Hayden Crabtree has been investing in real estate for six years now. He started the old-fashioned way.
He found a successful investor and worked for him for free. Something almost no one’s willing to do.
That’s how bad he wanted it.
Got a multi-million-dollar education in the process.
After that, his goal was to just get one house – one rental under his belt.
But he soon realized he wasn’t thinking big enough. That each hour of input didn’t produce the same output.
“So the biggest lesson for me,” Hayden says, “is whenever you can go from one door to 10 doors to 100 doors, not only are you gonna make a lot more money in a lot less time, but you’re also gonna have a lot less risk, right?”
“Because if we have a house and that one person doesn’t pay, we have zero dollars of income,” he explains.
“But if we have 400 storage units and one person doesn’t pay? We really don’t even notice it.”
“So for us, the storage space just makes a lot of sense.”
“It’s extremely useful and calming to be in a business that people need,” Hayden adds.
“Demand doesn’t go down during bad times. For example, during the pandemic, not only did our real estate investing business not dip, but it actually increased.”
A lot of people are worried about the market collapsing.
Not Hayden. He’s in control. He picked an asset class that’s unbothered by economic ups and downs.
Hayden wrote a book called Skip the Flip, which talks about everything he’s learned so far.
Like the title says, he encourages people to forget about fix-and-flips.
- That’s not where you’re gonna build wealth in real estate.
- You don’t get the tax benefits.
- You miss out on that glorious monthly residual income.
- Ditto the debt pay down over time.
- And the list goes on and on.
It’s really about riding the long-term inflation wave so that your properties appreciate, along with your income, as the years tick by, says Hayden.
“I wrote the book for a basic guide,” Hayden says.
“Whether you’ve never done a deal before in your life, whether you’re thinking about flipping houses, whether you flipped a couple and wanna get into rentals.”
“You know, it’s essentially a progression of my story. How I went from house flipper, residential renter – to commercial, raising capital, and how it’s done, step-by-step.”
“And listen, I’m not opposed to house flipping,” Hayden concedes.
“It is what it is. It’s a business; it’s not investing. There’s a lot of risk and it’s not a residual income play.”
Buying and renting out houses is a little better in Hayden’s mind.
There’s a lot more inventory, there’s a lot more financing options, so it’s a decent place to start.
You can cut your teeth, learn about marketing, negotiating, closing, and managing.
But commercial real estate investing is where you’ll get the exponential gains in cash flow, tax breaks, and wealth accumulation.
Sure, it’s more work. But would you work 5% harder for a 1,000% greater return?
Hayden bets you would.
And if you think commercial buildings are outta your league, well, that’s a mindset problem more than it is a money, skill, or IQ problem.
Anyone can own commercial and there’s plenty of people with deep pockets you can partner with.
The transactions are easier too.
There’s no emotion (“But this was my mom’s house!”), it’s less subjective (“These countertops are beautiful, aren’t they?”).
Much more straightforward.
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