Multifamily Real Estate Investing
Join new hosts The Laurens each week and learn the ins and outs of multifamily real estate investing. Episodes include everything from expert guest interviews to deep dives on trends shaping the multifamily real estate industry. Don’t forget to catch up on past seasons featuring Pat Poling of Mara Poling and be sure to check out The Learning Center on our website!
Questions? Have a hot topic you'd like us to discuss? Are you a multifamily real estate SME or investor and want to be guest on the pod?
Email us at podcast@marapoling.com
Episodes
372 episodes
Due Diligence Done Right
Due diligence can make or break a multifamily investment. In this episode of Due Diligence Done Right, The Laurens unpack the critical items lenders and insurers zero in on — from structural issues and life-safety systems to hid...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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34:28
Property Taxes Never Die
They say nothing is certain except death and taxes — and in multi-family real estate, property taxes are often the single biggest expense you can’t escape. In this episode, we sit down with Tyler Dowell and Kyle Moon from...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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45:44
The Struggle is Real
The Struggle is Real: Turning Around a Property with Occupancy & Cash Flow Challenges Join The Laurens as they take you behind the scenes of asset management at Mara Poling. Not every property runs smoothly all the time ...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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44:31
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Multifamily Real Estate Investing presented by Mara Poling podcast has two new voices at the mic — meet your hosts, Lauren Torres (CFO) and Lauren Messina (Investment Manager), aka The Laurens. Kicking off Season 10, in th...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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35:47
Exciting News!
Excited to share the news. After 400 episodes and 9 seasons, we are thrilled to announce the all new Multifamily Real Estate Investing presented by Mara Poling.New content, new hosts, guests, interviews and so many other updates.K...
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Season 9
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Episode 29
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3:44
State of The Nation's Housing 2025 JCHS Part 3 presented by Mara Poling
Join Pat for a 3 part discussion of the State of The Nation's Housing in 2025 as prepared by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.This week in Part 3Rental HousingOverall Housing ChallengesThe O...
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Season 9
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Episode 28
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33:02
State of The Nation's Housing 2025 JCHS Part 2 presented by Mara Poling
Join Pat for a 3 part discussion of the State of The Nation's Housing in 2025 as prepared by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.This week in Part 2Demographics driving the home ownership and rental housing ...
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Season 9
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Episode 27
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30:07
State of The Nation's Housing 2025 JCHS Part 1 presented by Mara Poling
Join Pat for a 3 part discussion of the State of The Nation's Housing in 2025 as prepared by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.This week in Part 1What is this report and who is JCHS?Big Picture - Ho...
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Season 9
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Episode 26
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28:33
Goldilocks and the Three Classes of Multifamily Real Estate presented by Mara Poling
Reaching back into our archives we visit one of our most popular episodes - Goldilocks and the Three Classes of Multifamily Real Estate. Every wonder what an A is ? or a C? and why we invest in B? Then join Pat for a look back at one of our mos...
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Season 9
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Episode 25
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32:01
Earnings for Both You and Your Estate presented by Mara Poling
As an investor, do I focus on earnings, cash flow for my retirement? or growth for my estate? Join Pat for a discussion of how multifamily real estate can provide income for your retirement and serve as a cornerstone of your estate plan.
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Season 9
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Episode 24
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24:39
ARPU Growth - Vacancy v Rent presented by Mara Poling
As multifamily real estate investors we want to grow average revenue per unit (ARPU). Lower vacancy rates with stable rents generate higher revenue...and...higher rents with stable vacancy also generate higher revenues. Which is better? Join Pa...
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Season 9
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Episode 23
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30:16
The Highest Return Investment Ever - Education presented by Mara Poling
Fortunes have been made, and some lost, investing in stocks, bonds, gold, even real estate. But never has anyone lost money improving their knowledge and experience as an investor. No where is this more true than Multifamily Real Estate. Join P...
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Season 9
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Episode 22
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27:38
Stats, What Do the Numbers Say About Multifamily Real Estate presented by Mara Poling
How many households rent? Who rents? How much do they spend on rent? Join Pat for a discussion of the most current multifamily rental data for 2025.
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Season 9
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Episode 21
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29:08
Taxes, One More Reason to Add Multifamily Real Estate to Your Investment Portfolio presented by Mara Poling
Most if not all of us are happy to pay our fair share of taxes for the benefits we all receive from our cities, counties, states, and the federal government - and I can't recall meeting anyone who wants to pay more than they should. Adding real...
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Season 9
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Episode 20
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28:24
Growing Demand for Apartment Units presented by Mara Poling
Growing demand is accelerating the imbalance in multifamily housing. Conservative estimates are for 4.3M units required over the next 10 years, with a more likely number being 5.4M. Join Pat to learn what is driving demand, and a peak at the in...
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Season 9
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Episode 19
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30:40
Why All the Free Education presented by Mara Poling
We sincerely appreciate all the kind feedback we receive. Often it leads to a simple question, why do it? Join Pat and take a walk through the origin of The Learning Center and why Mara Poling is committed to multifamily real estate education.
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Season 9
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Episode 18
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30:32
What is the "Right" Scale presented by Mara Poling
Goldilocks taught us about "fitness." The value of an item is relative to its "fit" with our purposes. Join Pat for a discussion of scale in multifamily real estate investing - just what is too big, too small, and just right.
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Season 9
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Episode 17
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28:37
Target Characteristics and Why presented by Mara Poling
What goes into searching for and selecting a property for acquisition? Mara Poling is currently working on acquisitions - what are we looking for? Join Pat for a review of the characteristics that Mara Poling targets when searching for acquisit...
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Season 9
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Episode 16
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30:51
What, Me Worry? I Have Underwriting presented by Mara Poling
What is going on with the economy? Are we up? Down? What happens next? There are lots of questions in the minds of investors these days. Join Pat to see why Mara Poling isn't worried and the role underwriting plays in the security and stability...
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Season 9
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Episode 15
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32:24
Bond Rates and Why We Care presented by Mara Poling
The 10-year Treasury dropped again this week. Why? How does the market set that rate? And why do we care? Join Pat for some bond math and a bit of economics behind bonds, interest rates, and multifamily real estate investing.
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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30:32
Rents Are Up presented by Mara Poling
Rents are up, across our portfolio, 4% 5% 6% or more. Why? Join Pat for a review of 3 of the reasons rents are up and what that may mean for 2025 and beyond.
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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32:39
Where Does The Rent Go presented by Mara Poling
Tenants think rent is not only too high but that landlords get all of it. Investors see a 6% or 8% or 10% cash return and wonder why it isn't higher. The question is, where does the rent go? Join Pat for a look at one of the assets in the Mara ...
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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34:28
The Economics of Renting presented by Mara Poling
Tenants chose to rent for a variety of reasons. Flexibility, little to no maintenance responsibility, the ability to "test drive" a neighborhood, and economics. Just what are the economics of the rent v own decision. Join Pat for a look at two ...
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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29:40
Food and Shelter presented by Mara Poling
Why do we believe multifamily real estate is among the most stable and secure long term investments? Join Pat for Mara Poling's answer with some data and a bit of insight from Abraham Maslow.
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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23:52
Who Is Bill and Other Questions presented by Mara Poling
We get questions on a regular basis about Mara Poling and today we thought we would answer a few. Who is Mara? Where did Mara Poling come from? Why the 200 family limit? What happens 10, 15, 20 years from now? All these and more this week on Mu...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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20:48