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In this episode, real estate investor Harrison Goldblatt shares his journey from house hacking to managing a portfolio of Section 8 rentals in Cleveland. Discover his strategies for scaling, building a network, and leveraging social media to grow a successful real estate business.
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Harrison Goldblatt (00:00)
Well, what led me to the business model was kind of a ⁓ long path of trial and error. But my biggest claim that I think most people should get excited about is I basically sprinted to 50 owned units in a year. And so I bought a ton of distressed homes, borrowed a ton of hard money, and then I refinanced out of all of it and then continued to stabilize and grow from there.Micah Johnson (00:15)
.Hello everyone. Welcome to the real estate pros podcast. I’m your host, Micah Johnson. And today I’m joined by Harrison, who’s been making some serious moves in real estate investing now for the last three years. Harrison, welcome in man. Glad to have you.
Harrison Goldblatt (02:04)
Thank you so much for having me. Happy to be here.Micah Johnson (02:06)
Absolutely, man. I’m pumped for our call today. You do real estate a unique way, which I’m excited for folks to learn about. And you believe in what we believe in behind everything is that this is a team sport, the power of people and connecting with others. So I’m excited to dig in there. So for our folks that aren’t familiar with you yet, tell us some more about yourself and what your main focus is right now.Harrison Goldblatt (02:25)
Yeah, so currently I’m fixing and flipping homes in Cleveland, Ohio. I usually focus on two to four units and I buy steeply discounted distressed homes, fix them up, and then I rent them out to people on Section 8 tenants and I either keep them or I sell them.Micah Johnson (02:41)
Love that man. And what led you here? Like how’d you get to where you are today?Harrison Goldblatt (02:45)
Well, what led me to the business model was kind of a ⁓ long path of trial and error. But my biggest claim that I think most people should get excited about is I basically sprinted to 50 owned units in a year. And so I bought a ton of distressed homes, borrowed a ton of hard money, and then I refinanced out of all of it and then continued to stabilize and grow from there.Micah Johnson (03:00)
.Love that man. And why real estate? You know, you’ve been here three years. What were you doing before you got here?
Harrison Goldblatt (03:12)
So I boughtmy first home in 2017. was 20. Yeah. So I was house hacking. So I would live in one bedroom and rent out the other bedrooms in a town home. And over a period of about seven years, I was doing a technology sales career. was trying to trade stocks. I was trying to trade crypto and trading stocks and crypto is very volatile. And so is a technology career.
Micah Johnson (03:16)
Okay. So a little longer.Gotcha.
Harrison Goldblatt (03:39)
But what was not volatile was the fact that my properties continued to go up in value and they continued to cash flow. So when I finally made the jump to work for myself, real estate was the only clear answer.Micah Johnson (03:51)
Right, man, right. that’s, love the realization because that’s, that’s why people get into this one. It’s something real. Like you’re holding onto something real. And even though it’s in a cycle, we know what’s going to happen. We just don’t know when it’s going to happen and what particular situation sets it off, but you, can, we see it like uncle Warren’s and like, I don’t know, cycle 60 at this point of seeing it. Like it just repeats itself.And that allows us to go in and learn the business. That’s where that other part that you talked about is my, it’s how you get good and stay in this business in my opinion, is building out that network, putting people, I call it in your tool belt, having everybody you can need in your phone at any given time.
Harrison Goldblatt (05:17)
Absolutely. Yeah, that’s huge. you know, even though things do change, it’s not really changing overnight. Like the crypto market could crash overnight and your net worth plummets or your stock trading strategy can immediately change or you could lose your job. I mean, those are things that happen overnight. Whereas at least real estate, you kind of have a few months to adjust.Micah Johnson (05:24)
Right.Right. Right. And there’s a way to capitalize somewhere if you’re good at it. And that’s really what those squeezes do. If you, they make you get good, the best get better in them. Like, that’s where everybody’s going to go through them, learn how to get good. And that’s where in the groups that are running, all those guys have gone through hard, hard stuff and watching them knowing it’s just a cycle, pay attention, learn how to participate in it. And it’s, it’s, you know, really getting intentional. A lot of folks built businesses in that.
