Lauren Stewart is a dermatology PA turned real estate investor and backyard homesteader. She’s a builder of relaxation, turning normal cabins into restful retreats for the last 3 years and running a successful short-term rental business where she turned a $100k investment into a $1.6 million dollar business. She discusses that it’s not easy to be successful in real estate, but with the commitment to learn, work hard, and use resources like online forums and books, they’ve been able to grow her business rapidly.
[00:01 – 04:31] Opening Segment
- Let’s get to know Lauren Stewart!
- Lauren discusses how she got into real estate
- She referenced, “Bigger Pockets Podcast”
[04:32 – 21:32] How To Turn A Small Investment In Short Term Rentals Turned Into A Million Dollar Business
- Lauren discusses how they bought and renovated short term properties
- She wanted to replace her professional income with passive income
- It takes time and discipline to build up savings and assets
- She shares that it’s important to think about your future
[21:33 – 29:08] THE FINAL FOUR
- What's the worst job that you ever had?
- When she worked as a summer camp counselor
- What's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?
- What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
- She wants to relearn how to play the guitar and try to reincorporating that into her life
- What does success mean to you?
- Lauren says that, “Success is being in a place in life where you can control your time and you can decide who you want to spend it with and how you want to spend it.”
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Tweetable Quotes:
“The ultimate goal for us is can we replace our w two income with passive income through real estate and allow us to have the financial and time freedom. The freedom to control their own.” – Lauren Stewart
“Success is being in a place in life where you can control your time and you can decide who you want to spend it with and how you want to spend it, and not having to worry about the ramifications of that.” – Lauren Stewart
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