Real Estate Investing: Unscripted

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Meet David Duggan and Brendan Bennett, your friends at Upright. They’re talking to real estate investors just like you about what they can expect with this volatile market from the perspective of a hard money lender. This podcast is for passive and active investors who need a no-nonsense take on the REI market and what they should know about investing their money. Subscribe for weekly easy-to-digest episodes so you can stay at the top of your REI game. Real Estate Investing: Unscripted is available anywhere you get your podcasts, on YouTube, and you can find links to all episodes on our social media or at upright.us
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E53 - Kevin Kim | Hanging in the Lender Lounge

Apr 17 2024 51 mins  
This week, Brendan brings in Doug Dvorak to help facilitate our conversation with Kevin Kim, Partner at Geraci LLP and host of the Lender Lounge Podcast! We're stoked to be able to talk with Kevin who is a nationally recognized expert in the mortgage fund formation and a leading instructor for the American Association of Private Lenders. We talk about why he's so focused on private

E52 - Steve Yoak | From Teacher to 100 Deals a Year

Apr 03 2024 26 mins  
Investor/Lender/Coach/Pride of Akron, Ohio, Steve Yoak, joins us to talk about how he took his career from teaching math to scoring 100+ deals a year as a real estate investor! We talk about Steve’s best practices for managing rental properties and scaling, his thoughts on the current coaching landscape, how networks and social media helps him score deals, and more!Brought to you

E51 - Haseeb Rahman | Raising Capital, Deploying Capital, and Getting the Return

Mar 21 2024 39 mins  
Experienced Investment Executive and Portfolio Manager at The Palisades Group, Haseeb Rahman, joins us to gives us a peek behind the curtain of how he sources funds! We talk about where people are going to raise money, what to look for in lenders, how to analyze the borrower risk, and more!Brought to you by: upright.us Production team: connversa.com Music by: Je

E50 - Matt Rodak & Doug Dvorak | Trends That Will Shape the Next 12 Months

Mar 06 2024 46 mins  
The boys are back! For the first episode of 2024, we're bringing back Upright's CEO Matt Rodak and VP, Capital Markets Doug Dvorak to give us their perspective on the trends that will inevitably shape the next few months, possibly the next few years of the Real Estate Investment market. We talk buying trends, forces driving the market, the RTL space, and why Upright feels optimisti

E49 - Craig Curelop | House Hacking, Investor Friendly Agents, & Accelerated Debt Paydown

Dec 07 2023 32 mins  
We're a little late with this episode but we promise it's worth the wait! Craig Curelop, author of the Bigger Pockets book The House Hacking Strategy, joins the show! We talk through our opinions on house hacking, how not every realtor is "investor friendly", and the magic of accelerated debt paydown strategies.Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connv

E48 - Donovan Adesoro & Bridget Tindell | Boots-on-the-Ground in Texas Real Estate Markets

Nov 15 2023 35 mins  
HOWDY! David is out this week so we roped in Doug Dvorak to join Brendan in a recap of the Zonda Q4 Housing Market Outlook webinar with input from two of Upright's boots on the ground - Donovan and Bridget! We talk about specific cities like Houston, Austin, and DFW, we cover major points made in the webinar, and test our Texas knowledge!Brought to you by: upright.usProduction

E47 - Amanda Holbrook | Self-Directed IRA's Aren't Just for Retirees!

Nov 01 2023 47 mins  
Last episode we talked about taxes from the perspective of real estate investors, so this week we brought in Amanda Holbrook from Specialized Trust Company to talk about Self-Directed IRAs and how real estate investors can use them to their advantage. Amanda talks about how she started in the self-directed and real estate spaces, who can self-direct an account, and why it's so

Bonus 1 - REI Spooky Stories! 👻🏡

Oct 25 2023 36 mins  
It's spooky season! So Duggan is going around the Upright office to hear some of our scariest real estate investing horror stories. We're talking backyard graves, homes of serial killers, house exorcisms, and more!Brought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

E46 - Ana Klein | Playing the IRS Game!

Oct 18 2023 33 mins  
It's tax time, so we brought in Ana Klein, CPA to help us play the IRS GAME! Ana tells us how she got into real estate investment taxes, her journey as an entrepreneur, and walks us through the difference between tax avoidance, and tax evasion!Check out Ana's website: anakcpa.comBrought to you by: upright.usProduction team: connversa.comMusic by: Jeremy Blake Hosted on A

E45 - Kenny Wolfe | How to Scale-Up in the MultiFamily Space

Oct 04 2023 32 mins  
When we saw construction being done converting an office building across the street from our studio into residency (including a crane lifting an indoor pool!) of course we had to bring the investor onto the show! Kenny Wolfe of Wolfe Investments talks to us about how he got into real estate, his personal rules about investing, and the story of how he built a multi-family portfolio