Harrison Goldblatt (05:38)
Mm-hmm.Micah Johnson (06:03)
you know, 2020 to 2022 period where they felt like geniuses, man. Like nothing could go wrong and everything looked good. They’re the best CEO in the world. And then the tide changed and every little hole got exposed. And it’s, it’s, I was interesting to watch how many kept it together and are still in and how many get flushed out that we’re just riding that wave.Harrison Goldblatt (06:26)
Well, I started right after that period, so I didn’t get to enjoy those highs. But I know that interest rates were low and prices were a little bit depressed. So I wish I had gotten started there, but I think I started during peak interest rates. And a lot of the commentary I was getting from friends and family, the peanut gallery is like, well, why would you do this now? The interest rates are so high. And I’m like, well, if I could figure out a business model now when rates are high, then just imagine how great I’ll be when the interest rates are low or whatever the next cycle brings.Micah Johnson (06:54)
Right.Right. Now I was talking to somebody the other day that really pointed to a great, a good viewpoint on how the interest works. And he shifted back to the eighties. said, why do you, why do you think those properties they had then are so valuable now? Like they penciled that 18 and 19 % interest when it dropped down into single digits, you want to know how much money they made instantly, like just process how that came down. And I was like, Oh, that’s very fascinating.
Cause you just nailed it. If I can make it pencil now, when things shift back the other way. Yes. Like that is perfect. That’s what I want to happen. That’s, that’s, that’s playing the game correctly. That’s living in the cycle, knowing what do I do right now? You don’t do the same thing all the time.
Harrison Goldblatt (07:39)
And those cash out refinance paydaysare real because when you do it, you know, it’s tax free and it gets paid off by your tenants over 30 years. So.
Micah Johnson (07:49)
Right. Right. So take us into a little bit. You do something unique and you don’t live where you flip, right?Harrison Goldblatt (07:56)
That’s correct. I was born and raised in Southern California and I flip in Cleveland, Ohio. Now I kind of, started small, you know, bought a turnkey here, bought a turnkey there. Then I bought a turnkey with hard money. And basically I had a property manager who wanted to help me run renovations and I had a lender that wanted to lend me more money. Meanwhile, I knew that if I was going to grow my real estate business, I was going to run out of money if I was just putting down payments on everything.So I realized that the value add fix and flip model was the only real way to grow unless I wanted to start raising money and splitting ownership, which I didn’t really quite want to do. ⁓ So I, I’ve come to the realization. So going at maybe two flips at a time, you can keep a pulse on only send a few thousand bucks a time, get before and after pictures on every couple of days. But at the scale that I want to go to now.
I find it necessary to spend at least a week out of every month on the ground.
Micah Johnson (08:54)
Gotcha. Gotcha. And what does that week seem to allow you to do better?Harrison Goldblatt (08:58)
Well, ⁓ door knocking, looking for deals, also holding my team accountable, making sure renovations will go to completion. I mean, I can’t believe how many times I’ve heard that a property was ready for an appraisal for a sale or a refinance just to see that there’s just debris laying everywhere or a door still needs to be painted or there’s part of a ceiling missing and just, you don’t get everything in pictures.Micah Johnson (09:53)
Right, right, absolutely. that’s the, what I like for folks to know is it’s possible. Like don’t ever put yourself in a box in this industry. You can do it however you want to do it, but you got to inspect what you expect at certain scales. Like you’re experiencing when you want to scale that thing up, that’s how nuance people get kind of baffled by national real estate statistics. And it’s like, you can’t really get too bought into those because they’re way more niche.No market is the same. The like, get what y’all are doing, but I live in Florida. I’ve operated here in three different markets. You need to talk different in all three, right? Like one, you got to talk slow and Southern helps one. If you’re not talking fast, you ain’t getting a deal, man. Like you got to get with it. It’s just so fascinating because that’s truly what I Say it again. Like literally like how fast I had to talk. Yeah. Like that was.
