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Owen: Made $300,000 Net Profit Off A $500 Investment In Three Days
“I've had deals where I bought them and put 500 bucks into it and made 300 grand or net profit in less than three days.”
Morris: US Housing Market Will Not Crash in 2026
“Is
The housing market actually going to crash in 2026, and based off the latest data, the answer is no.”
Morris: High housing prices stem from undersupply, not greed
“Prices aren't high because of greed. They're high because we never built enough houses to accommodate the growth. That's the whole story.”
Morris: Proposed housing bill caps institutional buyers at 350 homes
“The actual truth of it is large institutional investors, the Wall Street players who already own 350 or more single-family homes would be barred from buying more single-family homes. So if they had a thousand Doesn't say you have to sell down to three 50. It j…”
Morris: Institutional homebuyer ban will not crater US housing prices
“So don't expect this law to crater prices. It's not going to.”
Morris: US Lacks Forced Sellers and Excess Supply Needed for Crash
“In order for there to be a crash, you have to have four sellers and a flood of supply. Right now, we have neither.”
Morris: SpaceX IPO Raised $75B at a $2.2 Trillion Valuation
“SpaceX recently went public on the NASDAQ. With the ticker SPCX in the largest IPO in the history of the stock market. It was, the IPO was priced at a dollar 35, but the markets opened at a dollar 50 and closed at just over a dollar 60. That's almost 20% rise …”
Morris: Capital leaving SaaS will rotate into hard assets and real estate
“Huge shift in the way internet and online investing is taking place, and really that shift, a lot of it, I believe, will go to hard assets, and that definitely includes real estate.”
Morris: Salesforce lost $158B in market valuation by March 2026
“Salesforce, which was 16 months ago worth three hundred and thirty seven billion dollars. Today in March 2026 is worth a hundred and seventy nine billion dollars. That's a hundred and fifty eight billion dollars worth of value erased.”
Morris: AI job creation is concentrating in secondary metropolitan markets
“AI related job creation, concentrating in secondary Metros, not just San Francisco, LA, New York City.”
Morris: Real estate opportunity is best since 2011
“The real estate opportunity right now is as good as it's been since 20 11.”
Mike Lazerow: AI Will Eliminate Work Currently Outsourced Overseas
“So if you're sending work overseas, which you're not doing in real estate, chances are that AI is going to eliminate that.”
Mike Lazerow: Human Real Estate Broker Relationships Will Never Disappear
“The relationship, the trusted relationship between a broker and a buyer in this very emotional and seller, very emotional transaction, I don't think is ever going away.”
Mike Lazerow: Very Few Early-Stage Companies Have True Moats
“If you only invest in businesses that have huge moats, you're not going to make any investments. Like very few companies truly have moats.”
Mike Lazerow: Social Media Content Does Not Directly Sell Real Estate
“I don't think you create content to sell houses. Cause it's like a, you know, selling the house is basically a transaction, you know, oriented exercise. It's a lower funnel activity.”
Paul Morris: DeepSeek Replicated OpenAI's AI for Just $26 Million
“Open AI took so many years and billions of dollars to create this and then deep seek, you know, yeah. Oh, we see how you did it, and you know, twenty six million dollars, six months later, you've got something not as good, but, you know, and so on and so on.”
Mike Lazerow: Internal Issues Kill Companies, Not Competition
“Competition never kills the company companies. It's usually something internal.”
Morris: Persian Gulf oil production is down at least 10M barrels daily
“All combined Gulf oil production is down at least ten million barrels per day as of mid-March.”
Morris: Data center rents are up 50% since 2022
“Data centers, rents are up 50% since 2022. No other real estate sector is anywhere close.”
Morris avoids office real estate, citing 83% delinquency on matured loans
“83% of office loans that matured are showing delinquencies, and I'm not touching office space for that reason.”
Morris: Remote work is permanent and office occupancy will not recover
“The remote work shift is permanent. The occupancy story doesn't recover.”
Morris Names Knoxville, Tulsa, and Savannah as Top 2026 Real Estate Markets
“So it's using all of those factors that I examined very closely in order to come up with three cities. And those three cities are Knoxville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Savannah, Georgia.”
Morris Plans to Invest in Los Angeles in 2026 Despite Low Yields
“When I invest dollars in 2026, I personally will not be investing in the three cities that I mentioned. I will be investing in Los Angeles”
Morris: Long-Distance Absentee Landlording Is a Recipe for Disaster
“Being an absentee landlord, Trying to control a property across the country, pretty much a recipe for disaster. I haven't seen that work out well in the long run for lots of people.”
Baucom: Fine art has beaten the S&P 500 over 25 years
“So with me, I found art is the safest way to do that because as you know, art has beat the S and P 500 for the last 25 years as well.”
Baucom: Fine art values are completely uncorrelated with public markets
“Not at all correlated. So it is your alpha.”
