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by Matt Theriault
In the spirit of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and Gary Keller’s Millionaire Real Estate Investor, and as an alternate to the Dave Ramsey, Jim Cramer, Motley Fool and Suze Orman shows, Matt Theriault, real estate investor, entrepreneur and author will show you how to create wealth through conventional and creative real estate investing while improving your financial education so you will have the option to realistically retire in the next ten years, or less… and enjoy the good life while you’re still young enough to do so. This podcast and course in real estate investing serves as a portal to multiple real estate investing courses making it a complete step-by-step and comprehensive real estate investing program and resource.
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- 1 weeks ago17 min
The FBI Seized $17 Billion. A Fake Deed Can Still Take Your House.
FBI Director Kash Patel says Operation Blackout has seized about $17 billion from overseas fraud rings, and the FBI will work with the Justice Department to get that money back to the Americans it was taken from. Matt looks at why nobody should hold their breath: no timeline, no claims process, and a track record where OneCoin victims got back about a penny on the dollar. These crews go after the equity in your house, often by talking an older parent into a home equity loan, and Matt shows the one free move that stops that loan cold. Then he turns to a district attorney's warning for everyone who owns their home outright. A caretaker's name ends up on a Philadelphia man's house for $1, the county records it without checking the signature, and the homeowner is left to pay a lawyer to get it back. Matt answers Graham Stephan's claim that deed fraud only happens a few hundred times a year (Philadelphia alone has taken 152 reports this year), and gives three steps: set up your county's free recording alert, freeze your credit at all three bureaus, and pull out your title insurance policy to see whether it's an owner's policy or a homeowner's policy, plus the newer ALTA 49.1 forgery endorsement to ask your title company about. Links Matt mentions in the episode: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center -> https://www.ic3.gov Coveron (sponsor) -> https://coveron.com/epicrealestate
- 1 weeks ago25 min
Warsh Raises Your Card Rate. Medicare's Fine Print Drains Your Savings.
The Federal Reserve just warned every American with a credit card, and it did it quietly, in the notes from its September meeting: most of the people who run the Fed expect to raise rates again before the year is over. Matt walks through why the man doing the raising, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, is the same man President Trump picked because he expected him to cut, and why Trump is blaming the rest of the board instead. Then he splits your money into two piles. The hurt pile is anything with a rate that can change: a credit card averaging 22.36%, a home equity line of credit, and an adjustable rate mortgage, with about 74,000 seven-year ARMs from 2020 hitting their first reset next year. The help pile is anything fixed, plus savings, where the FDIC's national average actually fell from 0.38% to 0.37% the month the Fed raised rates, while the big banks pay 0.01%. Matt gives the three things to check before October 28th. Then he turns to the most boring piece of mail a Medicare member gets all year, the Annual Notice of Change, and the five changes hiding in it before the December 7th deadline: the premium, a maximum out-of-pocket ceiling that just went up $600 to $9,850, a drug deductible that rose to $700, plans that are ending altogether (Humana's exits alone affect about 600,000 people), and doctors and drugs that quietly drop out of your plan. He explains the special window and the guaranteed Medigap right most people never hear about, and the free way to compare every plan at once. Links Matt mentions in the episode: Free Medicare plan review with Chapter (sponsor) -> https://auditmycoverage.com Medicare's Plan Finder -> https://www.medicare.gov
- 3 weeks ago33 min
DOJ Warning: Scammers Want Your 401(k). Socialists Want Your House.
Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, says every American with a retirement account is "in the blast radius," and Matt starts by walking through the con she's chasing. It begins with a friendly wrong-number text, turns into weeks of chatting, and ends on a fake brokerage site that even lets you pull money out so you'll trust it. Then come the fake "taxes" to release your balance, and finally the fake law firms and fake FBI agents offering to get your money back for a fee. Pirro says the Telegram marketplace selling these fake sites has more than 650,000 users, and the FBI has warned more than 8,100 victims, most of whom didn't know they'd been taken. Matt gives three checks before you ever send a dollar (the person, who receives the transfer, and any demand for a fee) and exactly what to do if you've already wired money. Then he turns to November 4th, the morning after the midterms, and the new lawmakers who want to rewrite your property rights: a rent freeze in New York City, rent and eviction limits spreading through California, Oregon, Washington, New York, and New Jersey, a "tax the rich" letter that landed at nearly 6,000 people's primary homes, and a Democratic Socialists of America platform that calls for replacing the private housing market. He closes with the federal one that touches every homeowner: the tax break on selling your home hasn't been raised since 1997, and the simple steps to check your exemption and run your numbers before anyone else does. Links Matt mentions in the episode: Report online fraud to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center -> https://www.ic3.gov Keep your name off your deed with an anonymity trust -> https://hidemyequity.com Coveron (sponsor) -> https://coveron.com/epicrealestate
- 4 weeks ago19 min
Rates Hit 7.28%. Wall Street Wants Your Paid-Off House.
Mortgage rates just jumped to 7.28% on a 30-year loan, the highest in almost three years, and Freddie Mac still called conditions "favorable." Matt starts by putting a price on it: on a $400,000 loan, that's about $250 a month more than last year's rate, roughly $3,000 a year your buyer has to find somewhere, and it comes back to you through the offer. He explains the standoff holding prices up (owners with cheap old mortgages refusing to move), what happened the last time this played out in 2022 and 2023, and why you should price your next move before you count on your sale. Then he digs into the "home equity investment," the no-payment, no-interest cash deal showing up in mailboxes and online, and why Wall Street money is pouring into it. Lawsuits from AARP's lawyers and the Massachusetts Attorney General say these deals are loans in disguise: one 80-year-old took $97,256 and owed nearly $375,000, and one lawsuit puts the real rate at about 34% a year. Matt explains why a paid-off house sits at the top of their list, how the bill can land on your kids, and the simple checks that keep your equity yours: search your county records, get every number in writing, and stack it against a regular loan. Links Matt mentions in the episode: Keep your name off your deed with an anonymity trust -> https://hidemyequity.com Get a free credit evaluation from Creative Credit Solutions (sponsor) -> https://creative.credit
- Oct 2, 202630 min
The Bank Takes Your Cash. A Stranger Takes Your House.
