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Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene

Writer

Aug 25, 2026

4:47
What are you seeing them do with it? Are you seeing any trends? Are they staying put, using it to buy a rental, a vacation home? Any trends you're noticing?
4:59
I would like it if they did the last one because I think it's a great option, but a couple of things on the equity.
5:04
One thing that I think is really important is to not use all of your equity.
5:09
The most important things that if you're up 200,000, you only use 100,000 of that equity.
5:14
Maybe it's for a home renovation that is then going to increase the value of the home.
5:18
And then maybe later, you can do a refinance.
5:20
You're going to get a little extra.

6 MINS LATER

11:20
Why long term?
7:33
And what did you find worked well for you to chill the hell out?
7:39
Yeah, well, it's a quick story.
7:41
I was about eight years ago, I was still investing.
7:45
I was running a big real estate team.
7:47
I have my own brokerage as well.
7:50
And I was at the table with my kids and the phone rang.
7:53
It was a seller.
11:49
So tell me a little bit about how that came to be and what your goal is with the show.
11:46
So talk about money mindsets, like both in parents and what is a, you think a healthy mindset and how do you kind of instill that in your teen?
11:57
Yeah, I think it's tough.
11:58
I mean, I think it's tough because if you go down the wrong rabbit hole as a child researching something that you're interested in money, you can take a wrong turn and the algorithms will just keep feeding you that same wrong turn.
12:11
Again, that's why the parent child relationship is.
12:14
I mean, I think healthy money is knowing that you can't spend it all and that you want to take as little leverage as possible.
12:22
I think loaning your kids' money, I'm totally in favor of an allowance, but if there was ever a time where a kid said, well, I really want to get this game, then I would start talking about loans and how that works on a very, very small scale.
12:35
Well, you get $10 a week.

13 MINS LATER

25:32
So what do you think about budgets and teens or teaching kids about budgets?
18:23
How did it go with you and your siblings inheriting a whole bunch of commercial real estate?
18:27
Yeah, well, first, I completely agree with you.
18:29
And I think it's almost sad.
18:31
I think that a lot of kids don't want their parents' businesses, first of all, but they definitely don't want these real estate assets because they don't know how to manage them.
18:39
And they don't even know how to manage the managers.
18:42
And, you know, a lot of mom and pop owners of all commercial are, you know, chicken scratch on a pad type of, you know, P&L.
18:49
So I can understand that.

16 MINS LATER

35:04
What do you actually look for? So it's not IRR, but what are you actually measuring for if something's a good investment or not?

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