7 Best (Beginner) Markets to Buy Rental Properties in 2025 (Rookie Reply)

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Where should YOU invest in 2025? Stay tuned because we’re going to share our top seven real estate markets for buying rental properties this year. We’ll tell you why we like them, why they’re growing, and whether it’s worth moving there to invest! Welcome back to another Rookie Reply! Today, Ashley and guest cohost Garrett Brown are answering recent questions from new investors just like you. Do you feel behind in your real estate investing journey compared to other investors? You can’t believe everything you see on social media, BUT if you have big plans to grow your real estate portfolio, we’ll show you some of the secrets to scaling! Next, we’ll dive into our favorite markets in 2025. Whether you’re investing in long-term rentals or short-term rentals, we have beginner-friendly options for all strategies. Finally, we’ll break down a real estate deal an investor is working on and steer them in the right direction! Looking to invest? Need answers? Ask your question here! In This Episode We Cover: The top seven real estate markets we’re investing in this year The secret to scaling your real estate portfolio (without a ton of money!) How to buy an investment property without a 25% down payment Discovering profitable short-term rentals using the 20% revenue rule Why stabilizing your properties is more important than buying more Why you should always choose your investing strategy before buying property And So Much More! Links from the Show Ashley's BiggerPockets Profile Tony's BiggerPockets Profile Join BiggerPockets for FREE Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Real Estate Rookie YouTube Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Ask Your Question for a Future Rookie Reply “Like” Real Estate Rookie on Facebook BiggerPockets Rental Property Calculator BiggerPockets Market Analysis Template BiggerPockets Top Investment Housing Markets for 2025 BiggerPockets Buy Box Checklist BiggerPockets How to Pick a Short-Term Rental Market Guide BiggerStays YouTube Channel AirDNA Navigate The 2025 Tax Season with an Investor-Friendly Tax Expert Ask Your Question for a Future Rookie Reply Grab the Book “Smarter Short-Term Rentals” Sign Up for the Real Estate Rookie Newsletter Find Investor-Friendly Lenders Real Estate Rookie 473 - Moving 1,500 Miles Away to Buy His First Rental with Just $25,000 Connect with Garrett (00:00) Intro (00:38) The Secret to Scaling (12:12) 7 Best Real Estate Markets (23:37) Property Analysis 101 (32:59) Connect with Garrett! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-529 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	Are you looking for the hottest markets to invest in for 2025?
0:04.4	Everyone has a different buy box, but we're going to give our best ideas for where to start investing this year.
0:16.1	I'm Ashley Care and welcome to the Real Estate Rookie podcast.
0:20.1	Tony just had a baby. So we have a special
0:23.5	guest, Garrett Brown on from the Bigger Stays YouTube channel. Garrett, welcome to the show. Thank you so
0:30.8	much for joining us on this episode of Ricky Reply. I'm super honored to be here. Always a fan to jump
0:36.7	on and talk real estate with you.
0:38.6	Yeah. So I pulled us a question today. And this question is just curious on what's realistic and how some of
0:46.4	these people posting on social media amassed so many properties. Seems like I see a lot of posts
0:52.4	essentially claiming, look at my life and how we managed three companies and 300 rental properties. Seems like I see a lot of posts essentially claiming, look at my life and how we
0:55.2	managed three companies and 300 rental properties. Many of these folks appear to be early to
1:01.1	mid-30s. I'm 44, have household income combined W-2 wages near 400,000, and just acquired my third
1:10.4	single-family home rental. Am I going about this wrong by saving up for my 25%
1:15.8	down payment and finding a deal? My three rentals are great and cash flow, but I can't fathom how to
1:22.6	scale to something as monstrous as hundreds of properties. Where do these people get the funds?
1:29.0	What am I missing? So Garrett, we both see the people on Instagram saying, I have tons of
1:36.6	properties. So there is, you know, some of them that really have amassed that. And there's also
1:42.9	some that maybe own one percent of those
1:46.4	500 properties that they're talking about. I will go ahead and lead off as somebody that has
1:52.5	done social media for as long as I can remember and say that a lot of it is smoke and mirrors.
1:59.1	You can always take that for face value. And a reason people do that type of content a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. You can always take that for face value.
2:01.4	And a reason people do that type of content a lot is because it performs well on social media.
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