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Marc Lore is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who's started and sold four companies. Most recently Marc was the President and CEO of Walmart eCommerce US following the sale of his company, Jet.com, to Walmart for $3.3 billion in 2016. Prior to that, Marc founded Diapers.com/Quidsi which sold to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million. As an investor, Marc announced his new venture firm, Vision Capital People, with his co-founder, Alex Rodrigues, earlier this year with $50M of Alex and Marc's own money. Fun fact, in 1996 Marc qualified to be in the US national bobsled team. In Today's Episode with Marc Lore You Will Learn: 1.) How Marc made his way into the startup world, how he came to found Jet.com and what led to his most recent transition to the world of investing? 2.) How does Marc assess human potential? What does he mean when he says "the resume test"? What are the clearest signals of outperformers? What are signs of lack of performance? Why does Marc not believe in referencing? Does Mark start from a position of trust for it to be lost or with none and for it all to be gained? 3.) How does Marc evaluate his relationship to risk and fear? How has it changed over time? What did Marc's wife say when he left his safe job and put all their savings into his new business? What does Marc mean when he discusses finding "Sixth Gear"? How does Marc balance that intensity and ambition with romance and family life? 4.) Why does Marc believe Chief People Officer should be one of your first hires? What are the commonalities of the best Chief People Officers? What does the optimal relationship between CEO and CPO look like? How does Marc test for his core characteristics in interviews? What questions does he ask every candidate? What are the most revealing? 5.) How does Marc think about portfolio construction with the new fund today? Does Marc believe it is possible to take 40%+ of companies without alienating future investors? Is Marc concerned about over-capitalising companies too early? How does Marc think about reserves strategy and concentrating capital into the best companies?

Mark Holcomb, Misha Mansoor, and Jake Bowen are guitarists in Periphery. 1:33 - Working on new music and the impact of COVID 12:10 - What makes the band avoid a specific tour market 21:00 - The role that Periphery’s manager plays 46:24 - How the band focuses on the music 1:06:20 - Figuring out how to turn high risk into success 1:25:24 - Deciding who plays what, especially in the studio 1:39:49 - The band’s latest writing session 1:57:41 - Periphery gets priority when writing 2:11:11 - Does Mark use a metronome? 2:22:57 - What an average day is like for the guys Want to level up your guitar game? Check out Riffhard.

Mark Peacock is the host of the TravelCommons podcast, one of the longest running travel radio shows on the internet. Mark has been a frequent business traveler for more than 30 years.  He travels all over the world for high-tech companies and management consultancies.   Mark Peacock’s first TravelCommons podcast was recorded in May 2005 in the bathroom of the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. Originally, TravelCommons was going to be travel blog, but Mark turned out producing the “Voice of the Traveler” podcast.  Ask Mark frequently says, “it is more about the journey than the destination.” Mark has lived all over the United States, and is currently living in Chicago for the third time with his wife and two kids. In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Mark Peacock:  How Mark started a travel podcast and hosts one of the oldest travel podcasts on the internet. How Mark started TravelCommons podcast in a hotel bathroom in 2005 and what has kept him going. How does Mark get any work done while traveling? Does travel spark creativity?  How technology interrupts our ability to chat with the people around us while traveling.  Why Mark advises his family not to travel during “rush hour” in airports on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.  Should you invest in TSA Precheck?  Why Mark always focuses on flying with one airline, goes to the airline lounges, and has the airport credit cards. Does Mark get upgraded as a frequent business traveler and is airline status worth it? Why is it more difficult to get upgrades these days?  Mark Peacock’s tips for rental cars. Should you lock in your gas price with a rental car company? Is it worth it?  What are some of Mark’s craziest travel stories as a business traveler? Mark’s tips for traveling during the winter and having backup plans.  The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions I ask Mark Peacock:  Favorite domestic airport Terminal 2 in San Francisco  Favorite international airport Favorite airline Favorite booking website  Direct with airlines, but search with Google  Favorite travel bloggers Craig and Linda Indie Travel Podcast past Millennial Travel Podcast guests! Chris Christensen Amateur Traveler another past podcast guest of ours!  Flyer Talk--The World’s Most Popular Frequent Flyer Website The Cranky Flyer--an airline industry blog Boarding Area--required reading for frequent flyers  Resources from Mark Peacock:  TravelCommons.com Twitter @Mpeakcock Facebook TravelCommons Instagram @TravelCommons You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life. Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Mark Peacock is the host of the TravelCommons podcast, one of the longest running travel radio shows on the internet. Mark has been a frequent business traveler for more than 30 years.  He travels all over the world for high-tech companies and management consultancies.   Mark Peacock’s first TravelCommons podcast was recorded in May 2005 in the bathroom of the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. Originally, TravelCommons was going to be travel blog, but Mark turned out producing the “Voice of the Traveler” podcast.  Ask Mark frequently says, “it is more about the journey than the destination.” Mark has lived all over the United States, and is currently living in Chicago for the third time with his wife and two kids. In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Mark Peacock:  How Mark started a travel podcast and hosts one of the oldest travel podcasts on the internet. How Mark started TravelCommons podcast in a hotel bathroom in 2005 and what has kept him going. How does Mark get any work done while traveling? Does travel spark creativity?  How technology interrupts our ability to chat with the people around us while traveling.  Why Mark advises his family not to travel during “rush hour” in airports on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.  Should you invest in TSA Precheck?  Why Mark always focuses on flying with one airline, goes to the airline lounges, and has the airport credit cards. Does Mark get upgraded as a frequent business traveler and is airline status worth it? Why is it more difficult to get upgrades these days?  Mark Peacock’s tips for rental cars. Should you lock in your gas price with a rental car company? Is it worth it?  What are some of Mark’s craziest travel stories as a business traveler? Mark’s tips for traveling during the winter and having backup plans.  The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions I ask Mark Peacock:  Favorite domestic airport Terminal 2 in San Francisco  Favorite international airport Favorite airline Favorite booking website  Direct with airlines, but search with Google  Favorite travel bloggers Craig and Linda Indie Travel Podcast past Millennial Travel Podcast guests! Chris Christensen Amateur Traveler another past podcast guest of ours!  Flyer Talk--The World’s Most Popular Frequent Flyer Website The Cranky Flyer--an airline industry blog Boarding Area--required reading for frequent flyers  Resources from Mark Peacock:  TravelCommons.com Twitter @Mpeakcock Facebook TravelCommons Instagram @TravelCommons You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life. Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Golf Analytics Mastermind, Columbia Business school professor and author of Every Shot Counts. Mark Broadie has changed the way we see golf performance. His paradigm-shifting approach uses statistics and golf analytics in a way that has transformed the game. Broadie's 'strokes gained' statistic received enough high praise to be adopted by the PGA Tour in 2011, something that hadn't been done for decades. Week number NINE of the 51 Strokes podcast is coming in hot with the "Moneyball of golf." Just wanted to give a huge shoutout to everyone who bought merch over the weekend. 600 putts were made for everyone who bought on Black Friday. If you missed the live version, head on over to @51strokes on twitter to watch (after you listen to today's episode). One more quick update: We are closing in on the 1,000 review giveaway so make sure to get those reviews in if you haven't already for a chance to win EVERY piece of 51 Strokes merch. Enjoy today's show. Introduction to Episode 9: (00:45 - 03:02) Helping beginner golfers get better + the concept of 'strokes gained' (03:03 - 09:00). Pitching 'strokes gained' to the PGA Tour (09:01 - 15:16). Good vs. Bad stats (15:17 - 17:10). Implementation of analytics on different courses (17:11 - 22:22). The shots that matter the most (22:23 - 27:09). The affects of golfers changing their body type (27:10 - 31:08). The #1 reason PGA players use 'strokes gained' (31:09 - 34:36). How can a golfer like Caleb use analytics to help his game? (34:37 - 37:52). How often do PGA players reach out to Mark for help? (37:53 - 42:00). Factoring in weather and terrain + putting strategies (42:01 - 47:28). Does Mark use his data when he plays? (47:29 - 49:11). Thoughts on being the "Moneyball of golf" (49:12 - 54:28). The day to day life of Mark Broadie (54:29 - 1:01:11). Mark's 'Golfmetrics' app + Every Shot Counts (1:01:12 - 1:08:25). Where should Caleb be in his golf game come the beginning of next season (1:08:26 - 1:10:00). The 51 Strokes AFTER SHOW (1:10:10 - 1:14:28) Outro Song: MGK - Title Track 51 Strokes is presented by 5 Iron Golf

A great show with young pro Sam Long, an athlete who decided to do an Ironman as part of his re-hab at just 18yrs of age. The rest they say is history. Does Mark get a little bit of smack talk from Sam? And does Sam know his movie and music from 1995, the year he was born? As always no adverts, sponsor bullshit, just a good chat about triathlon. Enjoy! You can check out Sam's youtube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuGZGcO5LvIH4u9g_2ZsHGQ/videos?view_as=subscriber

A great show with young pro Sam Long, an athlete who decided to do an Ironman as part of his re-hab at just 18yrs of age. The rest they say is history. Does Mark get a little bit of smack talk from Sam? And does Sam know his movie and music from 1995, the year he was born? As always no adverts, sponsor bullshit, just a good chat about triathlon. Enjoy! You can check out Sam's youtube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuGZGcO5LvIH4u9g_2ZsHGQ/videos?view_as=subscriber

Does Mark sleep? I don't think so. Can he do 91 burpees in 17 seconds? Prob. Mark has built a Dental Enterprise Beast. If you are in dentistry, just listen in - he's got some serious chicken MC 'nuggets for you. Ready, set Go! EPISODE: Different People Learn...Differently The Trial & Error of Growth Finding Yourself Outside of Your Business The Keys to Communication STAY CONNECTED Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn www.coolmoneyshow.com | Read the Full Shownotes!

