Hey, everybody. Welcome back to this week's segment of the No Limit Minutes. Today, we're

going to talk pretty quickly, and then tentatively, really going to talk about how the pathway,

excuse me, the pathway to success is not stop the straight and narrow. It's not something

that's going to be super simple, super easy. And I'm not saying that to tell you what

you don't already know, I'm saying that to give a little insight into my path into some

of the deals that we did, how they went, and what that looked like. And I'm going to try

to give you a lot of high level stuff. Don't spend too much time here with us today, being

in this No Limit Minutes, but you guys know, hi, I'm sometimes, sometimes I just like

to give away all the information, which tends to end up entertaining you. But jumping in,

if any of you know anything about my story, you know, the very first deal we ever did

was a four-plex. About the four-plex, my wife and I, we're really excited about it. The

intent was basically the house hacket, which for those of you who don't know what that means.

It's renting all three of the units, or three out of the four, and actually living in

the four, thereby living rent-free. And then, of course, it's all being into make money.

Not only live-free, but actually make some additional capital to grow my own personal

capital stack, and eventually get to the point where I can leap to the next level, grow

a lot faster. Well, pretty much any and everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. We ended

up losing about $60,000 on that deal. And you can imagine how defeating that must have

been coming off the cost of losing that much money and yet still trying to be dedicated

and focused on seeing it through. Seeing this whole journey through to ultimate freedom,

the end goal of what we were striving for by investing in real estate in the first place.

So a lesson you can learn if nothing else from that story is basically, don't let your

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