Harrison Goldblatt (10:38)
mean, how to Like actual, you’re actually time-attached. Wow.Micah Johnson (10:45)
Cause I’m from, you can hear it in my voice a little bit. I’m from Northern Florida and this is a lot like Southern Georgia here, where when I was in Jacksonville, you talk too fast in Jacksonville, they’ll hang up on you. don’t care. Tampa, you talk too slow. Opposite. They’re going man. Tampa’s in motion. I was always fascinated. I used to, I used to move a lot of houses to hedge funds and those were two of my main markets I did it in. So, uh, yeah, it was funny. I could literally time my closing dates and no, but Tampa would close faster than Jack anyways, that’s off subject.Harrison Goldblatt (10:55)
Really.Incredible.
Micah Johnson (11:12)
ADHD, you just run around.Harrison Goldblatt (11:12)
Yeah, no,comes down to the value of niche market knowledge. mean, I’m from California, probably more likely if you talk too fast, I’m probably just going to hang up. that’s a
Micah Johnson (11:18)
Right?Right. Right. It’s, it’s
Well, it’s that it’s that, I mean, that’s the power of belly to belly real estate too. Like hold, hold virtual wholesale is popular. However, when you’re competing against a belly to belly as a virtual, that’s tough to overcome in a market. It really is. If they’re good, I’m not saying you can’t do it. won’t get deals and have friends that are very successful doing it. However, that belly to belly is a powerful tool in real estate because you’re finding this man we’re dealing with folks that
Usually life’s happened a little bit to them, right? Your single family world, smaller duplexes. Those aren’t like, those are just mom and pops that typically have those or single they’re living there and someone’s died. Someone’s divorced. Someone’s lost a job and they’re losing their house, man. Like it’s a, it’s an interesting environment that you have to be really. I was, I will say this, we were talking about the other day. It could be one of the hardest sales to close is the single family residential.
Harrison Goldblatt (12:09)
to look.Micah Johnson (12:15)
deal for a for an investment because of all the things you overcome with someone.Harrison Goldblatt (12:19)
Well, to put it another way, you don’t have a deeply distressed home because everything in your life is going great.Micah Johnson (12:25)
Right. Exactly. And that’s where, you know, young guys getting in and girls getting in. Like you’re, you usually get in, if you start investor first, you learn a lot about the math problem. I got started as a retail agent first. We’re taught all about people there. Math problems, really not anything to a retail agent, but you get too focused on that math problem upfront, man, just turns folks off. There’s that ability to connect, which is, it’s powerful, man. So why Cleveland? If you’re in San Diego and could pick anywhere, what made you pick there?Harrison Goldblatt (12:53)
Well, at the time I had a townhome in LA that was worth about 500K that had just gone up over the years. And I had a townhome in Las Vegas worth about 300. And one of them was cash flowing 400 a month. And it always had been like rents were not going up with the value of the property. The other one was negative cashflow. And I just start seeing ads online about buying section eight properties for 75K a door. And those are cash flowing.Micah Johnson (13:03)
ThanksHmm.
Harrison Goldblatt (13:21)
500 to 700 a month. And I’m thinking like, man, this is 10 times better as far as cashflow numbers than what I’m doing on the West Coast. So I need to kind of bang my head against this and see if this is legit.Micah Johnson (13:32)
Right, and what have you learned? I mean, one thing I love about real estate is a big umbrella. We all find our ways in it. For those folks, some folks don’t wanna deal with section eight. What have you learned inside that section that, you know, excites you, allows you to be successful?Harrison Goldblatt (13:46)
Well, it’s the government-backed guaranteed rents. So you know if the economy is good or bad, you’re still gonna collect those rents. And also, it’s just like one more person you don’t have to chase down for rent. ⁓ Some government programs and some tenants have their rent 100 % fully subsidized. So I don’t have to worry month to month about whether or not I’m gonna get that rent check. So that’s the positive. Not only is that positive for me, but a lot of people on the internet, just, forget the internet.people in real life connect with the idea of guaranteed rent. So it also makes it a more ⁓ viable flip to someone that might follow me online. They’re hungry for the guaranteed rent, especially if they’re a new investor and they’re new to real estate. They want to remove as many risks as they can. So they see that as the risk.
