Flips, Rentals, or Wholesale? The Truth Most Real Estate Gurus Won’t Say
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
There are only three real strategies in real estate: flipping, rentals, and wholesaling but they are not created equal. We break down why flipping still works, why rentals rarely cash-flow today, and how “cheap market” rentals quietly bleed money through hidden costs, vacancies, and repairs.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | There are three main strategies, right? |
| 0:01.3 | You're either going to flip the house, which is buy it, fix it up, sell it. |
| 0:05.5 | You're going to keep it as rental. |
| 0:07.0 | That's the same process for the first two, buy it, fix it up. |
| 0:10.2 | But instead of selling it, you're going to rent it. |
| 0:12.7 | The third strategy is wholesale it, right? |
| 0:15.7 | And Airbnb fits into the rental strategy, right? |
| 0:17.7 | So, you know, fixing and flipping is pretty straightforward. |
| 0:22.4 | We just discussed it. |
| 0:23.5 | I mean, you got to go raise money. |
| 0:26.7 | You got to find a great deal. |
| 0:28.0 | We'll talk about how to find great deals. |
| 0:29.3 | We'll talk about how to negotiate them here in this video. |
| 0:31.2 | But, you know, the upside's very big. |
| 0:35.2 | But tell me about flipping today. |
| 0:37.3 | What do you see as we're in this year? |
| 0:39.7 | Well, flipping real estate is tough, but it can be very lucrative. Like, for example, I just |
| 0:46.7 | bought a property in Pasadena, California. Yep. We just paid $1.2 million for it. I bought it and |
| 0:53.4 | relisted it without putting, I put $2,600 into cleaning |
| 0:57.5 | the yard and cleaning it up. I listed it for a 1.56 and we got an offer for a 1.48 so far. It's only |
| 1:07.8 | been listed for like 48 hours. So right now we have like a gross profit of like |
| 1:12.2 | $280,000. That's not net. I have to pay closing costs. But if it sold, let's say after everything, |
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