In this episode, Michael and Emil chat with Mark Ainley from GC Realty and Development about his experience with hundreds of BRRRRs.    Mark Ainley with GC Realty - c. 630-781-6744  --- Transcript   Michael: Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of The Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael albaum. And today I'm joined as usual by,   Emil: Emil Shour.   Michael: and we have a special guest with Mark Ainley with GC Realty and Development. We did a deep dive on Chicago with Mark a while back. He's got a property management business, but today's going to be talking to us about the burst strategy. So let's get into it.   Michael: Mark. Thank you so much for coming back on the podcast. We had so much fun with you doing the Chicago deep dive for anyone who didn't catch that episode. Go give it a listen. We've got Mark Ainley with GC Realty and Development. How are you, man?   Mark: I'm good. I'm not as hot as you guys. You guys got a lot to fire in us out there.   Michael: So yeah, big time fire. It seems like the market's hot. The state is hot. You know, everything seems to be on fire these days. Um, so today I wanted to chat with you. Not just I, but Emil as well. One is chat with you about BRRRR. Cause we were chatting with you before we recorded the last episode. And you were telling us how you had done like 480 some odd BRRRRs out in the Chicago area. Is that right?   Mark: Yeah, no, we did between Oh eight and 18. We did a, just over 400, I think it's 482 to be exact units, which were all made up of like one to four unit buildings.   Michael: Fantastic. So for those of our listeners who might not be familiar, can you just give us a quick and dirty definition? What is a bur and how does it work?   Mark: Sure. Buy, renovate, rent, refinance and repeat the acronym goes. Now when I started doing it, I didn't know what it was. I just thought I was smart. I wish I would have pointed trademarked it or… I was thinking about that today when I was preparing for this call. I'm like, man, if I would've came up with that, that was so smart. So we started doing it and it was really a business model to us and how we were approaching it back then. So for us, when we started in 2008, I got my into real estate in 2003. And you guys know out there in California, just as much as we do here in the Midwest, you couldn't do those types of things in the two thousands, just because pricing was so high, the opportunity wasn't there. So I really didn't have a, that access to those types of deals until the market crashed. And when the market crashed, the math just made sense to me on a couple of things I was looking at how to go at it.   Michael: Right on. And so why do you think just at a high level, we're going to dig into some details of a couple of birds you've done, but at a high level, why is it such a powerful tool or vehicle, whatever you wanna call it.   Mark: So it is powerful because the concept of it is you are not leaving any of your money into the deal at the end of the day, instead of a there's tons of these late night commercials are vest with other people's money or no money down, or do seller financing, all that type stuff. You can do these types of deals without having to do these by these crafty sales type pitches or get some guy to tie you to his second loan. I don't know. They got some crazy things they do out there to find ways to not have to put money into a deal. And this one's halfway legit. Now don't get me wrong. You have to find a way to have money on the front side of things. And we can talk about that. But, uh, um, at the end of the day, you can get out of a deal having little to maybe five, 6% in the deal. And sometimes even we were successful. We even were able to exceed what we had in there on a cash out, depending on the lender we're working with.   Michael: That is so cool. So I know people talk about the rural all the time. People tell successful and unsuccessful burgers all the time, but you've got enough under your belt. It sounds like you've probably done some good, some bad and maybe I think in between, right?   Mark: Yeah, no for sure. That's how the, the quick story of, uh, in our adventure for an 80 units, our first property, we bought that we're going to Burr and we did, it was a little, had a little more hair on it. We were combining a couple of deconverted condos and rolling into one, and we're going to cash out at the end of the day with a three flat versus a few individual units. And, uh, got stuck with stop work, order permits. We, we did, we made all the mistakes we could, you know, and then, uh, when we were getting inspected for the stop work order permits, we had someone else that didn't have a permit, horrible, horrible, but we did 131 other units in the time. It took us to do that first project. So, uh, that's kind of a horror story of, of, uh, bad planning or really being too optimistic. And then obviously making a whole bunch of mistakes of permits and, and who are really dealing with.   Emil: Wow.   Michael: So when you were first getting started in that first unit, you refer back to we a lot. Who is we and what kind of experience did they have doing this type of project?   Mark: So I had a couple of partners when we started off in the four and 80, we're kind of broken up into two groups where I had one part in there. I was consistent on both a hundred for 480 units. The first group, I had a partner and he was doing rehabs all around the city. And again, the concept of just kind of buying it cash and then refinancing out w what we really started with. And then, uh, as we part ways with the first partner enrolled with our second partner, where we did the balance of the units, it really turned into, Hey, we have a bunch of, uh, uh, private money that we could use and, uh, move faster and be able to, uh, go that route. So I've always had partners, different skill sets. You know, my one partner at the time, you know, he had the money, the first partner had the money.   And then my other partner that was consistent the whole way through, he had the construction, no hallway at that point. So I've learned all that stuff since then. It was kind of the we.   Michael: Right on   Emil: When you guys are doing all these deals, and this is something I wonder for myself, do you need to buy everything, all cash when you're going out and buying these properties?   Mark: Yes and no. A lot of the properties where you're really trying to find the add value ends up being in properties that might not be financeable, uh, where it might be missing a kitchen. It might be missing furnace. It might be just, my mind would be habitable where conventional loan won't be. They won't finance you. Or, you know, they have the two or three K loan, which is a lot of hoops to jump through or would even make sense to do something like that for that.   So you're buying a property that is really going to be bought by an investor only, and that's going to require cash. Now, whether that cash out of your pocket, or maybe you have a uncle or a private lender or a partner that that's where the cash ultimately is going to come from, and that's going to be. So if you think about it this way, when you're buying properties that can only be bought by investors that are have cash or are not financeable, now you can beat your in kind of the section of a properties out there that only a handful of people can actually buy. So if you have a hundred thousand dollar property, that's not, financeable, you know, out of a crowd of 10 people, you might only have a couple people that really have the means to pull together that a hundred grand to do it.   So now the supply and demand laws that property's going to go even for cheaper, which means there's more of an opportunity as far as the gap of what you can put into it, appraised for and cash out for on the backend.   Emil: So what kind of properties would you guys target? I'm sure after doing this enough, you had like a, a model or a buy box. We were like, alright, this is the kind of property we really want to hone in on. I don't know if I'm asking for too much of the playbook, but..   Michael: Give us the secret sauce.   Mark: No, no. So when you, I guess when it comes to BRRRR, the name of the game is a for trying to do as many as you can. The name of the game comes down to speed. So we did hone in on that and we honed in on, on single family homes, two flats, whenever for a reason, even though it's only times two, it always took us so much longer to do it. Three flats, forget about it. It was, uh, we always, uh, screwed up the timeline and messed out up that side of things. So we started focusing on single family homes that were in that really eight to $1,200 range, um, two to three bedrooms, one maybe sometimes a two second bath in the bathroom. So we focus on that. We focus in a handful of neighborhoods and we focused on certain floor plans. So we even were able to focus on specific, floor plans where we knew it just based on that floor plan. And we did 12 other like that, that these were gonna be our costs going into it. And we knew that we were creating comps for ourselves along the way as well too.   So one of the important things about a BRRRR is your backend. If you gotta make sure it plays out now, we were working through probably what would be the hardest time when it came to appraising. Cause there were no comps and appraisers were ultimately scared to do anything that was kind of pushed the line. If you're the highest comp in the neighborhood. That was a red flag in that 2013, 14. So now there's comps out there and be able to control that backend to make sure that a you're compping out based on stuff you're doing is one of the bigger pitfalls that people run up against.   Michael And for our non maybe Midwest listeners, two flats and three flats are duplexes and triplexes.   Mark: Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. We call them flats.   Michael: Good deal. And so the vast majority, it sounds like you bought in cash. Did you ever purchase anything financed on the front end   Mark: In the coming out of the great recession? You know, we had a couple of banks give us some deals or get properties off their hands. And what we thought were, sweetheart deals never turned out to be sweetheart deals. So this, the best deals we ever did were the ones that we bought cash.   Michael: Okay. It's interesting. I was chatting with a meal a few months back about a strategy that I've used in the past for buying rehab and burn type buildings and the multifamily space. And what I did is I'll buy them for cash turn around day one and get a commercial refinance out of 80% because they were financial and then use that cash to then fund the rehab. Once it's done refinance again, and depending on what your refinance costs looks like, that can start to add up pretty quick. So you might want it to go about a different way, but for whatever reason, they only charge me like a thousand bucks to refinance. So it was the cheapest money I ever got.   Mark: When you're borrowing the money on the front side. Uh, you maybe like, people always refer to the uncle, that's got money or whatnot, or a partner, but you know, a lot of people are going through call hard money lenders, and that gets really expensive. And I always tell people, I really figure out what your numbers are. So we were paying 10% across the board, but we just rolled that money over. We never had any points. We never had to refinance it. Those guys, they just want to keep their money working. So we might even refinance a project and have sit on that money for a couple of weeks and pay that interest. And that's where the costs, we always had to be efficient about it, but we're able to, as long as they're getting their 10%, they trusted that they're in good hands with us. So making sure that you're measuring that money out of pocket, and then that comes into the timeframe of doing the deal or how long it takes you to get to the refinance point, which people have pitfalls on when it comes to that, or if they didn't plan.   Michael: And Mark, I want to get really specific on how you structured some of those deals. So that 10% was that interest only. And was that paid monthly or was there an end payment date to talk to us a little bit about how that work and how you structured it?   Mark: Yeah. So how we did it, we did it on a monthly basis, 10% interest only, and we tied them to mortgage it. We had a mortgage and a note for every property. So if we sold the property, we have them sign off on the payoff and then we would basically move it to another property to make sure that they were always protected on their side of things.   Michael: Perfect. And so I just want to give folks an idea of what those numbers look like. So on a hundred grand at 10% interest, only on a monthly basis, that's $833 a month. And so you're making those payments every month while you're using that money until you can refinance pay off the a hundred thousand and then look to go do it again. Right?   Mark: Correct. Correct.   Michael: I love it. Can you walk us through what your best Burr was? Cause I think everybody remembers the high notes and then we're going to ask you in a minute, what your worst one was.   Mark: The best deal, I actually had this, uh, I talked about this when Joel Fairless, I was on his podcast and uh, you know, we got this property and the cool thing was, you know, we buy on the auctions, auction.com and uh, the couple other, um, I can't think of top of my head, but a couple of our different auction sites and this particular property bounced around to a couple of different auctions and were able to finally bid it. And it was a sight unseen. You know, we had to do all our due diligence. We could from the outside and we got the property. It was actually a four flat, uh, so four units. And, uh, we were, I think we bought them for 20 or 25,000 each they're small units. And I think we only put about 50,000 into it altogether. You know, when you do it enough, you just get lucky sometimes.   And this is one of those ones where we had some luck on our side, defendants were happy with even the, not a hundred percent updated conditions. So a lot of that money, we did have to spend on what we thought we're going to spend. So, you know, we actually ended up putting it into a roof versus updating a couple of units. And then we ended up selling that building turnkey to an another buyer a few years later. But the real ultimate win was we ended up clearing probably about end be about $130,000 on that one, uh, when we sold it. So we got the cashflow for call that first year, and then we made 130. So that is probably the best deal. And I still think about that all the time. Cause like, man, you can only duplicate that.   Michael: That's fantastic. So I just wanna make sure I understood you, right. So you bought it for 25, a unit and four units or 25 total?   Mark: So I think we bought it for if we're going to be specifically, I think we bought it for 28, so we had 80 into it. We put 50 into it. And so we had about a 130, we were getting about 3,800 a month. So yeah, I see your mouth dropping. It was sick and that sense and refinance it out and we refinanced and went out to, because it appraised really good. So we actually got more. So we actually cashed out then I think it was about 160. It appraised out for like 200. So we got 160 out and then ultimately sell it for, I believe we sold it for right around. I think it was around two 50 to two 70. I don't remember the exact number, but it was a hundred K plus that we made on the gross let alone, we were able to cash out some and we cash flowed all the way. So that is the best deal that I hands down. I even thought about that today. Make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. And that was probably the best one we ever.   Emil: Yeah. Those are, those are those all star BRRRRs that you read about and people, I mean, you not only make your money, you cash out more on top. So you got paid for doing the renovation and you're still cash flowing. So it's like, yeah, the best of everything.   Mark: That was a win. And I got plenty of lackluster ones too that offset that. So yeah. I only stay high on a moment for a few seconds. So I started thinking about the other ones, but.   Emil: We try to always bring people back down to earth, have the right expectations, not always have Rose colored glasses. So tell us about a time when it didn't go so hot.   Mark: Will you start back to the first property that we bought? You know, we were trying to combine that with another two units and make it a legal basement. And then the city came in, we got stopped in violation. So by the time we were done, we had about $280,000 out of pocket that we're paying that heavy juice on, on a monthly basis for, I think it was about three years. Wow. That was a, a gone wrong. And that was a painful one to say the least the other thing we had go wrong is the we've had a couple, bad appraisals where all day long, like what are you talking about? Reproduction of the building or comparables, you know, they wouldn't accept the off market comps for us. We knew a bunch of deals that happened in the neighborhood. One was us. We sold, we don't sell everything on them a lot.   So a lot appraisers will not go deeper than MLS. So it's up to us and for anyone out there looking to do a burn, make sure you know what your comps are on your exit side. So even going into the deal. So you're planning a refinancing at eight weeks from now, 10 weeks from now, you better hope you have two of those three comps on file right now that you could bring to that appraiser. And if they're off market, you got to make sure that you're getting the information to the appraiser so he can account for it in his appraisal.   Emil: So now having kind of looked at like your best scenario, your worst scenario, it's kind of saving this for the end, but I want to ask it to you now. You've probably learned, okay, these are the types of BRRRRs I want to take on. And these aren't. So like, do you have like, like your tips or takeaways from the BRRRRs that go well, versus the ones that end up being just running really long and expensive   Mark: As far as, you know, you buy a property that might have city violations on it, or some sort of a, if you buy a property in the city, Chicago, and maybe it's been vacant for a couple of years, if your attorney didn't catch the injunction on it, or some issue that you have to clear up a court before you can put a renter in there, that's something I see people get hung up on all the time where, uh, they bought a property, they fix it up, but they cannot refinance until that rental injunction on the title. The city puts out on the title is lifted. So dealing with the city is a pain in the butt pre COVID, let alone having to deal with self post COVID. So just having a property that has violations that are almost beyond your control, you know, you could take any sort of problems that need to be fixed a rehab and kind of put a timeframe on it.   But when you start working with municipalities or cities or a big city like Chicago, and now they're controlling it and you have to wait a month for a court date and all that stuff, that's where I've seen a lot of people, including myself, kind of get tied up in these deals that they take forever to get your money out.   Emil: Is that something you see during title? Like when you run title during due diligence, but you just kind of say, Oh, we'll get through it later. Or is this something you couldn't foresee until like you bought the property?   Mark: I've seen it happen both ways. So for us, we, we took it on not understanding what it was and then we got bit by it. But we've also had scenarios where we bought a property and it was in the process of being put on the title where we got kind of dinged, just bad luck in that sense.   But I see the problem with a lot more people. They just try pushing through it, thinking we'll make it work. I like to be part of things or investments that I can control. Uh, almost everything go along and, and the BRRRR part, the one thing that I think you have the least amount of control of when it comes to that, is that appraisal on the backend. Um, as far as how much you're gonna get out. So you can pretty much control everything every other step up until that appraisal part. And even then you could have influenced not the right word. Cause it sounds like you're, you're paying somebody off, but you can have a, some inclusion on the data that's being included if you provide a valid comps. So   Michael: What a, what an eloquent w to say that you can have inclusion the outcome. So speaking of timing, Mark, a question that I, and Emil probably get all the time is seasoning period. How soon will a lender re give me a refinance based on a new appraisal, as opposed to the sale price? What have you seen in your work?   Mark: So funny, quick story. Um, I had a guy call me up last week, looking for a bank that will take a property. That's not six months seasoned. And I said, man, you didn't talk to the bank before you he's like I did. I didn't know what season meant. He's like, I heard him kind of ramble. So by being in season, I just didn't understand. I thought maybe he was talking about the time of year or maybe it's busier in the summer,   Michael: Or maybe he was talking about a cast iron pan.   Mark: Yeah, and he goes, I know Mark, just, just laughing, get out with it, please help me find somebody. I could take a, take the letter, tell him like, Oh my gosh, like it's horrible, like scenario to be in. And I could see. So the season part is something that post COVID I, you guys probably know this, uh, the banks have really cut back on a lot of the banks that were saying, Hey, listen, you get the job done, um, we'll, we'll give you the money, but now they're moving back to that season piece. So for us, we were able to work with a lot of local community banks. And you know, there's, you know, the community banks, you get that relationship. It's almost like a 60, 1960s feeling relationship with some of these local community banks where they might have the seasoning issue with anyone new, but because you've been banked with them and you might have x amount of dollars in their bank, they'll work with you. But when you come from out of state and you want to do it, then their risk levels go up and they usually don't work with it. So I found, I don't know, uh, it was down in San Diego, but a guy that was, he found a, uh, bank there that was giving a higher interest rate, but he was, they were doing non season properties.   I don't know if it was a credit union or whatnot, but finding that bank that will do it non seasoned and they're out there. It just ends up taking a, you just have to figure, use your resources to find that out there. But the bottle is tough to do altogether. If you want to continue to build on it, if you have to wait for that six months for it to be a season now for us, we never had to wait. Um, and that we wouldn't have done 482 units if we had to wait six months every property.   Emil: When I was doing research on this, I found that anytime you wanted to get a mortgage back… So any Fannie Freddie loan, they required a six months seizing period. At least every bank I called like four or five different banks. And everyone kind of told me the same thing where you guys getting different loans or were you getting Fannie Freddie loans when you were reading?   Mark: We were not getting any Fannie Freddie. So we were working with local community banks and we were able to whether they get a credit line, we're getting, they're holding our portfolio again. If someone looking to do it has to build that relationship. And, uh, you have a little money in a bank that people will be flexible, um, all around the country, as far as banks go and stuff like that.   