Podcast appearances and mentions of jake james

Episode 143 with Artist blacksmith Jake James from Vancouver Island BC. Jake James was our very first officially released to public episode and now he's back. CanIron is on the horizon and Jake is slated to be one of the demonstrators at the event this summer. If you haven't gotten signed up yet then get on over to the site and get your tickets cause this is going to be an event you don't want to miss. We talk all about that in this episode and also get some life update on Jake as he has some exciting stuff coming up soon in his life. And when I say we, I'm talking about Mr Justin Lamoureux of Rainy Day Forge! Joing Forge Side Chat once again, the President of the Manitoba Blacksmith Guild bringing us all the juicy info on CanIron. Hear all the good news here on Forge Side Chat as always! CanIron 2025 That's right ladies and gents. CanIron is coming to Manitoba! The Manitoba blacksmith guild has done it. They have secured a location in Austin, MB. They have set the date, August 7-10,2025. They have aligned catered food and places for people to stay. They have organized a line up of presenters that will be absolutely amazing. And of course the list of support is too notch as well. CanIron XIV is bound to be an event that will be spoken about for years and you don't want to miss it. Presentations will be provided by... are you ready for this! Noah Vachon @vachonknives Jake James @jakeblacksmith Pat Quinn @handforgedinvt Frank Annighofer @abanaorg Ryan Belanger @ryanbelanger_truenorthforge Leah Aripotch @leaharipotch Manitoba Blacksmith Guild @manitobasmiths Sponsered by Maritime Knife Supply @maritimeknifesupply Maritime Knife supply is the place to go for all your knife making needs. Literally everything for knife making supplies! www.maritimeknifesupply.ca Save on kilns !!!! with the code (ha go listen to the episode yah hosers)

This week, my former student Jake James drops by the Speakeasy Studio for a thrilling deep dive into his journey over the last decade. From racing before he even had a driver's license to climbing the ranks in various divisions of dirt track racing, Jake shares his passion, grit, and vision for the future.We talk shop about the inner workings of dirt track racing, swap stories, and sip vodka Red Bulls in this fast-paced, high-energy episode.Don't miss this candid and entertaining conversation packed with insights, adrenaline, and plenty of laughs!Drink: Tonka Vodka and Red BullJake James Racing: https://www.facebook.com/share/17sair1Z3U/?mibextid=LQQJ4dBrews & Cruise Podcast: https://brewsandcruisepodcast.com

Lexie Boatright , Jake James, Cara Wildman, Ryan Ward

"Welcome to House of Worship, where faith meets beats in a harmonious blend. I'm Sjoerd, and we're here to uplift your spirit through the power of Christian house music. Let's dive into the rhythms of heaven and in His love. Are you ready to go on this uplifting journey with us? Let's kick it off!" Playlist: 1. Zoe Music - Somebody 2. Jake James, Sydney Wilson, Chris Howland - Serenity (Bonus Mix) 3. Bakermat - The Spirit (Original Mix) 4. Zyrius - Dancing Feet 5. Jesus Loves Electro - Without You (feat. Eric Tryland) 6. Rene Amesz - Find Your Heart (Extended Mix) 7. DJ Matheus Lazaretti - Apollo 8 (Extended) 8. Kevin Aleksander - Ducka Ducka (I'm All Fine) 9. King Topher, Dot N Life - Sax In The City 10. King Topher & Big Pineapple - Friends (Dot N Life Extended Remix) 11. 2 LIVING CREATURES - Might as Well Dance 12. Lion King 2 - He Lives in You (Kevin Aleksander Extended Edit) 13. Jesus Loves Electro - Oslo Soul Teens - UPTU (Radio Edit)2015 14. Nomero - Kyndom (Retain Remix) 15. KØLTURE - God's Way ) 16. 2 LIVING CREATURES - New Mercies Word of the day: You've got to get through it (Steven Furtick)

Sunday Coffee with Jake James-Vogel 6-18-2023Sunday Coffee with Leerecs' Friends - Sundays at 4pm EST live online Radio

