How to 4x a Small Manufacturer

He hated every tenant he ever had. He always sold at the wrong time, which is so difficult to understand because if you did, like, anything right at all in California, you made a billion dollars. But whatever. He was never going to bring me to real estate as an entrepreneurial path.

But like I said, it occurred to me, being there, that that was possible and that could potentially be something interesting, but I didn't know anything about it. And so I turned to the Internet. Googled real estate investment.

Tried my hand at wholesaling, tried my hand at flipping. Eventually settled on buy and hold, though. You know, you need cash to do that.

So I. I kind of did a mix of it all in order to make buy and hold work as often as I could and just became obsessed. And I. Real estate is still to this day, like my true love. That's why I've done everything up to this point that I have.

I have. It's my rental portfolio size isn't anything crazy, but it's certainly something I'm so glad that I have and something that I'm constantly trying to expand anyways. So I pretty much became like the poster child for why millennials shouldn't be allowed to work from home.

I was side hustling like crazy during COVID Like, I figured out how to do my salesforce job in like roughly two hours a day and spent the rest of the day driving for dollars, like, hustling up deals. I was flipping houses, I was wholesaling, I was doing all the things. And I joined a mastermind group, actually, from Biggerpockets.

Brandon Turner's coach at the time, Jason Dries, which I'm sure people listening to this have heard of. He created a mastermind that wasn't real estate based, but that was kind of like the base of the membership. Joined that and totally changed, like, my direction.

Became really close with several of the people that I met who are still really close friends and mentors today. And a couple of them were buying up small businesses. They turned me to Cody Sanchez.

And that was another rabbit hole of kind of, you know, self education, like buying businesses. Interesting. I might be good at that, you know, but I don't know anything about that, you know, so took Cody's course at all, all the reading, all the episodes, you know, all that, and did a lot of trying to figure out what kind of business I would want to buy, which we can talk about, but in I…

I can stop there if you want me to. Like, I don't want to skim over details, but.

Well, one, just one question. Is there anything to be said about the intersection of people who like real estate and then also buy businesses? Like, why do some people make graduate, if you will graduate?