
The SmarterLandlording Podcast
The SmarterLandlording Podcast is about helping you become a smarter landlord. Hosted by Kevin Perk, he brings over 15 years of landlording experience to the show. Listen as he and his guests discuss many different landlording topics including getting started, finding properties, screening tenants, managing your property, landlord law, taxes and more.
Episodes
26 episodes
Episode 19 - Looking Back At 2020 and Ahead In 2021 - Challenges and Opportunities
Episode 19 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is a continuation of the series "Conversations With Real Estate Investors." Sit in and listen as frequent guest Richard Scarbrough and I look back at turbulent 2020 and ahead to 2021. Will there be ...
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Episode 19
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1:08:32

Episode 18 - The Real Estate Investor's Guide To A Stronger Purchase And Sale Contract
Episode 18 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is a detailed discussion with Attorney Joe Kirkland of CloseTrak Title and Closing Services on one of t...
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Episode 18
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1:38:30

Episode 17 – Creating A Brand And A Marketing Plan To Find, Buy and Wholesale Discounted Properties
Episode 17 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is a conversation with Matt Cates of AACQ Deals to discuss building a brand and a marketing plan to find, buy and wholesale properties. Matt has successfully built his real estate investing bu...
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Episode 17
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1:12:54

Episode 16 - A Conversation With Fellow Real Estate Investor and Landlord Delois Brown
Episode 16 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast starts a new series called Conversations With Real Estate Investors. Conversations With Real Estate Investors is exactly what it sounds like, a conversation with a real estate investor who is ...
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Episode 16
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1:26:39

Episode 15 – Advice From Experience To New Real Estate Investors
Episode 15 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast welcomes back real estate investor extraordinaire Richard Scarbrough. Focusing on my new book,
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Episode 15
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1:03:32

Episode 14 – Loans For The Beginning Investor
Episode 14 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is a discussion with mortgage broker Herb Hyman. Herb has been in the mortgage and loan business for over thirty years. He has seen the ups and downs of the real estate market along with...
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Episode 14
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1:05:27

Episode 13 – The Deal Architect – With Pablo Pereyra
Episode 13 of the SmarterLandlording Podcast is an extensive interview with friend and super knowledgeable real estate professional Pablo Pereyra. Pablo is perhaps the hardest working man I know. Not only does he have 5 kids, he owns his own re...
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Episode 13
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1:22:41

Episode 12 - Looking Back On Getting Started, A Conversation With A Former Newbie
Episode 12 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast features the very first guest I ever interviewed, Jenna Stonecipher-Williamson. Back when we first talked Jenna was just getting started in real estate and was knee deep in repairs and finding tenan...
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Episode 12
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1:04:29

Episode 11 – Buying, Rehabbing and Managing Class D Apartments
Episode 11 of the SmarterLandlording Podcast focuses on buying, rehabbing and managing class D apartments. Class D apartments look great on paper, but are more of a challenge than you might realize. My guest, Erik Nowacki, has taken on that ch...
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Episode 11
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53:49

Episode 10 - Buying Properties Without Banks Using Creative Financing
Episode 10 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast examines buying properties without using banks. My guest, real estate investor Sarah Shepherd, has been buying properties for over a dozen years without using bank financing. How? She does it using ...
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Episode 10
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45:54

Episode 9 – Landlords and Lawsuits – With Attorney Joseph T. Kirkland
Episode 9 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast focuses on something every landlord fears, lawsuits. In this episode, I sit down again with attorney Joe Kirkland to delve into this interesting and sometimes troubling aspect of the landlording busine...
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Episode 9
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1:11:23

Episode 8 – Is There a Good Property Management Company?
Episode 8 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast poses a question every landlord has asked at some point: Is there a good property management company? The answer may surprise you. To get to the answer, the SmarterLandlording Podcast talks again wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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43:08

Episode 7 – Understanding and Timing the Multi-Family Market - With Multi-Family Real Estate Broker Steve Woodyard of Woodyard Realty
Episode 7 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is an in depth discussion with Steve Woodyard. Steve is the President and principal broker of Woodyard Realty, a firm that specializes in selling multi-family apartment complexes here in Memphis and th...
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Episode 7
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1:00:30

Episode 6 – Real Estate Titles and Closings With Attorney Joe Kirkland
Episode 6 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is an interview with Joe Kirkland, real estate attorney. Joe is my go to guy for real estate closings and real estate legal advice. Joe has been practicing law here in Memphis, TN since 1975 and today...
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1:11:06

Episode 5 – The Turnkey Provider
Episode 5 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is an interview with Terry Kerr, a turnkey provider and landlord here in Memphis, TN. Terry has been an active real estate investor here in Memphis for over a dozen years and has built his business, Mi...
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Episode 5
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49:51

Episode 4 – The Section 8 Landlord
Episode 4 of the Smarter Landlording Podcast is an extensive discussion with longtime landlord Arnold Dormer about the Section 8 Program. Arnold has been investing in real estate for over 40 years and has been participating in the Section 8 Progr...
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Episode 4
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1:11:02

Episode 3 – Evictions, Leases & Tenants WIth Attorney John “Bucky” Philip
Episode 3 of the SmarterLandlording Podcast is a detailed discussion with Attorney John “Bucky” Philip. Bucky specializes in real estate law here in Memphis, TN. He is an expert on evictions and landlord/tenant law and my go to guy if I need to ...
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Episode 3
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57:34

Episode 2 – The Expert Landlord: Lessons from 40 Years and 600 Units.
Episode 2 of the SmarterLandlording Podcast is an in depth discussion with longtime real estate investor and landlord Richard Scarbrough. Richard over the course of 40 years in real estate has bought and sold over 400 houses, owned over 200 apart...
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Episode 2
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1:12:37

Episode 1-The Newbie: Jumping Right Into Multi-Family Investing with Jenna Stonecipher.
Taking that first step towards becoming a real estate investor can be difficult and scary. So difficult and scary that many never actually take it. This episode talks with a newbie investor who took that first step and then some. After research...
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Episode 1
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56:44

Landlording 101 and Reducing Your Mortgage Payment
Aired on WREC on 9/1/2012, Kevin Perk, Holly Swogger and Jo Garner discuss landlording 101 and reducing your mortgage expenses. Many people today are being thrust into the landlording business because they cannot sell their homes in the sluggish ...
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55:00

Investing in Foreclosures
Jo Garner, Richard Scarbrough and myself discuss foreclosures and why it is a good idea to invest in them. Learn what a foreclosure is, their advantages along with some of the best methods and techniques to find and bid on them. Originally aired...
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52:18

Finding and Making the Real Estate Deal
Real estate deals do not just fall into our laps, they are found and made. Listen as Kevin Perk, Richard Scarbrough and Jo Garner discuss the best sources for finding deals and then some techniques and tips we have to make the deal work.
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52:45

What is a Real Estate Deal?
Jo Garner, Richard Scarbrough and myself discuss the components of a real estate deal. We talk about figuring out the value of retail, wholesale and buy and hold real estate deals. We cover how to determine offer price, repair prices, holding co...
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51:18

Choosing Your Real Estate Investment Strategy
Real estate investing is a great way to build wealth, but which strategy is right for you? Should you wholesale, retail or buy and hold? All three offer great opportunities. Listen as Richard Scarbrough, Jo Garner and myself talk about the pros...
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52:21
