My first year investing in apartments, from 0 to 633 doors!

[Damian Leonard]

My wife and I have saved and invested in the stock market for 15 years. Tired of the up and down anxiety that the market was giving and is still giving me, I decided to make a goal to find out how to get in at least 300 doors. I joined a local apartment education and networking group here in DFW, and was able to meet a bunch of like minded investors, became a passive investor in 5 complexes across three states, and a key partner in a class A in Ohio, and am currently making offers of my own that I will syndicate to other investors. Currently invested in 633 doors, and want to be over 1000 doors by the end of the year. I am doing this full time and trying to retire my wife in the next few years. It is an exciting business, and provides passive income, and a better lifestyle, giving me the flexibility to spend more time coaching my girls soccer teams, and doing fun things as a family. Bigger Pockets has been a great source of motivation over the last couple of years as well. I listen to every podcast. It is all about the team that you surround yourself with. I'm always looking to add strategic potential partners to my team. Connect with me! Cheers!

[Aaron Mazzrillo]

Posts like this really should require more transparency. Claiming you are invested in 633 doors without disclosing your actual percentage of ownership and instead putting up a headline that implies you own 633 doors is braggadocios. Congrats on your success, but I could own a Manhattan skyscraper with a minor $25,000 investment into a REIT. Posting on here that I went from single family houses to a 50 story skyscraper in a year without telling people I actually handed my money over to a REIT or a syndicator for a small fractional interest and I was laying in bed at night praying things worked out (they often don't) is blatantly misleading.