Deal Junkies - A Real Estate Podcast

Episode 183: The Optics of Real Estate

🎙️ 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 unpack one of the most misunderstood parts of real estate, optics. From social media success stories to polished deal narratives, we talk about how things often look far better on the surface than they are behind the scenes.
We break down why you shouldn’t believe everything you see, how perception can distort decision-making, and why the real work, risk, and struggle rarely make it into the highlight reel. This conversation is about learning to read between the lines, ask better questions, and avoid chasing appearances instead of fundamentals.
If you want to think more clearly, invest more intelligently, and avoid getting caught up in the noise, this episode is for you.

Episode 182: The Construction Mastermind with Chad Montgomery & Marc Gallegos

🎙️ 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, Gabe and Mike sit down with two of the heaviest hitters in Salem construction: Marc Gallegos, owner of Skyline Builders and Head of Operations and Construction at Stack Asset Group, and Chad Montgomery, owner of MCG (Montgomery Construction Group).
We talk about what it actually takes to operate at the top of the construction world, what their day-to-day looks like, how decisions get made on the ground, and how construction directly shapes real estate outcomes. From execution and timelines to risk, margins, and problem-solving, this conversation pulls back the curtain on how great builders think and operate.
If you want to understand how construction excellence translates into better real estate deals, this episode delivers.

Episode 181: The Japan Real Estate Mastermind (2 Hours of Pure Value)

🎙️ 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
Recorded live from Japan, the Junkies host a two-hour real estate mastermind with a powerful lineup of operators actively building across multiple strategies and markets.
Joining the conversation are Jan Wanot and Ludomir Wanot, real estate and mobile home park investors and founders of the WAREI Group, Dylan Miracle, a 25-year-old house flipper and wholesaler, and Erik Nielsen, returning guest and young investor scaling in real estate and mobile home parks.
This episode dives deep into deal structure, execution, decision-making, and the lessons learned from operating in real markets. The conversation is candid, detailed, and packed with insight you can apply immediately.
The Junkies believe this may be one of the most valuable episodes we’ve ever recorded. Block the time. Lock in. Listen and learn.

Episode 180: Live from Japan with Ludomir Wanot

🎙️ 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
You’ve heard from Jan Wanot on the show multiple times, and now we’re bringing on his brother — Ludomir Wanot — a seasoned real estate investor and big dog in his own right. Joining us straight from Japan, Ludomir breaks down his investing journey, the strategies that have shaped his success, and how he approaches opportunities across different markets and borders.

Episode 179: What’s Your Exit Strategy?

🎙️ 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
Trevor is still fired up from the market-cycle debate with Mike, so this week we’re giving him exactly what he wants, pure deal talk. We break down why a deal can look great on paper but still be the wrong move if you don’t have liquidity, multiple exit paths, or a clear way out when the market shifts.

Episode 178: Understanding Market Cycles

🎙️ 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 market cycles in a way that actually makes sense. We talk about where today’s market fits in the larger cycle, what signals we look for before making big moves, and how investors can position themselves to win regardless of the headlines.
If you want clarity on timing, strategy, and spotting opportunities before everyone else sees them, this is the episode to listen to.

Episode 177: Trevor’s Dream Episode (Death to Econ)

🎙️ 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 week, the Junkies ditch the economic theory, the charts, and the macro talk, and get straight into what actually matters, deals. Trevor is in heaven as we run through real numbers, real structures, and the real opportunities we’re working on right now.

Episode 176: Your New Favorite News Channel

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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 dive into what’s happening right now in the world, the economy, and the real estate markets. Think of it as your unofficial, unfiltered weekly update, where we sort through the noise, call out what actually matters, and add our own take on how it impacts investors.

Episode 175: Mike vs. Dane Showdown

🎙️ 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 was supposed to be about world events, the economy, and the deals we’re working on. Instead, it quickly turned into a showdown between Mike and Dane. Tension, friendly fire, bad takes, but somehow we still managed to squeeze in a few nuggets of actual investing wisdom.

Episode 174: More Deals = More Fun

🎙️ 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 dive into what they love most: deals. Big ones, weird ones, creative ones — and everything in between. We walk through the latest opportunities on our desk, how we’re structuring them, what’s working in today’s market, and why talking deals is still the most fun part of the business.
If you want insights straight from the trenches, with real numbers and real strategy, this episode delivers.