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- Real Estate Investing Background: Dumb luck, prep, and guidance at garage sales
- Great Recession and Career Focused: Real estate on sale, so find off-market deals
- Gaining Momentum: Get a roommate and check to pay mortgage
- Active vs. Passive: Hands-on or hands-off real estate investing
- Lessons Learned: No spare time to read 52 books a year and find sponsors/operators
- Analysis Paralysis: Too much focus on ROI rather than value-add experience
- Target Markets and Trends: Right deal, right market, and right sponsor to lower risks
- Risk Tolerance: Opportunistic, core, and value-add asset classes
- Mistakes Made: Diversify portfolio by experimenting, doing what you know/understand
- Under Promise and Over Deliver: Invest in or take discounts by banking on cash flow
- Publicly Traded vs. Private Placement: Always have paperwork reviewed by attorney
- Education and Network: Align interests and philosophies with like-minded people
- Four Steps to Financial Freedom by Being Frugal:
- Make as much money as possible by doing your best
- Live on as little of that income as possible for a period of time
- Take margin from earnings and invest it all
- Avoid bad debt or pay off loans sooner than later