From 1 Rental to Financial Freedom (In 3 YEARS!) through Pure Hustle Episode #1147
Oct 15, 2025
After hearing this episode, you’ll have no excuse not to reach financial freedom in under a decade. Today’s guest did it in even less time, scaling up to income-replacing cash flow in just a matter of years, even with a very demanding full-time job and constantly moving around the country. Through pure hustle, Taylor Wing is now financially independent in his late twenties with a sizable rental property portfolio that spits out cash flow to pay for his South Florida lifestyle. He’s got so many tricks to reach financial freedom faster, but his best piece of advice? The number of rentals you own doesn’t matter.
This investor started with a single house hack. Three years later, he had more than 30 rental
properties and was able to transition out of his demanding military career and into the life he
always envisioned for his family. Now, he's acquiring multiple new properties per year,
but he spends most of his time leaning into what he calls the Florida lifestyle.
This isn't some secret formula that you can't execute. It's the result of following a reliable,
sustainable path to investing. Let's hear how it works.
What's up, everyone? I'm Dave Meyer. I've been buying rental properties for 15 years,
and on this podcast, we teach you how to achieve financial freedom through real estate investing.
Today's guest is investor Taylor Wing. Taylor started his investing career when he was an
active duty army officer looking for the financial security that would allow him to
He started with just a single house hack and was able to grow his portfolio
to more than 30 units across three different markets in just three years.
That real estate investing has allowed him now to prioritize his family's lifestyle,
live where he wanted, and to find a new career that's fulfilling for him at this stage of life.
Taylor shared some of his story a few years back on this podcast on episode 677, but I wanted to
have him back on the show because a lot has changed in his investing since then. He still
has around 30 units, but many of those properties have turned over as he's looked to simplify his
investing so he can spend more time with his growing family. He's still trading out and
finding and acquiring great new properties every year, but he's found ways to do it with much less
pavement pounding than before. These are really important skills that every investor needs to
learn, whether you're just starting your real estate journey or you're in the harvesting phase
like Taylor is. Let's bring him on. Taylor, welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast.
Thanks for being here. Good morning, Dave, and thanks for having me back.
Yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. I hope that a lot of you have heard Taylor's
first episode. It was 677 back in October of 2022, but for those who haven't yet listened to
that one, Taylor, maybe give us a little bit background about yourself, how you got into
real estate in the first place. Yeah, so just a quick cliff notes on me. Again, born and raised
in California, pretty much straight out of high school, went to the academy up at West Point,
was an army guy, commissioned, graduated in 2018, decided to be an artilleryman,
went to airborne school, did the paratrooper thing. And then after about five and a half years,
exited service. So last time I was on this podcast, I was still in the army actually,
and real estate was my side hustle. And we were like in a heavy acquisitions mode,
didn't have any kids back then either. So I devoted all of my spare time to real estate.
And now where we are today is a complete 180. So lifestyle has changed a ton. Of course,
we transitioned out of the military, started our family, and I'm doing real estate full time.
That's great, man. Well, congrats. It sounds like you've made a lot of progress. I'm curious,
going to West Point, were you originally thinking of having a career in the military long-term?
Yeah, that was, of course, the original game plan going into the academy, trying to make it up the
ranks as far as I could. But while I was in the service, I read, of course, like everyone, rich
dad, poor dad, got super heavy into real estate. I found some real estate mentors too, and started
flipping houses, doing BRRRS, doing creative financing, some wholesaling, and just fell in
love with real estate. And real estate changed my life. So I'm super grateful I found BiggerPockets
and I found my mentors. It changed the trajectory of my life. So instead of doing a career in the
military, of course, we did a big pivot. Well, that's amazing. Well, thank you for
your service. But I totally understand, whether it's military, corporate life, whatever. A lot
of people read that book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, get the bug and move into it. But it sounds like
you found something you really like. We're going to get to what Taylor's been doing now,
but I just want to catch everyone up to what he was doing in the beginning. So what was it like
investing while you were still in the military? What kind of deals were you looking for at that
point? Yeah. So in the military, we did pretty much any acquisition strategy you can think of.
