7 Proven Patrick Carroll Reflects On His Controversies: A Cautionary Tale of Mental Health and Redemption in Miami Real Estate: Mistakes to Avoid

A Cautionary Tale of Mental Health and Redemption

Miami real estate investor Patrick Carroll has been open about his recent controversies, including a shotgun incident on his boat and a history of mental health issues. In an exclusive interview with The Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy, Carroll discusses how he’s working to restore his reputation and get back in the game with a 0 million acquisition goal for 2027.

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Carroll deleted the video, but the clip generated a wave of controversy for the multifamily investor who sold his namesake firm to RMR Group for $80 million in 2023. Since the sale, Caroll had a lot of idle time on his hands, and the shotgun incident wasn’t the first or last time that he was in the news for the wrong reasons in recent years. 

“Sitting in my pool was not good for me,” Carroll told The Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy on Thursday. “Starting in March of 2024 I went into a full blown manic attack. And frankly, there’s a lot of it [that] I don’t even remember. I look back on it and I see things that I posted or I read articles, and I cringe.” 

After Miami Beach Police forced Carroll into a three-day mental health evaluation and temporarily seized his firearms, he got into more trouble a few months later in Los Angeles. He was charged with displaying a loaded firearm in public and evading a police officer in an incident that involved him being filmed by a TV news helicopter running from Los Angeles cops. 

In November of last year, Florida state prosecutors dropped a felony aggravated stalking charge against Carroll in his native Tampa. A month earlier, Carroll was arrested in Wyoming on an outstanding warrant that he had allegedly violated a 15-day temporary restraining order to stay away from his ex-wife, Lindsey Truex. Prosecutors determined that phone calls he made to Truex occurred after the restraining order had expired. 

In April, Carroll agreed to undergo mental health counseling for two years, in exchange for prosecutors dismissing the charges. 

Carroll spoke to Korangy at The Real Deal Miami Real Estate Forum about his past controversies, finding out he had bipolar disorder that had gone undiagnosed for years, and his efforts to restore his reputation as he looks to get back in the real estate game in 2027 once a noncompete agreement with RMR expires. 

“I’m going to come out of the gate in 2027,” Carroll said. “I’m pretty positive I can do $500 million to $1 billion worth of acquisitions. This is the phase I call, ‘waving my ass around.’” 

Caroll’s real estate career took off in 2010 when he started to raise venture capital from institutional investors like private equity firm Carlyle, he told Korangy. “We would buy $1 billion a year,” Carroll said. “I’d go do a victory lap in New York and [tell potential new investors], ‘I’m making so much money with Carlyle, you really should partner with me.’” 

Going forward, he is confident he will convince potential new investors to join him, despite his notorious past, Carroll said. 

“Smart investors invest to make money, and I’m a proven moneymaker,” he said. “It was never easy for me. I was this kid from Tampa that didn’t go to college, and that had been arrested before. The good thing is I’ve never been arrested or in trouble for anything based on integrity, never anything financially related, never anything that’s affected my business.”

