The First Rental in 90 Days: Step-by-Step Buyer's Playbook

This guide is for beginners who keep hearing "buy cheap rental properties" and still have no idea what to do on Monday morning. Maybe you think prices where you live are too high. Maybe you have a few thousand dollars saved and are not sure it counts. Maybe you've watched plenty of videos and never made an offer. The First Rental in 90 Days turns the advice into a sequence you can follow. You'll learn how to choose a market using price-to-rent ratio, check neighborhoods for crime before you fall in love with a listing, and get a pre-approval letter so you know your real budget. You'll learn how to pick an investor-friendly agent, spend 30 minutes a day screening listings, and run a simple cash flow calculation that includes the mortgage, taxes, insurance, management, utilities and a savings reserve. You'll also see how to get into a deal with less cash: house hacking, FHA financing, seller-paid closing costs, and partners. The guide ends with how to make offers, and how to think about the second property. Antonio Cucciniello is a real estate investor who bought a New Jersey triplex at 26 with $30,000 of his own money. He pooled funds with his dad and brother, used a mortgage with 25% down, and the property rented for far more than the payment. His business partners started with $5,000 in 2008 and now hold a portfolio worth over $50 million. He has been teaching this process to beginners on Instagram, aiming at one outcome: your first rental in 30 to 90 days. This guide puts that process in one place, with the steps in order.