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Rental Property Owner & Real Estate Investor Podcast

Rental Property Owners Association (RPOA) with Brian Hamrick

Every Monday, host Brian Hamrick interviews real-world real estate investors and industry pros about the topics, tips, and techniques that make you a more confident and successful rental property owner, landlord, and real estate investor. Brought to you by the Rental Property Owners Association (RPOA), serving Michigan real estate investors and rental property owners for over 50 years. Guests include buy and hold investors, flippers, wholesalers, property managers, brokers, attorneys, insurance

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34:32

How Oil Wells Generate Monthly Income and Big Tax...

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2026/10/05

Investing in oil and gas is one of the few asset classes where the tax code was written specifically to pull private money into the ground, and most real estate investors have never looked at it. Intangible drilling costs can offset W-2 income in the first year, which is something rental property depreciation cannot do without real estate professional status. In this episode, Iron Horse Energy Funds founder Courtney Moeller explains how an outside investor buys into producing oil wells, how the

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26:07

Do Institutional Investors Really Cause the Housing...

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2026/09/28

Build to rent has moved from a niche label to one of the most active strategies in single-family real estate, and a new federal law just made it one of the only ways large investors can keep buying houses at all. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law in July and bars any investor controlling 350 or more single-family homes from purchasing another existing house, with build to rent carved out as an exception. In this episode, Atlas Real Estate CEO Tony Julianelle walks through what the law

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29:52

How to Exit Rental Property Without Paying Capital...

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2026/09/21

Most rental property owners spend decades building a portfolio and almost no time planning how to get out of it. That is an expensive gap. When a long held property sells, the combination of capital gains tax and depreciation recapture can consume most of the equity, and owners in high tax states can face rates above 40 percent. In this episode, Ashley Romiti of GCA 1031 walks through the real estate exit strategies available to owners who want out of active management without triggering that bill,

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30:18

What the 2026 Election Means for Michigan Rental...

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2026/09/14

Michigan rental property legislation is moving fast, and most of what matters to rental owners is happening in Lansing, not Washington. In this post-primary legislative update, Erika Farley of the Rental Property Owners Association of Michigan breaks down what the August primary results signal about November, which candidates are actually talking about housing, and which bills should worry Michigan rental property owners heading into lame duck and the 2027 session. Rent control, eviction

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01:04:02

Short-Term Rental Regulation in Michigan: What...

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2026/09/07

Short-Term Rental Investing in Today's Market Short-term rental investing has changed faster than almost any other real estate strategy, and the rules that made deals work in 2021 are actively losing money in 2026. This panel was recorded live at the 2026 Midwest Real Estate Investor Conference, where moderator Jeremy Garcia sat down with three operators who have been through the regulatory grinder: commercial investor and broker Charlie Kao, Michigan short-term rental attorney Katie Johnson, and

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31:13

What Happens to Your Portfolio If You Have No...

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2026/08/31

Most real estate investors spend decades building their portfolios. Very few have a plan for what happens when it's time to step back. Whether the goal is passing assets to family, bringing in a successor, or simply having choices later in life, succession is rarely just a financial question. The relationship dynamics, unspoken assumptions, and fear of hard conversations are what cause most transitions to fail. In this episode, Elizabeth Ledoux, founder of The Transition Strategists, breaks down

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34:12

From Airline Pilot to $1 Billion in Self-Storage |...

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2026/08/24

Self-storage is one of the most misunderstood asset classes in commercial real estate. Most investors assume it's a simple, low-complexity play. Ryan Gibson built it into a billion-dollar operation by treating it like anything but. As Co-Founder and President of Spartan Investment Group, Ryan has organized over $1 billion in capital across 90 facilities and 7 million square feet in 15 states, ranking Spartan as the 29th largest self-storage operator in the country. In this episode, he breaks down

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30:52

The Red Flags Most Investors Miss When Vetting...

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2026/08/17

Most real estate investors evaluate deals. Ben Kahle evaluates the people running them. As CEO and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a private equity firm with more than $500 million in assets under management, Ben has spent 11 years building a rigorous operator due diligence process that puts people above property. In this episode, he breaks down how Wellings vets commercial real estate sponsors, what their 28-step due diligence process actually looks for, and where investors consistently

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29:09

What Most Property Managers Get Wrong About Their Own...

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2026/08/10

Property management accounting problems rarely announce themselves. They build quietly, through reconciliation shortcuts, commingled funds, and data spread across systems that were never designed to talk to each other. By the time the damage shows up in a report, the decisions based on bad numbers have already been made. In this episode, Mo Hussein, CEO of Balanced Asset Solutions, breaks down why property management accounting systems break as portfolios grow, what bad data is actually costing

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37:06

What It Actually Means to Run an AI-First Real Estate...

