DoorGrow Live 2026 presents
Real Estate Portfolio Growth SummitProperty Managers & Real Estate Investors
Go home with 3+ investor relationships and a 12-month plan to grow your portfolio by 20 to 50 doors.
One room, one goal: bigger portfolios. Property management business owners who want to add doors. Real estate investors, including the owners you already manage for, buying in Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia and looking for managers they can trust with whatever they buy next. On October 9-10, both are in Round Rock, Texas.
Apply for your market's seatsRetail ticket: $997. A limited pool of sponsor-funded scholarships covers your tuition... you secure your seat with a $250 refundable deposit, returned when you check in. Investors: your seat is comped. Email sarah@doorgrow.com or ask your property manager for an invite.
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Portfolios don't stall because people stop wanting more. They stall because nobody moves first.
You built your company the way every property manager builds it. Word of mouth. A decent website. Owners who found you when they needed you.
And it worked... up to a point. That point is wherever your portfolio sits today.
Here's the part that stings: your growth stalled the day your owners stopped buying. Most of them stopped buying years ago. They have their two or three properties, they're comfortable, and the size of your portfolio is now outsourced to somebody else's ambition.
Meanwhile the owners and investors who do want more are stuck for the opposite reason. They have the cash and the credit. What they don't have is confidence that the next three properties will be run well enough to be worth owning. So they wait too.
Two sides who need each other, both waiting. Maybe you've said the sentence everybody in this business says:
"I just need a few more doors and I'll be fine."
That's the referral lottery. Some months you win a ticket. Most months you don't. And every year the jackpot shrinks, because every marketing channel you might use to fix it is now buried under AI-generated noise. Your prospects can't tell what's real online. Neither can you.
Hoping is not a growth channel.
The doors you want next are sitting in portfolios that are about to get bigger.
Start with the math everyone in this room already knows.
Somewhere in your market an investor is buying her fourth, fifth, and sixth property this year. She needs management on every one of them. She is actively looking for a manager she can trust, and she cannot find one. That single relationship is worth more doors than a year of waiting by the phone.
Three people have a stake in what happens next. The property manager whose portfolio flatlines if nobody buys anything. The owner sitting on cash who keeps saying she "might buy another." And the investor who will not buy in a new market until she knows who is going to run it.
Every one of them is trying to grow a portfolio. Every one of them is stuck waiting on one of the others.
That is not a conference topic. That is the entire design of this event, and it is why DoorGrow Live 2026 is built as a portfolio growth summit instead of another stage full of speakers.
You can't scale past the manager problem.
Every investor who tries to grow past a handful of doors hits the same wall. You buy in a market you don't live in, and the deal only works if someone you trust runs it. Finding that person usually costs you months of calls and at least one bad hire.
In this Room, the property managers are already in your markets, already vetted, and already there to meet you. Tell us where you're buying and what you're buying. We seat you at the tables that matter.
Bring your buy box. Leave with your team.
Already work with a property manager who's coming?
Ask them for one of their invites. Your seat is comped.
Not connected to one yet?
Email Sarah and we'll get you in.
We didn't book speakers and hope. We engineered the Room.
The Investor Matchmaking Blocks
Three to four working sessions where managers, owners, and investors rotate through tables curated by region and strategy. Managers bring capacity and local knowledge. Investors and owners bring buy boxes and the portfolios they're trying to grow. We build the matches before anyone walks in. Our goal, and we've engineered the whole event around it: managers leave with 3+ serious investor relationships and a 12-month plan to add 20-50 doors, and investors and owners leave knowing exactly who they'd trust to run the next 20-50 units they buy, in the markets they're actually buying in.
The Deal Room
A physical board of who's buying what, where, and who's managing it. If you manage, your market's card goes up the moment you're approved... you see the demand with your own eyes and trade the four months of cold outreach it usually takes to reach one investor for a handshake that takes ten seconds. If you're buying, your criteria go on the board too, and you find out which markets already have a manager who can absorb the doors before you close on them. Nobody leaves guessing who's on the other side of the deal.
The investor education stage
Dustin Heiner teaches the part most portfolios stall on: getting from a couple of doors to 20-50 units without the whole thing eating your life. If you own rentals, this is your session... buy criteria, financing, and the point where self-managing starts costing you more than it saves. If you manage, sit in the same room and hear what your clients are actually being taught, then bring the owner you'd most want to see win (approved attendees get invites for exactly this). Every unit that gets added is growth on both sides of that table.
