668: 10 Units in 3 Years and Giving Back While Getting Ahead w/Zasha Smith

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Reaching financial freedom doesn’t mean grinding away for decades to finally retire. It may only take a couple of deals for you to create enough traction to quit your W2 or go full-time into investing. But what if you have a family and children to support? Surely there’s no way to hit quick financial independence with those responsibilities? If you’re still not persuaded, hear Zasha Smith’s story. Zasha was working sixty-hour weeks, sometimes every day of the week, as a civil engineer. She knew that continuing down this career path would lead to long days, even longer nights, and time away from her children. After a quick Google search on “how to get rich,” she stumbled upon real estate investing. After her first successful home flip and her first rental property purchase, she gave her resignation, and the rest is history. Now, she’s got a portfolio capable of providing her a financially free lifestyle, with ten units acquired in just three years. Mind you, this all happened during the events of 2020, meaning Zasha deserves even more credit! She’s currently using her wealth to give back to the community, with plans to build affordable housing throughout her home state of Hawaii. Her “give back, get ahead” mentality is surely working, and it’s something all real estate investors should try. In This Episode We Cover: When to quit your W2 and pursue full-time real estate investing Finding off-market deals and beating Brandon Turner in his own backyard Affordable housing and how you, the landlord, can help those who have limited resources Masterminds, real estate meetups, and other ways to quickly grow your investing network Real estate partnerships and red flags that every investor must pay attention to Giving back to the community and mentoring others who are just getting started And So Much More! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast Get Your Ticket for BPCon 2022 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's Youtube Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Find the Real Estate Professional You Need Why I’m Investing in Affordable Housing for the Long Haul 10 Challenges to Seriously Consider BEFORE Quitting Your Day Job Books Mentioned in the Show: Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat by David Greene Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Connect with Zasha: Zasha's BiggerPockets Zasha's Instagram Click here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-668 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Check out our sponsor page! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast.
0:02.4	Show 6, 6, 8.
0:04.8	I feel like educating people on what exactly it is we do as real estate investors is very important.
0:12.2	We're not out there buying deals for really low price points and then reselling it for really high without doing any work in between.
0:21.0	A lot of times people don't know we buy homes that are incomplete this stress.
0:25.8	They might have abandoned cars in the front, people might be in some sort of financial situation that they can't get out of.
0:32.5	And we're providing different solutions.
0:34.8	What is going on everyone? This is David Green your host of the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast.
0:39.4	Here today with my co-host Rob Abasolo.
0:41.9	If I sound a little different, you're not crazy.
0:44.9	Today I'm recording from Scottsdale so I don't have my normal audio and video equipment.
0:48.9	I'm here in the Casita of the house that Rob and I built because I freaking love this place and love being in the area.
0:55.4	So we're recording the podcast. I'm in Scottsdale.
0:57.7	Rob's at his normal place but we're going to have to keep this intro short because somebody has to go to Austin, Texas with his wife.
1:04.0	They're lazy and don't want to work.
1:05.7	That's true. Listen, listen, we have two children.
1:08.7	They're one and two and a half and we have never vacated.
1:13.1	I think that's how you can, we've never vacationed away from them ever.
1:16.1	This is going to be our first.
1:17.2	We're going to leave tonight.
1:18.6	Leave Thursday. We're going to be back on Friday.
1:20.6	We're scared.
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