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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Real estate entrepreneur and multi family investor, Ellis Hammond. Ellis began his investing journey while still working full-time as a college pastor. Just nine months after buying his first duplex in San Diego, he partnered in a 144-unit multi family deal in Memphis. Ellis is the founder of Kingdom Capitalists and leads a national investor network focused on passive investment opportunities in apartment complexes across the U.S. On today's show we’ll talk with Ellis about not just how to scale a portfolio, but how to build powerful investor networks, leverage your personal brand, and gain traction in a crowded space.
Connect with Ellis: Investor Club - https://aspenfunds.us/, [email protected]
Highlights:
1:00 - Ellis' Path from Paster to Investor
6:00 - Multifamily Transition
10:00 - Niche Branding Power
17:00 - Macro Trends/Oil & Gas
24:00 - Understand Oil & Gas Investing
31:00 - Tax Benefits
Quote: "You can’t raise money trying to speak to everyone. Your message should attract the right people and repel the wrong ones." – Ellis Hammond
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0:00.0 | You've been searching for the best way to generate passive income in your life and heard that real estate is a great way to do it. |
0:08.9 | But you're tired of all the so-called gurus who are all talk and no substance. |
0:14.8 | Get ready to celebrate because Kevin Buck has spent 14 years successfully making it happen. |
0:23.1 | This is the Real Estate Invest investing for cash flow podcast. Now, here's Kevin Bup. All righty. Well, Ellis, welcome through the show, |
0:31.6 | my friend. Excited to have you here. Kevin, great to be on. Man, it's about time. Yeah, for those that |
0:35.9 | don't know, let's let's us back it up a little bit. I'll give you the brief introduction there, but I know |
0:40.3 | there's a little bit more to your story. So how about you take a few minutes for those that |
0:43.3 | aren't familiar with you, don't know you, your background, where you came from, and tell us |
0:46.5 | a little more about yourself. Yeah, I'll be, I'll be really sure. Today I serve as the president of capital at Aspen funds. We're based here in Kansas City and we manage about |
0:55.2 | $600,700 million of assets. I have about 800 accredited investors that we serve in their |
1:00.8 | families. But I started my career actually in college ministry. I was a campus pastor |
1:06.4 | and loved what I did. I never thought I would really do anything different. My first investment was a duplex in San Diego, California, that we bought for $540,000, maybe. |
1:18.6 | We sold that deal three years later for over a million bucks, and I was hooked on real estate. |
1:25.0 | So that was kind of our journey in foray into real estate investing and then, you know, transitioned out of full-time ministry into entrepreneurship. |
1:33.8 | And over the years, we built a multifamily portfolio with a different company. |
1:38.6 | And we still manage and own about 800 of those units today. |
1:42.3 | And then, yeah, recently, like I said, I joined with Aspen. |
1:46.4 | You know, I just, I love the story of Aspen funds, which we can talk about today and what we're |
1:50.0 | doing here, but really saw an opportunity of growth path for me personally, but also just the |
1:54.7 | opportunity to build upon something big, you know, what Aspen has been doing over the last 12 |
1:59.7 | years. |
2:00.1 | So we joined to help grow and expand that. |
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