Hello, my friends. And welcome to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. I am your humble host, Marco Santarelli and welcome into the show. So what is it like to Retire Early with Real Estate? Well, that is what my guest and I are gonna talk about today. And he has authored a book called Retire Early with Real Estate, a really good book. It's great, even if you're a seasoned investor, but it's good for everybody from newbie on up. And, you know, the whole concept of retirement is something that we think about and entertain and probably retirement means different things to different people. But regardless of what it means to you, I think at the end of the thought process there at the end goal is really time freedom that financial independence and financial freedom provides you or affords you. And so that's the conversation I'm gonna have today with my asked Chad, who again, wrote the book Retire Early with Real Estate, and we're gonna dive into some of the concepts that he talks about within the book.

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All right, well, it's my pleasure to bring on one of my favorites, Chad Carson, to the show, Chad is an active real estate investor. He's been investing for a long time. He's an entrepreneur. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina, if I'm not mistaken and when he's not investing, he's out traveling and he's with his wife and his two kids. He's probably playing pickup bass at ball and he's hiking, and he is learning something new. I mean, he seems to be a perpetual student, which I admire because I know Robert Kiyosaki that way. And I certainly am that way, but he also writes and teaches other people about investing in real estate. And he does a really good job about it. I've been listening to him and reading stuff on his blog for a number of years now on and off. And I think he does a fantastic job. So he's focused on what he says, what matters the most. And I agree with him on that. He is also the author of a great book, which I happen to be holding in my hand here, Retire Early with Real Estate. Great read with that, Chad, welcome to the show.

Marco, thank you so much for having me as honor to be here on the show.

Well, it's great to have you on, I think my audience are gonna resonate with everything you have to say. And I think we have a great topic today, which is essentially based around your book. So I'd like my audience to get a better feel for, you know, who you are and kind of how you got onto this real estate investing train. So why don't you share with us anything you'd like to add to what I covered, but how did you get started and what was your WHY. Cause I think that's a really big thing to focus on.

Sure. Well, the, the very beginning for me was a little unorthodox. A lot of people have a full-time job and then they get into real estate best thing on the side. And I was in college. I was a biology major and I was pretty sure I was gonna become a doctor. I was, I played football in college that paid for my school. I was lucky in that respect. And then I just enjoyed biology and science and thought that would be a fun career, but I was really tired because I'd been playing so much football and I said, I'm gonna take a break for a year or two. Maybe I'll go study abroad or travel in Europe a little bit. And also just try out entrepreneurship just in the meantime. And so I started getting into real estate and I had my father had rental properties growing up.

So I had that kind of benefit as well.