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The Best Markets to Buy Rental Properties Right Now (2025)
New to real estate investing? Stuck in an area with expensive housing prices or not-so-landlord-friendly laws but want to buy real estate? We’ve got …
Stuck at ONE Rental Property? The Secrets to Scaling Your Portfolio
Is it possible to scale your real estate portfolio in this market? What if you only have one income? Getting past one rental property is a huge hurdl…
How to Make More Passive Income with Fewer Rentals (& ACTUALLY Retire Early)
Want to retire early? Then, STOP buying rental properties. You heard that right; buying more rental properties may actually push you further away fro…
Is It Possible to Protect Your Property From Wildfires? Here Are Measures You Can Take
If anything has been learned from the LA wildfires, the answer posed in the title is, yes, it is possible to protect your property against wildfires.…
LA Fires: How to Handle a Property Loss
It’s every landlord’s worst nightmare: a fire leaving your home in cinders without having the insurance to cover the loss. That’s t…
Paying Off Rentals vs. Buying More and Low-Money-Down Loans (Rookie Reply)
What’s the “right” way to build your real estate portfolio? Once you’ve taken down your first rental property, should you focus on paying it off? Or …
The Bookkeeping Best Practices That Will Keep Your Short-Term Rentals Running Smoothly
Bookkeeping is not exactly glamorous work for any landlord, let alone a short-term rental host. Balancing the books may feel like a chore between gue…
5 Secrets About Short-Term Rentals No One Tells You About
Getting into short-term rentals (STRs) is exciting. You imagine guests falling in love with your space, five-star reviews rolling in, and a steady ca…
Why This Expert Investor Owns Only ONE Rental Property
Mike Baum owns just one rental property, but this one property alone has changed his life. It’s allowed him to become such an investing expert that h…
I Bought a Short-Term Rental in a Small Town—Here’s Why It Outperforms Big City Properties
When people consider short-term rental (STR) investments, their minds often jump to properties in booming metropolitan areas or HOA-restricted neighb…
Actually, Flipping Properties Can Improve Housing Affordability—Here’s How
Housing prices have increased more in the last four years than in the previous three decades, surging 47% since 2020, according to a Case-Schiller Na…
20+ Rentals in 2 Years but “Stuck” with the Wrong Strategy? (Rookie Reply)
What’s the right investing strategy for YOU? In this episode, we’re going to hear from an investor who has scaled their real estate portfolio to twen…
4 Rentals in 7 Years with LOW Money Down (5% – 10% Down!)
Don’t have a ton of money to invest in rental properties? No problem! You don’t need hundreds of thousands of dollars to start building wealth. Chris…
Investors: Don’t Hoard Properties and “Count Doors”
I have seen this a lot lately: people who hold on to underperforming properties because they add to their door count or self-worth as real estate inv…
$1,000,000/Year with 22 Rentals by Focusing on This Ultra-Profitable Niche
You can make money in real estate—with or without owning rentals! How? There’s a growing segment of the industry that rookies NEED to know about. It’…
Should I Sell My 4% Interest Rate Rental Property? ($300K in Equity!)
Should you keep, refinance, or sell your rental property? If you’re sitting on a low mortgage rate and plenty of equity, you’ve probably asked yourse…
$50K/Year Cash Flow from ONE Rental by Beating the Market to This Strategy
$50,000 cash flow from ONE rental!? Not many properties will give you this kind of return in today’s housing market, but this investor beat his compe…
How Many Rental Properties Do You Need to Quit Your Job? (Rookie Reply)
Many people invest for appreciation. Others invest for tax benefits. But some investors want enough monthly cash flow to replace their W2 income and …
How to Save for Your First Rental Property in 2025 (Starting from Zero!)
Do you want to buy a rental property in 2025 but fear money could get in the way? Putting 15%-20% down is a huge hurdle for new investors, but there …
7 Deals in 5 Years by Doubling Down on Rentals in a Tough Housing Market
When interest rates rose, many investors stopped buying. But not Ryan Irwin. This rookie doubled down on real estate, choosing whichever investing st…