Multifamily Investing - Rising Costs, Debt Challenges, Value-Add Strategies and Where The Next Big Opportunities Are | Rod Khleif
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.4 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, host Matty A. welcomes Rod Khleif, a multifamily investor, author, and motivational speaker, for a powerful conversation on wealth, resilience, and opportunity in today’s multifamily market.
Rod shares his incredible story of building wealth, losing $50 million in the 2008 crash, and rebuilding stronger by doubling down on multifamily real estate. He emphasizes the importance of mindset, visualization, and goal setting, while also offering actionable strategies for finding and funding value-add deals, building strong partnerships, and preparing for shifts in the market.
Whether you’re an experienced real estate investor or just starting your journey, this episode will provide valuable insights into navigating rising costs, debt challenges, and uncovering the next big multifamily opportunities while keeping contribution and fulfillment at the center of wealth building.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Rod’s $50M loss in 2008 and how he bounced back
- Why mindset and visualization are essential to wealth
- The scalability and stability of multifamily investing
- Strategies for sourcing and funding value-add deals
- How to prepare for downturns and debt challenges
- Building a life of contribution beyond financial success
- Where the next big multifamily opportunities may be
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction and Rod’s background
04:00 – Lessons from losing $50M in the crash
08:00 – Mindset, visualization, and goals
13:00 – Multifamily real estate as a wealth vehicle
17:00 – Deal finding, funding, and partnerships
22:00 – Market cycles and resilience strategies
26:00 – Contribution, giving, and fulfillment
31:00 – Final advice for long-term wealth building
Connect with Rod Khleif:
Website: http://rodkhleif.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodkhleif/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rod_khleif/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rodkhleifofficial/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/RodKhleif
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome into today's episode. |
| 0:13.6 | Today's guest is none other than Rod Khalif. |
| 0:17.6 | He is a seasoned real estate investor specializing in multifamily. He got one of the largest |
| 0:22.2 | multifamily communities out there. He's an author. He's a coach. He is the host of one of the |
| 0:28.7 | largest commercial real estate podcasts in the world. And Rod's got a really crazy story going |
| 0:34.5 | back to losing $50 million, making it all back. And obviously a lot of learning |
| 0:41.0 | lessons in there, especially being that he's been exposed to so many other real estate |
| 0:46.1 | investors, the good, the bad, the ugly, and he's got a lot of insights to share. We talked about |
| 0:52.9 | in today's episode, the current headwinds facing the multifamily |
| 0:55.9 | market and really just commercial real estate investors in general. What are some of the mistakes |
| 1:00.2 | that many of those that are in hot water right now made so you can avoid making those yourself? |
| 1:04.9 | How are people adapting and evolving in this current landscape? Where are they finding the |
| 1:09.2 | opportunities? Where are they leaning |
| 1:11.2 | into? And really, we dove into some of the creative strategies that you can navigate to drive more |
| 1:18.2 | revenue, drive more value into your assets, how to underwrite better, how to protect your |
| 1:22.7 | downside better, creative ways on how to navigate some of the high operating expenses, high |
| 1:29.5 | interest rate environments, how to structure these deals. We dove into some of the opportunities, |
| 1:35.2 | not only in multifamily, but senior housing, mobile home parks, some of the assets that |
| 1:40.1 | Rod is paying attention to and that many of his community members are focused on. |
| 1:45.7 | And just some overall advice from him, his outlook on what lies ahead. |
| 1:50.4 | What are we going to see once interest rates start cutting? |
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