Owen: First Condo Investment Lost $350 Monthly Before Selling For $220,000
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Real estate investor Daryl Owen recounts purchasing his first rental condo in Long Beach at age 19 while managing a Papa John's restaurant.
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“My mortgage is a 1450. So I was negative like three 50 a month. Yeah. That was my first investment. And I sold it two years later, I paid one 80 and I sold it for two 20.”
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