Real Estate Investing: Unscripted

This week, Brendan brings in Doug Dvorak to help facilitate our conversation with Kevin Kim, Partner at Geraci LLP and host of the Lender Lounge Podcast! We're stoked to be able to talk with Kevin who is a nationally recognized expert in the mortgage fund formation and a leading instructor for the American Association of Private Lenders. We talk about why he's so focused on private money, Kevin explains what a mortgage fund is and how and when to invest in one, and we talk about the present and the future of the RTL space!Check out Kevin's podcast: Lender Lounge with Kevin KimBrought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake

Investor/Lender/Coach/Pride of Akron, Ohio, Steve Yoak, joins us to talk about how he took his career from teaching math to scoring 100+ deals a year as a real estate investor! We talk about Steve’s best practices for managing rental properties and scaling, his thoughts on the current coaching landscape, how networks and social media helps him score deals, and more!Brought to you by: upright.us Production team: connversa.com Music by: Jeremy Blake

Experienced Investment Executive and Portfolio Manager at The Palisades Group, Haseeb Rahman, joins us to gives us a peek behind the curtain of how he sources funds! We talk about where people are going to raise money, what to look for in lenders, how to analyze the borrower risk, and more!Brought to you by: upright.us Production team: connversa.com Music by: Jeremy Blake

The boys are back! For the first episode of 2024, we're bringing back Upright's CEO Matt Rodak and VP, Capital Markets Doug Dvorak to give us their perspective on the trends that will inevitably shape the next few months, possibly the next few years of the Real Estate Investment market. We talk buying trends, forces driving the market, the RTL space, and why Upright feels optimistic about the market moving forward.Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake 

We're a little late with this episode but we promise it's worth the wait! Craig Curelop, author of the Bigger Pockets book The House Hacking Strategy, joins the show! We talk through our opinions on house hacking, how not every realtor is "investor friendly", and the magic of accelerated debt paydown strategies.Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake 

HOWDY! David is out this week so we roped in Doug Dvorak to join Brendan in a recap of the Zonda Q4 Housing Market Outlook webinar with input from two of Upright's boots on the ground - Donovan and Bridget! We talk about specific cities like Houston, Austin, and DFW, we cover major points made in the webinar, and test our Texas knowledge!Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake 

Last episode we talked about taxes from the perspective of real estate investors, so this week we brought in Amanda Holbrook from Specialized Trust Company to talk about Self-Directed IRAs and how real estate investors can use them to their advantage. Amanda talks about how she started in the self-directed and real estate spaces, who can self-direct an account, and why it's so important to start looking at your Roth or 401k RIGHT NOW!Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake 

It's spooky season! So Duggan is going around the Upright office to hear some of our scariest real estate investing horror stories. We're talking backyard graves, homes of serial killers, house exorcisms, and more!Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake 

It's tax time, so we brought in Ana Klein, CPA to help us play the IRS GAME! Ana tells us how she got into real estate investment taxes, her journey as an entrepreneur, and walks us through the difference between tax avoidance, and tax evasion!Check out Ana's website: anakcpa.comBrought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake