Send us a text Anchorage Attorney Pat Galvin grew up in southern California and hoped to be a sports agent. He never intended to be an attorney, to live in Alaska, nor work in state government. But as a relatively young lawyer he got a job in Governor Tony Knowles'’s administration as the Director of Governmental Coordination in the Office of the G…

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn the secrets to flipping properties in Anchorage. This class is Module 19 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the different variations of flipping properties and what are some of the pros and cons of each. What are the most common ways to finance property flips? And what are s…

Luke 3:1-22 Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

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Learn the secrets to real estate investor bookkeeping and accounting in Anchorage. This class is Module 18 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the ways that real estate investors can use to keep their books (track income and expenses) for their real estate investing business? What …

Send us a text Sarah Vance spent her early life in north Texas and Oklahoma before moving to Homer, Alaska, at age 10. She had not paid much attention to politics until a 2017 Homer City Council resolution to make Homer a sanctuary city for immigrants. Sarah helped mobilize against the resolution and led a recall election against the three city cou…

Learn the secrets to getting your first real estate investment deal done in Anchorage. This class is Module 17 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: A 90-day plan to buy your first rental property. Why there is nothing difficult to do in the real estate investing business and why it is really…

Send us a text Alaska State Refugee Coordinator Issa Spatrisano does her work through Catholic Social Services' Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services (RAIS), which is the resettlement agency for the state of Alaska. RAIS connects newly arrived refugees with housing, jobs, and other services that weave them into the Alaska community. A refugee…

New Year's Blessing 2025 Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

Send us a text Former Alaska State Senate Minority Leader Hollis French moved to Alaska from Colorado when he was 20 to work in the oil industry. After earning a law degree, he worked as a prosecutor and then, when the opportunity presented itself, ran for the state Senate, winning on his second try in 2002. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 20…

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn the secrets of return on investment for rental properties in Anchorage. This class is Module 16 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the 4 primary areas of return on rental properties? And, what is the secondary return? What time period do we typically look at for returns on r…

Send us a text Bronson Frye is the Alaska representative for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, local 1959. At age 19, he apprenticed in Anchorage with the union as a painter after growing up in Homer. Bronson became the union rep in 2007 and has remained deeply involved in workers' rights and politics ever since, which is a sur…

Send us a text Dr. Mimi Benjamin has been a family practice physician for over 35 years, the last 14 in Juneau. She is the former Medical Director and creator of the Bartlett Regional Hospital Hospitalist program, which started in 2017. She is the 2018 recipient of the Golden Stethoscope award from the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Associa…

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn the secrets of house hacking in Anchorage. This class is Module 15 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the different variations of the house hacking real estate investing strategy and what are some of the pros and cons of each. What are the most common ways to finance house h…

Send us a text After 29 years at the Alaska Literacy Program, Lori Pickett recently retired and handed off the executive director responsibility to Deepika Ramesh Perumal. Both women are interviewed on the show today where we discuss their lives and what brought them to ALP. The Anchorage Literacy Program started 50 years ago in 1974 as an all-volu…

Learn the secrets of financing investment properties in Anchorage. This class is Module 14 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the 14 financing options for buying rental properties? What is PMI and why would you ever pay for insurance to protect the lender? How paying the lender ca…

Send us a text Megan Edge is the Prison Project Director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska. At age 19, Megan got her first job in a newsroom, and she worked as a journalist for seven years covering local Anchorage issues, state politics, military affairs, the Iditarod, and most relevant to today’s conversation, crime and courts. In 20…

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Learn the secrets of down payments for real estate investing in Anchorage. This class is Module 13 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: Why focusing on down payments is short-sighted and what you should be focused on instead. The two primary ways to address down payments; it is not just abou…

Songs of the Nativity Zechariah's Song Luke 1:57-80 Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

Send us a text Writer and former Anchorage Assembly member Charles Wohlforth is the author of more than ten books and numerous articles about science and the environment, politics and history, medicine, travel, and as-told-to biography including his 2012, To Russia with Love, with Vic Fischer. His book, The Whale and the Supercomputer, won the L.A.…

