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It’s a journey I’m often asked by newer investors how long it took for Ashley and me to get out of corporate America. It’s an interesting question, because neither she nor I have ever been part of anything corporate other than the entities we’ve set up. Truthfully, I’ve never had a “real job.” And when I tell people that, I get some rather puzzled looks. What I really think the...
How can we structure this deal? In the summer of 2010, I was blessed to have a sure-enough successful husband-and-wife real estate investor team take Ashley and me under their wings. They have a passion for giving and enjoyed teaching aspiring and established investors alike on how to creatively structure deals. Without them, Ashley and I wouldn’t be where we are. That passion lives on...
Effective massive action I’m writing this to you at a quarterly business mastermind group. The meeting’s location changes every time, and this quarter, it’s in Nashville Tennessee. On a recent night after the meeting let out, I needed to go to Kroger to pick up some supplies. My GPS said there were three of these stores equidistant from me. Not being familiar with the area, I just...
It came back to bite us Having a well-thought-out tenant screening process is essential to your success as a landlord. If you haven’t developed this plan, you should really give it some thought. Let me walk you through the major parts of our tenant selection process and then show you how not sticking to it resulted in us getting a house back in poor condition for the first time in...
Prioritize and execute For the last two weeks, I’ve been on my eighth reading of a book called “Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. (Well, technically I’m not reading it. The authors are reading it to me via Audible. But this is the eighth time I have listened to it.) This book is awesome. The authors, Jocko and Leif, are two Navy...