What's up, beautiful people? Welcome back to another episode of the Action Academy podcast,

the show that helps you get rich, happy, successful, and free with a capital F in your life

and business. So, you guys read the title of today's podcast episode and probably thinking,

what the hell, Brian? What are you doing? What are you on? What is going on? Man, you run a real

estate podcast and you're selling

your real estate. What? I know, I know. I know. So today what we're doing is I'm sharing my

logical reasoning behind selling my real estate, that I'm going to share my emotional reasoning

behind selling my real estate and get into what's next and what this next season of life holds for me,

for you, for us together as an Action Academy family. The reason I'm recording this podcast episode today

is I sent up my decision making in a newsletter last Thursday, which you guys should subscribe to

if you don't already. And a lot of people email me back and said that my story helped them

a lot and it helped

enforce some decision making for them. And it helped them move on to a new season of their

life. So hopefully this podcast episode has a similar effect. So let's begin. I have four units in

the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and their co-living properties. So they pert out about

$3,400 of cash flow when they're fully

rented out. And I house had both of these properties. So I put 3% down on the first and 5% down

on the second one. And I lived in a owner occupied them for over a year. The first one I bought in

2019, the second one I bought in 2020. And so they were able to appreciate like freaking crazy through the COVID boom.

And as all you guys know, when you house hack, you're living for free. So not only was I making that

cash flow, but I didn't have to pay rent. I didn't have to pay a mortgage. So my expenses were

essentially non-existent. And this is what helped me get out of my corporate job and go

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