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The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Welcome to The Real Estate Espresso Podcast, your morning shot of what’s new in the world of real estate investing. Join investor, syndicator, developer, and author Victor J. Menasce as he shares his daily real estate investment outlook. Our weekday episodes deliver 5 minutes of high-energy, high-impact content to fuel your success. Plus, don’t miss our weekend editions featuring exclusive interviews with renowned guests such as Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Helms, Peter Schiff, and more.

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Cali Crazy with Kyle Whissel Jun 28, 2026

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Kyle Whissel is the principal at EXP in San Diego where they have sold more than 9,000 properties in their team. On today's show we are talking about what's happening in San Diego and Southern California in general. Definitely some unintended consequences of more relaxed development rules.

To connect with Kyle, he is @kylewhissel on Instagram

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
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Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
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Simple Is Not The Same As Easy Jun 26, 2026

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On today's show we're talking about a simple transaction, selling a portion of one property to the neighbor. Simple enough. Get a survey, update the new legal description, receive payment and record the new deed.

Not so fast.

The list of deliverables to perform this simple transaction involves 3 governing bodies, 5 consultants, three lawyers and about 10 pages just to list the deliverables.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
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iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
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Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
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Ignoring History Killed The Deal Jun 26, 2026

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Today’s episode is a cautionary tale about real estate, memory, and the story attached to a piece of land.

On June 24th, 2021, Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida partially collapsed in the middle of the night. Ninety-eight people died. It was one of the deadliest structural failures in American history. Further investigation showed that some of the building columns were showing signs of failure three weeks before the collapse. Not only that, the original design didn’t meet structural standards in place at the time the building was built.

That land was eventually sold through a court-supervised process. DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based luxury developer, purchased the site for $120 million. From a conventional real estate perspective, you can understand the thesis. Oceanfront land in Surfside is scarce. The parcel is on Collins Avenue, near Bal Harbour and Indian Creek. It is the kind of location that developers dream about.

On paper, it sounds extraordinary.

But real estate is not only land, zoning, architecture, and price per square foot. Real estate can have a history. And that history tells a story.

In this case, the story was not luxury. It was loss.

The mistake was assuming that the story of the future could overwhelm the story of the past.

It could not.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
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iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
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Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
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Will AI Always Require Land? Jun 24, 2026

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Today we’re looking at the AI value chain, and more specifically, how the migration of AI workloads from centralized data centers to local devices could change the investment thesis for data center real estate.

Right now, most AI feels like a cloud service. You type a prompt into an application, that request travels to a hyperscale data center, a large model performs the computation, and the answer comes back to your phone or computer. That architecture makes sense in the early phase of the market. The models are large. The chips are expensive. The engineering talent is concentrated. The energy requirements are massive.

In many ways, this resembles the mainframe era of computing. In the early days, computation was centralized because local computing was not practical. Then the personal computer changed the value chain. The mainframe did not disappear, but the balance of value shifted.

I believe we’re going to see something similar in AI.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
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Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Inflation Can Hurt Investors Too Jun 23, 2026

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A recent Wall Street Journal article laid out the rising cost of home ownership in a very clear way. From 2019 to 2025, the annual cost of owning a home rose from about $20,600 to about $28,600. That is a 39 percent increase, compared with a 26 percent increase in the consumer price index. The biggest increases were not just mortgage payments. Insurance rose 72 percent. Home maintenance rose 85 percent. Emergency repairs rose 175 percent.

The article was written for homeowners. But the same forces apply to investors. A landlord does not get a different price for a roof, a plumber, an HVAC compressor, property insurance, or property taxes simply because the property has tenants.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
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Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Government Buys Thousands Of Condos Jun 22, 2026

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Today we’re looking at a very interesting policy announcement out of British Columbia. The federal government, working with the province, has announced a plan to purchase more than 2,000 unsold condo units from developers in the Vancouver market and convert them into affordable housing. The reported scale is roughly 2,200 units, with a broader financing package in the billions of dollars. This follows a similar Ontario announcement, where 2,200 condo units are to be converted into rental apartments, including 550 affordable rental homes.

At first glance, this looks elegant. Developers have newly built inventory that is not selling. At the same time, households are struggling to find housing they can afford. So why not match the two problems and turn them into one solution?

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)
Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Investor Feedback with Pat Zingarella Jun 22, 2026

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Pat Zingarella is the founder of Invest Clearly, a platform for providing reviews by investors. On today's show we are talking about how the process works and the nuances of communicating investor experiences.

To connect with Pat and to learn more, visit investclearly.com

or email him at pat@investclearly.com

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)
Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Luxury Second Home Tax with Allie Readyhough Jun 21, 2026

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Allie Readyhough is based in Rhode Island where she is a realtor. On today's show we are talking about the upcoming luxury second home tax for homes having an assessed value above $1M that is being imposed in Rhode Island. Some are calling it the Taylor Swift Tax.

To connect with Allie, call 401-932-6597 or visit her website at https://serhant.com/agents/allie-readyhough

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)
Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Market Inefficiency Creates Opportunity Jun 20, 2026

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Markets are supposed to be mechanisms for price discovery. That’s the theory. Markets are also supposed to be efficient. Millions of buyers and sellers, each acting on their own information, come together and arrive at a price. That price is supposed to reflect supply, demand, risk, cost of capital, and expectations for the future.

But in the real world, markets often experience distortions.

Global crude oil prices are a perfect example.

Some of you might remember when in 2020 that oil inventories had swelled to such a high level that futures contracts faced deliveries with no storage capacity to accept the oil. Oil prices went negative briefly.

In recent days, oil futures have fallen on the sentiment that peace talks in the Persian Gulf could reduce the risk of a major supply disruption. That makes sense at one level. If traders had built a war premium into the price of oil, then any credible sign of de-escalation would cause that premium to come out of the market.

But here’s the paradox.

The headlines changed faster than the barrels did.

A peace framework, a ceasefire, or the reopening of a shipping lane does not instantly refill storage tanks. It does not instantly restore shipping confidence. It does not instantly normalize marine insurance. It does not instantly repair disrupted logistics. And it certainly does not instantly rebuild global inventories.

The paper market can move in minutes.

The physical market moves in months.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)
Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

Valuing Land With Production Jun 19, 2026

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I was recently speaking with an investor who was looking at the purchase of an agricultural property. During the discussion, a question came up that applies not only to farms, but to many types of real estate.

What is the property actually worth?

At first, that sounds like a simple question. But the answer depends on what exactly you're valuing.

Let's use the example of a coffee farm with 1,000 mature coffee trees.

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**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:**
Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)
iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)
Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)
LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)
YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)
Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)
**Y Street Capital:**
Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)
Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)
Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)

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