"I love how you can invest in properties, you earn money, you have to save money to wait for the best property. Though they may not have pushed Tello-Trillo into economics, her parents taught her about money from a young age. "I see money as a thing that you work really hard for, and then if you want to spend money [it's] because you really, really value something," she says. "But it has to be something that I really, really like, and it has to be something that is going to be useful either for the family or for the home." She and her husband split household expenses equally, and Tello-Trillo handles the mortgage payments for her rental properties on her own.

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