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. And now, here's your host, Marco

Santorelli. Hey, everyone, and welcome to passive real estate investing. I'm Melissa Nash, your guest

host jumping in for now. Let's dive in.

Picture this. You're 12 years old sitting around the kitchen table on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

The monopoly board is spread out in front of you and you've got that satisfying stack of

colorful money in your hands. Your sister just landed on boardwalk again,

and she's practically broke from paying rent to your dad who somehow owns half of the board.

Sound familiar? If you grew up before iPads ruled the world, chances are you spent countless hours locked in epic monopoly

battles with family or friends.

But here's what I realized recently that completely blew my mind.

Most of us learned the wrong lessons from that game.

And worse, we're still making the same mistake with our real money

today. How many of you remember your monopoly strategy as a kid? I bet most of you were like me,

obsessed with hoarding cash. I'd sit there with my neat little piles of 500s and hundreds, feeling rich and secure.

Every roll of the dice felt like a gamble because landing on someone else's property

met watching my precious cash pile shrink.

But then there was always that one player.

Maybe it was your dad, your older brother, or that annoying strategic friend who took a completely

different approach.

While you were there clutching your cash, they were spending every dollar they saved on

properties.

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