The questions we hear most.

Yes — that's exactly who it's built for. The Closing Class is for busy professionals and high earners buying their first rental or short-term rental: business owners, executives, attorneys, engineers, clinicians, and dual-income households. You don't need prior real estate experience. You need a stable income, a little time, and the intention to act. If you're a physician, dentist, or other clinician, we also have a dedicated Med Pros track built around the clinical schedule and the high-W-2 tax situation.

It depends — but probably not as long as you think. The honest answer: if you have high-interest debt still in active repayment, no cash reserves, and no bandwidth, build a financial foundation first. If you're past that point and your income is stable, starting earlier means a longer compounding window. The right time isn't when you have "enough money" — it's when you have enough stability to take a calculated step.

Yes. Dual-income professional households have unique advantages — particularly around real-estate-professional status and the short-term rental strategy — for offsetting a high combined W-2 tax bill. Our co-founder Alex Brandimore built her own portfolio inside exactly this kind of household, and the approach looks different from a single-earner plan. We'll walk through the specifics of yours on the strategy call.

Probably not. Busy professionals span a wide income range, and the right strategy looks different at each level. The Blueprint in particular is designed to work whether your income is modest or substantial — what matters is that it's stable.

What matters more than the absolute number is the combination of stable employment, manageable debt, and a real intention to act. If those three are in place, income level is rarely the disqualifier.

Yes. Household structures vary — single-earner, dual-income, or one high earner plus a spouse with flexible hours — and the strategies adjust accordingly.

The mechanics that change: real-estate-professional status is most relevant when one spouse has the flexibility to qualify materially in real estate. The short-term rental strategy works regardless. Tax architecture, financing, and operating strategy apply to every household — they just calibrate differently. We'll walk through yours on the strategy call.

Maybe — but we'll be honest about it on the call. Real estate isn't free to start. If you have less than a year of stable income behind you, no down payment savings, and significant high-interest debt, mentorship may be premature. We'd rather tell you that on the consultation than take your money. That said, "a lot of capital" is relative — many of our clients started with one property and a modest down payment. The conversation matters more than the bank balance.

A short checklist — if you can answer yes to most of these, you're ready to have a real conversation:

• Stable income for at least the last 12 months
• An emergency fund of three to six months of expenses
• High-interest debt (credit cards, personal loans) is paid down or being aggressively retired
• Retirement contributions are at least at your employer match
• You can comfortably set aside down-payment capital without disrupting household stability

If most of these are not in place, the right next step is probably to build the financial foundation first — not to take on a real estate engagement. We'd rather tell you that than take your money. If you're close but not quite there, we'll say that too, and point you to what to address first.

They're two independent offerings, not two steps. The Blueprint is our self-paced course — six narrated modules covering buy-box, market, team, financing, underwriting, and taxes, with interactive worksheets and the underwriting templates we use ourselves. It's $197, with lifetime access, and you can take it entirely on your own.

The Build is 90 days, 1-on-1 with John and Alex, oriented around execution — actually buying, financing, operating, with a partner through your first deal cycle. Some people take the course and go on their own; some want a partner for the real thing; some do both. There's no required order.

John has spent more than two decades as an active operator across residential, multifamily, retail strip, NNN, outparcels, and industrial. He runs an investment firm focused on multifamily acquisitions and development, a title company supporting residential and commercial transactions, and a land-development business — today, not in his past tense.

Alex is a PhD speech pathologist who left a tenured academic career to build her own portfolio of long-term rentals, short-term rentals, and flips. She is married to a dentist, so she has built it inside the same kind of household this site is written for.

We are not mentors who used to do this. We are operators who currently do it, and we teach what we use.

You should — a strong local agent is essential for finding and transacting deals, and we're not a substitute for that. The work we do sits one level up: defining what you should be looking for in the first place (asset class, buy-box, market thesis), how you should be financed when you find it, and how to structure the deal for your tax picture.

We also help you interview agents and pick the right one for your strategy. We make their job easier and you a better client. We do not replace the agent — we make sure the deals they bring you are the right ones to look at.

BiggerPockets is excellent, broad real estate education for a general audience. The Closing Class is narrow on purpose: every framework, tax strategy, and case study is built around the specific income structure, time constraints, and tax exposure of busy professionals. We don't teach wholesaling, we don't teach you to quit your job and become a full-time investor, and we don't pretend real estate is passive. We teach busy professionals how to build leveraged, tax-advantaged real estate portfolios alongside the careers they've already invested years in.

