Influencers make being a landlord with lots of rental properties seem easy. But a real-estate investor with 482 units warns newbies to not scale up too quickly.

Tech Insider
Vintage apartment buildings in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood
Mark Ainley, whose company owns and manages nearly 500 apartments in buildings like these in the Chicago area, has words of warning for aspiring landlords.

Steve Geer/Getty Images

Real-estate investors seized upon a tried-and-true strategy to fix up homes and make money. Then the market turned.

Tech Insider
A man wearing blue pants, a blue top, and work boots checks the alignment of a vertical wood beam with a bubble level. He stands amid an unfinished roof with exposed beams and insulation.
Real-estate investors who embrace the "BRRRR" method buy a home, rehab it, rent it out, refinance it to withdraw cash, and repeat to buy their next property.

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images

Subscribe to BRRRR