Quitting the Perfect Day Job to Become a Full-time Real Estate Investor!
Ever dreamt of someday quitting your W2? Witness Andrew Engel's inspiring journey from a stable tech job to the dynamic world of full-time real estate investing. With a young family in tow, Andrew navigated the challenges and triumphs of this major life shift.
Join us to uncover the actionable steps and personal insights that fueled his transformative year.
Speaker: Andrew Engel
Andrew Engel is a real estate investor and founder of Fresh Picked Leads; a lead generation company designed to collect and distribute the freshest motivated seller lists in Wisconsin.
Andrew’s professional background is in software engineering and project management, but he left his W2 job in February 2023 to pursue his businesses full time.
He is now focusing his efforts on building his real estate acquisitions business to wholesale, fix and flip, and hold residential real estate.
WiscoREIA’s Kenosha Meeting Always Meets on the 2nd Thursday of the Month from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm!
Hosts: Dan Yurkovich & Andy Baugher
Dan started his investing career in 2018 when he moved to Kenosha and bought his first property to “house hack” and begin building a rental portfolio. After struggling in real estate for 2 years, he eventually found WiscoREIA in 2020. Networking with other local investors at the monthly meetups, he quickly learned the potential to become financially free through real estate and dove in headfirst.
He started acquiring more rentals using the “BRRRR” method and eventually got into flips, wholesales, and creative financing. In June 2022, Dan was able to leave his full-time job as a mechanical engineer and start investing in real estate full time. He specializes in buying rentals with no money down and is always eager to learn new strategies to buy properties and help sellers in difficult situations.
Dan loves to share what he has learned with other investors and get those around him excited about the life-changing potential of real estate investing. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, trying new food, playing sports and snowboarding.
Andy has been passionate about real estate for all of his adult life. In 2012, Andy purchased his first commercial property and then continued his real estate investing over the years by purchasing and holding multifamily properties in the Racine/Kenosha area. His main strategy as an investor is buy and hold, but he enjoys and dabbles in BRRR, hard money lending and investing in syndicated deals. Andy built his portfolio over the years while working a full time W2 job. In 2022, Andy “Retired” from the “9 to 5” to enjoy financial freedom and continues to grow his investment portfolio and businesses. Andy and his wife own a local full-service real estate brokerage and a property management company.
In his free time, Andy enjoys spending time with his wife (Meagan) and two young children (Ben and Jack) as well as working out, running and almost any other outdoor activity.
Andy enjoys sharing his knowledge and insight with others about real estate investing and is passionate about helping people use real estate to build wealth and reach financial freedom.
Make sure to bring tons of business cards as you will be meeting with people that you want to get to know!
Meeting Location:
The Brat Stop
12304 75th Street
Kenosha, WI 53142
Please enjoy food, drinks, and TIP YOUR SERVERS!
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Doors open early for Networking
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Speaker Presentation
You can stay after the meeting as well to network! Remember to bring your deals!
Members are always FREE! Your first meeting with WiscoREIA is FREE!
After your first meeting, Non-Members are $20.
**No cash or checks are accepted at the meeting**
