Latest / Earn Your Leisure / EYL #208 SECRETS OF THE WEALTHY, REAL ESTATE INVESTING, & BECOMING AN EMPLOYED MILLIONAIRE
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- 0:58Speaker 2: So I'm sitting there like, yes, you got it, I'm
- 1:01Speaker 2: gonna take the job. So I pulls off in my car,
- 1:04Speaker 2: but I wanted to double back to go buy my
- 1:06Speaker 2: partner to tell them look the jigs up like red
- 1:10Speaker 2: Rover nine or the jigs up.
- 1:12Speaker 3: So by the time I get over there, swat.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Cars, cops, barricades, and I pull over and I'm sitting
- 1:18Speaker 2: there with a trunk full of phones, and I'm going
- 1:21Speaker 2: defining moment, y'all, That's defining moment, Like all right, just
- 1:24Speaker 2: gotta pull off.
- 1:27Speaker 4: My graduates from my school being forced back. Drop bags drop, Mike,
- 1:33Speaker 4: drop bag drop.
- 1:46Speaker 5: All right, ey l we back home New York City.
- 1:49Speaker 5: This is a highly anticipated episode and it's one that
- 1:53Speaker 5: I'm sure a lot of people are gonna benefit from.
- 1:55Speaker 5: And I love telling these stories. Shout out to our
- 1:58Speaker 5: guy Jamal King. We kind of his story which he
- 2:01Speaker 5: was a police officer and became a millionaire while he
- 2:04Speaker 5: was working on a police force and started a bunch
- 2:06Speaker 5: of different businesses and made a bunch of money in
- 2:07Speaker 5: real estate and the whole non And I feel like
- 2:11Speaker 5: this story is kind of going to be in line
- 2:14Speaker 5: with that. But it's different, obviously because it's a different career,
- 2:16Speaker 5: different path, but more importantly has that same level of
- 2:21Speaker 5: hope because most people that are watching this are working
- 2:25Speaker 5: a regular job, and most people are, you know, that
- 2:28Speaker 5: blue collar, middle class, working class, whatever you want to
- 2:32Speaker 5: call it, trying to get to that millionaire status. Most
- 2:35Speaker 5: people haven't actually made their millions yet, but the goal
- 2:39Speaker 5: is to get to that point. So whenever we can
- 2:41Speaker 5: highlight people that come from that and actually were able
- 2:45Speaker 5: to do that while still actually, you know, working a
- 2:47Speaker 5: regular job. I think that it's not only educational, but
- 2:51Speaker 5: it's extremely motivational as well. Yeah, so Storm Leroy out
- 2:57Speaker 5: of Brooklyn, New York, correct Science, what part that style
- 3:02Speaker 5: we made?
- 3:04Speaker 6: This is a This is a first.
- 3:06Speaker 7: So a lot of times people walk up to us
- 3:08Speaker 7: and they tell us what they do in the business,
- 3:10Speaker 7: and we always are polite about listening, right because you
- 3:13Speaker 7: never know what somebody's idea could just be something that's
- 3:16Speaker 7: world changing. And usually it always ends with yeah, I'm
- 3:19Speaker 7: gonna be on the show, and I'll response. My response
- 3:22Speaker 7: to show is like, Yo, I can't wait. The sea's
- 3:24Speaker 7: gonna be waiting for you. So like, this is the
- 3:26Speaker 7: first time that I've said, Yo, the seat's gonna be
- 3:28Speaker 7: waiting for you, and the person has arrived in the seat,
- 3:31Speaker 7: So welcome, my brother.
- 3:32Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Man, This is this is definitely a moment,
- 3:36Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I've really been timing this
- 3:39Speaker 2: out to stay focused, Like I said, keep my head down,
- 3:42Speaker 2: keep doing what I'm doing. The intent, my intent will
- 3:45Speaker 2: lead to this moment and now it's happening, Like really,
- 3:48Speaker 2: I'm crazy.
- 3:49Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, man, yeah that's the grind.
- 3:52Speaker 8: Man.
- 3:52Speaker 6: We met what about over a year ago?
- 3:54Speaker 2: It was a year and eight months ago. I don't
- 3:56Speaker 2: know that was too specific.
- 3:59Speaker 6: It's on my calendar.
- 4:01Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 4:01Speaker 7: So we met at our brother Juvenar's event. Yes, sir,
- 4:04Speaker 7: we've been watching you grinding. See now you shoot me
- 4:07Speaker 7: to text. I'm like, yo, we see what's going on.
- 4:09Speaker 7: We see what's going on. And then we ran to
- 4:11Speaker 7: each other on the plane. Yes, and I was like,
- 4:13Speaker 7: that's the perfect time. We got this event that we're
- 4:16Speaker 7: doing in Atlanta. I think you want to be part
- 4:17Speaker 7: of it.
- 4:18Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 4:18Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That was That was a powerful moment
- 4:22Speaker 2: because I know it's like you had got off and
- 4:24Speaker 2: then I seen you like slow down and I'm like,
- 4:26Speaker 2: oh yeah, we could take this picture together. And then
- 4:28Speaker 2: you looked though it was like you ready. I was like, yeah,
- 4:31Speaker 2: I'm ready to take this picture. No, no, no, not
- 4:34Speaker 2: invest fast. I literally just stopped, come on, messed up forlone,
- 4:38Speaker 2: stop playing. He's like, no, seriously, are you ready? I said, yes,
- 4:41Speaker 2: let's do this. You're like it's done. Let's take this picture.
- 4:45Speaker 2: I mean that picture. If people look back at that
- 4:47Speaker 2: picture on my timeline, I'm showing that back tooth right there.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Super duper, you know what I mean.
- 4:53Speaker 3: So I appreciate that moment.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Man, I appreciate you for coming. The mighty, mighty invest
- 4:58Speaker 5: fast legendary hit situation. So you definitely played a part
- 5:01Speaker 5: in it. Thank you for coming. But even before that,
- 5:03Speaker 5: there was a viral moment where Ash Cash shouts brother
- 5:06Speaker 5: ash Cash, eyl network inside the vault your episode. This
- 5:10Speaker 5: is actually a lot to live up to it because
- 5:12Speaker 5: I don't know how top that came out the gate
- 5:17Speaker 5: with a five hundred thousand viewed you two. Yeah, that's
- 5:21Speaker 5: I think that's that's his biggest episode.
- 5:23Speaker 7: Definitely biggest episodes even on the networks. If you look
- 5:26Speaker 7: at the top uploads, it's still in the top ten.
- 5:28Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Sure, I always checked too.
- 5:33Speaker 5: That's vague, man. So long story short, this is going
- 5:35Speaker 5: to be a throw episode. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it,
- 5:38Speaker 5: yeahah for sure. So all right, so let's get into this.
- 5:41Speaker 5: I want to talk about the real estate. I want
- 5:42Speaker 5: to talk about entrepreneurship, I want to talk about all that.
- 5:44Speaker 5: But I want to start at the beginning, you were
- 5:46Speaker 5: working at Verizon, yes, sir, the Verizon man.
- 5:50Speaker 2: The variety you were.
- 5:52Speaker 5: You were literally the Verizon man.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Yep.
- 5:55Speaker 3: So all right, So.
- 5:58Speaker 5: So how did that start, How how did this start
- 6:01Speaker 5: working with Verzon and at what point did you get
- 6:04Speaker 5: turned onto real estate.
- 6:06Speaker 2: I started working for Verizon in nineteen ninety six, ninety six.
- 6:12Speaker 2: I was young, and but what got me into real
- 6:14Speaker 2: estate was my dad. You know, my dad, he was
- 6:17Speaker 2: a hard workers work in construction, and while working construction,
- 6:20Speaker 2: he would come home. He would have me take his
- 6:22Speaker 2: boots off, you know, and I would take his boots off,
- 6:25Speaker 2: and there would be times I would running hot from
- 6:26Speaker 2: him because I literally didn't want to take his boots off,
- 6:28Speaker 2: these dirty boots. You know.
- 6:30Speaker 3: It was me and my brothers and sisters, but he
- 6:32Speaker 3: would always call me.
- 6:33Speaker 2: So my dad, who worked construction, like I mentioned, one
- 6:36Speaker 2: day he gets carved in while doing a hospital and
- 6:39Speaker 2: Brooklyn called Woodhall Hospital. So he got caved in. He
- 6:42Speaker 2: was a day laborer, wasn't supposed to be there anything.
- 6:44Speaker 2: It's in the seventies, caved in like the walls fell
- 6:47Speaker 2: like he had the walls. Then while digging the ditch.
- 6:50Speaker 2: The dirt collapse then on him. So from the like
- 6:53Speaker 2: a little bit above the waist down on the dirt
- 6:56Speaker 2: collapse then on him. So they dug him out, brought
- 6:58Speaker 2: him home, and they sat him at the kitchen table.
- 6:59Speaker 2: They carried him in, so I'm about seven eight years old,
- 7:03Speaker 2: sat him at the kitchen table.
- 7:04Speaker 3: So he calls me back in and says, take my
- 7:06Speaker 3: boots off.
- 7:07Speaker 2: But now he's in agonizing pain, you know, and I
- 7:10Speaker 2: could see this thing on his face. So I'm taking
- 7:14Speaker 2: his boots off and he looks down at me says,
- 7:15Speaker 2: you know, why have you take my boots off? And
- 7:18Speaker 2: I say know why? He says, because I don't ever
- 7:22Speaker 2: want you to go through what you see me going through.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Wow hit me.
- 7:28Speaker 3: It hit me like a ton of bricks. I know
- 7:29Speaker 3: he's delivering me a message.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You know. I might have been young, but he understood
- 7:33Speaker 2: the volume, the volume of giving me that at that
- 7:36Speaker 2: time that he's ready. So it's stuck at that moment.
- 7:41Speaker 2: But he would always walk around the house and say,
- 7:43Speaker 2: don't pay anybody's mortgage. Now we remember back in the seventies,
- 7:46Speaker 2: it was redlining. No matter how much they would want
- 7:48Speaker 2: to say that it didn't exist, you know, with the
- 7:51Speaker 2: signing of the housing the Fair Housing Act, I think
- 7:54Speaker 2: at sixty five or sixty eight, whenever that was, it
- 7:56Speaker 2: still existed. So my dad wasn't allowed to buy our
- 7:59Speaker 2: home no matter how much. And we had our landlord.
- 8:03Speaker 2: We never seen him, but we knew he was Jewish,
- 8:05Speaker 2: Brownstone and bad sty. He would have another black gentleman
- 8:09Speaker 2: come collect the rent. But what would never happen was repairs.
- 8:13Speaker 2: The house was falling down. You know, my dad would
- 8:16Speaker 2: do all the repairs. The baller would break, he wouldat
- 8:18Speaker 2: somebody fixed the ballers everything. So one time, literally our
- 8:22Speaker 2: baller broke down to the point where ituln't be repaired,
- 8:25Speaker 2: need to put a new baller in. So you imagine
- 8:27Speaker 2: how many thousands of dollars that was. My dad couldn't
- 8:30Speaker 2: afford to get that. So we literally went three years
- 8:34Speaker 2: without heat in hot water. Could you imagine that? Like,
- 8:38Speaker 2: I'll look at that now at this moment and go crazy. Yeah,
- 8:41Speaker 2: I couldn't even imagine that. But here's something that really,
- 8:45Speaker 2: you know, put me into the moment of understanding. You
- 8:47Speaker 2: don't know bad. When you're in the moment of bad,
- 8:50Speaker 2: you just know family fund it was ten of us brothers, sisters,
- 8:54Speaker 2: Brownstone three floors, joining ourselves.
- 8:58Speaker 3: And we didn't realize that was not normal, you know.
- 9:03Speaker 2: And what made it more impactful and made it seem
- 9:06Speaker 2: like it wasn't a bad thing because my house was
- 9:08Speaker 2: full of so much love with my mother and father
- 9:10Speaker 2: and the other kids in the neighborhood always would want
- 9:13Speaker 2: to hang out my house because my parents were so free,
- 9:15Speaker 2: you know, you allow friends to come over their cock
- 9:17Speaker 2: dinna and hang out. And I'd be like, yoh, well
- 9:19Speaker 2: had no heat, bro we had with coats on it,
- 9:21Speaker 2: Like yeah, but my house is is hell on wheels.
- 9:24Speaker 2: So anyway, moving forward, going from there, I got the
- 9:28Speaker 2: job at Horizon. But before that, I got my first apartment.
- 9:31Speaker 2: This is when it really hit me. I got my
- 9:33Speaker 2: first apartment, started paying rent, and I said, this don't
- 9:36Speaker 2: feel right like paying someone rent while I'm paying the mortgage.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Didn't feel right in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, New York, I said, man,
- 9:45Speaker 2: I got to get my own place. So I got
- 9:47Speaker 2: my job at Verizon. I started looking for a place
- 9:51Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety five, right before I got the job. Now,
- 9:54Speaker 2: I was hustling doing my thing, but it wasn't drugs.
- 9:56Speaker 2: I like to get that point of rus I was
- 9:59Speaker 2: doing white hustles. Yeah, it's all type of hustle. Telling
- 10:02Speaker 2: the type of hustle he was doing was I was
- 10:03Speaker 2: doing tech technology hustle, you know, with cell phones and
- 10:07Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know, I like to say I
- 10:09Speaker 2: was a big part of free nights and weekends and
- 10:11Speaker 2: eventually helping those who couldn't afford a cell phone be
- 10:15Speaker 2: able to afford a cell phone now because it was
- 10:16Speaker 2: very expensive. So you're welcome, it's no doubt, you know.
- 10:22Speaker 2: So during that time, I went looking at a place
- 10:24Speaker 2: and it was an older gentleman who wanted to sell
- 10:26Speaker 2: me two brownstones for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Right now, those brownstones now worth four million dollars. But
- 10:34Speaker 2: the key thing was I took two people with me,
- 10:37Speaker 2: that with my friends, and they didn't see the vision allly,
- 10:39Speaker 2: so was the problem all this? So was the neighborhood.
- 10:42Speaker 2: So they were they were saying, like I had this
- 10:43Speaker 2: list of one hundred reasons why I should buy it.
- 10:46Speaker 2: They only had one reason why I shouldn't. And ironically,
- 10:50Speaker 2: that was the one reason that was haunting me. Maybe
- 10:52Speaker 2: I shouldn't buy it. So when I got there, I'm like, oh, yeah,
- 10:54Speaker 2: we're looking at the place, and they go, Man, the
- 10:56Speaker 2: neighborhood's bad. Bro, Man the crack yo. You said, listen though,
- 11:01Speaker 2: the rent's gonna pay for these too. Like, I'm gonna
- 11:03Speaker 2: be alright, I'm not gonna pay rent.
- 11:05Speaker 5: I have this.
- 11:06Speaker 3: So I walked away. I didn't buy those two properties.
