All Forum Posts by: Ryan Rabinowitz

How much debt do you have with student loans? may not be bad idea to clear all that up before taking on loans, and you can get a better loan without the student loans

No student loans when I graduate.  Luckily.

HI @Ryan Rabinowitz and welcome to the BP forums!  I'm pumped to hear that you are fired up for real estate investing and looking to make moves strategically over time.  If I were in your shoes I would combine a few strategies like this:

• Purchase a 4plex to house-hack right away or as soon as possible
• After living in ^^ for 1 year move out and purchase a 2-4 unit property as a house hack
• During ^^^ year look for a property that would be a good BRRRR candidate. Worst case scenario you sell it, best case you refinance and keep it
• After living in 2nd house hack for a year or so, repeat this process.
• During that time identify a few possible BRRRR properties.
• Rinse and repeat.

This is nice and tidy and may not be how it plays out in reality, but in essence this approach gives you a few things of value:  repetition and equity.  By the end of a short 5 year span of this you could feasibly own between 12-25 cashflowing rental units and, most importantly, you'll be sitting pretty at 28ish with a good understanding of the process of valuing homes, buying homes, and operating rental properties.

Go out and get it, Ryan!