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I was like screw everybody”: Patrick Carroll”,”status”:”publish”,”slug”:”patrick-carroll-reflects-on-his-controversies-at-trd-forum”,”uri”:”/miami/2025/11/07/patrick-carroll-reflects-on-his-controversies-at-trd-forum/”,”link”:”https://therealdeal.com/miami/2025/11/07/patrick-carroll-reflects-on-his-controversies-at-trd-forum/”,”dateGmt”:”2025-11-07T18:50:48″,”contentTypeName”:”post”,”contentFiltered”:”u003cpu003eIn the spring of last year, Patrick Carroll posted a video on his Instagram account that showed him on his boat clutching a shotgun, sporting a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a white towel draped over his shoulders. u003ca href=”/miami/2024/03/21/patrick-carroll-taken-in-for-mental-health-evaluation/”u003eCarrollu003c/au003e fired off a couple of rounds that he later claimed were blanks after police officers showed up at his house following calls from his neighbors. u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eCarroll deleted the video, but the clip generated a wave of controversy for the multifamily investor who sold his namesake firm to RMR Group for u003ca href=”/national/2023/07/31/patrick-carroll-sells-his-multifamily-firm-for-80m/”u003e$80 millionu003c/au003e in 2023. Since the sale, Caroll had a lot of idle time on his hands, and the shotgun incident wasn’t the first or last time that he was in the news for the wrong reasons in recent years.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003e“Sitting in my pool was not good for me,” Carroll told u003cemu003eThe Real Dealu003c/emu003e publisher Amir Korangy on Thursday. “Starting in March of 2024 I went into a full blown manic attack. And frankly, thereu0026#8217;s a lot of it [that] I donu0026#8217;t even remember. I look back on it and I see things that I posted or I read articles, and I cringe.”u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003csection id=”trd-gallery-block_e0705e7c40a927641b0507cf7ecd0c10″ class=”trd-gallery”u003eu003cdiv class=”trd-gallery-slides”u003eu003cfigure class=”wp-block-image size-full”u003eu003cimg loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” width=”1500″ height=”1000″ src=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE.jpg” alt=”The Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy and Patrick Carroll ” class=”wp-image-999393″ srcset=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE.jpg 1500w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-300×200.jpg 300w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-700×467.jpg 700w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-200×133.jpg 200w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-768×512.jpg 768w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-1024×683.jpg 1024w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-1400×933.jpg 1400w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_131903-8678_ALIVE-50×33.jpg 50w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px” /u003eu003cfigcaption class=”wp-element-caption”u003eThe Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy and Patrick Carroll (Photos by Alive Coverage)u003c/figcaptionu003eu003c/figureu003eu003cfigure class=”wp-block-image size-full”u003eu003cimg loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” width=”1500″ height=”1000″ src=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE.jpg” alt=”” class=”wp-image-999400″ srcset=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE.jpg 1500w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-300×200.jpg 300w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-700×467.jpg 700w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-200×133.jpg 200w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-768×512.jpg 768w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-1024×683.jpg 1024w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-1400×933.jpg 1400w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133356-9462_ALIVE-50×33.jpg 50w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px” /u003eu003cfigcaption class=”wp-element-caption”u003ePatrick Carroll (Photos by Alive Coverage)u003c/figcaptionu003eu003c/figureu003eu003cfigure class=”wp-block-image size-full”u003eu003cimg loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” width=”1500″ height=”1000″ src=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE.jpg” alt=”The Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy and Patrick Carroll ” class=”wp-image-999401″ srcset=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE.jpg 1500w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-300×200.jpg 300w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-700×467.jpg 700w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-200×133.jpg 200w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-768×512.jpg 768w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-1024×683.jpg 1024w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-1400×933.jpg 1400w, https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133420-9491_ALIVE-50×33.jpg 50w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px” /u003eu003cfigcaption class=”wp-element-caption”u003eThe Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy and Patrick Carroll (Photos by Alive Coverage)u003c/figcaptionu003eu003c/figureu003eu003c/divu003eu003c/sectionu003eu003cpu003eAfter Miami Beach Police forced Carroll into a three-day mental health evaluation and temporarily seized his firearms, he got into more trouble a few months later in Los Angeles. He was charged with displaying a loaded firearm in public and evading a police officer in an incident that involved him being filmed by a TV news helicopter running from Los Angeles cops.