Jerome Myers built a portfolio deal by deal into a 120 unit development after 10 banks turned him down. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Jerome talk about turning a dream into proof and rethinking what financial freedom really requires.
In this episode:
- The rejection that became his lesson: "We don't invest in dreams. We invest in proven business plans with proven operators."
- The freedom reframe: "You don't need to replace your income, you need to replace your expenses."
- The honest cost of self teaching: "I was listening to 40 hours of podcast content as I was self educating. It was by far the most inefficient and ineffective way to get to the place that I've gotten to."
- Why proof beats promise: knowledge without curation leaves you frustrated and overconfident.
- Abel's passive first playbook: "I just leveraged experienced people, the best people in my network, and that's where I learned on the ropes."
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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