BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast 37: Full Time Income, Part Time Lifestyle Real Estate Investing with Aaron Mazzrillo
Sep 26, 2013
01:28:12
Not all real estate investors need to work 80 hours a week to put food on the table and build their wealth. On today’s episode of the BiggerPockets Podcast we are excited to introduce you to Aaron Mazzrillo, a real estate investor from the Southern California area who makes a great full time living with just 4 to 5 hours of work per day. Aaron’s smart strategies for wholesaling, buy and hold, and flipping are fascinating and will give you an entirely new perspective on building wealth through real estate – while enjoying every moment of it.
Read the transcript for episode 37 with Aaron Mazzrillo here
In This Show, We Cover
- How Aaron was able to quit his job through real estate
- Investing in expensive areas
- Finding properties through wholesalers
- Negotiating with sellers and cash buyers
- Aaron’s exact direct mail strategy
- Why wholesaling isn’t the best strategy for starting out
- Advanced methods for structuring no-money down deals
- How to really determine expenses on a rental
- Dealing with tenants without losing your mind
- Starting a real estate mastermind group
Links From the Show
- The New iOS7 BiggerPockets App
- BiggerPockets Pro
- BiggerPockets Book on Estimating Rehab Costs
- BiggerPockets Book on Flipping Houses
- Fiverr.com – Get any task done for $5
- Tenant Screening: The Ultimate Guide
- VFlyer.com
- Books Mentioned in the Show
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
Tweetable Topics
- Surround yourself with the kind of people you want to become (Tweet This!)
- When negotiating, focus on explaining the outcome for the seller (Tweet This!)
- If you can’t afford to keep it vacant – you can’t afford to keep it (Tweet This!)
- I don’t consider myself a real estate investor…I consider myself a marketer who invests in real estate. (Tweet This!)
Connect with Aaron
- Aaron’s BiggerPockets Profile
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