In today's episode we're going to discuss how we can worship God with our inmost being. We're going to be reading in a few different places in the Bible, such as Exodus 20:2-6, Psalm 103, and Romans 12:1-2. Thank you for your faithful listening and for all your support! Here's the link to a Maverick City Music playlist that I like to listen to for worship: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO3186ek?si=xRM_4eG9Rw2_v8OOI3GMEg&app_destination=copy-link Young Disciples Podcast Facebook Young Disciples Podcast Instagram: @youngdisciplespod Music Lofi Hip-Hop Beat by Joystock.org Psalm 23 by Jake James

Come on a journey with me and discover how Jake came into his gift as a psychic-medium through the battleground of life, of loss, of sorrows, of triumph, of overcoming, and ultimately, of acceptance. This first half sets the scene -- we get into the loss of a parent at a young age, of battling self-esteem through weight issues and the "boss monsters" within ones own psyche, we move through initiatic-systems at university as well as through the unseen psychic (ether) realm, we talk about Jakes' coming out in his life more fully as who he always was and had kept hidden within the glass-door closet of his life, and so much more. You may find Jake at the links below: website: www.jakejamesvanek.com instagram: www.instagram.com/jjvlightwizard *You may find more content like this on my Patreon page where we do weekly live-streams with guests and open community chats, as well as some more artistic offerings in the form of meditations, active imagination work and a private mix-tape type segment once a month called Radio Alice: https://www.patreon.com/niish Everlong, Niish- *I would like to thank the producers of this show: Steven Mercer. Pamela Holdahl. Jake Vanek. Jessica Lynne. Lou Bee. Heather. WiseNightOwl. Marcey Shapiro. Noël Jeanette. Michael Watcher. Melanie Poe. Erik Peterson. Jason Lambson. Christy Tesmer. Neil Macnaughton. Michael Watts. Erik Peterson. JH Armstrong. Mark Boettcher. Kate Kukulkan. Yogi Chander. Laura Dunn. Babs the Bone Knitter. JJ, the Hostess of all things chat and modin'. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/niish/support

Jake Hovis, Meg Felling and James Mac play the game this time with prompts about the Easter Bunny, condom replacements and more.

It's an episode six months in the making: THE JAKE JAMES EPISODE! Back in March, Evan and Tyler sat down and chatted with Jake about his immense collection and got a peek behind the curtain when it comes to army building to an amazing degree! Be sure to check out Jake's collection here and give him some love: https://www.facebook.com/JakeJamesCollection/ Also, be remember to shop at CTOCollectibles.com and use promo code SWTVC10 for 10% off your order!

Lando and Justin call up Jake to discuss some of the finer details of being an artist blacksmith in Canada. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/forgesidechat/message

Our non-stop music continues this week with: Kimberly Brown (You Can Make It), The Lee Boys (Smile), Heart of the City Worship Band (Help Us), Katy Kinnard (When You Found Me), SEU Worship (Lift You Higher ft. Olivia Grimes, Jake James), Michael & Linda Adler (How Deep The Father's Love For Us), Harbor and Home (Devil's Got No Hold), Felling Giants (Scars), Epic Love (Carrie), Valley's End PICTURED (Psalm 16), Unveiled Worship Band (Eli, My God) and House of Aaron (Burn On).

Our non-stop music continues this week with: Kimberly Brown (You Can Make It), The Lee Boys (Smile), Heart of the City Worship Band (Help Us), Katy Kinnard (When You Found Me), SEU Worship (Lift You Higher ft. Olivia Grimes, Jake James), Michael & Linda Adler (How Deep The Father's Love For Us), Harbor and Home (Devil's Got No Hold), Felling Giants (Scars), Epic Love (Carrie), Valley's End PICTURED (Psalm 16), Unveiled Worship Band (Eli, My God) and House of Aaron (Burn On).

This week I talk with my friend Jake James aka "The Thoroughbred" Jaxon James from his days as a professional wrestler. Jake takes us through his journey from small-town South Carolina football player, to North Greenville University, to Newberry College, and into the world of professional wrestling.

