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Real Estate Rookie

15: 5 Steps to Reach Financial Freedom in 15 Years Through Long-Distance Investing With Elyse Rasmussen

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, she had done zero deals. Today, she's got 20 units and is nearing her goal of financial freedom by age 45. In this episode, Elyse Rasmussen shares five tips for rookies interested in long-distance investing... although each can easily be applied to investing in your own backyard, too. Check out her Instagram page @investingforfinancialfreedom for some #landlordmemes, and be sure to join the Real Estate Rookie Facebook group to tell us what you think of this episode! In This Episode We Cover: Elyse and her husband's plan to reach financial freedom by age 45 What to look for when choosing a market out of state (climate, natural hazards, tax policies, etc.) Joining a network of long-distance investors to find referrals Finding and vetting a dual property manager/real estate agent Her approach to insurance policies for 19 properties Buying properties at online auction, step by step And SO much more! Links from the Show Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Felipe's Instagram Ashley's Instagram BiggerPockets Podcast How to Buy Real Estate & Build Your Portfolio Fast! ("The Stack!") Marshall Reddick BiggerPockets Glossary BiggerPockets Guest National REIA Meetup App BiggerPockets Events and Happenings Brandon Turner's BiggerPockets Profile Auction.com Xome Cashflow Quadrant Check the full show notes here: http://biggerpockets.com/rookie15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the real estate rookie show number 15.

0:05.0

For us, we're using our house as an asset, not a liability.

0:10.0

So the way that we're doing that is we're using our house as an asset, not a liability.

0:13.0

So the way that we're doing that is we're taking that money and we're using it to make us more money.

0:17.0

So it is what it is. It's sitting equity for us. My name is Ashley Carer and I am here with Felipe Burmejia.

0:31.8

You're finally aizing a Bur refinance. Tell us about it.

0:35.4

Finally in the Bur family. So I was able to finally close on a burr that I was doing

0:41.0

during COVID-19. It really slowed everything down. I got the same rate that I was doing during COVID-19 it really slowed everything down.

0:43.0

I got the same rate that I had when I previously got it, but the reason that I was going to

0:47.2

refinance this property was because it was on a five-year adjustable rate mortgage, a five-year

0:52.1

arm, and my rate might have changed, so I wanted to get into a 30-year mortgage fixed, and the only implications was I got some money back. I kept the same rate. I'm going into a 30-year fixed mortgage and it only affected my cash flow negative $100.

1:05.0

So if I was making about 1,200 now I'm going to be making about 1,100 on this cash flow.

1:10.0

Great, I love it. I got some money back out. I'm going to redeploy that money into another rental property.

1:15.0

I'm curious what is the interest rate that you're getting?

1:18.0

So now I'm getting a 5-5. It's a little bit high but like I said I'm out of a five-year adjustable rate mortgage

1:23.9

where my cash flow was dependent on somebody else telling me what I was going to pay

1:27.7

but I wanted a 30-year mortgage where I was guaranteed what I'm going to pay so now I

1:31.2

can make positive decisions based on that property

1:34.3

because I know that my rate's not going to change for boom 30 years.

1:37.3

Right and I think that's why it's a higher rate because you're getting that 30 year

1:41.0

fixed that makes sense to me but I'm doing a refinance

1:44.6

myself right now too but I'm doing it on the commercial side so it will be

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