400 1031s, Zero Failures: The Senior-Care Niche Hiding in Plain Sight with Dan Ihara

Dan Ihara has sold over $1 billion of real estate, moved 1,600+ units, and completed 400+ 1031 exchanges—without failing a single one.

And he built the whole thing around a niche almost no operator talks about: senior-care real estate.

In this episode, Dan and Ed get into the demographic inevitability that drives his business (“should we all be blessed to live long enough, we’re going to need some level of care”), why 1031 exchanges fail for everyone else but never for him, and his definition of success that has nothing to do with the billion-dollar number on his resumé.

What you’ll hear:

• The senior-care thesis: why aging boomers are an inevitability, not a trend, and the RE play sitting on top of it
• How Dan closed 400 1031 exchanges without a single failure—the process, the team, the discipline
• Why “success is doing what I want, when I want, with whom I want” is the only definition that matters once you have the numbers
• The conversation every operator should be having with their family—and almost none are

About Dan Ihara: 20-year real estate veteran. Billion-dollar producer. Built a specialty practice serving seniors transitioning out of long-held real estate, primarily through 1031 exchanges.

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Additional Resources:

• Clark St Capital -> Passive real estate investments for busy business owners and executives
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• Clark St Academy on YouTube -> Learn how to invest in real estate

Social Media:

• LinkedIn -> Ed Mathews (President at Clark St and Elevista)

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