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How to Keep Tariffs from Derailing Your Renovations (Rookie Reply)

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The economic landscape is shifting fast. With tariffs driving up material costs, does the BRRRR (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat) method still work? In this episode, we’ll share some creative tips and tricks that will help keep your renovation projects on budget and make the numbers work in any market!   Welcome to another Rookie Reply! Today, Ashley and guest co-host Garrett Brown are answering more of your recent questions. First, we’ll hear from an investor who is looking to buy in their favorite short-term rental market. But is the area too expensive for their budget? Should they look elsewhere? We’ll show them how to find the right data, crunch the numbers, and pick the perfect market for them!   Then, we’ll tackle tariffs, their impact on rehab projects, and what YOU can do to get material costs under control. Finally, what do you do when a seller tries to raise the purchase price days before closing—even after a signed purchase agreement? We’ll break down your legal options, negotiation tactics, and what to watch for so you don’t lose thousands at the closing table. Looking to invest? Need answers? Ask your question here! In This Episode We Cover Keeping your renovation projects on budget despite high material costs How to BRRRR (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat) in 2025 How to pick the perfect short-term rental market to invest in What to do when a seller tries to raise your purchase price before closing Escalation clauses explained (and potential pitfalls to avoid) And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-565 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

Welcome to another episode of Rookie Reply.

0:02.7

Today, we're diving into the changing economic landscape from weighing the viability of the

0:08.0

Burr strategy in today's tariff environment to navigating last-minute purchase agreement surprises

0:14.3

that could cost you thousands of dollars right before closing.

0:22.9

Welcome to the Real Estate Rookie podcast. I'm Ashley Care.

0:27.0

Tony's out for the day, but Garrett Brown from Bigger Stays is here to help out.

0:31.7

Thanks so much for joining us today, Garrett.

0:33.7

Always excited to be here. I have some big shoes to fill with the man, the myth,

0:37.4

the legend Tony, being gone, but I'm happy to be in this episode and talking about everything going on.

0:43.1

Today's questions, we are highlighting the real challenges that are happening for real estate investors all over the U.S.

0:48.9

And we'll talk through how rising material costs are transforming real estate investing going forward and what to do if a seller wants

0:55.9

to change the contract three days after it comes up for you. So it's going to be a good one today.

1:01.2

Yeah. So let's start with our first question. And this is from Mark Young. And this question was

1:06.7

pulled from the Bigger Pockets forums. So Garrett, this is a great question for you as Bigger Pockets short-term rental expert.

1:14.3

His question is, I'm buying my first short-term rental vacation home.

1:19.9

Should I use Raboo?

1:22.1

Okay.

1:22.4

So it goes on to say, I'm looking to buy a short-term rental vacation home around Destin 30A.

1:29.0

Has anyone had experience with using Raboo?

1:31.9

What was your experience?

1:33.4

Do the numbers work on their site?

1:35.5

I have $100,000 to put down.

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