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All Forum Posts by: Ashley Petersen

Ashley Petersen has started 1 posts and replied 6 times.

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23
Originally posted by @Alyssa Dyer:

@Account Closed's advice is great. No need to re-create the wheel if someone has already worked it out for you. I started with a house hack and I've seen quite a few people suggest that here. Is that on your radar at all? 

@Ashley Petersen

It is good advice! We actually do house hack with Airbnb (just a bedroom in our home), and we’re actively looking to purchase a multifamily home or a house with an in law suite so we can house hack more efficiently. 

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23
Originally posted by @Account Closed:

I'm a little disappointed in the lack of creativity so far! So you will get a million different answers, and really it depends on your goals of what you want to do, not just how much you want to make. Your appetite for managing projects, extra time, experience, etc.

What I would do is use it to actively raise more capital so you have much more to invest toward your 'passive' income goals. I would also wait until everyone is moving about again, but be ready to look for and jump on deals to buy.

For example - and keep in mind you'll need about 25% down for any property you don't live in, assuming you can get financing.

Take $50k and flip a house in 3 months. Do NOT do the work yourself, hire it out and get it done right, and on time. If you haven't done that, find an experienced partner you trust, and line up contractors you trust. You will likely take longer, but aim for 3 months and don't go longer than 4 or 5. If you're lucky you split $50k net, leaving you with $25k profit (the $10k was intentionally left just in case the project goes a little sideways).

Do it again but do 2 at once in 3 months. As you get better, your profit should go up per flip. Let's say $50k per flip x 2. $100k in Q2. You now have your $60k + $25k + $100k = $185k capital raised. Start banking with a commercial lender if you haven't already, with your LLC. You want them to see your history of profits.

Q3 - Do 4 at a time in 3 months. Hopefully $60k each x4 = $240k profit + $185k previous = $425k

Q4 - Do 8 at a time, you will need help unless you don't have a full time job. $480k profit + $425k = $905k perfect!

You're in Year 2 by the time you've sold all these, but your bank should be able to give you a line of credit multiple of what you have. 2x or 3x when times are good (they are not now...) But let's say you have your $900k and they will give LOC of $1.8M on top of that. You don't even need that much!

By Year 2 you have experience flipping, finding deals, have a network of contractors you trust, and have your act together, or you lost your mind at this point. Maybe a little column A, a little column B...

Anyhow, you buy two 4 unit deals and BRRRR those suckers at $200/unit cashflow after (your goal is 25 units @ $200/unit).

Get that done in 3 months and now buy two 10 unit or one 20-unit and BRRRR that. Boom you now have 28 units cashflowing @ $200/mo each for a total of $5600/mo cashflow.

Guestimate of 25 units cost $200k each = $5M, at 25% down that's $1.25M down required total. You raised at least $1.6M so you can keep going.

Aggressive? Yes. Possible? Yes. Will you lose money sometimes? Yes, but as you can see my numbers aimed for more than your goals.

Good luck!!

Ah yes, I was quite disappointed as well! I know it’s a lofty goal, but it’s doable and I was curious to see how many people would find a way to figure it out. You did! It sounds like you have years of experience executing flips?

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23
Originally posted by @Adam E.:

@Ashley Petersen

BRRR would be my go to for sure. The first steps are going to be to educate yourself on markets and asset management, then you should work hard to get good deal flow. Picking your market based off of real numbers is the most important thing to do. If you look up "Neal Bawa analyze a market" on youtube, you'll find videos of a couple presentations explaining exactly what metrics to look for and follow. The 5 city-based metrics are

1. Population growth

2. Median Household Income

3. Median House or Condo Value

4. Change in Crime Levels

5. 12-Month Job Growth

Once you've picked a city, look into the neighborhood stats, there are several more so it would be best to look into the video. Pretty much all of the data can be found on city-data.com

To learn about asset management, read David Greene's books and start building relationships with managers and deal finders or whoever else you want on your team. Good luck!

Very actionable advice! We’ve been doing this for our areas of interest and have narrowed it down to our top locations. There’s so much good information to learn from out there.

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23
Originally posted by @Andrew Carlson:

@Ashley Petersen find yourself a deal on a house in Cottonwood Heights at the base of big cottonwood canyon.  Air BNB that baby to skiers and mountain bikers. Lather, rinse, repeat!

There’s lots of potential there!

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23

Some more insight into the OG post- 

1. You have $60k you can invest today (with plenty of emergency money still in reserves). 
2. You have a full time job so there will be more to invest over the next two years, $60k isn’t the end all number. 
3. It's possible to keep money flowing in and out of a property (BRRR), so that $60k doesn't have to stay parked in one investment.

How many people would take that $60k and buy one or two properties using the BRRR strategy and repeat it until you get $5k in semi-passive income? There's unlimited potential there, right? Just depends on how many doors you can handle picking up in two years time.

Post: What would you do with $60k if you’re goal was $5k/mo. income?

Ashley PetersenPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Salt Lake City
  • Posts 7
  • Votes 23

What would you do? You have $60k in the bank to invest however you want. You might be open to opportunities all over the country. Your goal is to generate AT LEAST $5k revenue per month in less than 2 years time. 

What kind of people would you connect with? What would you look for? How would you make your money go the furthest?