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Why We Regret Buying (So Many) Rental Properties

2025/2/12
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Real Estate Rookie

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This chapter explores the hosts' regrets about quickly scaling their rental property portfolios. They discuss their individual scaling journeys, attributing their rapid growth to a combination of hard work and lucky timing. They emphasize the importance of balancing ambition with realistic assessment of one's capabilities.
  • Regret buying too many rental properties too quickly
  • Focus on acquisition over holding and management
  • Rapid portfolio growth due to a combination of hard work and market factors

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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!

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