The Recommended PM path
When investor educators like Dustin need property managers they can trust in a market, they ask us, and we only recommend operators we've vetted and helped clean up. Managers learn exactly how to qualify as one of DoorGrow's recommended property management companies. Owners and investors learn that same standard from the other side: what a manager has to have in place before you hand them 20 units, and which questions separate a real partner from a vendor. Both sides drive home knowing what good looks like... which is why the Room keeps working after the event ends.
Every person on that stage runs the numbers they teach.
Dustin Heiner · Master Passive Income
Dustin's whole method starts with one rule: never buy a property until your team is built, and the first hire is the property manager. In October, he's bringing that method, and his investors' demand, to the Room.
Jason Hull · DoorGrow
The frameworks behind operators like John Babiarz (80 to 310 doors in a year) and Jeff Garner (150 to 420+ doors in 4 months). Jason runs the plan-building sessions where your Room conversations become a 12-month growth plan, whether you're adding doors under management or units of your own.
Sarah Hull · DoorGrow
Sarah runs the operations side of the Room: what to fix in your business so the doors you're about to add don't break it, and if you're the one buying, what to make sure a manager has in place before you hand them your units.
Brad Gibb · Sovereign Private Wealth
Brad's argument is simple: the best-performing asset most people own is their own business, and almost nobody runs it that way. For a property manager that asset is the management company. For an investor it's the portfolio, which should be built and run like a business instead of a pile of properties. Brad started on Goldman Sachs' private wealth desk and now acts as a chief wealth officer for entrepreneurial families through Sovereign Private Wealth, showing you how to pull real returns out of what you already own and reinvest them well.
Preston Anderson · Anderson Tax
Preston is the CPA who goes and finds the money you already paid. He works taxes proactively instead of once a year: offsetting liability so more of your profit goes into growing the portfolio instead of going to the government, and reopening prior years to recover what was overpaid. He has recovered over six figures on Jason and Sarah's returns alone, and he runs Anderson Tax while serving as CFO of Lolly's Home Kitchen.
More speakers to be announced
We're locking in more speakers who bring investor networks of their own. This page will update as they're confirmed.
You don't leave with notes. You leave with these.
- Your 12-month door plan, on one page. If you manage: built in-session, not homework. The plan that answers "where do my next 20-50 doors come from" with names and dates instead of hope.
- Your 12-month portfolio growth plan, on one page. If you own or invest: the same format from your side. How many units you're adding, in which markets, paid for how, and who is running them so growth doesn't turn into a second job.
- Your first-call script. Managers draft the exact words for the first call with every investor they meet in the Room. Owners and investors draft the questions that tell you in ten minutes whether a manager can handle what you're about to buy. Both get pressure-tested live.
- Your owner-growth play. Managers leave with the play that turns existing owners into buyers again. Owners leave with the other half of it: what to ask your manager for so buying again doesn't cost you your weekends. Both built off what Dustin teaches from stage.
- Your shortlist of managers worth trusting. For owners and investors: the two or three companies from the Room you'd actually hand units to, and the checklist you used to get to that short a list.
- Your market map. Built from your own Room conversations: who you met, what they're buying or managing, and your plan to stay in front of them after October.
Operators who came to a past DoorGrow Live, in their own words.
Jeff Garner: 150 to 420+ doors in 4 months.
Will Fraser: tripled his sales calls after last year's DoorGrow Live.
Tiffany Heward: left saying "I know I'm going to crush it."
Michelle and Willie Soto
Brian Mullins
Ron Payton
Ashton Thomas and her team
Sylvie McCracken
Mitch H.
Brian Bean: doubled his doors.
The Room at a past DoorGrow Live.
The Room isn't for everybody.
Apply if:
- You manage property and you want to grow the portfolio you manage, instead of waiting on the referral lottery.
- You own rentals and you want to own more, and you need a manager you would trust with every one of them.
- You invest in real estate in growth markets and the thing standing between you and the next ten units is finding a manager who will not lose them for you.
- You already know your growth has plateaued, and you're honest enough to admit that hoping is not a strategy.
- You'd rather spend two days building the next 20 to 50 doors than another quarter waiting for the phone to ring.
Don't apply if:
- You're brand new with a handful of doors and no team yet. (We have better starting points for you than this event... start with DoorGrow's free training.)
