How This Teacher Reached Financial Independence with Rentals

22:12The impetus for that was because I was gone all the time, I couldn't really be involved in the local real estate market. And I wanted to have my hands in it a little bit more. So I found a job working actually for the state, for the state health department here in Idaho. So I started doing that and it wasn't a ton of money, but the benefits were great. And it allowed me to be here to go look at possible deals and network a little bit better. So because of these heart issues that my son had, my wife took a leave of absence from work. And in the meantime, we had spent so much time managing properties that she kind of just put some feelers out with some friends of hers at rental properties and said, hey, I'm looking for a little more income.

22:47I'm interested in possibly managing properties. Just on the side, we started this little property management company and that started really getting steam and picking up. And that in combination with our equity growth and the rent growth, it all kind of like came together over the course of a two or three year period where we just created an opportunity for us to go all in on real estate at that point. What two or three year period was that? That was between like 2015 and 2018 when things really started taking off for us. That corresponds with Boise really beginning to come into its own before the flood of Californians moved there when COVID hit, right?

23:21But still, you're seeing a ton of appreciation, again, like you said, just like Denver. But it seems to all come together at that point. It only took you 11, 12, 13, 14 years of patience in your market to realize that boom. But man, it seems to have hit. And I imagine that's when a lot of lifestyle factors or things began to get a little looser for you guys. Yeah, I mean, essentially what had happened was between the few property management contracts my wife had taken on and the cash flow we were getting from our properties, we didn't have a grand plan. I don't have a spreadsheet that I plug in every deal.

23:53I'm not a big planner. I'm kind of more like I jump in headfirst and then figure things out later. I came home from work one day and my wife just said, hey, I'm going to need to get a little bit of help with the property management thing. We need more handyman help. and I was going through all of our finances and basically our cashflow was about what my paychecks were at my job anyway. And we started running numbers on what we were paying for contractors to go do kind of basic handyman stuff that I could do anyway on all the properties we were managing. She was like, I think you can quit your job.

24:21And I thought she was joking. We hadn't even been talking about this. It was just one day after work. I think you can quit your job. And we spent probably 10 minutes talking about what it would look like. And I went in the next day and quit my job. And the rest is history, honestly. Tell me about this property management business that you built from there. and how meaningful that became for you guys. It's actually been great. We had a handful of friends that had properties and they referred us to other people who referred us to other people and that started growing. So when I quit my job, we were managing, or she was doing on her own, but it was about 35 or 40 properties.

24:49And that was a lot for her to do on her own. And so what I did was I took night classes to get a real estate license. And the idea was we're going to talk to our clients about doing 1031 exchanges and maybe extending their portfolios. And so I can kind of handle some of that while I'm pitching it with the property management thing. But it almost immediately blew up for us. And I started doing deals with friends and family members and referrals that we were getting from property management. And she had to hire other people. I had to bring other people on to help me with real estate deals. And honestly, I shouldn't say immediately, but so you guys like to talk specific numbers and without getting into like the nitty gritty, I quit my, my state job, my, my day job in May and between May and December, May 2015?

25:32No, sorry, this was 2018. 2018. Yeah, so the property management thing was building up over that period. And then 2018, I quit my job. So between May and December in 2018, in real estate commissions, I made as much as I would have made the entire year at my day job. And then the next year, commissions were five times what my day job would have been. And every year thereafter, it's been 15 to 20 times what my income was before. And it's something that I love. It's super fun. And that's fed our property management company, which has become its own beast. I'm actually, I'm in my office right now in our building, but we just, we had a lot of building last year just to house our staff and there's other suites.

26:08We're renting them out to other people. But the real estate thing took off. The property management thing took off. We manage almost 350 properties now in Boise. And those things all together, it's been a really interesting way that everything feeds each other because now we have the ability to go out and do more deals like we want to do for ourselves. But in addition to that, because of the work that we do, we're really integrated into the community here that's investing and wholesaling properties and developing infill deals and that sort of thing just due to the nature of what we do. A lot of people right now are in a position where they bought a bunch of properties from 2015 to 2022, and they've got those properties and they're not really going anywhere.

