David Pere
David Pere has been a guest on Collecting Keys, the real estate investing podcast hosted by Mike DeHaan, Dan Austin and Dylan Koch.
Buying Hotel's and Playing in Missle Silo's with Military to Millionaire, David Pere
David Pere of From Military to Millionaire joins Mike and Dan to talk about how he went from a broke enlisted Marine to a buy-and-hold investor across single families, a 40-unit hotel and RV park, and syndication LP positions. He explains how he now earns finder's fees for connecting money partners with deal finders, why he delegates everything outside his visionary role, and shares the costs and headaches of repeated tenant deaths across his portfolio.
Key takeaways
- David's start was a VA-style house hack on a duplex after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, then years of high-leverage, creative financing because he had no cash or net worth.
- A finder's role can be real equity: he connected a friend with an RV park deal to another friend with $100K, made intros to his asset protection attorney and lender, and ended up with 10% of a 45/45/10 split.
- Providing access to lenders who will finance odd assets (RV parks, hotels) is genuinely valuable for newer investors who can't get a lender to return a call.
- Use procrastination as a delegation signal — from 'Who Not How,' if you keep pushing something off, you either dislike it or aren't good at it, so hand it off (he recorded a Loom to give bookkeeping prep to his assistant).