How REI Baddies Began

How REI Baddies Began!

We met on a Deal Sauce Zoom hosted by Justin T—proof that “be open to meeting people in the community” is not a myth. We instantly connected, floated “what if we started a podcast?” …and it quickly leveled up into the REI Baddies Talk Show. We chose the show route because we knew we wouldn’t stop at interviews.

Two investors—Rachel Davis (Army veteran, author, operator) and Kate Baldwin (Key West native, Luxury Real Estate Agent, capital raiser)

—kept getting the same DMs: “Is creative finance real?” and “How do I find a buyer for this deal?” So we turned those questions into a show.

Our one rule: guests must have closed their first deal within six months. No theory—just real numbers, real scripts, and real mistakes you can learn from. As the community grew, we added quick-hit Deal Sauce tutorials (how to build lists and bird-dog for active buyers) and live Baddies After Dark pitch sessions.

Today, REI Baddies is a weekly, community-driven show where creative finance gets practical, beginners become doers, and first wins turn into repeatable playbooks for everyone.

Now, What We Do

We’re not all talk—we close deals. Here’s exactly what we do:

Buy & Hold (Co-Living):

We acquire, convert, and operate co-living assets to maximize cash flow and stability—yes, we have a clear buy box.

Wholesale & Creative Dispo:

We lock up deals and move them—assignments, novations, and clean exits to real buyers.

List & Sell (Brokerage):

We prep, price, and market properties for top-of-market outcomes—zero fluff, full transparency.

JV & Partnerships

Bring the deal or the dollars; we’ll bring operations, underwriting, dispo—or all of the above.

Capital & Private Lending:

We raise, structure, and place capital; we also lend—secured, underwritten, and built to close.

Underwriting & Exit Design:

Comps, arrears, interest, repairs, and realistic exit paths—numbers before narratives.

baddies
broadcast

available on our youtube channel

Interviews

Real investors who closed their first deal in six months or less. We unpack the numbers, scripts, and mistakes to give you repeatable playbooks.

Baddies After Dark (Coming Soon)

Live 8-minute pitches, real feedback, JV/capital intros. High-velocity deal room for doers.

Deal Sauce with Rachel

Rachel takes our guests’ buy boxes and rebuilds the search live—showing rookies how to turn the 2-week free trial into real leads and first revenue.

Deal Sauce with Kate

Kate hunts off-market and foreclosures, then cross-checks county records to verify pain, prioritize outreach, and find flippers and private lenders—step by step.

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How REI Baddies Began