unreasonably attacked as being predatory and it’s not. We are providing affordable housing.” “What we’re doing for the industry is we’re building a fence around the liability and the risk management of pets and animals like you would want around a swimming pool.” “Pet rent should always be required, you just have a range. $45-$65 to start off, you just create a $20 window for our 5 paws.” Links Email: Victoria Cowart Victoria@petscreening.com Website: PetScreening https://www.petscreening.com/ Email: PetScreening marketing@petscreening.com

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Thinking Outside the Box to Solve America’s Housing Crisis

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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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Navigating Growth, Family and Consistency from the CEO’s Chair

Alex Gerhart is the CEO and President of Lifetime Quality Roofing, a national-level commercial roofing contractor, specializing in insurance restoration. He has built his company from the ground up to where it is today and he is with us to share the experience – the good, the bad, and everything in between. Listen now to learn more about Alex, how he built his business, and how he learned to run a successful company without compromising time with his family! Quotables “The value your children put on you is not in dollars, but the amount of time you’re spending with them and the quality of that time.” “It’s extremely important that you realize that you can always make money, but you can never get those memories and time back with your kids.” “You just have to realize that every person you bring in is not a cost, it’s an investment into making your company better, being able to be bigger.” Links Instagram: Alex Gerhart https://www.instagram.com/alexcharles… Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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The Man, The Myth, The King of Data

Rick Sharga is the founder and CEO of CJ Patrick Company, a market intelligence firm providing industry insights, forecasts, and analysis to real estate companies. Rick has years of experience in the real estate and mortgage industries and he is with us on the show to talk about what we can expect from the market in the last few months of the year. Listen now to learn more about what’s really happening in today’s market, what we should expect, and how we can plan for the next few months! Quotables “Look for people that need to sell their properties. There are sources where you can find all of that data and that’s where you’re going to be able to find all the assets that you need to buy.” “The millennials wanted to own homes at the same rate that Gen X did, the same rate as the boomers did – they just got started later.” “Don’t jump at the first opportunity that you see because there will be other opportunities but make sure that whatever opportunities you do pursue is an opportunity that pencils out for you.” Links Social Media: Rick Sharga https://twitter.com/ricksharga https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricksharga/ Website: CJ Patrick Company https://cjpatrick.com/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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