From Flipping to Freedom: How Wholesaling Saved My Real Estate Business)
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, your greatest lessons come from your biggest losses. After years of thriving in house flipping, a market shift in 2022 nearly wiped me out. Millions lost, high interest payments, and hard decisions—but instead of folding, I pivoted. Wholesaling became my lifeline, offering faster returns with less risk. It didn’t just save my business; it reshaped my entire strategy.
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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 | I started flipping houses back in 2015. So, you know, in 2015, as I started flipping houses, |
| 0:07.5 | I ended up doing five deals that year, and those five deals made me 50K. Now, I bought five deals. |
| 0:14.6 | I think I sold three of them. So, you know, we only saw 50K realized, you know, a couple of those |
| 0:19.2 | carried over in 2016. You know, 2016, |
| 0:22.3 | I ended up buying 20 deals. And based on what I sold, I made 200K, right? Now, this is still a very |
| 0:28.7 | active income business for me. I'm the guy running it all. I'm doing this by myself. |
| 0:33.2 | 2017 comes around. I end up doing 50 deals. I made 750 750K, 2018 comes around. By the way, I have one |
| 0:41.6 | person helping me at this point. Let's call it one employee. And I'm doing this all on my own |
| 0:48.5 | with one guy helping me out. He's the project manager, all that stuff. I'm still finding all the |
| 0:52.5 | deals, everything else. 2018, end up doing 150 buys, end up making $2 million. |
| 1:00.3 | And at this point, this is when I started doing direct marketing. |
| 1:03.4 | This is when I started hiring people. |
| 1:06.3 | We started wholesaling a little bit, not a ton, but mainly just all house flips. |
| 1:10.7 | And I would say at this point, |
| 1:11.9 | I probably had, call it seven employees, okay? And ever since then, since 2018, we've always been |
| 1:19.4 | doing seven figures a year in flipping. And, you know, it was great until it wasn't. So around |
| 1:26.0 | 2020, I ended up getting on YouTube. |
| 1:29.9 | All right, we had COVID. |
| 1:31.3 | I started making YouTube, TikToks, all this other stuff, |
| 1:34.0 | started starting other businesses. |
| 1:35.5 | And in 2020, we actually did really well. |
| 1:37.9 | But regardless of that, the market was hot and all those things. |
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