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How Tiny Homes Create Opportunities & Financial Freedom

By September 8, 2025Real Estate Pros Show

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In this episode of the Real Estate Pros podcast, host Quentin speaks with Kelly and Angie about their journey from adversity to success in real estate. They discuss the importance of time, presence, and creating opportunities for others. Kelly shares his personal story of overcoming homelessness and emphasizes the significance of taking the first step towards change. The conversation also touches on building relationships with God at the center and the importance of mentorship in helping others achieve their goals.

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    Kelly and Angie Riggs (00:00)
    in March of 21, I ended up entirely homeless with nothing. Didn’t have insurance to cover things at the time. And I went from zero to making $100,000 a year within one year by making it

    it’s not as hard as people think it is to go from nothing to something.

    Quentin Edmonds (01:54)
    Real Estate Pros podcast. I’m excited. I’m very, very excited. I’m very, excited. I’m very, very And y’all know I always have been excited. I’ve been talking to ⁓ this young man behind the scenes and his lovely wife. And man, you’re talking about a true overcoming story. You know, I don’t like to tell other people’s story. I always like to do a nice intro. But this gentleman, he has positioned himself

    from coming a long way, coming through some adversity to where he’s positioning himself now to provide for people who is in need. Like he wants to help people by giving them opportunities. He has a heart that wants to serve people. And it’s so happened that, you know, he can use maybe some investments in real estate to do that. Right. And so I want to talk to this gentleman and I’m excited to have this gentleman and his bride here today. So y’all help me.

    Welcome Mr. Kelly and Ms. Angie to the show. How y’all doing today?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (02:58)
    Yeah, we’re doing pretty good.

    Quentin Edmonds (03:00)
    Absolutely, absolutely. I’m so excited for you to be here, man. I’m so excited that the people get to hear your journey, get to hear your lens, get to hear your perspective. Like I know they’re going to take great value away from this conversation. So like I said, she be excited. That’s my word. And I stand by it. So of course, know, people, don’t know you, Mr. Kelly, they’re going to get to know you, but I want you to take some time and bring people into your world, right?

    So I want you to take some time and tell people who you are, what you’re about. I tell them what your main focus is these days.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (03:39)
    Well, my main focus and again, my main focus is shared by my wife. ⁓ We do everything together and yeah, I’ve always hated the idea of being married, having a person in your life that you love and having to spend most of your time away trying to provide for that person. And we have spent a lot of time diversifying our income, ⁓ getting it to where we could spend more time together. And now as we’re both getting a little older, I’m getting older than she is faster.

    Of course, but I’m just really glad that we’re in a position to where we can deal with that. Most people at my age, if you get down, you’re not eligible for this, you’re not eligible for that. If you don’t have something put back or a plan in motion, you oftentimes fail. And what I’m trying to do is help people to realize that they don’t have to be in that boat.

    There’s so many ways out there to where you can actually make a living while you’re sitting at home. I think I got it at what, seven o’clock this morning? And I think the day before like nine o’clock in the morning. So and comfortably so because we’re already making money and making a living. So we don’t really have a lot to worry about. And that’s what I want to show people that they can do.

    Quentin Edmonds (04:58)
    I absolutely love it. think one of the things about living your dream or finding, putting yourself in position where you don’t have to grind

    is getting your time back, right? Getting your time back so you can spend more time, like you said, with the people that you love. You said it so eloquently, so many times we spend out there trying to provide and keeping us away from the people that we love. And sometimes we don’t have enough time just to spend time with the people that we love. And so I think one of the things

    that you’re talking about is that creating an opportunity and like where you can kind of get your time back so you can go ahead and spend time with the people that you love. And so I definitely hear you on that.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (05:37)
    You never know how much time you have. None of us do. So with that being said, now the way everything is situated, they want you to retire at a certain age for you to collect social security. And a lot of people don’t make it to that time. And if you do, how many years do you have after that? So that part.

    And I’ll tell you one thing I tell most people that I mentor about finances especially is that if you have an accident, you can replace a car. You can replace a few dollars. Everything in your life you can replace if you had to except for one single minute. When that minute’s gone, it’s gone. You can’t make it up. You can’t do it over. So people need to set their mind and realize that time is your most valuable asset.

    Quentin Edmonds (06:13)
    Mmm.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (06:31)
    Thank

    Quentin Edmonds (06:32)
    Me and my wife, we have a saying, we say your presence is a present. Your presence is a present. And so sometimes it’s not about fancy gifts. Like you said, you can replace cars, you can replace items, but your presence, you being here is a present in itself. And so I hear you loud and clear. Now I’m gonna tell you one thing that caught my attention when we was talking backstage.

    One of the things you said, you said you create opportunities for people. And one of the things you said you’re working on is on sites for for tiny homes. Is that correct? That’s something that you guys are looking at the opportunity to fulfill. All right.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (07:14)
    We have actually already started. Yeah, we’re actually in one right now. Yeah, we’re one. We’re working on. Yeah, we are.

    and are living in one building and as we go. So we go through the whole process. So we’re from the bottom to the top. We experience everything.

