EP. 33 // How to Make $5.5 Million a Year Working 15 Hours a Week w/ Billy Alvaro
On this episode of Real Leverage, we have founder of Easy Sell Property Solutions, Real Estate Investor Billy Alvaro out of New York, New York. Billy is a titan of the industry, flipping over 200 homes a year, doing hundreds of transactions annually through his companies. In this episode, Billy and David talk about the power of meditation and intention, why you need to get good at one thing before expanding outward, and the strategies Billy employs to make over $5,000,000 a year in transactions with an incredibly lean team!
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Key Points from This Episode:
Billy has been off of alcohol for 8 years, and off of caffeine for over a year!
Billy meditates 40 minutes a day using meditation apps. He does 10 - 15 minutes, 3 to 4 times a day
Billy and David talk about the benefits of meditation and mindfully tracking your lifestyle in order to set and accomplish goals and growth.
Billy started in his 20’s; after the airforce and being on the police force, he suffered losses during the 2008 real estate crisis. In 2009 he stopped doing drugs and began real estate investing. Every 6 months he would stop something negative he was doing and replace it with something positive, and every time he would level up his life. He is constantly testing how he can take his body and lifestyle to the next level. Success is important, but lifestyle is just as important! He doesn’t want to be the biggest, he wants to be the best. Success and happiness are more important than grinding himself 80+ hours a week.
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ABOUT BILLY ALVARO
Billy Alvaro is an American success story. Like many successful business leaders, Billy struggled in school, but his passion and dreams of building a multi-million-dollar real estate business drove him to take massive action. The challenge, of course, was that Billy allowed fear of failure lack of formal education and the opinions of others to stop him from taking massive action for years.
Finally, at the age of 26, Alvaro was able to crush his own fears and get started in the real estate and mortgage industry. With just a Dollar and a dream Billy grew his small Mortgage business to a national powerhouse mortgage banker employing 0ver 900 associates with loan volume trending towards 1.1 Billion. Since then, Billy’s companies have been involved with thousands of real estate and financing deals. By 2004, he was recognized in INC 500 as the 136th fastest growing privately held company in America, was Recognized as the TOP 40 business person under the age of 40 and awarded Business Man of the Year by the Columbia Association.
However, When the economy took a turn for the worse Billy’s business imploded. He ended up losing everything. When the dust settled, he realized he was saddled with over 14 million in debt. He lost his business, home, cars and at a low point almost his life.
On July 4th 2009 at one of the lowest points in his life Billy had an awakening. He realized AGAIN that it was fear was holding him back from starting over. He made a promise on that day to once again become financially secure and independent through real estate investing.
With no money, no job and no credit Billy figured out how to find, purchase, fix and sell homes by being extremely resourceful. He took massive consistent action, executed his plan and the rest is history.
Today, Billy Alvaro is the founder of Easy Sell Property solutions a real estate investment company investing in New Jersey and New York. He employees 20 people and successfully flips 200 homes a year.
Utilizing the same tools that Billy mastered in Easy Sell , Billy also teaches the art and science of a myriad of investing strategies such as paper flipping, fix and flip, fix and rent, assignments, double closes, wholesaling, marketing, wrap mortgages, subject to’s,, creative deal structuring, debt negotiation, and long-term wealth building. All this while Billy continues to own one of New York’s most successful real Estate investment companies which does hundreds of transactions yearly!
As with so many truly talented REI coaches, it has taken Alvaro over a decade to refine these strategies to a point where they could be easily taught, but in doing so, Billy has discovered the secrets and tactics to real success, which building out proven systems to find undervalued properties that others can’t seem to locate, to precisely calculate the offer, to figure out the repair costs and the profit on each deal.
