Highlights From My Interview With Marc Oshiro (a.ka. Financial F.I.R.E Fighter)

What It Means To Be a "Hybrid Real Estate Professional"

Happy Thursday, fellow Hybrids!

In today’s newsletter, I will share key takeaways from my 50-minute YouTube interview with Marc Oshiro (aka the Financial F.I.R.E Fighter).

You can catch the full interview here. If you prefer to read it, I also cleaned up a transcript, which you can find here.

(Today’s issue takes ~2 minutes to read)

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This past week I had the privilege of sitting down for a 50-minute interview with Marc Oshiro, a.k.a. The Financial F.I.R.E Fighter.

For those who don’t know Marc, he is a firefighter based out of Hawaii who is also a real estate agent & long-distance real estate investor.

You might even call him a Hybrid Real Estate Professional :)

You can learn more about Marc and catch some of his other interviews on his YouTube channel.

We covered a lot of ground, including (but not limited to) the following:

• What it means to be a “Hybrid Professional” (Related Reading)

• How I got started in real estate investing

• The role family played in my real estate investing journey

• The challenges of long-distance investing (including a horror story for good measure)

We had a lot of fun filming, as you can clearly see in this unflattering screenshot!

You can catch the full video here.

Here are the time stamps & links if a specific section catches your interest:

Introduction:

1:25: The definition of a Hybrid Professional?

3:26: How I got into real estate.

My Family’s Impact on My Real Estate Investing Journey

9:15: How my parents’ experience investing through the 2008 recession affected my own investing journey.

12:48: What it meant to me to have support from my family when I started investing.

How I Balance W2 & Real Estate

15:06: “What is the breakdown of my time spent between my W2 job and real estate?”

18:32: “What is the vision or goal for my newsletter?”

21:32: Why I’m not focused on quitting my job & how I view my W2 job as one of my biggest assets.

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing

26:01: How our first long-distance real estate investment almost made us quit.

34:01: Have I ever thought about self-managing from long-distance?

Recommendations

38:15: What books or podcasts would I recommend to new investors?

Long-Term Goals

42:00: What is my end goal?

44:25: Am I sticking with buy-and-hold single family or would I consider other asset classes?

You can find the full transcript of our conversation here.

I hope you enjoy it!

See you next week.

-Aaron