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Disruptors

Building A $125M Construction Portfolio At 27

Disruptors

Steve Trang

Business, Investing, Careers

4.9 β€’ 742 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Maximilian Vollmer didn't come from money, didn't have investors, and had never built a single house when he decided to walk away from wholesaling and bet everything on construction development. By 27, he had built a $125 million construction portfolio across Tampa, Sarasota, and the Gulf Coast starting with just him and his wife, a $1M land deal nobody else understood, and a zoning map the rest of the market hadn't read yet. In this episode, Max breaks down exactly how he made the pivot, why wholesaling was killing his growth, and what he saw in the Tampa market before hedge funds, equity firms, and out-of-state buyers flooded in. βœ… How Max built a $125M construction portfolio starting from zero capital. βœ… Why he walked away from wholesaling and never looked back βœ… The zoning strategy that let him buy land worth $2.5M for $1M. βœ… How Hurricanes Helene and Milton created a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity. βœ… The truth about construction cash cycles and how to survive the first year. βœ… How he raised $1.2M with no resume, no network, and no track record βœ… Why he runs 65 active developments without knowing how to swing a hammer. βœ… The partnership program he built to scale beyond his own capital This episode is for anyone grinding in wholesale or fix-and-flip who feels like the ceiling is getting lower β€” and for anyone who's ever looked at a development deal and thought it was too big, too slow, or too risky. Max proves that the people who win in real estate aren't the ones who work the hardest. They're the ones who find the information nobody else has, move before the market catches up, and believe in the deal before the money exists. If you're ready to stop chasing leads and start building something that compounds, this conversation will change how you see the game.

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0:00.0

And the one thing is like wholesaling, we did it, but I hated every single day of it.

0:03.1

The whole like negotiation, you're buying data, then you go in, you convert it on both sides with the seller and with the buy.

0:09.6

You're consistently like whistling your way in to make money.

0:12.8

Running a wholesale business on a high scale, making multiple six figures of months, it's a process.

0:18.6

So you have to be that perfect sales process here and there's so many

0:22.4

different pieces it's not just like cold calling making off there's so much to it we realized that

0:26.9

every time we try to grow we kind of hit that bottleneck we should start spending more to make more

0:31.8

so we ended up making the same it was always at fear of losing everything and with wholesale and

0:36.3

fix and flip it was always unpredictable because every month was a new chase, a new hunt. You're going out there, you don't know what you're going to make next month. And it was stressful. And then construction really is different because you... Welcome and thank you for joining us for today's episode Disruptors where millionaires are made. Today we have Maximilian Valmar with Valmar real estate investments. And Max flew in from Tampa to talk about how he's built a

0:58.4

$125 million construction portfolio at the age of 27 years old. I don't know which number is

1:05.2

more unbelievable. The 125 or the 27. Either way, kind of envious. Guys, I want to mission to create

1:10.6

millionaires the

1:11.1

information on the show alone is enough to help you become a millionaire in the next five

1:14.4

to seven years if you'll take consistent action you will become one uh and before we jump in

1:19.0

if you're here to learn how real entrepreneurs are building real empires make sure you hit that

1:21.9

subscribe button because every week we're dropping lessons that can help you create your first

1:25.5

or your next million and right now you have a hundred000 quarter mill maybe more sitting in your CRM resurrect all your old

1:32.0

and deadlies with the objection proof AI calling agent text cash to the phone number 33777 to

1:37.8

unlock the money that's just hanging out in your CRM. You ready? Yes, sir. All right. So we were just

1:43.5

looking right before the show. You were here

1:45.1

three years ago, right? And we're talking about how you went from your Olympic journey to

1:51.2

getting in the wholesale and having a lot of success right out of the gate. Yeah. But you've pivoted

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