How Michael Ketchen Built a $100M Real Estate Portfolio Without Playing the Guru Game

About this episode

Michael Ketchen shares his journey of building a $100 million real estate portfolio by focusing on operations rather than hype.

How does a former high school administrator go on to control more than $100 million in real estate across eight states in less than a decade? And what happens when you focus on operations instead of hype? In this episode of REI Freedom, Jeremy Beland sits down with New Hampshire real estate investor Michael Ketchen to break down the real mechanics behind scaling multifamily properties, self-managing remotely, and surviving the post-2022 syndication shakeout. Michael shares a candid behind-the...

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Beland

Guest: Michael Ketchen

Topics covered

• real estate
• multifamily properties
• self-management
• investing
• syndication

Keywords

• real estate portfolio
• multifamily
• self-managing
• syndication shakeout
• investing

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Hampshire, eight states

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