Balancing Military Career, Family, and Scaling Real Estate with Keishia Kennedy

Released Monday, 20th June 2022

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Balancing Military Career, Family, and Scaling Real Estate with Keishia Kennedy

Monday, 20th June 2022

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In this episode, Wayne talks to Keishia Kennedy, Founder, and Owner of Kennedy Remedy Investments, about how she balances a military career, family, and scaling real estate.

Keishia is an Army veteran with six years of service in the Army National Guard. During her enlistment, she was a human resource specialist and deployed to Kuwait as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Keishia began investing in real estate 11 years ago following her enlistment. In April 2021, she decided to take the next step on her entrepreneurial journey to focus on investing in commercial multi-family properties by founding Kennedy Remedy Investments.

Topics on Today’s Episode:

Self-Taught: How Keishia got started in investing tax-free money into real estate assets
Family Effort: Blessing to have someone you know and trust to help take care of the property
Veterans Administration (VA) Home Loan: Resource to purchase the home you reside in
Refinancing and Tax Benefits: Build equity and take capital/money to redeploy into deals
Lessons Learned: Be strategic with who you rent your property to and get better results
Contractor Issues: Be mindful when hiring and realize the cheapest is not always better
Team Sport: Rely on referrals, contracts, insurance, deadlines, materials, and family
Kennedy Remedy Investments: Why Keishia decided to focus on multifamily real estate
Partnership: Do due diligence and leverage to invest someone else’s money into deals
Roadblocks: Takes time to build a great relationship with someone for multifamily deals
Coach/Mentor/Mastermind: Invest in yourself to ensure others’ experience and referrals
Multifamily Mistakes: Don’t be too eager to invest in a deal, take time to do due diligence