Micah Johnson (14:33)
Gotcha.Love that. you’re flipping, you’re basically selling turnkey to other folks. Nice, man. Nice. Excellent. And what led you that route?
Harrison Goldblatt (14:38)
Absolutely. Yeah.Well, I sprinted to 50 doors with the intention of putting mostly section eight tenants in them for my own cashflow. And I got to the point where it’s like, you can build real estate equity, but unless you’re building cash reserves alongside with it, vacancies could happen, roof replacements could happen, maybe you don’t have the right insurance. And I realized I needed to build some cash. I started with the route of, every single person asks this, well, why don’t you just sell your
lower performing investments and keep your higher performing investments. And I tried that. So some of my single family homes that were just not cash flowing as well, I would list them through agents online or not. would list them through agents. They put it up on the MLS and I’d get no bites for months. And I understand, right? A real estate agent across the country isn’t going to be highly incentivized to sell a $70,000 home. So.
I kind of thought that I was stuck and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do. So I started posting online every single day just to see what would happen. And then people started DMing me about my turnkey rentals. Like, Hey, I heard you got a big portfolio, have some significant cashflow. Would love to buy one of those houses from you. And that was a consistent theme. And I’m like, well, gee, I can, I can grow my portfolio and sell turnkeys alongside.
Micah Johnson (16:38)
Right, man. that’s, we love, call that vertical integration baby. Like that is beautiful when you can do the same thing and get multiple things out of it. It’s kind of my obsession in life is how, how many things can I get one action to do? Because that’s, that’s man. It’s kind of what I was thinking on the other side when you were saying that as well, why would you sell when you can just go buy others and fix those and sell them as you build that audience now.How long did it take on the social media? Had you already been posting about what you were doing before and then started sharing the properties? What was that experience like?
Harrison Goldblatt (17:10)
So I was posting about, I was posting every time I would close on an acquisition. So I’d be like, just add another door to my portfolio. It’d just be a picture of the home and the number of doors I had accumulated so far. And there were some people ⁓ that would shout me out online, but it was like once every, once a month, once every few weeks maybe. And then I became friends with someone that was a rising social media influencer. And he encouraged me to post more often.And so I just started doing that. We’ve done some collaborations that’s helped grow my audience a little bit. Uh, his name is Richard Taylor. He runs the hold my hand, hold my hand wholesale community. If you, if anyone ends up being part of that community, they’ll hear me being talked about on a consistent basis. Cause I’m a low hanging fruit to sell to. Cause there’s at the end of the day, there’s, there’s quite a bit of inventory in this market. So it’s not too hard to just go on Zillow and find a distressed home and negotiate a low ball offer. So, uh,
That also helped my social media presence and just posting daily reels, networking with people, trying to post some viral content, trying to give value has allowed my following to grow a little bit by a little bit. The best thing about it though is that it’s targeted, it’s relevant. So I think at this time I have like 20,000 followers on TikTok and about 8,000 on Instagram.
And they’re all like highly, like they’re interested in real estate. They want to be there. It’s not just random person that followed me for some funny meme.
Micah Johnson (18:42)
Yeah, you went and found that audience and that’s where, like, if you’re out there working on social media and thinking about it, it’s not about you. Social media is a credibility tool. It is what, when folks look you up, when you say you do something, the next place they’re gonna go is look you up on there and they’re gonna watch what you’re doing. And that, just that track record of being able to show, man, he actually really does this.That’s the point of the post. Those are the things. And that’s what leads to that DM of, man, I’m interested in buying one of your properties because that’s why, you know, if I post and nobody says anything, well, how often do you post? What are you posting? Like there’s an actual method to it. It’s not random and it’s for something. And I feel like when folks that are trying to use it really grasp that, is nobody’s trying to be an influencer, right? In the weird way that we don’t like.
