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This episode could change your life! Find out how one real estate investor has built a portfolio that only takes him a few hours each week to maintain! The rest of his time he can do whatever he wants, like living abroad for a year at a time, and he’s earning plenty of passive income to make it happen. Chad “Coach” Carson began his real estate journey 20 years ago, at the age of 23. He had just ended a career as a college football linebacker at Clemson University, and started investing with a friend. There were some lessons learned and some hard work involved but he hit financial independence about 10 years later. He’s now in his 40’s, working just two hours a week to maintain his real estate portfolio, and is thoroughly enjoying a free and flexible lifestyle.  He just published a book called “The Small But Mighty Real Estate Investor” to share his strategy and philosophy on how to create just enough passive income without going overboard. And he offers lots of great tips in this interview.  You will also fin

Owning your own magnificent beachfront real estate doesn’t have to break the bank. Whether you are looking for a place to vacation or a property for rental income, buying on the beach can be very affordable if you look outside the U.S.   In this episode, you’ll hear from my daughter Krista Fettke and her partner, Alec Denney. They’ve been traveling internationally for a few years and discovered great investment opportunities in Portugal, Spain, and now Mexico! They will talk about a portfolio of luxury condos, townhomes, and hotel rooms that you can purchase for screamingly low prices, and use as a second home or for rental income with all the tax benefits!   They will explain the process for purchasing property in another country, why these areas are up-and-coming, the tax benefits you’ll get, and the options for property management, along with much more. You can also visit their website at www.gatewayinvestors.com and find out how to attend an in-person tour that they have coming up in Tulum, Mexico on Dec

With the high cost of property damage from recent wildfires, storms, and flooding, many insurance companies are dropping customers in high-risk areas, or moving out of risk-prone areas altogether. That’s created a huge dilemma for people who need insurance to satisfy home loan requirements and property owners, in general, who want the safety net of a reliable insurance policy. In this episode, you’ll hear from United Policyholders founder, Amy Bach, on how this situation is impacting homeowners, what you can do if you can’t get the coverage you need, and how to make sure you get the money to repair or rebuild when something goes wrong. Amy is a well-known expert on insurance trends, claims, coverage, law and public policy matters. She has been a professional insurance consumer advocate since 1985, an attorney since 1989, and a co-founder for the San Francisco-based United Policyholders in 1991. She is a sought-after expert by major media organizations and has authored several books including “The Disaster Rec

If you’ve already bought your first investment property, you may recall the initial fear you had about managing it. And that was just one property. But many investors find out it’s not that tricky, and quickly scale up once they’ve dipped their toes in the water. It can become addicting to feel the success of a good deal that brings you the kind of wealth and free time you can get from a growing investment portfolio. In this episode, you’ll hear from someone who met her Fannie/Freddie loan limit but figured out how to get financing on many more properties. Elaine Stageberg now owns more than 200 single-family rentals with her husband Nick, and many more properties as joint ventures or within privately equity funds. Find out how she does it in this interview! Elaine is a psychiatrist, a mother of four, and the owner of a private equity firm. She reached financial freedom at age 30, and currently manages a portfolio of over one-thousand doors worth more than $300 million. She lives in Rochester, Minnesota, w

Every quarter at RealWealth, I do a housing update, and I just did one for Q3. We received a ton of questions during that webinar so our team asked me to do an “Ask Kathy” segment here on the Real Wealth Show to answer some of those questions: 1 - Should I pay off a loan with an interest rate of just 2%? 2 - Is Austin a good place to buy investment property? 3 - Where can you buy new builds for under $250,000? 4 - How do you get a 4.75% rate on an investment property? 5 - What’s the best out-of-state market for a new investor? 6 - One-year lease vs. two-year lease. Which is better? 7 - How sacred is the 1% rule in rental real estate? 8 - Are home warranties worth the money? 9 - What are the loan options for people who’ve reached their ten-loan maximum? I hope you enjoy this episode of “Ask Kathy.” I would love to answer more of your questions during a future episode. If you have a question or questions you’d like me to answer, please send them to podcasts@realwealth.com. Thanks for listening! Kathy About Kath

