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On The Market

192: Cash Flow Isn’t Dead: 4 Markets With The Highest Rent-to-Price Around

On The Market

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Cash flow real estate is hard to find. In almost any big city, making financial freedom-producing cash flow is becoming a pipe dream. But that doesn’t mean there still aren’t pockets of cash flow throughout the United States; you just need to know where to find them. Thankfully, we’ve done the work for you, putting together a short list of cash-flowing real estate markets with the highest rents and lowest home prices. In this episode, we’re talking about cold, hard cash flow. More interested in building equity but still want some passive income on the side? We share four different strategies ANY investor can use to find cash-flowing rental properties in ANY market. Looking for a new market? You're in luck; we’ve got a list of four top cash-flowing real estate markets—but the real question is, would WE invest in them? Finally, we’ll share our takes on whether or not cash flow is crucial, especially as it becomes harder to find. You’ll see why Kathy and Henry have stopped caring so much about mailbox money and are focusing on something much more important when building wealth. In This Episode We Cover: The four ways to find real estate cash flow EVEN in an appreciation market The cash flow “situations” to look for whenever buying a new property The argument FOR using less debt, but the big downside to consider Four cash-flowing real estate markets with high rents and low home prices Whether or not WE think cash flow is crucial for investors in 2024 The one thing that made Kathy very wealthy and why she stopped searching so hard for cash flow  And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Agent BiggerPockets Bootcamps Join BiggerPockets for FREE On The Market Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Connect with Other Investors in the “On The Market” Forums Subscribe to The “On The Market” YouTube Channel Dave's BiggerPockets Profile Dave's Instagram Henry's BiggerPockets Profile Henry's Instagram Kathy's BiggerPockets Profile Kathy's Instagram BiggerPockets' Instagram Top 10 Real Estate Markets for Cash Flow in 2024 Cash Flow For Rental Properties: What is Average or Good? Books Mentioned in the Show Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth by Avery Carl 30-Day Stay  by Zeona McIntyre and Sarah Weaver Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-192 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

Hey everyone. Welcome to On the Market. I'm your host, Dave Meyer. And today we're going to be

0:11.8

waiting into one of the most heated conversations in real estate, which is can you even find

0:18.2

cash flow in the first place these days? And where can you actually find cash flow? the first place these days and where can you actually find

0:22.8

cash flow to join me for this conversation is kathy fecky and mr henry washington do you guys

0:28.9

hear this debate a lot kathy do you hear people saying that cash flow is impossible to find

0:34.5

these days sometimes yeah but only from people who i guess don't know how to find it or are new to the

0:40.6

business.

0:41.5

All right.

0:41.8

Well, you just took my second question away.

0:43.3

I was going to ask if they're correct.

0:45.5

But it sounds like, no.

0:47.2

Henry, what about you?

0:48.2

Do you hear this question come up a lot?

0:50.9

All the time, especially since interest rates have gone up, that's people's

0:54.2

favorite phrase is you can't, you can't buy cash flow anymore. It's just not true. I actually

1:00.4

tell my students, I don't know if you guys are aware, but every deal cash flows, every single

1:08.2

deal ever cash flows. It just does't cash flow at the price you're comfortable

1:13.5

offering or at the price the seller is asking for. But that doesn't mean you can't analyze that

1:18.3

deal, figure out the price it does cash flow at and make that offer. It also every deal cash flows

1:22.9

depending on the amount of money you put down as well. If you buy something for cash or you buy it for 50%

1:28.7

equity, it will probably cash flow. So that's a very good point. So Henry, where do you think

1:34.4

this notion comes from that cash flow is impossible to find? Yeah, I think, well, if you look at

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