Real Estate Espresso Victor Menasce

Derek Vickers is based in Orlando, Florida where he invests in mobile home parks in Florida and the Carolinas. On today's show, we're talking about how to create value in mobile home parks. New parks are not being permitted in many communities and a turn-around on existing parks can be a good affordable solution in the market.

You can connect with Derek at derekvickers885 on all of the social media platforms and check out his webinar on MHP investing at go.parkinvestingpro.com.

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Host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

Greg Mohr is based in Lincoln Nebraska where he is a national franchising consultant, helping potential franchisees find the right business to undertake.

To learn more and to connect with Greg, visit franchisemaven.com

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Host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

“Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" by Chris Voss is an insightful and practical guide to negotiation, drawing on the author's extensive experience as a former FBI hostage negotiator. 

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Host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

The COP28 summit just got underway in Dubai, a region known for oil production. On today’s show we’re going to look at a recently published paper  coauthored by Kelly Shue of Yale SOM and Samuel Hartzmark of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

This paper shows categorically that the penalties imposed on high polluting firms actually don’t have the desired effect and in many cases can be counter productive to the stated goal. 

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Host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

On today’s show we are talking about how a $40 tool can save you thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in energy costs. As real estate investors we often spend the bulk of our time in the relative sanitized environment of the office and spreadsheets. Your buildings are literally throwing money out the window.

Energy costs are a primary line item in your expenses for any investment property. Now some of you might be thinking that the cost of heating and cooling is being paid by the tenants and you don’t need to worry about the budget for your tenants.

Your focus as an investor should be on the bottom for your property, not getting caught up in the weeds of your tenants finances.

Now you could go out and hire an energy consultant who will come to your property with thousands of dollars of high priced thermal imaging equipment that will show you exactly where you are losing energy from your building. That is certainly one option.

You need to know where your building is losing energy. That means creating a map of where your building is leaking. You don’t need five decimal points of precision in those measurements.

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host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

On today’s show, we are talking about one of the implications of artificial intelligence that is not being widely discussed in the main stream media.

There are billions of people in the world. Designing and tailoring products for individuals has been largely ignored as even a remote possibility. It takes far too much effort. To develop custom products for each individual on the planet. We have lived much of the past century with products that are designed for the masses. If you think about a standard bell curve, what in statistics is called a normal distribution, product developers, and product marketing have been aiming at the average, and try to remain within one standard deviation from the average.

When marketers send messages to their target demographic, they tend to put them into buckets. This is also true when it comes to trends in voting. What matters to the Christian voter, to the hispanic voter, the indigenous voter, the immigrant voter, the African American voter, and so on. 

Increasingly AI can be used to create messages that are not tailored to a group, but tailored to an individual.

The question is, could AI be used to influence an election result?