Okay, listen y'all real estate fan folks, i'm about to say four blunt things that need to be heard in the real estate community. There are four things that you need to stop freaking doing in real estate here in q1. 2022. Why? Because interest rates are going to the freaking moon they're not going to stop anytime soon.

I believe the 10-year treasury yield, which is closely correlated to 30-year mortgage rates and, of course, 15-year mortgage rates down the line, arms whatever are going to go over 3 and when they go over three percent. We are going to see five and a quarter percent mortgage rates when the fed goes too far. We will see periods of panic where the 10-year treasury yield actually goes above. Three percent three and a half percent is possible that could lead to mortgage rates of five and a half five point: three quarters: six percent.

We have not seen mortgage rates like that uh. Quite frankly, in decades i mean, certainly not while i've been in the business. I've started in the business in oh nine yeah. We have not seen rates like this.

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I want to build a deck. I got asked this morning by a course member which, by the way, we got a coupon code expiring in three days for any of the courses, either real estate sales, real estate, investing do-it-yourself property management, rental renovations or, of course, the other programs like stocks and building. Your wealth, i got this kevin, you know i haven't gone through all the lectures yet, but i should build a deck right now, because i could get a heloc and i could get so much money come on. I could get a nice trex deck.

You know one one, they say won't warp in the sun resistant to termites and rot come on man. I got ta, get myself a dick. No, what are you doing? You're, throwing money out of the goddamn window? Listen! Look at the stock market right now. If you are a real estate investor, you should always have your eyes on the stock market, because when there's an opportunity in the stock market and you're below those 50, 30 20 fibonacci lines, those are the perfect numbers.

Okay, i'm simplifying, because y'all real estate. Folks, you probably don't even like fibonaccis, okay, no, nobody cares about fibonaccis and real estate. Okay stocks is lower than they have been. Okay, simple: when stocks is lower, you don't go, spend money on a damn deck, because here's what you're doing when you're renovating right now, let me show you okay and listen.

I i've licensed contracting staff. We do renovations all the time. I will never stop doing renovations. I love buying fixer-upper real estate and fixing it up.

Okay, i love that, but listen if you're trying to remodel a stupid home right now. This is what you're doing you are number one: losing money due to massive opportunity, cost in the stock market or not just stocks, but also because we're going to have this rate shock you're losing a real estate opportunity. So for all those of you like, i don't do stocks anyway through stocks. That's just paper, that's not a real asset! Well, that's stupid, because your dumb deed for your real estate is also just paper, but i guess we won't go there.

So, anyway, you are losing money in both a stock market opportunity and a potential future real estate opportunity. In the event, we have a real estate shock, which i think is quite likely by the third and fourth quarter of 2022 and all of a sudden you have cnbc and tucker carlson and all the financial news media going. Oh, my gosh real estate prices are down compared to january. What come on man purchasing power goes down, as rate goes rates, go up.

This is this is simple? Okay, so why would you take that money and spend it on a stupid deck or some dumb, freaking renovation for your own home? It's stupid, it's very stupid. Don't do it? Listen! Listen! We almost personal, okay, personal personal person, person. We don't need it. I don't want to buy a home for myself right now, but a home came up that we were looking at like.

Oh, we could use this for like studio space or whatever, or we could move into it because it has a nice backyard for the kids. We don't it came up for lease, which i hate leasing, but it's got a very nice backyard and there are only like five of these homes in the neighborhood, so we're like. Okay, maybe maybe we just lease that and then we'll use the home that we own in the neighborhood as a studio, in addition to the second home that we own in the neighborhood, which is also used for studio and work purposes. So we own two homes that we already use for work and we can just move the family into the one with the backyard right and we're thinking to ourselves.

Well, wait a minute we'd want to update some of things in the property before living in and i'm like no way jose. Am i spending a dime in this market renovating anything for my own benefit, i'll fix it up for a tenant, i'll fix it up. Rental grade, but i am not wasting that money that could be invested in the stock market or potential future real estate opportunities. I'm fixing crap up right now for myself, uh-uh.

No, no, no! No! No! No big mistake! Second problem: let's be real, have you heard of commodity price inflation commodities are going or i've gone to the freaking moon. This is this look. We don't even have to be technical about this. It's just it's just obvious.

