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Scaling Buy and Hold
I am confused as to how you are able to keep buying buy and hold properties once you are past the point of bank financing. How can you produce profits when your financing options have interest rates that are much higher than those offered by banks?
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Outside of portfolio loans (great option), here are a couple other options for growth:
- Raise private money to purchase deals
- Pay down the mortgage on one property with the snowball method. Essentially take all the excess cashflow from your investments and put all of it towards one mortgage until it is paid off. Once you free one mortgage up, you can get another property