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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

911: The “Value-Add” Playbook: How to Boost Equity and Bring in MORE Cash Flow

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.816.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Want to turn your rental property into a cash-flowing machine? What about boosting your property’s equity by tens or hundreds of thousands? The “value-add” strategy can do all this and more, but you’ll need to know the right moves to make. Top real estate investors have been using value-add on their rental property portfolios for decades, turning lackluster rentals into financial freedom-producing properties, and you can do the same IF you know how to spot value-add opportunities. So, today, we’re showing YOU how to make MORE cash flow and explode your home equity by tweaking your rental properties in the right ways. Both David and Rob have done this numerous times across multiple properties. In fact, David even shares a real-life example of how he increased the cash flow on one of his rental properties by over $10,000/month thanks to an interesting strategy most rookie real estate investors would completely overlook. Not only that, Rob was able to turn his first Southern California home into a multifamily rental that hosts long, medium, and short-term tenants, and rakes in massive cash flow almost a decade after purchasing it. Whether you’ve got small, big, long, medium, or short-term rentals, you can use value-add to create more passive income and bigger equity gains. Stick around as we give away our secrets on the best value-add moves to make.  In This Episode We Cover: How to use the “value-add” investing strategy to make MASSIVE cash flow on any property  The two most common ways to add value to your rental property portfolio The value-add improvements to spot BEFORE you buy another rental property (most people miss this) Additions, ADUs, and other ways to add more doors to your rental property  Boosting your cash flow by converting your long-term rentals into short and medium-term rentals  What you MUST do BEFORE you start adding on to your rental property And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch Join BiggerPockets for FREE 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 Expand Your Investing Knowledge With the BiggerPockets Books Be a Guest on the BiggerPockets Podcast Dave's BiggerPockets Profile Dave's Instagram Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's X/Twitter Rob's YouTube BiggerPockets' Instagram Learn The Original Value-Add Strategy with The BRRRR Book The Renovations That’ll Instantly Increase Your Home Value, Part 1 The Renovations That’ll Instantly Increase Your Home Value, Part 2 How to Do Value-Add Renovations Without Disrupting Tenants Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-911 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

This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show 911.

0:05.0

What's going on everyone?

0:06.0

This is David Green, your host of the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast.

0:10.0

For those of you who are new here, welcome and for all investors today and tomorrow that have been with us for a long time.

0:16.0

Welcome back.

0:17.0

I'm here today with my rad co-host Rob Abisolo.

0:21.0

Rob, how are you?

0:22.0

It feels good to be your partner in crime in today's episode.

0:25.5

And listen, if you've been a listener

0:27.4

of the BiggerPockets podcast for a long time,

0:30.0

then you've probably heard us talk about this idea of adding value to properties.

0:35.0

Today we want to slow down and actually talk about what we mean, what does adding value actually look like,

0:40.0

what are the different ways you can increase a property's value and how you're

0:43.6

going to decide which strategy is going to work for your specific property.

0:47.0

That is right. If you've ever heard people talk about value add and thought, well thank you

0:50.8

but what does that actually mean?

0:53.4

After today's show, you're going to walk away loving us.

0:56.1

This is an emergency in real estate on episode 911.

0:58.8

We're going to be covering it.

1:00.1

The listeners have thrown up the bat call,

1:02.4

so you and I are going to come and squash this one head on

1:05.3

today's episode. Let's get into it.

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