--- title: "About Jennifer Beadles | Addicted to ROI" description: "Real estate investor, software founder, and homeschooling mom. The playbook I wish someone had handed me when I started, plus the expensive mistakes I made along the way. No gurus, no courses, just notes from a few moves ahead." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://addictedtoroi.com/#organization", "name": "Addicted to ROI", "url": "https://addictedtoroi.com", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://addictedtoroi.com/images/logo.png" }, "description": "Live your best life funded by your investments. 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The last time that happened was about two years ago." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "How is this funded?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Out of my own rental income. The blog costs me around $2,400 a year to run and has since 2019. Worth every dollar." } } ] } ] --- [![Addicted to ROI](/images/logo.png)](/) [Travel](/pillars/travel/)[Real Estate](/pillars/real-estate/)[Tax Savings](/pillars/tax-savings/)[Business](/pillars/business/)[Paths](/paths/)[Blog](/blog/)[Tools](/tools/)[Apps](/software/)[About](/about/) [Login](https://members.addictedtoroi.com/) Subscribe [Travel](/pillars/travel/)[Real Estate](/pillars/real-estate/)[Tax Savings](/pillars/tax-savings/)[Business](/pillars/business/)[Paths](/paths/)[Blog](/blog/)[Tools](/tools/)[Apps](/software/)[About](/about/)[Login](https://members.addictedtoroi.com/) # Hi, I’m Jennifer. I write about the life your investments quietly __fund__. Pull up a chair. I bought my first place in 2007 and my first rental in 2008, back when I was doing rental math on my lunch break. Today the portfolio pays the bills while my family works from a different country a few months a year. This page is the long version: the wins, the expensive mistakes, and what I’d tell my 28-year-old self if she’d listen. [Read the long version ↓](#story)[or just say hi ✉︎](#postcard) — Jen ✦ Currently: 56 days in the Med ✈ ![Jennifer and her husband traveling in Pula, Croatia](/images/travel-croatia-pula.jpg) ![Jennifer with her toddler](/images/kids-mom-toddler.jpg) homeschooling on the road The long version ## How I got __here__ six minutes, skip if you’re in a rush ↓ 2007 ### I bought my first place. I was earning $15 an hour and running rental numbers on my lunch break. Everyone said wait. I bought anyway. It was the least glamorous decision I ever made, and the one that changed everything. 2008 ### A duplex, thanks to Mom. My parents put the money down and I did all the work. We bought a duplex together, and I learned that a good deal plus sweat equity beats a fat bank account every time. 2009 ### I quit the day after closing. I got my real estate license so I could let myself into listings. Then I bought a duplex and gave notice the day after we closed, December 31st. Six months later I was making more selling houses on the side than I had all year at the day job. ✎ best resignation of my life 2010 ### I became a builder. Owning was not enough. I wanted to make the thing, not just buy it. So I started building houses from the dirt up. 2011 ### Top agent, more dirt. I became the top agent at my brokerage and poured every commission back into more builds and auction buys. The point was never to sell houses. It was to keep them. 2014 ### Two parents, zero day jobs. Our daughter arrived, my husband left his 9-to-5, and we became full-time investors and brand-new parents in the same year. We figured it out as we went. 2016 ### I started writing it down. Friends kept asking the same five questions. What is an LLC actually for? Do I need a CPA? How do you sleep at night? I started a tiny email list to answer them once. That list grew into this blog and the 26,000 people now reading it. 2018 ### Bigger doors, smaller suitcases. We paused building to buy our first apartment complex and closed on it later that year. Then we took our three-year-old on a ten-week trip around Southeast Asia. The portfolio kept paying while we were gone. 2020 ### COVID made us RVers. When the world shut down, we bought an RV and went full-time on the road. Turns out a portfolio runs just fine from a campground. 2021 ### Half on the road, half across the world. We split the year between the RV and farther-flung places. Our kid got a geography lesson. We got a life that did not need a return flight. 2022 ### We landed in Phoenix. After years of moving, we picked a home base in Phoenix, Arizona. Roots at last, with a runway to keep traveling. 2023 ### More apartments. We added more apartment units to the portfolio. Bigger deals, same boring math that has always worked. 2024 ### Ryker arrived. Our son was born. Two kids now, both growing up thinking rental math is normal dinner-table talk. 2025 ### Travel, and a DADU. A year heavy on travel, and we broke ground on a DADU project. The building itch never really goes away. now ### Back to building. We are building again and running the portfolio remotely, writing the playbook I wish someone had handed me when I started. The next decade is about doing less, but doing it better. How I write ## Four rules I __write by__ 01 ### Show the math, not the vibe. Every claim here comes with the spreadsheet behind it. If I cannot show you the numbers, I have not earned the opinion. 02 ### Boring beats clever. Cap rates, cash-on-cash, and a 30-year fixed have quietly beaten every clever thing I have tried. The boring stuff compounds. 03 ### The deal you walk away from. Half of investing well is saying no. I write up the deals I passed on almost as often as the ones I closed. They teach more. 04 ### No affiliate slop. I do not link to lenders or platforms for kickbacks. If a tool is on this site, I actually use it. The only thing I sell is what I write. Postcards from the road ## Proof it’s __not theory__ ![Standing on the canyon rim near Moab](/images/hero-home-alt-canyon.jpg) Moab. The month the RV idea won. ![A fully renovated white rental kitchen with hardwood floors](/images/portfolio-rainier-after-kitchen.jpg) The kitchen, after. Worth every weekend. ![The barrel sauna at one of the cabin rentals](/images/portfolio-timbertide-sauna.jpg) Sauna nights at the cabin rental. ![A dated rental bathroom before its renovation](/images/portfolio-rainier-before-bathroom.jpg) The bathroom, before. Good bones, big plans. ![The couple at the Roman amphitheater in Pula, Croatia](/images/travel-croatia-pula.jpg) Croatia, between work emails. ![The couple among red rock canyons out West](/images/about-couple-sunset.jpg) Red rock country. A real day off, finally. ![A styled guest coffee bar in one of the rentals](/images/portfolio-timbertide-coffeebar.jpg) The guest coffee bar. Small touches, five-star reviews. Asked and answered ## Questions I get __a lot__ Are you a financial advisor? No. I am an investor who writes. Nothing here is advice, it is just what worked, and what did not, for me. Talk to a CPA and an attorney before you act on anything I describe. Do you sell a course? Do you offer coaching? How often do you publish? Can I pitch you a guest post or brand deal? How is this funded? Got a question? ## Send me a __postcard__ Dear Jennifer, 1000 characters left From Writing from Email (so I can write back) Also send me new articles (one email per article, unsubscribe anytime). Send my postcard I read every one and answer in batches, usually within a week. Education, not financial or tax advice. [Privacy](/privacy/). Off to go build something. Go build yours.  ~ Jennifer © 2026 Addicted to ROI. Education and community, not financial or tax advice. 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