The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Frank from Portugal asks: “I’ve had my eye on a 6 plex that has been on the market for 5 years. The original owner who built them went into bankruptcy 8 years ago and only completed 60% of the projec…

On today’s show we’re going to talk about how many people in business are confusing their customers with their business cards. In particular, I’m talking about real estate investors. 

I was sitting w…

The front page of the wall street journal this week had a story on Dean Foods. Dean Foods is America’s biggest milk dairy. Milk consumption has been declining for nearly 30 years and the company is s…

Nicholas asks:

"I see you having interviews with lots of celebrities. These are not people I ordinarily run into. If I’m looking to elevate my game and build relationships with successful people, how…

Today we're talking about the Inflation Deflator. 

The rate of inflation in the US, Canada, Europe and much of the industrialized world is reported by each respective central government. These statis…

Today’s episode is another AMA episode. That is ask me anything.  

Dominic asks

While I am new into real estate investing, I do have prior business experience. I am primarily interested in passive in…

The book of the month this month is "The Miracle Morning” by Hal Elrod. 

Hal is a human enigma. He’s the cat with 9 lives. When he was 20 years old, he barely survived a car crash that should have le…

Today’s show is about how a bad appraisal can adversely affect your business. 

Appraisers determine the value of your property in the eyes of a lender and they help the lender independently justify t…

Today’s show was inspired by something that happened recently. I was at a party and I met someone who said they knew who I was, but I didn’t know them. That happens often when you speak frequently as…

We tend to think of most investors as rational beings who think through each situation and look for the best economic solution for a given investment. 

But if that were true, there would be very few …

Last week I was in Toronto and my meeting was right downtown. Hotels were incredibly expensive, and the hotel where my meeting was being held was advertising rooms for $600 per night. So rather than …

On Monday the Social Security Administration issued their annual report. This story was relegated to a back page of the paper. Somehow the one and only story that’s going to affect every person in th…

Virtually everything we buy emits sulphur to get it to the destination. 

On today’s show we’re talking about a major shift in shipping that is not capturing major headlines, but will have a significa…

This weekend I spent a couple of hours in a flight simulator. My sister is the chief pilot for a major executive jet manufacturer.  

Together we practiced take-offs, landings, ground taxi, instrument…

Brad Smotherman specializes in notes and creative financing. His take on how to use creative financing to generate revenue streams out of properties that are in financial distress is utterly fascinat…