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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

64: 50 Units in 5 Years while Working a Full Time Job with Josh Sterling

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Working a full time job while investing in real estate is not always easy – but as our guest today shows us: it’s totally possible. On today’s show we chat with Josh Sterling, a real estate investor who has built up a portfolio of fifty units (complete with rehabs and doing his own management) all while working a full time job. Discover the tricks, tactics, and systems that Josh has used, as well as an inside look at his creative finance methods to acquire these properties. This show is definitely one that people will want to come back to time and time again! In This Show, We Cover: Why doing things “the typical way” may not have been the right path Investing when the bank says “no.” How Josh used credit cards to buy his first few properties Portfolio lenders: the best technique for finding one Using a blanket loan to buy and sell real estate Using the 2% rule to screen for great properties How Josh managed his real estate business while having a full time job How Josh finds deals Using Homepath Mortgages for 10% down investment loans How Josh found his first apartment complex using Facebook! Dealing with tenants while working a full time job And so much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets.com/pro (New Video!) BP Podcast 048: Duplex Investing, Finding Great Properties, and Tips for Managing Tenants with Darren Sager BP Podcast 055: The Five Steps Needed to Get Any Lender to Say “Yes” with Jimmy Moncrief The 2% Rule BP Podcast 061: How to Succeed in Multifamily Investing – A Unique Conversation with Josh, Brandon, and Ben HomePath.com BP Podcast 063: Automating Your Investing, Long Distance Rehabs and Spec Building with J Scott Jason Hartman Podcast Buildium Property Management Software Tweetable Topics “If you can stand out, do extra work – you are going to get incredible results.” (Tweet This!) “Buy and Hold real estate is the best way to build wealth.” (Tweet This!) “I’m much more of a ‘ready fire aim’ kind of guy.” (Tweet This!) “Be proactive, not reactive, when looking for contractors.” (Tweet This!) Books Mentioned in the Show Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Connect with Josh! Josh Sterling’s BiggerPockets Profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast, Show 64.

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You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio,

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simplifying real estate for investors large and small.

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If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the hype, you're in the right place.

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Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited from BiggerPockets.com.

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Your home for real estate investing online. benefited from BiggerPockets.com.

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Your home for real estate investing online.

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What's going on everybody?

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This is Josh Dorkin, host The BiggerPockets

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podcast here with my magical co-host,

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Mr Brandon Turner.

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Abbric-A-Dabra.

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Al-Kazam!

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Yeah, look at me magical.

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How you doing?

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You were a kid who used to do magic, weren't you?

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I actually, so...

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I remember setting up like this like magic table in my bedroom and doing a whole magic show for my family

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and then like two months ago I went to Universal Studios in Florida and I bought a whole

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magic kit there that I've been waiting to do on a bigger pockets video and I haven't done it

0:58.5

yet but speaking a video I did actually work on a video this morning that I'm going to be

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editing later today for bigger pockets so I'm pretty excited I got a new camera

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