10 Hidden Ways to Buy Properties with Huge “Upside”

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you don’t want to make money in real estate, skip this episode. If you hate the idea of having hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in equity and six-figure passive cash flow in the not-so-far future, ignore the ten strategies we’re sharing today. When followed, these ten tactics will help you buy real estate deals with phenomenal “upside” potential in markets that most investors overlook but will WISH they bought in within a few years. Anyone can use this information to unlock the “upside” in whatever market they choose to invest in, but they aren’t obvious. You’ve probably been told the opposite of the advice we’ll give you today. But here’s the thing: the housing market has CHANGED. In 2025, those 2015 strategies will not work. To unlock the “upside” potential that will lead only savvy real estate investors to generational wealth, plentiful passive income, and serious returns, you must shed the old ways and embrace the new strategies. That’s why Dave is outlining the ten strategies he would use to find hidden “upside” in the 2025 housing market and sharing how he’s doing it (right now!) with some of his properties. In This Episode We Cover: Ten ways to unlock the hidden “upside” in your next real estate deal (make MORE money!) How to “design” a real estate deal BEFORE you buy it (this is a BIG change) Four "upside" fundamentals to follow if you want to buy the best deals in the best areas How Dave boosted his cash flow and secured a rental in an appreciating area by using his “upside” tactics Why day one “cash flow” is NOT as important as it used to be (this could be costing you deals!) And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Let Us Know What You Thought of the Show! Ask Your Question on the BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets YouTube Maximize Your Real Estate Investing with a Self-Directed IRA Buy Dave’s Book, “Start with Strategy” Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area The State of Real Estate Investing: What You Need to Know for 2025 Connect with Dave (00:00) Intro (01:37) Deal Design (03:06) The “Upside” Fundamentals (07:36) Dave’s Real “Upside” Example (09:50) Dave’s 2025 “Upside” Strategies (17:56) 5 More “Upside” Tactics (23:25) Follow the “Upside” Formula! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1075 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

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0:00.0	If you want to buy real estate but can't find deals that work right now, there is another option.
0:05.1	Design your own. And I'm not talking about designing your own property.
0:09.4	Talking about designing your own deals.
0:12.5	Today, I'm going to share a super helpful framework for how to take a deal that looks okay or
0:17.9	even bad on paper and turn it into a home run in the long term. This is all about
0:24.1	finding ways to add hidden upside to your numbers. And in this episode, I'm going to show you 10,
0:30.0	10 different ways to do that.
0:36.8	Hey, everyone, Dave Meyer here, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets.
0:41.4	Excited to be back with you talking about some of these frameworks that I've been developing over the last couple of years that I think are particularly helpful right now.
0:50.5	Because let me guess, you probably want to buy real estate, but no deals that you're
0:54.8	finding online or ones that you're getting sent from your agents are really making sense.
1:00.2	And you find yourself not sure what to do. Do you keep looking? Do you sit on the sidelines?
1:05.0	I think most people are in this situation because honestly, I'm in this situation too. I get it.
1:10.7	And as I've been planning my
1:12.1	own real estate investing for the coming year or two, I've developed and sort of refined a way
1:18.6	of thinking about what deals make sense in today's market that has really helped me personally.
1:24.5	It's helped me make a couple of offers already this year and get super clear
1:28.4	about what I should and shouldn't be buying. So today I'm going to share some of these ideas
1:33.1	with you as we discuss how to build your own deals in 2025. So the first thing you need to know,
1:39.1	the first framework that we're going to talk about here is what I call deal design. I talk about
1:43.7	this in my book,
1:44.5	start with strategy, but the general concept is that you don't actually find deals. I know
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