How This 24-Year-Old Owns 100+ Properties (Starting with $0)

Baselane streamlines your business banking and bookkeeping so you can spend less time on admin and more time growing your rentals. Sign up using my link: https://www.baselane.com/upflip and get a $100 cash bonus when you fund your account! #Baselane #BankingwithBaselane At just 24, Josh Janus has built a thriving real estate business managing a $15 million portfolio and generating over $300,000 in monthly revenue — all while running his operations remotely. His journey began modestly as a college student studying engineering and driving for DoorDash, saving up with the goal of buying a duplex to house hack. Everything changed when a BiggerPockets connection led him to a group of successful 20-something real estate investors in Columbus. Inspired by their success, Josh dropped his engineering plans and dove headfirst into real estate investing. His first win? Making $3,000 from a single phone call by connecting an investor with a prime property. But the path wasn't easy. His first 11 deals fell through, and he lost $250,000 to unreliable contractors in his first year. But instead of giving up, Josh built his own 50-person construction team from the ground up. Today, he runs his real estate business entirely remotely, focusing on transforming uninhabitable properties into profitable rentals. In this episode, Josh shares his unique hybrid wholesaling approach, how he scaled from DoorDash driver to real estate mogul, and the systems he built to manage a remote team. Learn how intense dedication (including 100-hour work weeks) and relationship-building became the foundation of his success, and how you can apply these principles to your own real estate journey. Acquire your first cash flowing rental. Get access to Josh’s step-by-step blueprint 👉 https://www.upflip.com/course/how-to-buy-a-house OR… 🎓 Join UpFlip Academy to “copy-paste” the top million-dollar service businesses you can start in weeks and profit from in months - https://links.upflip.com/academy-yt More UpFlip Official Resources: 📕 FREE access to 137 Most Profitable Businesses - https://links.upflip.com/137-business-ideas-yt 🎙️ Follow the UpFlip Podcast - https://links.upflip.com/podcast-yt 📩 Join the UpFlip Newsletter - https://links.upflip.com/newsletter-yt 👉 Connect with Josh - https://joshuajanus.ikeyrealty.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 00:26 - From DoorDash to real estate 00:51 - Buying from foreclosure 01:58 - Condemned property ready for rehab 02:41 - Flip deals and profit 03:12 - Welcome to a 100-year-old house 04:14 - Hold or fold? 04:32 - This duplex isn’t really a duplex 04:56 - The hidden trap 05:41 - What is BRRRR? 06:15 - 100,000 cold calls later… 07:19 - This is how you know it’s a win 08:15 - No $5k? No problem! 10:24 - This right here? Multiple possibilities 10:59 - Portfolio mix 11:42 - Top 3 rookie mistakes 12:28 - Fan blitz 13:21 - Don’t let the numbers fool you 13:57 - “Nothing” could go wrong 14:47 - You feed me loans, I feed you referrals 15:39 - Sourcing strategy 16:35 - Who said you need experience? 17:30 - Time spent on deals 18:53 - Overcoming the biggest challenges 19:33 - How to start with zero of your own money 20:18 - From property to profit: 2 ways 20:50 - Spending energy ONLY where needed 21:27 - Behind the grind 22:15 - Effective remote management 22:48 - Finding rockstars 23:33 - Secret sauce to managing risk and capital 23:49 - In-house vs Contracting 24:37 - Entrepreneurship was always the end game 25:10 - Burning bridges isn’t always smart 26:35 - The one trait every winner has 27:14 - The best “no” ever 28:03 - Setting priorities straight 28:31 - Breaking through bottlenecks 29:19 - Biggest myth 29:39 - Feel the fear, then do it anyway 30:00 - That one guy from New York 30:57 - Solve one problem today, then the next 31:48 - Watch. Replicate. Win. 32:14 - Outro #realestate #realestateinvesting #realestatebusiness