If you want to start investing in real estate and buy your first rental property, there are six beginner steps you’ll need to take. Following these steps to a tee could mean the difference between having a home-run first investment property and a horrible experience that leaves you worse off than before. So stick around as we lead you to your first property (and financial independence) faster, even if you’re an investing beginner.
We’ve brought on Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and personal finance master Kyle Mast to walk through the six steps you must take before buying a rental property. We’re not talking about the usual “find an agent, find a market, find a property” type of advice. This time, it’s all about setting you up for FINANCIAL success and, more importantly, stopping you from financial failure by making the wrong moves in the beginning. If you don’t get these steps down, you can kiss your dreams of financial freedom goodbye.
We’ll touch on how to define your investing goals to get what you REALLY want out of life, how to evaluate whether or not you’re even in a financial position to invest, how to fix your bad finances if they’re not up to shape, building a solid emergency reserve for when things go wrong, and what the experts say you NEED to know before you invest in 2024.
In This Episode We Cover:
The six beginner steps EVERY investor must take before buying an investment property
Investing with the end in mind and deciding what you really want: money or time?
Budgeting, getting rid of bad debt, and how to make and save more money to invest
Building emergency reserves and why skipping on this is a costly mistake that could set you back years
EXACTLY what you need to know before investing (if you can’t answer these questions, you should NOT invest)
Tips to get you to your first rental property even faster
And So Much More!
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A Personal Finance Masterclass with Kyle Mast
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Books Mentioned in the Show
Pillars of Wealth by David Greene
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
The Richest Man in Babylon (BiggerPockets Edition) by George S. Clason
Set for Life by Scott Trench
Connect with Kyle:
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