20 Years in Real Estate: A Journey to Financial Freedom

Stephen Schmidt (00:02.68)
Welcome back to the show where we interview the nation’s leading real estate entrepreneurs. It’s your host Stephen Schmidt and I’m back at it again with another episode for you We’re gonna be bringing a ton of value. I got a real operator in the studio today I got a Aneil Balkissoon in the house and we’re gonna be talking about his experience in the real estate biz He’s been involved for over 20 years Has seen the dips the highs and everything in between my man’s flipped over a thousand properties in his 20 years in the business and as an absolute

Expert so much so he’s probably already forgotten more than most people will ever learn about real estate So we’ll get into it and we’re gonna talk about his expertise and what’s made him successful and what he has to share with all y’all that are Maybe getting started or maybe you’re already established and looking to grow in scale So just remember before we get going at investor fuel we help real estate investors service providers and real estate entrepreneurs 2 to 5x their businesses in order to build the businesses they’ve always wanted

so they can live the lives they’ve always dreamed of. That being said, Aneil, welcome to the show.

ANEIL (01:06.062)
Appreciate it, Steven. Appreciate you having me on here.

Stephen Schmidt (01:08.496)
You bet man, I’m glad to get into our conversation. I know we had a little bit of chance to talk pre-show, but can you for our listeners sake give us a little bit of background? What got you into real estate? I don’t mean to, you my granddad started getting salt and pepper hair in his 30s, but I mean you got some white hairs on you my brother, so I mean 20 years in the business, you know what I mean, it’ll do it to you. But what got you into real estate? Where were you at in life at that point? What made you decide to jump all in? first.

ANEIL (01:26.126)
I got a lot. Yeah.

ANEIL (01:37.378)
Man, like everybody else, freedom, right? You have that hustle, that drive, and that mentality. You’re like, I’m not doing this. No, I think from 14 years old to 19 years old, I probably had like 20 jobs. I was like, I’m not doing this. Yeah, this is not gonna be my thing. So, I mean, really.

Stephen Schmidt (01:41.682)
Mm-hmm.

Stephen Schmidt (01:54.671)
I get it, man. Me too.

Stephen Schmidt (02:01.628)
Yeah.

ANEIL (02:03.436)
I had a rich uncle. I wouldn’t say he was rich. I had an uncle with couple hundred thousand dollars. And I went up to him and I said, know, hey, I can do this. Let’s do this. Why don’t you put up the money and let’s let’s flip a house, you know, put up the money. I’ll do all the work. And from there, you know, we did one house. We made some money.

We did two houses, but he only wanted to do one a year. I was like, man, I can’t make $50,000 a year. That’s not going to work for me. He only wants to do one a year. So I actually started putting out that house. I did to other investors say, hey, I can do this. I could definitely do this. I did it successfully here a couple of times. And then I started looking out, finding partners. And I was doing two at a time, three at a time, four at a time. And now I’m at 20 plus at a time.

Stephen Schmidt (02:52.034)
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ANEIL (02:58.35)
Listen, I have to write a book one day. Don’t worry. Listen. Listen.

I came from a super poor background, brother. I mean, super poor. So I knew I was gonna live like my mom and dad. I mean, I grew up in a super bad area where I actually sold drugs and did… sold drugs and never used drugs. Thank God I did that saying where you don’t use your own supply. So, you know. And I got in trouble as a young kid. I got in trouble because I got busted doing that stuff, you know.

and then it was a hustle game you know and i was always about money for me because i didn’t want to be like my mom dad i didn’t want to stand those food lines because we stood in the food lines we had man christmas those trucks came to our house and delivered gifts i didn’t want to do that you know i didn’t want that in my life i didn’t want that for my kids in my life you know and at that time i didn’t have kids obviously you know now i have four but i

Stephen Schmidt (03:45.041)
Mmm.

