How Smart Investors Use Financing to Build Wealth

Featuring Matt Gouge, Top 1% Mortgage Lender
Recorded live at the RISE Real Estate Investing Community Meetup
Canyon Club Brewery, Danville, California

Most investors focus on finding the next deal. Experienced investors also understand that how they finance their investments can have a lasting impact on their ability to scale.

In this session, Top 1% mortgage lender Matt Gouge shared the financing strategies today's investors are using to make smarter decisions in an evolving lending market. With more than a decade of lending experience and over 2,000 loans personally funded, Matt broke down how financing choices affect capital, cash flow, and your ability to keep buying.

• The biggest financing mistakes investors make and how better planning helps protect your capital and future opportunities.

• How wealthy investors think differently by evaluating financing well beyond the interest rate or monthly payment.

• Creative financing strategies that can add flexibility when acquiring and growing investment properties.

• 2026 lending opportunities worth considering for your next purchase or refinance.

Whether you are buying your first investment property or expanding an established portfolio, this session offers practical insights you can apply to your next deal.

Finance smarter. Preserve more capital. Build a stronger portfolio.