Finding success is not about finding the right strategy but finding the right attitude. This is what Abhi Golhar has always believed in. Abhi is a radio show host on the Wall Street Business Network where he tackles topics related to real estate investing. He says that if we don’t have the right attitude to support what we’re doing, then we lose out on the overarching goal. Abhi developed his entrepreneurial nature and discipline in high school repairing computers. He shares his journey of epic failures and undergoing mentorship to get where he’s at today.

My guest is Abhi Golhar and he discovered his entrepreneurial nature in high school repairing and renovating computers. He earned his bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and during his time at Michigan, he read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad and it spurred his interest in real estate investing. Abhi encountered many epic failures in business and investing and it took many years of mentorship, moving around the country and near successes before he triumphed.

Abhi found success not from finding the right strategy, but from finding the right attitude. He is now a successful investor in single family developments and multifamily apartment complexes, and he's also been able to build several successful businesses from the ground up. Abhi enjoys talking about entrepreneurship and real estate investing as the host of Real Estate Deal Talk on the Wall Street Radio Network Podcast and YouTube.

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Finding Success Through Finding The Right Attitude with Abhi Golhar

Welcome to Heartrepreneur Radio, Abhi.

Thanks for having me, Terri. I'm excited about it.

First, you mentioned you became entrepreneurial in high school, which I find is very unusual. How did that come to be?

I was watching 20/20 and I was watching Diane Sawyer who was buying stuff and he was making thousands and thousands of dollars a week. I thought to myself, “I’ve always dreamt bigger. I’ve always dreamt of doing something more, something bigger, something that I can contribute more to society with, but I can do this.” I had a knack for playing with computers. I remember the very first computer that we got after the dot matrix printer computers was this Dell computer. They cost $3,000 or $4,000 at the time and I was sneaking around with it and I crashed it. My dad looked at me with this, “I'm going to kill you,” look. He said, “You're either going to fix it or you're going to owe me for the rest of your life.” I could fix this thing and I fixed it and this was before the Best Buy Geek Squad. I realized, “There’s marketable value here.” I was in tenth grade or ninth grade at the time.

My marketing tactic was putting flyers in mailboxes, which was illegal. I didn't know that that was illegal time, but I did it anyway. I started knocking on doors and I said, “If you have a computer at home, if you do, I would love to be your go-to repair guy.” That's what happened. My buddy and I, my childhood friend he lived down the street, he and I were making $25 an hour and we were making good money for high school kids in the ‘90s. That's how we started and I thought to myself, “I think I could do this and grow it.” Unfortunately I left from Michigan and I pursued my electrical engineering degree so I had to stop that business. I gave it over to my buddy, Matthew, but I took away so many valuable business lessons from that. It was so much fun.

I haven’t talked to a lot of people who start that early and get the entrepreneurial bug early,