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Rental Property Owner & Real Estate Investor Podcast

Rental Property Owner & Real Estate Investor Podcast

Di: Rental Property Owners Association (RPOA) with Brian Hamrick
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Every Monday, host Brian Hamrick interviews real-world real estate investors and industry pros about the topics, tips, and techniques that make you a more confident and successful rental property owner, landlord, and real estate investor. Brought to you by the Rental Property Owners Association (RPOA), serving Michigan real estate investors and rental property owners for over 50 years. Guests include buy and hold investors, flippers, wholesalers, property managers, brokers, attorneys, insurance providers, and mortgage brokers. Episodes cover rental property investing, cash flow, multifamily and apartment investing, commercial real estate, property management, tenant screening, financing, and the real numbers behind the deals. Whether you own one rental or a hundred units, this is real estate investing for people who actually do it. Hosted by Brian Hamrick of Hamrick Investment Group, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Copyright 2016, Rental Property Owners Association Economia Finanza personale Gestione e leadership Leadership
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  • How to Automate Your Real Estate Business and Scale | Keith Gillispie

    How to Automate Your Real Estate Business and Scale | Keith Gillispie
    Oct 26 2026
    Opening Summary Real estate automation is the difference between owning a portfolio and owning a job. Keith Gillispie built his investing business on lunch breaks while serving active duty in the Marine Corps, and has since done deals in 34 states without ever standing on the properties. In this episode he walks through the exact systems behind it: a three step underwriting process that never changes, a distributed team spread across three countries, and the quality control checkpoint that catches a bad contract before it costs him money. About Keith Gillispie Keith Gillispie spent eight years on active duty in the Marine Corps, deploying overseas 13 times, and started investing in real estate to get home to his family. Eleven years later he runs Crown Properties, a single family investing business operating in 34 states, and REI Automated, an education, software and coaching company. He has worked across flips, wholesaling, owner financed wraps, novations, lease options and rentals, and has hired 57 coaches and mentors along the way. What We Cover in This Episode How to build a real estate business around a full time jobThe three step deal analysis process that works for every exit strategyHow to calculate ARV, scope repairs, and structure entrance and exit togetherBuilding a remote real estate team across the United States, Dominican Republic and the PhilippinesWhy the acquisitions role and the quality control role must have opposite incentivesHow a deal gets caught and renegotiated after it is already under contractStructuring a purchase as money now and money later at 0% interestSection 8 rental strategy in Syracuse and Onondaga County, New YorkProject managing a rehab remotely using daily video and weekly on site inspectionsHiring fast, firing faster, and setting an objective performance barWhy the team shrank from 18 people to 5 as automation took overBuilding a custom real estate CRM instead of using an off the shelf platformHow to use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Manus for different parts of the businessWhy one bad deal is more dangerous than no deal at all Key Insight A lead came into Keith's Syracuse pipeline and moved through his team without him touching it. His acquisitions manager in the Dominican Republic put the house under contract. His transaction coordinator in the Philippines re-ran the numbers and kicked it straight back: the price was roughly 40% too high. The seller refused to move, so the deal was restructured instead, $8,000 at closing and $12,000 when the house sells, no payments and no interest. That is $20,000 total for a house worth about $55,000 in rough condition. Keith's only job in the entire transaction was raising the money. Why This Episode Matters Most investors try to scale by working more hours. Keith's team went from 18 people down to 5 by writing down every process first and automating it second. If you are the bottleneck in your own business, this episode shows you what to document, who to put on either side of a decision, and how to build a check that catches your own team's mistakes before they cost you. Find Out More Website: reiautomated.io Free course for RPOA listeners: playbook.reiautomated.io Facebook: Keith Gillispie LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/keithgrei Instagram: @keithg_rei TikTok: @keithg_rei X: @keithg_rei YouTube: @keithg_rei Sponsors Today's episode is brought to you by Green Property Management, managing everything from single family homes to apartment complexes in the West Michigan area. https://www.livegreenlocal.com And RCB & Associates, helping Michigan-based real estate investors and small business owners navigate the complex world of health insurance and Medicare benefits. https://www.rcbassociatesllc.com
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    36 min
  • What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Developer? | Brian Barbuto

