BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast - 998: How to Create Multiple Streams of Income Through Real Estate Investing

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

If you know how to create multiple streams of income, you can build wealth FAST. Thankfully, real estate has dozens (if not hundreds) of ways to make money, and there’s a good chance that what you��re doing right now in real estate could lead you to two, three, or four different income streams. Today, we’re talking to expert investor James Dainard about the EIGHT streams of income he’s built and how you can do it, too! Whether you own a few rentals, a whole portfolio, or are just getting started in real estate, this episode is for you. We’re teaching beginners how to go from zero to multiple streams of income and the one income stream you should focus on first. If you’re running out of time with your rental or house flipping business and want more passive income flowing your way, worry not. We’ll talk about what you can do to make more money on the side without the hassle of doing your own deals. We’re even going to share the one skill you MUST learn to make it rich in real estate and start building your income streams today. If you get this right, you’ll build wealth WAY faster than the rest! In This Episode We Cover How to create multiple streams of income through real estate investing The number one income stream new investors MUST build before anything else  James’ eight different streams of income and how they make his investing even easier  How to start investing for passive income and why you MUST be careful when doing this Buying businesses and how this can make you even MORE money when investing  And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Ask David Your Real Estate Investing Question Connect with Other Investors on the BiggerPockets Forums Grab Henry’s Newest Book, “Real Estate Deal Maker” Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area See Henry and James at BPCON2024 in Cancun! How to Create Multiple Streams of Income in Real Estate (00:00) Intro (01:12) Making Multiple Income Streams (04:38) How Newbies Can Start  (09:00) Owning 8 Businesses!?  (13:28) Passive Income Streams (18:59) Which Streams to Build  (27:06) What to Start Doing NOW Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-998 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [e-mail]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're listening to this show, maybe you've done a few real estate deals and you're generating some cash flow, but you're trying to figure out how to add cash to your bottom line in this challenging economy. Or maybe you're looking to expand beyond your bread and butter strategy, but the thought of bringing in or pinpointing a new strategy is daunting and overwhelming. Or maybe you're interested in generating income more passively because you've realized that real estate investing, especially being a landlord, is not very passive. If this is you, I've got some good news for you. You are in the right place.

Welcome to the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast. I'm your host, Henry Washington, and I'm here today with my good buddy and one of our seasoned Swiss Army knife investors, James Dainert. James and I are going to break down how to use real estate to generate multiple streams of income and how to think about the types of income streams you want in your portfolio. Also, we're going to talk about how James got started with these streams of income. how they all tied together to help him thrive as a business person and a real estate investor. All right, let's dive in with James Standard. Why don't we start off by talking about what do you see as the biggest benefits to you and your businesses by having multiple streams of income?

Oh, I mean, there's massive benefits. And it really comes down to, like, as investors, right, we make money as we take our money and we go buy things with it, right? And we create income streams, whether it's flipping a property, making profit, or buying a rental property and making cash. flow. But the problem is you can kind of become this cash outflow machine all the time because how do you make more money? You go buy more deals. And then as soon as you make it, you're putting it right back out the door. And when you go through market cycles, and this is really what

I learned this was in 2008. When you go through different types of market cycles, you want to make sure that you can always keep the liquidity going in because if a market slows down, it can be harder to get your money back because it's harder to flip a house. The cash is out there longer. You have to service the debt longer. Your cash flows can start to really amplify up. And so the purpose of our multiple income streams is no matter what market condition, we always have revenue and income coming in the door.

Yes. You know, when the rates shot up dramatically high, it slowed down our market. We were not making money flipping homes. We were not making money developing homes, but they were big cash suck. Our cash flow rates went up. started going down a little bit. The saving grace on that is our brokerage and our lending business was paying us income no matter what. And so it allows you to balance out those revenue streams and really go through any type of market cycle and continue to build liquidity so you can continue

to invest. Absolutely. I completely agree with you, James. So I got into this business and my intent was to focus not solely, but mainly on long-term buy and hold. But when you're new, you don't truly understand how money flows in a long-term buy-and-hold business. And what you start to see in a long-term buy-and-hold business is that it's not very liquid. Like your monthly liquidity isn't very high. Yes, you invest for cash flow and cash flow is great. But as you have multiple properties, one thing breaks over here and you've got to take some money and put and fix that. And your liquidity just kind of dries up, right? And so it may feel like you don't have money, even though you've got money coming in at different times. And so we started to flip houses as a way to keep capital in the door

