How to Stop Carrying Real Estate Risk and Still Make Money w/ Scott Jelinek
Release Date: 01/22/2026
High Income, No Tax Advantage: The Wealth Problem Pilots and High Earners Need to Solve w/ Ryan Gibson
Money School Elite
Most high-income W-2 earners eventually run into the same problem. Their income gets better, but their structure does not. Airline pilots are one of the clearest examples. They can earn exceptional money, receive strong retirement contributions, and build what looks like a very successful financial life on paper. But as the income grows, so does the constraint: almost all of it is active, highly taxable, and tied to a system that gives them very few levers to pull. And pilots are not the only ones facing this. Doctors, executives, engineers, senior tech employees, corporate leaders, and...
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How to Beat Big Capital at the Bitcoin Mining Game w/ Beau Turner
Money School Elite
Most investors assume there are only two practical ways to approach Bitcoin: buy it directly and accept the volatility, or avoid it because it does not fit the framework that built their wealth. But Bitcoin mining introduces a different conversation. For most people, mining sounds too technical, too operationally complex, or too institutional to be a serious investment strategy. Servers, power, cooling, maintenance, custody, and infrastructure all make it feel out of reach for anyone who does not want to become a full-time operator. Beau Turner has built a model that changes that. Through...
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Outgrowing Your Accountant: The Tax Problem Business Owners Miss w/ Boris Musheyev
Money School Elite
Most business owners do not realize they have outgrown their accountant until the tax bill becomes impossible to ignore. The person who helped you when the business was small may have been perfectly fine at that stage. But as revenue, profit, assets, investments, and complexity grow, tax preparation is no longer enough. At a certain point, the business does not just need someone to file the return. It needs real tax planning. In this episode of Money School Elite, I sit down with Boris Musheyev, a tax strategist who works with seven-figure and multi-seven-figure business owners, to talk about...
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Wholesaling Isn’t Just A Beginner Real Estate Strategy w/ Chris Logan
Money School Elite
Most investors think wholesaling is just the entry-level side of real estate. At the strategic level, the better conversation is about deal flow. Because in a market where seller motivation is rising, buyers are more selective, and many casual wholesalers have left the business, the opportunity is different from what it was a few years ago. The edge is not simply finding properties. It is knowing how to identify distress, control the contract, understand buyer demand, and move before the rest of the market sees the opportunity. That is where wholesaling becomes more interesting than most...
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The Difference Between Watching Stocks and Owning Businesses
Money School Elite
In today’s market, investors with real capital are facing a difficult problem. They do not want to be reckless. Equities feel expensive, private credit has shown signs of stress, rates remain elevated, and the usual recession signals have been flashing for longer than many expected. But they also do not want to hide in safety so long that they give up years of compounding. That is where the conversation around risk has to get more precise. The question is not simply whether to be in or out of the market. It is how to structure capital so you can stay rational, preserve optionality, and...
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The Tax Credit Hidden Inside Your Business Improvements w/ Derick Van Ness
Money School Elite
For many business owners, one of the biggest missed wealth opportunities may already be sitting inside the business. Technology upgrades, software implementation, equipment, and operational improvements. These are the kinds of investments owners are already making to grow, modernize, and stay competitive. But in many cases, they may not just be expenses or deductions. They may create R&D tax credits. A deduction lowers taxable income. A credit can reduce taxes dollar for dollar. For an owner with meaningful income, that is not a small accounting detail. It is capital that can stay inside...
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The Private Real Estate Reset Wealthy Investors Need to Understand w/ Michael Pouliot
Money School Elite
Most investors think real estate performance comes down to the asset. At the high-net-worth level, the more important conversation is often about control. Because a deal is not just a building, a market, or a projected return. It is an operating system. Who manages the property? Who controls leasing, maintenance, marketing, resident communication, and costs at the asset level? Who can make decisions quickly when the market tightens, and the assumptions in the original deck no longer hold? That is where real estate investing starts to look very different. A lot of investors were comfortable...
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The Private Equity Play Hidden Inside Franchising w/ Scott Jones
Money School Elite
Most people think franchising is about income replacement. At the high-net-worth level, the real conversation is about enterprise value. Because the operators who approach franchising seriously are not just trying to buy themselves a business. They are thinking about cash flow, unit economics, operational infrastructure, EBITDA growth, private equity demand, and whether the business can eventually become attractive to a larger buyer. And once you understand that, the way you evaluate franchising starts to change. Most franchise buyers don’t miss the opportunity because they fail to...
