REI106: Rent-By-The-Room & Student Rentals w/ Ryan Chaw
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🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.2 | For instance, the house that I'm house hacking currently in Sacramento, |
| 0:05.6 | the mortgage is about $2,300 or maybe $2,400 per month. |
| 0:10.1 | And I had a 2.75% interest rate. |
| 0:13.6 | And then the rental income from the four bedrooms, |
| 0:16.9 | the four other bedrooms, I'm staying in the master and renting out the other four, |
| 0:20.1 | is about $3,600 per month. So there's still a very, very good spread between the mortgage and how much |
| 0:28.4 | I'm getting a rent-employed income. |
| 0:32.7 | In this week's episode, I talk with Ryan Cha about what student rentals and a rent-by-the-room |
| 0:38.6 | strategy are, how student rentals have been impacted by the pandemic, how to deal with potential |
| 0:44.1 | damage from student renters, how to screen students as potential tenants, how to find |
| 0:49.4 | real estate deals, and much, much more. |
| 0:52.9 | Ryan Chao graduated with a doctor of pharmacy degree in 2015 at the |
| 0:56.8 | age of 23, and while he loves his job, he wanted to do something more in life. He didn't |
| 1:02.3 | want to just become that pharmacist who worked at his job until he retired at 65. Instead, he |
| 1:09.1 | has become a successful real estate investor today and teaches others how to do |
| 1:13.2 | what he has done. I personally really enjoy learning about unconventional approaches to things. |
| 1:19.1 | In this case, Ryan has taken an unconventional approach to real estate and found a way to make |
| 1:25.2 | it work in an area where many other people say real estate investing |
| 1:28.7 | isn't possible. |
| 1:30.0 | That's California. |
| 1:31.7 | If you guys aren't already, be sure to connect with me on social media. |
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