Mackenzie Grate, The Machree Group, LLC The Real Estate Sessions

 
Juggling two careers is never easy. For The Machree Group real estate agent Mackenzie Grate, being an educator by day and a real estate agent in her free time is a challenge. But her passion for helping other people settle into their first home, as well as the amount of support she gets around her, fuel her to keep moving forward. “Mack-of-all-trades” Mackenzie sits with Bill Risser in this episode to share her knowledge about real estate investing, interior design, and supporting you in becoming financially independent. Tune in and be inspired by Mackenzie’s story as she walks us through her real estate journey.

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Mackenzie Grate, The Machree Group, LLC
Welcome to episode 316 of the show. Thank you so much for reading. Thank you so much for telling a friend. We are going to talk to the Rising Star of the Year and this was handed out by RateMyAgent as part of our Agent of the Year Awards in conjunction with Shelley Zavitz’s New Agent 365 coaching. Mackenzie Grate is great. She has been an investor, a renovator, a fix and flip, and a fix and hold person for years, but she got her real estate license during the pandemic. She has got an amazing story. I am excited to chat with her. Let’s get this thing started. Mackenzie, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

I am so excited. I think this will become an annual thing. I’m going to have the Rising Star from the RateMyAgent’s Agent of the Year Awards every year on the show. If you read my show, you know I like to get the backstory. I want to find out where people started and where they grew up. You live in Brooklyn, but you work in Kingston, which is way upstate from there. Is New York where you grew up?

I have a pretty interesting upbringing. I was raised back and forth between two states. My father lived in Northern California in a small town called Modesto, and my mom lived in Indianapolis, Indiana. Every time I had off from school, I would fly to Indianapolis to visit my mother. I remember this was in the early ‘90s. At one point, there was even one direct flight from San Francisco to Indianapolis. Me and my sister knew the crew pretty well because they were always on the same flight.

I have never been to Indianapolis, but I have been to Modesto. Modesto is a little town. It is the Northern tip and end of Central Valley in California. If anyone knows it, it is way up there. Modesto is not the most glamorous spot in California. Am I correct on that assessment?

I always joke that it is the armpit of the state because of where it’s located. It is one of those places where it is very close to a lot of cool stuff. The location itself is not super awesome. There are tons of places to...