51:Intro to Investments

Hustle Humbly Podcast

Alissa Jenkins & Katy Caldwell

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

**Episode 51: Intro to Investing in Real Estate: A Beginner's Guide**

In this episode, Katy and Alyssa break down how agents can become their own best clients and start building real estate wealth — one smart investment at a time. This isn't about flipping or over-leveraging. It's about slow, steady, sustainable growth with rentals that pay for themselves.

Alyssa shares how she built a portfolio of four rental properties by saving for 20% down payments, self-managing the homes, and using the rent to pay off mortgages faster. If you've been intimidated by investing, this intro will help you see how realistic and rewarding it can be — especially if you're disciplined and intentional.

Here's what we cover:
- Why most agents overlook their own retirement planning
- What makes real estate such a strong long-term investment
- The pros (and cons) of managing rentals yourself
- Setting up rental systems to eliminate stress and increase cash flow
- Tips for choosing a property you actually like (not just what's cheap)

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0:00.0	Hi y'all. Welcome to Hustle Humbly. It's Alyssa and Katie and we are two top producing realtors in the Baton Rouge market.
0:05.7	We work for two different companies where we should be competitors, but we have chosen community over competition.
0:10.7	The goal of our podcast is to encourage you to find your own way in business.
0:14.4	So stop comparing yourself and start embracing your strengths.
0:18.5	Hello friends. It's Katie and Alyssa. And we're here for episode number 51,
0:24.8	the intro to investments, right? Yeah, I think that's fair because that's all I can really speak to.
0:30.8	Okay. No, I want to really speak to. Okay, fine. Well, we'll talk about the intro to investments.
0:36.8	Okay. Okay, very good. So why don't you start us off since
0:41.1	you are an investor? So we're not just coming at this from the perspective of an agent. We're going to
0:47.3	hear your perspective as an actual real estate investor. Well, I know that there are not a lot of realtors
0:53.8	that have planned or even think about retirement.
0:57.0	Retirement seems like something that is mythical and is super far away.
1:02.2	And if you have parents that are still working, like my goal is to not be working one day.
1:09.0	Do you have an age by which you hope to achieve that? I don't know,
1:12.1	because I do enjoy work. And I do think that I'll probably work longer than I have to just because I enjoy it.
1:19.4	And I enjoy being productive. But I just want to have the option to scale back when I'm ready and travel and whenever Haven has kids
1:31.6	one day, you know, be able to be there. But it's like seems so, I don't know, I don't know why
1:40.5	I'm so in tune with it. Like I think about it all the time. Really? I do. Like I always think
1:46.1	about like long term financially. Are we saving? Are we putting money where we're supposed to?
1:53.7	Like we can't work forever, you know? And I don't know, I don't know why I think that way. Like,
1:58.5	even in my 20s, I always thought about it. And when I
2:02.7	started making money in real estate, it's like you think you're making a lot of money until you
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