The Fed just raised rates for the first time since 2023, and your savings account still pays about 0.38%. Matt starts with the exact amount you should keep in the bank: six months of essentials if you're working, about a year if you're retired. Then he gives five reasons the pile above that line is costing you money. At 0.38% and 3.4% inflation, $100,000 in savings earns $380 and loses $3,400 a year in buying power. The big banks buy 4% Treasury bills with that same money and keep the difference. FDIC insurance covers banks but not the apps sitting in the middle. And when a fraudster gets one phone call through, a bigger pile means a bigger loss. He closes with how he positions his own money for both a "collapse up" and a "collapse down." Then he walks through five ways a house gets taken without a single missed mortgage payment, and why a paid-off house is first in line: a forged or signed-away deed, an identity thief opening a home equity line in your name, HOA liens and foreclosures, an insurance bill that gets dropped, and the "equity partner" offer that can turn $97,000 into a $375,000 payoff. Each one comes with a free defense you can set up this weekend. Links Matt mentions in the episode: Get a free credit evaluation from Creative Credit Solutions (sponsor) -> https://creative.credit Check that the bank behind your app is real and insured with BankFind -> https://FDIC.gov Affordable legal protection for homeowners and landlords (sponsor) -> https://bullyproofmylife.com
- Sep 28, 202617 min
Loan Sharks With Stadiums: What Your Bank Hopes You Never Check
Your bank makes the most money off the customer who never checks, so Matt walks through 10 things about how banks actually work: the two-day fraud clock, the "safe account" scam, the courtesy fee that works out to more than 7,900% interest, and the report that can quietly lock you out of opening a new account. See the three high-yield banks Matt moved his cash to -> https://StackMyBanks.com
- Sep 21, 202628 min
Inflation Spent It For You: The Fed's Real Warning and the IRS Machine That Never Went Home
Two big stories this week, both aimed at the same person -- the paid-off, retired-or-almost-there homeowner who did everything right. First, the new Fed Chair used his first Jackson Hole speech to tell the country inflation is still too high, and three days earlier another Fed governor said the reckoning on the $40 trillion debt is coming but nobody can tell you when. Matt walks through the four things an economy can do (prosperity, deflation, recession, inflation), why the math on the debt makes inflation the one to plan around, and the post-WWII "financial repression" playbook that quietly paid the last big debt down out of savers' accounts. Then he lays out the household as its own small economy -- reserve, assets that hold value, income that can raise its price -- and shows on paper how the same $100,000 of equity can be put to work in three places without selling anything. Second, everyone's saying the IRS is falling apart. It lost 28,000 employees in a year, audit revenue dropped 35%, and audits of people making over $400K are down 26%. Matt read the Inspector General's August 26th report so you don't have to and explains why the humans left but the collection machine didn't -- the part that files a Notice of Federal Tax Lien against your house in the same public record as your deed. In fiscal 2025 the IRS filed more than 214,000 of them, up 36% from 2022, and still only about halfway back to pre-COVID levels. He walks through the three moves that matter: the one form that puts a human being back in your file (12153), how to get a lien withdrawn instead of just released, and the 10-minute check you can run on your own county recorder this week. Links Matt mentions in the episode: None spoken in either segment this week. All Matt's usual resources (ProtectMyHome.inc, StackMyBanks.com, etc.) live in his YouTube video descriptions but he doesn't verbalize any URL in these two audio tracks.
- Sep 14, 202625 min
One Dollar a Year and an AI in the Sky: Why Matt Left Chase, and Who's Really Watching Your Roof
Two segments this week, one theme: the systems that quietly collect from you and the two-minute checks that stop them. First, Matt walks off 15 years at Chase after a balance-chasing incident cost him his business credit lines overnight, and lays out the real math on big-bank savings (Chase's parent cleared $58 billion in profit last year -- your cut on $10,000 was $1). He also opens the hood on the FDIC insurance fund itself, which holds about a penny and a half for every dollar it covers. Second, a US Senator just put real numbers on the surveillance grid built around American homeowners: 120,000 cameras across 49 states, 20 billion scans a month, Congress never authorized any of it. HOAs are leasing license plate cameras out of your dues, your doorbell company just quietly reconnected to law enforcement through a partner, and AI-powered aerial imagery is flying over your roof looking for taxable additions your county doesn't have on file. One in five recent buyers walks out of showings over recording devices, which means this is a home equity story, too. Links Matt mentions in the episode: Verify any bank is real and insured in two minutes with FDIC BankFind -> FDIC.gov The three high-yield savings banks Matt actually uses (all FDIC-insured, all paying hundreds of times what Chase pays) -> StackMyBanks.com
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About Epic Real Estate Investing
In the spirit of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and Gary Keller’s Millionaire Real Estate Investor, and as an alternate to the Dave Ramsey, Jim Cramer, Motley Fool and Suze Orman shows, Matt Theriault, real estate investor, entrepreneur and author will show you how to create wealth through conventional and creative real estate investing while improving your financial education so you will have the option to realistically retire in the next ten years, or less… and enjoy the good life while you’re still young enough to do so. This podcast and course in real estate investing serves as a portal to multiple real estate investing courses making it a complete step-by-step and comprehensive real estate investing program and resource.
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