How to Buy Time and Freedom with a Simple Rental Portfolio (2-Hour Workweek)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Rentals can give you much more than just bigger pockets. They can buy you time, flexibility, and the freedom to design an adventurous and fulfilling life. Just ask today’s guest, who built a simple real estate portfolio that runs itself—creating space for midday hikes, living abroad, and passion projects. In this episode, he’ll show YOU how to slow down and do the same! Today, Chad Carson, investor and author of The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor returns to the show to share how real estate investing gave him much more than money. Chad has been investing for decades, but now, he’s making a major shift. Rather than accumulating more rental properties, he’s paying off the ones he already owns. Instead of putting in 80-hour workweeks, he’s traveling, taking mini-retirements, and prioritizing his life goals. And the best part? Some weeks, he spends as little as two hours on his portfolio! Want to copy Chad’s success? In this episode, he’ll show you how to trade the rat race—whether that means long hours at your nine-to-five or the relentless grind of scaling your investments—for time freedom, a flexible portfolio, and a real estate business that works for you. In This Episode We Cover How Chad optimized his real estate portfolio for a two-hour workweek Why real estate’s real return isn’t money—but time, freedom, and flexibility How to use real estate investing to build a fulfilling life (not just a big portfolio!) Swapping traditional retirement for mini-retirements that help you savor life while you’re young The power of paying down mortgages versus buying more rental properties How to ditch the rat race for a real estate business that works for YOU And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1127 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	Investing in real estate can give you so much more than just money.
0:03.5	Today's guest only works two hours per week sometimes.
0:07.2	I got to move to Amsterdam for five years.
0:10.1	So today we're going to explore the often hidden benefits of a life on the road to financial freedom.
0:20.2	Hey everyone, I'm Dave Meyer.
0:22.1	I'm the head of real estate investing here at Bigger Pockets.
0:24.6	I've been buying rental properties for more than 15 years.
0:28.4	Today, we have one of our all-time most popular guests, someone I really look up to.
0:34.5	It's Chad Carson.
0:35.8	You may know Chad from his book, The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor, or his YouTube channel It's Chad Carson. You may know Chad from his book, the small and mighty real estate
0:38.4	investor or his YouTube channel, Coach Chad Carson. Chad is just a great example of the investing
0:44.6	philosophies I talk about on almost every episode. These are things like finding a strategy that
0:49.9	fits your lifestyle, keeping your portfolio manageable, and focusing on properties that fit your
0:56.0	specific goals. Today, with Chad, we're going to talk a little bit about the behind the
1:01.1	scenes of real estate investing. There's so much focus on the financial side, and that is, of course,
1:07.5	super important. But I want to talk about how real estate can change your life
1:11.5	in other ways. Chad and I have both been able to live in Europe because of real estate.
1:16.7	We've both made close friends through investing. Chad has had time to spearhead a park project
1:22.1	in his local community that he's seriously passionate about. You may not have the time to do
1:27.1	these things if you invest in stocks or other assets,
1:30.3	but real estate investing sort of uniquely makes them possible.
1:34.7	So that's what Chad and I are talking about today.
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