{"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":"#483: How Many Rentals Do You ACTUALLY Need to Retire? (The Real Number)","slug":"483-how-many-rentals-do-you-actually-need-to-retire-the-real-number","published_at":"2026-04-13T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587/483-how-many-rentals-do-you-actually-need-to-retire-the-real-number","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-coach-carson-240587","url":"https://coachcarson.libsyn.com/483-how-many-rentals-do-you-actually-need-to-retire-the-real-number","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/coachcarson/483_-_How_Many_Rentals_Do_You_ACTUALLY_Need_to_Retire_The_Real_Number.mp3?dest-id=835577","summary":"⭐ Get my coaching & community to achieve financial freedom: https://www.coachcarson.com/rpm-pod-483 📝 Find out how many rentals it takes you to RETIRE: https://www.coachcarson.com/rental-retirement-worksheet-pod-483 ▶️ Next Episode → How to Analyze a Rental Property (No Spreadsheets Required!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExFWAYXr11s -------------------------- EPISODE NOTES: 🎙️ Episode #483 – How many rentals do you actually need to retire? The answer is probably a lot smaller than you think, and depends more on income than unit count. 🎬 Topics Covered: (0:00) - Can Rentals Still Fund Retirement in Today's Market? (1:05) - Your FI Number Might Be Lower Than You Think (3:14) - The Average American's Retirement Number Will Surprise You (5:52) - How Many Rentals Does It Actually Take to Retire? (8:43) - The Simple Worksheet That Calculates Your Rental FI Number (12:08) - How Investors Turn Mortgaged Rentals Into Free-and-Clear Income (17:27) - When Keeping Debt on Rentals Actually Makes Sense (19:23) - Rising Insurance, Taxes, and Repairs: Does the Math Still Work? (24:02) - Rentals Aren't Passive… (26:03) - How to Analyze a Rental Property 📄 Show Notes: https://www.coachcarson.com/rentalsforretirement/ -------------------------- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 💵 Need Investor-Friendly Financing? This is who I trust: https://www.coachcarson.com/bryan 🏠 TurboTenant – Streamline Your Property Management for Free: https://www.coachcarson.com/turbotenant 📱 DealMachine – Software to help you buy more real estate deals: https://www.coachcarson.com/dealmachine","meta_description":"⭐ Get my coaching & community to achieve financial freedom: https://www.coachcarson.com/rpm-pod-483 📝 Find out how many rentals it takes you to RETIRE: ht…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1610,"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/483-how-many-rentals-do-you-actually-need-to-retire-the-real-number/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-240587/483-how-many-rentals-do-you-actually-need-to-retire-the-real-number.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}