About Austin Swanson
I'm Austin Swanson, aka "Swany407". I invest in public companies. I have a passion for understanding what makes certain companies succeed and fail, past and present, and look to use that knowledge to make investment decisions.
I also own residential real estate properties, both single family and multi-family, and focus on NNN and absolute net commercial properties.
I have degrees in mathematics and actuarial science, and have obtained actuarial credentials of FSA, CERA, and MAAA.
I share my investing related thoughts on multiple platforms, for different purposes:
You can contact me via email or Twitter DM.
About Emma Swanson
Emma has experience with managing properties for large apartment complexes, as well as self managing rental properties.
Previously, Emma managed 124 Units for large property management company, including 72-unit, 30-unit, and a 22-unit apartment complexes.
While managing, she maintained at least 90% occupancy at properties. And in both of the larger apartment complexes that were 0% occupied when she took over as property manager, Emma successfully rented out all unit to 100% occupancy in approximately 2 months, to qualified tenants.
About Our Family
Emma and I met in high school and have been together for over 12 years
We started dating in 2010
In 2018, we got married in our hometown
Emma and I had our first kid in 2022
What is Included?
Comprehensive Course
Comprehensive video lessons that illustrate important investment concepts through real examples.
Offline Videos
Watch the videos anywhere, without data or WiFi, by downloading the lessons. Use the Teachable iOS app on your mobile device to download lessons and take them anywhere.
Variable Speed Playback
Watch the lessons and videos at your pace. When watching our videos on a desktop or the Teachable iOS app you can select the speed that makes the most sense for you. The variable speed increases all the way up to 2x.
Background Audio Playback
If you would like to just listen the videos, you are able to download the Teachable iOS app, where you start a video and simply lock your device and the audio will continue to play for that video.
Customer Service
Ability to reach out and ask any questions related the course. If you have any issues, reach out, and I will respond as soon as I can.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did you create these courses?
My wife and I just had our first kid. I wanted a central location of everything I knew about this topic, to be able to easily pass the information on to him. That was my biggest motivation to go through all the work to create these courses.
When do these courses start and end?
These courses are self-paced, allowing you to start and stop as you choose.
How long do I have access to these courses?
Once enrolled, you will have lifetime access to these courses.
When will the price increase?
The price for all courses increase regularly and often. Purchasing today locks in the price today before it increases. Purchasing today and today's price will give you ongoing access and new lectures for free as they are added to these courses.
Are there refunds?
To remove all risks with purchasing these courses, if you do not feel you received equal or more value than the purchase price of these course, after viewing 100% of the programs, contact me in the first 7 days for a full refund. Simply provide why you felt you did not receive equal or more value, and you will be fully refunded.
Reviews
Property Management Course Review
"Really helpful course on how to self manage rental properties. Feel like the tips and tools I learned here will save me time and money down the road. Also helpful to know what to look for in a good tenant. Highly recommend to anyone interested in managing their own properties, or current property managers."
-Blake Penton
Real Estate Investing Course Review
"Glad I purchased, This helped walk me through the process of purchasing a rental property. Very in depth information gave me everything I needed before buying my first rental property."
-Blake Penton
About this Course
This course is a collection of everything I have learned about the basics investing in stocks & businesses from reading, watching, and listening to everything investing related, as well as from my own experience with investing, and from that of others.
This is the same information and process I use for investing my own investments (such as seen on Substack or YouTube).
"This will be the only course you need for investing in stocks and businesses."
Immediately upon purchase of this course, you will gain instant access to all the information that you need for appropriately investing.
Video lessons go over every everything, including the pitfalls and mistakes you’ll need to avoid in order to minimize losses, and maximize returns.
About The Real Estate Investing Course
- Goes over how to buy your first property and beyond (90 days or less), and insights into maximizing income and wealth (including for financial independence and retiring early), both for those just starting out and those that already invest in residential real estate.
- Includes my mistakes and insights from owning my rental properties, as well as the mistakes and insights from others.
- Collection of everything I have learned about investing in real estate, from reading, watching, and listening to everything real estate investing related. Given everything is in this one course, you will learn in as little as days what took me years to learn.
- Created such that this is all you will need to be able to buy your first property. For those with existing properties, that are a significant number of methods, tips, tricks, and best practices to increase your cash flow and maximize your wealth in real estate investing
How do I know this will work? When I began investing in real estate, I copied what already worked from the best investors, and did very well for myself. Where I had mistakes, I learned from them. I included all that information here, increasing your odds of success even more.
