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174: Lessons Learned From 2,000+ Transactions Over 44 Years with Dave Short

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

English - May 12, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 16.3K ratings
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Around BiggerPockets, we often encourage newer investors to sit down with an experienced real estate investor to “pick their brain” and soak up their wisdom. Today on the BiggerPockets Podcast, we want to do just that. Dave Short began investing in real estate nearly half a century ago and has an incredible level of insight into the ups and downs of building wealth through real estate. We cover everything from overcoming failure to flipping a hundred houses in four years and much more!
In This Episode We Cover:

How he got started in real estate from a factory job 44 years ago

The grave need for property management and liquidating their business

Thoughts on going through investing with over a million dollars in debt

Tips for making partners instead of having bank relationships

How help from the outside opened his eyes

Why you should stay in the game despite failures

The importance of working with the right people

How many transactions he has done over his real estate career

How he flips a house

Who’s on his team

How to hook a spouse on investing in real estate

How he buys his deals

How to get a good transaction as a wholesaler

Making a deal by solving other people’s problems

How to show yourself to be legit as a wholesaler

Why you should find a veteran investor in your market

What “pre-habbing” a house is

And SO much more!

Links from the Show

BiggerPockets Jobs

Google Play

Tim Ferris’ Podcast

BP Podcast Show 91: Getting Started as a Real Estate Wholesaler with Ben Grise

BiggerPockets Keyword Alerts

BiggerPockets Meet

BiggerPockets Analysis Tools

BiggerPockets Forums

Books Mentioned in this Show

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner

The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller

Burst This! by Frank McKinney

Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

Tweetable Topics:

“The management is the key to success, and real estate is just the vehicle.” (Tweet This!)

“In buying and selling real estate, every house has 2 to 4 solutions.” (Tweet This!)

“The beauty in staying in the real estate business for 44 years is if you’re in a slump for 4 years, that’s only 10% of your career.” (Tweet This!)

“If you can’t ask the right questions, then you’ll never get to the solution.” (Tweet This!)

“I never look at them as competition. They’re people we work together with, and we can all make a living.” (Tweet This!)

Connect with Dave
Dave’s BiggerPockets Profile


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Around BiggerPockets, we often encourage newer investors to sit down with an experienced real estate investor to “pick their brain” and soak up their wisdom. Today on the BiggerPockets Podcast, we want to do just that. Dave Short began investing in real estate nearly half a century ago and has an incredible level of insight into the ups and downs of building wealth through real estate. We cover everything from overcoming failure to flipping a hundred houses in four years and much more!

In This Episode We Cover:


How he got started in real estate from a factory job 44 years ago
The grave need for property management and liquidating their business
Thoughts on going through investing with over a million dollars in debt
Tips for making partners instead of having bank relationships
How help from the outside opened his eyes
Why you should stay in the game despite failures
The importance of working with the right people
How many transactions he has done over his real estate career
How he flips a house
Who’s on his team
How to hook a spouse on investing in real estate
How he buys his deals
How to get a good transaction as a wholesaler
Making a deal by solving other people’s problems
How to show yourself to be legit as a wholesaler
Why you should find a veteran investor in your market
What “pre-habbing” a house is
And SO much more!

Links from the Show


BiggerPockets Jobs
Google Play
Tim Ferris’ Podcast
BP Podcast Show 91: Getting Started as a Real Estate Wholesaler with Ben Grise
BiggerPockets Keyword Alerts
BiggerPockets Meet
BiggerPockets Analysis Tools
BiggerPockets Forums

Books Mentioned in this Show

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner

The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller

Burst This! by Frank McKinney

Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

Tweetable Topics:


“The management is the key to success, and real estate is just the vehicle.” (Tweet This!)
“In buying and selling real estate, every house has 2 to 4 solutions.” (Tweet This!)
“The beauty in staying in the real estate business for 44 years is if you’re in a slump for 4 years, that’s only 10% of your career.” (Tweet This!)
“If you can’t ask the right questions, then you’ll never get to the solution.” (Tweet This!)
“I never look at them as competition. They’re people we work together with, and we can all make a living.” (Tweet This!)

Connect with Dave

Dave’s BiggerPockets Profile

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices