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Many people believe investing real estate is only something for the "rich". But my wife and I have proved this to be false. We don't come from a rich family. Yet, we were able to buy 14 Airbnb properties in the last 7 years. I'm not saying this to brag, but to show you that it's possible. So how did we do it? We leveraged the following things: → Jobs with higher pay. → Then we lived below our means and saved as much as we possibly could. → We bought properties for Airbnb, this allowed us take control of how much cash flow we could make with a single property. This allowed us to reinvest more back into our business. We researched markets with high demand for short term rentals, and bought properties there. → We used debt. If we tried to buy all our properties outright, we'd still be working our 9-5 jobs. Debt allowed us to scale quicker. It allowed us to acquire our first 4 Airbnbs by using the bank's money. This allowed us to build great cash flow, and we started building equity which really started our snowball. We were able to start leveraging cash out refinances to accelerate our portfolio growth. We realized that if we wanted to become financially free, we'd have to get comfortable with good debt.