Mike Swenson
Real Estate Investor, Small Business Owner, and Coach in Shoreview, Minnesota
Mike Swenson is a real estate entrepreneur, investor, and podcast host dedicated to helping others build true financial and time freedom through real estate. His journey began in 2010 as an accidental landlord and quickly evolved into flipping, short sales, and investment properties before he went full-time in real estate in 2014. Known for blending strategy with execution, Mike has built his career around scaling businesses and creating repeatable paths to wealth.
He spent six years as Chief Operating Officer of a fast-growing real estate team in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, helping scale the business from a small local group into a multi-state operation with more than 50 agents, ranking among the top residential teams in the country. After launching his own team, Mike found his true focus in multifamily investing. Through Pinnacle Capital Investments, he now specializes in apartment buildings and passive investing strategies, overseeing a portfolio of 260+ units across multiple projects, primarily in Minnesota.
Mike is also the host of the REL Freedom Podcast(Real Estate Leveraged Freedom), where he’s published over 300 episodes since 2020—placing the show in the top 2% of all podcasts worldwide. On the show, he interviews high-performing investors and operators to uncover practical strategies for building wealth, leverage, and lifestyle freedom through real estate.
A Minnesota native, Mike is deeply committed to his family and can usually be found coaching his sons’ sports teams or cheering from the sidelines with his wife and kids when he’s not working on deals or recording podcasts.
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