How Real Estate Investment Can Change Your Life

Michael Stansbury (00:01.134)
Hello and welcome to the Real Estate Pros podcast. got a special guest, Miss Tameka Bryant. Tameka, how are you today?

Tameka Bryant (00:08.88)
I’m doing well, I’m doing well. Thanks for having me.

Michael Stansbury (00:11.534)
Well, Tameka, thanks for being on. We just really quick want to pay the bills a little bit. This podcast, this Real Estate Pros podcast, is brought to you by Investor Fuel. help real estate investors, service providers, and real estate entrepreneurs 2 to 5x their businesses to allow them to build the businesses they’ve always wanted and allow them to live the lives they’ve always dreamed of. Miss Tameka Bryant, let’s hear a little bit about, I always like to start people with the origin story of how you got into

real estate. What attracted you to real estate and then what was your first four way into it?

Tameka Bryant (00:47.354)
Well, I think the first thing that I realized as a kid is that I was the best at Monopoly, like other young people, I think, at that time. But I was really, really good. And I would.

Michael Stansbury (01:00.13)
Now would you have like 8 hour marathon Monopoly game?

Tameka Bryant (01:03.118)
Yes, yes. And so much so that people don’t want to play with me today. But yeah, that’s how I started. Loved it, wanted to always play. And living in New York, I grew up in the Bronx. I knew it wasn’t necessarily a place I could build and amass a lot of wealth in real estate because I just wasn’t making that kind of money. I’m growing up and I’m in the nonprofit sector was where I worked.

So that was a challenge and I knew from working with some of my mentors that real estate was the way to go

Michael Stansbury (01:40.27)
Okay, real estate’s the way to go. You started off and you’re playing Monopoly. Now let me ask you this because you just gave me a really cool road to go down. So if you land on Baltic Avenue, do you buy it? I buy it. I buy it. So here’s the thing. I have a family. I have four kids, my wife.

Tameka Bryant (02:02.383)
I ain’t everything.

Michael Stansbury (02:10.643)
Me, we play Monopoly and it’s no fun for my wife because we’re all yelling and screaming at each other and I always end up winning and they always team up against me. They like combine their assets and it’s so much fun.

Tameka Bryant (02:24.911)
understand, I understand. My daughter will not play with us. She will not play. She’s 31 now and she’s like, I’m not playing. I won’t come over if you guys are playing Monopoly.

Michael Stansbury (02:35.157)
I’m done.

Michael Stansbury (02:38.677)
Right? Yeah, I think we may have a few of those. Maybe you can get one of those other monopolies that are that are monopoly, but they’re like some other, like Disneyland monopoly that have different names. Maybe you can trick her into it. But it’s great that you, that was the seed that was planted in your life. Like, okay, there’s something here, there. mean, can, your monopoly is actually teaching you something when you’re playing it.

Tameka Bryant (02:44.227)
you

Tameka Bryant (02:48.207)
You

Michael Stansbury (03:03.789)
And so you learn that and then what was the first, did you do real estate transactions as a broker realtor or did you start out investing? What did that look like to make it?

Tameka Bryant (03:14.383)
Yeah, well, I first, the craziest thing is that growing up in the Bronx, what I didn’t know I was doing is I was subleasing apartments. And I was subleasing apartments to my brother and his friends and the workers in his barber shop, because they couldn’t get apartments, they didn’t have like traditional income and things like that. So I was 18, 19 years old trying to pay for a college for myself and things and I was subleasing.

didn’t have a name for it, but that was my intro into it. So once I started getting that going, then it moved to something else and I was looking at land and I just realized I’m just always around real estate. Real estate is everywhere. It’s where I park, it’s where I live, it’s where I drive and I was just fascinated by it. And the next thing I knew, there was a gentleman who started working at the

Michael Stansbury (03:55.98)
always around real estate. Real estate is everywhere. It’s where I park. It’s where I live. It’s where I drive. And I was just fascinated by it. And the next thing I knew, there was a gentleman who started working at the, I used to work at Boys and Girls Clubs. And there was a gentleman who started working there. Fast forward, he became my husband.

