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October 21, 2025 β€’ 36 mins

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Jeremy Beland's journey is absolutely incredible and proves that your starting point doesn't determine your destination in real estate investing. Born to a single mother on welfare, bouncing between homeless shelters, Jeremy dropped out of high school and spent his early twenties hanging off skyscrapers as a window cleaner making just twenty four thousand dollars per year. But this is where the story gets really good and why you need to hear every detail of what happened next.

FROM SIX FIGURES TO FORECLOSURE πŸ“‰

After clawing his way up to a six figure sales career by his early thirties, Jeremy thought he had finally made it in life. He had the house, the pool, the camper, and two young kids. Then the 2008 recession hit like a freight train and humbled him quickly. The house went underwater by one hundred fifty thousand dollars, employment opportunities dried up completely, and Jeremy found himself facing foreclosure and bankruptcy with no way out. The depression became so severe that he contemplated suicide as history seemed to repeat itself from his childhood.

THE TURNING POINT AT 40 πŸ”„

Here's where Jeremy's story becomes a masterclass in resilience and reinvention. At age thirty three, he joined the Air Force to get network security training while his recruiter buddies nicknamed him Gramps because he was training alongside seventeen year olds. After serving and getting divorced, Jeremy found himself approaching forty years old, back in a six figure sales job, but feeling vulnerable and trapped in the golden handcuffs of corporate America. That's when he made the boldest move of his life by selling his townhouse for seventeen thousand dollars in equity, moving himself and his kids into a cramped two bedroom apartment, and investing five thousand dollars into a wholesaling coaching program with Tom Kroll.

NINE YEARS TO TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS πŸ’°

The results speak for themselves and show what's possible when you commit fully to mastering off market acquisitions. Jeremy closed his first five thousand dollar wholesale deal in March 2017 and never looked back. Fast forward nine years and he's approaching five hundred off market property acquisitions with twelve million dollars in total profits generated. His business evolved from pure wholesaling to becoming what he calls an off market specialist, using strategies including traditional wholesaling, buy and hold rentals, BRRRR method deals, novations, and creative financing when appropriate.

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