for today and for years to come — and how you can do the same.
You’ve probably seen TV shows or heard from national real estate gurus about the benefits of owning rental property. Some folks call it the B.R.R.R.R. strategy:
- Buy the property — you can use cash or get a short-term hard money loan to cover the purchase and rehab costs
- Rehab the property — so a good tenant will choose your property instead of someone else’s
- Rent the property — Baltimore is famous for bringing you high rent for a modest investment
- Refinance the property — get all your cash back (and maybe more), or pay off your hard money loan with a lower-interest loan that lets you earn cashflow month after month
- Repeat the process — there’s no financial limit to how many properties you can buy, which means no limit to your monthly cashflow
Yes, rental income can dramatically improve your lifestyle and help you retire comfortably — even early.
What those gurus don’t tell you is how investing in rental property works right here in the Baltimore metro area.
What the numbers look like here. Which neighborhoods are good here.
Now local expert Janet Tonkins offers her hard-earned knowledge to you. Janet’s class is packed with vital information and case studies that make the lessons come alive. The full day of content includes:
Why rental properties?
- Do you want cashflow for passive income ? Tax benefits? A higher net worth? Tax-free money from refinancing? A career change? Generational wealth? You’ve come to the right class!
- What it takes to succeed: attitude, discipline, the right team
- How profitable it can be: $100k a year? $250k a year? Yes! It takes time, but it’s doable.
Finding and funding your rentals
- 21 ways to find rental properties
- Determining how much rental properties cost: purchase, rehab, holding costs, etc.
- How to make offers on foreclosures — offers that work for both you and the bank
- 13 ways to find the money to finance your business
- Creative financing and how it can help you make more profit on a deal… or get a deal you’d otherwise miss… or both!
- The secret technique for buying with no money down — okay, not really a secret, but hardly anyone thinks of it
Minimizing risk
- Evaluating your rentals — determining your formula and sticking with it
- Buying below market value — the key to equity from day one
- Buying in the right area — an area that should stay right — that is, not be declining
- Having reserves — yes, you can leverage your money with debt, but don’t go overboard — stuff happens!
- The one risk you should never take
- Getting the lead out (a multi-million-dollar liability issue, and not just in Baltimore City)
Boosting your return
- Rehabbing a property to get more rent (Granite in a rental? You may be surprised.)
- Slashing your taxes — why pay more than you have to?
- Subsidized housing vs. market rent — myths get busted here
- Refinancing a property, taking out extra cash, and using it to buy more rentals — again and again and again and again…
And much more
- Building your team — the players you must have on your bench
- Property management — choosing and keeping tenants
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Who does the management: you or a company you hire
- Showcasing your property for a fast “yes” from a desirable tenant
- Tenant evaluation — how to weed out the bad ones fast, and how to screen the good ones so you know they’re really good
- Tenant move-in tips: how to handle utilities, trash cans, etc.
- How you can personally fixed clogged toilets at 3:00 a.m. — not! You’ll hire people to handle this.
You get the full, recorded live class — 7 hours of video content! — plus PDFs of the slides and the generous appendix with all the supporting documents.
- Property info docs: inspection checklist, shopping tips, and DSCR (Don’t know what DSCR is? You need this class!)
- Tenant screening docs: rental application, plus phone scripts for market, commercial, and voucher applicants (The best way to avoid bad tenants? See ’em coming!)
- Lease information: sample lease, lead disclosure form, general addendum, tenant damage and repair service charges, move-out cleaning instructions — these docs alone are worth the price of the class!
- Even more! Sample failure to pay rent notice, sample notice of eviction, sample tax appeal, sample RFTA for Section 8 tenants (Don’t know what RFTA is? Again, you need this class!)
- Plus helpful real estate website links, and a glossary so you can talk the talk as you walk the walk
About your Instructor:
Janet Tonkins is called “The Cashflow Diva” because she buys houses like other women buy shoes.
A 35-year veteran of Verizon Communications and president of A*R*T Enterprises, LLC, Janet has bought, sold, and rehabbed over 100 homes and apartment buildings, and managed over $20 million in investment properties from New Jersey to Maryland to Florida.
Janet moderates the monthly Savvy Women Investors Meeting (SWIM) for Baltimore REIA.