Deal Junkies - A Real Estate Podcast

Episode 199: Jordan Tampien on Building His $300M+ Portfolio

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple: turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, we sit down with serial entrepreneur Jordan Tampien from Spokane, Washington. With multiple businesses under his leadership and a combined portfolio value north of $300 million, Jordan shares what it really takes to build at scale.
We dive into:
• How he built and structured multiple businesses• The mindset required to scale beyond your local market• Risk management and decision-making at higher levels• Lessons learned from growth, setbacks, and major inflection points• What separates small operators from true portfolio builders
This conversation is about thinking bigger, operating with discipline, and building long-term enterprise value instead of chasing short-term wins.
If you’re serious about ownership, scale, and building something that lasts, this episode delivers both perspective and practical insight.

Episode 198: A Tribute to Paul Kerley

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode is different. It’s not about a deal, a market update, or a strategy breakdown. It’s about honoring a man who shaped an entire real estate community.
Paul Kerley was a real estate entrepreneur, mentor, and pillar of the Salem market. As the owner and president of Commercial Property Resources, he built and managed more than 1,400 residential units across Oregon and Illinois and led a team of over 100 employees. Over decades, he steadily grew a portfolio that at one point represented more than $70 million in property, focusing primarily on B- and C-class assets that served middle- and working-class families.
Paul’s background was as strong as his reputation. With a degree in economics, a law degree from Willamette University, years as a practicing real estate attorney, and major brokerage transactions under his belt, including a $34 million shopping center sale, he combined intelligence, discipline, and long-term thinking in everything he did.
But beyond the numbers and accomplishments, Paul was a long-time friend and mentor to Gabe and a pivotal influence in the Salem real estate community. His leadership, wisdom, and character left a lasting mark on those who had the privilege of knowing him.

Episode 197: Bridger Pennington on Building Funds and Raising Capital

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode features Bridger Pennington, an accomplished entrepreneur and investor who has built and scaled multiple investment platforms across real estate, crypto, and fund formation. Bridger is the co-founder of Fund Launch and Fund Launch Partners, has helped launch hundreds of investment funds, and has been directly involved in deploying and advising on billions of dollars of investor capital.
We talk through his entrepreneurial path, the businesses he built early, how his focus has evolved, and how he evaluates opportunities today across asset classes. Bridger shares lessons from operating at scale, building in fast-moving markets, and staying disciplined while navigating cycles.
He’s built real companies, operated in complex markets, and is for sure the smartest guy we have ever talked to. And now, he’s officially a Deal Junkie.

Episode 196: We Came for the Deals

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies get into deals as usual, but things take a turn when Mike delivers an unexpected sermon. We talk through real transactions, decision-making, and the lessons that come from being in the middle of deals, then zoom out into mindset, discipline, and what actually drives long-term success.
It’s part deal breakdown, part reflection, and very on brand for how these conversations go. If you like real estate talk mixed with perspective you didn’t know you needed, this one delivers.

Episode 195: Let’s Talk About Taxes

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
Nobody wants to talk about taxes, but every investor eventually has to. In this episode, the Junkies reluctantly dive into taxes, the parts that surprise people, the mistakes we’ve seen, and why ignoring them usually costs more than dealing with them head-on.
This is not tax advice and not a technical breakdown. It’s a real conversation about how taxes show up in deals, why they change how you think about growth, and why understanding them even a little makes you a better investor.
It’s not the most fun topic, but it’s one you can’t afford to skip.

Episode 194: Deal Junkies x Wealth Juice

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode flips the mic. After joining The Wealth Juice Podcast, we bring Corey and Ryan onto the Deal Junkies to continue the conversation. The WealthJuice team is a Philly-based real estate investing company that has grown their portfolio to 95 doors while still working W-2 jobs, and they’re now focused on helping others buy their first or next real estate deal.
We talk about how they built while balancing careers, what actually moved the needle early on, and the similarities between how both teams think about investing, execution, and helping people take action. There’s a lot of alignment between the two groups, which made this conversation easy, honest, and fun.

Episode 193: Trevor and Dane on The Wealth Juice Podcast

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode is a little different. We’re sharing a conversation originally recorded on The Wealth Juice Podcast, where Trevor and Dane were interviewed about how they got to this point in their lives and careers, the investing paths they were on before Stack Asset Group, how Stack was formed, and where the platform is headed next.
Make sure to check out The Wealth Juice Podcast and give the guys some love. And stay tuned for Thursday, when the tables turn and the Deal Junkies bring The Wealth Juice crew onto our show for the next episode. 
Wealth Juice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wealth-juice-real-estate-personal-finance-investing/id1506974626

Episode 192: The Timeless Investor Talks Deals

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
Arie van Gemeren is back, and this time the conversation is all about deals. In this episode, we dig into how Arie evaluates opportunities, structures investments, and thinks about risk, returns, and long-term value. From underwriting discipline to knowing when to lean in or walk away, this is a practical conversation grounded in real deal experience.
We talk through what separates durable deals from short-term wins, how institutional thinking applies to individual investments, and why consistency and patience matter when building lasting wealth.
If you want to hear how a timeless investor approaches deals in any market cycle, this episode delivers.

Episode 191: Discipline, Data, and Long-Term Value with Arie van Gemeren

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, we sit down with Arie van Gemeren, CFA, Founder and CEO of Lombard Equities Group, a West Coast real estate investment firm managing $120M+ in assets with plans to scale to $500M+. Arie brings an institutional lens to real estate, shaped by his background at Goldman Sachs and Fisher Investments, and a disciplined, data-driven approach to long-term value creation.
We talk about building real estate platforms with integrity, using fundamentals to guide decisions, and why patience and process matter more than hype. Arie also shares his perspective on impact-driven investing through his role as Chairman of the Housing Committee for Catholic Charities of Oregon, along with lessons from authoring Timeless Wealth: Real Estate Through the Ages.

Episode 190: A Deal That Didn’t Make the Cut

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies break down a real deal that looked solid on paper but ultimately got passed on because of one critical factor, location. We talk through why numbers alone don’t make a deal, how demand and livability matter more than spreadsheets, and why some markets are worth walking away from no matter how good the projections look.
The conversation also dives into what an ideal acquisitions system should look like, how to filter deals early, where operators get stuck chasing the wrong opportunities, and how discipline protects you from bad long-term decisions.