As far as cash flow goes, I always ask people, you got to have a goal.

What is your goal number of cash flow to achieve?

And for me, most people, whenever I pull this question, they always say around $10,000 a month is where they would like to start.

But as time goes on, obviously you want to make more money, you know, especially if you live in a current place that is expensive,

like California or New York or even Vegas where I'm at, you know, $10,000 a month, especially

with the family and kids, doesn't get you very far, but this is the normal number that I see

for most people. And so when we're trying to create a cash flow goal in real estate investing,

we got to at least have a

method to get there. And so when most people think about cash flow, the first thing that pops into

their mind are rental properties. This is how people always think. They say, Ryan, okay, well,

if I want to get $10,000 a month in cash flow, I'm going to do it through rentals. And I'm here to tell you this.

I've done a ton of different rental properties.

I'll talk about Airbnb here in a minute.

You know, we've done syndications.

We've done apartments.

I bought single family.

You know, at the end of the day, rentals are good for a lot of things.

They're really good for long-term appreciation, right? I'll just put that right here. They're really good for appreciation.

They're really good for taxes. They're really good for what we call principal paydown.

But are they actually good for cash flow? Well, I'll let you be the judge. We'll just run the math

in terms of how much do I got to get in

real estate to get $10,000 a month in cash flow. Let's take an example here. If you were to go

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