Scaling from single-family to commercial multifamily to retire from W2 jobs definitely has challenges. Tune in to this episode where Javier Gomez and Amanda Barker talk about developing communications to grow a business and the role of partnership to achieving financial freedom.

Key Takeaways To Listen For

• Building relationship and connections
• Ways to handle investing as a couple and business partners
• Benefits of hands-on property management
• Finding off-market deals
• Scaling multifamily unit deals 
• Importance of communication
• Taking action to improve a business model

About Javier Gomez and Amanda Barker

Javier is a Senior Product Manager with 8 years of experience in eCommerce and a former eCommerce start-up founder. He has an MBA from The University of Chicago – Booth School of Business and an undergraduate degree in Finance from Loyola Marymount University. 

Amanda is a CPA and Big 4 IT consultant by day in her W2 job with 10 years of experience. She has a Master’s in Accounting from the University of Montana.  Amanda grew up loving real estate, shadowing her Real Estate Broker mom and pretending to file paperwork, from a young age.  

Amanda and Javier met in Seattle, WA and fell in love over their mutual love of real estate. Within the past 7 months, Javier and Amanda have purchased 9 single-family and small multi-family units in the Cleveland market as out-of-state investors. They are currently scaling their business to commercial multi-family deals with the goal of retiring from their W2 jobs within the next 3 years.  

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