FAMILY
18Y · 7 KIDS
Together since 2008; married in 2023. They have 7 children together including 1 set of triplets and 1 set of twins.
BANK DEBT
$0
Reinvest operates with no bank debt
YouTube
2.05M
subscribers, 6,000+ videos
Estimated gross asset value
About $100M
management estimate, September 2026, before liabilities; the filed figures are on the numbers page
Rental units
100+
across 38 unmortgaged properties, company figure
Monthly active users
10,000+
across the courses and the Reinvest app, company figure
Origins
o
Birth, childhood, first jobs, the first house, and the years before YouTube.
Did Kevin Paffrath want to be a police officer?
How did Kevin Paffrath get started in real estate?
How much of Kevin's real estate success was timing versus skill?
How old is Kevin Paffrath?
How old was Kevin Paffrath when he bought his first house, and how did he buy it?
Is Meet Kevin a U.S. citizen?
Kevin's account: the excerpts this library quotes
Was Kevin a millionaire before YouTube?
What advantages did Kevin have that most viewers do not?
What did Meet Kevin do before YouTube?
What was Kevin Paffrath's childhood like?
What was Kevin Paffrath's first job?
What was the $640,000 flip that got stolen?
Where did Kevin Paffrath go to school?
Where is Meet Kevin from?
Which parts of Kevin's path can an ordinary person actually repeat?
Who are Meet Kevin's parents?
Who is Kevin Paffrath?
YouTube and media
o
The channel from 2010 to today: milestones, income, courses, the press.
How did Meet Kevin get famous?
How many subscribers does Meet Kevin have?
How much does Meet Kevin make from YouTube?
What are Meet Kevin's other channels and the podcast?
What are Meet Kevin's recurring video series?
What courses does Meet Kevin offer?
What do reviews say about Meet Kevin's courses?
What has CNBC reported about Meet Kevin?
What is Meet Kevin's most popular video?
What is the history of the Meet Kevin YouTube channel?
What is the Meet Kevin Alpha Membership?
What were Kevin's first YouTube videos?
When did Meet Kevin start YouTube?
Why did Kevin leave the Millennial Money show?
Why did Meet Kevin post less from 2022 to 2026?
Why does Meet Kevin cover plane crashes?
Courses and the business model
o
What the courses cost, what you get, refunds, conflicts, and how the business scales.
Are the coupon deadlines real, and are the reference prices real?
Are the results in Kevin's marketing typical of what members get?
Can paying members criticize Kevin publicly without losing access?
Do course sales create a conflict of interest with Kevin's market commentary?
Does Kevin invest the way he teaches?
How does Kevin handle complaints from course buyers?
How much of Kevin's money comes from courses versus investments?
How much one-on-one help do Alpha members actually get?
How often are the courses updated, and how is pricing set?
Is selling courses on stocks and trading unregistered financial advice?
Is the course material based on public data or proprietary frameworks?
Should you mirror Kevin's trade alerts?
What does "lifetime access" mean when the terms allow the service to change or end?
What does the paid membership add that the free channel does not?
What refund or guarantee exists if I lose money using what the courses teach?
Who should not buy Kevin's courses or the Alpha Membership?
The 2021 governor run
o
Why he ran, the plan, the polls, the votes, and what he believes now.
Did Kevin Paffrath move to Florida or run for governor there?
Did Kevin Paffrath win San Francisco in the 2021 recall?
Did Kevin's campaign tax plan match how he handles his own taxes?
Did Kevin's water pipeline idea hold up?
How did being a YouTuber shape Kevin's campaign and debate style?
How many votes did Kevin Paffrath get in the 2021 recall?
How were Kevin's campaign donations managed, and did his businesses overlap?
Is Kevin Paffrath a Democrat or a Republican?
Kevin Paffrath vs Larry Elder: what happened?
What government experience did Kevin have when he ran for governor?
What happened in Kevin's 2021 run for California governor?
