“Having kids is a financial burden”.
Not really. I pay my kid $12,000/yr, which I write off.
$6,500/yr goes into his Roth IRA.
$5,500/yr into a high-yield savings account.
The REAL burden is poor financial education.
"Having kids is a financial burden."
Not really. I pay my kid $12,000/yr, which I write off.
$6,500/yr goes into his Roth IRA.
$5,500/yr into a high-yield savings account.
The REAL burden is poor financial education.
I got dumped while I was on a church mission in South Korea.
In 2012, I got an email saying:
"We're breaking up, this new guy is older and has his life together"
That lit a fire under me...
11 years later, l'm now worth $6.5M by age 31.
The American housing market is worth $45 Trillion…
And Zillow has 135 MILLION properties.
Why does this matter?
There’s a way to make a fortune with real estate WITHOUT owning it.
Here’s how I make $350,000/yr doing it:
How to spend your salary:
1. 50% goes for rent, utilities, groceries and gas.
2. 20% goes to savings and debt repayment
3. 20% is yours to spend
4. 10% builds your investment capital
Track everything down and be disciplined.
A few years like this + being curious = 10X the
Bought my first 4-plex for $380k Sep 2018.
Put down $19k and lived in 1 while renting out the rest.
Used BRRR to purchase my 2nd property.
Rinse & repeat until I got 40 rentals worth $11M.
Build your empire by taking 1 small step today.
This property has brought in $26,392 this month.
Expenses: $7,321
Cash Flow: $19,071
I spent ~3 hours managing it this month.
Equivalent to $6,357/hour.
My mom hasn't taken a vacation in 25 years.
She worked 14 hrs/day for 30+ years to provide for our family.
Last year, I bought her an Airbnb that funds her retirement.
Today, she spends time with my son & is happier than ever!
$17,500/month profit from real estate WITHOUT owning any properties.
Sounds impossible?
Here’s how I did it in 7 months and how you can too:
NOTE: You don’t have to go into debt OR be physically present
I know a couple who makes
$308,000/mo.
But after taxes, mortgage, & car payments?
Barely $2,390 left each month.
Only $30,000 in savings.
Remember, empty pockets aren't just a low-income game.
Officially closed our 4th Airbnb today from the comfort of my home.
Never step foot inside, & never met my team behind it.
Once you have the systems & processes...
You focus on profitable Airbnb markets instead of local areas.
I own a $1.4M house but I don’t pay for it.
I drive a Porsche but I don’t pay for it.
My rentals pay for my liabilities.
This is the only way to make sure you’re not working until you’re 65.
Everybody wants to get rich.
Nobody wants to:
>> Work hard.
>> Save money.
>> Invest.
>> Educate themselves.
>> Cultivate new friendships.
>> Network.
>> Start a business.
>> Take risks.
>> Improve themselves.
And that's why they stay broke.
Went on a 14-day trip to the Northeast with my family...
Only worked 15 hrs in June, but my Airbnbs still made $30,000 profit.
2 words = Financial Freedom.
2004: Dishwashing for $5/hr.
2015: Door-to-door sales ($98K/yr).
2019: Software sales ($250K/yr).
2022: $350K/yr and $6.5M equity.
Don't let your past define your future.
Me when I was dead broke:
- Taking all the courses.
- Coming up with original ideas.
- Trying to "manifest" my goals.
Me as a multimillionaire:
- Don't look for new info until I'm stuck.
- Copying what works.
- Action over anything.
Stop living off of "ideas"
Put in the work
At 26, I lived in my mom's basement.
At 28, I became a millionaire.
All through RE and Airbnb.
I'm not:
• Smarter.
• Luckier.
• From a rich family.
• Super well-connected.
I just found something that worked for a lot of people and said f* it let's try.
Renting doesn’t mean you’re throwing away money.
Having a roof over your head will always have a cost.
It’s better to rent now and build up a portfolio…
Then to own a home and 0 assets.
Few will ever understand this.
Schools won’t teach your kids about:
- Taxes
- Investing
- Personal finance
- Time management
So it’s your job to teach yourself and your kids.
Learning has never been easier but people have never been lazier.
Every parent should do something about it.
I come from an immigrant family…
My parents worked 12-hour days just to feed me and my brothers.
They never took real vacations and could never come to my baseball games.
I started off washing dishes for $5/hr in their restaurant and now I own $11,000,000 worth of real
Use this millionaire hack:
You don’t need 100s of people in your network to succeed.
Instead, focus on forming bonds with 5 successful people.
Way less work & tap into their networks when needed.
Quality > quantity
I began my journey washing dishes and making $15,000 per year.
By the age of 28 I made my first $1M.