Tameka Bryant (04:13.783)
I used to work at Boys and Girls Clubs. And there was a gentleman who started working there. Fast forward, he became my husband. And while we were working there, we had this interest and love about real estate. And that’s how we became friends at the job.

Michael Stansbury (04:25.325)
So, so, you know, find somebody in common. That’s the funny thing about real estate. It’s one of those things that has a networking element to it. You’re subleasing almost by accident.

Tameka Bryant (04:32.516)
Mm-hmm.

Michael Stansbury (04:42.221)
But you realize there’s something here or there you did take action. So you meet your husband and you guys get married and you start investing in real estate. Tell me the story there. Now did you get the money to invest in your first real estate deal and kind of tell me as much specifics as you’d like to share. Kind of share what that looks like.

Tameka Bryant (04:42.222)
You

Tameka Bryant (05:01.805)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, first, you know, we worked together for a few years. We there wasn’t, you know, anything there. It was just like, hey, we’re working together and hey, you like real estate. We’re working with kids, all that kind of stuff. But when we decided we were going to get married, it became this thing like we’re not going to spend this kind of money on a wedding where he wanted to do the church. I wanted to elope. So we came to a happy medium.

We went to my favorite restaurant in City Island and they had these plated specials where you could get your choice of six meals and all this stuff and whatever, whatever. And once we did our invite list, we said, hey, we’re gonna do 60 people because we don’t really want a big wedding and everybody brought cash. So our bills were low.

Michael Stansbury (05:41.515)
special.

Michael Stansbury (05:45.046)
and all this stuff, and whatever, whatever. And once we did our invite list, we said, hey, we’re gonna do 60 people because we don’t really want a big wedding. And…

So our bills were low because I chose November so it’s off market. I found a dress at David’s Bridal or something on the rack. was $99. My best friend was like a seamstress and they like decorating on all of that stuff. To be honest, I’ve got two daughters. I’m going to share this podcast with them. I just want let you know.

Tameka Bryant (06:01.687)
because I chose November, so it’s off market. I found a dress at David’s Bridal or something on the rack. was $99. My best friend was like a seamstress and they like decorating on all of that stuff. we went black and white. So for those who know it, black and white decorations, everything is so much cheaper.

At the end of the day, we paid off everything and we had money left over. We took that money and purchased a house, side and scene, in New Mexico, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. And… Right!

Michael Stansbury (06:42.665)
excited to you in New Mexico and rear-end your…

I mean, because who doesn’t do that when they get married, right? I mean, you you can go on a honeymoon or we could buy, you know, long term real estate.

Tameka Bryant (06:57.423)
Yeah, I mean it made sense to us. You know, my husband had went to college and had lived there 10 years and He just kept saying hey if you could ever we should just buy real estate out here so much cheaper It’s $80,000 for a brand new home three bedroom two bath we can rent those out or we can go back and live there I was like, let’s do it. Let’s do it and The guy the real estate professional sent us over

Michael Stansbury (07:00.074)
Absolutely.

Michael Stansbury (07:12.79)
Right.

Tameka Bryant (07:26.637)
paperwork they said hey we have a property management company in place and we were sold we signed the papers signed the loan I never forget and sent it all back and we were like hey we’ll see what happens

Michael Stansbury (07:41.55)
And what happens was, and folks, talk, there’s a little bit of, you know, in podcasts where we talk a little bit before we talk. What’s interesting though is you held on to it very, very long term and you know, and so that’s a huge win. And I love to hear the story of the first deal because it just opens the door. It expands the mind. It’s like your first time playing Monopoly. You may not understand it, but the more you play, the more you understand it. And the first deal is always the gateway to

you know, other things in real estate. And so you held that property for a long time. And during that time period, like what did your real estate career, how did it blossom? And we’ll talk about where you are today, but in that time after that real estate, that first real estate deal, kind of what filled your day, what filled your time, what problems were you solving in the marketplace at this time? And were you in New York City this whole time?

