Commercial Real Estate: Starting From Scratch

John Kleisch
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Documenting my journey in commercial real estate from the very beginning.  You'll see me calling brokers, making offers, analyzing deals, visiting properties, building relationships with brokers, bankers, lenders, investors, remodeling assets, leasing properties and buying commercial real estate assets from start to finish!  

  1. FEB 12

    Ep 23 - Eviction Days Away

    Send me a message! It's been a busy week, and my tool belt is getting more and dangerous as we move forward.  Now I'm well versed in the eviction process so when it happens again, it won't be so overwhelming.  Side note, if I do a really good job screening tenants, shouldn't have to do many of these, but I know this won't be my last.   Everything is set up for eviction day and will roll out the plan once it's ready.  By next podcast I will have done the eviction and will report how fun it was!

    17 min

  2. FEB 5

    Ep 22 - Eviction Hell

    Send me a message! SO!  Boys and girls, here we are now facing an eviction.  This has been going on for a while now.  Some weeks I thought we'd avoid it, and some weeks I knew we were going to do an eviction.  It was pretty close but at this point, we've seen enough.  Time to move on, cut our losses, and get ready for a new tenant.   Lots of possibilities to move forward and I think it will work out for the better, at least in the interim.   If you couldn't tell, I'm a bit fired up and swear just a bit in this episode!

    22 min

  3. JAN 29

    Ep 21- Big Updates

    Send me a message! I haven't touched on Grand or Thunderbird recently, mostly because they've been on cruise control. But some recent events have caused a stir!  So good for content, bad for my health and well being!!   Non paying tenant issue at Grand, new lease signed for Thunderbird, and very bleak action on the main lease hunt for Thunderbird.

    31 min

  4. JAN 22

    Ep 20 - On The Hunt

    Send me a message! Well, I wrote a description and it didn't upload for some reason!  First draft was excellent, what a shame.   I have 2 active deals I'm currently working, I go over each one, pros & cons and break down my thoughts.  Not even sure I should be actively hunting for deals, but it is what it is at this point.

    31 min

  5. JAN 8

    Ep 19 - Active Income

    Send me a message! One of the many reasons people avoid Commercial Real Estate is the lack of active income while building a portfolio.  Of course there are ways to do it via CRE but for the most part, it doesn't make reliable money on a monthly basis in the beginning.  In fact, I've experienced money going out, further enhancing the problem.   In this episode I talk about what I've been doing about the active income portion in my life, and how that plays into the CRE game.  For me, I was lucky enough to basically take most of my time and pour it into CRE for the last 6 months.  But now, that clock has ran out.  Before I got into it, I knew I had a short window of operating before I needed to focus on active income again, so it's no surprise.   Also working on increasing passive income to reduce to the amount of active income I need, which means I can spend more time working on CRE, which is the ultimate goal.

    21 min

  6. JAN 1

    Ep 18 - Off Like A Rocket!

    Send me a message! 2025 was a major year, maybe the biggest of my career.  Starting to build momentum, things are starting to work, and a reminder that it takes a bit longer than you think. 1 year of making intentional progress in the right direction is good, but 4 more years of that and we'll be heading towards a much different trajectory. 2026 Objective: Focus on true, real cash flow, $4,000 minimum, stretch objective, $7,000   Can't wait to document it all along the way!

    24 min

  7. 12/25/2025

    Ep 17 - Merry Christmas

    Send me a message! Short week, Tbird is for real almost finished. Carpet finished end of last week, cleaning ladies finished on Tuesday, we hired a broker to list the office for rent. There's legitimately less than 8 hours of work to get Tbird done, and that's really exciting.   Any podcast now I may have an update on getting Tbird leased up, that day will be worth celebrating for sure.   Until next time, Merry Christmas!

    10 min

  8. 12/18/2025

    Ep 16 - Thunderbird Completion

    Send me a message! Thunderbird is so close to the finish line I can smell it!!!  Not sure what it exactly smells like, but it smells GOOOOOOD!!!!  We agreed on terms with the existing tenant which is great for both of us, and had a fantastic walkthrough meting with the brokers that are going to lease the property for us.   All around good news, which doesn't happen quite often.  And enjoying the small victories when they come.    Also, I said my first swear word in 16 episodes which is just absolutely wild it took this long, considering my vocabulary mostly consists of pirate/truck driver words, sorry Mom!!!!

    26 min
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Documenting my journey in commercial real estate from the very beginning.  You'll see me calling brokers, making offers, analyzing deals, visiting properties, building relationships with brokers, bankers, lenders, investors, remodeling assets, leasing properties and buying commercial real estate assets from start to finish!  

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