From Nigeria to the United States - Creating a Real Estate Empire from Scratch
For this episode, I am happy to welcome real-estate investor and multi-family syndicator, Ola Dantis. Ola is also the host of the Dwellynn Podcast, with which he unpacks real estate investing strategies and helps people start or continue their journey toward financial freedom.
First, Ola shares his background story with us. He shares how his real estate business started with an invite from one of his friends who wanted him to join his company. Since then, there has been no stepping back. As Ola realized the opportunities and financial liberty this profession gave him, he dove deeper to explore every possibility that could be.
Ola shares how he achieved the success he has today and how it all started with the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. He also shares how he financed his first deal. Ola talks about his experience dealing with contractors and why it hasn’t mostly been a very good experience for him. He used to visit the site he undertook almost every day, and this was not very welcome to the contractors he dealt with.
Related to this, I talked about why it is good that you keep an eye on the work that is going on at a site because that is when you realize the littlest things you could save on or could be saved from being misled on. Ola also talks about transitioning his business to making bigger and bigger deals and how he mastered the skills needed to soar in the industry.
Ola also discusses the importance of having a good partnership. The quickest way that helped him scale his business well was understanding his business partners. He also shares the massive role of a mentor in shaping your career for the good and why investing on that end would always benefit you in the long run.
One other key point of discussion is the importance of branding in growing and expanding your business and how you can put that into practice. Ola says branding has a crucial role in his business and shares how he uses social media platforms like Instagram to engage with the audience and get his brand to rank high in the search results and feed. He shares his research and the results of social media algorithms and using them to your advantage and why putting out five Instagram stories a day can massively help you in that.
Join in the conversation today as successful investor Ola Dantis shares his wealth of experience with you in order to help you succeed in your real estate business. You don’t want to miss this fantastic episode of the Just Start Real Estate Podcast!
Notable Quotes:
“Success never comes in a golden box with a red ribbon around it.”
- Ola Dantis
“So I did fantastically well with this duplex and I was like, I think I should do more of this.”
- Ola Dantis
“You have to be obsessive to be successful.”
- Ola Dantis
“I did not have the temperament. I was a perfectionist. I was always on site every day.”
- Ola Dantis
“I always tell people err on the side of being on the jobsite too much. Even if you go and you're kind of in their way and you annoy them, at least it's not costing you a lot of money because they're doing something you didn't want them to do.”
- Mike Simmons
“In life, there's always a price to pay. And there is never a discount.”
- Ola Dantis
“You have to really understand what position you are exuding.”
- Ola Dantis
“For me, branding is everything, like we try to be as ubiquitous as we can. You go on social media, you can't miss me, we're pretty out there.”
- Ola Dantis
Links:
Level Jumping: How I Grew My Business to Over $1 Million in Profits in 12 Months
