{"id":70344,"date":"2017-10-21T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=70344"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:28:36","slug":"2015-02-13-bought-apartment-no-money-out-of-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2015-02-13-bought-apartment-no-money-out-of-pocket","title":{"rendered":"How I Bought an 18-Unit Apartment With No Money Out of Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you have heard people talk about \u201c<a title=\"How to Invest in Real Estate with No Money Down (4 Rules You NEED to Follow!)\" href=\"\/renewsblog\/2014\/10\/18\/invest-real-estate-no-money-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">no money down<\/a>\u201d deals here on BiggerPockets. The skeptics would say, \u201cThat can\u2019t be done in today\u2019s market!\u201d Well, it can be done! Here is my story of how I purchased an 18-unit apartment building with no money out of my own pocket. It is the biggest deal I have done (so far, of course).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/get.biggerpockets.com\/nomoneydown\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this case study, I tell the story of how we found the deal, how much we raised, and how we were able to achieve this goal. I made sure to provide specifics, which I hope you find helpful. I also share a few tips for all those that are interested in making this happen for yourself. It is not rocket science, but you need to have a great team, strategy, and plan in place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3dDRVGYI1wg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s Note: We are republishing this article to help out our newer readers.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think: Is this a strategy you would use to acquire real estate?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave a comment, and let&#8217;s talk!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case study, I tell the story of how we found the deal, how much we raised, and how we were able to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":70351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-real-estate-investing"],"acf":[],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}