The EV Häs Podcast

Elizabeth Wright explains how real estate decisions should support wealth preservation, long term planning, and a clear exit strategy instead of ending at the closing table. The conversation covers Chicago affordability, legacy planning, appraisal problems, property valuation, and the importance of aligning legal, financial, insurance, and real estate professionals.

Wholesaling has become more competitive, more expensive, and less forgiving for operators who rely on shortcuts. In this conversation, Dain Laverty explains how Property Pals is rebuilding around stronger training, better follow up, trusted partnerships, reputation, and a gradual move into commercial opportunities.

Chantel Kelly explains how transitional housing can serve people moving through unstable periods while also creating a more flexible rental strategy for property owners. The conversation covers foster youth, families displaced by fire or water damage, insurance funded housing, buyer education, and why every property should have more than one workable exit strategy.

House hacking can reduce housing costs and create a practical first step toward long term real estate ownership, but the numbers only work when rent, financing, condition, and tenant risk are evaluated together. In this conversation, Victoria Marie Garay explains how buyers can use small multifamily properties strategically without pretending every deal will let them live for free.

Insurance carriers often reject a property or raise the price based on details owners never realize matter. In this conversation, Cody Wiswasser explains how roofs, public listings, renovation language, building age, maintenance records, and even staged photos can affect underwriting, and why the right broker can help translate the real risk before a carrier says no.

Mikey Tenarelli shares the hard lessons from a flip that nearly erased his profit, including permit delays, contractor problems, rising rehab costs, and the importance of speed in investment real estate. The conversation also covers upsizing families, construction knowledge, and why even experienced investors can still get hit when a project goes sideways.