There is an almost fool-proof way to invest in real estate in 2023. It requires very little money down, no experience in investing, and can be used over and over and over again to build millions of dollars in real estate wealth. The strategy? House hacking! Real estate millionaires agree that this strategy is the BEST way to get started investing and can help launch you to the next level of financial freedom. You DON’T need a ton of time or money to house hack, and doing so could set you up for life. And if you think our empire-building hosts, David Greene, Henry Washington, and Rob Abasolo, aren’t spitting facts, think again. All three of these investors started house hacking and credit it as the greatest move they made to build wealth. But how does house hacking work, and if it’s such a smart move to make, why isn’t everyone doing it? In essence, house hacking allows you to monetize your living space. So, you get paid to have a mortgage instead of paying a mortgage. This could mean renting out your spare bedrooms, Airbnb-ing your mother-in-law suite, or buying a duplex and renting out the other side. And during a time when mortgage rates are higher than many of us have seen before and housing affordability is at an all-time low, house hacking can become your savior of savings, helping you keep more money every month. This compounded savings allows you to buy even more real estate, build your dream portfolio faster, and retire earlier than you thought. So, if you’re ready to invest in real estate, don’t sleep on house hacking!  In This Episode We Cover: House hacking explained and why it’s the EASIEST real estate investing strategy of 2023 Investing in real estate with no and low money down and why house hacking is the perfect starter option The different ways to house hack, from buying a duplex to renting out rooms How to find and analyze your house hack to ensure it’s paying for itself The best housing markets for house hacking and why you DON’T need to cash flow The house hack stack and the secret to building a multi-million dollar portfolio over just a few years And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's YouTube Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Henry's BiggerPockets Profile Henry's Instagram Try the BiggerPockets Real Estate Calculators on Your Next Deal How to Start a Real Estate Portfolio with Just $10K Books Mentioned in the Show: The House Hacking Strategy by Craig Curelop Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-745 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s the key to escaping the rat race in 2023? Do you need a rental property LLC for every property, or can you put multiple in one? And how do you create cash flow when housing prices are so high? For the everyday real estate investor, it can seem like profitable rental properties are getting harder and harder to find, and financial independence is slowly slipping away. And while many would give up on their pursuit for early retirement, time freedom, and autonomy over their schedule, we’re here to give you the knowledge you need to hit your wildest investing goals in 2023. We’re back with another Seeing Greene, where your agent, investor, broker, and system-building savant, David Greene, answers your real estate investing questions on the spot! In this episode, we’ll touch on rental property LLCs and how many properties to put in each one, what to do when home prices are high, and cash flow is low, the “new build BRRRR” that could create crazy equity gains, and a smarter way to shop for landlord insurance. All that (and much more) is coming up, so stick around! 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: Where to buy your next rental property and how to create cash flow Setting up your rental property LLCs and how many you’ll really need The build, rent, refinance and repeat BRRRR strategy that could produce massive equity Why bigger is better and the reason you should ALWAYS shop for rentals with more rooms How to provide value to your mentor (even if you don’t have real estate experience) Landlord insurance and when a commercial policy trumps individual coverage Building systems for your real estate business and a practical way to start systemizing TODAY And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Top 10 Real Estate Markets for Cash Flow in 2023 The BiggerPockets Guide to Landlord Insurance Sign Up for David’s 2023 Scottsdale Goal Setting Retreat Book Mentioned in the Show: SOLD by David Greene SKILL by David Greene SCALE by David Greene Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-744 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BRRRR method is one of the most celebrated, highly-effective real estate investing strategies the world has ever known. Never heard of it? BRRRR stands for “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat” and is a simple framework to allow any real estate investor, no matter their skill level, to get into real estate investing for no money at the end of the deal. This down payment recycling system allows you to use the same amount of cash to build a real estate portfolio that’ll expand to infinity. And for a while, the BRRRR method was yet to be bested—until now. Janice Stitzer may have cracked the code. As a house-hacking California native, Janice was pushed out of the golden state right before the last crash when housing prices were high, cash flow was low, and traffic was at a standstill. She and her husband decided to boost their quality of life by relocating to Colorado, where they started a construction company and a BRRRR-ing empire. Then in 2008, when