House hacking with VA loans, FHA loans, a lot of low down payment options. I was a government
employee, didn't make a ton of money back then. I was a brand new butter bar, second lieutenant.
We made decent money, but not enough to just start buying houses. Like I was, I was probably
buying maybe one a month at that point. You were buying one a month? How? A lot of low down payment
options like sub two, seller finance, a BRRRR strategy using hard money loans with trying to
cash out refinance on the back end. And of course, VA loans are a super powerful tool for
all my veterans out there where you can buy a property, zero down, live in it for a while,
and then you can either flip it on the back end and pull that equity back out and get into your
next VA loan where you can hold onto it and keep renting it. I still have my very first VA loan
locked in at like 2.7% interest and- Never give it up.
Now I have so much, so much equity is built up after COVID, but the interest rate is so great.
I don't know if I ever want to sell that. So when you were doing this, were you just buying
where you were stationed at the time or did you pick like one hub that you wanted to be investing
in? So I actually invested where I was stationed. So I was stationed in Fort Bragg, Fayetteville,
North Carolina. So it was a great rental market and I love military markets. So I started investing
exactly where I was and I was real grassroots with it. I was door knocking, I was cold calling,
I was boots on the ground. I didn't have much money for a marketing budget. So I was really
hustling. My five to nine was really out there getting after it.
I bet. Yeah. And so were you renting mostly to other folks in the military?
A combination. Pretty much right off the bat, I hired a professional management company because
it was just too much for me to keep on fronting the acquisitions, doing the management and still
being in the army. So I pretty much hired a professional property management right at the
gate, but definitely a lot of military families for sure. And my kind of niche in that market
has always been single family homes, three bedroom, two bath typically, or if not more bedrooms.
So it's perfect for your typical family is kind of what I always like to cater to over there.
How long were you doing that when you were actually still in the military,
building up this portfolio pretty aggressively? Yeah, very aggressively. Really hustling for
probably like a good four years. Oh, wow. Okay.
While I was in the service, yeah. And I had a service obligation. So I kind of set a self goal
that was like, can I make enough cash flow from this portfolio to match my government paycheck
to give me that flexibility to transition out if I wanted to once my payment was up? So that was
kind of like my challenge I had set for myself back then. And how close were you able to get
while you were still in the service? I actually made a little bit more from the passive than I
was making from my paycheck. So luckily it timed out perfectly to where maybe like a half a year
after my service obligation, I hit that number. And that kind of gave us that green light to
look at our options outside of military service. Because at that point, my wife and I were looking
to settle down, start a family and everything too. So the timing really worked out perfectly.
And those years of sacrifice did end up paying off for us. Okay. So that was sort of like just
some background. You were on the show back in October of 2022. What year or time did you
actually transition out of the military? I transitioned out summer of 2023.
Okay. So a little bit later. And did you just keep doing the same kind of real estate approach
at that point? No, at that point I did shift and it was partially just because of our lifestyle
and also because the market, if you remember around that time. Oh, I remember.
Interest rates more than doubled. It got crazy. We got burned a little bit on some flips that
were kind of sitting out there. I had a lot of money out there. And so really after, once I
transitioned out, I was still doing real estate, but I didn't really quite have a game plan. I got
out and like the same month I had my son. Oh, wow.
So I moved to Florida, got out of the army all the same month down here in South Florida. So
I pretty much went straight into dad mode and the real estate kind of gave us more flexibility to
give me that time to spend my wife and the newborn. Well, congratulations on your family.
How did you pick another market? For me, I always invested where I lived
because I like to touch and I like to feel like to be involved. And that might not be the best
option for everybody out there, especially in high cost of living areas. But I went from Fort Bragg.
I moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. So I bought a good handful of property out there.
