Tommy Mello

And my mentor was yelling at me.

He's like, you got to keep more of these.

And so I started taking them down and I built a rental portfolio.

And that's when...

That's when I was really in the game.

That's when the game started to change where I was able to take longer and longer vacations.

I was able to see a path to retirement where, you know, I had mailbox money coming in.

And yeah, that was the origin story that...

Kind of everything else that I've ever done in my career, all the education business, all the masterminds and things that I've ran, the flooring business, everything else was all real estate money that I had coming in that I was able to start other things with.

But I didn't do that.

I stayed consistent for over a decade, just doing one thing over and over.

Yeah, living below my means.

Yeah, I mastered it.

Game's changed for sure, but it's just changed.

It's still the game.

Yeah.

It's just, can you play the game with the new set of rules?

But I don't think it's ever going to go away.

Creative real estate investing is beautiful because in real estate, you're never going to have a money problem.

you have a creativity problem.