What No One Tells You About Retiring Young | Ep 133 w/ Trey Stone
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner & Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Trey Stone built a $30M real estate portfolio, retired at 35, and walked away from the game for a full decade. But what he learned in those years off will completely shift the way you think about financial freedom, purpose, and success. In this raw, honest conversation, we dig into the surprising downside of early retirement—and what it really means to “start over” after already winning.
In this episode, we also talk about:
• Why retirement made Trey miserable
• What he would do differently if he started over
• The emotional cost of losing purpose
• How he scaled from 1 rental to 6,000 units
• Why market focus beats nationwide scaling
• How to build broker relationships that last
• and SO much more
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everyone? It's Brandon Turner. I'm excited to bring you to this episode. |
| 0:04.1 | Cam was on the episode with me, but he had to run so he didn't get to record the intro. |
| 0:07.2 | So I'm doing the intro alone. So this episode is with a buddy of mine. His name is Trey Stone. |
| 0:12.6 | So I say this story later in the podcast, but I'll say it now is like, before meeting Trey, I had like 10 people be like, you know Trey, right? And I'm like, I don't know Trey. |
| 0:21.0 | Like, you got to know Trey. He's the coolest guy ever. And everyone just kept saying that. |
| 0:24.1 | And so then finally I meet Trey and I'm like, dude, he's the coolest guy ever. He is a super |
| 0:28.1 | legit, awesome real estate investor that scaled up to 6,000 units and then like took a long break to help raise his kids, which is awesome. And then he's getting back into it pretty hot and heavy right now. So on this episode, we talk about that. We talk about how we met at the |
| 0:43.0 | REI summit, which, by the way, are you going to the REI summit? I hope so. Arias Summit, 2025.com. |
| 0:48.2 | That's where Trey and I met, and I met a lot of good people through the summit. Hope to see you there. It's going to be in Austin, Texas, first week of June. But anyway, we talk about that. We talk about how actually some |
| 0:57.8 | ways retirement is amazing and some ways it sucks and some ways you can think about that in your |
| 1:01.3 | future. We talk about raising capital in the past, how he's doing it today and how you can do it. |
| 1:07.2 | We talk about some no and low money down stuff, how to build mentorships. We talk about |
| 1:10.9 | finding the right market. Like, what's the best market in America? Yeah, at one point, he |
| 1:14.6 | casually just mentions like he's making $178,000 a month in pure cash flow right now on one |
| 1:19.2 | property. If you want to know how he does that and more, listen to this episode. All right, |
| 1:23.0 | that's it. Let's go. Trey Stone, dude, not only you have the coolest name in the world, that's like the most sick name. |
| 1:30.5 | You're one of the coolest guys I know. |
| 1:31.9 | So I'm excited to dig in. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you for joining us today. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm pumped. |
| 1:35.4 | Thank you, man. |
| 1:36.0 | I feel the same way in return. |
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