Hey, dealmakers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom with real estate.

Let's do this.

So in today's episode, we're hanging out with investor Andrew Freed, who left his job last year.

He was basically from house hacking into a larger multifamily portfolio, and he's doing it in

Massachusetts in the Boston area, and that's significant because it's a very pro-tenant area.

Normally we advise people not to invest in those areas because it's very difficult to evict,

and he's kind of made it a specialty.

And like so many people, he started with a he-lock buying a condo, then he house-hacked it, and then it kind of made it a specialty. And like so many people, he started with a he lock buying a

condo, then he house hacked it, and then it kind of grew from there. And so we came to the

realization that it's going to take too long to scale with these small residential condos,

rentals, and even house hacks as well. And so he kind of talks about that journey. And might

just shave off

several years of your own journey because it's like so many people, they start with a certain

strategy to go rental or flips or short-term rentals and it just takes too long. It's too much work

to get there. And so we kind of walk through that journey and how he came to the conclusion that

larger multis is the way to go. So let's get into it with Andrew Freed.

Andrew, welcome to the show today. I'm excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Well, I'm excited to get in your story because you quit your W-2 last year. And gosh, we want to know how to do that because that's all that's what we want to know. Well, how do we use real estate to get out of whatever we're doing, give us options?

But, but let's rewind the the clock a little bit here what when did you start getting into real estate when was that

what was going on in your in your life so getting into real estate all started with an epiphany

and the epiphany i had was during COVID when I read rich dad, poor dad, you know, when I came and I came to the realization that, you know, maybe the American dream wasn't what it's all cracked up to be. You know, prior to that, you know, I got a good education. I got a bachelor's. I got a master's. I got a job at a prestigious institution, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I was a certified project manager. I had a nice winky condo in the city. Like I did it all. I made it. I followed the formula. But at the end of the day, like I really felt empty when I came home for work. I really felt like I had so much that I could do, like that I was still left on the table. Right. And when I read Rich Dad Poor Dad, that really, you know, I really came to the realization like, you know, that, you know, maybe there's something to this real estate thing. And that's when I decided to look at my net worth. And at that point, my net worth was $250,000. $200,000 came from this one-bedroom condo I

completely forgot about. It literally took me 10 years to save a $50,000. And that was really kind of a

light bulb went off my head. It's like, maybe there's something to this real estate thing.

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