- 11:09Speaker 2: But what's stuck in my mind was anytime you're doing something,
- 11:13Speaker 2: you need to surround yourself with like minded people who
- 11:15Speaker 2: could see the vision of what you want to do
- 11:18Speaker 2: what you want to do, because what you're trying to
- 11:20Speaker 2: do maybe if not, maybe it will be beyond what
- 11:24Speaker 2: they want to do. Because you become common you gain
- 11:27Speaker 2: a common threat with people. With your friendships based on
- 11:30Speaker 2: either sport, it's a relationship, but hanging out. Now, when
- 11:33Speaker 2: you go outside the normal, you make that thing about
- 11:35Speaker 2: something like real estate.
- 11:36Speaker 3: See, that's not their willehouse.
- 11:38Speaker 2: You just created a new willelhouse for you, and now
- 11:40Speaker 2: they don't understand it, and all they saw was the
- 11:42Speaker 2: bad thing. I didn't buy it, big mistake. I moved on.
- 11:46Speaker 7: I honestly didn't think that's how the story was gonna go.
- 11:48Speaker 7: I honestly thought you're gonna be like, yo, I didn't
- 11:49Speaker 7: listen to them. I got there and then I'll learn
- 11:51Speaker 7: some say so it almost was their fear that was
- 11:54Speaker 7: being casted on you, right, one hundred What was Do
- 11:57Speaker 7: you remember the one.
- 11:57Speaker 6: Thing that they were saying like, this isn't it?
- 11:59Speaker 7: Because I would feel like if I got a hundred
- 12:01Speaker 7: reasons like at a certain point, that's going to crush
- 12:04Speaker 7: yours and yours and they're going to see.
- 12:06Speaker 6: My point of view. Yep. So do you remember the
- 12:08Speaker 6: one thing that they were like, we can't do this?
- 12:10Speaker 2: Yeah, they kept saying drugs crime, right, But what made
- 12:14Speaker 2: me not buy it? Because they were my friends and
- 12:18Speaker 2: I thought they it's not they didn't have my best
- 12:21Speaker 2: interest in mind, But we all thought alike until I
- 12:25Speaker 2: developed that other sense of I wanted to do more. So,
- 12:28Speaker 2: if you're in a group of ten people and nine
- 12:31Speaker 2: of them are saying, yo, let's go to this party,
- 12:34Speaker 2: you don't want.
- 12:34Speaker 3: To go, You're like, now, what the hell I'll go?
- 12:37Speaker 2: So I was in a group it was us three
- 12:39Speaker 2: and they were like, yo, don't buy the house, And
- 12:41Speaker 2: I said, you know what, I'm not gonna buy it
- 12:42Speaker 2: because maybe you're right. So I wasn't equipped with all
- 12:45Speaker 2: the knowledge of knowing real estate. I just know what
- 12:47Speaker 2: my dad was giving me, and I didn't want to
- 12:49Speaker 2: pay rent. I wanted to buy it, So that's why
- 12:51Speaker 2: I didn't buy it. But then it comes a part
- 12:55Speaker 2: of the story what gets interesting with the cell phones.
- 12:58Speaker 2: I'm driving in my car and I get pulled on
- 13:00Speaker 2: over by detectives. So they pulled me over and they're going, look,
- 13:04Speaker 2: we know what you're doing because it wasn't illegal yet
- 13:08Speaker 2: what we were doing with cell phones, it wasn't illegal.
- 13:10Speaker 2: There was no crime. So they said, nah, we know
- 13:13Speaker 2: you got this job off at Verizon. We suggest you
- 13:16Speaker 2: take it, and I turned I turned it down. I'm like,
- 13:19Speaker 2: how did y'all know this? They said, well, you're gonna
- 13:21Speaker 2: get that letter again, and when you get it, take
- 13:24Speaker 2: the job. So I'm sitting there like, yes, sir, you
- 13:27Speaker 2: got it. I'm gonna take the job. So I pulls
- 13:29Speaker 2: off in my car, but I wanted to double back
- 13:32Speaker 2: to go buy my partner to tell them look the
- 13:35Speaker 2: jigs up like red Rover nine or get the jigs up.
- 13:39Speaker 2: So by the time I get over there, swat cars, cops, barricades,
- 13:44Speaker 2: and I pull over, and I'm sitting there with a
- 13:47Speaker 2: trunk full of phones and I'm going defining moment, y'all.
- 13:51Speaker 2: It's defining moment, Like all right, you just got to
- 13:56Speaker 2: pull off.
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- 14:46Speaker 3: Like this, there's nothing you can do. They already warned you.
- 14:50Speaker 2: You here. Now. If they don't come up to this
- 14:51Speaker 2: car and notice you, you cannot look back. You have
- 14:54Speaker 2: to move forward with what you want to do. I
- 14:56Speaker 2: pulled off. Once I pulled off, that letter came back
- 14:59Speaker 2: in Verizon is offering. Yeah, yeah, okay, they could have
- 15:03Speaker 2: been offered me any position where I signed. I took
- 15:05Speaker 2: that job and at Verizon. From that moment, so that
- 15:09Speaker 2: your friend got locked up, yeah, he did for cell phones.
- 15:12Speaker 2: He got he got locked up for that. And I don't,
- 15:14Speaker 2: you know, want to go into detail of how big
- 15:16Speaker 2: it was, but I thought it was only New York
- 15:19Speaker 2: that we were servicing. We were servicing like eight states.
- 15:24Speaker 5: So he was he was ahead of you. You wasn't
- 15:26Speaker 5: fully aware of the whole operation.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, well what it was it was, Nah, this
- 15:31Speaker 2: is cool, you know. I was like, nah, just just
- 15:33Speaker 2: be cool and quiet and make it here and we
- 15:36Speaker 2: good because don't go out ruffling feathers. You know. Then
- 15:40Speaker 2: once you start expanding, now they can build things and
- 15:43Speaker 2: stuff like that. So yeah, the expansion brought down the
- 15:46Speaker 2: empire of the Carters.
- 15:48Speaker 7: It felt like the last scene and said it off Yeah,
- 15:50Speaker 7: when they watching Cleo exactly and they had the bus
- 15:53Speaker 7: like all right, well you can't go help her.
- 15:55Speaker 6: You gotta go figure this thing out now exactly.
- 15:57Speaker 2: So once I got the job, I said to myself,
- 16:00Speaker 2: now I'm making four hundred dollars a week. Now. That
- 16:02Speaker 2: job took the job did I I took that job
- 16:05Speaker 2: by Verizon. So now you got to imagine I'm going
- 16:07Speaker 2: from doing like three to four five thousand dollars a
- 16:10Speaker 2: week to making four hundred dollars a week but being safe.
- 16:15Speaker 2: And I said, you know what if I would have
- 16:17Speaker 2: been arrested, what would my dad think? You know, he's
- 16:21Speaker 2: not alive now, but like everything, I would have been
- 16:24Speaker 2: sitting there thinking about all those moments, that taking his
- 16:27Speaker 2: boots off and all those stories from behind some bars.
- 16:30Speaker 2: So now I'm saying to myself, this is my moment
- 16:33Speaker 2: to do what I have to do to make him
- 16:35Speaker 2: proud and also to lift out that dream that he
- 16:37Speaker 2: can never do, which was real estate. So now ninety six,
- 16:41Speaker 2: I have another friend who does real estate, and he's like, listen, Storm,
- 16:43Speaker 2: I'm gonna go look at these properties.
- 16:45Speaker 3: Once you come with me.
- 16:46Speaker 2: I said, yeah, because I always wanted to get into
- 16:48Speaker 2: real estate, So now come with me. So he takes
- 16:51Speaker 2: me to go see a Brownstone. Ironically, he breaks down
- 16:54Speaker 2: every single thing on that list that I have back
- 16:57Speaker 2: in ninety five, why and with more detail.
- 16:59Speaker 3: He said, Tony's going to change.
- 17:01Speaker 2: This is what's going on. You see they doing the
- 17:02Speaker 2: garden up there and you see they doing this, and
- 17:05Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, boom, bought my first brownstone. Got
- 17:08Speaker 2: that first brownstone for about three hundred and fifty thousand
- 17:11Speaker 2: dollars incredible. Had to do some work on the Browns
- 17:15Speaker 2: when I was you know, I had to gut it out.
- 17:16Speaker 2: You know, the homes weren't being tooken care of her
- 17:18Speaker 2: back then. So there's water, this and that. So I
- 17:20Speaker 2: cut out the brownstone, get contractors, rip out the electric,
- 17:24Speaker 2: all the plumping, all the plumbing. I'm standing in the basement,
- 17:28Speaker 2: I'm looking all the way up. Every floor is ripped out.
- 17:30Speaker 2: I'm looking up at the ceiling saying, Yo, my dad
- 17:33Speaker 2: would be so proud of me right now. He'll be
- 17:36Speaker 2: so proud of me at this moment. But you know
- 17:38Speaker 2: what I also said, Man, I never want to do
- 17:41Speaker 2: this again because I created another job for myself. I'm
- 17:46Speaker 2: in there working, I'm work working, I'm saying to myself, Wow,
- 17:51Speaker 2: I had to take days off. I had to use
- 17:53Speaker 2: my vacation days, my sick days, my holidays, and I said, Yo,
- 17:58Speaker 2: this ain't cool. So after I got that completed, I
- 18:02Speaker 2: totally stepped away from real estate because I did not
- 18:05Speaker 2: want another job because I already had one and I
- 18:07Speaker 2: almost lost the job that allowed me to buy the property.
- 18:11Speaker 2: And this is where the whole thing in my mind
- 18:14Speaker 2: led up to your job is your first business partner. Period.
- 18:18Speaker 2: Your job is a first business partner. The job allowed
- 18:21Speaker 2: me to be able to put it on the application
- 18:23Speaker 2: to get the down payment to buy the property. The
- 18:25Speaker 2: job allowed me to be able to pay these bills,
- 18:27Speaker 2: to get my credit score up to be able to
- 18:29Speaker 2: put that job on the application and get the down payment. Again.
- 18:32Speaker 2: The job allowed me the weekends off, the holidays off,
- 18:34Speaker 2: so technically me and this job are in bed together
- 18:36Speaker 2: and we're partners. He allowed me to do that. That
- 18:39Speaker 2: job allowed me. So once I understood that, I said,
- 18:41Speaker 2: oh okay, now I have to repeat the process of
- 18:44Speaker 2: doing this without having to do work. That was just
- 18:48Speaker 2: the tricky part of it. And one thing about real
- 18:50Speaker 2: estate that people don't tell you. They give you all
- 18:53Speaker 2: the glorious things about it, which is true by real estate,
- 18:56Speaker 2: and it's going to change your life. It's going to
- 18:58Speaker 2: do this, it's going to do that. But what people
- 19:00Speaker 2: don't talk about, and I really want to try to
- 19:02Speaker 2: start expanding on this story. My real estate people out there.
- 19:05Speaker 2: When you become a landlord. Man, Nobody told me. And
- 19:10Speaker 2: I become a landlord, I would literally inherit every tenant
- 19:14Speaker 2: as a boss. You know why, because they can tell you,
- 19:17Speaker 2: I'm not giving you no money until you do this,
- 19:20Speaker 2: even if it's not something that you're responsible for.
- 19:22Speaker 3: Getting those phone calls late at night, drunk phone calls.
- 19:26Speaker 3: I'm locked out.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Come let me back in. Oh, I got plenty of
- 19:28Speaker 2: those toilets, tubs, they putting stuff, and they doing all us.
- 19:33Speaker 2: And I said, I'm not knocking the landlord because it
- 19:37Speaker 2: educated me on what I didn't want to do.
- 19:40Speaker 3: But I know I didn't want to do that was
- 19:42Speaker 3: become a landlord. So I tried to change my mindset.
- 19:45Speaker 2: The mindset for me was shifting to becoming a CEO
- 19:49Speaker 2: who's running a business. That was the start of it,
- 19:53Speaker 2: to transition. I'll keep going, y'all know. So all right,
- 19:58Speaker 2: so you get your first property ninety nine ninety six
- 20:01Speaker 2: was the first property. Undred three hundred thousand, three hundred
- 20:04Speaker 2: fifty thousand and fifty thousand. You got an FHA or
- 20:07Speaker 2: just traditional traditional traditional convention. They look like thirty thousand
- 20:11Speaker 2: down something like that. Yeah, I put it, Yeah, about
- 20:13Speaker 2: thirty a little bit over that down.
- 20:14Speaker 5: All right, So then you renovate it and you get
- 20:17Speaker 5: that up and running.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Yep.
- 20:19Speaker 5: But this is why you're working at Horizon while I'm
- 20:21Speaker 5: a working So at what point do you really start
- 20:23Speaker 5: to hit your stride? Like, what's the steps that you
- 20:25Speaker 5: took after that? Like, was it every six months you
- 20:27Speaker 5: got another property? Did you refinance the first property to
- 20:30Speaker 5: get your second property? Like, what's the steps that you
- 20:32Speaker 5: took to actually start building up portfolio?
- 20:34Speaker 3: Great question, great question.
- 20:36Speaker 2: What happened was actually, like I said, stop buying properties
- 20:38Speaker 2: because of the landlord aspect. So I didn't get back
- 20:41Speaker 2: into real estate until twenty fifteen. You know why, because
- 20:45Speaker 2: there was nobody who was investing out of state. Think
- 20:47Speaker 2: about the early nineties. It was hip hop, it was diddy.
- 20:50Speaker 2: It was like we was hanging out and enjoying ourselves.
- 20:53Speaker 2: And the people I did know that was doing real estate,
- 20:55Speaker 2: it was all local. I have my friends that were
- 20:57Speaker 2: buying properties nearby, and I said, man, I don't want
- 20:59Speaker 2: to be a landlord because even when we would have
- 21:01Speaker 2: the discussion, it would be those dilembers, those dilemmas. So
- 21:05Speaker 2: I said, man, I want to do something else in
- 21:07Speaker 2: real estate. And my friend of mine he introduced me
- 21:09Speaker 2: to another friend of his that was investing in real
- 21:12Speaker 2: estate out of state. He said, nah, I just buy
- 21:14Speaker 2: properties and I collect rent. I said, you do what,
- 21:18Speaker 2: and do what and don't have to do what with who?
- 21:20Speaker 2: He said, Nah, I don't deal with tennants. I said,
- 21:22Speaker 2: told me more. He said. He gave me a little
- 21:23Speaker 2: bit of insight, but we didn't talk too long. I said,
- 21:26Speaker 2: I'm going to look myself and find out about this.
- 21:29Speaker 2: So now I go to the school of Google. I'm
- 21:31Speaker 2: looking up out of state real estate things that our
- 21:34Speaker 2: nature twenty fifteen. Now I go to a place and
- 21:36Speaker 2: I find a site called Bigger Pockets dot.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Com shot out the Bigger Pockets.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Yeah, they oweed me some bread through.
- 21:41Speaker 5: Oh not, no shout out to Bigger Pockets.
- 21:44Speaker 7: I'm saying, you know, no shout out to that bread
- 21:46Speaker 7: is free. The check got a clear, ain't clear, you know.
- 21:50Speaker 2: So I went on Bigger Pockets and I'm typing in
- 21:52Speaker 2: all these things about out of state real estate? How
- 21:54Speaker 2: does it work? And guys, excuse me, guys are really
- 21:57Speaker 2: giving all the examples of how this work, how it's built,
- 22:02Speaker 2: and It's one thing that I really love about that place.
