Why Ryan Pineda Quit Flipping and Wholesaling (In His Own Words)
Ryan Pineda says he’s shutting down his house flipping and wholesaling business after 11 years and almost a thousand deals.
“I just announced that I was shutting down my house flipping wholesaling business,” he says on his own podcast.
“I also don’t want to coach real estate if I don’t do it. I just don’t,” he adds.
The flipping coach quit flipping. That’s a cooking-show host announcing he’s switching to DoorDash.
Short, fair answer: Ryan Pineda isn’t quitting real estate as an investor. He’s done with flipping and wholesaling for income, and with coaching other people to do it. The reasons he gives are the same ones a beginner can’t afford.
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What did Ryan Pineda announce in October 2026?
On October 13, 2026, his YouTube channel posted “Ryan Pineda Breaks Silence On Quitting Real Estate.” The description says he explains “why he believes his time is better spent pursuing other business opportunities.”
Better spent. The politest breakup text in real estate history.
A Facebook video with a shutdown title is reportedly dated October 3, per a search snippet of the Facebook post. By October 30, the Wholesaling Inc podcast was covering it as news.
The numbers Ryan Pineda gave
“I got into flipping houses in 2015,” he says. “We’ve done almost a thousand deals of flips and wholesales.”
| What he says | The number |
|---|---|
| Total house value (co-host’s figure) | “over 150 million” |
| Gross profit on houses | “about 15 million” |
| Target margin per flip | “10%” |
| Wealthy Investor education sales | “about 40 million plus” |
| Wealthy Investor in 2025 | “I think last year in 25 we did 8 million” |
The houses made about $15 million in gross profit. Teaching people to do the houses brought in $40 million plus.
Roughly 2.7 to 1, lesson over subject. With an asterisk: that’s revenue against gross profit, so it’s not a fair fight. Still, every school in America wants that ratio.
Neither number is take-home. What it says about his bank account is on Ryan Pineda’s net worth.
Why does Ryan Pineda say he quit?
The profit dried up. “The last two quarters this year in 2026 um have basically like broke even,” he says, or “lost depending on how” they run the finances.
The market. “I think the market’s getting way worse,” he says. “Rates ain’t coming down.”
Not exactly the “go make your ten thousand bucks in 30 days” energy of 2022.
It’s hard. “If I think it’s hard and things usually come pretty easy for me, I can’t imagine how hard it is for everyone else.”
Umm. Everyone else is the customer.
Opportunity cost. “Why would you fight a falling knife essentially and headwinds against you?” he asks. And: “There’s no enterprise value.”
A falling knife. Teaching other people to catch it was still the side that sold.
He wasn’t really doing it. “The extent of my effort into it has been about an hour a week for like 5 years,” he says. “They’ve closed those hundreds and hundreds of deals, not me.”
An hour a week. That’s less time than most people spend arguing with a self-checkout.
A beginner doesn’t get the team. They get the hour, plus the cold calls.
And it’s not his first rough patch. “I was sitting on 50 house flips that uh were all going negative,” he says of 2022. “I was going to lose millions, and I did.” Back then, wholesaling paid for the flip losses. In 2026, the wholesaling is what broke even.
When your safety net needs a safety net, that’s a hell of a sign.
Is Ryan Pineda still selling coaching?
“If I don’t do it, I don’t want to sell it or coach it,” he says. “We’ll continue to fulfill on the current students we have… But we’re not going to sell anymore and we’ll wind that down as it winds down.”
But as of November 12, 2026, the sign-up form on wealthyinvestor.com is still up, still asking how much “cash, credit, crypto, stocks” you have to invest.
“Not going to sell anymore,” says the video. The form, meanwhile, still wants to hear about your crypto. Somebody tell the website, for fuck’s sake.
The full price breakdown is in Wealthy Investor cost and refund policy.
What is Ryan Pineda doing instead?
“We have six other things going on,” he says, naming M19, the Taylor Tax, Pineda Partners and the podcast. “These all six of those are better than this.”
Six other businesses, all better than the one he sold a course on. Noted.
“I’ll buy actual wealth building real estate, but I don’t think I’ll ever use real estate to make active income again,” he adds.
Five days before the shutdown episode, his podcast posted “He Left Real Estate to Rent Websites ($200k/Month).” Ryan asked the guest how fast he could hit a million a year doing it. “I don’t know. Two years.” “All right. I’m done. See you,” Ryan joked.
More in the Wealthy Way podcast.
What it means for students
Coaching was reportedly $8,000 for Rookie and $20,000 for All Star, according to ippei.com. Up to twenty grand to learn a game its coach just compared to a falling knife. Ouch.
The terms of service say “All sales are final,” with disputes going to binding arbitration “in Clark County, Nevada.”
Asked if everyone should quit real estate, Ryan said: “I think there’s a lot of people who should.” He also says “I don’t think you can’t make money flipping or wholesaling.”
Double negative, single message: it can still work, just not for him. Run your own numbers in the house flipping calculator.
This isn’t a scam story. It’s a guy telling you, for free, that the thing he charged for isn’t worth his time right now.
What I’d look at instead
He walked away from bought seller leads, cash tied up in rehab and loans, and starting from zero after every deal.
The model I’d point you to is a website that ranks on Google for a local service and gets rented to a local business that wants the calls. No seller, no rehab, no lender, no falling knife. You found this page on Google. That’s the proof.
For the full picture, read my full Ryan Pineda review or who Ryan Pineda is.
What I'd Look at Instead of Flipping
Q&A
- Q: Did Ryan Pineda quit real estate?
- A: He quit flipping and wholesaling. He says "I'm still going to buy real estate," but won't "use real estate to make active income again."
- Q: When did Ryan Pineda announce he was shutting down?
- A: October 2026. His YouTube channel posted "Ryan Pineda Breaks Silence On Quitting Real Estate" on October 13.
- Q: Why did Ryan Pineda stop flipping houses?
- A: Rates, a market he thinks is "getting way worse," quarters that "broke even" or lost, and opportunity cost.
- Q: Is Wealthy Investor still selling coaching?
- A: He says they're "not going to sell anymore." As of November 12, 2026, the sign-up form is still up. What it reportedly cost.
- Q: Does Ryan Pineda think real estate is dead?
- A: No. He said "I don't think you can't make money flipping or wholesaling." He just doesn't want to do it. Or coach it.
- Q: What would you do instead of flipping or wholesaling?
- A: A website that ranks on Google and gets rented to a local business that wants the calls. Watch the video and see for yourself.