ANEIL (03:59.822)
I just didn’t want that in my life and I did bad things to make sure I could, I wouldn’t say they were bad things, selling drugs, selling weed and stuff like that, you know, back then was really bad, but you know, it to make money. I didn’t, you know, I wasn’t trying to hurt anybody. But I got, I got, went to jail. God, I did a couple years over some stupid stuff and I got out I was like, you know what? I’m never going to do that again. I’m just going to devote myself to real estate. And I went,

Stephen Schmidt (04:27.121)
So that’s really interesting. glad we went deeper than just surface level here. And so tell me a little bit about that. You’re coming out of jail. Is that like when you went to your uncle and were like, hey, we got to do this thing. I’ve learned about this deal. Obviously, you know I’m good at out hustling. I was able to wholesale some of this other stuff that wasn’t legal. Let me go and flip some of this other product. Is that how that conversation went down?

ANEIL (04:28.821)
You know?

ANEIL (04:42.403)
Yes.

ANEIL (04:46.766)
Yeah.

Correct. Yeah, when I was in jail, I mean, I wrote down all kinds of things like how to make money, how to do this, how to do it legally, you know, I wrote down all kinds of things. And, know, I just kept studying and studying and I was like, man, real estate, that’s just where it’s at. Real estate, real estate, real estate. And yeah, and I came out of jail and I told my uncle, said, listen, you know.

Stephen Schmidt (04:58.767)
Right, right, right, right, yeah.

ANEIL (05:12.234)
I can’t get a job. don’t want a job first of all. I was always an entrepreneur by the way because like I said before I went to jail I used to have a cell phone company. I had a couple different businesses. This is a way longer deeper conversation on my life. You know, but when I did come out of jail though prior to that I had a cell phone company and that’s another conversation. But when I did go to jail I got out and I said, you know, I don’t have that much money.

Stephen Schmidt (05:24.699)
Sure, for another day.

ANEIL (05:40.654)
and I talked to my mom, and it was my mom’s sister’s husband.

So, and then I talked to them and I just told them, you know, I can do this. have the connection. I knew a lot of people outside that worked on houses and stuff. So I said, I can do this, you know? I mean, let’s go to the courthouse steps and buy a house cash. And back then they were only $70,000, $80,000 to buy a house cash. And which is back then it’s nothing, you know? It was a lot of money, but now it’s nothing. can’t do anything with $70,000, $80,000 to buy a house. Unless you’re in the Midwest, I’m over here in Tampa, Florida area. our houses are, you know, 300,000 plus to get

Stephen Schmidt (06:09.028)
Right, yeah

ANEIL (06:16.536)
to a fixer-upper. But anyways, I just talked to him and I told him, you know, I said, you know, we can really do this, you know, I can do this, I promise you. And he took a chance on me, you know, and like I said, he took a chance and it was successful. And that was in the 2005s, you know, and he kept doing it until 2008, but at that time I had enough money of my own where I was doing million dollar deals, you know, at that time. then,

the market crashed I lost my money I had to go into different business for a little while I actually went to the worst business in the world a car lot business where everybody thinks you’re a crook it was bad I hated it I did it for a couple years saved 150,000 200,000 dollars and I dumped it right back in real estate and here I am again so you know but I lost all my money in 2008

Stephen Schmidt (06:59.761)
Yeah.

Stephen Schmidt (07:13.477)
kidding so you were one of the ones that got bit tell us a little bit about that experience if it’s not too traumatizing for you

ANEIL (07:16.65)
yeah.

ANEIL (07:20.086)
Yeah, I actually bought a 16 unit condo complex they were doing over here in Florida. They were doing some condo conversion stuff. So we were taking apartment buildings and making them to condo complexes over in the Florida area. And I had put down 1.6 million dollars on a 16 unit condo complex an apartment building. And the market crashed. Nobody could. All my cash. My cash.

Stephen Schmidt (07:44.805)
your own money.

