15 April 2025
The Real Estate Investor’s Wake-up Call: Why Waiting is Costing You Millions
Passive Real Estate Investing
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Welcome to the Passive Real Estate Investing podcast. Where today, surprise, you're hearing a slightly different voice. I am stepping in for the host seat today. I am Melissa Nash, and I've been behind the scenes here at Norada for over a decade as a senior investment counselor, helping investors like you figure out where to buy, how to buy, and how to build that desired passive income portfolio so that you can create more financial freedom. And I'm not just here talking the talk. I've built my own seven figure portfolio of single family rentals, raised four kids while doing it. And yes, I am that mom teaching my kids how to run cash flow numbers at the dinner table. I am all about freedom, generational wealth, and showing busy people how to build real estate empires from anywhere.
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Now, today's episode is a treat. If you've been listening for a while, you'll probably recognize my guest's voice. He's a lender who has helped me buy my very first property, and now he is here today. He is someone who I trust, respect, and honestly, I just love talking to him about wealth building. He's one of the most experienced investor lenders in the biz, and someone I am very lucky to call a friend. Welcome to the show, Aaron Chapman.
Melissa, what is happening?
Nothing much. I'm just excited to get into it with you today. Where are you at? I, I see you're kind of sitting in a cabin.
I'm at my place in Missouri, so I'm in the office part of it. So there's two cabins on the place. One used to be a church back in the, I guess it was probably used to the church in the early late 19 hundreds. And so the pastor moved it here, was an 18 hundreds cabin. Same with this one. This was his paint studio. The other was the little chapel. I took the chapel and turned it into my living quarters. And then this is my office. So now we have brick and mortar in the state. Well login, if you will. And I lease it back to the firm for business. So in reality, this was a, a force to have it to keep business going. But with me acquiring it and leasing it back, now I get a revenue off it that pays for it. So now I have seven acres in the Ozarks, two cabins, a kickass deck, and, you know, deer stands. And a bridge. And a waterfall. And it doesn't cost me anything. Well, it does. Oh my gosh. Update it. But they cover the paint
. Yep. And it was, it was all a write off at the end of the day.
All of it, everything's a write off. I get to have a really cool place to work to hang out. And what's really interesting about this place, since my, I, I live in Pacific time now in Arizona, 'cause it doesn't switch, right? Sometimes Pacific, sometimes it's mountain. And right now it's central time. I'm two hours off. So I work longer here, but I feel like I get more rest even though I'm doing more work just because of the environment.
Well, you know, there's a reason why people go to the mountains and to get away from it all and listen to nature and just, there's something that it does for your soul. I mean, I could say the same about the ocean, just hearing that peace and quiet. Absolutely. I can see that.
Yeah. I enjoy going to sometimes big cities when I travel just to invite to, to, you know, experience the culture and the, the diverse stuff that's happening right there within the city. All the food and all the, all the events and whatever. But it's draining. I come back tired, more tired from those than by going to Alaska and hunting moose for 10 days. And you're constantly, every day you're, when you, when you harvest and you're, you're basically de-boning and skinning and packing all that out, that's 1500 pounds you're packing out for miles doing every day. And it's the most exhausting, fun to come back rejuvenate. So it's interesting what you just referenced with ...
FREE copy of The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing.
If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to TBT: Ask Marco - Real Estate Investment Strategies
Now, today's episode is a treat. If you've been listening for a while, you'll probably recognize my guest's voice. He's a lender who has helped me buy my very first property, and now he is here today. He is someone who I trust, respect, and honestly, I just love talking to him about wealth building. He's one of the most experienced investor lenders in the biz, and someone I am very lucky to call a friend. Welcome to the show, Aaron Chapman.
Melissa, what is happening?
Nothing much. I'm just excited to get into it with you today. Where are you at? I, I see you're kind of sitting in a cabin.
I'm at my place in Missouri, so I'm in the office part of it. So there's two cabins on the place. One used to be a church back in the, I guess it was probably used to the church in the early late 19 hundreds. And so the pastor moved it here, was an 18 hundreds cabin. Same with this one. This was his paint studio. The other was the little chapel. I took the chapel and turned it into my living quarters. And then this is my office. So now we have brick and mortar in the state. Well login, if you will. And I lease it back to the firm for business. So in reality, this was a, a force to have it to keep business going. But with me acquiring it and leasing it back, now I get a revenue off it that pays for it. So now I have seven acres in the Ozarks, two cabins, a kickass deck, and, you know, deer stands. And a bridge. And a waterfall. And it doesn't cost me anything. Well, it does. Oh my gosh. Update it. But they cover the paint
. Yep. And it was, it was all a write off at the end of the day.
All of it, everything's a write off. I get to have a really cool place to work to hang out. And what's really interesting about this place, since my, I, I live in Pacific time now in Arizona, 'cause it doesn't switch, right? Sometimes Pacific, sometimes it's mountain. And right now it's central time. I'm two hours off. So I work longer here, but I feel like I get more rest even though I'm doing more work just because of the environment.
Well, you know, there's a reason why people go to the mountains and to get away from it all and listen to nature and just, there's something that it does for your soul. I mean, I could say the same about the ocean, just hearing that peace and quiet. Absolutely. I can see that.
Yeah. I enjoy going to sometimes big cities when I travel just to invite to, to, you know, experience the culture and the, the diverse stuff that's happening right there within the city. All the food and all the, all the events and whatever. But it's draining. I come back tired, more tired from those than by going to Alaska and hunting moose for 10 days. And you're constantly, every day you're, when you, when you harvest and you're, you're basically de-boning and skinning and packing all that out, that's 1500 pounds you're packing out for miles doing every day. And it's the most exhausting, fun to come back rejuvenate. So it's interesting what you just referenced with ...