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780: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Medium-Term Rental Empire w/Jesse Vasquez Jun 18, 2023

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Your real estate cash flow is suffering. Rent growth is slowing, mortgage rates are rising, and property prices are staying put. So where can you find more room to profit with your rental property? The answer is medium-term rentals! Until a couple of years ago, medium-term rentals, also called corporate rentals or traveling nurse rentals, were the sleepy investing strategy that only experienced investors like Jesse Vasquez knew about. But now, they’ve become (arguably) the best rental property on the planet.

With medium-term rentals, you can often make four (or more) times the rent than a regular rental. You’ll also have minimal turnover, more professional tenants, and be able to book out your place at a high monthly rate for four, five, or six months at a time. They’re easier to manage than short-term rentals but have substantially more cash flow than long-term rentals. So, how do you get in on this high-cash flow craze?

We brought Jesse back to the show for a step-by-step tutorial on starting, running, and profiting with a medium-term rental. He gives in-depth answers on how much it costs to start, the best locations to buy (or rent), how to get the biggest rental contracts from top corporations, amenities guests will expect, and what to charge. If you want to take your rental property from break-even to making bank, this is the strategy for you!

In This Episode We Cover:

The medium-term rental strategy explained and how to use it to make 400% more cash flow

Short-term rental regulations and why many hosts may need to switch to medium-term stays

Best real estate markets for medium-term rentals and signs of low vacancy

Unique amenities that will get you CONSTANT business (bikes, cars, grocery delivery, and more!)

Rental contracts and how to use hospitals, insurance companies, construction crews, and more to fill up your rental

Whether or not allowing pets in your rental is EVER the right move to make

And So Much More!

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Medium-Term Rentals: How to Get BIG Cash Flow Out of Small Properties

Book Mentioned in the Show:

30-Day Stay by Zeona McIntyre & Sarah Weaver

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779: How Delivering Pizzas Helped Me Build a 27-Unit Rental Portfolio w/Pamela Bardhi Jun 15, 2023

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The key to financial freedom? Work as a pizza delivery driver! Not only will you learn how to handle high-pressure situations, but you might also find your next property on a regular pizza run! At least that’s what Pamela Bardhi did to build her twenty-seven-unit rental property portfolio and reach financial independence in her late twenties! Pamela’s family moved to the United States when she was just five years old, thrusting her into the restaurant business before she realized that real estate was her true passion.

Pamela did everything right. She studied hard, got scholarships, worked at internships, and built her own business, but she was still miserable. Working every day of the week, often twelve hours at a time, was eating away at her. She wanted some side income to help her dial back the time spent building her business, but when her first deal turned into a $100,000 profit, the property game was too enticing to resist. Since then, she’s scaled to massive heights and wants you to do the same.

With twenty-seven rental units, over one hundred deals done, and a financially free lifestyle by thirty-one, Pamela knows what it takes to build a property portfolio FAST. But she also knows what can make it crumble. Pamela shares her three BIGGEST lessons learned from doing over one hundred deals and how she turned delivering pizzas into a passive income stream that will create generational wealth for her whole family.

In This Episode We Cover:

How to reach financial independence with rentals in under ten years

The three biggest lessons every real estate investor must learn to NOT get burnt on a deal

Passive vs. active income and why the investor life isn’t for everyone

Becoming your own boss and quitting corporate to do what truly fuels you

How the right mentor can immensely speed up your road to early retirement

Real estate partnership red flags that’ll lead to you losing money or pulling your hair out

And So Much More!

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From DoorDasher to $1.5 MILLION in Real Estate (All at 22 Years Old!)

The 30-Something’s Guide to Financial Freedom

Flipping Houses: How to Get Started and Everything You Should Know

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778: How to Build a Million Dollar Rental Portfolio with Little Time OR Money w/Niti Jamdar & Palak Shah Jun 13, 2023

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If you want to build a rental portfolio, you need to know how to scale the right way. Buying a property every year or two is good, but it won’t give you the financial freedom you desire. However, if you know how to double, triple, or quadruple the amount of real estate you’re acquiring without adding tons of tasks (or stress) to your plate, you could be financially independent faster than you’ve ever thought. This is precisely what Niti Jamdar & Palak Shah did, building a ten-million-dollar real estate portfolio in less than a decade.