Michael: And so for all of our listeners who just might not be familiar with what a seasoning period is like Mark's friend that called and asked him, it's basically the amount of time that you need to own the property for, until they will give you a reappraisal or refinance. And so that's often six months for those Fannie Freddie products, or it can be more flexible with those community banks. But so definitely have that conversation on the front end prior to, I would say, even purchasing the property and know what your exit looks like, who's going to do the refinance will do that. Will they give you a new appraisal? Are they only going to give you your purchase price, plus your costs? You just want to have a very clear picture and understanding of what that looks like. So you don't get caught looking on the backend.   Mark: The other thing, when it comes to that appraisal, if maybe it's not a Fannie pretty type a low and you might get into, but other banks, they might not do it against appraised value. They'll do it against what you have into it. So that's another way I see people get tripped up. So they might have a a hundred thousand dollar property and they put 50,000 into it. So they have 150 all in and it pays off for 200. And I know they could get a, um, all their money out, but the bank will say, well, show us how much you have into it. And we'll only loan to, uh, to that amount. Uh, that's where I see another way people get, uh, caught up with that.   Michael: I was gonna say, so shifting gears here, Mark, the podcast, you know, it's called the remote real estate investor. And so the vast majority of our investors are doing this remote. What would you say to them? Cause I think a question I get in the Academy all the time is how do I get started doing a BRRRR? I don't know anybody half. The reason I use Roofstock is because I don't want to have to get to know anybody. You already have these relationships. So if somebody wants to do a remote BRRRR, where do they start?   Mark: Um, it's a generic answer to start, but, uh, you know, having the right team and I tell people to find someone that's already doing it, and then they have the resources and they have the know about to do it. So example with just saying myself, you know, so for any property management company, they have the ability to do turnovers, right? And where we've worked best with out of state investors, kind of going after the birth strategy has been all right, you buy this property and we can do a, what we call it. We call it heavy turnover. So anything in that 10 to $20,000 range would be a heavy turnover and you take a 900 square foot ranch. You could do a lot for 20 grand in a sense of redoing the floors, redoing a bathroom, you can update the kitchen and that amount and possibly a replacing a mechanical or two. So you can get that and then get it to refinance out and get a majority of money out. So having, whether it be a property manager company that has a little more of an expensive maintenance apartment.   So for us, we have all in house maintenance. A lot of property managers will outsource that part, but any property manager that has in house maintenance has the capability to do those shops, any other sort of a developer that a local to whatever region. I mean, they can usually put you in touch with the right people to do it. So having just the right team that you can trust, I guess, and if you're able to find a proper manager that that's going to actually be responsible for the property all the way through, and then have to put the right tenant in there, find a tenant that's gonna fit, whatever rehab you just did. And then ultimately be responsible or be around six months from now, if something went wrong with the rehab or maybe the deck that was fixed broke or whatnot. So if you're able to keep one group, like some of our clients have done together, um, for the whole time, then that just lowers your risk as an out of state investor as well, too.   Michael: Perfect. And so for anybody interested in investing in Chicago or doing firs in Chicago, that's something that GC Realty can do for them.   Mark: What I ended up doing a lot is people call me up. They might be looking to buy a property. Maybe they were working with a realtor in our office. Maybe they're working with another local realtor, but I'll tell them either a it's something we could do based on the timing. Or I'll put you in contact with two or three guys that I know can get the place fixed up for you. At least I can help him with the scope and then they could do the actual work and then they'll come back to us to manage. So ultimately the end of the day, usually if we don't help directly, we help indirectly as far as set people out, as far as Chicago goes.   Emil: Michael you've had the same experience, right? Like you've your property managers in some of the cities you own property in, they've helped you find a contractor and kind of help manage the process. It seems like if you're an out of state investor, relying on your property manager to help with that whole process, they're like the key to this whole thing.   Mark: Yeah. And I, I put myself out, you know, in Chicago, I got a guy, right. That's what you need. And there's those people everywhere. I mean, there's just those, uh, networking people that are just machines when it comes to connecting people. And, uh, you know, there's a lot of people I talk to on a weekly basis. I might never talk to again, but they'll, or at anytime soon, but they pop up a few years later with six or seven properties that they want me to manage now or something like that. So just kind of drive the people to where they could succeed. And I think the number one thing is starting with the right person to direct you in any of these cities. And I'm sure you guys have property managers all around your network that can at least be the starting point for somebody you're a restock Academy. People to be able to go from there then.   Michael: Yeah, totally. And Emil to answer your question. Yeah. I reached out to my property manager and ask if they could put me in touch with, but then I still did screening interviews to make sure that it was going to be a good fit for me because the property manager wasn't involved because of the scope of work was just a little bit too much for them to handle. So I sought to make sure that it was going to be a good working relationship.   Mark: I'll get every so often, uh, a guy that will be like, he'll want to a GCA from California. He wants to just be part of all and that's fine. And what I'll do for him. It's like, alright for the foundation, call this guy for the roof, call this guy and I'll give him seven or eight people and like go for it and they'll knock it out and they'll bring back the property to rent. So that's another approach to it. You, you can literally, you know, nowadays, you know, I know a couple of investors from California that literally do a couple flips a month here, whether it be flips or rehabs, but they, they, they have their trusted guy on the ground here throw up those little cameras in the corners and they're practically on the job site every day, seeing what's going on. So with technology these days, and, uh, I can't think of the service, uh, that camera, the security service, but, uh, it can almost be there on the job. So as long as you have the people, then they can actually trust you. At least know if they're coming or going even.   Emil: That's super smart. I never thought of that. Like just putting up a ring cam and that's like hooking it up to wifi or whatever. And then you can check your job site.   Mark: That's all that too. And, uh, you know, so they actually have the locks as well to where you can, uh, change the code from, from your phone in California. And so when that, when that contract came back, cause he's saying, Hey, I can't get into the code's wrong. I see some guys do that too, because they don't want to pay someone like us, a few grand to oversee it. Your times was funny at that point, but, uh, that's fine. It is what it is   Michael: Right on. Mark, I'm curious to know, is there anything that you could see on a project or potential deal? That's an immediate, no, go for you. Like it's got a foundation issue or it's got a roof, you know, is there such a thing or do you, until you put a price on it, are you not scared?   Mark: So I've never been a fan of fire properties, um, properties that might had a fire, even if it's just like the second floor has got a partial fire, you just never know. I would never feel comfortable, um, going through without having to really take the part the whole place. So we've never really messed around with fire properties. As far as a foundation goes, we talked about last time, the housing stock and age here, you know, you deal with the foundation stuff all the time. It just ends up being what you do with that foundation. Now, if a house is leaning and it's a hundred years old, more like we're not gonna mess with it. There's a couple of cracks. There's plenty of guys around here that can seal that stuff and make sure that you don't get that moisture in that basement.   Michael: So, so the, the fire,It was like a dagger in my heart. So I don't think I shared with you Mark, but a lot of our listeners know that I have a mixed use commercial building that I'm converting to residential. And I had two fires, not one but two fires in the same building a week apart. Oh, wow. One in a commercial space and one up on the roof during the reroof project. So dealing with the insurance company right now, getting that whole thing adjusted. But yeah, it's a total nightmare.   Mark: I'll tell you a quick story. I I've been very lucky when it comes to fires. Um, and luckily I haven't been investigated probably cause the coincidence of them, but, uh, lucky in the sense of we had a, a, a, a property that, uh, we had a really bad foundation issue and, uh, and no one's ever been hurt. So I'll give the caveat that we've had fires and no one's ever been hurt. So we had that building that, uh, um, was almost leaning. It was like a hundred thousand foundation and December 9th, 2017, it burned down. I'm like, Oh my God, total loss. And then we had another one that just being done. We had a four unit and I converted it to a two larger unit and it just didn't make sense. And the building ran horrible and I had to do something. I maybe converted back to four solid, this kind of lose money and it burned down.   So I got lucky two different ones. I had another building, a vacant building, a burned. Now the one thing I went wrong with on there, because this story is, although I made money and I talk about profit-wise, I made a killing, but I was under insured for some of these properties. I could have almost walked away with another 40% of what I walked away with if had I insured it now, there's always the, what you pay monthly versus what you, you know, you're preparing for something that more likely is not going to happen, but, um, just always have that serious conversation with your, make sure you have a trusted insurance guy that you're talking to that can, uh, uh, put that all in perspective here, what that looks like.   Michael: It's so funny. Cause I come from the insurance world. And so a lot, a lot of people might be like, why the hell is this guy Mark laughing and celebrating that he burned his properties to the ground. And what people don't realize is that if you're going to have a loss, you kind of want to have a total loss. I want it to burn to the ground because then you just get the insurance money and you can go do with it. What you want. The issue is when you have partial losses, when the fire department's really good, or when the building was built, well, you're like crap. Now I got to go repair this thing. And it's, it's a whole nightmare. And that's what I'm dealing with right now.   Mark: We had the two total losses that they were so bad that the city even came in and tore them down, like within 24 hours. So the one property we even know about, we went there, it was gone. It was something we didn't get to yet. We had a kind of a backlog of properties and it was vacant, but yeah, gone.   Michael: Cause that's expensive. Property, you know, debris, removal, cleanup, all that stuff's expensive may or may not be covered under your policy. So yeah.   Mark: Yeah. We had to definitely pay them back for that. They liened it. So they actually got us two properties later. They liened, uh, the land actually for that one. So…   Michael: Well, that's crazy. That's crazy. Emil, you ready to start wrapping stuff up here?   Mark: I got a couple other things you want me to hit on real fast. Yeah. So just let me run through my notes here real fast. So I think for the people that come out of state, they don't realize how long that, that time to get from the day you close to the day, you could actually get it rented to either a, have the opportunity to get reappraised or start the seasoning process. So I think, uh, making sure that people are allowing enough time in there, whether it be their borrowed money or their hard money, or be realistic by the expectation. So just even doing a $20,000 rehab is still going to take probably about 60 days from the time you start, you're going out there verifying scope and all that stuff where people are like, Oh, I thought you'd be done in a couple of weeks.   It's like, Aw man. Like, no, we've got to get permits. We got to do these things. So making sure you understand how long you have to maybe have that hard money out there or when you're seasoning period actually real, really start is something that I see people go wrong on. The other thing that I see, and this is a big one and we are, we did this too. When we first started buying these properties, we did whatever it took to get it rented. Um, we only did let me reword that. We only did what it took to get it rented, where we left a lot of capital improvements like, Oh, that Ruffino made me, you know, you can see through the roof by your name. I got a couple of years out of it or that hot water heater. That's literally rusted in drip. It's like, Hey, as long as maybe we get another year and we did those things in a, you know, maybe the, the garage, we didn't, uh, do something with the garage where now we weren't, it wasn't part of the rent.   And, uh, so we, we, uh, we, we shot ourselves in the foot where we were able to see how bad our maintenance was, uh, from not really doing a full project and our average, uh, for our kind of our first 140 units versus the balance of, um, you know, I think we spent about another 12 or 13,000 hours, average per unit, just on making sure we did all those things. That way we're not nickel and dime on maintenance for the next two years.   Michael: That's really smart spending the money on the front end to making it more maintenance, proof, more tenant proof. You go so far.   Mark: Yes. You know, when you're getting the appraisal, another thing is, uh, you have the full scope out there. Hey, mr. Appraiser here is the laundry list of everything I did. We have about X amount of thousands of dollars into it. And just want to accompany this with a couple off market cops there. So you can put a nice little package together for the appraisal. You can't tell him he has to use something, but you can at least provide them with the data for him to decide if it's worth using or not. And here's the thing, when an appraiser, he walks in the house, he doesn't necessarily know what the house looked like before he was in there. So he doesn't realize or appreciate how much you actually did. So I know one guy he actually gives before pictures and after pictures to that appraiser, so he can justify the 40, 50 grand. He might've put into it. So that's, that's another, uh, kind of good one to make sure you can at least control as much as you can in that part of the process.   Emil: What type of investor is this a good idea for? Like, I'm sure you've done this with plenty of out-of-state investors who are interested in investing in Chicago, would you say there's a certain type of investor who like, is a good idea versus I don't know, some characteristics of people where it's like, like one thing I can think of is you have a super busy job and like all these other things where you make good money, it's like, is it worth all your time and energy spent in a BRRRR versus buying something turnkey? I don't know. I'm just curious if you've had that experience.   Mark: So in a BRRRR, you might just say you run through a whole Burr and you might have only, uh, you might only get 95% of it. Now you have typically 5% of the deal, but if you bought that right, there should still be some equity in the deal that maybe it didn't appraise for enough. So one of the tips I have, or one of the things I say is make sure that when these property or buying or the reward is worth the risk, because there's risk when you're doing this type of strategy, where even if you're not getting all your money out, you should still have a nice piece of equity. So that whole add value piece is why you do it. You know what I think a lot of a turnkey model type investors or investors that are buying, I don't know, you call it top of the market. Um, they might have something that they could get very hands off of, low touch, but they are buying at the top of the market.   You might not get all your money out, but you might still have another 10% equity in there even for a future opportunity to maybe borrow against and do something more to it, or at least have on against your, a personal financial statement as something that you have some equity. And so I think someone that's looking to add a little more value and kind of build that equity worth a faster, this is what it's for. This is like, if you don't have time to be a full time investor, but you don't want to do kind of the armchair type investment, uh, this is kind of the go-between.   Emil: Yeah, that makes sense. And you know, I've, I've always thought like, even if you leave five to 10% in the deal, like you're still getting a much better deal than you would had you just gone and had to put 20% down 25% down, whatever it is.   Mark: Oh yeah, for sure. For sure. And so you have that 5% in, and hopefully you have another 10% equity still because it didn't appraise out for the full max. So that's a way better spend than just putting 25% down that, you know, you're not gonna gain money on.   Michael: One additional point to on, on how long it takes to just get this stuff done. And what really surprised me and kind of caught me looking was the whole time and you're holding costs. And so if you're, you know, you're paying utilities for this property, the whole time folks are working on it. And the utility bill is going to be a lot higher than if people are just living in it. Cause they're using power tools and bathroom and water and all that kind of stuff. So I had a month where I had like 800 to a thousand dollars, just utility bills for this multiunit building, because there are a bunch of people working in it and I'm like, Holy crap, that's insane. And something else to keep in mind is you got to talk to your insurance carrier provider agent and ask them what a vacant property or property rehabbing insurance policy looks like, because that might be very different than a tenant occupied policy. And they're often a lot more expensive. So just make sure you're very accurately putting together what your numbers look like for your… whatever your cost of your money has. And then your, your insurance utilities, your property taxes. You still gotta pay those even though there's no one living in it. So just make sure you're very, you get a very clear picture of what the actual numbers look like,   Mark: Cutting the lawn, shoveling the snow and, uh, that, that builder's risk policy is yeah, it adds up.   Michael: Yes, it sure does. It sure. Does Mark. Anything else that you wanted to share with us and Neil? Anything else you got?   Mark: One other thing that you could do with the appraisal. If you are, maybe you get a bad appraisal, you can always contest that. And I'm not sure if everyone knows that. But if an appraisal comes back, you say, hey, listen, you know, they might've had low comps now. It's not smart to contest it unless, you know, uh, that there's actual facts out there that can help you get closer to your value. But, you know, even if that appraisal that comes back gets you another five or 10 grand on a hundred thousand dollar property, that's a, that's a big chunk. Contesting the appraisal. Now we ran into the issue all time of we're trying to turn money too fast. So to appraise, try to contest an appraisal for another four or five grand. We were, it was slowing us down. So that was one of the things that was tough when we were trying to compound, uh, these deals. But if you're doing, what are you doing to take the time to test that a appraisal and try to get that other five to 10% out of it.   Michael: Really good advice.   Emil: Does it cost money? Does it cost money to contest? Cause I remember I was doing a cash out Refi on a property earlier this year and it came in low and we just tried to contest it. It didn't move anywhere, but I dunno if maybe there was like a formal contesting process.   Mark: You know what, I want to say there's like a a hundred dollar fee. Um, but I might be confusing that with, if the guy couldn't get access and he charged you for it, I'm not sure. But uh, so worst case now I think it might be a hundred bucks. Yeah. Yeah. So again, risk versus reward is not that much, even if it keeps the fader $10,000 or even $5,000 out of pocket for an extra hundred bucks in a couple of extra weeks that there's value there.   Michael: Money well spent.   Emil: Totally worth it.   Michael: Once COVID ends, if you could go out on a plane and go anywhere, where are you headed?   Mark: Ah, just somewhere at the beach. I have not been to a beach for a long time. Um, I will literally take anywhere with an ocean. I've actually looked at like day trips, like flying down to quick day trips to like, fly out the morning, go sit on the beach for the day and fly home to Chicago down in Florida somewhere. Uh, but yeah, I've been to Vegas a bunch of times, but you don't get that beach satisfaction there for sure.   Michael: No, you gotta be careful what you wish for though. Cause my brother went to school in Canada and he told me he threw a snowball from the beach into the ocean once. So you don't want to go to over the cold beach. You got to go to a warm beach.   Mark: Nope. Headed down to Florida somewhere. That's the quickest cheapest flights it looks like. So right on time, change screws you up. I've told me down with it, but for a quick trip, the time change screws up too much.   Emil: Come hang in. LA man. If you're ever here   Mark: Yup Yup.   Emil: But a day trip is tough to California.   Michael: Awesome. Well Mark, thank you so much for joining us for round two. This has been super insightful, super informative, and I am sure we'll have you back on again. Soon   Mark: I look forward to it and anybody that, uh, like I, I try to point people in the right direction. So anyone ever interested in Chicago or anyone that is looking for the right context in Chicago, feel free to reach out   Michael: Perfect. And what's the best way for folks to get in touch with you?   Mark: We got, uh, we got our podcast Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast now, which we started a Facebook group for. And then, you know what, I'll put my cell phone out there, uh, in the, in the show notes. So if you guys can help that   Michael: Fantastic and your website as well?   Mark: GCRealtyinc.com   Michael: Fantastic. Well, thanks again, Mark. Really appreciate it. And we'll chat soon, man.   Emil: Thank you Mark.   Michael: Alrighty, everybody. That was our show. Hope you enjoyed it and took some actionable takeaways. If you enjoyed it, feel free to leave us a rating and review as well as subscribe, wherever it is, you'll send your podcasts. It really helps us out. If there's anything that you'd like to hear covered on an episode, feel free to leave that in a comment that would be look forward to seeing them the next one and a big shout out and thank you to Mark. That was really, really great stuff.  

