From One Rental To Ten: How Real Estate Investors Build Wealth

<p>“Jon, I've got one rental property. It's doing well. I'd like to buy another one—but where do I get the money?”</p><p>I get some version of that question all the time.</p><p>And I think people sometimes assume that investors who own 10 or 20 properties started with millions of dollars.</p><p>Many didn't.</p><p>They started with <b>one.</b></p><p>One property generated rent.</p><p>The tenant helped pay down debt.</p><p>The property potentially appreciated.</p><p>The investor accumulated additional savings.</p><p>And eventually that first property helped create an opportunity for the second.</p><p>Then the second helped create the third.</p><p><b>That's what Cory and I are going to unpack today: how do you go from owning a rental property to actually building a real estate portfolio?</b>”</p>