These Properties Make WAY More Than Rentals ($2,000+ Per Month!)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Don’t buy rental properties? What if there were investment properties that made way more cash flow than rentals (we’re talking $2,000 or more per month)? These unique properties are often cheaper than rentals but command higher income. You don’t need any special skills to run one, and you can own them while working a full-time job, accelerating your track to early retirement. Want to know what they are? We’re giving the exact property types (and profits) in today’s episode. Tony Robinson, host of the Real Estate Rookie podcast, and Nate Weintraub, head of Calico Content and copywriter for BiggerPockets, both ditched the long-term rental route years ago. The stress, low cash flow, and speed to scale weren’t worth it. Tony went one route, buying short-term rentals and eventually scaling into a money-making boutique hotel. Nate decided he'd had it with toilets, so he bought the ultimate toiletless investment—a self-storage facility. Today, they’re sharing their profit numbers, rents, and the cost of their investments (which are surprisingly affordable). Plus, how many hours do these take to run? When Tony isn’t hosting our sister podcast, and Nate isn’t doing podcast SEO, how do they handle the day-to-day operations? And finally, can they convince Dave that long-term rentals aren’t superior? In This Episode We Cover How much you can make with a boutique hotel or self-storage facility (it’s a lot) The surprisingly affordable prices of buying these “bigger” real estate deals Finding hotels, motels, and self-storage facilities for sale in your market How much time it takes to run a short-term rental or self-storage facility The risks you must know before trying either of these strategies And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1142 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	Don't buy long-term rentals question mark.
0:03.8	On almost every episode of this podcast, I tell you to buy long-term rental properties
0:08.1	to achieve financial freedom.
0:10.2	But I have to admit, long-term buy-and-hold investing is not the only way to create
0:14.7	passive income.
0:16.2	Today, we're going to have an open mind.
0:19.2	We're going to have an honest look at some of the alternatives,
0:22.0	and maybe it will change my mind and yours. I'm certainly open to it, and I hope you are too.
0:32.5	What's up, everyone? I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing here at Bigger Pockets,
0:37.2	and I've been buying rental
0:38.6	properties for 15 years. Today on the show, I'm talking with two of my colleagues at Bigger
0:44.7	Pockets who have tried investing in long-term rentals and actually didn't like it very much.
0:50.4	But that doesn't mean they gave up on their dreams of passive income and eventually reaching
0:56.5	financial independence. They just found different ways to invest that better fit their goals
1:01.5	and lifestyle. So let's bring them on. Welcome back to the show, the co-hosts of the real
1:06.0	estate rookie podcast, Tony Robinson. Tony, good to see you. Yeah, Dave, thanks for having me,
1:10.6	brother.
1:16.7	excited to chat things up today. Absolutely. And we also have Bigger Pockets head of copywriting and investor himself, Nate Weintraub. Nate, welcome to the show. First time on this show, right?
1:23.2	Yep, first time. Real estate rookie and Bigger Pockets Daily, but first time on this one.
1:26.7	All right, Nate, you have earned your way out to the show.
1:28.8	Let's start with you.
1:30.0	What's your argument?
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