{"id":7471,"date":"2021-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=140393"},"modified":"2021-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:00:00","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-521-leukemia-bankruptcy-to-retired-with-250-units-in-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/biggerpockets-podcast-521-leukemia-bankruptcy-to-retired-with-250-units-in-7-years\/","title":{"rendered":"BiggerPockets Podcast 521: Leukemia &amp; Bankruptcy to Retired with 250 Units in 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People often tell each other to \u201cstay positive\u201d in light of grim circumstances or hard times. This consistent positivity can feel forced when going through something truly terrifying, but it\u2019s exactly what helped Jeffrey Holst fight cancer, get out of bankruptcy, and retire in only seven years. Once Jeffrey committed to having no bad days, he was able to either change his day that was going poorly or see the positive in everything around him.<\/p>\n<p>This philosophy helped him spur on new relationships, find new partners, and close on deals creatively. It was never \u201cwe can\u2019t close on this\u201d for Jeffrey, it was \u201chow can we close on this.\u201d He uses what he likes to call the \u201csideways eight\u201d strategy that allows him to have infinite returns when investing, all while giving his partners and private lenders a sizable profit.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey also talks about seeing the positive attributes of negative situations, and how he was able to leave his job as a lawyer and hit financial freedom due to his cancer diagnosis and later bankruptcy. If Jeffrey was able to dominate the multifamily market with an underwater net worth, think of what YOU can accomplish in the world of real estate investing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often tell each other to \u201cstay positive\u201d in light of grim circumstances or hard times. This consistent positivity can feel forced when going through something truly terrifying, but it\u2019s exactly what helped Jeffrey Holst fight cancer, get out of &#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\/7471"}],"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=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7472,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}