with Bill Bymel

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Put the last five years of weather on one screen. The quakes. The heat domes. The fires that jump highways. The floods that sit for weeks. Typhoons snapping records they set the season before. The words we use to keep this rare, thousand-year event, once a century, stopped being accurate some time ago.

Climate change is one current, and it isn’t even the one that reaches your real estate first. I’ve spent decades resolving distressed property and I’ve never watched this many forces stack up at once, one on top of the next, all of it landing on whoever’s holding the asset.

A cost that used to be a footnote on the closing statement now decides whether a place is worth owning. Owners on fixed incomes, lenders, commercial operators, nobody in that chain sits it out.

This isn’t panic. It’s preparation. We’re the only country on Earth still treating this like a political opinion of tree huggers versus capitalists, instead of what it actually is for anyone holding real estate: exposure.

Climate is one current. Debt is another. Where these forces meet, and whose ground gives first is what you’ll read about in greater depth in my latest book, The Storm: Markets Meet Mother Nature.

The Storm: Markets Meet Mother Nature has received critical acclaim since release in April 2026, opening the conversation of how converging forces are reshaping markets and offering the framework for investors and institutions to navigate what comes next. Available at Amazon and other major retailers https://a.co/d/0gPB0yrY.

Reviews say: “The Storm is not just a book, it’s a strategic lens into the future of our industry.”

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First Lien Capital is a privately owned distressed mortgage investment platform focused on the acquisition and timely resolution of sub-performing, non-performing mortgage loans on residential or commercial real estate.

First Lien Resolutions, First Lien Capital’s third-party advisory and special servicing arm for banks, funds, and institutions holding distressed and dislocated debt, delivers end-to-end resolution through engineered outcomes that work for investors, servicers, and borrowers.

Whether you’re a bank, servicer, hedge fund, family office, or institutional investor, let’s talk about what our RESOLUTIONS can do for your book.

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