
Scale Your Real Estate Business Fast with BIG Deals (Easier and Less Work, Too!)
05/28/24 • 81 min
Should you build wealth one rental house at a time, or jump right into BIG deals like Grant Cardone recommends? Brandon reveals his answer to that question and delivers a masterclass on building a team that can buy and manage large, valuable properties – allowing you to build wealth much faster without some of the headaches that come with single family houses and small multifamily properties.
Brandon also talks about:
- What he thinks Cardone gets right (and wrong) about buying big deals
- “The Stack” method for buying 100 units in 5 years
- The 4 Mindset Levels of Leadership
- The 4 Bottlenecks you must solve as you scale
- The team members you need
- The LUCK Funnel
- Choosing your hard
Books Mentioned:
- Work the System by Sam Carpenter
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
This value-packed episode was delivered as part of a Financial Freedom Hour – just one of the many benefits of joining the BetterLife Tribe, where we help you build wealth through real estate without losing your soul 🏄. You can sign up here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe
Connect with Brandon:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon
💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/
📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/
💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/
📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/
Connect with Cam:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/
💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/
💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/
📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/
Should you build wealth one rental house at a time, or jump right into BIG deals like Grant Cardone recommends? Brandon reveals his answer to that question and delivers a masterclass on building a team that can buy and manage large, valuable properties – allowing you to build wealth much faster without some of the headaches that come with single family houses and small multifamily properties.
Brandon also talks about:
- What he thinks Cardone gets right (and wrong) about buying big deals
- “The Stack” method for buying 100 units in 5 years
- The 4 Mindset Levels of Leadership
- The 4 Bottlenecks you must solve as you scale
- The team members you need
- The LUCK Funnel
- Choosing your hard
Books Mentioned:
- Work the System by Sam Carpenter
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
This value-packed episode was delivered as part of a Financial Freedom Hour – just one of the many benefits of joining the BetterLife Tribe, where we help you build wealth through real estate without losing your soul 🏄. You can sign up here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe
Connect with Brandon:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon
💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/
📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/
💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/
📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/
Connect with Cam:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/
💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/
💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/
📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/
Previous Episode

From Homeless Refugee to Financially Free by Buying 2 Rental Properties Every Year | Thach Nguyen
Thach Nguyen is one of, if not the, most visible and popular real estate influencers online. And as he explains in this episode, the reason why is simple: his story.
Today, you’ll hear it all: from catching the “last plane” out of Vietnam in 1975 and standing in lines at the food bank in Seattle, to becoming 7-figure real estate agent in his twenties, to buying 15 rental properties while still living with his mom and dad!
Thach is a super genuine, positive guy, and it’s no wonder why 250 million people tune into his content every month. This conversation chance to learn from a real estate master, and get to know him on a deeper level by diving into topics like debt, risk, passion, marriage, parenting, and more.
Thach also talks about:
- Discovering real estate while parking cars at a Chinese restaurant
- The 3 things that made him a Top 1% realtor
- Living (way) beneath his means to reach financial freedom faster
- Knocking doors every day to generate sales
- Why “aligning” is more important than “grinding”
- Whether it’s a good idea to pay off mortgages early
- How to find a deal today, step by step
- Philanthropy and teaching
- His parenting advice, summed up in one sentence
- The secrets to his success on social media (no team!)
Books Mentioned:
- Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
- Manifest Your Destiny by Wayne W. Dyer
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Connect with Thach:
Website: https://www.thachrealestategroup.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thachnguyen/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thachn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thachn/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thachnguyen/
Connect with Brandon:
- Instagram: link to his IG
- BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: link to abetterlife.com
- OpenDoor Capital. Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: link to ODCFund.com
Connect with Cam:
- Instagram: link to his IG
- Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: link to DealFlowRealEstate.com
- Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: link to revelcityhomebuyers.com
Thach’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- RAVE Foundation - RAVE Foundation’s 26 by 2026 initiative will build 26 new fields in time for the world's biggest sporting tournament - FIFA World Cup - comes to North America in 2026.
Show Sponsor:
- Open Door Capital
- Think you might be sitting on some equity that could be put to better use? Try our free Return on Equity Calculator here! https://odcfund.com/roe
Next Episode

From Addiction and Burning $50K to “Hands Off” Rental Property Empire with Megan and Jeff Ahern
Megan and Jeff Ahern are real estate investors who buy cash-flowing assets in the American heartland while living in an island paradise. But their journey to get here wasn’t an easy one, and today you’ll hear their incredible story from start to finish.
Megan and Jeff openly share their evolution from party lifestyle and alcohol-fueled relationship problems in their marriage to getting sober and replacing drinking with an all-out focus on fitness, faith, and building wealth through real estate.
Despite going $50,000 into the hole as newbies, they didn’t give up on their dream and as a result they now own 20+ cash-flowing rentals, a profitable staging business, and are raising their 3 kids in Maui in a community of like-minded business owners.
Megan and Jeff also talk about:
- Spending $30,000 on an event as newbies and losing money on their first deal
- Moving from California to Lincoln, Nebraska to go all-in on rental properties
- Where they find deals – a lead source Brandon’s never talked about
- How they get 100% bank financing on their rehabs
- Investing in sober living houses and “medium-term rentals”
- The home staging business that rakes in $100K/year with “zero” effort
- Their advice to people thinking about getting sober
- What happened when former Marine Jeff’s parachute failed to deploy
- What they learned from “the 7-plex from hell”
- The books, quotes, and people that shaped who they are today
Books Mentioned:
- Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters
- Legacy by James Kerr
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer and John Ortberg
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Connect with Jeff and Megan:
Megan’s Website: https://www.tattyinvestor.com/
Jeff’s Website: https://www.acornhuskers.com/
Jeff’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4f_jeff/
Megan’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tatty_investor/
Connect with Brandon:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon
💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/
📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/
💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/
📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/
Connect with Cam:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/
💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/
💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/
📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/
Jeff and Megan’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- The Mighty Oaks Foundation - A faith-based Veteran service organization that teaches combat Veterans struggling with Post Traumatic Stress, how to get beyond combat trauma, and live their lives in the manner God intended.
Show Sponsor:
- Deal Flow Real Estate - Flip, Wholesale, and Hold More Houses In Every Market
Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe
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