Our real estate journey began in 2008 when my twin brother and I inherited our first property from our grandmother. She gifted it to us with a tenant already in place, but the story of this home started long before we owned it. Back in 1968, our grandmother acquired this house through a government program. The city needed to build a road and appraised her original property, allowing her to purchase a larger, stronger, all-concrete home at the same price. She never lived in it—she saw its potential as an investment and kept it as a rental for decades. That single decision planted the seed for what would become our family’s real estate legacy. For years, we managed the property as a long-term rental, learning firsthand the power of passive income. In 2018, we used the cash flow from this property to purchase our second investment—a $10K fixer-upper from a kind neighbor I call my “second mom.” She believed in us so much that she offered the property with $0 down for one year. This was our first rehab project, and once completed, it became another cash-flowing rental. By 2023, we refinanced our first property and used the funds to acquire two more properties—one as a long-term rental (LTR) and the other as a short-term rental (STR) on Airbnb.