Jake James is a commercial agent from TTA also known as Top Talent Agency in London, St Albans and not only that… but he is actually also my commercial agent too! I am so excited to be speaking with him today, we're going to be discussing everything from how he got into his career, to what it is he looks for when signing a client.You can follow Jake on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jakemjames/And you can find out more about TTA here: https://ttaadults.co.uk

Jake James Lugo & Negan Burgs return for another episode of the podcast where we spoke on Anthem being dead, Pokemon Legends and more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/southfloridagamerspodcast/support

What do you get when you mix a British environmentalist turned blacksmith  with a heavy machine fabricator? Charm, humour, chaos and lots of hot metal! This is the second time we have tried to connect with these two and it was completely worth the wait. Leechtown Blacksmith Company from Metchosin is Jake James - @jakeblacksmith and  Ryan Fogarty - @fogartomic.  Together they craft some of Canada's finest metalwork pieces plus super sexy hand-made legacy cookware. That's only half the story because these two had Franz & I in stitches the whole time. It was one of the most entertaining pods we've recorded. This one is definitely not one for the children so crack a cold Riot beer and enjoy!Sorry about the audio quality. I think we are actually getting worse as time goes on. How is that possible?

Playlist: 1. Malarkey - Shackles (Extended Mix) 2. Gallery wind & waves- (Jaisua remix) 3. Jake James, Sydney Wilson, Chris Howland - Serenity (Bonus Mix) 4. Tauren Wells feat. Steven Furtick - Close 5. BOUE, Chris Howland, Mid November - Sublime (Extended) 6. Steve Angello & Laidback Luke (Feat. Robin S) - Show Me Love (Pastello Remix) 7. Jaisua - Nazarene 8. AUDICID Different (FINALMIX) 9. BRIGHT - Way maker 10. Word of the Day: God uses broken people: with lisa harper 11. Ben Potter, Matias Ruiz - Holy is He 12. John Mark Pantana - Abba #TCBM 13. Nathanael Bryce - Extra Mile (Chris Howland Remix) 14. Lion of Judah - Joy (Matias Ruiz Remix) 15. Kay christ - Church Boys Twitch Link: https://www.twitch.tv/boersmaendeboer Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4aVXD4diTwO9A3KPqd9dxg @malarkeyofficial @akejamesmusic @taurenwells @steveangello @jaisua

Welcome to the fifth episode of the All Sooke Days Podcast. In this episode we interview Ryan Fogarty and Jake James from Leechtown Blacksmith Co.They explain what it's like being black smith's in the area, and what inspired them to name their company after the locally famous Leechtown.Our Sponsors: Pizzability - https://pizzability.ca/ :::  Meanwhile in Sooke - https://www.meanwhileinsooke.com/  

In this episode, Claire and William interview Jake Henry, journalist and activist turned DC politico. Topics include Jake’s campus activism defending trans rights, fair and balanced districting maps, why Jake deleted Twitter, and getting engaged on study abroad. Jake describes his campaign to protect sexual assault survivors by changing the way his college implemented the Clery Act. Follow Jake’s references in our Linktree here.