and to keep our business moving. And what we learned through that process is there are sometimes the market is saying, hey, this is a great time to go by rental properties and cash flow. Maybe not a great time to flip properties. And then that market might change on you. And your market might be saying, hey, this is a great time to flip houses, not so great for rental property. So right now, midterm rentals and flips seems to be doing well. And so we can shift our strategy and focus more on those types of monetization strategies. And it helps us maintain some liquidity and keep our business to float. Yeah, it just keeps the faucet on.

When the market slows down or you go through a different change, by setting up different income streams, you can always bring cash in the door. That cash can allow you to A-State liquid, but it also allows you keep growing and amplify your growth. because capital is the foundation to growing in real estate, whether there's access to capital or having capital. And anytime you can turn on another faucet, they come in and starts filling up that bucket with a little bit more capital and a little bit more cash, that's how you can amplify your

growth and reduce risk by investing. Okay. So we've probably got people listening who want to get into real estate investing. Maybe they haven't started yet. And now we're talking about multiple streams of income and maybe they're getting some of this squirrel effect. So if you're someone new to real estate, how should you or could you be thinking about multiple streams of income within an investing business? You know, I talked to a lot of people about this.

You can start to chase that shiny thing, right? There's so many new strategies that come out every 12 months in real estate. Yes. I mean, midterm rental. That's pretty new in the last 18 months. You have novations. You hear people talking about novations all the time. And so there's all these things that come out.

And then what they do is before they systemize their current business, they jump over and start working on this. And then they just become inefficient. And so it's all about focusing first. You know, again, we started in real estate. I was 24 years old as a wholesaler. I did not have a lot of business experience. I like to work, but it was about how do we maximize our time and every deal?

And what we did before we started exploring, you know, that next income stream, we had to master the one that we were currently in. You know, it wasn't just me as a wholesaler. we had built now a team of salespeople. They were working underneath us. We had a process. We had a system and a staff. They could help handle that.

The more systemized it is, the more time you have freed up. From there, it was about what is the next logical step and how to we revenueize every piece of that transaction. So instead of doing a new business and getting distracted, you can go, how can I add in another piece? And it could be as simple as I'm a real estate broker and I'm going to partner with a title and escrow company and start making a little bit of revenue on this title and escrow. I'm already selling a property.

It has to go through title and escrow. All the fees go to a third party company and now I can white label and own part of that process and make another fee at that point. It could be I'm a real estate broker and then add in. I'm also a mortgage broker. Now I'm selling the property to the same client. I'm owning the escrow company, making a little fee there and then originating a loan. And so it's about taking that next step in the transaction because that's where you're already good at.

And that's what's worked really well for us. You know, it's how we scaled everything. We went from flipping houses to building houses. But we didn't go from doing cosmetic to building. It was about cosmetic, more of a standard, massive rebuild than building. So that's where we've been most efficient. And that's how we created eight companies of the Northwest. They all complement each other.

I want to ask you about those eight companies, but before I do, I kind of want to echo what you're saying, maybe say it a little different way. I feel like the best way for a new investor to focus on multiple streams of income is to focus on one stream of income. Because what you don't know when you get into real estate investing is anything. You don't really know if you're going to even like the exit strategy that you choose. You could get into this and think, man, I really want to be. be a fix and flipper and then you could do your first fix and flip and go, you know what, that sucked. I don't want to do that at all. You could get into being a landlord and this happens to a lot of landlords. You can get into being a buy and hold investor and realize it ain't

for you, right? You could get into it and realize, man, I'm really, really into the renovation. Right. I have a construction background. I did my first flip. I loved it. And then after you understand how to do one income stream, you can bring in other income streams that are either related to the thing that you are like or the thing that you were good at, right? You could get into this and realize, man, I love being a landlord, but I really, really liked designing properties. And so maybe it's that now I need to venture into short term rentals so that I could design properties and furnish them, right? You're going to learn a lot. I see this a lot with people who they want to get into real estate. they decide to get their real estate license and they quickly realize that having your real

estate license doesn't necessarily make you an investor. And I'm not saying you should or shouldn't get your license when you're getting started. I'm saying, let's go focus on finding a deal. Let's go focus on monetizing that deal. And you're going to learn a lot about what you as an investor want to do and what you an investor are good at. All right. Now that we've got the basics down, how do you generate these alternate income streams?

