Ashlee Edwards is a full-time attorney who bought eight properties while continuing to work a demanding job. She began investing during the pandemic after witnessing how quickly income, stability, and control can disappear when financial security depends entirely on an employer.

What she did:
• Continued working full-time as an attorney while buying properties ⚖️
• Used pandemic downtime to listen to podcasts and read books 📚
• Invested in real estate education and completed every module 🎓
• Built entities, bank accounts, and systems while learning 🧱
• Saved aggressively instead of increasing lifestyle 💰

How you can apply it:
• Use unexpected downtime intentionally
• Learn and execute at the same time
• Build systems before buying properties
• Avoid lifestyle creep to accelerate progress

Protecting the Income That Enabled Her Growth 🛡️

Ashlee focused on financial security, not job security, and treated her income as a strategic asset rather than something to escape quickly.

What she did:
• Maintained her attorney role while buying properties
• Used steady income to save for down payments
• Avoided unnecessary changes that could weaken lending strength

How you can apply it:
• Protect the income that funds early deals
• Use your job or business as leverage
• Delay risky transitions until systems are built

Using Savings Discipline as a Competitive Advantage 🏦

Ashlee developed disciplined saving habits long before learning how to invest, which later allowed her to act decisively.

What she did:
• Practiced structured saving techniques learned early in life
• Increased savings as income increased
• Used saved capital to buy early properties

How you can apply it:
• Treat saving as a skill
• Increase savings before increasing spending
• Use discipline to shorten your timeline

Operating Real Estate With a Demanding Schedule 📆

Ashlee manages real estate alongside her job by eliminating chaos and decision fatigue.

What she did:
• Used one digital work calendar for all responsibilities
• Scheduled real estate tasks like appointments
• Focused on one task at a time
• Used her calendar as a live to-do list

How you can apply it:
• Run life and business from one calendar
• Time-block real estate tasks
• Eliminate multitasking to increase output

Eliminating Distractions to Increase Focus 🔕

Ashlee intentionally limits interruptions to protect deep focus while working a demanding professional role.

What she did:
• Turned off phone, email, and message notifications
• Used focus and do-not-disturb modes
• Created specific windows for communication

How you can apply it:
• Silence non-essential notifications
• Create focused work windows
• Accept delayed responses as a productivity trade-off

Early DIY for Education 🛠️

Ashlee took early action to understand systems and processes—not because she had to, but to learn.

What she did:
• Learned real estate systems through execution
• Built confidence by doing, not watching
• Used early action as education

How you can apply it:
• Treat early DIY as short-term training
• Learn systems well enough to manage others later
• Move from learning to delegation over time

Why She’s Now Focusing on Private Money Lending 💼💵

As her portfolio matured, Ashlee began focusing more on private money lending as a way to grow income with fewer time demands.

What she did:
• Leveraged her real estate experience into private