The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Victor Menasce
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The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Welcome to The Real Estate Espresso Podcast, your morning shot of what's new in the world of real estate investing. Join investor, syndicator, developer, and author Victor J. Menasce as he shares his daily real estate investment outlook. Our weekday episodes deliver 5 minutes of high-energy, high-impact content to fuel your success. Plus, don't miss our weekend editions featuring exclusive interviews with renowned guests such as Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Helms, Peter Schiff, and more.

  1. 11 HRS AGO

    How To Buy Real Estate From The US Government

    On today’s show we are talking about how to buy surplus real estate from the US government. But first, if you believe that high quality real estate with strong operators and developers is still a good long term investment, irrespective of any executive order in the past 24 hours, then check out our projects at Y Street Capital. Register for our investor portal where you will get to see the numerous projects we have underway across multiple states in the US and in two provinces in Canada. We promise we won’t be spamming you with tons of email. Goto YStreet⁠capital.com⁠ and the link to register for our investor portal is here.  -------------- On today’s show we are talking about how to buy surplus real estate from the US government.  The US General Services Administration is the US Government’s landlord. They own, operate and sell the real estate assets of the US Federal Government. After what seems like a false start, the GSA had listed a number of properties for sale in recent days. Then the number of properties was cut back and then removed almost entirely. General Services Administration removed from its website about 440 federal buildings representing nearly 80 million square feet of space that only hours earlier it had listed for sale. There is no question that the US government is going to be getting rid of a lot of property in the coming weeks and months. We got a preview of some of those properties, but can’t really speculate which ones will be re-offered for sale.  Properties listed for sale on the GSA website are generally managed as an online auction.  As of now the GSA website is listing only a handful of properties. I’m going to summarize the information on one building that I’m actually somewhat familiar with. --------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    6 min

  2. 1D AGO

    Where Are Interest Rates Heading?

    On today’s show we are looking at the evolving cost of capital for real estate investors.  There seem to be 3 main variables that affect short term interest rates. The first is the inflation metrics which quite frankly are showing themselves to be quite sticky. Tariffs and trade wars could also increase consumer prices.  The second factor is employment and the third factor is the economy overall.  Long term interest rates seem to be determined by a combination of supply and demand, combined with a sentiment of economic outlook. If the economy seems strong, then the feeling is that there will be less pressure on interest rates. The current tariff  regime affecting Canada, Mexico, China, and soon some European countries, could have economic backlash within the US. That could lead to economic contraction which in turn could cause the Fed to lower short term rates. The lowering of rates would likely cascade to the longer duration bonds. There are plenty of signs of economic weakness in the private sector. In fact, with the exception of artificial intelligence and AI related investment, I can’t see any sector of the economy that is growing right now. --------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    6 min

  3. 2D AGO

    Live From Houston

    On today's show we are live on location in Houston Texas. I'm sharing some insights on the Houston market that are only possible with a direct boots on the ground perspective. ---------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    5 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Security Methods That Work

    On today’s show we are talking about security for your real estate projects. But first, we have several opportunities for investment within the Y Street Capital portfolio. Our storage fund continues to make investments in some great projects across the US. To learn more about our storage projects, visit https://ystreetcapital.invportal.com/login These opportunities are only visible to those who register for our investor portal. This podcast is not a solicitation for investment. Any investment is by private placement memorandum only, is open to accredited investors and is in compliance with securities regulations. ---------------- On today’s show we are talking about security for your real estate projects. There is a conventional wisdom that security cameras offer very little protection. Even if an event of interest is captured, the image resolution or lighting is often insufficient to really capture enough detail to identify prosecute and convict. But this is changing.  There are numerous optimizations that can be made when recording security video. Most cameras today are using a wide angle lens and capturing a very wide area. But that means a large percentage of the image is not going to contain information of interest. For example, if the upper half of the image is pointing at the sky, you are unlikely to find many security events in that upper half of the image.  AI is increasingly sophisticated in its ability to distinguish between transient and persistent events in security camera footage. This capability is crucial for reducing false alarms and focusing security efforts on genuine threats. Here's how AI achieves this:   AI algorithms can analyze the movement patterns of objects. A car driving by exhibits a consistent, linear motion over a short period, which AI can recognize as a transient event.  Conversely, someone loitering, repeatedly returning to a specific area, or leaving an object behind displays persistent behavior that AI can flag as potentially suspicious.------------------ **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    6 min

