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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

188: Using 20+ Years of Studying Market Cycles to Buy Low & Sell High David Gudmundsen

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Is the real estate market about to collapse? Do we have 10 more years? What’s the future hold? While no one can definitively answer these questions, today’s guest has some keen insight into timing the market, allowing you to “buy low and sell high.” Today, we’re excited to introduce you to David Gudmundsen, an investor who’s been in the game more than 20 years and who’s seen numerous peaks and valleys — and who has learned how to ride the wave. With more than 250 deals under his belt, David is an incredible resource for anyone looking to grow their portfolio — or preserve it — during times of uncertainty. Unless you know exactly where the real estate market is headed next, don’t miss this powerful and entertaining episode! In This Episode We Cover: Why David chose real estate and his first property How he got his first property by assuming a loan How he reached a level of buying a property a month without a college education How Monopoly inspired him to invest in real estate How to balance learning and actually making deals What exactly a wrap is Thoughts on contracts for deeds How many deals he has made What you should know about seller carry back What walking the mortgage is Insight into market cycles and crashes How to read the signs of market cycles What we can learn from the boiled frog analogy What “buying right” really means The importance of not always doing the things others are doing Why it’s important to join real estate club meet ups A couple of his worst and greatest deals And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Pro ZBuyer BiggerPockets Webinar BiggerPockets Analysis Tools BiggerPockets Forums Books Mentioned in this Show How to Buy and Manage Rental Properties by Irene and Mike Millin Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins Close That Sale! by Brian Tracy Advanced Selling Strategies by Brian Tracy Tweetable Topics: “I can never win at Monopoly unless I roll the dice and I buy houses.” (Tweet This!) “A good borrower can make a bad loan good, and a bad borrower can make a good loan bad.” (Tweet This!) “Forget location, location, location. It’s all about buy low and sell high.” (Tweet This!) “You just look at what exactly the herd is not doing.” (Tweet This!) Connect with David David’s BiggerPockets Profile Email David David’s Company Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast.

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Show.

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188.

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How is it? I mean, 180, how many, what's this show?

0:08.0

188? We've never, I've never heard of walking the mortgage.

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Have you, Brandon?

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I have not. Between the show and all the years.

0:13.7

It's pretty cool. I bought...

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You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio. Simplifying real estate for investors

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large and small. If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the

0:24.8

height, you're in the right place. Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited

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from bigger pockets.com.

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Your home for real estate investing online.

0:36.0

What's going on everybody?

0:37.0

This is Josh Dorkin, host to the BiggerPockets podcast

0:40.0

here with my co-host, Mr. Brandon Turner going on man I'm good but I gotta tell you my brain is hurting a little bit I learned a lot of stuff today oh like how to walk like how to spell your name like how to paint a picture I know I know we're starting behind, but like really?

0:57.0

No, we just got done recording the episode with today's guest and this guy is...

1:02.0

That was a great show. This was a great show. This guy was a great show this was a great show this guy is a great show you guys are going to love this thing I mean seriously my brain hurts I learned so much stuff today and I'm excited for you guys to be able to hear it it's pretty pretty awesome. So yeah. It is. Yeah, things that we had never even heard of like walking the mortgage. Yeah, I love that concept. Yeah, there's some really cool stuff. He's been around. He knows what he's talking about. Yeah, I'm I'm pumped well. Well let's get into it. How you been? How's life?

1:28.0

Things are good. I mean I don't know babies growing up big and strong. She's now three months old almost and yeah things are good. It's fun being a dad. How about you? You've been gone for a while.

1:38.6

Yeah, I was in so-cal for a bit, got to take the kid swimming, hit the beach, go boogie boarding.

1:44.4

We went to Universal, which was...

1:46.3

The Harry Potter thing?

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