Real Estate Underground

For the 200th episode of the Real Estate Underground, the conversation lands on a city near and dear to Ed's heart: Detroit. His guests are James Lloyd and Voytek Mardula of US Properties, a Toronto-based team that has spent ten years building a full turnkey operation on the ground in Michigan. The thesis is contrarian and simple. While most people wrote Detroit off, James and Voytek heard it was in the early innings of recovery, drove down to see it for themselves, and found architecturally ...

Melissa Nash spent $10K on a fully renovated $190K property with a tenant already in place. Cash flows $200/month. Sounds boring until you realize: $10K all-in. Someone else is buying her a house. And she never left California. This week on Real Estate Underground: How a self-described "lazy investor" built a portfolio across five markets while coaching 2,000+ investors to do the same. No flying out to properties. No managing contractors. No second job disguised as passive income. What you'll...

What if you could turn a 10-hour due diligence process into 20 minutes of review? Alberto Rizzoli, CEO of V7 Labs, reveals how AI workflow automation is eliminating the "purgatory" of real estate paperwork, and why operators who master it now will 10x their competition within a year. In this episode, you'll discover: ⚡ The "napkin test" for identifying which processes to automate first (hint: weekly tasks taking 1+ hours) ⚡ Why AI fails at big, open-ended requests, and the simple fix that mak...

Mike Zlotnik moved from technology executive into real estate full time in 2009. Today his shop, Tempo Family, is a capital partner. They marry money to opportunity, write checks behind operators they trust, and stay out of asset classes where they cannot find a deep enough discount. So far this year, Mike has done one multifamily deal. He is not in a hurry. The one deal was near Ann Arbor in Q1: 9 percent cap on purchase, 7 percent financing locked for three years, $79,000 a door against a...

Casey Gregersen worked twelve years as a petroleum engineer at Shell. The job had an unusual rhythm: two weeks on a drilling rig, two weeks completely off with zero work responsibility. He used the off weeks to start buying houses. In October 2022, with three companies running, he walked away from Shell. Today Casey runs Bighorn Capital Fund, Wile Homes, and Gregersen Properties. He invests primarily in Wyoming, a market where his only real competition is the lack of contractors to keep up ...