From Buying Houses While Being a Civil Engineer To ➡️ Retiring Early Through Buying Apartments with Lane Kawaoka 🤯✨

The Moonlight Real Estate Side Hustles and Syndications Show · Apr 24, 2025 · 15m

Lane Kawaoka locked in his first Seattle rental in 2009 while working full-time as a civil engineer. By 2015 he’d assembled 11 professionally managed single-family homes. Yet each year brought the potential risk of having at least one eviction or a major mishap—flooded basement, fallen tree, you name it—that could wipe out months of profit. Realizing that more houses meant more exposure, he pivoted to large multifamily syndications for scalable growth. 🏠➡️🏢

🔍 Things Discussed

Early Influence & Real-Estate Spark ⚡

• Lane put 20 % down on a Seattle house and rented it while traveling for work…