He Left Law To Become A Real Estate Agent (ft. Krys Benyamein)

What if renting your primary home is the smartest move you can make in a seven-figure market? We welcome Krys Benyamein, a first-generation American who walked away from a public defender career to join his family’s Southern California brokerage, and he brings the kind of grounded clarity that cuts through housing hype. From LA County’s “million-dollar doesn’t feel like a million” reality to the psychology of leaving a prestige title, Krys shares a blueprint for building wealth and a life you actually like.

Krys explains why he rents a $7k home instead of taking on an $11k mortgage, preserving capital and flexibility while holding low-rate assets that appreciate. Along the way, we connect ultrarunning and rock climbing to entrepreneurship—big goals are easy to announce and hard to resource, and the real work is designing a life that can carry them.