35: Quitting Your Job, Lifestyle Design, and Being a Traveling Landlord with Paula Pant

On today’s Podcast, we sit down with blogger, investor, BiggerPockets contributor, and perhaps “the most interesting woman in the world”- Paula Pant. Paula has a unique perspective on personal finance that is helping her build a strong buy-and-hold portfolio while maintaining freedom and mobility that most only dream of. This interview is sure to fascinate, entertain, and give some great real estate investing advice that you can use in your own life.

Read the transcript to episode 35 with Paula Pant here.

In This Show, We Cover

• How traveling the world for two years led Paula to real estate
• Tips for managing tenants while on vacation
• How to avoid “creative accounting“
• Paying yourself when managing your own properties
• Paula’s definition of “financial freedom“
• Why pinching pennies might actually hurt you
• What “Lifestyle Design” is – and how to do it
• How to quit your job and start living a life you want
• Tips for saving for that first rental
• Benefits of blogging about your investing

Links From the Show

• Paula’s interview on NPR
• Paula’s article: You Know What Really Sucks? Cubicles
• How I Accidentally Bought Two of Kurt Cobain’s Former Homes and Why That’s Not Even The Best Part. (Brandon’s 1st Small Multifamily Property Story)
• How to Buy a Small MultiFamily Property: A Step by Step Case Study
• The Ultimate Guide to Tenant Screening
• Travel Hacking

Books from the Site:

• The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• From 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years by Steve McKight

Tweetable Topics

• Theres a difference between active income and passive income. Know that difference. (Tweet This!)
• If I can make, in passive income, as much as the average us household earns – that’s financial freedom. (Tweet This!)
• Life is too precious to spend it doing something you hate. (Tweet This!)
• Blogging helps you clarify what you should be doing as a real estate investor. (Tweet This!)

Connect with Paula

• Paula’s Blog: AffordAnything.com
• Paula’s BiggerPockets Profile

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