If I were starting over, here's what I'd do:
(Follow my step-by-step blueprint)
“Money is used to buy time.”
No, you can’t buy something priceless with worthless paper.
Time is limited and money is not.
Money is used to free up the remaining time you have.
Change your thinking, change your life.
Started off washing dishes making $15,000 a year.
Hoped for a day when I'd make $50/hr.
Invested time and effort in learning Real Estate and Airbnb Investing.
Now my real estate portfolio generates $36,000/mo profit.
It's clear that dreams don't work unless you do.
Learn to use debt.
Buy your 1st property.
Let it pay itself.
Acquire more.
Keep going.
I used to wash dishes for $15,000 a year.
I'm not a genius, you can do this too.
Here's the loophole I used to build an $11M RE portfolio.🧵
I got my Porsche for free + it saved me $55K on taxes.
Business vehicle, 6K+ Ibs, qualifies for Section 179 + bonus depreciation.
Airbnb covers the car payment.
That's how you buy liabilities.
5 years ago:
Got my 1st 4plex while they got drunk on the weekends.
2 years ago:
Launched my 1st Airbnb while they bought $40,000 cars.
Today:
Making $30,000/mo while they're stuck in a job they hate.
Having a great job is the new average.
I used to work in sales making $250,000/yr.
But had O time to take my wife out, or play with my son.
Wealth isn't in your pockets, it's living life on your own terms.
Real estate is not passive
Whoever says that is trying to sell you a pie-in-the-sky dream.
You have to manage properties and tenants…
Fix damages and maintain the property.
But you’re still the boss who makes all the moves and takes all the cash.
The goal is not laziness,
You only need one YES to quit your
9-5 job forever.
1 got this property 2 years ago and it's making $5,200/mo profit.
Took me 3 weeks and $26k to set up.
1 Airbnb can change your life 100
1. The Inside Job
This documentary uncovers the dark side of real estate and the financial industry.
Great for learning about how to be safe and cautious when investing.
Coming home tired & working on your idea is brutal.
What kept me going?
Knowing my mom didn't take a single trip since 1992.
Your WHY has to be bigger than how you currently feel.
While all of my friends enjoyed their 20s, I decided to take a different path.
Back in 2018, I started investing, and now I'm sitting on $11 million worth of real estate.
The best part? My family is financially secure and Dad is home every day.
Choosing the hard way early on
I think having more money fixes most marriages.
Imagine if you had no debt, good savings, and assets.
More time to talk with your partner and figure things out.
More dates and vacations.
Stress creates tension and causes fights over little things that stack up.
Make more $
Work for yourself, not for others.
Spend time with your family, not your boss.
Make your money work for you, not the other way around.
You're a human being, not a rental.
You can be wealthy with a $15,000/mo income…
And be broke with a $50,000/mo income.
Why?
Because making money is easy.
Not spending it like a child is the hard part.
Owning your job is the first step.
Owning yourself and your spending habits is the second.
Owning assets that pay you without requiring work is the 3rd.
Take the staircase of financial freedom one by one.
It’s a marathon, not a race.
You can work a 9-5 and run a side business on the side…
Budget and use your money to buy real estate.
Hold tight for 2 - 3 years.
Replace your job with passive income.
Retire and enjoy your life.
Too many people obsess over paper assets such as stocks and crypto.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re legit and I own some of them myself…
But they alone won’t make you a millionaire.
Your mindset, character, and skillset need to grow if you want your bank account to grow.
Waiting
I wasn't:
- Born rich.
- Born a genius.
- Privileged.
I "made it" by watching my parents struggle and knowing I had to do something to change that situation.
After years of trial and error, I found RE and Airbnb.
And I genuinely believe anyone can do this too.
You can save a lot of money by paying less in taxes with these 2 rules:
Cost segregation and bonus depreciation.
And then use the saved money to invest in assets that increase your income.
This is how the wealthy use tax loopholes to their advantage.
Wealth is not indicated by numbers…
It’s indicated by how much of your life you exchange for numbers.
You need time to be free.
And freedom to be wealthy.
Want to change your life?
Start a business.
But make sure you start the right one...
Here are 3 business models you can start in 2023 and make $10,000/mo:
(And learn what makes them profitable)
Use your credit card as much as you can but always pay on time.
Add your kid as a user.
Build their credit score.
Give them an easy head start while teaching them responsible money management.
I've went from $0 to building a $11M portfolio in RE in a few years.
I've compelled the 6 biggest reasons people spend their lives without becoming financially free.
(Quick thread)🧵🧵
Mark Zuckerberg is ruining entrepreneurship because of one thing:
Innovation.
People think they need to invent the next Facebook to be successful.