Tameka Bryant (08:36.963)
Yeah, so we stayed in New York for another two and a half years. And then that nonprofit organization relocated us to Atlanta. We got to Atlanta, started seeing property there. We’re like, hey, we need to buy here also. So we brought a property in Atlanta. So now you have to understand we’re new in real estate investing, but we have a condo in New York that we held on to. We have the house in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

And now we have a brand new property in Atlanta and we stayed in Atlanta another year and a half and then got transferred to Kansas City. Went to Kansas City and that’s when it blew up for us because we had never seen affordable homes like the prices that they have in the Midwest. So I’m talking houses for $5,000.

Michael Stansbury (09:18.285)
I

Tameka Bryant (09:35.066)
condos for I think I went crazy the first week I was there. I like, I want it, buy it. I want to buy it. It was like real monopoly. was like, I wasn’t even passing go. It was just like, me that, give me that, give me that, give me that, give that. I was going, going. And I even brought a commercial building. shortly after being in that position about two and a half years, I was terminated at 9 a.m.

Michael Stansbury (09:48.683)
You were landing on free parking. what you were doing. Yeah. Yeah.

Tameka Bryant (10:05.519)
and my husband was terminated at 10 a.m. Wrongful termination. But I don’t know if you have enough time for that whole story. we were then found ourselves like, oh, okay, well, what are we gonna do? So my husband’s like, look, you might as well go get your real estate licenses, do all that. So that’s what happened. I started a brokerage. We kept investing. And then I started using my skills from the nonprofit side.

Michael Stansbury (10:27.507)
And then I started using my skills from the nonprofit side of finding funds from the government to find government contracts in real estate.

Tameka Bryant (10:33.985)
of finding funds from the government to finding government contracts in real estate and doing real estate using government funds, monies from the Economic Development Corporation for facades to put on my commercial building. I mean, it was anything that I could see or do in the real estate realm that kind of connected to my nonprofit side. I was all over it.

Michael Stansbury (10:42.027)
doing real estate, using government funds, monies from the economic development corporation for facades to put on my commercial building. mean, it was anything that I could see or do in the real estate route that kind of connected to my nonprofit side, that was all over it. So I think a year and a half in the brokerage, I applied to be a Freddie Mac listing broker.

Tameka Bryant (11:03.779)
I think a year into having the brokerage, I applied to be a Freddie Mac listing broker. And I got the contract to do that. And so I managed REOs for Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and local banks. And then figured out how to do commercial lending.

Michael Stansbury (11:22.821)
How about that?

Tameka Bryant (11:26.051)
What was happening is I had to recreate and replace these six figures from this nonprofit organization that I worked for. And I needed to do it pretty quickly because I had little kids that, and a family that I moved across the country. And so I just went and learned all of the things you could do in real estate while also maintaining my investment portfolio that I.

Michael Stansbury (11:30.175)
speakers from this nonprofit organization.

Michael Stansbury (11:38.348)
Right?

Michael Stansbury (11:51.573)
Wow. we try to keep this around 30 minutes, but I’d love to go into the fact that even though you had this wrongful termination, this kind of thing happened to you, but you said, I have skill sets here, and I can apply them in this venue, and you did very, very quickly. Or it seems like you just rattled off.

a lot of different ways to win in real estate with the Freddie Mac and with the banks. So it seems like you helped Freddie Mac, the people at Freddie Mac, and then the banks probably noticed you or maybe you marketed yourself to them and they were like, okay, if she’s taking care of them, she can take care of us. Yeah, how long did that, from the termination to maybe really getting the systems and the engine going, what was that timeline like?

Tameka Bryant (12:44.943)
It took me, I tell people when I look back because that termination was actually a blessing. I just didn’t see it that way at the time. So it took me a total of two years total from the time I had zero income to where I tripled that income. It took me two years. Yeah.

