Name: How I Got Out Of $100K In Debt & Went On Love Is Blind
Uploaded: 2023-07-10
Duration: 7 min 19 s
Description: Nancy Rodriguez, 33, is known for being a contestant on season three of Netflix’s reality series Love Is Blind. Behind the scenes, Rodriguez has made place for herself in real estate, content creation, financial education, and speech pathology.

Nancy Rodriguez, 33, is known for being a contestant on season three of Netflix’s reality series Love Is Blind. Behind the scenes, Rodriguez has made place for herself in real estate, content creation, financial education, and speech pathology. 

How I Got Out Of $100K In Debt & Went On Love Is Blind

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Outside of Netflix's "Love is Blind," Nancy Rodriguez pursues real estate and financial education.

When I showed my properties on Love Is Blind. I didn't do it in a sense to gain notoriety for being a real estate investor. I was truly just being myself. I'm like, hey, Boo, this is what I do. This is my home. Hi, my name is Nancy. And you might recognize me from a TV show called Love Is Blind. And I'm 33 years old. I am a real estate investor, but I'm also a speech language pathologist. I made the biggest mistake of buying a $30,000 car right before I started grad school. In my mind, I was gonna live the California life with the mom car full of friends. It was the biggest financial mistake of my life because it just really put me 30 steps back when it came to really understanding finances, knowing that I had $100,000 to. My name was probably one of the scariest things because in my bringing of my family and especially with my parents being first generation Mexican immigrants, it really wasn't a conversation of you have this lump sum that how do we figure out how to pay off after I finished grad school in San Francisco. I knew I wanted to be closer to home, which was back in Texas up in Dallas, Texas. And that's actually the best place that I recommend for speech language Pao, who are finishing school. What I did instead of going through the school system to be hired on a salary basis. I actually went the second route which was being contracted and I was paid an hourly rate at a way higher price. A friend of mine who was also a speech and language pathologist working in the same school district, I was making about $15,000 more than her because I was an independent contractor. I also worked as needed at the speech and language. This for a home health care company. So I had an online job that was doing data analyzing. So let me tell you when Dave Ramsey says, rice and beans, it is a rice and beans lifestyle. When it came to paying my debt off. I remember having to literally have for breakfast, lunch and dinner, homemade beans, bean, soup, smashed beans. I mean, like I've got super creative y'all and making that sacrifice at the, the age of 24 to 26 was really not easy at all. It took me two years to pay off $100,000 debt. And that really did include getting to the point of buying my first property. So I think that was a big part of me. Being able to do that. The most rewarding part of paying off my debt was literally going to the bank and asking them, hey, I want to cash out this account. And at that point, I had saved about 15,000. Purchasing my first property was not easy. It was about six months of submitting 20 different offers from single family homes to four flexes to triplexes to duplexes. And I remember when I submitted the offer to this particular property, I walked up to it and it was the eye so of the neighborhood, it truly allowed me to be a real landlord and live on one side and be on site for the property when issues did arise. And then it also just allows you to have so many more responsibilities and learn so much about what it is to be in the real estate investing world, whether that was upgrades, fixing ac units, replacing toilets. I mean, from everything that I thought owning a house would be like, I never, I would have imagined that what it would be. It allowed me to one continue to save more money because at this point that $1200 that I used to pay and debt for my card and my student loans and other debt, I was actually able to not have that payment. So that $1200 was just more cash flow for me. And within the first year I purchased my second duplex before going on Love is Blind. I can honestly tell you that my life was content. I was happy financially. I had already became a full time real estate investor. I had left my 9 to 5. Once I got on the show, it just really allowed me to channel more of who I am and what I offer and what it is that I want more in life. Besides the business side of things that were going well, I was really in a place where I was single and I wanted to add that component to my life, which is finding love. After love is blind. I truly had to go through the process of understanding what is it that I want in a partner and is financial stability or is our disagreement on finances? A deal breaker. So I hope that people watching love is blind and saw the scene where we were talking about finances and prenups and what it meant to own property. I hope that they take that as an opportunity to not feel embarrassed or ashamed to bring up finances in a relationship. So yeah, if I go on a date with you, we're probably gonna talk some finances at some point. The following that came from the show went from 800 followers, which is family and friends to over 500,000 followers on Instagram and over 200,000 followers on tiktok. About three months before Love Is Blind came out for season. Three. I actually started just building my plan for becoming a social media influencer, a creator over the last six months or so. I've made over six figures about 100 and 50,000 or more. However, all that money has gone straight to my real estate. I haven't even seen that money. I purchased another house. I'm putting that money into the renovation for that. I've done the smallest brand deal of, let's say $5000 for a specific story with a specific tag. But then also I've done $30,000 deals with brands as well to be able to do more than just one story, but really provide either appearances or speaking engagements or a combination of a real and a story. My goal is to maximize my opportunity and my platform and continue to educate more people on real estate investing, financial freedom. I just want to be able to offer that opportunity in that community for others. The biggest piece of advice that I would have given myself to be a social media influencer, a content creator is that you just have to be authentic social media creating wasn't really a thing when I was in my early twenties, we just had Facebook and you take pictures and you post them and you look cute and that's it. So I think where we are now in a world where anyone can be a social media influencer. Age is not a factor I think for me, it's truly being an organic creator where I can relate with the brand, use the brand and be able to speak on behalf of the brand in an authentic organic way. I splurge on dinners, take me to sushi because I will tear up that sushi menu.