Nikolai Ray is the Founder and CEO of MREX, he is a professor at MREX College and is a leading apartment investing expert with over $10B in multifamily analysis, underwriting, and transactions to date. Nikolai speaks at multiple multifamily conferences and events. In this powerful interview, Nikolai takes us through his exciting and multi-faceted experience as a self-made entrepreneur, teaching us how to grow our own businesses along the way.Hungry for more of the How in real estate investing? Visit www.ezfiuniversity.com for in-depth articles and webinar recordings to start down your own road to Financial Independence.1. Listen and Learn on our Podcast, "10,000 Roads to Financial Independence": https://bityl.co/4l3z2. Subscribe to our channel: https://ytube.io/3C4F3. Check out more about Nicolai here: https://mrex.co/about-mrex  https://www.instagram.com/nikolairay/About Elisa Zhang:I am an owner and principal of over 1,000 apartment units across the USA. I’m an educator, an artist and a mother of two beautiful children.I am on a mission to help motivated individuals make money while they sleep and retire faster than they dreamed.What makes me so confident that I can guide someone to achieving this goal? It’s the exact process I used to replace my annual full-time corporate income of over $200K. I came from the IT world and focused on leveraging the power of real estate investing to form passive streams of income that now funds my family's life, independent from working at a day job.Why not keep this all a secret for myself?Sharing the formula for Financial Independence is my way of showing gratitude and adding more value to the world.⏰  Timestamps ⏰:Resources:Scaling Up by Vern Harnish https://scalingup.com/book/EOS: Entrepreneur Operating System https://www.eosworldwide.com/