Are you sitting on the fence about a potential real estate investment? What’s holding you back? The high prices? Information overload? Or maybe the fear of doing something out of your comfort zone?    Having the right mindset is crucial to successful investing. It's what helps get you from that stage of due diligence and financial calculations to acting on a buying opportunity. Joining me in this episode is someone who can answer your questions by sharing what she’s doing in today’s environment and telling you when it makes sense to buy.   Christine Suter has experienced massive success as a real estate investor. During the last 30 years, she’s purchased over $50 million in real estate and acquired more than 350 doors. She’s also co-authored the book “You Got This!”, founded the FIBI Pasadena Meetup with over 3,900 members, and provides mentoring to students. You may have also heard her on her Real Estate Breakthrough Podcast.   As a mom to her daughter and successful business owner, Christina offers a unique

Are you a busy parent with a relentless full-time job that leaves you without a moment to breathe and very little quality time for your family? Have you ever asked yourself whether this is the lifestyle you signed up for? Have you found yourself proud of your career success but craving something that gives you more time, more flexibility, and less stress? In this episode, you’ll hear from a husband and wife team who got out of the full-time rat race. Palak Shah and Niti Jamdar had climbed the corporate ladder and were feeling quite successful until they had kids. That's when they suddenly found themselves in the midst of a hectic schedule, dragging kids to daycare, working all day, and then coming home exhausted as they fed the kids and put them to bed. You will find out how they made the difficult decision to quit the corporate world and pursue real estate full-time, and how they scaled their business in just 5 years. They are currently celebrating the launch of their new book: “Accelerate Your Real Estate”

When you decide to build a rental portfolio, one of the biggest considerations is how you will manage it. You’ll need to decide who will be screening the tenants, taking calls in the middle of the night, doing emergency repairs, scheduling routine maintenance, cleaning and painting between tenants, and maybe even going to court and initiating an eviction now and then. That’s just the short list. A property manager has many responsibilities which might seem like fun at first, but I think it’s a little like getting a new puppy. You are really excited about the puppy until you realize you have a puppy! That’s what happened to Rich and I. We managed our own properties when we first started but quickly learned that we weren’t cut out for it.  In this episode, you’ll hear from a property manager who provides services to many of our RealWealth investors in the Baltimore area. Sheila is a west coast native who’s been in the Baltimore region for 14 years, and has served in positions that have connected her with the co

Financial literacy is something we all need but for many women around the world, it’s not a priority or wasn’t an educational opportunity. Modern role models aside, women have typically relied on their spouses to take care of the finances white they take care of the kids. It’s not something they’ve needed to know in many cases, until suddenly they do. And then it’s a desperate process to learn quickly and likely to make some mistakes. Rosalia Gitau is one of those women. She became an orphan at age 14 when her mother died of cancer and had to figure out how to become financially secure. But her mother made one critical investment decision before she died that transformed the lives of her loved ones. You’ll hear about that investment decision in this interview, what that taught Rosalia, and what she’s doing to help educate other women around the world about financial security.  Rosalia is the winner of this year’s Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards. MAIA is an organization dedicated to the problem of weak fi

We’ve been getting a lot of questions from investors trying to make good decisions in a tough market, so I thought I’d dedicate this episode to questions about Florida. It continues to be a strong market for rental properties, but listeners have expressed concerns about climate change, storms, and flooding, along with higher insurance rates and higher home prices and interest rates.   To answer these questions, I’ve invited a Florida property provider onto the show. Brian is someone we’ve worked with for years and will share some amazing insights about Florida real estate investing. He’ll talk about how you can reduce climate change risks, save money on insurance, and lower your monthly mortgage payment with a special 4.75% loan offered by one of his build-to-rent developers.   I plan on answering more listener questions, so if you have questions about real estate investing that you’d like me to answer, reach out to me on instagram or facebook at kathyfettke. You can also send your questions to hello@realweal

