COVER STORY
STEVE TRANG
Real Estate Disruptor founder Steve Trang and his plan to create 100 millionaires THE DISRUPTIVE EDUCATOR
BY JOE DYTON PHOTOS COURTESY OF LEO BLAZE
T hose familiar with the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad know it is an exploration into person - al finance, investing and making money work for people rather than the other way around. Steve Trang read it and came out with a different inter - pretation—he should become a Realtor. “I look back now and it’s kind of funny,” Trang said. “As you get older, you get wiser. That kid, 27-year-old Steve was an idiot. He read Rich Dad Poor Dad to learn about passive income and from there became a Realtor. That’s not what the book was about.” Trang might have taken the wrong lesson from the book at the time, but his initial misstep has paid off for him in a big way. He’s now fully immersed in the real estate industry in several different sectors. Trang owns the Stunning Home Realty brokerage, offers real estate coaching and mentoring services, created the OfferFast Homes mobile app to help wholesalers more easily and quickly promote their properties, and hosts Real Estate Disruptors, one of the top podcasts in the nation today.
That’s not bad for someone who was at first just looking to earn a solid income and thought real estate was the way to do so. “I think like a lot of other people in the real estate investor space, you read Rich Dad Poor Dad and think, ‘Oh, this W2 thing is not what I was supposed to do, it’s not what I was designed for,’” Trang said. So instead, Trang started an investment club with some friends, and they attempted to buy properties. Unfortu- nately, this was in 2007 when banks had stopped lend- ing. Trang’s fortunes eventually changed when he met a real estate broker. He wondered why he, with a Master’s Degree in Engineering, was making $70,000 a year while this broker who, “just kind of hangs around with people all day” was earning six figures. “I thought, ‘wait a minute, what am I doing here?’” Trang said. “I asked him what it would take to learn what he did. He told me to get my real estate license and he’d teach me everything he knew. I got my license in two and a half weeks.”
16 | think realty magazine :: april 2021
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