I had a drug addict overdose and die in my mat.

Why do we want to put, you know, 60, 70, 80 grand down on this duplex to make 300 bucks a month?

We don't even look at businesses beneath a million bucks of revenue.

With our one laundromat, we're going to do 32K in gross and our profit is going to be 16K.

We try not to use the word passive income too much. If your business, you know, relies on you being in it, then you don't have a valuable business. Your second born kid on title, a drop of blood. And then they still want to bring up. Justin and Ashley Eaton, long time coming. Welcome to the Action Academy podcast. How you doing? Good, man. I appreciate

you having us on. Longtime listener of the show. I read your book when I first came out and

nothing but good things that come from the show. We're excited to be on. Yeah, thanks so much

for having us. I love having entrepreneurial couples on the show because you guys are able to

add so much more depth of value to the listener because you have so many spouses

or so many partners that maybe one person is super deep into entrepreneurship and investing.

The other person is like, what the heck is going on? And so so excited to dive deep into

y'all's entrepreneurial and investing journey together. But first, let's start with the current

portfolio.

Where are we at today and what are we discussing on this episode?

Yeah, absolutely. So we're heavy into the laundromat acquisition game right now. We are building our fourth store. We should be opening in the next month or two. We've been under contract for

our fifth store since November. that has yet to close.

And so we're hoping, we're hopeful that one's going to close sooner than later, but TBD.

And that's kind of where we're at this point with the laundromats.

And then we also have five rental properties. And then we have our single family that we live in.

So we own six properties. Beautiful. Now, Ashley, let's start with what got you guys into

rental property investing and real estate investing in general because you guys have a very

interesting perspective and really, and you're really in alignment with kind of what we talk about

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