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.
And why do you, because you said you have five people that you
helped, right?
Correct.
Yes, and why do you do it?
Why do I help them?
It's simple.
When I did this and I started seeing results,
and the realization that I was actually going to achieve my
goal, that I was actually going to get to a point where I could
choose to work, retire earlier, or what have you,
and then turn around and say, OK, I'm going to do this.
And then turn around and helping other people do it,
and seeing them and how happy they were and how excited they
were, the fact that they were investing,
they were getting returns that were greater than maybe what
their 401Ks were doing at that time, that is huge.
That's everything.
Like I said, these people are very happy with where they're at.
And they're friends of mine, so I get to talk to them all time.
I get to hear how they're doing.
And sometimes there is always stuff that comes up,
like one of them had a tenant turnover issue,
that kind of stuff, so we work through that.
But overall, it's been very positive.
And just, again, helping other people do something similar,
or just reaching out to a larger audience, I think, is key.
And let me go a little further on that, too.
So like I said, when I started, I couldn't find good resources
that really laid out a road for people, or at least for me.
And I was looking for something that showed me how to actually
do all of the math, all the calculations,
show me basically the processes and checklists on how to really
do that, something that I could reproduce.
I was unable to find that, and that's actually what I wanted
to share, something that other people could follow and do the same.