Michael Stansbury (13:04.493)
How about that? I want to tell you something real quick. just had, I did another podcast just shortly before you and it’s, it’s not, it’s a similar story in this vein. The person I was talking to, he had a two year illness where he couldn’t get out of his bed.

because he had a, he couldn’t, for some reason he had an ear thing where he couldn’t, if he heard something he would just light him up and it would be very painful. So he had to wear headphones all the time and then, and he was in real estate but his business tanked while he was, had this illness. And his wife got cancer at the same time. And it was, goes, and he said, listen, I, he said, I know why people in,

their lives. I know why. said, but what happened was he had some, said, he said, I started working and I started doing the doctors couldn’t tell me what was wrong. So I decided to figure it out on my own and put, my faith into higher power and God. And, and now I’m doing an interview with you two years later and my business is, you know, this all happened in 2023 and that was 2025. It’s two years later. I’m totally healthy and my business is better than it’s ever been.

So it’s entering your story about being in a valley about like, sure, when you got fired, no one likes that. Wrongfully terminated. When that happened, that was… Yep, yep.

Tameka Bryant (14:28.729)
You know, I was, I was.

goodness. I was suicidal. You know, I tell people I was homicidal and suicidal. I was just like, nobody come near me. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. This is the only career that I’ve worked for since I was a kid. This is the only thing I know. So it was devastating. And my mom at that time, she had been diagnosed with four stage cancer. So there was no plan B for me.

Michael Stansbury (14:52.396)
Right.

Tameka Bryant (15:00.843)
It was like, I can’t go back home. can’t. There’s no plan B. I’ve got to make this work. And I had, I remember going by a window in my house and I had a Bible that my friend sent me and I threw it in the air and it landed on Proverbs. one of the chapters in Proverbs and I read it and it was talking directly to me and I was going, okay, God, I hear you. Let me pull on my big girl panties and I’ve got to figure this out.

Michael Stansbury (15:12.894)
and I have to…

one of the chapters in Proverbs and I read it and it was talking directly to me and I was going, okay guys.

Michael Stansbury (15:29.471)
Right

Tameka Bryant (15:30.125)
because I was so upset with the organization that I found myself getting upset at my husband because I’m like, you’ve got to fix this. Like somebody’s got to fix it. And I had to fix it. And now I realize this many years later and going through that process that I was comfortable and nothing grows in comfort, you know, and I had a bigger purpose. There was a bigger mission for me.

Michael Stansbury (15:58.157)
bigger mission for me in this life and I’m doing that now. That’s great. I love the arc of the story. So today, so are you still in Kansas City? Yes. Okay. That’s home base for you and your family?

Tameka Bryant (15:59.544)
in this life and I’m doing that now.

Tameka Bryant (16:11.939)
Yes. Yeah, this is home base. The kids loved it here. We, my husband started building his projects here. He does veteran projects and veteran housing and things like that. So this is the place that he wanted to stay, even though I’m always on the go.

Michael Stansbury (16:36.129)
Well, you’re always on the go because now you’re helping people. when COVID happened, COVID is always a story for everybody. Everybody has a story about what did they do in COVID and maybe how that changed the trajectory of their career. So talk a little bit about that, Tameka. What happened there for you and your business?

Tameka Bryant (16:48.58)
Mm-hmm.

Tameka Bryant (16:53.929)
So during the COVID period, we had to take care of my husband’s mom, my mother-in-law, and his uncle. And so we had to move them from New York to Kansas City, Missouri. And they’re in their 90s. so I’ve got them, and I’ve got my two kids who are going to college and all kinds of stuff in the mix. So everybody had to come home.

While I’m home, I’m now coaching real estate professionals on what they should be doing in their careers. And I’m talking to them about investing because a lot of real estate agents don’t invest in real estate. So they really don’t have strong retirement plans outside of whatever else they’re doing. So during this time, the minute COVID opened up, I got a call from one of those ladies who said,

Michael Stansbury (17:27.757)
on what they should be doing in their careers. And I’m talking to them about investing, because a lot of real estate agents don’t invest in real estate. So they really don’t have long retirement plans outside of whatever else they’re doing. So during this time, the minute COVID opened up, I got a call from one of those ladies who said, hey, there’s some property in the Dominican Republic that you might want to go take a look at.

