From Bay Area Burnout to Monthly Cashflow: How One Mom Cracked the Out-of-State Investing Code

Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.

Business:investing, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To, Investing, Business

4.8 • 953 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Click Here for the Show Notes In this episode, Melissa sits down with a first-time real estate investor who took the leap into purchasing her very first long-term rental property. She shares how her interest in real estate began nearly a decade ago while living in the Bay Area—an environment where investing felt out of reach due to the high cost of living. Drawn to the tangible nature of property ownership and the hands-on process of buying her first home, she found herself captivated by real estate in a way the stock market never quite inspired. Tune in to hear her journey from curiosity to action, the lessons she’s learned along the way, and how she’s turning her passion for real estate into a path toward financial freedom. 🎧 Don’t miss this inspiring conversation! Subscribe to the podcast, leave a review, and share this episode with anyone thinking about starting their own real estate journey—it might be the motivation they need to take that first step. -------------------------------- Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. SUBSCRIBE on iTunes If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to TBT: Ask Marco - Common Questions About Real Estate Investing Our team of Investment Counselors has much more inventory available than what you see on our website. Contact us today for more deals. -------------------------------------------------------- #LearningRealEstate #AskMarco #PassiveRealEstateInvesting #Turnkeyproperties #RealEstatePodcast #Investment #investors #RealEstateInvestors #RentalProperties #TurnkeyProperties #NoradaRealEstateInvestments

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0:00.0	Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.
0:09.7	And now, here's your host, Marco Santorelli.
0:13.3	Hey, everyone, and welcome to passive real estate investing.
0:17.1	I'm Melissa Nash, your guest host, jumping in for now. Let's dive in. I am so excited to have you here today and share your inspiring journey to the world of real estate investing. I know you've recently taken a pretty big step, purchasing your first long-term rental property. And I'm really eager to hear all about it.
0:39.1	So before we dive into your real estate journey, could you tell our listeners a little bit about
0:45.2	yourself, maybe your background, what you do for a living, or anything else interesting that
0:51.1	you'd like to share? Sure. Yeah. Thanks, Melissa. Thanks for having me.
0:56.6	Yeah, I mean, I let's see, I got probably interested in investing in real estate maybe
1:02.7	10 years ago or so. At the time, I was living in the Bay Area and, you know, obviously very expensive there.
1:12.7	So I didn't have a lot of excess cash that I could invest in anything, honestly.
1:18.4	But I'm trying to remember why real estate originally caught my eye.
1:22.8	I mean, it was probably around the time that we purchased our first home, me and my now ex-husband.
1:28.3	And, you know, I just really thought the process was interesting, and there's something about just the tangibility of real estate that I really appreciated.
1:36.3	I always kind of felt like the stock market was a little bit of a black box that I didn't understand.
1:41.3	And, you know, maybe was never going to have enough time to really
1:46.3	get to a good research point with that to feel really confident in that space. So I think maybe
1:52.3	buying our first home was maybe one of the things that got me really interested in it. And so, yeah,
1:57.0	at the time I took actually a Robert Kiyosaki seminar, which if you've heard of him, he does the rich dad, poor dad stuff.
2:04.6	And so I went to that one day and just got even more energized and kind of started down the path to get there.
2:10.8	So a little more about myself.
2:12.6	So I actually right now, I live up in the Lake Tahoe area.
2:16.5	I have a 13-year-old daughter, and yeah, I work in marketing for a wine company.
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