633: Seeing Greene: Is My BRRRR a Bust If Cash Flow is Low?
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
BiggerPockets
4.8 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Cash flow is necessary when investing in rental properties. Cash flow grants you, the real estate investor, enough leeway to pay for your mortgage and taxes, and save up a healthy safety reserve for future renovations. For new real estate investors, cash flow is probably the single most important metric they look at, but it’s not always a great predictor of a good investment. If you want to truly build wealth, generate passive income, and retire early (or rich), start looking at the metrics David Greene is talking about.
Welcome back to another episode of Seeing Greene. Our cash flow creator, expert agent, and investor with decades of experience, David Greene, is back to answer your most asked questions. In this episode, we’re touching on topics like when to focus less on work and focus more on real estate investing, why low cash flow isn’t always a bad thing, what happens when an appraisal misses the mark, creatively financing home renovations, and how much every investor should have in safety reserves.
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In This Episode We Cover:
Why buying real estate in sprints is normal and when to lay off investing
The many metrics outside of cash flow that point to a great rental property
What to do when an appraisal comes back low and how to challenge an appraisal
The different ways to finance a home renovation and which will pave the way for more passive income
How much to keep in safety reserves if you’re buying your first rental property
And So Much More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the bigger Pockets Podcast show 633. |
| 0:04.9 | Look, if you love real estate and you don't like your job, |
| 0:08.0 | you don't have to quit your job to invest full-time in real estate. |
| 0:11.0 | You can, but you can also quit your job to take a job in real estate, |
| 0:14.8 | and then you can be investing more often with better resources and more support. |
| 0:20.4 | Take a job that's supplementary investing and makes it easier for you to do. |
| 0:24.6 | You don't just have to quit your job and go full-time and to real estate investing. |
| 0:28.6 | I'd love to see more people like you, your partner, and your family in the bigger pockets community |
| 0:33.2 | who are helping others build well through real estate and building their own at the same time. |
| 0:37.4 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:38.3 | This is David Green, you are host of the bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | Here today with a seeing green edition. |
| 0:44.2 | In today's show, you, the audience of bigger pockets, will submit questions, |
| 0:49.0 | and I will do my best to answer them for everybody to hear. |
| 0:52.6 | Today's show we get into some really cool stuff, including questions about how much reserve |
| 0:57.5 | should someone have for their first property, when they should focus on building a business |
| 1:01.9 | versus investing in a real estate to grow wealth, and if low cash flow on a bird deal |
| 1:07.7 | is a good thing or a bad thing. |
| 1:10.2 | All that and more in today's show. |
| 1:13.5 | If you would like to be featured on the bigger pockets podcast, here's all you have to do. |
| 1:17.4 | Go to biggerpockets.com slash David and submit your video question for me to answer on the show. |
| 1:23.4 | I've actually met people that I hired from this format. |
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