#488: 60 Years of Real Estate Wisdom You Need in 2026
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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EPISODE NOTES:
🎬 Topics Covered:
- (00:00) - The "Unemployed by Design" Philosophy
- (03:17) - The 10-Year Blueprint for Long-Term Wealth
- (06:40) - How to Craft Offers That Actually Get Accepted
- (12:36) - Turning Trust into an Endless Referral Engine
- (19:51) - Why Your Word Is More Valuable Than Cash
- (23:54) - Mapping the Stages of an Investor's Journey
- (28:14) - How to Scale and Evolve Your Portfolio with Notes
- (38:44) - The Great Debate: Financial Leverage vs. Owning Free & Clear
- (48:25) - Shifting to a Harvester Mindset & Finding Your Purpose
- (57:38) - Why Continuous Learning Keeps You Ahead of the Competition
- (59:25) - How to Structure a Win-Win Partnership for Rental Properties
🎙️ Episode #488 – Listen to 60 years of real estate wisdom distilled into one conversation. Here's what actually works if you want long-term wealth and freedom.
📄 Show Notes: https://www.coachcarson.com/investingwisdom/
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Website: https://www.peterfortunato.com/
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Phone: 727-244-4337
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What do you want to be after you get out of high school? |
| 0:03.5 | And I said, unemployed. |
| 0:05.0 | What I planned to do was get enough assets, so the assets would provide my livelihood, |
| 0:10.0 | so I could do whatever I wanted. |
| 0:12.0 | It was 10 years from the time I got out of high school before I had enough rent and interest income. |
| 0:19.0 | Most of my lenders, if I need to borrow money, started out, |
| 0:23.3 | not as a lender, but as a seller where I promised them payments for the property. The faith was |
| 0:30.3 | built from the purchase and my promise, which I kept. Majority of the deals I do, promises are the |
| 0:37.0 | currency that I kept. Majority of the deals I do, promises are the currency that I use. |
| 0:46.4 | You know, if I were a professional basketball fan, which I am, getting to sit down with |
| 0:50.0 | Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Akeem Elijah Juan, the legends of the basketball |
| 0:55.4 | game would be the opportunity of a lifetime. Well, the person I'm about to talk to is the |
| 0:59.7 | equivalent in the real estate investing world. Pete Fortunato is a legend. He is an amazing |
| 1:04.4 | investor. He is very creative. He's done deals. He's made money for over six decades, which is |
| 1:10.4 | impressive in itself. But what I think you'll find in what I'm most impressed with him is him as a person. He's somebody who's made a lot of money, but he also brings a lot of people with him. I think you'll see the kindness and the ethics that go with his style of investing, which is very refreshing. And so if you want to learn about making money, |
| 1:28.0 | but also do it in a way that you can feel good about yourself, you're getting for a treat with |
| 1:31.4 | Pete Fortunato. So Pete, I've heard you tell a story a couple times where I think you're about |
| 1:35.8 | 18 years old in high school. You had a conversation with a high school counselor who you left |
| 1:39.3 | speechless. I would love to hear that whole story. Well, actually, I think it was my soft more year in high school. |
| 1:48.2 | One of the questions that the guidance counselors had was, what do you want to be after you get out of high school? |
| 1:55.9 | And I said, unemployed. |
| 1:58.4 | And government schools, they didn't have an answer for that. And she called the |
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