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Welcome. This is the lifetime cash flow through real estate investing podcast.

This is where you'll learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through

real estate investment. Your host, Rod Cleef, has owned over 2,000 homes and apartments. And he brings

experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show. Now, here's your

host, Rod Clef. Welcome back to Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing. I'm Rod

Kleefe, and I'm thrilled you're here. We've got a very interesting gentleman on today. His name is Gabe Johansen and he's the

president of SMI real estate and he's in you know a whole bunch of doors, I think well over

1,000 door, 1,400 plus doors and he's got a very unique story and he's up in the Pacific Northwest and we're going to have some fun today. Welcome to the show, Gabe. Thanks for having me on Rod. It's a pleasure. Thank you. So yeah, why don't you tell your story? It's very interesting. I was reading your bio. I was very intrigued. So I'd love to hear it from your mouth. Sure, yeah. My professional career started at age 14 on my dad's car lot. My dad was a car dealer. So I spent 20 years in the car business. I saw that you interviewed Grant Cardone recently. Grant was one of my heroes, and actually I was Cardone certified in the car business. He has a sales training system that I went through.

Actually, I had a phone call with him once. It was one of the most interesting calls I ever had where

he called me and asked me to get on the loudspeaker and ask every single person in the car dealership

to log onto their computer and vote for him as the number one sales trainer in the U.S.

So I always appreciated Grant's hustle.

He's a funny guy. I laugh my ass off. He's been on the show twice. I laugh my ass

up every time I talk to him. Yeah. Amazing story. But no, I spent 20 years in the car biz.

Car biz is a, that's a difficult way. I guess all business can be hard, but we were selling Nissan's in Salem,

Oregon. So we were a tertiary brand and a tertiary market. Sounds probably more glamorous

than it was. All my friends thought I was rich, but I really wasn't. I was just hustling and learning

how to work the long car hours. So yeah, I spent 20 years in car biz. I was a teenage parent,

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