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MFREE 126 Trailer # 3 with Ryan Gibson: Are You Building Wealth or Just Building Another Job?

Shelon Hutchinson Season 3 Episode 126

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Real estate can create income while you are awake, asleep, present, or somewhere else entirely. 🏡💭

That idea is what first attracted Ryan Gibson to real estate.

In this episode Ryan shares how he started by doing what many people believe they are “supposed” to do — buying single-family homes.

And the deals were working.

They produced income.

They added real estate exposure.

But over time, Ryan realized something important:

The return on his life was not where it needed to be. ⏳

Between chasing property managers, finding new properties, and managing the moving pieces, the time commitment started to outweigh the benefit — especially as a high-income professional still actively flying.

That realization shaped a bigger mission. ✈️

Ryan saw that many pilots and high-income professionals wanted real estate in their portfolio, but did not want the workload that often came with owning properties directly.

So he became passionate about helping investors access real estate more passively, supported by due diligence and execution. 🧠

This conversation is a reminder that the goal is not just to make money.

It is to build a life where your investments serve your time, your family, and your future — not the other way around. 🌱

#PassiveInvesting #RealEstateInvesting #FinancialFreedom

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The fact that you could buy an asset and it could produce income for you while you were there or not there, or awake or asleep. That was really attractive to me. So I kind of went down this real estate road and, the self-storage thing came up because, I was buying. Single family homes in every layover that I had. Right. I did what everybody thinks they should do when they get into real estate, which is you go buy a bunch of single family homes. And what I realized is, yes, I was making good passive income and I was, the deals were doing pretty well, but I wasn't getting a really good ROI in my life. And, I was spending a lot of time chasing around, my property manager or finding, dealing, finding new properties and things like that. And the ROI wasn't really that great 'cause I was a high income earner and I wasn't really making much more, spending time there versus just spending time flying an airplane. And it dawned on me that a lot of people that I flew with, and a lot of other pilots and high income earning professionals really wanted to have real estate exposure and have it in their portfolio, but the work that it took was kind of eclipsed the payoff that they would really benefit from. I became passionate about starting a company that has a vision to help investors invest passively into real estate and benefit from our due diligence,