The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Jon and Kevin Ratner form part of the Forest City legacy and are currently leading a new venture called The Max Collaborative. They've taken their decades of experience running a public real estate d…

Erik Oliver is based in Salt Lake City where he specializes in Cost Segregation. On today's show we are talking about how to handle the uncertainty of changing legislation in the realm of depreciatio…

On today's show we are talking about some news items on short term rentals.

1 ) New policy at AirBnb governing the use of security cameras

2) European Union passes new rules for data sharing between …

This question comes from Marc who writes:

I’m not sure how I feel about corporately owned single family homes. Part of me thinks that ultimately this will destroy the fabric of a community if too muc…

On today’s show we are talking about the power of a platform. Amazon is one of the most widely used sites on the internet. In fact, they also have 1.5M employees. We will come back to that later. 

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On today’s show we are looking at the most cost effective ways to value engineer a new build and still comply with the increasingly stringent energy codes that are permeating the building code across…

On today’s show we are taking a look at pricing practices in the storage industry. Storage is a product that is fairly sticky. 

That is to say, moving a lot of personal belongings into a storage lock…

Matias Daroch is based in Miami Florida where he specializes in both design and development of luxury spec homes. On today's show we are talking about some of the design considerations in that part o…

Marc is a very "active" passive investor in the sense that he performs deep due diligence on potential investments. But deep due diligence is often beyond the capacity of a single investor. On today'…

Today's question comes from Rob who asks:

What is the economic difference, and the difference in investment thesis, between the different types of RV parks?

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Host: Victor Menasce

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The statistics are clear. Inventory is rising. But what does it mean? On today's show we are looking past the numbers alone.

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Host: Victor Menasce

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On today’s show we are talking about the danger of reading headlines and making decisions based on those headlines. 

A few months ago I reported on the podcast about the Corporate Transparency Act. T…

A number of high profile commentators have demonstrated that very few professionally managed equity funds have outperformed the market average. Fund managers are active investors. They analyze each c…

There is no doubt that the lock in effect has reduced the amount of mobility in most forms of real estate. The higher interest rate environment has dramatically reduced the number of people who are w…

Zach Jensen owns an acountng firm in San Diego, Califrnia. On today's show we're talking about the beneifts of being classified as a real estate professional and what it takes to qualify for this.

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Pasha Esfandiary is based in Los Angeles where he established himself as a professional poker player. Despite being successful at poker, he pivoted into the world of real estate investing and has app…

Our book this month is called Scary Smart by. Mo Gawdat. Mo was the Chief Business Officer at Google where he was responsible for much of Google’s global expansion, country specific localization and …

Storage is an industry segment that has been growing rapidly for the last few decades. But this has been impacted by the recent decline in the residential real estate market in the past 24 months.

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On yesterday’s show we looked at a couple of the hedonic adjustments that the BLS makes when computing GDP and the consumer price index. On today’s show we are going to take a look at the real estate…

On today’s show we are taking a closer look at the various components of the consumer price index and how it is calculated. Today's show will probably shock you.

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Host: Victor Menasce

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