Coaching Call: 2.5M Doctor Getting Started in Syndication + Infinite Banking

What is up investors? Now on today’s podcast, we’re gonna be doing another doctor coaching call, like how we did a couple of weeks ago. But if you haven’t checked out, I think it was Brian on that coaching call, sometimes we change the names , and then that, I think that goes for if anybody wants to do these, Free coaching calls where we go into your personal financial sheet.

We’ll send you the blank personal financial sheet to fill out so that it helps expedite things and people on feedback. Do people really like to look at people’s personal financial sheet as financial voyeurs is the term. If you guys are listening to this on the podcast form, go on the YouTube channel to find this podcast, if you really want to follow along on the personal financial sheet and see all their numbers and a lot that we don’t talk about, I had a lot of questions and feedback over my analogy that I had a couple of podcasts ago, I believe, and then go back to Brian’s one for the full discussion. But this whole concept of, you know what, all right, we’re investing in deals. We are playing these different tax strategies, or at least learning it, maybe doing, getting some passive losses artificially that you don’t have to recapture through the new Taxal fund and you’re doing a little bit infinite banking or a new accredited.

or a new accredited investor banking, which you guys will probably learn as we rolled that out this year. Let me know if you want to try it out, but, it’s working, but alright, people are moving down this path and I think everybody here pretty much, they’re not trust fund kids.

They made their own money and they’re still working. working hard in their jobs or as 10 99. So their small businesses and what is the path forward and how do they keep working? Do they titrate down? Do they work, do they spouse work? How do you implement rep status? And I introduced this Raptor, Toyota or Ford Raptor gas guzzler versus the Tesla model versus the in the middle hybrid.

Prius model of kind of different paths to doing this. Of course, all this is personal finance and what I really urge you guys to do is sign up for the club if you haven’t, and even if you are scared, book that call with me. I won’t rip your head off. I’m really nice when you get to know me. , we get on one-on-one and you.

Let’s go through this and let’s see which one of these paths really fits well for your family and or at least give you some what the options are. And let’s try and. Compressed time cycles for you because time is really the most important thing out there. But if I’m not gonna go into what the heck this analogy was, but what I’m gonna say is go back to the previous podcast that we did coaching call with Brian.

He was also a doctor. I go over this loosely, if not shoot us email, maybe we’ll do more. But certainly if you’re on the YouTube channel, put a comment below. We’ll answer, this is, this kind of, it’s real quality of life questions and personal finance questions, and this is ultimately what I really like because this changes lives.

Like going into a deal, doubling your money, whatever. That’s cool. Tax savings. Yeah. That’s amazing. When, a lot of the doctors will save 150, $200,000 in their first year by doing some of this stuff, and you. , of course. That’s, if you guys heard my kind of confession last week, sometimes when you have a lot of money, that may not mean too much, but you know when your net worth is under a million, a couple million dollars.

This is. Big life changing moments and maybe can be the difference between you having a second child or third chat, or even kids at all, or even, going down a different path in life, whatever you choose. But again, go check out that order podcast and if you have any questions let me know. Or if we ha you haven’t burned up your free intro call with me.

I urge you guys to do. Let’s get you guys going or at least get you a different viewpoint in so you don’t just screw around for the next 30, 40 years of your life, putting your money blindly into the stuff that they want you to do and enjoy the coaching call.

Hey folks, we have another hard work in a professional. Who’s going to be a volunteer to do a coaching call here. So Derek is a doctor. And if you guys like, like you guys are really liked this, I don’t know why people get like financial warism when they appear in on these things. But the truth is not many.

There’s not too many different profiles. And if you’ve gone to the YouTube channel and look for the coaching call playlist, or got an access to our members portal, which is free, you just got to sign up@simplepassivecashflow.com slash club. We actually align all the coaching calls based on networks.

So you can just find yourself and fit right in and find some of the past coaching calls people in the lower net worth than you. And some of the higher ones that you’ll get to at some point, but Dick in here, there. Thanks for doing this. Why don’t you quickly go over a little backstory to get the people that get to know you like.

Sure. Yeah. Thanks for having me. I’m excited to do this coaching call. As far as my background, so typical working or professional kind of investment background. I met my wife in medical school. We were both physicians and busy with training and residency and all that. So we just went down the typical route of basically doing retirement accounts and funneling all our money into stocks and bonds.

We thought were pretty smart cause we were doing mostly low fee index funds. So we weren’t picking individual stocks. We were doing a lot of just basically Vanguard mutual funds. And we’re doing that for basically 10 to 15 years. Cause we had two children along the way. And then just recently, actually earlier this year brother-in-law got me turned back onto real estate.

So went down a really deep dive into the podcast world and bigger pockets on your podcast. And really just started to look into this indication space and rental property space. And this year we actually purchased two rental properties. So one that’s for a longterm property where we actually have some in-laws staying in it.

So it’s not like a typical rental property, I would say. And then a second was a short-term rental property that we got in the mountain area in North Carolina. So we did all that this year. And then now I’m at the space where I really want to start more looking at passive, truly passive, so syndication type deals and maybe even starting to look into like infinite banking.

So basically just trying to get more sophisticated away from just mutual funds, stocks and bonds actually start. Getting some more investments into real estate. And then where are you guys at? Age-wise you guys got kids? So I am 40. Unfortunately the other complicating factor of my personal history is my spouse passed away suddenly like a few months ago, which complicated the issue.

So it’s just me now as a single father with two kids who are six and nine that has also led to this push very recently to really try to simplify my life and simplify my investment strategy. Obviously I want it to be high yield and useful, but I just really want simple. Sorry to hear that.

I know it’s something that all of us as we’re trying to get our stuff together, we never know what’s going to happen. It could be you, it could be them. I was kinda thinking the other day, if it was me. What’s the point. If I’ve gone, it’s all done the simulation ends, but that’s not a good way of looking at it, but yeah.

That’s definitely gets you on the right path or at least tell you what I think. And great. But but right now you’re still working, right? Yep. I work full time W2. I know I’ve listened to a bunch of podcasts, yours included where there’s talk about like real estate status, professional, all of that.

I am not going to qualify for that. And that’s probably years out because the place I work at is actually pretty cool place. It’s a fun startup and I’m definitely, I think, going to continue it at least for the next few years. So I don’t really have any, that’s not in the immediate future to shut off my W2, if that makes sense.

So just a quick snapshot for people listening on the podcast. We also do this via screen share on the YouTube channel. So if you guys want to flip through some of the personal finance sheets as we go through, I’ll pop on over there later the net worth about two and a half. But what I wanted to dig in on, so assets first, right?

You S you mentioned a lot of it is just traditional stocks, bonds, mutual funds, et cetera. So at what I’m seeing is about 800 grand in that stock bonds mutual funds stuff. And then you’ve got a lot of equity in the rental and the primary residence that you guys live in that equity might be wrong. I might have filled out the sheet wrong.

So the equity is probably in the primary residence, I would say between three to 400, depending on what it’s going to sell for in the market. Okay. Know, you didn’t, you did it right. You did it right. You have the this is what it’s worth now that the Delta is, this is the mortgage on it. So I think you got it, right?

Yeah. So it’s three to 400 probably in my primary. And then the two rentals were just purchased within the last, six to eight months, the equity. And that’s definitely not quite as high, although the market is probably somewhere between 50 to 75,000 for each of those. Okay. So we will we’ll circle back around them.

Like we’re going to invest what money we’re going to use first in one particular order, which is always a very common question that comes up, but let’s figure out what your philosophy at this point. So what is your kind of your adjusted gross income? What do you guess it’s going to be this next year?

So right now, my wage is 265,000 per year. For that comes to after taxes. It used to be, my, with my spouse working as well as closer to half a million, but that’s obviously going to keep and then your expenses, right? Not cheap having a couple of kids, but luckily. The wonderful state of California, a little bit cheaper where you’re at, right? Yeah. North Carolina is not too bad. Although the area man is a little bit more expensive than the typical North Carolina, but it’s definitely, yeah. I lived in the bay area before, too. It’s not like San Francisco, other California areas. Yeah. Did you move over to the Carolinas for work or kind of her family?

So I was in the, I used to be in the military, so we were in California, then Colorado, which I actually really loved, but a lot of my wife’s family is from the Northeast area, so we just wanted to get closer to them, but didn’t want to go to an expensive New York or Massachusetts area. So that’s how we ended up in North Korea.

Okay. So what would you say you guys, monthly burn rate for expenses? You use it utilizing daycare or, yeah there’s afterschool, so our kids are in school, but we have to put them in after afterschool or after care. My wife has some car payments. Cause she got a new car. A couple of years ago.

We have our mortgage taxes, groceries, all that stuff. It’s probably around 10,000 give or take 10 to 12,000, depending on the months I used to track the budget a lot more closely. And then that kind of went away the last year or so, but that’s probably about it and that’s including like our, we would set aside money to go on nice vacations and stuff like that.

We lump that in. So probably 12,000 a month would be Yeah. And I think, this is 12,000 burn rate every month. And so you net about 10. So you’re spending at least a hundred grand a year. Maybe that’d be a couple of investments every year. As long as you for you guys, as long as you can stay above 50, 75,000, I think you’re good enough.

You can let off the gas a little bit, whereas some of the folks that are under 1000001.5 million they might want to tighten the belt a little bit. Going at a pretty decent clip here. It’s just a matter of being smart to work with putting the money. I think that’s my next big step is just being smart with deploying all the capital out for sure.

Yeah. I’m not a big personal finance guy anymore, saving the coupons, that type of nonsense. But you guys are doing pretty well. I’ve talked to some people in California where they make more than you yet. They’re barely able to save 30 to $50,000 and I’m like, dude, what’s going on.

It’s typically private school for kids is what flips that up or extremely big outs. But I think, your house is pretty big for North Carolina. You got the salary to support it and that’s actually something I’ve already been in the process of looking at, I put an offer in, on a townhouse that would be smaller to downsize.

Like I’m already looking at a way to either, do a cash out refi or just selling downsides. So I’m actively looking to pull the equity out of this house. Yeah. Let’s so let’s do this. Let’s go over the deployment strategy first and then we can loop back around to like kind of life choices or transitions.

Maybe I can just be a sounding board for you because at this point I know where you’re going at a certain rate, and I know where you’re going to be in the next four or five years. And most times I think you folks and myself included at one time, you operate as in scarcity mode, right?

You think we’re not going to be able to get there. So we’re pinching pennies, but if we make the right moves and especially if you want to downsize that gives you a lot more. Pushes you further down on the financial independence road. So that said, let’s talk about where so let’s look at this 800 grand in your retirement accounts, you had it broken down one of these sheets, IRA versus RA, right?

I think down here. So let me see here. You’ve got the Roth stuff is about 150,000. 401k 4 0 3 BS. That’s the majority at five 50. And then you’ve got the IRA miscellaneous stuff at one at night 90. So one thing I’ve looked at or I’ve reached out to a company it’s like ERP or something was like one of those trying to tap into specifically that 4 0 3.

Is my wife’s. So now I’m, I was beneficiary now it’s mindset. I’m still trying to look into if that’s yeah. Everybody’s trying to sell you a bunch of stuff, huh? Yeah. All right. Here’s my thing. Retirement counts. You’ve heard me say at night, if you just add them, like I think you’re better off paying your taxes on it today while you’re in a lower tax bracket today.

Look, you’re at two 50 or under the three 40, right? And then especially if you believe taxes are going to be going up in the future, especially if you think your financial picture’s going to be going up the future, that argument where to put it into these self self-directed accounts or qualified retirement plans is what they’re technically called.

Not some marketing term or whatever. They’re all the same thing. Solo 401ks. If that works, if you’re investing in non tax advantage, Okay, like crypto stops, but if you’re investing in real estate, the damn thing should be tax free. Anyway, because you get the losses from the tax advantage asset.

That’s the key thing that people glaze over all the time. So I guess my first question is, are you going to be investing in real estate or do you want to be investing in stocks, bonds, which are funds crypto? So I’m still trying to figure out like what I ultimately want my asset allocation to be. I know that I want to, like currently I’m very heavily in stocks and bonds, and I want to shift that and probably get anywhere from 40 to 50, maybe 60% of my total net worth than real estate, probably 20 to 30 ish and still stay in stocks and bonds index funds.

The crypto piece is the one that I’m still figuring out. I actually listened to one of your webinars that you did. I forget who the person was, where they were, making the point that he thinks Bitcoin is. However many million per Bitcoin and all that. And I have some friends that are pushing Bitcoin hard as well.

I’ve gotten a tiny bit into that space. I wasn’t anywhere on the worksheet, but I think 10 times and crypto dabbling slowly and a little bit, a bit pointed, Ethan, I’m trying to determine is that going to be like 1% of my net worth? Just so I have a tiny stake versus five to 10%, and I’m a little bit more aggressive in the crypto space.

So I’m still doing a little bit of research on that and that’s what makes us hard, right? Because if we’re before we start to decide on self directed IRA, solo, 401k, or take it to cash, you got to figure out what that end asset allocation pie chart is going to look like, but you don’t know what the hell that looks like at this point.

Like I have some ideas. I’ll just shoot you. What most people in our kind of mastermind group we’ll do at your network? They might do like pitfalls five, 10, 5% into crypto. The crazy ones will be doing 10%, but as you can see, it’s, you’re not going balls to the wall with this type of stuff.

The St. Wall street bets type of stuff. So sounds a little bit like more reasonable to me. Yeah. I, and then most of ’em based, they start off with that 50% alternative asset idea, which I think you’re hitting down over time. I think that it creeps over to the majority, but I think most people they’re always going to have order or third of the traditional garbage, if you will.

Personally, I don’t have any of that stuff, but I’m not normal. And I think it’s prudent to have some of that stuff so that you’re always in it. So you’re learning. So the idea is you build the alternatives, get your net worth up to five, 10 million, and then possibly come back to the traditional space is the idea.

But if you leave them the traditional space, you’ll never, you might as well stay on the alternatives because that’s what you got you there in the first place. But let’s just go with, you’re going to in the next several years, we’ve transitioned to half alternatives, half, I don’t know, 40, 45% traditional stuff.

So we’ll leave half of this stuff alone in a way. Are you counting like syndication. Yeah, those are what I call alternatives. Yeah. So real estate is alternatives of crazy. Where did I actually be more comfortable with 65% alternatives, 30%, 5% crypto. That seems like a reasonable starting.

Yeah. And I think that’s, again, that’s no, that’s very typical. The people on the family office group that are, have that kind of mindset, but of course you got to get to your 50, 51st. So let’s have that to be an intermediate goal these next few years, and then get to that once you get proof of concept, but that in mind, of course I’m aggressively pushing you to move this stuff around.

What I would probably do in that case is let’s see again, 800,000 of various pre-tax post-tax various IRA, 4 0 3 B 4 0 1 K stuff. First thing we always do is we don’t touch this stuff first. We, you got liquidity, right? You have full equity first. Yeah. So I have home equity and then there’s a decent amount that I have in checking and savings.

And then also I’ll I got a lump sum for the life insurance, a supplemental life insurance benefit. So what would you say like that liquidity with some up to about like several thousand? It’s about 700, although I like to keep some in reserve, like I’m one of those people that probably wants 75 to a hundred.

And so deployable capital right now, I would say comfortably between six to six 50 that I could deploy pretty quickly. So there’s two paths. Ideas I’ll give you like first is what I’ll do. Cause I’ve already know it works personally. And then there’s the one that most people will do that I see, which has all of a C takes him to the count.

The whole let’s try this stuff out first, before we go crazy with this stuff, to make sure it’s real, let’s get proof of concept, call me crazy. Like when I bought started to do out of state turkeys, I bought one property first and then I bought 11 very quickly, but I think it’s prudent to get proof of concept.

Although we’ve had people invest a million dollars in nine months by joining the family office group and building relationships with other peers and then quickly moving in, which makes me stressful for them. But now they’re happy with, 10, 10, 5 figures of monthly passive cash flow. Now, two years later, those are the two goalposts to think of.

I would say normally I’d be more on the cautious side. I think the one thing that makes me think I might be a little bit more aggressive about deploying the capital is just the inflation that’s already here. And it seems like it’s not going to slow down. I don’t want to just sit on this pile of cash for two or three years and have the purchasing power.

Yeah. So let me, those are the two goals, right? So what I’m going to propose just so we don’t have too many things floating around out here is just the bare minimum conservative one, the bleeding and slowly. So what I would do, so there’s a shoot, there’s three things going on here that I’m thinking in my head first, we got to deploy the liquidity first because that’s the stuff that’s not doing Jack for you.

Then what I want to do is I want to take, I want to leak money out of these retirement accounts slowly so that your right now, your adjusted gross income is about two 50. What I want to do is take, gosh. Wow. You’re married file single now. There is some sort of, I think I can technically still file married jointly for the next two years.

I believe my CPS. Yeah. And that was the same for you. That’s part of the reason too. I’m thinking of selling the house. He said it was like 24 months after she passed that thing. I can still get the full half a million tax-free when I sell the house versus the that’s fair. That’s good. So here’s what I’m thinking.

Say that, that is the case, right? If you’re making two 50 and then you leak out the retirement funds slowly to take you up to this three 40 number about right. So you’ve taken a hundred grand out every year for the next couple of years. If it’s unlucky where you don’t get that treatment then I, then you’re already topping up at the higher tax bracket.

Suz. Does that make sense? So you’re going to have to walk this path down the road with your CPA. Okay. But the idea is we want to be leaking out or retirement funds as quickly as possible, but not to go over this red line here. That makes sense. Do you understand the logic? Yeah. Gotcha. And is there like what, like a rank order of how you think those out?

Yeah. Good. Quick question. But let me get back to that school. So

the one thing that Roth IRAs are you’ve already paid the taxes on it and you can take out the contributions tax free penalty fee. So that’s your, you could always be taking that out in a way. But you have so much money, liquidity wise that you don’t have to touch this probably for the next several years.

And like I said before, I’m still considering keeping, a quarter to a third in stocks and bonds. I could, yeah. I, for you, and this is very personal for your situation because you have all this other liquidity at this. I would probably leave the Roths alone. Okay. You probably don’t have to touch them.

So to answer your question your current one, your 401k with your current employer, all, they can’t touch that. So let’s just leave it alone. The next one would possibly be the four old we B from the previous employer, spouses or this IRA

probably do. The 4 0 3 BS, because my logic is you have crappier options, like IRA, you have a bit more choices with it. And these are typically more of a pain in the ass to manipulate. So let’s get it up now. So I would say,

yeah, I would split a number here first would be the, this would be the first year, because if you’re going from 250,000 to two, try, do this year. And you can, there’s a couple more weeks left, but I still have my spouse’s income for most of this year. And then they also paid out like some months for the, yeah.

The income for this year is going to be well over half a million, but it’s going to be married, filed jointly. So next year is really. Got it.

Got it. Yeah, let’s ear mark that for 20, 22. And then we chip away at this 420 23, 20 24, 20 25 and 26. And is it thought that I’m just slowly drawing it out, stay below the next highest tax bracket and then redeploying the money into like syndication deals? Yeah. Yeah. Of course, people are, will tell you, they said the best thing.

It’s you’re going to have to pay the taxes on it at some point, and you’re not getting the tax benefits today. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. And then the 401k would be probably you could probably, I’m thinking you’re probably going to quit your job. 20 probably. Yeah. The place I’m at, it’s like a startup and just the trajectory of it.

Like I think the interesting work will be done by then hopefully, yeah, actually 20, 27 with IRA and then 20, 28 for the later. You’ll probably come to a couple of hundred sheets by then and you’ll probably, maybe do a backdoor Roth at that point. A lot of this will change in the next three years anyway, but that’s let’s get you going down the path first.

And I would probably recommend. I can’t the only reason where I might make sense to do a qualified retirement plan is if that doomsday scenario where you are limited to single joint or that 170 max, then you might like, again, like for people listening, the only reason that stuff makes sense in my humble opinion for that tax attorney.

But there’s no right answer for this stuff, as it is if two things apply, number one, you’re already in tax Breck, highest tax bracket, which you are, and number two, you have a boat load and your retirement, which you do. Like I’ve seen people with more like a million million, half in their retirement accounts, you certainly have more than half a million, 600,000.

So that kind of satisfies that. And the reason being is it’s oh shoot, what do we do? Let’s just kick the can down. It’s punting and football, right? In a way, unfortunately, in the things you have to balance. And the reason why I’m not super keen on is these damn things cost a lot of money.

I like your plan. I’m slowly drawing this out as you noted. And then you did mention like the backdoor rods. So that was something we had been doing the last couple of years of my spouse. I didn’t do it this year, but is that something you typically the recommended for? For most people know, because they got to get their stuff together and get their cashflow bucket filled today.

Then when you’re already cash laying 10, $20,000, then Danielle do your backdoor Roths after that people do it all backwards. It’s your scene. So you have the general idea and it sounds like you have a pretty good understanding of, leaking things out. If that would be the conservative way of doing it, if you want it to be a lot work or.

You take it out two times as fast and you start to supplement with some some other more exotic tax strategies and stuff like that. Like land conservation, easements, that type of stuff. Then I, I think at that point it probably makes more sense to join the family office group, talk to other doctors, doing that type of stuff.

See who, with operators that they’ve been working with that, at that point, we’re going to save you 10 times as much as your initiation before a group like that. But again, that’s not for everybody, right? I think you have a pretty dang good like conservative middle of the past strategy right here that you could probably implement, but if you want it to be optimized that’s the way you go to, and then you can unlock all this money and get it deployed right away before the great recession happens, I do have a question about the infinite banking concept, which I know you’ve mentioned on some of your podcasts, like webinars and stuff. Is that something I should consider with starting one of those policies since I do have so much cash that yeah. And that was the other thing I wanted to, so that’s always people always geek out on infinite banking.

And then if people want to, I would always say check out the free, if in a banking e-course we have, you’ve got to sign up a simple passive castro.com/club. Or I think if you go to simple pass to castro.com/banking, you can sign up directly for just that e-course, but it would probably make sense in your position because you have so much that you have that 700,000 just sitting there.

And it sounds like you’re on board to leaking out your retirement accounts quickly. So here’s how I would like mind model this thing out like 28, 22.

So I start to build these like timeline deployment plans and then motto how much liquidity you have. So right now you’re starting with 700 of liquidity. And this let’s just say this line is like how much you’re going to invest. How much money are you going to, you think you’re going to invest in 2022?

I guess it would depend on how comfortable I am findings. Yeah, I’ll say like most people they’ll do at least a hundred, 200,000. Again, I see people do a million the first year, so those are the two ends of the, kick the football. Yeah, I think it will come between anywhere between two to 300, depending, whether that’s $200,000 deals or a few $50,000 deals.

He’s probably a good number to put on that. Yeah. So what I’m doing here is just not figuring out how much liquidity you’re going to be left with. And let’s just say, you go with the same thing in 2023, you’re going to have 200, but you’re also speaking out number were leaking out a hundred thousand each year from IRA.

I think I got my, all my rules messed up here, but I see what you’re doing. You’re going to have 300, right? Yeah no. You’re going to have, okay. So the dude that you’re going to start off with four. Yeah. If you have 700 and you invest that, now you go down to five 50. And then you pull out another hundred, but you invest that you basically went down by four by a hundred thousand each year,

or yeah, down one 50 a year, investing two 50 employees, maybe this year, you get really go crazy on this year to go 300, but you’re still, yeah, I like this. I see what you’re doing. This makes a lot of sense. Like then I get more comfort investing in these deals and then what their deals are.

This is why I look, I like working with smart people. You guys catch onto this stuff. It’s still frustrating, but what does that mean? Think my head against the wall. If I can’t, I don’t know a good communicator, but this is what I’m. So you’re going to invest another 300 this year. I actually think what we’ll probably do is an east each year you might even two X, this investment probably was going to happen.

But yeah, I think you’re probably right. Cause I’m really starting to lean into learning more about this and I’m strongly considering joining your mastermind group, but really getting a strong network of like good syndicators and understanding this space more comfortable. Let’s just say let’s just bump it up a little bit.

Three 50. And I think that went to three 50. Let’s just say you do get a little bit more aggressive, like we’re saying, that was 3 50, 4 50. I think that’s how it is. Okay. So you’re going to, you’re going to basically burn through your past liquidity in three or four years. Okay. So what I’m trying to do is I’m trying to motto how much cash liquidity you have and then how much. So it’s two things. My Jew, this is just real general rule for how much money should I put into my infinite banking every year for six to seven years.

So my general rule is take one third of your annual debt. So for you guys are saving a hundred grand a year, so that’s 330,000 or 32 grand every year, but you have a big amount of liquidity, which we’ve modeled on it, estimated this line, what it’s going to be. What I want to do is estimate, I want to utilize this so that by the year, by the middle of the policy, you should be using this up.

Best as you can. So this is really, this is where, I’m just shooting darts out there to the universe a little bit, but my gut tells me that I’d like you to put in at least a hundred grand because that your liquidity is so high. So I would say on the low end, 130 grand every year, 130 grand every year.

Okay. Yeah. But you want to know what I would do? So this is the, this all depends how you create the policies, how much commissions the agent wants to take, right? So you can crank down the commissions, but, and what that does is cranks down the life insurance portion, the 10 to 20% is the best practice.

If you don’t want to gouge their clients with permissions. Which most people do. It’s like a 50, 50 split. The other good benefit to doing that is you don’t have. You may sign up to do a hundred thousand dollars a year, but only $10,000, really what you have to quit in that year. So that’s the beauty of it.

And I, that took me like three years to latch on because out here we’re all, you’re going to be our good as citizens are like if we save with a life insurance company, we’re going to put in 200, should we have to put in that every single year for six years to a total of 600,000.

But in reality, all we have to do is put in 60, maybe a hundred grand and shoot, we fit that in the first year. Yeah. I haven’t been in talks with somebody who does this and it was, I forgot what the once it’s topped up to one 30 or whenever you’re done the policies. Self-sustaining.

Yeah. And as long as you hit that, if it was a 90 10 split with 10% of the it being insurance premiums, once you hit that, you’re good. You don’t have to worry about the policy cannibalize. Or for the longest time I thought oh, you got to put in the whole thing, not necessary. But if it was configured in a jacked up way where it was 50, 50, 50% of it.

So on the 600,000 fully commit policy for six years, a hundred grand every year, you have to put in 300, that’s a bigger nut. You have to keep funding as opposed to 60, the more important number on these is basically what’s the total amount I need to put in to get past the point where it can cannibalize itself, like where the fund is self-sustaining and if I stop funding it I’m okay.

The policy still, right? Ideally you want to create the biggest container size without losing such container. So for you, you could probably, you have, I just add up this line here R. And you’re going to have it. I’m just looking like on average, you’re going to have maybe 50 at time.

Again, this is the low end one 30 every year.

You know what? I would get just get a max 10, $10 million policy. So $10 million is an important number because at that Eagle higher than that, you got to show a whole bunch of BS documentation to get higher than that. And really you don’t really eat more than $10 million because $10 million typically is a payment of 50 K or six or seven years.

I would just again, this is just what I would do, right? This is more of a progressive way of doing it. I would just start off with a 250 K a year. And then you fund that, maybe you. Backdate it, if you’re a, depending when your birth date is and you fund that first two years right away or worse, probably what’s going to happen.

You go to 50 and then you go to 50 and then you start to just fund the insurance premiums from there on out, but you’ve already hit your watch to your minimum lot. So it doesn’t cannibalize in their first year. So good. Yeah. That kind of answers the question that I had just jotted down to ask you, which was like, where am I going to park my money now?

Cause obviously you don’t get anything on savings or CDs. And I had I have to open a bunch of separate bank accounts. I’m not above the FDI seat limit. So I kind this option. If I can, fund those basically double fund and deploy some of that capital that funds taken care of. And then if I put all that money in pretty quickly, then depending on how the policy is written from my.

With anywhere from a month to six, I should be able to start borrowing a decent amount from that policy to put into. You can do it the next week, get the money back out next week. So this is one of them. This is this one’s funny, right? Because it operates like a hilar account. But it’s still like people, even in the mastermind group, they’re oh, I got to pay interest payments to myself.

I don’t want to own, that stresses me out. That’s $400 a month. It’s no, that’s just a mindset thing. You’ve got to get over that. It’s just the way you’re supposed to use this thing. If you put in two 50 and now your cash value goes down to 200, and then you put in the next two 50 the next year, maybe it’s worth for, I don’t know, four 50.

It’s just call it that the next year you, what you want to do is you want to take out that four 50, and put that into deals or crypto. Whatever. I’m assuming you guys have good contacts for these infinite thinking. Yeah. Yeah. Just yeah, go through the e-course and then, I would say just it’s a couple hours for do that.

E-course but it should get you set up and then yeah, we can refer you out from there. What’s your kind of studied up, but they’re commodities, right? They’re all with the big major companies, that’s really what you want. But the question is where are you going to put the money?

And that’s really up to you. You can put it into deals. Some of what some people do is they, I think a mistake that I see, especially for somebody in your cases, like they want to leave their dry powder. And only take out. You don’t have like that, dude. That’s not what this is for. You got to take it all out.

Unless you’re a business owner that needs a lot of dry capital for yourself. 20, 50 grand and checking 50 grand is way more than you need. But 20 grand just to float your monthly expenses every quarter and then maybe 50 grand to leave it in here. So you deploy 400 in this case, that’s really the way you want to play this.

And then if you want to do 300 of that 400 and deals and then a hundred crypto, that’s how you do it. Okay. I didn’t even, I hadn’t even looked at infinite banking for crypto. I was just looking at it for syndication. So that’s good. No, you can use the money to go to Disneyland. You want it to, obviously you’re not going to do that.

People who listen to this podcast, don’t do that stuff. And, or you could use this as a way better than 5 29 plan. Hell of a lot better. I don’t know why anybody does a 5 29. Oh, I even forgot to put that down. We do have 5 29 plans for our kids, but we shut them off, I think six months ago, after listening to your podcasts and other ones, like those have been shut off, they each have 10,000 in it okay.

Yeah. Just shut them off because just, I would just withdraw it just for simplistic music. It’s today I was trying to get rid of my health savings account because I got 15 grand in there, but it’s like what, a pain in the plug to have this thing. And it got a PM through chip bucks every year.

Like really a 2% adds up all the time. Yeah. 300 grand for, do you have any thoughts about the, like the lump sum? What are they called? MEK plans are like for infinite banking, like the life insurance policy where you can do the lump sum. Instead I spoke to somebody the other day and they were like, oh, some of the.

Drawbacks are that? I think it was, if, the distributions were not taxable, I believe, versus in the other one, they are, there was some differences with it, but I had never even heard of the lump sum thing until I spoke to somebody. I don’t know if that’s something we’re going to have to talk to our experts on that one.

That just, there’s all these kinds of other like variable life. That’s, like they miss the point. They’re like don’t you want higher returns, right? No, we want like liquidity so I can go invest it better stuff. I don’t need six, 7%, once your net worth goes over five, 10 million, then you may come back to that type of stuff.

That’s I think when it makes more sense, but there’s a lot of. Shady stuff, especially in the IUL people’s trends stuff, missions on that are extremely high. There’s a lot of like breasts of salespeople running around saying nonsense for that. But some countries companies actually like really aggressive of teaching the agents.