Throughout my 20's, I was a small town rapper in Upper Michigan who went by the name Jake James. ( Please don't judge me for this: https://bit.ly/jakejames ) About 5 years into it, I moved to Marquette, Michigan and to my great surprise, there was a local hip hop scene! It was easily the most fun season of my entire life. We were kings of that little city. We sold out shows at local venues, PACKED basements and house party shows, and covered the town in promo fliers. Everybody knew us and it was so much fun! The best crew in the city was Team Watz Gud. The squad was made up of eR, Foxx, Dolo, and the Danxx Twinz Ste'phon and Sterling Mounday. Sterling sort of became the de-facto ringleader. He was their engineer, graphic designer, videographer, and, well, he wore many hats! I always related to him because I was a solo act and did LITERALLY everything from myself. I made beats, wrote raps, recored myself, mastered the audio, designed the cover Art, booked and promoted shows. It was exhausting , but I loved it more than anything at the time. Today, the Danxx Twinz are out on their own as independent artists. Their Spotify numbers are skyrocketing and their sound has developed really strongly over the years. In the wake of the George Floyd killing by the Minneapolis Police, last week were the protests in Milwaukee and Sterling was on the front line every day. Sterling is very active on Facebook and a refreshing, thoughtful new voice of the times we find ourselves in. Follow him here: https://www.facebook.com/sterling.mounday.3 ……. SUPPORT THE POD • Learn to Trade Forex: https://bit.ly/thoughtsoundforex • Shop Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=thoughtso... ……. JOIN THE TSP SQUAD! • ThoughtSound Project Newsletter: https://bit.ly/thoughtsoundprojectnew... • The FREE ThoughtSound Project Secret Society Facebook Group here: https://bit.ly/thothoughtsoundproject... ……. FOLLOW THE THOUGHTSOUND PROJECT • Instagram: www.instagram.com/holleratjake/ • Facebook: www.facebook.com/jsyreini • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/holleratjake/ • Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ……. WANT TO START YOUR OWN PODCAST? HERE’S OUR SIMPLE GEAR LIST • Macbook Pro: https://amzn.to/2A4LqU9 • Blue Yeti USB Microphone: https://amzn.to/30ldFZi • ESDDI Lighting Kit: https://amzn.to/2UmjNNh • Apple iPhone Xs MAX: https://amzn.to/2Yl4OV4 • Microphone Accessory Kit: https://amzn.to/30nPc5E • Adobe Creative Cloud: https://amzn.to/30tb3bI

Jake & James are back with a new franchise this week, This is Back to the Future, and its a very special episode as this is the first ever watchalong episode, im honour of the movies 35 year anniversary  So dust off your Back to the Future box set and sit down with Do The Franchise!  Enjoy!! 

Enjoy the summer vibes during lockdown. Be blessed and stay safe. Tracklist: 1. Tee Supreme – One Sign 2. Renzo BA – Marianna 3. Zilla – The Wave feat. Septimus & K.O.F.I. 4. Zilla – Missionary 5. Happi – Bel Air 6. Crown Freedom – Run 7. Crossfya – Walk On Water 8. Jeremial Paltan – Always There feat. Laila Olivera & Manny (Kyros Remix) 9. Beckah Shae – Stay (GMF REMIX) 10. Elizabeth Grace – Like Myself (Matias Ruiz Remix) 11. HGHTS – Somebody feat. Kristen Hicks 12. Hyper Fenton & Moflo Music – David & Goliath 13. Saint James – In Time (Kyros Remix) 14. Yxng Special-T – Simple feat. Marko 15. Kingdom Wave Music – Moving Up 16. Duane Caleb – Rain (Kyros Remix) 17. Urban Praise Project – Give It All 18. Lion of Judah – Joy (Matias Ruiz Remix) 19. ØM-53 – Son Of God feat. Danny V (Miami Edit) 20. Holly Starr & Laudr8 – Talk It Out (Remix) 21. Licy Be – Jesus Living 22. Galactus Jack – Baba Oluwa 23. Chris Howland – Fade Out 24. LZ7 – Forever Young (Slim Tim Remix) 25. Verses – Speak Life 26. Branan Murphy – Coming Home (Chris Howland Remix) 27. Jake James x Sydney Wilson x Chris Howland – Serenity 28. Crown Freedom – Got God On My Side 29. Sarang – My Love feat. Joyce Lee (VIP Remix) 30. Hillsong Young & Free – First Love (Reimagined) 31. Gateway Youth – Focus 32. Sarang – Stay feat. Kate Kim (Night Mix Version) 33. Sharyn – Broken Hearts 34. Social Beingz – My Love Follow me: www.twitter.com/mrmintsofficial www.instagram.com/mrmintsofficial www.mixcloud.com/mrmints I am NOT the author of these tracks and I DO NOT own rights to any of this content. These mixes are made for entertainment purposes, not for monetary gain. If you enjoy the mixes, please support the artists by checking out the originals. Download for free on The Artist Union

This week Jake & James are doing 'Man of Steel' Discussing gritty dark superheroes, Abs of Steel, the destruction of public property, and fake noses!  "Release the world engine!!" Enjoy.

