Carl Allen takes a bold step into the world of U.S. real estate investing alongside his business partner, Chris Moore. Fresh from a successful three-day mastermind event in Tampa with industry leaders Pace Morby and Abraham Gray, Carl and Chris transition from discussing business acquisitions to exploring real estate opportunities. With a wealth of experience in business buying, Carl is now diving into creative financing strategies for real estate—a completely new frontier for him.

The real estate deal they’re investigating was introduced during the event by a SubTo student and leverages the Morby Method—a creative financing strategy that enables investors to purchase property with little to no upfront costs. Carl acknowledges that while he’s an expert in business acquisitions, he’s a rookie in real estate investing. Despite owning properties in the UK, Europe, and Australia, this marks his first foray into U.S. real estate ownership.

Chris, a seasoned real estate investor with extensive experience in Alabama, shares invaluable insights into defining a “buy box” for real estate deals. Carl draws parallels between the criteria for identifying a great business acquisition and those for evaluating real estate investments. For Airbnb properties, Chris explains, ideal locations are close to airports, major league sports stadiums, beaches, hospitals, or bustling city centers. These criteria help ensure high demand and consistent returns on investment—an approach Carl finds both fascinating and practical.

Pulling up to the property, Carl shares his excitement about viewing his first potential U.S. real estate acquisition. The experience not only broadens his horizons but also highlights the incredible flexibility and creativity of the U.S. real estate market. This journey marks the beginning of Carl’s partnership with Chris in the real estate space, a natural extension of his mission to disrupt markets and empower entrepreneurs across industries.

With his curiosity and Chris’s expertise, Carl is embracing new challenges and opportunities, demonstrating that learning and collaboration are key to growth—whether in business or real estate. This first step into U.S. real estate underscores Carl’s commitment to expanding his skill set and inspiring others to do the same.

Full Transcript:

We’re gonna go and look at our first real estate dealers as partners. Dealmakers, what’s up?

My vision is to completely and utterly disrupt the market for buying and selling small businesses all over the world. Hey, guys. Carl on. I’m with my business partner, Chris Moore, and we’re in Tampa.

We’ve just come off the back of our three day amazing business buying mastermind event with Pace Morby and Abraham Gray. And there are a lot of sub two students, a lot of real estate investors at the conference as well. And Chris is already a very accomplished real estate investor. He’s doing deals all the time down in Alabama, and I’m very new to the whole real estate investing world.

And we’re gonna go and look at our first real estate dealers as partners. It’s an amazing deal. It was brought to us yesterday by one of the substitute students. It’s a Morby Method deal, which I’ll cover that on another video.

But it’s really interesting. Like, I’m so new to this. You know, I’m the best in the world at my businesses, but I’m a real rookie when it comes to being a real estate investor. I own real estate.

I own real estate in the UK. I own real estate in Europe. I own real estate in Australia, but I’ve never owned a piece of real estate in the United States. And it’s crazy how creative financing is at play here and all the different strategies you can use to become a real estate investor with little to no money down on the assets that you’re buying.

And one of the most interesting conversations Chris and I just had is he’s walked me through, like, his buy box. So when you’re buying a business, we talk about our buy box, what type of business you wanna buy, what industry is it in, you know, what does it do, who are the customers, etcetera. And what’s really interesting is Chris just walked me through his buy box for business for for real estate acquisitions. You know, what does he look for in, say, an Airbnb rental?

It’s gotta be close to an airport or a or a major, league sports stadium, or it’s gotta be close to the beach or it’s gotta be close to the hospital or a or a large The city center. Yeah. City center, a large area where a lot of people are gonna go gonna go live. So really, really interesting.

Anyway, we’ve just pulled up on the, on the development where this house is. So we’re really excited. Gonna go and look at my first piece of US real estate. So, we’ll, we’ll end the video.

We’ll go check it out, and then, we’ll be back with another video soon. Until then, bye for now.