What U.S. city is close to the North Texas border with one of the largest employers in its state but no housing for all the employees? It’s probably not a city that’s been on your radar unless you live in North Texas, but keep listening and you’ll hear all about this city and how you can take advantage of an investing opportunity. In this episode, you’ll hear from Leah, who’s a long-time property provider for our RealWealth network, and my partner in a single-family rental fund in the Dallas metro area. She has an amazing track record for predicting which areas are ripe for growth, and is very excited to share her latest prediction in this interview. Leah has a $40 million dollar personal portfolio, and is the co-founder of one of the largest property management residential investment firms in North Texas. If you’d like to find out more about the rental funds I mentioned during the interview, go to https://growdevelopments.com. You’ll find information about our North Dallas single-family rental fund which is

Do you have questions about commercial real estate that are keeping you on the sidelines? Questions like:     What’s the difference between office and retail space?     What is a debt service coverage ratio and why does it matter?     What’s involved with a triple net lease?     And most importantly, is now the time to buy commercial real estate or does it make sense to wait until values come down further? In this episode, you’ll hear from a commercial real estate broker who’s helped some of our RealWealth investors. Cedric has more than 30 years of experience in the business world and the commercial real estate industry, with a focus on the retail sector. His expertise includes lease negotiations, site selection, market analysis, and property acquisitions. And he joins me to explain some of the commercial real estate lingo and the current CRE environment to help investors better understand this asset class.  You can get in touch with Cedric on our website under the Invest tab. You can also watch a replay of

Getting an accurate forecast on the economy can be a little like a weather forecast – full of surprises! But it also depends on who’s doing the forecasting. In this episode, you’ll hear from the head of a team that’s won awards for its forecasting accuracy on the economy, housing, and mortgage market activity.   Doug Duncan is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Fannie Mae where he is responsible for economic analysis and forecasting. As the head of Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group, the team earned the 2022 Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy. It’s an award that covers a four-year period that includes the pandemic. Doug and the ESR group also won the NABE Outlook Award two years in a row, in 2015 and 2016, for the most accurate GDP and Treasury note yield forecasts.    Doug is one of Bloomberg/BusinessWeek's 50 Most Powerful People in Real Estate and Inman News’ 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate and he's here with us on the Real Wealth Show!   If

RealWealth has been in business for 20 years as of this year and we are celebrating with a special episode featuring three of our earliest employees. Director of Finance Kelley Pecoraro (Director of Finance), Maggie McKinnie (Consultant), and Jill Benes (Digital Editor & Event Support) can share what it was like at Real Wealth back then, before we became a remote company. We worked out of an office in Walnut Creek that felt like home to us all. We don’t have that office anymore because we are a completely remote company now, but there are plenty of memories to share and stories to tell! Please enjoy this lookback at the early days of Real Wealth and come celebrate with us in real time at a live event we’re holding in Los Angeles on October 6th and 7th. We’re planning a cocktail party on Friday night, the 6th, a full day of presentations from our property teams on Saturday, the 7th, and a big celebration party that evening! The event is being held at a hotel near LAX so it will be easy to get to from the a

When it comes to a strategy for real estate investing, one of the most important things you can do is to know about the demographics of a particular market, or simply, the people who live there. Investors need to be asking questions like: How many people live there? Is that number growing or shrinking? Are they mostly singles, families, young people or older people?  How will the generational differences impact the kind of housing that’s needed? And what will the market look like 10 years from now?   In this episode, you’ll get answers to those questions and many more from internationally recognized demographer Ken Gronbach, president of KGC Direct, LLC. He’s able to forecast societal, commercial, economic, cultural, and political phenomena with uncanny accuracy and will talk about an astronomical need for homes in the U.S. over the next decade. He also compares the U.S. to other parts of the world, and according to Ken, strong demand for housing in the U.S. will not be going away.   If you’d like to learn mo

