How to Avoid The High Down Payment on Your Next Rental Property

Episode #961
One of the biggest hurdles to rental property investing? High down payments. Most lenders want you to come to the table with twenty to thirty percent down, but with home prices averaging around $400,000, it might not be easy to come up with $80,000 to $120,000 on your next deal, especially with today’s high cost of living. So, how do you skirt the high down payment requirements while still locking up solid real estate deals? We’re showing you how in today’s Seeing Greene!
First, a Hawaii investor struggles to scale his real estate portfolio with the state’s significant down payment requirements. David and Rob give him some creative ways to still get deals done. A median-income-earning new investor wants to know whether to buy a new construction home or BRRRR his way to wealth. Then, we debate whether a high down payment with cash flow beats a low down payment with negative cash flow. Looking for a better interest rate on your next deal? We’ll share the seller finance strategies you can use to buy off-market properties, plus whether or not you can buy two houses at once with the same preapproval.
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Show notes at: link.chtbl.com/BPRE
00:00 Intro
01:07 How to Avoid High Down Payments
11:36 BRRRR or Buy a New Build?
20:35 Take Negative Cash Flow?
24:50 Comment Section Callout
27:36 Getting Seller Finance Deals
34:24 Buying Two Houses at Once?
36:53 Ask Us Your Question!