- 22:06Speaker 2: They give you so much information real estate is this tribe.
- 22:10Speaker 2: When you ask one question, everybody answers. But see what
- 22:13Speaker 2: I was going wrong with bigger pockets was I kept
- 22:16Speaker 2: typing in questions and this someone, he reached out to
- 22:19Speaker 2: me and said, just type in the question in his search.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Don't keep asking because somebody already asking. You look like
- 22:26Speaker 2: a newbie, and people know you didn't do your research.
- 22:29Speaker 3: So I said, okay, cool. So now I'm typing in.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Where's the best place about of state real estate? How
- 22:34Speaker 2: to learn more about how to state real estate? Now
- 22:36Speaker 2: I'm getting this thread. So I noticed in the thread,
- 22:38Speaker 2: which is key, there are people who are talking a lot,
- 22:42Speaker 2: and I said, I'm going to reach out to one
- 22:43Speaker 2: of them because they seem like they want to give
- 22:45Speaker 2: a lot of information out. So I asked one question
- 22:47Speaker 2: and one guy I'm thinking about getting out of say
- 22:49Speaker 2: real estate, what's the best place? So he hits me
- 22:51Speaker 2: right back. Were going back and forth, back and forth.
- 22:54Speaker 2: He's giving me great advice. Little did he know he
- 22:56Speaker 2: would become my mentor. And this is what I mean
- 22:59Speaker 2: about always asked the right questions. When I first started
- 23:02Speaker 2: out with my theme was ask, always seek knowledge. It
- 23:05Speaker 2: is because my goal was to ask the right question,
- 23:08Speaker 2: and by asking those right questions led me to this
- 23:11Speaker 2: gentleman here giving me valuable information where he knew I
- 23:15Speaker 2: wasn't just asking any question. I was trying to get
- 23:18Speaker 2: to a finish line. And he loved that about me
- 23:21Speaker 2: that I would take his information do the research. So
- 23:24Speaker 2: now he gives me all this information. I'm looking for properties,
- 23:27Speaker 2: I'm learning how to do numbers, I'm learning everything about
- 23:30Speaker 2: it because there's no system like there is today.
- 23:32Speaker 7: So like the person who's listening to right now, I'm
- 23:34Speaker 7: sure they're gonna be like, well, what are the questions
- 23:35Speaker 7: that I'm supposed to ask? So what at that point
- 23:38Speaker 7: this is twenty fifteen. Obviously you know some of the
- 23:40Speaker 7: things will still apply. But what is some of the
- 23:41Speaker 7: questions that you're asking because you want the exact feedback.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the questions I asked was what's the
- 23:47Speaker 2: best place to start with out of state real estate?
- 23:51Speaker 3: He gave me locations. He said here in the Midwest.
- 23:53Speaker 2: You want to do this because of the good weather,
- 23:56Speaker 2: the rent the higher rents, the lower property costs, all
- 24:00Speaker 2: the things that new York didn't provide the properties were
- 24:02Speaker 2: now at this time in twenty fifteen, eight hundred thousand,
- 24:06Speaker 2: one point two like ridiculous numbers, And that math doesn't
- 24:09Speaker 2: work if you're trying to be an investor, and cash
- 24:13Speaker 2: flow off of property that's a million dollars million dollar
- 24:15Speaker 2: mortgage is about ten thousand dollars. The average rent is
- 24:17Speaker 2: two thousand dollars, so that's a three thousand dollars hole.
- 24:20Speaker 2: How do you make that up? So now when you
- 24:22Speaker 2: learn these numbers, you realize you need to branch out.
- 24:24Speaker 2: So those were the things he was giving me. I
- 24:26Speaker 2: would ask what were the best places, what were the
- 24:29Speaker 2: best tools to learn how to do numbers, what were
- 24:31Speaker 2: the best books?
- 24:32Speaker 3: What were He was giving me all that information.
- 24:34Speaker 2: So guys, when you're trying to get a mentor, make
- 24:37Speaker 2: sure the question is how, and when he gives you
- 24:41Speaker 2: the how, you go do the work and then come
- 24:43Speaker 2: back showing you actually did the work so he can
- 24:47Speaker 2: know that he's not just wasting his time. That was
- 24:49Speaker 2: crucial for me.
- 24:50Speaker 6: Do your research.
- 24:51Speaker 5: So when did you buy your first out of state property?
- 24:54Speaker 5: And where what state was it?
- 24:55Speaker 2: In twenty fifteen, I bought a property that same year
- 24:58Speaker 2: and it was in Indianapolis.
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- 25:58Speaker 3: I bought that property chain my life.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Like a lot of people would think that buying a
- 26:02Speaker 2: property a brownstone for about three hundred and fifty thousand
- 26:05Speaker 2: today which is worth almost two million dollars, will be
- 26:07Speaker 2: the property that changed my life. But you have to
- 26:09Speaker 2: think that was That was nineteen ninety six buying that property,
- 26:14Speaker 2: So it took over twenty years for that property to
- 26:17Speaker 2: be worth what it is now.
- 26:18Speaker 6: Did you held the property, Yeah, I.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Still have that property now, right, I still have that
- 26:23Speaker 2: property now, But during that time then it there. People
- 26:25Speaker 2: always ask, well, that property is the one that puts
- 26:28Speaker 2: you over the tipping point and made you a millionaire,
- 26:31Speaker 2: And I would tell them no, you know why because
- 26:34Speaker 2: the rent doesn't equate to the value of the home.
- 26:37Speaker 2: So when someone says, oh, Grandma has a house here
- 26:40Speaker 2: worth two million dollars, Grandma can't go get a loan
- 26:43Speaker 2: out on that house because she doesn't have a way
- 26:46Speaker 2: to pay for the cash out of that home. The
- 26:49Speaker 2: money is in the walls. So when if someone likes
- 26:52Speaker 2: say Grandma dies and now the family wants to decide
- 26:56Speaker 2: on selling the home or keeping a home, I always
- 26:58Speaker 2: give the analogy of this. I'm not mad if you
- 27:01Speaker 2: sell the home just have something to do with the
- 27:04Speaker 2: money with selling their home, because grandma wants that money
- 27:07Speaker 2: to create a legacy. Because you have to think, if
- 27:10Speaker 2: you're going to hold a home worth two million dollars,
- 27:13Speaker 2: collect three thousand dollars worth of rent, Grandma three kids
- 27:15Speaker 2: to spend three splitting three thousand dollars worth of rent,
- 27:19Speaker 2: how far is that going to change your legacy. But
- 27:21Speaker 2: if you sold a house for two million, and now
- 27:23Speaker 2: you buy more real estate, you create a trust all
- 27:25Speaker 2: those things. Now Grandma is smiling down going. That's why
- 27:28Speaker 2: I bought that house for thirty thousand dollars for y'all
- 27:32Speaker 2: to do that. So I definitely believe in selling Grandma's
- 27:35Speaker 2: house with a purpose because a lot of people can't
- 27:37Speaker 2: pull the cash out. So me buying a house in Indianapolis,
- 27:41Speaker 2: it was a forty thousand dollar house. I got a
- 27:44Speaker 2: loan for that house. And this is another thing I
- 27:47Speaker 2: like to give people advice as I go along in
- 27:49Speaker 2: the conversation. If that's okay to get a loan on
- 27:51Speaker 2: a forty thousand dollar property, I always recommend looking at
- 27:54Speaker 2: local banks in the state where the property is located.
- 27:57Speaker 2: So I got a loan in that state for forty
- 27:59Speaker 2: thousand dollars. That was about eight thousand dollars down. The
- 28:03Speaker 2: mortgage was two hundred and fifty dollars. Section eight was
- 28:07Speaker 2: paying eight hundred and fifty dollars. So I'm like, I'm
- 28:11Speaker 2: making like six hundred dollars a month off this property.
- 28:15Speaker 2: So at the end of the year it was a
- 28:16Speaker 2: little less than six hundred because I know I was
- 28:18Speaker 2: making six thousand dollars a year from an eight thousand
- 28:21Speaker 2: dollars investment. So I'm like, man, a lot of people
- 28:25Speaker 2: here that and go, that's not a big amount. But
- 28:28Speaker 2: the key is it isn't the amount, it's the percentage.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Someone tells you you can make eighty percent off your money.
- 28:33Speaker 2: You should look at that percentage and not how much
- 28:36Speaker 2: that amount is. Someone says, give me one hundred dollars,
- 28:38Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you eighty dollars every year from one
- 28:41Speaker 2: hundred dollars. Why not.
- 28:43Speaker 3: It's eighty percent off the one hundred dollars.
- 28:45Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm making six thousand dollars off the eight
- 28:47Speaker 2: thousand dollars, and I go, wow, I'm making my money back.
- 28:50Speaker 2: You know what. I'm at work, I'm thinking this was simple.
- 28:54Speaker 2: I don't have to deal with tenants. I don't have
- 28:57Speaker 2: to deal with anything else. How about I buy another
- 28:59Speaker 2: one and do this again. And in formulating that idea
- 29:03Speaker 2: and that structure, I said, if I'm making six thousand
- 29:06Speaker 2: dollars a year and I'm making sixty thousand dollars a
- 29:09Speaker 2: year work, how many properties do I need to no
- 29:11Speaker 2: longer have to come to work? Ten properties? I could
- 29:15Speaker 2: do that. It's either ten properties in ten years of
- 29:18Speaker 2: retallying thirty years. That sounded much better. So now once
- 29:22Speaker 2: I do the math on how that works. Key thing
- 29:25Speaker 2: that I didn't include, and I want everybody to look
- 29:27Speaker 2: at this also, I'm a drop it, y'all pick this up.
- 29:30Speaker 2: We do not value what our tax returns can do
- 29:32Speaker 2: for us. We get a tax return, is we treat ourselves.
- 29:36Speaker 2: I said, you know what, I got six thousand dollars
- 29:38Speaker 2: coming in. I'm getting seven thousand dollars for my tax return.
- 29:42Speaker 2: That's fifteen thousand dollars. Excuse me, seven fort No excuse men,
- 29:47Speaker 2: that's thirteen thousand dollars. I just bought a property for
- 29:50Speaker 2: eight thousand dollars. And now on top of that, I said,
- 29:52Speaker 2: I'm going to keep two hundred dollars a month from work.
- 29:56Speaker 2: So I said, Yo, if I was thinking one property
- 29:59Speaker 2: a year, ten years, I can now leave. Now I
- 30:02Speaker 2: have enough to buy two properties a year. I could
- 30:05Speaker 2: cut that time and have I could leave work in
- 30:07Speaker 2: five years about two properties a year. So now I'm
- 30:10Speaker 2: really now I'm going to work with a purpose. The
- 30:15Speaker 2: biggest thing that we run into personally for myself, is
- 30:18Speaker 2: where we get caught up. We're not liking our job,
- 30:20Speaker 2: and the frustration comes in. It's because we don't see
- 30:24Speaker 2: the exit sign. We get up and go, oh, man,
- 30:27Speaker 2: I can't do this, you know. So I used to
- 30:32Speaker 2: get up six thirty to have to be to work
- 30:33Speaker 2: at seven. I needed every traffic light to always be
- 30:36Speaker 2: on time. I was going to be late and asked me,
- 30:38Speaker 2: did I care? I didn't care. And that's a big
- 30:41Speaker 2: problem because I was now giving people with the power
- 30:43Speaker 2: to fire me to actually do what they want to
- 30:46Speaker 2: do most than fire me.
- 30:48Speaker 3: I had to readjust that thinking.
- 30:50Speaker 2: And now once that happened, and I started getting up
- 30:52Speaker 2: at six o'clock now to go over my plan because
- 30:55Speaker 2: I know I was leaving.
- 30:57Speaker 3: Now I lead a house about six twenty.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Now I get the work and now I'm happy going Yeah,
- 31:02Speaker 2: I'm gonna be out of here in five years.
- 31:05Speaker 3: And they couldn't figure it out.
- 31:07Speaker 7: I know, I know that feeling. I know that feeling
- 31:08Speaker 7: going to work. So here's the thing though, Right, you're
- 31:10Speaker 7: in Brooklyn, Yes, the property is in Indiana. Uh huh,
- 31:14Speaker 7: So how who's managing are you at that point? Having
- 31:18Speaker 7: a property manager? Because I know one of the things
- 31:19Speaker 7: is that you don't even see the properties. No, I've
- 31:22Speaker 7: never seen You've never even seen the property, So how
- 31:24Speaker 7: does you I mean, you're buying it, but you're not
- 31:27Speaker 7: seeing it. So who's managing the property? Do you have
- 31:29Speaker 7: property management at the time or is that like a
- 31:31Speaker 7: lesson that you have to learn during this process.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Well, that's a great thing about having a mentor one
- 31:34Speaker 2: hundred percent. I have a property manager that oversees the
- 31:37Speaker 2: property right. And the key thing with this when buying
- 31:40Speaker 2: a property sight unseen, tenant not being seen, because that's
- 31:45Speaker 2: another thing. Also, I bought properties that of tenant occupied.
- 31:48Speaker 2: I get it more.
- 31:48Speaker 6: We're gonna get that. Yeah, were gonna get that.
- 31:50Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay stay in the zone, you know what
- 31:51Speaker 2: I mean. So the property manager, the key thing about
- 31:55Speaker 2: that is that's when the mindset changes.
- 31:57Speaker 3: It all starts with the mindset.
- 31:59Speaker 2: You can't build any type of strong structure if your
- 32:02Speaker 2: foundation isn't correct. So once I have the mindset of
- 32:05Speaker 2: understanding that I don't want to be a landlord anymore,
- 32:10Speaker 2: I don't want to see properties. I want to delegate
- 32:13Speaker 2: duties to someone because property management only wants ten percent,
- 32:17Speaker 2: so that means I'm making ninety percent. They're doing one
- 32:20Speaker 2: hundred percent of the work, and I'm keeping one hundred
- 32:22Speaker 2: percent of my time. The key thing was just finding
- 32:24Speaker 2: the right property management company. They place the tenants, they
- 32:28Speaker 2: deal with evictions, they deal with fixing. All I have
- 32:31Speaker 2: to do is concentrate on my plan, which will be
- 32:33Speaker 2: allowing me to leave work in five years. So finding
- 32:36Speaker 2: the right property management company is always best to do
- 32:40Speaker 2: that and to expand your horizon. How will you be
- 32:43Speaker 2: able to grow what you're trying to do if you're
- 32:45Speaker 2: trying to do all the work. I believe that you
- 32:48Speaker 2: can't be the janitor, you can't be the electrician, you
- 32:51Speaker 2: can't be the plumber, and you can't be the CEO
- 32:54Speaker 2: if you want to take your company to the next level,
- 32:56Speaker 2: because all you have to do is look from the
- 32:58Speaker 2: seat of a CEO and actual company understand his value
- 33:01Speaker 2: comes in by delegating duties and overseeing the mission. And
- 33:05Speaker 2: his mission is to grow the company by having assets
- 33:08Speaker 2: that are making money. And that's where I get into
- 33:11Speaker 2: buying my assets that are tendant occupied.
