Redefining Risk: Smarter Strategies for Out-of-State Real Estate Investing.

Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Click Here for the Show Notes Are you overanalyzing your first out-of-state rental—and still unsure what to actually worry about? In this episode, Melissa Nash answers a timely question from a new investor: “What risks should I be watching for?” With over a decade of investing experience across six states and thousands of clients served, Melissa reframes the concept of real estate risk in a way most new investors overlook. You'll learn: Why tenant and property manager quality matter more than the neighborhood grade How seasoned investors use portfolio balance to reduce stress and absorb surprises Common misconceptions about “safe” properties and “perfect” markets The biggest red flag that gets ignored during due diligence—and how to spot it Melissa also shares a hard-learned lesson from her own portfolio about how poor communication from a property manager turned a small issue into an expensive one. If you're looking to grow a stable portfolio without micromanaging every move, this episode will give you the clarity, mindset, and practical tools to invest more confidently. Send your question HERE -------------------------------- Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. SUBSCRIBE on iTunes If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to The Power of Owning Just ONE Rental Property Our team of Investment Counselors has much more inventory available than what you see on our website. Contact us today for more deals. -------------------------------------------------------- #LearningRealEstate #AskMarco #PassiveRealEstateInvesting #Turnkeyproperties #RealEstatePodcast #Investment #investors #RealEstateInvestors #RentalProperties #TurnkeyProperties #NoradaRealEstateInvestments

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0:00.0	Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.
0:09.7	And now, here's your host, Marco Santorelli.
0:13.2	Hey, everyone, and welcome to passive real estate investing. I'm Melissa Nash, your guest host, jumping in for now. Let's dive in. Today I am going to be going over a
0:25.3	question that I received from a client of mine. Now he is a new investor and he is buying an out-of-state
0:33.3	rental for the first time. Now they are very excited and in education mode. They are doing all the
0:40.4	things that they're supposed to do. Now, I helped recommend this market and particularly this team
0:46.8	that they're investing with because I know that they do a really great job on the renovations
0:52.0	and property management. So the question that he asked me
0:56.7	recently, now he's already signed the sales contract, he's going through his due diligence,
1:01.1	and he asked me, is there something that I should be looking for as far as risk factors?
1:07.7	So that is what we are going to dissect right now. I'm going to tell you what I told him.
1:14.5	Now, I've been doing this for a long time, over a decade. And I've owned a lot of properties in
1:21.2	A class areas. I've owned properties in what you'd call D class war zone. And I've owned properties in C-class, B-class. I mean,
1:29.6	basically every, you know, type of property in six different states. And you can have a bad tenant
1:39.8	in an A-class property. You can have a bad tenant in any of the different neighborhood grades.
1:47.0	You can also have a really good tenant in any of those grades.
1:51.3	I had a tenant for seven years in what I would call a D-class or war zone type area.
1:58.2	And she was the best renter I've had,
2:00.7	and I would gladly take her back to any of my
2:03.9	properties. So how do you as an investor look at different types of risk and what your risk
2:13.2	levels are? So if you can't necessarily define it by neighborhood grade, because this example is a
2:21.6	perfect example of that, how else can you limit your risk in an investment property, especially
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