They have this like farm school where they teach people because it’s such like a obscure product with high commissions that it makes sense to just train trainers or just make real estate agent armies. And out there one in a hundred will actually sell a policy, but it’s pretty good commissions for them at the end of the day.

But basic IPC. This is what it’s for. Once you go over 10 million, I think that’s a little overkill, especially because, you want to get this money working at four or 5% tax free. And then another thing to think about is because you’re the only one for your kids now.

I mean it’s, it would probably be prudent, single point of failure at this point. Now that’s true. That is another good benefit of opening up one of these. And that’s it. You guys have, you have a trust build and all that stuff dating? Yeah. I’m in the process. I got to read it. We were in the process of getting it set up and then my wife passed away before all this stuff was notarized and finished.

So it’s a little bit of a mess. So then I was obviously not in the right state of mind for quite a bit. So I’m finally getting my brain back from brain fog and I’m going to start cleaning that up. Yeah. Yeah. I think that’d be a good to talk to other people too. I mean the questions and like what, who watches your kids?

I’m not giving any advice on that and the cyclist. No, I don’t know. I wouldn’t even trust myself with my own kids.

But yeah, it’s, these questions come up. And it’s hard to find other people doing the same thing. Yeah. You technically just listen to your attorney, but I don’t know if that’s super prudent, you need other viewpoints too, but getting back to the numbers here. If you do that large of a policy, once you fund it up to you, you have that 500, 300,000, you’re going to fund it halfway.

That’s well past the point that it’s going to collapse on you, black hole one on you. So you’re good. And what’s potty going to be happening around year three or fours. These deals are going to start to refinance, or it will be full cycle at that point. And I think that’s the point where it’s a kind of a, make it a break.

It’s if you don’t fund the policies anymore. Cool. That’s fine. I think what’s probably gonna happen is you get that windfalls and you’re like, oh yeah, let me just find the policies the remaining of the three years. And now you’re set up. I like it. That makes sense. Cool. Yeah. But bare minimum, one 30 and I think what most people do is like they, they get up small balls.

Like when I first started to do this, I did a $50,000 policy every year for six, seven years. And then it was just cool to use it and be like, oh, this is like a heat lock. Oh, what is that thing on my portal? And saying, I owe $5,000. Oh, that’s just the interest. I don’t care about that because my cool friends actually know about money.

Don’t freak out about it. And then you add a zero on top of it, once you get the hang of it right in a few months, you, you withdraw money, you pay it back. And then some people in the family office group work doing this site, instead of getting the loan from like Ameritas, Penn mutual guardian, they go to a third party bank instead of paying 5%, they pay 3%.

If you’re doing a larger policy, like how you are, like that adds up, 1% on 600 grand adds up.

Yeah that’s the IBC thing for you. And I think, if you want to play it more conservative, only go into a few deals at the minimum on the investing side, I’ll play more rested on this stuff. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. And I think as far as the investment side, like I’m willing to ramp it up.

Once I feel more confident in how I can bet, sponsors and deals and have a good network of people who have invested as a past and. And then also, like we said, you could really ratchet this up by getting more aggressive on the withdrawals from your IRAs, right? Mitigate the higher income by conservation easements or something like that.

If it’s still around, if you’re willing to, be careful and work with the right people at that, of course it’s on the list of transactions freaked out. I got a Google debt and this is naughty. Oh, I don’t personally do it. Because I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t have active income, it’s all passive.

And that’s where you’re going to get to at some point. But how can we bridge you to that promise land in five to six years when most of your stuff is passive, so it can offset passive losses. Okay. We got a plan on the IRAs a little bit. You’re such, this is a good call. Your situation is confusing and there’s a bunch of things moving around, talked about IBC. Let’s talk about like lifestyle and just cause that may increase your, if you sell that, you’re gonna stay in that house.

You guys live in now or downsides or, but the plan is to try to sell I’m a little bit constrained in that. A lot of our family is close by and they’re the ones helping a lot with the kids now and they’re in a good school system. And so like I can’t just pack up and go wherever. So a little bit constrained in the market where I live.

It’s quite hot, which is a double-edged sword in that I think my house would go pretty quickly for a good amount without having to do a lot of work to get it ready. Then I have to find something to replace it with. But yeah, the ultimate goal is like, our house is a decent sized, a lot of land and just way more work than I need.

And it’s too big for just one adult and two kids. So that’s definitely something that I want to do is downsize get some equity out. And that would also have the function of reducing my payments, monthly mortgage payments. Anyway. Yeah. I would just say from a, you don’t need to downsize, like some people I’m like under half a million dollars net worth, I’m like, you need to do, you’re already behind in the game, right?

You’re already in your forties and fifties, you have to do this stuff, but for you, you can keep living there. That’s cool. Again, they say you never want to listen to the wherever the heck they are, but they say don’t do anything like drastic for the first year or whatever. But I will say that speaking from the experience from some of the other folks who’ve downsized, they’ve gotten away from living in the big house.

And they’ve gone to one of the luxury condo where now they enjoy it because now they’re hanging with their kids. They got the pool, they don’t clean. It’s just simple, simpler, living, less headaches, nothing breaks. So if you’re going to the more simplistic life, that’d probably be the way of doing, that’s not a bad way of doing things.

I actually personally I think I might like the condo life a little bit better, less nonsense. Don’t have to clean my own pool. That’s what I’m looking at a other con condo or townhouse where there’s community pool and they take care of all like yard maintenance. And it’s just, and again, just getting back to the simplifying things like it’s become clear.

Like I don’t need a lot of stuff, but I just want, time with my kids and possessions that I have enjoy and travel and. Yeah, you, in that primary residence you have now you got to worry about half a million of equity in that thing. So we’ll depend on. So we got, it was a 0% down cause we had a physician’s loan, which was nice.

But the, and we only bought it just under six years ago, but the market’s gone up so much that I’ve talked to a couple of different agents and looking online. It would probably be between three 50 to 400, depending on what it sells for is about equity that we would get. So one thing, this is a tax thing, right?

You’re only able to write up like the exempt from what a $4 million of that’s what I thought too, because it’s just me now. But my CPA said within 24 months of my stuff’s passing, I should be able to get the full half a million. So you’re not thinking you’re not maxing that out. Yeah.

Not quite, but yeah. If I stay in this house for another couple of years, then I’ll be above, the half the quarter million max for myself. Cause then it’s going to revert to it’s just me. It would just be the, yeah. Like it kinda has a good tax need, because you have, it’s something I wanted to do actually, even before this happened, I had already been talking about Hey, we should simplify.

So it’s if the right house comes along, that I can get, I think I’m going to do it. And that’s yet another windfall and more cash that I can do. Yeah. Because if you don’t vote before the year two, you’d use that double tax exemption thing. Yeah. For me, I am, I don’t want to push you either way, unless that’s, before I heard that, I’m like, yeah, you got to just move out, move out and buy it back again.

Feel that’s what you want to do. I don’t know if you can do that. It’s not like a wash sale, but. Yeah, no I think it’s a strong possibility. And even where we live it’s a, it’s more of a isolated subdivision and there’s not as many kids around and there’s plenty of neighborhoods where a lot of their friends from school are that would be cheaper and smaller and have a lot of the things we talked about.

So yeah, it’s definitely on my radar. And that would just accelerate what we talked about. Give me more cash to put into these funds. Yeah. But maybe think about it, I think wait until the spring time or summer, that’s when the Marcus pulls the hottest the world doesn’t end before then.

Yeah, no, I got, yeah, I got my I’m like, I’m looking now to potentially hop on something. If somebody putting something on in December or January, but my goal is probably listing my house in the spring. Cause that’s just, it looks the nicest, it’s the hottest market. But it stinks like, fuck Matthew he’d dump out for a hundred grand.

You put it into an even bigger infinite banking follows. Are you just doing the banking right away at 5%? No. 2020 grand a year. It’s a couple of grand, a couple of grand a month. You always want to do this equation and think how does that two grand a month changed my life if you had to use it?

That could be a lot of less home cooked meals eating out less the more time, right? If you can use that $2,000 every month, that is time or for time. That’s money will work. That’s a good move to create that cashflow and that’s everlasting cash. Let’s just not just running through your pile.

That’s how I would look at it. So you get to live in the condo, get the free, free maintenance on the pool. But what are the downsides of that? I don’t know. Is there a downside of. The only downside is less privacy. Like a lot. I have it’s great. Private lot. It’s gorgeous. Like you’re by nature and it’s very private, very nice.

But I think the positives of moving outweigh at though the just simplifying life, getting a bunch of equity out and redeploying it, getting my kids in the neighborhood with a bunch of their friends, I think definitely outweighs the privacy concern. That’s why I asked cause some people, when they talk to the spouse and they’re like what’s the downside if they can’t communicate because there is a, you just don’t want to do it, which is silly.

You’ve obviously been able to voice your concern, just privacy. But so what if you took $2,000 a month and you bought the penthouse instead of the other one, right? You rented the penthouse instead make $2,000 pumps you into much higher or exclusive community. So think about it like that. The term life, you could get that big of a policy.

You don’t have to pay this anymore. So that feeds up.

That’s been done then.

Yeah. Think we covered a lot here. Any, anything else you want to? No, I don’t think so. This is very helpful. Thank you. I’ll play with helpful to people listening and then I will definitely check out that e-course on the infinite bank. Yeah. I think

trying to think what is the first domino that’s got fall here, but either the house, there were three things moving out of the house. I think you can delay that to the spring or summertime. So that’s third on the list. You already have liquidity, so you could have the, and then you don’t have to do the taking out of the retirement accounts quite yet.

It’s a rough situation, but if the banking seems to be the first domino here, which you’re listening on the podcast, that’s typically not it. If you’re screwing around in front of banking stuff, doing and wasting your time, especially your net worth is under a million dollars. You haven’t invested in anything.

Yeah. I agree though, in this case it makes sense. Cause it gives me a little bit of time to deploy some of this extra capital and then I can get spun up on what’s indications. I want to invest in, educate myself. The house can come later in the year and then slowly peeling away. Some of that retirement stuff can start happening at any point in 20, 22.

Once I have a better idea of my adjusted gross income as well, and then decide how much I’m going to pull. Yeah. And I think once you get moving down the road, once you deploy a million, you should be making. A fraction of your salary. And then when you double that, we should be able to start to see the light.

Once you deploy about a million or 2 million, you start, it should start to see the light on when exactly you’re going to wit yeah. That, that dovetails nicely with where I’m at now, again, the place I’m at, it’s a lot of fun to work at. I enjoy it, but I reading the tea leaves, I think four to five, maybe six years at the most actually doing what I’m doing and then be ready to you write out the the startup or five years that, but you don’t want to go back to practice.

I don’t want to do like a typical family practice. Seeing 20 patients a day, every day, that’s too much. They would want to do that, but it’s something like that. It would be part-time or it would be like part-time remote. There’s a lot of, remote providers where you can work anywhere you want in the world and do telehealth.

And I could do that. Part-time and supplement with my past. Pretty much lifestyle. Yeah. Yeah. I think you’ll have enough at that point where you don’t really need to make a hundred, hundred 50,000 a year. Part-time right. Type of thing. Yeah. But I know you’re you being close mode going 70 miles an hour at that point, but then we’ll see in the next several years, we’ll see if you get bored or not.

You want to yeah. That’s the thing, like I, I do like healthcare, it’s fun working in healthcare. The U S healthcare system is so broken. So if there’s cool projects or companies to work on to try to fix stuff like that interests me. But it would be nice to be in the position where I can decide, what’s project or work on.

I want to take on. And if there’s nothing that’s interesting or exciting or what the work I can. Yeah. If you’re the current employer, the startup thing, is it pretty time intensive or is it. It’s hit or miss. It depends. So it’s actually, like some days are less than others. It comes in fits and starts like a typical startup.

So it’s not a lot of patient care for me. I’m doing a lot more project work, data work, and all sorts of things where sometimes a big project comes along and I’m spending a lot of time one week and then the next week it’s relatively slow. That’s awesome. If would you being the primary caregiver, I would manage if you can’t handle it, you need to step back.

You could. Yeah. If you stuff all this money into infinite banking and you get maybe a quarter million, half a million into deals making 10%, you probably have enough to definitely sustain your costs of living. If things get too busy, like I know you have the option.

To do that. Yeah. Right now it’s not too bad. And the good thing is most of the time I actually get to work from home, which is nice. So even though, even if it’s busy, still have the time with the kids. And then a lot of the work I can do at night when the kids are asleep, just the nature of the startup and I’m doing it.

A lot of it’s project work worker, things I can literally do at 10 o’clock at night while they’re asleep, I can just sit there and get my stuff done. So it’s actually not too much of a hassle. And we have a lot of family nearby that spending time with the kids and watch them a lot and hang out with them.

So far, it’s, I think I’m in a good spot, at least for the next couple of years, if things they are you is a family decently well off where you the, you guys have more wealthy folks and the rest of the family is pretty well off. At least the ones close by. So like my mother is about ready to retire.

Like she does pretty well for herself and she’s transitioning, she’s going to probably transition to working. Part-time she’s. My wife’s parents. I’m not super well off, but they’re fine. Like they’re the ones actually in that long-term rental property we have, and they’re paying well below market rates.

That’s when we’re basically it’s cashflow negative. Like we bought the property, they’re paying the HOA and the mortgage it’s cashflow neutral for us, but it’s building up equity and it has them in a nice spot basically under market. So that’s like a win-win what is their long-term like, they’re going to agent place at least for now.

Yeah. They’re healthy enough and doing well enough. I don’t think there’s any imminent plans for them to go to letter like that. And then also my brother-in-law lives close by as well. And he has his own marketing company and does pretty well. Okay. Not, I live in Potts basement, sealer chat. Okay good.

Yeah, because some of the people that, they’re like obviously the most, often their families, so they have to also keep in mind, providing or in a way, thankfully everybody else in the family is fine. Yeah. Everybody got their stuff together, so that’s good. That’s good. But yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Any, anything else Derek you guys want go over or? No, I don’t think so. I think that was, yeah, very thorough and super helpful. Okay. Thank you. Cool. Yeah, folks, if you guys like this, you guys wanna volunteer the stuff shaped the folks that email team at simple passive cashflow dot.

And if you haven’t yet joined the club, I book your free onboarding call before I start to outsource it out to the team. I won’t go as in-depth into this type of stuff, but we’ll try and knock it on 15 minutes or 20 minutes or so.

2023 Investor’s Mortgage Update (Turnkey Rental)

What’s up, simple Passage Castro listeners, today we are going to be talking about mortgage loans for some of you guys who have rental properties, the turnkey or even your primary residents. I think recently, or last year we went to 5 0 6 offerings. Therefore, we only allow accredited investors.

So what do you do if your net worth is half a million dollars and. We’ve shut your doors on you. Maybe we’ll do a reggae plus offering in the future that will allow non-accredited investors to come in. But at this point on, don’t hold your breath on that. For more information, go to simple passive cash flow.com/club. And check out the new pet fund there where we’re paying investors, 12 to 13% monthly based on debt, because this is a strange time.

And we’re recording this in January of 2023. And I haven’t talked to Graham in quite some time. I think the last time we saw each other was at a event prior to 2019 and at the time we were still helping out investors pick up turnkey rentals and we had this program called Incubator, which if you are a non-accredited investor and you would like to sign up for the.

We’ll probably just give that to you for free. It was over 20 hours of coaching calls and I enjoyed doing it. Most of our investors are credit investors and have moved on. But we wanted to do this podcast for you guys to just catch everybody up real quickly. If you have rental ties or you are non-accredited investor looking to get a turnkey rental property, going on with the mortgage lending world where the Fed is jacking up interest rates?

As to date, 3% in the last what? Couple quarters, just unprecedented. But Graham, why don’t you introduce yourself and then your partner there, Aaron, and some of the updates ? Thanks, lane. Good to see you again, by the way. Yeah.

It has been since 19, I believe. My name is Graham Pham. I’m with Highlands Residential Mortgage. My production partner, Aaron Stelli, has joined me today and spoke with. I don’t know, 30 days ago or so, I said, Hey let’s talk about what’s going on in the market on the residential side as well as the like you said, the turnkey side, the one to four category.

It’s still a viable category. It’s it is starting off with newbies as you pointed out. And, but you gotta start somewhere, right? And the newbies need to, they. One to 10 properties, then they sell it all, do an exchange, and they graduate into your accredited program is typically how most people that have gr grown their wealth over the years.

It’s a simple graduation into the commercial end. But we wanted to talk a little bit today about, what’s happening with the market. Yeah. The Feds have have done a number on us. They, I’ve known Ohio, I think it’s six or seven increases last year on the Fed rate.

And the fed rate’s a little bit different from the interest rate. It does have a lot to do. With the cost of money and people say the fed rate is at this, but that doesn’t mean the interstate is at that. Okay. But it has pushed our interstates up. We’re probably, like you say, three points higher than where we were probably this time last year.

And has it slowed the. Newbies down. Yeah, because the newbies, they don’t know. Okay. They’re nervous, they’re scared. Plus they came off covid, 2021 with bottom basement pricing on rates and they expect to get that again. That ship sailed. It’s not coming back. Okay. Wall Street, is addressing the whole situation.

Cautiously, if you will. And the reason being is because, back in 17, 18, and 19, we were originating notes at a higher note rate as well. And the guys on Wall Street were buying these mortgage backed securities from FA and Freddy, and they were hoping to keep ’em on their books for a certain period of time, say three to five.

So they can make some money. That’s typically their mo. But what happened on the 17, 18, and 19 notes, it all got refinanced. And so they experienced a thing called E P O, which is early payoff. And the early payoff took the profit right out of the guys on Wall Street, and so they got stoned. They don’t wanna get stung again.

So they know this inflation that we’re dealing with right now is cyclical happened back in the eighties and nineties with Greenspan. Now it’s happening now. So we are eventually going to run into a recession wall, and when that happens, which say six to eight months from now, the rates will come back down and people that are securing loans today will probably come back and do a a refinance.

And what this one is this a 10 year. This is just the interest rates. So yeah, this agreement. Yeah, this is the interest rates. Okay. And then I believe that. All right. I guess Graham, once, don’t you go over like just little education for folks, right? You mentioned it earlier, the fed jacks up rates, right?

The fed rate. But then that doesn’t necessarily mean it impacts these rates. One for one. Maybe explain the disconnect there, just so people can sound cool in front of their friends why they’re not doing the stock market so they can explain it concisely. Or better yet, to their spouse. They don’t spitter and sputter over their words and say, no, you can’t buy a rental property or a syndication deal.

Give them the elegant way of putting it. When we have a fed increase, does it happen? Sometimes it doesn’t. You’re absolutely right. And there’s multiple factors, which I really can’t get into because I’m not an expert in that area. But one of the things I can tell you right now is that we have had an increase in the rates.

We probably topped out pretty well, and I’m trying to th see this chart here. I would say probably September was September, October was our worst month, but it’s been coming down since then and it’s been settling out, which is good. And people go to say, okay. What are investor rates right now on a single family residence?

They could range anywhere from six and a half to 7% right now. And people are going that’s not, that’s not healthy enough to gimme cash flow. That’s true. But as we discussed Lane, they’re, we’re the theory of, marrying the property and dating the rate is where most of these investors are taking a look at.

So I’m gonna buy a property, I’m gonna yield $150 a month cash flow. But six, eight months from now, I’m gonna read Financee saying we’re gonna get that thing more like in $300 of cash flow. But they’re buying these property cuz they’re more readily available out there. and they haven’t been in quite some time.

The inventory’s been very scarce and mostly the term key providers, as you alluded to, they’re doing more new builds because they just are running out of inventory. I don’t have any commercial loans or any syndications going in. I’m not the expert in, I or I stay in my own lane, in my own little box, but I do actually have up to 43 properties right now, and I can certainly exchange ’em all into your program. But, quite frankly I’m pretty satisfied with the cash flows that I’m getting.

But right now, I think my advice to people right now is don’t get scared by these rates. Anything below 7%, it’s a good rate. I’ve said that for years, and it’s true the cost factor sometimes has been higher than what we expected because of the appreciations, but those costs are coming back down, or should I say the prices, those sums are coming back down.

We are now in a full tilt seller’s, or excuse me, buyer’s market, which is good for the investor. If the investor understands that, then they’re gonna take advantage as we have transitioned to this buyer market for several months now keep in mind as a buyer, as you are maybe trying to build your portfolio is now that we are in this buyer’s market, we’ve seen the rise of seller credits coming back. Borrower might not necessarily be happy with their rate at six and a. We’ll get the seller to pay it down to 6%.

We’ve seen that just the seller buying down the rate and forms of points. For the interest rate. We’ve seen seller credits making a comeback the past several months While interest rates are currently nowhere near the lucky area we were at, so to speak, in just the interest rate world during the covid years.

Keep in mind there’s some more negotiating power that just wasn’t there during 18, 19, and 20. So we’ve seen really that kind of turnaround and a lot of times that can make or. That deal for the borrower as well, if you know all about that cash flow sometimes. That’s an excellent point, Aaron and a lot of the providers, the turnkey providers that are starting to retain more of their inventory than they would like simp because they’re the buyers themselves are a little reluctant to start buying. So they’re incentivizing, if you will, and they’re providing points.

And the reason why they’re doing points, not only to help relieve and make the buyer feel better, but where we are in today’s world, reflecting back to my original statement about wall Street recognizes that this thing is cyclical.

They recognize they’re gonna experience an early payoff in the next six, eight months. Consequently, they’re not juicing the rates. Like they have been before. I’ve been at this 25 years, I’ve always had the ability to do par pricing. Par pricing is a zero point loan, which means I don’t charge anything. I don’t give you any credits.

We haven’t seen par pricing probably for six months up until probably the last 30 days. But primarily on a 25% down, but not on a 20% down, you’re still looking at least a point and a half to two points to do a 20% down because the adjustments are more than doubled. The turnkey providers recognize this.

They say, okay, let’s get this buyer incentivized. Let’s just pay for those two points. And in the lending world for Fannie Mae, that is capped at two. You can’t go any more than 2% on Fannie Mae. The commercial world’s completely different. I, Elaine, you can share with me what some of the sellers in the commercial world is doing.

I think a lot of I think in the commercial world might be legging a little bit, right? As you mentioned, you might say you might guys might be calling it a buyer’ss market, which is this. But at this point in the commercial world, the buyers. Not realizing it’s a buyer’s market yet, because, it’s based on net operating income, not just comparable sales.

Like how residential. So I, I think maybe traditionally this has been the, what the case was and, but certainly what it is now, right? Where the commercial world is, just moves a little bit slower and then potentially legs. But going back to the turnkey world, their product is not really a, a home, right?

It’s a turnkey product that provides cash flow and when you add up the tax benefits, mortgage, pay down, appreciation, et cetera, you guys know the website, simple passive cash flow.com/returns where I add up all the stuff on the whiteboard, you’re making like two to three times greater at least than the crummy stock market traditional investments there.

I to backdate some of this stuff when I was buying this stuff prior to 2015, we would be able to cash flow, what, like 400 bucks per property with full expenses. Then that went to 200 bucks in 2019. If you guys, this is all new to you guys and you’re still in the market for turnkeys, make sure you grab the analyzer.

It’s old, but it still works. Simple passive cash flow.com/analyzer. But nowadays, as the price went up, there was negative cash flow, but. As silly as this sounds, it doesn’t really matter. It’s all what’s your other like in a negotiation, what’s your best alternative to negotiated agreement?

Your batna in this case, where else are you gonna put your money? You gonna put in the stock market where you’re gonna lose another 10, 20% this year? Or are you gonna put it into a hard asset, like a semi negative cash flowing property, like a turnkey, or in this case, it makes sense why they throw you points your way to get your cash flow.

So they can get their pricing, run their turnkey operation business. It is what it is, but you as the investor need to make that personal finance decision what you got in your portfolio. And is the turnkey rental or the syndication better than what you got? And that’s the name of the game, in my opinion.

You know you have to analyze the market and then you gotta pick your poison. Okay? Each market has an A, a, B, C, D property, okay? Typically, your A properties are not gonna bring as much cash flow because they’re newer in a better neighborhood, so forth and so on. Whereas the D, c, and D properties are gonna have a little bit better cash flow because they’re a little bit older.

And maybe in a little bit, not so desirable neighborhood, so you can get close to the 1%. And I think we’ve thrown that terminology around for a long time. 1% rule was something that we all lived and breathed for many years up until probably like you say, 19 or 20. And we started losing that 1% because the cost kept going.

Yeah. Then they went to 0.9, and then they stopped doing turnkey rentals in actually decent markets like Atlanta. Maybe you could throw Birmingham in there, which people are probably shaking their head. Birmingham is a decent market, and then I almost fell off my seat the other month when somebody said they were buying rental properties in B.

My goodness. Baltimore is the hood guys like straight up. That’s de class war zone properties, but hey, it makes the 1% real maybe, right? Is it, are those properties hitting 1%? They’re selling out there? No, not quite. It’s very hard to hit 1% of these days. Yeah. If, yeah, if you’ve been to Baltimore, they, they had these houses called row houses and if you’ve driven those neighborhoods, some people that live in a very nice neighborhood, it doesn’t, you don’t count Lane and you’re out in Hawaii people that live in a nice metropolitan area like Dallas or Atlanta, and then they go into Baltimore, sometimes that, can be viewed a little bit negative, but these are older properties.

They’ve been there for very, quite some time. Are they a C and D property? Maybe not. Maybe not so much. It depends. I’m not an expert on Baltimore, but we still have a lot of activity in Baltimore, believe it or not. Yeah, I mean it’s certainly far from the days when I think you. I think you landed on my, one of my properties way back in 2012 or 13 when I was buying that stuff.

And it was a nice, at the time of 70, $80,000 property in Birmingham in a B minus area. Today that would be like 120,000 in a still B area, but that’s just, the best time to buy was yesterday. I think that’s the thing that guess maybe that’s the point we’re trying to push home, right?

If you’re out there doing nothing, You’re just sitting on cash and your net worth is under two to $3 million. You gotta do something with it. Heck, go buy a turnkey rental. Heck, even in Baltimore I guess. But you gotta do something and this is the name of the game is get your money working, get it out of the regular stuff.

But with that I’ll get off my, I’ll get off my soapbox I guess. No. I’m mainly talking to the non-accredited guys cuz you guys gotta do something and you guys, that’s where I hear the most excuses. I’m just gonna sit on my money. It doesn’t cash flow you. No, please do not sit on your money. I’m still actively buying,

from the standpoint of appreciation, depreciation, I don’t think we’ve all caught up on caught up on that number itself. On paper just yet. California and the, new England, New York, and all the East coast. Those don’t really factor in because, those aren’t the markets that you and I are in, like Birmingham or Atlanta or.

Memphis, these type of markets. We haven’t really seen the depreciation yet. Now the appreciation was going up over the last four years, but it’s now starting to level up. We haven’t seen it go down yet. Okay. Will it? Probably, but I don’t think it’s gonna go down a lot, be honest with you. So let’s just say investors have their rental properties, or maybe they’re getting out of like the turnkey.

guess first of all, if you guys are in the investor club maybe we can swing it to another unsophisticated, non-accredited investor. So make a little P d F flyer and maybe we can move it for you if sucker is born another day. But what if you people wanna hold onto those things because sentimental value, whatever.

What are some options that we can do to pull out some of that equity? Because, likely if they’ve held onto the property for a little bit of. The property maybe went up from 90 grand to not 120 grand. They may, and with their 20% down payment, they may be sitting on 50 grand of 40 grand of debt equity there.

What are some options that they can use to, to tap that, that equity? That’s exactly what I’m doing. I’ve got three properties that were new Bill, 17, I think it was 17 when I bought ’em, and they built up probably 70, 80 grand of equity. Another property I have in Dallas, they built up about $170,000 worth of equity.

So am I cashing them out? Absolutely. Taking my money going elsewhere in this case and going back down to Florida. But yeah, you got some some equity there. You could do it one of two ways. You can get a ca a, a cash out refinance, which is what a traditional Fannie Mae loan will do.

And on the single family, you can go up to 75% on the two to four unit, you go to 70%, but you could also get a heli, which is extremely challenging right now. HELOCs are readily available for primary residents, which a lot of people still use, especially on the West coast cause they’ve got so much equity in their primary residence, they’re utilizing the HELOCs.

But what the HELOCs are doing right now, because the primary rate has gone up, the primary rate is sitting at seven and a half, and typically a HELOC is usually prime plus something either a half a point or a point. Now you’re at eight and a half. Or if you do a cash out refinance on a 30 year fixed rate, we’re still in the upper six.

So it’s a much better bet. Even though you’re paying interest only heloc, you still got a much higher rate of interest. Yeah. The nice thing about the HELOC is, you don’t have any costs, but the bad thing is they’ll sandbag you on the valuation. So what that means is maybe your property is worth one 20 and you have 50 grand of equity there.

use their pencil and say, ants worth 1 0 5. And then you’ll walk and be like, all right, I got screwed there. I guess I’ll take it. But you’re not gonna be able to squeeze the towel and get all the equity unless like you said you refinance it. There. But that’s why we say, try and get HeLOCK first.

If this is all new to you guys, get it rolling. Get the money, put, get into something by rental properties syndication to you, or make 12% in the pet fund. Something like that. Get it going. And then once you’ve tapped that initial equity tranche, then you gotta get at more of it, get the refinance.

But let’s just say some, I invest, some of my investors grammar are semi-active investors. They do syndication deals and they may go after some of that burr stuff. And what’s, what are like, you guys have this kind of three year. State the rate program or something like that.

Maybe it’s quick bit about this thing. We actually do if you originate alone, say in the next six months with us and at an elevated rate. Cause we don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna bring and it has come down a bit. But we know once it hits the recession law, it’s gonna come down even more.

We recognize that. So we want to keep activity going in the investment community. So buy the rate, buy their house today, marry the property date, the rate, because in 6, 8, 10 months down the road, the rates are gonna be decked back down. Give me a call, we’ll refinance it. We won’t charge you any closing costs, and you get your cash flow more in line.

So that’s something we’re doing for a lot of our investors. And is that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac loan? And who backs that? Is it like a rate cap insurance company? And I guess for your listeners, for new guys ear mouse on this is more technical stuff. Not super important. Just my, I’m just I’m just wondering.

No we strictly do Fannie Mae loans. We do some D S C R lending, but the rate is much higher. The D S C R lending back in March of 2000. Okay. That’s when everybody said, okay, COVID, it’s here to stay. And everybody left the playing field. Jumbo commercial. D s, DSCR R, everybody left the playing field except for Fannie Mae.

For about six, eight months and you probably recall this lane and then eventually stay started coming back on the playing field. We’re starting to feel a little bit of that right now. Some of the capital markets are starting to get a little bit nervous, and I say some of the capital markets non Fannie made Freddie Mac, which are government backed, are starting to throttle back, which, and I’ve seen companies even go out of business.

We had one that we were doing along with just Monday. Can, the CEO o said, we’re not taking any more loans, and they were doing, gosh, billions of dollars of loans a year and they just decided to stop, for whatever various reasons. So it’s a kind of a fickle market right now and some of that will probably affect, some of the commercial lending as well on your side.

