Tim Bratz teaches that action outruns infrastructure, and the right question unlocks the resource you think you lack. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Tim make the case that resourcefulness is the ultimate resource.

In this episode:

• The core doctrine: "Resourcefulness is the ultimate resource. If you are resourceful, you will find the time, you will find the money, you will find the knowledge."
• The decision habit: saying "I can't" "shuts off your brain from trying to work anymore. If you say, how can I find the money? That leads your brain down a path of asking more questions."
• Proof the constraint is never the tool: Tim ran $350 million in assets on an Excel spreadsheet.
• The gap it fills, from Abel: leaders taught him to 10X revenue, "but I had very few people that could show me how to go to $1 million of net worth."
• The takeaway: the resource was never the tool, it was the question and how fast you act on the answer.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Ellis Hammond reframes the whole question of income: money flows to value, and there is no ceiling on either unless you install one. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Ellis talk about the value of money and creating real, forced value.

In this episode:

• The reframe: "money flows to value. So the better question to ask is how much value do you want to create in the world? Why would you place a limit on value?"
• Where the value is real: "There's untapped potential, untapped value that you and I go in and we create in order to create a return for our investors."
• The pivot that unlocked it: "I don't wanna just be a good steward of my time. I wanna be a good steward of my money."
• Why income is the reward for value delivered, created by growing the top line.
• The takeaway: the only limit worth removing is the one on how many people your funnel can reach.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Jorge Abreu underwrote roughly 100 deals before he closed his first multifamily property. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Jorge talk about the reps that come before results.

In this episode:

• The number behind the instinct: about 100 deals underwritten before his first close.
• Abel translates the discipline: underwriting is "literally just the analysis of how much is a property today, and what kind of business plan can you create to improve your net operating income."
• Jorge's doctrine for getting there: "I noticed, they say that success leaves trails."
• Why judgment is a compounding asset: every underwrite makes the next decision faster and safer.
• The takeaway: the question is whether you walk that trail one lonely night at a time, or with a system beside you.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

The very first 5 Talents Podcast guest was a teacher. Yonah Weiss explains cost segregation, the engineering method that can turn about $327,000 of straight line write off into $1.8 million in year one on the same building. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Yonah break down accelerated depreciation.

In this episode:

• The math: on a $10 million asset, cost segregation with bonus depreciation can take about $327K of write off to roughly $1.8M in year one.
• Why you hire the right expert: "It's an engineering method that combines with the taxes. Most accountants don't do this, can't do this."
• Abel learned it the expensive way when his own CPA admitted, "Well, I've never done this."
• Why depreciation adds no rent but lifts what the owner keeps by lowering the tax line.
• The takeaway: "the difference between $327K and $1.8M on the same building was never the building. It was who read it."

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Dusten Hendrickson's whole message is mailbox money, actual passive income that compounds into freedom. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Dusten talk about building the ultimate lifestyle through passive investing.

In this episode:

• What mailbox money is: "actual passive income. You have to find successful people that are always over exceeding their expectations. So you gotta find the top operators."
• The snowball: "you put 50,000 in here, 50,000 the next year. After five years, that first 50,000 is now 100,000. Meanwhile you've got five payments coming in, roughly 300 bucks a month. After year 10 that 100 goes to 200. It just snowballs."
• Abel runs the same math: "that 500K seed in five years will be a million, and that'll be 70K. And then a million will be two, and that'll be 140K."
• Why the passive investor eats first: "They get 70% of the waterfall after the 7% pref."
• His rule: "be easy, be water," and partner with your opposite before you partner with someone like you.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Dr. Craig Carlson went from a 300 door goal to 2,400 doors in about 18 months, and he credits one habit: he never stopped learning. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Craig talk about the power of networking and education.

In this episode:

• The habit: "As a dentist, I took more continuing education than any other dentist I knew."
• Why the education always pays: "it's all been returned. You never lose the knowledge. So not only has it been returned, but it's gonna keep on being returned."
• The doctrine he hands Abel: "Your net worth is the average of the five closest people around you."
• Abel's frame from 13 years in IT sales: "If I was the source for knowledge, I would win bigger deals and help my people win bigger deals too."
• The line under it all: "None of us are as smart as all of us."

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Kelly Ann Winget has raised over $500 million and closed roughly 150 deals, and her entire process runs on clarity, not complexity. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Kelly Ann talk about alternative investments and how to vet them.

In this episode:

• Every pitch compressed to 3 questions: "how much money do you want? How much money are you gonna give me back? And what is the possibility of me never seeing my money again?"
• Slow, disciplined due diligence: "if you have a really good team behind something, it's hard to fail." She favors generational, "happily involved" family teams and spent "two and a half years" vetting a single deal before taking a dollar.
• Abel's audit that comes first: "How much money do you have today? What is my investable capital now?"
• Why a well and an apartment building are taxed alike, so the return is protected by the quality of the decision that put the money there.
• Her edge: "recognizing trends is something I'm really good at," built over a decade.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Ava Benesocky and August Biniaz left a number one RE/MAX practice and a 16 year development career to build one thing: a compliant, tax efficient bridge that lets Canadian investors buy US multifamily cash flow. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco talks with them about raising cross border capital.

In this episode:

• The build: it started with "tens and tens of calls with cross border lawyers, accountants, figuring out the structures," then a YouTube show, and grew to "over 2,000 people that have signed up to our newsletter."
• The moat is the structure itself: "we have set up our corporate structure through a web of corporations, limited partnerships. The Canadians are relieved from double taxation," and it is deliberately hard, "economically doesn't make sense for one person to put that in place."
• August's turning point: after realizing solo development would take "another 30 years to get to a level I want," he said, "you need to bring on investors."
• Syndication in one line: "the knowledge and the experience on one side and the capital on the other side."
• Why the education that earns trust is the income line of a capital business.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

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• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate

Grant Cardone raised $500 million direct from retail investors on Instagram and Facebook, no brokers, no family offices, and built to 9,000 units and $2.3 billion in assets. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Grant talk about owning your channel and pointing every dollar at doors.

In this episode:

• The capital raising insight: scale on the income side comes from owning your channel and your reach. Skipping roughly 2% in fees on that raise saved $10 million, "which will buy about $40 million worth of real estate with leverage."
• The discipline: "The most important number in real estate is not the cap rate, it's the number of doors you can purchase."
• The reframe: "The deal is not the terms. The deal is the piece of real estate."
• Abel's own proof of compounding: "It took me 10 years to buy eight single families, and in under two years we went to 800 doors."
• Why income at scale is a reach and trust engine, built by going direct.

Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.

Go deeper and connect:

• Abel Pacheco
• 5 Talents, fractional Chief AI Officer
• The Open Door, the book
• 5 Talents commercial real estate