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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

752: Why I Sold a Rental Property Portfolio That Took Me YEARS to Build

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Want to know how to invest in multifamily real estate WITHOUT being a multimillionaire? We aren’t talking about tackling a duplex or triplex; we’re talking about sixteen, eight, or ten-unit apartment buildings that could help you replace your W2 income. And while these deals may seem too big to take down for a rookie real estate investor, they’re much easier to get done IF you know what to do. But you’ll want to follow Lee Yoder's advice, who left his job and took a hefty pay cut to start investing in real estate. As a corporate physical therapist, Lee knew that time was passing him by. The one thing he could do to ensure a life of financial freedom and time with his growing family? Multifamily real estate investing! He made the risky decision to switch gears, leaving the corporate world and thirty percent of his income behind to make the jump. Thanks to smart saving and spending, Lee was in a position where he could dedicate large chunks of his time to flipping houses and later investing in passive-income-generating real estate. The best part about Lee’s story is that he did all of this on a middle-class income, without a ton of cash, using tools that almost every investor has available to them. If you want to know how he did it, what steps helped him skyrocket his portfolio, and how you can repeat his system, stick around! In This Episode We Cover: When to go full-time into real estate and saying goodbye to a steady paycheck House flipping and buying under-market homes at online auctions The “passive income” fallacy and why real estate investing ISN’T what you think Living below your means and why spending less allows you to take bigger risks Using real estate meetups to find partners, mentors, and deals in your area The rental property “scrapyard” that most investors overlook when buying multifamily Buying in the multifamily “sweet spot” that new investors and big syndicators won’t venture into And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Work with Andrew Andrew's BiggerPockets Profile Try the BRRRR Calculator on Your Next Deal What is the BRRRR Method & How to Use it to Invest in Real Estate How to Properly Analyze a BRRRR Property Hear Andrew On Our Recent Episode About Asset Management Connect with Lee: Lee's BiggerPockets Profile Lee's LinkedIn Lee's Facebook Lee's Website Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-752 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

This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show, 752.

0:04.0

I'm Lee Yoder and I was able to become a real estate millionaire on a middle income salary

0:09.8

and I believe you can too.

0:12.0

What's going on everyone?

0:13.0

This is David Green, your host of the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast here today with

0:16.4

my co-host Andrew Kushman, who's also one of my very good friends and also my partner

0:21.3

in multi-family investing.

0:23.1

We brought him on because he's an expert in multi-family to help interview today's guest

0:27.3

Lee Yoder.

0:28.3

Lee has a fantastic story and you guys are going to love today's episode.

0:33.4

Lee talks about how he took a big pay cut to keep his job but got time back to start investing.

0:38.6

How he got his wife on board to support him in his crazy real estate dreams and how he's

0:42.8

bought several apartment complexes and is ready to buy more all while making a middle

0:48.2

income salary.

0:50.4

Andrew, how are you today?

0:51.8

Man, you know what?

0:53.3

I'm talking real estate with you.

0:56.7

Business is good.

0:57.7

I'm healthy and it is snowing like crazy in the mountains.

1:00.9

I'm going to be skiing to August.

1:02.5

So I'm feeling better than the people you see in pharmaceutical commercials.

1:06.5

That's awesome.

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