#464: The 5-Hour Investor – A Strategy for People with Little Time
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
4.9 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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🎙️ Episode #464 – Think you don't have enough time to invest in real estate? You might just be using the wrong strategy. Coach Carson breaks down the "5-hour investor" mindset and reveals which strategies work best when time is scarce.
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📄 Show Notes: https://www.coachcarson.com/5hourinvestor/
🎬 Timestamps:
- (0:00) - You're using the wrong strategy!
- (1:47) - Time-FIRST Strategy Framework
- (2:30) - The Passive Investor
- (3:10) - The Semi-Passive Investor
- (3:40) - The Semi-Active Investor
- (4:29) - The Active Investor
- (5:57) - The 5-hr investor Don't Do's
- (8:18) - The 5-hr investor To Do's
- (10:09) - Know your strengths & weaknesses
- (12:55) - 5 Small & Simple Rental Properties
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt guilty that you should be doing more in real estate? |
| 0:02.6 | That you're not finding enough deals, that you're not scaling fast enough? |
| 0:05.7 | Well, let me take some pressure off. |
| 0:07.2 | You might be trying to use a strategy that simply doesn't fit your season of life. |
| 0:10.9 | In this episode, I'll show you how to invest successfully using just five hours per week |
| 0:14.8 | and why that's more than enough to build long-term wealth. If we haven't met yet, my name is Chad Carson. |
| 0:28.1 | You can also call me Coach Carson, and on this channel I teach you how to use real |
| 0:30.8 | estate investing to achieve financial freedom so you can spend your time doing more of what |
| 0:34.6 | matters. |
| 0:35.6 | All right, let's talk about what's actually going on here. |
| 0:36.6 | I've coached hundreds of real estate investors behind the scenes that many of them think they're struggling because they're not motivated enough or they're not smart enough or maybe the market is too competitive. But what I found is that many of them struggle because they've picked a strategy that doesn't actually fit into the amount of time they have. And this is way more common than you think. A lot of the strategies you hear about, like the Burr strategy, Airbnb, marketing and buying |
| 0:57.2 | properties directly from sellers, those are |
| 0:59.1 | great strategies, but these aren't very part-time strategies. These are like 10, 20, maybe 40-hour |
| 1:04.9 | a week strategies in order to be successful. But most real-life investors, they've got five hours |
| 1:10.0 | per week, maybe 10 on a good week. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's because they're working full time. They have families. Maybe they're helping their aging parents. |
| 1:16.6 | And they're just trying to fit real estate into the cracks of their schedule. And so what happens? |
| 1:19.6 | You start trying to fit a full-time strategy into a part-time life and you start to feel overwhelmed. |
| 1:24.6 | Deals slip through your fingers, you feel behind, |
| 1:27.8 | analysis paralysis kicks in, and that guilty feeling that you should be doing more starts |
| 1:32.6 | to creep in. But here's the thing. It's not you. It's the strategy. Most advice you see online |
| 1:37.6 | is built for 20-hour investors. And most people are five-hour investors. Once you see that, |
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