From College Dropout to $1B in Real Estate w/ Rob Beardsley

Action Academy | Millionaire Mentorship For Your Life & Business

Brian Luebben

Real Estate, Financial Freedom, Biggerpockets, Corporate, Small Business, Careers, Millionaire, Business, Alex Hormozi, Investing, Commercial Real Estate, Passive Income, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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College dropout Rob Beardsley started buying multifamily real estate at 21 years old. Today, his company manages over $1 billion in assets across 25 properties with more than 200 employees and zero investor losses. In this episode, Rob breaks down: How he scaled to $1B AUM before 30The biggest mistakes multifamily operators made during the boomWhy most Class C deals aren’t worth the headacheThe real reason masterminds accelerate successHow to survive market cycles and scale the right wa...

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0:00.0	The biggest risk that you can take in your 20s is taking no risk at all.
0:03.5	I'm going to get rich in experience, not necessarily in dollars.
0:05.9	The first deal is never going to make you rich, ever.
0:08.2	He raised $25 million to acquire a $65 million asset.
0:12.7	Somebody somewhere has solved a problem that you are looking to solve.
0:17.1	The more liberal, the better.
0:18.4	Because the politics there, they'll never let you build.
0:22.2	So you're the only game in town. You'll raise rents forever.
0:25.0	I just view Mastermind as playing the game on Easy Mode.
0:28.0	The best deal you ever do is the one you walk away from.
0:30.6	All right, all right.
0:32.6	Rob Beardsley, how are you, my friend?
0:35.4	Welcome to the Action Academy podcast.
0:39.3	I'm doing awesome. Can't wait to chat with you on this pod. Man, I love having people on this podcast that are what I call
0:45.9	like freaks of nature. Like you got guys, guys and girls that are just like hurricanes, tornadoes
0:50.8	that just come in and do really, really big impacts in a very, very short and condensed
0:56.3	time frame. And so it's just like you're like master time manipulators. And so I want you to
1:01.9	share quickly for the audience how old you are and what you've accomplished in this last decade,
1:06.6	man, because I'm so excited to learn from you today. Sure, yeah, looking forward to it.
1:10.9	So I'm 29, and I started my company, LSCRE, back in 2018.
1:15.7	So I was a college dropout, just having turned 21 with a long-term vision to build a institutional multifamily portfolio.
1:24.7	So it started all going back to, and also just for context, today we're at over a
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