Real Estate Isn’t Dead Where Investors Are Still Earning Big Returns and 12% Passive Income
Release Date: 12/12/2025
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You keep hearing it in the news: “The real estate market is done. Prices can’t go any higher. It’s not worth investing anymore.”
But is that actually true everywhere?
Are there still pockets of the U.S. real estate market where you can find solid deals, strong cash flow, and real opportunity, especially in affordable housing?
In this episode, I sit down with Ohio real estate investor and educator Tiffany High to answer that question head on.
Tiffany runs a high-volume, systematized real estate flipping business and wholesale operation based in Columbus and Toledo, Ohio, and her story is powerful. She walked away from a corporate career in oil trading and building materials, jumped into flipping houses by maxing out a credit card for education, and did around 40 flips in her first year just by hand-writing lists at the courthouse and door knocking. From there she scaled into wholesaling, doing over 160+ contracts in a year.
But it wasn’t all up and to the right. Tiffany shares how putting the wrong people in the wrong seats nearly destroyed her company, led to deep burnout, and even a suicide attempt. She’s incredibly open about ending up in a mental institute for a week, what that did to her perspective, and how a pivotal conversation with her father convinced her not to walk away. Instead, she rebuilt everything from the ground up with a one-on-one mentor from the corporate world who helped her install true infrastructure: recruiting, onboarding, training, scorecards, leadership, and real KPIs.
Today, Tiffany runs a streamlined operation that’s obsessed with data-driven comps, days on market trends, and staying within the median home price and affordable housing range in each zip code. We talk about why she loves markets like Toledo, Ohio, where renovated homes in the $150,000–$185,000 range are still accessible to blue-collar families, and why investors from California and other high-cost markets are flooding in to buy these properties as cash-flowing rentals.
We also get into how she’s shifting more into private lending and wealth preservation, turning two into four and four into eight instead of holding every rental forever. Tiffany explains how she works with private lenders on her flips, why she pays 12% annualized interest, and the protections she gives lenders personal guarantees, conservative ARVs, strong reserves, and the ability to come walk her operation in person.
If you’ve been feeling nervous about the headlines but still want your money working hard in real estate, this conversation is for you.
We cover mindset, market selection, leadership, and how to build a business that doesn’t own your life. Whether you want to be hands-on or passive, you’ll see how Ohio real estate investing done right can still be a powerful path to cash flow, equity, and long-term wealth.
Tiffany High's links:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyhighofficial?igsh=dnFnMjF0dzlxam5u
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-high-66535118/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialtiffanyhigh/
- Website: https://resultsdrivenrei.com/