Timeless Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals Getting Into Real Estate

Investing in real estate remotely can be intimidating when you are juggling a full time job, family and the host of responsibilities life throws at you. In this episode we give you 4 tips to make sure you get everything done and stay on track.  --- Transcript   Michael: Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of The Remote Real Estate Investor. My name is Michael Albaum and today I'm joined by my co hosts,   Tom: Tom Schneider,   Emil: and Emil Shour   Pierre: and Pierre Carrillo   Michael: And today we're going to be talking about time management, something that's really important for most people, but especially important for those of us that are investing at a distance remotely, we're gonna be talking about some really practical things you can implement into your daily routine as an investor to help you manage some time. So let's get into it. Alright, guys, so we all know that time…   Emil: Hold on, hold on, hold on, we got a special guest on this episode, I feel like he deserves a very, very warm welcome and introduction to our listeners.   Michael: Pierre?   Pierre: Hey, what's up?   Michael: Can you give our listeners a little bit of background on who you are you pepper in some really great commentary in some of the episodes. But now you're going to be a full fledged host on this episode. Who are you?   Pierre: Yeah, I've been lurking in the corners since the beginning here, typing in when something's relevant. But yeah, I'm the producer on the show. And just starting out in the real estate game with my brother currently. So I don't speak much because I don't have much experience in this space. But I'm just learning from you guys. And excited to get in on this stuff.   Michael: Right on, we're stoked to have you.   Tom: Fantastic, and a great episode to jump in on time management being juggling, like 10 different jobs with the podcast and Academy and getting your real estate investing stuff going like, yeah, excited to have your input on this episode.   Pierre: Well, thanks. I need some of it too, because I have a weekly meeting with my brother. And we're always like, how do we use our time to really move this project forward? Because it's easy to just get stuck? Oh, let's analyze properties. Let's dive into this. But I think this is really going to be helpful. I'm going to definitely link my brother to this episode afterwards.   Tom: That's like the theme of the hosts is what is it self serving.   Pierre: Self serving?    Tom: Selfish like, bring on guests we want to learn from…   Pierre: Get your free consultation.   Tom: Exactly.   Michael: Love it. Awesome. So as we all know, life is very time consuming. And especially for those of us that have a nine to five or that are working day jobs, and then piling on kids and family responsibilities, and then adding on this layer of real estate investing. And for those who who are just learning that can feel like it's really time consuming. So we're going to walk through some strategies today that a lot of us have used personally, and so we can add some commentary into how it's been going. what's worked well, what hasn't worked well. But so we're gonna break this down in a couple different chunks. So, Emil, do you want to kick us off with the first strategy that folks can use to help manage some of their time?   Emil: Yeah, I'd love to. So I've actually tried a lot of the other things that we've outlined in our doc here that we're going to go over. But the thing that has really stood the test of time for me has been planning out my days in advance. And the biggest actual, like action item from that is putting things in my calendar. So I find that whatever I need to get done that day, if it makes its way onto my calendar, I have a much, much higher likelihood of getting it done, than if it's just kind of floating around on a to do list or floating around in my brain. So it's like some psychological thing where I've put on the calendar, I have this accountabilit