EP 002 | Slocomb Reed's Cincinnati Story: From House Hacking OTR to 100+ Units

In this episode, the tables turn as Ian Cruz interviews co-host Slocomb Reed, the founder of Three Little Pigs Property Management and a Cincinnati operator with over a decade of boots-on-the-ground experience in the market.Slocomb shares his full Cincinnati origin story, from landing in the city in 2011 after a year in Ecuador, to buying his first house hack in Over-the-Rhine in 2014 for $175,000 right before the neighborhood exploded, to scaling a vertically integrated real estate operation managing hundreds of units across Greater Cincinnati today.The conversation covers what makes Cincinnati uniquely difficult to underwrite from a spreadsheet alone, why the east side and west side divide is more nuanced than most outsiders assume, and the two most common mistakes investors make when entering this market. Slocomb also shares the story of representing BiggerPockets co-host Brandon Turner on a 24-unit acquisition in Cleves, Ohio, taking over distressed management months before close, and what that experience taught him about operational turnarounds.This episode is for anyone who wants to understand how a serious Cincinnati operator thinks about neighborhoods, partnerships, and the gap between what a deal looks like on paper and what it takes to actually execute it.