He Set a Goal of 40 Units. He Ended Up with 2,700 w/ Jens Nielsen

Real Estate Investing with RealDealCrew · Apr 20, 2026 · 31m

Jens Nielsen left a 25-year IT career and went from 40-unit goal to managing 2,700 units — here's the exact path he took to scale commercial real estate.

In this episode of RealDealChat, Jack Hoss sits down with Jens Nielsen — a former IT professional turned commercial real estate investor and high-performance coach — to break down how he went from a linear 10-year plan to managing over 2,700 units across multifamily, industrial, and flex space.

Jens covers:

How he started with a fourplex for $115K and scaled from there

Why he ditched single-family immediately and went straight to small…