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A lot of people spend 90% of their analysis time on properties that will never work.

The 1% Rule fixes that in five seconds.

Here's how it works: take the monthly rent a property could generate, divide it by the total cost (purchase price + rehab). If the number hits 1% or higher, keep going. If it's below, close the tab.

That's the whole filter.

Real example: $165,000 purchase. $1,400/month rent. That's 0.85%. Pass. And you'd know that before you spent an afternoon falling in love with a house that was never going to cash flow.

Most beginners treat the 1% Rule as "too crude" and skip it. That's backwards. Crude is the point. This is triage, not analysis. You're not deciding whether to buy. You're deciding whether the property even deserves thinking time.

Most don't. The Rule just tells you faster.

Try it on the next 10 properties you look at. Notice how quickly you move through them. That speed is the skill.

(The full chapter on when to adjust the threshold - 1.2%, 1.5%, even 0.8% in specific markets - lives in Accelerate Your Real Estate.)

Which number is tripping you up right now - finding properties that hit 1%, or knowing what to do once they do?

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After a decade of building multiple 7 figure businesses I still continue evolving, and I’m so happy to get to share this journey with you

I came from survival. Hustle. The kind that teaches you how to endure, but not always how to thrive.

That’s why I created the M3 Framework. It came from necessity, from needing a path that didn’t rely on privilege, but on intention and strategy.

Make → I built income on my own terms. So I could stop depending on anything that didn’t align with my values.
Multiply → I learned to grow that income through assets, especially real estate. So money worked for me, even when I didn’t.
Manage → And I protected what I built with clarity, boundaries, and systems that didn’t collapse under pressure.

This is how we turned our pain into power and our ambition into ease. And how you can do the same.

Sharing this again for the first-gen wealth builders rewriting the rules. Save this post and share it with a first-gen wealth builder who needs to see what’s possible.

NGL, I used to envy people who grew up with a soft life.

The kind of life where bills weren’t a constant worry, where rest came naturally, were there really was no burdens.

For a long time, I thought that’s what I wanted - to finally arrive at softness, I had some naive fairytale idea of what softness meant. Maybe it would be to put the hustle down and never pick it up again.

I realize now I was thinking about it all wrong.

Without the fire given to me by my ambition, I wouldn’t be able to experience the softness and I love that I can now marry my ambition and softness.

Not one or the other. Both.
So no - I don’t want a soft life. I want an integrated one.

Do you ever feel this tension too? How did you gain clarity around it?

Also as always let me know in comments if this is the type of content you’d like to see.

It’s not what we usually write about but I’m really trying to share some parts of myself I’ve been too scared to show before.

Sharing this again because it still feels true. 💭

Down payment Hallelujah!!! 🙌 My team is having fun with some real estate humor today. 😂

What meme would you like me to put a real estate spin on?

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