How to Buy 5 Rental Properties in Just 5 Years

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You can buy five rentals in just five years, even with less than 5% down. Today, we’re teaching you three savvy strategies to quickly scale your real estate portfolio so you can start building wealth without waiting years and years to buy your first (or next) investment property. And no, we’re not just talking about house hacking—Dave is walking through three separate strategies you can use to buy five rentals in just five years. All three methods are effective in today’s market and can be repeated even by a beginner. These strategies are broken down by financial starting point: 1) starting with little money, 2) having a solid amount saved, and 3) having a lot saved for investment. So, whether you’re a graduate fresh out of college who's ready to invest in rentals or a doctor/lawyer/executive with hundreds of thousands sitting around, we have a strategy for you. The best part? As your portfolio grows, you can combine these strategies to reach your financial freedom goals faster and pick the path that works best for you as your wealth grows. Ready to get started? Follow this plan, and by 2030, you’ll have five rental properties! In This Episode We Cover How to buy five rental properties in just five years (even with 3.5% down!) The beginner-friendly strategy that successful real estate investors recommend How to recycle your money with the BRRRR method and supercharge your scaling Got a high income? Why buying turnkey, easy-to-manage rentals could be your best bet Full math examples of the methods, how much money it takes, and how much you’ll make And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1128 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	This is how to buy five rental properties in just five years.
0:04.5	Landing five rentals in five years can change your entire life and your financial future.
0:09.3	But getting five properties within a short time span, it can be daunting, especially with
0:14.7	housing prices as high as they are.
0:16.9	But this is absolutely still possible.
0:19.0	And today, I'm going to share with you three strategies
0:21.3	you can use to buy one rental every year for the next five years and set yourself up on a
0:27.4	course for financial freedom.
0:33.8	Hey, everyone, it's Dave. Welcome to the podcast. On the show, we often hear people say things like 10 rentals in 10 years or getting
0:43.0	five properties in just the first few years of an investing career.
0:47.1	And of course, this all sounds great.
0:49.1	But the question, the obvious question is how do they actually go about doing this? Because for many,
0:55.9	getting one deal is understandably a challenge. In addition, even if you land one, you often use
1:03.1	your savings and then the question becomes, how do you get that second property or the third
1:07.8	property, let alone your fifth in just five years. It becomes a real
1:12.4	challenge. There are absolutely ways to do it, many ways, in fact, but there are three time-tested
1:20.3	approaches to scaling, and many of those in our audience can use to get firmly on the path
1:25.8	to financial freedom in just the next five years.
1:29.2	In today's episode, we're going to hit them one by one.
1:32.5	First up is what is probably the most conventional, classic approach to getting five
1:37.8	properties in five years. And this is an owner-occupied house hack. And I'm going to explain
1:43.2	to everyone why house hacking is a really
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