Stephen Schmidt (07:48.485)
ANEIL (07:49.858)
The market crashed, you know, and then I couldn’t, and I kept it going. Nobody, I was in the middle of rehabbing stuff, and I was making those mortgage payments. My mortgage payments back then were, I had, at that time, I had 36 rentals in South St. Pete, and then I had this apartment building that I was taining into a condo complex. Everything went away. Nobody could pay the rent. All my foreclosures happened in South St. Pete.

because nobody was paying their rents. I kept it going for like, I don’t know, six months and then I was like, this is crazy. No, I can’t keep paying all these bills. They were like 50 grand a month in mortgage payments. I was like, I have to take my money and I got to put it into something else. And that’s when I put it into the car business, you know? And I bought a property on a super major, a major intersection. I did, and I did really well for a couple of years. then, like I said, it was just a horrible business because

everybody thought you were a crook you know you’re selling used cars and the brakes you robbed me this I felt like a piece of shit so can I curse on here

Stephen Schmidt (08:57.934)
Yeah, no, hundred percent. Look, man, I was a finance manager at a couple, a couple of car dealerships in Jacksonville, actually, and to your entire point, man, and it’s like the type of stuff we were selling to and who we were selling it to. Like, man, I think I finally drew the line after like two or three times where I’m like, there’s no possible way that we don’t get shot up in the middle of the afternoon. Like, there’s just like, like, like I got a, I got a new baby.

ANEIL (09:07.254)
Okay

ANEIL (09:22.892)
Yeah, exactly.

Stephen Schmidt (09:28.032)
I gotta get out of this business as quickly as possible. So to your point, I completely understand where you’re coming from. Very similar experience. And you know, it is what it is. It doesn’t mean that all of them are bad. It’s just like, you know, that’s the downside of selling something you can’t control what happens to it. You can sell a car you think is the best car in the world and think bricks on you. You know what I mean? Best one I ever sold.

ANEIL (09:31.266)
Yep, that’s exact.

ANEIL (09:39.234)
Yeah.

ANEIL (09:47.594)
Exactly.

Stephen Schmidt (09:53.969)
I bought from somebody for 500 bucks and I resold it for five grand with a check engine light and I never heard from him again. And it’s like, you know what I mean? And then the $30,000 car with nothing, then the engine goes out you’re like, you gotta be shitting me. You know what I mean? So I totally get it. I totally get it. walk us through, cause for somebody to go through that and obviously like, man, an apartment complex, 30 plus units, you’ll lose everything.

ANEIL (10:00.578)
Yeah. Yep.

ANEIL (10:05.418)
I know, right?

Stephen Schmidt (10:21.826)
and you still got back up, dusted yourself off and went back in it after kind of rebuilding a little bit. What was that like mentally getting restarted and how did you turn that back into being even more successful than you were?

ANEIL (10:37.218)
You know, experience, not only experience, experience of life, hardships of life. Like I said, coming from a background where you’re super poor and having to stand in food lines and those things and having to become a hustler to make sure that, you know, it was crazy. My brother had two jobs and he would give one paycheck to my mom, you know, just to support us. You know, and he was 16.

He was 15, giving it, and then he got me a job and he was giving my mom, he took two jobs just to give my mom some help because my dad, my dad was just an alcoholic drunk. He didn’t care about, he was, he was happy to tell us, hey go, oh by the way, yes. So when I was earlier 14, 15, broke into cars, he was like, yeah, why don’t you go steal something? Like really? Your dad’s telling you go steal something, it’s crazy. But I mean, it’s really experience man, it really is, it’s a hardship of your life that,

puts that drive back in you and I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to be that person. I don’t want to live that life. You know, and that’s really what I think it was mentally, you know, for me and everybody’s gonna have a different experience. you know, that gave me the drive to push forward and keep going, you know, and I knew I made it once and my mentality was I made it once. I can do this again. That’s not an issue. It was more the market and me being stupid.

and putting all my money in one place and having everything out and having no rock solid foundation of money behind me, you know? So I over leveraged. That’s the word of over leveraging, you know? And that’s what it was.

Stephen Schmidt (12:14.906)
Sure.

Yeah. And going back into it, confidence and having that confidence, ultimately comes from the of your past wins, right?

