The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Seth Mosley is a Grammy Award winning musician, song writer, producer, and real estate investor. Seth and I spent a day together in Nashville at the Music and Money investment group. Our conversation centered around the interplay between his main gig in the music industry and a profitable side hustle in real estate.

Today we are examining distortions in the market. These distortions result in many sellers putting a property on the market and asking too much for it. But you can’t blame the seller. They are simply trying to maximize their profit. Distortions in the market are everywhere. One of the biggest contributors is lack of knowledge. There is a fallacy that if a single property sold in your immediate area for $100,000 more, your property is now worth $100,000 more. That's not the case. You need sustained averages. The problem arises when you're dealing with a small number of transactions. There isn't enough data to create a statistically valid average. What do you do?

A listener in NYC asked whether they should attend an upcoming family office conference. What are the chances of closing a deal at that conference? Is it a waste of time? Such a great question. I answer it in the context of the 5 principles of raising capital. Straight out of my book Magnetic Capital.

Short term rentals are under assault by many local governments. It's crazy to make long term loan commitments in an uncertain regulatory environment. Today we show how you can determine whether the short term rental market in your city is a good bet.

I’m talking about what assets can you buy when we are at the top of the market. When the recession has already hit, and prices have fallen, there will be bargains in multiple asset classes. That market bottom discussion will be for another day. What we're looking for are assets we can buy today that will continue to hold their value and perform well when a recession hits?

On today's episode we examine what is counter party risk and how even a stress test of your own balance sheet or your bank's balance sheet doesn't tell the full story.

We're in front of a live studio audience, interviewing Mary Brauner who lives in a condo complex that handed each unit owner a $30,000 surprise special assessment, on top of condo fees that were already $800 per month. This situation is becoming increasingly common in older condo buildings, and we talk about the conditions that conspire to make this ugly surprise a reality.

Last week we spoke about Puerto Rico. When I was there I had the chance to meet face to face with John Lee Dumas, host of the Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast. He just completed over 2,000 episodes and 65 million podcast downloads. Definitely at the top of his game. Love this conversation with JLD!

The recent election in Italy has thrown Europe into turmoil. The result has been a flight of capital from the Euro in US Treasuries, lower the yield on 10 year T-Bills. Since many commercial loans have their rate linked to the 10 year Treasury rate, a fall in T-Bill rates directly helps US Real Estate Investors. See how you can capitalize on this temporary situation.

We continue our look into student housing. The US Department of Education publishes reports on university enrollment. We do a deeper dive into their numbers are look at some specific opportunities for investment.