Retired At 40 years old (Busy Professional To Full Time Investor)

[Rahul Visal]

Just joined the BP site and wanted to put my 2 cents in. I started like most immigrants. You come to America the land of opportunity. You work and make money. You save and work more and make a little money. You save some more and then you start thinking is that all there is to life. 

I always wanted to invest and do something on my own since I finished college back in India but you get a job and rat race starts. 

Well happy to say that I started investing seriously and with 18 months accumulated about 14 properties. Rest is history as they say. At 40 I was able to walk away from my job. 

It's was big milestone for me because it gave me the freedom to build my own real estate business. I mostly invest in Single Family properties. The goal is get them all paid off before I am 46. At this point I at 53 properties. The goal is 125. 

Just a few short years ago I would never though this was possible. 

[Jeffrey P.]

Originally posted by @Steve Vaughan:

Many congrats @Rahul Visal!  Inspiring story to be sure.  Love how your goal is to pay them off, as that's mine too. 

Are you self-managing?  Your post title says 'retired'.  I have been 'retired' for years, supposedly.  Sometimes this 'passive'  income as a self-manager feels far from retirement!

I wouldn't think 'flips' on a small scale wouldn't be much like retirement, either.  Be careful soft-selling/ promoting other products, especially with only 3 posts.  Congrats all the same if real!

I'm not sure, but it seems like one company that is soft marketing its business.  Rahul, Ed Boutros, Andrew Holmes, Vince Dyer, and possibly some others all work for the same company in Chicago.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing them of spamming the boards or anything like that but a lot of the video material seems (to me, at least) very infomercial-like.  I'll of course give the benefit of the doubt and just assume that they're all excited for each other but something just seems off to me.  I'll be the first to admit I was wrong if my assumptions are off.