Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. I'm your host Joshua Sheets.

Today's show is certain to be challenging, controversial, and I hope appropriately radical.

Our topic today is real estate and we'll be discussing why your house is a terrible investment,

how to do a proper rent versus own calculation, and other wealth

building topics with our special guest, James Collins. James got to start selling

flyswater's door to door and picking up empty pop bottles from the side of the

road at eight years old. Since then he's earned his living as a soda jerk, bus boy, a dishwasher,

an order pooler, a grocery bagger, a stock clerk, a produce clerk, and a gas station pump jockey,

a male clerk, ground man for a tree crew, landscaper, ad agency, founder, account executive

ad space salesman, investment officer, entrepreneur, consultant, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Sales Trainer, Speaker, writer,

Radio Talk Show, Host, and a Publisher.

Today he is officially retired, sort of, but from time to time he shares his wisdom with the world over

at J.L. CollinsN.com in addition to sitting on a couple of corporate boards for small entrepreneurial companies that he finds interesting.

James, welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast.

Well, thank you, Joshua, but I gotta say that sounds like a guy who can't hold a job.

When I went and read your about page, I couldn't resist because he did such a good job on there.

That is a great list.

It was kind of my life flashing before my eyes.

I figured it out one time.

I had, someday I got to make that list for myself because I think I had like 20 jobs or something like that by the time I was in my 20s and anyway I got to go and

like count them all up sometime but it's so fun to do that and see all the different experiences.

Well it is kind of fun and of course when you do that you think back on them and and I can

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