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Tell me about your vision.

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Sure.

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So I am all about investing.

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I had a lot of success with that.

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It was something that was very important for me.

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And when I was really looking into what I wanted to do,

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this was when I was still working full time,

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I couldn't find the resources that I wanted

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that would have been helpful for me.

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So I started putting that together.

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And again, I had some success with it.

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And I realized that there was a lot of other people that

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could benefit from it.

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And that's really how I got started with it, at least

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the book part of it.

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Obviously, the investing side of it was something separate.

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So my vision is pretty simple.

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I just want to share what I know and how it works

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so that other people can do something similar if it

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fits what their goals are.

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So you said you want to share what you know.

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Correct.

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Can you tell me more about that?

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Yeah, so I am a full time investor.

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I started as an engineer.

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I worked at the Air Force Research Labs

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for about 15 years, a little longer than that.

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And again, it was during that time

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when I was very interested in investing.

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So I started looking into real estate.

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And one of the problems I had with real estate

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was that sourcing your own deals took a lot of time.

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And there was a lot of, obviously, value in doing that.

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But I didn't have that kind of time working 60 hour weeks.

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And so I started looking at how I could source deals

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and still have all the same benefits.

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And the way I eventually, or I should say the path,

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I eventually went down with something called turnkey rental

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investing.

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And so that's where you source your deals

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through a turnkey provider.

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And the turnkey provider, they have a large network

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and they manage properties.

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They buy and renovate, et cetera.

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And so for me, I was able to outsource the entire rental

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business in one purchase.

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And that was very, very key.

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So all the time I spent really working on my business

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was in the purchase side of it.

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And then as far as managing my assets going forward,

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it was only a couple hours a month.

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And so that's really what I do when it comes to real estate.

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I invest in some other stuff too,

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but that's real estate's the one I

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think that has benefited me the most and the one

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that I'm really trying to help people get started with.

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So Scott, where would you say that this vision of you

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about turnkey investing and what you're trying to share here

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came from?

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Yeah, so it really started with just what

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I wanted out of investing.

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So I began with wanting an opportunity

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to maybe retire early or having the flexibility of working,

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the option to work.

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And so that's how it started for me.

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And then as I started having success

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and I started telling family and friends about it,

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a lot of people were very interested in this.

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And they were like, oh, how do I get started?

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And so I had notes that I had used

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for when I was just working through the math

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and putting together financial forecasts and budgets

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and things like that for property that I realized,

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well, I could condense this and turn this into a book

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and share it with people since there is an interest.

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And I realized that this is actually

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something to be quite beneficial.

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And then to go even further than that, I had helped,

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at this point, it's been five friends.

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But I've helped five different people build

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their own portfolios.

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And they've been very successful.

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And it's helped them out quite a bit.

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And that's actually very rewarding for me.

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And so that's really where it began.

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And again, I just took my notes, condensed those.

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I had a lot of processes that were already worked out

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as checklists for my own use.

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And so that became really the basis for the book

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and then all the free stuff that I have available

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online for people.

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It's all there.

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But essentially, that's where it came from.

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And that's really just how I envisioned it.

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So Scott, what would you say is your why of what you do?

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Oh, the why is simple.

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The why for me, at least on the investing side,

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was to have the flexibility to do what I want.

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And that doesn't mean not working.

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That just means the flexibility to work if I want to work

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or what have you.

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And so that's how I really got started.

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And that is really the why.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.