In his own words, Mark Thompson says he had been an ordinary entrepreneur for close to 10 years before co-founding PayKickstart. During that time, Mark created different software, mainly focusing on SaaS. He also developed information products that he sold to his target audience, with PayKickstart as their core business. The ideal PayKickstart customers are; digital entrepreneurs, people who specialize in selling software solutions, people running membership sites, online course creators, coaches, and consultants. Listen in as Mark shares his journey with Geordie Wardman.  What You Will Learn What prompted Mark and his team to offer their PayKickstart shopping cart tool to their vendors? What happened to the previous applications that Mark and his team built over the years? Does Mark have any plans to develop a SaaS platform? Niches that PayKickstart focus on What sets PayKickstart from its competitors? How did Mark transform the PayKickstart tool into a product? Pain-points that Mark and his team relied on to build the PayKickstart platform How PayKickstart leveraged their sister company to make their first $10,000 in MRR How PayKickstart found their customers What growth strategy did Mark use after opening the platform to the public? How giving bonuses helps drive traffic to your site How long was it before PayKickstart got brand recognition? Why companies should have a blog The impact of SEO on companies How affiliates can help companies increase revenue Mark founded PayKickstart out of necessity. After selling many products over the years, he and his team realized that many of the shopping carts their customers used were archaic. Not only were these carts rigid, but they were also not adaptable to their business. After consultations, Mark and his team decided to develop an internal tool that would help them sell their products. They were determined to use the PayKickstart tool to promote their affiliate partners. After around two years of using the tool in-house, it evolved to become a system that the team had not envisioned. Listen in as Mark explains how people would call them endlessly to enquire about their cool checkout page. Mark and his team released the PayKickstart tool to the public close to three years ago. Today, the PayKickstart tool has evolved into a fully-fledged platform complete with robust functionality. The PayKickstart tool helps eliminate the technical hurdles that come with managing recurring revenue. Mark says that over the years, they have realized it is not easy to become the best providers in the market for a single product. He and his team only focus on ensuring that PayKickstart is running smoothly. PayKickstart strives to evolve with the times to ensure customers get the best, up to date services. Mark and his team have devised numerous advanced tools that help maximize conversions. Listen to Mark as he shares more reasons with Geordie on what sets PayKickstart apart from their competitors. Mark shares his journey and the events that preceded the development of the PayKickstart platform. At some point, they offered the tool for free to a specific number of people, after which they started charging a small fee per month. Mark mentions that their sister company played a role in helping PayKickstart penetrate the market. A growth strategy is critical for companies, especially when starting. Apart from working with affiliates, and inviting people to webinars, PayKickstart gave its customers a free post-shopping offer. Mark tells Geordie how he and his team went about it. Listen in to find out what other methods PayKickstart used to attract more customers and attract more customers through word of mouth. Like any other business, PayKickstart has faced some challenges along the way. Mark says their biggest challenge so far has been people canceling. To prevent this, Mark and his team have worked hard to revamp the site, improved the signup flow, and improved the in-app onboarding experience to give people value. Mark explains that PayKickstart still runs different challenges in a bid to introduce customers to their services. Mark has some sales conversion and retention tactics to share that you need to hear. He and his team are committed to retaining costumers, a tactic he calls 'overcoming objections to save the sale.' With significant advancements on the PayKickstart platform, Mark has managed to offer customers a smooth experience and minimize cancellations. Customers can now navigate through the website with ease. Further, Mark strives to convince customers to stay. Listen to find out the strategies he has applied to achieve this. Mark mentions that while PayKickstart has experienced challenges, they have leveraged them to grow the platform.  Resources Mark Thompson PayKickstart.com Mark Thompson LinkedIn Mark Thompson Twitter PayKickstart Facebook

