Abhi Golhar
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Resident Expert Course: Using Social Media for Lead Generation
In this course, Resident Expert Abhi Golhar leads viewers through what platforms to use and strategies to get the most out of each tool — all within the context of generating more leads for your real estate investment business.
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Do You Know Your Investment Personality?
In a special five-part video mini-series, I am excited to provide you with steps to help you dominate your deals. And this isn’t just talk. These are steps that we are using every day, so I can attest that they work. You can access the introduction to the five-part series ...
From Eyesore to Awesome—Times Two
In Episode 27 of my video series Real Estate Deal Talk, I’m going to take you through a project in super-hot Kirkwood in Atlanta. We’re going to look at a new build that is underway on the site of what originally was an old, burned-down church with a lot of ...
The global real estate market is built on a web of complexity that determines prices and hierarchical relationships of supply and demand. The activity of low-volume transactions, even at the local small-town level, helps determine the conditions and trends that affect the activity of larger investors making multibillion-dollar plays and ...
Capital Ideas: Where to Find the Funding for Your Deals
We’re talking about something pretty cool in this blog post: how to find the best capital for your real estate flips and real estate rentals. (This is taken from Episode 24 of my YouTube series, “Real Estate Deal Talk.”) One of the best ways I’ve been able to do that, ...
Newbies, Don’t Let Sellers Take Advantage of You
I’ve got a gripe, and I think it’s important to share it so that some of the newbies out there don’t get unfairly taken advantage of. It’s driving me nuts that new investor—and even some seasoned, pro investors—are buying deals at terrible prices. I see it happening in Atlanta, where ...
Real Estate Investment Wholesaling 101: What’s it all about?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately asking about wholesaling, such as: Why should I wholesale? Is wholesaling real estate worth it? Can I make money in it? Do I have to invest capital? What does it even mean to be a wholesaler? Is it the same as being ...
Small Two/One Property Holds Several Options for a Broad-Thinking Investor
From the archives of my video series, Real Estate Deal Talk, Episode 19 focuses on a home near Glenwood Park, a really nice neighborhood with a really nice park. The property in question is an 800-square-foot, two-bedroom/one-bathroom rental, currently occupied that we are looking at purchasing and expanding. It looks ...
Technology for Your Real Estate Business
In this blog post – from episode 25 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk”– I would like to share a little bit of insight about using technology as a tool to help you invest in real estate. Among the best tools that I have found: Podio and Zapier ...
The One That Got Away—A Sweet Deal Gone Bad
You learn just as much—sometimes even more—from a failed deal as from a successful one. So today, we bring you the story of “one that got away.” Unfortunate, but an interesting story nonetheless, which I tell in Episode 23 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk.” Story time! The ...
This is a terrible house, so why am I excited? Profit, baby!
I love this deal! We are under contract for this house for $60,000. As you can see in the video for Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 22, it is in terrible condition. So why am I excited? Because of what’s going on across the street. That is a one-story, three-bedroom, ...
Sometimes After You Run the Numbers, You Need to Run Away From the Deal
There are times when you think you’ve hit on a great deal, only to discover the numbers just don’t add up. In Episode 18 of “Real Estate Deal Talk,” I’ll show you a good example. I’m absolutely not excited about the outcome of our work and our calculations, but I ...
Build Your Investment Team on Trust and Respect
Build Your Investment Team on a Solid Foundation of Mutual Trust and Respect Usually, my articles for this magazine focus on a property that I find is a great case study in terms of situation, numbers and process, thus offering valuable lessons for other investors. However, for this issue, I ...
Bird-Dogging Provides a Way to Ease into Real Estate Investing Since you’re reading this, you probably recognize that real estate investing is one of the best vehicles for making money and achieving long-term financial success. Many people, however, may not have the money, experience or confidence to become real estate ...
You Owe It to Yourself to Learn About Crowdfunding
In Episode 16 of my video series, Real Estate Deal Talk, I want to give you a little piece of advice on how to raise capital. One of the ways that we have been able to get money for our deals is through crowdfunding. Now, there are a lot ...
You Owe It to Yourself to Learn About Crowdfunding
In Episode 16 of my video series, Real Estate Deal Talk, I want to give you a little piece of advice on how to raise capital. One of the ways that we have been able to get money for our deals is through crowdfunding. Now, there are a lot ...
Outside Appearance is Only Half the Story in Evaluating a Rehab Deal
Episode 15 of Real Estate Deal Talk finds us on-site in Roswell—about a 20-minute drive northeast of Atlanta—at a property we are considering rehabbing. The neighborhood is really nice, judging by the other surrounding homes. We just met the lady next door. She has two really nice dogs. The ...
My Sad Tale of a Deal-Gone-Bad, and an Important Lesson: Do Your Due Diligence
In Episode 14 of my video series Real Estate Deal Talk, the subject is a deal gone bad. The lesson is: Do your due diligence. It is massively, massively important. The question comes from Cisco, via Twitter. It’s an awesome question – Would you please talk about a deal that ...
A Closer Look at a Hot Rehab Deal with a Huge Upside
In Episode 13 of our video series Real Estate Deal Talk, we’re on site at a property in the Morningside community of Atlanta that should net us a nice profit after some rehab and remodeling. The backyard, as you can see in the video, is huge and beautiful. One main ...
Would You Have Done These Real Estate Deals and Struck Gold?
In Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 10, pulled from our archives, we take a look at two possible deals in Cabbagetown, a really, really nice area of Atlanta. Actually, I’m a pretty big fan of it. As you can see in the video, the first property is in total disarray, ...
A Missed Opportunity on a Rehab Deal Worth $100,000-plus Profit
In Episode 8 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” I show you a property on Esten Street in Atlanta that could have potentially have netted us $135,000 to $145,000. But unfortunately, we heard about it too late. So that’s very frustrating. The house looks like a piece of ...
Why We Passed on this Renovation in a Sizzling-Hot Area
In Episode 7 of my video series, “Real Estate Deal Talk,” we take a firsthand look at a property that was brought to me by a wholesaler. It is a street or two east of Atlanta Medical Center in a community called the Old Fourth Ward. The Old Fourth Ward ...
Pick Up These Golden Nuggets from Atlanta’s Top Investor’s Agent
Johnny Gonzales, aka “Johnny Intown,” is one heckuva great real estate agent in Atlanta, Ga. He’s a top “investor’s agent,” and in Episode 6 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” he sat down with me and shared several “golden nuggets” about dealing with investors, what sets a great ...
Do These Numbers Look Good for a New Build?
In Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 5, I’m going to share the basic details for a project involving a new build on a lot where only the bare bones of the previous structure still remain. The lot is located on Stokeswood Avenue in Atlanta, and as you can see in ...
A Quick Tale of Two Profitable Options
In Episode 4 from my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” I discuss two options for a real estate deal from last year that will help other real estate investors understand a few ways to think through a deal. The property, at 361 Kendrick in Atlanta, was under contract and ...
Too Hot to Handle? The Real Estate Deal That Got Away
In this video, I have something of a treat today. But I don’t know whether to be happy or to be slightly frustrated. It’s the story of a deal that could have been very profitable for us. We are on Irwin Street, which is in Old Fourth Ward, a super-super-sizzling-hot ...
