The Property Academy Podcast How to stop bleeding cashflow on your properties [Case Study]⎥Ep. 2042
Apr 14, 2025
A deep dive into stopping cashflow losses on investment properties through practical moves. They walk through a real investor case study and portfolio check. Topics include modelling cashflow, rent increases, refinancing tactics, selling versus holding, and non-property income fixes.
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Plane Chat With A 57 Year Old Investor
- Ed McKnight shared a plane conversation with a 57-year-old investor worried about his portfolio after re-entering property in 2019 and buying four properties.
- The investor has six properties total, one owner-occupied, several negatively geared due to high rates, and asked whether to renovate or sell to improve cashflow.
Portfolio Gains Can Hide Deep Individual Losses
- Andrew Nicol noted portfolio performance mixed: overall about $400k gain but one property down $125k from peak, showing uneven regional cycles.
- He highlighted that markets rise and fall at different times, so short-term losses can be part of diversified outcomes.
Load Your Portfolio Into Opus Plus First
- Do load all your property numbers into Opus Plus as the first step to understand current and future cashflow.
- Ed described Opus Plus as a free, simpler web app replacement for their old spreadsheet to forecast portfolio cashflow.