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Myka's advice to anyone starting today: buy a two-bed one-bath quad, live in one unit for a year, then go buy the next one. Four units still falls under single-family financing. Do that five years straight and you're sitting on 20 doors before year six — and interest rates stop mattering to you.
Episode 352! A Friday night one. The Feds hiked rates, houses are sitting, and Myka and Steve get into what you actually do about it: seller credits that hand you $30K back at closing, getting a seller to carry 60 grand at 0% behind a DSCR loan, and how Steve structures balloon payments so he can extend if rates never come down. Then Steve tells the Ashley Hamilton story — buying $500 houses in Detroit off tax returns when everyone said don't invest in Detroit. Plus: why insurance and ALE tenants are the closest thing to a recession-proof guest, midterm reservations getting cancelled in Hawaii and Arkansas, why a single-family rental is a single point of failure, Myka's new-build construction loan and the containerized duplex, the "firewall agents" blocking every seller-finance offer, and a real AI workflow — letting ChatGPT supervise Claude, and Claude building a contracts app in the background while they record.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold Open
0:30 Friday Night Episode, Cheers
3:10 The Fake Brand That Fooled Google
6:49 The Feds Hiked Rates — Now What?
8:03 Seller Credits: $30K Back at Closing
9:50 DSCR Loan + Seller Carrying 60 Grand
11:02 Zeona's 0% Second-Lien Trick
11:52 Is It a Good Time to Buy in Texas?
13:41 Lumber Prices Are Going Crazy
14:39 Construction Loan, Then Refi Into One
17:15 Containerizing the Duplex Build
17:48 "We're Just Gonna Get an Apartment"
19:08 Ashley Hamilton & the $500 Detroit Houses
22:43 Buy a Quad, Live In One, Repeat
24:48 How Long Until the Balloon Payment?
28:16 Extending the Balloon if Rates Stay High
30:07 Insurance Tenants & Breaking a Lease
30:45 Midterm Cancellations in Hawaii
31:03 What's a Recession-Proof Guest?
32:59 Insurance Costs Inside the Deal
36:47 Putting PadSplits Inside Multifamily
39:22 Single Family = Single Point of Failure
41:37 Put Your Business Docs Into Claude
43:00 Let ChatGPT Supervise Claude
45:03 New Agents With AI vs 30-Year Agents
46:19 Claude Is Building My Contract App
50:19 The Contractor Discount and the Points
50:55 "Firewall Agents" and Seller Finance
52:22 Keep Everything in Writing
56:20 The California Money Guy Behind the Flip
57:53 Who Actually Gets the Tax Advantages
58:36 Why Lupita Should Get Licensed
1:00:15 The Agent as Creative-Deal Middleman
1:05:57 Netting My Old Salary From Rentals
1:06:56 "Why Do You Still Live There?"
1:10:17 Taking the Whole Family on the Trip
1:15:34 Experiences Over Stuff
1:16:27 One Airbnb to Owner Finance & New Builds
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