#420: How I'm Investing My Money Right Now
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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🎙️ Episode #420 – Most people think real estate investors are all-in on rentals. But the truth is, some of the smartest ones quietly invest in other places that protect their time and freedom when markets shift. I'm sharing the 4 other places I invest. If you're all-in on rentals, this might change how you think about your strategy.
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🎬 Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Why diversify beyond real estate
- (00:55) - My bet inside the stock market
- (06:11) - Keeping cash for liquidity and security
- (09:09) - Seller financing and bridge loans
- (13:01) - Purely speculative investments
- (14:55) - Supporting startups that matter to me
- (17:05) - Real estate as my primary investment focus
- (18:05) - For real estate investors who want a community
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| 0:00.0 | I love real estate, but I don't put all of my money there. Almost one third of it goes to other things on purpose. So in this episode, I'll tell you what those other things are, why I pick them, and how they help me build long-term freedom with my money. Quick heads up. None of this is financial advice. This is just me, a guy on YouTube sharing what I personally do right now so that hopefully is entertaining and educational. Your situation might be |
| 0:21.1 | totally different. So do your own research, talk to a pro, and make decisions that fit your own |
| 0:25.6 | plan. The first, the most significant place I put my money outside of real estate is in equities or |
| 0:31.0 | the stock market. And if you looked at it just by percentage, it's about 13% of my total wealth |
| 0:36.4 | is in stocks and equities. I like that number to be |
| 0:39.5 | even higher over time. So maybe 25% would be a number I'd be comfortable with. And you know, |
| 0:43.9 | compared to many people who are primarily equity investors first, that would be a pretty low |
| 0:48.4 | allocation. For those people, you might see people at 50%, 75%, even 100% stock. I'm a real estate investor first and foremost. |
| 0:55.3 | So kind of like people who started a startup business where Elon Musk started up or helped |
| 1:00.5 | start Tesla and Jeff Bezos started Amazon. I'm very heavily invested in my startup, which was real |
| 1:06.7 | estate investing. It was more entrepreneurial. And so I have a higher percentage. And I'm okay |
| 1:10.8 | with that. But I would like to have equities. And my reason being here, my philosophy behind |
| 1:15.2 | owning stocks is I really think there's just two asset classes that I really want to have most |
| 1:19.5 | of my money in. And that's stocks or businesses and real estate. Those are the two things that |
| 1:24.9 | produce earnings over the long run. I'll show you some other |
| 1:28.1 | investments that I have that are more speculative, that may be okay over time and own for different |
| 1:31.9 | reasons. But I want a bulk of my money in businesses that are producing things, selling things, |
| 1:36.6 | that are productive. And the cool thing about the approach I'm taking, or at least my philosophy, |
| 1:41.7 | why I think is cool, is that I try to just be diversified over the entire stock market. So instead of trying to pick winners and saying, |
| 1:49.1 | this stock's going to be better than this one and trying to get in at certain times, I'm just |
| 1:52.5 | long on the stock market. And I try to be as broadly diversified as I can. In my case, I have |
| 1:58.4 | two index funds. I have VTI, which is an exchange traded fund by Vanguard, |
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