A lot of real estate investors are not going to make it to 2026. Not because real estate stops working but because they get tired, frustrated, and emotional.

In this episode, we talk about why long term buy and hold wins and why most people never stick around long enough to see it work.

Rates have gone up. Insurance has gone up. Taxes have gone up. Maintenance costs more. It is easy to look at a tough property or a tough market and think about selling.

That is exactly where most investors lose.

We break down why discipline matters more than timing, why leverage beats labor, and how holding through cycles creates options. We also walk through a real example of buying a mobile home park for 1.3 million, refinancing it at 2.7 million, pulling out tax free capital, and still keeping the asset.

Flipping and wholesaling can make money. But building wealth usually comes from stacking assets and letting time do the work.

If you are serious about long term investing, this episode will reset how you think about the next few years.

Your parents worked 30 to 40 years to build equity in one home. Then one medical event can erase it in 24 to 36 months.

Over $500 billion is drained from family estates every year through senior care. Most families are not prepared. Most investors are not thinking about it.

In this episode, we break down:

• Why home equity is not a retirement plan

• How inflation quietly destroys the traditional nest egg model

• The difference between equity and cash flow

• Why one asset is not enough

• How leverage changes the game

• Why owning the system matters more than trusting it

If your wealth is tied up in one primary residence, you are exposed. If your retirement plan depends on selling assets to survive, you are playing defense.

Cash producing assets change the equation. They protect equity. They create optionality. They allow you to survive the unexpected without liquidating everything you built.

If you are serious about building durable wealth through real estate, this episode will challenge how you think about retirement, inheritance, and long term strategy.

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Wall Street is quietly buying up large portions of American real estate, and most investors are focused on the wrong headlines.

While the media debates mortgage rates and short term housing trends, institutional capital has been deploying hundreds of billions into warehouses, data centers, mobile home parks, and essential commercial assets. This is not a conspiracy. It is consolidation.

In this episode, we break down what is really happening inside today’s real estate cycle based on more than 20 years of buying property, navigating multiple market shifts, and building portfolios worth millions. We explain how the consolidation ladder works from mom and pop owners to private equity to REITs, why capital moves the way it does, and where opportunity still exists for individual investors.

If you understand the cycle, you can position yourself to build wealth alongside it instead of getting left behind by it.

Everyone's watching the wrong thing. While people wait for 21 million Boomer homes to crash the housing market, there's $900 billion in Main Street businesses quietly for sale - and almost nobody under 40 is paying attention.

In this episode, we dive into the real Boomer wealth transfer that's happening right now. Not their primary residences, but their businesses and the commercial real estate attached to them. From pizza shops to roofing companies to manufacturing facilities, these deals come with a unique opportunity: sellers often treat the real estate as an afterthought, focused entirely on their business valuation.

We break down sale-leaseback strategies, creative financing structures, and a wild example of someone who bought a $15 million business with minimal capital, sold the real estate, paid off the business entirely, and walked away with a $20 million exit two years later.

Plus, why the next generation doesn't want what their parents built, and what that means for investors willing to step in.

Most real estate investors say they want freedom. Financial freedom. Time freedom. Life on their terms. But very few are actually willing to do what it takes to get there.

In this episode, we talk about why most investors never scale past a handful of units, why comfort is the real enemy, and why knowledge without commitment keeps people stuck for years. We break down the difference between motivation and discipline, why going all in mentally matters more than tactics, and why real estate is not about money at all. It is about autonomy.

If you have read the books, listened to the podcasts, gone to the events, and still feel stuck, this conversation is going to challenge you. This is not about hype. It is about taking an honest look at whether you actually want freedom or just like the idea of it.

In this episode of Zero to 100, Gabriel Hamel breaks down how he built a real estate portfolio of nearly 400 properties without relying on banks, traditional loans, or large amounts of cash.

Originally recorded on the Clint Coons Esq Podcast, this conversation dives deep into creative financing strategies that most investors either misunderstand or completely ignore.

Gabriel shares his real story, starting with joining the Army National Guard at 17, getting deployed to Iraq, coming home with no money, no job, and no degree, and realizing that traditional paths were not going to give him freedom. After the 2008 crash shut him out of bank lending entirely, he was forced to find another way. That pressure led him to seller financing.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How seller financing actually works in the real world
• Why “no money down” deals are not sketchy or illegal when structured correctly
• Who the real sellers are that want to carry financing and why
• How to find deals without agents, banks, or bidding wars
• Why relationships matter more than terms
• How to evaluate creative deals so they cash flow from day one
• The mistakes new investors make that kill good opportunities

This is not theory. This is not hype. This is a long form, honest conversation about how real estate deals actually get done when the system tells you no.

If you are stuck waiting on banks, saving for down payments, or being told creative financing does not exist in your market, this episode will reset how you think about investing.

Listen all the way through. The biggest lessons are not about real estate. They are about leverage, trust, and playing a different game.

Multifamily real estate has been through a brutal stretch from 2023 through 2025.

Rising interest rates. Exploding expenses. Insurance costs that quadrupled in some markets. Deals that looked fine on paper suddenly stopped working.

In this episode, we talk honestly about why multifamily struggled, what assumptions broke, and why so many investors found themselves squeezed by thin margins, debt resets, and optimism that never should have been there in the first place.

This is not a blanket statement that multifamily is bad or dead.

We break down why some properties are still working, why others never had a chance, and why buying on fundamentals matters more now than at any point in the last decade. We talk about value add fantasies, refinancing risk, expense growth, inflation shock, and how ignoring market cycles caused real damage.

We also compare multifamily to other asset classes like mobile home parks, explain where margin of safety matters most, and discuss why owning real estate long term can still make sense when it is done conservatively.

We also look ahead to 2026. Supply is falling. Vacancies are stabilizing. Demand for housing is not going away. The question is not whether multifamily survives, but what has to change for it to work again.

If you invest in real estate, are thinking about apartments, or want a realistic take on where multifamily stands today, this episode is worth your time.

Gabe Johansen got his start early, working long hours in the car business before most people even entered the workforce. By his early 20s, he was running a dealership, but after nearly two decades in the industry, he knew trading time for commissions was not a long-term path.

His turning point came with a small but powerful moment. After buying his first rental property, Gabe received a cash flow check for just $263. That single check showed him what ownership could do, and it completely changed how he thought about money.

Today, Gabe leads one of Oregon’s largest real estate platforms, overseeing a nine-figure real estate portfolio, more than 50 brokers, and 5,400 apartment units under management. He is also at the forefront of advanced strategies like 721 exchanges, helping investors scale without selling assets and triggering major tax consequences.

In this episode from the Zero to 100 Vault, Gabe breaks down the lessons that took him from selling cars to structuring complex real estate investments.

You will learn how Gabe:

- Pushed through three years of deal analysis before buying his first property

- Built a brokerage where every agent is encouraged to invest

- Uses partnerships and tax strategies such as 721 exchanges to continue scaling

This conversation focuses on what it really takes to build lasting wealth through real estate, from the first deal to large-scale ownership.