$30M In Assignment Fees In 2025… After Losing Everything In 2008

Disruptors

Steve Trang

Business, Investing, Careers

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Damon Lines’ story isn’t about luck, hype, or shortcuts — it’s about survival, conviction, and staying in the game when most people quit. After losing everything in the 2008 crash and nearly walking away from real estate altogether, Damon rebuilt from the ground up and went on to generate $30 million in assignment fees in 2025. In this episode of the Disruptors Podcast, Damon breaks down the hard lessons, painful mistakes, and disciplined execution that turned long-term persistence into market dominance.In this episode, you’ll learn:✅ What really happens when a wholesaler stays in one market long enough to master it.✅ Why consistency beats luck in wholesale real estate and entrepreneurship.✅ How Damon rebuilt after losing everything and nearly quitting.✅ The mindset required to scale assignment fees into eight figures.✅ Why most real estate investors fail before the breakthrough arrives.✅ The systems and behaviors that create sustainable deal flow.If you’re a real estate wholesaler, investor, or entrepreneur trying to break through your next ceiling — whether that’s your first big year or your biggest year yet — this episode will reset how you think about scale, patience, and long-term opportunity. Damon’s journey proves that the real edge in wholesale real estate isn’t chasing the next shiny strategy, but staying long enough to win. Watch the full episode to understand how endurance, repetition, and market mastery can completely change your business.

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0:00.0	I called a meeting in Newport and we came in and I just said, Doug, I'm tired, man.
0:04.8	I'm working my tail off. I'm discouraged. I'll go back to Arizona. I'm using my Arizona money to fund California that's just breaking evening.
0:11.9	It gets expensive out here. You don't get it. It's death by a thousand cuts. From groceries to gas to milk.
0:16.4	Like everything is just more expensive. And we sat in our conference room in Newport Beach there, and he leans back and holds his arms, and a tear rolls down his face. Do it, man, beg you. And I'm like, it's easy for you to say. You're not spending any money. You're keeping your Arizona money. I'm having to fund this. And at the end of that conversation, my business partner in the LLC is like, I don't want.
0:38.6	I don't care. I don't want it. I said, you know what, Doug? If we're in this, let's do it.
0:44.4	I'll commit to another year. And so I stayed there and...
0:50.3	Welcome. Thank you for joining us for today's episode Disruptors, where Millionaires are made. Today we've got my good friend Damon Lyons with Sellers Advantage and
0:57.1	Damon drove in here from Mesa to share how his company made $30 million last year after
1:04.9	losing everything in 2008. Guys, I want to mention to great millionaires. The information on
1:09.4	the show alone is enough to help you become a millionaire in the next five to seven years. If you'll
1:12.6	take consistent action, you will become one. Before we jump in, if you're here to learn how real entrepreneurs are building real empires, hit that subscribe button because every week we're dropping lessons that can create your first or your next million. And right now, you've got 100,000 quarter mill or maybe more
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1:29.6	resurrect all your old and dead leads million and right now you've got a hundred thousand quarter mill or maybe more sitting right now
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1:33.3	text cash to the phone number 3-3777 to unlock the money that's just hanging out in your CRM.
1:40.5	Ready?
1:41.3	Ready.
1:42.0	All right.
1:42.4	This has been like a long time coming.
1:46.0	Yeah, we've threatened it for a while. I keep asking you, like, can you do it?
1:48.0	No, I'm not here.
1:49.0	No, I can't do it.
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