Episode 38: Spanning the Cultural Investing Gap with Billy Keels

In this episode, we welcome our fellow overseas investor, Billy Keels. We dig into his side of international real estate investment experience. He shares how he sees opportunities where others often don’t in real estate and completely shifted his paradigm. We discussed his setbacks and relationship-building tips. Stay tuned!  In this episode, we explore: Common threads with investing overseas. How his pitfalls turned into new opportunities  Setbacks in real estate Tips on overseas investors that don't know where to startHow to overcome the challenges in real estate investingHow to get over the language barrierApproach to other investorsTechniques to find a network in different countries Finding common interestCreating genuine and quality relationshipKey on building relationship About Billy Keels: Bestselling author, speaker, educator, entrepreneur and long-distance investor Billy Keels founded KeePon to build a bridge between investors in Europe with impressively cashflowing properties in the United States. Living in Barcelona, Billy conducts business in Spain while owning multifamily properties and real assets in the USA.  A seasoned professional investor, he's made mistakes, taken action to learn from them and uses those lessons as a foundation to bring more value to his investors, students and teams.  Using many of the principles he learned first from reading Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad series, Billy has carved a niche for himself as a real estate entrepreneur. Using systems and strategies unique in the investing world, Billy now shares what he knows online in videos, podcast interviews and written content that is archived on his website at www.billykeels.com   Snapshot Round:  What is your number one failure? My number one failure in life in general is sometimes not to move fast enough. In real estate was not to do the due diligence that should have been done. I got lazy, and that laziness cost me about $22,000 and just in general, sometimes I want to continue to move faster and faster and faster. What is the