For Scott Trench, this all started with a park bench, someone else’s dog, and a stranger.
Trench, in his first couple years out of college, was trying to figure out what to do with his life. And one late morning more than a decade ago, he found his answer: Out walking his friend’s dog, Trench sat down next to someone he’d never met and, after the two spoke about investing, the stranger invited the 20-something to a weekly, peer-to-peer Real Estate Mastermind Group. Trench accepted the invitation and shortly thereafter met Josh Dorkin, founder of the then-new real estate education platform BiggerPockets. Trench was already a fan.
“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re Josh Dorkin and I love the BiggerPockets podcast,’” said Trench. “Now, I think he remembers it differently, but I think he said ‘go away kid’ three or four times. So, I kept following up.”
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