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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

How to Make $5,000/Month with Rentals (Starting from Zero)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is how to make $5,000 per month in passive income from rental properties on an average salary, starting with little money. You don’t need to have any real estate investing experience to follow this blueprint, but if you’ve already started investing, you could (and probably will) get there faster. How much money do you need? How long will it take? Which properties should you invest in? We’re sharing the complete blueprint in this episode. Financial freedom is the goal for almost every real estate investor; the way you get there is by having consistent cash flow that can pay for your life. Would $5,000 per month ($60,000 per year) in passive income make your financial freedom possible? If you’re like most Americans, there’s a good chance it would. Dave is walking through how to get there in less time than you’d think, so you can retire decades earlier and live life free from the pull of a paycheck. Want more than $5,000 per month? You can use this same blueprint and math to get to $10,000, $15,000, or $20,000 per month through real estate investing. In This Episode We Cover How to make $5,000 per month with rental properties (and retire much sooner) The simple calculation that will tell you how much money you’ll need to invest  Why you should not focus on cash flow first if you want to reach financial independence The types of investments that will multiply your money faster  How to switch from more active to passive investments so you can “harvest” your cash flow  And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1158 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

Would an extra $5,000 per month in passive income change your life?

0:05.0

Of course it would. That covers car payments. It covers tuition payments. It could pay for really nice vacations.

0:12.0

But if it was obvious how to make five grand a month in passive income, you'd probably already be doing it.

0:18.0

But the good news is it's actually much easier to achieve this than you might think.

0:24.0

And today, I'm going to break down exactly how you can reach $5,000 a month in passive income

0:29.4

for rental properties starting almost anywhere.

0:37.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast. I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing

0:42.7

at Bigger Pockets and an investor for over 15 years. When you first get started in this business

0:49.3

in real estate investing or even just hear about the idea of real estate investing, it can be

0:53.8

really exciting,

0:55.1

but it's also kind of daunting. How do you go from wanting to build a portfolio to bringing in

1:02.0

significant amounts of passive income every month? What are the actual steps that you have to take?

1:08.8

Today, I'm going to show you because even though it may sound

1:12.3

complicated, earning $2,000 or $3,000 or even $5,000 or more in passive income isn't magic. It's

1:20.8

simple math and execution. I happen to pick a number $5,000 a month that I think would be

1:26.6

pretty life-changing for anyone.

1:29.1

An extra 60 grand of income per year that is typically taxed at a lower rate, that's a huge

1:36.0

win for any investor.

1:37.8

And today, we are going to reverse engineer how you can do it too.

1:42.4

So how do you actually do this?

1:44.0

How do you get $5,000 in

1:47.0

passive income from rental properties? This concept just requires two numbers. That's all you need

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