Whether it’s got to you at this point, I don’t know. But the D S C R lending stuff is, they’re starting to get nervous. They really. Yeah, so it, it seems to act really similar to like, when we go into one of these, if we do a bridge note, lot of times we’ll buy a rate cap, right?

To combo that little bit more risky strategy so that, say we buy a rate cap of, we don’t want the interest rate to go up more than 2%. Which could protect us in this environment where it goes up 3%. And with, lot of that, if my understanding it’s like third party insurance companies will ensure the lender.

So it’s not the lender putting up the money. I’m wondering is that kind of the same thing going on because it, it seems a good deal for the consumer, risky for your guys’ end because everybody’s betting on the Fed raising a couple of times this next year, like a 0.5 and a 0.5 again, and that means interest rates will grow up.

So that I’m sure you’ve built in some buffer into this three year date program, but Is there like a third party insurance company ensuring the rate jump or no the program itself is an internal program. Okay. We’re willing to take on the expense, if you will, and because our closing costs are nominal.

There are three. $1,300. We’re gonna waive those closing costs to get you back into a better rate. Okay. We don’t have, all of ours are government backed. They’re not insurance backed. That’s mainly primarily for the commercial market. Fannie. Like I say, we were, Fannie Mae was the only people left standing for six months back in 2020.

That’s the only people that were doing loans. And then they, and that started to turn back around and all the, everybody jumped back in the playing field. But no, we’re not insurance backed. Okay. Okay. So ensuring it in-house is what I’m hearing. And if interest rates jump another 2% and people actually call you guys on it and refinance or change it.

Then I guess you’re just working for free, right? ? You just originate a loan for free. Everything has a cost. Yeah. And we’re gonna try to minimize that cost as much as we possibly can. We still want to help out the consumer. I and as far as your prediction on increasing the rates, I have a strong suspicion that the economy is starting to slow.

And we’re seeing those effects in the race. Cause they have come down a little bit since probably November. And which is good. And how long will they sustain there? It’s a great question, but a lot of good numbers. A lot of good data’s coming in. C P I numbers have been good. G D P numbers have been good and we just hope that’s gonna sustain itself, so we won’t have to do any more Ray hikes.

Once again, I’m not running the administration. Yeah, I’d like to see what’s in your crystal ball. The way I see it, the data is saying that we’ve come up the high of 9.1% inflation. We’re now dancing in like the six and a half range. The stuff they’ve been doing, onslaught rates has been working.

Not to say it can’t jump up for a month here or there, or even come down even quicker. To me unemployment is still unimpacted at 3.5. That’s super, super low. So there’s some B dry powder there, but I think once we get under 5%, that might be a trigger for the Fed to really ease up on the rate hikes and I agree.

I just hope it doesn’t get that far. I really do. I think the next 30 to 45 days is gonna be interesting. I think they meet, I think Powell’s supposed to talk on Friday of this week or next week. I can’t remember to give a recap, if you will, of where his agendas are, and I’m hoping it’s gonna be positive or he’s gonna say, okay I’m feeling comfortable with the economy right now, but once again, we’ll have to wait and see what he says.

Yeah, I’ve got a lot of properties waiting to refinance and, So I’m chopping at the bit. I’m just maybe a little bit more pessimistic. Like I think we’ll hover around this 5% mark and we’ll it’ll just be in the doldrums a little bit, at least, that’s what I’m pessimistically thinking.

It’ll be like this for another six months to maybe a year, unless the, I don’t know when the next election is. Maybe the Congress will get pissed off and tell the Fed that you guys need to stop screwing around with the rates and lower it again. This not a politics. Yeah. Yeah. This is not a politics show.

Yeah. . Yeah. No, I think if we hold on for the next six months, I think we’ll start seeing a lot better improvement. Yeah. The next six months is gonna be challenging. One topic that comes up a lot from my investors, and I’m not a huge fan of is all in one loans. You wanna define that and maybe let’s talk through some of the pros and cons a little.

As I mentioned to you earlier we have that available. I do know it’s a working tool similar to a heloc HELOCs a great instrument. I love it. I ha I’m in, I highly recommend it even on, if you can get one on an investment property, which is challenging, but on, on a rock find, you can use it.

And I use it all the time. You find a property that you didn’t weren’t expecting and you didn’t have the available cash at the time, tap in your helo, go buy the property and then pay it back. So it’s a working instrument that’s very similar to what the all in, what is. Okay? A lot of you can secure a loan on a primary, or excuse me, on an investment property, and let’s just say you, the loan amount is a hundred thousand, but they give you a loan.

Tap, if you will, for 200,000. So you go tap into more equity if you want, or pay it down. Very similar to a heloc. I’m not an expert in that area. It’s a very complicated product. Actually I let my competitors run with that one cuz I stay focused and in my lane on the Fanning and Freddy stuff. But I, in some cases it’s not a benefit to the client.

It’s a very narrow niche. Okay. So I wish I could expand a little bit more cuz I just don’t sell a. Yeah, come on Graham. You’re the mortgage broker. You’re supposed to sell everything, right? No, but yeah, Graham, I’m a mortgage banker, just to let you know. And I, I’ve been, like I say, we did about a hundred loans last year and all are Fannie Freddy.

Okay. So that’s hundred month last year, Graham, you what? I said a hundred a month last year. Not total. Yeah, I’m sorry. Sorry. A hundred a month. Correct. Yeah, so here’s my two bits folks. Like the reason it’s not a fanny Freddie Mac backed loan, which you guys don’t really care about on the interest side, on the insurance side, on the backend, if that’s just who holds it.

But what that means for you is the terms aren’t as good and what terms mean are rate and other like loan of value essentially in the residential world. But a consumer, it’s not really the best option because again, the terms aren’t as. When you have a, one-off loan to a one-off tie to a one-off asset like a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.

And what I see is it’s one of those sucker products that mortgage brokers have. That kind of, all right, my client is super confused. They don’t know what to do. It’s hard for them to do paperwork cuz it’s face is a pain in the. And let’s just get ’em into this biggest loan that we have possible.

And just that way I can extract my or mortgage origination fee and get paid so we can all, I can have my salary right. And feed my family. But it may not be the best thing for the investor cuz now you’ve given up your flexibility too, that like selling off one of the properties you can’t do that.

You gotta sell ’em all or it’s really hard to. Create a loan where it’s piece, your ability to sell off individual assets one by one. You’re talking about like a commercial loan with release clauses? Yeah. Yeah. It just never really happens like that. No, unfortunately we don’t do those type of loans.

But I think I’m just, and when you talk about this kind of stuff, it’s almost, it makes me think way back before 2008 when we had the option arm, which was an excellent instrument that was utilized by a lot of investors. But unfortunately it was abused by a lot of brokers. to get people in houses they couldn’t afford.

And that’s, a lot of people blame the option arm cause of the deferred interest and all this. And I think it’s a fabulous product. I’d love, I wish they could bring it back, but unfortunately dod Frank Dak will not let ’em do that. Yeah. Yeah. That and interest only 40, 50 year mortgage. Exactly.

And I think that’s important to know, right? Cuz like a lot of new investors, they freak out and they’re like, oh my God, there’s gonna be a 2008. Like it’s still really hard to get a mortgage. A lot of you guys are accredited investors, multiple six figure salaries, and it’s, you gotta show a lot of legit documentation to get mortgage loans, right?

It’s not the wild West days of pre 2008. Anymore? There’s no liars loan out there anymore. There’s no stated income anymore. The closest we come to a stated income is like a bank statement loan. Show me your bank statements cuz a lot of people, they’ll write off everything they can on their taxes and nu down their net income to nothing where they can’t qualify on a traditional loan.

But, so now we go into a like a bank statement loan, which shows that an incoming cash flow from whatever business they’re doing and shows enough to. A loan, which is called a bank statement loan. And we are doing those. Yeah, I almost lost all my hair with this experience. A few months ago I started to look for a house to live in.

I still rent, right? Cuz here in Hawaii or even in California, it makes, to me, it doesn’t make any sense to rent unless your net worth is two or three times greater than that of your house. They’re better off investing your money or actually growing your net worth. But I, I was like, the prices are lower now.

It’s a buyer’s market like you. Let me zig when everybody’s zagging and buy a freaking house. But then I tried to get like qualified for a mortgage and it was like impossible. First of all my like I don’t pay taxes like cuz my income is nothing. Cuz it’s all passive and I use passive losses is zero it out.

But it like to get it through like a mortgage lender for a primary residence for me. Like it just wasn’t happening. And I just got really frustrated with the whole system. It’s like, how the heck can I not qualify? For mortgage. You actually can on the bank statement loan because you got a lot of incoming cash.

And it’s all evaluated from the bank started to show. Yeah. So we did that. So like the bank, we tried, we went down the route of, I guess this is more for the business owners out there who don’t have clean 10 90 nines or W two s no, W two s, W2 s the cleanest way. So we went down the bank statement.

and they just couldn’t make sense. Like the mortgage broker I was working with was like, I’m like, they got befuddled. Cause I had more than like I got 80 something K one s and like things coming in my bank account and they’re, they were trying to make this like spreadsheet with all 80 something of ’em.

I’m like, are you kidding me? I hope you guys didn’t do this. I hope you sent it overseas for somebody to make a spreadsheet and waste 40 hours on this thing and it. It was a waste of time, cuz we all know what was gonna happen. It wasn’t gonna add up to enough. But then they went down the debt service coverage ratio, like you said, approach.

But we’re not renting it out. Then they went down the 10 99 approach and that didn’t add up. That was close. That was the closest thing. But I noticed at that point I had drifted out into the outskirts of non Fannie Mae, Freddie mc. and I was getting really horrible terms and I’m no dummy.

And I told them, if it’s not a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac I’m, I don’t wanna pay these like semi usy rates. So I told ’em like, all right, I give up. I’m just gonna buy cash with this thing when the time comes. And then when I talk about in my next book, for you guys who are higher net worth the ticket for hot multimillion dollar homes is you don’t get the mortgage on them cuz you max out at $800 million jumbo loans.

Instead get the debt on your stock market portfolio or your infinite banking, get the loan there. I’m looking at, like with JP Morgan private client, so SFR plus 2%, so right now that’s 6.2%, but in normal times or last several years, that could have been like a 2% three. Mortgage payment, doing that type of stuff.

But if you have some high network clients that are with some of the bigger banks in the private banking world, that a lot of times those those banks, especially if you have a lot of money in their bank, they’re pretty forgiving. They really are. And definitely take advantage of those.

Yeah. What do you say, what’s your take on if a guy’s buying a, I don’t know, three, $4 million house. What is the best solution If he wants to throw on some, any good at real estate investor wants to get some debt and not just have it paid off cash. But what are they just screwed?

Or what’s the best? Now you fall into the jumbo world. And the jumbo world is more critical than the Fannie Mae world, believe it or not. Their debt income ratios are less, their credit scores requirements are a little higher. Their underwrites are a little more challenging. Yeah and those type of worlds, it can be very difficult.

It’s a lot easier in the Fannie Mae world. So when you get in those higher loan they’re very challenging. Most, as most of our stuff and our bread and butter is the turnkey stuff, so a lot of times we don’t play in that category as much. We would like to, but it’s very challenging.

Is jumbo. Jumbo loans, like over eight, 500, 800,000, it varies on the state. Seven. Yeah. 7 26 2 is the latest conforming limit. So 726,000. But depending, especially on the West coast, different counties that does go up. It is a sliding scale but just your standard conforming limit across the US is that 7 26.

For a single family. Median home in Hawaii is like 1.1, I think. , , but So are the jumbo loans, are they all Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or are some of ’em Fannie Mae, or are they all non-conforming? All non-conforming. Oh okay. Yeah. Like you say Aaron says that it’s a sliding scale, but the general, as you say, 7 28, 7 20.

Yes. 7 26. 7 26, which is pretty much across the board except for some of the other areas like California. They have a high balance areas. Key West Florida High, very high. One of the things, another strategy that you probably know Keith Wek, he always touts the fact that he bought fourplex with an FHA loan.

And you could actually do that today and you could actually get an FH loan, a loan up too close to a million dollars, which is crazy in some of these markets. Yeah. Great for the non-accredited guys, we’re gonna need like damn near 10 of those fourplexes to make a dip in our.

Good for our kids. I think, to maximize their debt on portfolio yeah, it’s just a bad Yeah. It’s just it’s tough, right? when first word for problems, but I always tell my guys get that money working, right? Even. Yeah. You used to be, you could get a HeLOCK for 4% and then you put it into something making plus 10.

And now the hard thing is as you sat around on your butt, now the helos are what, at 6% or seven, right? Sometimes they’re even seven. The prime is at seven and a half. Yeah. And then whatever add your bank has chose to give you, that’s what you put on top. Yeah. So it’s they’re borrowing at seven and now deals aren’t as strong.

Like the best, the more con, most conservative thing is that we have is the pet fund making 12%. So 12 minus seven, the spread is five. I mean you should still do it, but like that spread is smaller. It takes some more conviction in Kones to do what is financially right. And then here I am now I’m working with this debt service coverage ratio, 10 99 loans and they’re quoting me like nine, 10%.

Yeah. I’m like, I should still listen to this guy Lane who said if as long as the spread is there, just go for it. 12 minus 10. But I just couldn’t do it. Ah, so I, I guess that’s a confession on my part. It was just that I was, I got rate shocked at that 10% level for that type of, and I still had to put 40% down payment for that.

We’ve got one going right now for a guy in Texas and he’s doing a, he is got a million dollar home and he wants to tap into his equity. We’re doing a half a million dollar loan for him. And he’s doing a bank state loan, but he actually ended up with around seven and a half, which is not bad because he was turning down multiple times because he does his income taxes very similar to you, which it doesn’t show any income.

So he got turned down three or four times and so we said, all right, let’s do a bank statement one, which actually makes sense mck, because he had a lot of cash flow coming in, so it the bank statements do work from time to time and so that’s 50, he did what? 50% down payment on that thing or how much down?

We do have a 50% L t V, but I don’t think it’s contingent on the L T V. We could have gone up to 80% if the bank statement income would allowed him to do that. Got it. Got. Yeah, I guess that this is more advanced level stuff, but at, at some point you guys have to figure out where do you apply the debt?

Where is your best source of debt? Is it the home mortgage at 5% to 10%, like Graham stain? Is it in your infinite banking at your, it’s some semi fix that, that one doesn’t fluctuate too much. It’s around five, 6% or your security back line of credit at. 2% to 6% in floating there and you have these three options.

It’s like wildcat football again. . It’s just like when we develop a property, we do develop it. Do we keep it? Do we sell it? , do we refinance it? Do hold it short term? We’ve got three options. And then think that’s what, where people want be getting to at some point. Yeah, anything else Graham, they, for folks still with their turnkey or with their primary residents to get the equity out?

It’s pretty much the, those three loans are still available. And once you do get the equity out and you wanna inva invest and if you still wanna do it, in the turnkey world, this is actually a pretty good time because the inventory’s up, the sellers are starting to see the pressure, and they’re starting to get more concessions.

And even the sell, the sales prices are coming down just a little bit, not much, but and once again, these are for the non-credit guys, not necessarily the type of programs that you solicit. Yeah, and I would kinda piggyback on that, just summarize and, definitely seems like a lingering theme throughout this call has just been that a lot of cases time is the biggest enemy.

And sitting on the sidelines waiting for things to change. And as you do, weigh your options, just keep in mind, like Graham mentioned, Seller credits are out there. Our refinance program where we waive their fees. So there’s tools, there’s benefits out there that can act as that encouragement to help you get off the sideline and keep that ultimate goal of whatever you’re working for.

Keep that in motion. Don’t put it in pause. Yeah. Yeah. I think said, Aaron. I think I definitely put in my propeller hat on this talking about secure back line of credits, et cetera. But yeah you, I. I think, so this is a problem that we have in our mastermind group is like we try to over-optimize things and some of the new people, or especially like the podcast listeners, would probably be in this realm where you hear this stuff and you just are confused and dazed and you don’t do anything.

And it’s like you’re sitting on a couple hundred thousand dollars of debt at lazy equity in your primary residence, or 30, 40 grand in your, one of your turnkey rentals that you need to, get it re-leverage and moving. If that’s you, that’s, we’re talking to you, we’re all looking at you in the YouTube.

I like that term. Lazy equity. I like that. But yeah. Don’t you guys drop your information just in case people wanna rejigger get some cash. Or maybe go buy the dream home that now is the time to buy it. Cause it’s a virus market. Zig, when everybody’s sagging, you can always reach us at 8 5 5 3 2 6 6 8 0 2 or you can hit us at the parham team@highlandsmortgage.com and my, anyone of my teammates will jump on it typically myself.

2023 Tax Action Plan For Passive Investors

What’s up folks? On this video, I’m gonna be going over the action plan for your 2023 taxes. I’ve been going over what really moves the needle and what really doesn’t work. I think the stuff that is out there in the mainstream, and this is how I’ve found to lore my adjusted gross income drastically over the.

Just a little bit. No, I’m not a cpa. I’m not a lawyer, but I also don’t have a day job like a lot of those guys, and this is a lot of the stuff that I’ve learned from working with other accredited investors through our business and just through my own travels as an accredited investor and an owner of 8,500 rental properties. Here we go.

The first thing I’d like to just identify, we’re not gonna be talking about the lay mold stuff like the 401ks, the Roth IRAs, even solo 401ks, IRAs, stuff like that. . These are all things that I put in the category of small ball type of tactics, small ball, and if you don’t know baseball, right?

This is all kind of stealing bases. Taking walks, little base hits what I wanna do because my time is short and your time is short, as a higher income earner is. Really focus on the big rocks as opposed to the things that don’t really move the needle. Yeah. At some point, these things, which you maybe should jot down or just check out on the YouTube channel, take a screenshot yourself for later, are things that I call optimizing.

the big rocks out of the way, but just in case you want to know what I’m talking about, and you’re somebody who likes to focus on the small stuff. I personally did at one time myself. Again, that’s putting me money into tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs, solo 401ks, or playing around even Roth IRA accounts.

All that stuff just shifts the taxes around. And if you’ve taken a look at some of my other stuff on my past Podcasts  you guys can check that out at simplepassivecasual.com/QRP. I really explained the reasons why. There’s no reason that you should be in any of these kind of so supposedly tax shelter accounts, unless your net worth is, I would say four five plus million net worth.

or you wanna really hold non-real estate assets for some strange reason. The next kind of item here is, timing your game harvesting. If you’ve suffered a loss in crypto, which you probably did in the last couple of years, wouldn’t be a bad idea to sell the assets and buy it right back.

Crypto and taxes are its infancy. There’s not really this like 30 day wash rule that you have with stocks. I guess you can make lemon with lemonade or and get the deduction there. But that’s another. . The other one is, income shifting. , this is the whole paying your kids concept.

The whole idea is, your kids don’t make as much money and you’re in, they’re in a lower tax bracket as you. Therefore, if you throw them a bone, throw ’em like five, six grand. You can shelter some taxes that way at their lower tax rate as opposed to your higher tax break. And again, here’s where I’m talking about like small ball kind of things.

Whoop, they do. If you save 10% on your taxes on that six grand right? Yeah, you’re saving money and I don’t wanna phoo this, but again, these are small ball type of activities.

Even smaller than that, buying things that you may need for your business or your real estate rentals or helping you become a better investor. Maybe an iPhone, maybe a printer, or some iPads, maybe even a watch for all I know, right? The, it has to be reasonable, one part of your business. Running these things to your business is a great way to pay for things that.  bought anyway and gotten a sort of discount on it because it was a deduction.

Now when you really add this stuff up, does it really move the needle? No, it doesn’t. And it is this same thing like. Buying a rental property next to you.

Know your relative’s house. Your family’s house. And I always tell people like, yeah, it makes sense, but like really how much money you’re really going to is the delta there? How much money would you go to see grandma’s house? You really spend there to be able to deduct and justify to, I would much rather be in a better location, better submarket, or even a better value idea like a syndication.

Who cares if it’s next to grandma’s?  and where you can get the, write off some personal things right there. And this is a another example. Play the big game, the big picture. And this are these small ball activities. The last thing that I think a lot of business owners will do is like a S-Corp strategy where they’re playing these salary dividend split.

As W2 workers are 10 99, most of you guys are getting killed with pseudo faf fica South self-employment taxes which get added on top of your federal and state taxes. But when you have a scor, you’re able to carve off salary portion and then the dividend portion. Then dividend portion is the portion that doesn’t have to be subjected to those extra layer taxes.

Kind of a cool thing. , but again, these are small ball activities. Those extra taxes might mean an extra 10, 15%, but on how much, like a hundred grand. Yeah. I guess that might move the needle. Might move in if your, you’re moving $500,000 in a dividends, but at that point, you’re probably better spent, minding something else or what.

I’m gonna be going into. But I’m gonna be going into really the big things that I focus on my clients. The first one, especially for the high income earners, making over $340,000 is charitable donations.

Yeah, giving us stuff away at a Goodwill, but what I’m really talking about here is land conservation easements. Now, I’m not gonna be going into this particular one because it is a Pandora’s box of really explaining it. What I would recommend is go to my website and signing up at simplepassivecashflow.com/club or you’ll get a lot of free content to learn about these types of more advanced tax tools.

But what I also wanted to really go into was, A lot of this stuff is predicated on managing your adjusted gross income, not just deferring, right? Deferring was part of the last slide where it was small ball activities. What I’m talking about is just lowering your AGI.

Through a couple of ways, which I’m gonna get into here, but if you’re able to lower your adjusted gross income, now you’re able to pay lot less taxes. And the more you lower it, the better it gets. So if you’re making $400,000 and you’re in this 32% tax bracket and we lower it a 200, not only do you shelter that $200,000, don’t pay taxes on it, but it’s at a higher rate, right?

And that’s because our tax system is this progressive tax. What I recommend most of the clients do is really try and get to this red line here that I have shown, and this is a point where the break between the 24 to the 32% range, which is a big gap these days, I’m actually saying, maybe even try get into the $200,000.

A g I range at 22%. Of course, I’m talking for merit follow jointly. The, for the single folks. It’s a little bit different on the left side of this single filer status here. But, this is the concept of this is the big things as opposed to the small things that you should be looking at.

The question is, all right, cool. I get it. And this is the 1 0 1. In fact, this is more like the 2 0 1 tax class. How the heck do I do this right? Easier said than done. Here’s a little bit of review for some people who are brand new at this. . And you guys can check what I’m, I’ve got this diagramed in the right way.

On the left side here, I have ordinary income. Ordinary income, boo bad, ordinary income is like the W2 income or, and even 10 99, it gets hit with all these taxes, your ordinary tax and your FICA social security, about 15% on top of the zero to 37%. . We don’t like this stuff. Why? Because it’s high tax. What we want is on this other side of the fence, which is the passive income.

Passive income is cool, right? Passive, right? But other than the fact it’s from a tax standpoint, it’s actually defined as passive income, which can be offset with passive losses, passive activity, losses, suspended, passive activity, losses. We’re gonna use just the short word as pals, P A L S. Kind is cool, right?

Cuz they are, you’re a pal in this respect because you can use these passive activity losses, which you get from large syndication deals or rental properties. The fact that real estate degrades over time on paper, these are losses that you can take to offset your passive income. And when you are in larger syndication deals that do cost segregation and aggressively right off the.

which is a good thing. You’re often able to take, create a surplus of these losses and show a big red. One of the things that like really boggles my head and my clan’s head is in we try and show this to the banker or the mortgage lender and they look at like your tax profile, and you’re like, but you’re losing money.

Yeah, heck yeah, we’re losing money because all the depreciation and they just don’t get it. And just like how people don’t. Forget the 401ks. Forget the Roth IRAs. Forget the IRAs, right? That’s all deferring. What we’re trying to do is lower our a g I today doing these types of things, so getting back to using passive activity losses to lower our passive income.

Again, that’s zeroing that out. Now we cannot use passive activity losses to offset ordinary income right from our day job or your business because it’s separat. , there’s this red line of do not pass, sir. Now, the only way to get past. , there is a way to use their passive losses off offset your ordinary income.

And we’ve done this many times with clients, a high paid doctor making a million dollars, lowering their income to whatever they want, depending how much passive activity losses they have. They do this with a thing called real estate professional steps. We’ll call it reps for short. Now I’m not gonna get into too much of the detail.

Again, sign up for the club, simple passive cash.com/club. You get the eCourse and also check out the taxPage@simplepassivecash.com slash tax to learn more on how to qualify this and to review what we’re talking about. But in a nutshell, if you are able to qualify for real estate professional status now this kind of red line of demarcation goes away and it’s a bit of a free for.

A good free for all for you because now you’re able to use these losses that you get from the real estate to offset and lower your income. And this is where, a high paid person getting, million dollars of income a year, all ordinary income is able to use the losses from the real estate to lower that to whatever they want.

Now there’s a kind of a overlying portion of this that I think gets lost and this is where I come in, for those of people who, sign up for the club form and we get to know each other, I can help you walk through your personal situation accordingly. And then this is really gets into personal finance, whether rep status makes sense and where you are in terms of ordinary to passive income.

Most people I work with, they have a mostly ordinary income, right? They’re doing it the traditional way. They have traditional investments, stocks, bonds, mutual funds. They don’t really have too much alternative investments and pause there. I don’t know why they call it alternative investments when you know real estate is an alternative investment, but

I don’t know why you would call it alternative when it seems pretty traditional to me anyway, but anyway, that’s the terminology we’re using. It’s an alternative investment and real estate is. Something that per the iris code gives you a lot of losses. Again, pals. Our pals, we like ’em and at this point we’re able to get a lot of these losses to play these different games at our taxes.

But if you look okay, what do I do? Here’s what I’m saying, you gotta move away from the traditional investments because that stuff is portfolio income there and there’s no losses. You can’t do anything. And this is exactly what the government or society. , they want people to stay in that garbage so that they pay a lot of taxes.

And oh, by the way, the big brokerage fees are killing you in this process. , when I owned a rental property, I was making like two, three times better than what I was in the stock market. If you don’t believe me, check out an old video I did at simple passive cash flow.com/returns. I go through the numbers and show you exactly, the returns on an investment so you know how you’re making money through cash flow appreciation, the tenants are paying down your mortgage, and that these tax benefits all combined two to three times greater than what I was getting in that 401k nonsense.

But until you start to see this stuff for yourself, you don’t really get it. Hopefully you got from this video, you know this other alternative goal, which is forget about deferring with all the traditional stuff. Get into alternative investments so you can get these losses and over time your passive income will grow also, but also grow as a percentage in terms of.

In comparison to ordinary income because once that happens, now you don’t need that real estate professional status tag, right? If all your income was passive, which is personally where I’m at and a lot of my clients at who invest quite a bit, right? They have a lot of assets real estate assets that proves to a lot of passive income, and especially when they leave their day job, most of their income is passive income and they don’t need rep.

To offset that if they have the passive activity losses. So it becomes this kind of strange paradigm as you move through this financial journey the right way, in my opinion. Picking up alternative investments for the passive losses and then you start to get from, you start to get away from ordinary income and go to passive.

It almost is like you’re. Running paying a lot less taxes, a lot more like cleaner, a lot more efficient way of doing this. And that’s just it just makes so much sense once you understand this whole paradigm

And this is my bucket system that I talk a lot about people, the people ask should I do a Roth theory and Ira solo 401k? To me it doesn’t really make sense until you have today’s cashflow. Figure it out. And what is today’s cashflow bucket? What’s this whole bucket system?

I talk about a lot about my clients. The whole bucket system is. Imagine three buckets. The first bucket is get yours today, right? And I define this as 10 to 15, maybe in $50,000 of passive income a month. Typically that’s gonna be anywhere from three to 5 million net worth. Accumulate that much, and at least that much assets to produce that for you so that you’re living on good life.

That’s a great life. And at that point, you can’t really spend. At that point, that bucket fills up and it’s then the overflow spills into that next bucket, and here’s where you start to fund those self-directed IRA accounts, the solo 401ks, that type of stuff. But if you notice the way conventional financial dogma is structured, , it’s, they say to fill up this stuff first, and to me it’s completely backwards.

And the sad part that I see is that people never get to filling up their today cashflow bucket and they have to keep working. Maybe that’s how they created it so that we all keep working maybe, but, , you know that at that point, once that bucket gets filled, then you start to fill up nonprofits and make me make a mini foundation.

But most people don’t get there. And I think that would, at that point, you would probably have to come out to an event, learn the insider secrets at that point. But for now, just, in a quick YouTube video, just understand, create your cashflow bucket today outside of the tax.

Vehicles so you can get the losses. So you can use these losses to offset your taxes to date, and that’s how you’re gonna have more money to invest. Do other accredited investor banking. That’s another tactic that we have and that’s also in the e-course that you guys can get at simplepassivecash.com/club signup there for free.

In Depth: How Infinite Banking HELPS You as an Investor

On today’s podcast, we are going to be replaying the almost two hour long webinar that we did on the introduction to infinite banking. Now, if you guys wanna check this out on the YouTube channel, go to simple passer cash flow.com/banking. And you can access the YouTube video there. So you can also go along with the slides. I wanted to leave it here because I think a lot of you guys are audio learners and also the team has gone on the road this past week.

Depending on when you’re listening to this audio we are either getting over our October 1st Napa valley hangover. Or we are already doing our property tours and our grand opening party of our new Chase Creek apartments in Huntsville, Alabama.

If you guys have been trying to get a hold of us to book your introductory calls with us, we can get to know you a little bit better. Please get on that right away because my schedule is booked up as I get back into the swing of things later on in October, but super happy to meet all of you guys in person.

If it’s not too late, please sign up for that October 6th, seventh in Huntsville, Alabama, If you really like this infinite banking concept again, you can go to simple passive cash flow.com/banking, and you can get access to this video, of course, but you can also get access to the two to three hour long eCourse where you can go through each of these sections. We dive into a lot more detail in more, a readable and short video.

Format. So if you guys put in your email address in there, it will get you access to the closed end member site where you get access to infinite banking eCourse enjoyed this webinar that we.

Welcome everybody. This is the intro to infinite banking. Here’s what’s gonna go on in the next couple hours. We prepared this deck and we added a bunch of slides, including some use cases. I also look at my working sheet here that I use to keep track of my infinite banking.

And, when money goes out alone, it comes back. But this is meant to be a CRA school for a lot of you folks. We see a lot of familiar faces. A lot of folks who’ve joined us recently and the infinite banking is new to them. Even some people who have policies on the line today it’s always good to review a little bit. But I would say we’ll knock this out in under an hour’s presentation, but we’ll have time for plenty of questions.

But just a little bit of background on myself. I grew up in Hawaii. Seattle’s 2003 to 2017. I Have a wife, a child, a dog and a Ford Raptor are the things that I have these days, no longer an engineer and then real estate. I started with that first rental in 2009, and then I got up to 11 rentals in 2015.

But since then, as the investor group has grown 1.2 billion to assets on their ownership, 8,500 units, 55 projects, and about 95, 90, 95 people in our family office group. That’s our inner circle mastermind group. And also joining me Tyler Fuka. Why don’t you introduce yourself a bit, Tyler?

