From Sleeping in His Car to Making $4,000/Month Cash Flow

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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If real estate investing feels out of reach—like something people with money do—this episode might just change that. Today’s guest was sleeping in his car, had maxed out his credit cards, and barely spoke English, yet was able to build a real estate portfolio that brings in over $4,000 in monthly cash flow! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Sebastian Rodriguez moved to the US without a job, money, or connections in hopes of building a better life. After hearing about the financial freedom normal people could achieve with rentals, he put his head down, surrounded himself with other investors and mentors, and soaked up as much information as possible. His hard work paid off, as in just six years, he has scaled to 13 rental units. Stay tuned to learn exactly how he did it and how you can do the same—no matter your starting point! Sebastian talks about his journey from sleeping at train stations to building wealth with real estate, but that’s not all. He also shares all kinds of practical tips for overcoming analysis paralysis, narrowing down your buy box, and building an investing network so that private money lenders and potential partners flock to you! In This Episode We Cover How Sebastian went from broke to making $4,000 in monthly cash flow from rentals The biggest mistakes rookies make when buying an investment property Analyzing a real estate market for your buy box, budget, and investing goals How to build out your real estate investing network from scratch The secrets to raising private money for your first (or next) real estate deal And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-626 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	If real estate investing feels out of reach like something people with money do, this episode
0:05.5	might change that. Sebastian Rodriguez was sleeping in his car, had maxed out his credit cards,
0:12.3	and barely spoke English. Yet he was able to build his own rental portfolio in just six years.
0:19.4	That's right. Sebastian started from zero, but now he owns 13 doors that bring in roughly $4,000 a month
0:24.7	in cash flow.
0:25.6	And today, we're uncovering exactly how he got there and how you can do the same no matter
0:30.9	your starting point.
0:36.7	This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast, and I'm Ashley Care.
0:40.3	And I'm Tony J. Robinson.
0:41.7	And let's give a big warm welcome to Sebastian.
0:44.0	Sebastian, thanks for joining us today, brother.
0:45.4	Thank you guys for having me here.
0:47.0	Happy to be here and happy to share my story.
0:49.5	Yes.
0:50.0	So take us back in that moment when you were working jobs just to survive and at one point even sleeping in your car.
0:57.4	What was going on through your head about money and just the future in general?
1:01.3	Yes. Wow. What was so in my head? Going in my head. I was in survival mode.
1:06.6	I got to do what I got to do. I can still, I feel like it was yesterday. I can still see those days and feel that no time has happened in between.
1:14.6	But I was focused on my number one priority was only to learn the language.
1:19.6	I needed to understand, you know, where things are located. I just moved here. I didn't have any network, any language was a big
1:30.2	barrier for me. So I needed to understand how to move around, how to talk to people, how to get a job,
1:37.3	how to get a house. And it's really scary when you can communicate properly.
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