The Wealth Clock Podcast — Real Estate, Passive Income, and Wealth Strategies with Steven Weinstock

Rent an apartment for 5 years and you walk away with nothing. Buy a manufactured home instead and Andrew Cramer says you can end up with about $55,000. In this episode, the founder of Bridgeview Asset Management explains the math, and why manufactured housing keeps getting left out of the affordable housing conversation. Andrew Cramer founded Bridgeview Asset Management in 2011. Since then the fir...

He was 26, a former Marine Corps Captain with an 18 month old at home, when his wife had triplets. Four kids under two, and his financial advisor's advice was to max out his 401k and fund some 529 plans. That answer wasn't good enough for him. So Dave Wolcott spent the next 20 years studying how ultra wealthy families actually structure their money, and built Pantheon Investments, a virtua...

Luis Frias sold houses for other people. Then he stopped, and started buying multifamily property instead. In this episode of The Wealth Clock, Steven Weinstock sits down with Luis Frias, Founder and Principal of CalTex Capital Group in San Antonio, Texas. Luis started in real estate in 2015 as an agent working alongside his mother's team, moved into commercial brokerage almost by accident after a...

Pedro Bermudez left a corporate career and built an Amazon FBA ecommerce business to $2,000,000 in revenue in his first year, without ever picking, packing, or shipping a single product himself. On this episode of The Wealth Clock with Steven Weinstock, Pedro breaks down exactly how he did it, and how he later built a second $2,000,000 a year business, this time as a personal brand on LinkedIn. Pe...

For weeks, Sandy Weill's only client was his own mother. He was a terrible salesman. What he was good at was spotting good businesses hiding inside bad ones, and that instinct built one of the largest financial empires in American history. Twice. In this episode of The Wealth Clock, Steven Weinstock tells the full story: the acquisition machine that built Shearson, the fallout that got Weill pushe...

Muriel Touati runs a full digital marketing agency and built a LinkedIn training system with over 120 documented success stories, and on this episode of The Wealth Clock with Steven Weinstock she breaks down her actual content strategy, the mistake most founders make with their own marketing, and how she turns LinkedIn and email into a real client acquisition engine. Muriel is the founder of Murie...

Harry Helmsley never finished high school. He grew up in the Bronx, son of a wholesale dry goods buyer, dropped out of Evander Childs High School, and started his real estate career at sixteen as an office boy at a small Manhattan firm — a job he got because his grandfather made a phone call. By the time Harry Helmsley died in January 1997 at eighty-seven, Forbes ranked him the 67th richest person...

Fred Trump controlled over 27,000 apartments across Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, testified before the U.S. Senate about his FHA-backed financing, and quietly funded a synagogue for Holocaust survivors for 48 years. Decades before his son Donald Trump became President, Fred was the anonymous landlord behind a famous name. Full episode transcript below. --- Somewhere in Brooklyn or Queens ri...

One family controlled more office space in New York City than the Rockefellers — and it almost never happened. Paul Reichmann's family escaped Nazi-annexed Austria in 1938 for one reason: they were out of the country the exact day Hitler invaded, visiting Paul's grandfather after he'd just suffered a stroke. Decades later, Paul Reichmann built Olympia and York into one of the largest real estate e...

Andrew Izyumov, a former Goldman Sachs principal investing director, breaks down how his company 8FIGURES is building an AI investment team and net worth tracker to give private investors the kind of portfolio management that used to be reserved for institutions. Andrew Izyumov spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs, starting as an intern in 2009 in the middle of the financial crisis and working his...

Everyone knows Fred Wilpon as the longtime owner of the New York Mets. Almost nobody knows the real source of his fortune: Sterling Equities, the commercial real estate company he co-founded with brother-in-law Saul Katz in 1972, which went on to develop more than 17 million square feet of commercial property, 45,000 residential units, and 8.5 million square feet of retail space. This episode trac...

Somewhere in Manhattan right now, you're standing near a building this family owns — including a piece of land under the World Trade Center itself. Combined, they're worth more than $12,000,000,000, making them the richest real estate family in America. And yet their company doesn't even have a website. Sol Goldman started as a grocer's son in Brooklyn. At just 16 years old, in the middle of the G...