Yeah. Hi, I’m Tyler Fuka. I am also married, have two boys. I do have a dog. I forgot to update that. I grew up in Hilo, Hawaii. Then I went off to the University of Washington to study engineering. I was there on a ROTC scholarship. So when I graduated, I got commissioned as a Naval officer stationed out at Mayport, Florida in Jacksonville, went to grad school in Monterey, California, and then moved here to wahoo where I’ve been since 2006 came here as active duty.

As an engineering duty officer transitioned out in 2009. To basically become a civil servant or DLD engineer did a lot of project management, construction management, a supervisor, and then eventually moved over to the department of veterans affairs. And he was a chief engineer there for a while.

Up until 2001, when I left, I decided to leave the W2 world. As far as real estate investing, I’ve been investing since 2002. My path then was single family rentals and doing what we call house hacking back then. I got up to, four single family rentals and basically got overloaded with work life and investing took a pause, started really looking at alternative investing in 2017 ish met lane in 2018 and just been totally doing syndications mainly from there on and where or lane really opened up our eyes as far as insurance wise always been interested in that.

I got introduced to the infinite banking concept. Probably about 10, 10 years ago. Didn’t really do anything with it. Although when I was in Lane’s group and other groups, I was with, I, we kept on hearing about infinite banking. So I eventually got my license in 2019 mainly to study and learn about the details of the industry, the different products available and then been helping lanes groups since then or licensed across the state.

So we basically can serve anywhere. Yeah. And a little bit more context of that, cuz it’s always fun for people to learn the story. I heard about this a while back ago. This infinite banking strategy, I would say since 2017 and I tasked Tyler with learning about this stuff, cuz I knew there were a lot of commissions in fees and it’s a strange product that, it’s not as straightforward as deals to me.

So I asked them to learn it more so to eventually do a policy for myself. So I wouldn’t get gouged with pricing and Tyler would be up front with how it all worked. I also, we also told you to go learn notes and what assisted living facilities are. Which those didn’t work out as, as well as this as most things don’t it’s funny, like those assisted living facilities, I haven’t really found anybody who does that halfway decent.

There was just like a house, like a few blocks away, like an illegal assisted living facility that got taken down by police recently. But it’s like this thing stuck. And we do this for a lot of the clients and the whole point is we crunch the commission and fees as low as they can go.

So in other words, if you guys have a policy, you’re looking at some other policies, probably beat him. But as I learned and what I’m happy about, Tyler kind of focusing it on full-time is that there’s this whole complex structure and we’ll maybe get into it a little bit, past the lowering the commissions as low as possible and past like the 90, 10 70 30 split, which we’ll talk about today, but there’s bunch of other ways that I don’t personally understand to customize it to what you guys want.

But yeah, this is, brief illustration. I think what a problem that most investors face, which is what the heck do I do with my short term liquidity, midterm liquidity, or my college savings before I put it into longer deals, right? Three years, seven year deals, that’s ideally where you wanna put your money, cuz that’s where you’re gonna make a higher rate of return.

Sure. Might be a little bit more risky, but it comes with a higher reward. You don’t really have 50 grand, a hundred grand ready to go all the time. The infinite banking, this is just one example of the many use cases. And I’ve created maybe about four or five use cases to use this very, a flexible kind of strategy, but it fits in my whole, 1, 2, 3 trifectas of simple passive cash list.

But if you’re new to simple passive cash flow, it’s first investing in good deals with honest people where you don’t get your money stolen, where you get higher returns than the retail stock market mutual funds, et cetera. And then number two, you, by getting all these passive losses through deals and other tax benefits, such as going from ordinary income to passive income you could unlock a lot of tax maneuvers and then obviously that creates more money for you to invest and then put more money into us. The third strategy, which is infinite banking here which is what we’re talking about.

This is something that we’ll get into, but this is basically a strategy. A lot of the wealthy will do. I dug up this video cuz I wanted to date how long we’ve been talking about this thing. Dug up this video from 2017 when I was a really shitty speaker back at Toastmasters, I was talking about this thing.

I was awkwardly taught to use my hands when I talk. We’ve been talking about this thing for quite some time and I didn’t really get a policy till much later than this and or it took me a long time to wrap my hands around. So if it’s confusing to you guys, sit back and, we can, we’ll open it up for questions at the end, but you it’s something that I think that it takes a while to understand like a lot of investors understanding the difference between ordinary income and passive income and how passive income can be offset by passive losses.

It’s a simple concept. And I think, we have a lot of engineers in our investor group and sometimes the engineers can over analyze this whole thing, in the banking I’m talking specifically about if that’s maybe taking a step back. It’s really not that difficult, but. It took me a little while to understand this whole thing.

Basically, getting rid of the middle man here we’ll talk a little bit about how big companies use these bank on life insurance, but to me of the main points about using these infinite banking policies is you’re making an interest rate and, , there’s a middle man here by with the bank is how normally it works.

But by using this life insurance policy, you cut out the bank in a way, and you make a little bit of that spread back. . Yeah. One, one of the main benefits is you’re recapturing your earning power or the opportunity costs. Cuz once your funds leave the bank that earning power for that dollar is lost.

Banks, they make their money basically off of how they have deposits come into them, they’re landing the money out. So whenever the money exits the bank it continues to earn funds. Similarly with the life insurance policy, we’re putting funds into the policy, we’re able to access those funds and not still have those dollars in the policy earning and not lose that opportunity to, for that dollar to continue to earn while you’re using that dollar somewhere else.

I’ll do it quickly, so yeah. So what is infinite banking? It truly is a concept of what I was mentioning before about recapturing those losses. You basically are utilizing an asset where you’re able to basically use that dollars, keep it in that asset, but obtain that dollars through alone.

And that there’s multiple ways of doing that. And now you’re able to have your funds work in two different places. So the original asset will be growing. And then the dollars that you access, you can do what you want and you could use it for expenses. You could use it for investing. You could use it for college planning or retirement planning, but that’s the overall concept.

The vehicle of choice that we choose to use for various reasons is dividend paying whole life insurance. And there’s multiple benefits with whole life insurance. And there are other products out there, but whole life specifically, there’s a level premium. So that’s one of the main benefits. The insurance costs and fees are pretty set as at, in regards to the insurance premiums themselves.

There’s guaranteed growth. And it’s right now, tho those ranges around two or 3% guaranteed seems small, but when we’re talking long term wise, this is uninterrupted compounded growth, and that steady growth can then help you plan, for long term. You can be used for multiple things, investing education.

So five, it could, this could replace your five to nine. Your 401k IRA you could use as your own bank to use it for lending instead of car loans, mortgages, and then it also is a safe place to store your capital. That’s where I personally keep my reserves also. There’s of course we’re not designing it for the death benefit, but there is, there is a death benefit component to it that helps with legacy planning or will transfer to different generations.

You are accessing the growth of the policies tax free. There’s no capital gains. There’s no income tax because the way you’re utilizing it is via loans. It follows what you may hear as the buy borrow die strategy, where you’re really purchasing this asset. It grows and you’re borrowing as the asset grows, you’re borrowing from it.

And that way you’re eliminating capital gains along with income taxes. And the policy isn’t designed in a way where you don’t have to pay for your entire life. So traditional whole life you, that you may have, there’s a premium due usually to age 95, 99, or a hundred. We design it where there is a cutoff at some point.

And even though you’re no longer contributing, the policy continues to earn dividends and that dividends then helps to boost up the value of your policy in the form of death benefit along with cash value. So this is a, there’s a handful on this slide. And again I’m gonna go over this in my, in a different way, cuz I think people learn in very different ways.

And although I do think that the most effective way of learning this is talking to somebody who just went through the process with Tyler and it’s fresh in their head and they’re, they’re using the loans or taking loans from themselves, funding the policy and then using it in their whole investment strategy.

Although, we obviously can’t recreate that on a virtual seminar, but that’s why we do the retreats. That’s why I tell people to come out to Napa, come out to Huntsville, meet other investors. So you can talk about, how you’re using this type of stuff. Just speaking from my own personal experience what I do is I, I max fund my policies and I store a cash value in there.

And Tyler mentioned the word asset, right? What’s the asset, right? In this case, I think a lot of people. The way to think about it is, think about it exactly like a HELOC right. You have a house and that was your asset, right? You might be paying it off or you have equity in there, but you use a HELOC to tap that equity, taking loans against that and paying the interest to that loan.

But you can use that loan to a lot of you guys will, who are new or using that HELOC to invest in your first few, several deals, same thing here, except instead of house being the asset is this paper, whole life policy, which is probably one of the most secures pieces of assets out there because the underlying that the asset is backed by these insurance companies that have been paying out dividends since the civil war much more secure than your average bank out there.

But, as Tyler mentioned, there’s a lot of benefits to doing it. I’ll highlight the guaranteed cash value growth. So when, just like how you HELOC your money’s in your asset, which is the house in this case your money is in the asset, which is the whole life policy.

It continues to grow just like the house does. So that’s where that guaranteed cash value comes from. The, and then the tax leave loans and withdrawals, that’s part of how I use it, right? So when my money’s in here, it grows with that. And. At that point, it’s considered tax free per the IRS.

And this is an important thing. We’ll get to later designing the policy. So you don’t go over that minimum threshold. Certainly you don’t wanna overfund it too much, cuz we’ll talk about fees, commissions and try to lower that as much as possible. By having it in this life insurance policy it’s the tax loophole to have this thing grow tax free.

And then when you take withdrawals or you take loans from your policy to go in and invest it or do whatever you need to do with the money. Lot times if you’re smart, you can have that be a business expense and has it have it be tax deductible. But we’ll hammer a lot of this stuff multiple times here.

Other ideas, doctors and high net worth investors like to use this as the asset protection component. And then, I’ve personally cond this with Ivo trust for simplicity of the use. I can talk about that at the end with another use case. But again, lot of stuff here, but basically it’s like a HELOC where you can take loans from it and then pay it back and have this be a constant source of capital.

That’s also grow. But it’s much better than a HELOC for three reasons. First, the banks can pull your HELOC at any point, right? They can freeze credit lines. They can’t do this with your infinite banking. And this is the whole where the whole term comes from family vault and people call this a family vault, but, or being your own bank, you own this policy, this asset is yours. The second big thing on, why this is better than the using your own HELOC you have the asset protection when your money is in under this policy, it’s protected, just like how, a lot of people will think they’re retirement accounts, the 401k are protected from creditors and litigators.

And then, the, my biggest thing, why I don’t like the helos is, they’re great to get started, but you can’t use the HELOC to tap all the equity. A lot of times your banks are gonna play games with you on your appraisals and then lower your loan to value on that loan with the bank.

None of that nonsense games, when you’re doing your own infinite banking policy, you can pretty much always, it’s not like you have, you can’t touch a certain amount of equity in the policy. If you’re using your HELOC now to go into deals. Cool. But eventually what most people will do is they’ll transition the equity into an infinite banking policy for the mentioned reasons.

Real quick. Okay. There, there are some questions being type. So if people have questions yeah. I think we want them, they can type it in during the presentation, we’ll probably cover some of those. And then at the end we’ll make sure to go over all of those. Is that yeah. Yeah. And put it into the question and answer box, cuz it allows us to check it off once we’ve answered it.

But if something is pertaining to the slide we’ll try and get to it for sure. Just all the random questions. Maybe hold to the end, cause we’ll probably answer it like Tyler said. But if you guys have been paying attention, we met, we uttered the words, whole life insurance and typically the whole life insurance is quite the scam.

I’ll be the first one to tell you, right? This is the one where your long loss acquaintance from college or high school, or maybe grade school hits you up on LinkedIn or Facebook or Instagram or for some of the younger people TikTok or whatnot. And they say, you wanna go to lunch and they sell you this like garbage whole life policy that was configured with high amounts of insurance, where is basically where all the commissions and fees come from, which again, what we cranked down to the minimums for you guys in our.

And, it’s just not a very good policy. And this is where Dave Ramsey and those guys say, yeah, just do term life. Whole life is a scam. So I just wanted to just, mention, yes, we are using whole life, but it’s configured in a very different way, but this is actually something that like my spouse got suckered on.

And then, what Tyler can also do is if you have a whole life policy, there are things that you can transfer and he can talk to you about that. But you can dissect current whole life and you can break down what percentage of it was insurance and paid up additions.

And then, most times my spouse’s case, she was, she got taken for one of these, but, she didn’t really the way the financial planning world works. They get a bunch of young salesmen to suck at their friends and family into these types of arrangements. What we did is we just cashed in her policy is what we did, but sometimes it might make sense.

Tyler can work with you guys to exchange it or whatnot. And I’ll say it a little bit differently. I think. Insurance has its purpose. And the purpose of life insurance is to protect your human life value. So I think that there is a purpose there, but as an investment or what we’re doing is totally opposite of that.

We’re utilizing it for the cash value component not the protection part of it. If it is purely the protection part, it is considered could be expensive. I’ll use a gentler word then a scam or something then lane. But yeah, I think it is traditional whole life is expensive.

There is a cheap coverage, which is term, but again, those, rarely ever pay out, but again, it’s there to protect your life or the what ifs. And this is a total different strategy. So that’s where people may get confused if they hear it. And I think we have someone on here or a later slide going over, maybe some of the chatter people may hear about whole life in general.

Yeah. And when I talk to some of you guys have made me talked to your whole life, financial planner, people, and most financial planners or people who make these things, they don’t get it. They don’t get us as investors. What do we want? We want liquidity so we can take the money out and invest it in much better deals.

But these other guys, they say we wanna give you. Higher returns. And we want the bigger death payout, that’s in their head, what they think life insurance should do, but we’re using this, we’re using life insurance. Yes. But really what I’m using it for is to get that tax loop pulse.

So I have to pay my taxes on it and I wanna get the liquidity. I wanna maximize liquidity and I’m willing to give up the death payout and the returns on the policy because it’s small. Anyway, it’s different than 5% to 5.5% returns on this stuff where, what I really want is the liquidity.

So I can go put it in something making 10, 15, 20%. And that’s the idea of a sophisticated investor. And that’s where these other guys, they just don’t get us. How we do things with our money and how we invest it in alternative assets.

Yeah. And this slide just kind of highlights. Lane touched on bank on life insurance. So life insurance, is a asset that a lot of corporations use including banks. So specifically it’s called a bully or bank home life insurance. But if you were to look on the bank’s assets, the list of assets you’ll see life insurance.

I think chat is able to pull this up and you’ll see highlighted down there, life insurance, but. Bank banks clearly understand life insurance, the risks associated with that. And they hold a lot of their assets in that also. That kind of was the proof in the pudding as far as how safe it is.

They’re also willing to lend against that. We’ll touch about a cash value line of credit. So you could take your policy to a bank, not all banks, there’s banks out there that will specifically give you a line of credit based on your cash value. And that to me is similar to a real estate.

They understand the asset and, but unlike real estate or HELOC where, your loan to value is more in the seven or 80% loan to value the banks will lend you 95 to a hundred percent loan to value on your cash value. That kind of says how secure and safe banks consider whole life insurance.

Yeah. It, and again, this goes back to, lot of my discoveries and like what the wealthy do, investing in alternative assets, getting off of wall street and putting their money into these life insurance products. You follow what the wealthy do, and they’re quietly doing something a little bit different as the same goals money talks, but 📍 wealth whispers, you.

Another example is like Walmart, Walmart will buy insurance policies and their top dogs and store it on their balance sheet, as they’re safe semi-liquid stores. What I tell a lot of people is I follow what the wealthy do, but also what the banks and what the big companies do.

And you take a hint from what they’re doing. This is a strategy that they’re employing and if you own a business it’s not a bad way of doing things. So different use cases again.

Yeah. It’s more than just the type of asset. So I think that one of the biggest key factors on the performance or the utilization of the strategy is the policy design. We’re using, we’re independent where we can write with multiple companies. We choose, certain companies, some for their flexibility and then also just how we can design it.

The product is the product. And, most people can utilize and design it the same way we just choose to design it. The most cash value efficient and flexible because that’s what appeals to us as investors. And our design is really caters towards investors because we are investors first and that’s how we want to utilize this strategy.

There’s other designs out there and it has its pros and cons or the different levers. So we, our main focus is cash value and flexibility. Yeah. And this is the portion of the show where Tyler’s gonna spearhead this next few slides, because this is somewhere, this is a time where I realized the strategy and started to employ it myself.

But then I realized how like more technical it gets and that’s where it required a engineer like Tyler to really learn this on behalf of you guys. If you guys look back in the coaching calls, which we keep in the members site, and we arrange everything, everyone from lower net worth to over, accredited beyond, we do, we talk about implementation speed and, maybe you wanna put 200 grand every year in this stuff or 50 grand a year.

You can see some of those examples. We can probably do that at the end. If there’s time here, but. This is some something where I had the self realization that I didn’t have the bandwidth to keep up on this stuff constantly. And, I need to focus on deals and finding, deal relationships out there.

I’ll vouch for Tyler. Tyler gets on flights, he goes to these infinite banking industry mastermind, again, events, and I forced them to do it because, I said, you gotta like really, you gotta get involved in this stuff, just like how I did with this other stuff.

And really transcend your average, keyboard, jockey insurance provider, who just happens to have a license or worse social media influencer. That’s, this stuff is a technical stuff and it needs to be tailor to each person. These are the ways we’ll get into designing the policy the right way.

Yeah. And touched about this In the previous slide, but the, as, in order to maintain the taxable treatment from the, in the IRS’s minds, there are some tax laws and unfortunately, the IRS got involved in the eighties, so they created something called a me limit.

Some people may hear that, or it’s a modified endowment contract, which really prevents pre 1980s people ready to dump in a whole bunch of money into a policy lump sum, very little insurance and really capitalize on the power of insurance. IRS has stepped in, in the eighties, they created a limit basically where it says, Hey, in order for this to the taxable the taxable treatment only will apply if it’s insurance and it, you really need to purchase a certain amount of insurance in relation to the amount that you’re stuffing in.

We maximize, we, we take that to the limit and so we’re able to stuff as much funds into the policy have as much cash value early on with also long-term growth, but with the flexibility while maintaining within those IRS rules and, these rules have changed and tightened over some time.

So that’s. , it, it is, we’ve had to stay on top of things. BA basically in the beginning of 2021 or the end of 2021 was when the new law took into effect also. So they’re changing and updating things, every couple years or so. But that’s where the design is really crucial in order to maximize those things.

Yeah. And this stuff isn’t getting any better. So like the best time to get a policy was yesterday, just like how it was to go into deals, the deals in 2018 kind of cashed out, that’s the best time to do it was yesterday. And it reminds me a lot of like real estate professional status, just like the way lavage changed.

There’s a great tax loophole. If you wanna use that word. guess for the real estate professional status, I think 10 years ago, a lot of what a lot of doctors were doing that were making, 500, $600,000, a million dollars a year was getting a little whimsical rental property.

And then now getting rep status and now using all the passive losses from their deals to drain their income down to, 300 or zero and not pay any taxes. And then the IRS is wait a minute, guys, this doesn’t seem right. So they implemented all these like rules for getting real estate professional status.

It’s the same thing. Tyler mentioned here for the life insurance before you could just write all this stuff off and all the returns would be tax free and, people would put like a dollar, the life insurance, and then the Iris was like, wait a minute, guys, there’s a limit to this. Like you can’t just put $1 and have the whole thing be tax free.

Cuz you can imagine if you guys are like, financial hackers like us, where that goes, put a gazillion dollar policy and put $1 in life insurance, whole thing tax free. So there’s a certain limit to that and where we get into this 90 10, this 10% insurance thing. That’s a little bit more historical context on we always try and stay one step ahead of, the latest, the, where the tax laws are and always be tax compliant.

Of course.

Yeah, so the, that meth limit that is a IRS limit there’s two main, large limits. It’s usually it’s the IRS limit or this meth limit. And the second one is just company limits. So that’s internal limits a company puts on and some constraints they put on. Again the choice of company is almost as important, but as far as the me limit that really, that, that limit is defined by your age, gender along with your health rating status.

So when when you go through the underwriting process, you get approved for a certain amount of death benefit based on your age, gender. And you’re given a health rating and of a better health rating will, will drive your death benefit up a little bit more. So then your me limit will also be slightly higher.

But yeah, the main factor is for a me limit is the amount you wanna stuff into a policy a year. And then the factors are your age, gender and health rating. And then the second limit is basically company limits. There’s various company limit. The big one that we focus on is the paid up additions or POA limitations.

Because the POAs are so beneficial for the cash value companies limit basically how much you can put in per year based in relation usually to your base premium. So that’s the cost and you can think of base premiums. The cost of insurance paid up additions as truly, the cash dump or the cash value addition and internal companies put internal limits as far as how we can design these.

And you might hear three times POAs, five times, POAs, 10 times POAs. The companies we use have 10 times POAs and that’s really beneficial as far as cash value growth. And, I think again, maybe in the back of your head you’re sharing, you know what Dave Ramsey said?

We all know Dave Ramsey, great guy. And I think he does a great job for teaching those, people, most people out there, 90, 95% of people who are in debt don’t make too much money. I think he means well, he’s said whole life insurance is a rip off and it’s cuz we mentioned at the top, it’s all how you configure.

I was watching some YouTube videos of the stuff last night and, trying to see the bad thing about a lot of this financial world is a lot of people, they just don’t really dig into it. And the secret isn’t how you create it and how you structure the whole encompassing strategy, where infinite banking is just one of ’em, this particular YouTube video the caller set mentioned a few things here, which I’ll highlight.

They said the break even point for his policy was year seven. Yeah, when you’re configuring this stuff with higher insurance, which you don’t, which where the commissions and fees come from, you’re gonna have a higher break even point. I don’t know, like some of the last policies you’ve been doing Tyler, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lot less than that.

And then he also mentioned the one thing I will agree with Dave on is he said, and I quote, when you work for the certified financial planners, the CFPs is he called them, they work for the Northwestern mutual guys, he just laughing and he says, those are the guys that just screw people every day.

So it wasn’t me who said it, anybody gets offended and mad at Northwestern mutual, any XYZ mutual company. He that’s what Dave Ramsey said. But again, we’re configuring this a little a lot differently with lot less insurance, which is where the fees and commissions come from. Again, I think this is where most people, and this is what kind of gets me with a lot of things.

Most people will just only read the headlines of videos or news clips. But when you actually read the damn article, the story is very different.

Yeah. And I think Dave Ramsey is also El alluding to that whole life is expensive. And I think traditional whole life, the way it’s designed it is very, it is expensive in relation to possibly O other things out there to protect your life such as term. But again, we’re doing it differently.

And the design, so this slide represents a little insight on as far as the design traditional whole life. So this is a 50 50 split. Traditional whole life would be more, hundred percent premium. So all of that would go to, the death benefit cost a 50, 50 design or 50% is the expense or death benefit or base premium 50% is paid up additions.

That paid up additions as mentioned earlier, really has reduced fees compared to the base premium. So in relation that $500 going to base premium. maybe a few dollars of that will show up as cash value. Whereas for POAs, 500 goes into POAs. There is a fee slight fee in there, but I would say 4 75 will actually show up in cash value.

So much, much drastic change. And that’s why we wanna really minimize our goal is to minimize the base premium and maximize the POAs. The next slide shows a 10 90 split. You may hear a 90, 10, 10 90. I think that’s all the same a lot of times. Some people put the PAA portion first in this slide, it has the base premium.

First I personally call it the 10 90 split where 10% goes to base premium. And a lot of times that is also a company limit. In relation to, the factor, you can put a hundred dollars in as base premium, again, maybe $1 or so of that will show up as cash value and then putting $900 into UAS and your cash value, would be 850 or so not quite 900, but drastically different.

So out pocket from, as the client, it’s the same thousand dollars coin out of your pocket, how it performs or where that money is going. Is very different based on the design. Again, same thousand dollars going out. If it was a traditional whole life, you probably have $0 cash value that 50, 50 you might have about $400 for four 50 cash value.

And then a 10 90 would you’d have, 800 or so cash value. It’s all just purely the design. And then that impacts your cash value portion. Yeah. So some people might say, oh, we’re already doing the infinite banking thing, but they could be in this format where they’re paying five times as much fees and commissions, and they’re getting five times less cash value than they should be getting with this 10 90 split.

Not all policies, still again, it’s do you read the headlines or you actually analyze what’s in the content here and how, or in this case, how it’s designed, right? You may be implementing I B C banking from yourself. But if again, like we, we kind of urge people if you’re already doing this strategy.

Just check out what the split was on the premiums versus the paid up editions. This is typically. What most people will do. Some people in our mastermind group they’ll do 70, 30 or 30, 70 splits. So like like a mix between the 50 50, which I don’t think you ever wanna do that. There’s some other advantages to doing it that way, I’d say, the first thing is like lowering the commissions and fees for you guys, which I’m sure the question comes up.

Like, why the heck would you and Tyler lower the fees and commissions, I guess I have my reasons which is then you put more money into deals and you actually have more money than paying out in fees and you invest more and you tell more of your friends about this type of stuff. But to me, it’s like most of our clients are doing really big policies.

So the commissions and fees are there for us that kind of keeps the lights on, but it’s, I’ve always thought of this as like an added service for our investors in our investor group. Certainly staying away from this 50 50 split. Yeah. And to not get into too much technical detail, but the design also enables a lot of flexibility.

So on a 10 90 split that a hundred dollars, even though your target amount in this case would be a thousand dollars. What you have to put in every year is really only the a hundred dollars that, that additional $900 in this case is flexible and optional. And that’s where, that’s how the design also plays into the flexibility.

So not only the company allows, the insurance company allows you that flexibility, but the design then again, allows you to put in capital as you have it, throughout the policy year versus having to save up and have that thousand dollars or in the 50, 50 design case $500, available on your premium anniversary.

That’s a, that also plays a big factor. For me personally, just having my, since I have most of my capital working, I don’t wanna sit around and, bank up the large payment and have that only be able to put in once a year. I like to spread it out over the year and dump it in.

We had a question here from Hillary. Does the me limit include the amount of premiums you pay a year or is the me limit the amount of additional PUA you can add to the policy? Yeah. Good question. Yeah, it’s it is a cumulative amount. So that me limit is the total amount of funds you can dump into your policy.

So that would include your, the premiums for that year.

So one unique way, a lot, some people, he struggle to hear how the PWAs really added add value to the policy. We came up with this scenario where it’s similar to a house cause most of us are investors. So think of the base premium as your debt servicing on your mortgage, right?

You’re, it’s something you have to pay in order to keep that asset yours very little value added if we’re talking the debt servicing portion of your mortgage, but that’s what you have to pay paid up. Additions would be more like if you were to do a renovation to your house, there’s some expenses to it.

But a lot of times it increases the value of her house, to the more than what are equal to, or more than what you put in as far as repairs. So paid up additions would be similar, like a renovation blue seeing the value of that house, which later then you have you, you boosted up your equity.

So you can have access to that. Or when you sell that you make more of a profit base premium equals the debt, servicing on a mortgage, very something you have to pay very little value add to, to, to the asset. And we had a question from Luke here. So if you take a loan against your infinite banking policy, as it grows, can the growth pay back to the loan?

Yeah. So paying back the loan, you can, you, you could either pay that out of pocket or as you mentioned the policy grows, it’ll just, it’ll take it from the cash value component or, it’ll take it from your policy to pay that debt servicing if you didn’t pay it that year. Yeah. So I guess the kind of the similar thing is again, think about it like a HELOC right.

You can take loans from your HELOC. But I think where a lot of people, they get it mixed up or they have this false sense of needing to pay off that debt. And we get this question a lot, right? I have a hundred

thousand dollars, I took a hundred thousand dollars outta my HELOC to go into this deal.

I’m paying 5%, I think what is that $5,000 a year on that? And they think most of us on the call today, we all pay off our credit card, we pay off our debts, but it’s not like you have to really pay it off. Just like your Helo, right? Yes you do. But then again, if you’re making 10, 15, 20% on this.

Then just let that 5% roll. And that’s what the big companies do. That’s what businesses do. If they’re making money somewhere else where it’s just an arbitrage game and in a HELOC, that’s where you would just let that line of credit revolve and in, in an infinite banking, same situation there.

And answer Luke’s question, just like in the HELOC you’re taking a policy, your HELOC loan from it. Your house is gonna continue go up in value the asset and in this infinite banking world, same thing same kind of phenomenon is happening. But again, like the HELOC is cool, cuz it gets people started and it’s easy to tap that equity.

But at some point you draw the limits of that policy because the banks always play these BS games, which you guys on sandbagging you on the appraisals and giving you worse loan, the values, especially if you’re here in Hawaii, you get these teaser rates and then goes up after that. And then the banks can always pull your helos on you where the infinite banking it’s yours, that’s why the term comes banking from yourself. But you also get the added asset protection, the being life insurance, which you don’t really get with the, he. If you’re one of those high income earners or like a high liability profession, like a doctor, that kind of means a lot to you guys.

All right. Yeah. And I do see a lot of questions about the policy loans. So I’ll try to cover that on this slide, but the, there, there is a way of, so how you access the cash value is through a loan and we’ll touch a policy loan. And then we’ll briefly touch what a cash value line of credit.

So those are the two main ways. So a policy loan, literally there’s no what you’re putting up as collateral is really your death benefit. So going through a policy loan the insurance company knows that you have the death benefit. They know at some point you will die. So what they’re doing is they’re, collateralizing your death benefit.

So your death benefit overall stays the same, but your net death benefit which would mean if you pass away, if you had any outstanding loans the outstanding loan will get subtracted from your death benefit, and then the net death, the net would get transferred to your beneficiary.

There’s really no approval process. As long as you have that cash value in your policy. It’s usually about a two business day process where you go online and you request it. California residents, they do need to print it out, what, sign it and email it in. So it’s a little bit more difficult, but again, very simple same time turnaround as, as far as two business days.

But in, in some companies and they show it slightly different cash value. Norm technically stays the same. Your net cash value may go down or in this case, your available cash value. But for one, for one company we use a lot is guardian. So on guardian, whenever you take a loan out on the portal, you’ll see your cash value actually just remain the same, your net your death benefit.

You’ll see, go down because that’s your net death benefit in regards to how much that can you access. So we like to tell people, if you see your cash value, you can access 95% of that via policy loan. The company, the, your basically paying up front, the ins interest owed till your next policy anniversary date.

So they’re precalculating that based on your loan size. And then they’re holding some reserves to cover that, that one year of debt servicing. You don’t have access to a hundred percent of your cash value especially if you’re doing it early on in your policy or as you get closer to your next anniversary because there’s less.

Reserve required you’ll have access to greater than 95%. But we just use that as a guideline 95% of your cash value. There is another question from Dave about, what happens in the end if you keep if you only ended up with a 10% year after year, because you keep kept on pulling out, but basically 90% of the loan.

When you do take a policy loan, similar to a HELOC versus on a house, the policy continues to grow the whole amount. Once you put your funds in there, it continues to grow that the growth rate might be slightly affected based on the company. And if it’s direct or non-direct recognition, but the policy continues to grow similar to your house.

The, your house continues to grow, whether you have a mortgage or HELOC out on in, and that helps to offset the debt servicing costs. But the main benefit for us as investors accessing the funds is, we’re gonna go put it into a asset or an investment. And a lot of times the, that asset cash flows is what helps to pit on that debt servicing while your policy as a whole continues to grow.

