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dan lane casey instead of buying a rental property you recently built a rental property what are

some of the advantages to building a property versus buying an existing property when I think about buying an older property versus building a brand new property, there's a

couple things that come to mind. One with building, you're dealing with new construction,

new materials. You feel like you have control over the quality of the house that you're

building and then ultimately that you're going to rent out.

And you get to know every piece of that house from the ground up versus buying a property.

You're kind of figuring things out as you go along.

You know, you can trust the inspection reports.

You can trust what the sellers are telling you.

But you're really kind of trial and error figuring out what's

there versus knowing full hand from plans to finish versus building that property. And that gives you

a little bit more flexibility in making decisions for materials, contractors, how much you want to

charge of that build to rent versus buy to rent mentality.

And in a lot of the country right now, we have a housing shortage, and it can be difficult

to find properties for sale, so building a property could be a good option.

On the show today, we're going to hear Casey's experience with building a property.

We'll talk about the good

and the bad and help you figure out if this is something that might be good for you to do.

Joining us on the show today from Grants Pass, Oregon is Casey Miller. We'll take a quick

break to thank our sponsors. We'll come right back and we'll talk to Casey. I've had tenants break their lease or

stop paying rent and I'm sure you know how expensive that can get. It's easy for the cost to

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