In order to have success from this course, it will require you to go through the lessons. While there are many, this relatively little time and effort will pay off incredibly in relation. You are learning how to generate large amounts of cash flow and build wealth.
80 videos within the lessons totaling over 8 hours. There are text within all lesson.
Benefits of Investing in Real Estate
- Leverage: Banks will loan 75-80% (all the way to 96.5-100%) of the purchase price, at currently low interest rates for very long periods of time (ex: 30 years). Makes it more accessible to invest from requiring less money, which also leads to higher returns and the ability to scale faster and easier.
- Price Appreciation: Over time, the value of real estate can appreciate from increase in demand, decrease in supply, general inflation, forced appreciation from rehabs or increasing net operating income with commercial real estate, etc.
- Mortgage Paydown: Rental income is used to pay down the mortgage, leading to the owner having increasing levels of equity / ownership of the property. Once the mortgage is paid off, the value of property is owned in full by the owner.
- Inflation Hedge: Have the ability to increase rent over time, offsetting any increases in other expenses, leading to maintaining or increasing the purchasing power of the cash flow.
- Cash Flow (Passive): Cash flow is the rental income left over after paying debt, insurance, taxes, repairs, capital expenditures, vacancy, etc. This remaining amount can be used to scale further and increase future cash flow more, or it can be used as another source of income. Cash flow can be more passive, such as with property management.
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Tax Benefits: Interest payments on mortgages are tax deductible. Depreciation can be used to offset income generated by the renal properties. Other benefits to defer taxes, like 1031 exchanges. Ability to refinance tax free.
Goal of the Real Estate Investing Course
- For those just starting out: Learn how to buy your first property and beyond
- For those already invested in real estate: Learn new insights and mistakes to avoid, to increase cash flow and returns, maximizing income and wealth
- I created this course such that by just going through this single course, you would learn everything you need to know to buy your first rental property
- I also go over everything else I have learned, to help others reduce risk, and maximize wealth and income.
This will be the only course you need for real estate investing.
Immediately upon purchase of this course, you will gain instant access to all the information that you need to build and scale your real estate portfolio.
Video lessons go over every step that you need to take as well as all of the pitfalls and mistakes you’ll need to avoid in order to minimize losses, and maximize net work and passive cash flow.
Lessons Included
- Why Invest in Real Estate?
- Getting Started
- Which Market to Invest?
- Where to Invest Within That Chosen Market?
- Types of Residential Real Estate to Invest in
- How to Find the Best Deals on Rental Properties?
- Traditional Financing for Purchasing Real Estate
- Other Financing Methods for Purchasing Real Estate (How to Buy a Rental with $0 of Your Own Money)
- Most Important Real Estate Numbers to Know for Analyzing Potential Investments
- How to Analyze to Find the Best Investments
- Best Negotiation Tactics for Purchasing Real Estate
- What to Look For and Look Out For with an Inspection
- Best Updates to Make to Residential Real Estate Properties
- Property Management: Leases, Setting Rent, Finding Tenants, and More
- When Should I Sell My Rental Property?“
- Taxes
- “What Insurance Do I Need?”
- "Should I Use an LLC?“
- Refinancing Your Rentals
- BRRRR
- House Hacking
- Mistakes
- What To Do or Not To Do
- Real Example: Analysis on Buying and Selling my First Rental Property
- Investing in Stocks and Businesses
You will gain instant access to this investing information, allowing you to implement it right away.
Is This Course Right for You?
- This course is for anyone interested in real estate investing, or already owns residential real estate
- You want to buy your first rental property
- You are looking to buy a single family rental
- You want to invest in small to large residential real estate
- You are looking to househack
- You own single family rentals
- You own a duplexes, triplexes, or 4-plexes
- You own small, medium, or large apartment complexes
- You want to maximize your income through real estate
- You want to create wealth through real estate
What Can You Expect to Learn?
- How to Invest in Residential Real Estate
- How to Understand the Numbers
- How to Analyze Prospective Rentals
- How to buy $100K, $1M, $100M+ real estate with none of your own money required, saving you from having to come up with a down payment
- How to live for free, saving you $5K, $10K, $20K+ a year
- How to get all your original down payment and repair cost back out of your property, saving you from having to come up with or save another $20K, $100K, $1M+
How is the Price of the Course Determined?
