{"podcast":{"title":"Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson","slug":"real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587","podcast_index_feed_id":240587,"rss_url":"https://coachcarson.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.coachcarson.com/coach-carson-podcast/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/6/6/4/e664f10672756f8116c3140a3186d450/Coach_Carson_podcast_Art_v4_3000_x_3000_2023-20250513-zmt56vudjg.jpg","author":"Chad Carson","episode_count":507,"summary":"Chad \"Coach\" Carson shares practical advice about using real estate to retire early (aka achieve financial independence) and do more of what matters. You'll hear in-depth episodes with tips from Chad plus interviews with other real estate investors at various levels of their financial independence journey.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T14:19:50.207183+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587"},"episode":{"title":"#478: If Your City Is Too Expensive to Buy Rentals, Do This Instead","slug":"478-if-your-city-is-too-expensive-to-buy-rentals-do-this-instead","published_at":"2026-03-09T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587/478-if-your-city-is-too-expensive-to-buy-rentals-do-this-instead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587","url":"https://coachcarson.libsyn.com/478-if-your-city-is-too-expensive-to-buy-rentals-do-this-instead","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/coachcarson/478_Ben_Podcast.mp3?dest-id=835577","summary":"⭐ Get my coaching & community to achieve financial freedom → https://www.coachcarson.com/rpm-pod-478 ⚒️Get my best investor tools for FREE → https://www.coachcarson.com/toolkit-pod-478 ▶️Next Episode: How One Investor Quit His Job With $100k Rental Cash Flow Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/456-how-one-investor-quit-his-job-with-%24100k-rental-cash-flow/id1448707654?i=1000735018807 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BNPqg4d7lkFVeHBlaS2MC?si=2v6Go6Z0TVyey46HS5HFag EPISODE NOTES: 🎬 Topics Covered: (00:00) - Why invest out of state (00:51) - Choosing out-of-state over local investing (05:28) - Overcoming fears of long-distance investing (07:10) - Picking a market: landing in Southern Indiana (13:56) - Funding deals and unique loan structures (18:41) - Neighborhood classes and low-price opportunities (21:40) - Subject-to-appraisal rehab loans explained (23:45) - Building a remote team and vetting (27:55) - Start simple: avoid heavy rehabs early (31:29) - Lessons learned: patience and zero-down tradeoffs (35:16) – How to find deals long distance (41:24) - Portfolio update and stabilization focus (43:32) - Phases: starter, builder, harvester (47:08) - Short-term goal: funding school costs (51:14) - How One Investor Quit His Job With $100k Rental Cash Flow 🎙️ Episode #478 - If homes in your city cost $2M and don't cash flow, you don't have to quit investing. Learn how investors build rental portfolios in affordable markets, even when they live thousands of miles away. 📄 Show Notes: https://www.coachcarson.com/tooexpensiverentals/ Connect with Ben: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cashflow.with.vido/ Podcast: https://beacons.ai/cashflow.with.vido TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cashflow.with.vido -------------------------- 💵 Need Investor-Friendly Finan…","meta_description":"⭐ Get my coaching & community to achieve financial freedom → https://www.coachcarson.com/rpm-pod-478 ⚒️Get my best investor tools for FREE → https://www.c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3108,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587/episodes/478-if-your-city-is-too-expensive-to-buy-rentals-do-this-instead/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587/478-if-your-city-is-too-expensive-to-buy-rentals-do-this-instead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}