    Quentin Edmonds (07:37)
    I love it. Absolutely. So what’s the key to keeping that running smoothly? What’s the passion and the drive with keeping that going?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (07:47)
    I guess my drive and passion falls back to my belief in giving. mean, Jesus said, the poor will always be with you. And he said that for a reason. And at the time he was talking about, he was not going to be there much longer, but the poor would always be with you. And Matthew talks about, you do under these people, you’re doing it under him. So I guess my eyes are on him when I’m doing this.

    Quentin Edmonds (08:19)
    No, I absolutely love it. I’m with you. Jesus is my anchor as well. And you’re absolutely right. I mean, you’re spot on. I I don’t want to just go to the quote in scripture after scripture. But man, you’re spot on. Because when you start talking about Jesus, get it. Come on now. Absolutely.

    Go ahead, Ms. Angie.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (08:50)
    you know, get frustrated. I we’re human, you get frustrated. So we’re just like, Lord, if this is meant to be, you know, help me through it, show me the way. And so far, and that’s a blessing. But we always ask him, Lord, if this is meant to be, us.

    Quentin Edmonds (09:09)
    Yeah, yeah. And I’m so glad you mentioned it.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (09:11)
    I was probably

    asked not long ago, as a of fact, just a few days ago, trying to decide whether this is the right thing to do. And then your invitation popped up. And of course, this is my first. And I’m proud to be with you, let me say. Also good to see that I’m with a follower.

    Quentin Edmonds (09:25)
    Yeah, me too.

    Absolutely, man. I love it. So I’m going try to set this up, man, because you told me a little bit backstage about your story. So I would love, I don’t want to perceive to know what you were saying. So I’ll ask the question and let you answer it. But of course there’s moments in life when things get real, right? Things go sideways. Things are not always easy. There are times when you have to pivot, you have to push through.

    And so I would love to know, Mr. Kelly, is there any stories that you have at a time when things maybe was not the way you wanted it to be, but you was able to push through to make it how you wanted it to be?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (10:58)
    Wow, which one do you want? to say which one. most relevant to this podcast is the fact

    Quentin Edmonds (11:02)
    ⁓ Yep, got it.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (11:07)
    in March of 21, I ended up entirely homeless with nothing. Didn’t have insurance to cover things at the time. And I went from zero to making $100,000 a year within one year by making it

    But at the time,

    I watch the people who help me and I watch them closely. And I learned how anybody can do the same thing by giving to others. I mean, you can set something up and it’s relatively easy to get into. ⁓ takes some steps. Matter of fact, I told you, I wrote a book about it so our people can get it firsthand from Amazon. yeah, I guess being homeless to where we are now, that’s a huge undertaking.

    And

    it’s not as hard as people think it is to go from nothing to something.

    Quentin Edmonds (12:03)
    I love it. I appreciate this story.

    what is the next real goal for you guys? I know you’re creating opportunities. You got your book. You have the tiny homes. But what’s the next real goal for you guys?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (12:54)
    I know personally I’ve been calling with my idea and my wife and I been fully discussed and we echo again. what I want to focus on next is training people. know, I’ve been a leader my whole life.

    My time on squad school, my upbringing with my siblings, my time in the army. I spent a lot of time with leader. And one of the hardest things I’ve seen is how to lead. How to support your team, how to things going. So I think that’s going to be my next, and not use this word, but I believe that’s what I’m to call it, is to use one of our sites as training facilities to train leaders.

    Quentin Edmonds (13:45)
    know, I absolutely love it. No, I know you don’t use the word calling lightly, but you know, I can see the, I hear the through line of your ministry from your heart and what you guys are doing. You want to serve people, you want to create opportunities for people. And I hear it, I hear it. And so I know you don’t use it lightly, but I know it’s a calling. I think you are answering the call on your life very, very well for sure. And I hear, you know, that you want to connect with people. And so

    I guess I’ll ask this, like, what’s your views on relationships? Like when it comes to building relationships, what’s the biggest thing or the biggest impact has relationships had in your life? I’ll put it like that.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (14:29)
    Something I’ve learned and have not always known. But when you’re getting into a relationship, whether it business, personal, a wonderful marriage, you need to that first.

    He needs to be in that trying. That way, if that way serving the filing the way you should be, you’ll draw closer together. But if you leave him out, you have no idea where you can go. Well, I do.

    Quentin Edmonds (15:02)
    Yeah, no, I love that one of my favorite scriptures that I live by is how can it to walk together unless they agree. Right. And so when we agree, we can walk together. And when we keep in him as the head as the focal point, it’s nothing that we can do. We can ask anything in his name. He said, here, do it. Right. And so, yeah, I absolutely agree with you, sir. I told you, man, when you when you mentioned his name, that’s my anchor.

