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Zachary Roper: “We don't have debt on [the duplex] because me and a partner…”

Featuring: Zachary Roper, Democratic | Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin

Episode 62: Income Diversification for Long-Term Financial Success with Zachary Roper

Published November 7, 2024 | Video Starts at 29:55

I own real tangible assets that make me money every month. It's not a lot of money, but we own the asset. We own, we own the duplex. We don't have debt on [the duplex] because me and a partner were able to scrounge up the cash to pay cash for it. And we said, why would we pay 6, 7, 8% to the bank when we don't have to? We can pay cash. (29:55–30:01)

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“Kelly [School of Business] is a great program, continues to be, you know, an accelerating program. I think this most recent year they were…”
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“I got a CPA and went to work for KPMG.”
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“Probably 85% of my clients at KPMG [were private equity clients].”
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“I got my first paycheck less than two weeks after I officially started my company.”
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“Worked on 250, 300, 400, $500 million billion dollars plus businesses.”
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“Picked up a client that does $40 million in revenue.”
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“When I pick up a client that does $30 million in business and they want to grow.”
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“There are some huge funds, billions and billions and billions of dollars in these funds.”
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“Taking them public, it's like a whole different ball game in private equity.”
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“They circumvented the entire supply chain of getting the residential roofs.”
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“They went straight to the insurance companies and they said, we want to negotiate a fixed rate to repair your roofs.”
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“At 30 grand a pop, that's some serious revenue that's starting to come in now.”
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