New real estate investors should perform property inspections as a standard practice until they gain significant experience.

“If you're not experienced, you should try to get inspections whenever you can.”

Investors should eventually transition to professional property management to build a more automated and scalable business.

“over time I just started to realize that I should just hire a full-time property manager. And then I sort of had this realization then I was like now the whole country is open to me.”

He advocates for systems-driven management to minimize the time required to manage a portfolio while maintaining the ability to operate remotely.

“Professionals chase repeatability. While I was starting, I was working full-time raising three kids. Didn't have a lot of free time. Deals would be creative financing, seller financing, the burr method to so I could recycle my capital faster to get more deals faster. But when you don't have a lot of”

Self-managing rental properties allows landlords to build stronger relationships with their tenants compared to using a property management company.

“We pride ourselves on being mom and pop and caring about our properties and not being run by a property management company where you're just a number.”

Investors should eventually delegate property management to others as a necessary step for scaling their portfolio.

“And what I did was I still self-managed most of my portfolio, but everything I was acquiring moving forward, I was giving to a property manager because I was still being cheap and scarcity mindset of just not wanting to give over everything.”

Long-distance investing is less stressful than local management because it treats the investment more like a business operation.

“Honestly, I highly prefer it because I feel like when it's long distance, I'm thinking of it more like a business. I don't know. It's less stressful to me.”