What was Kevin Paffrath's 20-part plan for California?
What was Kevin Paffrath's homelessness plan?
What was Kevin's plan for California's housing shortage?
What was the 27% poll, and was it real?
What was the Newsom recall, and where did Kevin fit?
What were the main criticisms of Kevin's campaign, and how did he answer?
Who voted for Kevin: his YouTube audience or a broader coalition?
Why couldn't Kevin be "Meet Kevin" on the ballot?
Why did Kevin Paffrath run for governor?
Why was Kevin Paffrath's campaign post removed from Instagram?
Will Kevin Paffrath run for governor again?
Investing and markets
o
The ETF, Tesla, JP Morgan, the Bear Bull Scale, crypto, gold and crashes.
Does Meet Kevin hedge, and how?
How did the Pricing Power ETF perform against its benchmark and peers?
Real estate or stocks: which does Meet Kevin favor now?
What did Kevin learn from running an ETF?
What does Meet Kevin say about index funds?
What does Meet Kevin think about crypto?
What does Meet Kevin think about gold?
What is Meet Kevin's history with Tesla?
What is Meet Kevin's market crash prediction?
What is RoboHack, and what did it invest in?
What is the Meet Kevin Bear Bull Scale?
What rules applied to Kevin's YouTube commentary while he ran the ETF?
What was the dispute over the ETF's Tesla allocation?
What was the Meet Kevin Pricing Power ETF?
Why did a "pricing power" ETF hold a leveraged long-duration Treasury fund?
Why did Kevin Paffrath leave JP Morgan?
Track record and transparency
o
Returns, audits, net worth accounting, and the calls that were wrong.
Does Kevin trade on emotion, or is there a discipline behind the shifts?
Does Kevin's position size match the confidence in his videos, and do his indicators work?
Has Kevin ever used debt?
How does Kevin count debt and liabilities in his net worth?
How often have Kevin's price targets and thesis changes panned out?
Is there an audited record of Kevin's personal investment returns?
What happened when Kevin sold his stock portfolio in January 2022, and what did it cost?
What has Kevin disclosed about his own money over the years?
What share of Kevin's wealth is real estate versus stocks, and how does he count paper losses?
Testing and licensing
o
Securities exams, the broker license, the MLO exam and the pilot ratings.
Is Kevin Paffrath a licensed financial advisor?
What are Kevin's pilot ratings?
What is the MLO exam Kevin passed, and is Reinvest going to lend?
When did Kevin Paffrath get his real estate license, and is he still licensed?
Where does Kevin's expertise end, and when should you use a specialist?
Which securities and real estate exams has Kevin passed, and which does he use?
Legal history
o
The DFPI order, CNN, Ramsey, Cardone, FTX.
Did Kevin Paffrath sue CNN in 2021?
What did FTX actually pay Kevin?
What did Kevin do for followers hurt by FTX, and what did he know when?
What happened with FTX?
What was Meet Kevin's 2024 lawsuit against CNN?
What was the 2023 DFPI consent order about?
What were the 2018 Ramsey lawsuit and the Cardone stunt?
Allegations, answered
o
Scam, DUI, construction, the ETF, unlisting, clickbait, refunds.
Did Kevin fail in construction? The 2017 MeetNDone closure.
Did Kevin get a DUI?
Did Kevin unlist his entire YouTube library?
Does Kevin flip-flop, and are the titles clickbait?
Is Kevin a scam? Start here.
Kevin vs. Grant Cardone: the whole history
Was the Meet Kevin ETF liquidated?
What happened in the 2022 Florida driving case?
What is the "landlord influencer" label, and does Kevin dispute it?
Why are the courses non-refundable?
Conduct and disclosures
o
Sponsorships, trading around content, accountability.
After saying he took on too much, what limits did Kevin put on new commitments?
Did spreading across media, real estate, software and a fund dilute Kevin's focus?
Do scary titles and ad revenue shape what the channel says?
