Welcome to the October episode of Investor Insights With Brie Schmidt!

Brie Schmidt is one of the most well-respected buy-and-hold investors in Chicago. Each month we discuss an investment topic brokers should master.

In this episode Brie talks about one of the biggest challenges when starting to work with investors – making sure you have boundaries around the amount of time you’re willing to devote. Without a clear set of expectations in place you may find that you’ll put in more hours than is reasonable. Brie shares best practices on how to make sure the relationship is worthwhile to you, the broker!

Please visit Midwest Real Estate Networking Summit as mentioned on the show.

Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast in the country made for real estate brokers by real estate brokers. My name is DJ Paris. I am your host and guide through the show and today we have our investor insight monthly episode with Bree Schmidt. Now if you’re not familiar with Bri, let me tell you a little bit about her. Bree Schmidt acquired her first investment property in 2011 and left the corporate world in 2014 when she became a full time real estate investor. She’s the managing broker of Second City Real Estate a full service brokerage working with new investors and seasoned investors looking to expand their knowledge of the industry and their portfolio for utilizes her extensive knowledge of building and managing a portfolio to teach clients all about all aspects of buy and hold investing. Bri teaches how to analyze potential properties, calculating your ROI best practices within marketing and leasing, and also how to be a landlord and build a portfolio. Her job does not end when you close on a property she is always available to help you throughout the process and scale your business. She is the co founder of the Midwest real estate networking summit, which is a nonprofit educational summit for real estate investors. It’s a three day annual event provides new to experienced investors with the tools and connections necessary to build a real estate business. And they just announced their 2020. Next dates. And so if you’re interested in you should if you’re at all interested in real estate investing or working with investors go and attend the Midwest real estate summit to get more information, visit Midwest ar e summit.com. Welcome Bri to welcome back to the show.

Brie Schmidt 2:41Yeah, thank you very much.

D.J. Paris 2:42It’s been a few months we should actually you just had a major life event.