This is where I'm talking about the mindset. You're a mom, you can't just flip houses.
One year I think I made an extra $100,000
doing this flipping thing on the side. I could have been a millionaire years ago.
You're back home with the folks, things are starting to pick up, you finish your bachelor's
degree. Correct, finish my bachelor's degree. So, why the masters and when did those happen? See, this is
where I'm talking about the mindset and this is what we really got to get into. I still was
felt like I was brainwashed you know just being honest that you have to go to school and get a job.
You can't flip houses full time, that's what ended you up in the basement you know
so I stray, I did it on the side and I just kept it as a side hustle honestly for way too long like
I really could have been I say this. I could have been a millionaire years ago if I would have got
out of that mindset that I needed to have a job. So once I finished UConn, we moved back out of
the Paris basement, we moved back to Atlanta, I'm flipping houses but I get a job. I do. I finished
and I got a job, I'm backing mortgages and I'm doing that on the side but I'm smarter now
because I'm able to do five, six, ten deals a year and get an extra 50, 60, one year I think I made
an extra $100,000 doing this flipping thing on the side, exactly. So, that's what I'm like
I might have been crazy because why didn't I just stop doing that and do it full time but
it was really just to please everyone else. Please the parents, please society. You're a mom, you can't
just flip houses, that's for tv you know? So, for many years, I just stayed at a job working and
kept the real estate as a side and I really never got into real estate full time until like 2015
and I graduated that was 2009, 2010. Now, were these concurrent masters or were they
consecutive? So you were a professional student? Correct. I was going to school full-time, I was
working full-time and doing the side hustle and at this point, how many children do you have now?
I have five now that I've given you. So, you would have had another one somewhere. Well here's the
fun thing, we had twins so that's how we jumped from three to five. So, I have the twins in 2017.
oh, so they're just little. Yeah, they're snappers, correct. Oh my goodness and you're doing all that
you're doing? Yes. Okay, so it did it really start to take fire in Atlanta? No pun intended, clearly
no civil war puns, no nothing at all, no burning down Atlanta, nothing at all but I mean did it take-
thank you, thank you very much but is that where the real estate started to take off? Did you have
to go somewhere else? So fun, me just being me. So, we're in Atlanta, my husband
actually never wanted to go back to Atlanta. It was just like- because that was just bad memories.
Remember that was where we lost everything with bankruptcy and 4- and it just represented that for
us so when I finished Connecticut and we went back to Atlanta, he never wanted to go back to Atlanta
but work was there. So we went, working, I'm flipping houses on the side. We only stayed there
for about a year and then we moved to Dallas, Texas. I was reading and doing my research on the
internet about how well Texas was doing, how you know the market, yes and it was very good. It
was very- Dallas was an amazing city so obviously, I moved to Dallas. I started investing in Dallas,
Houston and Austin. Now for those that are paying attention, those are three cities you
just gave away essentially. I mean people can do their own research but why if you have Noelle.
Now is that still good advice? Still good advice. Dallas, Houston, Texas, I'm sorry in Austin.
Austin, especially. Austin especially. Austin is a very educated population. So, Austin is a city
that has the university of Texas so it's the capital of Texas yet it's this college feel
because there's the university is there, there's a lot of tech companies, a lot of California
like Silicon Valley has moved to the Austin area. Well and the nightlife culture is supposedly of the charts.
Yeah, great music scene, yeah, live music especially, great bands. Just an amazing. I love Austin.
Of every city in Texas although I only live there a few months and are invested there,
Austin is an amazing city. So, you're only there a few months, yes, and husband, we'll call him
husband, yeah that's fair. Okay, so by now is he fully on board? I mean is this a partnership
in the purest sense or is he saying honey, you do that, I'm going to focus on music. Correct.
It is awesome. Me doing it by myself. Like I said, my husband really did not have the love for
real estate, still doesn't have it, never really had it. It just kind of was doing his own music
thing and that was when we just decided we would support each other and what we wanted to do. So,
he's writing his songs you know some of them are doing well, some of them aren't and he has the
luxury of a successful wife's business and what she does, correct, and my wife is in real estate.
She's merely an agent but she's in a really hot market, yeah and so I'm starting to see
that I go gosh you know I'm kind of an artsy guy and sometimes I don't make a whole lot
of money but she does pretty dang good and we have five children. Well, awesome. They're kind of
grown up. Wow, what an amazing episode. I hope you really learned a lot. Do you want a successful
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the knowledge that you need to be successful. This is Noelle, to your success. I just always was so
nervous about that I had lost that I almost didn't want to tell people what I was doing. Every market
has its own thing, that's when I started doing the Airbnb stuff. Okay, we're doing this forever.