Dauood is late, Mark is spicy and Andrew just wants everyone's feelings to be taken into account. Plus is comedy decentralizing? Does Mark have the world's longest butthole? And a conversation around therapy and COVID related stresses and breakups. The world is like Mark's teeth: fragile.    patreon.com/Pier69 twitch.tv/marksmallslive

Westy, Coop, and Murph cover the recent 30 for 30 on the '98 home run chase which automatically stokes the flames of baseball's history with PED. DO PED users belong in the Hall? Does Mark and Barry deserve credit for breaking Marris's record of 61? Is there a place for PED in today's game? All covered in this episode with an addition to what we think would be the best sports story yet to be covered by a 30 for 30. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Whether you’ve heard his radio show on accident or know his baby steps by heart, you’ve probably heard of Dave Ramsey. But should you heed some of the advice he's giving? Let's take a look at some of the things he promotes.    Read more and get additional financial resources here: https://silverman-associates.com/saving-with-silverman-podcast/ep-8-should-you-be-wary-of-dave-ramseys-advice   Today's show schedule:  1:46 - Does Mark agree with the debt snowball? 3:57 - Should you just invest in mutual funds? 6:41 - Can you really expect a 12 percent return on your investments? 8:08 - Should you stop saving for retirement while getting out of debt? 11:59 - What does Dave Ramsey say that is good to follow?

Tori Spelling has a supporting role in the boy-meets-boy rom-com Trick, but she was the biggestname behind this 1999 little-seen crowd pleaser. Directed by Jim Fall, the beloved indiecharmed gay and straight audiences with its one-night storyline and charismatic cast. Now,twenty years later, does the will-they-or-won’t-they suspense still satisfy? Does Mark’s hotnessstill...burn? And, can someone please give Coco Peru her own movie? The Old Roommates wishyou a happy pride and a joyous revisit. Listen to this.Follow Old Roommates on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram @OldRoommates, and email us at oldroommatespod@gmail.com. And, of course, rate, review and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify & wherever you listen to podcasts.

Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   This week on RIMScast, Justin Smulison is in a festive mood! Recently, RIMS announced its 2020 award winners for the Richard W. Bland Memorial Award and the Rising Star Award, and in this episode, Justin is interviewing both of them!  First up to speak with Justin is Richard W. Bland Memorial Award recipient (and return guest), Mark Humphreys! Mark is the Vice President of Litigation and Risk Management at Watt Companies in California, as well as the Chair of the RIMS External Affairs Committee. Mark was presented with this award due to his commitment in the area of legislation and regulation.   The second guest of the episode and the recipient of the Rising Star Award is Katherine Dawal, Manager of Risk and Insurance at K+S Potash Canada and Vice President of the RIMS Saskatchewan North Chapter. She received the honor of Rising Star for demonstrating exceptional initiative, volunteerism, professional development, achievement, and leadership potential.   In this episode, both guests briefly discuss their work and careers and share how they are leading their companies and RIMS groups amid the COVID-19 pandemic.   Key Takeaways: [:01] About the RIMS Membership. [:50] About today’s episode and guests. [1:00] About RIMS Coronavirus Information Center. [1:14] About the newest RIMS webinar! [1:42] More about today’s first guest, Mark Humphreys. [2:13] Justin welcomes Mark to RIMScast! [2:22] Justin congratulates Mark on winning the Richard W. Bland Memorial Award. [2:38] Mark speaks about the award and shares why it is significant to him. [4:27] Mark speaks about what has inspired his passion for advocacy. [7:47] Last time Mark and Justin spoke, they discussed drafting legislation for the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act (PRIA). Mark gives an update on some of the developments that have happened regarding it since then. [9:45] Do they often advocate on behalf of an idea as opposed to an actual piece of legislation? [11:37] Does Mark feel like most actions that he’s taking within his company and with the external affairs committee will have some sort of tie to pandemic response for the next three to five years? [12:57] Did Mark ever feel like a pandemic would happen? [13:45] Mark shares some of the other ways the pandemic is impacting his work and day-to-day operations in commercial real estate. [16:50] Mark leaves listeners with some parting thoughts regarding the award he won as well as advice for risk management professionals. [18:21] Justin introduces the next guest, Katherine Dawal! [18:51] Justin welcomes Katherine to the podcast. [18:59] Katherine shares the location she is speaking from and gives an update on what the current COVID-19 statistics are where she’s from. [19:55] Justin congratulates Katherine on winning the Rising Star award and Katherine speaks about how it feels to receive such an honor. [21:10] Katherine fills listeners in on what her role is at K+S Potash Canada. [22:50] Katherine explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her work at K+S. [26:52] Katherine speaks about her role as a RIMS leader for the Saskatchewan Chapter and how the pandemic has impacted the work that she does there. [29:35] Since Katherine was so well-prepared for the pandemic, does she think that her work at K+S will resume a little bit faster than the rest of the world? [32:11] Justin gives his thanks to both guests for joining the episode, previews the next episode of RIMScast, and highlights some of the links to check out in today’s show notes!   Mentioned in this Episode: Risk Management Magazine: Risk Manager of the Year 2020 Digital Edition RIMS Coronavirus Information Center RIMS Advocacy: Coronavirus Advocacy Information RIMS Advocacy RIMS Webinar — May 7th: “Emerging Risk Issues with Point of Service Manufacture and Use of 3D Printed Medical Devices” RIMS Webinar — May 12th: “Executive Perspectives: Global Trends and Issues Impacting Risk Management” RIMS Webinar — May 13th: “Mitigating the Impact & Disruption to the Global Supply Chain: COVID-19” Upcoming RIMS Events RM Magazine Risk Management Monitor RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP) New Feature: RIMS-CRMP Stories RIMS Membership — Discover why 10,000 of your peers from more than 60 countries are a part of the RIMS community! Download any episode of RIMScast.   Want to Learn More? Keep up with the podcast on RIMS.org and listen on iTunes. Have a question or suggestion? Email: Content@rims.org.   Join the Conversation! Follow @RIMSorg on Facebook and Twitter, and join the RIMS Group on LinkedIn.   Follow up with Our Guests: Mark Humphreys’ LinkedIn Katherine Dawal’s LinkedIn

