366-Lessons Learned from Great Success and Great Failure in Multifamily Real Estate: Interview with Rod Khleif from the Lifetime Cashflow Podcast
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today has been from the lowest of lows to great heights of success. And then he repeated the cycle at least a time or two.
Rod Khleif has owned over 2,000 houses and apartments. He has made millions. And, he lost millions during the 2008 housing crash.
Today, he's come on the show to share the good and the bad from his experience. We cover technical details of real estate as well as many very important life lessons.
Enjoy!
Joshua
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- Rod's podcast website: http://lifetimecashflowpodcast.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, |
| 0:06.4 | insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building |
| 0:11.0 | a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My |
| 0:14.8 | guest today is Rod Kleaf. Rod is a long time, what do you call yourself Rod? |
| 0:19.6 | A real estate investor? Like, how do you introduce yourself a cocktail party? |
| 0:23.8 | I wear a lot of hats I've been in real estate my entire life but I've also |
| 0:27.9 | owned about 18 businesses so but real estate is my love. |
| 0:31.3 | Well this be interesting. |
| 0:34.0 | Sometimes when people say I've owned many businesses, |
| 0:36.0 | that can be a great thing. |
| 0:38.0 | Sometimes that can be a bad thing. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, no, I can tell both stories. |
| 0:41.0 | I've had spectacular successes but equally spectacular |
| 0:44.7 | failures so so that means you've been involved in business then huh? |
| 0:48.2 | I have all of seminars though we don't call them failures we call them |
| 0:51.9 | seminars I like that that's good so I |
| 0:56.0 | just start at the beginning what was your path into the business and real estate |
| 0:59.2 | world well I immigrated when I was six from Holland, and my mom and I and my brother immigrated on a boat and ended up in Denver. |
| 1:11.0 | And we grew up... Why did you guys come over here? Well my mom and and and dad had gotten a divorce and she had met a guy through |
| 1:21.3 | through male correspondence that that his wife had died and so my mom had two sons. |
| 1:27.0 | He had two sons and he lived in Denver and he needed a housekeeper. |
| 1:32.2 | So he agreed to allow her with us to come and live in his home |
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