Sarah Weaver: Adventure Awaits
Ever Wish you could travel the world without care?! Is that even possible???
Sarah Weaver, real estate entrepreneur and self-proclaimed nomad has made it work!
Sarah Weaver is a world traveler, a real estate investor and entrepreneur, a coach, and a consultant at Sarah Weaver Coaching. Sarah first fell in love with Real Estate in Austin, TX where she began her career as a real estate agent with Keller Williams Realty. Sarah also organizes retreats for business owners and real estate investors providing the most current information that impacts their investments. In order to motivate real estate agents to concentrate on developing their own portfolios, Sarah conducts seminars for real estate brokerages. Sarah launched Arya Design Services to fill a market gap for investors to furnish, strategically design, and fully launch a furnished rental.
Sarah now works remotely from different parts of the world while assuring that all of her clients achieve measurable results. She has adopted a nomadic lifestyle since January 2019 and has traveled to 44 countries on 6 continents. She travels to different countries to teach agents, furnish Airbnb for clients, and host retreats for entrepreneurs, while doing this she has learned how to invest wisely in her own properties thereby freeing up her TIME to do the things she loves to do.
Show notes
[01:32] How Sarah was able to live the nomadic lifestyle she want through real estate
- Sarah had a first job where she can work remotely but eventually realized that she can’t do the things she wants because she still worked 9-5.
- She found real estate investing, started buying “boring buildings”, owning small multi-families in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and realizing that she could live off that cash flow
- She was a real estate agent in 2015 and met someone who helped agents scale
[04:10] The pitfall of doing everything yourself
- “Where do my skillset fit best and where do I fall short, and is there money to hire someone who’s better at that”
- Find someone who could do it better
[05:50] Tasks that don’t bring joy to Sarah
- Anything related to bookkeeping
- She doesn’t want to proofread what she’d written
[06:35] Sarah’s first real estate property
- Sarah was living in Colorado renting and wasn’t able to make the numbers work
- She bought a 1942 Cape Cod in Kansas
- It was a lot of YouTube, tears, and help from her father with remodeling her first house
- It took only took 9 weeks for them to finish remodeling
[11:26] Sarah’s next adventures after her first remodeling
- Sarah went to Europe for 3 months, traveled all over the U.S. while collecting rent checks that covered her entire mortgage
- It took her a year and a half to do another real estate deal
- Live the most meaningful life in the moment
- Speaking to other agents gave her the confidence to public speaking and connections with other real estate agents
[15:37] Teaching real estate agents become work-optional through investing in real estate
- People assume that real estate agents don’t know what to look for in a rental property, place tenants, or manage their assets
- Sarah teaches them how to build and grow their own real estate portfolio
- You can work with Sarah on group coaching for a 15-week program
- Sarah also hosts intimate retreats for real estate agents who are eager to learn in-person
- There is a need for accountability and a clear strategy for real estate agents
[20:30] Sarah’s real estate properties and goals
- The goal is to invest in larger spaces
- Sarah now manages a total of 19 units
- She has to let go of her property management sooner or later
[26:44] Sarah’s design company
- They help investors launch their Airbnb or medium-term rental
- A medium-term rental is for 30 days or more rental
- They will do curated design, house manual, get listed on Airbnb, etc
- They’ve done 19 units in 9 different states
[31:30] How Sarah find properties in the U.S. from Guatemala
- You can’t Google the best markets
- Sarah found an incredible investor-friendly agent who sends her deals
[34:27] Sarah’s strategy given the current market condition
- Sarah isn’t slowing down but only buying really good deals
- She is using a medium-term rental strategy to maximize profits and create great cash on cash returns
Sarah Weaver is a world traveler, a real estate investor and entrepreneur, a coach, and a consultant at Sarah Weaver Coaching. Sarah first fell in love with Real Estate in Austin, TX where she began her career as a real estate agent with Keller Williams Realty. Sarah also organizes retreats for business owners and real estate investors providing the most current information that impacts their investments. In order to motivate real estate agents to concentrate on developing their own portfolios, Sarah conducts seminars for real estate brokerages. Sarah launched Arya Design Services to fill a market gap for investors to furnish, strategically design, and fully launch a furnished rental.
Sarah now works remotely from different parts of the world while assuring that all of her clients achieve measurable results. She has adopted a nomadic lifestyle since January 2019 and has traveled to 44 countries on 6 continents. She travels to different countries to teach agents, furnish Airbnb for clients, and host retreats for entrepreneurs, while doing this she has learned how to invest wisely in her own properties thereby freeing up her TIME to do the things she loves to do.
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