Mark Suster is the Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures, one of LA's leading and largest venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Bird, GOAT, Maker Studios and Ring.com to name a few. Prior to joining the world of venture, Mark was the founder & CEO of two successful enterprise software companies, the most recent of which was sold to Salesforce.com where Mark became VP, Products. Mark is also the author of one of my favourite industry blogs, Both Sides of The Table. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Mark made his way from founding enterprise companies to joining "the dark side" of venture with his move to Upfront? 2.) How does the current economic landscape change the world of B2B? How will renewals be impacted? How will customers approach discounting? Similarly, how will the world of B2C be impacted by COVID? How does this impact marketing and ad spend? 3.) How does Mark think about reserve allocation today with Upfront? How does that change in the face of COVID? Why does Mark believe this environment will redefine valuations? How should founders respond in the face of heavily changed valuations? 4.) Does Mark believe we will see a graveyard of new venture firms who have deployed too quickly and have too many hungry mouths to feed? How does Mark think about building temporal diversification into the portfolio? How can managers use reserves more intelligently moving forward? 5.) Does Mark agree with the Twittersphere that VCs remain "open for business"? How will we see deal volume impact? How will we see size of transaction impacted? What is the most important role a VC can play today? How will the M&A market also be impacte din the face of COVID? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Mark’s Fave Book: Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World Mark's Most Recent Investment: Solve As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Mark and on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

Parents, have you went to bed, prepared, and ready to rock the next day. Only to have the wheels fall off. Staying positive can be difficult. Have a listen to how Marks shower fix, turns into a disaster. And when he tries to teach the kids by giving them full control, you can imagine how that day will go. Kelly of coarse, jumps on side with the kids. Does Mark have a point, or do you see his point?

WrestleMania is happening this weekend with no fans but the guys have a full slate of guests. Blake, Sal and Mark bring in Kyle Crane, Mandy and Cristian to preview the full two night Mania card including rants, opinions and theories. What are Boneyard and Firefly Funhouse Matches? What titles will change hands? What is actually going on with Roman Reigns? Does Mark even know what match they even talking about? All those questions are answered and more. Then Blake brings on Zack Heydorn to talk about the storytelling of the top WM matches. Enjoy the show and have a great different WrestleMania weekend!..Kyle Crane, Theme Park This (https://www.duelinggenre.com/page/2/)..Mandy Reilly, Milwaukee Mom (https://milwaukeemom.com/), Wear The Swimsuit (https://www.instagram.com/weartheswimsuit), Manda Bands (https://www.facebook.com/mandabands1)..Mandy's New Article in This Is Magazine: Growth in Grief (https://issuu.com/thisismag/docs/this_is..._spring_2020_complete/20)..Zack Heydorn, http://www.PWTorch.com..Stay The Fuck At Home Video: https://youtu.be/e0-2XxgHIXk

Does Mark need to make it up to his wife for making their Valentine's all about himself?

This week on the podcast, Jeffrey Palermo had the pleasure of visiting with Mark Dunn to record today’s show! Mark is a long-time developer and software architect who was an original co-host on the .NET Rocks podcast that started back in 2002. Mark is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .NET, and Database Administrator; and has over 30 years of experience in the disciplines of Software Engineering, Database Administration, and Project Management.    Since 2003, Mark has been awarded MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) status for his contributions to the Visual Studio and .NET Community. He has also traveled all over the world delivering training in the areas of .NET and Database Development, Project Management and Client-Side Development. Outside of the tech industry, Mark owns an Angus cattle farm in Alabama and is often found playing the drums!   In Jeffrey’s and Mark’s conversation today they discuss what a developer’s retirement looks like! Mark considers himself currently ‘semi-retired’ with the goal of fully retiring 3 years down the line. He provides training and mentoring through his company, Dunn Training, teaching courses on Azure, Modern Web Development, ASP .NET, .NET Programming, Databases, Java, and more. Mark also takes listeners down memory lane, reminiscing about the progress in the industry, his career as a programmer, and the changes he’s seen in DevOps.   Topics of Discussion: [:39] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes. [:48] About today’s guest, Mark Dunn! [2:20] Jeffrey welcomes Mark to the podcast. [3:09] Mark provides some background on his career and shares some highlights! [4:50] What the industry was like when Mark was just starting out as a programmer. [11:36] Mark speaks about what a longtime programmer’s retirement looks like (as someone who is currently ‘semi-retired’!) He also shares what his goals are for the future and what he’s currently up to. [16:07] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [16:34] Jeffrey gives some quick announcements. [18:22] With the perspective of having seen so many paradigms of software, how has that colored Mark’s view of the modern DevOps movement? [22:30] Mark reads a lot of books as a trainer… but has he authored any books? [23:54] Mark speaks about some of the aspects of training and teaching his courses. [25:20] Mark speaks about recording .NET Rocks Podcast and the joys of interviewing people in the industry. [26:22] Mark gives his predictions on what he thinks is most likely to happen in the industry of custom software and what will become more and more important for current programmers to know/learn. [29:09] Does Mark find that the technology landscape is starting to contract after exploding? [31:11] Mark shares his plan for the next few years and what his transition into retirement will look like. [33:16] How long will Mark be keeping up his mentoring service? [34:40] What Mark hopes to do in retirement. [35:31] Mark gives some parting advice to new programmers to have a successful career. [38:01] Jeffrey thanks Mark for joining him in this episode!   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsbookforcommunity — Visit to get your hands on two free books to give away at conferences or events! Jeffrey Palermo’s Youtube Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Jeffrey@Clear-Measure.com — Email Jeffrey for a free 30-point DevOps inspection (regularly priced at $5000!) — Spaces are limited! Dunn Training (Mark’s Company) .NET Rocks Podcast Dan Appleman’s Books Selenium The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C#, by Roy Osherove Pluralsight Udemy Scott Guthrie   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

We believe that this episode is definitely going to strike a nerve. @MarkRiccadonna joins @KevinGootee and @KevinIsrael to throw a fan favorite film into the wood chipper and that film...the Hangover. This ranks as a lot of people's FAVORITE comedy; especially in the last 10 years. Does Mark nail this argument like Mike Tyson nailed Ed Helms with a right cross? Or is his argument small and insignificant like Ken Jeong's standup career and d--k? We want to hear from you! What swag should we make up? What films would you want to hear reviewed? What segments would you like to add? Any segments you hate? Go to our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GuttingTheSacredCow/ Subscribe here for iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gutting-the-sacred-cow/id1482502667 You're all the bees knees for the kind words, likes, and shares. If you haven't done so, a subscribe and 2 sentence review sure helps the cause. But again, thanks a bunch.

In rather unusual fashion, Mark and Grant share some technology updates. Mark has a new keyboard, and Grant is a slow, but steady, convert to window-snapping.Grant brings a Fred Basset comic. Does Mark make food at home? And what does he make? Mark prefers to ignore the question for a bit and weave a tale from his past. Then they talk about bready things and oysters.Mark brings a Peanuts comic to talk about eating food in a bathtub. A heated discussion results.Send feedback to comicalstart@gmail.com.

Re: the Bible’s stance on alcohol, what about Jesus' own drinking as in Matt. 11:18-19? Are you familiar with Norman Golb and his book, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, and if so, what do you think? Does Mark’s negative depiction of Jesus’ disciples and relatives reflect enmity between Jewish and Gentile/Pauline factions? Why does the author of “The Second Treatise of the Great Seth” speak so mockingly of the heroes of the OT? .  Brandon suggests we need not worry that passages or whole epistles by Paul were censored since some pretty disturbing material still appears in the Pauline Corpus. Think so?  If I understand you correctly, we agree that Simon Magus is at the root of this belief system advanced by the “works of Paul” (stuff about the law and a judging, punishing God are out).  So Simon’s philosophy and writings would be considered source material.  Is there any uncontaminated remnant of this belief system?               What do you think of the idea that there was no historical "Nazareth" until someone pointed at a place and told the patron saint of credulity, the Empress Helena (Mother of Constantine), "Yeah, this is Nazareth."? You once said you rejected the notion in Atwill’s Caesar’s Messiah that the Romans had a part in creating the gospels and that they were engaged in a sort of esoteric satire which resulted in Christians unwittingly worshiping Titus instead of Jesus. I was wondering why you think this is such an incredible theory, isn't this precisely what happened in your case? Sure sounds like the jokes on you!

