What if I told you that $4,000 and one property could change your entire life?

DeAndre McDonald went from working multiple jobs with zero free time to achieving financial independence and leaving her W2 in just four years.

Today she's breaking down exactly how she did it and why the strategy she used is still wide open for anyone willing to take action.

Hello, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen,

and with me as always is my has more than one rental co-host, Scott Trench.

Thanks, Minnie, great to be here, and I know that you and I both have more than one rental co-host, Scott Trench. Thanks. It's been great to be here.

And I know that you and I both have more than one tenant, multiple tenants,

to personal finance.

All right.

We are so excited to be joined by DeAndra, a teacher turned full-time real estate investor.

We're going to be breaking it down today in terms of just how she broke out of that position and built a empire that she runs today. DeAndra, welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. Thank you so much.

I'm really excited to talk with you guys in particular because I don't think early retirement

is talked about enough sometimes with the Bigger Pockets kind of schema, neighborhood. I think it's a talked about enough, sometimes with the bigger pockets kind of

schema, neighborhood. I think it's a lot about getting that next property, that first one.

And that's great. That's great. But specifically the, but if you don't want to keep working,

if you don't want to keep scaling, how do we get there? How do you sustain it? Very, very excited.

So you're the first person to

accuse us of not talking enough about really on that. So we're looking for, we're looking forward

to chatting about that. So I know that real estate has been a big driver, sneak peek. I know that you

started out from a really tough situation. But today, we want to dive less into the real estate

specific journey. We do want to hear about that. But more into where do this journey start? Where is your financial

situation like when you, in your words, in your view, began this journey to building wealth?

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