Tameka Bryant (17:51.184)
hey, there’s some property in the Dominican Republic that you might want to go take a look at. so understanding that I’m a NAR instructor at the time, and I am teaching real estate professionals and people all across the country about creating housing opportunities, because there’s not going to be enough affordable housing in any major city. So I go over to Dominican Republic after everything opens up.

Michael Stansbury (17:57.134)
And so understanding that I’m a NAR instructor at the time and I am teaching real estate professionals and people all across the country about creating housing opportunities because there’s not going to be enough affordable housing in any major city. Okay? So I go over to Dominican Republic after everything opens up and they’re selling $50,000 condos, three minute walk from the beach.

Tameka Bryant (18:19.183)
and they’re selling $50,000 condos, three minute walk from the beach. And right then I came back and I was like, hey guys, we need to start looking at opportunities that are global because the way I built my first million in single family residences, we’re not gonna be able to do that anymore because the prices that are going up all over the US.

Michael Stansbury (18:26.669)
Right then I came back and I was like, hey guys, we need to start looking at opportunities that are global. Because the way I built my first million in single family residences, we’re not going to be able to do that anymore because the prices that are going up all over the US.

Tameka Bryant (18:47.683)
The mom and pop investor are not going to be able to buy those $80,000 new construction homes anymore like I did. So we need to find other markets where our money can do more for us. And that’s how I started.

Michael Stansbury (18:47.917)
I’m the pop investor, I’m not going to be able to buy those $80,000 new construction homes anymore like I did. So we need to find other markets where our money can do more for us. And that’s how I started. Okay, I would love to because we do have time to this because one of the things that I think is just a flashing light is the statement that you made is that the affordability crisis that we have in our country, but it’s not all over the world.

In Dominican Republic, let’s just go over the numbers. you buy this $50,000 condo, is it different in the DR as far as rental is concerned? Is that a vacation home? Is it a long-term rental that you would have maybe in your own hometown that you would manage like you manage your New Mexico property from afar or had somebody manage it for you? What does the nuts and bolts look like of investing in a DR condo?

Tameka Bryant (19:44.24)
Well, the good thing is that we have Airbnb and portals and websites that allow us to do that. So it’s not like there’s a different kind of system. They’re using Airbnb just the same way we are. So instead of you going down to Miami, you’re just going over to the DR. You know, the flight takes me about three hours. Same time, you know, less time it takes me to get from New York to California, for example, for a rental.

Michael Stansbury (20:08.087)
time.

Michael Stansbury (20:12.631)
for rental. And so with the properties here, have so many varieties. A lot of the…

Tameka Bryant (20:13.759)
And so with the properties there, they have so many varieties. A lot of the developers do a variety of different things. So you may have condos, you may have villas, you may have single family homes. It really just depends on what it is your investors are looking for. Commercial properties. I was blessed that I started working directly with the Minister of Tourism.

Michael Stansbury (20:20.525)
developers do a variety of different things. So you may have condos, may have villas, you may have single family homes. It really just depends on what it is your investors are looking for. Commercial properties. I was blessed that I started working directly with the Minister of Tourism. As soon as I got on the ground, they were

Tameka Bryant (20:42.839)
as soon as I got on the ground. They recognized that we were bringing in great investors. I did a conference there. They spoke. And they were like, we really like what you guys are doing. And gave us the seal of approval to continuously do our tours. And that introduced us into more markets in the Dominican Republic. And then I started teaching agents how they can sell there too and earn commissions.

Michael Stansbury (20:49.009)
I did a conference there, they spoke, and they were like, we really like what you guys are doing. And gave us the seal of approval to continuously do our tours, and that introduced us into more markets in the Dominican Republic.

