Mike is an investor, speaker, podcaster and founder of Investing for Freedom. Mike helps busy professionals and business owners find true freedom to live their best life. Mike’s primary business is Velocity Venture Partners, a private equity group focused on alternative assets including manufactured home communities, luxury vacation rentals, and service businesses. VVP teams up with accredited investors to create income and tax benefits via private placements. By age 24, Mike founded his first construction company that scaled quickly to more than 100 employees and sold in 2014 at a $12 million valuation, making it onto the Inc. 2009 “2500 Fastest Growing Companies in America” list. Mike and Kara had also built a real estate portfolio of 5 manufactured home communities, 45 single families, and 3 commercial buildings.