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eIn November of last year, Florida state prosecutors dropped a felony aggravated stalking charge against Carroll in his native Tampa. A month earlier, u003ca href=”/miami/2024/10/22/patrick-carroll-is-jailed-in-wyoming-wanted-in-tampa/”u003eCarrollu003c/au003e was arrested in Wyoming on an outstanding warrant that he had allegedly violated a 15-day temporary restraining order to stay away from his ex-wife, Lindsey Truex. Prosecutors determined that phone calls he made to Truex occurred after the restraining order had expired.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eIn April, u003ca href=”/miami/2025/04/25/patrick-carroll-avoids-prosecution-in-la-criminal-case/”u003eCarrollu003c/au003e agreed to undergo mental health counseling for two years, in exchange for prosecutors dismissing the charges.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eu003ca href=”/national/2023/05/20/what-makes-patrick-carroll-go-tick-tick-boom/”u003eCarrollu003c/au003e spoke to Korangy at u003cemu003eThe Real Dealu003c/emu003e Miami Real Estate Forum about his past controversies, finding out he had bipolar disorder that had gone undiagnosed for years, and his efforts to restore his reputation as he looks to get back in the real estate game in 2027 once a noncompete agreement with RMR expires.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003e“Iu0026#8217;m going to come out of the gate in 2027,” Carroll said. “I’m pretty positive I can do $500 million to $1 billion worth of acquisitions. This is the phase I call, ‘waving my ass around.’”u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eCaroll’s real estate career took off in 2010 when he started to raise venture capital from institutional investors like private equity firm Carlyle, he told Korangy. “We would buy $1 billion a year,” Carroll said. “I’d go do a victory lap in New York and [tell potential new investors], ‘Iu0026#8217;m making so much money with Carlyle, you really should partner with me.’”u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003eGoing forward, he is confident he will convince potential new investors to join him, despite his notorious past, Carroll said.u0026nbsp;u003c/pu003enu003cpu003e“Smart investors invest to make money, and Iu0026#8217;m a proven moneymaker,” he said. “It was never easy for me. I was this kid from Tampa that didnu0026#8217;t go to college, and that had been arrested before. The good thing is Iu0026#8217;ve never been arrested or in trouble for anything based on integrity, never anything financially related, never anything thatu0026#8217;s affected my business.”u003c/pu003en”,”noAds”:false,”alternativeHeadline”:{“subheadline”:”Multifamily syndicator reflects on his past controversies and hints at his future at The Real Deal Miami Real Estate Forum”,”__typename”:”AlternativeHeadline”},”updatedPost”:{“updated”:false,”date”:”2025-11-07T19:00:00+00:00″,”__typename”:”UpdatedPost”},”aiSummary”:{“summary”:”u003cpu003eu003c!– wp:list –u003eu003c/pu003ernu003cul class=”wp-block-list”u003eu003c!– wp:list-item –u003ernu003cliu003eMultifamily investor Patrick Carroll discussed his recent controversies, which included incidents involving a shotgun, evading police in Los Angeles and a temporary restraining order violation in Tampa, attributing his actions to a full-blown manic attack after his firm’s sale.u003c/liu003ernu003c!– /wp:list-item –u003ernrnu003c!– 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I was like screw everybody”: Patrick Carroll” /u003enu003cmeta property=”og:description” content=”Patrick Carroll is on the mend, working on restoring his reputation after recent years of scandals.” /u003enu003cmeta property=”og:url” content=”https://therealdeal.com/miami/2025/11/07/patrick-carroll-reflects-on-his-controversies-at-trd-forum/” /u003enu003cmeta property=”og:site_name” content=”The Real Deal” /u003enu003cmeta property=”article:publisher” content=”https://www.facebook.com/therealdealmedia/” /u003enu003cmeta property=”article:published_time” content=”2025-11-07T18:50:48+00:00″ /u003enu003cmeta property=”article:modified_time” content=”2025-11-07T18:52:39+00:00″ /u003enu003cmeta property=”og:image” content=”https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/REALDEALMIAMI2025_1106_133322-9414_ALIVE.jpg” /u003entu003cmeta property=”og:image:width” content=”1500″ /u003entu003cmeta property=”og:image:height” content=”1000″ /u003entu003cmeta property=”og:image:type” content=”image/jpeg” /u003enu003cmeta name=”author” content=”Francisco Alvarado” /u003enu003cmeta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image” /u003enu003cmeta name=”twitter:description” content=”In the spring of last year, Patrick Carroll posted a video on his Instagram account that showed him on his boat clutching a shotgun, sporting a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a white towel draped over his shoulders. Carroll fired off a couple of rounds that he later claimed were blanks after police officers showed up at his house following calls from his neighbors.  Carroll deleted the video, but the clip generated a wave of controversy for the multifamily investor who sold his namesake firm to RMR Group for $80 million in 2023. 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