YOU DON’T NEED A LAMBO. YOU NEED A RENTAL.
You don’t need to already be a real estate investor to start thinking like one. Learn how rental property financing works, understand the numbers behind the deal, and start building your portfolio one property at a time.
EVERY PORTFOLIO STARTED WITH PROPERTY #1.
Nobody starts with ten rentals. You start by finding one property, understanding the numbers, and figuring out how the financing works. Then you build from there.
FIND THE PROPERTY
You don’t need ten rentals picked out. Start with one property worth investigating and learn what makes it a potential investment.
RUN THE NUMBERS
What could it rent for? What might the monthly property expense look like? Does the rental income support the deal? This is where investing starts becoming real.
FINANCE THE DEAL
Investment property financing can work differently from the traditional mortgage process you may already know. The property itself can become a major part of the financing conversation.
YOUR FIRST RENTAL DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU TO KNOW EVERYTHING. IT REQUIRES YOU TO START.
We’ll help you understand the financing, the numbers, and the process behind buying your first investment property.
WAIT… WTF IS DSCR?
Forget the acronym for a second. What actually matters is whether the rental income from the property can support the qualifying housing expense used to analyze the deal.
Instead of making this harder than it needs to be, think about it like an investor:
That relationship is what DSCR is trying to measure. The stronger the rental income looks against the qualifying property expense, the stronger the deal may look from a DSCR perspective.
In this simplified example, the monthly rental income is greater than the qualifying housing expense used in the calculation.
YOU DON’T NEED TO MEMORIZE THE FORMULA. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHETHER THE DEAL WORKS.
And soon you’ll be able to punch your own numbers into the Build Rental Wealth DSCR Calculator and see the deal come to life.
EXPLORE THE DSCR CALCULATOR →YOUR PAYCHECK ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
THE PROPERTY HAS A SAY TOO.
With qualifying DSCR investment-property financing, the property’s rental income becomes an important part of how the deal is analyzed. Instead of looking at a rental exactly like a traditional owner-occupied mortgage, you start looking at it like an investor.
“DO I MAKE ENOUGH TO BE AN INVESTOR?”
“DOES THIS PROPERTY MAKE SENSE?”
The financing still has requirements. Credit, down payment, reserves, property type and lender guidelines can all matter. But you’re beginning to ask the question the way an investor does.
SEE HOW INVESTMENT PROPERTY FINANCING WORKS →