Start with Strategy: Craft Your Personal Real Estate Portfolio for Lasting Financial Freedom

by Dave Meyer

Simplify your real estate goals with a portfolio plan that fits your personal values, resources, and skills.



Real estate is a powerful way to build wealth and achieve financial freedom, but the investment options can be overwhelming. Should you flip houses or buy rental properties? Should you buy locally or invest out-of-state? In the wide world of real estate, it can be difficult to identify which strategy best supports your individual vision. There is no one-size-fits-all portfolio, and ongoing uncertainty can result in analysis paralysis, investing burnout, or losing sight of your values altogether.



In this book, Dave Meyer—host of the BiggerPockets On the Market podcast and best-selling author of Real Estate by the Numbers—gives you a practical framework to craft and execute YOUR personalized real estate plan. By combining foundational knowledge and actionable advice, this book will help condense your real estate dreams into a straightforward blueprint that you can follow for the rest of your investing career. When you Start with Strategy, you can achieve your financial goals with more confidence and certainty than ever before.



In this book, you



Create a personalized ‘buy-box’ to easily identify high-quality deals that are perfect for you

Assess your resources and find the best ways to allocate them
Develop long-term financial goals and a time horizon
Mitigate risk so your portfolio can withstand economic changes
Discover new ways to maximize returns and optimize growth across your portfolio

379 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 23, 2024

Reviews

[Lloyd Preece · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good comprehensive book for anyone smaller RE investor who is looking to take a macro look at their portfolio and strategise a long term outlook. To get the most out of it you have to do the exercises that accompany it . The excel sheets in and of themselves are worth the cost of the book. I wouldn’t rate it 5 stars as a book to casually read and do nothing with, but if follow his steps with the attachments you should get something out of it. Great for any FIRE through real estate people !

[Zak Schmoll · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had not read a real estate investing book for a little while, but I was looking for something about long-term strategy. I am relatively comfortable doing the math on different deals and gratefully outsource a lot of the management of my properties. However, thinking long-term is a little bit different for me because I haven't been doing this very long. What happens to properties over time, and what questions need to be asked? I would say this is a handy book for someone who is just starting in investing or someone like me who just want to kind of develop a framework for thinking about long-term planning.