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Real Estate Investing for Beginners
Start your journey in real estate investing with resources built for beginners. These guides help new investors build a strong foundation — house hacking, screening your first deal, running honest numbers, and managing your first rental. If you’re ready for the next step, Austin can take the math with you, line by line.
Start With a Plan
Dream Home Quiz
A two-minute quiz that turns “someday” into a real search with a real timeline.
Guide
House Hacking Starter Guide
Author: Austin Coon
Live in one unit, rent the rest, and let tenants cover most of your payment. The complete beginner’s playbook for Indianapolis duplexes and fourplexes.
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Worksheet
Rent-to-Price Ratios: The 1%, 2% & 50% Rules
Author: Austin Coon
The 1% rule, the 2% rule, and the 50% rule — what each screen actually tells you, and how to triage 20 listings in 30 minutes.
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Checklist
Rental Due Diligence Checklist
Author: Austin Coon
The exact checklist Austin runs before every offer: rent verification, expense audits, tax checks, and the inspection items that kill deals.
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Investors Guide
Austin’s complete Indianapolis investor guide — market data, neighborhoods, and the roadmap.
Guide
Your First 90 Days as a Landlord
Author: Austin Coon
From closing day to your second lease: move-in reports, deposits, reserves, and the systems that keep your first door from eating you alive.
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Guide
Indianapolis Market Guide for New Investors
Author: Austin Coon
Rents, price bands, taxes, and neighborhood dynamics — a street-level intro to investing in the Indianapolis metro for first-time buyers.
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Worksheet
Financing Your First Investment Property
Author: Austin Coon
FHA 3.5%, conventional 5%, investor loans at 15–25% down, and commercial DSCR for 5+ units — every path to your first deal, priced out.
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Guide
Should You Airbnb It? STR vs. Long-Term
Author: Austin Coon
Airbnb looks glamorous. The numbers decide. How to compare short-term income against a tenant’s rent check — with Indianapolis data.
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Investor Guide
Cash Flow Close to Home
Author: Austin Coon
Three underrated rental markets around Indianapolis, the scorecard Austin uses to judge any market, and the cash flow math that tells you whether a deal really pays.
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Investor Guide
One Door to Five
Author: Austin Coon
A practical playbook for growing from your first rental to a five-property portfolio in Central Indiana — systems, financing sequencing, and the team you’ll need, without letting it take over your life.
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Worksheet
The 90-Day First Deal Plan
Author: Austin Coon
A week-by-week, 13-week action plan and tracker to take you from thinking about investing to holding the keys to your first property in about three months.
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Worksheet
Self-Storage Buy Box
Author: Austin Coon
A fill-in worksheet to define exactly what kind of storage facility you want to own — location, unit mix, deal type, financial targets, and exit — before you spend time analyzing deals.
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Checklist
The First Deal Checklist
Author: Austin Coon
Every step from getting your finances ready to collecting your first rent check, in the order you’ll actually do them.
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Checklist
The Double Check
Author: Austin Coon
Five things to verify before you buy a duplex in Indianapolis, whether you plan to live in one side or rent both.
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Investor Checklist
Acquisition Closing Checklist
Author: Austin Coon
Everything to line up between an accepted offer and the first day of your rehab or lease-up, plus a unit details sheet for your records.
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Investor Template
Appraiser Information Packet
Author: Austin Coon
A template for giving the appraiser clear, factual information about your improvements, income, and nearby sales.
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Investor Guide
Books That Build Wealth
Author: Austin Coon
A rental owner’s guide to bookkeeping and accounting: the habits, categories, and routines that make tax season easy and lenders say yes.
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Investor Checklist
Due Diligence Checklist
Author: Austin Coon
What to verify during your inspection period, grouped so nothing slips through before your contingencies expire.
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Landlord Form
Rental Unit Profile
Author: Austin Coon
One sheet per unit with every detail your leasing agent, manager, and maintenance team will ask for, plus a photo shot list.
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