REI070: Options Trader to Real Estate Mogul w/ Michael Episcope
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. On today's show, I chat with Michael Episcope about how to make a |
| 0:05.6 | career change into real estate, college degrees in real estate, opportunities own funds, |
| 0:11.3 | how to determine which markets to invest in, and much more. Michael is the principle of origin |
| 0:16.6 | investments, co-chairs the Investment Committee, and oversees investor relations, marketing, |
| 0:22.1 | and company operations. |
| 0:24.3 | Prior to origin investments, Michael was ranked in the top 100 best traders in the world, twice, |
| 0:30.8 | by Trader Monthly Magazine. |
| 0:32.8 | Now, without further delay, let's get right into today's episode with Michael Episcope. |
| 0:41.3 | You're listening to Real Estate Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, Robert |
| 0:47.0 | Leonard interviews successful investors from various real estate investing niches to help educate |
| 0:52.7 | you on your real estate investing niches to help educate you on your real estate investing journey. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Real Estate 101 podcast. As always, I'm your host Robert Leonard, and with me today, I have Michael Episcope. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to the show, Michael. |
| 1:13.2 | Thank you for having me, Robert. |
| 1:14.8 | Tell us a bit about your background and how you got to where you are today. |
| 1:18.7 | I'll take you back because real estate is actually my second career. |
| 1:22.8 | So if I take you back kind of the beginning and how I got here today, my first career was in |
| 1:27.9 | commodities trading and I started down in that business in actually 1989. I was very young. |
| 1:33.4 | I was 19 years old. I ended up getting a job on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, |
| 1:40.3 | just the summer job. Just wanted to work, you know, between my freshman and sophomore year. |
| 1:44.8 | Absolutely loved it. I was like, this is the coolest place I've ever been. It was so much energy, |
| 1:49.6 | so much fun. And so I stayed down there. I ended pushing all my classes tonight. And I was studying |
| 1:55.7 | finance and econ, and I was burning the camel of both ends. And, you know, I did that because I |
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