Real Estate Inside Secrets Learned From Traveling With Robert Kiyosaki
“There are some people that don't diversify. I mean, they know how to manage duplexes and fourplexes. They're good at it. They know all the brokers in the area that can get them those types of properties, and they don't diversify. So some people just know what they can do well and stick with it. Other people do like to diversify. I think that's fine.”
Garrett Sutton is a corporate attorney, asset protection expert, and best-selling author who has sold more than 900,000 books to guide entrepreneurs and investors. For more than 30 years, Garrett Sutton has run his practice assisting entrepreneurs and real estate investors in protecting their assets and maximizing their financial goals through sound management and asset protection strategies. The companies he founded, Corporate Direct and Sutton Law Center, have helped more than 10,000 clients protect their assets and incorporate their businesses. Garrett also serves as a member of the elite group of “Rich Dad Advisors” for bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki. A number of the books Garrett Sutton has authored are part of the bestselling Rich Dad, Poor Dad wealth-building book series.
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Garrett Sutton Share Real Estate Inside Secrets He Learned From Traveling With Robert Kiyosaki
Brett:
Hey, I'm excited about our next guest. It's not too often you get a best-selling author and one of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad advisors. For those who haven't read Rich Dad Poor Dad or the Cashflow Quadrant... I'm sure there are just a few of you who haven't yet. But if you haven't, you've got to get those books right away. Our next guest is the founder of Corporate Direct, and he founded that in 1988 to assist entrepreneurs and investors in protecting their assets, maintaining their privacy, and advancing their financial goals. He has learned that there are far too many deals or strategies out there, or people or promoters that aren't really in your best interest. So he's going to bring to light some of those things, and he's going to share with us some wisdom. You can find him at corporatedirect.com. Hey, Garrett. Please welcome to the show Garrett Sutton. Hey, Garrett, how are you doing?
Garrett:
Good. Thanks for having me, Brett.
Brett:
Excellent. Would you give our listeners a little bit about your background? And by the way, for our listeners, I grew up in Rocklin, California. And he had an office for many years, and he would commute from Reno to Rocklin, which is pretty cool. And Reno is just a couple of hours from where I'm at here now in the Roseville/Rocklin area, and so it's kind of a small world. If you're listening in Northern California, Garrett is a long-term Reno and Northern California business professional. With that being said, Garrett, give us a little bit about your background and current focus.
Garrett:
Sure. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and went to Berkeley, the University of California at Berkeley. Crossed the Bay, went to Hastings Law School in San Francisco, the University of California's Law School in San Francisco. I always liked corporate law, and I practiced law in San Francisco and Washington, DC. And it just became time to move out of the big city, but this wasn't recently. This was 1989 when I moved from the Bay Area up to Reno. And as you know, Nevada is a great state for corporate law, and we also like Wyoming for its corporate and LLC law. So I've just been focusing on that area of the practice, and I became very fortunate to become associated with Robert Kiyosaki and his team in the year 2000. So I've worked with Robert and the team for 20 years, and we've traveled not only in the United States but around the world, teaching financial education. There's a great desire for people all over the world to learn about financial education, and it's just been really rewarding. So I've written six books in the Rich Dad Advisor series. I have another one coming out next month. So it keeps me off the street, all this writing. And we do like helping people. I get on the phone with people. We talk about how to structure their affairs and best protect their assets. So that's it in a nutshell, Brett.
Brett:
I absolutely love it. So excited about this interview, and I'm sure our listeners are too, so we're going to dive in. Before we dive into some of the strategies and some of the wisdom that we're going to share on the specifics, I'm curious. I want you to take a step back, Garrett. Help our listeners to get to know you a little bit. I believe we've all been given gifts in this life. I believe they're God-given gifts, and they're given to us to bless others. So I want you to go back to your law school days. Maybe it was your college days. Maybe it was your teenage days. What was that gift that you were given, Garrett? And how does it help you help bless others today?
Garrett:
Well, if there is a gift, I would say that it's my ability to take the legal concepts and write them in a clear manner. I tell stories. You use stories and examples so people can understand the concepts. So I guess the gift would be the ability to write legal matters clearly.
Brett:
Excellent.
Garrett:
Too many attorneys play hide the ball, Brett. They almost want to confuse the issue. And my goal, when I'm writing, is to make it as clear as possible for people to understand this.
Brett:
Now, growing up, when you were in school, were your teachers telling you, "Wow, Garrett, you just write this really simple and clear"? Was this something where... Of course, you probably had to develop and work on it. But I also am curious, was that the gift that was identified at an early age?
Garrett:
Well, I always enjoyed writing, and my friends and I would put out newspapers, and we would take over the newspaper at the high school. So we were always writing. I don't know. I just was always interested in that field. So I have always been writing. Even when I was in elementary school, friends and I wrote a series of stories and things. We also played baseball and football. I just want you to know that, so...
Brett:
Yeah, you weren't just a complete book nerd, right?
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