How to Fund Your First Rental (Rental Property Loans 101) (Rookie Reply)

Real Estate Rookie

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Welcome to another Rookie Reply, where Tony J Robinson and Ashley Kehr answer questions from the BiggerPockets Forums and Real Estate Rookie Facebook group. This time, we’re covering questions like: How do you fund your first real estate deal? Do you need a real estate license to invest? What is cap rate and why does it matter? Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-577 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	Are you ready to buy your first or next investment property?
0:03.6	You're in the right place.
0:10.1	I'm Ashley Care.
0:11.6	And I'm Tony J. Robinson, and this is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.
0:16.2	Not long ago, we were just like you.
0:18.7	We're trying to make a little extra cash to hopefully leave our
0:21.7	nine to fives. Now we've built rental portfolios, quit our jobs, and hit financial freedom,
0:26.8	and it all started with that first deal. One property can change everything. Like the couple who
0:32.6	bought six rentals in just 15 months while working three jobs. Or the couple who purchased six rental properties in just 15 months while working three jobs.
0:41.4	Or the couple who purchased six rental properties in just 15 months.
0:49.4	Or the single dad who went from $17 an hour to $200,000 a year and passive income in just a decade.
0:54.3	Every week on the real estate rookie podcast, we bring on rookies who are doing it right now, and they'll show you exactly how they got started, their strategies, and the steps to repeat
0:59.2	their success.
1:00.0	We'll answer your real estate questions.
1:03.1	Talk about real rental properties and how much they're making.
1:07.0	And give you the step-by-step strategies we wish we knew when we were rookies.
1:11.8	No jargon, no gatekeeping, just real rookies, real stories, and real financial freedom.
1:17.6	New episodes come out every week. That's three times a week.
1:21.4	Tap subscribe so you don't miss any episode drops on YouTube. Just search real estate rookie today.
1:26.1	Before we jump in, I want to tell you about when
1:28.2	I bought my first rental. I thought collecting rent would be the hardest part. But I was wrong.
1:34.0	The headman never stops, expenses, receipts, tax forms, tenant issues. I didn't expect the behind
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