Multiply Your Success with Dr. Tom DuFore
Aug 17, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
Have you thought about the different levels or financial floors you might hit as an owner of your business? Our guest today is Lane Kawaoka, who shares with us what he has learned on his ownership and…
Lane KawaokaGuestTom DuForeHostTake us through the Wealth Elevator and these different floors and concepts that you just started getting into a little bit there.

You barely see it on mine, right? But that's the basement level in the Wealth Elevator.

But, you know, I think these are the books that Dave Ramsey, Cesar Orman writes their books for, right? Most people out there earn credit card debt.

Don't listen to me if you're in that category, right? There's so many other resources.

Where I kind of pick things up is when I started to, you know, take me when I graduated college, I had a good paying job.

was able to save $25,000, $50,000 or more a year, and I went and bought rental properties.

And it's not a get-rich-quick scheme because it took me a long time, right? From 2009 to 2015, buying 11 rental properties, it was kind of a slow trudge at that point.

But anybody who's built anything big past seven figures knows that it is an asymmetric return after a certain point.

At this point, I had 11 rentals, and I started to interact with a lot of accredited investors.

But I started to hang out with these folks, and they all had the similar pedigree as me, where they had multiple rental properties, right? And they...

were in this phase in their life where they're exchanging these pain in the butt rental properties that were great to get started on the first floor of the wealth elevator.

When I had 11 rental properties, I maybe had an eviction or two a year, some kind of big catastrophe that happened every quarter.
Take us through the Wealth Elevator and these different floors and concepts that you just started getting into a little bit there.

You barely see it on mine, right? But that's the basement level in the Wealth Elevator.

But, you know, I think these are the books that Dave Ramsey, Cesar Orman writes their books for, right? Most people out there earn credit card debt.

Don't listen to me if you're in that category, right? There's so many other resources.

Where I kind of pick things up is when I started to, you know, take me when I graduated college, I had a good paying job.

was able to save $25,000, $50,000 or more a year, and I went and bought rental properties.

And it's not a get-rich-quick scheme because it took me a long time, right? From 2009 to 2015, buying 11 rental properties, it was kind of a slow trudge at that point.

But anybody who's built anything big past seven figures knows that it is an asymmetric return after a certain point.

At this point, I had 11 rentals, and I started to interact with a lot of accredited investors.

But I started to hang out with these folks, and they all had the similar pedigree as me, where they had multiple rental properties, right? And they...

were in this phase in their life where they're exchanging these pain in the butt rental properties that were great to get started on the first floor of the wealth elevator.

When I had 11 rental properties, I maybe had an eviction or two a year, some kind of big catastrophe that happened every quarter.
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