26:49This is something that's going on with my portfolio, and we kind of hear it from a lot of people. They're locked into these low interest rate debt loans here. They really can't refinance them. It's different than 2007, 2008, because there is equity in a majority of these folks' positions. But what can we learn from your experience going through 2007 to 2011 and the 10-year grind, I would say, from 2007, I'm hearing, to 2017, 2018, when it actually began to provide the propulsive tailwind to the big business and what I imagine is the explosion in wealth and income that you enjoy today? You know, Brandon Turner used to always say this on BiggerPockets too, that real estate investing, it's a marathon, not a sprint.

27:37And I think a lot of people come in having watched some reels or read a book and feel like they should be able to take extreme action and have extreme results really quickly. And I'm not saying that that's impossible, but it's not terribly likely that that's going to happen. And I usually use an analogy with a lot of clients that I work. So all the people that will call me and will meet for coffee will come into our office and they have no resources and no experience. And their expectations are that they're going to quit their job within a month and they're going to quadruple their salary because Grant Cardone said that they could do that.

28:08while that is possible for certain people with certain personalities, I think a more reasonable balance approach is similar to what I did. And I'm not an incredibly intelligent person. I don't have a lot of resources. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. The reason that I'm successful is partially because my timing was good and I have had some luck. Your timing was terrible. Your timing was absolutely awful from what I can tell, right? Like you bought in 2001, sure. And then there was a run-up, but you just told us that all your properties were underwater going into the recession, which means you bought these three properties and then you financed them to the hilt and you went into the recession in the most vulnerable possible position that you could have at that point in time.

28:50Is that the right way to read what happened here? You know what? That's a much more accurate view of it, I guess. I've always kind of looked at myself as being a little bit lucky, but if you look at it through that perspective, yeah, I did buy at a terrible time. And I guess I was just willing to put up with the pain and discomfort for longer than anybody else I knew was. Again, I'm inferring this, but I believe that you guys were in a position of pretty heavy scarcity for a good 10 years or so to get through that dynamic because of that bad timing. I think you bought in 2001 and up to 2007. And because of that leverage, it wasn't until 2012, 2013, where things began to loosen up.

29:26That's a long time to float these deals, basically, to begin getting the payoff at that point. That's true. But also I could not have bought properties any other way. I didn't have the means to do it any other way through that entire period. And so even when the market crashed and everything was cheap, no one was going to give me a loan and I certainly didn't have cash. And so going upside down and going through that in those properties would have been the only way that someone with my means and experience could have done it. Yes. And what I'm saying is I don't think that that, like, I think a lot of people that were with your means and experience gave up and let the properties go.

29:57Yeah. That's a good point. that's the challenge people are grappling with right now. I don't know this time is different. Every time is different, but I think that, and I don't think that many people are underwater, maybe outside of like Florida, Austin, Texas, and a couple of those markets. But I think that's the question is like, do I just sell this thing? It's a pain in the rear. It hasn't gone anywhere in a few years. And that payoff comes so far down the road, it seems like in terms of the compounding experience. And in your case, I think what it really did, I'm inferring here, and I would love to see if you agree or disagree, but I think what it really did is it built credibility for you with these lenders, the investors in the community who saw what you were doing over 10 years and not going anywhere, not going anywhere, not going anywhere.

30:37And then that all of a sudden exploded into business and referrals that are very goodwill coming into 2018 and 2019 when you made it your job. How's that? Am I getting close? I can't argue with that at all. I mean, and I, to be honest with you in our business now, I use the story that I'm telling you pretty regularly, just so that people can see that I didn't come from a lot and I've done it all. I mean, I've cleaned toilets. The stuff that I've hauled out of houses is unbelievable. And none of that stuff bothers me. I mean, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make a deal work. And so that's part of it.