Baucom: Art fund sees immediate 20-30% value bumps before capital deployment
“A lot of the pieces when we buy them, we immediately, because we have that information, They'll immediately be bumped up by 20, 30%. And that's just even before we've even deployed the capital out to whoever we're buying it from. So we usually will buy in that…”
Taylor: Skateboarding creates genius marketers due to commoditized products
“Skateboarding breeds genius marketers because there's nothing really different about the product we're selling.”
Taylor: Dave Ramsey only gets people to neutral, not to wealth
“Dave Ramsey is not talking to people who are building wealth. Dave Ramsey is helping people get out of debt. Credit card debt. Not the debt you and I are talking about. So, in that sphere of people he's helping, listen to him. Like, he's totally right. But Dav…”
Dr. Kuno: Cancer Cells Rely on Fermentation Due to Mitochondrial Dysfunction
“And when you look at cancer cells, they have malfunctioning mitochondria. The mitochondria can't do this elaborate Citric acid cycle where they take sugar and makes 36 ATP per molecule. They can only ferment. It's a very primitive way of energy production, two…”
Morris: 98% of prostate cancer cases are indolent and non-lethal
“98% of prostate cancer is what is referred to as indolent, which means it essentially will not kill you.”
Morris: Corporate ownership above 10% distorts local housing markets
“At what point? I can't tell you exactly what point that's going to flip, but you know, definitely somewhere in the 10% range is already going to have, start to have an impact more than 10%. Ownership by major corporations is going to have, is going to start to…”
Morris: Regulators must cap institutional ownership at 5% locally
“I do think once you're in neighborhoods and areas where you're in excess of five percent of institutional investors coming in, it is time to pump the brakes in those particular areas.”
Morris: US Lacks Broad Guardrails Against Foreign Real Estate Ownership
“The narrow restrictions are only around military bases where, where it could be potentially sensitive for national security, but there is no ban and no regulation in terms of keeping Americans wealth in real estate in America and keeping the ownership of real …”
Sakovich: Real estate investors lose money from bad underwriting, not bad locations
“Most investors, they don't lose money because they got the neighborhood wrong, right? They lose money because they bought a bad deal that looked good on the back of a napkin.”
Morris: Value-add investing is the only way to achieve cash flow today
“The only way in these markets that you can get something to cash flow is you have to buy something that has at least a simple value add.”
Fifield: Housing shortages and taxes drive rent hikes, not developer greed
“They don't really understand that apartments are actually constrained and the taxes and the pension of these states and the constraint of not being able to build them fast enough is causing the prices to rise. It's not the greedy developer that's causing the p…”
Fifield: Chicago conditions are getting better despite investors turning away
“I think if you had to ask me, I think this is a legacy asset, at least for me and my family, that's how in the category that it goes in. To invest in Chicago where a lot of people are turning their back on Chicago. It felt right to be part of a family organiza…”
Fifield: Real estate deals exist constantly despite claims of stalled markets
“Sometimes you talk to people like, Paul, there's no deals. There's nothing's getting done. And I'm like, that's not true. Deals cross my desk every day. It's whether you have the appetite to do them, the money to do them, the desire to do them, the risk profil…”
Paul Morris: Insider Trading Is Entirely Legal in Real Estate
“You can absolutely trade on insider information in real estate.”
Morris: Has Invested in Real Estate for 30 Years Without Losing Money
“I've invested in real estate for 30 years. I've never lost money on a deal.”
Morris: Property Diligence Yields Deeper Knowledge Than Top Stock Analysts Possess
“There, there's no way that the best stock analyst on the planet could ever know a stock as well as you know that house in Cheviot Hills after you've had the inspectors come by.”
Lee: Financing fix-and-flips with 90% hard money loans invites failure
“There's a lot of people who will buy these deals because they are super, they're optimistic and they're excited and they take a hard money loan for a 90%. And I feel like that is setting, they're setting themselves up for failure. And I also feel like they may…”
Morris: Avoiding Leverage Would Have Cost Him Over 66% of His Wealth
“I'm going to say, if I did not use debt that I would have, you know, one third or less of the wealth that I currently have.”
Kahlo: Ground-up real estate developments deliver at least 70% annualized returns
“Cash on cash, they are at least in the 70% annualized cash on cash. On a development deal, ground up construction, at least 70% on your money. But a hundred percent, doubling your money, a hundred percent return is not unheard of. There is a lot of projects ou…”
Kahlo: Broad stock market returns are much lower than the S&P 500
“So if you want to compare it fairly, look at the stock market as a whole. Maybe take up, you know, pin sheets and all that stuff that, that are listed on the NASDAQ, S&P, and everything, and then compare it to a real estate market. I guarantee that to you that…”
Morris: 91% of active stock fund managers underperform over 20 years
“And the real numbers are that over a 20 year, over a 20 year period of time, including the biggest funds and the ones that have really professional stock pickers, active investors over a 21 year, over a 20 year period, 91% underperformed.”
Kahlo: Up to 99% of Non-Professional Stock Pickers Underperform the Market
“If the professionals are failing at that rate, then as an individual, I think you, if you looked at individuals probably there who are not professional stock pickers, That 91% is probably closer to 98, 99, 97. It has to be.”