Yeah. And. And, it is sometimes conceptually hard to see that. Get with us, we can do what we call illustrations, where we simulate, Hey, what if I take a loan out every year and either not pay the interest or pay the interest out of pocket or have the policy pay the interest. But we can show the illustrations to project and see, Hey, how will this perform?

What if scenarios or, just for planning purposes. Yeah. And that’s all, I’ll tell you, go talk to Tyler about that stuff. Like the direct recognition. I still don’t understand that stuff. And I think that’s where you partner with Tyler and then, he’s the guy you call when you have those kinds of questions or, if you did pass away, that sad event where you’re worth more to your spouse, then you are, cuz that’s pay out somebody to call, who’s a real life person. Who’s your in between the big life insurance company. I think that’s the value that Tyler provides, but getting a little bit more and we’re illustrating what this whole policy, what this infinite banking thing.

This is a screenshot of a video I did for folks. And a lot of this is in the e-course did you guys go to. Members that simple passive cash flow.com. You guys should have all access to the eCourse, which goes into a lot more in depth that what we talked about, what we’re talking about today, but there’s this video in here where I’m balancing, you can get multiple policies, you can layer them on top of each other, which is a strategy that I recommend.

So you implement at different speeds, but this is a little tracker sheet that I personally made to keep track of. Here I have little policies, right? Where they’re from. The CV is cash value, right? This is how much I money to tap into. And then I might have some loans out at a certain percentage.

So this is my little dashboard just a simple spreadsheet of how one might keep track of this stuff. And then, your future payments that you’ve gotta make in the future. We’ll get into this a little bit later, but like when you configure this with a 90, 10 split only have to do 10% of the commitment money.

And this is the game changer folks, right? If it was 50% then, so you got to put in five times as much money. So if money gets short and you don’t have to really fund this, the policy can won’t collapse or cave in like a black hole. Especially when you could figure what that 90 10, like how we.

But, I use this to keep track of my, 20, 22, 20 23 premiums and PUA paid up additions. That’s what that means here. But the way I’m using this as an investor, this is more, the practical usage of this thing is all right. I’m going into deals, right? I’m gonna put a hundred grand in this deal, a hundred grand in that deal.

And I’m looking for more deals based on here. I’ve got several hundred thousand dollars to tap for some deals, or maybe I wanna put in some hard money and then maybe I get the hard money back and I gotta replenish my infinite banking so I can keep making my return there. This is how one might use this.

This the end game of probably using this product. And, for a lot of people getting a million or $2 million in here and just socking it away might be a good end game strategy. But it’s just really nice to know that you have a large sum cash that you can get at an emerging, especially for you business owners.

This is where I keep a lot of my cash stores. So when deals, if a deal were to struggle, I pull out a big sum of money and put it in there because I’m, I’m not gonna have a capital call. I’m gonna make every like personal thing I can do to make, prevent that from happening for you guys.

But this is where the money is coming from. it’s coming from my infinite banking. So I’ll just call up. Actually I’m old still. So I call up the insurance company and do my loans whenever I want to. But as Tyler said, you can just get on your computer dashboard and have it direct deposited.

One funny thing that I learned is if you, at some point you start to get policies and your spouse, cuz if you’re married to a female, they typically live longer. So the pricing is a little bit better for them, but it gave me a hard time. can I get a policy loan from my spouse’s policy?

Probably because 50% of people get divorced and they maybe they raid their spouse’s in front of banking policy. That’s just opening up the whole idea of not only getting the policies on you, but your spouse. And so people will also get on their kids too. But there’s a lot more of this content in the e-course and then when you become a client additional material gets unlocked, but we wanted to keep that separate from you guys coming in.

It’s not in your guys’ portals now, but we thought it might just confuse people, but there’s a lot of these other techniques that people, in the film are doing and investors that, really comes alive when you start to come to the retreat and you start to mix it up with other accredited investors.

These guys come with all kinds of stuff. Yeah. And one thing we didn’t highlight, so policy loans you are totally in control of that. There’s no monthly statement that comes in says, Hey, you owe this much interest that is truly up to you. As far as if for when you pay that back.

We always recommend paying the debt servicing what happens is, we, they, precalculate the debt of interest owed up to your policy anniversary date. If you don’t make that interest payment, the interest will then get tapped onto your loan principle at the, on your policy anniversary. So prior to that, it’s calculated simple interest.

We like to keep it simple interest. So we pay the debt servicing prior to your policy anniversary date while your policy continues to grow compounding. So that’s also some of the magic there. Yeah. I personally don’t really, I try and keep it stupid for myself or keep it simple, stupid for myself, the kiss format.

I just, once you get past the first year, you’ve paid your 10%, which is all you really need to fund this thing without it collapsing your caving in which is again, why the 10% insurance Is a game changer compared to how most people will configure this with 30% or 50% where you have to put a lot more of money into it.

So it doesn’t collapse. So I don’t really freak out whether it’s, I’m not paying I’m Def like, like Tyler said, like I don’t really pay the policies down unless I don’t have the money and I don’t really worry about, paying off the interest. I just let the cash value pay it automatically.

So I don’t really, I don’t really worry about it, but that’s just how I use my I C everybody’s a little bit different. This is an example of, you have a hundred thousand dollars cash value. What you have available for a loan would be about 95% of that. But in this sense we’re taking a lower loan to value.

So 60,000 simple interest loan, when you take that 60,000 loan, the a hundred thousand continues to earn, and, there’s various dividend rates. And whenever you hear any company announced their dividend rate, that’s a gross dividend rate. What historically what we’re seeing is about four or 5% IRR.

In this lower interest environment, we might see more three and a half to four and a half percent IRR. But in this case I think it’s illustrated showing a 4% IRR. So that hundred thousand dollars policy would grow by about 4,000 that’s $60,000 loan. You have four or five five 6% loan. And again, that’s te technically on the higher side would be $3,000 in debt servicing.

You can, you’re able to take that 60,000 then invested in a asset that asset, even if it’s 6% cash flowing asset cash flows 3,600 a year, that by itself would be enough to pay for the debt servicing. So you have some positive cash flow from the asset, along with the policy still growing. And that’s the beauty combined, it’s better off than just doing one of the assets by itself.

And I wanna emphasize, we were talking a lot about the design and the whole life product. That’s just one aspect, right? The whole banking system is the flow of money. So it really is accessing that cash value to have it work outside of the policy also. So that in, at the end, you have your policy grow.

But you also have assets outside of the policy growing. So your net worth is combined is better than just putting it in the policy and just leaving there that still grows and works, but the true magic is accessing it and growing outside of the policy. So just wanna really highlight that cause that’s where a lot of people, are either debt, aver.

They don’t want to take on any debt, if you take on good strategic debt, then you can really maximize your growth. And that’s what this strategy really helps you to do. Yeah. And this is where most of the life insurance guys don’t really get it, they’re like don’t, you wanna make a higher, I can give you a higher return in this policy than the four, 5%.

But we give up the liquidity and as investors, we want liquidity. So we can take that liquidity and go invest it in an apartment deal or a fixed and Flatt or some other maybe venture capital, right? Whatever you guys like to do. Personally, I like to go put my money in stabilize real estate that I could make maybe a 15% return.

And there’s that Delta, right? 15 minus the 5% that I pay, that’s that Delta and that’s an arbitrage game, but I’m still having my underlying asset, which is the life insurance policy. Grow. So it’s there’s that this is the, where the whole idea of where you’re making money in two places or money is growing in two places.

Yeah. And I, or, sorry the other thing too is, you may hear people call it the, an asset or the dual asset. Cause it truly is that it’s not a, or a lot of people when they’re, when they talk to us, they’re saying I’m trying to do this deal. So I don’t have the funds to do a policy.

It really is a, it’s a compliment to each other. So you could do both, right? Granted you’re gonna lose some liquidity or one, but in the long run that’ll pay off. But it shouldn’t be looked at, you have to do one or the other, it really should be looked at, you can do both. So you would put the funds into the policy first and then access those funds to do the deal.

And the first year is obviously where all the expenses or most of the expenses are taken out of. And that’s where you’re gonna feel the biggest hit, but we’re able to design and tweak some things. So even from year two, definitely at year three, most people will see it as truly a deposit. So when they put that a hundred thousand into their policy, that would have access to a hundred thousand.

Year three, year four and even more as the policy ages. So that’s where, I mean takes some time to really see that benefit, but like any, anything, you need to capitalize it for a little while and then it’ll pay off in, in the long run. And in, in this case, we’re talking you’ll two to three years and then you’ll see the great benefits, down further down the line.

Yeah. And maybe it clicked for you at that point, you’re making money in two places and, so what some people will do, over a million dollar net worth, maybe they have a lot of money in their home equity, even half a million, that’s where maybe they might wanna do 200, $250,000 a year.

And then you can do strategies, maybe get with Tyler, like depending on where your birthday is, this is what I did to kickstart my per mine is I doubled up, like I was able to, back fund for the previous year and then the next year, all right away. So I could fund it, put my liquidity in there and then the next day, get it into the next several deals that came up.

That’s really what we’re talking about. That’s the strategy where we’re coning it with investing in real estate or other business furniture.

Alright. Just some, there was a lot of questions on policy loan rates. Again, this is, as there’s a lot of fluctuation, but for policy loan rates and if it’s fixed and it varies from company to company. And I’ll say guardian is one of the main companies we use. Guardian is a fixed interest rate.

What you’ll feel is a 4.76. So that could be that will be the fixed interest rate for the life of the policy. If it’s variable, then that, that variable interest rate is usually tied to the moody, triple a bond index, the corporate bond index rate. There usually is a floor. So a lot of companies now have a floor of 3% around.

But then that’ll it can vary. And what the company will do is they’ll announce it every year, what their variable rate is. And it’ll, it can’t fluctuate more than half a percent per year. So even though like right now, the interest rate shot. A lot of the variable interest rate company or for the companies that have variable interest rates, they’re only increasing it half a percent a year.

It has no limit on how much it drops. For me personally, I like the fixed rate because we’re utilizing the strategy for long term planning for the stability. I just I like that. I wouldn’t wanna have a variable and the unknowns down the line, but there are those options.

Now we’re not gonna go too much into this strategy, but this is just a, like a preview of, the different advanced strategies that some of our members will do with our policies. As Tyler mentioned, you can get a loan from your life insurance company, and that’s the easy way.

That’s what I do. It’s the easiest thing to call them up or, get a policy loan from them at their, what about 5% rate. But, as most of our financial hackers in our group, they always like to optimize things and they found that they can go to these third party banks that will give them loans on the cash value in their life insurance policy.

Around like the three and a half, 4% range. So they’re making an additional 1% doesn’t sound like a lot, but, they could be saving maybe 20% in interest. Of course like the bigger the policy. And this is what I tell my guys. It’s man, you guys to spend a lot of time on these trade line things, these little things that kind of, moved, it’s moved the needle slightly, but then again, thinking back to when, I was just barely in a greater investor, like this wealth building, journey, it’s all about a game of inches, like kinda like football, those are the things that are gonna get you that momentum forward and eventually push you to that hockey stick of growth where maybe I’m in that stage personally.

And I don’t really, I value my time more than money, if you’re somebody who’s still growing your net worth, these are the kinds of strategies that you could employ by even by getting a lower rate on your loans to increase that Delta between what you invested in and get and what you’re paying your policy loans at.

But again, a lot of this stuff will be in the E course unlock for clients. All right. This is just an example of a typical policy we would do. This is for a 50 year old male with a preferred non tobacco health rating, which is, or, sorry, this actually is a 45 year old male at a preferred non tobacco health rating. The guardian is, we are independent.

We mainly write for mass mutual and guardian. Most of the policies write for investors and including myself is with guardian and that’s because they offer the greatest P wave flexibility. So this specific design is a 50,000 target amount and a funding duration of seven years with this specific design and product the kind of the sweet spot would be between five and 15 years or so of funding duration.

And there’s various reasons why people would choose shorter funding period or longer funding period that, we would go over their goals during a call in this case. It’s a seven year funding period looking on the left of the annual premium breakdown. So this is where that $50,000 target amount, the base premium is really only 45, 46.

So that is what we would call the cost of insurance. Commissions are based off of that. So by shrinking down that number to the smallest we can, and this is basically the smallest number we can based on the 50,000, this is a company limit. That we we’re shrinking that down. We’re really shrinking down the expenses and commissions, therefore, really boosting up the cash value to you as a client, but that 45 46 buys a certain amount of whole life.

That’s $190,000 of whole life death benefit, but in order to stay within that me limits and the IRS limits that $50,000 target amount, you need $985,000 of death benefit. So because you only have 190 of whole life, the cheapest way to boost your death benefit up to that amount is the use of one year term.

So you’ll see this other number $478 and 86 cents. That’s the paid up additions rider scheduled. So that’s so that you can add UAS to the policy, but embedded in there is this $402 and 14 cents of O I T. And that’s one year term. So that one year term is buying an additional, $794,000. So combining that with the whole life death benefit, that’s how you’re getting up to that required death benefit and then allows you to stuff in 50,000 total.

So what would be due on your premium anniversary date or initially to put this in is the sum of 45 46. 478. So that’s, $5,025 is basically an or about 10% is what would be due. And that’s basically all ex insurance expenses and costs, but then that 44,975 that’s paid up additions, unscheduled. So that’s the cash dump.

That’s the flexible portion that you can put in as you please throughout the year. Now there’s a question out there. What if you don’t max fund it that year or the flexibility of it, especially with guardian, not only within the year, you can dump money in as you please up to your target amount or your me limit.

If you don’t reach that amount the remaining amount will roll over to the next year. So say 50,000 year one you dumped in 50,000 year two, you only dumped in 10,000, that extra 40,000 of space will roll over to year three. So year three, you would be able to catch up that missed 40,000. So you could dump in 40,000 in addition to the 50,000.

So you could then catch up a whole 90,000 in year three and make that policy whole. So you don’t really lose the ability to dump your POAs in as long as it’s within your funding duration. So within that seven years, as long as you make your catch up payments within that seven years, then you can do that as you please outside of that seven years guardian in this case, and all insurance companies will require you to go through additional underwriting to qualify again that, Hey, why are you dumping in this large amount?

It did some health. Did you get some health scare or something happen that you’re dumping a lot of this money into your policy? So that’s where the funding duration can come into play. And that’s why, longer funding durations allow greater flexibility. It does require more insurance products.

So there is slightly more expenses, but that’s where we, on our call, we can model out different scenarios. So you can see what best fits for you. Some of the key things that we, the metrics that we like to look at is how much cash value do you have early on and this design maximizes that cash value.

So you look at that column, the net cash value. So dumping in 50,000, year one, you would have $41,735 of cash value. That’s about, little over 83%. So when people ask us, what is the expense of, what is the cost of starting this policy? That is one cost. What I like to tell people you’re gonna lose about 20% liquidity, in year one.

You’re 50,000 you’ll have access to about 40,000 via policy loan. However, in year two, if you’re to dump in 50,000 you’ll see the cash value go up at the end of the year by about 49,000 and change. So still some hit, but way less of a hit as most of the expenses are front loaded.

And then you’re three, if you’re to dump in 50,000, that’s where a lot of people have that shift in mentality from, Hey, this is an expense or premium. I have to pay to more, truly a deposit where they’re putting in 50,000, what shows up in cash value is 50,000. And then every year after that, it just gets more and more, so that’s where also, the funding we can play around with the funding duration because in the later years, including myself, we start looking forward to when can I dump in more cash, more funds into the policy and boost up the cash value even more , that’s that one metric of cash value, then the break even point is another one.

So the break even point in the sense of the amount of cash value you have versus your total outlet when does that break even, and in this case is breaking even between years five and six. So you’ll see, at year five at the, you put in 250,000, you have 249,934. Again, these are projections based on the current dividend rate.

This is assuming, 5.65 gross dividend rate is what this illustration assumes. That dividend rate is not guaranteed. Dividends are pretty likely to happen. As lane mentioned, guardian specifically has been around for 162 years. They’ve paid a dividend for 162 years through, consistently the amount of dividends have fluctuated.

We are historically in a low interest and dividend environment, 5.65. But and we would expect it to possibly remain low interest rates are increasing. So possibly, we’ll see a rise in dividend rates, but this illustration assumes 5.65 gross dividend rate. Every year, there are some tweaks we can do with the design, that possibly pulls that a year ahead.

So breaking even maybe between years four and five, even that liquidity as far as 83% year one, there’s, it there’s some tweaks we could do based on your situation that maybe we can get that as high as 87, maybe 88% liquidity in year one. If you have capital available and able to jumpstart the policy, basically the, so my understanding of this sheet of numbers, and this is the, this is what’s called an illustration.

So this is what Tyler when you guys meet and you guys get illustration, this is what pops up and is given. I don’t really understand all these numbers, but I personally look at is, the net cash value as a percentage to what you put in, like Tyler said, you, when you configure like how we do, typically you’re running away with something better.

You’re losing less than 20% your first year. I know. My first policy I did who, who was taking a lot more in commissions before I found Tyler it was like, Double that or double the loss basically. That’s your little quick tip on comparing these policies. And then, another good exercise is that, it might be a loss of 20% here the first year, but then you start to recruit it by year three.

It might be half of that. 90, 92% is what you get. But then, like Tyler said, like the break even point is always a quick way to compare policies and ultimately how much fees cuz these life insurance policies, they’re commodities at the end of the day, they’re all underwritten and done by the same top tier companies.

Now I’ll mention there are other, some like lower tier companies that you wouldn’t even wanna mess with. In my opinion, you might get a little bit better, but I just don’t think it’s worth it when you know, the whole purpose of you doing this is security and asurity that’s that net cash value.

That’s how you evaluate the break even point. And again like that, most people doing these policies it’ll break even at year seven, you’re eight at best, but obviously, when you ran this number little after your five. Yeah. And you’ll see on that left the premiums go to zero.

So from year eight on, when we’re designing this for a seven year funding, you, we ex you’d exercise the option where at year eight, you’re converting this pre the policy to a paid up policy. So by, by doing so, no more premiums are due. That’s the good thing. The bad thing is then you can’t contribute, you can’t stuff in any more funds or POAs also.

Again the that’s where we can play around with the funding duration. Some knocks on the, this 10 90 design is that, Hey, we wanna fund this for long term. That’s where maybe we would choose a different company that has a different flexibility, but again you’ll be giving up some of that year to year.

Flexibility that guardian specifically is to me the benefit of that is not having to dump in 50,000 on your policy anniversary date, every year you have that flexibility throughout the year. It rolls over and things of that sort as lane mentioned other companies, and I think we cover that maybe in a later slides are all companies the same.

And we, I can go over some of the basic differences there. Did you get a next question? I think that was it right? Yeah. So we are independent. I would say ma the majority of the companies we use majority of the policies you write is for mass mutual or guardian.

Mass mutual has a different flexibility and that’s in the funding duration, but that’s where that the, that company the P way of flexibility is not as great. So the funding duration, they have a lot of flexibility in that. So we don’t have to necessarily determine the funding duration up front.

Whereas with guardian, we’re saying, Hey, this is a seven year design or a 10 or a 15 year design with mass. You don’t have to set that. It could be a five year design, or it could be a 30 year design. However, it’s best suited that you have that 50,000 it’ll dump in every year on that policy anniversary date.

So not too conducive for investors in the sense where most of our capital, we don’t wanna have it tied up and building up and have to put in 50,000 on that, on, within a few weeks, every year early. So you can’t contribute, but that’s another option with mass mutual. Yeah. And just Tyler says, uses the word flexibility.

The way I look at that word is I have three policies, emeritus, pan, and guardian. So what I don’t like about my emeritus is exactly what Tyler’s talking about, which is the the flexibility. I gotta like fund that thing every single year or something like that on the policy. And I think at Penn, I have to do it every other year.

I’m probably butchering this, that’s what it means by flexibility. Whereas guardian, I don’t really have to do that. Tyler tell me, yeah, 10% like this design it’s the 5,000 a year is what you’ll be putting in for a $50,000 design. And the 45,000 is truly flexible and you won’t lose the ability to put in that 45,000 if say you skip two or three years it’ll just bank up and then you’ll be able to make that catch up at the very end.

Yeah. And going over Annette’s other question in this illustration is the policy paid up after seven years and no more premiums need to be put in. I can already tell Annette’s already doing something like this, like this is the, I think this is the downside of the 90 10 arrangement because the 90 10 is great for new people, stuffing a whole bunch of money in here, right?

There’s a deal. You’ve got two, 300 grand, you just throw it into the policy and then you take 180 200 grand and put it into the next deal. That’s ideally what, the 90 10 it’s kinda like the launch pad, the quick start plan. But what I, what I tell most folks is yeah, do the 90 10 get started, get. A hundred, few hundred thousand dollars of cash value loaded up in there and just get that. You might take the money out the next day and put it into deals and that’s great. That’s exactly what you should be doing, in the long run, as in, that’s looting to shoot, as you near end game, right?

And it’s not necessarily how old you are to me, it’s where your net worth is when your net worth starts to go around four, 5 million net worth or even two and a half. If you guys are more frugal out there, you start to be seeing this infinite banking policies as end game for you to where you can make 5% tax free with very little to no volatility.

Then you’re maybe looking for more of a long term place to just store money as deals, cash out. You don’t go into more deals. You just put it into your life insurance and have it grow under your umbrella. That’s I think where, some of the members who are already in that end game stage might be one to that 70, 30 split. Is that right? Tyler? That’s my understanding of it. Yeah. I’m a strong believer in the 10 90 for all situations. I outlet. There’s some questions on here about so main mentioned, there are no deals. In life insurance. That is a very true statement. I know we’re talking a lot about the different companies, maybe different products.

The statement, there are no deals in life insurance is. Yeah. If you look across the board through all the strong mutual companies the product themselves, I think will vary very little in actual performance. Now, illustrations is one thing, actual performance, historically, I think and we’re talking the four mutual, large mutual companies, which is like New York life, Northwestern, guardian, mass mutual, all of those have all fluctuated basically would be performed the same way in, in actual performance.

What I feel is the differences with the companies is some of the nuances, it might be the PWA flexibility or the funding duration, flexibility the portal use, the ability to just go in and do things online on the portal the ease of the portal I’ll throw Penn mutual in there also, cause I think that’s an up and coming company that has been you know, making a strong move historically though that the, the The actual performance hasn’t and there’s not a lot of transparency there from the company itself.

I think they are performing icy. So I think that’s one other company that may get added as far as a very strong mutual insurance company in the future. Some of the trade offs with the, do the 10 90 split or the 90 10 split for me the one downside is that for the way we’re doing it with guardian is the funding duration limitation.

This maxes out because you priest premium is so small there’s a racial on the amount of death benefit you can get towards this 45 46, or really in this case, 190,000 of death benefit. So I can’t, we can’t push the death benefit, say to two mil based off of this 190,000 of whole life death benefits.

So it ma it, it limits that part where you can’t do this, you’d start have to paying a little bit more premiums but it also limits you on, 15 years, 16 years max, maybe for 50,000 design that you would wanna fund this towards now, I personally view, 16, 15 or 16 years as a pretty long funding period.

The true IBC practitioners or Nelson Nash, you’ll hear that you wanna fund this thing forever. I personally feel well you would open up additional policies. As long as you have, you are insurable. If you’re not insurable someone within your family or within your business, you would have an insurable interest for.

So that’s the one major downside you may hear on the downside is the dividends are less because it gets, PUA gets treated different than base premiums and so forth. But from all of the case studies we’ve seen is that overall, even though your dividends may be less, your overall cash value is more.

And that’s really what we care about is the cash value component of it, of the way we’re designing it. We haven’t been able to find one where overall performance, as far as cash value wise is impacted versus say a 30, 70, or a 40 60 design. Because even though on those other designs, the dividends are higher.

The overall net cash value is AC is still less because of the added expenses built in there. Yeah. And I think we’re getting out the scope of the infinite banking today. I think a lot of the people are, that question is alluding to what do I do an end game in my opinion, end game, like IOLs and these putting a whole bunch of money in here, like we’re talking over a few million dollars in life.

Insurance is a little overkill to me. Yeah, you might not be in value, add real estate, but you’re at least in like triple nets and you’re still in real estate. And that’s why the way for most of the people listening here, you guys are sophisticated investors. You guys aren’t like the average, Joe, just throwing a whole bunch of money in life insurance in end game, you’re still making, doing better than 5% if you want 5% cool. If all you need is a hundred thousand dollars, a passive income a year. Cool. But I think most of us in a retirement and end game, we all want, $20,000 of cash flow every month. You’re getting a lot of money in life insurance.

So that’s why I, like with Tyler this kind of goes into more end game financial planning, this is maybe we’ll answer questions at the end of this, to me there’s other investment options other than what we’re talking about for.

That lower risk, lower return, like I said, triple nets, maybe going back into the traditional investment market. The kind of we gotta get through some of these last slides here whole life versus term life term life, the reason for that is to protect you against somebody prematurely dying, whether you it’s, your spouse and your family is left out.

That’s the purpose of term life. And I think everybody should have that at least to cover, at least a million or $2 million. But that’s cheap typically. And a lot of times that’s, in your employment, your employer will cover some portion of that already. So I think that’s two separate things, right?

Again, we’re just using this whole life product to get this infinite banking, building this asset, making money in two places at one time. But when you start to fund larger policies like a hundred grand a year, $250,000 a year, it’s a byproduct of the term life. So a lot of the clients just turn off their term life because they already have it at this point.

And then a, quick discussion on IOLs iOS is like the third portion here we don’t use. IOLs are typically for higher returns, but you give up the liquidity. And typically I would be careful everybody, anybody selling IOLs, they’re typically very high commission products and the it’s a very multi-level marketing kind of a program.

What I’ve seen out there, they get you to, they get everybody to sign up for these Training programs where you can sell life insurance to your friends and families and suckers. And, I would just stay away from the IUL. There is a certain tool for it in the end game, if you just wanted to make 6%, but to me, for the people listening to this webinar today, you guys can do better than that.

IUL is investing for the clueless, for it’s like when, you build up four, five, $10 million plus in your kids and your kids’ kids to take over that money. That’s what they invest in because they don’t have a clue. They don’t have a network of what to invest in.

So that’s, to me what the IUL tool is for, but Maybe Tyler, can you go over like the mutual insurance company, stock insurance company differences real quick. Sure. And I’ll just add a little bit about the IUL. I actually bought IUL. That was my very first policy. That’s what sent me down also this rabbit hole of researching because it didn’t really perform to what I wanted to do now, again, with IUL similar to whole life, there’s a lot of design features in there.

So it probably wasn’t the most or best design, but why I personally don’t like IOLs is the underlying product of IUL is term life is renewable term. Unlike the guarantees of whole life where, it’s a set premium those expenses can be managed with renewable term. Basically you’re buying a new insurance product every year.

And although the numbers and the returns may look great as you’re young, similar with like level term is cheap. When you’re younger, It’s ridiculous when you’re older. If in your seventies or eighties, if you’re having that premium renew every year that’s a large expense and a very unknown cost that I’m not personally willing to utilize this strategy for.

That’s my take on IOLs. There is a question. Can you convert it into an I B C there is something where with all insurance, you can do a 10 35 where you take the cash value of one policy, turn it into another PO or roll it into another policy. Sometimes that makes sense.

Not, I wouldn’t say it, blanketly, it, it always makes sense, but there’s times when we don’t recommend it, or we’re just trying to, would recommend people how to maximize what they already have and not roll it over because there are some expenses, you’re starting over, but there is something called a 10 35 where you’re rolling over the cash value to a new policy.

Are all companies the same? We touched a briefed on this, but what we particularly choose and what we recommend is a mutual insurance company. And, the mutual part is key because that’s where you, as a policy holder are basically owners of the company. There’s no stockholders or anything.

A stock insurance company say Prudential has stockholders. So their vested interests maybe split, right? It’s not purely about the policy holders. They have stockholders that they have to appease as a mutual insurance company with and participating mutual insurance company.

That’s where the company profits are returned to you in the form of dividends. So that’s where, you’ll be receiving dividends from the mutual insurance company. We like, the, we like to play with the large ones. Lane mentioned, there are some smaller ones, some of those limits that we talked about, maybe a lot.

Less restrictive on some of these smaller companies. There’s usually a reason for that, that they wanna, they’re trying to build up, they wanna attract people. So maybe that 10 times P limit maybe 15 or so, or it may be, you could do like a 90 or 5 95 split on a policy. But there’s high risk.

I think with, smaller companies, the unproven track records. I don’t, I wouldn’t wanna utilize a long term strategy with some of the smaller companies. That, that’s where again the strategy is more for stability and for long term planning and I prefer to use proven large companies.

Yeah. And trust me guys, I get approach of all kinds of stuff these days. And like insurance companies show Puerto Rico that supposedly can get you around some tax things and all that type of stuff. Like to me, like you’re not like this infinite banking thing is what, like everybody should do. Everybody should be flowing your money through your infinite policy.

So you can be growing that asset there and then taking out in an invest it right. And make way more money there. That’s the one, two step program to make a little bit more on the, on this banking side. Taking on a lot more risks is just not worth it guys like that’s, I don’t know. I don’t, I just don’t think that’s Wises.

Yeah. And this is another question we get asked a lot. Is, am I too old to, to start this? Or would this strategy benefit me? I’ve had, I have some 60 year old clients 70 year old, maybe pushing it, but again, we can we can run some scenarios and see if it makes sense. The, again, because we’re using insurance, I think the largest determining factor would be being able to qualify.

The age itself, isn’t really the factor. It’s health conditions. Even whether you’re 70 or 40, the health conditions usually is the factor on being able to utilize a strategy, if it makes sense. The biggest thing, a 20 year old versus a 60 year old, if you look at the illustration the biggest difference you’ll see is the amount of death benefit.

So say for that 40 thou $50,000 policy, it’s around $900,000 of death benefit for a 20 year old, it might be like 1.3 mil for a 60 year old. It might be 500,000 for that same $50,000 target. So that’s one obvious difference. Again, we’re not designing it for the death benefit, but that’s one obvious difference as far as the cash value performance.

Surprisingly, it’ll be pretty similar between the different ages. The biggest difference is when you look further down, because this is a long term strategy where, you know, compounding really is impacted later down the year or down the line a 20 year old has theoretically about 60 plus years of compounding a 60 year old or a 70 year old may only have 20 or 10 years of compounding.

And it’s on that back end when you really see these huge gains. So early on it’ll probably perform the same. It might, instead of breaking, even between years five and six, it might break even between years, six and seven for someone, a lot older. But it’s really what you lose out on the back end.

Compounding, at the end of the day, it’s not configured off, like we’re not doing it for the death payout guys. That’s what term life is for. This is just mainly to get an asset that grows in two places. If you can’t qualify. Maybe you’ve got younger kids, you can buy a policy on them.

We’ve had some people, people who are in their seventies buy it on their 30 year old kids who, that’s where you dump all your money to. And it sounds counterintuitive because you think you’re getting a life and policy on your LF, but then again, you aren’t right. You’re just buying an asset and stuffing money into it is what we’re doing here.

And then I’ll caveat this slide that we, we, you would definitely need to consult your tax professional. We’re not CPAs, but you’ve heard the term me and the modified endowment contract. So if you were to cause the insurance product to become a me, then anything you do from there on forward would be taxed.

