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Not many of us realize the things we are destined to do immediately in life. Sometimes, we have to take a couple of detours to get there. Sharing his own road to real estate and creating a fund is Brandyn Cottingham of Major Gainz Capital. He begins by talking about joining the Marine Corps band playing the podium. Later on, he got out of the military and was faced with trying to figure his way around after. Going from one odd job to another, he eventually ended up getting the taste of executive level management to creating his own fund. Brandyn talks to us about Major Gainz Capital, breaking down its structure as an opportunity fund while describing the great ways they do to legally get money. He also shares his philosophy that not everything is about money and how he applies that with his clients.
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Brandyn Cottingham's Road To Real Estate And Creating A Fund
Lender Nation, I hope you're ready for a very interesting conversation because I interviewed Brandyn Cottingham with Major Gainz Capital. He's the principal partner. Brandyn, I want to thank you for coming on and welcome to the Private Lender Podcast.

Keith, thank you so much for having me here. It's an honor. I'm very humbled to be asked about you to be on your show. I follow your podcast. There’s a lot of great content on there. To be a part of this conversation is an honor for me.

Thank you for that. You and I met at one of Steven Kaufman’s events. Steven was interviewed on episode number one. I was honored to have him. That's how you and I started talking. Lo and behold, we keep running into each other at various industry events. Finally, here we are together. You have a very interesting background. I know you moved to Texas when you were young, grew up the south side of Houston, in Pearland. I’ll set that up and let you talk.

I appreciate it. Both my parents are from small towns in North Louisiana. They both went to Grambling State University up there. It’s an HBCU, very famous HBCU. A lot of strong football tradition up there. They graduated from college, moved to Houston with opportunities where. I was maybe about four or five when we moved here. I ended up in Pearland. We moved there. I think I was I third grade. This is back when it was a small town. There was a beltway. It was like one major highway. It was fifteen minutes to a grocery store. It’s a small town, very rural by today's standards. My father was a musician. On my dad's side, everybody was a musician. My uncle was a music major. He taught music. He was a jazz musician. He was a jazz teacher. Aunts, uncles, they all played instruments, orchestras and symphonies, things like that. Music's in my blood.

I picked it up when he taught us how to read music at a young age. I was very blessed that in Pearland at that time, I found out the high school is going to stay competition again for a marching band in August. When I was there, we were third and fifth in the state in the marching band. Both years that we went, third my sophomore year, fifth my senior year. I was always in a leadership position there. We would go competitions to warm up the water. It was low acumen for the discipline that we had to have to perform at that level and compete at that level. I learned a lot from our band director, Mr. Jack Perez. I have a lot of respect for him. He taught us a lot.

A friend of mine dared me, bet me that she would make the Marine Corps band before I would. It was an interview process or audition. I'm super competitive. I was like, “No way, I'm going to beat you. There's no way you’re going to beat me.” We ended up going to Lake Charles. There were eight people. I was the youngest person there. Everybody went. I went last. Nobody had made it the whole day and passed the audition. Everybody was coming in, “Nope, I’ll go and do my thing.