725: Leaving Pro Sports and a Violent Past to Forge Financial Freedom from SCRATCH w/Suni Rao

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

To invest in real estate, you need to have a strong why. Without it, you won’t get far, and the first fumble that comes your way may be your last. That’s why having a solid reason behind your real estate investing can keep you going while the rest give up. And this is precisely what Suni Rao’s success is built on as a former pro tennis player turned financial analyst and now ten-unit real estate investor. You may think you know her story already since she was a former pro, but you’d probably be wrong. Suni was raised in a household of domestic violence. As a child, she knew that if she only had enough money, she could escape and finally be free of the abuse. So when the opportunity came for her to play pro tennis at a young age, she took the chance without ever looking back. This dream continued until her early twenties, when she was physically forced to give up her goal of winning the world’s biggest tournaments. She took a hard pivot, eventually leading her to climb the corporate ladder, only to have some crushing feedback knock her off. However, none of this stopped Suni from building the life she wanted in the background. After one property came another, and another, and another. Now, with ten units to her name, she’s making massive strides toward financial freedom and is here to tell you exactly how you can do the same. In This Episode We Cover Financial insecurity and how to regain your freedom through real estate investing House hacking and using it as a stepping stone to invest in bigger, better properties Leaving the corporate ladder behind to build your own wealth without an employer Sports lessons of resilience that any real estate investor can relate to How to stop limiting beliefs and doubts from derailing your dreams Why property class matters and how buying in better neighborhoods will make you more How to “force appreciation” and gain massive equity on your properties And So Much More! Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-725 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 Show, 725.
0:04.4	It was definitely a different life, but I think that I had planned for myself and having
0:09.0	being feeling like I had to leave it in order to uphold my own personal value system,
0:16.4	which is to not settle for mediocrity because I hit a point where my body would not...
0:22.3	It was just, it was breaking down and I didn't have any money, I didn't have any family,
0:26.5	I didn't have any support, and I didn't know what I was going to do with my life.
0:29.8	Let's go on everyone. This is David Green, your host of the Bigger Pockets Podcast,
0:33.4	here today with my co-host Rob Abisolo with a hilarious, entertaining,
0:39.5	and valuable podcast where we get into a really cool story and some really cool information
0:45.2	that will help you grow your own portfolio. Today, Rob and I interview Sunny Rao,
0:50.6	a former Olympian, turned real estate investor who has an amazing story you're going to love.
0:55.6	Rob, what were some of your favorite parts of today's show? This is a very, very, very good story
1:00.8	in the world of resilience. Like hearing Sunny's story basically of her upbringing to becoming an
1:07.0	Olympian, which was really crazy because I've never met anyone that was as good at tennis as me,
1:12.0	so this was very inspiring just in that alone. But also, she just, she took control of her life after
1:18.4	she went into her professional world where she got feedback from one of her bosses and
1:24.0	boss didn't give her great feedback. And from that moment, she said, all right, I'm taking control
1:27.8	of my financial situation and she went all in into real estate and has developed a really,
1:32.0	really amazing portfolio. And you just hear about resilience over and over and over again,
1:36.7	because she's really gone through some stuff. You know what I mean? I'm excited to dive into that
1:40.1	because I, a lot of one of a kind scenarios that came up today, I think. Yeah, in today's episode,
1:45.7	tennis meets beer pong as Rob tries to relate with his own athletic career with our guest,
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