31:10But also I have the experience and the history to see that if you're holding property over a long period of time, it makes it really hard to lose. If you buy a property that there's a little bit equity in it and it's paying for itself or a little bit better that over time, it's probably just going to get sweeter and sweeter and sweeter, but you have to put up with the pain and discomfort in the meantime. A lot of people, that's tough. They still want to have a nice car and they still want to eat at a nice restaurant every weekend. And we went a long time without doing that. I've still, I've never bought a new car myself.

31:42I've never owned a new car in my life. I still don't. I'm curious about your response to this, but the way I, my brain works is I set a goal. I have a very clear end state that I want to work towards. And then I engineer the most efficient path to that end state. I don't think that's what you're doing here with your portfolio. I think you bought these properties and then you push through, you got this job, you built a property management company, or at least you didn't up to the point in the story that we're at. Is that accurate? And if not, what was your goal? What is your goal? What is the end state vision that you're working towards here?

32:12No, I think that that's completely accurate. When I bought that first house and turned it into a rental a couple of years later, my mindset at the time was that I'm going to be a teacher for my entire life. I think the first lease I had on the house was$700 a month that I rented it out for $700 a month. And my payment was like$625. And so in my mind, if by the time I retired, inflation and all that came together and that house would run out for$1 ,000, which that was what my mind thought at the time was that 30 years from then rent was going to be$1 ,000, not$700. But that would be an extra thousand bucks in my pocket every month.

32:42And I didn't think beyond that. I just thought like maybe my retirement's gonna be a couple thousand bucks a month from teaching. This will be another thousand dollars in my pocket and we can go on another weekend away a couple of times a year. That was as far as my goals went at that time. And as we've done more and more of this, honestly, I don't have an end goal. I love the process so much. And that's why my wife and I are a really great match because I tend to just jump into things that I have a feel for. If I think that there's equity or there's a deal, I'll just jump into it. And then she comes behind me and she sweep up the mess and figure out the numbers and make sure that I'm behaving myself and that everything will line up the way that I hope it will in the end.

33:20And so we're a pretty good team in that regard. We're big believers in like rocket fuel, the idea that each one of our personalities kind of offsets each other's weaknesses and strengths. And we've been fortunate enough to bring people on to work on our team that fulfill other needs that we have. I probably got way off from what you were asking, but I generally don't have an end goal beyond the deal that I'm working on at that time. And when I get to the end of that, I figure out how to dispose of it. Coming into every deal, when I'm done, is it going to cash flow and will there be equity? And I have basic criteria that I want to see for each one of those, and I think it's going to do it.

33:57Then I'll do the deal. And then when we get to the end, I'll figure out if we're going to keep it or sell it based on how the numbers panned out. This is fun because I feel like what we are so used to here at BiggerPocketsMoney is like, here's my number, I'm going to hit it, and I'm going to do this. And there's none of that here. It sounds more like a game of Monopoly where they're just continuing to move on to the next piece. Can you tell us about what a day in the life looks like or how you are? Are you able to enjoy any of this wealth that you've created in this major income stream that you've built with these businesses?

34:28What does the life of Corby look like today? My life is amazing. Honestly, dude, I mean, when talking about luck, I really do feel like the luckiest person out there. One of the things my wife and I connected on originally when we first started our journey was that we both wanted to travel. When I was a kid, I had never been west of the Rockies. I didn't get on a plane until I was 19 years old. And I wanted to see the world. And I had no idea what that looked like. And she traveled a little bit more than me, but not a lot. And that was something that we really connected on. We didn't have a quantitative goal, but we both, that was what we wanted to do.

34:57Find a way that we could travel as much as we could. And so now we have three little boys, little, they're, they're 13, 10 and nine right now. But we, as a family, we travel about four months a year. We can do our work pretty much from anywhere in the world. And part of it is because we have really cool people that we work with that kind of do some boots on the ground stuff. But I can, I can do my part from anywhere in the world. So we travel a lot, which is awesome. But beyond that, like, I'll tell you what today looked like. This is a pretty standard day. I got up and went to the gym, came back and kind of helped get the kids ready for school.

