Hey everyone, it's Coach Carson. Quick note before we start. Today's episode is a re-release from about a year ago, but I'm bringing this episode back because the question keeps coming up again and again, especially right now. And the question is, should you keep buying more rental properties? Or should you take your cash and start slowing down a little bit and start paying off debt? So we have higher interest rates now. There's more uncertainty. And a lot of

investors are sort of second guessing themselves about their strategy. So what I like about this

conversation with my friend Arian is that we don't treat this as an either or decision. We talk about

how there's timing and there's milestones of your career. There's also depending on what kind of your

income goals you have and your lifestyle goals. So it's more than just math on a spreadsheet. It's also, depending on what kind of your income goals you have and your lifestyle goals,

so it's more than just math on a spreadsheet.

It's also we give you some frameworks to make the decision for your personal situation.

So as you listen, pay attention to when it makes sense to shift gears and then how your answer changes depending on where you are in your investing journey.

All right, let's jump in.

Thank you. where you are in your investing journey. All right, let's jump in. 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,

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