Travis Watts – Do Your Due Diligence and Keep Your Investment Simple

<p><strong>BIO:</strong> Travis Watts is a full-time passive investor. He has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family, and vacation rentals. Travis is also the Director of Investor Relations at Ashcroft Capital.</p><p><strong>STORY: </strong>Travis was lured into an investment that had a 20% cash flow return. The investment, however, turned out to be fraudulent, and he lost his money.</p><p><strong>LEARNING:</strong> Always do your due diligence, keep things simple and invest in what you know and what makes sense.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>“In investing, find a philosophy, you subscribe to that resonates well. Find an asset class or type of investing that is simple to you.”</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">Travis Watts</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Guest profile</strong></h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/traviswatts1234/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Travis Watts</strong></a> is a full-time passive investor. He has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family, and vacation rentals. Travis is also the Director of Investor Relations at<a href="https://ashcroftcapital.com/travis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Ashcroft Capital</a>. He dedicates his time to educating others who are looking to be more “hand’s off” in real estate.</p><h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2><p>From 2009 to 2015, Travis would rent out spare rooms in his house for extra cash flow and passive income. Then he got into flipping properties. He would buy properties low and sell high. Travis did this for a little while to build some equity.</p><h3><strong>Getting obsessed with the concept of passive income</strong></h3><p>At this point, Travis was a little obsessed with this concept of passive income. He loved the ability to participate in all these different things passively and have income rolling in.</p><p>In 2016, Travis started to segue into some experimental investments that were not real estate-relate