We get, you get pegged the term because you’re influencing. It’s, like calling it. So I, call it a refrigerator because it refrigerates. So if you are influencing, you’re an influencer, but it’s a, it, that’s the tool that it is. It’s, it’s for credibility. So it’s not about you make the post that is about what you do. Cause you nailed that part. It’s 20,000 people who actually like real estate. Now we’re getting somewhere 20,000 people who don’t care just bots. It don’t get you anywhere.
Harrison Goldblatt (19:58)
That’s right. And you also have to understand you are going to upset some friends and family, but you are going to come across some people that think you’re weird for posting online all the time. But do you want to make money? Like, do you want to win? And, know, the people that ⁓ connect with entrepreneurship and really want you to succeed, they’ll root for you. But the people that maybe there’s some sort of jealousy or maybe they just don’t understand, they think you’re meant to work a nine to five for someone else forever.Micah Johnson (20:10)
Right.Harrison Goldblatt (20:26)
they won’t understand. And that’s something that you just have to accept because when I make a post, I have at least five people wanting to buy my next turnkey home and that’s 30 to $50,000 in my pocket. I’m not gonna not make a post because an old friend or a distant family member thinks I’m annoying online.Micah Johnson (20:38)
Right.Right.
Here’s my metric for it. If I don’t care about your recommendation on where to eat, then really nothing else you have to say is going to bother me either. Right. It’s like, if you, if I’ll care about that, then you actually have caught my attention because I’m a picky eater and I like good food. So that, yeah, man, you nailed it. has not, cause it has nothing to do with them either. And there is definitely that jealousy factor when you’re doing.
When you go start taking action, it will make someone who’s not taking action feel bad about themselves and they will attack you for it. It’s called mirroring if you start studying it. It is what’s happening and really what you’re doing is showing them, and this is what’s funny about growth. The first coach I worked with pointed this out. He goes, you just understand that as you grow, are changing. As you change, you’re going to change the way everybody sees you. That is going to mess with people. There are people that have seen you as something for a very long time.
And when you rupture that, they may not take it well. And boy, man, you’re right. Some did not, and they don’t matter. it really reveals who matters.
Harrison Goldblatt (21:48)
I mean, I totally used to be, I absolutely get it too. Cause just, just two years ago, I was, I was unfollowing accounts. Cause I’m like, I just don’t need to see another 10,000 bucks that someone made on a real estate deal. just don’t, I just don’t need to see it. It’s just not relevant to me. And you know, they could do their thing, but I, at that time I wanted my feed to be friends and family and you know, people getting married and people going on trips. Like I wanted that to be my feed at the time. So I, I totally also understand the other side of like,If you don’t realize the opportunity on the table, you just don’t get it.
Micah Johnson (22:20)
Right. Right. That’s it. And you don’t have to feel something about everything y’all. You really don’t like some things you can just let go. Doesn’t matter. ⁓ and really what you said earlier is the thing I found, especially when it connects to the networking concept we touched on your people will root for you. Find them, find them every year, high level real estate communities. There, nobody in there is your competitor.If as long as you’re showing up each day, you’re going to get your deals. That’s how you get good at real estate. Just show up each day, do the work, get good at the process, build the machine that trades in real estate. That’s how you get that. That’s just how you do it. And you do that with other people too. That is the fastest way to get where you want to go is the process and other folks know it.
Harrison Goldblatt (23:04)
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.So, yeah, no, no, no, no. I guess I’m ⁓ you know, I’m sure you’ve spoken about this on previous episodes, but I would love to learn more about your story and how you got to where you are today and what your current model is.
Micah Johnson (23:06)
It looked like you had a thought on your mind, man. Hit me with it.yeah, man.
So I got into real estate about 14 years ago. ⁓ I came from a very bizarre background, ⁓ where I was actually raised in the woods and a Y2K cult, a bunch of people who thought the world was going to No, straight up, straight up. Yep. Yep. and I have spent a large amount of my life understanding what those beliefs are actually doing. And the re when you’re, when you’re taught that the world is always going to end, you know, man, you don’t realize how deep that seeps in.
Harrison Goldblatt (23:27)
YeahGo away, out of here.
Mm.
