The Active Track
So you want to do it yourself?
Welcome to the Active Track.
If you want to forego passive investing to develop your own rental real estate portfolio, kudos to you. It’s the best way on earth to build cash flow and long-term wealth— but it takes time, dedication, and ambition. Here, we’ll strive to provide you with the knowledge, the network and the resources for learning to build and manage your own portfolio.
Reading List
Every real estate investor’s journey inevitably begins here. The playbooks have been written. There are no secrets. Simply read, implement, and repeat.
How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide by Brandon Turner
Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads by Larry B. Loftis
What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow by Frank Gallinelli
Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate by Brian H. Murray
Advanced Tax Strategies: Cracking the Code for Savvy Real Estate Investors by Amanda Han
Podcasts
Podcasts are hands-down the best, most efficient way to gain practicable and actionable investing knowledge. With hours of free content, you and listen in on conversations with seasoned vets about their successes, failures, and strategies. These are our top picks for optimizing idle time while driving, flying, or waiting in line.
Our signature show that focus on best financial practices, passive real estate investing, and wealth building for high-income professionals. Hosted by yours truly, our guest list runs the gamut.
Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast
Investing knowledge gold for the Active Track crowd as opposed to those more interested in passive investing. If you want to get a Ph.D. in how to build a rental portfolio, keep this one in rotation.
Robert Helms and Russell Gray have been in the investing game for decades, and are the consummate veterans to gain insight from.