$12,000/Month Cash Flow by Cracking the Rental "Formula"

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This investor is producing $12,000 per month in cash flow and is well on his way to early retirement before the age of fifty, and he did it all after taking a DECADE off of investing. By cracking the real estate “formula,” Andre Taylor was able to buy larger properties faster. He used his financial independence number to work backward by picking up properties that would truly help him retire early. He’s still buying deals in 2025, and you can retire early, too, if you use his “formula.” Andre started with just $3,000 in the bank. Not $30,000—$3,000. With a bit of sweat equity, he converted a foreclosure into a cash-flowing rental, generating a solid $300 in profit per month per unit. Then, everything clicked—what if he bought enough rentals to replace his income? After calculating his “freedom number,” he knew how many rentals he needed. But then Andre…took a break. A long break. A decade of not investing. When he got back, it was time to go all out. In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the buying spree Andre’s been on over the past eight years, how he closed on over thirty rental units (some filled with black mold), and why “buying up the block” is the fastest way to reach financial freedom. In This Episode We Cover How many rentals you’ll need to retire early by calculating your “freedom number” Buying foreclosures and the pros and cons of these cheaper deals The many ways to finance a rental (mortgages, credit cards, 401(k) loans, etc.) Why you should start contacting owners of properties next to your current rentals How to make the passive income jump faster by buying commercial properties (five units or more!) And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1141 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	This investor found a real estate formula that worked so well, he bought five nearly identical
0:06.9	properties all on the same block.
0:09.4	Now, he's cash flowing $12,000 per month and plans to retire before age 50.
0:15.6	On today's episode, he'll explain exactly how he did it.
0:24.1	Hey, everyone. he'll explain exactly how he did it. Hey everyone, I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets, where we teach
0:29.0	you how to achieve financial freedom through rental properties.
0:32.9	Today on the show, we're bringing you the story of investor Andre Taylor.
0:37.1	Andre made his first investment
0:38.5	in St. Louis back in 2007 and then took nearly a full decade off from acquiring new properties,
0:46.3	because sometimes life just gets in the way. But eventually, he got back in the game.
0:51.4	He moved to Chicago, where he developed a new investing formula
0:55.4	that perfectly aligned with the goals he'd set many years earlier. Andre was so committed
1:01.4	to this strategy that he now owns five very similar buildings all on the same block.
1:07.0	And this is a really cool story because it's a story of an investor who set a goal at the start of his career for exactly how many units he needed to achieve financial freedom.
1:17.3	And he stayed determined to achieve that goal even as he worked a day job and saved his money, one property at a time.
1:24.7	Now he's reached it and is financially set for life. We can all learn a lot from this
1:30.3	super fun and valuable lesson from Andre, so let's bring him on. Andre, welcome to the Bigger Pockets
1:37.1	podcast. Thanks for joining us. Oh, it's a pleasure. So honor to be here with you Dave and the whole
1:42.7	BP community. Yeah, this is going to be a
1:45.0	fun episode for you because you have a really interesting story and I'm excited to get into it.
1:50.5	But let's just get the background. How did you first start investing in real estate?
1:56.6	My mom actually put real estate in me at a young age, so she always would tell me, buy real estate.
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