And then now we moved down here to Florida and I've been buying stuff around here as well. So
I've always invested where I lived. When you went from North Carolina to Sioux Falls,
what was different about that market and how do you adapt?
So interesting enough, the property values in South Dakota were actually
higher than they were in North Carolina. So the numbers for long-terms back then were not
super sexy. And we found an interesting niche because my wife was travel nursing back then.
And Sioux Falls has two large hospitals, which service almost the whole state,
right there in the central region of the city. So we focused on that because there's a lot of
travel nurse contracts that my wife was also being a part of. So we started buying small
mom and pop multifamily within a certain radius around these hospitals. And then we really
tailored to that travel nurse midterm rental strategy. So for Bragg, we catered to military
family, single family homes, Sioux Falls, really more smaller apartment, mom and pop,
catering to more of the travel nurses over there.
Was that a big change operationally for you going from doing more of the midterm rental style thing?
It was. That's when I got my wife more involved in real estate, whether she liked it or not.
I finally got her on board. Before it was just me kind of doing it all and she kind of let me do my
thing. But really that once I got her involved in the travel nurse side, kind of more hospitality
based a little bit. And she was a travel nurse, so she knows what travel nurses want and what they
need. So she really helped me and I brought her into the business on that way. Everyone, just a
reminder, if you were listening to this, in the next couple of days, Henry Washington and I are
doing our cashflow roadshow. So definitely follow along for all the content that we're going to be
making. But if you were in the Chicago area, we have a free meetup on July 15th. And if you're
in the Indianapolis area, we have a free meetup on July 16th. Make sure to RSVP because you got
to do that before you come. You can go to biggerpockets.com slash roadshow to do just that.
At that point, what did your portfolio look like?
Back then, it was very similar to how it is now, actually. We had roughly around 35 units.
We're still around that number now. But what we really focused on now is life optimization
and cashflow. A little bit before, I would have been more focused on number of doors,
all these other arbitrary numbers that I was tracking. But really, it came down to just cash
flow and lifestyle once we had a family because we wanted to make as much money as possible
with the least amount of effort possible. I love that. Yes, don't we all?
I don't care about doors anymore. Really, the other metrics, even equity, I know I appreciate
and it helped in appreciation. But cashflow is king right now. So what we did was we strategized,
we looked at our portfolio, we really dove into the numbers, which I didn't really do before.
And we were trying to see, all right, which ones are really working, which ones are not,
which ones are our performers and not. And we just started moving money around,
did some 1031 exchanges, got some better properties. And so we're at the same unit count,
but I think we've implemented systems to make it run a lot better so we can maximize that
passive cashflow that's ultimately helping us pay our bills and helping us live our lifestyle.
Everything you just said, we need to dive into because I think this is a really big
topic for investors right now. A lot of people have fortunately built up some equity,
built up a portfolio during the run-up in all these prices, they have a lot of equity.
And I get this question all the time, how are you rebalancing? How are you thinking about
curating? So let's talk about that. But first, you just mentioned that cashflow is your goal.
You had previously said though that you had already replaced your income from the military,
which is awesome. What was your new goal and how did you set it? Do you have a specific cashflow
number you're trying to get to or is it just maximize it indefinitely?
For me, it's honestly just maximizing it indefinitely. And I did suffer from lifestyle
creep because once I got down here, I wanted to live the Florida lifestyle.
Do you buy a boat?
Not a boat yet, but that's in the works. But I got the biggest house I possibly could. I'm on
the water down here on the intercoastal. We built a pool and everything and did a bunch of upgrades.
So we're really living the Florida lifestyle, but really just trying to maximize that number as much
as we can. But I would say that we hit that level where I feel like we have a foundational
level of financial freedom where we feel comfortable paying our base level expenses.
And so whenever we go out to work, we're just basically helping build that portfolio and
saving towards whatever we want to do next with our lives, whether it's vacations or
college funds, really anything, it's just helping us get to that next level.
