From Firewood to Fortune: How Desperation Sparked a Real Estate Empire
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Desperation breeds resourcefulness. At 17, he closed his first real estate deal with no money down, just grit and creativity. Here's how modeling proven practices, taking uncomfortable action, and refusing to quit built the foundation for lasting success.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | How did your real estate career start? |
| 0:03.6 | Man, through desperation. |
| 0:06.6 | You know, sometimes being young and naive and being a little foolish is just such a gift, |
| 0:12.6 | isn't it? |
| 0:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.7 | There's so many things I would have never started if I knew how hard it was. |
| 0:16.4 | It's a gift of like, just not even, because if you did the statistics of real estate or doing your |
| 0:24.3 | own thing you probably wouldn't start and and I think that would be such a travesty for so many people |
| 0:28.2 | um because you don't have to be a statistic right you're in control of your own destiny for me um again I said, my mom was the first lighthouse. I started |
| 0:39.9 | cutting and selling firewood in high school. And I started buying wrecked cars, fixing them up and |
| 0:46.5 | selling them. My time I was out of high school, that's what I was doing. And then when I was |
| 0:50.9 | 17 years old, they got into my first real estate deal with no money down. |
| 0:55.1 | And I just, I just always, people said, hey, if you don't have money, you can get into real estate with no money down. |
| 1:00.6 | I had no clue what that meant. |
| 1:02.2 | There was, I'm old enough that there was an infomercial on TV with a guy named Carlton Sheets and he always never bought his program, but it was the no money down real estate offer. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm like like what does that |
| 1:11.1 | mean so i i i'll just go a little detail because you have people that yeah understand real estate |
| 1:15.6 | so at 17 or 18 years old i just knocked on a gazillion doors of houses for sale like physically |
| 1:21.7 | knocked like i'd find a house for sale and i'd go meet the people and say if it's not selling |
| 1:25.6 | and i just try to make deals with all of them, if they would hold the mortgage, if they would lease with the option to buy. |
| 1:33.5 | And I just got so many knows. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm just trying to figure it out. |
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