Educational Podcasts
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?...
Cypress Ponders and Rejects EU Confiscation Plan
The fiscal mess infecting certain nations of the European Union (EU) continues to astound those of us on the outside looking in. This time it’s Cypress that finds itself in dire financial straits and the EU knew they needed a bailout plan. Unfortunately for those...
People Are Moving to Our Property Markets
We don’t like to brag - well, sometimes we do just a little bit - but it seems that America is beginning to figure out that the markets we’ve been recommending to income property investors for years are being discovered by the public at large as pretty nice places to...
The Billion Dollar Industry Called Corporate Housing
Mobile home parks. Self-storage lots. Residential housing. Commercial housing. These are just some of the ways investors can approach income property investing. But there’s one strategy we haven’t spent much time discussing and, truth be told, it’s a pretty big...
Death of the Middle Class Stockholder
As goes the middle class, so goes the American economy. That's been the conventional wisdom, at least, ever since the second world war ended and gave rise to a newfound prosperity for that large group of people who weren't quite rich and weren't quite poor. These days...
Should You Talk Clients Out of Overseas Investing?
One of the perceived advantages to overseas investing is that the foreign markets move in opposition to domestic markets. In essence, they would act like a hedge of sorts, gaining in value when US markets are dropping. The reality is that the hidden drawbacks present...
28% ROI Should Get Their Attention
Anyone can make any kind of crazy claim they want about an insanely high rate of return. When you can actually prove the return by showing numbers – then you’ve got something. At AIPIS we teach our agents to educate their clients that they don’t have to settle for...
How to NOT Catch the Flu
There’s a lot of paranoia out there about the advisability of getting a flu vaccine. That’s a personal decision but regardless of where you fall on the spectrum of government trust, there’s no denying that the flu is out in force this time of year. Since it never...