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businesses are and how they're tied to real estate in some way? Yeah, we'll start from from the beginning to where we're at now. So the first business we have is an off market company, wholesaling. We source off-market properties. We claim assignment fees through that business. We have a brokerage that services investors and sources properties on off-market. We then have a financing arm interest funding, which provides the short-term capital for these investors that are acquiring the property. That's a problem in the deal. They need funding. We solve that problem, and now we can fund all their deals. And a lot of this multiple income streams that were created with us was about just solving a problem. What is the consumer need? What is our business need? How do we create and

complement it in? And so those are our three service businesses, but they also now generate leads and deals for our other set of businesses, which is our flipping business. In addition to our development business, we source a lot of our own properties for dirt. That gives us the inventory that we can build homes with. From there, we have our holdings businesses, which also are dependent on the brokers and the off market and the funding for now creating our portfolio building, which is going to be where we own nearly a thousand doors in the Pacific Northwest. We are buying properties. We're renovating them, Burr styles or value add, creating value, and then creating that

income stream of cash wealth. So by just starting with wholesaling and expanding out, we've now created six different revenue streams. It all started with the deal. If we can find a good deal, that's... your first domino in the effect. Now, how do we revenueize it from there? Well, we can buy it ourselves, make profit. We can buy it ourselves, make cash flow. We can sell it off and make an assignment for your commission, and then we can do the financing and get origination points and an interest

spread on this. And so just by finding the deal, it's domino down, but it's all focused around that internal system of we are investors that buy deals. Now, on top of that, as we expanded, we were paying out with these rental doors a lot of money and property management and we needed it to run efficient. So we now own a large property management company that services our portfolio in addition to our investors inside that we're selling to from our deal finding. And that now creates a revenue stream for us. And that has been the key is if you can enhance the experience, that's how you get the revenue stream. And so that's our focus. How do we make it better, not just make more money. And if you focus on making it better, that's how the revenue stream

start kicking in. You know, what I think is really smart about this is the businesses that you have are all tied to an exit strategy in real estate. And the reason I point that out is, is because the businesses you have are all things most real estate investors are going to do. Most real estate investors are going to look at finding a deal and then they're going to look at how can they make money on that deal. They might look at finding a deal and then assigning that contract. Well, there's an assignment. They might look at finding a deal. and then adding value and running that property out. Well, that's a long-term buying hole.

They might look at finding a deal and fixing up and selling it. Well, that's a flip. And what you have done is you have taken all of those exit strategies. You figured out how to do them for yourself. And then it's not a lot of additional work to figure out how to take that income stream or that exit strategy and then make it public-facing as well. Because if it's public-facing as well, you're able to monetize it by having clients outside of your business. and you use that business for your own personal businesses.

And I think that that's what makes multiple income streams super smart. It's because typically you're already doing a lot of these things for yourself. But if you take the right steps to organize your corporate structure and then make that business public facing, you can now monetize that business through the general public and take advantage of having that business in-house for your personal business. So I think that's a phenomenal way to look at how to have. multiple streams of income. It is extra work. It is going to be a little bit harder, but you can increase your revenue drastically because now you've taken these internal things and made them public

facing. So one of the things I want to talk about next is something that you and I don't do very much of, but we have a good friend and co-host on our On the Market podcast who does do this. And so when you think about multiple streams of income, you can think about the active stream. like flipping houses. And then people think that being a long-term buy and hold investor is passive, but it is absolutely not passive. In my mind, that's still active. It's not as active of flipping houses, but it is an active business. But there are passive income streams in real estate investing, like investing in REITs through the stock market or investing in syndications. And so what do you think about some of these more passive streams and adding them to your

