Can you run this?
A property investing simulation

Can You Build a Real Estate Portfolio in 10 Years?

You have savings and a day job. Buy rental properties with borrowed money and build a portfolio. Borrow more and you own more doors, and every price rise is multiplied. Borrow too much and one bad year of empty units, broken roofs, a rate reset and falling prices will hand your properties to the bank.

  • 4 yearsone decision page each, settled quarter by quarter
  • +6 yearsoptional, to year 10
  • 1 downturnit’s coming; you don’t know when

About this simulation

Difficulty
Advanced High risk. Debt, leverage, crises and big systems. Many runs end early.
Length
4 years + 6 more, about 10 minutes for the first part
Category
Investing
You decide
Leverage, rent, vacancies

How it plays

  1. Year 1 · The first purchase — Buy your first rental
  2. Year 2 · Expand? — Grow the portfolio
  3. Year 3 · Rents and regulation — Run the portfolio
  4. Year 4 · Before the turn — Prepare for a bad year

After the debrief, “Keep going — to year 10” continues the run with calendar events, new challenges and opportunities that build on what you chose earlier. Every decision page has a live preview that shows what your picks do to the numbers before you lock them in.

What you get at the end

A debrief with your outcome, charts of where the money went, your biggest mistake and roughly what it cost, and a full report you can copy or save as a PDF. Everything runs in your browser: no sign-up, nothing to install.

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