When I'm not hosting this podcast, I am writing books, but it is really hard for me to write when I'm at home,

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I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab.

There is this financial fairy tale you've probably heard you find a fixture

rapper you kiss a frog so to speak you flip the house make six or seven figures and

happily ever after Whitney Elkins Hutten is here to tell you it doesn't always

happen like that and she knows this personally. She lived the ugly step sister

version of this until she learned how to do it for real. Now Whitney is a

successful real estate investor. She's partnered in over

800 million dollars of real estate deals. She's experienced in flipping residential

real estate and today she shares what she learned to turn this financial fairy tale into a reality.

I want to go back and talk about your early real estate investing days.

I know you hit a home run with your first rental property which is really rare we should

like underscore that for people who are just getting in the game can you tell us

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