For the past two decades, we have been helping investors across the country to simplify real estate investing and achieve their financial goals. We’ve gone from an idea on a cafe napkin to a network of more than 70,000 members. We’ve helped regular folks create financial security with more than 6,000 rental properties worth more than $1.2 billion dollars. And we’ve donated to charity along the way.   In this episode, my husband, partner, and RealWealth Co-CEO Rich Fettke joins me to talk about our amazing 20-year journey and how we are celebrating this huge milestone with a live event in Los Angeles on October 6th and 7th. It will take place very close to the LAX airport if you are flying into the area, and will feature 10 of our property teams, food, drink, and lots of networking and fun!    If you are an investor who’d like to meet like-minded individuals, learn how they’ve made real estate work for them, and talk to the property teams that can help you create the wealth you’ve dreamed of, please sign up un

When inspecting a home before purchasing, it's obviously very important to check the foundation's integrity. That's why we hire inspectors. But should you rely on your home inspection report to correctly identify the issues? Our guest today says, no, it's not enough. You need to know the tell-tale signs of foundation damage that would signal the need for further inspection, and then you need to know who to call. But how do you make sure you can get it all done within the homebuyers short inspection window of time?   In this episode, you’ll hear from foundation repair expert RK Bob Brown whose mission it is to shed light on what he describes as an “opaque industry.” He joins me on The Real Wealth Show as part of his effort to teach home buyers how to recognize the red flags for foundation problems. He talks about what homeowners should look for, when and who to call for a more accurate and in-depth evaluation, and why you need to pay attention to soil conditions. He earned the nickname “The Dirt Whisperer” be

Be prepared for an eye-opening interview! In this episode, you’ll hear from a remarkable Gen Z entrepreneur who has an impressive real estate portfolio and is well on his way to early retirement. He has an incredible story for a 23-year-old that will inspire and motivate you to take your next step toward financial freedom.   For Donato Callahan, it all began during the pandemic while he was still in college. He was studying biology but had extra time on his hands and discovered real estate as a way to build wealth. He started off as a house hacker with the purchase of a four-unit building. From there, he leveraged every kind of resource you can imagine to help him with his journey. As he explains in the interview, when you get advice from 10 people who each have 10 years of experience, you are getting insights from 100 years of experience.    He’s now offering to help other investors as the CEO and founder of Bright Investor, which provides data to help you make smart real estate investing decisions. The way

I'm very excited about today's interview with Gary Beasley, CEO & Co-Founder of Roofstock. He was just a regular guy when I met him years ago. Today, he’s a leader in the institutional investment space and a true disrupter within the single-family rental asset class.   In this episode, you’ll hear his thoughts on how the housing market has evolved since the 2008 meltdown, how he has transitioned his own real estate investing strategy over the years, and why he thinks that the single-family rental space is an asset class that will remain in high demand.   Before Roofstock, Gary was CFO of ZipRealty and Co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust which is now part of Invitation Homes, leading both through successful IPOs. In addition, he’s been instrumental in acquiring and integrating more than $800 million in resort properties for KSL Resorts and has served as CEO for boutique hotel management company Joie De Vivre Hospitality.   Gary earned his BA in Economics from Northwestern and holds an MBA from St

Have you ever listened to fellow investors brag about how many doors they have as a measure of success? But do the number of doors you have really matter when it comes to how well your portfolio is performing? Honestly, I don’t think so. What really matters is how well those doors are performing. Are they providing enough cash flow so you can live the life of your dreams? Are they appreciating in value to help meet your financial goals? Those are the questions at the top of my list! In this episode, you’ll hear from someone who’s living proof that you don't have to own 5000 units to be successful. Vince Rodriquez is an engineer who began his real estate adventure just four years ago. As a Southern California resident, he started investing in California but is now transitioning to out-of-state rental properties. He’s currently focused on furnished duplexes in the mid-term space and has some great ideas for choosing markets and raising investment capital in a way that also helps family and friends. To find out