Retired Software Engineer Looking To Add Free Value To Storage Owner Operator
About Me
2012-2016
I dominated the competition in UIL Competitive Programming and Math in a suburb of Houston, TX and worked a part-time job after school for $18/hr doing some full stack work for a national water resources website (back when websites were rendered server-side and AJAX was cutting edge for dynamic sites).
2016-2020
I got my Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. I joined Phi Kappa Psi, a community of extremely high caliber individuals and made friends with guys who want the most out of life, guys who refuse to settle in any aspect of their lives family relationships, friendships, health, fitness, sports, education, hobbies, guys who put their foot forward and create the reality they live in. I started consuming books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, How To Win Friends and Influence People, Richest Man In Babylon, Getting To Yes, Never Split The Difference, Cashflow Quadrant, The 4 Agreements and then I found Tom Bilyeu's reading list (Mindset, Extreme Ownership, Can't Hurt Me, Man's Search For Meaning, ... the list goes on but here's the first few for those to lazy to click the link) which is absolute GOLD and I have been tearing my way through this ever since. I also started religiously following BiggerPockets content (podcasts, videos, forum posts, and what feels like every book they've published, the whole nine yards) and running the numbers and writing financial models in software (I've always trash talked excel because finance guys would be blown away by what you can really do with software :) ).
2020-2021
I worked as a Software Engineer for 363 days.
I was living in Austin, TX in an apartment working remote for what I would describe as a Venture Capitalist 2.0 Company. They are a software consulting company that doesn't just use the typical model of hiring software engineers at $75-150/hr and billing them out to the client at $200-400/hr. They did this, and did it well, but they made the most of their money because they invested in a top talent team and they find companies that have solid revenue and one or both of the following pain points: raising capital, antiquated tech that doesn't handle real scale. Raising capital and high scale applications were our bread and butter. They would take a 25-49% equity stake in companies and do the consulting work basically at cost, solve the companies bottlenecks, make the companies successful, and sell the equity.
The last client I worked on
Working on drivers for fall detection sensors used in senior facilities. Designing the software architecture to support the load of thousands of those sensors in the field producing millions of messages a day, run computations on the edge, and ultimately use machine learning to predict falls based on certain statistics. I worked on the sensors, I designed the architecture, I did the devops work, I wrote the application code. All of it.
My software pitch is "If you can describe what you want, I can build it"
In my spare time, I analyzed data and settled on Mobile, AL as the market I wanted to invest in. (Super nice Rent to Price ratio)
I bought a single family home that just needed paint and new floors that has been crushing it for me.
I BRRRR'd another single family home 2 months later and got super close to the famous infinite cash on cash return BRRRR (all in all it is still a 45.88% COCR with the cost basis I was able to achieve)
A few months later, a duplex came on the market in the zipcode I was already investing in and I bought it with my FHA loan as a house hack. I quit my job as a Software Engineer the day after I closed the duplex and got ready to move to Mobile, AL. I was officially financially free.
Today
I am living in half of the duplex with all of my time free'd up. My portfolio has appreciated quite a bit in the last two years and very soon
I will want to get into the self storage space. This asset class has seduced me for quite some time now. I could write a whole different post on all of the reasons why. I want to use my time today learning how the best of the best self storage operators run their business so that in a few years I can move my capital into self storage facilities with confidence.
About You
Growth mindset.
Hard working.
Appreciates communication.
Currently an experience operator of more than 10M AUM in the self storage space.
Looking for free help from a software engineer (software related or not) in exchange for lessons on how to operate a self storage facility.
I will build you whatever you want, help you with whatever you need, and in exchange I expect to learn from a cutting edge operator.
If this is good for you or someone you know, please reach out and make the connection.
