So you saved up some cash as a rental investor.

Maybe it's 50,000 bucks, maybe it's 100,000 bucks.

But now you're trying to decide, should you take that money and buy a new property,

or should you use that money to pay down debt on your existing rentals?

That's the question we're going to tackle in today's episode of Ask Coach,

and we're getting started right now. Today's question comes from Aaron Amin, a member of my private coaching community called Rental Property Mastery.

If you haven't heard of Rental Property Mastery, it's the place where I coach and help small

and mighty real estate investors to buy more properties, to raise more funds,

and to turn their rental properties into passive investments so they can achieve financial freedom.

You can check it out or join at the link below in the podcast and YouTube description.

To help me discuss this question, I brought on my friend and one of the smartest real estate

investors and professionals I know, Arian Shi Hai. He's from Houston, Texas, and he's also known

as the investing architect. Now, let's go to our conversation. I want to ask you, and let's have a

discussion here about when is it the right time to start paying off some of your debt on your

rental properties, and when is it time to just keep buying more? That's a great question. But I just want to

make a clarification first that this question is only useful in the context of an investor's

individual journey towards financial freedom. So I have no interest in discussing the debate

between like people who are leveraged maximalists, like they just want, you know, you should

always be leveraged for the rest of your life and the Dave Ramsey people that you should never

have any debt like that debate to me. It's, it's never going to be resolved and it doesn't lead to

anything worthwhile anyway. But I think within within the context of a person's journey or

investors journey, I think there are some critical times when

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