inspiring interviews with today's top landlords.

This is the Rental Income podcast.

And now, Dan Lane.

Jeff, how did you go from being brand new, knowing nothing about rental properties,

to having over 100 rental units?

Well, it took a little bit of time.

It didn't happen overnight.

Certainly wasn't a straight line. It wasn't something that I planned. I had to start by, you know, like anything.

If you want to eat a cow, you got to start with one bite at a time. You got to start with something

small. So I bought some properties that eventually, you know, some smaller properties that

eventually appreciated and allowed me to use the proceeds from the So I bought some properties that eventually, you know, some smaller properties that eventually

appreciated and allowed me to use the proceeds from sale of those properties to buy more,

buy bigger.

And that's really the magic that comes from owning rental properties for the long term,

is that as you start to gain equity in your properties, you can take that money and

use it to buy bigger

properties, better properties, properties that cash flow better. And on the show today, we're

going to walk through Jeff's story and see how he got to where he is today. One thing I want to

point out before we get into the interview is that Jeff had some money saved when he got started.

So he had some pretty big down payments

for his properties, but if you don't have the kind of money that Jeff had, you can still follow

the concepts that Jeff followed. I think the concepts are going to talk about apply whether

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