He Raised $600K For His First Deal In 6 Weeks | Ep.1,219
Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing
Rod Khleif
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Nelson Diaz is a Florida attorney, licensed real estate broker, and lobbyist who earned his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2005. With more than two decades of experience across law, government, and real estate, he has worked with policymakers, represented affordable and workforce housing developers, and participated in large multifamily transactions while building a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial properties. He joined Rod's Warrior Group in August 2025 to further scale his real estate investing business.
Here's some of the topics we covered:
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Nelson's Background Moving From Single Family to Multifamily
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Law School and Moving Into The Family Business of Real Estate
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Why Nelson Went From Single Family To Multifamily
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Nelson's First Steps When Switching To Multifamily
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Who To Talk To When Raising Money For a Deal
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Being Creative On Deals In 2026 To Pay Less Taxes
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Turning Value-Add Deals Into Better Communities
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Hiring a Property Manager For An Asset
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.
For more about Rod and his real estate investing journey go to www.rodkhleif.com
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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. |
| 0:24.6 | Now, here are your hosts, Rod Cleef and Mark Nagy. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome back to multifamily rock stars. |
| 0:31.6 | So this is where we deep dive into our students' deals. |
| 0:34.6 | And I'm excited specifically for this one. |
| 0:36.6 | Rod is hot on vacation. Lucky him. |
| 0:38.7 | He's on a cruise today. So this is a solo episode of me and our guest Nelson. And this is the |
| 0:43.5 | perfect episode to do with solo because Nelson is actually a new partner of mine on a deal that we |
| 0:49.6 | just closed in Tulsa, which we're going to get into. And we'll be able to get into some stuff |
| 0:53.9 | that we usually wouldn't get into. But Nelson, welcome to the show. Glad to have you. Thanks, Mark. Glad to be here. Awesome. So tell us a little bit about your background, single family, you know, what your experience comes from. Why listeners should listen to you? So growing up, you know, my family immigrated to this country fleeing a communist |
| 1:11.9 | revolution a long time ago. And so they got here with nothing. And so my great aunt, I spent a lot |
| 1:16.6 | of time with her. And one of the things they did to make money was buying apartments, renting them out, |
| 1:21.6 | flipping houses and building on vacant lots. So I grew up kind of knowing a little bit about real |
| 1:27.2 | estate and in that world. But when I went to law I grew up kind of knowing a little bit about real estate and in that world. |
| 1:28.8 | But when I went to law school, I kind of strayed away from it a little bit and slowly |
| 1:33.6 | kind of worked my way back. |
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