Ep. 73: Why This Real Estate Investor Pivoted to Assisted Living with David Moody

I like it, I like it.

And in between the time when you shut down this We Buy Houses business and building up the rental portfolio, did you have a regular job or what did you kind of pivot back to?

Yeah, I had a couple.

I was, whenever, you know, I stumbled across creative finance in the beginning, I was working for a tier one automotive supplier in Michigan.

And we made like the door panels inside of your vehicle, headliners and things like that.

And then I wound up leaving there and going to Edward Jones as a financial advisor and From there, that was probably my last real job where I had to be somewhere every day of the week and punch a clock, so to speak.

It actually had quite a bit of liberty.

That's what drew me to being a financial advisor.

You don't just sit in an office all the time.

But, yeah, I really went on an entrepreneurial journey with starting businesses.

And I worked for a church for about 15 years, 15 to 17 years in there.

And technically had a W-2, but just had a really, really free schedule.

So I was still able to start businesses and do real estate and all the other things I enjoyed as well.

And what made you finally take the leap to leave the W2 officially behind? I know it was flexible for a while, but like what was, was there any like one particular thing or just kind of felt right?

I just got the itch to be honest, like things started to snowball and we had several deals that, that we were working on and closing some.

And I had started working with a business partner, Jared Morrison, and we were working on things together and it just started taking more time and started, you know, we started making more money at it.

And I was like, okay, I think this is a good time to, to go ahead and chase this.