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Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

Is the Real Estate Market Broken? Why 4.5% Returns Are the New Normal (And What to Do)

Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

Jake & Gino

Smartinvesting, Buyingrealestate, Investing, Multifamilyrealestateinvesting, Business, Investingsmart, Apartmentinvesting, Management, Makingmoney, Realestateinvesting, Cashflow, Jakeandgino, Realestateinvestment, Commercialrealestateinvesting, Buyingapartmentbuildings, Entrepreneurship

4.9842 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The real estate market is stuck in a frustrating holding pattern, and even seasoned investors like Jake Stenziano are feeling the pain. With interest rates still elevated and sellers demanding 2022 prices for 2025 deals, achieving that golden 7% cash-on-cash return feels impossible—and AI data confirms it's now considered "very difficult."

Transcript

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0:00.0

what's going on with the market and why is Jake Stenziano so frustrated?

0:15.5

Hello, everybody. It's Jake Stenzano. I host Jake Gino podcast. Here with my co-host,

0:18.3

a multifamily mentor, the coach of Chef, the father, six, the bestselling author. The GDady. Gino Barberon, how's it going? Jake, I'm a host, Jake Gino podcast here with my co-hosts, a multifamily mentor, the coach of Chef, the father-six, the best-selling author, The G-Daddy.

0:23.0

Gino Barbo, Gino, how's going?

0:24.4

Jake, I'm doing good, brother.

0:25.5

How you doing?

0:36.4

Always making it happen, big man. This is where I end it, Gino. I'm stopping right now, and I'm, I'm vallying to you. I just had to get my little woo-sa out there because I think we're having a fireside chat today, but I'll let you tell the folks.

0:41.5

Well, there's no fire, and I'm not alongside you, so I don't know if we can call it a fireside chat,

0:47.6

although this is the time where I am able to pick Jake Stenziano's brain.

0:50.7

We're going to have a little conversation on the state of the market.

0:54.1

We're going to have a little conversation on going back into the past.

0:58.7

We're going to talk about the market cycle back then, the market cycle today. We're going to talk about the scalability, how we were able to scale, the mistakes we made. I want to really

1:03.6

have this conversation around multifamily because, as you know, we have daily therapy

1:08.3

sessions on what's going on with the market. So my very first question to you is what's going on with the market.

1:16.7

So my very first question to you is what's going on with the market and why is Jake Stenziano so frustrated?

1:19.1

Wow.

1:19.8

This is a therapy session, huh?

1:23.1

So I'm going to use tech-based data and go back to the conversation we were literally having probably five minutes ago.

1:32.6

So what's going on with the market?

1:34.9

I'm a little provocative right now.

1:36.4

I'm sexually frustrated.

1:38.3

Not in my personal life, but jokingly aside, I'm a little frustrated with the market because it's extremely stagnant.

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