The Repeatable “Stack” Method to Buy Rentals Faster (and with Less Money)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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Education, Business, Investing

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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One of the most repeatable, scalable ways to build a real estate portfolio is using “The Stack” method. This investing strategy allows you to slowly scale your real estate using low-money-down loans, turning one down payment into multiple properties. It’s one of the smartest, safest ways to build wealth, but it’s almost been forgotten. Today, we’re talking to an investor reviving “The Stack,” using it to build an eight-rental real estate portfolio starting with just $15,000. Like most investors, Connor Anderson had barely enough money to close on his first house, a condo. He scrounged together just $15,000 to buy his first property and immediately began to rent out the other rooms. But this was just the beginning for Connor. Over the next few years, Connor slowly turned the rent savings from that one condo into a single-family house, a duplex, and now a fourplex, which he is still house hacking in. The best part? Those properties he used to live in are now cash-flowing rentals WITH equity, which he has used to buy more properties. This is “The Stack” method done the right way, and if you want to safely, slowly, and steadily grow your rental portfolio without a ton of money, this is how to do it. In This Episode We Cover: “The Stack” method and how to use it to build a rental portfolio with little money Why you DON’T need to rush building a real estate portfolio to be successful One investing area that both Connor and Dave are very bullish on How Connor scored a zero-dollar-down, off-market duplex Interest rate buydowns and other strategies to create cash flow in 2025 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 Maximize Your Real Estate Investing with a Self-Directed IRA Grab the Book “The House Hacking Strategy” Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area The Stack: The Perfect Blueprint for Scaling Quickly in Real Estate Connect with Connor Connect with Dave (00:00) Intro (02:36) First Deal for $15,000 (Condo) (08:23) Home Run Rental for 5% Down (House) (12:03) Off-Market $0 Down Duplex (17:36) The “Stack” Method (23:20) “Turnkey” 5% Down Fourplex (25:58) How to Find Cash Flow in 2025 (29:00) Best Area to Buy? Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1078 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	You can still hustle your way into a cash-flowing real estate portfolio with upside
0:09.9	despite today's market challenges.
0:12.3	You hear me say it over and over.
0:14.8	I am long on the Midwest, and I think house hacking is the best way to start investing.
0:20.6	If you haven't heard of the stack method, it still works to exponentially scale within just a few years.
0:28.0	And today we're speaking with an investor who is living proof that all of these strategies
0:32.3	can be huge winners in today's investing climate.
0:35.4	Connor Anderson used to work here at Bigger Pockets and
0:38.0	has since left to build an impressive portfolio in Michigan using the Stack method. He's progressed
0:43.7	from a condo to a single family home and he's now onto multi-unit properties and is finding
0:49.5	both cash flow and future upside despite today's market conditions. If you're not familiar with the
0:55.5	stack method or you're still not convinced about the Great Lakes region, I think this conversation
0:59.8	will give you a lot to think about and to consider for your own portfolio. Let's bring on
1:04.9	Connor. Connor Anderson, welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast. Thanks for ever, Dave. I'm excited to be here.
1:10.5	I'm excited to you are joining a growing tradition of former Bigger Pockets podcast. Thanks for having me, Dave. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to you are joining a growing tradition of former Bigger Pockets employees who have
1:16.1	become successful real estate investors and come back to join the show and update us on your life.
1:21.5	It's great. I know there's a couple other people that have done the same thing. I want to, yeah,
1:25.2	to share my story with everyone here. Great. Well, we'll get to what you're up to today, but let's just start with sort of the
1:31.4	reasons that you got into investing in the first place. When was that?
1:36.0	I remember thinking specifically, I was sitting in my, you know, six bedroom house that I was
1:41.4	renting with my friends in college. And the landlord, they were just,
1:46.0	you know, kind of a mom and pop. They'd show up, you know, once a month collect checks from us.
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