So even a policy loan take out distribution a, any of that would be, will be taxed. So that’s why by far you, we wanna prevent that from becoming me. There is maybe a time down the line where you want it to me. If you intend not to touch any funds from it, and you just are planning on having it transferred to your, to the beneficiaries, but while you’re utilizing it, we definitely don’t wanna meet Cash out surrenders.

This does perform like a Roth RA in that sense where you’d be able to withdraw your contributions tax or penalty free at any time. You technically, there may be a time to do that also, and we can talk on specific strategies on that, but once you B take it out, then you’ve stopped the compounding on that.

And that may not be wise, especially early on. As far as the other, any other time would be, if you were to just totally pull the policy out or surrender the policy in that sense where any gains above what you contributed could be, would be taxed at that point. But other than that, the death benefit at the upon death, the death benefit transfers tax free to your beneficiary.

It still falls under the state tax limits though. So be aware of that and there may be strategies to help with that. So we’re gonna get into some questions, that common questions that people will normally give us. The first one here is if I become ill what’s just AATE death benefit writer, caller.

Yeah. The good news. So the good thing is with a certain size policy, there’s an accelerated death benefit writer. That’s free of charge that gets tagged onto the policy. That in the event you develop a chronic illness or a terminal illness, you have early access to the death benefit. You always have access to the cash value regardless, but this, often the death benefit is much higher than the cash value.

And in the event, a chronic and that would be basically, you can’t do two of the six daily acts of living terminal illness would be that, two different physicians determine that you have less than 12 months to live. Both I think, bad situations, but the benefit of utilizing this asset again, we’re not doing it for that, but it does have this benefit where you’ll be able to draw higher amounts from it to help cover those expenses while you’re living versus just the death benefit.

And I’ll just mention it too, it’s a PSA. Like we had a guy, he had a, I, a heart attack or some kind of operation on his heart. And apparently he qualified for this. He’s fine today. Probably just can’t do, enter the CrossFit games or do Woff method and go swimming or anything like that.

But, he got a big payout. So if anything happens like that to you guys, talk to your insurance provider, cuz it might trigger getting.

Yeah, we tell the chronic terminal other writers, there are other writers that could get added to the policy. Again, we are utilizing this purely for the cash value component of it. If you wanted, these other writers oftentimes is better off having a separate policy specifically to address those needs. But if someone really wants to, we could add these on guaranteed insurability rider that’s an added cost that you have on your policy that, even in the event that you your current health rating changes that you’re able to purchase additional death benefit or insurance long-term care writer similar to that accelerated benefits writer, it’ll it just allows you to access some of the funds in the event for care.

Again, that one specifically, I think it’s better off to have it a separate policy or a separate life long term care insurance specifically to address that versus trying to tie it on. And then the waiver of premium writer again, also another Expense that in the event that you can’t make your premiums, it they can cover it for a certain amount, but for our design, because we’re minimizing that the PWA or the premium payments that really doesn’t benefit much, because it doesn’t really add much to the cash value since our premiums are so small to begin with there’s possibly, you could have a PUA premium rider, but that would be very expensive as well.

And usually once you one, if you’re able to make one or two years of full payment, max funding, that the growth of the policy, even if you are to just stop payments from there on out, and, we have the policy growth cover the premiums. That’s usually a better strategy than paying for the premium rider.

Yeah. To me, these are like, add-ons on a car, you buy the car to get from point a to point B, just like how you do this IBC to make money in two places and have a store of cash. So all these other things are just addons and other additional fees. I don’t know, depends talk to Tyler if it makes sense for you, but this is this is I think this opens the eye for a lot of people.

This is like a working example of people actually using this dang. And how it augments what you’re doing on the investment side. So maybe walk us through this Tyler. Sure. This was, if people heard me talk about, Hey, if you wanna get a hundred thousand of passive income a year, you literally would be investing a hundred thousand a year for years, 1, 2, 3, and four in syndications, and then year five, theoretically year one deals would be cashing out doubling if things went well.

So the a hundred thousand in year one turned into 200,000 in year two. And then it would you live off a hundred thousand, reinvest the other a hundred thousand and keep the machine going this strategy, this double dip just rolls insurance into that. The I B C into that year, it would require a little bit more upfront capital because of that loss of liquidity in year one.

But in this case, it would be a hundred thousand dollars target amount funding for 10 years. Your actual me limit would be 150,000. So that’s where you can actually year one stuff up to your me limit, but in this case, so this is that blue box. You max fund, you would fund 125,000 year one. You would have a hundred thousand available, in a form of a loan.

So you take that policy loan. Fund your two policy or two deals. $50,000 deals, year two, you have you fund a hundred thousand and your cash value at that point would be about 198,000. You could take out 90 or total. So it would go up about 98,000. So you could take out nine, 8,000, you’d have to supplement 2000 more.

And these are just rough numbers, but that would fund your next two deals. Year three, you fund your policy a hundred thousand. You would have access to that a hundred thousand and to fund your deals and year four, same thing you’d fund the a hundred thousand to your policy have access to a hundred thousand fund.

Your two deals in year five, when your deals pay out, instead of now having living off of a hundred thousand, you could take that a hundred thousand pay or your policy premiums or max fund it to a hundred thousand for that year, and then take that other a hundred thousand and fund your two deals and keep that machine going.

And then from there on, out from your five on technically, your deals are funding your premiums and you still have access to the cash value. On those later deals, you could then do the reduced, paid up at year eight, or because this was designed for a 10 year funding. You could continue funding at.

Most people at that stage when they’re seeing dumping in a hundred thousand and having more than a hundred thousand show up in cash value would wanna continue funded for as long as the design was for. And another concept that I look at this IPC is when you first do this, you gotta decide how much you’re gonna fund it every year for a five to 10 year range.

Basically what you’re doing is that’s your container side. And because we configure with 90 10, it’s pretty easy to hit your minimum contributions. You fund most of your first year, you’re done. You don’t really need to put anymore. So if you lose your job or something like that after you don’t really need to make your next year’s commitments.

And I think that’s a big game changer and it took me like four or five years to understand that myself. But the idea is creating this container to grow. You may not have the cash value inside, or cuz you’re taking the money out and growing it somewhere else as you should, because you’re gonna make a higher yield.

You should make a higher yield outside of this policy, but at some point, and this is the concept of end game or growing your net worth past two, 5 million, you wanna return the money back to this container and you’re gonna wish you had your container as large as could be. This could mean for a lot of you guys.

You. Maybe a million and a half, $2 million of potential cash value funding that you could hide money in there, asset protected and, tax free dividends there. That’s the concept of, this is more, this is a different diagram, which you guys can take a screenshot.

What, all this will be in the eCourse where you guys digest, this is, maybe partially, this you’re starting, you’re funding it like in toddlers standard plan. And then, you start to keep some cashier for unexpected life happenings college. There are a lot of different use cases where we’ll get to the end of the presentation here, but this is there’s a lot of different uses for the same thing.

And, like I said, this is how I use it in the growth mode, when you’re taking the money out, you’re investing in deals or whatnot. But yeah, just a lot of different use cases.

This is maybe a little another advanced strategy of the triple dip. The first thing you dump it into the cash value or the, you dump it into your policy. You leverage out, you can dump it into a brokerage account and then take a security back line of credit and then do the syndication.

So it’s just putting it in another asset that can be leveraged. Again, these are maybe more advanced and someone who you know, is comfortable with debt and strategic debt and maximizing that. But this is where, that same dollar could technically be working in three areas at the same time the limitations or policies. So again, be because it, it is insurance, there’s a maximum insurable amount. Your human life value is what the, what insurance companies are looking at. That’s generically tied to your annual income. And as you get older, because your earning years or less, that means you, you can qualify for less.

You could qualify for less and less. The rule of thumb is based on your annual income. There’s some flexibility with that and we can talk specifics on a private call. One major threshold is a $10 million death benefit or a cumulative death benefit. That’s where usually a third party verification would be required to validate your, the income look at possible tax returns.

And it becomes a lot more challenging once the death benefit crosses 10 mil health, your health obviously 📍 is a big factor on what health rating you get. Again, keep in mind that you’re being rated amongst the average American your age. So it’s it, some existing health conditions are expected.

The biggest thing is that it’s being monitored or are treated and there’s follow ups in that. One thing we normally recommend, if you, if there are, you would go to your primary care or someone to see what your records will look like, because the underwriting process does pull the records from your primary care provider.

And just see if there’s any notes in there or ask the doctor, if there’s anything in there that may impact your insurability. And if there is say, like there’s a recommended colonoscopy, but then you didn’t do it that it now would be the time to do it. So that there’s that follow up documentation in your record.

And now if you become uninsurable for whatever reason, then that’s where you could look at, a spouse who may be insurable some business partner, as long as you have an insurable interest, or why would you, why the need to be pulling a life insurance policy on someone else? That there’s possibilities of that.

So even though if you’re very old, maybe a working child, that they have a you have an insurable interest on, on, on their life that you maybe be able to fund a policy on a working child versus yourself. Yeah. So the 10 million cumulative death pay, or that, that cap at 10 million, most people won’t hit that in their first policy.

I think most people will get up to that in their second policy where they layer on top of that. But, $10 million, that’s like putting in quarter million dollars every single year for six or seven years, I would say most people will start off with maybe, a hundred, hundred $50,000 and that kind of segues into alright, we talked a lot about this stuff today.

What’s gimme a starter. What do people normally do? I did this video way back when my hair was a little longer, or if it didn’t stay down so here’s the use case. So like a million dollar net worth person, they’re able to save 60 to $80,000 a year. That’s the net, right?

Which you save. Most people in our group make, maybe make two or $300,000 a year and they spend most of it, but they have 60 to $80,000 left over. That’s like the net is what I’m calling. So what I normally will say is now take a third of that net. So a third of the 60 to 80 and use that as your base commitment every year for five to seven years.

So what that works its way out to is for most people here, at the very least do 30 to 50 grand a year. But then if you have a lot of like lazy equity, home equity, IRA money, then you may wanna layer up more on top of there. So in a, in addition to your 30 grand a year, Say another, another case somebody has 500 grand of lazy equity, which is very common.

Most of our investors, they come to me in their forties and they have half a million dollars, million dollars in their IRAs or, various places, at least half a million dollars in their home equity and they wanna get it working. And I think this is the use case of you’re supposed to put it in deals, you’re new, so you don’t really know where to put it. Or so the infinite banking is a great way where it is relatively zero risk in terms of like where these life insurance companies are gonna go. It’s a great place to just throw your cash from now, make a little bit of yield before you get your bearing, build your network, figure out where to put your money, who to trust for these deals.

So for this example, if you have half a million dollars of home equity or some other source of liquidity, what I would probably be doing is in addition to your 30,000 a year and in a hundred, cuz you funded in five years or, double up, put, a little bit more the first several years.

So I mean you could fund it anywhere from $130,000 a year to $250,000 per year again, because the way it’s configured with only 10% insurance, once you’ve funded, the 10% of it you’re done, which is typically in the first year or partial of the first year, If, and this is the game changer.

When people are configuring this with 30% or 50%, you may have to put in, another two, three years of payments so that the policy doesn’t cave in. So this is all the goal of this is to get your money into invest, but also increase the container size as much as possible. The 90 10 policies to me is the best tool for that job to overfund it and expand that container size as quick as possible, getting you the maximum amount of the cash value.

So you can go and take it out as a policy loan and invest it in deals or whatever you want and make our money elsewhere and still make money in two places. We, there was some discussion over what do I do after? That’s where I would say, maybe in year two to four, you get another policy on and layer on top of it.

Cuz at this point you’ve taken some policy loans. You get the you get it, you’re more comfortable with fields. So you layer on a bigger policy, big kid policy. And this is what I did. I started with, $50,000 in my first policy. I did that for a few years and I layered another one.

And then I layered another one where I hit my $10 million. And as an entrepreneur, it’s hard for me to verify my records because I don’t pay taxes cuz I don’t make income. That’s make all passive income. You drive it down to zero. One of the downsides is you can’t qualify for more than a $10 million insurance policy.

Or as Tyler tells me, it’s hard, it’s going to be hard. But I would argue, why do you need bigger than a 10 million policy where you can suck away one, 2 million of liquidity. At some point it becomes impractical. And to me like the way I look at money, even in end game, you should still be growing your money in maybe less value, add aggressive deals, but maybe more stabilized assets triple nets, things like that.

But I would say like the lesson learned that most people say is don’t wait and overanalyze. Like I think we got into some of the details a little bit, but is keep it simple folks, like just create a policy, fund it with a hundred grand a year, take it out, take a policy loan and invest it.

It’s simple, very simple. The interest rates and the way these policies they’re always changing and they’re never getting better. So the best time to do it was yesterday. And at the end, like your money is more safe than deals and banks. And that’s why. Tyler. And I will, we’ll talk about, new people coming in, and, I believe in the deals and I invested in myself, sometimes there’s very green investors that have a lot of money that they need to get it working.

I always can say with a clear conscience, I’m like, yeah, Tyler, just sign ’em up for a policy. And just at least make, they can make 5%, on that chunk of money. Because they’re new, they haven’t done this syndication E course or met other people and started to diversify into a multitude of different alternative investments.

But here’s some of the, if you guys wanna start to queue up your questions, we can get going through them after this slide. But here are the use cases that I’ve personally come up with. So starting at the top, or top left, comboing, this, we’ve talked about this quite a bit, investing in investments, alternative investments I’m coming out with a new pro fund where it’s just gonna be a straight 12 to 13% paid monthly.

What better the combo with your 5% infinite banking? You can also combo it for like college savings. They’re at the top, right? This is the 5 29 plan killer. This is the ability to keep money for the short term. Maybe your kids are going off to college in five years or 10 years. Great place to put this money.

The bad thing about 5 29 plans. They’re like 401k plans, they’re investment vehicles for the clueless, and they’re bad because they you’re stuck with all these retail investment products with high fees. And they’re just investments for the masses where all you guys listening, you guys have been opened up to the world of alternative investments.

Sure. You have to grow your network and get comfortable with the people you work with. But as you can typically find better returns and a lot safer in more real assets than the stock market or those investment options. But, this is where, it’s a lot of people use this interchangeably with their college savings for their kids or their retirement.

Bottom left, the end game investor, the guys that are above two, $4 million net worth, they have, they’re totally fine living off of 10 to $20,000 a month. I probably put Tyler in here a little bit, maybe not all your money, but a good chunk of your money is just sitting here just churning at 5% and.

At this point, maybe like a 70, 30 split policy where you can continue to fund it longer term might be better. But that just an opportunity for you to have just, it’s simple, right? If you need some money, just take a loan from your cash value your life insurance company, it’s super easy and your money is there and secured more secure than banks.

And then the bottom, just general new investors, right? You come into the alternative investment space, you don’t know what to do. Some people call it, wow, I got all these options, right? Multifamily, self storage, hotels, right? All these private funds where you’re investing, when you know the people and you’ve come out to a retreat and you meet all these cool people.

And they’re all like, not paying off their houses using debt appropriately, but it’s, it takes a while to get into this world, right? Unless you wanna just start throwing a hundred thousand dollars in a couple dozen places, know this is a great place to put your money and let yourself season let that relationship seasons, let’s see that first round of deals go full cycle.

Before you start to invest larger and larger amounts, certainly get over 20 to 30% in your net worth into alternative investments. But the majority, I would feel comfortable telling people that putting into this stuff is probably more secure, much more than the stock market mutual funds, and probably more secure than just leaving it in your own bank.

Banks fail. But well capitalized in life insurance companies that put people through rigorous health underwriting is a lot more secure. And at some people, some people will do the Helo set first and they’ll feel uneasy about that monthly interest, same concept here, like instead of the HELOC, you’re using your IPC, but for the reasons that, the banks can’t pull your know asset protection.

And I think this’s also great for, a lot of the people on the call, you guys are the more sophisticated investors in your family, but maybe you have older parents or, younger kids that don’t really understand the whole syndication investing. You, if not, let us know, maybe we can give ’em access some e-courses to get a more educated, but, maybe that’s just all they want.

My parents, they’re never going to invest in deals. They’re just stuck in their ways, but maybe this is definitely better than what they’re doing. And I think it’s something that you can promote to them as and feel good that it is very secure. I, I don’t know if the term risk free, but it’s the closest thing to zero risks out there.

Any other use cases, Tyler? I think I missed, or no I think that 5 29 is a big thing for me per se. I don’t, I have a 12 and a nine year old. My don’t con instead of contributing to a 5 29, which I feel is trapped that I put it into a policy also with long term care because you’re growing cash value or you’re growing cash.

Instead of, having a long term care insurance policy, I intend to tap into my, the whole life policy in the event, for healthcare in the future a couple others. So doctors or just high net worth people in general, who are more concerned with legal liability, getting sued.

Like I’ve combo this with my irrevocable trust where irrevocable trust is not a revocable trust. It’s a lot more heavy duty. If you’re under four, 5 million, it’s probably not even worth it. People who are an end game or high liability, like doctors, you can make an irrevocable trust, get it off of it.

But the problem there is like getting your money in and out is difficult and cumbersome. So by leaving some of your money, your liquidity in this infinite banking policy, it’s life insurance, like we said, it is protected. It’s under the umbrella or in my visual representation. It’s like under the patio in a way that you have the simplicity of use and access, but it’s still protected and you can have maybe more or just a portion of your network in your irrevocable trust.

So that’s another way of, use case for this. And then, entrepreneurs out there, business owners, this, I think the biggest thing about businesses is, there’s always gonna be ups and downs. The people who survive the downs are the people who take over the competition that fails and dies off.

The people who are well capitalized are the kind of, businesses never failed. They just lose money or did they just run out of money to keep ’em. But this would be the place where you would put your liquidity for your payroll. In case of a rainy day now, for most of you and you folks listening who are just salary guys, I don’t really see a huge need for liquidity stores.

Most people, three, four months of, salaries more than enough. So this is more for the, on the business owners out there who may wanna keep a few hundred thousand dollars in there for their, their staff of a dozen people, payroll. And Jay brought up a good point, Keyman insurance for a succession team.

That, that is huge also. So a lot of corporations do utilize that it’s a way of having some incentives also for their key employees. A business will pull insurance on their key employees. Business continues to own it, but it serves as a potential retirement incentive or supplemental income for the employee.

Maybe at some point it become, they become vested and you could either transfer the ownership to them or just pay their retirement from the policy as a business. So that is a key thing. One more thing is just, is, generational wealth. I think we touched a little bit about that, but insurance and life insurance specifically plays a big part in that as far as potentially creating generational wealth and continuing that legacy for generations to come.

All right. So we’re gonna get into the questions as you guys are typing into the Q and a box, but if you have to go, you can sign up and get access to the ecourse@simplepassivecash.com slash banking. But if you’re already part of the club, this is the URL to get access to the e-course. So everything that we talked about today broken up into a lot more bite size pieces.

In the the eCourse format that you guys know and love from us and a lot other, cool little tips in there too. I would say, the next step is, just getting an illustration and just moving forward. But let’s let’s hit into these other questions. Let me maybe accept this overall one that stands out.

So I think mark, mark asked as a commission agent, why would you design a policy to minimize your commissions? Truly it’s the reason why I do it personally is because it’s a better product for the client. I’m really doing it for the client first. I am an investor first also, so commissions are nice, but that’s not my livelihood or why I’m personally doing it.

It really is to give back to lanes, community specifically, but other investors also and provide them the best product that I feel is out there. And, truly have the client benefit. I feel even as with the minimized commissions it’s still very good. I’m very willing to share what those commissions are on a call, but.

Minimizing the commissions it’s still pretty healthy the commissions which is somewhat appalling when you hear like a hundred percent, the standard whole life, those commissions are basically 10 times what I would be pulling on the same size policy. And I’ll also comment that if you look at all my business associates, like the one thing I don’t want at this point in my life is nonsense.

And that typically nonsense occurs from somebody who is not financially free and still working in scarcity mode. And, in the deal side, it’s nice to work with high net worth partners because when things go wrong, we just throw in a few hundred thousand bucks each, and get the problem solved and make it right for the clients.

But, business is tough and when you’re not an alignment for the clients and you’re more in alignment or, there’s a lot of people out there, real estate agents, insurance agents, lending brokers, all the people in this financial industry that are they need to pay their own bills, like financial planners. It’s just not people I wanna get into bed with personally. And I, and I mentioned that and they, I that’s just maybe. Life advice for people is when you can get to a point, why do we all do this to get financially favorable? Why well, to do what we want with whom we want when we want that, so that’s why work with people that are, have seen the investments work fi in, in a place in their life.

And it just makes things better for everyone, including myself. , and it’s not like we need to really make money with this life insurance thing either. It just helps augment everything else going on more, less fees, more money to invest. And then, the investments, we can take down better deals in the future.

But other questions here, what life insurance company do you use? We’re not, Tyler’s not captive, so he’s not forced to sell you like a certain company. He can go wherever. Currently I think I know this is where Tyler goes to all these like meetings and they hang out and they do their secret handshakes and they figure out which ones are like the best one based on the rates and the flexibility.

But I think they’re the cool kids are using guardian these days, but, that’ll change all the time. I’ve seen it change couple times these last five years. There’s a minimum amount of a suggested amount of life insurance.

I would say, look guys, like if you’re gonna do less than 10 grand a year it’s a waste of time for everybody guys. Most people are at minimum, I would say, are doing like what 50,000 a year? I don’t know. What’s your take on this one, Tyler? Yeah. The tech, the true answer is, you could do a, any size policy the, that enhanced accelerated benefits writer.

And this is specifically for guardian that gets tagged on for free. If you’re whole life death benefit is at least a hundred thousand. So in that 45 year example, with that 45 46 a year, he was buying 190,000. So in his case, he could go about half of that 25,000 a year, or maybe 27,000 a year would be the smallest policy that he gets that benefit from.

I’ve done, I’ve written policies for people, a th 10,000 a year. It’s. You can see it, but it’s not the, it’s a small policy where they’re not gonna be able to have access to percentage wise you’ll have access to the same amount of money. It’s just that it is relatively small in the sense of why we would be doing this.

Yeah. You guys are investing in private placements and syndication. I would think guys, and you all your networks are over a million dollars. So I would say, like use case, I would say average person, our group million and a half, they are able to save 50 to a hundred thousand dollars at least a year.

And they have a bunch of liquidity, maybe a hundred or a couple hundred thousand dollars a year for five to six years would be a good starting point. But sure, if if you’d like to get a health review twice, that’s what I did. I started with a $50,000 policy every year and then I wish I did more because then I figured out what it is.

And I think that’s where you talk to other investors. And until you get the hang of oh, we take a policy loan to go into a deal. You realize that 50 grand is hardly anything. And then, you start to understand, oh, I nine understand why every, why everybody’s doing a hundred, 200, $250,000 a.

Into this, they just put it in there and they drain it out.

Number three, I think. Yeah. So niece, wait, our question is we are older and don’t have any children. Can these policies be set up for any relatives like nieces or nephews and maintain all the same loan benefits? Yeah. So there’s three main components to the policy. There’s the owner, the insured and the beneficiary.

So in this case you could be the owner. We’ve had, I specifically having haven’t done nieces or nephews, but there could be a reason why we would do that. And there’s insurable interest. The key thing we need to establish is what is the insureds insurable interest to you? Or if you have insurable interest to the person you’re ensuring and nieces and nephews, if you don’t have children could be that something, some, some writeups we’ve had is that they intend the nieces and nephews will in take care of you as you age.

You guys have that agreement. So you have an interest if they were. Pass then you would use that proceeds to hire someone else or, have to care for that. Or the death benefit would be used to find someone else to care for you. So that’s a typical story we’ve presented multiple times, not specifically for nieces or nephews.

But I think that story plays will continue to, then again, we can talk specifics on a call and to get to know all the details. Question four here is infinite banking appropriate to start if I am over the age of 70.

Yeah. We touched about this on the earlier parts, but it depends typically at 70 you might have a working child or someone else that may make more sense starting on them. But again we could just run the different scenarios to see what makes sense. My oldest client is 68.

And it’s yeah, because normally older people have done it on their working children. Question five here, are there no deals? There are no deals in life insurance. And I would say, yes, this life insurance folks are commodities. You guys can go shop it around. It’s just a matter of how much your agent wants to take in commissions.

It’s all the same Dan thing from the same underlying insurance company. But the question is, can you address the downsides of the nine, 10 design or 90 10 design which again is, where you maximize the cash value you decrease the commissions. So once a policy is paid up, we’re not able to sync a big amount into it.

You wanna take that one? Tyler? Sure. Yeah, we I, we actually answered the first half of the question, I think on the, during the call, the the downsides mainly is, there’s some limitation on the funding duration for that target amount. At some point that’s one of the biggest downsides for a 10 90 or a 90 10 design.

But the other question, once you, once a policy is paid up, you won’t be able to send yes. So you once the policy is paid, it, we, you do an option to do a reduced paid up that makes the policy paid up. So you no longer can contribute any more funds to it out of pocket, the policy will continue to grow.

Cuz as you receive dividends, it goes to purchase additional, paid up insurance in that fashion. But the good side of that is that you no longer have to put anything in either and there the premiums are zeroed out. So they’re not taking out any premiums from your policy cash value.

Yeah. And I don’t comment more on that one. Like I think if you wanted to, do you wanted to fund your policy long, long term because you’re in that stage of life where you just don’t care anymore, you’re not taking coupons, or maybe you are, but you’re not like optimizing at this point in your life, right?

Imagine you got $20,000, $50,000, a monthly passive cash flow coming in every single month and maybe you don’t have kids. You just don’t really care, right? Your time is more valuable than money. You may just wanna put your money in somewhere and have it make a little bit money and be able to continue to grow it and fund it with more new, fresh cash instead of taking that cash and investing it, which I think most of the people on the call are going to do because they’re still in growth mode then maybe a 70, 30 policy where you can keep funding.

It might work. But again, I think that one is, maybe talk to Tyler on that one too. Alright, so more questions. Number one here, can you talk about the advantages of using I B C with your charitable giving

you or so, I don’t know about specifically charit beginning, but you could have the death benefit or a charity be a beneficiary of your policy. Or secondly, the, your death benefit could go to a trust and you could have that within your trust. Determine what to give. I don’t know if that’s the question or in regards to your annual charitable giving.

I know if yeah, I don’t know exactly where that question is going, but. I know you can assign, if you didn’t have any kids you could probably assign an I B C to whoever you want. Yeah. Maybe if whoever’s question that was maybe type it into the Q and a box and we can come back to it.

But question two in this example, and I think they’re referring to that illustration page, what is the max we could take a loan from, is it from the net cash value? Yeah, that’s correct. The net cash value column. And we conservatively say 95% of that is what would be available in a policy loan.

So in, in year one, 41,735, so 95% of that. Yeah. The way you guys should be doing this, or most people, if you put the money in, you have 41,000 in net cash value, but you take a $41,000 loan the next day and you go into some deals, right? That’s the way you do this. And then of course, the next year, when you have to make your next premium and paid up additions and you fund it and you get that, but.

At some point, the money rolls in and then you refund it up and then you use this as that liquidity source to slush money in and out of. And then now maybe you’re seeing the big picture on the usage of this whole thing. There, there is. So there is a slight delay because the, you can’t do it the very next day.

You, it would be 10, it would basically be 10 business days. If you’re using that same funds that you just deposited, cuz the insurance company will need it to clear. So they look typically wait 10 business days, then they’ll process your loan. You can go in and request it right away, but it normally won’t get processed till that 10th business day cuz they, they wanna see that the funds cleared.

There’s one way of getting it slightly sooner than that. And if we can provide a bank statement showing the funds, cleared your bank they’ll accept that and then release the funds. But typically that doesn’t come into play unless you’re taking it out right after. So yeah. Good point.

Good point. I definitely, I think that’s where you guys talk with either Bri or Chad or team at simple passive cash flow.com. If you guys. You guys are cutting the wire a little too close there, just, let us know. And we typically can accommodate people. We do this ourselves, so we know it’s the, it’s not like the day of, but it can take a week or so question four, what do you think is a good target of how much percent of one’s net worth should be atypical and best should put into IBC?

I don’t know if net worth is a good thing right off the bat, but I would say whatever excess liquidity you have should be is more of an indicator. And I would go back to my other RX slide on that. But as far as like net worth as a percentage, when you’re under half a million dollars net worth need every single dollar going to investments, not this stuff.

So I’m not I would say if your net worth is under half a million dollars, don’t waste your time on this stuff, go make more money or will save it, save more money and invest it. But I think once, for most investors million dollar net worth, we’ve got X is we’re not the greatest.

We’re not the most efficient with our liquidity. Meaning you got 10 grand here, you got 50 grand in this account, you got. Hundred $200,000 of liquidity or equity debt equity in your house. I think that’s most of us on the call here who are credit investors, I think at that point, it would make sense to start implementing this strategy.

But as your net worth rose, it’s hard to say, right? And I think this is where you mix it up with other accredited investors. You have these types of conversations to me. If we were on a consult, I would ask you what are, what is your long term goals? Do you wanna continue to ratchet up to five, 10 million, 20 million net worth and con continue to grow, or once you get to formula and you wanna just shut off the engines and live life as the 4% rule with 20 grand of passive income coming in every single month, it’s it really matters up to you.

But I, yeah, I don’t know how to answer that question. I know you wanna put in your 2 cents that yeah. I think you covered, the net worth is slightly different. The net worth can play a part as far as being able to qualify for more insurance based just on your annual income.

But I, I don’t it’s hard to say. What do typically the net worths of these guys and, the financial profiles, like what’s I think that’s what the question is asking, right? Like of all the sophisticated investors doing this, what do you see them doing? Think it’s more like people want a bucket size, a certain bucket size. And so say someone wants, a $2 million bucket at some point, but that could be funded differently, that could be a hundred thousand or 200,000 over 10 years. It could be 250,000 over eight years. Or it could be, 50,000 or 50,000 over what was that? 40 years. So it’s really the size bucket and that’s I’m talking like your cash value size at some point in life. That’s usually what people are trying to target of saying, oh yeah. Good point. I think for like most business owners having half a million or a million dollars to be able to get at an end game is cool.

Any more than that, it’s just a little excessive, right? You could have your money elsewhere. This is not a growth option. You should have your money elsewhere making at least five to 10% elsewhere. To have more than a million dollars is a little silly. So yeah, good point there, Tyler.

This I would look at it, not as a percentage of your net worth, but like what kind of liquidity slush bucket that you want to have? I would say at most investors, it’s at least a couple hundred thousand at least is what you want at some point question five what’s wrong or not so good about, they mentioned Northwest mutual, what are like, we’re talking about the flexibility and the rates, but like, why is it that the ones that, we’re rolling with now are the ones that we are well I think specifically Northwestern, we mentioned them as a, one of the strong mutual insurance companies from my understanding, those are all captive insurance agents where they have to be with Northwestern mutual exclusively.

I personally like being independent and being able to be a broker, shop around or see different companies versus stuck with one company. Yeah. Nor Northwest nation is definitely one of the, like the triple a rated ones which is what we’re looking for. But the word on the street is like, when you start to build these policies for liquidity, taking money. Their policies just aren’t set up for that. There’s certainly your cash values. Aren’t gonna be as high, which is the whole point of why we’re doing this, which most financial planners don’t under, really understand what a question here, would it be better to do two policies and keep one going rather than having it total paid after seven years?

