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Arron Paulino
  • Rental Property Investor
  • South San Francisco, CA
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Real Estate Investing Update and Experience

Arron Paulino
  • Rental Property Investor
  • South San Francisco, CA
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I have finally sold off my rental portfolio, and it has been a learning experience. It was a lot of ups and downs trying to generate a monthly profit with equity, but my journey brought me to breakeven, making it hard to generate a net return. Looking to adventure into better opportunities going forward. Looking to hear from other investors who have had a similar experience and figure out ways to get back into different opportunities that rerouted them to a better real estate investing journey. Before buying rental properties, I did try private lending and it was more passive for me without needing to get into the details of the investment and settle for a monthly return or net profit at the end of the project, which is the route I may return to. I may even use my own LLC to do this on the side, such as flipping properties.

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Hi appreciate you sharing your experience. People seem to think RE is easy and will result in huge profits quickly with minimal effort or cash required which I don’t think is the norm. In my experience there is great value in  having a high paying full time job and adding RE by starting slow, staying local so you can manage your farm and having patience for the long game.

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