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Jake and Gino Real Estate Entrepreneurs

Be The Go Giver w/ Darren Light

Jake and Gino Real Estate Entrepreneurs

Jake & Gino

Buyingapartmentbuildings, Investingsmart, Multifamilyrealestateinvesting, Business, Smartinvesting, Jakeandgino, Apartmentinvesting, Investing, Commercialrealestateinvesting, Makingmoney, Buyingrealestate, Realestateinvestment, Wheelbarrowprofits, Realestateinvesting, Cashflow

5831 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Gino is with Darren Light, an active member of the Jake & Gino Multifamily community, both as a student and Mentor. He is with the community since Multifamily Mastery 1 conference. Today, he talks with Gino about his transformation from W2 to becoming a Mentor with the community. He shares his experience about how he started with the partnership, got the first deal and how he is still growing his portfolio by investing in RV parks. Darren Light is a mechanical engineer by trade and started investing in real estate in 2016. In April of 2017 he left his corporate job to pursue real estate full time. His portfolio consists of single-family rentals in Knoxville, TN, as well as over 100 units in central and eastern Tennessee with a combined market value of over three $3,000,000. Darren has successfully completed eight flips and has multiple active projects in Knoxville and the Tri-Cities area. Key Insights: 00:00 Introduction 02:57 Mindset shift at MM1 event 06:29 'Why' of getting into multifamily 08:27 Learnings from the first deal 11:48 Reasons to get into RV parks 14:28 Getting into coaching 19:37 Becoming a better version of yourself 21:47 Wrap-up To know more about Darren’s initiatives, visit https://realwealth.solutions/ If you are ready for a breakthrough in your life ⚡ MULTIFAMILY MASTERY 5 is for you! Attend Jake & Gino's flagship annual conference with 1,000+ like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs and investors! 💪 Learn more: https://jakeandgino.com/mm5 📌 Use our free Calculators to figure out key metrics such as IRR on an investment deal; Mortgage finance; ROI; Refinance numbers; and much more 💰 https://jakeandgino.com/realestatecalculators/ About Jake & Gino Jake & Gino are multifamily investors, operators, and mentors who have created a vertically integrated real estate company. They control over $250M in assets under management. They have created the Jake & Gino Premier Multifamily Community to teach others a simple three-step framework for investing in multifamily real estate. Subscribe to this channel: https://ytube.io/3McA Sign up for free training: https://jakeandgino.mykajabi.com/freetraining The resources you need to succeed at every level of apartment investing: https://jakeandgino.com/resources/ Apply for Mentorship: https://jakeandgino.com/apply/ #realestate #multifamilyrealestate #multifamilyinvesting #investing #apartmentinvesting Jake & Gino Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jakeandgino/ Jake & Gino Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeandGino Jake & Gino Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jake-and-gino-llc/ Jake & Gino Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakeandgino/ More ways to engage with the Jake & Gino Investor Community: MM5: https://jakeandgino.com/mm5/ Rand Cares: https://jakeandgino.com/randcares/ The 100 Year Real Estate Investor: https://www.dualassetstrategy.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Movers and Shakers podcast. My name is Gino Barbarro, co-founder of Jake and Gino,

0:29.1

multifamily investor, educator, father, and mentor. With me today is a very special guest,

0:34.9

ladies and gentlemen, Darren Light. He's a mechanical engineer by trade.

0:38.8

He quickly realized that his W-2 would not support the current and retirement lifestyle he wanted.

0:44.3

Darren attended his first Jake and Gino event back in 2017. He was at MM1, everybody, and has since

0:51.1

become one of our outstanding coaches, transacted 700 doors, gone full cycle on three assets,

0:57.5

and now he and his partners are investing in RV parks. Welcome to the show, Mr. D. Light,

1:04.0

Darren Light. How you doing, brother? Hey, Dino. Always pleasure catching up with you and appreciate

1:10.2

you having me on a second time.

1:12.0

We'll see where this goes.

1:13.4

Well, let's start out.

1:14.9

Five years ago, if I had said to you at MM1, Darren, in five years, you're going to be living the dream.

1:21.3

You're going to be coaching with me.

1:23.2

You're going to be interacting with students coming to boot camps over 700 units transacted on doing

1:29.7

syndications doing joint partnerships joint ventures RV parks and creating the life that you

1:38.5

want and that's going to happen within five years would you have thought that I was

1:42.1

smoking a little bonja there but what would you thought I thought you're smoking a little something and taking a

1:48.0

little something that we don't even know about. Yeah, absolutely. But it goes by so fast.

1:54.2

And if you remember that it's for the long haul, and I'm still on a trajectory of going to where i want to be financially but i'm on my

2:04.5

way still you know work from where i want currently i have an rv go here work there RV

2:12.1

park's multi-family running a company with gregg and kim scully uh real well solutions

2:18.0

no order never told you that this would be where I am now.

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