- You want to sit in the back and watch. The matchmaking blocks are working sessions. Everyone works.
- You think events are for collecting swag. The Room is for collecting phone numbers.
One more thing, said plainly: seats are capped per metro, and capped on both sides. If two investors are expanding into Columbus, twelve Columbus property managers in the Room helps nobody... and a room full of investors with no one to manage what they buy helps nobody either. We balance it market by market. When your market's seats are gone, they're gone.
What's the right partner on the other side actually worth?
Run your own numbers. The average door is worth roughly $2,400+ per year in management fees. An investor who hands you 10 doors over the next couple of years is worth $24,000+ a year, recurring, from one relationship. An investor who scales to 30 units in your market, the way Dustin teaches, is a six-figure relationship.
Now run it from the other side of the table. If you're building toward 20-50 units, the manager you pick is worth more than the fee you pay them. One extra month of vacancy on a $1,800 rental is $1,800 you never get back. One tenant who should have been screened out can cost you several months of rent plus the repairs. Multiply either version across 30 units and the gap between a manager who is good and a manager who is cheap becomes the biggest line item in your returns.
The retail ticket for the Room where both sides meet is $997. Most of the people in it won't pay that: managers come in on a sponsor-funded scholarship, owners and investors come in on an invite.
Either way, the math isn't close.
Our vendor partners already bought your ticket. Prove you'll show up, and it's yours.
Here's how each side gets in:
- The retail ticket is $997. That's the real price, and late buyers will pay it.
- Our PM vendor sponsors fund a limited pool of scholarships for qualified property management business owners. A scholarship covers your tuition in full. The sponsors are property management vendors, so that pool is reserved for the management side of the Room.
- You secure your approved seat with a $250 deposit. It's returned to your card when you check in at the Room on October 9. If you don't show, it's forfeited. The deposit exists for one reason: so chairs go to people who show up.
- Real estate investors come in a different door. There is no investor ticket to buy. You're in the Room as the guest of a property manager who is attending, on one of the invites they unlock at deposit... or email sarah@doorgrow.com and we'll get you in. Same room, same sessions, same two days on your own portfolio.
Managers: apply, get approved, put down $250, get it back at the door. Investors: get invited or email Sarah, then show up.
What approved attendees also get:
- The DoorGrow Live swipe file. Every script, template, and worksheet used at the event, yours to keep.
- The post-event Investor Integration call. A group working call after the event to turn Room conversations into working agreements: signed management agreements on the manager's side, a manager you trust and a next purchase on the investor side.
- The Recommended PM path. Managers learn how to qualify as one of the property management companies DoorGrow recommends to investor educators like Dustin. Investors learn the standard those companies are held to, so you know what to ask of any manager you hire.
- 2 invites, unlocked at deposit. One for another management owner who belongs in the Room, one for an investor you want sitting next to you. Their seat is comped. They're there for their own portfolio, not to be pitched on yours, and that's exactly why the conversation works.
The $250 deposit offer stands until the event. Seats are capped per metro, so when your market's seats are gone, they're gone.
Apply for your market's seatsThe application takes about 90 seconds, and it's built for the management side: How many doors do you manage? · What markets do you serve? · Where do you want your door count in 12 months? · What's the biggest thing in the way right now? Not a property manager? Ask the manager you work with for one of their invites, or email sarah@doorgrow.com and we'll get you in.
The sponsors who already bought your ticket.
The scholarship pool exists because our industry partners put real money behind the Room. When you check in and your deposit comes back, this is who covered your seat. They'll be there in October too.
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors
Want your company in front of this room? Sponsorships: sarah@doorgrow.com
I'll take the risk. You take the seat.
"Here's my bet. Come to the Room. Sit in the matchmaking blocks. Build your plan with us. If you put down a deposit, it's already back in your pocket... we hand it back the moment you check in. So the only thing you risked getting here was the trip itself. If by lunch on Day 2 you don't believe the event will help you grow your portfolio over the next 12 months, whether that means 20-50 more doors under your management, 20-50 more units of your own, or finally having a manager you'd trust with them, come tell our team at the desk and we'll reimburse up to $500 of your hotel. No forms, no hard feelings, no chasing you down later.
I can make that bet because I've watched what happens when a property manager, an owner, and the right investor end up at the same table. Everybody's portfolio gets bigger. The bet isn't risky. The Room does the work."
Two days. One roof. Bring the family.
