Episode Details

Jens Nielsen left a 25-year IT career and went from 40-unit goal to managing 2,700 units — here's the exact path he took to scale commercial real estate.

In this episode of RealDealChat, Jack Hoss sits down with Jens Nielsen — a former IT professional turned commercial real estate investor and high-performance coach — to break down how he went from a linear 10-year plan to managing over 2,700 units across multifamily, industrial, and flex space.

Jens covers:

• How he started with a fourplex for $115K and scaled from there
• Why he ditched single-family immediately and went straight to small multifamily
• The mindset shift that unlocked syndications and other people's money
• Why he pivoted from apartments to industrial and flex space when rates rose
• How the EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) helped him manage a vertically integrated property management company
• The bridge loan mistake he'll never repeat — and what he does instead
• How high-performance coaching helped him earn more in his first year out of his W2 than ever before
• Why he believes we'll all wish we bought more real estate in 2026

This one is for investors who are still thinking one deal at a time and need to see what happens when you stop thinking linearly.

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