570: Seeing Greene: Signs of a Great Agent, When to Refi, and How to Scale
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
BiggerPockets
4.8 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Your rental portfolio can either be your ticket to financial freedom or a massive headache, but it’s completely up to you, the investor, to decide. Many investors who have been stacking up properties over the past few years now realize they’re sitting on a significant amount of equity. But what is the best way to use this equity without raising your stress levels in the process? Should you buy more units or focus on getting better, smaller, cash-flowing deals?
David Greene is here to help alleviate you from the decision-induced stress, as he’s been dealing with these exact types of questions personally and with many of his buyers recently. In this Seeing Greene episode, David takes answers from BiggerPockets listeners both in video and written form, discussing topics ranging from scaling your real estate portfolio, outsourcing “heavy” tasks with a virtual assistant, and whether to cash-out refinance or use a HELOC(home equity line of credit).
David also answers the age-old question of whether or not unit count matters when it comes to cash flow and long-term wealth building. You may be surprised to hear that many investors' “unit counts” don’t accurately reflect the size of their personal holdings. You’ll also get advice on how to find a great real estate agent from one of the top agents in the country!
If you’d like to ask David a question, be sure to submit yours here!
In This Episode We Cover:
How to grow your real estate portfolio in spite of fluctuating market conditions
Using virtual assistants to outsource the repeatable, “heavy” tasks on your plate
When the right time to sell an investment property is (especially with HIGH appreciation)
Transferring a rental property from your LLC into your personal name, and the implications that come with it
The two types of agents and which one you should use for buying investment properties
HELOCs vs cash-out refinances and the specific uses of both
And So Much More!
Links from the Show
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Submit Your Questions to David Greene
BiggerPockets Podcast 534: Seeing Greene: Should I Buy Now or Wait for a Market Cool-Off?
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BiggerPockets Podcast 501: Seeing Greene: How Soon Can I Refi? + 11 Other Real Estate Questions
BiggerPockets Podcast 558: Seeing Greene: Cash Flow—The Most Overrated Metric in Real Estate?
BiggerPockets Podcast 567: Seeing Greene: Finding Cash Flow, Refinancing Sooner, & NNN Properties
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show, 5, 7, 0. |
| 0:05.2 | Look at your equity like a tree that you planted. |
| 0:08.7 | And if you chop down that one tree, you can plant three more. |
| 0:11.7 | As long as the location where you plant a tree |
| 0:13.8 | is similar to where your current tree is, or better. |
| 0:16.4 | And you believe that the quality of the trees |
| 0:18.3 | that you can plant with it, it's definitely better |
| 0:20.8 | to take down one tree to plant three more. |
| 0:23.3 | You're just gonna grow three times faster. |
| 0:25.1 | And then continuing to do that over the next 10 to 20 years |
| 0:28.0 | will actually build you an orchard. |
| 0:33.8 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:34.6 | It is David Green, your host of the Bigger Pockets Podcast |
| 0:37.4 | here with a seeing green episode. |
| 0:40.8 | Now on these shows, we take questions directly |
| 0:43.2 | from the Bigger Pockets community. |
| 0:45.0 | And that means you, and I answer them for everyone to hear. |
| 0:48.5 | Never do I know what it's gonna be thrown at me |
| 0:50.4 | and it's always something different. |
| 0:51.6 | This is a lot of fun. |
| 0:52.9 | And it's designed to give you pure practical education |
| 0:56.6 | that you can take and go apply to building your own business |
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