BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

3 Types of Rentals That STILL Make You Rich

December 31, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This panel-style host discussion features real estate experts competitively showcasing recent property deals across diverse markets and price points, blending education with playful rivalry to inspire listeners on accessible investing strategies. Technical.
  • The Format: A casual chat among co-hosts turned competitive deal showcase.
  • The Key Players:
    • Dave Meyer: Host and head of real estate investing at BiggerPockets, moderating the banter and providing analysis.
    • Henry Washington: Expert investor and co-host on On the Market, sharing a gritty, low-price fixer-upper.
    • Kathy Fettke: Veteran investor and co-host, highlighting a hands-off new construction play for busy professionals.
    • James Dainard: Creative Seattle investor and co-host, unveiling a multi-phase land-value strategy in a high-cost market.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 Dave Meyer hosts; guests are expert real estate investors and co-hosts on the On the Market podcast
  • 2 Each shares a recent purchase: $55K to $600K range, diverse strategies across markets
  • 3 Light-hearted rivalry among guests; Dave notes it's always a competition
  • 4 Spoilers: Henry's spider-infested part-time vacation home; Kathy's upside in growth city; James's multi-part creative profit strategy
  • 5 Tease for new and experienced investors: ideas for any market/price point
  • 6 Single-family home across from lake; second-nastiest house Henry’s bought (brown recluse spiders, webs, cigarette butts, rotted subfloors)
  • 7 Purchase: $55K; rehab: $90K (3-bed/1.5 to 3-bed/2-bath); ARV: $265K-$285K

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Show Notes

These rental property deals are making us richer, even with high housing prices and interest rates. Everyone thinks it’s impossible to find cash-flowing rental properties in today’s housing market, but this is NOT the truth. We’re going to show you three real rental property deals we’re buying. All of these are being purchased in 2025—these are NOT cheap deals from 2020 with 3% - 4% interest rates. Each one will build major equity, cash flow, or both.


Dave brought backup on this episode—the entire expert panel from the On the Market podcast—to share real deals they’re doing right now. We’ve got three to go through—a $55,000 heavy rehab rental property that will also serve as Henry’s own vacation home, a new build rental property at a super reasonable $214,000 price, and finally, a very creative (but somewhat costly) land-banking deal in Seattle, Washington.


Each of these deals ranges in expertise needed. Some of the heavier rehab projects may require a few years of renovation experience, while Kathy’s new build deal is a profitable rental ANYONE can buy right now. Regardless of your experience, you can copy these strategies and get richer with these rentals! 


In This Episode We Cover

Three profitable real estate deals you can do RIGHT NOW

How to buy a brand new rental property, with a low interest rate, for just around $200,000

How Henry is turning a $55,000 disaster house into a $265,000 top-tier rental 

James’s super creative way to make $300,000 on land in high-demand areas 

The best investment if you’ve got a busy job, a family to take care of, or just a hectic schedule 

And So Much More!


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