Kalahari Resorts & Conventions, Round Rock, TX. 25 minutes north of Austin, drivable from every major Texas city.
- Room block at the event rate of $189/night, available through September 9: book your room here
- Breakfast included both days
- Thursday night welcome mixer, October 8, 5:30-8pm... your first investor conversations happen here, not Friday morning
- America's largest indoor waterpark is downstairs. The event isn't for kids; the resort absolutely is. Bring them.
Questions before you apply.
When and where is it?
Friday October 9 and Saturday October 10, 2026, 8am to 5pm both days, Kalahari Resorts & Conventions, Round Rock, TX. Check in Thursday the 8th and come to the mixer (5:30-8pm).
What does it cost?
Retail is $997. Sponsor-funded scholarships cover tuition for approved applicants; you put down a $250 deposit that's returned when you check in. Travel and lodging are yours.
Who gets approved?
Property management business owners and real estate investors. Managers are prioritized by portfolio size and market fit with the investors in the Room. Investors come in through an attending manager's invite or by emailing sarah@doorgrow.com. The application takes about 90 seconds. If your market's seats are full, you'll be waitlisted and told honestly.
I'm an investor, not a property manager. Is this for me?
Yes, and you're a big part of why the event exists. You'll spend two days in front of property managers who operate in the markets you're buying in, and you'll leave with a shortlist of people you would actually trust to run whatever you buy next. Your seat is comped. Come as the guest of an attending manager, or email sarah@doorgrow.com and we'll get you in.
I own rentals but don't manage them. Do I belong here?
If you want to own more, yes. There's a stage built for exactly that: how to go from a couple of properties to 20 to 50 units, and how to build the team that makes it survivable instead of a second job. Ask the property manager you already work with for one of their Owner Invites.
Will I be sold to?
Straight answer: on Day 2 afternoon there's one clearly-marked session where we show how DoorGrow implements this with you, and you can skip it. The rest of the event is the matchmaking, the plan-building, and the speakers. You'll also see investors and vendors make offers... that's what a market is. Nobody will chase you to a back table.
I'm a DoorGrow client. Do I apply?
No. Your VIP ticket is included in your membership ($997 value). RSVP here. You also have 2 Owner Invites and 3 scholarship nominations... check the Hub.
Can I bring someone?
Approved attendees unlock 2 invites at deposit: one property manager (they apply through your invite) and one owner or investor guest (free). Want to bring your team? The more the merrier... each additional team member holds a seat with the same refundable $250 deposit.
What if I have to cancel?
Tell us before the event and we'll return your deposit. No-shows forfeit it... that's what keeps the Room full of people who show up.
Which airport?
AUS, Austin-Bergstrom. If you're in Texas, drive: DFW ~3hrs, Houston ~2.5hrs, San Antonio ~1.5hrs.
Is the event recorded?
No recordings, no livestream. The Room only works in the Room. Photos are welcome.
It's November 3rd (After the Event). Which phone call are you on?
Future one.
It's a Tuesday. If you manage, you're chasing a late owner payment and refreshing a lead form that hasn't produced since spring. If you own, you're on hold with a manager who still hasn't filled the unit that went vacant in September, and your next purchase is on hold with it. October came and went. Everybody who flew to Texas met somebody... it just wasn't you. Your portfolio is the same size it was last November, and the referral lottery is still the plan.
Future two.
It's the same Tuesday. Your phone rings. It's the Columbus investor from your Saturday roundtable... her offer got accepted, and she needs management in place by December 1st. If you're the manager, that's door one of the twenty-three in the plan sitting on your desk, and two more of her investor friends already have your number. If you're her, that's unit six, in a market you wouldn't have touched without a manager you'd already sat across from. Both sides of that call are bigger than they were in October.
Same Tuesday. Same you. One decision in between.
Apply for your market's seatsThe $250 deposit offer stands until the event. Seats are capped per metro.
P.S. If you manage, the deposit comes back to you at the door and the sponsors already covered the $997. If you own or invest, your seat comes on an invite. Either way, the only thing you can actually lose here is the seat... and the person in your market who takes it isn't going to give it back.
P.P.S. If this isn't your year, no stress. The waitlist will take the seat, and we'll still be here. But do one thing this quarter either way: if you manage, call your three best owners and ask when they're buying next. If you own, ask your manager what it would take for them to handle five more units. That answer is your growth plan, whether you come to Texas or not.