PassivePockets: The Passive Real Estate Investing Show

Jim Pfeifer, Chris Lopez

podcast@biggerpockets.com

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Booking Overview

PassivePockets focuses on practical passive real estate investing, with guests ranging from LPs and GPs to fund and fund-manager operators who share due-diligence frameworks. It’s a strong booking fit for real estate investing experts, private capital allocators, and investment professionals who can teach risk evaluation and capital-structure thinking.

Metrics

Episodes: 328

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.9k subscribers

Contact Information

podcast@biggerpockets.com

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Host

Jim Pfeifer - Hosted by Jim Pfeifer; the show is for investors who want to grow without the grind and focuses on building and protecting wealth through smart, passive real estate investments.

Chris Lopez - Chris Lopez hosts episodes that include expert interviews with LPs and GPs and provides structured guidance on passive investing due diligence and risk evaluation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Real estate investing professionals with direct LP/GP or fund/investment operations experience; investors and capital allocators with due diligence frameworks; fund managers and private credit/lending operators able to explain underwriting, capital stacks, debt terms, and risk monitoring (including fraud detection and default/loss mitigation).
Required Achievements:  
Authored or developed a due-diligence framework/tool for LP risk review, Operated within real estate funds as an LP and/or GP, Managed or advised private credit or lending strategies (including underwriting and portfolio monitoring)

Recent Guest Discussions

Paul Shannon - LP Vs Capital Allocator Mindset; Due Diligence; Market Cycles; Sponsor Character, Fraud Risk; Debt Structure And Downside Protection; Deal Disqualification Signals

Christine Kwasny - Risk Radar Framework; Categories Of Fixed/sponsor/market-driven Risk; Evaluating GP History; Fraud And Diligence Inputs Like Cap Rates, Debt Terms, Reserves, And Capital Stack

Heather Dreves - Central Lending Lending Model; Portfolio And Underwriting Details; Loan Valuation And Fraud Detection; Aligning Investor Liquidity With Fund Protection

Andrew Boccia - Central Lending Lending Model; Underwriting Process; Portfolio Composition; Use Of Leverage And Risk Controls In Private Credit

Christy Burakovsky - LP Deal Review Of CL Fund Iii; Lending Model; Underwriting Discipline And Investor Questions For Private Credit

Recent Topics

Real Estate, Private Credit, Investing, Due Diligence, Risk Management

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
PassivePockets: The Passive Real Estate Investing Show
:

Both Sides of the Table: Paul Shannon’s Complete LP Playbook

June 30, 2026

Get Paul Shannon's Book, Both Sides of the Table: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4W5D288?spcref=PUBLISHED_PREORDER_LIVE This Episode Paul returns to PassivePockets to discuss his new book, Both Sides of the Table, and the lessons he has learned as an LP, fund manager, and GP. He and Chris unpack the difference between being a “syndication consumer” and a true capital allocator, including why newer investors often get pulled in by polished decks, urgency-driven marketing, and projected IRRs ...

Christine Kwasny’s Risk Radar: A Framework for Smarter LP Deal Reviews

June 23, 2026

Risk Radar: https://netzeroisawin.substack.com/p/introducing-the-risk-radar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share In this episode, Chris Lopez welcomes Christine Kwasny back to the show to break down the Risk Radar, a visual due diligence tool she built to help LP investors better understand where risk shows up in a private real estate deal. The tool grew out of Christine’s Substack, Net Zero Is a Win, where she publishes retrospective deal analyses on what went right, wh...

Central Lending Fund Review: Fix-and-Flip Debt, Monthly Cash Flow, and Risk Controls

June 16, 2026

In this LP Deal Review, Chris Lopez is joined by Adam Cranmer and Christy Burakovsky to evaluate CL Fund III from Central Lending, a private credit fund focused on short-term residential real estate loans for fix-and-flip, ground-up construction, and small-balance investor projects. Andrew Boccia and Heather Dreves walk through Central Lending’s lending model, portfolio composition, underwriting process, use of leverage, investor share classes, and how the fund sits between traditional fix...

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