About this episode

Sam Primm shares his journey of building a $50 million rental portfolio without using his own money.

In this episode, I sit down with Sam Primm, a St. Louis investor, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of Own Your Freedom. Sam made a serious jump from a W-2 corporate job into real estate, and he did not play small. Over the last 12 years he has closed more than 2,000 deals and built a rental portfolio worth around $50 million, all without using his own money. What I appreciated most about this conversation is how candid Sam was. He walked me through the early days of buying one rental at a time on the side, the moment he realized he could keep scaling with other people's money, and the systemized way he finally left his job rather than jumping in blind. We also got real about the last couple of years, where higher interest rates and a tougher market forced him to lean into personal development and grind through a genuine mental test. We spent a good chunk of time on mentorship and mindset, because that is where Sam and I are cut from the same cloth. He makes the case for why even the best in the world hire coaches, why poor people look at the cost of something while wealthy people look at the return, and why the fear of failure quietly guarantees that people never succeed. He…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Prefontaine

Guest: Sam Primm

Topics covered

• real estate investing
• personal development
• mentorship
• mindset
• scaling investments

Keywords

• real estate
• investing
• portfolio

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Own Your Freedom

Places: St. Louis

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