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Real Estate Rookie

$900/Month Cash Flow from His FIRST Rental ($0 Down!)

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Could rental properties be your ticket to financial freedom? When today’s guest realized his “secure” corporate job wasn’t quite as secure as he thought, he plunged head-first into real estate investing and hasn’t looked back. In just three years, he’s built a real estate portfolio of several no-money-down rentals. Want to repeat his success? Then stay tuned!   Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! When Joe Pozzuoli’s high-performing coworkers started being laid off one by one, he knew it was time to take control of his financial future. After trialing a few different side hustles (and even a full-fledged e-commerce business), he eventually landed on real estate. His first deal was a home run—a triplex that cost him zero dollars out of pocket and cash flows over $900 a month to this day!   Joe will show you how to find similar deals, perform multi-unit rehabs, and score discounted properties on real estate auctions. But that’s not all. Joe also shares how his investing goals have shifted over time. Once hell-bent on amassing 50 units, Joe’s now focusing on a smaller number of paid-off investments. What should YOU do—build a highly-leveraged real estate empire or a low-risk portfolio? Stick around till the end for the answer! In This Episode We Cover How Joe bought his first real estate deal (with a no money down loan!) Scaling your real estate portfolio versus paying off your current properties How to find (and buy) discounted rental properties at bank auctions Flipping houses to purchase more buy-and-hold investment properties Networking to get the best referrals and build out your investing team And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-584 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

Today's guest, Joe Pazoli, watched colleagues lose their jobs overnight, pushing him to dive

0:06.3

head first into real estate.

0:08.0

Joe's gone from a cautious high earner to building a thriving portfolio that pays him even

0:13.8

while he sleeps.

0:14.5

And today, he's breaking it down every step he took to get there.

0:23.1

This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.

0:25.3

I'm Ashley Care.

0:26.4

And I'm Tony J. Robinson.

0:28.3

Joe, welcome to the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.

0:30.7

Super excited to have you with us today.

0:32.2

Yeah, welcome.

0:33.0

It's an honor to be here.

0:34.7

I was very surprised to get the call,

0:36.4

but happy to be here and be on with you, too.

0:38.8

Well, Joe, you're making great money and your career seems secure, but then your friends suddenly

0:46.0

start losing their jobs.

0:47.7

Take us into that moment when you first felt really vulnerable and realized everything

0:53.3

could change overnight for you as well.

0:55.6

Yeah. So the timeframe was March, April, May, 2020. Small little thing going on across

1:02.2

the world called COVID, right? And at that beginning, you know, everything's just kind of

1:06.9

spinning out of control for a lot of people in those early stages. So obviously, a lot of

1:11.1

stress and uncertainty, not just for me, but, you know, again, for so many people worldwide. And

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