In this episode, Mark Messier, six-time Stanley Cup champion, shares the most valuable lessons he picked up over 25+ years of professional hockey resulting in one of the longest and most decorated careers in hockey history. Mark shares what lead to his unique brand of humble leadership, how he was able to get talented individuals to effectively work as a team, the importance of maturing and evolving as a person, and how he was able to stay calm and perform at his best under enormous amounts of pressure. Additionally, we go through his favorite moments as a player, what it was like playing with and learning from The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, and much more. We discuss: Overview of Mark’s extraordinary 25+ year professional hockey career [7:15]; The trend towards kids focusing on one sport earlier and earlier—A good or bad thing? [12:00]; Mark’s early passion for hockey, and when he realized it could be his “job” [14:15]; Going pro at age 17 [19:30]; Mark’s favorite experience playing professional hockey [25:45]; Playing with (and learning from) the great Wayne Gretzky [26:40]; A hard lesson learned in his first year as a pro [32:00]; Lessons learned from losing his first Stanley Cup Finals [35:45]; Redemption—Winning his first Stanley Cup and the beginning of a dynasty in Edmonton [41:15]; Importance of team character [54:00]; The shocking trade of Wayne Gretzky, and Mark stepping up as the new leader and team captain [59:30]; Playing for the New York Rangers—the lure of the city and the pressure to perform [1:07:00]; Ending the 54-year championship drought for the New York Rangers [1:13:30]; Becoming a great leader [1:16:30]; How to win the mental war against your opponent [1:20:30]; Opposing players for which Mark had great respect [1:22:00]; Retiring after an unbelievably long and lustrous career [1:27:00]; How to leverage stress and nervousness into a positive force [1:32:45]; The most important quality—A willingness to learn, improve, and evolve [1:36:00]; What does Mark do today for exercise to stay in great shape? [1:44:30]; Why playing sports is such a great thing for kids [1:49:30]; The Mark Messier Foundation [1:53:00]; How has Mark avoided the “loss of identity” feeling which plagues many retired athletes? [1:56:15]; Does Mark think it’s possible to reproduce a team as good as his Oilers teams of the 80s? [1:59:30]; Would Mark ever want to coach in the NHL? [2:03:00]; Will the Toronto Maple Leafs ever win the Stanley cup? [2:04:00]; and More. Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/ Show notes page for this episode: https://peterattiamd.com/markmessier Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/ Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/ Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   Prior to the Congressional recess in 2019, Ken Calvert of California introduced the ACCESS Act, H.R. 4099. This legislation is designed to help businesses comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Though RIMS is in favor of the ADA, its members have reported that the law is being exploited by opportunists in an effort to make a quick buck by threatening typically baseless discrimination suits. By amending the ADA to correct this loophole, business owners will be better protected. This is why RIMS is taking action.   To discuss today’s topic with Justin is special guest, Mark Humphreys! Mark is the Vice President of Litigation and Risk Management at Watt Companies in California, as well as the Vice-Chair of the RIMS External Affairs Committee — so he is definitely the person you want to hear from on this topic!   In today’s episode, Mark covers everything you need to know about the ADA, how the law is being exploited, and how the ACCESS Act, H.R. 4099 will help amend this loophole.   Key Takeaways: [:12] About today’s episode and featured guest! [:37] About upcoming RIMS events! [1:00] More about the ACCESS Act, H.R. 4099 and how it impacts RIMS, RIMS members, and Mark Humphreys. [1:58] Justin welcomes Mark to the podcast! [2:07] Mark explains the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and some of the current issues with it. [3:46] Mark gives an example of an accidental ADA violation and how attornies have made a business out of it. [6:25] How the ACCESS Act, H.R. 4099 helps businesses comply with the ADA (without getting slammed with lawsuits!) [9:29] Does Mark see a lot of these ‘drive-by lawsuits’ on a regular basis (that have occurred because of the ADA)? And who is hurt the most by them? [12:14] How the ACCESS Act solves this issue. [12:45] How the ACCESS Act will be a focus during the RIMS Legislative Summit and the Day on the Hill event, and why it is incredibly important that we all lobby for this, collectively. [18:37] Mark speaks about some of his standout memories from years past’s summits. [20:30] If you’re affected by these types of lawsuits, click the link in the show notes to contact your Member of Congress to support the bill! [20:38] About upcoming RIMS events and links to follow-up on.   Mentioned in this Episode: ADA Suits: Contact Your Congressman Here RIMS Advocacy RISK PAC Introducing ACCESS Act, H.R. 4099 – July 30th, 2019 ADA.Gov RIMSCAST Episode: “Dr. Daniel Kaniewski on FEMA Resilience” RIMSCAST Episode: “Kristen D. Peed on RISK PAC’s Mission” RIMS Legislative Summit: Oct. 16th–17th in Washington, DC (Use promo code RIMSCAST25 at checkout to save on registration!) RIMS ERM Conference 2019: Nov. 4th–5th in New Orleans, LA Upcoming RIMS Events RM Magazine Risk Management Monitor RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP) RIMS Membership — Discover why 10,000 of your peers from more than 60 countries are a part of the RIMS community!   Want to Learn More? Keep up with the podcast on RIMS.org and listen on iTunes. Have a question or suggestion? Email: Content@rims.org.   Join the Conversation! Follow @RIMSorg on Facebook and Twitter, and join the RIMS Group on LinkedIn.   Follow up with Our Guest: Mark Humphrey’s LinkedIn

Does Mark remember his 1st time seeing Prince perform at Paisley Park? Of course, he does and his story is "fantastic"!

This week Chris, Tay and Mark are back to break down 'The Bells', the penultimate episode of HBO's runaway hit series, Game of Thrones. The divisiveness of season 8 continues as our panel discuss what they liked and possibly didn't like. Does Mark owe Chris a sandwich? Is the "turn" rushed? Did they ruin a few character archs? Find out what the gang thought.

Ben, Mark & Jarod get into manual therapy. Do you need to use manual therapy? Does it work? How does it work? Does Mark get ranty?

Looking at the divinity of Jesus, especially from the perspective of the Gospel of Mark The Gospel of Mark is often referred to by critics and Muslims as having a simple, human presentation of Jesus, without his divine character. Does Mark present a purely “human” Jesus? Or does the gospel, as the other gospels clearly present him as also divine? This seminar can help you in conversation with Muslims about Jesus Beth Grove

Welcome to the Real Estate Investing Profits Podcast! I’m very excited about today’s interview. Mark Bloom, one heck of a real estate genius, conveys this energy that you’re all going to find very inspirational. Mark comes with twenty plus years experience in real estate, and he’s even passed the Bar. His education gives him a unique perspective on this business, and it shows in his wholesale strategy. Mark Bloom is CEO of NetWorth Realty in Dallas, Texas. He and his team did 1,900 wholesales last year and he’s ready to put his name in twenty locations nationwide by 2019. But his path into real estate might surprise you. How does someone who studies law end up in real estate? What’s it like to make that kind of transition? Mark’s answer to those questions (and many more) all stem from his motivation to keep working, keep failing, and to keep learning from his mistakes. In order to be a real estate success story, you have to use all of your experiences to your advantage. All the good ones, even some of the bad ones. It’s how Mark makes the most of his investment strategy. Look back and pick out a few instances where you would have done something different, said no to an offer, or even said yes. What Mark talks about today is how to get the most out of those situations. So tune in to our interview right now and see if you can keep up with Mark Bloom’s epic wholesale momentum. MINUTE MARKERS 3:05 Meet Mark from Dallas! 6:22 How did Mark from from studying the bar to studying real estate? 9:47 Mark’s biggest influence in real estate investment 10:45 What was Mark’s breaking point? 12:56 Mark’s biggest challenges so far 15:44 The greatest lesson Mark learned 21:20 Mark’s advice for the new people 22:55 How to start taking action and gain momentum in more than just real estate investment 26:40 Mark breaks down his “performance improvement plan” 28:56 Mark’s favorite motivational quotes 30:57 Mark and I discuss our favorite books 36:11 What apps does Mark use everyday? 39:07 Does Mark get 8 hours of sleep every night? 41:22 Mark’s morning routine 44:14 What’s Mark most grateful for? 44:58 Mark’s rules for hiring a mentor 47:29 Mark shares what motivates him to do this every day 50:41 Get in touch with Mark at mark@networthrealtyusa.com! RESOURCES NetWorth Realty GroupMe Voxer LinkedIn Ryan Stewman Chris McGoff Brian Tracy Tao Te Ching Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander War of Art by Steven Pressfield Collective Genius Ask Cory A Question Want to get in touch with Cory and ask him your most burning Real Estate Investing question?  We’ve made it super easy for you.  Just head over to our Ask Cory A Question page and start recording.  Cory will play your question live on an upcoming show and answer it personally. Who Do You Want To Hear From? Name some folks I should get on the show! Hit me up:support@realestateinvestingprofits.com and I’ll do my best to get them on. Did You Get Your FREE Investing Guide? TEXT the word PROFIT (38470) to immediately sent Your FREE Investing Quick Start Guide! JOIN The Elite Real Estate Investor’s Board of Directors http://JoinMyMastermind.com Connect Here Please check out our website, realestateinvestingprofits.com for the “Down and Dirty” Ultimate Real Estate Investing Quick Start Guide download.  

Prepare to leap through time with Mark, Dave and Dan as they discuss Into The Breach. Subset Games brings us this strategy game that sends the player back to the beginning more often than not. Find out how we fared through this loop of saving and losing the world! After that, Dave sends Mark on a trip through Ancient China! Does Mark remember his time with Dynasty Warriors? Will Dan lose this Tastemaker by saying... nothing!? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dinosaur-machines/message

I love offering listeners fantastic benefits, such as some great discounts for products, with new offers coming all the time! You can see a complete list at propertymanagementmastermind.com. For all of these offers, use the discount code “Brad” to secure your discount. One more announcement before we get started! Our newest product at Property Management Mastermind is the Business Development Toolkit. In 2017, RentWerx organically grew by over 360 homes. In 2018, we’re on pace to grow another 500 homes. And best of all, we’ve done all of this without going out to meet the people and earn the business one door at a time. Tune in to learn more, or check out the toolkit online! If you aren’t completely satisfied with the product, we’ll give you a 100% rebate. Mark Dolfini graduated high school and started his professional career in the Marine Corps. After four years, he left the military to get a degree in accounting. He started buying rental properties when he entered college, and had about a dozen by the time he graduated. That’s when his education really started, he says. He eventually got up to 93 rental units by himself, but points out that it was a mess, and he didn’t really own a business. In 2008 and 2009, Mark lost over $4 million in real estate. During that time, he also got sick with a cold that turned into double pneumonia. This made him realize that the madness couldn’t continue, and he had to shift from being self-employed to being a true business owner. Today, Mark is the Landlord Coach. He works as both a coach and a consultant, he explains, and focuses on creating capacity. In our conversation today, he’ll talk about the reasons why he likes single-family dwellings, including the occupancy rates and ease of sale, despite the negatives (such as maintenance). We’ll talk about whether flipping is dead, and how many people are still doing it or wanting to do it. You’ll also learn in more depth about what Mark does as a coach, whether his services are more focused toward property managers or landlord investors, what it means to be time-wealthy, and much more. Here’s where you can find Mark: Landlord Coach Mark Dolfini on LinkedIn Mark Dolfini on Facebook Show Notes [02:41] - Mark introduces himself and explains the path he took to reach where he is today as the Landlord Coach. [04:16] - The units that Mark had when he graduated weren’t high-dollar units, he explains. [04:50] - At that point, Mark was doing everything by himself. [07:59] - In terms of the management side of things, what does Mark do now? [10:01] - Mark walks us through the various aspects of his business and his work, and offers the recommendation of building a sustainable, scalable business that doesn’t take all of your time. [10:40] - Brad and Mark debate the topic of single-family homes versus multi-family homes. [13:47] - Brad brings up another topic of discussion for Mark to address: is flipping dead? [16:29] - We learn that Mark is divesting right now, and he explains why this is the case. [18:42] - Mark talks us through his role as a coach, explaining that he helps to create capacity. [22:08] - Mark dives deeper into the topic of overlays, which he mentioned a few minutes earlier in the conversation. [24:41] - Brad talks about one of the challenges that he has with single-family-home property managers. [25:35] - Are Mark’s services more focused toward property managers or landlord investors? [27:04] - Mark talks about his book, The Time-Wealthy Investor. [28:49] - We hear about a special offer that Mark has for Property Management Mastermind listeners! [30:08] - Not everybody needs a coach, Mark points out, but everybody should have one. [31:07] - How can someone reach Mark? For the special offers he mentioned, he reveals that you can head to this link. [33:18] - Does Mark have any conference speaking gigs coming up? Links and Resources: adisarro@sccombank.com (619) 988-6708 (Allison DiSarro from Seacoast Commerce Bank) Seacoast Commerce Bank RentWerx Landlord Coach Mark Dolfini on LinkedIn Mark Dolfini on Facebook The Time-Wealthy Investor by Mark Dolfini Free gift for Property Management Mastermind listeners

