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I Buy Properties With Friends and Family. One Has Made Over $400k on ...
Kristina Modares has bought 10 properties over the last decade and still owns five. Courtesy of Kristina Modares 2026-04-19T13:32:01.231Z Kristina Modares started co-buying properties with her friends and family in her 20s. She has co-bought 10 properties in the last decade and remains an owner of five. Modares said she's learned valuable lessons along the way about getting into business with friends. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kristina Modares, 36, an Airbnb host. Modares is also the founder of Open House Education and a marketer at Joynt, a real estate platform designed to help people buy and own homes with family and friends. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. In 2015, I was 25 and living in Austin, renting a home downtown with a friend and hoping to buy one of my own. I'd just gotten my real estate license and didn't yet have the two years of income needed to qualify for a mortgage on my own.When I told a friend about it, he said, "I'd buy a house with you." That conversation made me realize you don't have to buy alone — or wait for a romantic partner — to become a homeowner.We didn't end up buying together in Austin, but we did purchase a commercial property in San Antonio. It was my first experience co-buying with a friend. At the time, I was young and naive and didn't think much about the complications that could come with co-buying. I was just excited to get into real estate.That experience opened the door to something much bigger. Over the past 10 years, I've bought 10 homes through partnerships with friends and family. That includes a beach house I own with my sister that we rent on Airbnb, a retreat property with two business partners, and a small stake in another shared home that's rented. Co-buying helped me become a first-time homebuyer — and eventually a multi-property homeowner — much sooner than I could have on my own.My sister and I own an Airbnb rental in FloridaI was only 29 when my sister and I bought our second property together: a beach house in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. It's one of my favorite properties.We grew up vacationing in the area and had always dreamed of owning a home there. At the time, a beach house in that area felt like something only wealthy families could afford.This was the seventh property I'd purchased, and by then I knew what kind of investment I liked to make: one I felt personally connected to and could use myself. It feels like home, and it's reassuring t...
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