Someone Can Take Your House — And It Can Cost You Everything | George McCleary
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs with our guest George McCleary, a real estate investor, broker, developer, entrepreneur, and viral internet sensation based out of the Portland area who has been in the game for over two decades!
He is the man behind the massively viral video "I Stole A House" which exploded across the internet and caught the attention of some of the biggest names and platforms in media including Joe Rogan, Dr. Phil, and Bigger Pockets, making him one of the most recognized voices in the country on the topics of squatters, title fraud, and deed theft.
This seasoned real estate veteran has done it all - from buy and holds, rehabs, BRRRRs, flips, multifamily and high rise commercial deals of all shapes and sizes - and runs McCleary Realty and Development out of the Pacific Northwest. He turned his viral moment into a mission, launching Squatter Defender and Title Fraud Defender to help landlords, investors, and homeowners protect what is theirs before it is too late.
Whether you are a first time investor or a seasoned landlord with a full portfolio, this episode delivers powerful and practical insights on:
✅ How squatters legally exploit landlord tenant law in every state
✅ What you should NEVER do when you discover a squatter in your property
✅ Proven prevention strategies to keep squatters out before they get in
✅ Creative and legal methods people have used to remove squatters
✅ What title fraud and deed theft are and why most investors have never heard of them
✅ How to monitor your title so equity theft gets caught before it becomes a nightmare + more
Incredible conversation packed with lessons on real estate investing, asset protection, landlord strategy, and how to protect the wealth you have worked so hard to build that you will not want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-game. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the A-game podcast, Real Estate Investment for Entrepreneurs. |
| 0:52.1 | And the whole point of this podcast is we show average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. And in the past archives, you have hundreds and |
| 0:55.1 | hundreds of episodes with some of the most successful people in life and in business from jiu-jitsu fighters |
| 0:59.4 | to UFC champions, real estate investors, stock traders, and all people have shapes and sizes from |
| 1:05.1 | entertainment to business to money to finance or just personal achievements across the board, |
| 1:09.6 | including an astronaut. We have many people that have come on and paved out all the steps for you of what they did and how they achieved their personal financial freedom and success and how you can do the same by following those steps or learn from the mistakes they made all in the way so you didn't have to. And if that was not enough, we have another banger episode today. George McClure is a real estate investor, a realtor. He does developments. He's done flipping. He does burs. He does syndications. But more importantly, he is known as the guy who went viral for stealing a house. He's been featured on Joe Rogan. Dr. Phil all the time, he made a viral video and talked about how squatters and deed frog. You'll hear like the guy david green a good friend of ours who people came in and they literally committed fraud and tried to steal the equity from his home so he's got a lot of things he's doing to talk about squatters squatters rights misconceptions and ways to protect the equity in your home protect yourself against squatters how to prevent them from getting in and then once they're and how to get them out and ways to make sure you monitor yourself so you are not a victim of equity theft |
| 2:05.1 | title fraud deed fraud or any of those things so really interesting episode with a really unique |
| 2:10.5 | perspective and some really interesting fun thing as well and he talks about all the ways he can help you |
| 2:14.9 | along the way so make sure you check the show notes, follow what he's doing. |
| 2:18.4 | He's got a course put together for you guys for ways to eliminate, getting into these problems in the first place. And again, there's going to be a promo code. He gives you at the end to get a discount on that. But the way we have amazing guests on here over and over again for years and years and years is for you guys to please just subscribe. the only fee for this show the a game podcast real estate investing for entrepreneurs to please |
| 2:36.1 | subscribe it's available everywhere you get your podcast, especially Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. It takes two seconds to just follow us and it goes a long way for the old algorithm. And of course, if you go to nick, nick, nick.com slash links, nick, nick, nick.com slash links, L-I-N-K-S. |
| 2:51.8 | You can find all the ways to connect with us on social media. When you're sitting there scrolling on social media anyway, the way that George knows he gave you guys some great value is for you to please interact with the post that we make from the show. Give it a thumbs up. Give it a like. Give it a follow. Send him a message. tell him that you got value from the information he came on and shared. |
| 3:09.3 | And that's who he tells other people. |
| 3:10.6 | What a great community we have at the A Game podcast. And I can bring you more and more guests that give you free information on how to achieve personal financial success and how to avoid the mistakes along the way as well. And of course, the whole thing is there I want to do deals together, Whether you would like to buy a deal from me, sell a deal to me or partner on some level, either just DM me the words real estate, DM me the words real estate or text me the words real estate to 516, 5405733. Text me the words real estate to 516, 540573333 and we can figure out if you want to buy for me |
| 3:41.5 | sell for me or partner with me on some level thank you so much george for coming on dropping some |
| 3:46.6 | heat very interesting and informant of podcast that i personally wanted to have you want to learn some |
| 3:51.8 | of these things that had to deal with squatters and of course thank you guys for supporting us |
| 3:55.2 | and coming out here over and over again and supporting the podcast and going out and changing your life. |
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