5 Portfolio Pivots We’re Making This Year (Real Estate Is Changing FAST)

Real Estate Rookie

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Is 2025 a scary time to invest in real estate or your biggest opportunity yet? Whether you’re scaling back or doubling down, this episode is your survival guide for today’s shifting market. Ashley and Tony are sharing the pivots they’re making to shore up their rental portfolios and grow their wealth faster! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! When your portfolio no longer aligns with your investing goals, it’s time to make changes. That’s exactly what Ashley and Tony are doing in 2025—tweaking their investing strategies, offloading unprofitable properties, and trimming the fat from their businesses to create more cash flow. Stay tuned and we’ll show you how to do the same! This year, Tony is rolling out new, high-ROI amenities across all of his short-term rentals, while Ashley is BRRRR-ing (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat) her primary residence and preparing the property she plans to one day turn into her dream home. Stick around till the end to hear about our new investments outside of real estate—from index funds to tech startups and more! In This Episode We Cover The biggest rental portfolio pivots Ashley and Tony are making this year Adapting your short-term rental strategy for an oversaturated Airbnb market Why reinvesting in your portfolio often beats buying more rental properties The high-ROI Airbnb amenities that will make your properties stand out How to instantly boost your cash flow by cutting unnecessary business expenses When to SELL an underperforming property (and where to invest the money!) And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-567 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In today's unpredictable market, some investors might be panicking about their properties while others are finding hidden opportunities that are in plain sight.
0:09.3	It's not just about what properties you should buy anymore.
0:12.1	It's about making strategic moves with what you already own and being ready to pivot when the market shifts.
0:19.0	Today, we are going to share some real world strategies that we're actually implementing
0:24.5	with our own portfolios to help you navigate this market.
0:33.3	I'm Ashley Care.
0:34.9	And I'm Tony J. Robinson.
0:36.9	And Ash, I'm excited to kind of get into this, right?
0:39.0	About like what's happening in 2025 and how it's impacting us and what we're doing, right?
0:45.1	So maybe the best place for us to start.
0:47.7	Let's talk Airbnb.
0:49.0	You know, I think both of us have some short-term rentals, some Airbnb stuff going on.
0:52.8	That's the one thing we have in common since you sold your street, your street-free fort.
0:59.7	So I guess give me, give me the update on your eyes.
1:01.8	I know you had your arbitrage units and you've made some changes there.
1:04.8	What's, uh, what's going on on on your side?
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.5	So right now I have, uh, two Airbnb is operating. I closed down to Airbnb arbitrage where I was renting
1:17.4	them out and or I was renting them and then I was renting them out on Airbnb. We had one of those.
1:25.6	One of those was actually my first Airbnb and we've had that since
1:28.7	2018 being an Airbnb host and the competition of Airbnb has drastically changed since
1:36.4	2018 in 2018 we got away with picking out furniture from our mom's friends
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