Micah Johnson (23:48)
And so I kept having these experiences where I’d build something big and then destroy it, build something big and then destroy it. And it took me a lot of work, understanding a lot of journaling to understand like, dude, you’re doing this actually. You, you got some chaos inside you brother. And every time you get money, you amplify chaos. And when you do, because that’s what money does, it’s an amplifier. So I found myself on this railroad and that’s where, man, in the past few years, it’s really going back to the basics and creating that stability.where all the things that I’ve built on top of it won’t fall apart anymore. Cause that’s really what nailed down. That’s for me where like real estate changed my life and my mindset first, my bank account second. That’s what I really noticed. It’s a powerful tool cause it makes you grow, right? Like you had to become the guy to own 50 doors. If someone would just given you 50 doors, you would have lost them in about a month cause you don’t know what to do. Like the process is what…
creates the person who can handle it. let’s, know, and in real estate, we get excited for goals. I love big goals. The room, the people that love you will support you, right? I was just talking to somebody. She was like, I want to buy a private Island. Hell yeah. What are we doing next? How do we actually do that? Right? Let’s do that. Let’s solve the problem. And man, that mixing that in with those things, that’s where you really start to unlock and realize, man, get in those rooms with the people that show you what’s possible.
If you deal with it in your own life, any limiting beliefs, solve them. Understand you, you don’t have something because it’s you telling you it’s not for you. Now, if you don’t like it, don’t do it. But if you want to, but you feel like, it’s just not for me. That’s bullshit. Like you can dig in there. We need to dive in because I’ll promise you someone who’s lived it out. It held me back from the life I wanted for a very, very long time. And for me again, it was just tied back to these old belief systems I was raised with that. All right.
Harrison Goldblatt (25:16)
Mm-hmm.Well, there’s a lot of people, they are just addicted to the struggle. So they might build something up and squander it. And I was basically ⁓ moving forward at flipping two houses at a time. things were going in the right direction. And it was just like, anytime something didn’t go right, it was like a scramble to get the money together, to do whatever, cover mortgages, cover whatever it may have been. And so I had the thought like, well, okay, well, what if I try to do four at a time? I need to hire another person.
Micah Johnson (25:37)
And then.Harrison Goldblatt (26:04)
And then everything went backwards. you know, it’s, it’s a question of, okay, am I addicted to this struggle or am I actually taking the next step? And there’s a, there’s a phrase that I’ve heard recently that you think you’re start, you think you’re building a business, but the business builds you. And, you know, at the scale I’m going for, I have such clear blind spots. It’s, it’s crazy. And I, just, I acknowledge it. I know it and I look for solutions and I don’t try to solve every problem. I try to get help.to solve those problems.
Micah Johnson (26:32)
That, I tell you what, how old are you, man?Harrison Goldblatt (26:35)
31.Micah Johnson (26:35)
31. Not very many people in their 30s understand they have blind spots. That’s the reality that once it really clicked, the fact that you never don’t have them, that’s the truth. You always have them. I’m 10 years ahead of you and I got them. And the beauty is that’s what other people are for. That’s why I have my mentor. He’s in his late 60s because he can tell me what’s around the bend, what’s coming, what do I prepare for? Your kids are older than mine. What’d you go through?Harrison Goldblatt (26:46)
Mm-hmm.Mm-hmm.
Micah Johnson (27:03)
all the way down the line because that’s just it. Once we see, if you study humanity too, what makes us unique is how we work together. That is what’s unique. Two humans together can do the work of way more than just two. It’s like one plus one equals infinite.Harrison Goldblatt (27:18)
Yeah,two together is way more than two separate.
Micah Johnson (27:22)
Exactly.And it’s nuts how it works, but that’s just it. Because one thing we noticed in one of the groups I’m in with real estate, like we call the deal triangle. There’s the deal finder. There’s the operator, the person that gets it done, you know, whether you’re flipping, whatever you’re doing. And then there’s the financial part. Rarely are you all three simply because your personality is different. Like the guy that’s the deal finder usually isn’t, they’re not the best operations guy.
Harrison Goldblatt (27:34)
Mm-hmm.Mm-hmm.
