Drew Breneman
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Real estate is the most proven way to build wealth. But learning how to invest in real estate is not easy. You need a blueprint from other successful investors. That is what this podcast is all about. In each episode, join Drew Breneman, a real estate investor who owns more than $200M in property, as he and his guests teach you what you actually need to know to be a successful investor. Whether you are a full-time active investor, a passive investor, close to retiring, just starting out, or simply looking for an alternative to the stock market, this podcast...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Breneman Blueprint makes real estate investing legible through deal mechanics, financing choices, practitioner judgment, and working conversations about real deals.
Breneman Blueprint: Real Estate and Entrepreneurship Podcast is a real estate entry in Business & Finance, built around interviews with investors, brokers, lenders, and development people.
You came for real estate ambition; you stayed for the debt-yield math.
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A replay that ties real estate trust, specialization, and operator judgment into a practical listen.
A replay of Drew Breneman on Jonathan Green's show tracks practical real estate judgment more than polished advice. It moves from how a 19-year-old buyer earned a realtor's trust on a first deal to why a sponsor should specialize, especially in multifamily.
A practical look at deal math, exit timing, and the discipline behind rolling capital forward.
Jonathan Barr keeps the focus on the practical side of real estate investing. He gets into how to decide whether money should stay in a deal or move into another one, using conservative value estimates and sale costs to make the call feel less fuzzy.
Property insurance math that shows how one policy can reshape a real estate deal.
Property insurance can quietly change a real estate deal once the numbers move from theory to a spreadsheet. Drew Brenneman and Tom Panos get into the pressure points: wind-and-hail deductibles, builder's risk, and the way carriers change what a building really costs to own.
Development comes across as a chain of disciplines, and the loan talk gives the episode its most useful detail.
The episode treats development as a set of working parts, not a single asset class. Drew Brenneman and Tanner move through acquisitions, accounting, construction, architecture, engineering, and city planning, which makes the deal side feel grounded in the real mess of getting…
A practical look at debt, equity, and specialization in real estate.
The episode is a grounded conversation about debt, equity, and the upside of specializing in real estate. Drew Brenneman keeps the focus on what operators, brokers, and investors actually need: building expertise, reading local markets, and turning that knowledge into an edge.
A practical, numbers-first look at capital relationships, development risk, and net lease math.
This episode tracks how real estate deals get found, framed, and made less risky. Andrew Dunn and Drew Brenneman get into relationships, the split between a syndicator and single-check writers, and the work of hedging construction and development risk.
A practical guest turn that makes incentive design easy to follow.
Drew Breneman comes through as a guest who keeps the conversation grounded in real estate, mindset, and the habits that matter early on. The strongest stretch is the one that turns deal structure into plain consequences: simple split arrangements, fee-heavy sponsor models,…
A practical look at how Tyler Lyons and Drew Brenneman narrow in on multifamily and the markets they favor.
Tyler Lyons and Drew Brenneman keep the conversation anchored in the basics of real estate investing: choosing an asset class, reading markets, and learning from both strong and weak sponsors.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Drew Brenneman interviews Matt Fore about non-traditional real estate wealth-building.
A conversation about how an early real estate start grew into a much larger investing platform.
Drew Brenneman sits down with Andrew Dunn for a practical talk about real estate investing.
Drew Brenneman brings back Tom Panos, a commercial insurance broker with BKS.
Drew Breneman says he started by reselling Diablo 2 and EverQuest items on eBay, made $80,000 to $100,000 over four years, and used that money to buy a $220,000 duplex in Madison, Wisconsin as a freshman at UW-Madison.
Drew opens with the messy first step in real estate: people believe it can build wealth, then spend money on education before they ever buy.
Drew Brenneman says his team built an underwriting and market-scoring system around 900 data points, and it currently ranks Miami at 1.4 times the national average while pushing Austin and Nashville lower.
Drew Brenneman traces his path from reselling video-game items on eBay in 2002 to buying a $16,000 duplex at 19 near UW Madison.
Drew Brenneman and Tom Stein answer common passive-investor questions for Breneman Capital, starting with the LP process from email blast to soft commitment, accreditation verification, legal documents, and a target 60-day close.
Aleksey Chernobelskiy says passive real estate investing should be judged in three order-specific pillars: execution, alignment of interests, and the property itself.
Adam Sondgeroth of Sondgeroth Capital explains how he bought real estate while keeping a railroad bridge-inspection W-2 job in North Central Illinois, roughly 1.5 to 2 hours southwest of Chicago.
Drew Breneman tells Paul Thompson why he moved Breneman Capital toward multifamily, with Phoenix, Dallas, and Austin as the core markets.
Drew Breneman appears as the guest.
Drew Brenneman interviews Joe Smazel, Chicago's top multifamily broker ($500M career sales), in a long-form deep-dive on how to build a real estate career.
Drew Breneman replays episode 15 with Jim Vozza of CBRE, who works on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae small-balance loans for multifamily properties of five units or more.
Drew Breneman argues that current market conditions are ideal for real estate investing, especially for new or sidelined investors, by sharing personal anecdotes from 2007 and 2009 to demonstrate that good deals exist in any market.
Andrew Dunn (VAC Development) discusses commercial real estate capital raising in a depressed post-COVID market.
Real estate developer Gabe Horstick shares his journey from childhood yearbook prophecy to $130M multifamily portfolio.
Drew Brenneman interviews Steve Cundert about commercial real estate financing in the post-SVB crisis environment.
Drew Brenneman and Tom Stein spend most of Breneman Blueprint: Real Estate and Entrepreneurship Podcast E111 correcting common investor mistakes about depreciation, preferred returns, 1031 exchanges, and passive-loss rules.
Drew Breneman and Jonathan Green use episode 40 of Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing to trace how a teenager who flipped video-game items on eBay got into real estate with a duplex at 19.
Drew Brenneman introduces Taylor Jones, head of acquisitions at Techvestor, which has acquired over 120 Airbnbs in 19 months.
Drew Brenneman and Tom Panos focus on insurance gaps that matter to real estate owners, starting with co-insurance, hail deductibles, water backup, and equipment breakdown.
Jonathan Barr says a few LA duplexes outperformed his share of 400 flips, which pushed him toward holding multifamily instead of just trading houses.
Drew Brenneman says his first deal was a $216,000 duplex and that he now has about $240 million in property, most of it with investors.
Steve Kundert, senior vice president with CBRE’s debt and structured finance group, explains how he places borrowers with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, banks, life companies, CMBS, and debt funds.
Drew Brenneman interviews Giannis Papadakis of Crexie about real estate investment and commercial real estate technology.
Drew Brenneman talks with Tanner Webster about the mechanics of development.
Tyler Lyons joins Drew Brenneman for a grounded conversation about real estate investing.