Start small with strategies like house hacking, leveraging your hands-on skills for value-add properties, and building a strong team or network to reduce risks.

.🔹 Profit Multiple Ways – You can rent the property for cash flow, sell the option at a profit, or buy it later at a pre-agreed price (often below market value).🔹 Great for Sellers & Investors – Motivated sellers can turn a vacant or hard-to-sell property into income while investors secure future deals without a huge upfront commitment.🔹 Ideal in Any Market – Whether home prices are rising or falling, lease options allow you to lock in today’s price while benefiting from future appreciation.Other creative strategies—like seller financing, subject-to deals, and the BRRRR method—can also open doors, but lease options remain one of the most powerful, low-risk, minimal cash out-of-pocket ways to build a portfolio.

Feel free to dumb this down for me, I want to learn and have had this goal for a long time. 

Rent value is based on the county and number of bedrooms.

I'm currently with an investment brokerage but my end goal is to be an investor and feel the big shoes my parents are leaving me with! 

I have a contract on a house in Phoenix AZ with a value of $500,000 and a mortgage of $288,000 to be taken subto.

There are a bunch of ways to do this depending on the property type, usage, and you (income and credit scores).If this is a primary residence, you can get up to 90% of the value of your home minus any exisitng debt. 

You can do some inexpensive value ad items.

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While there’s no perfect formula, there are a few methods you can use to get as close as possible:For maintenance and repairs, a good rule of thumb is to budget 1%–2% of the property’s value annually.