How I’m Finding Profitable Properties in 2025 (Shotgun Method)

Real Estate Rookie

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Have high interest rates and home prices affected your ability to buy cash-flowing real estate deals? If you’re struggling to find properties that pencil out, you don’t want to miss this episode. If there’s anyone who can teach you how to find great deals, even in this housing market, it’s today’s guest. He wrote the book on it! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Today, we’re joined by fellow investor, On the Market co-host, and author of Real Estate Deal Maker, Henry Washington. Given today’s difficult market conditions, is Henry pivoting to another investing strategy? Nope! He’s sticking to “boring,” single-family and multifamily properties that he either rents out to tenants or flips for a profit. But he is changing how he analyzes deals, and he’ll show YOU how to do the same in today’s episode! Stay tuned if you want to know how to buy your first or next rental property in 2025. Henry will show you the four-step approach he uses to find undervalued deals today and how to buy discounted properties from builders looking to move old inventory. But that’s not all. You’ll also learn how to fund these deals using small local banks, retirement accounts, and other people’s money (OPM)! In This Episode We Cover: The four-step “shotgun” approach to finding real estate deals in today’s market Why the way you analyze deals must evolve (even if your strategy doesn’t!) Creative ways to source “undervalued,” off-market real estate deals in any market How to fund your next property by leveraging your retirement accounts Buying discounted properties from builders looking to “offload” inventory How to get your spouse on board with your real estate investing goals And So Much More! Links from the Show Ashley's BiggerPockets Profile Tony's BiggerPockets Profile Join BiggerPockets for FREE Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Real Estate Rookie YouTube Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Ask Your Question for a Future Rookie Reply “Like” Real Estate Rookie on Facebook Follow Real Estate Rookie on Instagram Henry’s Instagram Grab Henry’s Book, “Real Estate Deal Maker” Sign Up for the Real Estate Rookie Newsletter Find Investor-Friendly Lenders 5 Ways to Find Off-Market Real Estate Deals Like a Pro (00:00) Intro (00:45) Breaking Into Real Estate (03:18) Funding His First Deal (08:48) Analyzing Deals in THIS Market (12:48) “Conservative” Underwriting 101 (22:18) How to Find Deals TODAY (29:57) Getting a Spouse on Board (37:34) Connect with Henry! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-543 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	With today's challenging market, many investors are wondering if cash flow opportunities are still out there.
0:06.5	Our guest today has not only built an impressive portfolio from scratch, but continues to find creative cash flow strategies even in 2025.
0:16.2	Now, whether you're working a W2 job or investing full-time, our conversation today will give you practical
0:21.4	insights on how to adapt and thrive in the current real estate landscape.
0:30.6	This is The Real Estate Rookie Podcast, and I'm Ashley Care.
0:34.5	And I'm Tony J. Robinson, and give me a big big warm welcome to men other than Henry, Washington, Henry.
0:40.5	What's up, brother?
0:41.3	What's up, guys?
0:42.1	How are you?
0:42.8	Good.
0:43.5	Thanks so much for coming on today.
0:44.9	You know, you've built an impressive real estate portfolio.
0:48.8	And you actually started this when you had a full-time job in the tech industry.
0:53.4	So can you walk us through your journey from employee to investor?
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	Yeah, I was designing software and doing data analytics.
1:04.2	And one thing I realized was I made good money, but I was bad with money. And I was okay being bad with money,
1:14.7	but I got married and my wife was not okay with me being bad with money. And so I had to
1:19.2	figure out a way my solve at the time was figure out a way to make more money. And then I can
1:26.6	still be bad with money, but I'll have more.
1:28.6	So that's what got me started looking into real estate. And then as I started to research about
1:36.4	how to get going, investing in real estate, a lot of the information I was reading was telling me
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