Why Your Single Family Rentals Are Bad Investments in 2026

📊 DO YOU THINK YOUR RENTALS MAKE MONEY? CHECK HERE 👉 bewealthypodcast.com/rentals━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎟 JOIN US AT THE WORKSHOPSpend a working day with Brett. Bring your biggest challenge, leave with a plan. See upcoming dates at bewealthypodcast.com/workshop📞 BOOK A CALL WITH KATELYNWant to walk through your rental numbers with someone on Brett's team? Book a time with Katelyn: bewealthypodcast.com/call━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Why Your Single Family Rentals May Suck | Brett Tanner & Katelyn MitchellBrett breaks down the real math behind single family rentals and why the numbers that worked from 2010 to 2022 stopped working. He walks through every expense line with sourced data from the BLS, SEC filings, and a peer-reviewed study in Real Estate Economics, then shows what his family office actually did with their portfolio when they saw the shift coming.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro3:34 Brett's 130-rental journey5:55 The Airbnb backlash repeat8:23 Why the last 15 years worked17:16 The 8.5% study breakdown19:14 The 90/10 reveal22:27 June 2022: the engine stops31:46 Repairs and materials spike34:24 Insurance is the killer41:59 Expense ratio reality48:53 Right-to-counsel wave53:25 Scale disadvantage56:28 SFRs are a stage57:44 Return on trapped equity61:37 Trade houses for the hotel━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📊 SOURCES & DATAEvery number in this episode is from a primary source (Zillow, FRED, the BLS, SEC filings, Census, and a peer-reviewed study). See all the data and links here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/19oDjymjI9p3z_4rUm_M887Rkdvrls_LBAnzAQCTFgp8/edit━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 GET CONNECTEDWebsite: bewealthypodcast.comYouTube: youtube.com/@bewealthybrettInstagram: instagram.com/bewealthybrettFacebook: facebook.com/brettbewealthyX/Twitter: x.com/bewealthybrett━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎁 FREE RESOURCESSome links below are partner or affiliate links. Be Wealthy may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.Free Tools & Downloads: https://www.bewealthypodcast.com/#resourcesCost Segregation Studies & 45L Tax Credit: SingleFamilyCostSeg.comInfinite Banking Education: SaveLikeaBank.comSelf-Directed IRA: MaxOutRetirement.comTrust & Entity Structure: SetupMyEstate.comOff-Market Deals & Direct Mail: TheMagicMailers.com1031 Exchange: Exchange1031Now.comBookkeeping & Financial Services: BooksOffMyPlate.comPPC & Digital Marketing for RE Investors: ScaleMyDeals.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙 ABOUT THE SHOWThe Be Wealthy Podcast brings entrepreneurs the strategies to grow their business, then teaches them how to think about their money. Because wealth is far more than money. It's freedom. Hosted by Brett Tanner & co-pilot Katelyn Mitchell.Mission: Get Free.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ DISCLAIMERBe Wealthy and its affiliates do not provide tax, legal, or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should consult your own tax, legal, and accounting advisors before engaging in any transaction.