So you've got a full-time job, maybe a family, and real estate investing sounds amazing.

But where do you get the time to do it right?

My guest today, Casey Francini is proof that you don't have to quit your job or go big to build wealth with real estate.

She's been a small and mighty investor for over 10 years and owns nine rental properties.

And she's created something called the cake method, a simple low-risk recipe to build rental income while also fitting it into your life.

Welcome to the podcast, Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson. I'm your host, Chad Carson. You can also

call me Coach Carson. And on this show, I teach you how to use real estate investing to achieve financial freedom so you can spend your time doing more of what

matters. Now let's get to my conversation with Casey Francini. So Casey, I want to try to paint a

picture. Tell me if you agree with this. The people who are listening to this, many of them are

going to be, I'm working a full-time job. I'm super busy. I get home at the end of the day. Maybe I have a family I got to help take care of. Maybe, you know, there's caregiving. I also have activities. The theme is like, I want to do real estate, but I am super, super busy. Like time is tight. Money is tight. And you're also afraid of making a mistake. So that's the predicament. A lot of real estate investors who want to get in this game. That's where they are. And I thought it would be perfect segue, because you've been at the same place. You know, you've had that position of being there. Can you tell a little bit about your story and how you actually got into real estate investing and kind of had that similar situation in your own life? Sure. So, I mean, that's a really good question. I think a lot of people want to invest in real estate, ideally because they want passive income. They don't want to be, you know, a slave to the man and work every single day, 40, 50, 60 hours a week for the rest of their life as the retirement age climbs higher and higher and higher. So people are looking for a way out, alternative sources of income, starting a site, hustle

something like that.

And if you're interested in all in real estate, you're going to see real estate inundated

on your social media feed and it sparks ideas.

Well, for me, I didn't get any of that because I started in real estate when Facebook was a baby. And, you know, the Facebook post would say, how are you feeling today? And you would put in an emoji. I feel happy. Do you remember that? I feel sad. So I didn't get what everyone gets right now with all the options for real estate. It's so overwhelming. But when I started out, it was, oh my gosh, 18 years ago or so.

I mean, a long time ago, I lived in California. I went to school. I did all the right things.

I got my college degree. And I remember sitting in my car driving to, it was in Orange County.

I lived in Orange County, actually Inlet Empire at the time. And I would drive, I've got an hour and a half to work to Newport Beach. And I would have to wake up in the dark, drive in traffic, leave, drive home an hour and a half in traffic, get home in the dark. Imagine leaving the dark, get home in the dark. And I said, is this what I worked my entire life for? Like,

I went to school. I got good grades. I was in leadership. I was in sorority. And I did all these

positions and I worked really hard so that I could leave in the dark and come home in the dark

for the rest of my life. Like it gives me the chills. It was just such an eye-opening experience.

And that job lasted three months, Chad, seriously. That was the only real job I ever had. That was going to give me benefits. A three-month, three-month job. And I said, okay, well, that's stupid. So what am I going to do with my life? I said, well, I want to do real estate. My dad always said, Casey, you have to, you know, don't go with the herd, follow a different path. And he would use the example of the freeway.

If everyone, I want to do real estate. My dad always said, Casey, you have to, you know, don't go with the herd, follow a different path. And he would use the example of the freeway. If anyone's been to California on the freeway, you see a stopped lane of traffic going in one direction towards L.A. or whatever the big city is. You say, do you see all those cars going that direction? Like, yeah, Dad, I see. It's bumper to bumper,

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