As two burnt-out corporate workers, Niti and Palak were tired of putting their jobs before their future family. So after having children, they realized it was time to start building something that would help them regain their freedom instead of shackling them to golden handcuffs. With a busy schedule and little time, Niti and Palak were forced to automate, delegate, and systematize their real estate business. And now, you can copy their exact steps.

In their newest book, Accelerate Your Real Estate: Build a Hands-Off Rental Portfolio with the SCALE Strategy, Niti and Palak uncover the five-step system to unlock eight-figure wealth. They used this same strategy to build their portfolio with little free time or money to throw at projects. In this episode, they’ll review these five BRRRR-inspired steps, explain why today’s market isn’t what most people think it is, and debunk the myths that’ll stop you from investing.

In This Episode We Cover:

The five-step “SCALE” system Niti and Palak used to build an eight-figure portfolio

Quitting corporate to find financial freedom, start a family, and build wealth

BRRRRing in 2023 and why the Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat strategy isn’t dead

Investing with high mortgage rates and why inexperienced investors are wrong about them

Outsourcing, delegating, and how to run a HUGE portfolio without any employees

Real estate myths that stop you from building wealth (and how to get around them)

And So Much More!

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Hear Our Past Interview with Palak

Book Mentioned in the Show:

Accelerate your Real Estate by Palak Shah & Niti Jamdar

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

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Real Estate Wealth Blueprint on Instagram

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777: Seeing Greene: Investing Later in Life? You’re Still in Luck! Jun 11, 2023

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Think it’s too late to retire with real estate? Maybe you’re in your forties, fifties, or sixties and have decided that now is the time to put passive income first. With retirement coming up in a couple of decades (or even years), what can you do to build the nest egg that’ll allow you to enjoy your time away from work? Is it even possible to retire with rentals if you didn’t start in your twenties or thirties? For those tired of the traditional route to retirement, stick around!

You’ve hit the jackpot on this Seeing Greene show; it’s episode number 777! But, unlike a casino, everything here is free, and we’re NOT asking you to gamble away your life savings. Instead, David will touch on some of the most crucial questions about real estate investing. From building your retirement with rentals to investing in “cheap” out-of-state markets, buying mobile homes as vacation rentals, and why you CAN’T control cash flow, but you can control something MUCH more important.

Want to ask David a question? If so, submit your question here so David can answer it on the next episode of Seeing Greene. Hop on the BiggerPockets forums and ask other investors their take, or follow David on Instagram to see when he’s going live so you can hop on a live Q&A and get your question answered on the spot!

In This Episode We Cover:

Turning a $100K high school into a $42K/month apartment complex

What to do when your first flip or real estate deal becomes a huge flop

The smartest way to shoot up your property’s value and boost your neighborhood’s desirability

Unbelievable real estate conversion projects and why creative investing often has the most cash flow

Raising private capital when doing large deals and why you NEED partners with skills you don’t possess

Signs that your real estate agent might be the love of your life

And So Much More!

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Try the BiggerPockets Rental Estimator on Your Next Deal

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Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene

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776: $42K/Month in Cash Flow By Buying a…High School? w/Jesse Wig Jun 08, 2023

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You’ve heard cash flow stories before, but NOTHING like this. We’ve talked to hundreds of investors that have flipped houses, bought apartment complexes, storage facilities, and more. But a high school? A high school rental property? Surely this has to be a first. If you want to know the pioneer behind this absolutely insane passive income project, look no further than Jesse Wig, who turned a dilapidated high school into a thirty-one-unit apartment building.

