I still don't get it.
What do you mean by re-financing the property?
Correct me if I am wrong, but it goes like this:
Investors give 40k USD to Branny. Branny buys a house, fixes it up, rents it to a renter. Now Branny has 0 USD but does have a house and a monthly income of (rent). So he goes to the bank and gets a mortgage on the house. Now he has a house, 40k USD and a monthly income of (rent-mortgage payment).
So he starts the cycle over again, Branny buys a second house, fixes it up, rents it to a renter. Now Branny has 0 USD, but does have two houses and a monthly income of ((rent) + (rent - mortgage payment)). He goes to bank for another mortgage, now he has two houses, 40k USD and a monthly income of (2 x (rent - mortgage payment)).
And the cycle can continue until you run out of houses, renters, or credit at the bank.
Yep, that's exactly how it works.
If we run out of houses or renters we just move to a different location, set up shop there and start doing it all over again. My county can support about 200 homes. Within all adjacent counties maybe 20,000 rental homes.
If the bank runs out of credit we just get to another bank. I personally know a guy who maxed out a bank's SEC/FDIC (Whoever commissions them) limit at $40m and went to a second bank and was able to secure a pretty large line of credit with them. If you loan out as much as you can with a bank you just keep getting more and more.
This type of method has worked for the past 100+ years and even worked quite well during the depression here in the 1930s.
Additionally, real estate is very cyclical in the US and the rest of the world for that matter. You have a neverending cycle of Crash>recovery>bubble>crash
We are right now in the middle of the crash-to-recovery phase where demand isn't strong enough to increase prices. So, for the next 2-3 years I estimate we can still buy properties at a great discount. Eventually this phase will end and we'll be in another bubble where people aren't thinking clearly and overbuying and over-leveraging properties. At this point we will shop around and sell the rentalstarter business for more than it's worth to some big VC firm or millionaire/billionare who is comfortable with a 6% or 8% yearly return. The end result should be plenty of money for investors and very well exceed the USD/BTC growth over the time period.