Ep #1,103 - MFRS - How He Scaled from 2 to 600+ Units (And Raised $30M Doing It)

Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Rod Khleif

Passive, Estate, Family, Business, Management, Income, Multifamily, Apartment, Education, Multi, Property, Commercial, Real, Investing, Investor

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Owen Li is a first-generation immigrant who came to the U.S. with $6,000 in debt and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard. After 12 years in a W-2 role, he started investing in real estate with a $32K house and now manages $90 million in assets, including 600+ multifamily units, 900+ self-storage units, and 205 acres of land. He joined Rod’s Warrior Group in November 2024 and closed a 133-unit deal in Hattiesburg, MS the following month for $9.2 million, assuming a $5.75 million HUD loan at 2.45% and raising $4.45 million in equity. Based in Chicago with his wife and three kids, real estate has given his family financial freedom and educational choices.

Here’s some of the topics we covered:

From Immigrant Struggles to Earning a Harvard PhD
Why Multifamily Beats Burnout from Labor-Intensive Startups
How Buying Foreclosures and Fourplexes Built Owen’s Foundation
Passive Investing vs. Going All In on Multifamily
Investing in Other People’s Projects Vs. Multifamily
Why Scaling in Multifamily Is a Total Game-Changer
Build Trust Fast by Building a Proven Track Record
Raising 4.45 Million Dollars With His Team
Should You Still Be Buying Multifamily Right Now?
How Joining the Warrior Group Fast-Tracks Growth

If you’d like to apply to the warrior program and do deals with other rockstars in this business: Text crush to 72345 and we’ll be speaking soon.

Transcript

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0:00.0	So you know that apartment building or complex you drive by every day?
0:07.4	Someone owns it.
0:08.8	And it's probably someone on this podcast.
0:11.2	Multi-family rock stars.
0:12.8	Join the growing numbers of real estate entrepreneurs who have made the jump to buying multifamily
0:17.1	properties for lifetime cash flow.
0:19.5	Multi-family rock stars using OPM for an OMG ROI.
0:24.8	Now, here are your hosts, Rod Cleef and Mark Nagy.
0:29.0	Welcome back to multifamily rock stars.
0:31.1	As you guys know, this is where we dive deep into our guest deals.
0:34.8	And, you know, the outcome is to give you some actionable and
0:39.3	practical you know advice and steps that you can take to get started and do your first deal
0:44.1	especially if you're brand new to this business and i've got my co-host mark nagy with me as
0:48.1	usual hey mark hey rod going to be back for another one all right let's do this so So we've got Owen Lee here today, and Owen has really a cool story.
0:59.0	So I'm very excited to have him on.
1:01.8	He's an absolute rock star and just killing it in the business.
1:06.6	And so, yeah, Owen, welcome, my friend.
1:10.0	Hi, Ron, Mark.
1:11.6	Thank you for giving me the opportunity.
1:13.6	Thank you.
1:14.6	It's my honor to be here.
1:15.6	Absolutely.
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