Most investors who already own rentals get stuck buying about one new deal per year, even though they're saving and even though their property's cash flow. But the problem isn't that your rentals don't cash flow enough. Cash flow is not the bottleneck. I've hit the ceiling myself and I see it all the time with other investors I work with in my coaching program, RPM. So in this episode, I'll show you why relying only on rental cash flow will cap your growth as an investor.

Why focusing on buying better deals leads to more deals.

And I'll give you several creative ways to raise more money for your deals without doing anything reckless.

Thank you to Jonah Pasqua for originally asking the question that inspired this video.

Jonah is a member of my rental property mastery community.

And maybe like a lot of you, Jonah's done a good job of buying a few properties.

He's even making cash flow from some of his rental properties.

He's doing a great job of saving money from his day job. But even with all of that, the trickle of cash flow that's coming in, it's just taking a long time to get to the next deal. And so I want to show a paradigm, a mindset shift that has to happen probably with Jonah, maybe with some of you, in order to get to the next deal. And the idea is that think about saving for your next down payment like a bucket, like you're filling up a bucket of water. And if you fill up $200 a month, $300 a month, it is not a bad thing. Like saving money and having cash flow in your properties is great. So there's nothing wrong with that. But if you only fill up the bucket, $200 at a a time it's going to take a while to get to

50,000 or $100,000 that you might need for your next deal and so really the paradigm shift is you

have to figure out strategies to have bigger chunks of savings flow into your life so $25,000

$50,000 trucks that come in at one time if you want to start

buying more than one property per year. And so what I want to share with you and share some ideas

about is how can you do that and do it in a safe way, in a small and mighty way, which I like

to talk about on this channel, so that you can accelerate your growth and actually get to your

goals faster.

Now, if you want to save chunks of cash and do it faster, one of the best ways to do that is

to buy lower. So in other words, buy your deals at lower prices. If you can buy your deals

at a lower price, let me show you how much that changes the calculus, the math on how quickly you have to save your money.

So here's an example deal. Let's say we find a property that the full value of this single-family house rental property is $350,000.

So if you just bought a pretty in good condition house on the retail market, you might have to put $70,000 down.

That would be a 20% down payment. You might also have about $10,000 and other costs, closing costs, maybe some of this little cleanup kind of stuff you'd have to do anyway. So you might have $80,000 out of pocket. That's the starting point. But if you can buy that property lower, and if you can look for really good deals and make a lot of offers and make sure

you do what investors have always done, which is look for a really good deal. And you can buy the

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