Welcome to the investing in real estate show. I'm Clayton Morris, the founder of

Morris Invest, long time real estate investor, and on this show our goal is to provide you with

financial intelligence to help you build and maintain a fantastic real estate

portfolio our goal is to educate you so you can become a more intelligent real estate investor, navigating all of these laws and crazy things that are changing constantly.

We have a great guest on the show today. His name is Edward O'Daniel. He's a real estate investor. He's a broker, he's a coach, and he's a disabled army veteran,

and his website, if you're interested,

you want to check out, is veteran landlord.com,

where landlords come to learn.

And today on the show, we're going to talk with Edward about what it is like to be a landlord

Should you choose to actually manage properties yourself? That's a question. I get an awful lot

Edward Welcome to the show my friend.

Awesome man I am so pumped to be here I can't tell you how much stuff I've listened to

you just over the years on YouTube and so forth I I'm excited to be here with you.

Well, the pleasure is all mine and thank you of course for your service to our country as well.

I really appreciate that and we all of our viewers do as well. Give our audience a little background.

We're going to talk Landlord little background. We're going to talk

Landlording here and we're going to talk about eviction moratoriums that are

obviously in the news and and what it's like to manage properties, but just give

our audience a little background here. How did you how did you get into real estate investing?

Well sure well I started back in 2005 so that was sort of when I first bought my

I was still working at a W-2 job so I had a good paying job and wanted to take some of our extra money and investment in real estate.

Right now at the time I was excited to do it but I honestly tell you I didn't really know what I was doing. I didn't have any

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