Wow. So, and how do you teach? So, are these teaching agents in Kansas City or is this something that you do with all? that’s great.

Tameka Bryant (21:16.429)
National. Yeah, because you don’t have to leave your brokerage. You know, a lot of places like the Dominican Republic, they don’t have like a NAR or, you know, a state association. So it makes it easier for people to navigate. You don’t need a real estate license when we got there. You didn’t need a real estate license to sell. So soon after that, I created my own brokerage and then created a team.

and we started working different projects. And the benefits of helping those agents in the states is because in projects like the Dominican Republic, I also work in Mexico and other markets, but you get paid on the front side. Yeah, you get paid on the front side.

Michael Stansbury (21:52.75)
agents in the states is because in projects like the Dominican Republic, I also work in Mexico and other markets. But that’s where it started? On the front side. Yeah. You get paid on the front side. Oh, well that’s, yeah. You don’t have to wait for a property to be built. Oh yeah, agents love that. Oh, you solved the problem for a lot of agents. don’t have to wait. And so that’s very interesting. So do you have boots on the ground now in the Dominican Republic? Oh, is…

Tameka Bryant (22:05.187)
Yeah, you don’t have to wait for a property to be built.

Yeah.

Tameka Bryant (22:20.963)
Yeah, yeah. So I have a real estate office there and a development office there and I have staff there. So that’s why I said I’m always back and forth. Typically, I’m there more than I’m here. It’s just right now. This is conference time for hotels and things like that. So I’m in Kansas City grounded, but going to Miami and other places and I’m fundraising and other stuff. So yeah.

Michael Stansbury (22:47.435)
well, that is, well, what a cool little yellow brick road that you’ve gone down. so, how, so the teaching of the other agents, so as we kind of get closer to the end of this podcast, how does that work? How did you start that and where do people find you to get trained on, you know, how to do brokerage in other locations?

Tameka Bryant (23:13.475)
Yeah, so I started within two months of me working and selling. So once I did my first transaction, I realized, hold up, there’s a way for not only real estate agents, but also real estate agent teams and independent brokerages. Because since you didn’t need a real estate license in a lot of these areas,

neither did the people. So you didn’t have to be a real estate agent. So that’s why it made me create the training. So it’s online. I also do a live one once a month. And then we do guided tours. We have staff on that side of the business as well. And we help agents in those different markets. So we’re in about nine jurisdictions right now. So Mexico, Dominican Republic, and just

Michael Stansbury (23:44.94)
Right.

Michael Stansbury (23:57.922)
Wow.

Wow

Tameka Bryant (24:09.527)
different markets that we like Guyana, Ghana, and we do trips to help real estate agents and their clients kind of see what’s going on because every market is very different.

Michael Stansbury (24:10.893)
Thanks.

Michael Stansbury (24:15.501)
Now Tameka, I’m sure you’ve visited most of these places that you’re in maybe, but where’s the best place? Where is the place where I’m like, okay, I’m leaving Kansas City in a couple years and this is where I’m planting my flag.

Tameka Bryant (24:36.855)
That one is hard. That one is hard. That one is hard. I have to say I have a little bit more love for Dominican Republic because of the hidden gems that I continuously find. Like a project I’m working on now is right by where the whale watching is. And most people haven’t been there. Like they’ve only been to Punta Cana. And they’re like,

We’ve been to DR, I’m like, you’ve only been to Punta Cana. You haven’t been to this side of the island or see what’s going on there. And it’s where I’m spending the most time, but.

Michael Stansbury (25:10.317)
Right.

Michael Stansbury (25:15.085)
Right, but you find more hidden gems there every time you go you’re surprised. yeah and I’m kind of interested in the economics in a little bit because can you still find a $50,000 condo there since you’ve been there or have they appreciated?

Tameka Bryant (25:19.631)
think it’s because I’m there more often, that’s all. Yeah.