35:26walked to school with the kids, came to the office, and we just ordered a conference table that came last night. So I put the conference table together. We had our staff meeting at our new conference table at 10 o 'clock. I went and had lunch with a general contractor who's going to start building some ADUs for us and for our clients. And now I'm on a BiggerPockets podcast. So it's all over the place. I have a couple of clients that want to go look at properties later today. And part of the beauty of what I do working as a real estate agent with investors is I can go look at those properties anytime.

35:54And I just do video walkthroughs and send them to them. So I'm not dependent on their schedule. They're not dependent on my schedule. I'll go do a video walkthrough, send it over to them. And who knows, maybe I'll be writing an offer later tonight, but these days at home and when I'm working every day is totally different, but we spend a lot of time traveling too. And honestly, all of it is fun for me. I love coming back from our vacations because day-to-day life is so interesting anyway. That's a wonderful life that you've constructed for yourself. And I think that it's a combination of luck and resilience really that have driven this, but I would say resilience more for those first 10 years.

36:28And if there's been luck, it's probably been in the Boise market, being in the Boise market specifically from that 2015 point to the present. But you had to endure some real challenges to get to that point. One other framework I think that you're going to blow up for me here is in terms of portfolio construction, I think that a rational approach, or at least the one that I would apply to my finances, is this concept of a very aggressive accumulation portfolio until you get to your number and then a more conservative breakdown at that point, something like paying off the rentals, for example, or using much less leverage.

36:59But if you go on to then build a huge business that produces way more income than you can spend any given year, you way overshoot the need for that conservative portfolio and you can get aggressive again and keep leveraging up everything and why not maximize ROI and think about it as a mathematical expression. Did that pattern manifest at all in your portfolio? Or have you just been consistently aggressive with the portfolio returns and optimizing for ROI the entire way through? We're probably just as aggressive as we were before, as far as leverage. It's just that we have a bigger cushion on the backend, which is nice.

37:33It's not as stressful as it used to be. And so now if we buy a single family home and it cash flows 200 bucks a month, that's fine. It can sit in the background and we can wait and let that grow. Where we've really been able to to kind of lean in is because of the businesses we built and the people that we're working with, it's been really fun because now people bring us deals and ask us to partner with them on them. And so I'm getting into stuff now where I know nothing, but I have a partner who they have all the knowledge and they need other support. They might need help fundraising or they might need some capital or something like that.

38:05And so the way that we've approached things have changed. And that's been really the fun part is that we have this portfolio in the background that we grow. So I'm not aggressively out looking for deals, but because of what we do, a couple of times a year, something will come across our plate that works for us and we'll make a move. And beyond that, we're out doing deals for other people. And sometimes we're working with them on a flip. Sometimes we're helping them get entitlements done on some property that they have that we're going to manage on the back end. There's just, it's so much different than just building a portfolio.

38:31There's just all these little things that we have our fingers in and I'm learning every single day and every single day is different. And it's changed the way that we make money. We've been fortunate enough to get to the point where not only is our own personal portfolio kicking off money, but we can also use some of the capital that we've raised to do hard money loans or finance flips and partner with people and that kind of stuff. So it's a whole different beast than it used to be. And when that kicks off a little bit more money, then maybe that's what we use on the next buy and hold property.

38:59And then we start the process all over. Do you take full advantage of the real estate professional status, the losses from buying new properties, and then the benefits of being a business owner and using huge deferral amounts in solo 401ks and that kind of stuff? Absolutely. Not as much on the retirement account side of things. But I mean, the reason I'm sitting in this building, we closed on this building on like December 27th for that very specific reason is that we wanted to have the accelerated appreciation for this last year. And it was already in service because we had tenants. We inherited it with tenants already in place.

