Change Your Financial Future with ONE Real Estate Deal

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

All it takes is one (yes, ONE!) real estate deal to change your life and jumpstart your path to financial freedom. You could stop after just one, but more often than not, that first deal opens the door to even bigger opportunities, allowing you to build wealth, create more passive income streams, and finally reach financial independence. Every successful real estate investor has had that one deal that set off a domino effect, enabling them to build wealth. We’re sharing ours today so you can repeat them! Joining Dave are Garrett Brown and Matt Faircloth, two investors from different backgrounds, strategies, and parts of the country. But both had real estate deals that propelled them forward toward financial freedom. Dave also had a killer real estate deal (only his second deal ever!) that significantly increased his standard of living. We’ll share how Garrett made $50,000 (tax-free!) on a repeatable first real estate deal anyone in any area can try. Matt shares how he was able to scale up his portfolio fast when he realized he didn’t need to provide the money for his down payments and renovations. Finally, Dave shares the second deal he ever did that upgraded his life permanently and why he does not “sacrifice” to achieve financial freedom faster. In This Episode We Cover The real estate deals that defined our investing careers (and how they propelled us to financial freedom) The easiest real estate investment for beginners (make $50K+ tax-free!) Using other people’s money to invest in real estate? Why you don’t need to have the down payment How to live for free and speed up your timeline to financial independence like Dave Why you should tell everyone you know that you invest in real estate And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1139 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	Any one investment has the power to change your financial future.
0:03.8	That's why you need to be in the game, looking for singles that can turn into home runs
0:07.7	and leveraging your creativity to maximize your returns.
0:11.3	But don't just take it for me.
0:12.5	Learn from these expert investors and the investments that define their whole careers.
0:22.4	Hey everyone, I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets.
0:26.5	I've been buying rental properties for 15 years now, and it's had a huge effect on my life,
0:31.8	both financial and otherwise.
0:34.1	And today, I'm bringing two other investors onto the show so we can talk about the deals that we feel defined our careers.
0:41.9	These are the times we tried something new and found it worked or hit a home run that allowed us to scale.
0:48.6	And I wanted to have this conversation today because you're going to hear that these deals, even the ones that had
0:54.6	huge impacts on us, aren't out of reach for anyone out there, even if they're just starting
0:59.3	their investing careers. You don't need decades of experience or fancy strategies to find a
1:05.2	totally game-changing investment opportunity. You just need to be in the game in the first place
1:10.6	and always on the lookout for creative opportunities. We're need to be in the game in the first place and always on the
1:11.7	lookout for creative opportunities. We're going to be welcoming back Matt Faircloth. I have known
1:17.5	Matt for a long time. I think 10 years now, he's been investing for 20 years and wrote the
1:23.2	Bigger Pockets book on raising private capital. And we'll also have Garrett Brown, Bigger Pockets,
1:28.5	short-term rental expert and the host of the Biggerstays YouTube channel joining us here today.
1:34.4	Matt, Garrett, welcome to the show.
1:36.3	Always happy to join you, Dave. Thanks for having me on.
1:38.5	Thank you so much for having me here.
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