If you pay attention, you’ll notice there is a game being played. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can play to win. The game of life has various components, but the top one percent has mastered the game of money and finance. Once you start playing, your financial fear becomes irrelevant. After all, it is a game—and you’re supposed to have fun.
Today’s guest, Nick Troutman, started playing the game after his second child was born. His fatherly instinct kicked in, and he had a deep desire to provide. He started researching investing, money, and finance—his friend recommended BiggerPockets, and the rest was history. Now, Nick has four rental properties with seventeen units, including a nine-unit apartment.
As a professional athlete, Nick is on the road for six to ten months, which exposes him to various housing markets. This exposure helped him narrow down his scope of locations to invest in. Ultimately he decided to invest in Tennessee and Georgia. Nick’s open and optimistic approach to life has helped him create his dream life as a father, husband, professional athlete, and investor.
Ashley:
This is Real Estate Rookie, episode 223.
Nick:
I relate everything back to my world of kayaking and being an athlete. Through my decades of competing, I’ve just realized that you either, you win or you learn. Through loss, I try to use that as a learning experience. So I knew that I’m either going to figure this out and it’s going to be a great and a home run hit, because I was running the numbers and I was like this is either going to be too good to be true, or I’m going to learn from this experience and I’m going to keep taking those baby steps forward. So using that win or learn mentality instead of the win or lose. It got me into that first deal, which then got me into the second and the third and the fourth, and has kept me moving forward.
Ashley:
My name is Ashley Kehr, and I’m here with my co-host, Tony Robinson.
Tony:
Welcome to the Real…