39:31And so, yeah, absolutely. That's become a big part of our strategy is making sure that we're taking advantage of all the tax benefits of owning property and being self-employed. One follow-up question there. Thank you, by the way. This is, I have a lot of fun with this. Sure, sure. You know, I'm having a blast. Wonderfully transparent with how you do all this stuff. On the depreciation side, if you buy a lot of properties, lever them up, and cost seg them, then the recapturable basis on sale is much lower than your loan amount, presumably, or very close to that. Because you have to pay taxes when you sell it because you've taken the depreciation, you've got to recapture that.

40:05Do you ever think about that in the context of your portfolio as a risk in continuously buying, keeping pretty high leverage, it sounds like, across the portfolio, and using this rapid depreciation that will eventually have to be recaptured? How do you think about that in the context of when you think about your net worth? This is not really great financial advice, but I'm not really a worrier. I don't stress out about stuff very much. And so for me, the way that I look at that is it's funny. I'm actually going to meet with our accountant here in a couple of weeks and talk about this exact same thing and have kind of quick overview of what we've got.

40:37Because I know that we have a handful of properties now that have kind of lived their useful life in that regard. And so what we'll most likely do is 1031 those and scale those up too. So I've got a couple single family homes. As a matter of fact, that first house I bought, I might sell it this year because it's producing good cash flow, but we've used all the depreciation out of that property. And I could sell that and take the equity and buy a fourplex or an eight unit and kind of start that clock all over again. Obviously, we'd be re-upping our leverage and increasing our risk in that way. But by moving that equity, it won't really affect our cash flow in any way.

41:08It'll give us a higher depreciable basis on that next property. And so I plan to just continue doing that as long as I can, having faith in our market that there will always be demand for the products that we're buying and that we'll manage them well and treat our tenants well, and that it'll continue to be a win for us and for our tenants and the people we work with. Tell us about the market in Boise right now. At the risk of asking a local broker and wholesaler, is it a good time to buy? Is it a good time to buy? Can you find good deals in that market right now? You know, the funny thing is the short version of that, of course, I'm going to say yes.

41:42That's the short answer. Of course, I'm going to say yes for a lot of different reasons. But the reality of it is I get phone calls like this from people all the time. Is it a good time to buy and are there good deals? And it's kind of a loaded question because a good deal is very dependent on where you are in life and what your risk tolerance is. And there's give and take to everything. For instance, if you bought a single family home in Boise right now, that was sort of turnkey that you could rent out right away, you'd probably for an entry level home, spend $350 ,000. You probably rent it out for$2 ,200, something like that right now.

42:11I'm a firm believer that over time that our market will continue to appreciate and rents will continue to go up. We don't have a vacancy problem or a demand problem here. Demand is huge. Vacancy is incredibly low. On the long-term rental side of things, the Boise area has not been over 2 % vacancy for nearly a decade now. So that's not really an issue here. It's more of an issue with wages supporting appreciation and all the challenges that people have with income right now. but demand is really high. There's high quality tenants here is probably the most property owner and landlord friendly state in the country.

42:45It's just small and there's not a lot of people here. Anyway, I'm kind of going off on a tangent, but the difference is that over time properties here, I think are going to appreciate significantly, maybe not actually the year after. What's a bread and butter deal that a investor, a retail mom and pop investor buying their first through fifth rental is buying with you these days? We do a lot of deals on small multis and single family homes, but kind of bread and butter deals. We do rehabs for our clients too. And I'm not trying to give a sales pitch, but part of the thing is, is our business is really built on return businesses.

43:14So I want to make sure that every deal we do with somebody works really great for them. And so we'll handle rehabs for them as project managers. We don't charge fees or anything like that because I want them to have as much equity as possible on the backend. Anyhow, we do a lot of deals on single family homes here that are kind of in that 300 to maybe 325 range that are cosmetic fixers. Generally they're putting 20 to maybe$40 ,000 into those. And we end up with an ARV in the 400 to 425 range. We rent those out for 2200 bucks. So depending on their financing, they might be cash flowing a little bit, but they've got a chunk of equity.

