84: 3 Reasons Keeping You From Buying Your Next Rental Property

✨ Join me for my FREE Class! The Biggest Roadblocks Keeping Landlords From Scaling — and How to Fix It March 26, 2026 at 12PM & 7PM ET via Zoom https://owningitandlivingit.com/landlord You want to buy your next rental property — but something keeps stopping you. It's not the market. It's not the rates. It's probably one of these 3 mistakes. And the third one? Most landlords don't even realize it's happening to them. In this episode I break down the 3 real reasons landlords stay stuck: 🚫 Mistake #1: Thinking 20% down is the only way to buy (it's not) 🚫 Mistake #2: Trying to scale while your current property is still broken 🚫 Mistake #3: Winging it with no systems — so there's no time to find the next deal If any of these hit home, come to my FREE class on March 26th where we go deep on all three and I show you exactly how to fix them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - The 3 mistakes keeping you from your next rental 0:30 - Today's sponsor: Baselane 0:45 - Welcome + subscribe 1:30 - Mistake #1: The money problem (you don't need 20% every time) 3:15 - Mistake #2: Trying to scale a broken foundation 5:00 - [Baselane Ad] 5:45 - Mistake #3: The silent killer — no systems 7:15 - FREE Class details: March 24th ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 Financing strategies beyond 20% down — HELOCs, DSCR loans, seller financing, partnerships and more 🔹 How to know if your current rental is bleeding you before you add another door 🔹 What "winging it" actually costs you and what systems look like in a real portfolio ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WORK WITH ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode was helpful, you'll love my newsletter. I share practical real estate advice, real stories from the community, and the next smart move you can make. https://erikab.kit.com/f2f4df9a56 Would you like to work with me directly? Book a call to work with me in 2026! https://calendar.app.google/NMFNL2CYYPMP1FZn7 If you're looking to meet more like-minded people that are interested in building wealth, you'd love being in the room at The Owning It & Living It Experience. It's where real estate strategy, community, and clarity come together to help you make your next smart move. https://experience.owningitandlivingit.com FOLLOW FOR MORE: YouTube for long-form episodes + IG for daily content. https://www.instagram.com/erikabrowninvestor/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 ABOUT ERIKA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Erika Brown, CEO of Owning It & Living It. I've built a $5M+ rental property portfolio while working full-time and homeschooling my kids. Now I help high-income professionals scale their rental portfolios with systems, strategy, and support — no burnout required. #landlord #landlordtips #rentalpropertyinvesting #realestateinvesting #landlordmistakes #nextrentalproperty #realestatebusiness #passiveincome #propertymanagement #landlordcoach #wealthbuilding #financialfreedom