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474: How this Busy Mom of Three Bought $75M of Real Estate w/ Pili Yarusi

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.816.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Letting go of something successful isn’t easy, but what if you know it’s costing you your dreams? Today we talk to mother, real estate agent, and massive multifamily investor, Pili Yarusi, about doing what it takes to stay focused, engaged, and on top of your life. Pili moved out to New York from Hawaii with dreams of becoming a star in theater but ended up working as a bartender. Lucky for her, bartending is where she met her husband and future business partner. Together, they started flipping houses, which taught her not only to systematize investments but also to use her creativity in an efficient way. She and her husband later expanded into wholesaling. Pili knew something was missing and she wanted to focus more on growing a multifamily portfolio. With help from some mentors, she realized that the main thing holding her back was her current (and very successful) flipping and wholesaling business. She closed both businesses, got herself systematized, and went head first into multifamily. Now this homeschool teacher/mom is sitting on $75,000,000 in real estate, totaling in at 850 units. No small number by ANY means! She gives some incredible advice on what new investors need to do before they can reach their goals of owning big portfolios. In This Episode We Cover: Limiting your creativity (in a good way) when doing flips and rehabs The 4-3-2-1 principle and waking up with A.L.O.H.A Identifying as the person you want to become, and letting go of less useful identities The right (and the wrong) way to train employees and build a team 506b vs 506c syndications, plus what to know if you want to start one And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums Clubhouse BiggerPockets Podcast 325: From Major Business Failure to Buying 20 Houses a Month With Aaron Amuchastegui Real Estate Rockstars Podcast InvestNext  Check the full show notes here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show474 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the bigger pockets podcast show 474.

0:04.0

I mean, this is where the creativity comes when it comes to the numbers.

0:06.8

Like, what can you do to this building that nobody else can do,

0:10.9

that nobody else has found?

0:12.9

Our underwriters will underwrite the deal,

0:15.4

and then Jason, I will go and dig into the building,

0:18.3

dig into the actual, like, how the building's been run,

0:21.2

how, where the deficiencies are, how we can bring it up.

0:25.3

Like, that's where the creativity lies.

0:27.5

You're listening to bigger pockets radio,

0:30.1

simplifying real estate for investors large and small.

0:33.5

If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing,

0:36.5

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0:39.7

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0:42.6

who have benefited from bigger pockets.com.

0:45.6

You're home for real estate investing online.

0:48.8

What's going on everyone? It's Brandon Turner, host of the Bigger Pockets Podcast.

0:52.1

Here with my co-host, Mr. David Lieutenant, left tenant,

0:58.2

how do you say left tenant or lieutenant?

0:59.8

Green. What's up, man?

1:01.5

I think left tenant was how they set it originally in Old England.

1:04.6

It's turned into lieutenant.

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