From 1 to 850+ Rentals in 7 Years; Real Estate Mogul Reveals his Secrets with Aaron Amuchastegui

**Brad Weimert** (0:02)
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This week, we have Aaron Amuchastegui. He is a good friend with 850 single family homes, several software companies, and he's gone to zero twice in his entrepreneurial career. This is an awesome episode with lots of big takeaways and some really tactical advice for investing in real estate. If you are an entrepreneur at all, which I assume you are if you're listening, you're going to love this one. Aaron Amuchastegui, it took me more than a couple of years to figure out how to say your last name.

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (1:13)
Dude, I love that you nailed it though. Like the, I get, I have close friends that still aren't even close every time they do it. It's hilarious.

**Brad Weimert** (1:20)
Well, I get Weimert a lot. Yeah. Yep. That's the common one. And you know, what are you going to do?

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (1:26)
But also like a little like early business tip, right? When people do say it right, I know they've done their homework, right? I know they've like practiced and looked at it. So they're instantly if they go, Oh, you're Aaron Amuchastegui. Like they're instantly going to get a little bit extra of my attention.

**Brad Weimert** (1:41)
Totally.

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (1:41)
Because I know it took some effort. And it was like something that was important to them and they want to say it right.

**Brad Weimert** (1:45)
So I love that, man. Well, let's talk about business. So I know you through really real estate friends and some very close ones. I want to get, give me some stats on kind of your real estate world today, because I think that's helpful for context, and then we'll back up and lead into it.

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (2:07)
Yeah. And I think for all, you know, for everybody getting to listen and get to watch this, the Brad and I are both super, I'm super excited because you and I don't get to chat often enough.

**Brad Weimert** (2:16)
Yeah.

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (2:16)
Like we never get to like sit down and actually like chat for an hour. We get to see each other in slower parts. So this was like a great opportunity. So everybody's getting like this backstage, you know, past the two friends hanging out, getting to share stuff we haven't got to share before.

**Brad Weimert** (2:29)
Yes, totally.

**Aaron Amuchastegui** (2:30)
Because you're like, hey, I know your story. Yeah. If we're going to just fast forward to today, which most people are like, they look and they, how is that attainable? So like real estate, I own about 850 rentals around Austin, Texas that are single family, like 20% of those, I own just me and my wife. The others we own with investors. I've got like a giant apartment complex.
I recently built like a storage, a climate controlled storage in Michigan, and then have some software companies. And so like my software companies are all real estate related, but they kind of help people buy software and help people buy foreclosures by real estate, things like that. So it's like software that I built for me, and now we like sell to the masses. And so now I've got four or five different companies that are all in that similar space. But it was really cool, like 2020 when COVID hit, and like one of the companies gets shut down, the other four were fine, getting to see. And it's nice to go, wow, I've established something pretty incredible now, and I get to stay grateful for it. But yeah, it seems like for people, when they first hear that, sometimes people like turn off, oh, that can never be me. But I want to say like seven years ago I was broke. So I was at zero again. I had reset, I've got reset a few times. So seven years ago I was broke, now have, knock on wood. I don't think I can go, who knows, right? But I think I've now set up enough of established businesses that I'm okay for the future.