Afraid to Buy Your First Rental? Here’s How to Finally Start (Rookie Reply)
Summary
This BiggerPockets podcast episode discusses how to get started in real estate investing, focusing on clarifying your goals, understanding strategies, and building a team. Hosts should evaluate rehab costs by getting quotes from multiple contractors and identifying potential advantages based on existing skills and resources.
Key Insights
- •The article suggests that defining your 'why' and end goals is the first step in real estate investing, which can lead to different strategies.
- •Understanding your strategy and niche is crucial; different strategies include long-term rentals, short-term rentals, flipping, and wholesaling.
- •To determine reasonable rehab costs, compare contractor bids for accurate estimates.
Action Items
- ✓Clarify your goals and desired lifestyle to determine the most suitable real estate investment strategy.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Build your team, starting with a good lender to understand your purchasing power and an agent who knows the market.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
- ✓Get multiple bids from contractors to understand the actual cost of a renovation in your area.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →The Intention Journal: The intention journal by Brandon Turner is mentioned as a great resource to help build out goals.
Watch Out For
- ⚠Waiting too long to buy your first property can be a mistake.
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