605: More Problems, More Money & Why Investors Should Search for Fresh Headaches

<p><strong>How many rental units do you want?</strong> Depending on who you ask, the number of rental properties can differ dramatically. A young investor may be looking to <strong>scale their portfolio</strong> quickly, eyeing ten, fifteen, or even one-hundred units. But, for a veteran real estate investor, who may already have a <strong>three or four-figure portfolio</strong>, the optimal rental unit count could be none at all—they may purely want <a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/passive-real-estate-investing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">passive income</a>.</p><p><strong>Christian Osgood</strong> knows this all too well, and it’s how he’s grown a <strong>seventy-one-unit portfolio</strong> in such a short amount of time. As half of a dynamic investing duo, Christian and his partner <a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/biggerpockets-podcast-554" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cody Davis</a> know that the first place to look for a deal is within someone’s goals. Unlike most off-market deal hunters, <strong>Christian and Cody don’t blatantly ask a seller if they’re willing to part ways with their property</strong>. They do something much different and a bit unorthodox.&nbsp;</p><p>Christian and Cody have grown a <strong>massive multifamily portfolio in an impressive amount of time</strong>. Christian walks through the <strong>reasons why this partnership works</strong>, how they divvy up their roles, and why new investors should <strong>learn to love new problems</strong>, not cower in fear over potential pit-stops on their wealth-building journey.&nbsp;</p><p>In This Episode We Cover</p><p>The “fish hauling and shipbuilding” of a <a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-new-investor-structure-partnership" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">perfect real estate partnership</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Why entrepreneurs and investors alike should <strong>search out new problems to solve</strong></p><p><strong>Financing large deals using</strong> <a href="h