Educational Podcasts
Investors – Who Wants a 38% First Year ROI?
Sometimes we come across an income property deal so good we can’t keep it to ourselves. With the common client refrain, “But there aren’t any good properties left,” ringing in our ears, we offer the following positive cash flow deal in the Atlanta area. It’s available...
The Old-Fashioned Value of Social Media
A five-year old article posted at TwistImage.com made us here at AIPIS stop and scratch our collective heads. The author (Mitch Joel) decided to turn conventional wisdom around and look at the slow benefits of engaging in social media. The very thought of removing...
Bloated Government Creates a Tough Investment Environment
At AIPIS, we’ve always been of the opinion that a SMALL federal government is critical to building wealth in a free and open market. With the idea of a small governing body nothing but a pipe dream, we can at least hope that its size might be reduced in small...
Forced Arbitration Started the Revolutionary War
Real estate investors and every other breathing citizen of this great country should be concerned about forced arbitration clauses. If this is the first you’ve heard of the thing, consider yourself a lucky human being because it’s likely buried in the fine print of...
Why Paying Above Market Price for an Investment Property is a Good Idea
Listen up, kiddies, because we’ve been hearing some muttering out there that all the good deals are gone, and the time to buy an investment property at a sweet price has passed you by. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even paying above market prices today...
Jason Called It – Commodity Prices on the Rise
For several years now, AIPIS CEO and founder, Jason Hartman, has been talking about the inevitable rise in costs of the basic materials needed to build a house: lumber, gypsum, tar roofing, insulation, concrete, copper, etc. Continued inflation plays a part in these...
Turn Your Vacation Home into Positive Cash Flow
The great thing about vacation homes is, well, they’re vacation homes and you're a lucky dog to have one. The kind of crappy thing about vacation homes is they cost money to maintain. Sometimes a lot of money. The good news is that Jason Hartman’s strategy for income...
AIPIS 34 – Real Estate Market Update with Stuart Vener
[iframe style="border:none" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2304755/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/theme/standard" height="100" width="480" scrolling="no"]Stuart Vener is the former President and CEO of the Richmond Corporation,...
A Property Management Scam of Epic Proportions
Apparently, bilking landlords out of their hard-earned rental money was a special service provided by Bryan Talbott and Chester Ranson’s Washington D.C. area property management company. Back in January of 2012, the men pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud,...
AIPIS 33 – “The Real Estate Power Hour” with Mark Evans
- What are the two most essential skills for a real estate investor to have? - What are the three T's to real estate investing? - How can you get folks to literally give you there house for free? - Is becoming a real estate investor risky?...