But before Jesse went on a literal wild ride through this high school, he faced defeats that would stop most investors in their tracks. After making just ten dollars per hour working under a flipper, Jesse tried to do his first deal himself, but things didn’t go to plan. He walked away from his first real estate deal in debt with a massive loss but decided to try again. Jesse learned quickly from his mistakes and started buying rentals in an up-and-coming area right outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Through a brilliant investing tactic that we’ve never heard of before, Jesse was able to catapult and control his rental properties’ values, skyrocketing his personal wealth while bringing up an entire neighborhood with him. Soon after that, he found his off-market high school and, through some savvy partnerships and serious work, turned it into a cash cow unlike anything we’ve ever seen on the show. Jesse is about to school us on the right way to do real estate!

In This Episode We Cover

Turning a $100K high school into a $42K/month apartment complex

What to do when your first flip or real estate deal becomes a huge flop

The smartest way to shoot up your property’s value and boost your neighborhood’s desirability

Unbelievable real estate conversion projects and why creative investing often has the most cash flow

Raising private capital when doing large deals and why you NEED partners with skills you don’t possess

Signs that your real estate agent might be the love of your life

And So Much More!

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775: BiggerNews: Rent Unaffordability Crosses Dangerous New Threshold w/Lu Chen and Thomas LaSalvia Jun 06, 2023

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Rent prices have steadily risen for as long as we can remember. But, few of us would have ever expected the unimaginable rent hikes of 2020-2022. With major metros seeing double-digit year-over-year rent percentage bumps, residents were forced to throw a larger chunk of their income toward housing. Now, with higher rent prices than ever before, America has become “rent-burdened,” and a dangerous threshold has been crossed.

What’s causing this rise in rents? Are investors to blame? And what’s a solution that could benefit builders, buyers, and renters? We’ve got Lu Chen and Thomas LaSalvia from Moody’s Commercial Real Estate division to give us their findings. Lu and Thomas’s team have been tracking rent prices carefully, logging which cities have seen the most significant price increases, which are becoming increasingly unaffordable, and what can be done about the problem. With a lack of housing supply and inflation eating away Americans’ income, what can everyday investors like us do?

Thankfully, there is a solution to this problem that could help curb unaffordability while presenting a profit for investors. Lu and Thomas go over exactly what would have to happen to return to a normalized, affordable housing market and what’s hurting our efforts to get there. Plus, with rents becoming unaffordable for many young Americans, our Dave duo asks, “Is real estate still safe to invest in?” All that and more in this edition of BiggerNews!

In This Episode We Cover

America’s “rent-burdened” status and why prices have crossed a critical threshold

Real estate markets that have seen the largest increase in rent over the past three years

Luxury housing and how its development is hurting the effort to increase affordable housing

Whether or not investors are to blame for rents skyrocketing

“Inclusionary housing” and how investors can fill the affordable housing need while making a profit

Whether or not real estate is still safe if renters get priced out of the market

And So Much More!

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774: Seeing Greene: Bleeding Rentals, Bad Flips, and The Safe Haven For Your Cash Jun 04, 2023

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Buy real estate or face your dollar’s demise. While this may sound like doomsday prophesying or over-bullish investor attitudes towards properties, the fact is that most investors today won’t make it. With inflation raging ahead, home prices double-digit percentages higher than they were a few years ago, and food and energy costs spiking, your cash isn’t safe. The value of your money is burning, and your bank account won’t be able to extinguish the flames. But there is still hope to build wealth.

Welcome back to a macroeconomic Seeing Greene episode where David tells you what he really thinks about today’s inflationary economy. If you want to grow your wealth while prices pop off, this is the episode to tune into. But it’s not just CPI rate rants this time; David will also advise on what to do when down payment requirements more than double at the last second, why Midwest “cash flow” markets aren’t what they seem, building vs. buying an ADU (accessory dwelling unit), and when to sell a rental or flip that is bleeding money every month.