Because eventually we want to be at a level where we're past that,
just we're paying all of our base expenses to where we're growing and we're really thriving.
That's awesome. A very noble goal. I'm sure a lot of people relate to this, that yeah,
real estate, great way to make money, but it is a means to an end. It's like money in itself
doesn't buy you happiness, but it can buy you flexibility, which is a great way to get
happier in my opinion. So I love that. But let's dig into this idea here of
rebalancing your portfolio because this is super important stuff right now.
You had this great portfolio. You said you hadn't been really looking at the numbers.
What were you doing? Just kind of like acquiring great assets and not really thinking about
efficiency or like what did you need to change? I was so focused on acquisitions. I would never
pass up on a deal. So I was buying properties as fast as I could, get as many houses under my
bill as I possibly could. I mean, I would do like a general cashflow, but once you've been operating
a property for at least a year, you can really look back at your expenses and how much you've
been spending on the property versus how much income it's generating and kind of just really
look down your pro formas and make those decisions. So it's just something I didn't slow down
before and really look at to optimize. And then once I slowed everything down and I was able to
just look at the numbers and go, okay, it makes more sense. We have a ton of equity here. Why not
move it into maybe some properties that'll perform a little better for us and help us make more cash
flow? Can I ask how you logistically did that? Do you have spreadsheets or what was the actual
process like for doing this? Because I think a lot of investors find themselves in a similar
situation that you were in where it's like you buy the deal, you see the cash on cash return
that you're projecting, but then they don't actually go back and say, am I actually hitting
that return? Or even if I'm hitting that return, is it as good as all the other deals that I'm
buying or all the other deals I could go get on the open market today? What were the actual tools
you used to pull this off? For one, we always had QuickBooks, but I'd never really looked at it. But
what we did was we actually took some classes in QuickBooks to really learn how to use the
programming. And we also hired a great CPA and a great accountant that changed the game for me
because before I was just paying tax bills and I had no idea why it was that number or how we got
there. But now I found somebody that we have strategy calls and we try to project what our
tax liability is going to be and we get ahead of it. So then we start game planning. So when it
comes tax season, we're ready for it. So CPA changed my life. A good accountant that sat with
us and helped us clean up our books and helped us be able to pull the reports we need per property
to really look at and see, okay, which ones are working for us, which ones are not performing as
well. So I think those guys are really important to help you get to that next level. I don't think
you need to invest a ton of money maybe upfront because you're just getting your first couple
of properties. But once you have a sizable portfolio, those guys are going to save you so
much money and they're going to help you make those executive decisions. Absolutely. That's
a great way to do it. I think this is probably one of the most underrated things that investors
should be doing. I try and do this personally quarterly. Sometimes I'm not that good about it,
but at least annually, I should say, I try and do it quarterly, but just update what's going on
in your portfolio. And I built this spreadsheet. It's actually part of my book. If anyone has read
Start With Strategy, you will be able to download this or maybe you've seen this, but I created
this spreadsheet that after you get that information either from your accountant or if you do it
yourself, a way to just sort of side by side, look at every property that you have. And I personally
like to look at it as a bunch of different levels. So your equity that you got in it,
cash on cash return is of course important, cash flow. I like to do two things that I think are
super important that a lot of people miss is one is risk. How risky is this property? Because I
want to see, are all my properties super risky? That's a problem. Are all my properties super
low risk? That's also a problem because I'm probably missing out on some upside.
And the last one I do is how much time each property takes me because there's always a
pain in the butt property. And when you look at these things side by side, you're like, oh,
that pain in the butt property is actually making me the least amount of money. Like,
why don't I sell this thing? This thing sucks. Or you're like, oh, this one is just amazing.
I'm always going to hold onto that. So I really, whatever tool you use, recommend people do this
for yourself. So Taylor, when you started doing this, what jumped out to you? What did you learn?
Yeah. What I learned, like you said, there's some properties that are just a thorn in your side
that are just like taking way too much time and attention away from you and costing you
too much money. I had a property, it was a cheaper one, one of the ones I first bought.
