Inspiring interviews with today's top landlords.

This is the Rental Income podcast.

And now, Dan Lay.

Joining me on the show today is Jeannie Stosser.

Jeannie specializes in owning college rentals.

And the incredible thing about her business is she doesn't own just a handful of units.

She owns 1,500 college

rentals. That is just hard to even wrap my head around owning a portfolio that big. So I want

to learn more about the college rental business. But Jeannie, why don't we first just talk about

the size of your portfolio? When you first started, did you set out to own so many rentals, or did that just kind of happen?

Well, it actually evolved when we started or when I started.

And investing in multi-family housing, I had previously taken many, many, many, many classes from different

folks that I know very well and who do what they teach.

They don't sell tape.

And I have learned over the years or began over the years to figure out that if you

wanted to get where I wanted to go faster

than the single family route, which is what I started in and what I still do, with my company

and my family business, to some degree, we build some, we occasionally buy from, but I was extremely interested in the cash flow

and in the benefits that came from multifamily housing, whether it was a small set of units

or whether it was a larger set of units, but it took several years from the time I

started, probably 15 years before, I really made a leap from the duplexes and the single families

and the things that we had built and kept to be able to make that, you know, make that jump.

...