Matt Bowles co-founded Maverick Investor Group in 2007 as a fully-remote real estate brokerage to help people buy cash-flowing rental properties in the best U.S. real estate markets, regardless of where they live.
He has been featured in major national media and was named one of the “Top 50 Real Estate Opinion Makers and Market Leaders”. Matt and his co-founders at Maverick have helped individual real estate investors buy over $100 million in residential investment property across 15 U.S. States.
A full-time digital nomad with no permanent base since 2013 that has been to 80 different countries on 6 continents. He is also the host of The Maverick Show podcast where he interviews today’s most interesting location-independent entrepreneurs and world travelers. The Maverick Show was ranked the #1 Digital Nomad Podcast in the World by Web Work Travel and the top 1% of all podcasts in the world by Listen Notes.
Matt is a proponent of “stylish minimalism” and travels the world through multiple climates with carry-on luggage only. He is also a sought-after speaker and has delivered keynote addresses at conferences around the world, ranging from the Nomad Summit in Chiang Mai Thailand to the Bansko NomadFest in Bulgaria to the Nomads BA conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Matt is regularly interviewed by international media on topics relating to real estate investing, location-independent entrepreneurship, and long-term world travel. He was featured in the book “Digital Nomads For Dummies” and was also featured in the film “Roamers”, the first ever studio-backed documentary on the digital nomad lifestyle.
In this episode, we dive into Matt’s journey of starting his location-independent business in 2007 and his favorite off-the-beaten-path destinations, including several hidden gems in Africa. We also discuss his real estate investment business and strategy.
Show Notes:
01:53 – Welcome Matt Bowles
02:34 – Reason why everybody follows Matthew
04:27 – What does Matt miss from the times in 2007 when nobody know about digital nomadism
08:40 – 10 years living as a digital nomad
10:12 – Most special aspect about Remote Year
14:17 – What changed inside the nomad movement with the pandemic?
19:52 – About the change on the vision that different countries have about digital nomads
21:30 – A destination that more people should know more about
30:20 – Africa as the new digital nomad hub
33:20 – Future of nomadism
40:20 – Strategies to integrate and connect with the local culture and local people
45:00 – Advice for people that want to invest on real state
50:50 – How is digital nomadism influencing the real state market?
52:45 – How will San Francisco and New York survive with the current model from people moving out mostly because of the prices?
57:30 – Opinion about fragmented ownership of real state
01:02:50 – Reason why the podcast was created
01:07:30 – Final remarks
Useful Links:
- The Maverick Show
- The Maverick Show: page for the Remote Work Movement listeners!
- Porto Santo Nomad Fest
- Podcast with Chase Warrington – Doist Life & Management Style
- Remote Year
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