REI169: The Rise of a Real Estate Entrepreneur w/ Donovan Adesoro
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.6 | With the new build, you're adding so much value to raw land. |
| 0:06.3 | It might make more sense that it's a little bit more margin in the deal or a little bit more profit that can cushion you should something go wrong. |
| 0:13.5 | So long story short, when I started to run the numbers on new builds, those made a ton of more sense. |
| 0:18.4 | And began into kind of go full steam ahead in terms of |
| 0:21.6 | how do I get a new build even when I don't have any money or experience. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey everybody in this week's episode, I got to sit down with Donovan Aday Sorrow to talk about |
| 0:32.4 | how his start in house hacking fueled the desire to do larger and larger deals, which led him |
| 0:36.8 | to developing 16 |
| 0:37.9 | duplexes in the Houston area with an additional 30 that are currently under construction. |
| 0:42.9 | Donovan is a 26-year-old real estate developer and also investor relations director for fund |
| 0:47.9 | that flip. He's originally from St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated with a petroleum engineering |
| 0:52.5 | degree in 2019. After moving to Houston, |
| 0:55.5 | Texas for a job in the oil industry, he got his start in real estate with a house hack of a |
| 0:59.7 | duplex during the middle of the pandemic. Noticing a lack of duplex inventory throughout the city, |
| 1:05.3 | Donovan decided to raise outside capital and build them himself, which he has done several |
| 1:09.3 | times over and intends to get into |
| 1:10.9 | even larger scale projects in 2023. Listening to Donovan's stories and hearing how he's accomplished |
| 1:16.7 | so much at a really young age made me feel somewhat like an underachiever, but I love stories |
| 1:21.2 | like his, and it shows what's possible with the right amount of determination and grit, |
| 1:25.4 | and I found this episode super inspirational. And so, |
| 1:28.7 | without further delay, let's jump into this week's episode with Donovan Aday Sorrow. |
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