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. Welcome back to passive real estate investing, where we dive into the world of real estate investing, among other related topics, to help you with your real estate investing journey.

Today, we're doing something a little different.

We're going to take a trip down memory lane and showcase an important episode from the past on what we call our throwback Thursday episode.

Now, whether you've been with us since the beginning, which goes back to 2015,

or you're tuning in for the first time, this episode is a must listen. We are revisiting one of our

more popular episodes from the past. And believe me, what we discussed back then, whether it's

six months ago or six years ago, is just as relevant today. So sit back,

relax, and let's rewind the clock for this great episode. Enjoy. Today's question comes from

Carlos, and he says, hey, Marco, I recently found your podcast that have been eating episodes

trying to get myself educated on real estate and passive income. While following a lot of

these episodes, there is one question that keeps popping into my head. How can I get financing

for two, three, or say even six or seven properties as years go by? And I save enough money to

keep acquiring more houses. But my salary does not change much over the same number of years.

Let me explain with an example, and I am going to borrow, you're always easy to digest $100,000

example to illustrate my point. Let's say I make $100,000 a year for my regular jobs salary.

Let's assume I already have a mortgage on my primary home

and a second one on an investment house. I am able to save $20,000 from my salary every year,

which conveniently enough, it represents the exact down payment needed to buy one $100,000 house

every year. The problem is my salary doesn't go up very much every year.

To make things simple, let's say it remained unchanged for the next five years. In those five years,

I would be planning to purchase five $100,000 houses, which would bring the total count of mortgages

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