My mind has always been spinning that way. My dad tells me, “Why didn’t you tell me this before?” Since I was nine years old, I’d be doing math, numbers, and stuff on church bulletins or calculating how much I was going to make by cutting yards. I hated English, right side of the brain. Through middle school and high school, I loved and enjoyed math. Tell us a little bit about why you went into engineering and what was the inspiration? You talked about family friend or mentor that talked about wealth creation and the thought process behind that. I listened to your story and it sounds like you’re a real life Rich Dad Poor Dad story when you’re thinking about that. You have an engineering background, then real estate. For those that are familiar with the show or have read our book, they know that I have an engineering background. Tell us a little bit more about why you went into engineering. It plays off that and that’s how the businesses got started and built. ![]() We’re the largest client of the property management company or the maintenance company. Each business is linked in some way somehow where we’re normally the largest client. What else can we add to help feed the businesses? I’m happy to go through all those. We started the whole vertical integration thought process. We wanted to manage for others to create the income so that we could manage our own like we wanted to be managed. I was blessed that I created that, and then that created a property management company. There are a lot of testimonies coming back around these days of the journey that I went through to do all that. I parlayed two careers for about fourteen years, which was brutal. I just wanted choices and I didn’t know this was going to lead into what it did. In my mind, when I hit 55, which sounded earlier than 65, I could either quit and be a landlord or I could accelerate my income or speed up the retirement. I started buying real estate on the side. I was in engineering, operations, and plant management. That’s the strategy that I figured out that I wanted to do. ![]() Before the BRRR strategy became the BRRR strategy, it became a popular acronym through BiggerPockets. I was in the ’90s at that point reading that one. He’s got the 2000s now and all that stuff. The book was Nothing Down for the 90s by Robert Allen. Out of that, I created some cash to buy my first house when I graduated, which then parlayed into lines of credit. ![]() I didn’t know what that was going to look like. Going into college, I had that in the back of my mind that at some point I was going to do real estate. He taught me about wealth creation and listened intently. I had a mentor in high school that I helped do grunt work and do the yards of the rental properties that he and his father-in-law owned. For our audience that haven’t met you before, maybe you could share a little bit more about how you ended up in the role you are now and more than 3,000 doors. He co-founded CrestCore Realty in 2012 and manages more than 3,000 properties in Tennessee for over 700 local, national, and international investors. He’s been an active real estate investor since 2001, focusing on buying and managing single-family homes, duplexes and multifamily apartment buildings. He spent the first twenty years of his career in plant management and operations with Fortune 500 manufacturing companies then left the corporate world in 2014 to be in real estate full-time. He is a Cofounder of 6AM Core Collective, the parent company to CrestCore Realty, CoreLend Financial, CrestCore Property Management, CoreBuild, CityLight Commercial Services and CoreAssist. EARLY INVESTING, EARLY PROFIT WITH DAN BUTLER
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