{"id":7557,"date":"2021-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=140935"},"modified":"2021-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:00:00","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-542-22-doors-after-starting-from-negative-w-billy-dha-kidd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/biggerpockets-podcast-542-22-doors-after-starting-from-negative-w-billy-dha-kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"BiggerPockets Podcast 542: 22 Doors After \u201cStarting from Negative\u201d w\/Billy Dha Kidd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Dha Kidd is better known for his rapping than his real estate skills, but both careers are worth celebrating. Billy\u2019s early life was anything but comfortable \u2014 growing up in El Salvador, he was used to no running water and no electricity. He likes to say that he didn\u2019t start at zero but started at negative one-hundred. Billy\u2019s family immigrated to the United States when he was 10 years old, moving first to California and then later to Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, Billy began rapping as a way for him to express himself but found he loved the craft. Rapping allowed Billy to fill his time with something positive, instead of taking the wrong path many of his friends were on. His rap taught him sales skills, business skills, how taxes work, and most importantly, how to make money.<\/p>\n<p>Reading stories of generational wealth, Billy was compelled to start investing in real estate. He got his first deal, learned a lot about the BRRRR strategy, and continued to put his knowledge to work. Now, he\u2019s sitting on twenty-two doors between eighteen different properties. He gives credit to simply taking responsibility for his outcomes, instead of blaming others or the system around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Dha Kidd is better known for his rapping than his real estate skills, but both careers are worth celebrating. Billy\u2019s early life was anything but comfortable \u2014 growing up in El Salvador, he was used to no running water and no electricity. He like&#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\/7557"}],"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=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7722,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}