BTM 14: How She Quit Her Job in 11 Months by Flipping and Wholesaling with Arianne Lemire
On today’s show we welcome Arianne Lemire. Ari is a real estate investor, entrepreneur and Realtor in the Florida panhandle. Ari runs a company, GH Houses specializing in fix and flip properties as well as wholesaling. Coming from the Philippines, Ari has been living in the US for the past 3 years and she’s been involved with real estate investing for the last 18 months.
Ari is an outstanding example of pure will in that she went from being being a Medical W2 worker to quitting her job in the span of 11 months. In this episode we get more into Ari’s story, she shares with us on how she got started in real estate, her journey to reaching her goals and we discuss her why.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Ari tells us more about her background and what she’s currently focused on.
- How Ari was able to save money to invest in real estate while paying off student loans.
- Learn how Ari gained real estate education through online research and Bigger Pockets.
- Find out why Ari went from rental properties to flipping houses.
- Listen as Ari explains how she set goals for herself and only once she reached her goals did she decide to quit her job to go into investing full time.
- Understand what Ari’s mindset was like for her to be able to quit her job in 11 months.
- Discover how your why can be a strength and a weakness at times.
- Ari tells us more about her current goal of being able to give $1 million a year to charity.
- Hear how Ari wants to build a community for people with special needs.
- The differences between fixing and flipping and wholesaling.
- Find out why it’s important to choose one direction to focus on in the real estate market.
- Ari explains the intricacies of her business, how they got started as a renovation company and how their focus has changed over time.
- Chris’s role in the real estate developments as he is currently a full time software engineer.
- Discover how Ari works with investors looking for more short-term ways to diversify.
- Ari’s best deal to date with their second property they bought.
- Hear about one of Ari’s more challenging deals where she still managed to come out on top.
- Discover what lessons Ari has learned through dealing with challenges in the business.
- Advice on getting started and entering the real estate game.
- Letting go of your fear of failure so that your business can grow and expand.
- Discover what sacrifices Ari had to make to get to where she is today.
- Listen as Ari shares why people are stuck before the millions because they aren’t able to take responsibility and they don’t know their why.
Tweetables:
[spp-tweet tweet=”“It’s really just action. You learn so much when you start doing things.” — Arianne Lemire”]
[spp-tweet tweet=”“I really like wholesaling now because we can make a pretty big cheque with essentially not really much renovation.” — Arianne Lemire “]
[spp-tweet tweet=”“Never pay anybody up front if you haven’t completely vetted them.” — Arianne Lemire “]
[spp-tweet tweet=”“What I’ve learned in this business, I can’t change anybody else. I can only change myself and my outlook.” — Arianne Lemire “]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
– Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
– Scott Trench’s book, Set for Life
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