Jake & James are back this week with a unique special episode. This week it's all about the lockdown, so stay indoors and get your teeth into a new film, a franchise, a boxset or a documentary series. Jake & James go through what's new, what's trending and what you can get into to help pass the time. It's also a special opportunity for the 'Do The Franchise' team to thank our NHS! Enjoy. 

Anthony, Tommy and guest Jake James Lugo sit down and chat about the games journalists industry as well as the pro's and con's of being an indie content creator. Find James at: twitter.com/JakeJamesLugo https://www.youtube.com/GamersWithGainsChannel https://www.patreon.com/jakejameslugo Love the podcast? Leave us a voice message via the anchor app on your phone and have it showcased during the DBN Prime Podcast. Find us at Twitter @DadsBeardsNerds and Instagram @DadsBeardsNerdsPodcas Oh and join our amazing Discord community! George, Tommy, Anthony, past guests and fellow nerds await you! https://discord.gg/ZRqTqJp Pokemon Lofi intro/outro music credit to GlitchxCity via youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-lmdv0OTb4uQQSzwbzhLsg Give them a follow and enjoy the great tunes! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dadsbeardsnerds/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dadsbeardsnerds/support

DJ LostNFound is in the mix with songs from CASS, Faythebankai, Jodie Jermaine, Jake James, Sarang, Pierre Reynolds, Jossimar David, Ray K, Jayszone, Tbabz, Shope, Tasan and more.

Do The Franchise's first Valentine's Day Special.    This week Jake & James choose three films each that encapsulate the themes of romance and love on Valentine's Day 2020.   These hapless romantics also discuss what Valentine's Day means to them, giving their top three fav's and a few honourable mentions.    Enjoy!