    I love talking about Jesus, for sure. And so I mean, I love it. so this, just want to take a brief moment before we wrap. I just want to ask you, know, is there any, anything that you want to say to the audience, any kind of inspiration, encouragement, anything from the heart? And I would leave this open to both of you. Miss Kelly, if you want to get in on this as well, you know, we have a lot of people that’s listening and I love when I have people like yourselves.

    in the lens that you come from, is there any kind of inspiration again, education, ⁓ information that you want to give the people that you feel like will be useful for?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (16:07)
    I’d say the most important thing is that you gotta take that program. You can’t just dream about it. You gotta take it forward. And you can’t wait till we know what to do with it. Even if it’s just making a list of what you have to deal with. Like I tell people when they first start the program under 12 steps, the first thing I want them to do is do a self analysis of what you have to work with.

    I was

    trying to express is that taking that first step is the most important thing. Dreaming about it won’t get you there. And I often tell people, I don’t care where you are in life, just do something. And that is my mantra. tell everybody, just do something to move in that direction. Keep your eyes on the goal and do something to head that direction. The worst thing you can do is become stagnant. I watched my parents and my grandparents.

    They all had lofty dreams and goals they wanted to achieve, but they didn’t make it because they didn’t take the first step to get there. I’ve done numerous plans with people, financial plans, where they never would take that first step. And all I can tell them is like, you will never get there if you don’t step out of race, it started with the first step. So just do something. That’s the most important thing.

    Quentin Edmonds (17:33)
    Absolutely. So well said. Miss Angie, you want to get in on this now?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (17:36)
    Mine’s

    a little bit I’ve dealt with a lot of women that fit in abused homes and I’ve helped them get out and they think that they can’t do anything because you know that they don’t have their husband anymore and they’ve got a child to take care of but like I told them God’s putting you through this for a reason everything that you’ve been through is for a greater purpose take with Take what you have now and the only way the only thing you could do was go up up from here Go up from here. So will you focus on him?

    And you focus on what you want to do. And I get them to write everything down, know, but you know, kind of like a dream board. I get them to write everything down, what their skills are, this, this and this. And I’m like, focus on that. Just keep focusing on that and you’ll get to it. And one lady here just recently, I mean, she’s running her own business now when she didn’t think that she was ever going to make it. So.

    Just remember when you’re going through something, when the hard times, God’s got you down there for a reason because you’ve got to learn those tough lessons to be able to get where he wants to have you at. a lot of people just give up, don’t give up. Be thankful for those hard times because he has a bigger purpose for you.

    Quentin Edmonds (18:51)
    Absolutely.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (18:53)
    that

    the hard knocks are for a reason.

    Quentin Edmonds (18:58)
    Absolutely. So well said. So well said. Listen, I appreciate you both. Listen, before we wrap, let’s say if someone wanted to reach out with you, collaborate with you, buy your book. Like, how can somebody get in contact with you?

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (19:13)
    They can search my name on Google and there’s a lot of material on Google. ⁓

    And I don’t even know the business phone number. She handles all that. That email is author kelly rigs @ gmail.com. It’s rigs publishing. Oh, mine that I do. Okay, Yes. If they want to get you directly, they would use that one. That’s the one that I use. And the

    business number is to reach out to him is 256-615-2332 and they’ll get a recording and then we’ll get back with them.

    Quentin Edmonds (19:56)
    Absolutely. Mr. Kelly, you should have known better than try to correct Ms. Angie.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (20:02)
    Yeah, I get the stupid-

    Quentin Edmonds (20:08)
    Listen, I try to correct myself just to my wife, Jess, and realize that, babe, he’s right. I’m sorry, babe, he’s right. We know better than that, But listen. ⁓

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (20:18)
    one

    thing that we’re toying with the idea of right now is starting a mentor program to where I will work with people one on one. And I figure, you know, make myself available to them at least one hour a week and go over what they started. It’s just like when you get my book and the first thing it tells you to do is to inventory your assets. What do you have? Of course, time is one of the biggest commodities I point out.

    But when somebody can talk to the author and say, OK, what did you do? What should I do? How should I handle this problem? If they had a mentor they could bring these problems to, sometimes it would make it a lot easier. And give them encouragement to move forward. But we definitely want to start this program within the next few months to where people have access.

    Quentin Edmonds (21:11)
    Okay. No, I the mentorship is a great move. know you guys have a lot. mean, we started off when the first thing you said, you want to create opportunities for people. And so mentorship to help them grow their mind, to help them grow their knowledge.

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (22:07)
    right as you were going off my the right side of my brain spoke up again But for people to get a hold of us one real easy way to do that is to go to treasures and testimony dot com ⁓

    Quentin Edmonds (22:13)
    I’m-

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (22:35)
    So that would be the best way to go. We have that website just for that. And all of his books are there.

    Quentin Edmonds (22:42)
    Beautiful that’s great. Listen, I appreciate y’all so

    for being here today. Thank y’all for being true to the culture, true to the ministry. And I will be praying for y’all and I wish y’all all the absolute best for sure. All

    Kelly and Angie Riggs (22:56)
    Thank you.

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