The Secret To Consistent Monthly Cash Flow With Greg Zessin (Ep 537)
Rental Income Podcast With Dan Lane
Rental Income Podcast
4.8 • 836 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Over time, Greg realized that not all cash flow is created equal. He shifted his strategy to focus only on properties that provide steady, consistent income.
On this episode, Greg shares what he’s doing differently today: the age of properties he avoids, the age of properties he targets, and why he no longer takes on major renovations.
We also dig into the neighborhoods he likes, the neighborhoods he won’t buy in anymore, and how he’s getting tenants to stay longer, which has significantly increased his profits.
Plus, Greg reveals the unique ways he finds off-market deals.
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| 0:00.0 | inspiring interviews with today's top landlords this is the rental income podcast and now dan lane |
| 0:09.6 | Greg when you first started buying rental properties you had a very different strategy than what |
| 0:14.7 | you're doing today can you tell us what you were doing in the beginning yeah so you know when I got |
| 0:20.0 | started I mean you look at |
| 0:22.4 | every deal that comes across your plate. If numbers made sense, you know, like if it looked like |
| 0:27.5 | it had strong cash wall on paper, I was, you know, doing the deal. But after a few years of doing it, |
| 0:36.8 | kind of realized there were some differences in some of the properties and which ones were, you know, actually cashful on what they said and on a regular basis versus the ones that would have great months, one month, and then two bad months in a row. |
| 0:51.2 | So totally changed our strategy and how we want strategy and how we wanted to move forward with properties |
| 0:57.6 | as we as we grew our portfolio. Having really high cash flow one month and then maybe having no |
| 1:03.3 | cash flow the next month can be really frustrating. And Greg really wanted that consistent cash flow |
| 1:09.6 | month after month. |
| 1:18.1 | And on the show today, we're going to see how he changed his strategy and what he's doing today to have consistent cash flow. |
| 1:22.6 | Joining us on the show today from Springfield, Illinois is Greg Zesson. |
| 1:24.9 | We'll take a quick break to thank our sponsors. |
| 1:27.4 | We'll come right back and we'll talk to Greg. |
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