Achieving Financial Independence Within 1 Year With a 200% Real Estate ROI w/ Param Baladandapani, M.D.
Apartment Investor's Club Podcast
Release Date: 02/15/2023
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Param Baladandapani is a Radiologist in Southern California who while working full time and raising two young kids built a multi million dollar real estate portfolio that helped her become Financially Independent at 41.
She then founded GenerationalWealthMD, a community that helps high income professionals accelerate towards financial freedom by building a real estate portfolio that works for them.
Over the last 9 years, she has invested in Long Term and Short term rentals, Apartments with over 70 million dollars in assets under management as well as development projects in different domestic markets and abroad and she brings this expertise to her Immersive small group coaching program- Creating Generational Freedom through real estate. Physicians in her program have acquired over $100 million of real estate and are building the life of their dreams. She is also passionate about paying it forward and has helped establish a non profit educational trust in rural India.
If you are motivated to stop trading your time for money, you can connect with her at www.generationalwealthmd.com
In this episode, you will learn the following:
1. How to achieve financial freedom in just one year: explore the strategies used to accelerate retirement.
2. Unlocking the Power of real estate investing: understand how to increase returns by effective management of taxes
3. Building a diverse portfolio across the globe: Differences between Investing in the US and India and the benefits of doing so.
"When you start tapping into advanced tax strategies, your ROI can go up all the way to 200% with short term rentals. Once I realized this, I was able to fast-track my way to early retirement.”
Some key points:
(01:29) Param's bio in her own words: a desire to fast-track her financial independence led her to real estate
(03:25) Param achieved her goal of becoming financially free within ONE YEAR. How forced appreciation led to a 200% return
(05:59) We unpack Param's specific strategy of using short-term rentals
(08:32) Financing the various acquisitions: Param made use of conventional 10% down mortgages
(09:16) What type of properties were targeted?
Initially Param went for properties that were out of state, in more friendlier jurisdictions, but she circles back to more local A+ and B+ properties
(11:12) Due to family being present in India, Param has also been able to expand to overseas markets, into her community of origin
(12:25) Abroad, Param makes more use of cash, as opposed to using leverage. Since cash-flow is negative, people bank more on appreciation. Properties targeted are areas that are just outside major metropolitan regions
(16:12) Param offers educational resources and structured guides for physicians and non-physicians alike that are looking to start out. One on one coaching and mentorship is always available
(23:11) Through her program, you also get access to vetted brokers
(23:52) After success with single-family rentals, Param took on multi family properties
(26:53) Differences between working in single family vs multi family
(30:04) In the future, Param sees herself carrying on with both single-family rentals and multi family syndication; since she is financially free herself, she can focus on helping others
(30:51) Aftes many successes, Param needs and new "WHY" To this end, she is getting involved with non-profit work
(32:01) How to reach out and get on Param's list
🌎Reach out to Param Baladandapani
Generational Wealth MD https://www.generationalwealthmd.com/site/about
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/param-baladandapani-md-abb693232
IG: https://www.instagram.com/generationalwealthmd/?hl=en
🌎Reach out to Jonathan Twombly
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathandtwombly
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