Hipster is essentially a matchmaker. We connect you, the buyer, to who we think are some of the best sellers of investment properties not only in the U.S. but outside of the U.S. as well. Currently, Hipster will only refer you to companies that Ali, Founder of Hipster, has bought through personally. This makes us a very boutique-style company as we are extremely picky about who we are willing to refer you to.

Hipster’s focus is Lifestyle Design. There are a lot of ways to be a real estate investor, but a lot of those methods aren’t conducive to living the kind of dream life you should be living. How do you achieve your dream life? By setting yourself up with passive income, i.e. income you don’t have to work for. Once you cut your ties to needing a job to sustain your income, you can be free to do whatever you want! Even if you love your job, you are welcome to keep doing it but at least you have a backup plan in case anything were to happen with your job or you decide one day you are over it. Real estate is simply a tool to provide you with this freedom. Real estate is the simplest, and one of the safest, ways to acquire passive income.

Better yet, real estate investing doesn’t have to be as hard as people make it out to be. You can actually be an investor and still be very hands-off, and you certainly don’t have to swing any hammers. That’s what Hipster does; we show you these opportunities and connect you with the experts who have these opportunities available.

Ali knew from her first day in Corporate America that she wanted to get out. Despite her killer gig as an Aerospace Engineer for one of the most notorious defense companies in the world, she knew there was more to life than sitting behind a desk and working for someone else. Out of boredom at work one day, she ran across a free webinar online promoting beachfront bungalows in Nicaragua that were for sale to investors. Having no intentions of actually buying one, she watched the webinar, responded to the seller when asked what she thought, and somehow from there one thing led to another and the next thing she knew, she owned property in Nicaragua. Completely unintentionally! That wasn’t before, however, taking three pages of red-ink questions to the seller with every intention of proving them to be scammers. To Ali’s surprise, they weren’t scammers at all. Not only were they not scammers, they were completely normal-seeming people! Wait, normal-seeming people in real estate, what? It was true. It opened her eyes to a whole new potential in investor, which was that flipping properties and being a landlord weren’t the only ways to be an investor. After the Nicaragua purchases (yes, that is plural), Ali continued on to learning about turnkey rental properties. Coincidentally, the next big market at the time was Atlanta which is where she grew up. So of course that was enticing to think that she could own investment properties. Out of money from the Nicaragua purchases, she got creative and brought on an investment partner to help her buy Atlanta turnkey properties. During that time, she continued to learn more about real estate investing in terms of market selection, property qualities and selection, the ins and outs of owning rental properties, and most importantly, how to use real estate to create her dream life. Eventually she walked out of corporate and jumped into real estate full-time, helping fellow investors to see what options are really out there for investing.

A turnkey rental property is a property that comes fully rehabbed, with tenants in place and paying rent, and property management set up to handle the property once you own it.

Rental properties provide passive income, meaning you don’t have to work for it! Owning a turnkey rental property is no different than owning any other kind of rental property, except all of the work is done for you. You just collect your profit each month!

Not everybody wants all the work done for them. A lot of investors think it’s better to do all the work themselves (we disagree) and others are too nervous about not being a more active component of the management of the property. Turnkeys are also more expensive than do-it-yourself properties (justifiably so) and some don’t want to pay the higher price.

Turnkeys exist in all shapes and sizes. They vary in price range, property type, market, and tenants. Not every style is for everybody. Some markets may have properties still available because it may be more of a unique-style market that isn’t a fit for everyone. Some markets will only have available properties because the original buyer fell out for some reason. Some markets don’t have any available inventory because they are in such high demand.

That isn’t their model. Turnkey sellers are essentially big-time flippers. They make their money in flipping the properties to the investors. They oftentimes will hold some properties for themselves, but for the most part their business model is to sell to investors. It’s like any other business.

Usually, yes. Traditional financing (a.k.a. mortgages) are allowed on most turnkeys, assuming you qualify. Private financing options are usually available on turnkeys which is nice if you don’t qualify for a mortgage because it allows you to still use financing on a property. And of course you can always buy for cash.

1. Select your market of choice
2. Select your property of choice
3. Send in a reservation to hold the property
4. Sign the sales contract and wire your earnest money
5. Conduct your due diligence
6. Close on the property

There is nothing about a turnkey purchase that you can’t verify. It is harder to confirm that a turnkey provider is legit, but you can certainly ask for references from past buyers from that company. It is really the property you need to verify as that is all that matters in the end (who sells you the property doesn’t matter). Some things you can do to verify a turnkey property: get a property inspection by a licensed inspector, get title insurance, check for deed information and/or any lien information, confirm reported numbers on the property, and double-check all contracts.