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Keeping it Simple with Atticus and Beth Mulholland

Keeping it Simple with Atticus and Beth Mulholland

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Keeping it Simple with Atticus and Beth Mulholland

Beth and Atticus Mulholland, a married couple, discuss their journey into real estate investing on Avery’s show. They share how they transitioned from Boston to Dallas, found inspiration from Bigger Pockets, and eventually ventured into short-term rentals, overcoming initial challenges to grow their portfolio.

Avery: Hey guys, welcome back to the Short Term show. Today we have Beth and Atticus Mulholland. What a great name, by the way!

Avery: What a name! You sound like a movie star. And they are short-term rental investors in multiple markets. They invest as a couple, obviously, because they are married, not brother and sister.

Avery: I know the listeners would really like to hear the couple’s stories because a lot of times one person in the relationship is all about real estate investing, and the other one has to be convinced. So, we’ll get to that later. Thank you guys so much for coming on. How’s it going?

Beth: Hey Avery, thanks for having us! We’re excited to chat with you and talk a little bit about our story, which is, you know, just like everybody else—we stumbled into this originally, and then kind of found this passion for it. It snowballs from there.

Avery: We’re excited to chat about it. Yeah, thank you, awesome. Thanks for having us on. I’m really excited to hear your story. Let’s start by just telling us a little bit about yourselves and how you got into real estate investing.

Beth: Well, before we started recording, we talked about how one person’s usually the initiator, right? That was not me—that was him. He’s been the person from the get-go who had the big financial vision. Like, “these are the things we do to help ourselves down the road, to have a good retirement,” all this stuff. And I’m kind of like, “Yeah, yeah, let’s go to the movies, spend the money, have fun.”

Beth: It took me a little while to really see the vision of real estate investing, but it probably really kicked off when we moved from the high cost-of-living area of Boston, Massachusetts, to the lower cost of living in Dallas, Texas. We were able to buy a house that we would never have been able to afford in Boston. It started to click in my head a little, like, “Huh, the stuff he’s been talking about, there’s something to it. You can leverage real estate.”

Beth: We had grand plans to kind of rent out the first house we bought and move into another one. But, of course, like everything in life, those plans kind of got shelved when we moved back to Boston, where the cost of living is high again.

Beth: For a while, we shelved the plans until we stumbled across Bigger Pockets. I really started listening to some of the episodes, and then we actually stumbled across the Sevierville market. I knew a little bit about it because my family had a place about an hour away. But we really just saw the numbers and were like, “Let’s do it. Let’s go for this.”

Atticus: Yeah, I was convinced at that point, and now I think I love it more than her, definitely! She likes the management aspect of it, but I’ve been the one pushing for it from the beginning.

Atticus: We kind of stumbled into short-term rentals, and at first, we were looking more into small multifamily homes. But then, once we started looking at the returns and what we could do, and with the help of Bigger Pockets, we started setting up a call with you, Avery, and it just snowballed from there.

Atticus: We kept expanding our portfolio, building on it. Once you get over that first hump and can get one or two properties, it gets a lot easier. Then, the down payments start rolling in.

Avery: So that first property you bought was at the beginning of 2020, right?

Avery Carl

Avery Carl

Avery Carl was named one of Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 and Newsweek’s Top 500 agents in 2020. She and her team at The Short Term Shop focus exclusively on Vacation Rental and Short Term Rental Clients, having closed well over 1 billion dollars in real estate sales. Avery has sold over $300 million in Short Term/Vacation Rentals since 2017. An investor herself, with a portfolio of over 100 Doors, Avery specializes in connecting investors with short term rentals with the highest ROI potential, and then training them to manage their short term rental from their smart phone from anywhere in the world.

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