Episode #1228 Baselane: Automate your real estate finances with banking and AI-powered bookkeeping. Claim your $100 bonus! https://www.baselane.com/lp/bigger-pockets/?utm_source=bigger_pockets&utm_campaign=bigger_pockets&utm_medium=YT-M Episode Show Notes: https://lnk.to/biggerpocketsYT Join BiggerPockets for FREE 👇 https://www.biggerpockets.com/signup?utm_source=owned_media 🎉Join us at the BiggerPockets Conference October 2-4 in Orlando. Buy tickets: https://biggerpockets.com/bpcon2026 Let Us Know What You Thought of the Show! https://www.BiggerPockets.com/Podcastfeedback Grab the BiggerPockets _Book on Rental Property Investing_ : https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/rental-property-investing?utm_source=owned_media Sign Up for the BiggerPockets Real Estate Newsletter: https://www.biggerpockets.com/email-subscribe?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=none Find Investor-Friendly Lenders: http://biggerpockets.com/findlenders _BiggerPockets Real Estate_ 1085 - Making $200K/Year With the Least Amount of Rentals Possible w/Dion McNeeley: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1085?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=none Connect with Dion: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/dionm12?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=none Connect with Dave: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/davem27?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=none Over $20,000 per month in pure cash flow from just eight rental properties—all achieved in around a decade. Dion McNeeley did it and has inspired thousands of others to repeat his “boring” and self-proclaimed “lazy” strategy to reach financial freedom. Today, he’s teaching you how to do it, too. A 40-year-old single dad with less than $1,000 in the bank and over $80,000 in debt is not who you’d think would become a multi-millionaire rental investor. But now, over a decade later, joining us from Thailand and making over $200,000 per year in cash flow, is the same man—Dion McNeeley! His tried-and-true strategy for rental investing is one anyone can replicate, and if you put in five years of hard work and another five years of patience, you, too, can be living your dream life, just like Dion. Dion is walking through his exact rental property criteria and what he plans to buy in 2026. Plus, he’ll share his best advice for beginners, the first step every new investor should take, how to know you’re ready to invest, and three tips to optimize your portfolio to make the most cash flow possible. This is the lazy path to early retirement with rentals! 00:00 Intro 01:35 Dion LIVE from Thailand! 03:08 $21K/Month in Cash Flow! 06:59 The Passive Income Supercharger 10:47 2 Signs You’re Ready to Invest 12:38 Dion’s Rental Criteria 17:01 Rentals STILL Work Today 17:55 Sponsor: Baselane! 18:54 Dion’s Advice for Beginners 25:34 This Changed Everything 28:15 Tip 1. Distraction Will Hurt You 33:38 Tip 2. Chase Repeatability 38:37 Tip 3. This Changes the Game