From Baking Bread to Buying Buildings
From Baking Bread to Buying Buildings
When we got married, we both had solid tech jobs—engineer and product manager—living what we thought was the dream: tiny NYC apartment, busy schedules, and just enough time on weekends for brunch and bodega runs. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly we had time on our hands, a growing obsession with making our own baguettes, and a curiosity about what else was possible.
That curiosity turned into a deep dive. We binged every BiggerPockets episode, read every real estate book we could find, and started to imagine a life with more freedom—and more space. We packed our bags and househacked a triplex in Providence, RI. Today, we own properties in both Providence and Philadelphia and regularly bore our friends with real estate strategies, tax hacks, and index fund tips. Our goal? Become work optional —and help others do the same.
What You’ll Get From This Blog
This blog is for anyone who wants to build a life they love without giving up the things that make it fun (like tacos, travel, and lazy mornings).
We share:
- Real-life lessons from buying, renovating, and managing properties
- Bite-sized breakdowns of personal finance, investing, and automation
- Mistakes we’ve made so you don’t have to
- Tools, templates, and strategies to grow your own version of freedom
Basically: smarter money moves, minus the boring parts.
5 Fun Facts About Us
- Gabriel proposed with a drone two hours before a 22-hour flight to the Maldives.
- Breakfast tacos are our love language.
- We’ve traveled to 36 cities and 15 countries together.
- A cat adopted us. She’s now our laziest (but cutest) roommate.
- We moved to Providence because of an amazing breakfast sandwich….and because the numbers worked.