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1 Rental to Freedom Podcast

1 Rental to Freedom Podcast

Ep. 244 - He Bought 23 Rentals in One Year With None of His Own Money (Private Lending with Jon Hayes)

Aug 13, 2026 · 1h 8m

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One of Jon Hayes' clients bought 23 rental properties in his first year. Not flips — buy and hold, fully rehabbed, built to last. And he didn't use a dime of his own money to do it. Jon is a fourth-generation real estate guy and a private lender who structures deals in two pieces: short-term money to buy and rehab, then long-term financing once the property's fixed up and rented — so you can refinance out and keep your cash in your pocket. On a $200K rental at 70% loan-to-value, that's $60,000 in equity created in one deal. Do that 20 times and you're looking at $1.2 million in equity in a single year. We get into how his family's been doing this since 1988, why he steers people away from…