Micah Johnson (27:50)
That’s not, those are different skill sets and not everybody has the money. So it’s usually your two of the three. It’s easy to be, but when you find each one, ⁓ don’t don’t now we’re getting somewhere. Like you were talking about earlier, you found some lenders. They’re just waiting to give you money. Boom. I got that part of the triangle done. Now I’m spending extra time in Cleveland so I can get more deals. Now the deal finder is done and you’re the operator. So it’s like, boom, boom, boom. That’s how you get rolling.Harrison Goldblatt (27:50)
Totally. Right.Actually,
I recently partnered with an operator because I was not, yeah, mean, my whole career and even my personality, I’m an individual contributor type of person and I’ve never had management experience, at least in a corporate environment. And I’ve never really had to hire or manage other people until recently. And I actually, I knew that. So I hired a person to help me manage people, but the person I hired ended up being a complete disaster. So.
Micah Johnson (28:19)
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Harrison Goldblatt (28:44)
So it was like, I tried to plug the problem I knew I had and it just like exploded, but it’s resolved now. ⁓ And then, you the person that I am partnering with is a bit better at managing people. So that’s a huge step forward and we’re just in the process of ironing out the details.Micah Johnson (29:01)
It’s true, man. And if you’re a founder out there, I like the way the EOS system describes it, where you have visionaries that often the next step down, they call them implementers and visionaries typically aren’t good implementers very often. That’s not their gift. They they’re really good at the ideas, really good at zero to one that two to 10 is that guy that doesn’t like coming up with the ideas or girl, but they love getting the idea and bringing that thing to life and having that with yourself. Cause if you’re not both,You’re stuck. That is a stuck point. You will, you’ll have a bunch of ideas and a bunch of stressed out employees because you keep changing everything all the time.
Harrison Goldblatt (29:38)
Yeah, I can imagine that my focus has gotten narrower and narrower. And so it just really takes a good implementer to take the vision to the next level. But if we were two visionaries, then we could just both be running in opposite directions and nothing would get done. So yeah, that’s very relevant. Yeah.Micah Johnson (29:52)
Exactly, man. And that’s oneof the big things about partner. If you’re partnering with anybody is understanding, do their strengths offset your weaknesses? And that requires you to know your weaknesses. You got to know them. That goes back to the blind spots. So taking that time to understand yourself first gives you the chance to understand everybody else. So dude, I love what you’re doing there. So I can keep these kinds of conversations going on for a long time, went a little bit over, but
Harrison Goldblatt (30:14)
Thank you.Micah Johnson (30:19)
For folks that are following along that want to see more about this Section 8 process that you have, learn more about getting some of these turnkey rentals possibly, what is the best way for them to find you?Harrison Goldblatt (30:28)
The best way to find me, if you go to brrrsec8.com, that’s www.brrrsec8.com, That’s three Rs. So that’s where you can go to sign up for my Discord community, where I go live at least four hours a week. I also host live guests. And then I’m very active on Instagram. So at Harry gold, underscore underscore. You should be able to find it right away. And then I also have a second website.where it’s my networking platform, www.harrygoldnetwork.com, where you can make a profile and you can interact with other people in my community and network.
Micah Johnson (31:02)
Awesome, man. Thanks for sharing that. So if you’re listening and watching in out there, check our show notes. We’re going to have all of Harrison’s information there.Again, like I say all the time, work with people that are doing what you want to do. If that guaranteed rent is something that piques your interest and you want to learn more about this, do it with people that are still doing it for themselves because they know what it’s like to be you. They’re the ones that are going to shoot you straight. And that’s how you actually get successful in this business. Talk to them. So check those links out. Harrison, man, I appreciate you being here. I appreciate your story, your perspective. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Keep on going, man. Keep on going on. I love that. Thanks everybody out there for joining us. If you got value out of today’s episode, please like this episode, share it with someone else you think get value out of it. And if you’re not a subscriber yet, you know what to do. Click that button, follow along with us. We appreciate every single one of you that do. We’ve got more conversations coming up with operators, just like Harrison. Folks out there building a real business in the industry. Thanks for being with us today. We’ll see you on the next episode.