lending screeched to a halt, her BRRRRs died down. But some years later, a new idea hatched—the BRRRR 2.0. Using this simple strategy, Janice got a brand new short-term rental that cash flows like crazy, all while gaining $200K in equity before her first guest checked in. This repeatable system can be used by almost anyone and doesn’t require much experience. With just five properties, this “BRRRR 2.0” investing style could make you a millionaire. But you won’t know how it works if you don’t tune in! So, stick around! In This Episode We Cover: The BRRRR 2.0 method and how it unlocks MASSIVE amounts of equity  House hacking in expensive markets and the lowering your cost of living (even in LA) The BRRRR strategy explained and why it’s still one of the most profitable ways to invest The five things to look for when developing land or investing in new construction  Why you NEED a great general contractor at your side ANY time you plan on building  Short-term rental investing and why the cash flow beats consistent long-term rentals  And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's YouTube Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter How to Succeed in Real Estate Investing Using the BRRRR Method 14 Questions to Ask Before You Hire a General Contractor 4 Vital Points to Consider BEFORE Getting Into New Construction Book Mentioned in the Show: Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat by David Greene Connect with Janice: Janice's Instagram Janice's Website   Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-743 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial freedom is the goal we’re all after. Whether you want to replace your nine-to-five income, retire your spouse or family members, spend more time with your loved ones, or just have enough money to travel the world, reaching financial independence is truly the American dream. And the wisest, most stable way to find financial freedom? Real estate investing! For generations, rental property investing has been the foundation of many millionaires’ portfolios, and you can repeat their path with four simple steps. To give you the complete rundown on the four steps to financial freedom, we’ve got Dave Meyer, VP of Data and Analytics and host of On the Market, on the show. Dave embodies the financially-free life most people dream of. He lives abroad, chooses to work, and eats copious amounts of sandwiches every day. But what most people don’t see is the decade of hard work and dedication that Dave put in to get up to this point.  Dave will explain exactly how to calculate the passive income you need to find financial freedom, where to start investing in real estate, how to analyze a real estate deal from scratch, and the one tool that EVERY investor can use to build a rental property portfolio faster. If you want to become a real estate pro in 2023, sign up for BiggerPockets Pro and use code “ANALYSIS20” for a special discount.  In This Episode We Cover How to achieve financial freedom through real estate in 2023  Calculating your FI number and setting the RIGHT type of real estate goals Picking your real estate market and metrics you MUST use when researching  Finding real estate deals and the LAPS funnel professional investors use to find perfect properties How to analyze a real estate deal in minutes using the BiggerPockets rental property calculator  Cash flow vs. appreciation and which you should pick when deciding on your investment strategy  And So Much More! Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-742 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The golden age of cash flow real estate investing could be over as we know it. For the past decade and a half, landlords got used to buying standard homes that made a killing in cash flow. Combine that with exponentially appreciating home prices, and anyone who purchased a property in the past ten years looks like an investing oracle. But now, the tide is starting to turn, and rookie real estate investors are struggling to find any house in almost any market that can cash flow. So what happened, and why has the nation’s cash-flowing real estate suddenly disappeared?  Welcome back to another Seeing Greene, where your “don’t just go for cash flow” host, David Greene, is back to drop some real estate knowledge for ANY level of investor. In this episode, we get into why it’s so challenging to find real estate deals that cash flow in 2023, when to invest in an appreciation vs. cash flow market, and whether or not to sell a property that isn’t profitable. Then, we switch gears and touch on how to vet a private lender you met online and whether or not an out-of-state rental rehab project is too risky for a brand-new real estate investor.  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: The “Golden Age” of cash flow and why it might finally be over in 2023 How to pivot when you can’t find a “deal” in today’s housing market Cash flow vs. appreciation markets and which makes for a better long-term bet What to do when your rental property isn’t profitable and how to know it’s worth selling Vetting private money lenders and why you should NEVER send money to one Out-of-state renovations and rehabs and why rookie real estate investors should stay clear of them Delayed gratification and why it’s the true path to building wealth  And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Cash Flow vs. Appreciation Ability to Delay Gratification Predicts Wealth, Health & Success Book Mentioned in the Show: Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-741 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices