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The 10-minute check I run on my property manager every month (opens the original)
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On August 31, I left my Principal Engineer job after 14 years at Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.Today I own 23 rentals across 5 states, and they take about an hour a week of property manager calls plus a numbers review on Sunday.People usually ask me how I found deals while working full time. Honestly, that wasn’t the hardest part.The hard part was trusting the numbers after I bought.When you live hundreds of miles from your rentals, your property manager’s monthly statement is almost the only vi
How I Turned $25K Into $125K With an Out-of-State Duplex (opens the original)
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I evaluated 20+ rental properties in Seattle before I realized that I was asking the wrong question when trying to scale my real estate portfolio in 2019.I had a good software engineering job, a couple of rentals near Seattle with very minimal cash flow, and a growing interest in building a reliable income source that would eventually allow me to achieve financial independence without depending entirely on my W-2 income.I had already started investing in real estate locally, but the more propert
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