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What Got You Into Real Estate Investing? #shorts

16 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker recounts how a weekend Rich Dad Poor Dad seminar introduced them to the rent‑to‑own (lease‑option) strategy. The trainer’s enthusiasm convinced the speaker that this approach was the ticket to leave Ottawa and start a real‑estate career. Over the following ten years they executed 51 rent‑to‑own deals, using the seminar’s teachings as the foundation of their investing strategy.

What launched us in real estate investing was a weekend seminar by Rich Dad Poor Dad. The trainer, I can call him that, really was sold on rent-to-own or lease option. He talked about it a lot. And by the time I was finished with the weekend seminar on Sunday, A, we had decided that that was our ticket to leave Ottawa, and B, rent-to-own was going to be the strategy. So over the next 10 years, we did 51 of those. Deal.