83: The One Investment That Changed My Real Estate Business (It Wasn't a Property)

✨Join me for my FREE Class! The Biggest Roadblocks Keeping Landlords From Scaling — and How to Fix It March 24, 2026 at 12PM & 7PM ET via Zoom ​​https://owningitandlivingit.com/landlord Grab your Early Bird Tickets to The OILI Experience https://experience.owningitandlivingit.com If you're looking to meet more like-minded people that are interested in building wealth, you'd love being in the room at The Owning It & Living It Experience. It's where real estate strategy, community, and clarity come together to help you make your next smart move. You can grab your ticket before the next price increase. https://experience.owningitandlivingit.com The investment that changed my real estate business wasn't a property. It wasn't a course. It wasn't even a mentor. It was being in the room. In 2021, I went to my first BiggerPockets conference terrified—attending alone, afraid of wasting money, worried I'd be the least successful person there. What happened next changed my entire trajectory. In this video, I share: ✅ Why I almost didn't go (and what finally pushed me to show up) ✅ The deal analysis revelation that led to over $1M in equity ✅ How being in person calibrated my mindset (vs. online comparison that was killing me) ✅ The connection that turned me from attendee to podcast guest ✅ What happens in person that can NEVER happen online ✅ Why I've invested tens of thousands in events—and made it all back If you've been building your real estate portfolio alone, behind a screen, this is your sign. There's another way. Stay tuned—something is coming in March that will put YOU in the room. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - The investment that changed everything 0:30 - Why I almost didn't go to my first conference 2:00 - Breakthrough #1: How I analyze deals changed 3:30 - Breakthrough #2: The calibration I needed 5:00 - Breakthrough #3: The connection that changed my business 6:30 - What happens in person that doesn't happen online 8:00 - Something is coming in March ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WORK WITH ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode was helpful, you'll love my newsletter. I share practical real estate advice, real stories from the community, and the next smart move you can make. https://erikab.kit.com/f2f4df9a56 Would you like to work with me directly? Book a Call to work with me in 2026! https://calendar.app.google/NMFNL2CYYPMP1FZn7 FOLLOW FOR MORE: YouTube for long-form episodes + IG for daily reinvention content (I'm taking you behind the scenes of my Mastermind Retreat this week!) https://www.instagram.com/erikabrowninvestor/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 ABOUT ERIKA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Erika Brown, CEO of Owning It & Living It. I've built a $5M+ rental property portfolio while working full-time and homeschooling my kids. Now I help high-income professionals scale their rental portfolios with systems, strategy, and support—no burnout required. #realestateinvesting #biggerpockets #realestateconference #rentalproperties #realestateinvestor #landlord #propertyinvesting #realestateevents #investorcommunity #wealthbuilding #realestatenetworking #landlordtips #realestatesuccess