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Learn the secrets of selecting an investor-friendly real estate agent in Anchorage. This class is Module 12 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What is the NAR settlement and how will it likely impact buyers and sellers? What’s the difference between real estate agents, brokers, and REALTOR…

Songs of the Nativity Mary's Song Luke 1:46-56 Pastor Kristi Ivanofffirstcovenantanchorage

Send us a text Former Alaska State House Representative Kyle Johansen was first elected to represent his hometown of Ketchikan in 2006. Two years later he became the Majority Leader in the Republican-led House. After being re-elected as Majority Leader in 2010 he left the caucus in protest of a committee leadership decision which he now sees as a h…

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn the secrets of catching up on saving for retirement in Anchorage... with an emphasis on using real estate investing. This class is Module 11 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What do you do if you wake up one morning and realize that you’re behind on saving for retirement? What can …

Send us a text Michelle Macuar Sparck is the director of strategic initiatives of the organization Get out the Native Vote. Get out the Native Vote is a non-partisan effort in Alaska to mobilize Alaska Native and American Indian Voters. Michelle Sparck is a member of the Qissunamiut Tribe of Chevak but grew up in Bethel. After graduating from Bethe…

The Gift: Wasted or Useful Matthew 25:31-46 Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

Learn the secrets of the Nomad™ real estate investing strategy for Anchorage real estate investors. This class is Module 10 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the different variations of the Nomad™ real estate investing strategy and what are some of the pros and cons of each. What…

Send us a text Michelle Turner is an environmental scientist who serves as the president of the Anchorage Democrats. Her day job is as a Principal Scientist with over 25 years of professional experience providing analysis and strategic advice under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for a local environmental consultancy firm. Her work inc…

The Gift: The Present of the Spirits 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

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Learn the secrets of asset protection for Anchorage real estate investors. This class is Module 9 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: My top 10 asset protection tips for real estate investors that you’d be a fool to ignore. The importance of getting bespoke legal advice and why you should n…

Send us a text Tom Pittman is the new Executive Director of Identity Inc. which was established in 1977 as the Alaskan Gay Community Center. Over the years, Identity has had different roles and purposes within the Alaska LGBTQIA2S+ community but has always sought to provide a safe haven for the queer community. In 2021, Identity merged with Full Sp…

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Send us a text Maija Katak Lukin served as Mayor of Kotzebue in 2015 when President Barack Obama visited. She later became superintendent of the National Park Service’s Western Arctic National Parklands. She is now the Native Relations Program Manager for the National Park’s Service’s Region 11 which encompasses Alaska. We discuss her early life, h…

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn the secrets to hiring and managing a property manager in Anchorage. This class is Module 8 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: A small tweak to your mindset around renting your property that will change all aspects of your property management... for the better... to make it easier, to…

Send us a text Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal is the author of the 2017 book, An American Sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back. The Washington Post describes the book as: “An authoritative account of the distorted financial incentives that drive medical care in the United States . . . Every lawmaker and administration …

Anchorage Bible Fellowship

Learn how to overcome tenant challenges in Anchorage. This class is Module 7 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. What do you do when you experience the inevitable tenant challenges like: Tenant not paying rent Tenant’s check returned for non-sufficient funds Tenant makes late payment Tenant breaks lease Tenant provides partial p…

Mark 2:1-12 To Forgive Pastor Criss Mitchellfirstcovenantanchorage

Send us a text Ron Hoffman is the lead pastor of Mountain City Church, formerly known as the Anchorage Baptist Temple. Anchorage Baptist was founded in 1956 by Pastor Don White under the name Baptist Bible Church. The church by whatever name has been a launching pad for conservative Republican politicians in Alaska for decades, and with its 2500 me…

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Send us a text Writer Tom Kizzia's eight-part series on the first white settler girl born in American Alaska concludes today in the Anchorage Daily News. “Josie’s Story" tells the story of the life of Josie Rudolph who was born in Sitka in 1869 to German Jewish parents but moved back to Germany when she was still a child. 69 years later in Nurember…

Learn the secrets to buy and hold real estate investing in Anchorage. This class is Module 6 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets. Topics covered in this module include: What are the different variations of the buy and hold real estate investing strategy? Variations based on down payments? Variations based on property types purcha…