- 33:13Speaker 7: All right, so we got let me get these states, right,
- 33:14Speaker 7: and if I miss one, forgive me. Okay, no doubt
- 33:16Speaker 7: because I didn't even have Indiana. I got Alabama, I
- 33:20Speaker 7: got Wisconsin City, Milwaukee, we got Georgia, Florida, Ohio.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Yes I miss any Indiana Ohio. I think that's it.
- 33:30Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest.
- 33:31Speaker 2: The place, the location doesn't matter to me, right because
- 33:35Speaker 2: the Italia, United States is my marketplace. So I don't
- 33:39Speaker 2: get caught up where it's at. I only get caught
- 33:41Speaker 2: up in what that asset is making.
- 33:44Speaker 7: Well, I'll bring up the states because I'm trying to
- 33:46Speaker 7: figure out it is a property manager handling all those properties.
- 33:48Speaker 2: There we go, No, you have a property manage for
- 33:51Speaker 2: each state.
- 33:52Speaker 6: State was going with?
- 33:53Speaker 2: You need a property management for each state. And the
- 33:56Speaker 2: key thing is you become a property manager. We can
- 33:59Speaker 2: tell touch that topic later. You become the property manager,
- 34:03Speaker 2: but you have a property management company for each state
- 34:05Speaker 2: to run those properties.
- 34:06Speaker 5: Gotcha, So how did you find how'd you find your
- 34:09Speaker 5: first property? And how do you find property if you're
- 34:11Speaker 5: not actually physically going to these locations? How do you
- 34:14Speaker 5: find these properties?
- 34:15Speaker 2: Man? You guys come with good questions.
- 34:17Speaker 3: Let them roll out, Let them roll. How do I
- 34:19Speaker 3: find properties?
- 34:20Speaker 2: The key thing for me is the place is simple
- 34:23Speaker 2: sites like real to, Zillow, Trulia, Craigslists, Facebook groups, all
- 34:28Speaker 2: those places you're looking for properties. Now there's this thing
- 34:32Speaker 2: where there's a shortage of houses, there's a shortage of properties.
- 34:35Speaker 2: There's a shortage. And the reason why there isn't a
- 34:37Speaker 2: shortage in my space because I'm not looking to buy
- 34:40Speaker 2: a property as a homeowner. Biggest amount of people who
- 34:43Speaker 2: are looking for homes or homeowners. The next group are
- 34:46Speaker 2: people want to find distress properties that they can add
- 34:49Speaker 2: value and do work to it. But when I search
- 34:52Speaker 2: for properties, I go into the search bar and I
- 34:55Speaker 2: search for tenant occupy properties section eight properties. How many
- 35:00Speaker 2: people are searching that? Very few? So I have a
- 35:04Speaker 2: whole litany of properties that are just there for me
- 35:08Speaker 2: because the mindset is I'm looking for home to place
- 35:12Speaker 2: a tenant. I'm looking for home to place a tenant.
- 35:15Speaker 2: But if you think for me as a CEO, where
- 35:19Speaker 2: I'm looking to buy an asset that's making money. So
- 35:23Speaker 2: I'm looking for businesses. It's just so happened. Those businesses
- 35:26Speaker 2: are properties and the tenants aren't those So I look
- 35:30Speaker 2: for properties that are Section eight, preferably Section eight. And
- 35:34Speaker 2: the reason why is because government's living laid on rent.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Governance never laid on rent during COVID. When I first
- 35:43Speaker 2: was doing this structure, a lot of people would say, man,
- 35:45Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with Section eight properties. Man,
- 35:47Speaker 2: they do this, they do that. But I tell them
- 35:49Speaker 2: that in these other states where people are not on
- 35:53Speaker 2: top of each other and things of that nature, it's
- 35:56Speaker 2: more than laid back. You know. It's not like you
- 35:58Speaker 2: have to come home, you elevates broke, you're walking up
- 36:01Speaker 2: the steps, thirty houses, everybody's on top of each other. No,
- 36:05Speaker 2: these people going to work that they may need assistance,
- 36:08Speaker 2: they may not need assistance, but they're taking care of
- 36:10Speaker 2: those properties. So that's a money maker for me. And
- 36:13Speaker 2: when I was buying those people really, like I said,
- 36:15Speaker 2: was looking at it as a negative. But when COVID
- 36:17Speaker 2: hit and a lot of my investor friends were not
- 36:20Speaker 2: getting rent and we would have these discussions and they
- 36:23Speaker 2: would storm how you doing? But I can't relate to
- 36:26Speaker 2: y'all like I can't because I'm still getting fifteen thousand
- 36:29Speaker 2: dollars a month in rent continuously.
- 36:32Speaker 6: Section eight. I know VA is something that you spoke
- 36:34Speaker 6: about and long term residents.
- 36:37Speaker 7: Yes, yes, talk about the importance of that, right, Because
- 36:41Speaker 7: I mean one of the things and I heard in
- 36:43Speaker 7: I heard you speak about it was rent rules. I
- 36:44Speaker 7: haven't heard people really talk about rent rules. But now
- 36:46Speaker 7: when you think about it, right, that's the proven method. Right,
- 36:50Speaker 7: we're seeing people paying this is they're productive. They haven't
- 36:54Speaker 7: been laid how a poort that is because I think
- 36:55Speaker 7: that's a step that I think I've heard anybody really
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- 38:08Speaker 2: Yes, sir, and I'll take credit for that. Don't worry,
- 38:11Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick that up. I'll take that definitely, one
- 38:13Speaker 2: hundred percent, because, like I said, it's like buying a company.
- 38:16Speaker 2: So if I'm looking for a long term tenant, preferably
- 38:19Speaker 2: they've been living there over a year and a half.
- 38:21Speaker 3: And then I request a rent roll.
- 38:23Speaker 2: A rent roll strictly states and shows how long they've
- 38:26Speaker 2: been paying rent and if it's been on time, if
- 38:28Speaker 2: it's been late. So if I'm looking at this asset
- 38:30Speaker 2: and somebody says, here's the payment structure from this asset,
- 38:34Speaker 2: they've never defaulted on a payment for an entire year
- 38:36Speaker 2: and a half, why am I not gonna buy it?
- 38:39Speaker 2: If I buy it, what they're gonna stop making payments?
- 38:42Speaker 2: So now I'm like, yeah, I'm buying that company. I'm
- 38:44Speaker 2: buying that asset because the money has been proven. It
- 38:46Speaker 2: also proves another thing. Either they work city, state, federal,
- 38:50Speaker 2: or government jobs and they weren't impacted by COVID.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Whatever job they have is needed. So I really want
- 38:56Speaker 3: that tenant.
- 38:57Speaker 2: And I'll give this example to a lot of my
- 38:58Speaker 2: mentees that I teach, Say, if you want to buy
- 39:01Speaker 2: a property, I have this nice shiny object, brand newvenovated property.
- 39:05Speaker 2: You can get fifteen hundred dollars in rent. You just
- 39:08Speaker 2: got to go put a tenant in there. Or there's
- 39:10Speaker 2: this other property somebody's been living in there, they've been
- 39:12Speaker 2: paying one thousand dollars a month, the property is doing well,
- 39:15Speaker 2: they've never been late for two years. Which one would
- 39:18Speaker 2: you want? You would go find the tenant. Now you
- 39:21Speaker 2: may lose one month of rent, two months of rent
- 39:23Speaker 2: till you find a new tenant in there. Then you
- 39:25Speaker 2: get a tenant you don't really know the history. You
- 39:27Speaker 2: don't really know if their job could whipstand a COVID
- 39:30Speaker 2: situation or a downturn, or someone who's been proven that
- 39:34Speaker 2: you got twelve thousand dollars coming every single year with
- 39:38Speaker 2: a mortgage of about five hundred dollars, Which one you want?
- 39:42Speaker 6: I'm taking the letter.
- 39:43Speaker 5: The rent road is very important to number Matt. We
- 39:45Speaker 5: brought a property with Matt and he was talking about that.
- 39:48Speaker 5: He wanted to check that out to see the rent history. Yeah,
- 39:52Speaker 5: and that's something that I don't think a lot of
- 39:54Speaker 5: people are talking enough about because that's kind of gonna
- 39:58Speaker 5: give you a window of what you're getting.
- 40:00Speaker 1: Yep.
- 40:00Speaker 5: But you could be buying a property and the person
- 40:02Speaker 5: has to pay rent for two years, especially if it's
- 40:04Speaker 5: state like New York where you really can't even kick
- 40:06Speaker 5: people out. It might take two years to kick a
- 40:08Speaker 5: tenant out, So you gotta know what you're getting yourself into.
- 40:11Speaker 5: And like you said, that'll show even if they're late,
- 40:14Speaker 5: if they're late every single month, that's a habit. Yeah,
- 40:18Speaker 5: like that's the right flag.
- 40:19Speaker 7: Three late payments in a year, you see these things.
- 40:21Speaker 7: It's like the same way on a credit report, right,
- 40:24Speaker 7: if they see three late payments of any payment on
- 40:27Speaker 7: your credit history, now you're not as trustworthy. And so
- 40:29Speaker 7: if you look at it from that mindset, it makes
- 40:31Speaker 7: more sense, like Wall, I'm not going to get this asset.
- 40:33Speaker 7: They're not credit worthy or they're not even worthy to
- 40:35Speaker 7: be purchased.
- 40:35Speaker 5: But how do you know how you know the landlord
- 40:37Speaker 5: is given you accurate information?
- 40:38Speaker 3: That's another one great question because I get that a lot.
- 40:42Speaker 2: I'm serious.
- 40:43Speaker 3: People are saying, how do you know you're get to
- 40:45Speaker 3: write information?
- 40:45Speaker 2: Not only buy properties that have property managements attached to them,
- 40:49Speaker 2: any mom and pop properties, And I'm acting for the
- 40:51Speaker 2: rent roll, which I very rarely would buy one from
- 40:54Speaker 2: a mom and pop because they don't have a system
- 40:58Speaker 2: to keep track of that accurately, so they would have
- 41:01Speaker 2: to rely on giving you bank statements. And then I
- 41:04Speaker 2: tell people the bank statements of what they're giving you,
- 41:07Speaker 2: they're going to be late payments in there, and what
- 41:09Speaker 2: they're going to say a lot of times is oh,
- 41:12Speaker 2: I got to check it out and have time to deposit.
- 41:14Speaker 2: So now you're taking the word of someone who's trying
- 41:17Speaker 2: to sell a property to you. That's a problem.
- 41:20Speaker 6: Yeah, So that's a lot right, So that I'm trying
- 41:22Speaker 6: to draw the team up.
- 41:23Speaker 7: In my head, property management is one, but you're not there,
- 41:26Speaker 7: So I wonder how important and if this is a
- 41:29Speaker 7: part of the team rolls like somebody who's doing the
- 41:31Speaker 7: appraisal process for you, or somebody's doing inspection for you, Like,
- 41:35Speaker 7: are these are these roles that's part of the team,
- 41:37Speaker 7: because if it's out of state and I'm not there.
- 41:39Speaker 9: I kind of got to rely on these people. Yeah right, yeah,
- 41:41Speaker 9: so is this part of the team. Yes, I call
- 41:43Speaker 9: it the money team, right, this is my money team. Now,
- 41:46Speaker 9: when you find that first property, the first thing you're
- 41:48Speaker 9: going to do, you got to get you a realtor.
- 41:50Speaker 9: Because even when you find a property you use the
- 41:53Speaker 9: methods that I use, you can't put.
- 41:54Speaker 3: The offer in yourself. You need a realtor to put
- 41:56Speaker 3: the offer in for you.
- 41:58Speaker 2: So my thing is I tell people, get you a
- 42:00Speaker 2: realtor through real To, Zillo whatever, and if that property
- 42:04Speaker 2: isn't available, what you do is you let the real
- 42:07Speaker 2: To know that, Hey, I'm out of state investor who's
- 42:10Speaker 2: only interested in tenant occupied properties. If something comes up,
- 42:15Speaker 2: send them directly to me. And the reason why they
- 42:17Speaker 2: would love to send that to you is because they
- 42:19Speaker 2: don't want to split the commission. If you're real To
- 42:22Speaker 2: and you get a property and you can sell it,
- 42:24Speaker 2: but you go. It was so faster on real To,
- 42:26Speaker 2: I just need to split my commission with them. But
- 42:28Speaker 2: you said, oh man, I got storm over, he likes
- 42:30Speaker 2: tendet occupied. You're gonna call me so I can buy it.
- 42:33Speaker 2: You're just gonna give me the information. So it's important
- 42:36Speaker 2: to build that relationship with the realta. And after the
- 42:38Speaker 2: real To you sign a purchase agreement. You put in
- 42:40Speaker 2: certain contingencies when you're buying these properties. The contingencies are
- 42:45Speaker 2: you want the rent roll, you want the leases. If
- 42:47Speaker 2: it's Section eight, you want to Section eight certification. And
- 42:50Speaker 2: the reason why I like to buy properties that are
- 42:52Speaker 2: Section eight already tenants in there already is because you're
- 42:56Speaker 2: inheriting the certification. People when you buy property, and now
- 42:59Speaker 2: you go down town and now you gotta file for
- 43:02Speaker 2: Section eight. You gotta wait for an inspection. That takes months.
- 43:05Speaker 2: Those mortgage payments are kicking in. But when you buy
- 43:08Speaker 2: a property and someone who's Section eight lives there already,
- 43:11Speaker 2: they're just sign it over certification to you. You're a
- 43:14Speaker 2: Section eight landlord. Now, so now when that person moves out,
- 43:17Speaker 2: guess what, you can put another Section eight tenant in there.
- 43:20Speaker 2: And if it's a duplex, triplex, or a quad, guess what.
- 43:24Speaker 2: You're a sex and eight landlord. You don't have to
- 43:26Speaker 2: go downtown, you don't have to do the paperwork. You're
- 43:28Speaker 2: inheriting everything that comes with the Section eight property. So
- 43:32Speaker 2: that's why that's another thing where I stay away from
- 43:34Speaker 2: vacancies and trying to do Section eight. That takes time.
- 43:37Speaker 2: So now once I get that, I get my realtor.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Now I get the inspector. The realtor is so crucial
- 43:46Speaker 2: with referral. See, this is all on relationships. The realtor
- 43:48Speaker 2: is going to recommend and inspect her to go inspect.
- 43:51Speaker 2: Do the inspector to make sure the property is in
- 43:53Speaker 2: good shape. Even though you're buying a property with tenant
- 43:56Speaker 2: in it, tenants inside the property. I always sin and
- 44:00Speaker 2: I'm gonna drop this now, y'all. Make sure y'all pick
- 44:02Speaker 2: this up.
- 44:02Speaker 5: It's crucial, very important.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Make sure you send your property manager with your inspector.
- 44:09Speaker 2: The reason why is because the inspector is going to
- 44:11Speaker 2: inspect the property. The property manager is going to inspect
- 44:15Speaker 2: the tenants. He's gonna make sure the tenants are not
- 44:18Speaker 2: tearing the house up. He's gonna make sure the tennants
- 44:20Speaker 2: are keeping.
- 44:20Speaker 3: A place clean.
