How He Turned One Deal Into Millions (Without Managing Tenants) | Ep. 1,199
Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing
Rod Khleif
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Sterling is a medical real estate investor who led an $18.5 million acquisition that quickly appreciated to $25 million and has delivered an average 40% IRR across his portfolio. A resilient entrepreneur, he rose from homelessness to millionaire status within two years through his first business. Today, Sterling speaks nationally on passive medical real estate investing while also pursuing his passion for acting and film production.
Here's some of the topics we covered:
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From homelessness to building a successful personal training business
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Why most podcast advice misses what actually matters
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How the right mentor can completely change your life
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The real difference between passive income and owning a job
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Spotting trends early and turning them into serious cash
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How seasoned investors unlock deals most people never see
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Inside the medical landlord side of real estate investing
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Reclaiming the childhood dreams you thought were gone
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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 Slow Through Real Estate Investing. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Rod Clef, and I am thrilled that you're here. |
| 0:32.2 | I have a very interesting guest today on a lot of fronts. |
| 0:35.4 | He's interesting on a lot of fronts. |
| 0:37.0 | His name's Sterling Griffin, and Sterling is in the medical development space, a medical office development |
| 0:43.3 | commercial real estate space. He develops medical offices, which we've never talked about on |
| 0:47.3 | this show. But you guys may or may not know this. I'm going to start introducing other |
| 0:51.3 | asset classes on this show, and this is an example of that. |
| 0:57.9 | It's the first time we've ever talked about this asset class. It's a fascinating asset class that I'm frankly interested in personally. But what else is cool about Sterling is before we started, |
| 1:03.3 | he went down into my exercise room downstairs and did some affirmations. And if you guys know |
| 1:07.0 | me, you know I love freaking affirmations. I've got I am statements all over my walls in my |
| 1:12.6 | office in my exercise room because as you know anything you put the words I am in front of is an |
| 1:17.1 | identity statement and in fact as a funniest side you know I tell people I used to run down the street |
| 1:22.3 | yelling this shit you know I am courage I am fearless I am am success. And my kids, they come to my boot camps. |
| 1:29.1 | And that's the question they get most often. Did he really do that shit? And they're like, oh, God, yeah, we had to listen to that shit. |
| 1:33.5 | Now I've got an exercise room, so nobody has to suffer through it. But anyway, we're going to have some fun today. |
| 1:37.8 | We're going to talk about motivation and lots of other things. Sterling, welcome, brother. It's great to see you, man. It's an honor to be here, man. Thanks for the invitation. Well, I appreciate that. And so why don't you take a little bit of time and talk about your journey, which is kind of cool. You know, you've got some interesting things that have happened to you like I do, and I'm not going to steal your thunder, so I to come from you. So talk, talk about who you are and bring us current. |
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