In This Episode We Cover:

What to invest in when inflation is eating away at your hard-earned money

Down payment requirements and what to do when you can’t close with low money down

Cash flow vs. appreciation and using “portfolio architecture” to build the BEST portfolio possible

Buying vs. building an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) and which will make you wealthier as a result

How to make money on a house flip gone wrong (even if it’s in a rough neighborhood)

Negative equity and whether or not to sell a rental that is losing value

What to do with $30K in today’s expensive investing environment

And So Much More!

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773: Replacing His Income with $70K/Year Cash Flow After a Close Call with Death w/Pasha Maleknia Jun 01, 2023

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Financial freedom isn’t important until your life flashes before your eyes. When everything could end, thoughts of your partner, children, and family come to mind, and most notably, what you left behind for them. Pasha Maleknia was thrown into a warzone and came within minutes of meeting his end. As he sat, not knowing whether or not he would ever see his wife again, he made a promise to build financial freedom for his family so that if anything happened to him, they would be protected.

Pasha kept his promise and is here to share exactly how he got it done. Through chaos, Pasha was given a second chance at building the life he dreamed of, starting a real estate investment portfolio that has grown to a double-digit unit count with close to six figures in expected cash flow. None of what he did was easy, but using his background in coding, systems, and optimizing everything for efficiency, Pasha is building a hands-off real estate empire that will set his whole family financially free.

If you’ve struggled to progress with rental properties, do NOT miss out on Pasha’s story. He explains exactly how his “why” forced him to reach financial freedom in only a few years and what he’s doing now to ensure his wealth never stops growing. Don’t wait for it to be too late. Put your life in your hands, and take Pasha’s words to heart.

In This Episode We Cover:

The near-death experience that forced Pasha to find financial freedom for his family

Building your “income-producing box” that will take care of your family for decades

DIY rehabs and why you DON’T need to know everything before you start investing

Pasha’s killer first rental property and the “surprise” basement that came with it

Using the BRRRR method to quickly multiply your portfolio without much cash needed

How to automate your ENTIRE rental property portfolio so you do nothing

And So Much More!

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Henry's BiggerPockets Profile

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Hear the Latest Episode on Analyzing Real Estate Deals

Understand The BRRRR Method in Real Estate – A Beginner’s Guide

Books Mentioned in the Show:

BRRRR by David Greene

The Book on Advanced Tax Strategies by Amanda Han & Matt MacFarland

The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs by J Scott

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene

Raising Private Capital by Matt Faircloth

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

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772: Stop Looking for Perfect Properties, Search for These Instead May 30, 2023

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Real estate investing has changed a LOT over the past few years. For most people getting into rental property investing in the mid-2010s, profitable properties were plentiful, cash flow was almost automatic, and equity was flowing in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands every year. Unfortunately, this real estate market is long gone. Now, there’s blood in the streets as new investors try to salvage sickly-looking deals that don’t cash flow and come with pathetic-looking profits. And maybe, just maybe, that’s why now is the best time to buy.

Make no mistake, real estate investing isn’t easy, and just buying any house WON’T make you rich. But, the 2023 housing market has far more opportunity than most people think, and David Greene, Henry Washington, and Rob Abasolo are here to explain how. These three investors have been gobbling up rental properties as quickly as possible. And even with lower margins, slim cash flow, and limited equity, there is some method to their madness.

If NOTHING you’re looking at is cash flowing and almost every home seems overpriced (especially with today’s mortgage rates), this is THE episode to tune into. In it, David, Henry, and Rob will detail how you can “create” a profitable property while the masses sit on the sidelines, as well as go over real, authentic deals they’re doing today to show you it isn’t impossible to invest in 2023.

In This Episode We Cover:

How to analyze a real estate deal and what to do if none of the properties show a profit

The 2023 housing market and how things have changed over the past few years

Investor expectations and why the times of “get rich quick” are long gone

How to build, buy, or force equity into your rentals so you get rich in the background

Simple steps the average investor can do to make their real estate deals work

Renting vs. flipping and which exit to take in a volatile housing market

And So Much More!

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