10 Units in Under 2 Years and a Scaling Real Estate Portfolio
A scaling real estate portfolio tends to not happen overnight, but zero to ten units in under two years is pretty quick! Back at the beginning of 2020, Cale Delaney had a mental shift where he realized that real estate could be the key to setting him financially free. He scoured homes all over his area of Florida until he came across a fourplex which rejected one offer from him but later accepted another. He made three of these units long-term rentals, and the other one a short-term rental. Then, Cale decided to pack his whole family into the minivan and make the 10+ hour drive to check out the area. Shortly after, Cale was under contract for not one, not two, but three cabins! Cale went from zero to ten units in only a year and a half or so, without a ton of management experience of extravagant funding. If he can do it, you can too! ~~~~ Join the Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group: / realestaterookie ~~~~ Follow Cale on Instagram, or Contact Him on Facebook or BiggerPockets: Instagram: @mtn_to_sea_cabins_and_cottages or / mtn_to_sea_cabins_and_cottages Facebook: / cale.delaney BiggerPockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/c... ~~~~ Software Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Smartbnb/Hospitable: https://hospitable.com/ PriceLabs: https://hello.pricelabs.co/ Stessa: https://www.stessa.com/ RUBS: https://thinkutilityservices.com/rubs... ~~~~ Grab a Copy of “Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth”: https://store.biggerpockets.com/produ... ~~~~ Follow Ashley and Tony on Instagram: @wealthfromrentals or / wealthfromrentals @tonyjrobinson or / tonyjrobinson Episode 121 Show notes at: https://www.biggerpockets.com/rookie121 0:00 Intro 6:18 Making the Mental Switch to Build Wealth 9:57 Cale's Current Portfolio 11:18 The First Deal 15:16 Switching it Up with Short-Term Rentals 22:15 Getting Your Partner Ready to Invest 24:22 Getting 3 Cabins Under Contract! 30:05 Financing These Deals 33:33 Using a HELOC to Fund Rentals 38:11 How Do You Manage 10 Units? 41:12 Scheduling Time Now for Freedom Later 44:42 Deal Deep Dive 57:11 Rookie Request Line 1:00:29 Rookie Rockstar 1:02:58 Never Too Old to House Hack!

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