BRRRR?

Real estate investment bloggers and founders of investor networking site Bigger Pockets, Joshua Dorkin and Brandon Turney, created an acronym to describe a powerful business model for the long-term holding investor.

It’s called the “BRRRR” Strategy (as in, I’m shivering cold).

B- Buy

R- Rehab

R- Rent

R- Refinance

R- Repeat

BRRRR is all about buying real estate investments with the long-term goal of holding, fixing the property up, and getting a renter in it. When the property appreciates, you can access the additional dollars of equity to then go buy a new real estate property. When you use this strategy, you leverage yourself toward becoming a very serious real estate investor very quickly while using the 1031 exchange to defer capital gains tax. You can adapt that model very easily into a buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, and then another r for “relax” for a period of time. This allows you to demonstrate your intent to hold that property. You could also add “reevaluate” to decide whether it’s time to sell the original property. This valuable strategy will help keep you on track with the 1031 exchange and help you keep in mind what you have to do in order to use this program lawfully.

What’s most important is that you begin the process with your accountants and other team members knowing that this is a property that you will be holding, not one that you are “flipping” and reselling. Once you’ve established your intent with the property, you can use the 1031 exchange to eliminate due taxes and transfer them to your next investment.