To put the cost of this course in perspective:
- One college course can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $7,500+
- This course could save you from investing in a bad deal, saving you from losing $10K, $100K, $1M or more
- Avoiding even the smallest mistake, such as related to repairs or vacancies, could save you many on the small said thousands of dollars, which is multiples of the price of this course. For example, one thing I will discuss would have saved me $20K+ on my first rental that I bought for ~$60K, or 33% or the purchase price...
- Buying just one real estate rental could lead to $100K, $1M, $10M+ over its lifetime
- Even simpler, you will learn how to increase cash flow, which could be enough to make more incremental cash flow in one month than the price of this course (let alone the benefit of that cash flow reoccurring each month and increasing each year).
- You will learn how to buy $100K, $1M, $100M+ real estate with none of your own money required, saving you from having to come up with a down payment
- You will learn how to live for free, saving you $5K, $10K, $20K+ a year
- You will learn how to get all your original down payment and repair cost back out of your property, saving you from having to come up with or save another $20K, $100K, $1M+
- No results are guaranteed
This is not information I would like to give away for free, and will likely increase the price over time, and someday no longer to sell to keep the information more private.
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The following courses / bundles include the "Investing in Residential Real Estate Course"
About the DIY Property Management Course
This course is a collection of everything we have learned about property management. Both from years of property management experience (working for a property management company, as well as from self managing) and from years of reading, watching, and listening to everything property management related.
This course includes our mistakes and insights from self managing residential rental properties for years, to help save you time and money, by avoiding the same mistakes and managing your properties the right way.
Included is what you need to know about managing residential real estate yourself or for others, and to maximize your income.
There are nearly 100 video lessons.
What Can You Expect to Learn?
- Everything we wish we would of known when we first started managing rental properties
- The most important things to self manage your rental properties in a shorter period of time, saving you both time and money.
- How to self manage your properties
- How to increase cash flow
- How to find the best tenants
- How to minimize your time involved
Is This Course Right for You?
- You want to buy your first rental property
- You own single family rentals
- You own a duplexes, triplexes, or 4-plexes
- You own small, medium, or large apartment complexes
- You want to self manage
- You are currently self managing
- You have property managers managing your properties
- You are a property manager for other people's rentals
- You want to be a property manager for someone else
- You want to manage sub-contractors to save money from not needing a general contractor
- You want to increase cash flow
- You want to find the best tenants
- You want to minimize your time involved
How is the Price of the Course Determined?
To put the cost of this course in perspective:
- One college course can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $7,500+
- In terms of the amount of money that can be saved from self managing, some property management companies charge anywhere from 50 - 100% of first month's rent and 4 - 10% of every month's rent. If you are looking to own residential real estate properties, or already own properties, the amount of money you save from self managing is staggering, and hence why my wife and I self manage.
Ex: One unit at $1,000 could require paying a property manager or company $500-$1,000 of the first month's rent. Then factor on 4-10% of each months rent, or $40-$100 per month. In one year, that is over $2,000. Then factor in other fees as well. Given the higher fee with re-renting out a unit, most managers are motivated to have turnover, as they will make more money. To top it all off, this is only for one unit. Therefore the cost savings over one or more units, and over many years, can be substantial!
However, you must manage the right way, or you could lose this savings in other ways. This is why we built this course, to teach others the best way to manage residential real estate.
This is not information we would like to give away for free, and will likely increase the price over time, and someday no longer to sell to keep the information more private.
Enroll Now
The following courses / bundles include the "DIY Property Management Course"
Disclaimer
I am not a CPA, CFA, or financial advisor. The information in these videos shall not be construed as tax, financial, or investment advice. If you need such advice, please contact a qualified CPA, CFA, or financial advisor.
We are also not attorneys, insurance agents, real estate agents, or financial advisors. The information in these videos shall not be construed as tax, legal, insurance, real estate, or financial advice. If you need such advice, please contact a qualified attorney, insurance agent, real estate agent, or financial advisor.
This content is not investment advice, and is intended for informational purposes only.
Before making any investment, you should do your own analysis.
No results are guaranteed.
Better performance is not guaranteed. Avoiding losses or negative returns is not guaranteed.
Items discussed may not apply for your state. See a real estate attorney and your state specific laws.