#252 - Massive Cash Flow Through Mobile Home Investments - Andrew Keel
Release Date: 12/11/2024
#307 - Building a W-2 Exit Plan with Short-Term Rentals - Stephen Arnaud
Living Off Rentals
In this episode of Living Off Rentals, host Kirby Atwell sits down with Stephen Arnaud, an engineer, W-2 employee, and father of three, who’s intentionally building his path out of the 9-to-5 through short-term rentals. Stephen shares why, even though he enjoys his career, the demands of a W-2 job started to conflict with family life and long-term freedom. Like many high-performing professionals, he realized that traditional investing alone wasn’t going to give him the flexibility he wanted anytime soon. That realization led him to short-term rentals. If you are still working a 9-to-5 but...
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#306 - Saving Historic Buildings and Creating Value Through Smart Redevelopment - Kevin Kreger
Living Off Rentals
Joining us for today's episode of Living Off Rentals is someone who specializes in historic preservation projects that many investors overlook, but can be transformed into high-performing rental assets. Kevin Kreger is Kirby Atwell's longtime friend and a construction expert. He is the founder of On Point Construction and Fiddle Leaf Development. He breaks down how he transitioned into design-build work and eventually into restoring historic downtown buildings with serious cash-flow potential. Listen as they dive deep into why historic properties aren’t as intimidating as they seem, how to...
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#305 - Building $50K/Month in Passive Income Without Wall Street - Joey Mure
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Joining us on this episode of Living Off Rentals is someone who teaches people how to build income streams on their own terms. Joey Mure is the co-founder of Wealth Without Wall Street, a platform dedicated to helping people rethink traditional money advice and create passive income that gives people more control over their lives. Once a high-earning corporate professional who felt constantly pulled away from his family, Joey now generates over $50,000 a month in passive income and guides others through the system for building passive income streams that helped him reclaim his time....
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#304 - How Short-Term Rentals Let Her Quit HR and Take Back Family Time
Living Off Rentals
Joining us on this episode of Living Off Rentals is a Navy veteran and mom of three who went from a high-pressure military career to building a real estate business that allowed her family to take back their time. Karin Ventresca is a Naval Academy graduate, former nuclear engineer, HR professional, and now a full-time real estate investor and short-term rental operator. After years of long commutes, daycare drop-offs, and COVID-era burnout, she and her husband built a short-term rental portfolio that gave them the freedom to reshape how they spend their days. Listen as she shares how they...
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#303 - From 9th Grade Dropout to Early Retirement with 150 Real Estate Units - Matt Hawkins
Living Off Rentals
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#302 - Leveraging the 30-Year Fixed Loan to Create Generational Wealth Through Rentals - Adiel Gorel
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Joining us on this episode of Living Off Rentals is someone who has spent more than four decades helping people build wealth through simple, long-term rental investing. Adiel Gorel is an investor, educator, and the author of Remote Control Retirement Riches. He has helped thousands of people buy brand-new rental homes in strong U.S. markets, using the 30-year fixed loan as the foundation for building lasting wealth. Listen as he shares how he went from an engineer in 1980s Silicon Valley to a global real estate investor, why he believes that the 30-year fixed loan is the greatest financial...
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#301 - Sam Wegert - How Co-Living Creates Affordable Housing and Big Profits
Living Off Rentals
Joining us on this episode of Living Off Rentals is someone who turned a simple idea—renting out spare rooms—into a thriving real estate empire. Sam Wegert is the founder of Scale Your Co-Living Real Estate and leads the largest co-living mastermind in the world. He and his wife reached financial freedom by their early 20s and have since built a 2,500-door portfolio that blends strong cash flow with affordable housing. Listen as he shares how he went from running a martial arts school at 16 to discovering the co-living model by accident, why shared housing can outperform traditional...
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#300 - Top 10 Real Estate Investing Lessons After 300 Episodes - Kirby Atwell
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Joining us on this milestone 300th episode of Living Off Rentals is... me! I can hardly believe it’s been five years and 300 episodes since launching this show back in January 2020. What started as a way to document my own journey—transitioning from Army officer to full-time real estate investor—has turned into something much bigger. In this episode, I look back on what’s changed since those early days of flipping houses, what I’ve learned from hundreds of conversations with other investors, and the lessons that have shaped how I live and invest today. Enjoy the show! Key Takeaways:...
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#299 - From Firefighter, to Flipping Boston, to Real Estate Empire - Dave Seymour
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#298 - How to Structure Creative Real Estate Deals - Ronnie Walker
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info_outlineIn this episode, Kirby interviewed Andrew Keel about an investing strategy that usually doesn’t get enough attention, but can be an awesome path to high cash flow and financial freedom - manufactured home investing.
Andrew Keel is the host of the podcast “Passive Mobile Home Park Investing.”
He is included in the Top 100 owners of manufactured homes with over 3,000 units under management across 10 states.
Listen on his mobile home investing journey as he shares how he turns undermanaged and mismanaged manufacturing home communities into cash flowing assets with increased occupancy and decreased operational expenses. Enjoy the show!
Key Takeaways:
[00:00] Introducing Andrew Keel and his background
[02:28] How he started investing in mobile home investing
[07:53] Advantage of investing in manufactured homes
[14:07] Difference between mobile home parks and RV parks
[23:10] Mobile Home Parks Maintenance
[27:19] Seller financing in mobile home parks
[32:27] Expected returns for this strategy
[37:03] Connect with Andrew Keel
[37:45] Outro
Guest Links:
Website: https://keelteam.com/
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Visit us at https://keelteam.com/top-20-things-learned-from-mobile-home-park-investing/
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