Ola Dantis went from asking "is this it? We do this and we die?" to sourcing about $40 million in real estate. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Ola talk about the expensive detour and why motivation without skill is a liability.
In this episode:
- The costly detour into flipping, chased because HGTV made it look easy: "that two year gap, it almost felt like 10 years."
- The line that anchors it: "there's always a price to pay, and there's never a discount. You always have to pay the full price."
- What saved him: a mentor group and relentless reps, not raw motivation.
- The warning: without the skill set "you're just gonna be like what I call a motivated fool."
- Abel's version of the shortcut trap: a coworker who Googled the answers he was paid to know.
Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.
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