ANEIL (12:28.202)
Absolutely. It comes from the memory of my past wins and I knew I could do it again. If you did it once, you can do it again. That’s all there is to it.

Stephen Schmidt (12:36.271)
So what is, so we’re obviously, you know, almost 20 years post the crash, right? Like, interestingly enough, you’ve had way more time since then, since the big one, at least in, you know, our lifetime so far. And I mean, you kind of had COVID, which was a little bit weird, but that wasn’t so much a crash, more like a boom. especially in Florida, man, it was nuts out there. I moved literally a year and a half. Oh yeah, trust me. was, yeah.

ANEIL (12:55.862)
Yeah, more of a bill.

Yeah, we were killing it. We were killing it over here. Thank you Governor DeSantis. We love you. So yeah.

Stephen Schmidt (13:05.756)
I know, I believe it. I love it. So you’ve obviously spent more time post that. What’s been the big lesson that you’ve gleaned in the last 15 years or so since the crash and you got back in it?

ANEIL (13:26.158)
You know, so I still make mistakes onto this day, you know, just like before. I mean, I learned something. I really do. learned something new from even new people that I come into. I’m a huge networker. And there’s a lot of younger people that I’ve met and they’re doing great things because they have all these new tools that we have like AI. Like they’re using AI for finding houses and saying, you know, so I.

what I’ve learned you know really knowledge and networking is your key to everything it’s who you know and then the room you’re in I understand you guys have a you know a mastermind group which is great thing to great thing to be a part of you know but I’m gonna say the one of the biggest things like now like today like I was saying I make mistakes still you know

I’ll tell you, it doesn’t matter to me because I made in COVID time, the last couple of years is over $3 million a year I was doing. You know, that’s my, that was what I was netting. You know, but here it is a couple of years after that COVID’s gone. I have a lot of money out of my pocket right now, right? And you never think that that’s going to end, you know?

I didn’t put myself in a position where 2008 happened, I had to go in a car lot business, but I put myself in a position where I had all my capital out and I can run my business still, but there’s no extra meat on the bone for me. So, I have to make sure I have to change up. Now I’m like, okay, I made a mistake. I didn’t have any cash flow coming in like that, you know, because now nothing’s selling. I’ve got eight properties right now up for sale.

They’re not even moving in Florida right now. I’m like good lord I had a contract for 480 last year on this one house and I said no hell no this house worth 550 I just signed a contract on it today for 380 Bitch so I still made money. Don’t get me wrong. I did make money off it, but I Should have sold it for 480 right? But you know and that’s and that’s the thing

Stephen Schmidt (15:44.815)
Sure.

ANEIL (15:48.546)
You know, I still learn from mistakes. Like now I know cash flow, you know, I should have some cash flow going because I do a lot more new construction now. And I said, okay, and one of my partners was in Airbnbs and we did very well. We were doing 140,000 a year on this particular property. So was like, you know what? I need to turn some of these properties in Airbnbs and buy more and have at least 10 of them going and keep that in my portfolio at all times. So that way I don’t have a problem. So I’m learning still till this day.

Stephen Schmidt (16:01.935)
Yeah.

ANEIL (16:18.53)
And that’s the thing, keep learning and keep experiencing, because that’s what’s going to teach you, you know? And that’s really what’s going to teach you in life.

Stephen Schmidt (16:28.525)
Yeah, you got keep learning, keep experiencing. That’s really great points. What how important, especially in the real estate business, like you mentioned, like being in rooms, mentors, et cetera, how important was that to you in the beginning to shorten your learning curve?

ANEIL (16:44.92)
So, I never took mentors on. I’ve done this all myself. I truly have. And you know what? I should have took mentors on. I really should have. I would have got there a lot faster. But, and on the other flip note too, I would have never learned what I learned. for me, hard lessons hurt me. And that’s how I learned. But, that being said, my old younger self should have had mentors regardless. And I would have got there lot faster.

Stephen Schmidt (16:47.597)
Interesting.

