
Passive Investing Made Simple
Whitney Elkins-Hutten
5.0from 11 ratings
- 194
- Episodes
- 125
- Transcribed
- 11
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 44K
- YouTube views
About Passive Investing Made Simple
We know it can be hard to get started with passive real estate investing. The goal of the Passive Investing Made Simple podcast is to make it as easy as possible for you so you can invest with confidence in your next (or first) deal. Each week Whitney Elkins-Hutten, director of investor education at PassiveInvesting.com, will take a deep dive into various topics related to passive real estate investing. Some of the topics include: Tax Strategies, Market Reports, Self-Directed IRA / 401k's, Underwriting, and more!
- Publisher
- Whitney Elkins-Hutten
- Category
- business · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Jun 2022
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
125 of 194 episodes have a transcript.

5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What a Debt Fund Audit Actually Tells You (and What It Doesn't) with Whitney Elkins-Hutten

28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why "The Property Is the Collateral" Is the Wrong Way to Think About Debt Fund Risk with Whitney Elkins-Hutten

21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Major Metrics Investors Should Evaluate in a Debt Fund: Loans, Borrowers, Markets, Liquidity, Leverage, Defaults, Reserves with Whitney Elkins-Hutten
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What a Debt Fund Audit Actually Tells You (and What It Doesn't) with Whitney Elkins-Hutten
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now... This is where a lot of limited partners that I talk to, they might actually go, oh, I hear, I'm gonna just ask this one question. Is a real estate debt fund audited? I get a yes, check. I'm gonna put that check in the checkbox and I'm gonna move on, okay? Because everything's hunky-dory. No, don't stop your due diligence that early, okay? Why is that? It's because a real estate, or excuse me, a financial audit is actually checking the books for accuracy. It is not actually evaluating the underlying loans for safety, okay? So when you ask if a real estate debt fund or any private credit fund has an audit, okay, what you're looking for is were the financial statements presented fairly under accounting standards and do the books that are presented actually match reality, okay? […]
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- Whitney Elkins-Hutten
- Dan Handford
- Danny Randazzo
- Kelli Garrett
- Chad Zdenek
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- YouTube views
- 44,026
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 60
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