159: How to Build a Real Estate Business That Buys 60 Deals a Year with Nathan Brooks

<p>Anyone can buy a house. However, it takes a special kind of business (and business owner) to buy dozens of deals every year. That’s the story on today’s episode of the&nbsp;<a href="http://biggerpockets.com/podcast" target="_blank">BiggerPockets&nbsp;Podcast</a>,&nbsp;when we sit down with&nbsp;Nathan Brooks&nbsp;to talk about how he went from casual investor to&nbsp;buying nearly sixty deals last year. You’ll learn the key hires that made this transition possible, the process for hiring the perfect team members to work your systems, Nathan’s story of bringing in a partner to help scale, and so much more. If you are looking to really expand your business through partners, employees, and processes, dive into this powerful episode!</p><p>In This Episode We Cover:</p><ul><li>Nathan’s&nbsp;beard, the bear from&nbsp;<em>The Revenant</em></li><li>A&nbsp;recap&nbsp;of&nbsp;his last show</li><li>The importance of sitting down with your&nbsp;mentor</li><li>How to&nbsp;diversify&nbsp;your income streams</li><li>Why he started his own&nbsp;property management company</li><li>The&nbsp;companies&nbsp;he’s worked with before</li><li>How to&nbsp;avoid&nbsp;working with the wrong company</li><li>Nathan’s&nbsp;current number of&nbsp;employees</li><li>How he builds&nbsp;systems&nbsp;within his business</li><li>How to figure&nbsp;out what you’re&nbsp;good and bad&nbsp;at</li><li>What you should know about&nbsp;partnerships&nbsp;and finding the right people to work with</li><li>How Nathan’s&nbsp;hiring process&nbsp;works</li><li>How to know who to&nbsp;hire first</li><li>The&nbsp;time value&nbsp;of money</li><li>How to&nbsp;relay a process&nbsp;to an assistant</li><li>The importance of creating one-pager&nbsp;how tos</li><li>What exactly&nbsp;lifestyle design&nbsp;means</li><li>Whether it’s really possible to&nbsp;step away from work&nbsp;for six months</li><li>How to figure&nbsp;out your&nbsp;freedom number</li><li>One thing that made a&nbsp;huge impact&nbsp;on his business in the past few years</li><li>Why he keeps on&