{"id":6559,"date":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=132785"},"modified":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:00:00","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-422-from-w2-job-single-mom-to-flipping-real-estate-rockstar-with-amanda-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/biggerpockets-podcast-422-from-w2-job-single-mom-to-flipping-real-estate-rockstar-with-amanda-young\/","title":{"rendered":"BiggerPockets Podcast 422: From W2-Job Single Mom to Flipping Real Estate Rockstar with Amanda Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Young stumbled into real estate. After being let go from a job, dealing with a family emergency, and homeschooling her son, Amanda knew that she had to find a way to provide for her family, but also allow her to discover her hidden edge.<\/p>\n<p>After finding BiggerPockets and joining a local REIA (real estate investors association), she decided to take the jump and buy her first rental. Now, in 2020, she has 7 rental properties and a flourishing flipping business, working with a partner that matches her energy.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda found her localized niche by targeting owners of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sinkhole homes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and offering them deals that not only made sense for the buyer, but were a steal for her. She then used creative financing (really creative) to get these homes under contract.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda is the definition of someone who has grit, and is willing to work hard to earn their piece. She talks through Section 2 deals, 1031 exchanges, refinancing, and even how to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153COVID-Proof\u00e2\u20ac\u009d your tenants, so when the next global emergency happens, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Young stumbled into real estate. After being let go from a job, dealing with a family emergency, and homeschooling her son, Amanda knew that she had to find a way to provide for her family, but also allow her to discover her hidden edge.<\/p>\n<p>After &#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\/6559"}],"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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7839,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}