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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

878: The Low-Risk “Micro-Flips” ANY Beginner Investor Should Try w/Antoine Martel

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.816.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Antoine Martel has a secret to finding the best real estate markets around, and here’s the thing—ANYONE can repeat his process. After flipping over SIX HUNDRED houses and building a BIG real estate portfolio, he knows a thing or two about where to buy, which markets make the most sense, and what type of house is worth the risk. That’s why, instead of doing multimillion-dollar luxury flips, Antoine decided to do “micro-flips” in affordable markets, with a staggering rate of success.   What is "micro-flipping?" If you’re a beginner investor like Antoine, starting out with only $40,000, buying in the big cities won’t work. So, instead, Antoine found the real estate markets with low prices, high demand, and LOTS of deals so he could get his money back faster and keep repeating the system. These low-risk “micro-flips” all-in often cost less than a down payment, but they can give beginner investors the snowball effect they need to start building wealth.  Shortly after seeing massive success with his “micro-flips,” Antoine ran out of deals and decided to move into more markets. From there, he developed a detailed system that ANYONE can copy to pinpoint America's BEST real estate investing markets. And if you stick around, you’ll learn how to do it, too!  In This Episode We Cover How to find the best real estate markets in the country, just like Antoine  The “micro-flipping” strategy that beginner investors can use to start building wealth WITHOUT a big investment  How to use the BRRRR method to turn one property into an entire passive income portfolio  How to “test” your long-distance real estate investing market and ensure it’ll be worth investing in  The home renovation budget “sweet spot” that has ninety-six percent accuracy on ANY flip or BRRRR  And So Much More! Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-878 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bigger Pockets Podcast. My name is Dave Meyer here today with Rob Abisolo and we have a very interesting

0:06.8

investor story for you.

0:08.7

Yeah, today we're going to be talking with Antoine Martel who has done some really interesting things using market

0:14.7

intelligence and data to pick markets and scale his real estate business.

0:19.0

Thank you for letting me come on here and join you today, Rob.

0:22.1

It's our first show hosting together too which I'm very excited about.

0:25.4

I know it's so exciting. A little nervous. I've got notes. I've got notes on the intro. Usually when I intro someone I say, I'm here with my good friend Henry

0:34.7

Washington or my good friend David Green. But I haven't earned it yet. I noticed you didn't say that

0:39.0

when you introduced me. Okay, well, hey, you're a good friend Dave.

0:42.8

Oh, because I was introducing you, I'm sorry.

0:44.9

Well, uh-hmm.

0:46.7

Next time, after we have this show together,

0:49.5

I'll have detailed adjectives to describe you.

0:52.6

Thank you very much.

0:54.6

But seriously, thank you for having me on the show because if you don't know me, I really

0:58.7

love data that's my job at Bigger Pockets and I know that Antoine is going to share a lot of information about how he uses data in a really practical and honestly kind of simple way to pick different markets and figure out what strategies are right for him.

1:14.4

Yeah, and you're going to hear a very practical strategy that we're calling microflips that he uses,

1:20.0

and I think it's a really super approachable way and less risky strategy for getting into the game in 2024.

1:25.5

I really like it. I'm excited to jump into that.

1:27.3

All right well then with no further ado let's welcome Antoine onto the show.

1:31.2

Antoine welcome to the show we appreciate you welcome to the show. We appreciate you being here.

1:33.6

Of course, thanks for having me.

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