43:45And if we ride that for a while, I think that those are going to be good long-term investments. But the kicker for me and with the clients that I work with is if the property is not taking money out of your pocket every month, if it's cash flowing in some way, and you have a minimum of 20 % equity, you have options. And as long as you have those two things in place, if you don't like the deal when the rehab's done or what the rent is going to look like, then you sell it. You make a couple of dollars, you move on to the next thing. In my opinion, when people start really leaning into the cashflow and they're giving up equity or terms, they can get backed into a corner.

44:13And so that equity, a lot of people, and I know it's kind of the old school, bigger pockets thing, but talking about cashflow is the only thing that matters. But if you're only talking about cashflow, you only have one exit strategy in a property and that can be a dangerous place to be. Well, love it. What would you say would be the number one tip you have for somebody who's stuck or unsure in today's market, what would you tell them to do? What's the one action they can take? The one action you can take is get out and talk to people who have done what you want to do. And I know you talk about this a lot, Scott, but I mean, house hacking your first property, it is, like you said, pushing all the chips into your favor.

44:47You're going to have to pay to live somewhere. You're going to be paying somebody else's mortgage down and building equity for somebody else if you're not doing it for yourself. So if you house hack a multi and get roommates, rent out another unit, that sort of thing. In almost any market in the country, if you lean really hard into that, it's going to be really hard to not cash flow positively, especially if you're taking your own living expenses into account. I think that that's absolutely the best way to start is for somebody to house hack a small multifamily, especially if there's a value add component where they can do some landscaping, some paint, take really good care of that.

45:16I think that that's the first place to start. But beyond that, just getting out and networking and talking to other people who are doing it. Every town has a group of investors that they get together on a regular basis. And there's usually Facebook groups, definitely Reddit chats about people that are out doing this kind of stuff. And just connecting with other people who are doing it, you'd be shocked at the resources that are out there and the other people who have a skill or resource that you don't have that are looking for somebody that has what you have. And if you are new to this, you might have time or energy that other people don't have that they could make good use of.

45:45Well, is there anything else that you'd like to share before we kind of wrap up here, Corby? I want everybody who's listening to this who has never done a deal or you're thinking about getting into real estate or something like that, I'm just a firm believer that building wealth through real estate is something that literally anybody can do. I don't care where you are financially. You might not be able to buy a house tomorrow, but you can start taking steps on your journey to doing something six months or a year from now. Growing and scaling is something that anybody can do. And I think anybody could be living the life that I live.

46:13And I feel very, very fortunate to do that. But like you said, I didn't start year one and say, this is what my life's going to look like in a year. It was something that took us a really long long time to get to. And I didn't go into it with any preconceived notion. So I think just understanding that anybody can do this and having realistic expectations that it's going to take some time. But as far as I know, it's the only way for an average person to truly change the trajectory of their life is through going in and buying real estate and influencing the value of that and managing it well and holding on as long as you can.

46:43Well, congratulations on the 25 years career that you've had in real estate in Boise, the resilience to get through the Great Recession, I would argue you had terrible timing. I really think that's the case, especially because, not because the 2001 purchase probably did fine in that case, but the ones that came later that had financing attached to them and the refinance, presumably you did in the first one, close to that recession. I think that's a real challenge to get through. And the rewards, I don't think, really did show up for you in terms of lifestyle and opportunity until 2012, 2013 from this set of decisions.

47:17And then they began to really compound and explode. And wow, congratulations on the huge portfolio and the big business that you've built today and the wonderful reputation you have on BiggerPockets and the BiggerPockets Money Facebook group, BiggerPockets forums, and locally in Boise and around the country as an expert in real estate. So, I mean, you've really built something impressive here and it has not been all luck like we started out with. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And honestly, your perspective about maybe timing being terrible, it's something I have to think about. And it actually is another great kind of feather in my cap that I can use to encourage people to take some action and make some moves.

