Hello and welcome to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. As you know, I'm your host, Marco Santarelli. And it's great having you back on the show. Well, today I have a very, very special guest, someone who I've known for a very, very long time. I refer to him as one of the OGs, you know, the original real estate investors from way back when. And I don't want to date him, but he's just got so much content and so much knowledge and helped so many people. He is actually been the mentor and influencer for so many other great people that we all know and love in the real estate industry. So, before we get to my guest, I just wanna thank every one of you for making our show Passive Real Estate Investing, one of the top rated and top ranked real estate and investing podcasts out there.

We we just get a lot of email every single day from people who want to be on the show or asking questions or wanting to do something with us. And it's it's very flattering, but we just don't have the bandwidth to do all that. But I wanted to thank all of you, our audience for helping make this show what it is. And based on that, remember to subscribe. It takes you like two or three seconds to click that purple subscribe button and just make sure you don't miss a weekly episode. And having said that, if you are feeling up to it, I welcome those ratings and reviews. So I read every single one of them. So please, you know, don't hold back. Let me know what you think. Well, let's jump in with our guest today. This is someone who I've known about for, I'm gonna say 20 plus years.

I have his book on my bookshelf. It's been there, it's one of my original real estate books, believe it or not. His name is Dolf De Roos, and many of you probably know who he is or know of him. He's a very successful international real estate investor, and he's also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He's written over 11, 11 bestselling books, including the New York Times Bestseller, Real Estate Riches. I'm sure you've seen it around. He has been syndicated on radio for four years or more, and he's been on over 4,500 stations, which is very impressive. And lastly, but not least an interesting story, Dolf accepted a challenge to buy one house a week for an entire year without using any cash. Incredible story. Well, guess what? He failed, but he couldn't wait the entire year. He completed the 52 purchases of those homes in nine months and then ended up writing the book called 52 Homes in 52 Weeks.

So with that, Dolf, welcome to the show.

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Oh, thank you, Marco. Thank you for your kind words. It's my absolute pleasure to be here. And I know that we're going to get along just from the title of your show. And congratulations, by the way, on the success of this show. It speaks to what you do out there in the world. But the title, passive Real Estate Investing that is so close to my heart, that's kind of what I've dedicated my life to, to showing people how they too relatively easily can generate passive income. And, you know, I want to, to give accolades to everyone who deserves them. And Warren Buffet is credited with having said, if you don't figure out a way of generating passive income, then you're condemned to working for the rest of your life. And so, you know, with all that, it is it my pleasure to be here.

I just love hearing anything about real estate. If I come across a book marker that I haven't read yet, I'll get it and read it because my theory is, if you can spend $30 of your money and three hours of your life consuming a book, even if it's not well written, but you get just one idea from that book, that idea could be worth 200 a month for the rest of your life. It could be worth 10,000 a month for the rest of your life.