The Three WORST Real Estate Deals We've Made
The BetterLife Podcast
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Every investor has these. The deal they knew was sketchy, and bought anyway. The one where they ignored the red flags. The one where they just flat out didn't know what they were doing yet.
In this episode, Cam Cathcart and I each share our three worst deals. What we paid. What went wrong. What it cost us. And what we'd do differently.
Cam took an $80,000 loss on a house where the previous flippers hadn't pulled a single permit, meaning he had to gut the entire thing twice. I worked 12 months straight on a duplex, lost $15,000, and then watched that same property hit half a million dollars years later after I'd already sold it at 120.
We also talk about what happens when you stop paying attention to a property that's been running fine, why turning down that first weekend offer is almost always a mistake, and why all three of Cam's bad deals were outside his buy box.
We don't share these to scare you off. Deals go bad. That's part of it. The goal is just that when yours does, it's not one of these.
🧔♂️ WHO AM I? My name is Brandon Turner! I teach people how to BUILD WEALTH WITHOUT LOSING THEIR SOUL through real estate investing!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Better Light podcast here with your host, Brandon Turner and my co-host, Mr. Cam Cathcart. |
| 0:05.6 | Cam Cathcart, man. How you doing? |
| 0:07.2 | Dude, I am so good. Good. I asked you that question like 30 minutes ago. We recorded the last podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | But I won't talk about the date night, my wife, date day, my wife and I went on. |
| 0:16.0 | Let me think, what's something new that's going on in my world right now? |
| 0:22.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:23.5 | You hurt yourself playing basketball yesterday. |
| 0:24.8 | I did. |
| 0:25.4 | I did. |
| 0:25.7 | And I, you know, I did it to myself. |
| 0:27.6 | That was, I had a breakaway lay up, and I tripped over my back foot, and I fell. |
| 0:34.9 | And then this knee went into the back of this calf and I felt like such because |
| 0:40.5 | there's nobody like it was by yourself. It was by myself. Yes. And I just, luckily there's no like |
| 0:49.1 | ligament or anything. It's just a deep like muscle bruise I think. But dang. Yeah, dude, it just, |
| 0:55.6 | it wasn't great for my ego. |
| 0:56.4 | I understand. |
| 0:57.7 | I was going to dunk it, though. |
| 1:06.3 | Are we going to get the sauna after this to make that feel a little? Yeah. Oh, yes. You didn't text me back, though. I know. And now I'm wearing jeans. You're in jeans of the sauna. That's weird. We'll go. All right. |
| 1:08.4 | We'll do it last time. |
| 1:09.3 | You know what I mean. |
| 1:10.1 | You got to do what you got to do |
| 1:10.8 | sometimes. |
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