693: Seeing Greene: How to Turn Equity into Cash Flow and Getting Around 20% Down
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
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🗓️ 27 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You’ve got home equity, but maybe not cash flow. If you want to realize financial freedom, you’ll need consistent, passive monthly income. But with cash flow harder to find than ever before, how can you get it when real estate prices and interest rates remain high? Should you give up on cash flow entirely and only bank on appreciation? Maybe not. Using the strategy David outlines today, you can convert your equity into cash flow, but you’ll need to follow the right steps.
Welcome back to another Seeing Greene episode, where David, and some expert guests, answer your questions surrounding anything and everything related to real estate investing. Joining us on today’s show are Dave Meyer, J Scott, and Pat Hiban, all BiggerPockets authors and real estate masters in their own rights. They tag-team questions ranging from how to get around the twenty percent down payment requirement, how to calculate the time value of money on an investment, how HELOCs (home equity lines of credit) work, whether investing in hurricane-heavy Florida makes sense, and more!
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In This Episode We Cover:
How to get around the twenty percent down payment requirement even as a foreign investor
Cash-out refinances vs. HELOCs and which make more sense for the casual investor
Converting equity into cash flow and how to know when you should sell an investment property
Hurricanes, high insurance rates, and other hurdles that come when investing in Florida
Calculating the time value of money and when an investment is worth buying
House hacking and using your primary residence as an income-generating asset
And So Much More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bigger Pocket podcast. Show 693. Buying equity. This is when you buy below market value. |
| 0:07.9 | And when you combine all this together, you start getting home runs. |
| 0:10.8 | Go after properties that you can buy equity in, so you buy up below market value. |
| 0:15.4 | You then added equity too through some form of rehab. |
| 0:19.5 | You then change the way that you used it, which increased the value as well, |
| 0:22.5 | changing it into a short-term rental or something like that. |
| 0:25.1 | And you do that in an area that's growing. Then you watch your return on equity. |
| 0:30.1 | And once you've accumulated a decimative equity like that, sell it at 1031 |
| 0:34.4 | into something that cash flows naturally like an apartment complex. |
| 0:37.4 | What's going on everyone? This is David Green your host of The Bigger Pocket podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | And I just realized I'm getting much better at these numbers that we flash up every time we do this. |
| 0:44.8 | That used to be a pretty hard part of the show. |
| 0:47.4 | But like with everything else, the more you practice it, the better you become. |
| 0:51.6 | And I want to help you guys practice getting better at building wealth through real estate because |
| 0:55.4 | it's freaking fun. Today's episode is a seeing green episode where you get to look at real estate |
| 0:59.9 | through my eyes, but not just mine because I brought in some help. |
| 1:03.0 | Several other different bigger pockets, personalities, and authors are here to help answer questions |
| 1:08.0 | from the people like you that are listening, give their advice on how to build wealth, |
| 1:11.9 | and I chime in with that. So what can you expect from today's show? |
| 1:15.2 | Well, an amazing topic was the time value of money that Dave Myers gets into. |
| 1:20.0 | And I throw my two cents on to how a dollar invested today is we're significantly more than |
| 1:24.8 | that same dollar invested 10, 15, 20 years from now. You definitely are going to enjoy that. |
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