Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.

And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli. Hello, my friends, and welcome to another episode of Ask Marco, where I answer your

investing related questions.

This is going to be actually a main episode of the passive real estate

investing podcast. And the reason for that is because the question here is an Ask Marco question

submitted by someone by the name of Conrato, I hope I

pronounce that correctly, but because it's such an in-depth question I wanted to

expand on it. Conrato writes in and he says,

hi Marco love the podcast very informative with the right level of information

especially for investors starting like me.

My situation is the following.

I'm looking to buy my first investment property soon looking to deploy $200,000 of my portfolio

to start investing in real estate. My goal is to reach 10 units in 10 years buying one per year.

That's a great goal.

My question is, should I buy cash to get the better price up front and refinance this

first property one year from now to raise cash for the second one,

or should I finance this first one with 20% down,

and save the cash to finance the second one one year from now.

I feel like if I buy cash cash I could get a better deal. In this

case how easy is it to refinance to raise cash one year from now to buy the

second one? Thanks and great job with the podcast. Okay, so thanks for the questions, Conrato. This is a very good question and I think a lot of people think about this because when you talk about buying a property all cash a lot of people are

under the belief falsely or otherwise that you can get a better price or a better

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