ANEIL (17:14.222)
Like I was telling you earlier, I was doing a mentorship thing too, but for me it was a little I was doing hands-on. was a little different for me. So it’s hard to teach people hands-on you’re going in and showing them how to do things when everybody has a different opinion. They think they can do it better than you can which I’m the guy that’s done thousand flips and you have it. And it happened so just you know that and and that’s the best thing too.

You know, I’ve looked at a lot of different mentorship groups and they all screen you saying if you’re not, if you’re trainable or not. And that’s really the truth. Can you listen? Can you act on what somebody’s telling you to do? You know, if you’re going to take a mentor. And you should. You really should. You should listen to that person if their experience is enough. But you got to make sure it’s the right mentor and you need to see their credentials because there’s a lot of people out here to say they do what they do and they can’t back it up.

You know? So, but mentorship is so important. It really is. If you wanna… We’re only here one time. Might as well get there faster, right?

Stephen Schmidt (18:12.601)
Yeah.

Stephen Schmidt (18:20.751)
Yeah, I agree with you on that and I think you know as far as the mentee relationship goes to something to also note to even add on to what you said there if you’re gonna be the one of those people that does take the time of someone and you know, there’s all different types of relationships that might be paid it might be free right, but if you’re gonna ask for advice then you should be willing to act on the advice and then follow up on the result that you got from the advice you got because that’s almost what earns

the next piece of advice. I think even in my own life, and I’m sure you’ve seen this even with people that you’ve worked with, you’ll tell somebody to go do something and they come back to you two months later and ask for something else. It’s like, okay, cool. Well, how’d the other thing go? And they’re like, I didn’t do that. It’s like, well, then why, you’re just becoming an asshole at this point. You know what I mean? Come on, man.

ANEIL (18:52.076)
Yeah, I couldn’t agree more.

ANEIL (19:06.552)
Yeah.

Yeah, that’s it. I like the word. Yep. I mean, I’ll tell you how to do it. I mean, you see I do it. I just, you know, don’t reinvent the wheel and you know, that’s true saying. It’s crazy. I’ve learned by having a few dozen of students of my own and what it was like. you know, I made in that business model, I made a huge mistake where I actually, like I said, I hands on personally.

one by one held their hand going through the flip and everybody they had their own decisions and their own opinions and and then if they don’t listen to you they still blame you which is crazy you know some like you didn’t listen to anything I told you and you know and and that’s the problem you know with that part of it it’s just like you said being an asshole so you know but thank God all of them made money so nobody can’t say bad I cost them any money

Stephen Schmidt (20:08.248)
There you go, that’s the important piece, right? So let me ask you this, Aneil. I mean, there’s people that go out, they do 10 to 15 flips a year. They’re happy as a clam. They go to Italy once every now and then. They take family vacations and they live what their version of a good life is. And even across doing that for 40 years, they don’t even touch 60 % of the properties you flipped just in the last 20, right? So what…

ANEIL (20:10.87)
Yeah, exactly.

Stephen Schmidt (20:37.548)
What is like the end game for you now? Are you focused on still like accumulating and building or are you focused more on trying to find quality of life and enjoying the time you have?

ANEIL (20:49.134)
So I got four kids. Divorced dad has the kids 70 % of the time. yeah. So my life ends at 2 o’clock. Because from 2 o’clock on, I have to pick up four kids from school. So I shut down at 2 o’clock. And my day is over with. I’m 50 years old. I’ll be 50 in December.

Stephen Schmidt (20:51.009)
Mm-hmm.

Stephen Schmidt (21:04.942)
Sure.

ANEIL (21:17.934)
don’t think I’ll ever retire honestly because it’s not work for me. You know? It’s not work for me and what I’m doing is I’m building something for my children. I’m not gonna hand it over to them because I don’t believe in that because here you go, here’s 50 million dollars. I don’t believe in that. They’re gonna work for that and use it for real estate honestly because that’s what’s in my trust. If you can’t use it for real estate in my wills, you can’t use it. Go figure out your own thing, you know?

Stephen Schmidt (21:21.294)
Mmm.

