How Anna Kelley built a multi-million dollar net worth with multi-family real estate

Anna Kelley is a 4X Amazon #1 Best Selling author and frequent guest on Real Estate Investing podcasts. She speaks at REI groups around the country on Buy & Hold Investing, Multifamily Investing, Vacation Rentals, Creative Financing,  Flipping, the Unique Challenges of Being a Woman in Real Estate, & making wise, conservative real estate investment decisions that will last through every market cycle. In this episode, Anna shares her amazing journey to financial freedom. Through multiple failures and hardships, Anna's unbreakable motivation helped her push through adversity to build a multi-million dollar net worth and focus on what is most important to her, her family. She covers everything from single-family real estate, small multi-family and larger multi-unit syndications.  Anna's websites: reimom.com greaterpurposecapital.com --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor Podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of The Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum and today with me I have a very heavy hitter multifamily investor syndicator Anna Kelly, throughout the entire episode I called Ana Anna and she was so graceful to not even correct me. So we have her on the show, and amazing woman, really a lot of great things that she talks about with regard to multifamily investing. Let's get right into it.   Michael: Anna Kelly, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning. I really appreciate you taking the time to hang out with me.   Anna: Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here.   Michael: So for those people that don't know who you are and your background, I'd love if you could give us a little bit of brief history into who Anna Kelly is.   Anna: great, I will try to be really brief, right? I've been investing in real estate for a little over 20 years, I think I bought my first property in 1999. And before that I had a financial background. So I worked in the financial sector, I was a financial relationship manager for Bank of America and our private banks. So I worked with lots of traditional investments, and really had a 20 year corporate career in the traditional financial sector, working on investments for high net worth individuals.   And one of the things that was interesting, Michael, is that I learned a lot about investments and what to do with it once you became wealthy. But even through all of my years of financial advisory training and college, no one taught me how do you actually create the wealth other than waiting 45 days and 45 years until your retirement accounts are finally enough that you can retire.   And I had a couple of clients who were very wealthy who laughed at the double digit returns that we could offer at our bank at the time, because they made more money in real estate. And I went okay, I've learned nothing about real estate, I need to at least start to learn and see if that's something that I should consider once I have a lot of money.   So I knew a lot about investments thought about real estate. But it wasn't until I had my first baby that really changed my why like, I really want to be home. I have this great six figure career I climbing up the corporate ladder, but I want to be home with my kids. And so I'm going to have to try to figure out how do I replace a six figure income doing something different from home and real estate was the way I did that. And that began a 20 year journey for me and to small multifamily large multifamily, ultimately retiring a multimillionaire through small multifamily real estate, leaving AIG t