How He Converted Commercial Space Into Apartments (And 3x'd His Money) | Ep. 1,213
Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing
Rod Khleif
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Russell is a Senior Engineer at General Motors and a commercial real estate investor in metro Detroit, with prior experience at Chrysler and Ford, where he filed three automotive engineering patents. A former Division II college football player at Ferris State University, he brings discipline and drive to investing. Russell and his wife Paula began their real estate journey in 2019 with single family rentals, executed a successful BRRRR strategy, and expanded into multifamily with a five unit acquisition in 2024. He joined Rod's Warrior Group in October 2024 and continues to self manage and grow their portfolio with a focus on long term wealth building.
Here's some of the topics we covered:
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Why Detroit became Russell's secret investing weapon
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The real reason Russell went all in on multifamily
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How discovering the Warrior Group changed his trajectory
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Finding deals in markets where everyone else gave up
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The financing tricks Russell uses to get deals done
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Why October 2024 was a turning point for Russell
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The power of joining a team when you want to scale
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What's next as Russell and his team level up
To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email Partner@RodKhleif.com
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 |
| 0:22.6 | OMG ROI now here are your hosts Rod Cleef and Mark Nagy welcome back to |
| 0:29.7 | multi-family rock stars so as you guys know this is where we dive deep into our guest |
| 0:33.7 | deals and we give you really actionable and practical tips to actually take action and do |
| 0:38.8 | your first deal and got got a warrior named Russell Weatherspoon Jr. on today and he's got a really |
| 0:46.1 | cool background which I'm going to let him tell you rather than me botch it. Welcome to the show, |
| 0:50.6 | brother. All right. Thanks, Rod. It's really a pleasure to be here. Well, it's a pleasure to have you here. And like I was telling you, before we started recording, I was very impressed with your background, some of the stuff you've done. So why don't you take a minute and update, you know, our listeners as to who you are and, you know, and bring us current. But also chat about why real estate, you know, and how that |
| 1:11.2 | came to be. But, but I love the other stuff too. So mention that other stuff too, please. |
| 1:16.0 | Okay. Yeah. So I'm an engineer by day and, you know, commercial real estate investor by |
| 1:21.8 | night. Apparently, I'm employed General Motors. I spent some time at Ford and Chrysler as well. |
| 1:28.8 | And, you know, throughout my time there, I was able to file a couple patents while I was at Ford. |
| 1:34.9 | So that was something I always wanted to be able to have at least one. |
| 1:38.4 | And I got three. |
| 1:39.7 | So that's truly a blessing there. |
| 1:41.3 | Automotive related? |
| 1:42.8 | Yes, automotive related. |
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