From CPA to Real Estate Mogul: How Matthew Owens Built OCD Properties & Helped Others Gain Financial Freedom

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we dive deep into the inspiring journey of Matthew Owens, founder of OCD Properties. From losing hundreds of thousands to building a passive income empire, Matthew shares how he turned failures into powerful lessons that now fuel his mission: helping others achieve financial freedom through smart, structured real estate investing.

Matthew, a former CPA, didn’t just survive in business — he thrived by mastering financial modeling, tax strategy, and building trusted teams. He opens up about personal betrayals, contractor disasters, and market crashes — and how those tough experiences now protect his investors.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

How Matthew turned adversity into opportunity (including firing his COO for fraud)
The structure behind OCD Properties’ passive investment system
How investors are earning $30K–$50K/month without managing properties
The truth about real estate investing and tax strategy (hello, cost segregation!)
Why due diligence is everything (and how to use his free 200-point checklist)
Secrets to scaling a business through delegation and team-building

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Visit: https://mathewowens.com

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0:00.0	How do I button it up?
0:00.8	This was years ago now that this occurred.
0:03.8	And every time you have a loss, you have an opportunity to push through and have that
0:08.2	grit and that mindset shift to push through.
0:11.3	And that opportunity is invaluable because you can't know what you're made of.
0:17.8	And you can't have that confidence that I now have going,
0:21.1	no matter what happens, unless it's some crazy health issue that I can't solve,
0:25.4	then I can push through.
0:27.2	They think I got to buy the rental myself or buy the fix and flip deal myself.
0:31.6	And I got to manage the contractors.
0:33.4	I got to put up all the money.
0:34.6	I got to get the financing and do all that work,
0:37.2	which is a major,
0:38.3	major learning curve.
0:39.6	And as soon as I teach people these strategies,
0:41.6	which we teach people these things all day long,
0:43.6	because I show them what we do.
0:45.4	So here's a question for you.
0:46.8	What's the single most important thing you've learned
0:49.5	starting and owning and running OCG properties?
0:54.1	So the single most thing that I've learned is how to delegate things correctly and set up
1:02.0	team members that are doing certain aspects of the job for you.
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