{"id":6347,"date":"2020-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=128319"},"modified":"2020-08-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:00:00","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-394-making-a-25-deal-year-business-and-marriage-work-together-with-elliot-and-chrissy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/biggerpockets-podcast-394-making-a-25-deal-year-business-and-marriage-work-together-with-elliot-and-chrissy-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"BiggerPockets Podcast 394: Making a 25 Deal\/Year Business (and Marriage) Work&#8230; Together! with Elliot and Chrissy Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever considered partnering up with your spouse or another family member?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s guests Elliot and Chrissy Smith did just that when they left stable careers to flip, wholesale, and buy rental properties together in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Running the business together wasn&#8217;t easy on their marriage. In fact, they almost got divorced. Fast forward to today&#8230; they&#8217;re happy, doing 25 deals\/year, and building long-term wealth by steadily buying rental properties.<\/p>\n<p>So, what adjustments did they make?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode Elliot and Chrissy share what they&#8217;ve learned about defining roles, managing cashflow, and finding work-life balance as young parents who happen to be business partners. It&#8217;s a rare inside look at the ups and downs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and risks and rewards \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of running a true family business.<\/p>\n<p>As die-hard fans right remember from his appearance on Show #255, Elliot is a skilled negotiator&#8230; and today he shares a surprisingly simple negotiating tip for those nerve-wracking kitchen table conversations with homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Look: you gotta love a couple who hires a babysitter just so they can drive around looking for distressed properties (a move which led to today&#8217;s Deal Deep Dive). So check out this episode, and share it with your spouse, friend, or family member who you think might enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever considered partnering up with your spouse or another family member?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s guests Elliot and Chrissy Smith did just that when they left stable careers to flip, wholesale, and buy rental properties together in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Running the busin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6348,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}