MB466: How to Raise $800K in 6 Months - With Scott Tod
Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing
Michael Blank
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing podcast, Michael Blank sits down with Scott Todd, a Deal Maker who successfully transitioned into multifamily real estate. Scott shares how he closed his first deal, the key lessons he learned along the way, and how he overcame the fear and obstacles that stop many investors from taking action. If you’re on the fence about multifamily investing, this episode is packed with practical insights that will give you the confidence to move forward.
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- How Scott Got Started in Real Estate
- Transitioned from his previous career into real estate.
- Discovered multifamily investing as the fastest way to financial freedom.
- Started with no prior experience but took action to learn the process.
- Lessons from His First Multifamily Deal
- The biggest challenges he faced and how he overcame them.
- How he structured his deal and raised capital as a first-time investor.
- What he would do differently if starting over today.
- Overcoming Fear and Taking Action
- The mindset shift that helped him push past self-doubt.
- How he took the leap despite not having a perfect plan.
- Why waiting for the perfect time will only slow you down.
- Finding the Right Support System
- The importance of mentors and networking in real estate.
- How joining a like-minded community accelerated his success.
- Why trying to do everything alone is a costly mistake.
- Scaling Beyond the First Deal
- How closing his first deal changed everything.
- The next steps he’s taking to grow his portfolio.
- Advice for new investors looking to get their first deal done.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dealmakers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom with real estate. |
| 0:03.8 | Let's do this. |
| 0:20.1 | Really excited about today. We have Scott Todd on the show the show now you might not know who this person is |
| 0:24.4 | but he just did his first deal and uh we interviewed him and i want to know how did he do it what did he go |
| 0:30.1 | through and how in the world did he get into his first deal in as little as six months and it was like |
| 0:35.3 | a five and a half million dollar raised now he didn't raise all of that of that. Okay, he raised about $800,000 of that. How did he do in such a short period of time? We're going to get into it here in just a second. If you love the show, then love to hear a review on iTunes. Leave us review there for the podcast as well. Now, before we get into the show here with Scott Todd, I want to share with you my thoughts on |
| 0:55.5 | why I think syndications is for nearly everyone, certainly from all walks of life. And we've helped |
| 1:00.8 | literally hundreds of people get into multifamily. And there's really not a major pattern, |
| 1:06.0 | demographic or ethnicity or almost resources and personalities as well. |
| 1:12.2 | And here's why I say that, because we have people who are analytical, we have people who are |
| 1:16.5 | introverts, people who are extroverts, people who are more relationships and sales-oriented. |
| 1:21.3 | And, you know, Gina Wickman had him on the podcast here a year or two ago, and he has |
| 1:27.1 | his book called The Entrepreneur Leap, |
| 1:28.9 | where he argues that very, very few number of actual entrepreneurs live there out there, |
| 1:33.4 | and they're really born, not made. |
| 1:35.3 | And I think in general, the way he describes entrepreneur, where you're building businesses |
| 1:38.5 | to scale, he's probably right. |
| 1:41.3 | But this multifamily real estate syndication business appears to be different. |
| 1:46.0 | And it's for a variety of different reasons. First of all, is that at the nature and the heart |
| 1:51.4 | of syndication is a joint venture. And it's because of the two roles in a syndication. This is why I |
| 1:56.2 | think this appeals to so many different people and why so many different people from all walks of |
| 2:00.2 | life are successful with syndications. The two major roles of syndication are more the deal finder |
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