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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

Late Starter’s Guide to Real Estate (Start in Your 40s!)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is it too late to invest in real estate if you’re in your 30s, 40s, or 50s? No!  Today, we’re giving you the exact blueprint to retire in 10-15 years, even if you’re starting in your 50s with a median income and average savings. Got a small sum stashed for retirement and looking to real estate for relief? If you follow this strategy, you too could have retirement with plentiful passive income not too far in the future. We did the math—it’s totally doable.  Tired of seeing 23-year-olds flaunt 50-unit portfolios on social media? You DON’T need to be in your 20s, have a high income, or get a large inheritance to retire early with real estate. The average American can still do it in just over a decade. Dave is giving you steps to take today to start on that journey, and he shares his fully mapped-out strategy for achieving early retirement in 10 to 15 years, regardless of your current age. Plus, how to “audit” your resources so you know the best strategy for you to take to reach your (early) retirement goals on time! In This Episode We Cover How to start investing in real estate in your 30s, 40s, or 50s  “Auditing” your time, money, and skills to find the best strategy for investing The math that proves you can retire with real estate in just 10-15 years  Dave’s exact blueprint for a 40-year-old who wants to retire by their mid-50s What to do if you don’t have much money saved for investing (you can still invest) And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1155 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

You can get into real estate at almost any age and still pursue and achieve financial freedom.

0:06.0

Do you feel like it's too late to start investing in real estate?

0:09.0

It's not.

0:10.0

And today, I'm sharing my late starters guide to real estate investing.

0:14.0

So whether you're 30, 40, or even 50,

0:17.0

investing in real estate today will likely improve your financial situation and allow you to

0:22.7

retire early. If you have a stable career or already own a home, you even have some advantages

0:27.7

over the 20-year-olds you see on social media showing off their massive portfolios.

0:32.9

On this show, I'll explain how to maximize the benefits of starting later, and I'll share the exact

0:38.2

strategy I think works the best for anyone starting in this age of age.

0:47.2

Hey, everyone, it's Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing at BiggerPockets. I've been investing

0:53.5

now for 15 years, and on this show, we teach you to pursue financial

0:58.1

freedom through real estate.

1:00.0

One of the questions I get most as a real estate investor and a real estate investing educator

1:04.9

is, is it too late for me to start?

1:08.2

And I can tell you right here at the top of this episode that the answer is

1:11.4

definitely no. You can absolutely and should get started in real estate investing because there

1:17.1

are just so many benefits regardless of when you start. But there are real good reasons why this

1:23.4

question about whether it's too late to start come up. First and foremost is just social media.

1:28.8

You probably see this all the time. You see these really young people seeing incredible success.

1:33.4

They might be exaggerating or straight up fabricating that success, but nevertheless, we see it

1:38.9

all the time. And then the second reason is that the benefits of compound interest are real.

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