How She Closed Her First Deal While Working 7 Days a Week | Ep.1,192
Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing
Rod Khleif
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Raised in a poor family in the Philippines, she developed a strong work ethic and resilience that shaped her journey. After earning a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management and spending 11 years working on cruise ships, she moved to the United States in 2007 and worked multiple jobs while pursuing financial freedom. Her path led her to Rod Khleif's live bootcamp in Orlando, Florida, where she became a Warrior in 2024. Since then, she has acquired an 8-unit property in Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to grow her real estate portfolio with the goal of inspiring others to believe that no matter where you start, anything is possible.
Here's some of the topics we covered:
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From Growing Up in Poverty to Winning in Multifamily
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How Lina Landed Her First Warrior Deal
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Underwriting Made Simple with the Power of the Warrior Network
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The Exact Value Add Play Driving This Deal's Upside
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Inside the Deal Who Does What and Why It Works
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The One Rule for Finding Partners You Can Fully Trust
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How to Stay Motivated When the Stakes Get Real
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The Toughest Moment in Closing This Deal
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What Smart Investors Need to Know About Financing in 2026
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The Real Reasons Most People Fail in Multifamily
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 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. |
| 0:11.4 | 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. |
| 0:30.6 | As you guys know, this is where we bring on guests, |
| 0:35.6 | and we deep dive the deals that they've done and today is a really special guest |
| 0:41.5 | because you know very often we get guests on that have thousands of units hundreds of units |
| 0:46.6 | and people are like uh you know it's hard for them to visualize actually doing something with them |
| 0:51.6 | so today i've got warrior warrior Lena Bellin on and she |
| 0:55.5 | immigrated from the Philippines and you know she talks about how she struggled to |
| 0:59.4 | have food on the table for her and her siblings and her mom sold fish in the |
| 1:03.3 | market her dad was a farmer and you know their life was pretty tough but her mom |
| 1:07.5 | built that fish sales business into a family business and so she was able to save money and send her to college. |
| 1:13.6 | And she had, and Lena got a degree in hotel and restaurant management. |
| 1:17.6 | And so, you know, she learned a lot from her mom's work ethic and how to stay strong, how to work hard. |
| 1:22.6 | And so after finish her degree, she started working on a cruise ship in a casino. |
| 1:26.6 | And, you know, that's interesting because I've seen a lot of Filipinos and people from all over the world in cruise ships. I've done probably 50 cruises. And she spent 11 years traveling the world for free, meeting amazing people and living her dream. And that also gave her confidence. And so in 2006, she met her husband on a cruise ship and moved to the United States just to start a new chapter in her life. |
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