Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.

And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

Hello, my friends and welcome to another episode

of passive real estate investing.

I'm your host, Marco Santorelli,

and I'm glad you're here.

So today I want to talk a little bit about this ongoing

question and debate, which I see asked all the time

and bantered around by many investors,

both beginner, newbie, seasoned, and professional.

And that's the whole question of whether I should invest in single family homes

or should I invest in multifamily rental properties.

So this episode was sparked by an email I got from a person

named Tim and Tim writes in and he says I want to make money with rental properties. Grant

Cardone feels it's safe money to purchase

multi-unit properties which has a lower default rate than single-family units.

I'll address that in a moment, but I'm open to hearing what you folks think is the best way for a

beginner investor like myself to look into this. Tim, thank you for the

question. So although this is not an Ask Marco episode I did want to take your question and turn it into more of a full-fledged episode because this is actually a good question and it's a good thing to take a look at. So let's analyze this.

First of all I'm going to say that there's no right or wrong answer. One is not

necessarily better than the other, although I have a somewhat biased answer to the question of whether

I should invest in single family or multifamily, but it's not just a personal bias, it's really

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