What Is The Path To Financial Freedom

I got my start in real estate really at the end of 2012. And I was essentially, at the time, I think I was 26, 25, I was a failing entrepreneur, essentially is what I was before getting into real estate. I had some successes. I had some failures getting into real estate. I was running a painting company and it was more like paint job to paint job, you know, paycheck to paycheck. And so I wasn't coming with like this huge resume behind me. I was young, had just moved to the Charlotte market, didn't know anybody, and I. And I was really unhappy with what I was doing running the painting company. And when I read the Millionaire Real Estate Agent book by Gary Keller, I saw that you could treat the real estate industry or treat being a real estate agent as really an entrepreneur, as running a business, building a team. And that is what attracted me to the industry. So I read that book, got my license, and what I thought I was going to do when I got into real estate was become a top producing individual agent, start running a team and become the mythical seven, or the, I was gonna say seven figure agent, but the mythical millionaire real estate agent, where you're out of production and you're making a million dollars a year and you're kind of sitting back and it's somewhat residual. So that was kind of the process. Because what I saw early on in my life in high school, I read a book called Rich Dad, Poor dad, amazing book. Changed my mindset just around, you know, your work hours and income and how it can be residual and cash flow and all these things. And so I knew where I wanted to was in a place where I had enough residual income to basically replace my working hours. I wanted financial freedom, time freedom and location freedom. So I started on that path as a real estate agent at Keller Williams.