About this episode

Raul Mendez shares his journey from real estate agent to investor, discussing the traps agents fall into and how he built a successful hybrid model.

Raul Mendez is a military veteran who became a real estate agent thinking it was a stepping stone to investing.  It cost him two years and a team of seven people he didn't want to manage.  Today, he's running three exit strategies at once: wholesaling, flipping, listing deals through his agent license.  He's also holding nine rental properties and running a cost segregation strategy most investors never touch. He made $145K on a single flip and realized the agent business and investor business have completely different margins.  That number changed everything. In this episode, I sit down with Raul to break down how he escaped the realtor team trap and built a hybrid model that captures the $600K+ in listing opportunities most investors leave on the table. He covers: - Why he chose to become an agent first instead of going all-in as an investor (and what it cost him) - The realtor team scaling trap: when overhead crushes margins and you realize you're managing people instead of building wealth - The exact moment he stopped wanting to build a bigger team: $145K on one flip vs. the squeeze of selling 30 houses - Why keeping a real estate license is different than…

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