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Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

How He Bought A $2.8M Retail Center With Zero Down (Now Worth $5M) | Ep.1,217

Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Rod Khleif

Education, Investing, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Onyi Odunukwe is a self-made real estate investor with a nine-figure portfolio spanning commercial and residential assets including retail, mixed-use, wellness, and multifamily properties, built alongside scaling Glo, a fast-growing wellness brand with 115 locations nationwide and 200 more in development. Leveraging his operational success, he developed a disciplined, diversified investment strategy focused on undervalued markets, smart deal structuring, and long-term cash flow, combining an operator's execution mindset with an investor's strategic lens to scale across multiple states without taking on unnecessary risk.

 

Here's some of the topics we covered:

 

  • How to Spot a Retail Center That Prints Cash

  • The Partner Test: Who to Bet On (and Who to Avoid)

  • Running Multiple Businesses Without Losing Your Mind

  • Why Overpaying for the Right Asset Can Make You Rich

  • The Massive Retail Comeback Nobody Saw Coming

  • The Retail Traps That Destroy Investor Returns

  • Surviving (and Winning) Through the Retail COVID Chaos

  • The Nail Spa Concept That Turned Into a Breakout Success

 

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

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So let me ask you a question. Do you have a group of people that you meet with regularly that want more out of life? And maybe you work together to grow and become more. What I'm asking is, are you in a mastermind? If not, you definitely need to listen to this week's own your power clip about the power of being in a mastermind. And I also want to remind you of my two-day virtual boot camp, which is coming up soon, which is like a mastermind. You can come for less than the price of a lunch. It's two full days of training about this multifamily business. And if you're serious about this business, you don't want to miss this event. To get the information, text the word boot camp to 7-2, 3, 4, 5, or go to rodsbootcamp.com. And let me say this. If you don't absolutely love my virtual boot camp, let me know, and I'll give you your money back. I don't mean like it. I mean freaking love it. So right now, text the word boot camp to 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, and I'll see you soon. Welcome. This is the Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing podcast.

0:55.2

This is where you'll learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through real estate investment.

1:01.1

Your host, Rod Cleef, has owned over 2,000 homes and apartments.

1:05.9

And he brings experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show.

1:11.9

Now, here's your host, Rod Cleef.

1:15.4

Welcome to another edition of Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing.

1:18.7

I'm Rod Clef, and I'm thrilled you're here.

1:21.1

And you're going to get tremendous value from the very interesting gentleman that's on the show today.

1:26.1

His name's Ani Otanukwe, and he's got a, you know, I'm

1:30.6

going to try to do his background any justice, but a lot of real estate, business, build a big

1:38.1

company, a wellness brand, which I'm interested in hearing about because I'm all about that. So

1:42.3

we're going to have some fun. Welcome, brother. I appreciate it. I appreciate that yeah no absolutely so why don't you do a much better job than I did

1:48.9

introducing yourself you know who you are and where you came from yeah absolutely so my name's

1:53.7

oni Annu Kui uh 38 years old I've been in business since I was 21 started a brand called

2:00.4

glow tanning we have glow tanning yes okay we have business since I was 21, started a brand called Glow Tanning. We have...

2:02.8

Glotanning? Yes. Okay. We have, between opening and currently in development, we have

2:07.7

360 odd locations in 30 states. And started franchising in 2019 and went from two to, you know, obviously to where we're at right now

2:26.1

in the last probably six, seven years.

2:28.1

Wow, that's explosive growth.

2:30.3

So your franchise and these are tanning beds in a retail location? Is that pretty much it? Okay. Interesting. And then why real estate? Because I understand you own quite a few strip centers as well. Retail's your big thing. Yeah. So I own almost 30 strip centers. Every strip center that I have has a glow in it okay um so i'm really big on

2:53.0

verticals uh so i have 18 businesses glow as one of them the commercial real estate is another one so

2:58.5

that's two of the two of the 18 so the way i kind of look at it is um anything where i can be the

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