This is the Marriage Kids and Money podcast with Andy Hill session number 21.

This show is dedicated to helping you strengthen your your family tree, and live financially free.

Thanks for being here today, everyone.

Before we jump into the show today, I wanted to let you all know that this week,

I'm going to be sending out a free guide for members of the marriage, kids, and money community

on how to save $1,000 without leaving your home.

I'm calling it the three steps to 1K challenge.

If you want in on this money-saving guide, please go to

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Okay, back to the show.

Lately, the shows and interviews I've been doing have been focused on decreasing your expenses

and increasing your income. When we focus on these two areas, it'll allow us to become

experts in increasing our net worth, our passive income, and our opportunities for financial

independence. Today, we're diving into

increasing your income through real estate. I had a chance to speak with an expert

real estate investor named Mark Ferguson the other day. Mark currently owns 14 rental

properties that provide him with $7,000 per month in passive income. He's also spent the

last decade and a half flipping over 120 houses and selling over 1,000 homes as a real estate agent.

He now manages a team of 10 that focus on growing and maintaining the overall real estate portfolio.

Now, all of those impressive numbers may sound intimidating, but when Mark started out, he had just

one house of very tight income, and he made a lot of mistakes. That's how we learn. That's the

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