TOTAL CRINGE: Why Buy and Hold Rentals was MY SIDE HUSTLE (2018)

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Michael Zuber (0:57)

Morning, friends. How are you doing today? So I've been approached to potentially be a part of a real estate investing webinar in the next month or so, where I was going to be a guest talking about why I believe buy and hold rentals are the best investment for full-time employees. As the author of One Rental At A Time, that story of mine being a full-time employee and building a portfolio over time via buy and hold, is catching on. People are increasingly buying the book, subscribing to this channel. So the message is resonating, which is awesome. So I don't know if this opportunity is going to go anywhere, but since I have been taking a couple of days to create this presentation, I want to share it with you. I did create, did share this once already, but as I watched the video and kind of critiqued myself, I found some spots to improve. Also, I inadvertently got a little bit too passionate and swore a couple of times, which is not something I want to do in general on these videos. So I'm going to record this again and see if I can do better this time. So go ahead, if you've already watched it and you don't mind the swear words, thank you. I am going to give this another shot because I really do believe buy and hold rentals are the best thing for full-time employees, but you gotta do it right. You have to appreciate the hard work, the homework, the sacrifice, that kind of stuff. And I don't want that message to be lost in three or four swear words. So I'm going to do this again, share the value with you. If the webinar ever happens, of course, I'll let you all know. But worst case, I want to give you more value and share with you this presentation. So without further ado, let me see if technology works and share the video with you. Or the PowerPoint, I should say. Share. Hey, look at that. It's working.

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Move this camera up here so I can talk to you and still look at the presentation. All right. So as promised, this is meant to be about 45 minutes of presentation. I've done it in a way that hopefully each slide and each bullet resonates with you. I likely will be telling stories about much of this because it is our story. And it's important for you to understand where I've come from. So again, this presentation was created to basically answer the question, why do I think buy and hold rentals are the best side hustle for professionals?

But before we get started, I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to ask you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. It's youtube.com/onerental At A Time. It means the world to me. It's a small way for you to give back, basically indicating that you like what I'm doing for you. I do produce daily content either through interviews, subscriber questions, walkthroughs, all kinds of stuff, all for you. As you know, if you've read our book, One Rental At A Time on Amazon, we retired over a year ago, and this is one of the things I do to fill my day. So it's a lot of fun. Hit the like button if you like it. And of course, if you leave a comment, let me know what you think. Tell me what you think is rough in this video because this is a dry run. So if there's something you don't like or don't get or is missing, I'd love to hear from you. But also remember, if you do subscribe to my channel, one of the video series I do is subscriber questions, and you just leave a comment asking your question. And to date, I've answered every question within 48 hours. So let's keep interacting and having some fun. But now, let's get into the presentation and probably why you are watching this video. So this is what I thought we would go through in the webinar. And again, let me know what you think is missing. I thought I would do a slide and some bullets on why buying hold rentals work as a great side hustle. I think it's often overlooked. I think it doesn't get the just do it deserves. And I think this is specifically important for full-time employees. And now, obviously, realize who's speaking to you. It's someone who did this, who built a portfolio while working a crazy schedule. And I believe that's one of the bullets you'll see here in a minute. We'll go over. But again, I admit I am biased, but it works. So at least I have a reason to be biased. I'm going to give you a slide on why I think you should consider Buy and Hold Rentals if you're a busy full-time employee. I will share my experience because I think it's important to understand who's speaking to you. I think there's a lot of pretenders out there in social media. Lots of people regurgitating things they've read elsewhere. I, as documented in our story on this channel, in the book, did this as a side hustle for 15 years, and woke up one day and looked up and we had 175 rentals, and we could exit comfortably. So I think it's important to know who is speaking with you. We will talk about how we got started, kind of give you that baseline, because the preceding slide, you kind of know how it ends. But let's remind you where we started, and you'll see we didn't start in any particularly great space.