The Values that Drive Clever Kitty Investing

In 2017 I had the pleasure of meeting three other real estate investors who taught me the most important things I've ever learned about property investment. These three principles now serve as the foundation behind what has become the greatest phase of my real estate investing career:







  • Property management is an amazing art, not a duty or a necessary evil
  • As an investor, I am not buying houses. I am solving people's problems
  • Flipping houses is a job. Keeping them long term creates wealth

I approach everything I do with these three principles operating behind the scenes.

         

Why Is It Called Clever Kitty?

Yes, I know, it’s a funny name. But there’s a story behind it.

I used to be part of a group of women who sold jewelry, and we had a fun way of categorizing people in our group. You were either a fluffy bunny or a clever kitty.

A fluffy bunny was anyone who brought the fun, the energy, and the joy to work and to everything they did. A clever kitty described anyone who was methodical, organized, and strategic. The bunnies made it fun, and the kitties made it happen.





Later on, a friend of mine commented to me that “you always were a clever kitty.”

And I really am. If it isn't organized and systematized, my brain will eat itself alive. Plus, I love cats.

So that's the story of Clever Kitty Investing.

If you want practical, detailed, ready-to-use real estate training courses that don't overpromise and underdeliver, this is the place to find them. You walk away from each course with real knowledge you can start using immediately.

if you're local in the Colorado area, you and I can also work together to find deals, and you can learn from me along the way - in person!

         

The Clever Kitty Story

My name is Lindsey Jensen, and I am a wife and a mother of two kids, a boy and a girl.

My dad worked as an appraiser, so I've been around real estate my whole life. I helped him at work, walked houses with him, looked at addresses on microfiche (does that even exist anymore?), and helping him with house flips when he got into that.

When I was 21, while others were out partying, I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I decided I wanted to become a real estate investor and start building long term wealth and freedom for myself and my future family. Now with that family here, I’m living out what I started building back in the early 2000s.

I began as a loan officer, and worked as an account executive for lenders. By age 24, I owned two houses and was a landlord to my first house.

In 2016, my real estate investing world expanded as I began to learn about a whole new array of fantastic ways to purchase real estate through creative deal making. In December of that year, I made my first creative deal with a 0% seller finance deal.

Since then, I’ve grown my portfolio to over 30 properties, most of which are single-family, but not all. I’m a landlord to over 70 doors, and to help manage these, I built my own professional landlord company which allows me to masterlease properties.

I’ve acquired specialized knowledge around all sorts of creative real estate deals such as:

  • Property Rehabs

  • Subject-To

  • Seller Finance

  • Lease Purchase

  • Joint Venture

  • Creative Refinance