How He Built 25,000 Units In Affordable Housing, Senior Living & Multifamily | Ep. 1,232

Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Rod Khleif

Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Rod Lockwood is a real estate developer and policy leader who has helped build more than 25,000 single-family homes, apartments, and senior living residences, including over 500 in Detroit. With deep experience in land planning, construction, and the impact of government policy on economic growth, he now serves as Chairman of the Board of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and previously chaired the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, where he helped advance Michigan's Right to Work legislation. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from Wayne State University.

Here's some of the topics we covered:

Legacy to near-collapse then a massive comeback
Ditching home sales for unstoppable cash flow
The hidden tax credit game fueling huge deals
The risk formula 99% of investors overlook
Detroit's insane comeback nobody saw coming
The $50 BILLION city that could change everything
A bold tax hack designed to attract global wealth

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0:00.0	Welcome. This is the Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing podcast.
0:06.6	This is where you'll learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through real estate investment.
0:12.5	Your host, Rod Clef, has owned over 2,000 homes and apartments.
0:17.3	And he brings experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show.
0:23.3	Now, here's your host, Rod Cleef.
0:26.9	Welcome back to Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing.
0:29.5	I'm Rod Cleef, and I'm thrilled you're here.
0:31.8	Very interesting gentlemen I'm interviewing today.
0:34.2	His name is Rod Lockwood, so first name's easy to remember.
0:39.0	And the Lockwood companies So first name's easy to remember. And his,
0:44.5	the Lockwood companies, his namesake companies, have built over 25,000 single family homes and apartments and senior living residences, including more than 500 in Detroit. And he just
0:50.9	recently wrote a book that just went public like four months ago called Bell Isle, Detroit's Game Changer, which is about a development, anticipated development Detroit.
1:01.2	So we're going to dig into all sorts of things, including his development experience, as well as this exciting project that he looks like his frontrunnering.
1:09.8	So welcome to the show, welcome to show rod thank you thank
1:11.5	for having me rod and just a minor correction the book went live three weeks ago oh three weeks ago
1:15.6	went live three weeks ago thank you so so um so you've been in the business a long time you told me
1:23.2	your son is now running lockwood companies but third third generation, that would be the third generation?
1:28.3	Yes, I'm second, right.
1:29.3	My father was a prominent single-family homebuilder in the Detroit area and was very involved
1:34.6	in policy and in fact was president of a National Association of Home Builders back, the youngest
1:42.2	president ever, back in 1949. It's a big organization. Yeah, he's Back of the youngest present ever. Wow. Back in 1949.
1:45.0	It's a big organization.
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