I don't have the money to invest. It's the number one thing we hear from rookies, but here's the

thing. Some of our most successful guests started with nothing. They side hustled their way to a down

payment. One even flipped couches off of Facebook marketplace for $10,000 a month. Another sold exotic

plants and netted $100,000 in two years. Somebody else made more money dog sitting than some of her

rental properties were producing. And every single one of them used that cash to buy rental property.

Today, Ashley and I are breaking down eight real side hustles that real Ricky guests used to fund

their deals. This is in theory. This isn't hypothetical.

These are people who sat in this chair and told us their stories. And for every single one,

we're scoring it on the same five-point scorecard. So you can figure out which one fits your life. We're covering what it is, what it costs to start, and what you can realistically earn. And most

importantly, exactly how that guest turned that side hustle dollar into their

first rental project.

This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.

I'm Ashley Care.

And I'm Tony J. Robinson.

And with that, let's get into our first side hustle. So the first thing that we have is the gig delivery. You know, you can think DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, all those options that are out there. So what is this, right? So basically you're delivering food or groceries or whatever it may be using your car in an app. There's also maybe one to add on to this is Amazon Flex. I don't know if they have that out by you, Ash, but like basically you can Uber. Never even heard of it. Amazon. So I live in an area where there's just like a lot of Amazon warehouses and because a lot of people can, you know, you can basically just get your own car, drive it to an an amazon warehouse they'll load you up with a bunch of stuff and you go deliver it to places around the around the community so when we get amazon deliveries sometimes it's the guys and girls in the amazon truck sometimes it's ups or you know whoever it may be but sometimes it's like you know jimmy pulling up in a civic and he's just pulling stuff out the back of his truck? You know what? We do have that. We do get deliveries like that sometimes. And I didn't realize that was what it was called, but we actually had a friend that came to us and told us he was interested in buying an Amazon route. So that must be part of it as to like you buy the route. And yeah. Yeah. And that's a whole other thing. And I actually have a cousin who's going through that process right now to apply to own a route. So maybe once he's done with that, we'll pull them on. But guys, there's so many different options now in the gig economy on different ways you can do. But obviously Uber Eastore Dash, Ubering, Lyft, all those are

things that you can do. But, you know, before you take it on, you see where the pickup is, where the drop-off is, what the pay is, and you can accept or decline each one. And the cool thing here is that you get to set your own hours, right? And you can log on or log off whenever you want. So the guests that we actually had to do this was Josh Janice.

And you can go back to episode 294.

So he was door dashing while he was in college, so age 18, 19.

And he didn't want to get a traditional job, which is actually pretty hard when you're

in college to accommodate when the party schedule is and when your

classes are to be able to get jobs that you can do in between your classes. I had met this

sheriff before and he was doing an eviction for me and he had said when he was in college,

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