Buy your first rental property with confidence
Seven modules. Real numbers. Zero fluff. The Landlord Blueprint walks you from "I want to invest in real estate" to finding, financing, and managing a cash-flowing rental — and building the roadmap to your next one.
"I built this course around one belief: if you can read the numbers on a deal and run a disciplined process, real estate investing isn't complicated — it just takes someone cutting through the noise and showing you exactly how it works."— Dawn Olson
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Analyze a residential property's cash flow, cap rate, and ROI to decide whether a deal is worth pursuing.
- Secure financing — including conventional mortgages, FHA loans, and DSCR loans — tailored to an investment property purchase.
- Run a repeatable deal-finding system to source on-market and off-market rental properties below fair value.
- Draft legally sound lease agreements, set competitive rents, and screen tenants to minimize vacancy and risk.
- Self-manage a rental property's day-to-day operations, including maintenance workflows, rent collection, and landlord-tenant law compliance.
- Build a roadmap to scale from one rental unit to a multi-property portfolio using equity, refinancing, and the BRRRR strategy.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 22 lessons
The Landlord Mindset & Investment Foundations
Establishes the mental framework and financial vocabulary every new landlord needs before analyzing a single deal. Students shift from consumer thinking to investor thinking and learn the core metrics that drive every decision in the course.
- 1.1Think Like an Investor, Not a HomeownerIncluded
- 1.2The Numbers Every Landlord Must KnowIncluded
- 1.3Understanding Your Target MarketIncluded
Analyzing Deals: Cash Flow, Cap Rate & ROI
A dedicated deal-analysis module — the critical prerequisite gap in the original draft. Before students learn to find or finance deals, they must be able to run a full underwriting analysis independently. This module bridges the foundational numbers lesson to real-world deal evaluation with full pro formas, expense estimation, and go/no-go decisions.
- 2.1Building a Full Rental Property Pro FormaIncluded
- 2.2Cap Rate, Cash-on-Cash Return & ROI ComparedIncluded
- 2.3Evaluating Rehab Costs and the After-Repair ValueIncluded
Finding Deals Below Fair Value
Builds a repeatable, systematic deal-sourcing engine covering both on-market and off-market channels. Students leave with an active pipeline and the negotiation skills to convert leads into contracts.
- 3.1On-Market Deal Finding: Working the MLS Like an InvestorIncluded
- 3.2Off-Market Strategies: Finding Deals Before They're ListedIncluded
- 3.3Making Offers and Negotiating Like an InvestorIncluded
Financing Your Rental Property
Covers the full financing toolkit available to residential rental investors — from conventional and government-backed loans to investor-specific products — and teaches students to calculate the true all-in cost of acquiring a property.
- 4.1Conventional, FHA, and House-Hacking LoansIncluded
- 4.2DSCR Loans, Portfolio Loans, and Creative FinancingIncluded
- 4.3Closing Costs, Reserves, and the True Cost of a DealIncluded
Leasing, Tenant Screening & Landlord-Tenant Law
Covers the complete leasing lifecycle — pricing a unit, attracting quality tenants, screening legally and effectively, executing a bulletproof lease, and understanding the landlord-tenant laws that govern every interaction.
- 5.1Setting Rent and Marketing Your VacancyIncluded
- 5.2Tenant Screening: Finding the Right Tenant, LegallyIncluded
- 5.3Lease Agreements and Move-In ProceduresIncluded
- 5.4Landlord-Tenant Law EssentialsIncluded
Day-to-Day Property Management
Equips students to self-manage a rental property efficiently and professionally — from collecting rent and tracking finances to handling maintenance, building a vendor network, and resolving difficult tenant situations without escalating to costly legal battles.
- 6.1Rent Collection and Financial SystemsIncluded
- 6.2Maintenance, Repairs, and Your Vendor NetworkIncluded
- 6.3Handling Difficult Tenant SituationsIncluded
Scaling Your Portfolio: Equity, Refinancing & BRRRR
Shows students how to leverage the equity and experience from their first rental to systematically grow a multi-property portfolio — using cash-out refinancing, the BRRRR strategy, and a structured portfolio roadmap — while managing risk at every step.
- 7.1The BRRRR Strategy From Start to FinishIncluded
- 7.2Cash-Out Refinancing and Using Equity to GrowIncluded
- 7.3Building Your Portfolio RoadmapIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The First-Time Investor
You've been researching real estate for months and need a structured, numbers-first system to finally stop overthinking and make your first move.
The Side-Hustling Professional
You have a stable income and solid savings but want your money working harder — rental property is your vehicle and you need a clear roadmap to execute.
The House Hacker
You're exploring buying a duplex or multi-unit home to live in one unit and rent the others — and you want to understand the financing and numbers before you commit.
The Accidental Landlord
You inherited a property or kept your old home when you moved, and now you need a proper operating system — leases, screening, rent collection — to run it like an investor.
The One-Property Owner Ready to Scale
You closed on your first rental and it's performing, but you want to use your equity and the BRRRR strategy to grow without starting over from scratch financially.
The Wealth-Builder Playing the Long Game
You're 10–20 years from retirement and want residential rental income as a pillar of your financial independence plan — built deliberately, not by accident.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Dawn Olson
If you've been sitting on the idea of buying a rental property for a year or two — doing research, watching YouTube videos, telling yourself you'll start when the market "calms down" — I want you to know I get it. The information out there is either too vague to act on or too advanced to make sense of without a foundation. You end up more confused than when you started, and the window feels like it keeps closing.
Here's what I know for certain: the landlords who build real wealth aren't smarter than you, and they didn't have some special advantage. They just had a clear process — a system for finding deals, running the numbers honestly, and operating the property once they owned it. That's what The Landlord Blueprint is. It's the straight-talking, numbers-grounded playbook I wish someone had handed me when I was trying to figure this out.
We start at the foundation: how to think like an investor instead of a homebuyer, and how to read the key metrics — cash flow, cap rate, cash-on-cash return — so you can look at any deal and know whether the numbers work. Then we move through deal-finding (both on and off the MLS), financing strategies matched to your situation, and the full leasing and tenant-management system that keeps a property profitable after closing. Every lesson is built around real deal examples, because abstract theory doesn't help you when you're staring at a listing and trying to decide whether to make an offer.
I also don't stop at "how to buy." The operations side — rent collection, maintenance workflows, vendor networks, handling a tenant who stops paying — that's where most landlords struggle, and most courses go quiet. We go deep on it, because protecting your cash flow after the deal is just as important as finding a good deal in the first place. And for those of you who already have one property, the BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.) and refinancing module will show you exactly how to use the equity you've built to fund your next move.
This school is for working professionals and side-hustlers who are serious about building wealth through real estate — not overnight, but the right way. If you're willing to learn the numbers, run a disciplined process, and take intelligent action, The Landlord Blueprint will give you everything you need to go from aspiring to operating. I'm genuinely glad you're here. Let's build something.
— Dawn Olson
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