The Biggest Mistake Real Estate Investors Are Making Right Now
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.7 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
While investors fixate on the Fed, inflation, and housing headlines, the smart money is focusing on what can actually be controlled — strategy, numbers, and mindset. This livestream shows how to replace prediction with preparation and position yourself for the next big wealth transfer before everyone else jumps back in.
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
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| 0:22.7 | Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle |
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| 0:25.9 | business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. You can't control the Fed. You can't |
| 0:34.7 | control inflation, but you can prepare for what comes next. Yeah, I know it's an |
| 0:41.4 | interesting time, right? There's a lot of people hanging on these quarter points, and I know Powell came |
| 0:46.2 | out last week and said that there might not be another rate cut in December. So that kind of |
| 0:51.3 | through the markets at a tailspin, actually had rates go up a little bit. |
| 0:56.0 | And I think we, De Niedel and I started talking and we're saying, you know, it's not, it's important |
| 1:01.6 | to watch, but it's not that meaningful on the big picture. And I, I think, you know, there's a lot |
| 1:08.1 | of ways that people make decisions. And, you know, if you're, you know, there's a lot of ways that people make decisions. |
| 1:17.9 | And, you know, if you're, you know, an analytical or empirical type thinker, then for sure, you're all over this stuff. |
| 1:21.5 | And all it means to you is red and stop, right? |
| 1:28.8 | But I, so I think today we wanted to just say, get into, you know, how we look at the markets in general. |
| 1:35.9 | You know, go up maybe up to about 30,000 feet and maybe look at it a little bit differently. Because if you get, sometimes you get caught in these cycles of analysis paralysis. |
| 1:41.3 | And you're hanging on every word, every quarter point, and you're trying to time things |
| 1:45.5 | perfectly. And if you try to do that, you know, you just basically stop and you don't really do |
| 1:52.6 | much at all. So, you know, Danielle, you know, what are some of the things that you're seeing? |
| 1:58.6 | Well, you know, before we even get into that, I would just say, |
| 2:01.3 | you know, you have to remember, like, you know, the news makes money on clicks, YouTube makes |
| 2:06.0 | money on clicks. So when people are talking about crashes or they're talking about, you know, |
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