Are new construction rental properties a good investment opportunity? Most investors talk about buying an older property, fixing it up, and then keeping that as a rental property. But what about building from the ground up or maybe buying from another builder who's built the property and then keeping that as a rental property? That's the question I want to tackle in today's episode of Ask Coach, and we're getting started right now.

Welcome to the Ask Coach edition of the podcast. If we haven't met yet, I'm your host, Chad Carson. You can also call me Coach, and the mission of this show is to help you get out of

the financial grind so you can do more of what matters. In the Ask Coach podcast series, it's where I do my best

to answer your burning questions about real estate investing and personal finance.

Today's question came from Heather Louder, and the question was within one of my courses,

a course called Find Your Focus, which is my beginner course, which helps you find your

real estate investing strategy at the very beginning of your journey.

I'll have a link to that in the video description and the podcast description.

But this is a very timely question because what she wanted to know is my thoughts or advice

on whether it was a good idea or not to invest in what's called a build to rent strategy

or a new construction rental strategy. And my short answer is, yes, I think it is a good opportunity.

It's something that I have done in the last few years with my own business partner and our investments.

And I want to unpack a little bit and explain why I think it's a good opportunity, what some of the challenges are.

And in general, why I like it's a good opportunity, what some of the challenges are.

And in general, why I like new construction rental properties is because you can buy and own a low maintenance rental. One of the biggest challenges of older properties, which I also love.

I love older properties too, is that you have long-term capital expenses that often have been

deferred. Maybe you have some plumbing, some

electrical, some sewer lines that eventually are going to wear out. Everything wears out. You might

have older other pieces of the property structure that need to be fixed. So those are some long-term

capital expenses that sometimes catch up with people. They don't realize those things are coming

when they own an older rental. There's also some layout issues often.

If you don't fully remodel the property, it might just be dated in some ways from this the flow

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