Copper is way up sheet. Metal is way up. The lumber costs the lbs google, it okay, lbs lumber prices. You slap that thing into google here, i'll pull it up for us.

I don't even have to wait for it to load, because i know it's going to be a poop show: okay, we're going to go ahead and pull it up on this little computer over here, and then we're going to go ahead and pull up the one-year chart And then we'll look at the five-year chart together and you tell me you want to spend money on lumber right now. Okay, you tell me if you want to be buying here or here. Okay, it's not hard go to the five-year. You really want to be buying lumber right now: okay, it's no different from oh you're, not supposed to see that it's no different from what the doomberg terminal says about commodities.

I look at copper, year-to-date uh. It's only a five percent sheet metal 25. I don't even get me started on nickel up 51 year uh to date. If we go year over year, i'll, try it i'll change it to the one year now, copper starts getting a little uglier.

15 percent nickel up 92 percent aluminum up 52, come on. Why would you be spending the money in this market with these kinds of commodity prices? It's astonishing, it's stupid, but it's not just the commodity prices that are insane right now. It's the labor prices that are insane for construction right now, but not only is it the opportunity cost of commodity prices and the labor costs. It is also the fact that most contractors, the good contractors, are so booked up that what are they doing because they're so booked up, because all the people who don't understand what investing is or spending their money renovating their homes you're paying massive fat premiums right now? It's stupid: you are wasting your money to renovate your home right now.

It is a terrible, terrible time to do this wait a year. Maybe when the economy is a little bit more depressed or the next time a recession comes around. You think you're going to get good deals on construction when there's a recession. Let me like seriously think about that.

If we are in a recession - and you call up a contractor, go hey, you know i'm looking to do a deck, but please i'll be there. In five minutes right now, it's like hey, i'm looking at a deck, yeah, yeah i'll schedule you in two weeks just to come, take a look at the project and maybe we'll build it out in six months. So we'll put you down on the list and we're gon na charge. You a fat premium too come on man when you want to be buying it's stupid, for what a deck get it.

It's ridiculous renovations, ridiculous. Second problem: new construction come on man, you know you're, not getting new construction at a discount. Now, look i don't want to hear all the people. I know you're thinking it.

You're like oh, i bought. I signed a deposit for new construction and the price went up. Well, no freaking duh. The real estate market has only been going straight up.

One of the cool things about new construction. Is you have a free option on real estate? Okay, that doesn't mean you made a good deal. It means you got a free option on real estate. You know the stock market options cost money, but here's what happens when the real estate market is doing this and you sign a contract, an option to buy new construction - and it goes from here to here.

Duh everybody made money, but you still paid market value. Honestly, you probably paid a little bit above market value because that's what happens with new construction, you tend to pay a little bit above market value, you're, paying a little bit more than the neighborhood's actually going for, because it's no like it's somewhat like a new car. Okay, so, instead of buying new construction, you should be insulating yourself right now. You should be trying to purposefully find fixer-uppers.

Now wait a minute kevin. You just said not to do renovations, oh my god! Well, this is really where we need to take another shot of whiskey. I mean my first shot of whiskey because clearly, if that's your reaction, you're missing the boat, okay, look building a deck for yourself is an expensive endeavor me replacing carpet for fifteen hundred bucks. Me painting the interior over thirteen hundred square foot property and scraping the ceiling for five thousand dollars me painting the cabinets of my kitchen on a weekend myself for 500 bucks or less in materials with handles, we'll call it with material fine with handles and materials that That is an investment that is called making money.

I don't care if i'm paying 10 percent more on a 40 000 renovation for a rental okay. So what it cost me 44 grand! If i'm getting a wedge deal, if i'm getting a below market cosmetic fixer-upper, i'm still getting a good deal. If you still don't know what a wedge deal is, you've got to check out those real estate, investing programs linked down below. Okay, listen, you buy a rental property, you do rental grade.

I don't want to hear that your 499 stove is now 580, but if you're trying to buy a 5 000 stove, you've lost your damn marbles right now. This is not the market to do that. In no no, no, no stop it don't build a pool, don't build a deck, stop buying expensive garbage, get invested in the stock market or prepare for deals in the real estate market and they will not last long. I do not see a 2008 style recession coming.

