Episode notes
In this episode, Jessilyn and Brian Persson discuss their top three real estate investment successes, emphasizing the importance of just getting started and staying consistent with a plan. They share their journey, beginning with their first property purchase in 2009, and explain how continuous learning and skill development have been key to their growth. Despite early mistakes, which they share in the episode, they stress that patience, education, and a steady approach are crucial for long-term success in real estate investing.
Listeners are encouraged to take action, even with limited knowledge at the start, and stick to a consistent investment plan. Jessilyn and Brian highlight the value of upgrading skills through books, podcasts, and networking events. They also share how teaching others about real estate has further enhanced their expertise. To help listeners get started, they have a free resource for couples to download from their website (see link below).
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Transcript:
Jessilyn Persson: [00:00:09] Welcome to The Life by Design Podcast with your hosts Jessilyn and Brian Persson. We help couples fast track their financial growth by aligning their money mindset, developing transformative wealth strategies, and providing personalized guidance so they can confidently achieve a life of freedom and abundance together.
Brian Persson: [00:00:25] With the growing need for couples to find alignment and invest confidently in real estate, we created the 'Riches, Relationships and Real Estate' program. Our goal is to support you in achieving your financial and relationship goals together. If you want to know more about what's stopping you from building your wealth, make sure to go to discoverlifebydesign.ca/wealth and download 'The 3 Mistakes that Keep High Achieving Couples from Building their Wealth, Freedom & Living a Life they Love'.
Jessilyn Persson: [00:00:54] Today's topic, we're going to discuss our top three successes in real estate investing. We share openly and happily how we invest in real estate on all our podcasts, but today we wanted to share what successes we've had along the way and how real estate really just works for us.
Brian Persson: [00:01:15] When we were putting together the notes for this podcast, I was thinking about what most people think is a success in real estate. It's usually along the lines of, I have this many doors, or I have this many million dollars in property, and we actually are going to take a little bit of a different tangent on that, because we do have a few million in real estate, and we do have a bunch of doors, but that's not really the success of how we really got about to be successful in real estate. Would you agree?
Jessilyn Persson: [00:01:47] Absolutely. People will look at me and they were like, you own multi-millions in real estate? They just think, wow. It's like, if you only knew the 15 years and all the steps and mistakes we took to get here. Yes, it is 'wow', but it wasn't an overnight 'wow' or even a year 'wow'. So we broke it down into the smaller bites to say, what were our successes along the way? Our first takeaway wa