Does Kevin apply the same evidence standards to political claims as to financial ones?
Does Kevin trade ahead of his own videos or alerts?
Has Kevin taken equity or tokens in exchange for favorable coverage?
How did Kevin's public image go from local real estate agent to corporate executive?
How did the traffic stop affect Kevin's standing as CEO?
How does Kevin fact-check when he posts six to ten videos a day?
How does Kevin respond to critical video essays and disputes with other creators?
How is Kevin accountable to the people who bought shares in his company?
What can you check a year from now to judge whether Kevin and Reinvest kept their word?
What do Kevin's critics get right, by his own admission?
What sponsors has Kevin promoted, how are they disclosed, and which later failed?
When does Kevin recommend something that earns him nothing?
Would Kevin submit to an independent review of his record, or an interview with a critic who controls the questions?
Family and personal life
o
Lauren, the seven kids, the house, the plane, the net worth question.
Does Kevin Paffrath still fly?
Has Meet Kevin written a book?
How did Kevin learn to fly, and how fast?
How does Kevin spend his day?
How many kids does Kevin Paffrath have?
Is Meet Kevin a billionaire?
What did Kevin's jet cost, and what did the company pay for it?
What is Kevin Paffrath's net worth in 2026?
What plane does Kevin Paffrath fly?
When were Kevin's twins and triplets born, and what happened in the NICU?
Where does Kevin Paffrath live, and what is his house like?
Who is Lauren Paffrath, and what is her role at Reinvest?
Why did Kevin quit drinking?
About Reinvest
o
What the company is, how it makes money, and what it owns.
What is the timeline of Kevin Paffrath's startup?
Does Reinvest work without Kevin?
How did HouseHack raise its first $27 million?
How do the Reinvest convertible bonds work?
How does the 2025 stock option plan work, and who was granted what?
How is Reinvest different from a REIT or a real estate fund?
How much of his own money has Kevin put into Reinvest, and what has come back to him?
How much real estate does Kevin Paffrath own?
Reinvest by the numbers, dated
What are the Reinvest Terminal, ReinvestAI and the Reinvest app?
What changed when HouseHack became Reinvest?
What do "permanent capital" and "invisible equity" mean at Reinvest?
What does a "clean cap table by 2030" mean, and is an IPO planned?
What has Kevin said publicly about HouseHack's numbers, and how does it match the filings?
What is Reinvest's real estate worth?
What is Reinvest?
Why is Reinvest a C corporation, and what does that do for taxes?
Why is the company called Reinvest, and why was it House Hack?
The real estate
o
Wedge deals, where we buy, and why there is no bank debt.
Who runs it
o
Management, ownership and control.
Oversight
o
The SEC review, the audits and the open suit.
Are Reinvest's financial statements audited?
Every SEC filing House Hack, Inc. has made
What did the SEC ask House Hack during its reviews, and what changed?
What did the SEC review of 2025 to 2026 find?
What is the Texas earnest-money suit?
What SEC filings has House Hack, Inc. made, and where are they?
How the company operates
o
Valuation, fees, capital, exemptions, liquidity, governance, and the plan.
Does Reinvest publish yield projections, and how does it handle rising costs?
Has House Hack hit the goals in its original pitch?
How does Reinvest handle zoning, renovation delays and tenant regulation?
How does Reinvest's acquisition model differ from institutional home buyers?
How is investor capital protected against overhead and falling property values?
How transparent is Reinvest with investors who are not on the board?
How was House Hack's first valuation set?
What do investors hold if Reinvest never lists or sells?
What does Kevin take from the company: fees, salary, stock?
What have outside investors in Reinvest actually earned so far?
What securities exemptions did House Hack use to raise money from retail investors?
What share of the company's money goes to executive pay and marketing?
What stops Kevin from competing with his own company on real estate?
Where does Reinvest post its official investor updates?
Whose interests come first: shareholders, members, or the YouTube audience?
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