Welcome to Real Talk Real Estate, the show where we cover how to build wealth in real estate with no fluff, no BS, and no sales pitches. I'm David Green and I've been doing this for over 10 years. I've seen the ups, the downs, and everything in between. This is the show where we pull back the curtain and show it to you too. So if you want to build wealth through real estate or you just love learning about it, you found your home. What's going on, everyone?

Welcome to Real Talk, Real Estate.

This is the David Green Show.

Hope you. wealth through real estate or you just love learning about it. You found your home. What's going on,

everyone? Welcome to Real Talk Real Estate. This is the David Green Show. Hope y'all had a good holidays.

It's a great time of year for everybody, except for real estate investors. Just kidding. It is a tough

time in the real estate investing market. If you own property, in most cases, you're probably

hurting. If you're trying to buy property, you're probably having a difficult time trying to figure out what to buy, where to buy, if you should buy, what place to buy in and when a good time to buy would be. And if you're trying to sell something, it might be even worse. The economy is just rough. And we have been having several guests of reaching out and saying, hey, man, I got a story to tell that's the opposite of what you heard on bigger pockets for years. I'm not crushing it in my first 18 months of buying real estate. I'm getting crushed. And it's not really my fault. And that's what we're talking about today. I'm joined by Colt Savage, who is a short-term rental investor who's got some frustrations to share and a cautionary tale

for other investors who may be thinking about getting into the space or those of you that are in

the space now consider it's a therapy session you are not alone it is not you it is the system

colt thanks for joining me today welcome yeah how's it going good man very good let's start off by just hearing about how you bought your first house and how you got started in your journey of real estate.

Wow. So my first property was in 2014. Did house hacking before I knew it was house hacking.

Out of college, I had a goal to purchase a property with a mother-in-law suite that I could

then rent out.

And so, you know, less than a year after I graduated college, I was able to do that.

And two days after I bought the property, my buddy moved in downstairs, had it own, has his

own, you know, kitchen, bathroom, room, everything. So pretty separated.

He helped pay for a portion of my mortgage. He got a tremendous deal on a place to live. And so that

was kind of the start. And then from there, it continued just reading, reading more books. And every

wealth book seems like the common theme was invest in real estate.

And so, you know, very into bigger pockets at that time.

I remember before there was a podcast.

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