diversification in your streams of income. I love it. I mean, that's our goal, right? Service businesses, flipping property, these active businesses, they require a lot of time. They can be stressful. And some days you wake up and you don't want to do it anymore. There's been plenty of days where I've woke up, I'm like, I never want to flip the house again. This is a terrible experience. But the goal to get past it is, again, you still need capital to start building out your income streams in your passive lifestyle. So as we created these different income streams with services flipping an active income, we pull a portion off where I've always pulled at least 20 to 25% off the table and I stick

it in this other bucket. That bucket is meant to invest more and more passively. But it's about balancing that passive income too. One mistake I see people make is they have a certain amount of money saved. They go out and they buy their first rental property and they're rushing to get in and they get a good deal and it's giving them a good return, but now their money's gone. They cannot go buy more properties and they run out of gumpowder. And so what I also like to do is balance the passive income.

So with my passive investing, we have a real estate and our cash flow, which we're always going to buy because that is the key to wealth. Building long-term wealth is made by buying it owning assets. Through majority ownership. Correct. Through majority ownership. Well, long-term holds require capital for longer, a little bit lower return, but you get the appreciation factor.

I would get more money coming in the door is through doing hard money loans and doing joint venture and passive flipping. Now, I always look at the money in my bank like a portfolio. Where am I trying to be with my monthly cash flow? How can I allocate that? So if I can make 12% of my money through lending hard money, then I'm going to go, I have this much money. I'm going to put it here. That's going to pay me this. You know, me and you did a flip together.

We decided a partner. If I put up the money, you did the services. and let's say we do a split, that can make me a 20 to 25% return of my money. That's a little bit more active. It's not, but, you know, the hard money pays me monthly. The passive flipping pays me quarterly, essentially, or semi-annually. And then we have the holdings, which is a little bit more steady, the long game. And so I like to balance it all out.

And as I want to work less, I invest in the higher yielding more steady. And so over my career, it's about just shifting the funds around and giving you that passive income stream. So the passive income stream isn't just about buying and holding properties. It's about creating monthly cash flow. And then how do you allocate that out? You know, our hard money business, the reason we can buy more rentals is because I compound that interest a lot where it's just growing on itself. We take the profit and I go buy a rental with it.

And so it's about just kind of setting up those different streams. And it's not just about buying hold. It's about, you know, and before you go that way, you want to know how long do you want your money locked up for, with your minimum return. And how can you get access? When I buy notes and sell notes, I can get my money back within three to six months. A rental property might be there for two to three years. And so it's about just balancing out that axis.

What I hear you saying, I think is a great way to kind of sum up this multiple income streams for people. And essentially what you're saying is multiple income streams is great, but you've got to have a plan, right? You got to have a plan or you have to understand your goals. because if your goals or your main goal is to generate a certain amount of cash flow, well, then that tells you what multiple income streams you may need to focus on. And so if your goal is to generate a certain amount of cash flow passively and you're out here

flipping 10 houses a year, well, you're probably making money, but it's not helping you hit your goals, right? If your goal is to build up a certain amount of capital within your bank account over a certain period of time and you're out here buying rental properties every month, well, you're not going to hit that goal. I'm not saying either one of those is a bad thing. I'm saying it's not getting you to your goal. And so if your goal focused to understand what your goals are, then you can build a plan through streams of income where you feel like you have a competitive advantage that's going to help you hit that goal. So you're right. If you want to build up cash flow and you end up investing a whole

bunch of money into a syndication, well, it took all your capital and now you can't go buy any other rental properties. You're not going to hit your goal. And so just understand your goals and understand what your time frame is to hit your goals. And then you can look at different strategies that you can piece together to help you get there. And then you can do it in a way where you're able to hedge and de-risk by having a strategy where you may be doing some active and some passive strategies all at the same time. Okay, we have to take one more short break. But Stick around. Our advice on exactly how to get started is right after the break. Thinking about wholesaling or flipping your first property, but not sure where to start.

