Why (and how) Real Estate Investors Should Buy Businesses | Ep 107 w/ Travis Hanson
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner & Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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In this episode, we dive deep into an incredible journey of scaling from zero to 650 real estate units and transitioning into buying multi-million dollar businesses. From humble beginnings as a police officer to building an empire in real estate investing and now acquiring thriving companies, this investor shares the step-by-step strategies, biggest lessons learned, and hard truths about balancing wealth, family, and ambition.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- How to scale from zero to 650 real estate units
- The transition from real estate to buying multi-million dollar businesses
- Key strategies for managing large-scale real estate portfolios
- The pros and cons of tax strategies in real estate investing
- How to balance business success with family life
- Lessons learned from failures and pivots in entrepreneurship
- Why service-based businesses are the next big investment opportunity
- The mindset shifts needed to scale and sustain success
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| 0:00.0 | You can make money fast with real estate, but that's pretty rare that you get rich quick with real estate. |
| 0:08.0 | You can't, you can, but I don't really recommend that path because it's rare. |
| 0:12.0 | You have to persevere. |
| 0:14.0 | It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to work all the time, put in nights, weekends, everything possible to build that kind of portfolio. |
| 0:24.8 | This is the Better Life podcast where we talk about real estate investing, building wealth, |
| 0:28.9 | and all in all living a better life. My name is Brandon Turner, and I've spent my life |
| 0:33.1 | investing in real estate to achieve financial freedom. And alongside my co-host, Mr. Cam Cathcart, we want to help you do the same. |
| 0:40.2 | On the show, you're going to hear from world-class guests who have been handpicked to help you level up, |
| 0:44.2 | your investing, your leadership, your goals, your habits, and more to become the very best version of yourself. |
| 0:49.7 | So join us as we explore the habits, the actions, the beliefs that it takes to build wealth through real estate investing without losing your soul. |
| 0:56.4 | This is the Better Life podcast, Brandon Turner and... |
| 1:13.0 | Cam Cathcart. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, Cam, Cam. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm gonna always make fun of you for that. |
| 1:17.1 | I know, I gotta start saying it differently. |
| 1:18.9 | I like the radio voice. |
| 1:19.9 | I like it. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, it's just my thing. |
| 1:20.8 | You used to be like Cam Cathcart and then nobody would listen and care. |
| 1:23.2 | And then nobody would listen and care. |
| 1:23.2 | And then you know what people will care about today's episode. |
| 1:26.6 | Oh my goodness. Do you like that transition? That was amazing. That was a good transition. |
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