The problem with it was just not a good neighborhood and just problem after problem.
It was just like, get somebody in there, they destroy it, turning it over, that's 15 grand
again. Oh, we got squatters kept breaking in. I gave the property plenty of chances because it
was one of the first ones I bought to make it work. But after two or three iterations of this
and going through maybe two or three different management companies, I love the idea of giving
the property a chance, like it's the property's fault. But it is kind of true. Some properties
just, they struggle and you just got to get rid of them and that's okay.
Yeah. Take someone with maybe a more peculiar set of skills than I had, or maybe that was able to
deal with a lot more stress than I was able to deal with. So to me, it wasn't worth it. That's
one of the ones I liquidated and just moved that money somewhere else. It wasn't worth the headache
for me because I have a whole thing I got going on in my life and I didn't want to just be a
property manager. Was that hard? Because there is this narrative in the real estate investing
community, it's like, never sell. Just buy and just never sell. Was it hard to shift your mindset?
I used to be like that. Maybe you're taking a step back, right? I worked so hard to get this
property and now I'm selling it and you're paying an agent probably, you're paying closing costs,
it kind of sucks. But after you see how much heartache you went through and you look over
your statements and you see how much money that you've sunk into this thing,
just rip the band-aid off, man. Just do it.
Yeah, I totally agree. I think it's a hard thing because it's a new skill set to learn.
Like you were mentioning, you were sort of just in acquisition mode. That's a skill that usually,
and I think rightfully, people learn first. That's kind of what you need to do. But portfolio
management, totally different skill and learning how to optimize your resources, optimize your time,
that's where I think most investors get to. You get to that point, but
it is a little daunting to learn how to manage that.
Managing rentals shouldn't be stressful. That's why landlords love RentReady. You can get rent
in your account in just two days, which means faster cashflow and less waiting. Do you need
to message a tenant? Chat instantly in-app with no more lost emails or texts. Plus,
you can schedule maintenance repairs with just a few taps, which means no more phone tag. Are
you ready to simplify your rentals? Get six months of RentReady for just $1 using promo code BP2025.
Sign up using the link in the bio because the best landlords are using RentReady.
So Taylor, you did this analysis. Great work figuring out properties that were working for
you. How did you go about repositioning your resources and assets into new properties?
First of all, it took a lot of retooling for me. Like you said, it's a completely different
skill set. For me and my personality, I would much rather be on the acquisition side or on
the sales side, chit-chatting with people out in the field, talking to contractors,
making things happen. That's the kind of guy I am. So sitting behind a computer and having to
crunch numbers and look at reports, and it's just not as fun for me.
What? I love that stuff. Yeah. I'm not a very analytical person.
So it took a little bit of retooling. But what really forced me to do that is because
we're looking at how much rents we're pulling in versus the debt service. And we're like,
why aren't our numbers better than... We should be making a lot more money than what we are.
Where's this money actually going? That's what forced us to really look into this and make those
decisions. And when you did that... So let's just say you pick a property, not performing. Did you
automatically sell all of them? Did you consider refinancing any of them? Or
how do you think about that? Yeah. We had a couple options, like you said.
Maybe it's like, oh, should we switch? Maybe try a short-term or a midterm? Or
should we do a cash-out refinance, roll that equity, and some other properties?
But really, for me, once I figured out how to do a 1031 exchange, that's what really made the most
sense. Because I was able to get that maybe headache property off of my plate. And I was
able to move that money into properties that will actually get us towards that financial freedom
number that we're chasing. So for me, a 1031 made total sense. I was able to defer the capital gains
on that. So it's a powerful tool. I love the 1031. If anyone hasn't done one yet, definitely
look into it. It's not super expensive. I can't remember how much it cost me, maybe like $1,000
or $2,000, something like that. And I was able to save maybe close to six figures in taxes.
Wow. Yeah, it's 20% of the equity that you built up.
