inspiring interviews with today's top landlords this is the rental income podcast and now

dan lay joining us on the podcast today from troy new york is tristan hernandez tristan bought his first

rental property two years ago and on the show today i want pick his brain, I want to figure out what he's

learned over the last couple of years and what he would do differently. Let's take a quick

break. We'll come back and we'll dive right into the interview. Are you having a hard time

finding great investment properties? Unfortunately, the best deals are rarely found locally.

Successful investing begins with the right properties in the right markets. Norado real

estate provides everything you need to invest in the best deals across the U.S. Our simple

proven system will help you create real wealth and passive monthly cash flow. Get your free

copy of the ultimate guide to passive real estate investing at Noradarrealestate.com slash guide. That's N-O-R-A-D-A-R-A-R-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-A-R-E-E-E-A-R-E-E-E-A-R-T-E-R-T-E-R-T,

Why did you want to buy a decent job, but I knew that at times it was going to be a bit spoty. I work in manufacturing and so nothing is always clear cut and uh in addition to that i had some volunteer work

we wanted to do so we wanted to find a way to have a bit of passive income um in case there's

a rainy day so to speak or if we wanted to travel a little bit we'd still have a bit of income

coming in so that was the initial motivation awesome and so you bought one property and this is a three

unit building. It is. It's a three unit. You know, we would have loved to have had a little one family

house, but we figured we could do that in the future. And so we decided to let this be our first one.

So you live in one of the units and then you rent out the other two.

That's exactly right. Live on the top floor. Perfect. Now, when you were buying the house,

were there any hiccups getting approved for the mortgage? The contract for my company at my job

ended. But it didn't end until we had closed on the house. It was incredible timing. If I had lost my job

before the closing and the bank had found out about it especially, they likely would not,

would have denied the loan. But it went through literally two weeks before my job ended. So

...