Snowballing to $8,500/Month Cash Flow with 10 Rental Units (in Just 6 Years!)

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What would you do with $8,500 in monthly cash flow? Quit your W2 job? Travel the world? Reinvest it? The possibilities are endless, and by blending investing strategies and getting creative when hunting for deals, today’s guest was able to “snowball” to $8,500/month with 10 rental units in just a few years! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! In this episode, we’re chatting with Kelsey Porter, a real estate agent who caught the investing bug when a client introduced her to BiggerPockets. While most new investors focus on one strategy, Kelsey has tried a little bit of everything—house hacking, live-in flips, and short, medium, and long-term rentals. She has even rented out her primary residence for months at a time, a move that fully funded her wedding! With “smedium”-term rentals, unique experiences, and even a Taylor Swift-themed Airbnb—which features a full-blown scavenger hunt—Kelsey has built a highly diversified real estate portfolio. Stay tuned to learn about Kelsey’s strategy for finding off-market deals and the “all-in-one” mortgage she used to tap into her home equity and scale fast! In This Episode We Cover: How Kelsey makes $8,500 in monthly cash flow from just 10 rental units Blending investing strategies to maximize your rental cash flow Tapping into home equity with the “all-in-one” mortgage How to land more off-market real estate deals with strategic lead nurturing How to diversify (and lower your risk) within your real estate portfolio And So Much More! Links from the Show Ashley's BiggerPockets Profile Tony's BiggerPockets Profile Join BiggerPockets for FREE Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Real Estate Rookie YouTube Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Ask Your Question for a Future Rookie Reply “Like” Real Estate Rookie on Facebook Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Earn Passive Income by Investing in Shares of Rental Properties with Realbricks Grab the Book “Start with Strategy” Sign Up for the Real Estate Rookie Newsletter Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Which Real Estate Investing Strategy Is Best for Your Goals? Connect with Kelsey Kelsey’s Instagram Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-557 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	Today's guest is a rookie investor who has used many different strategies to build an $8,000 per month cash flowing portfolio.
0:08.7	From house hacking to live and flips to medium rental strategies, this rookie proves that putting in the extra effort can mean a huge difference in your cash flow.
0:19.3	And what makes the story particularly interesting is how she's turned her properties
0:23.6	into unique experience in an unsuspecting market, including a Taylor Swift themed unit
0:30.0	complete with a custom scavenger hunt.
0:32.4	Now, Kelsey Porter has built a portfolio using creative financing, hunting for off-market
0:37.3	deals, putting
0:38.3	in sweat equity, and keeping an entrepreneurial mindset for every single project.
0:47.9	This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast, and I'm Ashley Care.
0:51.6	And I'm Tony J. Robinson, and let's give a warm, warm welcome to Kelsey.
0:55.4	Kelsey, thank you so much for joining us today.
0:57.0	Oh my gosh.
0:57.5	Thank you so much for having me.
0:58.8	I'm so excited to be here.
1:00.1	So, Kelsey, you caught the bug of real estate investing from one of your clients.
1:05.0	Can you tell us that story?
1:06.6	Yes.
1:07.0	So I have been a realtor since 2018, and I did grow up around new construction and investment
1:13.8	properties, some luxury spec homes in the Lake of the Ozarks. So I did grow up around it,
1:19.3	but it was never really on my radar until as a realtor, I helped a first-time home buyer in his 20s,
1:25.8	Josh from Cleveland, Ohio. Shout out to you. And he was obsessed with
1:31.2	bigger pockets, obsessed with the idea of house hacking for his first property. And yeah, I helped
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