To finish one mall, a family once put up nearly half their ownership stake in two other malls as collateral. Not small malls either, the largest shopping center in Canada, and the largest shopping center in the United States, both pledged to Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase just to complete a single project in the New Jersey swamps outside Manhattan. In this Deep Dive episode of The Wealth Clock P...

In 1992, Blackstone recruited a young real estate executive to build and run their entire real estate business. They agreed on terms. Then, at the last minute, he walked away. That man built a rival empire instead, one that today manages well over $100,000,000,000 in real estate assets. In this Deep Dive episode of The Wealth Clock Podcast, I trace how Barry Sternlicht, the son of a Jewish Holocau...

You've driven past one this week without a second thought, a long row of orange or blue roll up doors sitting off the highway. The company that basically invented that industry, Public Storage, is worth nearly $20,000,000,000 on the public markets today. The man who built it grew up poor in the middle of the Dust Bowl, in Oklahoma, started with roughly $50,000, and almost nobody outside real...

In 1999, the man who built his fortune on 5 dollar stuffed animals paid $275,000,000 in cash for one of the most prestigious hotels in New York City. Most people who grew up collecting Beanie Babies have no idea their creator, Ty Warner, quietly built one of the most exclusive private real estate portfolios in the world, and is worth an estimated $6,400,000,000 today. In this Deep Dive episode of...

In January of 2003, a hedge fund manager named Eddie Lampert was kidnapped from a parking garage in Greenwich, Connecticut, and held for 28 hours by four men who didn't even have a real plan to collect the ransom. He survived. Then he went on to buy one of the most iconic retailers in American history, not because he believed in the stores, but because he believed in the real estate underneath the...

In 1946, a real estate broker with no institutional backing and no family fortune quietly assembled six blocks of Manhattan waterfront on a hunch. When the United Nations came looking for a home, he had exactly what they needed. He sold the land to John D. Rockefeller Jr. for $8,500,000, and the deal made him famous. Nineteen years later, his company filed for bankruptcy, and the man who reshaped...

Ryan Chaw spent years as an infectious disease and pediatric pharmacist, the kind of career most people spend a lifetime building. In 2016 he bought his first rental in Stockton, California for $262,000, and instead of renting it the traditional way, he split it into bedrooms and rented to college students. That single shift nearly doubled his rental income. It was not smooth. His very first deal...

What does it really take to build meaningful relationships between real estate operators and investors? In this episode of The Wealth Clock Podcast, Steven Weinstock sits down with Aleksey Chernobelskiy, CEO and Co Founder of GP LP Match, to discuss how the capital raising landscape has evolved and why authentic networking consistently outperforms cold outreach. Before founding GP LP Match, Alekse...

Everyone wants higher returns. Very few investors spend enough time thinking about risk. In this episode of The Wealth Clock Podcast, Stephen Weinstock sits down with Nathan Jameson, Founder and Managing Partner of Arx Capital, to discuss why disciplined operators continue to outperform through changing market cycles. Nathan shares lessons from helping scale a national homebuilder from $30 million...

Most investors are drowning in information. News alerts. Social media opinions. AI generated stock picks. Endless market predictions. But according to Eric Chu, CFA, the problem isn't a lack of information. It's a lack of a repeatable system. In this episode of The Wealth Clock, Steven Weinstock sits down with Eric Chu, CEO and Co Founder of Tradesk, to discuss how investors can make sma...

Steve Lawson spent nearly 30 years helping people invest before realizing that many traditional wealth building strategies were not creating financial freedom. After working as a financial advisor and helping people invest in real estate, Steve shifted his focus toward cash flow, diversification, and passive income. Within five years, he built more than $30,000 per month in passive income and foun...

What if you never had to rely on banks again to fund your real estate deals? In this episode of The Wealth Clock, Steven Weinstock sits down with private money expert Jay Conner to break down exactly how real estate investors can raise millions in private capital using relationships, education, and simple systems. Jay shares how the 2008 financial crisis forced him to pivot away from traditional l...

Are you an owner-operator or a true investor? 🏗️🛡️ In this episode of The Wealth Clock , host Steven Weinstock sits down with Tyrus Shivers , CEO of Legacy Wealth Capital Group and a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Tyrus shares his incredible journey from growing up on dirt roads in Alabama to building a property management empire that scaled to 200+ units and $1.2M in revenue in just 18 months. Tyrus bre...