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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
The Ask Was 68%. The Rate Was 5%.
Last fall, every North Carolina landlord saw the same headline: a filing asking for a 68% increase on dwelling policies — the coverage on rentals, not homeowners. Group chats lit up. Deals got shelved. Then this spring the stat...
Florida's on Sale. Why Are Smart Buyers Walking Away?
You've been waiting for Florida to hand you a discount. Now it has — a turnkey rental in Punta Gorda listed 10% below last year, in the worst-declining metro in the state. It looks like catching the floor. Then your own insurance quote comes ba...
Lock or Float Before the Fed? Wrong Question.
You're under contract on a rental, the close lands across a Fed meeting, and your rate lock is ticking. Lock now, or float and hope? Host Martin Maxwell makes the case that it's the wrong question — the Fed doesn't set your mortgage rate, so th...
A 5% Rate in a 6.5% Market — What's the Catch?
A Phoenix builder will permanently buy your mortgage rate down to five percent — in a market quoting six and a half. The resale two streets over is thirty thousand dollars cheaper. So the cheaper house wins, right?
The H2 2026 Map: 5 Themes That Will Run the Half
The second half of 2026 was supposed to be rescued by two things: a wave of listings as the mortgage lock-in finally broke, and a Fed rate cut. Halfway through the year, the data says both just stalled — the sub-4% mortgage pool fell below half...