  5. 4D AGO

    AI Document Verification with Lisen Kaci

    Lisen Kaci is the lead developer of Discrepancy AI, a suite of tools that provide financial document analysis and verification. On today's show we are talking about the state of the art in using AI tools to streamline the financial document due diligence process. To learn more, visit discrepancyai.com. ----------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    11 min

  6. 4D AGO

    BOM - The Mountain Is You - by Brianna Wiest

    On the first day of each month we review the book of the month. Our book this month is "The Mountain is You - Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery" by Brianna Wiest. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. ------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    4 min

  7. 6D AGO

    Hotels Versus Short Term Rentals

    On today’s show we are taking another look at the changing landscape of hospitality. AirBnb disrupted the hotel world with the gig economy’s answer to a short term stay. Legions of property owners saw the potential for higher income and went all-in on the rental win-fall.  The hotel industry has relied on Online Travel Agents to bring them a lot of traffic. Pricing in the hotel industry tends to follow dynamic supply and demand principles. Those who are coming to town for a large convention and properties are full can expect to pay more. Coming during low season when hotels are empty and you’re likely to find a bargain. But who wants to spend a lot of time browsing through dozens of hotels in order to save a few bucks? This is where the OTA’s can add a lot of value to customers. In my personal experience, I have often booked higher quality hotels using an online travel agent at prices that are lower than you can find on the hotel’s own website. I know they say this should not be possible. I’ve just lived that experience too many times to call it a coincidence. The online travel agents responded to the threat of short term rentals by offering to list short term rentals on their sites as well. This offers customers the option of seeing branded hotel listings in the same search results as a short term rental.  Companies like Expedia and booking.com are now carrying private listings in addition to hotels. But these online travel agents offer none of the safeguards of the Airbnb platform. Even if the same property is listed on both AirBnb and Expedia, the terms of those two contracts are vastly different.  The hotels are definitely fighting back. The biggest drawback of Airbnb is the wide variation in quality. We have probably all experienced that really bad property that frankly should have its occupancy permit revoked, let alone be removed from any short term listing site. ------------ **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    5 min

  8. FEB 27

    How Is Panama Real Estate Different?

    On today’s show we are taking a look at what I see in Panama after having spent three weeks here touring the country. There are some lovely aspects to the country. The climate is amazing. The people are warm and inviting. The country has amazing beaches. The country has properties for sale everywhere. I mean everywhere. We are here during high season. This is the dry part of the year when expats spend the most amount of time here.  Panama is known for its favourable tax regime and for its rules which allow for foreigners to gain residency in exchange for investment in the country. This has given rise to a lot of new properties being built. The current government in Panama is very business friendly. There are a few communities that I would consider to be well developed. Incomes here are pretty low by US and Canadian standards. Properties that are built for expats are generally higher quality. But these too are not up to North American standards. Even in high end condo buildings, the windows are single glazed windows for example.  If there is one word that summarizes real estate in Panama, it would be “oversupplied”. Real estate in Panama is unlike real estate in the US or Canada. Some properties are not titled. That is to say, there is something called the “right of possession”. This gives the owner of the right of possession, that is the right to purchase the title from the state. But they don’t actually own the property until they purchase the title. This is an administrative process that can take a long time. More on that later.  Panama has no centralized MLS like the US and Canada. As such, some properties are listed on their own brokerage websites. realtor.com is one of the larger multi-brokerage websites and you will find a lot of listings there. But this too is not an MLS system.  There are lots of privately marketed properties. Sometimes this is nothing more than a handwritten roadside sign with a phone number. Many of these privately marketed properties are listed in the online classified ads in places like Encuentra24. Since there is no MLS system, it is possible to find the same property listed on multiple websites at different prices. It is possible therefore that the agent promoting the listing is not the actual listing agent.  -------------- **Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

    6 min
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Welcome to The Real Estate Espresso Podcast, your morning shot of what's new in the world of real estate investing. Join investor, syndicator, developer, and author Victor J. Menasce as he shares his daily real estate investment outlook. Our weekday episodes deliver 5 minutes of high-energy, high-impact content to fuel your success. Plus, don't miss our weekend editions featuring exclusive interviews with renowned guests such as Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Helms, Peter Schiff, and more.

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