EP 77: Levi Skinner | Cleaning After Midnight, Becoming Efficient, Underwriting Real Estate, Helping Others Through Spreadsheets, Benefits of a Mama’s Boy, and Being Grateful
Update: 2023-01-23
Description
Story of failure: Not having a conversation with my mom in a respectful way.
Levi Skinner is a real estate investor and guru from the great midwest. He lives with his wife Lindsay, and their dog Leo and cat Xena, in Springfield, MO. Levi was a standout athlete in high school and college, and pursued a degree in accounting. Once in the accounting world, he decided to make a change to real estate and hasn’t looked back. He now spends his time looking for real estate investment, helping clients, and helping businesses and investors understand their numbers.
In today's episode Levi talks about:
- growing up with siblings on a farm
- leaving accounting to pursue real estate
- leveraging his CPA background in real estate
- what is a billing analyst?
- creating systems in excel spreadsheets
- trying to be as efficient as possible
- getting into the numbers of a real estate deal
- what is underwriting?
- helping others build spreadsheets
- having a good dad as a mentor
- having a brother as a mentor
- being a momma’s boy growing up
- mom being a big supporter
- story of mom yelling in a basketball game
- Levi giving the story of Justin being a mentor
- being a head case freshman year
- being a perfectionist in baseball and working through it
- Justin getting heated as a fill in coach
- having professional hopes in baseball
- “Failures have taught me how to bounce back.”
- “You’re going to fail a lot in your life.”
- story of failure - second year of marriage
- not treating his wife in the best way and realizing it
- starting to clean the kitchen after midnight in anger
- quitting his job after his wife urging him to
- needing to take a step back
- a failure that lead to something cool
- communicating more effectively with his wife
- surrounding himself with good people and sharing failures and succeses
- having a close group of guys across the country
- learning from other people
- starting a new storage unit
- what is a storage unit?
- having a goal setting meeting with his wife
- overcoming being a penny pincher
- investing in marriage
- wanting to travel more
- loving God and proving the best possible life for your family
- being grateful for being blessed
- being a podcasting pro
- watching the Professional Failure podcast grow
Levi Skinner is a real estate investor and guru from the great midwest. He lives with his wife Lindsay, and their dog Leo and cat Xena, in Springfield, MO. Levi was a standout athlete in high school and college, and pursued a degree in accounting. Once in the accounting world, he decided to make a change to real estate and hasn’t looked back. He now spends his time looking for real estate investment, helping clients, and helping businesses and investors understand their numbers.
In today's episode Levi talks about:
- growing up with siblings on a farm
- leaving accounting to pursue real estate
- leveraging his CPA background in real estate
- what is a billing analyst?
- creating systems in excel spreadsheets
- trying to be as efficient as possible
- getting into the numbers of a real estate deal
- what is underwriting?
- helping others build spreadsheets
- having a good dad as a mentor
- having a brother as a mentor
- being a momma’s boy growing up
- mom being a big supporter
- story of mom yelling in a basketball game
- Levi giving the story of Justin being a mentor
- being a head case freshman year
- being a perfectionist in baseball and working through it
- Justin getting heated as a fill in coach
- having professional hopes in baseball
- “Failures have taught me how to bounce back.”
- “You’re going to fail a lot in your life.”
- story of failure - second year of marriage
- not treating his wife in the best way and realizing it
- starting to clean the kitchen after midnight in anger
- quitting his job after his wife urging him to
- needing to take a step back
- a failure that lead to something cool
- communicating more effectively with his wife
- surrounding himself with good people and sharing failures and succeses
- having a close group of guys across the country
- learning from other people
- starting a new storage unit
- what is a storage unit?
- having a goal setting meeting with his wife
- overcoming being a penny pincher
- investing in marriage
- wanting to travel more
- loving God and proving the best possible life for your family
- being grateful for being blessed
- being a podcasting pro
- watching the Professional Failure podcast grow
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