The well-rounded overachieving Lou Matthews Joshua Jennings, also known as the “Real Estate Shark” loves the game of investing. This was not something that happened overnight.

The journey began around the year of 2012. Joshua had a mind shift change when manufacturing jobs he worked at were not fulfilling his purpose. He wanted to become a wealthy man and not answer to a boss that could fire him. He wanted to be “The Boss,” and that’s when the sacrificing began. He continued to work dead in jobs and ran a newspaper route while living in low income housing with his then girlfriend (which is now his wife).

He saved $300 weekly out of his pay checks. He stopped vacationing & shopping, kept his refund check from college and was able to save over $20,000 in one year. While in class one day, Joshua knew a real estate auction was coming up, so he went on auction.com to bid on a property, and won.

He purchased his first investment property for $9,500. The repair cost was around $9,000. He used the home as a rental property and made $700 monthly. That same tenant is still in that property today. Joshua saved and sacrificed for another year and purchased the next home for $21,000 at a local foreclosure auction.