Speaker
Dave Meyer
Appearances over time
4 episodes
Episodes
4
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Dave Meyer argues real estate investors must clear 12–15% total returns to justify the time and effort over simply holding S&P 500 index funds.
Dave Meyer argues that spending all your available real estate time hunting just two excellent deals per year is a playbook that works in any market.
The S&P 500 has historically returned roughly 8–10% annually with no active management required, setting the passive benchmark real estate must beat.
Chattanooga, Tennessee saw nearly 6% population growth in the last 5 years, drawing movers from LA, Miami, DC, Chicago, and Atlanta.
According to Indeed's own worldwide data, companies make 27 hires per minute on the platform.
Dave Meyer says he interviewed eight or nine financial advisors before finding one who genuinely understood real estate investing, highlighting how rare real estate-literate advisors are.
BiggerPockets Conference 2026 runs October 2–4 in Orlando, Florida, with Chad Carson as the closing keynote speaker.
Blue Ridge, Georgia STRs have an average daily rate above $300–$350, with top performers earning over $100,000 annually.
Hartford, Connecticut's median home price is $287,000, with renovated homes selling in just 18 days and 55% selling above list price.
55% of homes in Hartford, CT are currently selling above list price, signaling continued buyer competition and appreciation tailwinds.
Foreclosure auctions sat dormant for years, so most investors forgot about them. Henry Washington says they're back, they're fertile, and the room is empty. Even if you don't bid, the old-money cash buyers networking there are worth every minute.
Build or flip three properties, sell two to keep your capital and lenders happy, keep one as a long-term rental. Chad's Charlotte student is doing exactly this — funding his rental acquisitions entirely through flip profits without needing outside equity.
Every business starts with the customer. Chad's version: start with the tenant. His ideal renter wants a house with a garage and a backyard — so his ideal property is a brick, single-story ranch. That alignment of tenant desire and low maintenance is what makes numbers work.
More properties isn't the finish line. Chad's student hit 21 rentals, realized the worst ones were eating his time and capital, sold down to the best 9, paid off debt, and pivoted the remaining cash into private lending. Less hassle, more leverage, better life.
The best underwriting habit is trying to kill the deal. Dave Meyer describes literally telling a seller no — and watching the price drop until the deal actually worked. That's not pessimism; that's discipline.
If you have patient money and limited time, stop chasing cash-on-cash returns and start chasing rare locations. A 1–2% CoC return on a top-tier property in a desirable demographic area will outperform a higher-yield investment in a marginal neighborhood over any meaningful time horizon.
The real estate investing world spoon-feeds the idea that success means scale. Chad's BPCon 2026 closing keynote will flip that script — celebrating the anonymous investor with 10 paid-off houses and two work hours a week as the true model, and showing the path to get there.
Chad was locked in on a block of Anderson, SC properties with enticing numbers and a lousy neighborhood grade. His private lender, Louis Stone, wouldn't touch them. That quiet 'no' redirected Chad's trajectory. Good mentors with money in the game are your best check on bad decisions.
Driving — or biking — for dollars is deliberately unscalable, and that's exactly why it works. Chad Carson would hop on a bike in a target neighborhood today, spotting vacant houses and for-sale-by-owners that no automated list will ever capture.
The harder a list is to pull, the less competition you'll face. Henry Washington walks through why probate lists pulled directly from the courthouse — past the reluctant clerk — are a goldmine precisely because they can't be automated away.
Multiple investors had tried and given up on this vacant property. Chad Carson spent weeks digging through relatives until he found a cousin in Ohio, made one cold call, and walked away with a deal invisible to everyone else. Pure persistence, zero competition.
Richmond, Virginia added 56,000 residents in four years and hosts major employers like Capital One (13,000 employees) and VCU. With a $364,000 median home price and $2,100 median rent, the numbers work for buy-and-hold investors willing to hunt for deals.
Allentown's stock of 1920s–1970s row houses lets investors buy distressed for $150K–$200K, spend $50K–$80K on renovations, and sell for $280K–$340K — without luxury rehabs or aggressive off-market hunting. Amazon and Walmart warehousing operations are fueling the local job market.
Greenfield, Indiana is a landlord-friendly suburb 30 minutes from Indianapolis with a $285,000 median home price, sub-30-day sales, and 7% year-over-year price appreciation. Rents run $1,750–$2,200/month for single-family homes, offering a near-1% rent ratio with bonus appreciation.
Seasoned investors have built systems that do all the work for them — which means they've stopped doing the dirty work. That laziness is the new investor's greatest opening: the deals hiding just below the surface are yours if you're willing to dig.
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