So either way it doesn’t matter. I think, it’s like the whole ready fire aim kind of mentality, I think is the best approach here, especially because the stuff here, commodities, and it’s no risk essentially, these stuff is more secure than banks. So the ready fire aim mentality here might be good to just get one policy and you’ll right, size it on the second one a year or few years later. That’s again, that’s my personal, like I got one and then I got another one for myself and then I followed up with one for my spouse.

I hit that ideal bucket size where I will very soon. And then or comments on that. Yeah. So I. It depends, it, because there’s flexibility in how we can design it. So we’re not, even though we show the seven year funding duration you, if you, if the funding duration is an issue, we can design something for 15 years or so, or maybe even longer.

But from a financial efficiency standpoint, I think starting two policies. If it started, if it’s, if you start at the same time, then I think there’s no loss of efficiency. If you’re starting one, maybe a little bit further down the road then one there’s a risk of the insurability. Something may happen over the two years that makes you less insurable, but also even if it’s the same health rating, you’re, you may be two or three years older.

There is some cost to that. But again, that cost may be less than if you started off with a larger policy that you don’t always max fun. So it depends. And that’s where we can go back and forth with some designs to show you the what ifs or compare the different two scenarios.

Yeah. And then piggybacking on the last question question two here. End game. What amount of cash value would you think is too much, 5 million, 10 million. So the cash value is, again, that bucket, that source of slush fund that you I ideally want, I’d say for most people, it’s at least a quarter million to like a million or 2 million.

I think you gotta be careful that, sometimes the cash value bucket size is different than like the death payout, which we mentioned before, we mentioned 10 million, that’s the death payout. But as far as like rightsizing the bucket, which is the cash value portion, that’s up to you personally, just, just know that, your money could be making more money elsewhere, so you don’t wanna go overboard with it.

I don’t know, a million dollars is a nice, if you’re an end game, it’s nice to have the peace of mind that if something goes wrong, you’ve got a million dollars to just throw down. And bill somebody out bail yourself out at some point that might seem like a lot of money, but yeah, end game.

More security is what you’re looking for at that point. And I think the bucket size can be large, but you’re in control of how full it is. Most of, even though say my bucket is too mill at this stage, a lot of that cash value is out deployed. I can make a choice at some point to start filling that bucket back up by paying off the loans or continue having it deployed in investments.

But having a large bucket size is beneficial to me. How you utilize it. You can make the decision and it’s not one size fits all, or you can course correct. Or right now I have everything deployed at some point I may want it full and just live off that four or 5% dividends be happy and not have to have the funds deployed.

So I think, I don’t know for me personally, my goal would be five mill target. I’m not quite there as far as total bucket size.

I think when you’re getting to really end game. Now, you’re thinking about, you’re putting your life insurance in your irrevocable trust and that’s caught an eyelet, but for most people on the call, your guys net worth is not end 20 million plus. It doesn’t matter because you don’t hit those state and federal estate tax limits.

So doing that is really no benefit to you guys, but yeah, we always like to have a conversation over in person when you guys buy a nice bottle of wine, because your net worth is 20-50 million. Of course, if that’s the question you’re asking, but similar on those lines, maybe your net worth is not 20 million, but it’s five.

You may wanna be thinking about charitable giving and that’s this FI question here. So that kind of was a follow up to the last question. And they said your regular annual charitable giving instead of cash contribution, purchase a single pay life policy with no me concerns for a nonprofit on yourself as a major donor to the charity would have insurable interests on you with the charity as the owner and beneficiary, they can use the policy loans for whatever they would have used a cash donation for, and the death benefit to buy more single pay life, making it an infinite endowment. That actually sounds like a very interesting strategy. I personally haven’t looked or used it in that way, but this definitely sounds like Yeah, it sounds very possible to do this.

Yeah. There’s a lot of uses for this stuff. And I think we put a lot of these more advanced strategies in the client section. Because when you’re in the end game, you get a little bored and you’d look for these types of strategies. For now, I think we just wanted to keep it simple for folks, just get going with a policy, throw in 50 grand a year, a hundred grand, maybe a couple hundred thousand a year for now.

And then, get going down the road and make money in two places. The quicker you start doing this the quicker you can make money in places the quicker you can start to create the time space, the head space for you to ask these kinds of good questions and come up with these strategies. Also along the lines of the end game.

One last question came in here. If you still use this bucket for deals or whatever else you want while still compounding, why would you want to limit it? I think the big thing that I’ve personally found and what was a roadblock for myself is when you go over a $10 million death payout or policy.

Now the life insurance companies are gonna want to see a whole bunch of documentation proving that is how much you make per year. And that might be a little bit of a pain for you to do. And especially if you’re not making income at that point in life. So that, that, I think that is another reason why, if you guys are still working your day jobs, you gotta do this now because all these policies are based on your ability to make money.

That’s what life insurance is at the end of the day, you being able to make money, which is why, getting policies on your little kids is a waste of time, cuz they can’t really qualify for that much. Why? Because they don’t make money. They don’t have jobs. So you know, like a lot of it is based on how much you make at your business or how much you make at your day job, your salary.

So it’s one of those things where you set up a policy before you leave your day job or retire. But if you’re already at end game and you’re looking to just keep funding this thing to in turning, I think you’re gonna run up to the issue of them saying you’re not making any active, ordinary income where you don’t have an income source at that point, other than your passive investments, of course, but they’re gonna have a hard time qualifying.

For you, but I dunno, Tyler, any thoughts on that one? Yeah. I, what you’re seeing is I think right on, I think Mark’s specific comment is why stop using your bucket for deals when you, it still compounds, you can still have it out for deals and grow your wealth. And I personally feel that’s a, the backup plan is to fill back up the bucket, right?

And then you no longer have to chase any deals or expose yourself to risk. It may be de-leveraging risk at that point to just say, Hey, I just want that consistent 4%. I intend to have my money working, at some point maybe deals may be a lot harder to find or whatever it is. This can be a fallback plan to have that, four and a half percent.

Dividend returns and live off of that without having to, to deploy money at all for going forward. But there’s that, I think that’s what that, that alluded to the thing about children which we didn’t really touch about. There is a limitation on non, so you can pull on children or minors.

The limitation would be the death limit. The death benefit limit will be 50% of what the parents have as death benefit. So if you, as a parent, have 5 million, a death benefit, a child would only be able to qualify for two and a half million of that. And then the health rating is a general health rating, like what it would be for a group, like at work, when you get group term insurance, It’s just a generic health rating.

So that health rating is not as great. So oftentimes with all of that combined for a minor, you might be able to throw in, eight to 10,000 a year total that’s the maximum you could put in a year still. And because the health rating is not the best, it may not be the most efficient use of that 10,000 purely for financial reasons.

There’s other reasons you might wanna do it for a minor, for a child anyway, but if you’re looking purely financially that may not be the best use of that, that $10,000. Any other questions please type it into the box?

Oh, Luke, raise his hand or, yeah, type it into the box there guys, but I wanted to show you the E course. So you guys know how to navigate it, but we’ll put the replay of this up on here, the way we have this laid out is, the introduction and then we broke out all the little slides into individual sections here for you guys.

And then implementation. And then, once you become a client, get access to the more advanced content here. That’ll just keep things fun and interesting, but this is the e-course, but, they get access to this. You gotta go to simple, passive, casual.com/banking, put your information in there.

But for most people yeah. The only other thing too is that the, it definitely is customizable and it’s not a cookie cutter, one design fits are or meets people’s needs. So that’s where a lot of times it is some back and forth tweaking and that, so a lot of the information we’re provided today is general overall, guidance definitely feel free to reach out and we can talk about specifics cuz there are small tweaks and things to that. Maybe more beneficial for certain goals and than for others so definitely reach out.

September 2022 Monthly Market Update

What’s up folks. This is the September, 2022 monthly market update where I go through a bunch of news headlines that I feel really impacts how investors should be thinking. Welcome everybody. This is the monthly market update. Here we go. Now I’ve gotta warn you guys that this is going to be a pretty beefy presentation today.

I went a little bit crazy with the amount of articles. I think a lot of people have been really attuned to what’s been going on with all this talk about recession, Ukraine and supply chain in China. But I would say if you don’t know what to do with your money and it’s sitting in some kind of 401k with some financial planner or Vanguard or fidelity or some kind of retail investment option, I would say pick up my book.

The journey, the simple passive cash flow. I think we’re up to almost a hundred reviews now. But here we go. And if not, if you guys like podcasts, check out our podcast, simple passive cash flow, passive real estate investing. We also put this up on the podcast too. And for those of you guys who are listening on the podcast right now we also have all the slides that we’re gonna be going over today on simple passive cash flow.com/investor letter, where if those of you guys joining us live, thank you for doing so.

If you have any questions or comments, as it comes up, feel free to drop into a comment below. It somehow magically fed me. And I do give you guys a shout out as we do this live, but here we go. Indicators for a recession. There’s some flowing data. This is a pretty cool article or it’s actually not really an article, it’s just pictures, but they graph eight different types of supposedly indicators for recession.

And in case you’re wondering the 2020 recession, which it technically was since the country was shut down that was a recession, but they’re showing like what’s been going on this last six months before and downturn six months after, and you can take a look at some of these, percent change in non-farm employees, employment level.

Unemployment is at an all time low right now. Industrial production is very high. GDP increases higher personal consumption, GDP product, personal income except manufacturing. But the other three, I mentioned they are. Comparing pretty well, that really begs the question or really in a recession.

Are we just gleaning what the headlines are saying? As I said earlier, unemployment is at about 3.5%, which is very low. And to some people who believe in healthy economics, they believe that unemployment should go up and down a little bit within the ranges of five to 10%. Maybe not 10%, but maybe five to 8%.

But certainly right now at 3.5%, we are very low and this is pretty evident in, people are getting paid, are able to go around and negotiate higher salaries. And this is humbled with the inflation data, which is inflation really higher than what it really is.

Right now it’s put out there at 9.1%, but when it’s been said that they remove the energy costs and some of the food costs and some of these other things, is inflation really higher than it really is, which I would probably argue that it is, it’s probably more like 10 to 15%.

And why does that really matter? If you have your money sitting in some kind of investment account or worse in cash holding onto the sidelines, I would say that’s the worst option you could be doing? GDP growth from b.gov, real GDP decreased at an annual rate of 0.6% in the second quarter of 2022.

Following a 1.6% increase in the first quarter, the second quarter decrease was revised up 0.3% point from the advance estimate released in July, the smaller decrease in the second quarter, compared to the first quarter primary reflected an upper turn in exports and a smaller decrease in federal spending. So Novo grad, a website that I follow for different tax information.

They’ll release semi commentary on, like solar and, taxes in general, but they had an article on there talking about Biden science, inflation reduction act into the law, including renewable energy provisions. It was a 750 billion budget. And a lot of people, especially Republicans were laughing saying like what the heck type of inflation reduction act.

That actually is spending money, it’s counterintuitive, it was a cut down bill from almost like two or three times what it was. So $750 billion of government spending is a fraction of what it was. So from that point of view, it actually is a little bit of inflation helps a little bit, or it helps inflation a little bit.

But the things that were stuffed into this bill were renewal energy production tax credits, and investment tax credit. But who knows how that will work its way through the system, but the government continues to spend more.

But then, I always talk about the fundamentals, there’s all this stuff coming around and news headlines, but what are the fundamentals? And that’s really what I think what attracts a lot of folks to our community is, value investing, whether that’s investing in companies where they produce some kind of economy that people need in good times or bad times, or this is one of the main reasons we invest in residential real estate.

Multi-housing news reports that 4.3 million new apartments are needed by the year 2035. And this new demand research shows that despite economic uncertainty and growth during the pandemic in single family sales and new products such as built to rent, the fundamentals for multi-family remain strong underbuilding largely resulting from the 2008 financial crisis and decline of 4.7 million dollar affordable units. So basically, it’s the lower middle class that are the underserved more immigration. And those immigrants who are on the lower end of the economic spectrum who live in apartments are the ones driving up this demand.

And some 40% of the future demand for apartments will come just from these three states. You guessed it, Texas, Florida, and California, which alone will require 1.5 million units in the next 13 years. Things are happening now. Things can get really good. Things might take a turn for the worst. We don’t know, but in the long term, people need a place to live. Now, the visual capitalists report that these are the salaries needed to buy a home in 50 US cities. And The top 10 are San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, New York city, Denver, Austin, Washington, DC.

So these are all the places where the median home prices range from half a million to $1.8 million. And in San Jose, you need a salary of $330,000 to be able to afford an immediate home there all the way down to Washington DC at 110,000. So pretty ridiculous.

As I get more involved in hotel investments, large brands like Hiltons, the Marriots make a lot of money. They make the most money off their timeshares because it’s just a branding in play. So when somebody is making a lot of money off one product line, you as the consumer, in this case, people buying timeshares, those are the worst products to buy. So don’t do that.

If you guys like this video and you wanna make up for that person, please like it or share it with your friends. But continuing on, so flip flop it, the salary needs to buy a home in the bottom 50 US states. Those would be. Pittsburgh, Oklahoma city, Cleveland, Louisville, St. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Memphis, Indianapolis, those salaries range from 42,000 to 53,000.

And those median home prices range from 185,000 to 271,000. Now I think this is where like most of our clients who live in high price areas like California, Hawaii, tech, we have a lot of investors in Texas, but their home prices are pretty low. But some of these other places have a lot of sticker shock.

When you start to see some of these, where one place we invest in like Cleveland, 190, $2,000 for a median home price. Actually we don’t, we invest in too many at these places, but I used to want a home in Indianapolis. 271,000. That this is how a lot of America, in fact, probably the majority of the people in America not invest, but live in these types of homes.

I’ve always said, when you’re buying your little rental property as most non credit investors do, a lot of us are accredited investors these days. When you’re trying to buy that first rental, you’re looking for anywhere from like 80% of the median home price.

So what does that mean? So if you’re looking at $192,000 median home prices in Cleveland, maybe starting around $160,000 is a bad place to stay, to start looking. But I think, a lot of unsophisticated investors when they start off and I was there at one time, you’re starting off to what one of these.

Areas like, your Indianapolis is good and the median home price is $271,000 are there. And I see a lot of people buying houses that are 300,000 and above, and now you’re starting to get more into the B plus a minus type of tenant profile there. And you’re just not gonna get the returns you are.

Although there is a, probably a lot less headache investing that way. So CBR braces for impact of interest rates hike. So there’s no secret that the interest rates pushed up again and it probably will push up maybe another two or three more times. So what this is doing, it’s creating an aftershock into the capital markets, which is, basically the capital Marx is the term.

Where people get their loans from the banks. The Fed increased rates in March with a 25 basis point hike and a 50 basis point hike in may. And the three quarter 0.75 for you, people who understand numbers more than English terms that got raised in July. Now the largest since 1994. And it’ll probably get pushed up a couple more times.

Like I said, now, the goal, the Fed, what they’re doing is they’re raising the Fed’s fund rates to fight inflation. So it’s one of those things where you increase the interest rate to Dow inflation, because what probably happens is that the cost of capital you can’t expand. Businesses can’t buy more factories or infrastructure or, on our end, like our cost of borrowing money to buy assets such as apartments, our ability to go down.

So our ability to pay more goes down. Sure. This also affects the Joe blow random small homeowner, right? Their affordability obviously goes down too, the world doesn’t revolve around the little homeowner, it, the way I see it, if you look at what the businesses are doing. And in this case, the business will not be expanding.

Now at some point, they’re probably gonna change their forecasts. Whether that’s next quarter or next year or years down the line, they may say maybe we shouldn’t make as many widgets or units, whatever their business may be. And also let’s also, now let’s start to maybe not hire as much, not replace attrition or maybe even cut back on hiring.

And that is what the Fed is trying to do. They’re trying to create that behavior to push that or unemployment to creep up right now, like we said, it was 3.5%. It probably needs to be almost double that for, to get to a point where we can get back to a little bit more equilibrium. I follow a guy, Richard Duncan, if you guys are interested in this stuff and really wanna understand it as opposed to just get, screwed around left and right with all these news headlines.

I would go to simplepassivecashflow.com/duncan, and read a, watch a couple of those podcasts there, how everything’s connected now, the problem is like this stuff, isn’t exactly in a vacuum and with the war Ukraine and the China, still a kind of in lockdown, basically pushing up our cheap labor sources.

Now that’s also gumming up how this is all working. And also it’s not like you, you push up the 0.75 points on the rate and the inflation pops up. It’s just not that there’s gonna be slack in the system. And the one good thing going into, the past year, there was a lot of money liquidity in the system.

So it’s gonna take a while for that to drink, which results in a longer slack period. Now obviously the fit is watching this and they’ve probably got the best insiders in the game, or they should make sure that they don’t tip the scales and push us into a hard landing recession. But, I think this is all very natural and it’s one personally, I don’t really wanna see rents go up 10, 20, 30% or 10 or 20%, like how we’ve been seeing it. I think that’s the most sustainable. What I would rather see is just the normal, two to 3% rent increases, which is just normal average, basic inflation.

Because when you’re a business owner, you just wanna do business in normal times as opposed to things going up and down. And that’s what the Fed proposes in my opinion. And I gotta, I have faith that’s what their angle is just to keep the highs, not as high, but the lows not as low and compensate things out to make things a little bit less bipolar.

Pretty much give it a L give the economy a little bit of I don’t know, a drug that is, little more chilled out I guess. Multi-housing news reports, senior housing’s next wave of investment opportunity, like how we were saying, there’s a huge demand and supply shortage for low income housing in apartments. But there’s also a bunch of baby boomers going to be retiring right now, but it’s gonna be a while till they need that senior housing facility.

And nobody knows exactly when that will hit. We’re not there yet, but there’s an obvious need for this in the future. a 45% uptick in construction loans for the first to third quarters of 2021 on the investment sign transactions quickly started to rebound in 2021 and Tate, a 55 year over year increase. Now, I think there’s obviously a silver wave, what they call it, that the baby boomers need these facilities. But I personally really haven’t found reliable operators who could capitalize on this wave. So basically good surf conditions, but coming, but nobody can surf too well, basically.

And, as an investor, unless you’re the one who’s gonna get your hands dirty, take out all the debt and the risk and be the young person who makes the on the general partner side, you’re looking for people who are standout operators that are honest, that do what they say they’re gonna do to help you capitalize on these macroeconomic and microeconomic events.

So Fred Mac expects, the pace of growth is slow in the second half of this year. I think that’s what everybody has known. And I, what I wanted to compare here really is look in 2021, look at that kind of just slack back year from 20. It’s just worked, do it.

And I, and a lot of the industry reports that I read. And if you guys are interested in that send an email to team@simplepassivecashflow.com. We can send you everything that we read or what I read, but, I guess what they’re saying is 2022 will continue to be, as slower growth year 20, 23 is a slower growth year, but 20, 24 is when things are off to the races.

So I think a lot of people may make the mistake of it. All right. I’ll just chill out and do nothing for 2024 and just sit on my butt and have my money lose 9.1% every year with inflation. I guess that is a semi logical idea, but unfortunately I think the way it works is like, once things get moving, you can’t get into these assets for the prices that right now they’re fetching for right now, As the same goes the best time that buy was yesterday and in support to buy under fundamentals, despite what is going on in headlines.

Now, this is a top and bottom 10 metros by gross income growth. The top ones were Jacksonville, Albuquerque, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Phoenix, Tucson, Memphis Raleigh, and Fort Lauder. Their annualized growth in income was 12.7% to about 10%. Vacancy rates range from 2.7% up to four, up to five and a half. That’s a normal vacancy rate. I would say some of the bottom metros were Memphis. I don’t wanna talk about Memphis Minneapolis. Washington DC. Lexton Knoxville, Kansas city St. Louis, New Orleans, Columbus, Buffalo, San Jose. Those annualized growth range from 3.1% to 4.8% and their vacancy ranges from 2.7% in Buffalo, all the way up to 8.9% in Washington DC.

The one outlier I see on this list is I thought Knoxville was a little bit better than that, but, maybe that was like Knoxville’s kind of Boise, Idaho, where it had a huge 2001. Maybe it just got a little too overheated and slack back. Not to say it’s bad, anything bad with that market.

But sometimes when you have a breakout year like that, you’re bound to come backwards and it gets lost in these types of arbitrary ranking articles. Joint center for housing studies of the smart people at Harvard university, who makes these really insightful articles. They’re talking about rental deserts perpetuate social economic and racial segregation. Rental deserts are disproportionately located in the suburbs where there are restrictive land use regulations and not in my backyard. I N Y politics can be common. So to highlight that a few of these rental opportunities for households in these neighborhoods, less than 20% of housing units are either occupied by a renter or are vacant for rent. In contrast, I rental errors are at least 80% rentals where a mixture of neighborhoods fall in between the two.

The lack of multi family homes in these neighborhoods is like a significant factor in limiting opportunities for rental households and for lower income renters in particular, single family homes are much more common in rental deserts, which is Unsurprisingly given that single family homes have higher ownership rates than in units in multifamily buildings, kind of obvious stuff.

But it’s kinda interesting. Maybe, if you guys check out the video on this, check out some of these slides at Harvard university put together but moving on Arbor reports at small multifamily investment trends report of 2022 Q2, the they’ve got like a little chart of the action, the volume year over.

The record total represented both a wave of pent up investment in bands that sat on the sign lines during this pandemic. I’m searching for 2020 in anticipation of the monetary Titan. The 2020 ones, the original nation’s total, represented an increase of 5 35 0.6 billion, up 63% from the prior year.

Yeah, I would say, yeah, 2020. We lost half of the year because nobody was really doing business, ourselves included. But as the second half of 2020 went on and 2022 was a big year acquisition wise for ourselves. Key factor that led to an unprecedented search in ordination value volume last year was a wave of refinancing activity ahead of the federal reserve initiating its interest rate hikes. But I think a lot of the mainstream medias, it’s whoa is me, the interest rates, have gone up the last several months to a lot higher levels, everybody in the know, knew it was happening, in 2021 or at least this time of 2021, it really isn’t that surprise to any of us.

Now, how long is it gonna go? That’s the other question? But yeah, refinances and loan originations really took a tail off Q1 of this year.

but, I think the important thing for people who own real estate is rents continue to go up. And in this case, small multi-family asset valuations continue to grow at a robust rate. Best time the buy was yesterday, especially if you cash flow through it cap rates and spreads. Now this is comparing all multifamily with smaller multifamily.

I don’t know exactly what they mean by smaller multifamily. I gotta believe it’s like your 20 units that a hundred units. And then all multifamily is skewing in like larger complexes. Two to 400 units would be the way I would be reading the differential. Usually the smaller multi-families have a little bit of higher cap rate because they’re in less desirable areas which have higher caps and they’re just not as an institutional, they’re a little bit more effort required for those small multi families, but you can see there’s always gonna be a spread between the two, but what’s interesting here is in the year 2020.

Well actually tell end in 19 early 2020, there was like a little pinch where the way I read that is people started to really buy a little more of the smaller multi families. And then there was a little bit of pinch mid 20, 20, but then I think we’re getting back to the normal Delta between N two, how that impacts your regular past investor, who knows, but I don’t know.

I guess I’m interested in this stuff and looking for stuff to do with just sitting on our hands a little bit, waiting for the interest rates or the capital markets. To get on frozen. We actually were gonna sell some of these assets, which the bread was ready to take out the oven, but, unfortunately the buyer market dried up because nobody can really qualify for good lending options.

So it just froze everything and, just, it is what it is. I guess it’s good for people who are in deals and probably frustrating for people who are waiting on the sideline to deploy capital, especially now that they know they’re getting 9.1% of their money every year expense ratios basically like what are you running the assets at?

Normally normal rule of thumb that they always teach you is like 50% expense ratio with apartments. You can run that little bit leaner because it’s more economies a scale, this is showing how assets were performing. 2020 was a lower year than 2021, obviously, because I think like what we did a lot in 2020 is we didn’t have the staff running around.

It was just per appointment. If something broke we wouldn’t get in there and fix it. If it, unless it was absolutely needed because you just wanted to limitate the contact between your staff and your tenants. And it shows how drastically things have changed in two years. Whereas 2021 people are like, all right, fix my stuff.

I don’t care. Wear your mask. I don’t care if you wear your mask, get in there, fix my stuff. So things are went back to normal in 2021. And then, back to where we are in 2022 2020, I see it as a year was everybody was hibernating, like big fat sleeping bears.

And, that’s why the expense ratios were maybe 20% lower what it was in 2021, but all this is in hindsight. And it’s kind, as I looked through this, these big macro industry data, I can give you guys a little bit more insight on what actually drove things.

This is the discussion on loan to value ratios. So in 2020 2019, you had a high amount of debt given out, and this is typical, right? Like things get hot, which happened in, in a 2019. And then there was a, that natural thing called that pandemic happened and it cooled off the market.

And right now we’re in a bad part for capital lending too, where, it’s normally the banks will like to lend at a certain level, but they’ll give exceptions or this is how the commercial markets work. Thinking back on the whole single family home, you, I think what they’ll do is they’ll slowly, people will apply for loans and there may be some exceptions that change.

Something that I can think of is a member several years back, they required like a certain amount of cash reserves, like three months, six months. And at some point they, they loosened up restrictions and, these are the things that kind of play out over the years. For a lot of new investors, this is nowhere near where things were in 2008 where you just needed a heartbeat to get a loan.

Those ninja loans. And I think that’s a big, fundamental difference that it’s just not the same thing in 2008, as it is now. It’s actually hard for like responsible Americans who have a good job. So you even qualify for debt on even little rental properties top 10 metros for multifamily starts.

So this is where they’re building more stuff and you can look at it one or two ways first. So while there’s more supply coming online or which is, could be bad, if you’re there cuz more competition, but it can also be like why are they building more? Why are these smart institutions building more stuff there?

Because the freaking demand is there. So that can be good for you. But that’s Al there’s always kind of two sides. Multiple ways to look at data. Reading up from the top to the bottom New York city, Dallas, Washington, DC, Miami, Austin, Texas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and you can see the percent changes and the overall total value from number one was New York city area up 20%, total value, 15.3 billion.

And number two, Dallas was 8.1 billion. So half that in New York city it just shows how expensive that real estate is up there. But Dallas went up 72% where New York only went up 20%. Phoenix is another one that people follow a lot of 53% and then total value 4.2 billion. So half that of Dallas and less than a third of New York.

Multi-housing news top 50 multi-family property management firms at 2022. So I just wanted to put this up here because we’ve jumped property management companies and, we started with a midsize small to midsize regional company. And lately we’ve jumped up to that next level of bigger property management companies, the match, better partner not equity partner, but partnership, like they need units and they wanna work with more of an institutional ownership group.

And so we wanna work with a company that is bigger, has more assets under management. One of ’em that we work with is Lincoln down there in Texas, which is number two, they’ve got 210,000 units, little property management companies, mom and paw in the residential world. I think they’re usually between a hundred or few hundred properties, but we’re talking 210,000 units is what Lincoln holds. From what I’ve seen, I’m impressed by a lot of their back office support. And, I think for a lot of us that work for big companies you can see the waste, especially if you work for the government.

There are a lot of things that I’ve seen that a larger property management company they’ll offer the back support. It’s not the they’ll do things and they’ll negotiate better contracts for like materials, or if you’ve gotta like procure, lawn share equipment, they just already have it in their own in-house CA catalog.

Where they’ll support the in the onsite management staff, cuz normally the manage, you would think the management staff is the one buying all this stuff and procuring and searching for the best prices from vendors. The nice thing when you have a larger company is the home office, does it.

And then the people who are boots on the ground at the property can focus on what they’re really there for, which is to help out tenants, customers, support and market.

All right, ya already matrix multi-family market outlook for July, 2022 rent growth, moderates as economy and demand soften remains lofty by historical standards. And I think that’s that kind of summarizes things. Things are slowing down a little bit, but they’re still growing folks. As they say remains lofty by historical a historical standards.

The average us asking rent rose 10, $10 to 1717 in July making the fifth consecutive month of deceleration and the loss increase since January year over year of growth. It’s so growth. Nevertheless Florida markets remain in the lead in rent gains, Orlando, Miami Tampa, San Francisco, Baltimore twin cities posted the lowest rent increases.

The overall trend is attributed to an return to the mean combined with the slowing economy. In addition to the slowing economy, consumer confidence in waning as the federal reserve has kept rising policy rates attempting to slow inflation. Now, again, that’s what I was saying earlier in this this video, but I always like to read it in multiple places.

And I’m sure you guys too, from, other, disruptable sources. Their next takeaways, occupancy remains at 96% for the third consecutive quarter. Now occupancy is, indicators, supply versus demand, and it is the second big thing you look at when you’re looking at the health and wellbeing of your asset.

San Jose, 1.7%, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, all 1%. Those are your strongest occupancies.

Next, finding supply demand, imbalance sustains growth in the US currently has a shortage of 600,000 units. Another 3.7 million units are needed through 2035 to meet demand. I don’t know if that’s exactly what they said in the article we started out with in the beginning of the video, but still the same narrative, right?

That’s the important thing. The study took into consideration social factors, impacting demands, such as delayed marriage and childbearing, as well as the increased age of first time home buyers. And then the last finding here, single family rentals make the best of interest rate hikes. The asking rent for single family sector growth, 11.2% year over year 21 posted rent growth at 10% with Orlando national Miami in the occupancy degrees by 30 basis.

Point year over year in June, as the rate fell in 24 of the top 35 metros. The one thing I don’t like about when they report on this single family rental. I always question the validity of the data, because it’s so hard to get the data from like little mom and Paul homeowners, which is, who owns most of the little single family home rentals.

And it’s so much more spread in, in the, like in like rents went up. We all know that went up maybe 10% the last couple years across. If you pick any random Metro out there, but depending how sophisticated or how much C you had as a landlord, really determined if you really bump, rents up, Some people were just right on the ball and was able to get a hundred dollars, $150 under a thousand dollars a month.

Some landlords, a lot of these guys who, you know, they’re in, like our Facebook group and they’re just amateur landlords. They’re frozen, solid, they’re freaked out. And they’re like, they’re the ones calling their tenants asking, Hey, can we like pardon you on rent? Like completely doing the opposite, what they should be doing, which is raising rents.

But, I think that’s why single family home rentals are just all over the place due to the amateur status of the operators in that world. So whenever I see data like this, I’m always like questioning a lot. Wealth management.com reports at garden apartments remain favorite among multifamily buyers and garden apartments are, so there’s Highrise apartments, which I think mostly will think of, apartments, big skyscrapers or bigger, more than four or five stories. Those are typically your nicer buildings. But the garden apartments, a lot of these are more geared towards lower middle class families. And that’s what we like to focus in on. They’re typically more in a sub urban type of market and they’re a little bit more reasonable and, it’s, they’re great for pandemic, minded people who, it’s a little more spread out, you’re not on top of, all your tenants sharing, all the limited resources for like common areas and stuff like that.

