Scaling from 0 to 30 Deals (While Working 9-5) and Starting with $0

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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30 real estate deals in two years, starting with very little money, AND doing it all while working a nine-to-five? After listening to Tim Yu, you’ll have no excuse NOT to invest in real estate. He’s done it all: house hacking, creative financing, seller financing, lease-to-own, single-family, multifamily, house flipping, and everything in between to find the real estate investing tactic that worked best for his goals and his lifestyle. After trying (and failing) house flipping, Tim was ready to give up on real estate entirely. It wasn’t until a house hack (renting out other units/rooms in your home) gave Tim the cash flow he needed that he decided to give real estate another shot. From there, he spent hours calling owners after work, sweating bullets on cold calls, and refining his real estate skills. He’s been able to buy a house for truly ZERO dollars down, pick up profitable rental properties for as little as $3,000, and get seller financing terms that have made him six figures in just a year or so. Tim has tried every strategy, so you don’t have to, and if one of his tactics resonates with you, be like Tim and give it your all! In This Episode We Cover: The one loan that lets you buy your first property for ZERO dollars down How to get squatters out of your property (fast) with “cash for keys” Using seller financing to pick up real estate deals for just $3,000-$5,000 Tim’s personalized strategy for finding off-market deals and motivated sellers The new type of rental property Tim is buying that makes $3,000+/month in cash flow And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Let Us Know What You Thought of the Show! Ask Your Question on the BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets YouTube Apply to Be a BiggerPockets Podcast Guest! Get Fully Customizable Insurance Coverage for All Phases of Occupancy on One Monthly Schedule and Bill with NREIG Grab the Book on Creative Finance, “Wealth without Cash” Sign Up for the BiggerPocket Real Estate Newsletter Property Manager Finder 8 Rentals in UNDER 1 Year: A Rental Property Financing Masterclass Connect with Tim Connect with Dave (00:00) Intro (01:43) BAD First Real Estate Deal (05:51) $0 Down Cash-Flowing Rental (09:24) Seller Financing with LITTLE Money (14:49) Finding Off-Market Deals (24:08) Moving Markets (31:38) New Type of Rentals? Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1090 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 has made more than 30 deals work in just his first two years in the real estate game,
0:05.9	and he started with almost no money in his bank account.
0:09.0	Today, we'll find out how he did it.
0:16.2	Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Bigger Pockets podcast where you'll learn how to achieve financial
0:21.0	freedom through real estate. I'm Dave Meyer, the head of real estate investing here at Bigger
0:25.3	Pockets. And today's guest on the show is Tim U.S. Army officer living in Maryland. Tim was on
0:31.9	the real estate rookie podcast, episode 335 back in November of 2023. And at that time, he'd accumulated eight rental
0:40.2	properties only one year after dipping into his 401k to make his first deal work. And Tim's story
0:46.8	really stuck with me because he tried so many different business models. He did long-term
0:52.3	rentals, midterm rentals. He did flips,
0:54.3	wholesaling, and more. He operated in several different markets, and he took on different
0:59.2	partners. And this level of diversification can get out of control if you don't do it wisely.
1:07.1	But Tim was an example of how you can do this well. He understood the risks he was taking and was still able to deploy his limited capital and time very effectively.
1:19.0	Today, we're going to hear how Tim doubled his rental portfolio in his second year of investing, how he uses creative financing, and basically just pure hustle
1:28.7	to make up for a lack of liquid cash and much more. Tim, welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast.
1:35.1	Man, thanks so much. I'm super excited. You know, I've been listened to The Bigger Pockets for,
1:39.2	you know, quite a few years now. So it's pretty awesome to be on the show. So thank you so much. It's our pleasure, Tim.
1:44.5	We're happy to have you here. You were recently on the Bigger Pockets Rookie Show, but your story is
1:49.6	super cool and inspiring. And so we wanted to dig a little bit more into your story. But maybe if
1:55.0	people don't listen to the Rookie Podcast, you could just give us a brief background on how you got
1:59.5	into investing in the first place.
2:01.4	Yeah. Back in 2022, I actually bought my first investment property and it was a fix and flip.
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