How to Invest Soberly When the Market Seems Drunk

My new coaching & learning community, Rental Property Mastery is now LIVE. Join us here: 👉👉https://www.coachcarson.com/RPM-YT Episode 192 - Do the real estate and financial markets seem a bit crazy to you? When others are making irrational decisions like they're drunk, what should you do? In this interview, Coach Carson interviews Travis Hornsby of Student Loan Planner to talk about what a "sober" investing strategy looks like today - both with real estate and in the stock market. SHOW NOTES: https://www.coachcarson.com/travishor... TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The market is crazy right now 2:30 - Selling properties to simplify my life 7:47 - Why get into student loan debt? 11:48 - Using Excel Macros for loan forgiveness 15:19 - Commonalities in loan debt payments 19:49 - Anxiety debt vs. Strategic debt 22:21 - Drunk market with high inflations 28:19 - Biggest risks of real estate 34:06 - Invest in Crypto? 39:09 - Go where they ain't 48:53 - When to aggressively pay off debt 53:15 - Being a privileged American 59:27 - Advice for those on the road to FI 1:00:52 - What is Student Loan Planner? __________ 💲CREATIVE FINANCING COURSE🏘️ My online course teaches you how to use non-traditional funding sources for real estate, like private money, self-directed retirement accounts, seller financing, lease options, subject-to, and more. Includes paperwork! coachcarson.com/creativefinancing-YT __________ 🧰MY FAVORITE REAL ESTATE & MONEY TOOLS: Avail.co - If you're a small landlord self-managing between 1 to 20 rental units, this is a fantastic (FREE) online rental management software to help you collect rent, market vacant units, screen tenants, and more - https://www.coachcarson.com/avail-YT Deal Machine - software to help you buy more real estate deals - https://www.coachcarson.com/dealmachi... __________ SUBSCRIBE for more videos about how to retire early with real estate investing! 🤗 https://www.youtube.com/user/CoachCha... ---------------- MY PODCAST ON INVESTING AND FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE 🎧 https://www.coachcarson.com/podcast/ ---------------- GET MY FREE REAL ESTATE INVESTOR TOOLKIT 📋 https://www.coachcarson.com/toolkit-yt/ ---------------- FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM 📸   / coachcarson1   ---------------- READ MY BOOK ON RETIRING EARLY 📚 https://www.coachcarson.com/retiremen... ---------------- 👋👋 SAY HI ON SOCIAL   / coachchadcarson     / coachchadcarson   ----------------- ▶️ MY YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS: “GET STARTED in Real Estate Investing”:    • Playlist   “100 Year Old Triplex Remodel Vlog”:    • 100 Year Old TRIPLEX REMODEL Vlog   “Ask Coach Your Questions Series”:    • Playlist   “Rental Property Analysis”:    • Rental Property ANALYSIS   “Creative Financing ToolBox”:    • Start investing now with NO MONEY   “NITTY GRITTY Real Estate Investing”:    • Analyze deals using GRADE SCHOOL MATH   “BE YOUR BEST (Productivity Hacks & Personal Growth)”    • Playlist   “HACK Real Estate Debt”    • Playlist  

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