How I keep buying notes without new money

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader,

If you're someone who's heard how the wealthy borrow against their assets instead of selling them, you already understand the idea behind this.

The rich rarely sell what's working. They borrow against it. Buy an asset, borrow against it, keep it growing, that's the playbook some people call "buy, borrow, die."

The asset stays theirs while the borrowed money goes to work somewhere else.

You can do the same thing with a note. It has an intimidating name: Hypothecation

It's simpler than it sounds. You borrow against a note you already own, using that note as collateral. The note stays yours. You take the cash and buy a second note.

Same capital. Two streams of income.

One note quietly becomes two, without touching your savings.

I don't do this on every note.

I use it selectively, only where the payment history is clean enough that I'm confident the cash flow continues.

That discipline is the whole point.

The shift is this: your money doesn't have to sit still between wins.

Used carefully, it can work in two places at once.

Sierra

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