Solo albums - yes I know there's one missing. Produced by Robert Nasir, Jeffrey Crecelius, Wayne Hall, Preston Frazier and Bill Govier. In a detour, we talk about the singles from the Solo albums Yes members produced after Relayer. I couldn't speak live to Mark this week due to work and family commitments but we still recorded our own thoughts. Did all the solo albums produce a single? Are all of them equally as effective? Does Mark sing in this episode? Listen to the episode then let us know what you think! Become a YMP Patron! If you would like to support the Yes Music Podcast, there is a Patreon page where you can sign up. The iOS and Android YMP apps are no longer available unless you have an old version still on your device. Show notes and links Mixonline article about recording Yes Get your Yes 50th Anniversary free pass here Join the 50th Anniversary Facebook group here YMP patrons: Robert Nasir | Jeffrey Crecelius | Preston Frazier | Bill Govier | Wayne Hall | ... Joseph Cottrell | Michael O'Connor | Paul Tomei | Geoffrey Mason | Lobate Scarp | Fergus Cubbage | Steve Dill | Steve Scott ... Paul Wilson | Jamie McQuinn | Miguel Falcão | Ken Fuller | David Pannell | Brian Sullivan | Joost Doesburg | Jeremy North | Tim Stannard | David Watkinson | Steve Roehr | Geoff Baillie | William Hayes | Terence Sadler | Neal Kaforey | Simon Barrow | ... Robert Please subscribe! If you are still listening to the podcast on the website, please consider subscribing so you don’t risk missing anything. You can subscribe with an RSS reader, with iTunes, with the iOS Podcasts app, via email updates, via www.stitcher.com on Spreaker.com or via Tunein.com. Theme music The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert - I put it together from the following two creative commons sources: thanvannispen and archive.org

Besides Jesus historicism and Mythicism, is there a "third way", whereby the Jesus of the gospels is a composite of stories originally told of several historic figures?  Several ancient sources remember Jesus as a teller of parables. Doesnâ??t this imply there was such a teacher? I would like your thoughts on creatio ex nihilo and the opening verses of Genesis. Is there any New Testament passage that references the Masoretic texts instead of the Septuagint? Why does history seem to belie Deuteronomyâ??s promises for Godâ??s protection and forgiveness for the Jewish nation? Burton Mack tells us ancient students commonly had to try to write what a well known philosopher might say on this or that topic. Does this contradict Bart Ehrmanâ??s claim that the ancients frowned on pseudepigraphy? Does Mark 4:11-12 contradict Mark 4:21-23? Does an early date for the Didache depend on an early date for the canonical New Testament? How much of the New Testament does it predate--if any?

Christa and the gang discuss the Ron Howard/George Lucas classic Willow. Is it problematic? Is it good? Does Mark bring up Kids in the Hall yet again? Our theme music is Rewire Your Cables by Little Glass Men, licensed under a Creatives Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

Join Henry Burrell as he asks Davids Price why Snopes, the fact checking website, has run into trouble and how crowdfunding could save the day. Is it still important in this age of fake news? Then Scott Carey commentates on the bout between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Who knows the most about AI? When will the killer robots descend upon us? Does Mark do all his online Q & A’s in front of a cooking brisket? All this answered and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Does the senior pastor—or the teaching pastor, or the lead pastor, or whatever title your church gives to the man who preaches most often—have more authority than other pastors, either in the pay of the church or not? Does he have a kind of different authority?If you’ve served in a church with a plurality of elders, then you’ve felt tension over these questions. In order to help, Mark sat down with Jonathan to discuss the biblical warrant for a “senior” pastor, what his involvement looks in the church when he’s not preaching, and more.SHOW NOTES:– First things first: Is “senior pastor” a biblical designation? (1:00)– What about the “co-pastor” model? (3:30)– Why is it that the man who preaches most often will almost inevitably accrue the most authority within the congregation? (4:30)– What is Mark’s involvement in the church, even when he isn’t preaching on Sunday morning? (5:15)– Does Mark as senior pastor have “more authority” than other pastors, staff or non-staff? (6:15)– How does a “senior pastor” set the direction for a church, either good or bad? (9:15)– How does a pastor submit to other pastors? (11:15)– What counsel do you have for associate pastors who disagree with their senior pastor? (13:25)– How should he respond to a pastor who’s been heavy-handed? (17:25)– Any advice for a new pastor with an established elder board? (20:00)– How do you cultivate unity among elders? (24:00)

Does the senior pastor—or the teaching pastor, or the lead pastor, or whatever title your church gives to the man who preaches most often—have more authority than other pastors, either in the pay of the church or not? Does he have a kind of different authority?If you’ve served in a church with a plurality of elders, then you’ve felt tension over these questions. In order to help, Mark sat down with Jonathan to discuss the biblical warrant for a “senior” pastor, what his involvement looks in the church when he’s not preaching, and more.SHOW NOTES:– First things first: Is “senior pastor” a biblical designation? (1:00)– What about the “co-pastor” model? (3:30)– Why is it that the man who preaches most often will almost inevitably accrue the most authority within the congregation? (4:30)– What is Mark’s involvement in the church, even when he isn’t preaching on Sunday morning? (5:15)– Does Mark as senior pastor have “more authority” than other pastors, staff or non-staff? (6:15)– How does a “senior pastor” set the direction for a church, either good or bad? (9:15)– How does a pastor submit to other pastors? (11:15)– What counsel do you have for associate pastors who disagree with their senior pastor? (13:25)– How should he respond to a pastor who’s been heavy-handed? (17:25)– Any advice for a new pastor with an established elder board? (20:00)– How do you cultivate unity among elders? (24:00)

Part of the 2015 Christmas haul! A brief look at the contents of my Christmas Yes Haul, a few bits of news and Mark's review of 9012 Live The Solos. Who are the UK and Europe support act for Yes in 2016? Does Mark lile 9012Live - The Solos?? How did I find the motivation to continue? Listen to the episode and then let me know what you think!   Show notes and links The 2015 Christmas Yes Haul!   Miguel Falcao's Chris Squire 'Christmas tree' Miguel's latest bass cover - Into the Storm Scott O'Reilly's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame blog post Preston Frazier's Roundabout review Preston's Best of 2015 @notrightaway spotted this Keyboard Magazine article Moon Safari will be supporting Yes in the UK and Europe 2016 Please subscribe! If you are still listening to the podcast on the website, please consider subscribing so you don’t risk missing anything. You can subscribe with an RSS reader, with iTunes, with the iOS Podcasts app, on your Blackberry, via email updates, via www.stitcher.com on Spreaker.com or via Tunein.com. Theme music The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert - I put it together from the following two creative commons sources: thanvannispen and archive.org

Convergence has come and gone and the guys gather round ye olde microphone to talk all about it! Was it anything more than two months of filler issues while DC moved? Were the Lantern titles of any interest? Does Mark think they even got the continuity right? Well, listen in and find out! Oh and multiverse talk, casting news and more! Please visit our site at http://www.LanternCast.com

It's bear-ly spring, friends, but for some of us, the weather has become truly unbearable! Oh, come on, you're not really that surprised that it took bear-ly two words for some choice bear puns in this podcast description, are you? And why would you be, with our film of the week, The Country Bears from 2002? Yes, Mousterpiece Cinema has gone for the easy pun this week, as Josh and Gabe are joined by return guest Mark Pfeiffer to talk about all things Country Bears, from the famous Jamboree at Walt Disney World to Don Henley. (Yes, that Don Henley.) Does Mark still appreciate this oddball film as much as he did originally? Was Josh able to resist bear puns, or did he stand above his co-host? And what opinion of Josh's is likely to infuriate a subset of fans? Listen to find out!

Episode 88, August 12, 2014. Surprise special guest… Super Collector Mark Cicchini. Mark talks with us about the art of KISS collecting. When and how Mark got started. His most cherished KISS collectible. How he has acquired items. Does Mark have a holy grail items he is after? Mark Cicchini in this week’s This Isn’t […]

Mark Russinovich on Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud! News The Scripting Games Beginner practice Advanced practice The Tampa PowerShell group is meeting April 25th The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is meeting May 2nd IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th Microsoft is shutting down Script Explorer A free PowerShell 3.0 ebook has been released in Brazilian Portuguese Interview Guests - Mark Russinovich Links Yes, sysinternals tools are still being developed by Mark! Hal mentioned Cory Doctorow’s “The coming civil war on general purpose computing” Chatroom Buzz [21:34:06] ## Can you have Jeff use PowerShell in your next novel? [21:35:50] ## Have you seen what Adam Driscoll is doing with PowerShell to do the SysInternals Tools? [21:42:21] ## When can we expect or cli utilitiles from sysinternals to support csv output - perfect for ConvertFrom-Csv in PowerShell to consume and object-izing? [21:35:42] ## When can we get a BGInfo that recognizes Windows 2012? [21:40:37] ## Have you learned more about Windows before or after joining Microsoft? ## Will Azure be upgraded to server 2012 at some stage? (not sure if this was dicussed already I had a bad connection here) [22:02:25] ## how have you seen the development of state sponsored hacking, from israel/usa (stuxnet, duqu, etc) to china and apt1? [22:03:56] ## has someone contacted you for a movie deal? :) [22:07:46] ## Does Mark ever see a future version of Windows server with no GUI option at all making Powershell essential? [22:17:20] ## do you feel that computing in the cloud will lean more towards the security and encryption of data, perhaps even to the point where it will become encrypted or invisible to the provider, both at rest, and perhaps even for hot data such as the work Microsoft Research is doing via CryptDB? The Question - Superhero: Time travel

With the first Pope in over 600 years stepping down, the Cardinals come to the Vatican to closed door elections for the NEW Pope of the Catholic Church. Does Mark have a favorite? And what does he think of the electoral process? Larson NOW!

Does Mark 16:16 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation? Can a person be saved without being baptized?

This week on Very Special Episode the boys talk about J.T. Lambert's dyslexia. The episode comes from season 4, epsiode 18 of TGIF lineup's Step By Step. The episode is entitled "Back To School". Is J.T. just stupid? Does Mark look like a young Stallone or Schwarzenegger? What's with all the ironing? Is your fetus going to go to the Sutton Academy? Does Christine Lakin have any idea how hot she'll be in the future!?!? The guys discuss these and many other questions. Please enjoy this episode and this picture of the former Al Lambert!! If you get too horny just play table tennis. #90sNerds This is VERY SPECIAL EPISODE!!

Tax hike are on the way. Does Mark think they are a good idea? The California Highway Patrol prepares to crack down on distracted drivers...will it increase safety on the roads? More on the Dodgers ownership upheaval. Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson joins to discuss her SNL spoof. Listen now!

Welcome to another week of Mark Larson Live and Local! Does Mark believe in American Exceptionalism? And is Homeless becoming an increasing problem in SD? Plus Special Guest Jerry Rand from the Bay Recovery Center talks about substance recovery. Listen now!

More Mark Live and Local on the Wednesday edition! Does Mark think the Padres have a shot to repeat their 1984 performance? And why are Obama poll numbers so low? Plus Tim Graham on the latest political scandals. Listen now!