Over the last several weeks, I’ve been telling a series of unrelated Real Estate Investor Stories. Each story featured a different investor, their situation, their fears, their strengths, their resources and ultimately how their plan could have worked out based on output from the Real Estate Financial Planner™ software.
Today, I am trying something different. One character, Peter, from Denver… considers a variety of different real estate investing strategies.
In this first story, we meet Peter, a young professional in Denver seeking financial independence.
About this first episode with Peter:
- Peter is starting with $25,000 in savings
- He has a good job making about $72,000 per year
- Lives in Denver, CO but would consider living in or around the Denver area
- Currently rents a property for $2,200 per month (in a future
Scenario - He is saving about $1,000 per month with the intention of buying rental properties (like the property he is currently renting)
- He plans to put 20% down when he buys his rental properties as soon as he’s saved up enough for a down payment and at least $5,000 in reserves (adjusted for inflation)
What will happen to Peter?
- How long does it take him to buy his first 20% down payment rental?
- Does it have positive cash flow? If so, how much?
- Does that speed up his ability to save for the next property?
- How long does it take for him to save up a down payment for his second 20% down payment rental? His 3rd? 4th? 10th?
- How long does it take him to be able to replace the $5,000 per month he is living on (he is earning $6,000 but saving $1,000 per month)? In other words, how long does it take him to achieve financial independence?
- What does his rental property income (lifestyle) look like in retirement?
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Peter from Denver Buys 10 20% Down Payment Rentals with 2 
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Future Episodes With Peter
In future Scenarios
- What happens if interest rates go up while he’s acquiring properties?
- What happens if he puts 25% down and gets better cash flow but it takes longer to save up to buy properties?
- What happens if he opts to buy a 5% down payment property to live in?
- What happens if he house hacks?
- What happens if he buys 5% down payment properties and Nomads™ for all 10 properties?
- What happens if he buys 5% down payment properties and Nomads™ for 1 property? For 2 properties? 3?
- What happens if rents don’t always go up 2% per year?
- What happens if property values don’t always go up 2% per year?
- What happens if the money he is investing in the stock market doesn’t always go up 8% per year?
- What happens if we see rents go up, then down, then up, then down (form an “M” shape)?
- What happens if we see rents go down, go up, then down, then up, (form a “W” shape)?
- What happens if we see property values go up, then down, then up, then down (form an “M” shape)?
- What happens if we see property values go down, go up, then down, then up, (form a “W” shape)?
- What happens if we see a significant market correction?
- What happens if tries to buy more properties to sell off some to pay off the remaining properties?
- What happens if tries to pay off the lowest mortgage balance with cash flow each month?
- What happens if tries to pay off the lowest mortgage balance, but only after he has enough to pay the entire balance in full?
- What happens if rents are 10% higher at the start? 10% less at the start?
- What happens if property values are 10% higher? 10 less at the start?
- What happens if he stops working after 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years regardless of whether he’s achieved financial independence or not?
- What happens if he sees a random, significant market correction in stocks? In real estate? In both stocks and real estate, but independently? Both at the same time?
- What happens if he gets married, has more income but also more more expenses?