From Burnt Out Nurse to Real Estate Investor – How She Did It!
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to leave a stable career and jump into real estate investing full-time? In this episode of the Rich Dad Real Estate Show, host Jaren Sustar sits down with Erica Costanzo, a former nurse and mother of four, who made the bold leap into real estate—and hasn’t looked back. Erica shares her journey from burnout in the medical field to becoming a successful real estate investor through house hacking, flips, and building a rental portfolio.
Her story is not just inspiring, but full of practical advice for anyone looking to break into the real estate game, especially if you’re juggling family and career responsibilities. Erica explains how she replaced her nursing income with fix-and-flips and dives into the strategies that helped her scale quickly—like leveraging other people’s money and focusing on smart, calculated risks.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in a job that drains you, Erica’s story will show you that there’s another way. Tune in to hear how she went from house hacking to pulling in six figures on her flips, all while creating the life she wanted for her family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rich Dad Real Estate Show where we talk about the good news and bad news. |
| 0:04.0 | A real estate hosted by yours, truly Jaron Sustar. |
| 0:06.8 | If you haven't already, go down to the show notes and grab my free ebook, |
| 0:11.3 | How to Buy Your First Investment Property. |
| 0:14.1 | It's going to walk you through all the steps you need to get started buying real estate. |
| 0:18.7 | Today, we have the honor of having Erica Costanzo join us. I've known |
| 0:22.5 | Erica for a really long time, started coaching her right when she got into real estate, and now |
| 0:26.9 | she's a rock star and she coaches others. She's a mama for previous registered nurse, and now she's |
| 0:32.3 | a full-time real estate investor. So Erica, welcome to the show. I'm super excited for the listeners to get to |
| 0:39.1 | hear your story today. Thank you. Yeah, I'm excited as well. Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. So I want to open the floor to you because your story is pretty |
| 0:47.2 | powerful and let you tell folks just where you started and how you've got to where you are today, |
| 0:54.1 | which is a very powerful real |
| 0:55.7 | estate investor who makes a lot of money doing fix and flips and is starting to add properties |
| 1:00.1 | to your portfolio as well. Yeah. So as you mentioned, I was previously a registered nurse. So I went |
| 1:06.6 | to college for my bachelor's in nursing. I very quickly began my career after that. I graduated |
| 1:12.3 | college. I already had two kids. So when I started my career as a nurse, I had two small children, |
| 1:17.9 | and I very quickly realized that my work life balance was very thrown off, working long hours as a |
| 1:23.7 | nurse, having to work weekends and holidays and having to certain requirements really, like, |
| 1:28.9 | hurt when I wanted to just stay home and raise my kids. I mean, that was always my goal all |
| 1:32.8 | long and I thought I would have that flexibility, but I really didn't. So with nursing, |
| 1:38.2 | I was very, very burnout very quickly and I just kind of knew there had to be another way. I |
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