Tell me about your vision.
Sure.
So I am all about investing.
I had a lot of success with that.
It was something that was very important for me.
And when I was really looking into what I wanted to do,
this was when I was still working full time,
I couldn't find the resources that I wanted
that would have been helpful for me.
So I started putting that together.
And again, I had some success with it.
And I realized that there was a lot of other people that
could benefit from it.
And that's really how I got started with it, at least
the book part of it.
Obviously, the investing side of it was something separate.
So my vision is pretty simple.
I just want to share what I know and how it works
so that other people can do something similar if it
fits what their goals are.
So you said you want to share what you know.
Correct.
Can you tell me more about that?
Yeah, so I am a full time investor.
I started as an engineer.
I worked at the Air Force Research Labs
for about 15 years, a little longer than that.
And again, it was during that time
when I was very interested in investing.
So I started looking into real estate.
And one of the problems I had with real estate
was that sourcing your own deals took a lot of time.
And there was a lot of, obviously, value in doing that.
But I didn't have that kind of time working 60 hour weeks.
And so I started looking at how I could source deals
and still have all the same benefits.
And the way I eventually, or I should say the path,
I eventually went down with something called turnkey rental
investing.
And so that's where you source your deals
through a turnkey provider.
And the turnkey provider, they have a large network
and they manage properties.
They buy and renovate, et cetera.
And so for me, I was able to outsource the entire rental
business in one purchase.
And that was very, very key.
So all the time I spent really working on my business
was in the purchase side of it.
And then as far as managing my assets going forward,
it was only a couple hours a month.
And so that's really what I do when it comes to real estate.
I invest in some other stuff too,
but that's real estate's the one I
think that has benefited me the most and the one
that I'm really trying to help people get started with.
So Scott, where would you say that this vision of you
about turnkey investing and what you're trying to share here
came from?
Yeah, so it really started with just what
I wanted out of investing.
So I began with wanting an opportunity
to maybe retire early or having the flexibility of working,
the option to work.
And so that's how it started for me.
And then as I started having success
and I started telling family and friends about it,
a lot of people were very interested in this.
And they were like, oh, how do I get started?
And so I had notes that I had used
for when I was just working through the math
and putting together financial forecasts and budgets
and things like that for property that I realized,
well, I could condense this and turn this into a book
and share it with people since there is an interest.
And I realized that this is actually
something to be quite beneficial.
And then to go even further than that, I had helped,
at this point, it's been five friends.
But I've helped five different people build
their own portfolios.
And they've been very successful.
And it's helped them out quite a bit.
And that's actually very rewarding for me.
And so that's really where it began.
And again, I just took my notes, condensed those.
I had a lot of processes that were already worked out
as checklists for my own use.
And so that became really the basis for the book
and then all the free stuff that I have available
online for people.
It's all there.
But essentially, that's where it came from.
And that's really just how I envisioned it.
So Scott, what would you say is your why of what you do?
Oh, the why is simple.
The why for me, at least on the investing side,
was to have the flexibility to do what I want.
And that doesn't mean not working.
That just means the flexibility to work if I want to work
or what have you.
And so that's how I really got started.
And that is really the why.
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