Instead, do this:
1) Find a proven business model
2) Figure out customers’ biggest problems
3) Solve those
4) Make
I'm making over $20,000 net every month from Airbnb
- Without talking to clients
- Without cleaning
- Without owning the properties
I'm not a genius or a guru
I've lived in my mom's basement
I've washed dishes
Everything that I do, you can do it too
Read my tweets and learn
Most people around me said I have to work for money...
But working for $250,000/yr completely consumed my life.
I surrounded myself with different people and they said invest.
Now I make $350,000/yr working 5 hrs/week from home.
Your social circle = Your Reality
6 things I did in my 20s that made me a millionaire at 28:
• Got a mentor
• Married my wife
• Took risks early on
• Invested in real estate
• Spent 2yrs in Korea
• Followed my natural curiosity
The more you do, the larger your bank account becomes.
90% of couples argue over money.
But my wife & I retired 1.5 years ago working as a team:
• Become real estate professionals
• Started an LLC & used leverage to buy rentals.
• Reinvested profit + tax savings back into the biz
Double efficiency, twice the success.
Bought my first 4-plex for $380k Sep 2018.
Put down $19k and lived in 1 while renting out the rest.
Used BRRR to purchase my 2nd property.
Rinse & repeat until I got 40 rentals worth $11M.
Build your empire by taking 1 small step today.
Nobody is busy…
People just MAKE themselves busy.
I worked a 9-5 and managed a real estate business and a family.
Yes, it was tough but totally possible.
It’s always a matter of priorities and burning desire.
Nothing else.
Be ready to sacrifice $10,000s if you want to become a millionaire.
I used to save money and be afraid of losing it…
That kept me stuck at $15k a year.
Once I started investing in real estate and buying masterminds, my income started to improve.
Money doesn’t like to sit in
Airbnb is dead.
People say they're getting no bookings.
But you look at their listings:
• Bad pictures
• Limited amenities
• No cohesive design
• Weak pricing strategy
When you have a top 20% Airbnb, you'll get booked no matter how saturated your market is.
Education shouldn’t stop after college.
I graduated in 2017 and bought my first property a year later.
Today I own a $11M RE portfolio.
Everything started with self-education and action.
Nothing is holding you back.
Learning is the key to staying young…
Because your mind commands your body.
And your mind has infinite potential and mysteries that keep you going.
You “die” as soon as your growth starts to stagnate…
But you’re just not buried until you’re 80.
You’ll always have problems…
But how you deal with them determines how “lucky” in life you get.
Embrace them and never run away.
Get tough and get rich, there’s no other way.
I bought a duplex in 2019 without private money.
And I got paid $2,800 to buy it after refinancing it.
This property generates $400/mo in cash flow.
Two words: Real Estate
Starting a business in 2023 is like climbing a mountain.
The higher the risk, the better the view.
Is your 9-5 job even a hill?
That's why your view is limited.
Unpopular opinion:
Working till 65 is the biggest scam ever.
Being 50 years old is not middle age since most people die at 76.
At 38, half of most people’s lives have passed.
They want to keep you working as long as they can.
The key to entrepreneurship:
Urgency.
Too many people lie to themselves that they’ll start tomorrow or when the time is right.
Every successful person I’ve ever met has a sense of urgency.
Don’t wait for tomorrow, start today.
2. Book on Rental Property Investing
This book by Brandon Turner is a foundational guide for RE investors.
It'll show you why you should invest and how to find good deals.
I think too many people settled for the average life.
The best retirement plan is real estate, not Social Security.
The best home is packed with family, not expensive furniture.
The best job is working for yourself, not a soulless corporation.
The best morning is spent
What society tells you:
Get a $50,000 student loan, work 40 hr/week to survive on $5,000/mo.
What I tell you:
Save up $10k, invest into 1 Airbnb, repeat 3x until you hit $10,000/mo.
Your current life = your choices.
You'll go through:
- Sleepless nights.
- Loneliness.
- Frustration.
And then you'll go through:
- Driving in your dream car.
- Feeling happy and free.
- Being the one your family can rely on.
The suffering is worth it.
Just get to the other side.
Your Airbnb will underperform...
If you use unprofessional photos and offer bad service.
I have 6 Airbnb and they're killing it.
Because of cool amenities and unique design.
1 put 5X more effort into them once and now they're paying me back forever.
Quality > Quantity
Run your life like a marathon, not like a sprint.
Being consistent will get you further and it’s easier to adapt along the way.
And you’ll enjoy the things around you more.
Going all in on one thing > Going crazy about 5 different things
You should be the most important person to yourself in life.
Because if you don’t, you won’t be the best version of yourself…
That will affect your family and people around you.
