242: How to Live an Incredible Life Now & Achieve Early Retirement with Josh Randall
Money doesn’t buy happiness – but it can give you the freedom to live a truly extraordinary life, something our guest today can really speak to! We sit down with Josh Randall, an investor from Kentucky with nearly 100 units who also works as a full-time business owner.
You’ll love Josh’s mindset when it comes to buying cars, travel, and more through real estate, as well as his “goal-focused” investing that will get him fully retired by the age of 48 (with $50k a month in cash flow!) Josh is incredibly fun and also highly informative, so don’t miss a second of this show which Brandon calls “one of his top episodes ever!”
In This Episode We Cover:
- How Josh got started in real estate through buying a Corvette
- Details on his first deal – a mini mall
- Selling bath tubs while property was still empty
- How many properties Josh currently owns
- Juggling business and real estate investing
- Facebook Marketing to find deals
- The Plumber story
- His strategy
- His monthly cashflow
- The ‘why‘ behind his investing
- Making assets pay for the liability
- His strategy in finding deals
- The types of houses he buys
- Adding one more bedroom to a house
- What is a knockdown?
- Managing a business with 70 employees and real estate investing
- The Limo Hummer
- And SO much more!
Links from the Show
- BiggerPockets Forums
- BiggerPockets Youtube Channel
- BiggerPockets Facebook Profile
- Buy and Hold Real Estate—What Works and What Doesn’t with Tim Shiner
- BiggerPockets Webinar
- Tenant Cloud
Books Mentioned in this Show
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- 50 Things They Didn’t Teach You in School by Tim Shiner
- Playing to Win: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys by David Magee
Fire Round Questions
- Oil tank in basement – should I remove?
- Investing/Flipping Manufactured home. Good or bad idea?
- Buyer asks for inspection report items to be repaired.
Tweetable Topics:
- “Real estate is a piece of cake. I can do it with my eyes closed!” (Tweet This!)
- “There’s always a way to add an additional bedroom.” (Tweet This!)
- “Not everybody is the same person.” (Tweet This!)
Connect with Josh
- Josh’s BiggerPockets Profile
- Central City Rentals Facebook Page
- Josh’s Company Website
- Josh’s Personal Website
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