Hey-oh, welcome to the $100 MBA show, helping you navigate the challenges of business.

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.

And today's episode is an extended interview episode with Dave Meyer.

And he'll be teaching you how to use real estate investing to retire early.

I'm so happy I got the chance to sit down with Dave from Bigger Pockets.

If you don't know Bigger Pockets, huge website and brand and podcasts and books and a whole bunch of other stuff that I'll talk about

a moment. But Dave Meyer is a real estate investing expert. And I wanted to sit with him because

many of us as entrepreneurs, including myself, want to diversify our wealth, our income. We don't

want to put all our eggs in one basket and just rely on our business for the money we make.

We might make a profit, a dividend at the end of the year.

What do we do with that dividend?

How do we actually put it into an investment that can continue to grow with us and give us some flexibility?

Give us some diversity of investment.

I was really sitting down and really grilling, Dave, because I really wanted to

learn to know what are the first steps to getting into this whole real estate investing.

Is that as simple as just getting a home loan, buying a house, and getting a tenant? What are the

gotchas? What are the things you got to look out for? What makes a good landlord? How do you

scale? Is rent vesting a good idea? We do you scale? Is rent investing a good idea?

We get a whole bunch of topics so that you can consciously invest using your dividend, using the

money that you make from your business, and grow your wealth faster. Let's get into it. Let's

get down to business. Today's conversation with Dave Meyer is a great one. Dave is a resident housing market analyst.

This is what he does. This is what he is an expert at, understanding how to get into this market

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