It would be a very short window if at all, but i'd rather, you find a good deal anyway. Then waste your money on this kind of garbage. So it's stupid. It's just.

This is just dumb. Okay! Next, this is not the time for all the aforementioned reasons. To build an adu, i don't care that you think your passive incomes are going to go up. There's no passive income.

Passive income is garbage. Passive income is either active income that you think is passive income. It's you dealing with a tenant or whatever all the other garbage or it's extra cash flow that you get. That makes you feel rich, so you go out for an extra dinner a week and then you're left with no actual passive net income because you spent it all okay, you should be focused on wealth building.

The last thing i would recommend for wealth building right now is building adus for all the aforementioned region. Their reasons, contractors, commodities, okay. Next, there are a lot of people who are pissed, because interest rates just went up terrible a lot i'll pull up my favorite tool. It's called the zillow mortgage calculator, not that big of a deal zillow mortgage calculator, okay, just take a look at the two-year chart once it pops up for mortgage rates.

Here you go. You notice. This is not actually two years right. This is actually more like four to five months.

That's a poop show. You went from 2.8 to 4.3. That means, if you try to go, refinance uh. You know a 500 000 home right now, you're, probably getting quoted 4.75 and you're, like what other people were just getting three and a half for three and a quarter or 2.8.

Why am i getting quoted 4.75 or 4.5 or four and a quarter? You know what i'll pay points to buy down the rate: oh gosh, more people who have not taken the course on real estate, investing whatever oh, but you could just google this stuff. Why would you have to take a course? Oh wait because you can't google the stuff, because you won't google this stuff, because you don't even know what to look for you. Don't even know that you don't even know if you're paying points. You don't even know that you don't even know that it's gon na take you seven to ten years to break even on paying points for a stupid.

Dumb loan buy down very bad idea to buy down your loan. In my opinion, you're probably going to refinance way before then, because j pal is going to hike rates between now and 2024 and then guess, what's going to happen, oh crap. We over tightened time to rotate down as soon as we rotate down now. The expectation of no more rights rate hikes goes away, which now amplifies the reduction of rates to the downside.

It's not just the downside of the fed, but now it's the expectation that okay rate increases are done, so you see a larger and more substantial drop in mortgage rates. That's the time to refinance so don't pay. The points now take negative points right now. What does negative points mean? Okay, so you take a five and a quarter rate and you get a free refinance.

Basically you suck it up for two or three years, and then you refinance in the future. Oh, but what if values are lower, whatever don't take a loan that you can't afford to pay? But if you're complaining about a few hundred dollars here or there quite frankly per month, you should not be in real estate. If you're complaining about a few hundred dollars of cash flow or not cash flow per month, you should not be in real estate, it's kind of like the people who are like. Oh my gosh kevin, i'm i'm buying a house with five percent down and if i were to rent it out today, i won't because i got to live there for a year.

But if i were to rent it out for a year uh or you know once once uh once i lived there for a year, you know i'd have a negative cash flow of 200 a month. Oh, my gosh, two thousand four hundred dollars a year is what it's gon na cost you you mean less than your principal pay down as well. It's gon na cost you to own this property, and you tell me you can't save an extra two thousand four dollars. A year don't get into real estate, then it's not endorsing negative cash flows.

You have a portfolio of negative cash flows. You're gon na go bankrupt. You don't want more than one or two of those negative cash flowing properties, but over time the goal is that you raise uh rental rates and uh you catch up to market and uh. Your equity goes up.

Value goes up over time, and then you get out of those negative cash flows in those situations where you're, especially where you're putting down less than 25 percent. When you put down 25 now in, like california, you're gon na be negative cash flow, it's gon na be the same story. Uh you're gon na have to put down like 35 percent to be breakeven, but listen stay away from these big four mistakes: renovations, overpaying for due construction building, adus paying points and number five as a bonus one because they promised you a bonus one and stay away From syndications because they rip off, that's all - i got talked about the ripoff before delaying a fees until the end, the massive waterfalls, the uh advertising pitch of oh yeah, well only by value-add, and then they never add value. They just ride the wave and profit off your own equity.

It's bull, crap.