- 44:22Speaker 2: He's gonna do all of those things because he doesn't
- 44:24Speaker 2: want to now work with a property where he's no
- 44:26Speaker 2: he's gonna have to keep coming back here over and
- 44:29Speaker 2: over again. So now think about that. I got the
- 44:32Speaker 2: real two. Hook me up with the inspector. The inspector
- 44:35Speaker 2: can also tell me key things like, oh, this area
- 44:38Speaker 2: is coming up, a lot of investors are coming in
- 44:40Speaker 2: bing I'm buying more properties in. The inspector can tell
- 44:43Speaker 2: me a lot of inspectors are running. I'm not gonna
- 44:46Speaker 2: buy properties. The inspector can tell me, oh, they talking
- 44:49Speaker 2: about opening up a Walmart. That's crucial. When I bought
- 44:52Speaker 2: fifteen properties in Birmingham, Alabama, the main reason was because
- 44:56Speaker 2: on Bigger Pockets dot Com we got the word that
- 44:59Speaker 2: there was a war, I mean an Amazon Amazon warehouse
- 45:03Speaker 2: coming before the news. That's what a community does, that's
- 45:06Speaker 2: what inspector's the information that's on the street. So what
- 45:09Speaker 2: we did Broop all of us were just buying, buying, buying, buying,
- 45:13Speaker 2: So that's another part of the team. So now you
- 45:15Speaker 2: also get yourself a handyman or a contracting company. You're
- 45:20Speaker 2: not getting them to do fix and flips, right, You're
- 45:22Speaker 2: just getting them because when you have a property management
- 45:25Speaker 2: they will sometimes outsource repairs. So you want to be
- 45:28Speaker 2: able to compare the price with somebody you have just
- 45:31Speaker 2: in case you need someone that can get the work done.
- 45:34Speaker 3: But you want to also remember everything I'm talking about.
- 45:37Speaker 2: It is thinking on a level of delegating duties and
- 45:38Speaker 2: becoming a CEO and now being able to expand your
- 45:40Speaker 2: company and building out your money team. Here's the part
- 45:43Speaker 2: about your money team. Nobody's on salary. Everybody's working for
- 45:48Speaker 2: you literally and you're not paying them. And now you're
- 45:53Speaker 2: expanding that relationships and you're the go to guy because
- 45:56Speaker 2: you're showing them you have a structure that works and
- 46:00Speaker 2: they know you're doing good business. That's part of the
- 46:04Speaker 2: team right there.
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- 48:55Speaker 5: Joe, do you use banks? Money? How's the financing for this?
- 48:59Speaker 2: What I do with fun? I don't do banks. It's
- 49:02Speaker 2: all commercial lending, hard money LLCs. And the reason why
- 49:06Speaker 2: is because I started out with banks. Banks are great
- 49:09Speaker 2: up to a point, but banks are designed to make
- 49:12Speaker 2: you a homeowner and not an investor. There's this thing
- 49:15Speaker 2: called the Golden tickets where you could get ten mortgages
- 49:17Speaker 2: with a bank, but that's very hard to achieve. My
- 49:19Speaker 2: mentor it's like, yeah, I got ten mortgages, he said,
- 49:22Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you never to try to do that,
- 49:24Speaker 2: because when you're trying to get extra mortgages and now
- 49:27Speaker 2: you have to show them all these other properties, you
- 49:29Speaker 2: know what they gonna want. They're gonna want all the leases.
- 49:32Speaker 2: They're gonna want all the rent rolls. They're gonna want
- 49:33Speaker 2: to see your W two's, they're gonna want to see
- 49:36Speaker 2: your pay stubs, and by all that time you can
- 49:38Speaker 2: lose the property, or by that time the property is
- 49:40Speaker 2: not worth getting so now and by that time they
- 49:42Speaker 2: could say, well the appraisal things are not meeting where
- 49:45Speaker 2: we want. That's time lost. So with hard money, though,
- 49:48Speaker 2: especially now in these times, interest rates are just comparable.
- 49:52Speaker 2: And for those that say, well hard money always give
- 49:54Speaker 2: you higher rates and shorter times and sort of terms,
- 49:57Speaker 2: that's not true. You have hard money your commercial lenders.
- 50:00Speaker 2: I do thirty year loans that are very comparable with
- 50:03Speaker 2: banks at seven percent interests. So I use hard money
- 50:07Speaker 2: all day because all they care about is that the
- 50:09Speaker 2: asset has equity and it's not underwater.
- 50:12Speaker 5: That's it.
- 50:13Speaker 3: They don't want to see nothing else. You got to LLC.
- 50:16Speaker 2: You got the property that's worth value, the property of
- 50:19Speaker 2: praise right now. I could keep doing that over and
- 50:22Speaker 2: over again, So I use that hard money.
- 50:24Speaker 7: Let's talk about LLCs because I've heard and we've had
- 50:26Speaker 7: people say like, hey, every time you get a property,
- 50:28Speaker 7: you should make a new LLC for the property. Your
- 50:31Speaker 7: method is a little bit different than that to a smile. Right,
- 50:35Speaker 7: I've seen that smile before. Can you break down how
- 50:39Speaker 7: you formulate or construct your LLCs?
- 50:43Speaker 2: Yes, normally with the process. When I first saw, I
- 50:46Speaker 2: was getting one LLC for one property, get another LLC
- 50:50Speaker 2: for one property.
- 50:51Speaker 3: But then I was getting a larger property.
- 50:52Speaker 2: And the problem was I didn't have history on the
- 50:55Speaker 2: LLC to want to get a million dollar loan.
- 50:57Speaker 7: Right, and we're getting LLC so that we protect ourselves, right,
- 51:01Speaker 7: it's one hundred percent right. So I want to make
- 51:03Speaker 7: sure everybody's clear, Like if I get a property, somebody
- 51:05Speaker 7: try to assume me personally, they can't take my property
- 51:07Speaker 7: because it's in the LLC.
- 51:08Speaker 3: Yes, that's the main purpose of getting the LLC got right.
- 51:12Speaker 2: But what I said was, Okay, what I'm going to
- 51:14Speaker 2: do is I'm going to buy all my properties moving
- 51:18Speaker 2: forward in one LLC.
- 51:21Speaker 3: Why because I want to build up the credit history
- 51:23Speaker 3: of this one LLC.
- 51:25Speaker 2: So now when I say I need a million dollar
- 51:26Speaker 2: loan and I showed them to the LLC, they go, okay,
- 51:29Speaker 2: he has a million dollar loans worth of loans. Now
- 51:32Speaker 2: it's never missed the payment. You can have whatever you want.
- 51:35Speaker 2: But Now, just just like you mentioned, how does that
- 51:38Speaker 2: help with protecting yourself? So now that's when I create
- 51:43Speaker 2: a holding LLC. The holding LLC main purpose is to
- 51:47Speaker 2: protect the property and protect the first LLC, which now
- 51:50Speaker 2: I will call an acquisition LLC because it's buying properties.
- 51:54Speaker 2: So you buy the property in the first LLC, which
- 51:56Speaker 2: the acquisition, then you transfer that property into the holding LLC,
- 52:02Speaker 2: preferably into an animinity state.
- 52:05Speaker 3: Simple, it's gonna sound complicated, staying with me.
- 52:07Speaker 2: Very simple. Now we hear about holding LLCs and movies
- 52:10Speaker 2: all the time. Oh, he purchased this in his LLC.
- 52:12Speaker 2: He's hiding this in the holding LLC. The reason why
- 52:15Speaker 2: is because of the power of the animenity. Animenity states LLCs.
- 52:20Speaker 2: You can get LLC in any any state, but the
- 52:23Speaker 2: animenity states to make this work properly. Is New Mexico, Nevada, Delaware?
- 52:30Speaker 2: Yl I mean yep, yeah, exactly. So Now, once you
- 52:33Speaker 2: transfer that property into the holding LLC, if somebody was
- 52:36Speaker 2: the slip and fall and try to sue that LLC,
- 52:39Speaker 2: remember it's no longer in the acquisition. So your mortgage
- 52:42Speaker 2: is cool, that a loan is cool. You can buy more,
- 52:44Speaker 2: but if somebody was the fall, and now that property
- 52:47Speaker 2: is in the holding LLC, you're protected. Your mortgage isn't
- 52:51Speaker 2: attached to it, so they cannot sue you.
- 52:54Speaker 3: But which, you know, what makes it even more sweet.
- 52:56Speaker 3: And this is the part we have to look at.
- 52:58Speaker 2: When the LLC is an animinity state and compared to it,
- 53:02Speaker 2: it's not an animenity state. If someone sues your LLC
- 53:05Speaker 2: and it's in let's say New Jersey, they say, we
- 53:08Speaker 2: can't sue him, so we're just gonna settle for whatever
- 53:11Speaker 2: we can get. But let's look in Google and.
- 53:14Speaker 3: See who owns the LLC. Oh Man Troy, he.
- 53:17Speaker 2: Owns this LLC. That's a civil lawsuit. All day people
- 53:22Speaker 2: have been sued who owned the LLCs through civil lawsuits.
- 53:25Speaker 2: Because your name is exposed and now they know what
- 53:28Speaker 2: you own. Why do they call it a holding LLC?
- 53:31Speaker 2: Why they use animenity states specifically because of this reason.
- 53:35Speaker 2: We just haven't took it on to do a little
- 53:38Speaker 2: deep diving into that. So now it's protected in the
- 53:40Speaker 2: holding LLC. But now here's another thing. Well, you're collecting rent.
- 53:45Speaker 2: Where's the rent going? Now you have another LLC for
- 53:48Speaker 2: property management because you become a property manager. The rent's
- 53:52Speaker 2: going to the property management LLC. And the main reason
- 53:55Speaker 2: because if you were to collect rent in the same
- 53:57Speaker 2: LLC as the property and somebody's slips and fall, they
- 54:01Speaker 2: freeze all the assets, that includes the bank accounts, that
- 54:05Speaker 2: includes your money. So now you have a property management
- 54:09Speaker 2: a property management LLC in the states you live in,
- 54:13Speaker 2: because you're going to be doing taxes collecting that money.
- 54:16Speaker 2: So now if you have properties out of state, they're
- 54:18Speaker 2: going to pay you and your property management LLC and
- 54:20Speaker 2: you will not have to pay me. Slow down on
- 54:22Speaker 2: this part. You will not pay property taxes and those
- 54:27Speaker 2: other states because your property management companies collecting their money
- 54:31Speaker 2: and they're now wiring you the money in your state.
- 54:34Speaker 2: The only taxes you have to pay is a business
- 54:37Speaker 2: privileged tax. So if you're making thousands of dollars in
- 54:41Speaker 2: that other state, you just pay a business privileged tax
- 54:44Speaker 2: for doing business in that state, which is normally three
- 54:46Speaker 2: hundred and four hundred dollars.
- 54:49Speaker 5: So all right, let me ask you this. Are you
- 54:52Speaker 5: talking about living trust and how that change your life?
- 54:54Speaker 5: Can you talk about that?
- 54:56Speaker 2: Yeah, in twenty nineteen, my life changed, buying real estate,
- 55:00Speaker 2: doing all these great things I understood the value of
- 55:02Speaker 2: having real estate and wanting to hand it over to
- 55:05Speaker 2: my legacy to create a legacy with that. But once
- 55:08Speaker 2: I actually went to create a living trust and I
- 55:11Speaker 2: saw what it can do, That's when I knew I
- 55:14Speaker 2: had a bigger narrative I needed to share with the people.
- 55:17Speaker 2: So my thing was, I looked at who created a
- 55:21Speaker 2: living trust to hand it down through the legacy, and
- 55:24Speaker 2: I said, it's Rockefeller. So I went on to read
- 55:27Speaker 2: the Rockefeller Trust from nineteen thirty four, and also there's
- 55:30Speaker 2: a book called what would Rockefeller Do? So I stayed
- 55:32Speaker 2: up reading all these things about how he would take this,
- 55:35Speaker 2: put it in an account and only give a portion
- 55:38Speaker 2: to the legacy, and then have his children create a trust.
- 55:41Speaker 2: And now that money compound interest. He wouldn't give it
- 55:43Speaker 2: to him until they turn a certain age. And I'm like,
- 55:46Speaker 2: I could do that.
- 55:47Speaker 5: We can do that.
- 55:48Speaker 2: The information was right there. So I sat down with
- 55:50Speaker 2: my trust attorney. I said, I want to do that, Like, well,
- 55:53Speaker 2: you want to do it, but I want to do that.
- 55:55Speaker 2: It can be done. So we structured it, worked it
- 55:58Speaker 2: out where if not if but unfortunately we all pass away.
- 56:02Speaker 2: When I pass away, a percentage of my properties would
- 56:05Speaker 2: be sold, not the ones that I hold long term,
- 56:09Speaker 2: like I have properties I do keep my short term properties,
- 56:12Speaker 2: those would be sold. That money would now go into
- 56:15Speaker 2: a brokerage account. That brokerage account would be in the
- 56:18Speaker 2: name of the trust. That money for that specific account
- 56:22Speaker 2: would be for my grandchildren starting off, not my immediate family.
- 56:26Speaker 2: My immediate family would get my life insurance policies, which
- 56:30Speaker 2: are millions of dollars policies, and the main properties that.
- 56:33Speaker 3: I hold, so they are taken care of.
- 56:35Speaker 2: But we need to start thinking about the grandkids, the
- 56:38Speaker 2: great grandkids, those generations. How do you start their growth?
- 56:41Speaker 2: You start their growth by putting that money in a
- 56:43Speaker 2: brokerage account, and they don't get that money until they
- 56:46Speaker 2: turn twenty one years old. So let's use the example
- 56:49Speaker 2: of a million dollars. I put a million dollars in
- 56:51Speaker 2: a brokerage account for my grandkids. They don't get that
- 56:53Speaker 2: till they turn twenty one, gaining six percent interest six
- 56:56Speaker 2: percent interest. They say, that's twenty one. So that money
- 56:59Speaker 2: turn answer to about three point eight million dollars for
- 57:02Speaker 2: my grandkids.
- 57:03Speaker 3: My grandkids, they wouldn't get it.
- 57:05Speaker 2: All that we could have about one point six till
- 57:07Speaker 2: I leave one point six in there for my great
- 57:10Speaker 2: grandchildren for twenty one years.
- 57:12Speaker 3: That now turns into about three four five six.
- 57:15Speaker 2: That turns into about six point seven million dollars for
- 57:18Speaker 2: my great grandchildren. They don't get it all they could have,
- 57:22Speaker 2: so now that's about one point one know, about two
- 57:25Speaker 2: point two point three two point three stays in for
- 57:28Speaker 2: my great great grandchildren, so they get about eight point
- 57:32Speaker 2: one million dollars. You see how that happens. That's compound
- 57:35Speaker 2: interest over twenty one years. So we have to look
- 57:39Speaker 2: at that number. But what makes the trigger and the
- 57:41Speaker 2: explosion even bigger is the fact that what Rockefeller did
- 57:45Speaker 2: is that was just his trust. What he did was,
- 57:49Speaker 2: now each children opened up, each child opened up a trust.
- 57:52Speaker 2: So now his children had a trust, so he would
- 57:55Speaker 2: pay his grandchildren, and his children would pay them. That's twice.
- 57:58Speaker 2: So now his grand his children, and then his grandchildren
- 58:00Speaker 2: have a trust, so his great grandchildren would get paid
- 58:03Speaker 2: three times. So now if we look at rocket fuller
- 58:05Speaker 2: trust paid out now eleven generations and counting continuously. And
- 58:11Speaker 2: what he also did was have a life insurance policy
- 58:13Speaker 2: on every person in the trust, creating his own bank.
- 58:17Speaker 3: And now what does that do?
- 58:18Speaker 2: This is my structure. Also, any one of my children
- 58:21Speaker 2: or grandchildren who want to start a business, what do
- 58:23Speaker 2: they do? Talk to the trustees and now you borrow money.
- 58:27Speaker 2: We become our own bank. So when someone dies, that
- 58:29Speaker 2: money goes into the trust. You pay when you get
- 58:32Speaker 2: the policy, you pay it out right. So now that
- 58:34Speaker 2: money is available in the trust. So now also what
- 58:36Speaker 2: I did was I retweaked my trust last year and
- 58:40Speaker 2: it was twenty one that I wouldn't give them money.
- 58:42Speaker 2: I changed it. I changed the way they get money
- 58:44Speaker 2: at eighteen and they can have a business started at eleven.
- 58:47Speaker 2: You know why because now with technology, kids are now
- 58:50Speaker 2: figuring out new ways to start a business. So I
- 58:53Speaker 2: want them to be able to present a business loan,
- 58:56Speaker 2: a business proposal to the trustees so they could borrow money.
- 59:00Speaker 2: These are the things where we don't look at them.
- 59:02Speaker 2: When people say I don't have the money to do this.
- 59:03Speaker 2: You know what I tell them, Yes, you do. The
- 59:06Speaker 2: air you breathe is money a life insurance policy. Soon
- 59:10Speaker 2: as you die, you worth money. Their generations and their
- 59:13Speaker 2: groups of people when people die, their objectives to make
- 59:16Speaker 2: sure they have a policy on their grandmother policy on
- 59:18Speaker 2: their father to do exactly what we're talking about. But
- 59:20Speaker 2: we look at us taboo when it can't be taboo.
- 59:23Speaker 2: It shouldn't be taboo. The main thing about it is
- 59:25Speaker 2: you're thinking about the legacy. And when I tell people,
- 59:28Speaker 2: when I speak to you, I'm not speaking You don't speaking.
- 59:30Speaker 3: To your ley legacy.
- 59:31Speaker 2: You're just a vessel for me to get the message
- 59:33Speaker 2: to you so you can hear the message and see
- 59:36Speaker 2: it and it reverberates in your brain. And as it's
- 59:39Speaker 2: doing this, you literally are talking to your legacy while
- 59:42Speaker 2: I'm speaking, going I got you, don't worry. Storm told
- 59:45Speaker 2: me how to do it. Now I'm gonna give me
- 59:47Speaker 2: a life insurance policy. When people have a life insurance policy,
- 59:50Speaker 2: let's say roughly four million dollars, you have half a
- 59:53Speaker 2: million dollars left on your home mortgage, and you say
- 59:55Speaker 2: to yourself, I'm leaving my family a million dollar. Actually
- 59:58Speaker 2: you're not, because when you die, that policy has to
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: pay half a million to the mortgage so they can
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: stay in the house. You're only leaving them half a
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: million dollars. We don't think about that mortgage behind us.
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: So this is where I say, get yourself a whole life.
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: Excuse me, get yourself a term that's for half a
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: million or a million dollars just to cover the house
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: so your real policy doesn't get broken up. And now
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: you have that term, pay off the mortgage, any money left,
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: put it in a broken'e account, and now you start
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: the system.
- 1:00:29Speaker 5: So let's stay on this conversation about the trust for
- 1:00:30Speaker 5: a minute. So irrevocable life insurance trust or a.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: Revocable Left's just start off as a revocable voc because
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: you want to.
- 1:00:37Speaker 5: Be able to say and you can change it. Yes,
- 1:00:41Speaker 5: all right? So all right, so who set this up
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: for you? Your attorney? Yeah, my statement, you told them
- 1:00:46Speaker 5: or they you educated them when they educated you. Obviously
- 1:00:48Speaker 5: they're already educated because their attorney where it sounds like
- 1:00:51Speaker 5: you kind of already had some idea of what you
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: wanted to do because you did some reading before that.
- 1:00:55Speaker 5: So what was the process? You kind of said, this
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: is what I want to do, and then they kind
- 1:00:59Speaker 5: of add to it or they said this is what
- 1:01:01Speaker 5: you should do.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: I came to them with my plan and my structure first,
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: and I really wasn't taking a note for an answer
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: because I know it could be done. And there are
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: some people that, like there are mechanics who cars are broke, like,
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: they just don't know fully how to do certain things.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: So you really have to find the right person that
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: does these things. And I would always say, speak to
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: someone who has a trust, speak to someone who you know.
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: They can refer you to someone, but that takes time,
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: but they would give me little tidbits of where we
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: can do this, or they have a network of people
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: and a law firm and they reach out to them.
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: Like my first trust cost me about twelve thousand dollars.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: My newest one costs me roughly almost twenty thousand because
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: I have a lot of things to fund it with.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: But if starting out, trust probably run you anywhere from
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: three to six thousand dollars. But you have to look
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: at the big picture. But I started out having a
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: plan and I really really was adamant about getting this
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: structure done.
- 1:01:58Speaker 5: That was it for me.
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: You have a will too, Yeah, with the trust, there's
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: a thing called a poor over will that's attached to
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: the trust for all the items that you don't put
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: into the trust automatically pulls over and fall into the will,
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: like jewelry, like things that are air looms, it'll automatically
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: go in that will.
- 1:02:15Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm saying that thinking obviously you're educated. How often
- 1:02:19Speaker 7: are you meeting with your trust attorney? Because I was
- 1:02:21Speaker 7: having a conversation with a young lady the other day
- 1:02:23Speaker 7: and she's finding it hard to have her parents, you know,
- 1:02:26Speaker 7: even buy into the idea of a trust. So how
- 1:02:28Speaker 7: often did you meet with family if you did at all?
- 1:02:31Speaker 7: And how often did you meet with the trust attorney?
- 1:02:33Speaker 7: Is that like a once a year thing or was
- 1:02:35Speaker 7: it every six months? Because I'm sure you acquiring properties
- 1:02:37Speaker 7: and other assets throughout the year, Like, how often is
- 1:02:41Speaker 7: that happening?
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: In the beginning, when I started, we had to have
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: a conversation literally it was about almost every other week,
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: sometimes every week to plan us out with insurance and
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: all that stuff. Very complicated. But once it was set,
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: the updating of the trust is every three years, right,
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: but if there's something of urgency that I need to update,
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: because here's the thing, and I want to throw this
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: part also, I'm gonna drop it. Y'all pick this up.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: When you're buying things in you're holding company, you're holding
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: LLC should be in the name of your trust. So
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: if something happens to you, the properties automatically fall into
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: the trust, automatically fall in there, So you don't have
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: to fund the trust because the trust own the LLC.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: So if let me give a quick example. You know
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: how you put your name on every single LLC. You
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: open up a LLC, you put your name on it,
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: You open up the LLC, you put your name on it.
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: But if you was to have the property one two
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: three Smith Street in its own LLC, the name on
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: that LLC would not be you, it would be your trust.
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: So if something ever happens, it automatically goes to the
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: trust because you sign the trust over as the owner.
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Automatically so would trinkle effect. So
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: with that being said, excuse me. So with that being said, said,
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: you wouldn't have to fund one at a time. You
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: could just have that trust on all these LLCs bile
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: straight in from your holding. But also, to let me
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: not glaze over something you said, it's so important to
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: have the conversation with your family and sit them down
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: and explain. Because my thing was, afterything's said and done,
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: my lawyer, we would have the conversation with each one
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: of them here's who's getting this. Who's the trust there's
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: the trustee. This is what's going to happen. This is
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: what it's supposed to be. I want you to do this,
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: and it's a thing I'll call a letter of trust handwritten.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: I want this copy of this letter in my hand
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: written form and my signature be copied for every generation,
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: every trustee, so they could look and go he thought
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: about me. I want them to see what I meant
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: and why I did this, because that's powerful and they
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: will get it and go. Man, my great great grandfather
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: thought about me. So that letter you don't have to.
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: But the thing is always impact. So you need to
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: have that discussion with your kids, your grandkids. There's only
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: so far trust can go. It only could go to
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: the last person alive in your generation up to a
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: certain age. So like if I have my grandchildren, my
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: last one or he would have to now take the
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: trust format and restart it again and follow the same thing.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: Trust can't live on an infamy.
- 1:05:25Speaker 7: So you've created the generational wealth and the other part
- 1:05:28Speaker 7: was just the sustainable wealth yep, Like that's the key, right,
- 1:05:31Speaker 7: because it could get mixed up from generation generation. Yeah,
- 1:05:33Speaker 7: but what you're doing is pretty much putting up the
- 1:05:35Speaker 7: barriers like, no, we're going to sustain this forever forever.
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: The biggest, biggest mistake that a lot of people make,
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: unfortunately when we have real estate is thinking that our
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: children want to be landlords. We can't. We can't assume
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: that they want to be landlords. I had a friend
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: of mine who I knew through someone else. He died,
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: didn't have a trust, left the properties to his kids
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: in a will. They so long because they didn't want
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: nothing to do with real estate. That's that destroyed me
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: because I knew what his objective was. So we need
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: to put things in place to go, Okay, if you
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: don't want to be a landlord, this is what we're
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: gonna do. I'ma have a company do this, or we're
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: gonna sell it. Put the properties in the brokerage account
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: where it's gaining compound interest to do something. So that's
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: the key. We need to stop, you know, really projecting
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: our our wants and needs on children and grandkids when.
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, I got my own plan, that's free,
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: that's COO.
- 1:06:29Speaker 5: Can you give a financial breakdown on how you was
- 1:06:31Speaker 5: able to replace your salary?
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick. The financial breakdown structure for me was
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: I brought that one property, was making that six thousand
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: a year, and then after making US six thousand a year,
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna keep doing this. But I took
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: the tax returns and that money equated. But what triggered
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: it was creating group economics partnerships. We need to understand
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: the value of creating partners and how fast you can
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: grow your portfolio with properties with partners. People say I
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: have one hundred doors, right, They don't have one hundred
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: doors by themselves. They have like ten partners, which is
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: great because they're expanding their money. Why would you take
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: one million dollars to buy one property if you could
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: take one million dollars to spread down across five properties,
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: that's five buildings grow in equity, that's five different properties.
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: You're riding off on taxes. That's a whole nother scenario
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: having riding off taxes. When you have a property management LLC,
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: you're able to write off a portion of your light,
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: gas car. You need to knowledge there's apps like Avalance
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: cell phone, like, we don't take advantage of that portion
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: of the business because we go Now I'm just gonna
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: pay my tax when a wealthy is really maneuvering through
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: the proper structure of taxes, because providing housing and jobs
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: is the biggest thing that the government gives you is
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: a tax break, and we don't take advantage.
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: We should take advantage of those taxes.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: I make a good amount of money on my taxes
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: because of having a property management LLC and a home office.
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: A certain amount of your home you use it as
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: an office, square footage, the computer you buy, write off, desk, printers,
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: everything I mentioned. It's a write off. But we don't
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: take advantage of that. Even even in the inception of
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: having a business, you're taking a loss. You have a
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: credit card, you don't have a business account, yet you
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: can still write a portion of that off until you
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: get a business account with an EI in and a
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: business credit card because you need it to start your business. See,
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: these are the things where we need to have that.
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: Discussion and go, oh, that's dope, that's dope.
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: But unfortunately a lot of times that what happens is
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: we tend to compare how you're making money and I'm
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: making money and say you're doing it wrong, and that's
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: not true. There's so many different ways of making money,
- 1:08:48Speaker 2: especially in real estate. Be like, oh, that's dope, I'm
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: not doing it that way, but here's how I do it.
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: A word, I got.
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: Somebody who will like your way of doing it.
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: And now the story gets bigger and bigger collaborating Like
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: how you two guys collaborated, It's beautiful.
- 1:09:04Speaker 3: Look at the growth of that. I collaborated with my guys.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Ask the Marvin Mitchell for Path of prosperity collaboration and
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: now we're gonna touch thousands of people.
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: So yeah, I know I took it to all another
- 1:09:14Speaker 3: places for us.
- 1:09:17Speaker 7: You talked about partnerships, but there's something even when we
- 1:09:20Speaker 7: started this episode about being in the right place all
- 1:09:23Speaker 7: the time. Yes, and so being in that room with
- 1:09:25Speaker 7: Juvenile you got to introduce to us. Ash was there too,
- 1:09:28Speaker 7: and you knew him, and he was like, Yo, this
- 1:09:30Speaker 7: is my guy.
- 1:09:31Speaker 5: Right.
- 1:09:31Speaker 7: We went to him five hundreds event we were together there.
- 1:09:34Speaker 7: He talked about being in the right place all the time.
- 1:09:37Speaker 7: Because I feel like you're one of those people who
- 1:09:39Speaker 7: really personify that, right, Like I'm always seeing you everywhere
- 1:09:42Speaker 7: and I'm like I'm watching you and you text me like, Yo,
- 1:09:45Speaker 7: it's in my time, like, yo, bro, we're watching we
- 1:09:46Speaker 7: see what's going on.
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: He talk about that.
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so important to invest in yourself and be
- 1:09:51Speaker 2: in the right room, Like that's you cannot gain that
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: just being around the same people. And that really was
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: self explanatory my two friends when I went to go
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: see that Browns home, like me being in that room,
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: being in this room, that where I can talk to
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: other people, I can network, people can fill my energy.
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: You guys get to see the real me besides just
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: watching a post. People get to find out that, oh,
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: you actually investing in your growth, you actually doing something
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: like this thing that's inside of me. This can't really
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: come through a camera and a post the way that
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: I wanted to because I'm passionate about this. But then
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: when I talk to you guys, sometimes it's a little
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: too much of a passion. But you know what is like,
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: this is all I have because really talking to my
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: people and trying to change our lives. I know my
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: purpose of being here is to be in the right
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: room and change lives, and I can't do that through
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: that screen. I need for you to be able to
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: hear me and see me, and through these interviews and stuff,
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: like that and go. He just says something that motivate
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: me and did something. So for those of you that
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: think like me and you feel like me, we're not
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: gonna get that. If you're in that room, we need
- 1:10:58Speaker 2: you to come out be around I like minded people.
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: Invest in yourself, pay for those mentorships, Pay to go
- 1:11:04Speaker 2: to these places, fly to New York, fly to La Fi,
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: to Miami. Let people see you beat be very active
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: in comments, commenting, posting, talking like when you're doing that,
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: people notice I started with one person online going live,
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: I started teaching four people on a zoom now staying consistent.
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: So I highly recommend you guys do that.
- 1:11:29Speaker 5: When did you when we were able to quit your job?
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: I quit my job literally in twenty fifteen, I said
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: five years, and in twenty twenty I was ready to
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: quit my job. I was able to leave me.
- 1:11:41Speaker 6: He ain't quit his job. He fired his job.
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
- 1:11:43Speaker 6: They couldn't afford them anymore.
- 1:11:45Speaker 5: So how many properties did that take you to be
- 1:11:48Speaker 5: able to do that?
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: Well? When I I was able to leave in twenty twenty,
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: I stayed one more year. And the reason why because
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: I was getting all my medical benefits I wasn't gonna
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: leave with all giving you all them years and lead
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: that medical behind. So I stayed till twenty twenty one,
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: and I got all my properties, I mean, excuse me,
- 1:12:06Speaker 2: and I got all my medical benefits. I left my
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: job oning twenty four properties, and I was doing about
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: fifteen thousand a month at that time, and I'm currently well,
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: I'm selling now, downgrading some of the properties to do
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: bigger deals. But I bought over thirty six properties around
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: the United States that I've never seen to this day,
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: and I don't plan on seeing them ever, none of them.
- 1:12:27Speaker 7: The medical was the number one thing, because a lot
- 1:12:28Speaker 7: of times it's usually like a financial goal, Like I
- 1:12:31Speaker 7: remember being in the education system and I'm like, if
- 1:12:34Speaker 7: I could just reach this goal, I'm out of here.
- 1:12:35Speaker 7: Then you reached the goal and you sit, you set
- 1:12:37Speaker 7: another one, you said, another one, he said another one,
- 1:12:39Speaker 7: till it's like, well, this doesn't make sense. Was it
- 1:12:42Speaker 7: just the medical or was there a financial aspect too
- 1:12:44Speaker 7: that was like if I hit this number, then the verrizonocks.
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: No, I want sents. The medical Like once the medical
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: kicked in, I left. I could have stayed five more
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: years for four pension. I didn't get a four pension right, so,
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: and I was doing about a hundred thousand dollars a year.
- 1:13:01Speaker 2: So I left with five years left. So I left
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: half a million dollars on the table, not including overtime,
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: like in Verizon overtime, you can make a quarter million
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: dollars a year easy through in the like in overtime.
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: But I left that money, and then I left the
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: extra pension money. So I left almost a million dollars.
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: But it would have took me five more years when
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: I can make a million dollars in a month or
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: day or two days or three days, depending on up
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: to me. So, but I wanted the medical because this
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: like medical has bankrupt people. Medical you get sick, wife
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: gets sick, kids get sick, somebody gets sick. You can
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: lose it all. So the goal was to get the
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: medical and the thought process of how important it is
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: to be around the right people, like I'll never forget.
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: I went in on Instagram live the day I was
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: leaving the job. I said, look, I'm driving in. I'm like, Yo,
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: this is it. I'm leaving the job, y'all, Like I
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: can't believe this moment, you know, I spoke about it,
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: brought it to it. Ziah could do the same thing,
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: and you know, and I went in and had ask
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: hat shirt, and people like, yo, you can back to work.
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: I said, y'all think I'm coming back like this, So no,
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: I'm out of here. And the mindset was the mindset
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: was scary because there was like, no, you really just
- 1:14:09Speaker 2: stay Yo, five more years, man, you're five more years.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: You could get a full pension. I say, Yo, God
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: bless you. Man.
- 1:14:17Speaker 6: They don't get God blessed.
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: Some people would never get it. There's Indians, there's chiefs,
- 1:14:20Speaker 2: there's buyers, there's sellers, there's owners and his renters. That's
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: how it's meant to be. Life is definitely going to
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: be like that. You can't save everyone like us trying
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: to save someone. That's a problem because not all lives
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: are meant to be saved. Some lives were meant to
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: be examples of what you should never do in life.
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: Some people lives were meant to crash and burn to
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: be an example for twenty other people to go, I
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: don't ever want to be like him. That was their destiny.
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: But when you run around you're trying to save people lives. Now,
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: you're stopping yourself from growing to your full potential because
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: you're trying to be a life saver, so you'll never
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: reach your potential. So now there's two groups of people
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: caught in the mix. You have people like us where
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: we go. We could look and go, well, I know
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: my per of what I'm supposed to do. That destiny
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: has already been spoken for them, in mine has been
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: chosen for me. So I don't think about trying to
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: change somebody's mind when it's already been set in stone.
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: Let people come to me and then I know they're
- 1:15:11Speaker 2: ready to absorb the message.
- 1:15:13Speaker 6: Thirty six properties out of state.
- 1:15:16Speaker 7: It's always been a thing, but originally it was because
- 1:15:19Speaker 7: just the pricing of being in New York. Yes, but
- 1:15:21Speaker 7: we're looking at bigger deals. Are those bigger deals still
- 1:15:23Speaker 7: going to be out of state? Or we're looking like,
- 1:15:25Speaker 7: all right, well at a point where we could probably
- 1:15:27Speaker 7: do something major here in New York.
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: I would never buy property in New York. I would
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: never buy proper in LA. I would never do something
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: like that. Like I would buy properties and like now
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: I'm doing looking to do syndication deals for one hundred unit,
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: two hundred units, three four five million dollars stuff like that.
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: But those are not buying holes. Those are things that
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: we're buying for one hundred units that we can add
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: value to by doing upgrades, raising a rent, laundry rooms,
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: play things like that, and then as the syndication, we
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: would sell the deal, sell that property in five years,
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: and everybody walks away with their money. But I would
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: never do an individual deal with a Brownstone of buying
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: something for three to four million dollars or seven million
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: dollars because, like I mentioned, a million dollar mortgage, it's
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars. You would never make that rent back.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: So then there's other plays that you would have to do,
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: and those plays are very risky play because you're relying
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: on the banking system to state the way it is
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: when you're doing these kind of renovations and things of
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: that nature. And now I have people that have been
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: doing fixing flips and it's not really working out for them,
- 1:16:27Speaker 2: where the money's not coming in. Banks are not allowing
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: you to get that eighty percent, seventy percent, seventy five
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: percent when you flip, and you'd be like, oh, I'm
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: gonna pull this much money out. Nah, it's not working
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: like that no more. But so my structure of guaranteed
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: income that's solid. That's for somebody who's going to work
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: every day that goes. I don't have to see a property.
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: I don't have to do nothing. I got eight thousand
- 1:16:48Speaker 2: dollars storm deal with eight thousand dollars. I got a
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: fall one K sitting with one hundred thousand dollars. I
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: know I can do it. I have people in my mentorships.
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: I have people that are doing it to this day,
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: changing their lives. One pre they out of time because
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: the goal is to replace your salary.
- 1:17:03Speaker 5: So speaking about your mentorship, you when did you get
- 1:17:05Speaker 5: into the education space? When did you start actually, you know,
- 1:17:07Speaker 5: teaching people what you do.
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: I actually started when I first went online, Like the
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: goal was to teach people, you know, when George Floyd
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: situation happened, I knew real estate was it and I
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: wanted to educate people. So I turned through my phone
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: Instagram Live and I was most awkward thing in the world.
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: I was looking away and I just lens off foggy
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: and I said, I want to teach four people how
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: to buy real estate out of state. Send me a message.
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: I looked at my DM there was like six people.
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: So I start teaching them for sitching them six first
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: for the whole month, how to invest out of state,
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: how to do this, and I start videotaping. I started
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: talking about it online, showing a class, and people were excited.
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: I started getting more messages, but I said, you know what,
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: I'm only going to do four people every month. That
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: was like October, November came. I was taught those four people,
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: and by December showing you know, all the people who
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: are in the class, posting and talking about out of
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: state and this and that. It got so look, I
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: had ten people, twelve people signing up, but I was
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: committed to doing four. And I said. There was one
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: young lady who called me New Year's Eve, I never
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: forget this, she called. She literally was almost in tears.
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: She says, storm, I don't want to come into the
- 1:18:12Speaker 2: New Years doing the same thing I'm doing. I know
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: what you're teaching could change my life. How can I
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: pay to move up? How can I be in this
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: next class you're going to teach for the New Years?
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: Because she was scheduled for March, she said, I can't wait.
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: And I said, yo, you're doing a disservice. That's when
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: I reached out to Ash and I said, bro, how
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: can I do this thing on a bigger scale? And
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: he looked and he said, first thing you gotta do
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: is stop teaching live. He said, you got enough material
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: to turn into a course. I said, a course. He said, yes,
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: all those videos you got, Let's get on a call.
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: Let's get on a zoom. He showed me how to
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: do it boom. Then I said, oh, I could teach
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: more people. I can do the course. I can give that,
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: But from the beginning I wanted to give people the
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: knowledge to be able to change their life.
- 1:18:54Speaker 5: So now you have a mentorship. Yep, we'll talk about them.
- 1:18:57Speaker 5: What does that mentorship?
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: And clue the mentorship includes you getting all everything I
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: talk about. I have three courses, so I give you
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: one that's Mastering out of State Investing that gives you
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: soup the nuts how to invest out of state. Then
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: another one called the three must Have LLCs, where I
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: give you the complete breakdown of everything with the LLCs
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: simplify form. Then I have one called the Power of
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: a Living Trust that talks about my living trust, how
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: I structure it. Reading the Rockefeller Trust so you get
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: all that information, you get a year's mentorship sitting with
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: me and I do weekly calls and also do quarterly calls,
- 1:19:30Speaker 2: and I teach my mentor my mentees in the ranks
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: to become educators. That's the thing I highlight them. I
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: teach them to become educators. Educators teach the class.
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: Because I need them to start their own mentorship so
- 1:19:44Speaker 3: they can now teach people.
- 1:19:46Speaker 5: So very you impressed me, especially with your knowledge on
- 1:19:49Speaker 5: the living trust situation. And I used to actually be
- 1:19:51Speaker 5: a financial advisor for twelve years.
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: Oh, get out of here.
- 1:19:53Speaker 5: So yeah, so you know, it's very rare that I
- 1:19:57Speaker 5: come across somebody that's like, actually, you know, very impressive
- 1:20:00Speaker 5: with that. You delivered it. You delivered it in a
- 1:20:08Speaker 5: in a in a high level. So you have a
- 1:20:10Speaker 5: you have a very good gift of communication. Oh man,
- 1:20:13Speaker 5: thank cause that's important, especially when dealing with complicated issues.
- 1:20:16Speaker 5: A lot of times, even if you know something, it's
- 1:20:18Speaker 5: kind of hard to communicate it, and that's what stops
- 1:20:21Speaker 5: a lot of people from learning because they feel like
- 1:20:23Speaker 5: it's too it's too over their heads to advance and
- 1:20:25Speaker 5: a person really can't communicate it correctly. So they just like,
- 1:20:28Speaker 5: you know, just stay away from it. But I'm a
- 1:20:30Speaker 5: big proponent for like online education because I feel like
- 1:20:35Speaker 5: that's where college and formal education kind of failed us,
- 1:20:39Speaker 5: because it's like you're not learning these type of things
- 1:20:41Speaker 5: like the trust and stuff like that, Like you're not
- 1:20:43Speaker 5: learning that at any university, even if you study business
- 1:20:46Speaker 5: and not teaching you that. So that's the stuff that
- 1:20:48Speaker 5: you actually have to learn in the real world. And
- 1:20:49Speaker 5: that's what I learned, like just being in the financial
- 1:20:51Speaker 5: planning world. These are like retreats and meetings that I
- 1:20:55Speaker 5: was going to and they was having conversations about trust,
- 1:20:57Speaker 5: or you're on the golf course and you're talking to
- 1:20:59Speaker 5: your friend and they're telling you about it, educating you
- 1:21:01Speaker 5: on the space. But for the vast majority of people,
- 1:21:05Speaker 5: we're not in that circle professionally or personally to have
- 1:21:09Speaker 5: those conversations the conversations that we have and it's like, yo,
- 1:21:13Speaker 5: we want to go to the club, or even if
- 1:21:15Speaker 5: it's a productive conversation, it's a conversation of like, you know,
- 1:21:19Speaker 5: how can you fill out your student loan application for
- 1:21:22Speaker 5: your child? Like you know, these are the conversations that
- 1:21:24Speaker 5: you have in with your peers because usually people conversate
- 1:21:27Speaker 5: on their level, So your problems, your issues are the
- 1:21:30Speaker 5: same issues as somebody else. The credy thing about it
- 1:21:33Speaker 5: is that but like the vast majority, their problems are
- 1:21:37Speaker 5: like they don't have enough money, so the problems are
- 1:21:40Speaker 5: like how can I get a mortgage? Or how can
- 1:21:43Speaker 5: I put my kid through student loan? But some people
- 1:21:45Speaker 5: problems is that they have too much money, So their
- 1:21:48Speaker 5: problems is like how can I not pay taxes? How
- 1:21:51Speaker 5: can I avoid the state tax? How can like that's
- 1:21:53Speaker 5: a problem. You know what I'm saying. Good, So you
- 1:21:57Speaker 5: end up do yeah, So you end up communicating that,
- 1:22:00Speaker 5: you share resources and you share information, but very few
- 1:22:03Speaker 5: people actually get that information because they're not in that conversation.
- 1:22:07Speaker 5: So now with the online education space, it's opened up.
- 1:22:11Speaker 5: It's like a glitch in a matrix where it's opened
- 1:22:14Speaker 5: up that what used to be a secret conversation and
- 1:22:17Speaker 5: now it's open to the masses. And that's really life
- 1:22:20Speaker 5: changing on a variety of different things, as far as
- 1:22:21Speaker 5: on the investment side, real estate of course, on the
- 1:22:26Speaker 5: trust side and the LLC. That was good information as well,
- 1:22:30Speaker 5: because that's something that people don't really dig too deep
- 1:22:32Speaker 5: in either that they just talk about setting up an LLC,
- 1:22:35Speaker 5: setting up a c corp escort by a cool But
- 1:22:38Speaker 5: there's levels, you know what I'm saying, Like there's levels
- 1:22:40Speaker 5: to everything. So it's like, all right, you can go
- 1:22:43Speaker 5: to high school, but that's not a bachelor degree, and
- 1:22:46Speaker 5: if you get a bachelor's degree, that's not a master's degree,
- 1:22:48Speaker 5: and a master's degree is not a doctorate degree. So
- 1:22:50Speaker 5: you should always try to further your education because that's
- 1:22:53Speaker 5: only that's the only thing that's really going to save
- 1:22:55Speaker 5: you in this world. Yes, like your education is the
- 1:22:57Speaker 5: only thing that can save you, and that's the thing
- 1:22:59Speaker 5: that people really learn or on COVID. And this is why,
- 1:23:01Speaker 5: like even our platform rely took off because it's like
- 1:23:03Speaker 5: now you're in a space where you understand that you
- 1:23:07Speaker 5: are not going to just go to work and think
- 1:23:11Speaker 5: that that's going to help because you can't even get
- 1:23:12Speaker 5: a job. You wasn't even able to go to work.
