Making $13,000/Month Cash Flow from ONE Rental and ONE Business in ONE Year

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Want to leave your nine-to-five for a “job” that gives you more time, flexibility, and potentially more money? Rentals could be your golden ticket to financial freedom. After tragedy turned her world upside down, today’s guest went all in on real estate investing. Just ONE year later, she makes $13,000 in monthly cash flow and has waved her W2 goodbye! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Shortly after buying her first rental property, Allison Craft lost her brother in a tragic accident. With a new perspective on life, she decided to chase after what she valued most—more time with her young family. With just one short-term rental and a new co-hosting business, she now brings in more income than she ever did at her corporate finance job of 10 years! In this episode, Allison shares how she bought, renovated, and furnished her first rental property with limited cash and launched a real estate business that cash flows close to $10,000 a month. If you want to do the same—build a profitable business without owning rentals—stay tuned because Allison has the secrets to finding clients and scaling fast! In This Episode We Cover: How Allison scaled to $13,000 in monthly cash flow (in just ONE year) Building a profitable real estate business from scratch (step by step) How to make money in real estate without owning rental property When to quit your W2 job and go “all in” on real estate investing Fast-tracking your investing journey with networking and mentorship And So Much More! Links from the Show Ashley's BiggerPockets Profile Tony's BiggerPockets Profile Join BiggerPockets for FREE Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Real Estate Rookie YouTube Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Ask Your Question for a Future Rookie Reply “Like” Real Estate Rookie on Facebook Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram BiggerPockets Agent Finder BiggerStays YouTube Channel Garrett’s Instagram Allison’s Website Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-551 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	What's up, Rickies? Today, we're diving into a simple blueprint for how to get that first cash flowing property.
0:06.1	Now, our guest went from having zero real estate experience to becoming a full-time real estate entrepreneur in record time,
0:13.3	proving that smart investing and authentic networking can accelerate your path to financial freedom.
0:18.3	From corporate financial analyst to full-time real estate investor,
0:21.8	Allison Kraft used real estate to completely redesign her life so she can prioritize her family. So she'll
0:27.2	share her playbook on getting her first property, how she identified markets, built her team,
0:32.0	and constructed her buybox to find the right cash-loing property to kickstart her journey.
0:42.0	Thank you. box to find the right cash flowing property to kickstart her journey. This is the real estate rookie podcast. I'm Tony Jay Robinson. And today, Garrett Brown from
0:47.1	Biggerstays is filling in for Ashley. Garrett, what's up, brother? How are you doing, man?
0:50.5	Great, man. Glad to be back on and we're always ready to talk about some real estate investing in short-term rentals. Well, there you go, man. Well, today we've got Allison
0:58.2	and Allison, we're super excited to have you. Welcome to the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.
1:02.1	Thank you, Tony. Thank you, Garrett, for having me. I'm super, super excited to be on here.
1:06.7	Now, Allison, you were working as a corporate financial analyst and like just kind of getting started
1:10.9	in your real estate journey when I guess something kind of significant happened to change your life.
1:14.5	So can you share how your brother's sudden passing and your kind of personal circumstances
1:19.5	accelerated your real estate journey? Yeah, and I'll take it back to the very beginning for you
1:23.9	too. Yes, I was in corporate finance. I worked in corporate finance for about 10 years.
1:29.4	And then, but prior to that, I got married, started a family. And, you know, after having my first
1:35.6	son, I did the whole, you know, I did what you're supposed to do. You know, you go on maternity
1:40.9	leave for three months. And that's done and over, and I put my son into daycare,
1:45.8	and I went back to work. And then just a year and a half, yeah, about a year and a half later,
1:50.5	I get pregnant again with baby number two, and the second time around was a little different.
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