47:54So I appreciate that. Thanks. Yeah, man. If you just saved a bunch of cash and then you'd accumulated that and put it into a CD or something for those 10 years, and then you went in in 2012, 2013, you might have even gotten more wealthy than that. I don't know. I don't know what that's. I was not making any money, but. Fair enough. Okay, fair enough. I think that would be really interesting for you to do a counterfactual and say, what is the other alternative I could have invested in at this time? And how would it have performed relative to that real estate? Because I think your real estate crushed it from the last 15 years.

48:24And I think it stunk probably from a returns perspective in those first 10 years, relatively speaking. But I could be wrong. No, no, no. No, I love that perspective. I'm actually going to go back and do that. I'll follow up with you. I could be completely wrong. That's just a guess at the top of this. But where can people find out more about you, Corby? I post on BiggerPockets whenever I can. So I'm on there quite a bit. They can jump on our website. It's just boiceturnkey.com. I blog on there pretty regularly. And in all honesty, if anybody's listening to this and they just want to chat real estate or they want some advice, my email is on our website.

48:51Shoot me an email, shoot me a text. I'm happy to chat with anybody, even if you're not anticipating doing business with me or in my market. If there's some way that I can help somebody out there, I love giving back. So don't be shy. Corby, how many forum posts do you have again? I have no idea. A couple thousand, I think. I'm not sure. You are a power contributor for the BiggerPockets forum here, but thousands of posts. You're all over the BiggerPockets money group, the BiggerPockets group. Thank you for all you do. It's just wonderful. Yeah, it's my pleasure. We didn't talk a whole lot about it.

49:173 ,250 posts with 33 ,000 votes. All right. It's funny. I always want to have more votes than posts. So if my posts get up too high, I'll wait for the votes to get up there. But we didn't mention earlier when I was really getting into this is when BiggerPockets was really starting. And I connected with some local people through BiggerPockets here that I never would have connected with otherwise. And hearing other people around the country doing the same stuff on the podcast, it was awesome. And so BiggerPockets has been a huge part of my experience too. And so I appreciate what you guys do. Well, thanks for being part of the community and sharing that and look forward to staying in touch.

49:48Thanks for having me on. And that was Corby Goad. Go check him out. He's all over BiggerPockets forums. He's in the BiggerPockets Money Facebook group, and he has been a wonderful friend to BiggerPockets and to me personally and supporting me online in particular over the past 10 years. So really grateful to him and many of the other folks who contribute regularly to our forums. It's always fantastic, especially to get to meet those folks in person at various points. I thought that it was pretty interesting that Corby thought he was really lucky. And in some ways, he was lucky, right? Being a Boise real estate investor, you experience some of the hottest real estate appreciation in the country during one stretch there from 2015 to probably 2022.

50:26But there was a lot of trial and error, and it wasn't always like that for the first 10, 15 years of Corby's career. So I think it's a pretty interesting lesson there in that these appreciation waves come in waves, come in cycles, it's kind of hard to predict them. And that staying power can really be beneficial over long periods of time. So maybe that's a lesson for folks that are struggling through challenging rental dynamics today. I think there's a lot of really good arguments that with lower supply on the horizon in real estate, there's a good argument to be made that this is potentially close to maximum pressure, maximum pain in many markets around the country, and that things will abate over the next several years.

51:04We'll see if that comes true, but that's something that I would probably be biased towards at this point. And I've said so publicly on a couple of past BiggerPockets appearances. If you'd like to get more financial independence information, head to biggerpocketsmoney.com to sign up for our weekly newsletter. And you can also find free resources at biggerpocketsmoney.com slash resources. You can find calculators there in the navigation bar and templates that we're building to accelerate your FI journey. This is a big project of mine for 2026. We're building these templates, financial plan templates, calculators, There's front end apps, those kinds of things.

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