In this Interview with Connor, we talk about what his day has been like and he says that he has been busy on calls with agents and brokers plus putting out fire with contractors. I further ask Connor how he got into real estate in the first place. He says that he went off to college to get a business marketing degree at the University of Oklahoma and while at college in his freshman year, he put $ 20 in a poker site because at that time, they were in the middle of the online poker boom. He narrates how he put the $ 20 for fun, ran a small fortune, and realized he would make more money doing that than a traditional marketing job of working for a corporation. He was making more money in a month compared to when he would have graduated to get that job. So he ended up doing it for 8 years and going through a getting his college degree something he respects his parents for having invested a lot of money in him. He narrates that on April 15th, 2011 it was a black Friday for him when the world ended for a lot of them when the United States Department of Justice seized two big poker sites and stores. He woke to that news and everything was gone for him. He further went on to ask old gentlemen whom he used to take their money all the time on how they made their money and how they can afford to lose $ 20 K or $ 30 K and they were all in real estate. So he went down the cliche of Rich Dad Poor Dad, jumped into real estate, made all the mistakes in Rich Dad Poor Dad Book. He had $ 70K in debt, started working night shifts, built WordPress websites, started to look for ways to do deals on the internet. He basically made one of the top-ranking websites in Texas for real estate business, built a real estate wholesaling company in 2014/2015, transitioned into fix and flip acquisitions.
Connor offers 3 pieces of advice to 20-year-old Connor on how to become successful.
1) - Get the right education on the right things.
2) - Don't be Egotistical
3) - Go work for someone for free to get the skillsets.
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