Most programs push one approach — syndications, or short-term rentals, or wholesaling — because that's what they sell. We don't. The Closing Class is built around active ownership with full control, and we help each person find the right structure for their household, their tax situation, and the life they actually want, across long-term rentals, short-term rentals, small multifamily, and beyond.

We also aren't a faceless brand. When you work with us directly, you get John and Alex — two people still actively buying and operating property — one-on-one, not a cohort or a call center.

You shouldn't trust real estate as a category — you should trust the structure you're personally in control of. The reason most syndication losses hurt so much isn't that real estate failed. It's that the investor handed control to someone they didn't fully vet, in a vehicle that froze their capital for years. Direct ownership doesn't have that problem. You decide what to buy, when to buy, when to sell, and how it's managed. The Closing Class helps busy professionals move from passive vehicles to active ownership with the support to do it correctly.

Two mentorship engagements are available, both one-on-one with John Lee and Alex Brandimore: The Build (90 days) and The Portfolio (ongoing). Separately, The Blueprint is our self-paced course ($197) — the full method with worksheets and underwriting templates, taken on your own.

Both mentorship tiers include regular working sessions, direct messaging access between calls, a structured framework (financial audit, tax architecture, property acquisition, legacy structuring), vetted referrals to lenders, agents, property managers, and CPAs, and deal review on every property you're considering. The Portfolio adds deeper strategic work, business-level planning, and access to a professional network built over two decades.

Neither mentorship tier is a course you watch alone, and neither is a group program. They are mentorship relationships with the structure and accountability to actually move you from where you are to where you want to be.

Realistically, three to five hours per month from you. That includes our calls, deal review, and the work you do on your own (looking at properties, talking to lenders, etc.). Some months — especially during active acquisition — it can run higher. Other months it's lighter. If you're hoping for zero hours per month, this is the wrong program. If five hours per month feels manageable, you're in the right range.

We don't promise specific dollar returns, specific tax savings, or specific property outcomes — anyone who does is misrepresenting how real estate works. What we do offer is a 3-call satisfaction guarantee: if after the first three mentorship sessions you decide it isn't the right fit, we refund your engagement in full. The only condition is that you've actually shown up to the sessions and engaged with the work — we can't help someone who doesn't take action.

The Build (90 days, 1-on-1) and The Portfolio (ongoing, by application) are priced for the stage of work they cover. We share the numbers on the consultation call, after we understand whether it's actually the right fit for your situation — not before. The right tier depends on your specific stage, and we'd rather match you to the right fit than have you self-select based on a number you saw in isolation.

The Blueprint — our self-paced course — is $197, with lifetime access. It includes all six modules, the worksheets, and the underwriting templates.

Both. Every Build and Portfolio engagement involves both John and Alex directly. You get John's two decades of operating experience and Alex's lived experience as a working professional who built her own portfolio. That pairing is the entire point of the brand, and we won't dilute it.

Fifteen focused minutes with John and Alex. Most of it is about you — your situation, your timeline, and what you're trying to build. We ask, you talk, we listen.

The last few minutes are about whether and how we could help. If a fit is obvious we'll say so. If it isn't, we'll tell you that too — and point you toward a better next step, even if that next step isn't us. The conversation ends when you say it does, and we won't follow up with a drip sequence afterward.

No. All mentorship is virtual — video calls and messaging. Our clients are spread across the country. The Closing Class is nationally focused, not regionally focused, and we work with real estate strategies across many U.S. markets.

That changes the conversation, often for the better. Clients who already own one or more properties usually have specific things they want to address — restructuring for better tax treatment, deciding whether to scale or stabilize, fixing a property that isn't performing, or planning their exit on a poor performer. We'll discuss your current portfolio on the call and decide together whether mentorship is the right next step or whether you can solve what you need with a few targeted conversations.

That's exactly what the strategy call is for. We don't expect every prospect to be ready to commit to mentorship or to a property purchase. About half the people we talk to aren't ready, and we tell them honestly when that's the case. A real conversation about your specific situation has value on its own, regardless of whether you ever become a mentorship client.

Book a free 15-minute consultation — the link is at the bottom of every page on this site. The call is one hour with both John and Alex. We'll walk through your current situation, identify the highest-leverage moves you could make in the next 90 days, and decide together whether working together is a fit. There's no obligation, and the conversation ends when you say it does.