How to Stack The Odds in Your Favor and Become The “Lucky Duck” Investor

In this Episode, Tom, Michael and Emil talk about the element of luck in real estate investing and how to put in the work to be ready to move when opportunity arises.  --- Transcript: Tom: Greetings and welcome to the remote real estate investor. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the concept of chance luck. It goes by many names. And how does it apply to real estate investing? How can you tip the scales in your favor and what are the hosts thoughts on the different aspects of luck? All right, let's do it.   Tom: All right, guys. So today's episode, as we alluded to in the intro, we're going to be talking about the elements of luck and how it applies to real estate investing. And before we get into any specific, I'd love to hear from both you guys, a meal and Michael, are you guys lucky? What are your thoughts on luck and real estate investing at a high level and lucky that's, you know, I ask that questions in your life. And it's a interview question that a lot of companies use where they ask if an applicant is lucky and they take luck, which I think might be a theme, at least for me, in this episode of, by putting a lot of little things in your favor, it can generate luck in your favor. So anyways, Michael, you go first, go ahead and spiels your kind of thoughts on luck.   Michael: And yeah, so, you know, I thought for a long time that I was a very lucky person, things kind of seemed to go well for me overall. And then I think it was my dad who first told me that luck is just preparation, meeting opportunity. And I wholeheartedly believe in that. I think that people who are lucky or who appear lucky from the outside are probably doing a lot of things that go unnoticed. And an  analogy is like a duck treading water on the surface of like super calm. But underneath there is so much going on and the surface wouldn't look the way it did, if what was going on beneath the surface wasn't happening. So I do consider myself a lucky person, but I also think that I spend a ton of time, energy and effort preparing for the opportunities that I seem to encounter.   Tom: I love the visual, the visual just got me.   Michael: Yeah Emil, what about you?   Emil: Michael, you're such an optimist. Every time I talk to you, I'm like, I need to be more like Michael and just be just super optimistic. I'm kind of, it depends on the day you ask me, I was chatting with somebody the other day and it feels like the moments you're unlucky things just pile on, right? You have a tenant issue or things that feel like headaches and make you feel unlucky. A lot of times in real estate investing for whatever reason it is, they pile on top of each other at the same time. And then you have these mud like months go by and you're seeing your property value go up. You haven't had any tenant issues, no big maintenance costs. And you're like, man, I'm so lucky. I'm collecting passive income, not doing anything. So for me, I'm kinda, there's times where I feel super lucky and times where I feel unlucky. So I don't know.       Tom: I like that for you.   Emil: Straight answer for you.   Tom: It comes in bunches.   Michael: Yeah. When it rains, it pours. Yeah. Who's got any more platitudes to pile on.   Emil: We're getting real basic on this episode.   Michael: What about you Tom? Do you consider yourself lucky?   Tom: Yeah. I consider myself a lucky person. For sure. I think it's similar to, like you were saying, Michael it's where preparation meets opportunity. There definitely are things outside of your control where no matter what you do, like things can go up or things can go down. But as a whole, I'd say the arc tends to go towards, you know, taking care of the little things and all that stuff adds up or not taking care of the little things and all that stuff adds up and tends to bend towards whatever. I don't know how you would put it either your work ethic or just taking care of knowing where to put the work in is really important. So