James: Hey, audience and listeners, this is James Kandasamy and you're listening to Achieve Wealth Podcast where we talk about value-add real estate investing and we interview a lot of commercial real estate operators where you can grab a pen and a paper and start learning.    So today we have Jake and Gino from Wheelbarrow Profits. And Jake and Gino own around 1500 units with 1000 of that units were done solely by them without any syndication. And they have another 400 units, which they started syndication and their primary focus is on Southeast market. Right now, the deals are in Tennessee and Kentucky. So, Hey guys, welcome to the show.   Gino: Hey, James. How you doing? Nice to be here.    Jake: Hey, thank you for having us.   James: Yeah. Did I miss out anything in terms of introducing you guys?   Gino: Well, I mean, for me, I've got six kids. I mean that's probably my biggest achievement to date. I live down in Florida. I relocated two years ago from New York to Florida. I'm a certified life coach. I think that's a really big accomplishment for me and I've got a fantastic partner on the other end. So that's what I guess made my success, having an amazing partner, having an amazing person pushing me and telling me, Hey Gino, we need to buy this deal. Hey Gino, you know, we need to write this book. And I'm like, come on, another thing? So having a great partner really will excel you in life. Did leave anything out, Jake?    Jake: We're economic deserters. We left the high tax Northeast for a better life of sunshine and rainbows and I'd [01:54unclear] friend. No, it's been a great ride. You know, Gino and I, back in 2011, started really looking hard at multifamily. We wanted yield. We wanted something that was going to pay us every month. We had very challenging jobs at the time. I was under threat of layoff all the time. Gino was in the back of the kitchen trying to make sure that he could get dishwashers in every night. And ultimately, we knew there was more to life than what we were experiencing and we sought out to make it happen for ourselves.    So we got into the first deal. It was a tough one. It was a 25 unit and we've never looked back. We've done multifaceted, multifamily ever since. We have four core businesses, we have property management, we have education, we have a mortgage brokerage, we have an investment business and over 20 holding companies to go along with that. So we really look at multifamily, you know, being the place to be because we know that it's a basic human need and we've grown our brands all within the multifamily space. And it's been, again, just a fantastic ride. We've focused a lot on culture scale, and growing the business day in and day out. We had an epiphany moment a few years ago that we were working too hard and we're running around doing everything.    We call it the, 'I'm a' mentality. I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do everything. 'I'm a' could only go so far. So I'm ahead to bring some friends. So Jake and Gino, you know, brought some friends on and we started scaling up. And you know, we've got some really great people on the team and I think that's one of the things, I get so much of the enjoyment out of it. Cause I see these people coming on really with us and they just grow and they excel and then we've created a home for them.   Jake: And James, more importantly, that only started with a 25 unit property with $27,000 from Jake, myself and my brother, Mark. So that's the amazing thing. Talking about where to start. I'm too young, I'm too old, the market's too hot. I don't have enough money. Those are all myths that people want to tell themselves. What they're lacking is they're lacking innovation, they're lacking education, they're lacking creativity and they're lacking mastermind. Those are the things that I lacked when I used those excuses.    And if you want to use those excuses, that's fine. But we have so many Jake and Gino community members that are in their twenties and they're in their sixties and they've gone out and they're doing deals. So if you want to get into multifamily, you need to educate yourself first.   James: Yeah, very interesting. You guys are really, really vertically integrated. I mean, as you've mentioned, you guys own property management, asset management and also have a renovation team. And you also do some agency that representation right to the test lenders, I guess for the agency, which is really good. I mean I have the first three but not the last one. Question is, I mean, how did you guys do this 1000 units on your own? I can tell you there's not many people who have done like even like a what, 300 units on their own, right? Everybody syndicates, right? Including me; I syndicate, I used to own...I mean I still own some single-family, which I'm selling off right now, but all my deals are syndicated and a lot of people I talk to use syndication. But how did you guys go from that 25 units to 1000 units on your own?   Gino: We weren't that smart, first of all. We thought that's how you had to do it, to be completely honest with you. Because we said, Hey, we got to buy a deal. We'll buy the deal. We buy it, right? The three-step framework, if you see the wheelbarrow behind me, it's buy right, manage right and finance right. You need to do all three of those. We were buying them right and we're still buying the assets right.    It's truly important that you need to buy the asset right. So we buy these assets, we refinanced the assets and we wouldn't go and buy Ferrari's. We'd actually repurpose that money into the next deal. What really propelled us was we bought a 281 unit property. It was $11 million. It was owner finance. The owner basically said, here you go, here are the keys. We actually had about $120,000 come back to us at closing.   Now that doesn't happen every day, but that happens when you're ready and when you are integrated and you know the business model and you know, to take advantage of that. That really, really propelled us because we were able to refinance that property. So to date, we've refinanced over $9 million of our proceeds. We've rolled that right back into the business and we continued to grow that way. But James, to be honest with you, if we'd been syndicating through three years ago, we'd probably be at the 5,000 unit mark, which is maybe that's great, that's not great but that wasn't our path.    