ANEIL (21:48.142)
So my kids are my drive, you know, that’s who drive me. And like I said, I’ll probably do this till I’m 100 years old. I go and come when I please, cause I can financially do that. I take vacations when I want. I don’t even call vacations. I go whenever I want, every other weekend. Yeah, it doesn’t even matter.

Stephen Schmidt (22:03.842)
You go on trips. Yeah. That’s like when you know you’ve made it is you don’t go on vacations anymore. You go on trips.

ANEIL (22:11.854)
Yeah, yeah, exactly. it really, to me, you know, it all depends on your mental mentality and how what you feel like. I talked to a lot of people and they can live on $250,000 a year. I tell them just go buy a couple of Airbnbs and you can live your life, you know. So it really, I interview a lot of people and when I talk to them, when they want to partner with me, because I do a lot of partnerships with different people. A lot of people obviously raising capital is a big thing. So.

they want to invest with me also and uh… and i talk them say hey what do you want to do how do you want to live how much money do you need to live every year what do you want out of life and most people just want to get out of their jobs and make a few hundred thousand dollars a year and i direct them into two or three air bb’s and say this is this will be your life and that’s all you got to do you only got to come up with a couple hundred thousand dollars to get into this and it’s a lot easier than you think you know

via wholesaling, a few whole building up that, know, partnerships, different things to get a couple hundred thousand to get into your Airbnbs. So for me, it’s a whole different ballgame. I’m good now. You know, I have lots of assets, you know, and I’m building houses more than anything now. I’ve actually slowed down my flips because I’m just tired of flips I’ve been doing so long and I got my GC license and I’m a builder now. So.

just start a new builder so I’m not good yet. So I’m learning a whole new trade. It’s way different from flipping houses.

Stephen Schmidt (23:45.87)
Which is really interesting, know, a consistent theme throughout your story, even with all the different evolutions, is you’re always like breaking new ground on things to like expand on your own. I would even look at it as kind of the way that you expand your own personal development almost.

ANEIL (24:02.51)
Yeah, that’s a good way putting it. Absolutely. I like that.

Stephen Schmidt (24:06.605)
So with the building, what’s, cause that’s a whole, you know, again, like that’s a whole other playing field, right? You’ve got people that are gonna fix. So like, what’s the goal with that now, with your building company?

ANEIL (24:14.7)
Yes, way different.

ANEIL (24:23.95)
Same goal as always, making money. Putting it away for the kids.

Stephen Schmidt (24:26.788)
Right. Yeah, but that’s potpourri. That’s potpourri. Let’s be specific. That’s what Chris Cronus said. He’d be like, that’s a potpourri thing. What does that mean? 100 million or 500,000? Because both of those are money.

ANEIL (24:38.316)
Yeah, you know, for me, it’s new. It’s different. I’ve never been a builder. You know, for me, it’s new. It’s different. I’ve got, I’ve got almost a dozen bills going on right now and I just started building houses within the last two years. So, so I don’t go slow and I own 15 pieces of land, which I’m going to build on instead of buying flips. Now I’ve been buying land, you know,

and I bring partners in to buy land and stuff and we’ll and then we’ll get hard money loans on and build on them you know so my goal is really honestly I want to developments I want to build like you know who do you have out there well a big builder we have a whole bunch of them here DR Hortons I’m sure you guys got those too right

Stephen Schmidt (25:31.575)
pay attention out here to be honest with you. I know more of it out in Florida than I do in Kansas.

ANEIL (25:32.78)
Yeah, so, yeah, so… You know, I like to build small subdivisions, really, and make it a lot easier to make money than doing flips, because flips are a headache. That’s all there is to it, but it’s great money. Flips are a headache, and that’s where I came from, and it makes great money, but building houses is a different headache, but… Don’t have to deal with all those guys that don’t want to work.

You we just have these trades, met trades, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. you know, when you find the right guys and the right crews, you know, we have quite a few. There’s honestly, you’re in where Kentucky’s at? Kansas. How’s your Spanish population out there?

