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Brandon's in Indianapolis.

Hey Brandon, what's up?

Thank you for taking my call, gentlemen.

I really appreciate it.

Sure.

How can I help?

I was, so I worked my way up in a company here in Indianapolis from the bottom and I got to a real high, good high paying position. I did your steps. I won't do to baby step seven.

We were in a great position. I was getting ready to invest in possibly some rentals on the

side and then I was laid off. And I need to know if I'm in a position to possibly do this and make this my dream. I wanted to work myself for a while and kind of get out of the corporate world, or if I'm dreaming and I need to stay in the corporate world. I've turned down two jobs so far, and I just, I'm really not sure what to do. What were you making?

$350,000. Okay. Can you make that again?

No, I won't make that much immediately, no, but there's potential there in a few years.

But you can land on a quarter million, easy, right? Yeah. Okay. So the thing you want to measure against is, okay, if I do real estate and I make 100,000, I've lost 150. Okay. So if we're going to do real estate, we've got to make a quarter million, or we've got to see a way to do that fairly quickly. I don't mind taking a step back as long as I can get back to where we are. But if you think,

okay, I'm going to do flips and I can make $100,000 a year and that's all I'll ever make, I wouldn't do that. No, I'd do flips and go get a job because there's a quarter million dollars on the table. Yeah. I mean, you're, what are you worth is what amounts to? And so how can we get the most value out of you

without you losing your soul, of course, in the process? We're not doing that. But point being,

if you can do something you like with a good, strong company, make a quarter million. But if you

could do real estate and make 300, let's talk about doing that instead, can you? I don't know. I don't think I can't immediately know. No, I mean, it wouldn't be immediately. What are you talking about doing? Investing and flipping, or what are you talking about? Right now I've got about $600,000 cash. Okay. And my goal would be to obviously buy a couple of holes and kind of get the ball rolling there. And I don't need a lot.

I mean, don't even wrong, I don't want to take a huge step back.

But I mean, if you bought two rentals, they're not going to throw off on 600 grand.

I mean, you're going to throw off $6 or $8,000 a month.

Yeah.

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