Chad Yesilova

Real estate investor and operator on a mission to $100M AUM. 30+ properties | 150+ doors | $6M AUM. Australian in Miami. Documenting the whole journey.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

I sold my mom's cakes at school just to buy lunch.

By 13 I was building computers. By 25 I had raised $15M in stocks.

The GFC took it all back.

20 years across multiple industries taught me one thing.

You need a foundation first.

Now I am building $100M in cash flowing real estate.
30+ properties. 150+ doors. $6M AUM. Miami.

This is the journey. Follow along.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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[America News @AmericaPartyX]

🚨 ELON MUSK ON HIS BEST IDEA EVER

When asked what his best idea ever was, Elon answered simply:

Coming to North America.

“I think these things would not have been accomplished almost anywhere else.

It’s really hard to start a company, but particularly in California. Silicon Valley is very conducive to startup companies.

Whenever I would read books in South Africa, it would seem like the cutting edge of technology was in Silicon Valley. So that is where I wanted to come.

I wanted to move to that mythical place.”

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

A loving, supporting wife, 4 kids, weekly date night, quality time every other night while walking the dog 🐶 quarterly getaway ✈️🏝️

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

The question I ask whenever I’m straining for extended periods is, “What would this look like if it were easy?”

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

Buy a house, cover maintenance and property taxes using the right strategy, in my case using the Coliving cashflow method. Then enjoy the 7% growth.

Single family homes are to be used as a stepping stone, into commercial and larger asset classes.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

I found myself focusing on what’s missing when this popped up in my feed. I instantly reverted to what I have, and gratitude for what I have. It made me instantly smile 😀

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

I aim to exercise my creativity and courage muscle on a daily basis so I can get better at solving problems

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The average person does not try to solve their problems or struggles. They get stuck in a routine and live the same day over and over. It does not cross their minds to snap out of it, engage in strategic thinking, and change direction so they can eventually reach a more advantageous position in life.

If you want to get ahead of 90% of people, all you have to do is pause, think, and actually attempt to overcome the struggle you're faced with.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Most anxiety comes from trying to manage outcomes.

Leaders focus on managing actions.
The outcomes usually take care of themselves.

[West Lord @MyWestLord]

Bill Gates went on Letterman in 1995 to explain the internet and the whole room laughed at him.

He was 40 years old, worth $15 billion, the richest man alive.

Dave asked what the internet actually was.

Gates said people publish there, send electronic mail, find others who share their interests.

Dave called it the troubled loner chat room and the crowd roared.

Gates said you could hear a baseball game on your computer whenever you wanted.

Dave asked if radio rang a bell, then if tape recorders rang a bell.

More laughter while Gates just smiled and waited.

He had spent 20 years building toward 1 sentence a computer on every desk and in every home and he was already living in a 50,000 square foot house with screens on every wall pulling up any painting on command.

The audience heard a rich weirdo describing 2026.

Near the end Dave asked if there was another level coming, something nobody had imagined yet.

Gates went quiet, then said maybe someday computers could think, but it was a very tough problem with almost no progress, and some believed it would never happen.

Dave grinned we don’t want them to think, do we.

That was the only thing Gates got wrong that night.

30 years later every joke in that clip runs your life.

The internet won, baseball streams, and the computers think.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

@yxssxn Yep!

[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

Former SpaceX Head of Talent : I think Elon is smarter than Einstein.

"One way we explained the SpaceX culture, in order to be honest with people, was this:

SpaceX is like special forces. We take on missions that others consider impossible. This will be the hardest thing you ever do in your life.

It attracts the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, but in engineering. It will be bruising, punishing, and uncomfortable every day.

Growth is not comfortable. If you are comfortable, you are probably not growing. To work for Elon is to be comfortable living in a constant state of discomfort.

He has 10,000 times more going through his brain than the average person at any given moment. Our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works.

Elon aspires to be the greatest engineer in the history of the world. He has the cognitive horsepower of the geniuses who came before us.

But he is not Einstein, is he?