Stephen Schmidt (26:12.077)
Kansas.

Stephen Schmidt (26:18.125)
high.

ANEIL (26:20.152)
So we have a lot of Spanish here that we’re doing too. We’re actually, we use those guys a lot because they work, you know? They work. but really that’s

Stephen Schmidt (26:29.197)
That’s the one thing I can’t stand about Florida, man. It’s like there’s no good Mexican food. It’s all Cuban food. Like out here in Kansas, man, we get that over-fro from Tejas. I’m telling you what, man, you can go down the street and get some good tacos. When I lived in Florida for three years, it was like, man, I could only find Cuban food out here. That’s my one frustration is like I could only get Cuban food. couldn’t get good barbecue and I couldn’t, no good barbecue and I couldn’t get good actual Mexican food.

ANEIL (26:38.659)
Yeah.

ANEIL (26:46.606)
Yeah, what part?

ANEIL (26:54.35)
You

ANEIL (26:58.338)
Did you come to the Tampa area?

Stephen Schmidt (27:00.073)
I did, yeah, I was East Coast for the most part though, Jacksonville and then Melbourne, but I have friends over in Odessa and are you, see, we might end up in Sarasota, like our long-term goal is to get back there, like we’re kind of in a rebuilding phase and then raising kids, I got two, yeah, I have four myself, two under three, so we’re like in that like, okay, let’s get everybody walking and talking and then let’s get back out there, so that’s, we may end up back out in the Sarasota area.

ANEIL (27:04.052)
Alright, cause we’re super diverse over here in Tampa. Yeah.

ANEIL (27:17.644)
Yeah? wow, okay.

ANEIL (27:24.738)
Yeah. No, that’s cool.

When you come to Sarasota, it’s only an hour away from me. have properties. I’ve got properties about 10 miles away from Sarasota. I’m building two houses out there right now. yeah. So I work, you know, I work a good 60 mile radius from me where I want to travel. So, yeah. So, but I mean, really, like I said, it’s just a, it’s a different thing for me. I’ve been doing flips all the time and you know, it’s a great way to make money, you know? And that’s all. It’s something I’ve never done and I’ve always.

Stephen Schmidt (27:38.005)
sweet.

Stephen Schmidt (27:55.735)
Sure.

ANEIL (27:58.67)
Said, know what? One day I’m gonna be a builder. Here I am. I’m a builder. I’m a GC. And I don’t work for anybody, because people are always like, hey, you go put a dish in my mouth? No. I build for myself to make money. Sorry, I can’t help you. But you can, no, I can’t.

Stephen Schmidt (28:03.927)
that.

Stephen Schmidt (28:11.605)
Yeah, right. love it, Well, Aneil, if people want to connect with you for more, where should they go for that? Where can they connect with you for more, learn what you’re working on, all that good stuff?

ANEIL (28:26.353)
So, you can, they can call me directly myself. I talk to everybody personally. I have my websites and stuff like that, my realestatecollege.com, but like I said, I’m not really mentoring anymore. I will do deals with, I will do deals with people, but obviously they can reach me on my cell anytime. just 727-710-7333. I don’t have a problem giving out my cell phone. You know, I can spot it.

somebody that’s trying to hustle me or if they’re a real investor any day you know so yeah that’s really like said I do partnerships all the time with people they want to invest their money they get 10 to 15 percent return on their investment you know so just like the typical when you’re raising capital you gotta you know you gotta pay you know to grow your business that’s all there is to it so once again you could reach me at 727-710-7333

So, my name’s Aneil, easy to look me up. You can go on my Facebook and look me up, you can see what I do every day in Aneil Balkissoon. Find me on Facebook, that’s a great way of finding me too. So.

Stephen Schmidt (29:33.613)
There you go folks. We’ll go drop them some love from the Investor Fuel family and the Real Estate Pros. And I hope you got as much value out of this conversation as I did. We’ll see y’all in the next episode. Thanks again for being here, Aneil. Appreciate it a ton.

ANEIL (29:45.102)
Appreciate it. Have a great day.