In this episode, client Jeff Morris asks Jason Hartman’s advice about investing in Chicago. They discuss the cash flow and rent-to-value ratios, maintenance costs, and the vacancy rate in Chicago and determined that it’s the least expensive world-class city in the U.S. Jason and Jeff also talk about the advantages of buying a group of properties all at once and compare the rental properties in Little Rock and Memphis and Chicago.

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Welcome to the creating wealth show with Jason Hartman. You’re about to learn a new slant on investing some exciting techniques and fresh new approaches to the world’s most historically proven asset class that will enable you to create more wealth and freedom than you ever thought possible. Jason is a genuine self made multi millionaire who’s actually been there and done it. He’s a successful investor, lender, developer and entrepreneur who’s owned properties in 11, states had hundreds of tenants and been involved in 1000s of real estate transactions. This program will help you follow in Jason’s footsteps on the road to your financial independence day, you really can do it. And now here’s your host, Jason Hartman with the complete solution for real estate investors.

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Welcome to the creating wealth show. This is your host, Jason Hartman. And this is episode number 553 553. Thanks for joining me today. We love having you listen, and we’ve been getting such great feedback on the show. So thank you so much for all of your support. And for your reviews on iTunes and telling your friends about the show, and all that good stuff. We really appreciate it. And that’s what keeps us going. Booking great celebrity guests, and thought leaders and people who really know what’s going on. We’ve got some great shows coming up for you. On Wednesday, our next episode, not this one, we have a presidential candidate. I’m going to let you guess who it is. And of course, we already had one. We’ve had four presidential candidates on the show now including, of course, Steve Forbes, probably the most famous one of the bunch. Pat Buchanan, maybe the second most famous, but we also had Dr. Ben Carson on the show. Of course, he was in the recent Republican debates, which you probably saw those were like the highest rated debates ever. So anyway, we’ll keep them coming. We are trying to get Donald Trump on the show. And also either Rand Paul or Ron Paul would love to hear from them. But yes, Wednesday, we have a presidential candidate coming on to talk to us as well. So look forward to that. But today, we’re going to talk hardcore real estate stuff. We’ve got one of our clients, Jeff Morris coming on the show, and he will be our guest today.

But before we get to that, two big announcements, well, one big announcement and one not so big announcement. How’s that sound? The big announcement is we have our next venture Alliance trip all planned out. And I tell you, I am so excited about that. listeners. Have you ever been to the east coast for a fall foliage tour? And have you ever been to see the biggest mansions in the United States? Now this kind of stuff exists in Europe, but there’s only one place in the US where you have these spectacularly opulent, incredible mansions. And yes, that is Newport, Rhode Island. That is where our upcoming venture Alliance weekend is. It’s our second venture lions weekend. There’s a lot of excitement about this. And that is at the end of September. And I’m actually going to do I’m working on this I’m pretty sure I’m gonna do a side trip to Martha’s Vineyard. I have never been to Martha’s Vineyard. I’ve never been Newport, Rhode Island either. But I’ve been on fall foliage tours. And let me tell you, it is spectacular. I know we have a lot of East Coast listeners. So if you want to come if you’ve been thinking about joining the venture Alliance, the only mastermind group built around, of course, fun adventure, great trips, great camaraderie, lifelong friendships, creating deep bonds between people but also on doing deals together. You can come as a guest and our guests fee for our Newport Rhode Island trip at the end of September. I believe the dates are September 25. That weekend. I’m also going to do a side trip to Martha’s Vineyard. Pretty sure working on that probably the Thursday before. So if you want to join me for that, and the venture Alliance weekend, you’re welcome to if you’re thinking about joining of course you can do that at Jason hartman.com in the Products section. But also you can come as a guest if you’re not sure if you want to join and we’ll apply your guest registration fee to your membership. Again, guest fee for this one is $2,000. And the membership is of course still at its early bird price at 10 grand a year. I know if you’re not used to these mastermind groups that may seem high. But really, it’s cheap. I’m a member of a mastermind group where I pay $25,000 a year to join. And I gotta tell you, if you ask me years ago, if I thought I would ever be spending like $100,000, a year on memberships and stuff like this, I would have said, You’re crazy. But it’s the new country club. It’s where you get to meet with people and hang out with people that are doing big things. And it’s aspirational. And that is so critically important. So check that out. Let us know if you’re interested. I know there’s been a lot of questions, a lot of interest about venture Alliance. And I don’t talk about it very much on the show. But again, that is our next event. So I hope you’ll join us for beautiful, stunning, spectacular, Newport, Rhode Island and fall foliage, it’s just going to be an awesome trip. So we’re really looking forward to that. And then Jason Hartman University live is coming up in San Diego on the other coast. So you would go coast to coast here, don’t we? That’s August 29. And 30th. This event is selling very quickly, we only recently announced it, we’re in our second tier of early bird pricing, that’s going to increase again at the end of the week. So you can get in on that. And again, here, this is a totally new event. It’s two whole days, it’s a whole weekend, we’ve had our meet the Masters event for many years, we’ve had our creating wealth, boot camp for many years, we’ve had our property tours for many years.

But here we’re doing more of a workshop format event where we’re going to cover market analysis, how do you pick what market to invest in? We’re going to talk about property analysis, you know, how do you analyze a property from the land to improvement ratio, the rent to value ratio, the return on investment, the cap rate, the cash on cash return. And I think importantly, although I don’t talk about it a whole lot, the debt coverage ratio, the debt coverage ratio, we’re going to talk about property acquisition, creating a real checklist for how to analyze the property once you’ve purchased it, or right before you purchase it. So what things you got to check off what things you need to look for. And then we’re going to talk about managing your manager versus self management, and then overall property portfolio planning. We’re also going to talk about land contracts. We’ve got it looks like we’ve inked three special guests for this event. Number one is our land contract expert. He is flying out for the event. And now that we’ve got all the compliance issues, we didn’t think some of the things he was talking about before were totally compliant with Dodd Frank. Now that we’ve got that ironed out, I’m super excited, we’ve had a lot of clients investing in land contracts. But also there is an opportunity, it’s fairly limited. But there is an opportunity to do what we call ground floor deals to where you can actually make some big capital gains. And so we’ll talk about that as well. This is just going to be a great event, we’re going to have our Chicago local market specialist fly out for this event, he will be speaking only on Saturday of the event, he doesn’t think he can stay through Sunday. So we’re gonna have Kim come out, we’re gonna do some panels. And this is just gonna be a great event j Ah, you live. Of course, this is free for venture Alliance members, and early bird pricing for everybody else. And then you know, if you want to write a review in iTunes, my ethical bribe here, many of you have written reviews over the years, and we sure appreciate that you reviewing the show in iTunes. If you want to write a review, just send me a screenshot to this email address. You’re ready. It’s reviews at Jason hartman.com reviews at Jason hartman.com. Send a screenshot of your review. And we will email you back a promo code for a 30% discount. Hope that helps and hope you love it. And you know what, there is a lot going on in the real estate world that I want to talk to you about. We’ve got a bunch of articles to share with you. We’re gonna t