Why We Kept Our W2 Jobs For 7 Years While Building

<p>Andrea and I started buying real estate in 2017 and I did not leave my job until earlier this year. Seven years. That was not slow, it was on purpose.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation from the Pending and Trending podcast with Deidre Quinn, I get into why we built in parallel instead of quitting, the question almost nobody answers when they set a cash flow goal, and how one rental property we underwrote badly in 2019 led us to the $9.4 million ground-up assisted living development we are building in Texas right now.</p><p><br></p><p>We also talk about the part of the story I do not lead with often. I got out of rehab for alcohol abuse in May 2019 and bought our first rental two months later. That was not a coincidence. It was the point I stopped blaming my employer and started looking at the trade I had agreed to.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are making good money and quietly aware that you are creating more value than you are capturing, this one is for you.</p>