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The key to financial freedom? Work as a pizza delivery driver! Not only will you learn how to handle high-pressure situations, but you might also find your next property on a regular pizza run! At least that’s what Pamela Bardhi did to build her twenty-seven-unit rental property portfolio and reach financial independence in her late twenties! Pamela’s family moved to the United States when she was just five years old, thrusting her into the restaurant business before she realized that real estate was her true passion. Pamela did everything right. She studied hard, got scholarships, worked at internships, and built her own business, but she was still miserable. Working every day of the week, often twelve hours at a time, was eating away at her. She wanted some side income to help her dial back the time spent building her business, but when her first deal turned into a $100,000 profit, the property game was too enticing to resist. Since then, she’s scaled to massive heights and wants you to do the same. With twenty-seven rental units, over one hundred deals done, and a financially free lifestyle by thirty-one, Pamela knows what it takes to build a property portfolio FAST. But she also knows what can make it crumble. Pamela shares her three BIGGEST lessons learned from doing over one hundred deals and how she turned delivering pizzas into a passive income stream that will create generational wealth for her whole family. In This Episode We Cover: How to reach financial independence with rentals in under ten years  The three biggest lessons every real estate investor must learn to NOT get burnt on a deal Passive vs. active income and why the investor life isn’t for everyone  Becoming your own boss and quitting corporate to do what truly fuels you How the right mentor can immensely speed up your road to early retirement  Real estate partnership red flags that’ll lead to you losing money or pulling your hair out  And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Pick Up Some of David Greene’s Best Selling Books Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Rob's YouTube From DoorDasher to $1.5 MILLION in Real Estate (All at 22 Years Old!) The 30-Something’s Guide to Financial Freedom Flipping Houses: How to Get Started and Everything You Should Know Connect with Pamela: Pamela's BiggerPockets Profile Pamela's Instagram Pamela's LinkedIn Pamela's Website Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-779 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your DoorDash driver may be the world's next real estate mogul. If you ever had Josh Janus drop off food at your house, you may have been in the middle of him getting a deal done. That's right; between picking up and delivering food, Josh was cold-calling sellers, sourcing as many off-market real estate deals as possible. This type of serial side hustling led Josh to acquire $1,500,000 in real estate at age twenty-two, making $50,000 per month and building a business most entrepreneurs could only dream of. From a young age, Josh was already the king of multiple income streams. He was making duct tape wallets on the bus, flipping shoes online, and doing whatever he could to save more money. When he found BiggerPockets, he realized that real estate was the way to propel his dollars even further, allowing him to have money work for him instead of the other way around. So, Josh set out building a "hybrid wholesaling" model. He would contact off-market sellers, send their information to an agent, and get paid for his side of the deal. Once Josh got his real estate license, he started hustling even harder, selling $17,000,000 of real estate as an agent, making more in a month than many Americans make in a year. So what was Josh's quick key to success? How did he do all this in his early twenties without any experience? And how can you repeat the same system to skyrocket your wealth? Stick around; Josh will tell you how to do it too!  In This Episode We Cover: The "hybrid wholesale" model Josh uses to make serious commissions on off-market deals Side hustles, alternative income streams, and how to make more money in your free time Cold calling tips and getting your first off-market deal under contract (even with NO experience) How to use the BiggerPockets forums to get more deals, network with more investors, and build wealth  Mistakes you should avoid when hunting for your own off-market real estate deals Josh's nearly perfect BRRRR and the right way to do a deal that needs a renovation/rehab And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Investor-Friendly Real Estate Agent BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch BPCON2023 Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's YouTube Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Hear Our Interview with Couch-Flipper Turned Investor, Ryan Pineda Build Your Off-Market List with PropStream Books Mentioned in the Show: Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene SCALE by David Greene Connect with Josh: Josh's BiggerPockets Profile Josh's Instagram Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-749 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices