Clayton Morris


Clayton Morris is an American real estate investor and host of the Investing in Real Estate podcast.
He is a former co-host of The Daily Buzz and Good Day Philadelphia on Fox's WTXF-TV who moved to co-host Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel in 2009. He covered consumer technology for Fox and hosted weekly technology segments for Fox News Radio and Fox News. On September 4, 2017, he left Fox News.
Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Wilson High School in Spring Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. He was a frequent guest-panelist on the Fox News late-night satire show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Lawsuits

In March 2019, investors filed more than two dozen lawsuits in Indiana and New Jersey, claiming that Morris was running a Ponzi scheme involving the sales of some houses in C- and D-class neighborhoods through his investment company, Morris Invest, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The investors claim they were sold rental properties which Morris Invest promised to rehabilitate and rent out, earning them rental income. Some claim they later discovered the properties they received rental income from for several months were boarded up and vacant and they began receiving city code and country health department violations. Others found they had purchased vacant lots, small shacks or buildings that were falling down.
By July 2019, Morris had moved the family to a resort town on the coast of Portugal. The Morrises say they and several members of their family also lost money because of the underhanded business practices of former business partner Bert Whalen of Oceanpointe Investments. Whalen is accused of taking money entrusted to him for purchases, rehabilitations, and property management costs and forging documents when asked for updates and receipts. The Morrises intend to fight the suits from overseas. Federal and state law enforcement officials would not comment on whether or not there was a criminal investigation.
In May 2020, the State of Indiana filed a civil lawsuit against Clayton Morris, among others, for violating Indiana's deceptive sales and home loan acts in real estate deals involving more than 150 properties in Marion County.
In March of 2020, Clayton Morris Loses $7.2 Million Lawsuit against HoltonWiseTV. The suit was dismissed by the judge prior to a formal trial. More information can be found on Biggerpockets website.

Personal life

He and his wife, Natali, have three children and lived in Maplewood, New Jersey until 2019 when they moved to Portugal.