S7 E7 - Mike Morawski | Creating Wealth & Impact Through Multifamily Investing
Release Date: 12/12/2025
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Is your mindset holding you back from making your first (or next) big real estate deal?
In this episode of Real Returns, hosts Andrew Reichert and Dan Croce sit down with Mike Morawski, a 30-year real estate veteran and author of the Amazon bestseller "Multifamily Investment Secrets," to explore his journey from general contractor to operating over 8,000 multifamily units using creative financing strategies that most investors think are impossible. Mike is also the founder of My Core Intentions, where he helps investors build wealth and create financial freedom by implementing strategic investment and asset management practices. Mike reveals how he's bought everything from 4-unit buildings to 400-unit apartment complexes with little to no money down, the distressed 65-unit deal where the seller held a position at zero interest for 10 years, and why every multifamily investment impacts three distinct groups that most investors completely overlook. From coaching a corporate refugee who scaled to 800+ units in five years to helping a widowed chiropractor build a "$100K club" of investors, Mike shares his philosophy on intentionality, the limiting beliefs that keep investors stuck at their current level, and why changing your story is the first step to changing your results. Learn how win-win deal structures create community-wide impact, why consistent daily action beats occasional heroic effort, and what Mike discovered about himself after losing everything in 2008 and rebuilding into someone who now helps others avoid the same mistakes.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Opening Segment
01:35 - Meet Mike Morawski: 30-Year Real Estate Veteran
02:05 - The Three Ways Real Estate Creates Impact
04:25 - Case Study: The 65-Unit Distressed Property Creative Deal
06:40 - The Three Groups Every Multifamily Deal Impacts
08:10 - My Core Intentions: Why Intentionality Beats Goals
11:05 - The Biggest Misconception: Creative Financing "Can't Be Done"
12:10 - Changing Your Story to Change Your Results
13:40 - Success Story: Small Builder to 171-Unit Developer
14:00 - From 46 Units to 800+ Units in 5 Years
16:15 - The $100K Club Strategy for Raising Capital
17:40 - Losing a $100M Company and the Comeback That Followed
18:25 - Lightning Round: Christmas Vacation, Pasta, and Joe Dispenza
21:20 - How to Connect with Mike
21:50 - Closing Segment
Key Quotes:
"I've bought 4-unit to 400-unit apartment complexes and everything in between using creative financing structures... people have a mindset that it can't be done." - Mike Morawski
Connect with Mike Morawski:
https://mikemorawski.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-morawski/
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