    What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Developer? | Brian Barbuto
    Oct 19 2026
    Becoming a real estate developer looks simple from the outside and almost never is. Brian Barbuto decided at 20 that he would develop real estate, bought land for 30 condominiums, and watched interest rates run to the mid twenties during his first construction loan. Nearly fifty years later he has built subdivisions, industrial parks and master planned communities across California, sold a company, gone bankrupt, and rebuilt. In this episode he walks through how land entitlement actually creates value, the guarantee structure that wiped him out, and where he thinks AI helps a developer and where it cannot. About Brian Barbuto Brian Barbuto started developing real estate at 20 after working in the trades as a teenager. He sold his first development company in 1990 at the age of 34, later rebuilt after a bankruptcy, and has since worked across subdivisions, industrial product and master planned communities in Southern California and Sonoma County. He is the author of The Foundational Developer Playbook, the first of three volumes, and founder of the technology company Memex. What We Cover in This Episode Why he moved from the trades to development, and what he got wrong about how hard it would beSurviving a first project when construction loan rates ran to the mid twentiesWhat a real estate workout is and how distressed projects get restartedHow to get subcontractors, lenders and buyers aligned on a stalled developmentWhy personal guarantees on wrapped paper can outlive the sale of a projectHow an all inclusive trust deed exposed him after the underlying banks failedRebuilding a development business from small projects and fee incomeHow a zone change and general plan amendment turned 10 lots into 52Designing around a constraint instead of fighting it, using shared equestrian common areaThe economics of an entitlement play: roughly $100,000 at risk, sold entitled inside twelve monthsClosing the purchase and the sale concurrently to limit capital exposureWhy developers get trapped building organizations that need constant cash flow to feedWhat AI does well in underwriting, analysis and action planningWhy entitlement work still comes down to human relationships AI cannot replace Key Insight A parcel near his office had beaten four development companies before he looked at it. It was shallow, wide, cut by power lines, and the city insisted on 12,000 square foot lots, which meant about 10 houses and no deal. Instead of arguing for bigger lots, he went the other way: 52 lots under 5,000 square feet each, with the land everyone said he was wasting turned into shared paddocks, a riding arena and trail access. The city said it would never be approved. He put roughly $100,000 of cash into the entitlements, closed the purchase and the sale on the same day, and sold the project shovel ready in under twelve months for a profit he puts around $2 million. Why This Episode Matters Most investors buy finished product and never see where the value was actually created. This episode shows the entitlement stage in detail, including what a developer risks and how long the money sits exposed. It also carries a warning worth reading twice: he sold his projects, carried paper to the builders who bought them, and still lost everything years later because the guarantees underneath never went away. Find Out More Website: brianbarbuto.com Book: The Foundational Developer Playbook, Volume One LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brianbarbuto Instagram: @brian.barbuto Facebook: Brian Barbuto Sponsors Today's episode is brought to you by Green Property Management, managing everything from single family homes to apartment complexes in the West Michigan area. https://www.livegreenlocal.com And RCB & Associates, helping Michigan-based real estate investors and small business owners navigate the complex world of health insurance and Medicare benefits. https://www.rcbassociatesllc.com
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    35 min
  • What 45 Years in Manufactured Housing Teaches About Downturns | Nasir Ali

    What 45 Years in Manufactured Housing Teaches About Downturns | Nasir Ali
    Oct 12 2026
    Mobile home park investing has moved from an overlooked corner of real estate to one of the most competitive niches in the business, and the people who have been in it longest built the playbook everyone else now follows. In this episode, Nasir Ali of Rise360 Ventures traces 45 years in manufactured housing, from a family portfolio wiped out in the 1979 oil shock, to a KOA campground bought with seller financing, to a strategy of buying half-empty communities in secondary markets and filling them. He explains the vertical integration that makes the value add work and why he thinks the asset class still has room to run. About Nasir Ali Nasir Ali is the founder of Rise360 Ventures and a second-generation manufactured housing operator whose family marked 45 years in the business last July. He was twelve when his family bought their first property, sixteen when he began buying and placing homes, and eighteen when he started buying communities alongside his father. He has acquired more than 2,400 units and taken twenty projects full cycle, and he traces eight generations of his family in income-producing property back to Gujarat, India. What We Cover in This Episode How a manufactured housing community differs from a trailer park and an RV parkTurning a KOA campground into year-round manufactured housingBuying a first deal with seller financing after a portfolio collapseWhy the 1976 HUD code changed the asset classThe infill value add strategy: buying communities at 50 to 60 percent occupancyVertical integration with in-house asset management and property managementWhat a dealer arm does and why it drives occupancy faster than anything elseBuying homes wholesale from manufacturers and selling them retail to residentsProviding retail financing to residents and the licensing that requiresWhy the resident owning their own home changes the landlord workloadBuy box: minimum unit counts, secondary markets, and asset value rangeCompeting below the REITs and above the mom and pop operatorsRolling up small parks through 1031 exchanges instead of raising capitalWhy zoning, NIMBYism, and municipal tax revenue kept new communities from getting builtWhere new development is finally starting to happenWhere he thinks the manufactured housing cycle sits right nowThe stigma problem and how renter demographics are changing itHow AI is integrated across his operations Key Insight The dealer arm is the whole engine. Nasir does not own a home dealership because he wants to be in the home business. He owns one because buying homes wholesale from manufacturers and selling them retail to incoming residents is what lets him move a community from 60 percent occupancy to full, on his own timeline, without waiting for someone else's supply. The occupancy lift is the value creation, and controlling home supply is what makes the occupancy lift possible. He also notes that the dealer and finance arms should sit in separate entities at arm's length, with the right licenses, which is a detail most operators learn the expensive way. Why This Episode Matters If you are looking at your first mobile home park, this episode gives you a usable filter: at least 50 units for economies of scale, secondary markets to avoid competing with institutional buyers, and a community with proven occupancy and real vacancy to fill. Nasir is also direct that the first couple of years are a grind and that the value add work is hands-on regardless of who you hire. And his path of trading small parks up through 1031 exchanges is a reminder that you do not need outside capital to build this kind of portfolio. Find Out More Website: https://rise360ventures.com (free 80-page report on the asset class) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joinrisecomm YouTube: @RISE360Ventures Instagram: @therise360ventures Facebook: Rise360Ventures Sponsors Today's episode is brought to you by Green Property Management, managing everything from single family homes to apartment complexes in the West Michigan area. https://www.livegreenlocal.com And RCB & Associates, helping Michigan-based real estate investors and small business owners navigate the complex world of health insurance and Medicare benefits. https://www.rcbassociatesllc.com
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    31 min
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