It's crazy. It's a lot. So it's a powerful tool, and definitely need to use it.
Yeah, absolutely. And if you're not familiar, what a 1031 is, it's a part of the tax code
that allows specifically real estate investors. This is a really unique part about being a real
estate investor. If you buy a property, it builds up all this equity. That's great. But when you
go to sell, if you wanted to trade out like Taylor's talking about, without this rule,
you pay 20% capital gains on your profit. So if you bought it for, I'll use very simple numbers,
you bought it for 200, sell it for 300, you have $100,000 in profit there. You'd pay 20 grand in
taxes, which again, you made 100 grand, so that's good. But ideally, you want to take that 100 grand
and reinvest it into another property. It allows you to keep scaling. And the 1031 exchange allows
you to make a tax-free exchange into what they call a like-for-like property. So you take an
investment property, you buy another one. There are some time limitations that make it a little
bit stressful, at least in my experience doing it a few times, but it could be very, very worth it.
So if you are in this portfolio management stage of your investing career, checking out a 1031
and using it can be a really, really powerful option. So Taylor, when you went about selling
these properties, were you going to reinvest in the markets they were in? Because you're
now across three markets, right? You're in North Carolina, you're in South Dakota,
you're in South Florida. Did you just reinvest in the same market or did you want to bring
everything to Florida to sort of consolidate? I actually, the opposite. I had properties in
Florida and I moved that money out of the state back to Sioux Falls and Fayetteville.
And the reason being is what was really prices that were creeping up was my insurance costs.
My properties were cash flowing initially, and then with the rise of insurance costs,
which is a problem in our state, it needs to be addressed. It just basically break and even,
or even at a slight loss. So it didn't really make sense for me to hold them anymore.
Okay. And that's kind of what I was curious about because
you bought a lot of your properties in the early 2020s and it was easier, frankly,
to find a lot of deals. It was. So I'm curious, was it how relatively hard or easy was it to find
cash flowing deals in the other two markets you operated? Much easier. I mean, because the
Midwest and the Southeast, it's a lot easier to find cash flow. Just prices of real estate are
just not as high as you would see down here in South Florida. Florida has been
appreciating like crazy, especially after COVID. Our markets cooled down quite a bit,
but we're probably going to be competitive with California soon. I don't know. We'll see.
I actually made a whole episode of On The Market, our sister podcast about Florida and what's
happened there the last couple of years. From like 2020 to 2023, I think prices went up 50%,
which is just absolutely insane. Normally that would probably take two decades
in a normal situation. And nationally it went up like 40%, but it was 53%. So yeah, Florida has
been, I think up until 2024, the fastest growing state for those three years. Since then, it's now
largely in a correction, but it's been a rollercoaster ride, but a lot of amazing appreciation.
So when you went to these other markets though, is it like on market kind of stabilized deals that
you could buy cash flow? Were you fixing them up, finding off market? How do you go about it?
I've purchased most of our portfolio off market, either direct to seller or utilizing connections,
wholesalers to acquire deals. There's been a couple of deals I've bought on market,
but it's pretty rare. There's just so much more competition. Our primary house though,
is a really creative deal. I bought the house I'm living in now, and that was actually an
on-market deal. And that's a cool seller finance deal that we negotiated. But for the most part,
most of our deals that are in our rental portfolio have been off market.
Okay, cool. And was it hard to build up that deal flow or did you have it already from
operating there? Yeah. Basically by the time we moved down here,
we already had our teams, our systems, connections all set up in the markets that we were previously
operating in. So it's easier for me to plug back in. Even to this day, that's where I'm still
hunting for deals primarily is in those two markets. And so when I find something, when
somebody sends me a deal, I'm able to execute on it. How would you describe the profile of your
deal today? Maybe just walk us through a recent one. What are you buying it for? How much work
are you doing for it? And what does the cash flow come out to be? I bought two deals in
Fayville last year. They're very similar deals and prices have increased in that market as well.
