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5-Minute PRIME: Bite-Sized Investing Insights
The 5-Minute PRIME podcast from REIPrime.com helps busy professionals master personal finance and real estate investing with quick, actionable tips. Keep learning, stay strategic, and keep building - one smart move at a time!
5-Minute PRIME: Bite-Sized Investing Insights
Latest Episodes
Property Tax Knocked a Top-10 Metro to 48th. Is It Yours?
Two metros. One of them screens tenth-best in the country on rent-to-price. The other screens fifty-second. Run the same two through one more line — a line published by the federal government, free, for every county in America — and...
Half a Kitchen Got Most of the Rent. What Did the Other Half Buy?
The tenant handed back the keys on Tuesday. The unit is clean, structurally fine, and dated — original oak cabinets, a laminate counter, appliances from 2011. It rented at $1,350 against a metro median of $1,474, so you already know why i...
A Week of Work. A Month of Vacancy. Which Days Are Yours?
A unit turn takes about a week of actual work. The unit sits empty for about a month. Almost every operator spends their energy on the week — chasing the contractor, arguing about the paint, checking whether the flooring crew showed up &m...
$54 Short of the Bar. Do You Write the Check?
The deal is real. The rent is real. And at 20% down the coverage ratio lands at 0.99 — fifty-four dollars a month short of the 1.00 the lender needs. Fifty-four dollars. On a deal you have already underwritten, already toured, already t...
How Many Months of Reserves Do Lenders Actually Want?
You get the quote on a Tuesday. A rate, a loan-to-value, a minimum ratio that looks easy to clear. Nothing in it is false. Six weeks later the terms that show up at closing are not the terms in that email — and no one lied to you. Two l...
