181: Real Estate Investing Lessons with Rod Khleif

Rod Khleif is a multiple business owner and philanthropist who is passionate about business, high performance, real estate, and giving back. As one of the country's top business, real estate, and peak performance luminaries, Rod has built over 24 businesses in his 40-year business career several of which have been worth tens of millions of dollars. He has also owned over 2000 properties. Rod Khleif soared from humble beginnings as a young, impoverished Dutch immigrant to incredible success. Khleif's experience involves both remarkable triumphs and spectacular failures, which he affectionately calls "seminars:' Rod will explain the mindset required to recover from losing $50 million dollars in the crash of 2008 to the success he enjoys today. Rod brings incredible authenticity and insight to his approach to business, mindset, real estate, success, and life. Rod can talk about the psychology of success, and any business or real estate topic in great depth, contributing incredible first-hand, technical, and motivational knowledge and skills to the conversation. Rod also founded The Tiny Hands Foundation which has benefited more than 95,000 children in need. (00:02 - 2:00) Opening Segment - Introduction of the host into the show - Alpesh introduces the guest of the show, Rod - Rod shares something interesting about himself (2:00 - 18:41) Real Estate Investing Lessons - What was your first real estate investment and when was it - How did that come to your mind that you will buy at 18 -What exactly happened in 2008 -What exactly happened at that time and what was going through your mind? -Can you talk about the mindset, what did it take you to go from pretty much-losing everything to building every backup? -Can you share some real estate lessons you learned from the last 40+ years? -What was then your first investment after losing everything? -What has been your best real estate deal so far? Any bad multi-family deal? -What do you think of the real estate market right now? (18:41  - 19:11) Break - Welcoming listeners and guest back to the show (19:11 - 25:47) Fire Round - Will Rod change the business strategy after Coronavirus? – Rod's favorite real estate, finance, or other related books – Tools or website Rod recommends - Rod's advice to beginner investors – How does Rod give back? – How can Wealth Matters Podcast listeners reach out to Rod? (25:47 - 26:08) Closing Segment -If you want to learn more about the discussion, you can watch the podcast on Wealth Matter’s YouTube channel and you can reach out to Alpesh using this link. Facebook: @wealthmatrs IG: @wealthmatrs.ig Tiktok: @wealthmatrs