The #1 Mistake Every Real Estate Investor Makes | Ep 127 w/ Nathan Brooks
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner & Cam Cathcart
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Most real estate investors focus on buying more properties, but what if that’s not the key to building real wealth? In this episode, Nathan Brooks shares how he scaled to 700+ deals, why Return on Equity (ROE) is the real wealth-building metric, and whether turnkey investing is still a viable strategy in 2025. If you want to maximize profits, scale your portfolio, and invest smarter, this episode is for you!
In this episode, we also talk about:
• Why Return on Equity (ROE) matters more than property count
• Is turnkey investing still a good strategy in 2025?
• How to scale a rental portfolio while keeping more profits
• Why buying more properties won’t make you wealthy (unless you do this)
• The key to long-term, sustainable real estate wealth
• and SO much more!
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to serve people in the unbelievable way. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to utilize technology in an unbelievable way. |
| 0:06.0 | And also, we're going to actually make sure this thing is profitable in that we, what we were talking about this earlier, red light, green light, red light, green light. |
| 0:14.0 | Do we need to slow down? |
| 0:15.0 | Do we need hire more people? |
| 0:16.0 | Do we need more leads? |
| 0:17.0 | Do we need more salespeople? |
| 0:18.0 | Like, what is the actual problem? This is the Better Life podcast |
| 0:22.0 | where we talk about real estate investing, |
| 0:23.8 | building wealth, and all in all living a better life. |
| 0:26.5 | My name is Brendan Turner, |
| 0:27.7 | and I've spent my life investing in real estate |
| 0:29.7 | to achieve financial freedom. |
| 0:31.7 | And alongside my co-host, Mr. Cam Cathcart, |
| 0:34.4 | we want to help you do the same. |
| 0:36.0 | On the show, you're going to hear from world-class guests who have been handpicked to help you level up your investing, your leadership, |
| 0:41.4 | your goals, your habits, and more to become the very best version of yourself. So join us as we |
| 0:46.2 | explore the habits, the actions, the beliefs that it takes to build wealth through real estate |
| 0:50.3 | investing without losing your soul. This is the Better Life podcast with Brandon Turner and... |
| 1:01.3 | Cam Cathcart. |
| 1:02.2 | Cam Cathcart. |
| 1:04.3 | What's that, dude? |
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