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give you an investor who has one income stream. I'll tell you a little bit about them. And you tell me what other income streams that they could be thinking about for that business. Make sense? I like this. I like this game. So I'm a new investor. I want a fix and flip. I've just done my first fix and flip deal. And it went well. And I loved the construction and being able to make something nice. And we were able to get in and out of that flip in about 90 days because I was super meticulous about my scope of work and getting the contractors in there and getting it knocked out and getting it done. What other streams of income can I be thinking about within my real estate businesses? Well, I got one question. I got to get a little bit clarifying.

How much time does this person have? They got a job. They got a day job. Okay. So they're nine to five. They're nine to fiver. Okay. A little bit less on time. But they got the skill set to operate a flip and they made some money. Yep. The next question I have then finally answer the question is what's their goals to get to? because that kind of dictates what income streams you want to do.

I want to build up some capital over the next 12 months so that after that 12 months I can start buying some rental properties a little more passively. Okay. So they need to build capital. So there's two things that I would do. The first thing is I continue flipping because that is the best way to create the highest return in my opinion. You can leverage it correctly.

You make the highest returns. You can grow at the fastest. The next thing I would do is we want to build more capital to buy rental properties and start turning that cash flow. So as a flipper, you're getting deals sent you on the regular. As a flipper, you should also be networking with investors on the regular, right? Meeting with people, what's their goals? How can you work together?

How can you get referrals, right? Getting general contractor, subcontractor referrals, hard money referrals, building that internal network in your backyard. Now as a deal comes in and as you've made these connections, a deal that might not work for me could work great for you, Henry. And I'm going, hey, this is, my guys can't do this. This doesn't work well. I got this deal. Let me create a little bit of revenue here and go, hey, I found this deal. It's a great buy. I'm going to sell it to Henry and make five to 10 grand on that deal. And if I have a hundred grand in the bank to flip houses, which is a lot for a lot of people. I just increased my total liquidity by 10% in a very short term. That doesn't take me a lot of time. I have a nine to five. I can flip my one house. And then as a deal comes in, I can now create a revenue stream right there. That's going to be the simplest way to do that. I absolutely agree with you. I think it's a great.

strategy. What I would be looking for in this scenario is how do I do more volume by doing less work. So yes, you want to do fixing flips. That's great. But if you want to build capital, awesome. You can do some assignments. Now, I'm not saying go build an assignment business. Where are you doing as assignments? What I'm saying is leverage your network to assign contracts. So me, I don't wholesale. That's not what I do as an exit strategy. I wouldn't call myself that. But I did assign a contract. I did it last week. So the way you could do it in this scenario is, yes, you're getting leads all the time. What happened with me? I got a lead in. I put the property into contract, I was going to close on that property. So there's the difference. These are

properties that you could close on and you could do a flip. So I put it under contract because I was going to buy it. And then I said, you know what? I've got four other flips under contract right now. Let me talk to somebody. So I talked to somebody in my network that I know flips houses here. And I said, hey, would you take this one off my hands for this price? They said yes. And I just assigned it to them. So it's not like I built this business where I was out there marketing these deals that I had no intention on closing. What we're talking about is if you're getting the lead flow and you're buying properties, you could then take some of those leads and monetize them differently. The other strategy I look at in this scenario is a whole tail. So you could probably find some of these properties that you're

fixing and flipping and not fix and flip them. If you're buying them at a great discount, you could just clean them out, make sure that they're livable and stick them back on the market in as is condition, but at a discounted price. So you don't resell them for retail. You resell them for less than retail, but for more than you paid. And sometimes you can make a good profit by doing that and skipping their renovation. And those are some of the income streams I would think about in that scenario. And then you can add a little bit of profit dust on top. Next scenario. I am a buy and hold investor. I have a landlord. I've been doing this for about two to three years. I've built up a portfolio. I'm getting to about 20, 25 doors now. And I really like being a landlord. And we're

self-managing our properties, but it's getting a little bit intense. What other streams of income should we be thinking about for this landlord? So it's more about time at that point. So if it's managing the time, like how do I free up time? The stress of it, you know, there's a couple ways. If I'm a landlord, I want to increase more margin, then I want to reduce my fees out of there. I can be an owner operator, take it over and collect that property management myself. But if I'm a landlord and the stress is getting to me, then I'm going to go find an operator. I already have money. I'm out there buying rental properties and I want to free up time.

