The Real Estate Investor’s Wake-up Call: Why Waiting is Costing You Millions

Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.

Business:investing, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To, Investing, Business

4.8 • 953 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOWNOTES Welcome to the Passive Real Estate Investing Podcast! Surprise—you’re hearing a different voice today. Melissa Nash steps into the host’s seat for a powerhouse episode. As Norada’s Senior Investment Counselor for over a decade, she’s helped hundreds of investors build passive income—and built her own 7-figure single-family rental portfolio while raising four kids. In this episode, Melissa reconnects with the lender who helped her buy her very first property—Aaron Chapman, a seasoned investor-lender and strategic powerhouse in the real estate world. Together, they tackle the question that’s on every investor’s mind right now: “Should I buy, wait, or just hide under the covers?” But that’s just the starting point. They dig into: The silent trap keeping smart investors stuck on the sidelines A financing tool that’s helping investors scale—without the usual headaches Why “waiting for the right time” might be quietly destroying your wealth The mindset shift that separates investors who grow from those who stall What successful investors are actually doing right now—while others freeze If you’ve been second-guessing your next move, this conversation could be the clarity and confidence you need to move forward. Press play now—this might just change the way you invest forever. Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!) SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #LearningRealEstate #AskMarco #PassiveRealEstateInvesting #Turnkeyproperties #RealEstatePodcast #Investment #investors #RealEstateInvestors #RentalProperties #TurnkeyProperties #NoradaRealEstateInvestments #NoradaCapitalManagement

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0:00.0	Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.
0:09.5	And now, here's your host, Marco Santorelli.
0:12.5	Welcome to the passive real estate investing podcast, where today, surprise, you're hearing a slightly different voice.
0:20.2	I am stepping in for the host seat today.
0:23.1	I am Melissa Nash and I've been behind the scenes here at Narada for over a decade as a senior
0:29.5	investment counselor. Helping investors like you figure out where to buy, how to buy, and how to
0:36.2	build that desired passive income portfolio so that you can
0:40.1	create more financial freedom. And I'm not just here talking the talk. I've built my own
0:45.9	seven-figure portfolio of single-family rentals, raised four kids while doing it, and yes, I am that
0:52.2	mom teaching my kids how to run cash flow numbers at the dinner
0:55.7	table. I am all about freedom, generational wealth, and showing busy people how to build
1:01.2	real estate empires from anywhere. Now today's episode is a treat. If you've been listening
1:07.6	for a while, you'll probably recognize my guest's voice. He's a lender who has helped me buy my very first property, and now he is here today. He is someone who I trust, respect, and honestly, I just love talking to him about wealth building. He's one of the most experienced investor lenders in the biz and someone I am very lucky to call a friend.
1:30.3	Welcome to the show, Aaron Chapman.
1:33.3	Yo, Melissa, what is happening?
1:34.3	Nothing much. I'm just excited to get into it with you today.
1:38.3	Where are you at? I see you're kind of sitting in a cabin.
1:40.3	I'm at my place in Missouri. So I'm in the office part of it. So there's two cabins on the place.
1:45.5	One used to be a church back in the, I guess it was probably used to the church in the early,
1:50.8	late 1900s. And so the pastor moved here. It was an 1800s cabin, same with this one. This was
1:56.7	his paint studio. The other was the little chapel. I took the chapel and turned it into my living quarters. And then this is my office. So now we have brick and mortar in the state. Well,
2:04.9	log and chink, if you will. And I lease it back to the firm for business. So in reality, this was a
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