I think he is smarter than Einstein."

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

💯 the steps in between create the SOPs, team, critical tasks, KPIs, experience

[Ken McElroy @kenmcelroy]

Everyone wants to skip to the 32 unit deal.

That's exactly how new investors get wrecked.

One house teaches you tenants, banks, insurance, loss.

Two houses teaches you something different.

By the time you get to unit thirty two, one vacancy does not sink you, because you already learned what sinks people.

Skip that process and you are not an investor yet. You are just exposed.

Master stage one before you touch stage two.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

Carl Icahn told Larry Fink to his face that BlackRock is "an extremely dangerous company" - then told Wall Street "the mafia has a better code of ethics than you guys"

this is him explaining why BlackRock is pushing the economy off a cliff, why Wall Street keeps selling junk to the middle class, and what 50 years on Wall Street taught him about what's coming next

"BlackRock is an extremely dangerous company. people are buying these bonds not understanding what they're buying"

"the mafia has a better code of ethics than you guys. you're selling this crap and you keep selling it and you're shorting some of it"

"they're all on this party, having a drink, having fun, pushing this thing toward a cliff. you know what's going to destroy it? they're going to hit a Black Rock"

"I've been around a long time. I saw it in '69, '74, '79, '87, 2000. I think a time is coming that might make some of those times look pretty good"

bookmark & watch the full conversation ↓

[America News @AmericaPartyX]

🚨 ELON MUSK ON HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR

“Drive overrides fear. I feel fear quite strongly. But if what I’m doing is important enough, then I just override the fear.”

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

My friend built a property management company from 0 → 700 units (millions in revenue).

I sat with him to learn how he scaled it, and how I could copy it:

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

"Liberals are basically retarded, but we’re too nice to say it."

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

Here is my checklist of AI that I will continue to be geeking out on as I furiously innovate and implement

Here’s the list of 135 mind-blowing AI tools:
1. Ideas: Claude, ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Perplexity, Copilot
2. Website: Dora, 10Web, Framer, Unicorn, Style AI
3. Writing: Jasper, HIX AI, Longshot, Textblaze, Jenny AI
4. Meeting: Tldv, Krisp, Otter, Fathom, Sembly AI
5. Chatbot: Droxy, Chatbase, Chatsimple, CustomGPT, Mutual info
6. Automation: Make, Zapier, Xembly, Bardeen, Levity
7. UI/UX: Figma, UiMagic, Uizard, InstantAI, Penpot
8. Image: Dreamina AI, Leap AI, Midjourney, Stability AI, Fotor
9. Video: Dreamina AI, HeyGen, InVideo, Eightify, Morphstudio xyz
12. Audio: Lovo ai, Eleven labs, Songburst AI, Adobe Podcast, Resemble AI
13. Presentation: Decktopus, Slides AI, Pitch, Designs AI, Beautiful AI
14. SEO: VidIQ, Seona AI, BlogSEO, Keywrds ai, Semrush
15. Design: Canva, Flair AI, Designify, Clipdrop, Magician design
16. Logo Generator: Looka, Designs AI, Brandmark, Stocking AI, Namecheap
17. Prompts:FlowGPT, Alicent AI, PromptBox, Promptbase, Snack Prompt
18. Productivity: Merlin, Tinywow, Notion AI, Adobe Sensei, Personal AI
19. Marketing: Pencil, Ai-Ads, AdCopy, Simplified, AdCreative
20. Twitter: Typefully, Tweetlify, Tapilo, Hypefury, TweetHunter

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

I tackle problems by choosing a bigger problem to tackle. It converts the struggle to inspiration

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Your struggles aren’t the problem. The delusion that you can escape them is.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Whatever you do, don’t be the guy who gives up at the exact moment when you should be fighting with everything you have.

You’ll make it through either way, but there’s only one way you’ll look back and be proud of yourself.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

This is an effective ad for Florida real estate. Expect increasing demand 📈

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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[Chad Yesilova @chadyesilova]

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