How to overcome & find success in the real estate world

Liz began her real estate journey in 2005. She co-founded DeRosa Group with her husband, Matt Faircloth where she helped the business grow for over a decade. During this time, Liz was active in management consulting where she developed an expertise in a personality assessment program, working with small and Fortune 500 companies. She has created and facilitated hundreds of trainings and workshops for universities, conferences, and executive level trainings. While earning her Masters’ degree in Social Work in her 20's, Liz developed a passion for supporting women. In 2018 she came together with her good friend Andresa to launch the Real Estate InvestHER® podcast and community. Their mission is to empower women to live a financially free and balanced life on their own terms. In this episode, Liz will share how she started in the real estate business as an investor, some tips & insights on how she started her portfolio on her own terms after not finding a platform that provided a holistic approach. Episode Links: https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/ https://www.instagram.com/therealestateinvesther/ https://derosagroup.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 Liz Faircloth, syndicator, investor, women empowerment speaker and podcast host and she's gonna be talking to us today about all those different topics and more. So let's get right into it.   Liz Faircloth, thank you so much for joining me on the show this morning. I really appreciate you coming on.   Liz: Yeah, thank you so much for having me, Michael, excited to be here.   Michael: Oh, awesome. Well, I know a lot about you, I've read so much about you and so for anyone who might not be familiar with you, I would love if you could give us a little background, who you are, where you come from and what it is you're doing real estate now.   Liz: Sure, sure. So I got my real estate start about 16 years ago, in my 20s. A long time ago, my husband and I actually started investing together. Quick story I was getting my degree in social work, wanted to be a therapist, and my husband was an engineer, at the time, get a job in engineering, so completely different fields. And we both had to share a passion for like creating a bigger life than what we had at the time. Both of us came from very middle class, wonderful families, hardworking families. But you know, we both had this shared passion of doing something bigger with our lives. And quite honestly, impacting a lot of people was a value we both had at the time rates, I still do. Anyway, at the same time, around the same time, my brother in law, who was the only entrepreneur I knew, you know, I didn't grow up with entrepreneurship or investing or anything like that. He handed me: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, and I did like personal growth books. I said: What are you giving this to me for, I'm gonna be a therapist. I don't know why I'm reading this, but I'll read it. He said: You have to read it, you have to read it.   Michael: Yeah.   Liz: And I got really inspired by that book like many people. I think mostly because I was learning about concepts I never heard of before, you know, in passive income and creating wealth and you know, just things you don't you just really think about trading your time for money. That's how I, you know, thought of it. And so reading that book, and then changing my career right after that I actually got a job in consulting an