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Wealth Lessons From the Hilton Dynasty | Why Their Money Has Lasted So Long w/ Mark Miller
Money School Elite
Most investors think wealth preservation is about performance. At the high-net-worth level, the real conversation is about structure. Because the families that keep wealth across generations are not just trying to get better returns. They are thinking about education, tax strategy, access, capital protection, charitable planning, and the systems required to make wealth last beyond one person’s lifetime. And once you understand that, the way you evaluate wealth starts to change. Most successful investors don’t lose wealth because they have never learned how to make money. They lose it...
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What Wealthy People Do After the Obvious Tax Strategies Run Out w/ Michael Malloy
Money School Elite
If you think life insurance is about protection, you’ll miss what it can do at a high net worth level. For wealthy investors, business owners, and families with meaningful assets, the question is not just where to invest. It is where long-term capital should sit, how it should be owned, how it should grow, how private it should remain, and how efficiently it can move to the next generation. That is where Private Placement Life Insurance, or PPLI, changes the conversation. Most investors dismiss life insurance because they think they already understand it. They picture ordinary...
info_outlineMost investors never question the hierarchy they’re operating in. They borrow money, take on operational risk, manage tenants, absorb volatility, and send a large portion of every payment upstream to the lender.
If something breaks, if a tenant stops paying, if the market turns—the obligation to the bank doesn’t change.
This is the Mr. Burns model: the banks sit at the top of the building collecting checks, while everyone else does the work below.
The slow flip model flips that hierarchy entirely. Instead of rehabbing properties or betting on appreciation, the investor becomes the lender. Short-term private money is used to acquire low-dollar properties, then paid off quickly through long-term owner financing.
For the first few years, the deal feels tight. Cash flow is modest. But once the private capital is gone, the asset is owned free and clear—and the payments keep coming for decades. No leverage. No refinancing risk. No dependency on market timing.
What makes this approach powerful isn’t just the math, though the math is staggering. It’s the positioning. Ultra-affordable housing behaves differently from traditional rentals. Demand doesn’t disappear in downturns. People can always move down in price—but there’s a floor they can’t go below. And by structuring the deal as the bank, the investor removes themselves from the operational chaos that destroys so many otherwise “good” deals.
In this episode, we sit down with Scott, a real estate investor who’s been in the game since the 1990s, got crushed in the 2008 collapse, and rebuilt with a model explicitly designed to survive the next downturn.
We talk about why slow flips aren’t about patience for patience’s sake, how amortization quietly creates generational cash flow, and why the investors who win long term are usually the ones willing to give up speed early in exchange for control later.
About Our Guest
Scott Jelinek is an entrepreneur, coach, full-time real estate investor, and author of The Art of the Slow Flip. He has been investing in real estate since 1994 and has completed well over six hundred deals, continuing to be a leader in the industry. He has owned and operated a wide variety of businesses, from tanning salons to hot dog shops--all while buying, selling, and renting properties. Today, Scott uses his knowledge and experience to coach other real estate investors. Over 15 years, Scott built a rental portfolio of more than 100 properties. On paper, it looked like success. In reality, it was constant tenant issues, mounting repairs, and growing leverage. By 2008, he was $1.3 million in debt and ultimately lost more than 55 properties to foreclosure. That experience forced a hard reset and led him to abandon traditional rentals in favor of what he later named the Slow Flip model: selling low-cost homes on terms and holding the paper. Since then, Scott has completed hundreds of slow flips, building long-term cash flow without tenants, repairs, or property management, and now focuses on helping other investors escape the operational grind of real estate. To learn more or buy the book, go to https://www.slowflip.com/.
About Your Host
From pro-snowboarder to money mogul, Chris Naugle has dedicated his life to being America’s #1 Money Mentor. With a core belief that success is built not by the resources you have, but by how resourceful you can be. Chris has built and owned 19 companies, with his businesses being featured in Forbes, ABC, House Hunters, and his very own HGTV pilot in 2018. He is the founder of The Money School™ and Money Mentor for The Money Multiplier.
His success also includes managing tens of millions of dollars in assets in the financial services and advisory industry and in real estate transactions. As an innovator and visionary in wealth-building and real estate, he empowers entrepreneurs, business owners, and real estate investors with the knowledge of how money works.
Chris is also a nationally recognized speaker, author, and podcast host. He has spoken to and taught over ten thousand Americans, delivering the financial knowledge that fuels lasting freedom.
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