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2026/08/03

Most real estate operators say they're using AI. Very few have built their entire company around it. In this episode, Neal Bawa, CEO of Grocapitus, breaks down the four-phase process his 20-person team used over the past 18 months to become what he calls an AI-first real estate company. From getting every employee certified on custom GPTs in phase one, to building proprietary web-hosted dashboards that pull live data from seven different property management systems in phase four, Neal is specific

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30:46

From Carpet Cleaning to a $70M Real Estate Portfolio...

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2026/07/27

Doron Levi arrived in the United States at 20 years old with no money, no network, and no safety net. Born in Israel, raised in Africa, he showed up in America and built three service businesses from scratch — scaling each one from zero to a profitable exit — before pivoting into real estate development with no prior industry experience. In this episode, Doron traces that arc from carpet cleaning to a multi-million commercial conversion, and breaks down the business principles that drove every

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42:55

How This Real Estate Investor Built a $2.3M Business...

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2026/07/20

Some of the best real estate and business conversations happen in the hallways of the Midwest Real Estate Investor Conference, and every year since 2019 we sit down with our good friend Ramond Harris II to see what he's built since we last talked. This year Ramond walks through the full pivot from running a $3.6 million FedEx Ground operation to buying and rebuilding a commercial painting business serving apartment developers across Metro Detroit. It's an honest, unscripted look at what it actually

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30:09

How to Buy Real Estate with No Money with Philip Henry

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2026/07/13

Philip Henry started with no capital, a student loan balance, and a newborn at home. His first investment was a rundown two-unit in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Today he owns nearly 100 residential and commercial doors generating over $2 million a year through Connect Investments. In this episode, Philip walks through every step of how he built that portfolio, the creative financing strategies he used to get into deals with little or no money down, and the commercial real estate fundamentals that

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26:42

Land-Home Development: Affordable Housing That Cash...

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2026/07/06

Land-home development is one of the most overlooked strategies in affordable housing, and most real estate investors have never seriously considered it. The model is straightforward: buy a parcel of land, order a brand new manufactured home from a factory, place it permanently on the property, and sell the land and home together to a first-time buyer. In this episode, Robert Howell breaks down how he built a business around this strategy, why manufactured housing delivers exceptional value at a

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29:53

The $500K Mistake That Built a $200M Portfolio with...

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2026/06/29

Most real estate investors talk about what worked. Dearonne Bethea is willing to talk about what didn't. In this episode, the CEO of Band of Brothers Investment Group walks through a $500,000 business loss on his first Anytime Fitness franchise, the three mistakes that caused it, and the decisions he made after that eventually led to $200 million in assets under management. Along the way he breaks down the investing philosophy behind his growth: use businesses to generate cash flow, use that cash

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35:19

The 5 Reasons Real Estate Investors Fail to Scale...

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2026/06/22

How to Scale Your Real Estate Portfolio Without Burning Out: The 5-Step Framework Real Investors Need Most real estate investors who plateau aren't stuck because of bad deals or bad markets. They're stuck because the habits and decisions that built their business are now the ceiling keeping them from the next level. In this episode, high-performance coach and real estate investor Trevor McGregor breaks down the five key reasons investors fail to scale, what the dark side of reaching your next

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28:03

Why Home Staging Increases Sale Price and Cuts Days...

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2026/06/15

Home Staging for Real Estate Investors: How Presentation Affects Sale Price, Days on Market, and ROI Home staging is one of the most underused tools in a real estate investor's toolkit. Most investors treat it as an optional expense. The ones who understand it treat it as a marketing strategy that directly affects what a property sells for and how fast it sells. In this episode, Alisa Sparks, founder and CEO of Linden Creek, breaks down the business case for professional home staging, what it

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30:10

From $500 to 60 Units: How To Build a $12M Rental...

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2026/06/08

Most investors with 60 units didn't start with capital, connections, or a roadmap. Andres Bernal started with $500 and an FHA loan on a three-unit in Connecticut. He built that rental portfolio from there, one deal and one strategy at a time, until the income replaced his day job entirely. About Andres Bernal Andres Bernal came to the United States in 2012 as a professional tennis player from the Dominican Republic. He began investing in real estate in 2016 while still coaching full-time. Today

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31:15

Why Rental Portfolios Stall at $5M: Profit, Impact,...

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2026/06/01

Most rental portfolios stall between $500,000 and $5 million. Not because the deals stop. Because the owner is still operating like a technician instead of a CEO. In this episode, Brian talks with Andy Clark, bestselling author of Getting the Whole Pie and creator of the Whole Pie System. Andy works with small business owners who have hit operational ceilings and need structure, clarity, and accountability to scale sustainably. If your rental business feels heavier than it used to… this

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32:03

The BRRRR Method Before It Had a Name: 30 Years of...

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2026/05/25

Most real estate investors never reach financial freedom. Not because they lack hustle. Not because they miss deals. They fail because they never build a real long-term strategy. In this episode, Brian sits down with Joel Kraut, a real estate investor with over 30 years of experience. Joel has flipped more than 100 homes, built rental portfolios across multiple states, operated through the 2008 crash, and rebuilt after losing $4.2M during the financial crisis. Today, he shares the framework behind

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