584: The 5 Steps That Will Bring You More Deals, Friends, and Mentors w/Jonathan Greene
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
BiggerPockets
4.8 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
If you’re new to investing in real estate, you may not have run your first real estate analysis yet. But as soon as you start looking at properties, you’ll become a spreadsheet wizard in no time! With so many investors counting on automatic analysis from modern, hyper-specific real estate calculators, old-school investors beg the question “do these calculators really make a difference in the deal?”
Today, expert investor, home flipper, wholetailer, and almost every other real estate title in the book, Jonathan Greene, joins us to talk about what new investors are missing out on. While many investors run spreadsheets and analyses before seeing a deal, Jonathan does it the other way around. Jonathan will drive to a property, walk the property, and then after taking a look at some specific parts of the property, will run a deal analysis. He walks through the system that not only makes this efficient but worthwhile.
If you've been around the BiggerPockets Forums for some time, you’ve probably recognized Jonathan’s name (or face). He’s an active contributor, responding to forum posts almost every day and chatting with new investors every chance he gets. Jonathan has found deals, mentors, partners, and great friends thanks to online forums, like BiggerPockets. If you’re looking to get the most out of your virtual networking, Jonathan shares his five tips on extracting huge value from the collective minds of over two million real estate investors!
In This Episode We Cover:
Going beyond the spreadsheets and analyzing real estate internally (before using a calculator)
How to get the “feel” of a house when investing out-of-state
The crucial parts of a house Jonathan looks at during his first walkthrough
The five steps to being successful in an online community (or in real life too!)
Choosing your perfect out-of-state market using two simple data points
Flipping poorly designed homes into massively profitable masterpieces
And So Much More!
Links from the Show:
Vrbo (formerly called HomeAway)
Dave Meyer's BiggerPockets Profile
Connect with Jonathan:
Jonathan’s Business Website: Streamlined Properties
Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bigger Pugs Podcast Show, 584. |
| 0:04.7 | Everything I learned from my dad and from trial and error, so in the new world of investing, |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a dinosaur. I still work the old school way based on feel and everything that I can see, |
| 0:17.4 | smell, touch inside a property, tells me more than a calculator a lot of the times. |
| 0:21.6 | What's going on everyone is David Green your host of the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | The show where we teach you how to build financial freedom through real estate. Not only do we have |
| 0:37.5 | the biggest and best podcasts in the world when it comes to real estate, but we are completely |
| 0:42.3 | dedicated to helping you find financial freedom through real estate itself. So if you're looking |
| 0:47.4 | for how to improve your life, make more money, build your wealth, protect the wealth that you've |
| 0:51.0 | already built, have more freedom, travel the world, make more friends, be part of an awesome |
| 0:55.3 | community, you found the right place. At Bigger Pockets we have more than two million |
| 0:59.7 | members that are all on the same path as you, sharing what they've learned along the way and |
| 1:03.6 | helping each other to get there. We help you by bringing in guests that have built portfolios |
| 1:08.2 | and have solved problems and have made mistakes and then share with you what mistakes they made |
| 1:11.9 | so that you don't have to make it. On today's show we have Jonathan Green who's sort of a |
| 1:18.4 | bigger pockets pillar. He is frequently found in the forums giving really good advice to people. |
| 1:23.9 | He runs a hotel business. He has a real estate sales team. He's flipped houses for 20 plus years |
| 1:29.1 | and he gives some really, really good advice about how you can use the actual website bigger pockets |
| 1:35.1 | effectively to build your wealth. Here to join me in my interview with Jonathan is my co-host |
| 1:40.2 | Rob Abbasolo who crushes it today. Rob, what were some of your favorite parts of today's interview? |
| 1:46.0 | Well, honestly, first and foremost, like Jonathan is as nice and authentic as it comes. I mean, |
| 1:51.8 | the guy is obviously like he gives and he gives and he gives to the bigger pockets community. |
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