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Today, my guest is Ashley Garner. Ashley is a seasoned real estate entrepreneur and founder of ABG and Associates with over 30 years of experience, he combines analytical rigor and hands on property management to consistently deliver strong, cash flowing returns to his investors. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Ashley Garner about value add, deal making, real world stories and lessons from transforming underperforming properties into profitable, high yield investments.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Ashley Garner, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Ashley Garner I think the biggest risk is to be under capitalized and and ultimately, you know, a property can go up in value, or the the P and L can show a profit, but if you don't have enough cash flow to pay the bills or make the repairs that you need to make, or make the improvements you need to make, then you you're in a tight spot, and that puts everything at risk, and that's an avoidable risk to not be under capitalized. But the temptation is so great a lot of times to say, I'm...
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Today, my guest is Kenny Bedwell. Kenny Bedwell is a seasoned real estate investor and entrepreneur known for helping high income professionals identify and acquire short term rental properties that generate strong cash flow. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Kenny Bedwell about short term rentals versus boutique hotels.
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J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Kenny Bedwell, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Kenny Bedwell So you know, I the biggest risk. I think that this the answer I was going to give you originally, and I kind of talked about it, so I'll move on from it, but it's regulation. Regulation changes. You're in trouble that is a huge risk to any investment. But the risk that I don't really hear often talked about. In our space is actually safety, guest safety. So I'll give you a stat. This is a real stat by there's a there's a guy Justin Ford, he's a safety expert in a short term rental space, and...
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Today, my guest is Joe. Downs. Joe is a lifelong entrepreneur with business ventures spanning securities, mortgage, hospitality and real estate industries. He co founded the bell Rose group to pursue opportunities within the niche Self Storage sector of commercial real estate, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Joe downs about pro storage. What is it and why we need it.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Joe downs, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Joe Downs To me, it's, I'll give you, I'll give you, all right, you just want the biggest I'm gonna go right to base. To me, it's change. It's sort of what I just alluded to, if we were, if, if we still thought, because we weren't out there interviewing and investigating other third party management companies. If we refuse to do all that and just head in the sand, we would probably start falling behind other storage facilities, other competitors, who are managing their facilities better than we...
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Today, my guest is Peter Roisman. Peter Roisman is the CO founding principal, President and CEO of REV, the multifamily leasing company, a Houston based venture established in 2019. Under his leadership, REV has become a trailblazer in multifamily leasing management and training, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Peter Roisman about leveraging data for improved multifamily leasing results.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Peter Roisman, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Peter Roisman Well, the biggest risk, in my mind, for besides physical property itself, is the occupancy and and and the rental rates. So if you have an underperforming leasing team. And your occupancy drops into the 80s, you know. And at one point, 15% of the properties in Houston were under 85% you're at risk. That is, that is a high risk, too. So in to flip that, to address that risk, you have to be high performing at leasing, which, which means you're not at risk at all. You're lowering...
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Today, my guest is Brent Kessler. Brent Kessler was a chiropractor, and after implementing the money multiplier method, Brent paid off $984,711 in third party debt in 39 months, he became so passionate about how powerful this concept was, he began sharing it with others, and in just a minute, we're going to talk with Brent Kessler about Infinite Banking through the Money Multiplier Method.
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J Darrin Gross And so if you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Brent Kessler, what is the biggest risk? Brent Kessler Yeah, well, let me answer it a couple different ways on there. But so as far as a risk, okay, as far as in our business, and what we do when you have this type of policy, I tell people all the time, there is no risk at all, because nobody's ever lost money in a whole life insurance policy. But then I stop, and I say, wait a minute, there is one risk. The risk is you, the risk is you the client and how you use the policy. So you're the only one that can screw this up. You...
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I'd like to ask you. Josh Bauchner, what is the BIGGEST RISK?
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Well, the biggest risk here is getting sued by one of these serial plaintiffs, with one of these attorneys who's just in it for for the fees. To answer your question, I think ADA compliance planning, bringing in one of these testers, like we discussed, to assess the premises and make any determinations as to what's not compliant, then do an assessment as to what the cost would be to potentially bring it into compliance. Is it something that you could readily do, putting up the handlebars in the bathroom stall, for example, perhaps changing the front entrance door to provide handicap accessibility, or is it cost prohibitive? If the bathroom is downstairs and you can install an elevator, there's really no way around that to gain access. And then the challenge becomes with respect to shifting that burden, the landlords are doing that right. So in most lease agreements, most commercial lease agreements, the landlords are including an indemnification obligation where they're shifting the burden onto the tenant to both ensure compliance, remediate the premises in the absence of compliance, and if sued, pay for the landlord's fees and costs. It challenges again, the tenant doesn't necessarily recognize that obligation in Louise when they're signing on, and they certainly don't recognize what the costs that they're at risk of incurring are going to be if they are sued. And so unless they're a really big business, you know, $100,000 hit to your bottom line could put you out of business, and then again, it becomes the domino effect. Great. So now they are out of business. They've shut down. They've got six more years on their lease term. They vacated the premises. Now the landlord suing the tenant because they've reached the lease the landlord has to find the new tenant to mitigate it just creates a whole host of unintended consequences, all because, again, these serial filers think they're doing right,