Tameka Bryant (25:32.975)
They’ve appreciated in most of those markets because a place like Punta Cana everybody started going there. when I tell people look at I look at the bill cost. So on the high end, I can build in the Dominican Republic at $110 a square foot on the high end. On the high end.

Michael Stansbury (25:38.891)
Right.

Michael Stansbury (25:57.141)
on the high end. We’re talking about high end finishes. Yeah.

Tameka Bryant (26:01.135)
And so, and then I look at Mexico, the same thing, I can get on the high end at $90 a square foot. We have a project there as well with the developers there. They do all your financing for you, direct financing for your land and things like that. So yeah, you can still build and it’s still affordable and it’s still, you know.

Michael Stansbury (26:16.789)
Okay. Yeah.

Michael Stansbury (26:25.355)
So you’re talking 2000 square feet, I can buy for $100 a square foot with the land as well? Okay, this is very interesting because that’s what I was very interested in. I was going to ask the question before you answered it and you answered it for me. I was going to go, well, what’s the price per square foot? Because my market, very similar to yours, I’m in Memphis and so Memphis and Kansas City, I know a few people in Kansas City and we have very similar markets. So we have affordable housing in Memphis, still kind of.

But our cost to build is around, for not great, is $200 a foot. If you want really nice, then it’s gonna be closer to $250. You go over to Nashville, you go over to East Tennessee, yes, it just goes up and up and up. Right.

Tameka Bryant (27:09.575)
And it’s going up and up and up. And that’s why, you know, I looked the other day and there’s a developer who is right near me. His projects are going from 250 to 1.5 million. They sold in like 90 days. The entire project is almost gone. I think it’s like two or three left. And that’s because a lot of people were saying, hey,

We’ve got weather over here at 80, 85 degrees every day in January, all these things. We can afford to live here. know, healthcare, everything else is affordable. You know.

Michael Stansbury (27:45.549)
Yes, so this one of the things is what’s really cool is that you’ve done the international before you went to the DR Did you do a lot of international trips or was this?

Tameka Bryant (27:57.87)
been traveling since probably I was 17 or so internationally going on trips and you know with family friends things like that so I feel like I was well traveled for the Caribbean I think I went to every Caribbean place I like the heats and the things like that so St. Kitts then Barbados and Aruba’s and all of that so yeah so this is just

Michael Stansbury (28:01.869)
Okay.

Michael Stansbury (28:20.237)
Barbados, Centaurubas, all of that. Yeah, so that’s interesting. I always just tie it back to when you, your Monopoly game. There’s so many different places on the board, right? And there’s so many other places to go. it obviously, so the way that this whole conversation is going, I can tell that you’ve seen a lot of different things. And what most people, I haven’t had as much depth.

I’ve been to a couple places in Central America and the islands that you talk about, but when you get out and see something different and see how they do things, it kind of opens you up, doesn’t it?

Tameka Bryant (28:57.455)
And when you see how your money works, because you’re talking sometimes like we may have Confinetour on a project and that means no taxes for 15 years.

You know, so yeah, I can get my daily rental rates and not have as many headaches, have great weather and returns are great. So yeah, that’s why we need it to expand.

Michael Stansbury (29:24.305)
Absolutely. So, Miss Tameka Bryant, this has been a fantastic conversation. I always like to leave it with the people wanting more because I’ve got like a thousand other questions. But here’s what we’ll do is we may pick this up again and do another podcast. But Tameka, if somebody wanted to find out, reach out to you and find out more about international real estate and what you’re doing with NAR and training, where can they find you?

Tameka Bryant (29:49.315)
They can find me at be, which is B-E-niche.com. So be-niche.com with a hyphen in between.

Michael Stansbury (29:58.701)
Okay.

Michael Stansbury (30:01.974)
We’ll put that down in the show notes. Mr. Amica Bryant, thank you for being on the Real Estate Pros Podcast brought to you by Investor Fuel. And folks, please like and subscribe, and we’ll see you next time.

Tameka Bryant (30:14.224)
Thank you.