- 1:23:15Speaker 5: The government at a certain point stopped giving money. They
- 1:23:18Speaker 5: gave you some stimulus, but then that's stopped, so you
- 1:23:21Speaker 5: can't rely on government to save you. And the only
- 1:23:25Speaker 5: thing that we really have in this world is our education,
- 1:23:28Speaker 5: because that can't be taken away from you exact and
- 1:23:31Speaker 5: with your education you could always you can always create
- 1:23:33Speaker 5: new opportunities, Like you can give somebody a million dollars
- 1:23:36Speaker 5: and they can blow it, and then you can have
- 1:23:39Speaker 5: a business and you can make a million dollars and
- 1:23:41Speaker 5: you can you can potentially mess up that bag as well.
- 1:23:43Speaker 5: The difference is that the person that has the business
- 1:23:45Speaker 5: has a system in place to actually get a million dollars.
- 1:23:48Speaker 5: So his odds of doing that again is tremendously higher
- 1:23:52Speaker 5: than somebody that just got a million dollars because they
- 1:23:54Speaker 5: were talented or because they won the lottery, because once
- 1:23:57Speaker 5: that talent goes away or once the lottery goes way,
- 1:24:00Speaker 5: you don't have systems in place to make that happen again.
- 1:24:03Speaker 5: The systems in place, it gives you a tremendously greater
- 1:24:07Speaker 5: opportunity to make that million dollars again, even if you
- 1:24:09Speaker 5: made mistakes. And that's what you see people that go
- 1:24:13Speaker 5: bankrupt and then they get it right back. They fall
- 1:24:16Speaker 5: on hard times, they get it right back because they
- 1:24:18Speaker 5: have the information and they have the relationships. Those the
- 1:24:20Speaker 5: two biggest things. So I applaud for what I applaud
- 1:24:23Speaker 5: you for what you're doing. And I encourage anybody that
- 1:24:25Speaker 5: wants to further that education to check out your mentorship
- 1:24:28Speaker 5: because I think that it's something that is extremely beneficial
- 1:24:31Speaker 5: and it's helpful, and like I said, it's kind of
- 1:24:33Speaker 5: you know, a way of higher education. And we spend
- 1:24:36Speaker 5: one hundred thousand dollars on a liberal arts degree where
- 1:24:39Speaker 5: you're just hoping that you could potentially get a job.
- 1:24:41Speaker 6: Good luck.
- 1:24:41Speaker 5: So it's like that's not in today's in today's day
- 1:24:46Speaker 5: and age, that's not really the best way to go
- 1:24:48Speaker 5: about it. So you know, what we do with Eyo
- 1:24:50Speaker 5: University earn your leasure to the platforms anybody that comes on.
- 1:24:54Speaker 5: We always try to, you know, have a special discount
- 1:24:58Speaker 5: for what we call our earners, so you know, everybody
- 1:25:01Speaker 5: usually obliges, and you were you know, kind enough to
- 1:25:04Speaker 5: oblige that, so thank you for that. So what we're
- 1:25:06Speaker 5: going to do is two thousand dollars off I believe
- 1:25:09Speaker 5: two thousand dollars off the current price. And but it's
- 1:25:13Speaker 5: a special website that we are set up for that.
- 1:25:15Speaker 5: So it's EYL Employed Millionaire dot com because that's you,
- 1:25:19Speaker 5: that's your company employed Millionaire. So we just added the
- 1:25:22Speaker 5: E y L in front of that real simple EYL
- 1:25:24Speaker 5: employed Millionaire dot com and that's you know, storms mentorship
- 1:25:29Speaker 5: And like I said, that particular website there's no code Tonne.
- 1:25:32Speaker 5: You just go to that website and you get two
- 1:25:34Speaker 5: thousand dollars off if you want to, you know, for
- 1:25:36Speaker 5: the information and learn just probably to trust stuff alone.
- 1:25:40Speaker 5: It's worth that because like I said, that's extremely valuable thousands. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:25:45Speaker 5: that's extremely valuable. But then when you add the real
- 1:25:47Speaker 5: estate and the LLC and the weekly calls, you know,
- 1:25:50Speaker 5: it's something that if you want to invest in your education,
- 1:25:52Speaker 5: I was strong, strongly consider you do that. So once
- 1:25:54Speaker 5: again it's e y L Employed Millionaire dot com and
- 1:25:59Speaker 5: that is for two thousand dollars off of the mentorship program.
- 1:26:03Speaker 5: But before we leave, I want you to just speak
- 1:26:06Speaker 5: to people that are currently employed right now trying to
- 1:26:09Speaker 5: figure it out. They're working in on the file. They
- 1:26:12Speaker 5: know that they want to do more with their life,
- 1:26:14Speaker 5: but they just haven't really been able to kind of
- 1:26:17Speaker 5: you know, figure that part out yet and they might
- 1:26:19Speaker 5: be frustrated. They might not you know, because you was
- 1:26:22Speaker 5: once in that position, and Troy, you might even want
- 1:26:25Speaker 5: to add to this as well because you was once
- 1:26:26Speaker 5: in that position as well. What can you tell the
- 1:26:29Speaker 5: people that are in that position right now?
- 1:26:32Speaker 7: I'll just add to it because I know, like how
- 1:26:34Speaker 7: much passion's about to come out, because we sat in
- 1:26:36Speaker 7: these positions, and we sat at the table and we
- 1:26:38Speaker 7: had lunch with these people who really didn't understand it
- 1:26:42Speaker 7: until you tell them like, this is not this is it?
- 1:26:44Speaker 7: Like you're not going to see me if I if
- 1:26:45Speaker 7: I get to this point. And so like even when
- 1:26:47Speaker 7: you went to work that last day, they're like, no,
- 1:26:49Speaker 7: I know you're coming back, or like, hey, you're gonna
- 1:26:51Speaker 7: leave your pension on the table, or hey, you know
- 1:26:53Speaker 7: we're going to get reimbursed for the years that we
- 1:26:57Speaker 7: were in the contract.
- 1:26:58Speaker 6: And I'm like, keep all that. We got a bigger vision.
- 1:27:01Speaker 7: So I want you to talk to those people like
- 1:27:03Speaker 7: if this was your colleague who was advertizing with you,
- 1:27:06Speaker 7: or the teachers who were working with me at the time,
- 1:27:08Speaker 7: what's the advice that you want.
- 1:27:09Speaker 6: To give them?
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: Man, The key thing is I'm able to give advice
- 1:27:15Speaker 2: for those who are willing to listen. I always say
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: investing is a song that when you start singing it,
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: even the people that I know don't know the words,
- 1:27:24Speaker 2: will start humming along with you, so I can sing
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: the praises of what it takes become an investor. Do
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: this at the job, do this. But if you know
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: you're listening to this right now and you have to
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: go to work, key thing is, don't try to sing
- 1:27:40Speaker 2: the same song as those people work. You have to
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: get yourself in a room of like minded people. Join
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: mentorships with people that are like you. Now, you may
- 1:27:49Speaker 2: not know the words, but guess what you're gonna hum
- 1:27:51Speaker 2: with those people a couple of weeks. You're gonna start
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: learning the lyrics. You're gonna start learning the lingo. You're
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: gonna start learning how to invest, You're gonna start learning
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: changes you. But while you're going to work, you must
- 1:28:03Speaker 2: always guard your escape route, guard that plan, guard what
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: you're doing, because it's just some people that's not gonna
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: get it. The job is not your enemy. You are
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: your own enemy. When we sit down with our job,
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: and we actually signed on to take that job, the
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: job had a plan. The plan was to underpay you
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: so you can overperform. But what we sat down we
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: sat down and said, great, I'm on board and I'm
- 1:28:31Speaker 2: gonna take that.
- 1:28:32Speaker 3: Paycheck and only pay bills.
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: That was the problem. We needed to say, Okay, I'm
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: gonna take that paycheck pay bills, but i'm gonna take
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: a portion and i'm gonna leave. If my job would
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: have known the plan I had with that money that
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: they were giving me, they would have said, don't give
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: an overtime, cut his hour short, suspend him, do anything,
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: but let him free. But it's the mind psyche, because
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: think about this. Even when we're young, we wake up,
- 1:29:02Speaker 2: we go to school, certain time, we go to lunch,
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: we go back to the classroom, bell goes off, we
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: go home, We wake up in the morning.
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: I will always call school work for kids.
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: It's prepping them. And then when it's over, now you graduate,
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: find a job, wake up in the morning, go have lunch,
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: the bell rings. See it's a mental prep so it's
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: hard to break that. But when you start thinking about
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: when you start thinking about your generation and the kids
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: that you can't see and what you're leaving from them,
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: you really move different than this world.
- 1:29:38Speaker 3: I tell you, once I understood that.
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: My life needs to expand beyond what I'm doing now
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: and leave something for them. And I was moving like
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: I ain't having no tomorrow. I was moving like I
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: didn't have no tomorrow. It's all my fellas out there
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: and all the ladies who get in this information. I
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: want you to understand that you must give this information
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: to your wife and your children and not hoard it
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: for yourself and say I got it all worked out.
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: My family straight. Because when you pass away and you
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: don't leave them the keys to the safe, they locked out.
- 1:30:14Speaker 2: They don't know about trust, they don't know about what
- 1:30:16Speaker 2: life insurance policies. They don't know nothing. Because you said
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: to yourself, I got them and they straight. You want
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: them to be straight. Sit down with the lawyers, give
- 1:30:26Speaker 2: them the information, give them all the coast.
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: Tell them the plan you had and how to keep
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: it going.
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: That's my message, bro, I know I get carried away.
- 1:30:34Speaker 6: So now it's the audacity of hope. Right.
- 1:30:36Speaker 7: So somebody seeing you in this position, now they know
- 1:30:38Speaker 7: what you've been through. I always tell like I used
- 1:30:40Speaker 7: to sit down with my colleagues and I'm like, what's
- 1:30:42Speaker 7: the plan? Everybody complains about being here? What's the plan
- 1:30:44Speaker 7: to leave? What's the plan to leave?
- 1:30:46Speaker 6: Right?
- 1:30:46Speaker 7: And so the year I got tell you was the Arazon. Mmm,
- 1:30:50Speaker 7: So like for most people, they're like, wait, we believe
- 1:30:52Speaker 7: in you. They're putting their trust in you. They're saying
- 1:30:54Speaker 7: that this is something that they're investing you long term.
- 1:30:57Speaker 7: And I'm like, that really isn't a guarantee for me.
- 1:30:59Speaker 7: I'm My mindset was never again it's big on mindset.
- 1:31:02Speaker 6: It was.
- 1:31:03Speaker 7: My mindset was never, I'm going to work here twenty
- 1:31:05Speaker 7: five years and retire. My mindset was like, what's the
- 1:31:07Speaker 7: fastest way for me to not be here anymore? How
- 1:31:09Speaker 7: do I replace myself here? How do I duplicate? Because
- 1:31:12Speaker 7: it was one thing watching my father work for forty
- 1:31:14Speaker 7: two years and not being able to guarantee me an
- 1:31:17Speaker 7: interview at his job. So I'd imagine myself working here
- 1:31:20Speaker 7: twenty five years and not allowing my kids even have
- 1:31:23Speaker 7: an interview or even be thought of in consideration to
- 1:31:27Speaker 7: have a position there. And it was like, well, I'm
- 1:31:28Speaker 7: working for this place. I'm spending more time here than
- 1:31:30Speaker 7: with my children. What am I really leaving them?
- 1:31:33Speaker 5: Exactly?
- 1:31:33Speaker 6: And so it was the mindset.
- 1:31:34Speaker 7: It was like, all right, here's the plan, and so
- 1:31:36Speaker 7: exactly when it gave me tenure in my mind, I
- 1:31:38Speaker 7: was like, I'm not going to be here much longer,
- 1:31:40Speaker 7: you know what I mean. But it's the belief, and
- 1:31:41Speaker 7: it's belief too, like you can feel it and the
- 1:31:43Speaker 7: passion you speak with. This is a certain level of
- 1:31:44Speaker 7: convention that you have and that everybody has to have
- 1:31:47Speaker 7: if they want to make that plan. Like you said,
- 1:31:49Speaker 7: it's not going to be for everybody, but seeing yourself,
- 1:31:51Speaker 7: seeing myself, seeing Richard, and plenty of others just like, oh,
- 1:31:54Speaker 7: it can be done. And so that's why we call
- 1:31:56Speaker 7: this like the financial evolution, because it is we can't measure.
- 1:32:00Speaker 7: We don't know what they're gonna do with the information,
- 1:32:02Speaker 7: but hopefully they don't hoard it, they share it and
- 1:32:04Speaker 7: they apply it.
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: Yep. That man.
- 1:32:06Speaker 5: There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, powerful episode. Thank
- 1:32:10Speaker 5: you for that. I'm sure a lot of people will
- 1:32:12Speaker 5: gain a lot of insight, like I said at the
- 1:32:14Speaker 5: beginning of education, but also from a motivation standpoint as well,
- 1:32:18Speaker 5: And they're both needed and then both are very very necessary.
- 1:32:21Speaker 5: So appreciate that.
- 1:32:22Speaker 2: Brother. I appreciate you guys having me and it's been
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: for me. It felt like forever, and I always knew
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: there was a platform in the stage for me to
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: actually speak. And I'm glad that it's here and it's now,
- 1:32:37Speaker 2: and the timing was right, you know what I mean.
- 1:32:40Speaker 2: I felt like it was thirty years or something inside
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: of me to be here to speak to the world
- 1:32:44Speaker 2: on this level, and now it happened. I want to
- 1:32:47Speaker 2: thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. Allowed
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: me to speak to the people.
- 1:32:50Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
- 1:32:50Speaker 5: How can they follow you? With your social media handle?
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: You can go to im storm Leroy on Instagram. You'll
- 1:32:56Speaker 2: find me there, avoid them fake ones, employed million there.
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: It'll pop up also and you'll find me.
- 1:33:03Speaker 5: You have it, Chroy, how can you?
- 1:33:04Speaker 7: Yeah, Shout to everybody on patreon dot com. Shout out
- 1:33:06Speaker 7: to all of our earners in Eyo University, shout out
- 1:33:09Speaker 7: to the merged team, and shout out to to Storm because,
- 1:33:11Speaker 7: like I said, you're the first person who I said
- 1:33:13Speaker 7: the seat is waiting for you, and now you're here,
- 1:33:16Speaker 7: and so there's a bunch of people out there who
- 1:33:18Speaker 7: we probably had the same conversation, but it's happened, and
- 1:33:22Speaker 7: so like you're gonna be the first of manting.
- 1:33:23Speaker 6: So I appreciate you for coming and sharing your wealth
- 1:33:25Speaker 6: and knowledge.
- 1:33:26Speaker 2: Man, Thank you sir.
- 1:33:27Speaker 6: Yeah, nothing happens before it's time, So I'm happy today was.
- 1:33:29Speaker 5: A day than you have it. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank
- 1:33:32Speaker 5: you guys rocking on this. We'll see you next week. Peace,
- 1:33:35Speaker 5: always seek knowledge.
- 1:33:39Speaker 6: It's a rap for storm Leroy.
- 1:33:43Speaker 4: My graduates from my school being forced back drop drop,
- 1:33:48Speaker 4: Mike drop back drop drop.
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