2020-04-06
Braden’s Background:
- Previous profession as a commercial airline pilot
- Owns 650+ units across Michigan and Ohio
- Owner of Epic Property Management which manages his portfolio and several hundred other doors
In This Episode We Cover
- Braden’s emphasis to create a lifestyle that he enjoys and to figure out a way to get to that lifestyle
- His first/most important talk with a local real estate expert and how that person helped him start on the right path
- How he realized after his first deal he was out of capital and needed to go find other people’s money
- Braden’s hard lesson learned about lining up equity to close on a deal, and how you should always have more capital available to you than you need
- How ‘skin in the game’ matters for a deal when you are bringing in an equity partner
- How Braden translated his ideal lifestyle into real measured goals in real estate to fund that lifestyle