I might go partner with my property management company or someone that's associated with and say, hey, look, I'm going to buy this, give you some of the equity. And then they can then take a piece of that and reduce the expenses. I guess that doesn't really create income at this point because we're talking about building a multi-income stream. So now that just gave away some. It gives you time. It gives you time, though, which is valuable. And the time can go create it. But if I'm an active landlord, it depends on what I am as a landlord. So if I want to create the stress of owning property, well, maybe I have created really good services. Can I create a property management company

and work with some of my other investor buddies and collect FD of that? Yep. Like, Henry, you have created a good midterm rental business. I've never done that before. And if I've created that system, that makes sense for me to hire you and plug into your system and you can get paid for that to then create that spread. And so if I was a landlord, I would go, where, what am I really good at? What is the properties that I'm most efficient at running that I'm most systemized at and then offer that out as a service to create more cash flow? Couldn't agree with you more.

Like in that scenario, I think a lot of landlords find themselves in this place where they get to that like 20, 25 doormark. and they're trying to figure out what to do next, right? Do I go buy more doors? Can I handle more doors? Right? And so one way to think about bringing in additional streams of income is solve the problem of property management, right?

And that may mean that you can now start a company that manages your properties. You're already managing them anyway, right? And you're essentially paying yourself to do it, whether you're doing it on the books or off the books. It's costing you something. And so take that arm and you can turn it into a business. then you can now offer, because the level of effort it's taking you to manage 20, 25 doors, it's going to be the same at 30 doors, right? It's not that much more effort. And so now you can

offer that service out to other investors and you can bring in additional income by having your own property management business if that's something you are good at. And I imagine at 20 or 25 doors, you should know if you're good at it or not yet. If you're not, obviously, you need to go hire that out. But if you're good at it, I would say think about offering that service out to other investors within your network who may be struggling with property management. Because you're at a point that that where you're going to either have to bring somebody in in-house to do it for you or you're going to need to hire a third party. And so if you bring somebody in in-house, I would be thinking about how do they pay for themselves? And they can pay for themselves by not just managing your

properties, but bringing in some additional properties, maybe just some people in your network for them to manage their properties as well. Well, cool, man. Well, that was a lot of fun. Thank you for appeasing me and playing these games with me. You know, I like to make up games on the spot. Solve the problem, get paid. That's what it's about, right?

And I want to finish with this one question, because I know what the answer to it is. If you were new and you could start with one income stream, what would it be? I could start with one income stream. It's such a loaded question because it depends on where you're at in life, too. I pick one. I know what?

I know what? If I had to pick one, it would be what I got started with, wholesaling, finding the deal. It's the least amount of money. It's 100% on you on how you want, how hard you want to work. Because if you're not getting a deal as a wholesaler, work harder. And so I would start with wholesaling, finding with the deal, everything blossoms with a good deal. So that's, you can root your business and start building from there. Again, we're going to say the same thing a different way. I wouldn't focus so much on what the income stream is or the exit. I would focus solely on learning what a good deal looks like in the

market you want to buy and learning one way to go find that good deal and go one, one, thousand percent at that strategy until it produces a result. Once it produces a result and you have a good deal, you can monetize it however you want, right? If you want to assign it, you probably can. It's a good deal. If you want to fix and flip it, you probably can. It's a good deal. If you want to fix it and throw a tenant in there, you probably can. It's a good deal. But don't put blinders on and say, well, I'm going to go find a flip because then you could pass up on other deals that could make you money in other ways. Just go figure out what a good deal looks like. Go hard at finding that good deal and then figure out how you want to monetize it based on where you are financially

at the time you have that deal and what your goals are. That's the only thing I would focus on. All right, Mr. James Danner, thank you for coming in and being so transparent and talking to us about your businesses and kind of how you got into those things and how you structured by multiple streams of income. I think it's super helpful. It was helpful for me and I know it's going to be helpful for our listeners too. We appreciate you, James. Always enjoy talking about creating businesses are ATMs. That's what that's how I look at it. New business atm. Go get that cashball going. Thank you, man. Absolutely. So if your gears are turning, please leave a comment on this episode wherever you're listening or post a question in the forums at

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