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Real Estate Rookie

Why We Regret Buying (So Many) Rental Properties

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It’s true—we regret scaling our real estate portfolios. We’ve learned (the hard way) that less is often more, especially in today’s market, where great deals aren’t as easy to find. Want to make sure your quest for more rentals doesn’t derail your investing journey? We’ll share where we went wrong so that YOU don’t make the same costly mistakes!   Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Social media would have you believe that a large portfolio is the key to reaching financial freedom, replacing your W2 salary, and retiring early. And while you may need more than one or two rental properties to achieve your biggest investing goals, scaling too quickly can have the opposite effect—killing your cash flow and leaving you with more headaches than you bargained for!   In this episode, you’ll hear how putting all his eggs in one basket caused Tony to lose over $200,000 on ONE deal and how growing too fast caused Ashley to miss out on one of the BEST years to invest in real estate. Stay tuned to learn what we would have done differently if we could wind back the clock! In This Episode We Cover Why Ashley and Tony regret buying so many rental properties so quickly The pitfalls of scaling your real estate portfolio (and how to avoid them!) Why “less is more” when it comes to building a rental portfolio What WE would do differently if we started investing today Why stabilizing your properties is more important than acquiring more Creating necessary procedures, processes, and systems in your real estate business And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-522 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

Some people regret tattoos, relationships, and haircuts.

0:04.6

But we actually regret buying too many rental properties.

0:08.1

Now, there are so many factors that can lead to acquiring more units and doing more deals,

0:12.5

but sometimes more focus is put on the buy than set up the hold.

0:16.7

Today, we're going to share what we would have done differently so you don't make the same mistakes.

0:26.6

I'm Ashley Care.

0:27.8

And I'm Tony J. Robinson and welcome to the Real Estate Rookie Podcast.

0:31.4

So, Tony, before we get started here, do you have a tattoo and do you regret it?

0:36.1

I have a tattoo in a place that I'm not comfortable talking now.

0:38.2

I'm kidding.

0:38.4

I don't have any tattoos yet.

0:39.8

But when I do, hopefully it's not one that I regret.

0:42.1

Like my real estate portfolio, I don't feel too fast.

0:44.3

I don't have any either.

0:45.6

So that must be why we regret scaling our rental portfolios because we have no tattoos to regret.

0:52.8

Tony, starting out with your, you know, investing journey, what was kind of your progression of scaling?

1:01.6

Did it start out slow?

1:03.5

Did you like just accumulate properties really, really fast in the beginning?

1:08.2

Kind of start there.

1:09.6

Yeah, we started off at what I feel was like a

1:11.6

decent pace and then just kind of like exponential growth. But we started buying long-term rentals in

1:19.3

2019. So I got my first long-term rental October 2019. And then about a month later, closed on my second long-term rental. And then,

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