“I didn’t inherit this. I built it—one calculated risk at a time.”

In 2012, I came home from the Army with $4,000 in savings and a $20,000 truck loan. No connections. No handouts. Just discipline, urgency, and an obsession with building something real.

While most people were chasing paychecks, I was chasing leverage — not financial debt, but time, value, and scale. I bought my first property when everyone else was renting. I flipped houses when the market was uncertain. I built businesses when it would’ve been easier to take a job. And I reinvested everything — again and again — into assets that produced income and grew in value.

Today, I control over $30 million in real estate.

In less than three years, I’ve grown my net worth by more than $10 million.

I’ve built, bought, and stabilized commercial centers, offices, and mixed-use properties that now generate over $800,000 per year in cash flow. And that’s just the beginning. ~Mike Hendzel