Replacing His Income with Rentals (in 3 Years!) by “Recycling” Money

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In just three years, this investor scaled up to making over $100,000 per year thanks to real estate. He did it all starting in 2022 when interest rates were beginning to rise, the market was turning, and many investors decided to sit on their hands. Thanks to a strategy that allowed him to “recycle” his money, he went from one down payment to 16 rental units in record time. How’d he do it? Only in his 20s, Ricardo Adames already knew he wanted out of his career. Working harder wasn’t paying him dividends, so he knew he needed an extra income source. Even after taking a “risk” on his first deal, he was able to walk away with a perfect rental property that only cost him (after all was said and done) $5,000. How’s that possible? Simple—the BRRRR method. In this episode, Ricardo details this cash-recycling method investors can use TODAY to build a six-figure-producing real estate portfolio, even if you have little experience. Plus, Ricardo shares his exact “buy box”—the properties he’s targeting for more home-run real estate deals in 2025! In This Episode We Cover How to “recycle” your down payment money and scale way faster with the BRRRR method Why buying below-market-value is the ultimate risk-mitigator in 2025 How Ricardo went from zero experience to doing eight real estate deals at once just three years later Why high interest rates aren’t stopping you from investing in real estate Making money even in a down market (Florida!) that most won’t invest in And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1144 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	This investor used one basic real estate strategy to scale his portfolio of cash flowing rentals
0:06.2	up to 16 units in only three years. He did it by dialing into his local market to find
0:12.7	the best available deals, then repeating a tried and true strategy over and over again.
0:18.6	Now, he's transitioned his career into full-time real estate investing.
0:21.9	He's generating six figures of annual revenue, and he's building a stable portfolio of
0:27.2	rental properties that he can retire off, and he's doing it all at the same time.
0:36.2	Hey, what's up, everyone? I'm Dave Meyer. I'm the head of real estate investing here at
0:40.7	Bigger Pockets, and I've been investing in rental properties for 15 years. Today on the show,
0:45.9	we have an investor story with Ricardo Adames from Orlando, Florida. Ricardo, like a lot of
0:52.4	people we hear on this show, was unsatisfied with his corporate
0:55.6	career path, and he decided to try investing in real estate. He dove in with the Burr method
1:00.2	and was able to use his modest savings to acquire not just one or two rental properties, but scale
1:06.2	all the way up to 11 properties in three years by repeatedly recycling the same money.
1:12.9	So if you've been hearing that the Burr method is dead, just listen to Ricardo.
1:17.9	He only started investing in 2022, but has found multiple great dears every year he's been
1:23.2	investing right in his own backyard.
1:26.4	We're going to have a great time talking to Ricardo, but before we get into the show,
1:29.9	I wanted to let everyone know that Henry Washington, my friend and often co-hosts on the show,
1:36.2	we're going on a road trip.
1:37.5	We are going to be driving around the Midwest and looking for on-market deals.
1:43.6	We're going to be talking to investors,
1:45.0	meeting with agents going to meetups. It's going to be super fun. We're calling it the Cashflow
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