Dr. Toby PotterCEO and Founder, The Unshakable Investor · Real Estate Investor Success Coach

How to Fund Your Real Estate Deals

Name: How to Fund Your Real Estate Deals
Uploaded: 2025-09-15T02:19:28+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Dr. Toby Potter
Description: In this concise talk, the speaker debunks the myth that a real‑estate investor must first amass large cash reserves. He emphasizes that roughly 85 % of…

15 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise talk, the speaker debunks the myth that a real‑estate investor must first amass large cash reserves. He emphasizes that roughly 85 % of an investor’s effort should be spent locating a profitable deal and rigorously crunching the numbers. When a deal is mathematically sound, capital will follow: building a network and plugging into other real‑estate circles brings partners who are eager to invest. The speaker advises new investors to be willing to give up 30‑50 % equity early on, arguing that owning half of a successful deal is far better than owning all of nothing. The core message is that finding the right deal and leveraging other people’s money (OPM) outweighs the need for personal cash reserves.

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Most investors think they need a ton of money before they can do their first deal, and that's not correct. One of the things you have to fully understand is that 85% of a real estate investor's time is spent trying to find the right deal. So you need to focus on finding the deal that works, crunching the numbers, spelling it all out, because when you find a good deal, the money will come. When you start building a network, start getting involved and plugged into other real estate networks, and you find a deal that masks out, that makes profitability, multiple people will come in and partner with you on that deal. Everybody wants a piece of that pie. And you have to understand, you are in control. You have a deal that everybody's been looking for. So don't think you have to go save up a bunch of money and the more deals you do, the more money you earn, and then you don't need anybody else. But in the beginning, give up 30%, 40%, 50% because 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing. So understand that you don't need capital. You can use other people's money. You just need to find the deal that works mathematically. It can Economically, the money will come.