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The Essential Role of Due Diligence in Real Estate Investments
Let’s face it: When it comes to investing your hard-earned money, the stakes are incredibly high. One wrong move or overlooked detail, and your finan…
Home Flipping Margins Tighten as Deals Become More Scarce
There’s some good news and some bad news regarding home flipping. The good news is that despite high interest rates, it’s still possible to turn a pr…
Screening Smarter: How Proactive Tenant Vetting Outperforms Reactive Evictions
Let’s be honest—we’ve all made at least one rookie mistake in real estate. For many landlords, that mistake starts with a rushed tenant placement. Ma…
How Automation Makes Investors More Money
I didn’t become a real estate investor to spend my weekends buried in Excel. But there I was: Every Saturday morning, like clockwork, I found myself …
How to Invest in Hotels Without Money or Experience
Tired of rentals that give you little or no cash flow? Burned out from managing multiple properties across different markets? For the entrepreneur wh…
Change Your Financial Future with ONE Real Estate Deal
All it takes is one (yes, ONE!) real estate deal to change your life and jumpstart your path to financial freedom. You could stop after just one, but…
How to Generate $7K Monthly Cash Flow with Out-of-State Properties
This implementation guide is based on episode 381 of the Real Estate Rookie Podcast featuring Bailey Kramer, who rapidly built a successful real esta…
8 Real Estate Side Hustles That Can Earn an Extra $100K or More
When the average person hears “side hustle,” they think of average gig work like driving Ubers. But you’re not average, and you can earn far more tha…
A Map of All 73 Cities Where Rents Have Dropped This Year
Developers built nearly 600,000 apartment units last year, setting a new record. That glut of new supply, coupled with fears over trade war-induced i…
Semi-Retired with a Small $6,000/Month Rental Portfolio
This investor used his primary residence to build a $6,000/month rental property portfolio—helping him semi-retire, cut his workload in half, and gen…
Making Over $300K in Profit from JUST 2 Deals
If you lost your job today, what’s your plan B? Just eight months ago, today’s guest was laid off from his W2—newly married and with a baby on the wa…
Small Investors LEAD the Housing Market (Here’s Where They’re Buying)
A new report released by Realtor.com offers rare insight into real estate investor trends across the US. Host Dave Meyer breaks them all down in this…
BPCON 2024: I Came For the Real Estate, Stayed For the Weirdos
There’s nothing like the looming threat of a Category 5 hurricane to test a real estate investor’s priorities. As Hurricane Milton swirled off the co…
The Worrying Economic Fallout of the Iran Conflict
Whenever war breaks out, the most important consideration by far should always be for the people who are killed or wounded in the conflict. Economic …
I Thought Refinancing Was Dead—Until I Ran the Numbers
If you’re holding a single-family rental right now, you’ve probably asked the same question I did: Is it even worth refinancing with rates this…
The Pros and Cons of Inheriting Tenants (And How to Protect Yourself)
You finally find the perfect property—good price, solid neighborhood, promising numbers—and then you see the fine print: tenants in place. Depending …
How to Fund Your First Rental (Rental Property Loans 101) (Rookie Reply)
Welcome to another Rookie Reply, where Tony J Robinson and Ashley Kehr answer questions from the BiggerPockets Forums and Real Estate Rookie Facebook…
June 2025 Housing Market Update: The Biggest Shift in Decades
The housing market is experiencing its most significant shift in decades. Sellers are returning in full force, outnumbering buyers by a substantial m…
New 2025 Survey: Real Estate Investors Are Surprisingly Confident
How do investors feel about today’s housing market and what does it mean for your real estate portfolio? On this episode, OTM host Dave Meyer d…
The Real Estate Rookie Implementation Guide: How to Build a $10M BRRRR Portfolio Using the SCALE Fr…
This implementation guide is based on episode 558 of the Real Estate Rookie Podcast featuring Niti and Palak Shah, who transitioned from corporate li…