Billy Keels on investing in real estate internationally

Before becoming a real estate entrepreneur, KeePon Cashflow’s founder Billy Keels worked in the corporate world. In fact, he was one of the best “corporate soldiers” you’d ever want to meet. Billy says that he was happy enough in his J.O.B., but something was missing. An emptiness and longing for a different life chewed on him, pulling him to what he knew he wanted to do more than anything else. Billy wanted to be an entrepreneur who brought two worlds together. So he took steps and kept on the path to his goals. Today Billy is an international real estate entrepreneur, problem-solver, author, coach and mentor. He sees opportunities where others often don’t in real estate. No “overnight success,” Billy continues to work toward his vision and goals. Topmost on his list? Building a bridge between investors and buyers in Europe with sellers in the U.S. Today, he talks about his transition story, how he became a real estate business owner, and how long-distance real estate business works for him.   Episode Link: https://www.firstgencp.com/ https://www.firstgencp.com/paylesstax https://www.linkedin.com/in/billykeels/?originalSubdomain=es --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum and today I'm joined by Billy Keels, who is an entrepreneur, Ninja remote investor who actually lives over in Europe, but invest here in the States among many other things. So let's hear from Billy the renaissance man about what it is he's doing in real estate today. Let's get into it.   Billy Keels what's going on, man, so good to see you again. Thanks for taking the time to hang out with me.   Billy: Michael, I am just like super excited about being able to spend more time with you have a conversation. Although I have to admit, man, there's like a lot of people going to be listening and watching us, so I'll be on my best behavior, don’t worry.   Michael: I am, it makes two of us, alright good. Well, I obviously know who you are we we've become very fast friends over the short time we've known each other. But for anyone who might not be familiar with you, who are you, where do you come from and what is it you're doing in real estate today?   Billy: Yeah, so who am I, would you mind if I ask just one thing really quickly before I answer that?   Michael: Go for it!   Billy: So as a fellow podcaster, I just wanted to ask one thing. So I know just got here. But if you haven't had a chance already to leave an honest written review, as well as a rating. The guys do an amazing show here, Michael, I know you put a lot of time and energy into this and it will be great because that way ultimately, they're going to be able to help get you even better guests that are going to help you move forward faster. So with that as a background, Billy Keels I'll give you this fastest version as I can. Originally born in Columbus, Ohio. From there, probably by the time I was 12, I lived in three different states brother and sister were born in Colorado. I come from a family with two parents who were both working two jobs most of the time very blue collar, I watched them struggle a lot with money, making tough decisions, sometimes at the end of the month, do we buy this or do we pay this bill or do we pay the other bill, they had a lot of focus on education because they didn't think that they had formal education. So ended up being in a lot of different school districts, usually in the really good school districts and I saw I was exp