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Jonathan Cook and Bryan Jenkins explore successful strategies and pitfalls of investing in Real Estate. Bryan Jenkins is a Master Property Manager and the Principle Broker of AHI Properties which has offices in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery AL and Oklahoma City, OK. With Expert Guests we cover all the ins and outs, associated with growing your wealth with Real Estate.
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Monday Apr 08, 2019
Episode 03: Acquisition Strategies
Monday Apr 08, 2019
Monday Apr 08, 2019
Wouldn’t it be great to build a nest egg from your couch? Your hosts Jonathan Cook and Bryan Jenkins talk about the local market, the national market, and the tools you’ll need to buy your own rental property from wherever you are in the country.
Show Notes:
- About the AHI Group how - big they are and how much property they manage.
- The one thing Jonathan loves about working at a real estate brokerage.
- What is the point in spending money if you’re not making money in properties?
- Where people can go right now if they want to buy a property and you don’t know a local expert.
- How INVESTimate is the “Amazon wishlist” of rental property.
- Bryan and Jonathan are driven by the education piece of the industry.
- The benefit of using a company or service to hunt out rental properties for you.
- Jonathan and Bryan walk through the process of finding, purchasing, fixing up, and renting properties.
- Why you should allow pets in your rental properties.
- Some great flooring options for rental properties.
- The importance of the rule of 1%.
- Why using a local agent is important when making a real estate investment.
- How to do a combination of a national provider and the local provider on the ground.
- As an investor, you have to know what will drive your rate of return.
- How to retain existing rental property tenants.
- Contact AHI Properties with questions about investment properties or platforms.
Key Points:
- You will get better deals when you go investor to investor.
- By the time a property is on mainstream services, it’s not as good of a deal anymore.
- Buying local is important, but you need to know how to work with both national and local providers.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “If you want to buy rental property you need to get an idea of what’s going on in the market and find out the economic drivers.” -Bryan
- “The NMLS is valuable, but the real value is buying stuff that’s off-market.” -Bryan
- “Where else can you make 12% a year on investment other than real estate?” - Jonathan
Resources Mentioned:
- Check out our website ahiproperties.com
- Check out Birmingham Insurance Group
- Get started with rental property at Roofstock.com
- Learn more about INVESTimate.com
- Learn more about Epic Real Estate
- Learn more about Real Wealth Network
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Andrew Smallwood Director of Sales for Filter Easy joins your hosts Jonathan Cook and Bryan Jenkins to talk about preventative maintenance of investment properties. There are pitfalls and other traps people can step into when it comes to investment property ownership, find out how to avoid these pitfalls and take care of problems in advance.
Show Notes:
Address maintenance before it becomes an issue.
Keeping your renters happy can keep them renewing leases for years to come.
About Filter Easy and what they do for rental properties.
Statistically the number of renters that don’t change air filters - roughly 90%.
Why everyone should be changing their air filters and the reductions that can be expected.
The biggest result of filter changing is HVAC reduction.
How air filters will impact A-Class and C-Class properties.
Clogged filters stress HVAC systems.
Preventive management within your focus of control.
The rookie investor needs to realize that the Filter Easy service will keep you from losing money in the long run.
What Filter Easy looks like on the tenant side.
There are 39,000 different filter sizes.
The impact ¼” gap has on filter effectiveness.
Many people can’t get their filter size at a local store.
90%+ of the time they’re sending the quality of a MERV 8 filter.
The impact of pets on your HVAC system and the importance of filters.
The two factors that determine the quality of a filter -
Does it capture large and small particles?
What kind of airflow do we have?
The average lease for a long-term tenant is three year
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Episode 01: Profitable Powerhouse Properties Introductions
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Welcome to Profitable Powerhouse Properties with the AHI Group! We’d just like to introduce ourselves to you and let you know who we are looking to reach. Do you own investment property? Do you want to? We can help guide you!
- About your host Brian Jenkins:
- Belongs to NARPM as a Master Property Manager which is the highest designation.
- Brian is the only active Master Property Manager in the state of Alabama.
- He’s been in the industry for about 19 years.
- About your host Jonathan Cook
- Does business development for the AHI Group.
- The goal of the show -
- Help develop skills and explain the pitfalls of property management.
- Fill in what they see on a day to day basis.
- Why it’s important to have a good partner in a property manager.
- Why a new investor should put money into properties.
- You can always make money in real estate.
- The true investment property is one you’re buying for the purpose of investment.
- There are more options than just buy, flip, and sell.
- Stay within your ranges and keep an eye on your profitability.
- Turnkey products are buying, rehabbing, and selling to another investor.
- The podcast will serve to provide an education piece and bring in some vendors as guest speakers.
- What to do when you do have a tenant and how to manage their behavior.
- The podcast will bring in a CPA to talk about tax ramifications of rental property ownership.
- You have to determine what your strategy is as an investor and forecast yourself out for five years.
- Property is not always increasing in value.
- If you have a performing property an investor to investor sale could be a good option.
- Your hosts want to hear from you! Email them your questions.
- Next Episode - Filter Easy and an HVAC vendor.
Key Points:
- Successful property management is all in the details.
- You can always make money in real estate.
- This podcast will serve to explain the nitty gritty details of property management from vendors to managing tenant behavior.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “We’ve seen managing properties from every angle.” -Jonathan
- “Property management can be as complex or as simple as you want it to be.” -Brian
Resources Mentioned:
Check out our website ahiproperties.com