Note that in all but the most severe economic downturns you will be able to ride out a fall in house prices as long as your cashflow is positive so that you continue to make your loan repayments. Remember that after retirement you will not have any wage or salary income to plug the gap from vacancies or expenses.
Some of the heaviest casualties in warfare occur during an unplanned retreat or rout. In the same way, some of the biggest financial losses in property occur when owners are forced to sell during a downturn. Ensure that you build the twin buffers of equity and cashflow so that you remain in control of your property portfolio and never have to take orders from others.
In the same way, protect your assets from external interference during absence or incapacity by having an enduring power of attorney nominating a trusted person registered at Landgate and a valid and current will. In conclusion, you will need to own your own home plus at least three debt-free rental properties to have a modest retirement.
Beyond that point, each additional property will add to your comfort and when you have six or more rental properties you can start breathing easily. Are three or more rental properties achievable? Yes, but it is not easy. A large debt-free rental property portfolio takes design, intention and hard work. Most Australians do not get beyond one rental property.
But if you have made it through to the end of this article, you have the potential to do it. Cloverdale phone. Back to blog Share. How many rental properties do I need to retire on? Planning to retire one day?
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This makes sense, of course, because financial independence means owning investments that pay your living expenses. Free from the need to work for money, you can then do what matters. Sure, you spend less than you earn. And you probably save a lot of money too. But if you want to gain extreme confidence in your plan and possibly retire earlier than you thought, you need to know your expenses with more certainty.
I recommend scheduling a few hours on a weekend to really dig into the numbers. Will you spend more, less, or the same in retirement? Of course, that depends on your situation. What if you earn most of your income from rentals sheltered by depreciation? In addition, what if the free time and flexibility you have as a retiree allows you to negotiate much more than before?
However, when you have many months of free time, you can choose to travel during the times of year and to the places where you find good deals. There are many more examples of savings just like this. Will you have other sources of income when you retire? Or will rental properties be your only source? I tend to heavily concentrate in one sector real estate.
So, an estimate of other income sources makes sense. And if real estate investing is only a small part of your overall retirement plan, this is where you incorporate the other income streams from your portfolio.
Mixing and balancing those will take some thinking and perhaps some professional advice. But real estate can be the solid and steady source of income at the core of your plan. Earlier in this article, I described what a retirement rental property looked like for my example.
I included characteristics like:. At a minimum in this step, estimate the cost, debt structure, and cash-on-cash return for your rental properties.
The cost and debt structure can be figured out with your real estate agent and with your mortgage lenders, respectively. Although those yields are possible and I have achieved them, it is better to build a retirement plan on a more conservative foundation.
This upfront work is really the blessing and the curse of real estate investing. Few people will choose to do it, but that leaves you with less competition because you will! In this case, you already have 1 and 3 from prior steps, so you need to figure out 2 — the wealth to invest.
The point of this step-by-step process was to focus your financial goals down to a certain number of rental properties. Your goals may vary, of course, but I highly recommend you try the process for yourself. Will this be a perfect prediction of your retirement rental income? Of course not. A solid, approximate goal will do the job. But most importantly I hope this information will give you confidence and a solid framework.
You can then build upon those to create a retirement income from rental properties for yourself. Keep in mind that this article primarily shared the end result of a retirement plan. Chad, awesome article!! This is filled with tons of clear steps to get to financial freedom. The examples with and without debt are very powerful. I love it!! Thank you, Buddy! Glad you liked it. There is no one right way to do it, so I wanted to give alternative options and encourage investors to land wherever makes the most sense.
I know you are aware from our offline conversations, but we have seven properties. Another one, we live in, so we pay the expenses, but will be a good investment when we leave to travel. Another two were previous residences from my partner and I before we met, and they barely cash flow, but we are paying down the mortgages each month with these and have significant equity in each for when we decide to sell.
They are also Class A and always rented with good tenants. The last property also does not cash flow and is far away from us. We want to offload that ASAP. For us, we want to sell the three non-cash-flow-ers and then invest in just another 2 properties that cash flow.
So, for us, seven properties is just fine. If we buy more, it will be more for fun than anything. I also do diversify by maxing out my IRA every year. But after that, all investing goes toward our real estate. As you noted in the positives for the financed route, there are other ways the properties will make money Step 3 — Estimate Other Sources of Income. Maybe you need 28 for cash flow at the beginning, but after a few years of appreciation, could sell 1 to pay off another 1 completely.
Rinse, repeat. Yeah, great point Brian. But somewhere in between or on either end most of us can find a sweet spot to shoot for. Thanks for commenting! Great stuff, thanks Chad! I know you have written on this topic from a few different angle but this was your best work in my opinion. You laid out very well for us how to do the thorough analysis as well as some great real world examples of how to apply it.
I really appreciate you sharing this information and keep it coming! Thanks Sean! Good luck with the next step! One area that I always find difficult is calculating cash-on-cash return on our properties. We have year mortgages. Our rental income from the property is minimal now, but will drastically increase.
It feels like there are two cash-on-cash returns, mortgage and port-mortgage. We have 3 properties that I conservatively estimate will bring in 35,, a year and adjust with inflation.
Two of the properties were our homes that became rental properties when we moved. You bring up a good point.
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