#168 - From $9K Deal to $40M in Assets: Building Wealth Through Outdoor Hospitality with Zander Kempf

Zander Kempf is the founder and CEO of Clear Summit Investments, a vertically integrated outdoor hospitality fund with $40M in assets across glamping resorts, hot springs destinations, and experiential wellness properties near national parks in the Western U.S. A former Army Captain and paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne — including a nine-month combat deployment to Iraq — Zander took everything he learned about discipline and risk management into real estate, scaling from a $9,000 first deal to 23 multifamily buildings before making a contrarian pivot: selling his entire portfolio at peak COVID to pursue outdoor hospitality, a sector still 88% mom-and-pop and following the same consolidation curve as self-storage a decade ago. He's completed 55+ projects over nine years, achieved financial freedom by 27, and now runs Clear Summit from the North Shore of Oahu — where his morning usually starts with a surf and ends with a sunset.Connect with your Hosts:Garrett Gatton [email protected] Ciminillo [email protected]'l Nugget Segment music: "Hip-Hop 1" by Deff Syndicate is marked with CC BY 3.0.