Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast. I'm Ken McRoy and I'm here to give you creative ideas

on how you can get started or continue your journey in real estate. Each week we will bring you

inspiring and informative conversations with successful people and their path to obtaining or

investing in real estate. Enjoy the episode.

Hey, everybody.

It's Ken McRoe here.

I'm here with my good friend David DeMers.

Hey, David.

Hey, Ken.

How are you guys are going to get to know, David?

So the reason why I wanted David on the podcast was a couple reasons.

One, he helped me write this book, The ABCs of Buying Rental Property,

which is going to be coming out in the summer of this year. But more importantly, I'll let

David go into his background a little bit. So David can write. And as you guys know,

I try, but I'm not as good as David. So David helped me significantly on this book and is a

big reason as to why you guys are going to enjoy it. So what I wanted to honor you for that,

because I think you just did a great job on this.

But really, the reason why I wanted him on guys is because when he and I met, he didn't own

any rental property. No, I didn't. In fact, I owned my own house and I owned it outright. And I had achieved what I thought was the

American dream and that is to get your mortgage paid off. Right. So anyway, more on that.

You guys are going to love the story because what he did, which will blow your mind, was he bought

some rental properties and he's now making more money than he ever thought just

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