Chantal Duame is a short-term rental investor and co-owner of Good Neighbor Realty, a boutique real estate brokerage that specializes in short-term rental investments. Chantal grosses multiple six figures passively from her short-term rental investments and has helped over 60 investors purchase short-term rentals in Colorado just last year. In this conversation, Chantal Duame discusses the pros and cons of transitioning from traditional income to self-employed income through the use of short-term rentals. she advises clients on how to purchase and launch a successful short-term rental busines ..read more

Doug Smith is the CEO of Hawthorne Capital, an investment firm focused on real estate. In this episode, Doug shares his lessons learned about generating passive income, and how he generates a high rate of return on cash flow-based real estate investments by buying and selling land outside of Houston. Doug also offers secondary loans to buyers who want to build their own home, which he believes is a more personal and less stressful experience than going through a traditional lending process. Previously a software developer for ExxonMobil, Doug has gone on to buy and sell over 100 houses and ov ..read more

“Make sure you have enough capital to better take care of your needs. Because if you don't, then you're at the mercy of banks, or whoever else you have to deal with.” - George Joseph On this episode of The Engineering Passive Income Show, Joseph is joined by George Joseph as he discusses the story behind his business ventures and how he ended up with multiple income-generating businesses. He emphasizes how establishing good relationships and maximizing support would provide maximum returns when handled right and how we must strive towards diversifying our income sources for better security ..read more

“There's never going to be a right time. There's not going to be this time where like the clouds open up, and the higher power comes and says now's the time.” - Cody Nicholson On this episode of The Engineering Passive Income Show, Joseph is joined by Cody Nicholson as he reveals his noteworthy story of catching the entrepreneurial bug and coming out successful. Getting into the world of entrepreneurship entails sacrifice and for Cody, it meant quitting his respectable job, eating ramen noodles for two years, heavy planning, and employing lots of strategies, all while having a family to suppo ..read more

On this episode of The Engineering Passive Income Show, Joseph discusses the importance of freedom and how creating passive income for yourself is so much better than selling your time for money. Joseph speaks about how American people have the completely wrong concept of money due to the education systems. Joseph also shares with us how he was able to change his way of thinking and how he created passive income so that he didn’t end up selling his time for money for the rest of his life.  ..read more

On this episode of The Engineering Passive Income Show, Joseph discusses the four best investments for passive income that are mature and dependable, Index funds, Dividend stock, Peer to peer lending and Commercial real estate. Joseph explains what each one of the four are and how you can invest in them alongside the pros and cons of each. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a five star review if you found this episode helpful.  ..read more

On this episode of The Engineering Passive Income Show, Joseph discusses our relationship with time and money. Joseph also shares some tips and advice from his ‘tax toolbox’,  speaks about why you should reinvest your capital as it grows and describes how trading minutes for money will cost you memories. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a five start review if you like what you’re learning and hearing from The Engineering Passive Income Show ..read more

On this episode of Engineering Passive Income, Joseph talks about his story and explains how he went from top of his classes, to a high paying engineering role with Exxon, to unemployed with a negative cash flowing apartment complex with asbestos, to now having 13 acquisitions and being able to have the freedom to do whatever he wants with his life. Joseph gives you what he did wrong and what he did right to get back to the top ..read more