Loving yourself is the best way to love others.
POV: it's 2024.
Your savings became real estate investments.
1 Airbnb pays your bills, another funds parents' retirement..
A 3rd one lets you travel the world.
You're 1 year from making it happen.
I became a millionaire at 28 by using:
The bank’s money to buy real estate and rent to pay off the loan.
+ Reduced my taxable income and kept the property.
It’s boring but it works.
You don’t hate Monday, you hate the life you’re forced to live.
Imagine if you had a million dollars at your disposal…
You wouldn’t even know what day it is let alone work a job.
Don’t let something you can change force you to be miserable.
How you feel and how good you live
I went to Korea before I was comfortable speaking the language.
I was knocking on doors before I invested in real estate.
I was living in my parent’s basement before I could afford a home.
I quit my job before I felt ready and now I’m worth $6,500,000.
The takeaway?
You'll
Inflation is eating my money…
No, poor financial education is.
Keeping money in a 401K is not investing and that’s why your money is losing value.
On top of that, access spending is the real inflation for most people.
You can’t control inflation but you can control how you
There are 3 levels of financial freedom:
1) All necessary bills covered, every month, no sweat.
2) Dining out whenever you wish & ordering anything from the menu without looking at price.
3) High-end experiences or items. Aka FU money
Which one are you?
I can’t believe this is my life.
11 years ago, my girlfriend dumped me through an email while I was serving a church mission in South Korea.
She went with an older guy who had it “all together”.
Today I have a beautiful family, my dream home, and millions.
Every hurtful
A huge part of financial problems comes from people.
You can’t influence the economy and the markets…
But you can and should adapt to it.
Add discipline and education into your life.
Stop looking for excuses.
Focus on what you can control and you’ll become financially free.
Real estate investing is hard…
But it’s still the GOAT in my opinion because:
- Your tenants pay the loan
- Your property grows in value
- Your money is protected from inflation
- You get monthly income with little work
- You always have shelter for yourself and others
Simply
"Money doesn't grow on trees".
It does when you know which forest it grows in.
It took me 3 years to hit $6K/mo with real estate...
But I 3X my income in the next 7 months.
If you think making a lot of money is hard then it always will be.
What I used to think wealth was:
- Mansion
- Rolls Royce
- Fancy watch
Now I know wealth is:
- Time and location freedom
- Healthy body, mind and soul
- Deep connections with the family
Define your version of wealth and create it.
4 steps to sourcing a $2,500/mo profit Airbnb in 30 minutes:
1. Go on Airdna
2. Find multiple top performers within your area
3. Ask yourself "why is it a top performer?"
4. Finish with "how can I make this property better?"
Cheat code to becoming a 1% listing in no time.
You can be wealthy with a $15,000/mo income…
And be broke with a $50,000/mo income.
Why?
Because making money is easy.
Not spending it like a child is the hard part.
*Not spending it on dumb shit is the hard part.*
Your upfront investment: $10,000.
Your profits: $2,500 per month.
In 4 months: Repeat the process.
Now you have 2 properties.
Your profits: $5,000 per month.
In 6 months: Repeat the process...
See where I'm going with this?
It's not magic.
It's the Airbnb business.
You have 52 weekends in a year.
Work 6 hours every weekend. That's 312 hours of progress in a year.
A minor step today leads to a radical growth tomorrow.
Today, I have 6 Airbnb properties that make $30,000/mo on average.
I manage them from home and each property takes about 1-2 hours/week.
Airbnb allowed me to retake control of my time and finances.
It took me 3 years of being in real estate to find this model.
Follow me if
One of the best investments is time.
I used to knock on doors pitching Jesus in South Korea.
Man did I get doors slammed into my face.
But my ROI was mental toughness.
That’s why I didn’t quit until I became a multi-millionaire.
3. Abstract: The Art of Design
Netflix show that combines real estate with art by focusing on design.
An eye opener for people who love exploring new styles of homes.
How most people think:
Work → Make money → Buy things
How I think:
Work → Make money → Buy assets → Use cash flow to buy things
This dead simple mindset shift made me a millionaire by age 28.
If you don’t want to work until you’re 60, start buying assets.
If you don’t want your kids to have $100K in college debt, start buying assets.
If you want to stop feeling financial stress, start buying assets.
What’s the kicker?
Buying assets is the only no-brainer financial
It’s not about being flashy and spending like a maniac.
It’s about providing your family the best life they could have…
And creating the next generation of great minds.
Being a parent is the greatest job a human could possibly have.
You don’t have to save more money.
You have to make more but keep your spending low.
Use the extra capital to make more by investing.
This is how you retire early.