REI063: Don't Rely on Just Your W2 w/ Jay Helms
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.9 | On today's show, I talk with Jay Helms, founder of W2 Capitalist, an online community and platform |
| 0:09.1 | that helps parents build multiple streams of income and achieve financial freedom through |
| 0:14.1 | real estate investing. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode, we discuss his real estate journey, how he and his wife started investing and were |
| 0:22.6 | able to grow their net worth by 10x, increased their annual income by 60% with their rental |
| 0:28.4 | properties. And on May 1st, 2020, the day Jay got the pink slip at 41 years old, how he was |
| 0:36.6 | able to walk away from corporate America |
| 0:38.2 | and his six-figure income without having to worry about how they would provide for their |
| 0:43.0 | growing family. We discussed the strategies he used, such as LLCs, SDIRAs, tax deed auction properties, |
| 0:51.8 | syndications, and much, much more. So without further delay, let's get |
| 0:57.1 | right into this week's episode with Jay Helms. |
| 1:03.8 | You're listening to Real Estate Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, |
| 1:09.2 | Robert Leonard interviews successful investors from |
| 1:12.4 | various real estate investing niches to help educate you on your real estate investing journey. |
| 1:25.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Real Estate 101 podcast. As always, I'm your host, Robert |
| 1:30.9 | Leonard. And with me today, I have Jay Helms. Welcome to the show, Jay. Thank you for having me, |
| 1:35.8 | Robert. I am glad to be here. I'm excited to be here. Tell us a bit about yourself. How'd you |
| 1:41.4 | get to where you are today? And why'd you choose real estate? Really, what propelled me into real estate investing, like a lot of folks, you know, |
| 1:49.3 | they read the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. When I discovered that book, we were six months pregnant |
| 1:54.4 | with our first child. And I had gone through my W-2 job, the company that I was a principal at |
| 1:59.6 | for 10 years, we were going through an acquisition. And by no stretch of the imagination was that acquisition going smoothly. Customers were leaving. Since I was a principal, I was part of the transition team. When customers were leaving, over management of the new company, it was like, hey, what's happening? Well, you guys are happening. We didn't have this until you came along and started |
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