HeyJaredBeyond The Build with Wendell Butler
Beyond the Build is where real entrepreneurship lives. The wins, the hard lessons, the strategies, and the life you are building behind the business.Hosted by Wendell Butler, military veteran, real estate investor, and operator. No fluff. No filters.
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13. Sub-To Is a Ticking Risk (Banks Want Their Loans Back) (opens the original)
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This episode breaks down subject-to (sub-to) real estate, the good and the bad, and why building a whole portfolio on it is a bigger gamble than most people admit. Sub-to gets pitched as a way to get into deals with little money down, no bank approval, and a rate you can't get anymore. Most of that is true. But the people teaching it tend to skip the risks: the due-on-sale clause, the seller's credit tied up in the loan, escrow jumps, exit problems, and the chance that laws tighten once enough b
12. Why This Market Is So Hard (And Why You Can't Quit) (opens the original)
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This episode is a straight-talk look at where the real estate market and the economy actually are right now, with no guru energy and no pretending it's easier than it is. Sellers are still anchored to COVID-era prices and locked into low interest rates. Wholesalers are sending over deals that don't work, and fix-and-flippers are overpaying just to keep the lights on. Rentals are hard to cash flow, and even new construction is taking a hit on the exit. This episode breaks down why the market is l
11. Why Everyone Is Wrong About BRRRRs (opens the original)
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This episode breaks down why the BRRRR method isn't the infinite-money cheat code social media makes it out to be, and what's actually true about it in today's market. Buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat sounds simple, but the people selling courses on it aren't talking about the deals that blow up. Most locations right now just don't pencil for a true BRRRR the way they did in 2020-2022, and the ones who were actually doing it have slowed way down. That doesn't mean the strategy is dead, it jus
10. Don't Buy Land Until You Check This (opens the original)
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This episode breaks down exactly what it takes to go from flipping and renting to building from the ground up. New development gives way more flexibility than buying an existing asset, and the numbers tend to stay far more predictable than a fix and flip. But almost all the real work happens before you ever close on the land. Inside this episode: the front-end checklist for location, comps, topography, and utilities... zoning, entitlements, setbacks, and height limits... realistic permitting tim
9. You're Not Behind, You're Just Distracted (opens the original)
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In this episode, I get real about something almost every entrepreneur deals with: comparing yourself to other people and feeling like you're behind. I break down why that comparison trap is mostly built on a lie, why social media only shows the highlight reel (never the maxed-out credit cards or the deals that fell apart), and why there's no such thing as a "timeline" for success. I also talk about why comparing your 2 years in the game to someone else's 10 is never a fair fight, why a little lu
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