As a first-time home buyer, you may be struggling to make a move. And who can blame you? In 2023, with high mortgage rates and stiff competition, more and more would-be home buyers are staying put as renters—but this could be a big mistake. Even Jay Papasan, executive at Keller Williams and bestselling author, wishes he made his first home purchase faster.
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Mar 3
From $15,000 to Financial Independence Through Real Estate
In this episode of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, hosts Mindy Jensen and Scott Trench sit down with Grace Gudenkauf, a real estate investor who began her journey at just 23 years old with $15,000 in savings during COVID. Grace shares how she built a thriving rental portfolio in ... Show More
43m 51s
Jul 2022
640: How to Buy Your First 3 Rental Properties (Step-by-Step) This Year!
Knowing how to buy your first rental property can be the difference between you building a life of financial freedom or merely treading water working for active income. The life of a real estate investor isn’t glamorous, but it leads to generational wealth, time freedom, and the ... Show More
1h 23m
Apr 2021
Insider Secrets to Buying Your First Home and Avoiding the Rookie Mistakes | Scott Trench & Mindy Jensen
Buying your first house is no joke – from the downpayment to the mortgage, to finding the right house, to the paperwork and more, it can be quite a process. So how do you buy your first house with ease and avoid some rookie, aka costly, mistakes?
Scott Trench and Mindy Jensen, c ... Show More
40m 1s
Nov 2023
849: Seeing Greene: How to Use Home Equity to Retire Early and HOA Headaches
Have home equity? Well, you could retire early, thanks to it. If you bought a house from 2009 up until 2021, there’s a good chance you could be sitting on tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars in equity. But equity just sitting in a property isn’t doing ... Show More
1h 2m
May 2024
407: Stop Paying Someone Else’s Mortgage: Beginner Steps to Buy Your FIRST Home w/Aaron Mann
Are you tired of paying someone else’s mortgage? Then you’re in the right place. In today’s show, we’re sharing how to buy a home in 2024, even as a complete beginner, as we walk through a rookie’s step-by-step journey to purchasing his first primary residence, which could also b ... Show More
41m 36s
Jun 2022
189: House Hacking: How to Live for Free and Build Wealth in The Background
House hacking is one of the easiest ways to get into real estate investing. Thanks to its flexible financing options, low down payment loans, and ability to cut your rent in half (or eliminate it), house hacking is truly a phenomenal investing strategy. In short, house hacking is ... Show More
1h 3m
Sep 2023
How to Buy Your FIRST Rental by The End of THIS Year (Step-by-Step Plan)
If you listen to this episode, you’ll be able to buy a rental property in the next ninety days. That means by the end of 2023, you could have passive income flowing in and equity building on your behalf. But how do you get there, especially during a tough housing market like we f ... Show More
1h 17m
Jan 2023
252.5: How to Buy Your First Rental Property in 11 Steps
Buying your first rental property doesn’t need to be complicated. With some simple steps, you can go from onlooker to real estate investor, collecting passive cash flow every month! But you’ll never get going if you don’t know where to start. So to make 2023 your best year yet, D ... Show More
56m 26s
Jun 2023
783.3: Home Buying Hacks: Down Payments, Financing, and Home Insurance w/Chris Hutchins
Part 3:
Struggling to buy in this expensive housing market? In part three of our home buying hacks series with Chris Hutchins (from All the Hacks), you’ll learn why down payments AREN’T as big as you think, why working with a mortgage broker may be the best move to make, what len ... Show More
33m 29s
Apr 2021
463: How to Get Your First or Next Property (Step-by-Step) in 90 Days
We often have famous guests come on the BiggerPockets podcast and talk about their deals, their businesses, and their journey. Today you’ll hear from one of the biggest real estate celebrities, Brandon Turner, as he goes through the 90-day challenge, preparing you to buy your fir ... Show More
1h 21m