Arbor reports, rental housing markets, exhibit cyclical, stability complaint contain structural questions. Yeah. So this is showing the implied possibilities of effective federal fund range. Target range by date Arbor is like a lender. So a lot of their articles are more geared towards more sophisticated operators, but I always put these on here. The passive investors we have are pretty smart.

At least you could, it challenges you guys intellectually. I think it least, maybe it challenges myself. So one, one thing that’s happening is declining spending power is having a tangible effect on the ability of consumers to afford data expenses. This is evident by taking fuel. Gasoline costs have gone up for your middle class, lower middle class people out there. Now that is a lot more impactful than the kind of wealthy people who probably don’t really care.

They may complain about it, but it sure isn’t changing people’s behavior. Very much. This is a graph of the relationship between rental vacancy, which is the dark green and the home ownership rate, which is the light green. And you can kinda see home ownership peak in 2020, not 20 2002 to 2006, which is part of the reason why that whole 2008 fiasco cause too many damn people who couldn’t afford houses were buying houses because I don’t, I think that was kind of George Bush’s thing was that they felt like everybody.

Owned their own house. So the home ownership rate went up to 70, 69%. Then in 2014, it fell to, in recent years, the low of 63 2020 was a time where interested were really low and people were able to save some money. So it jumped up to 68% temporarily, but it came back down to baseline, which is tied under 66%, which is about midrange right here, actually.

It’s funny, that spike in 2020, that’s probably, summer of 2020, that was when, a lot of our B plus a minus type of assets. A lot of those tenants who are, a little bit better off tenants, they, they used the opportunity to go buy a house and they moved out.

So we had some temporary vacancy hits during the summer of 2020 when this was actually happening. There I go with my little stories from the apartment world to bring some of this dry charts to life. So here’s another thing RA business online. Their prediction is institutions will own 40% of all single family rentals by the year 2030. I remember it happening in 2008 or 2010. And then what they figured out was it’s really hard for them to operate these single family homes, scattered all around the neighborhood, which is one of the main reasons I focus on apartments, cuz all your stuff is right there and your staff can really focus on a small geographic area.

That’s spending burning up most of their hours, traveling from one place to another. And looking for lost parts without all their stuff being there. But again, recently seeing a lot of institutions coming in, buying big chunks of single family homes and get into these built to rent projects. And it’s the, it’s pro yeah, probably are right.

I probably will agree that more institutions are gonna be gobbling up a bigger percentage of the single family home rental stock. Mom and pot owners still make up most of the single family rentals, but institutions are increasing market share with a heavy concentrate in the Sunbelt. So I don’t think it’s too late if you’re still buying rental properties, just know that the trend is coming.

Sad because maybe in a 50 years, a hundred year in the future, maybe, the doors are always closing and real estate is a nice way for the last, for the average person to become semi wealthy. Get above a few million dollars doing it. This opportunity called you know, being a landlord or a passive investor might be closing up as institutions are able to get more hands on using technology to operate these, semi cumbersome assets, but now use their institutional financing power to, just buy more and more of these things, pushing the small guy out.

We have a bunch of people on our investor group that, geek out on little mainframe computers, these days Amazon is just killing everybody, doing that stuff. You can’t really make it on as your little small mainframe operator.

Across the nation rising rent prices, increase interest rates, limit access to home ownership. I think that’s probably what you’re seeing. Some of the prices stagnant across the country, or maybe decrease a little bit. Certainly I don’t believe in any type of like housing crisis. Goodness gracious. But I guess that does do sell a lot of YouTube views.

Yahoo reports. Blackstone is preparing a record 50 billion vehicle to soup up real estate bargains during the downturn. Here’s how to lock it up in higher yields than the big money. So yeah, like we said, on the last slide, the big institutions are trying to get more and more into the game and this is the them taking up market share from the small mom and Paul, I.

But, I think take a page from these big smart companies like Blackstone. They’re not just sitting on the sideline, they’re in there actively buying stuff. And now they’re doing it a L and N reports and updated run down rent growth, rent growth kind of went up quite a bit. But it’s slowing a little bit stilling. The main factor impacting rank world since the start of last year has been a supply demand imbalance.

It is showing the the monthly Nett absorption and average rent change nationwide still, like big data nationwide, but it does tell the story a little bit. Of course, you always gotta dig into individual markets and more importantly, submarket. I think this is, these are the general trends.

Again, I’d suggest you guys check out the video on the slide, but don’t lose fact of in the last 17 months from March, 2021 to July, 2022 national average effective rent rose by 22%. Normally again, folks it’s supposed to go up like two to 3% every year. So I would say that’s almost like three or four times the average.

Re business online reports to Intel Brookfield to jointly invest 30 billion for the expenses of semiconductor manufacturing plants in Chandler, Arizona. These are the things as an investor you wanna invest in good stories like this, a new supply of good jobs in this case, semiconductors, which is a big deal.

I would check out some of the articles and YouTube videos on semiconductors and Arizona, but it’s exciting. And as an Intel is making a run to reclaim the semiconductor crown from TSMC and get us our independence from Taiwan and China. I. After you asked the question, wonder if the con continuation of interest rate rising will push out ineffective, inexperienced syndicators and operators.

So to answer that question, in my opinion, interest rates don’t really matter, right? Because if you’re already in deals, you’re you’re good, right? You don’t really have to worry about things cuz it’s not like your rate’s gonna really jump up. And if you’re doing any type of value, add strategy, surely in two years or three years, when your note comes due, you’ve created a whole bunch of value.

So it’s really an afterthought. What the interest rates are doing are impacting new in inexperience operators who don’t have much capital behind them because now they have to cough up more funds to close a deal. But I think what’s testing a lot of people, which really didn’t really talk about today in any of these news headlines, is that right now a lot of people are facing the backlash of a lot of the the rent moratoriums on folks.

Where previously in 2020 they froze all the evictions, right? Couldn’t evict people. Basic basically. There were still ways to evict people, but 20, 21, I believe, I might be butchering the timeline, but that was when they said, all right, you guys can, there’s no more moratoriums.

Somehow the CDC got involved with that. People can get evicted now, but it wasn’t, there’s always a slack in this stuff. How is the courts gonna interpret this? And so we really didn’t start to see it come out for six months to a year after. So talking 20, 22, maybe late 20, 20, 21, when you actually started to see these evictions go through the system, and now you’re starting to deal with the.

The bad debt where people just don’t pay and now you can enforce it. But in that meantime, you’ve got a couple months where you have a non-pay unit, then you have another two to two weeks, maybe even a month or more of rehabbing the unit, getting it back online and maybe another week or two to get it released up in the, and get somebody paying in there.

And of course, you’ve got another couple weeks or month of concessions you’ve made, varying levels of concessions, such as a hundred dollars off the first month or half months off the first month, the rest you have to count for. So that’s really what I think a lot of people ourselves included are challenged through now.

And it’s something that the, I think something like that will never get published in a regular type of publication, because it’s just complicated to, to keep track of. It’s it’s more complicated than your Monte Netflix special. For those people who are interested in a interesting story and wondering what was his girlfriend real?

I would suggest watching that video or it’s two hours long, but, getting back to the whole eviction moratorium thing, it is a little bit confusing. And, a lot of people just don’t understand how long it takes its way to actually to, for the problems that bring it’s ugly face and it’s right now.

I think a lot of that should be worked out maybe in the, in, throughout this year early into next. But I think that’s where a lot of the struggles with the industry which you get over, right? If you have enough capital reserves to get through it and your occupancy doesn’t drop too much should be no problem to get through.

Thanks Matt, for that. Wallet hub reports, 2022 is best real estate markets. So one through Tenco, Texas Allen, Texas McKinney, Texas, Austin, Texas Nashville, Tennessee, Carrie, North Carolina, Gilbert, Arizona, Denton, Texas Peria Arizona Richardson, Texas. I’m surprised Gilbert made it on the list. Cause Gilbert, I always said that Gilbert’s kind of on that that east side of Phoenix and it’s funny.

We fought like assets from like the north west corner all the way down to the north or south east corner. And it’s like a slash from upper left hand Northwest to the bottom. And we never picked up any assets. Gilbert. Yeah, but maybe the time might be coming up apparently, but this is just wallet hubs, another whimsical, top 10 less best places to buy a house.

Another one is this is their markets of seriously underwater mortgages. So they’re lowest ones are San Mateo, California daily city, California, Santa Clara, California, San Jose, California, Sunnyville, California, and their highest one. I guess these are the places where people are herding in terms of their mortgages per Illinois, S Shreveport, Los Louisiana, Columbus, Georgia, Bannon Rouge, and St.

Louis, Missouri median days on the market. So the lowest one, and that this is an indicator of how hot the market is. Once Mr. Colorado, Arva Colorado Renton, Washington, Gilbert, Arizona, Everett, Washington. So you have properties in those markets. It’ll go and it’s priced, right? It’ll probably go in like a day or a week.

The worst places where your property’s gonna sit there on the market is Patterson, New Jersey, New York, New Jersey, Miami beach, Florida, Yonkers, New York. So people just aren’t really buying properties out there or is not as much the best city to the worst city differences of differential, five X from Westminster, Colorado to New York.

But how occupancy percent is an indicator for kind of demand and filling vacancies for apartments or rentals. In the real estate transaction world, the retail world, where you’re buying and selling this days on market is the same barometer record setting rent growth in markets in the south and the west eight of the 10 markets with the highest rent growth.

In New York rents rose 20% year of year in the first quarter of 2022, a dramatic turnaround from the first quarter 2021, when rents fell 15% year of year. And in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, Seattle, where rents fell at least 5% year over year in early 2021 rents were up 10% or more in 2022, which to me is a sign that things are bouncing back it wasn’t.

And this is like where the UTV is, are saying everybody’s moving outta California. Oh my God. Which they generally are, but you, I think it was definitely played up a little bit more and here’s a great chart. By Harvard university of the domestic migration. So the red states are the ones where people are moving out of the only three are New York, Illinois, and California, and the dark blue, the darker blue ones are the ones that people are moving into, which lot in the Southwest, Texas and Arizona.

This is more where international migration is coming in. And, I’m just not gonna really, I don’t know if I should really report on it because there, the numbers that are domestic migration versus international migration is I’m flip flopping between these two slides. It’s 10 X, the amount of domestic migration.

So as I read these states where there’s a. Net international migration, which they’re coming into. I think that’s New York. I think that’s New Jersey. I think that’s Massachusetts. And I think that’s New Jersey Virginia, or probably DC is what they’re talking about there. And then California are the places where you have a lot of international migration.

And then of course, Texas and Florida and New York are the big ones. But one thing that’s interesting that he says many more rural country counties gain migrants in 2021 compared to 2019. So normally you would say the gateway cities like your San Franciscos new Yorks would get a lot of the the bigger. International migrants, but it appears that the trend is moving more towards rural areas.

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August 2022 Monthly Market Update

Welcome everybody. This is the monthly market update. Here we go. What’s up everybody? It is August, 2022. Let’s get the monthly market update. If you haven’t checked out the podcast, simple passive cash flow is where you find it. ITunes, Google play Spotify. And check this out on YouTube. And we also record and put all these monthly market updates on the website and simple passive cash flow.com/investor letter every month for you guys to pull these reports and see if I’m lying or see if I’m right in my predictions.

But if you guys want to ask any questions throughout or leave any comments, feel free to type it into the chat box below from your perspective, the way you’re watching it. We go out, live on YouTube and our groups, looks like we got a wandering dot what’s up, man. And we also put this in the podcast form.

So let’s get started here. First article, there’s another one of wallet, hubs, top 10 places, and this is the best and worst places to rent in America. The best place was Maryland. Overland Park, Kansas Sioux city falls, South Dakota, Bismark Lincoln Chandler, Arizona Scotta Arizona, Gilbert, Arizona, El Paso, Texas, Casper, Wyoming, Cedar falls, Illinois and Fargo North Dakota.

How I, they came up with those top rental markets or best places to rent, I guess this is in the perspective of a renter. I have no idea, but you guys seem to like these top 10, which is why we do ’em. The markets with the best vacancy rates are the little rock Arkansas, Casper, Wyoming, Augusta, Georgia, Armillo, Texas.

And. Charleston Wyoming. Affordable rents are in Wyoming at Bismark, North Dakota, Cedar walls, Cedar rapids, Illinois, Sioux city falls, Sioux falls, South Dakota, Overland park, Kansas. Moving on. If you guys haven’t heard of it, it’s like the second crypto Wil winter, and this one’s a little bit different.

So what a lot of people were doing was putting their money into these crypto staking platforms, such as block fives or CELs, I wasn’t doing very many of these nor do I do. I don’t really do crypto. I don’t really believe in it. I believe in the whole idea of cryptocurrencies, getting away from governments controlling currency, which I’m all for, but I just don’t really I don’t know.

I think real estate’s just way better and it’s passive income, which you can typically defer the taxes on as opposed to this stuff, which the governments are gonna be coming after. Pretty heavily on, A little bit less because it all took a crap on everybody. And especially like that Luna thing, which I knew was a bad deal from the start.

But if you haven’t heard, Celsis is one of these big trading platforms where people would. They would state their coins or whatever it’s called. And they would get maybe like 9%, 15% on just staking it. But what people didn’t realize, what the heck that meant and what it meant is like putting your coin up and then, people borrowing it or you’re putting money up for the barring platform to happen.

And. It was, it’s like a house of cards is how I saw it. And eventually came down crumbling and Celia has had to restructure and a lot of people are asking you, Hey, am I gonna get my money back? And. I tell people, no, man, you’re not gonna get your money back because that’s why you don’t invest in this stuff.

Because in any investment you always ask how I am securitized? If shit happens, how am I gonna get some or all of my money back? And in these types of situations, you don’t because there’s no underlying asset value. There’s another deal going out, out there where people are like, you’re investing in like online businesses, but the online business is, there’s not really worth anything. If anything, there’s maybe some inventory, some useless junk that’s in a warehouse somewhere that you can sell pennies on for a dollar. But that’s why I like real estate because it’s always worth something, especially like the raw land portion of it.

Sorry. If you did this type of stuff I guess I should have told you, you should have done it. But, I don’t do this type of stuff. I maybe had $1,500 in blockFI that I took out last month just to learn it. But, I don’t put a substantial amount of my net worth, if you follow what the high net worth people over $10 million, do they typically don’t put anywhere.

They put one to 10% of their net worth into things like this. It’s all the lower net worth people that are dancing around with 10, 20% plus other net worth real estate, intelligent marketing reports that study finds that the US needs 4.3 million more apartments by the year 2035. And I put this in there and I think a lot of us are very well aware of which is why we invested in real estate, especially lower middle class workforce style housing.

Is because there’s a demand for it. It’s a commodity. And it’s something that you could forecast the need for, the reports that the US has tremendously difficult conditions that have fundamentally altered our nation’s demographics. But one thing remains certain. There is a need for more rental housing.

The US must build 3.7 million new apartments just to meet the future demand. On top of the 600,000 unit deficit and a loss of 4.7 million affordable apartment homes, a major driver of the apartment demand is immigration, which, you know if anything, immigration needs to occur more, especially if there’s a supply chain crunch in China, which isn’t supplying us with cheap labor.

We’ve gotta read. Domic a lot of these jobs, but anyway, that’s just my interject right there. The article ends and says California, Florida and Texas will require 1.5 million new apartments in 2035 accounting for 40% of the future demand,

Commercial property executive. Reports that why C R E, which is commercial real estate investors are rethinking refinancing. And I actually had a webinar for my investors a couple days ago. And, if you wanna get a copy, shoot us an email and team@simplepassivecashflow.com, where I went into some pretty heavy detail, but from a high level, just for the podcast audience and public investor.

Audience here, basically what’s happening is it’s really hard to get lending because the not, the interest rates went up, but I would probably argue that the thing to point to is like these rate caps that we normally will buy, usually buy something where. If we close that 5% interest rate, we wanna buy a cap.

So we don’t have to if the interest rates go up to five and a half, we cap out there. So it’s a way of being conservative, but it can be very expensive in the past. It’s cost us maybe half a percent or percent of the loan value to pay for one of these things. And now. I would say like triple or even more expensive than it once was, which really impacts closing costs and the deals.

So that’s just speaking from my own personal experience, but reading what the article is saying here during the first quarter, investors were eager to refinance in order to take advantage of high evaluations to get into the market. Now, many are hesitant to tap the debt markets because interest rates have risen so much since March and the lender underwriting is reflecting economic uncertainty and increased risk.

So we all know interest rates are gonna be going up to team inflation and you did the whole little diagram and chalkboard exercise on this whole dynamic alone. And another thing I would recommend for you guys is go back to the podcast. I did a couple great podcasts with Richard Duncan. You guys can check that out at simplepassivecashflow.com/duncan.

Get, multi-housing news reports, the growing cost of capital for multi-family development. This kind of piggybacking on, I just mentioned borrowing costs are 2% to two and a half percent higher than a year ago. The result is a situation not seen in years in which the caps have fallen, being below the cost of debt. But in fast growing Sunbelt hotspots, huge population growth has created demand for multifamily housing.

Far out shipping, supply, propelling, rent rates, and leaving many long time. Multifamily experts, slack jobs. The situation should keep cap rates slow. So in other words, rents are continually going up and up, which actually makes this a very good time to be buying real estate. This is a buyer’s market in a little bubble.

As the large institutional investors have paused they’re buying, but they gotta come back in. At some point I argued before the end of the. The only problem right now is in getting your lending set up or what we call capital markets, which has nothing to do with the cap rates. Guys, don’t get that confused.

So if you are an all cash buyer right now, this is an awesome time for you. Just, that’s just never a good way to invest. In my opinion, you always wanna be taking advantage of getting as much good debt as possible. The article ends with greater concern. Maybe whether the Fed will aggressively shrink its balance sheet yanking, a lot of liquidity out system, less cash will be available at any price available capital with insufficient funds to fund all development projects that are just talking about like a doom stage scenario.

Go back and check out that video we did, especially for you investors in our group. It is simple. And I think it, what it does is there’s a lot of noise out there. Like I mentioned, don’t watch these YouTube videos, these doin GLS of these guys who sell newsletters or the people trying to sell code, have them, you buy through their affiliate links and stuff like that, then get back to basics, and this is my book here. If you guys haven’t checked it out, Really trying to get over a hundred reviews. I think we’re up into the eighties or nineties right now. The journey of simple passive cash flow. I’ve been told it does a very good job in teaching the basics. And the basics is number one, investing in good deals, where you’re investing with people with reputation and a track record to get passive losses.

So you’re able to play different games on your taxes, essentially stop doing the stuff that your lame CPA is telling you, such as doing your 401k, or your deferred comp plan. That. Isn’t really any tax advice. It’s just deferring taxes instead, plate checkers, or instead of playing checkers, place chess with your taxes and pay little to taxes by changing your color, your money, or in their income to passive income.

So you can use your passive losses from your real estate to zero that out as best as you can. And maybe even if you wanna get jazzed up, do some rep status there. All to, and then, maybe do a little infinite banking. If you guys wanna get more information on infinite banking, you guys can get the infoPage at infoPage@simplepassivecashflow.com/banking, but help me out and buy the book.

Spread the good word folks. We’ll continue on multi-housing news, how the housing shortage became a crisis. So the US under produced 3.8 million of housing between 2012 and 2019. The shortfall is double what it was seven years ago. The problem is exasperating itself by crumbling infrastructure, ratio, inequality, climate change, and climate events.

And while under supply impacts residents at all income levels, lower and residents of color suffer the most. Three root causes for this is missing households that would have formed if units were available and affordable, insufficient availability and uninhabitable units, which is why we like to invest in this type of stuff, cuz there’s a growing demand for it. And it’s something that. As new inventory comes online, it doesn’t really directly compete with your class B or C asset.

The class stuff actually helps you because it pushes the price points up and up, which we have another article discussing later today. But it’s just that you don’t really have direct competition. This is why I don’t like self storage investing because. Even when you’re, you always wanna buy a type of storage because everybody wants to go to the 24 hour air condition, very highly secure using tech, lot of tech in their self storage.

But if somebody builds a new self storage facility next to yours, that’s why I’m not a big fan of that. That asset class I do like bolt storage though. RV storage. Multi-housing news also reports multi-family investing in a high inflation economy. So our economy has shifted to, from manufacturing to a service based one.

And we have a Fed that is very proactive with arsenal tools that have really deployed to manage economic growth. Again, if you, this is all new to you guys, check out the infoPage at simplepasscash.com/Duncan. Great primer, and feel free to share that with your friends. The current high inflation environment with the prospects of higher treasury rates have led both investors and lenders to reassess their underwriting assumptions along with feature valuations and cap rates combined with the uncertainty over exit cap rates in light of increasing treasury rates, multifamily investors are having to temper their pricing in order to achieve acceptable rate adjusted returns.

Here’s my quote here. I haven’t seen a lot of deals where they are still assuming that rents are gonna go up 3% every year. And their exit cap rates are still pretty high or pretty low. The importance of relationships, both on the debt and equity capital is Parabon in order to access capital to take advantage of this temporary market dislocation.

Talk about is right, Frank. Now it’s currently in a little bit of a bar market. Like I said, if you are somebody who isn’t the best investor out there, but Hey, you have a lot of money and you buy stuff, cash. This is the ideal situation for you still. I wouldn’t rec I wouldn’t do it, but, right now the prices are a little low it’s only problem is lending and there, you never have a time when things are always good and all signs clear.

and you’re always gonna have some kind of way to things where there’s always gonna be seemingly, headwinds in the way, if not, that’s when the prices start to go away and which it was getting there prior to, 20, late 20, 21, or, 2018, I would say, thankfully, we had that whole pandemic thing.

Re business online reports, Redfin US residential media and asking rates of 14.1% in June on annual basis. Redfin is the big real estate online real estate brokerage reported national rents in June. Went up 14.1% year over year. The June figure is a slight increase from. Which is what I’ve been telling everybody, rents are still aggressively going up and this is another reason why it’s a great time to be buying right now.

The rent growth is slowing because landlords are seeing demand start to ease as renters get pinched by inflation. But, I think this is the thing I always highlight for folks like, despite what you read the word recess. Rents are still going up. It’s just, it’s not going up at the crazy price it once was, which is a good thing.

I think that crazy pace was UN unsustainable. All I personally want is a little bit of growth. Like one to 3% rents are still climbing unprecedented rates in strong job markets like New York and Seattle and areas like San Antonio and Boston, that sort of popularity during the pandemic. And here are the top 10 markets that saw the biggest jump in June, Cincinnati, Seattle, Austin, Nashville, New York city, NASSAU county, New York, new Brunswick, New Jersey, New York, New Jersey, Portland and Sam Antonio

Yardi matrix, reports, multifamily rents rise again in June. Yardi made check reports. Average us multifamily rents roles, another $19 in June. Again, this is the same thing that we just mentioned. The increase was filled by strong demand and rent growth throughout the country. So this is a different type of environment.

This isn’t like 2008, lending is very different, at least on the residential side. You don’t have the ninja, no doc, no job, no income type of loans. There’s a lot of controls on lending and that’s what’s bogging down future investor mojo. Is that the lack of the capital market’s lack of lending availability?

Not that the deals are too expensive. The expectation for the remainder of 22 is for rents to increase at slower rates as the economy cools off. But that doesn’t mean that it’s going backwards. There’s always one thing I always say if I were to bet, if the rents don’t go down for very long, I would probably say what’s long, maybe longer than a six to 18 month period.

It. Unfortunately for people who rent, it’s always not gonna come outta your pocketbook at the end of the day, as gas prices rise, like the airlines just pass it off to their customers. And so things are going pretty well in, I don’t know about the economy, but as far as if you’re an investor getting your money working in real estate, and in rentals, And it’s going so well that like the class, a multifamily units are doing really right now, as wealth management.com reports rent growth will not maturity, slow down until demand cools, vacancy ticks up and will happen.

If, and when, afford becomes a headwind, if the job markets subsidy. This is what kind of my whole thesis is. If there’s any type of trouble in the economy, any type of recession who’s gonna get hurt. People who own their own houses, they’re gonna get foreclosed and where are they gonna go?

They’re gonna cascade down to class A apartments, class B apartments, class C apartments. This is right now. You’re seeing the class A apartments do really well because people can’t afford to buy houses because the cost of their lending, their interest rates have gone down. So it’s a cause and effect thing.

And I think it’s important to find those asset classes, those sectors, those, those wealth gaps where you want to participate based on your sec, your viewpoint of the economy and how things work. And in my opinion, only class C and B apartments in class B and areas are where it’s.

I know a lot of people like to buy these class a apartments, I’d say you might as well build them and sell them to suckers who wanna buy them and operate ’em. I just, I think it’s a sector that’s really performing really right now because people cannot afford houses and they are just gonna go rent.

They have a $1,500 a month, $2,500 a month class A apartment. But. I don’t see that really continuing, or I see that as a catch mode currently right now.

So here’s an example of a class A apartment right here. American capital group or committees real estate partners, diverse a blank apartments Kirkland, Washington for 242 million. So this is a class A apartment, and this is. Like a business plan that I would like to personally get into is like building these developments, scratch, creating a tremendous amount of value, add, and then selling it off to a mom and Paul syndicate, who have silly investors who really like these pretty pictures and that’s how they sell their deals.

But then, this is, to me, the risk of operating these high end apartments. Right now it’s doing really well because a lot of people in houses cannot afford to buy the loans, the higher interest rate and their affordability is backtracking. As of maybe a couple months ago, I just don’t see that shrink continuing.

And I think that there’s some leveling off of it. And I just think there’s just more long term stability in the B class asset, one level of this type of stuff. But yeah, I wanna do exactly what these guys do. Harper, who is a direct Fannie Mae. Freddie Mac lender says that Fannie Mae Freddie Mac expects a mission to deliver liquidity as stability and affordability. The agencies committed to enhance the ability and affordability of challenged markets by providing greater liquidity over the next three years.

Things tightened up in the capital markets and people aren’t able to afford their super expensive house simply because of the cost of. Interest rates went up a little bit and that directly impacts affordability. And that impacts a lot of people on the fringes. And that’s where the, Fannie Mae, Fred Mac are saying here where they’re redating and, changing up their targets for the future lending.

And this is always gonna happen. This has been happening since the beginning, when I’ve invested, they always make these micro adjustments. Take another run at it. Things just keep continuing and continuing. This is why I always tell investors, don’t really get too excited about any one thing . There’s always these small types of corrections here or there and at least how I’ve seen for the most part things typically work in a control band.

And I think people get too much into the headlines. Garbage headlines from your CNBCs, your yahoos that are placating out to the average consumer out there, trying to just sell headlines of fear, dooming blue. But this is what’s happening in the more industry newsletters like this, which I try to find for you guys.

They’re looking to do increased loan purchase activity at foster. Product innovation to enable the use of manufacturing houses and unique development scenarios. Fannie Mae is one of the leading sources, liquidity for manufacturing and affordable housing. They’re trying to work on the problem and so those of you guys don’t know Fannie Mae F Mac is your government arm, pseudo government arm to get that money out there to the people who need it the most.

To buy houses because some people still think that, everybody should buy a house to live in, even though that’s not really going to happen. They’re trying to get the people on the fringes that sort of deserve it to get ’em over the edge, which I think is a good thing. Bloomberg reports from billionaire Samal warns that the Fed needs to break the inflation mindset and says he doesn’t think that the US is currently in a recession.

I’ll try and I guess I’ll try and summarize what I talked about in my other hour-long, half long webinar with my insiders in our group. But basically you have inflation all the time. I don’t wanna say all time high, but a pretty, moving average of 9.1%. Last I checked it, which is three times what they want it to be at most.

They usually want it to be one to three. So what’s going on is that you’re seeing the Fed increase the amount of interest rate, which is called, quantitative tightening after quantitative easing is what they did previously, which is essentially creating fake money and creating all these government entitlement programs to basically lift us out of a pandemic created recess.

Which I think is a good thing to do. And this is coming from somebody who really doesn’t like too much government control, but I think that’s what the government is supposed to do. When the country shuts down for several months, we need a little bit of outside interjection that stabs to the heart of adrenaline to keep us going after a pandemic.

And that’s what happened. A whole bunch of money got pumped into the system, which is called quantitative easing. Then now it created a lot of it and made everybody’s stock market go up, easy come easy go. And everybody’s like house prices sort, which is obvious, this byproduct of all this printing of fake money.

And now we have to reverse a little bit because inflation is too high. Go figure. So this is exasperated by two things, which is. The Ukraine war and the COVID lockdowns in China. So I’ll dissect that a little bit. So, the Ukraine war, what that’s doing is putting some restrictions on the fuel.

I think you guys, Russian oil and stuff like that, and it’s gum things up there and the COVID in China, most of you guys are probably wondering. y’all are still playing COVID pandemic out there, yeah. We might be over it, mentally in America, but in China, they’re still doing that, with a zero COVID policy.

And even though it may be a little outdated and overboard at this point, it is what it is, political affiliations beside, and don’t matter, like it’s what China’s doing and the result is. That the people in China, aren’t in the factories, giving us Americans the cheap labor that we need to push our businesses forward, which is creating a lot of issues in terms of supply chain, which is also further exasperating, the inflation and the relation that’s happening there is if I’m a business owner and I typically.

Use China labor or outside Asian cheaper labor outside, that’s effectively in a way better technology. So I don’t have that at my disposal right now. And that dang Ukraine war is coming up my operations. So these are the damages at play. So until either the Ukraine war ends or COVID. In China lightens up a little bit.

We’re in this predicament where there’s not gonna be any outside relief. So that only the levers that the Fed has, the poll is to increase the interest rates, which is to take away money from the system in a way to lower the inflation. And what they want to do is they want to keep doing this UN until that unemployment starts to creep up.

And this is good news, unemployment really. Right now guys, like Google, it is unemployment in America. Look at the chart. We’re at all time lows right now. I dunno all time, but in our lifetime lows, what we want that thing that the Fed is likely doing is they’re planters probably gonna increase the interest rates half a percent, quarter percent watching.

They’re trying to get that inflation back down, but they don’t wanna do it too much. So that unemployment goes. Because unemployment goes up, that’s it’s a, that’s a harder, relation to fix at the end of, at the end of it. But that’s if you start injecting more in interest taking money away from the system, but don’t break it by having unemployment skyrocket over eight to 10%.

Now it’s a fine balance. And it’s also. Made a lot more difficult because there’s slack in the system and there’s more slack in the system than Norma, as there’s so much liquidity reserved. So it’s really hard to determine, if the fed increases the rates by point, seven, five tomorrow, it’s not it’s not like by next week, Wednesday, it’s gonna be, unemployment will be this and inflation be back down to 7% and we’re well, on our way, to getting it under 5%, it just doesn’t work like.

And that’s what makes it difficult for the Fed. It’s very simple relations, but, and I use this analogy and other things, but it’s like a cruise ship trying to turn back around. You obviously don’t want an overcorrection with too much government intervention and, in terms of too much interest rate hikes, we’ve still got a long way off till what, where we were in what, 1985.

And. We’ve got our Hawaii retreat that I’m planning in January and 2023. And I’m thinking of making it some kind of like a throwback to the 1985 era where we had 11% rates. Maybe, basically just give people an excuse to wear really ugly Hawaii Aloha shirts. But anyway, if you guys haven’t yet checked out our family office ohana mastermind.

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