So these two deals I did, they're both BRRRR deals. They were both sourced from connections
and wholesalers. And basically I've been buying them probably in the 140s range,
maybe in the 130s if I'm lucky. And on the back end, I'm probably getting them appraised for the
220 to 240 range. So I don't really do huge rehabs. I like to do cosmetic in and out within
a couple months. That's kind of how I've done with those last two that I bought. And cash flow
is probably like 300 bucks maybe if you're lucky, 400. That's pretty good though. So what does that
come out to on a cash on cash return? So 400 bucks a month, that's four-ish grand a year in cash flow
per property. Yeah. And maybe 300 bucks isn't life-changing, but you stack those dominoes up.
And once you build up a portfolio and set those units on autopilot with the property management
company, I feel like your lifestyle and your flexibility really starts to change. You can
feel that. Oh, absolutely. And the other thing that I think a lot of people miss out on is that
$300 a month is usually tax-free if you're doing it tax-wise. So that's the equivalent of making
$400 a month or even 450, depending on your tax bracket. So it's just another thing to remember
is that a lot of times rental income can almost be treated as post-tax income, which is incredible.
So you got to make sure you think of it that way. Yeah. Rental income is the best income.
So if you're buying at 140, how much cash are you putting into each of these deals total?
Usually on the back end, I'll do a cash out refi. And on these ones, I'm not able to pull
all of my money back out. But usually my goal is if I can leave 10 grand or less in there,
I'm happy from the front end. Because usually I'll do 100% financing on the front end.
So on the back end, I might have to bring maybe 10K to close.
Okay. So you have a total of 10K into this deal and you're making 4K a year off of that?
Yes, sir.
So that's just a casual 40% cash out cash refi. That's insane.
That's why I like to do the BRRRR method and buy low and put in that sweat equity,
fixing up the property because your cash on cash return is going to be so much greater.
I think this goes to say, one, a lot of people are saying our cash flow are dead. Clearly not.
A lot of people right now say the BRRRR doesn't work anymore. So what is your message to those
folks? I think it's a lot harder nowadays, which is why I don't buy one a month anymore.
But they're out there. You just have to be patient and you got to wait for those deals.
There's those diamonds in the rough out there still. You just got to find them.
So how are you finding them now? Still off market,
but it's slowed down from one a month. What is your cadence right now?
Yeah. So last year I only did two in Fayetteville. If you're able to even buy, in my opinion,
even one a year, you're making that forward momentum still. It's still awesome. So again,
I don't even care about doors or anything like that. I don't compare my portfolio to anybody
else's. It's not a competition. It's just all about cash flow and the lifestyle that
it's going to create for you. A hundred percent. I couldn't agree
more with the philosophy. Door count is very silly. There are people I know with amazing door
counts and terrible cash on cash return. And then there's the opposite, right? There's people with
six, five, six paid off properties that are crushing. That's all you need.
It's right. Yeah. It's like totally different. I been thinking a lot more about just starting
to pay off properties at this point in my career. Not just being in total acquisition mode. It's
great. It's really comforting for some reason. It is.
This has been great, Taylor. Thank you so much for sharing all this with us.
Do you have any last advice for folks listening to this before we go?
Again, a lot of those other metrics don't matter as much. It's all about lifestyle
and real estate. It's a powerful tool. Use it to create the lifestyle that you want.
Hand it off to a property management company and enjoy the money. Life's meant to be enjoyed.
Spend it with your family, spend it with your loved ones, and think of real estate as just
a powerful tool to help you get there. Well, thank you so much for joining us,
Taylor. Really appreciate you joining us again on The Bigger Pockets Podcast.
Thank you, Dave. Thanks for having me. Everyone out there, thank you for listening.
Yeah. We'll have to have you back again a third time, Taylor. Keep it up. It'll be
fun to track your progress. Let me know.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of The Bigger Pockets Podcast.
I'm Dave Meyer. See you in a couple of days.

