Breneman Blueprint: Real Estate and Entrepreneurship Podcast · Drew Breneman

Advice For Young Real Estate Entrepreneurs | Drew Breneman’s Appearance on Adventures In CRE - E107

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Drew says he made $80,000 to $100,000 reselling video-game items from Diablo 2 and EverQuest.

1. Breneman Blueprint: Real Estate and Entrepreneurship Podcast features Drew Breneman discussing how he started in real estate and entrepreneurship. 2. Drew Breneman appears as CEO of Breneman Capital, and Spencer introduces him as a guest who moved from the W-2 route to owning his own firm. 3. The episode asks how a young person can build an entrepreneurial real estate career before leaving a salary job. 4. Drew says his first business was reselling video-game items from Diablo 2 and EverQuest on eBay. 5. He says that side business produced between $80,000 and $100,000 over four years, and he saved all of it. 6. Drew says he read Gary Eldred’s Investing in Real Estate while still in high school. 7. He bought a $220,000 duplex in Madison, Wisconsin, during his freshman year at UW-Madison. 8. He says he put $35,000 down and then bought four properties while in school. 9. Drew says he later took a job at a multifamily developer in Minneapolis after graduating in 2007. 10. He describes meeting a classmate’s father, pitching multiple deal sizes, and later buying a $3 million two-tenant shopping center with that family. 11. Drew says he worked three jobs at once from 2008 to 2011, including a W-2 in Illinois, self-managing properties, and handling new acquisitions. 12. He gives a specific example of going to court for an eviction on his lunch break. 13. Drew says he and the family investor bought five deals with a sixth on the way before he quit. 14. He says that group eventually bought about $100 million of property and used raises, rent growth, cash-out refinances, and 1031 exchanges to keep scaling. 15. Drew says another family pair, a father-in-law and son-in-law, also bought about $100 million with him. 16. He says his later focus shifted to syndicating deals for high-net-worth individuals and buying mostly multifamily in Chicago from 2013 to 2021. 17. The conversation repeatedly frames his approach as doing the work before quitting, not as a sudden leap into entrepreneurship. 18. The tone stays practical and interview-driven, with Spencer and the other host pushing for specific lessons about timing, education, and real estate choices. 19. People starting in commercial real estate or trying to leave a job for investing would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners looking for abstract theory without deal details or career advice may skip it.

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