Real Estate Interviews

Interview with CPA & Real Estate Investor: Charles Perkins

by Joshua Dorkin | June 2, 2011

Charles Perkins is a real estate investor and CPA located in Seattle, Washington with experience in both residential and commercial investments. In our interview with Charles (29:29 minutes), we get some great tips about topics such as finding a competent CPA, rehabbing, landlording, screening desperate tenants, and buying commercial property. You can also find out [...]

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Interview with New York Investor: Mark Updegraff

by Joshua Dorkin | May 31, 2011

Here’s another fantastic real estate investor interview (22:52 minutes) with Mark Updegraff, a buy and hold investor based in Rochester, NY, who is focused on his local market as well as parts of Pennsylvania. Mark shares his 4 years of experience and covers topics including working with turn-key investment firms, finding and screening tenants, and [...]

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Interview with California Investor & Landlord: Michael Zuber

by Joshua Dorkin | May 26, 2011

In this interview with Michael Zuber, a buy and hold investor who is based in San Francisco, but focused in the Fresno and Madera areas of California, we gain some great insight into the mindset of an experienced landlord. Michael shares his 10 years of experience and covers topics including the importance of having a [...]

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BiggerPockets Interview with Investor Rob Gillespie

by Joshua Dorkin | May 24, 2011

For the second edition of our real estate investor video interview series, we with an interview with Rob Gillespie aka Rob the House Guy. Rob has been investing for 15 years in Ohio and brings a unique perspective with his philosophy on how to become a success in this business. Rob can also be found [...]

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BiggerPockets Interview with Investor James Vermillion

by Joshua Dorkin | May 19, 2011

We kick off our real estate investor video interview series (thank you Skype!) with an interview with James Vermillion of K&V LLC. James is a rehabber based in Kentucky who is in the process of working on his 2nd and 3rd deals. While he is very early in his career, as you can tell from [...]

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Richard A. Smith – Real Estate’s Nostradamus?

by Joe Manausa, MBA | March 1, 2011

I’m attending a conference of the top relocation professionals in the world (you know, real estate companies that move people from one part of the world to another) and this morning’s featured speaker was the CEO of Realogy, Richard A. Smith. For those of you who don’t know Richard Smith, he is one of the [...]

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Peter Zalewski of Condo Vultures on the South Florida Real Estate Market

by Ronald Sklar | February 24, 2011

Anyone who names his company Condo Vultures, ya gotta love. And we do. Founder and South Florida real estate veteran Peter Zalewski is that area’s favorite scavenger. He knows the law of the jungle all too well: gorge yourself when the prey is abundant. And right now, South Florida’s condo party boasts the world’s biggest [...]

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Rick Sharga: RealtyTrac’s VP Discusses the Foreclosure Crisis & Offers Foreclosure Investing Tips

by Ronald Sklar | January 31, 2011

The unpleasant business of foreclosure has become big business these days: big, scary business, and certainly not for the delicate of heart. Rick Sharga, Vice President of the foreclosure monitor called RealtyTrac, keeps an unblinking eye on the subject. In the process, he is uncovering data that is surprising him – and us – more [...]

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Hugh Kelly on the Shaky State of the Real Estate Industry

by Ronald Sklar | January 20, 2011

Economist Hugh Kelly has a full plate these days. With the industry in the state that it is, Kelly and his take on things are in more demand than ever. As a principal at Hugh Kelly Real Estate Economics, he patiently grinds the issues down to grains of sand, then sifts them and sorts them [...]

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Rob Hahn: The Notorious One Shakes Up the Real Estate Industry

by Ronald Sklar | January 13, 2011

Management consultant Rob Hahn goes by the street name of Notorious ROB, and for good reason. He’s notorious for not sugar-coating his views on the current state of the real-estate industry. If you want hand-holding or a shoulder to cry on, go Google someone else. But if you need some tough love, and a clear-eyed [...]

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Justin Schnettler: Using BiggerPockets to Acquire Over $10 Million in Real Estate in Under 2 Years

by Joshua Dorkin | January 11, 2011

Not many people can say that within two years of starting their real estate investing careers that they built a portfolio of property worth over 8 figures, but Justin Schnettler can. This one time engineer has become an incredibly successful investor and his story is one that we will share with you in this interview. [...]

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William Bronchick: On Investing Clubs, Pricing, and Timing Your Investments

by Ronald Sklar | December 20, 2010

William Bronchick, President of the Colorado Association of Real Estate Investors (CAREI), has this to say about the benefits of sniffing out allies in a dog-eat-dog market: “Real Estate is a very relationship-driven business. And the more people that you meet, the more people you can eventually do business with, partner with, borrow money from, [...]

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Barbara Corcoran: Power Broker to Powerful Motivator

by Ronald Sklar | December 13, 2010

Waitress and straight-D student Barbara Corcoran started her real-estate company, The Corcoran Group, with a friendly loan for a thousand dollars. In 2001, she sold it for $70 million. The $5 billion company is still in operation today, and one of the biggest power players in New York real estate. Since then, Barbara has found [...]

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Jay Thompson: Using Technology and Common Sense to Sell Real Estate

by Ronald Sklar | December 7, 2010

“Three years ago in Phoenix, you could have put a For Sale sign in front of a cardboard box and you could have sold it,” says real estate broker Jay Thompson of Thompson’s Realty in Phoenix, Arizona. Today, of course, things are a just a wee bit different, both in Phoenix and the rest of [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

An Interview with Bruce Norris, CEO of The Norris Group: Hard Choices About Hard Money Loans

by Ronald Sklar | November 21, 2010

“We tell people to get out of deals every month,” says Bruce Norris, CEO of the California-based Norris Group, which brokers hard-money investment loans as well as valuable information to investors. Even though Norris’ company extends millions of dollars in hard-money loans, they are even more concerned about not lending; put another way, they are [...]

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