How to Buy Your First Rental Property in 2025 (Step-by-Step)

The BetterLife Podcast

Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart

House Flipping, Multifamily, Real Estate, Wealth, Investing, Business, Real Estate Investing, Self-development, Entrepreneurship, Rental Properties, Health

4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Most people never buy a rental property for one simple reason. They never decide. In this episode, Brandon and Cam walk through the exact six decisions that shape your entire investing journey. Once you lock these in, finding and closing your first deal becomes much more predictable.

You’ll learn how to choose the right strategy, how to narrow your buy box, how to set up deal flow even with no experience, and which debt options actually help beginners build momentum. You’ll also hear the same accountability framework used inside the BetterLife Tribe that helps new investors get their first deal faster than they ever expected.

If you want to buy your first rental in 2025, start here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, let's be real. Most people don't fail from real estate investing because they lose money or the deal goes bad.
0:06.0	It's because they never start. They fail because they never even start. So in this video, I want to help you overcome that. I'm going to give you everything in Cam and I are going to give you everything you need to get started. Cam Cathcart, man. What's up, dude? Dude, what's up?
0:18.7	How are you doing?
0:19.4	I'm great, man.
0:20.4	I'm great, except for I'm extremely sore
0:22.8	because I went to the ju jitsu gym this morning with tarl and uh had not done that in almost a year and it shows do you like jujitsu i love it uh my body doesn't love it like i think i cracked a rib for like the second like last time i went was like i don't know 10 months ago and i like cracked a rib and then i sat out for i mean i couldn't breathe for like a month very well anyway and i think
0:42.4	did the same thing today so whatever my body's 40 i don't like it anymore i don't know have you done it
0:47.0	no i've never done it but everybody i know that does it they're hurt all the time all the time
0:51.6	all the time yeah it's like a it's a young it's like a, it's a young man's game, but whatever. Speaking of a young man's game, you know it's not a young man's game only, real estate investing. Do you like that tie in? Was that pretty good? That's beautiful. Yeah, I thought it was pretty decent. I want to jump into this, but before we do, as we typically do, we're going to tell a quick a joke. So, Cam, I got a question for you.
1:11.6	Yes, sir.
1:12.3	The question is, what kind of flower doesn't sleep at night?
1:18.3	A daisy.
1:20.1	It is a daisy.
1:21.0	It's like the Z.
1:21.8	This would have been better on written.
1:23.1	Like the daisy because a ZZZZ is sleeping.
1:46.3	Kind of lame. That one's not your best. No, that one's not the best. I feel like that was a really bad one. What? Man, there's so many bad ones on here. Okay, this one's actually decent. Hey, Cam, how do you follow Will Smith in the snow? How? You follow the fresh prints. That's true. That is. That one's actually that one's actually decent. Well, anyway, other than that, man, I'm excited to be back on the
1:51.9	podcast with you and going through step by step how newbies can get started. Before we get into
1:55.9	that, though, maybe you can tell us real quick in like a 30 second quick who you are. How did you get started in real estate?
2:02.3	How'd you get into this thing?
2:03.4	Man, I started listening to you in 2018.
2:07.1	Real quick, I was broke, wanted to figure out a way to make money, found the Bigger Pockets
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