We started syndicating back in November because we saw we could create another multiple stream of revenue, create the asset management company, that syndication company, for syndication. And I had five or 600 investors on our platform because of the Jake and Gino brand. I just couldn't utilize them. We didn't have the space so we brought on another partner to start that business and that's been a fantastic business. We've done two syndications, we've got another deal in the contract right now and we're continuing to grow that. And James, as you know, they feed each other. It's just wonderful. You go to an event, you speak, you do podcasts, the education can sell education, sell books, and then you know what, you're positioning yourself as an authority leader. And on top of that, you're bringing investors on board and you're teaching people how to do it and you're getting the deal source. And it's just such a symbiotic, beautiful relationship.   James: Yeah, it's very interesting because I mean right now, like for example, I was told once, I mean you can do syndication, but your end goal is to own some of the units. But you guys are going the other way.   Jake: We started backward, James. I'm going to tell you something, and this is what I want your listeners to hear because it's the kind of thing where a lot of people are afraid of nonrecourse financing. And we'll tell you right now, non-recourse financing has made me rich and it's made Gino rich; fortune sides with him who dares. We took a chance on it. We couldn't even get into agency debt back when we first started. We were doing a lot of deals that would have been qualified for what is now known as Freddie Mac SBL. Okay. We took on the recourse debt. We had a lot of battles on the front end with the banks. I say a lot of times, it's just as hard negotiating the deal as negotiating the deal with the banks a lot of these times.    So we went in, we fought some good battles. As Gino said, we manage these assets, right? And then we were able to take the financing and sometimes we'd finance the deal once with a community bank and then sometimes you'll refinance it again and send it out to nonrecourse financing over time. So we just really did, we focused on buying these things, right. Adding a ton of value to them and then extracting the value, holding the assets longterm, not selling them, keeping the cost segregation going. And really my view of these is that we're going to buy them, we're going to manage them right. And the party is going to keep going because we're not going to sell them off if we're buying a deal in house. If we're buying a deal in house, we're gonna keep adding assets to it. Keep the cost SEG going and keep that party rolling.   James: But what's your end goal is syndication. I know syndication can grow very quickly in terms of unit counts, right? But your shared...   Jake: But it's not about just growing the unit counts for us, right? We want to have a tool in the toolbox that fits every deal. And we were talking before we got on the show today that we just bought a very hairy deal. It's 26 per unit. People were not being taken care of. It's 146 units. We have 40 vacancies right now. We didn't syndicate that. That was not a good deal necessarily for us to syndicate, but I know over time that deal's going to pay us back very handsomely. So was that a deal that we want to syndicate? Probably not. We're doing a deal right now. It's very clean. It's going to be a nice cash on cash return, right down the alley for syndication. We just want to, you know, any deal that comes our way, we want to, if it's going to cash flow, there's going to be an opportunity, we want to have a vehicle or tool to take that down. And syndication is just one of those tools. Find it in house is another one.   Gino: And I think the opportunity we have now, to piggyback off of that, as where we are in the market, in the market cycle right now, you just gotta be careful of what you're buying. You have to be buying assets in pretty good locations, with pretty good rent growth because when the economy slows down, you want to be able to continue to have your occupancy and run 94-95%. You don't want to see rents dropping. So you gotta be careful what you're buying. Would we've been buying these assets three and four years ago? No, the opportunity was more of those value-adds. Now there's less of an opportunity for our value adds because those prices are already built up. I mean, we went and bought an asset in November at 45 a door. Two years ago, it would have been 30 a door, but that's where we are in the market.    So with that value add, it's very difficult because you've got to put more loan to value. So you've got to put more money down on these deals and there's more risk, as going out 18 months or 24 months, if you're not able to make those preferred payments, you know, they're going to come knocking at you. And then the investor's going to say, well, why did we make the draw this and this quarter? Well, we were trying to reposition it for the long game. That's the thing with multifamily. Everybody out there, multifamily is a long game. It's number one, but debt and taxes, number two, it's about having a business. If you're not going to run the business, somebody has to run the business. And number three, it's a long game. You're not going to get paid today or tomorrow. You're going to be the farmer planting the seed, watering the seed, and waiting six months or 12 months for it to grow. That's why it's hard to get into multifamily because people love transactions. This is not so much transaction-based business unless you start getting into it and then a year, two years down the road, you can create some transactions by refing or by selling or by trading up. But when you start out, it's hard because it's that instant gratifying.   Jake: James, I want to say one thing that just piggyback on Gino here and what he's saying is many of you out there may be syndicating deals and we love syndicating. We love buying deals ourselves. Just keep in mind the syndicators that are the most successful are that they understand that the work starts after you bought the deal. Just because you're syndicating, you need to have that one on one connection, even if you're doing third party management. James, we were talking earlier that you know, he runs his own a property management group. That's when the real work starts folks. So you know, whether you're syndicating, whether you're buying in house, tee it up, make sure you're financing it right. Make sure you're buying it right. But then that managed piece, just because you know, you may not be running direct property management, you need to be having those weeklies with that property management, making sure you're nailing your KPIs.    James: Yeah. I also think that the managed portion makes the most money. Do you guys agree with that?   Gino: I totally agree with that 100% because that's where you're going to increase your NLI. You're either going to increase the income, decrease the expenses, create systems and be able to scale. But the problem that Jake and I had when we hit 650 units, we were still just telling somebody this the other day, we were still using rent posts and we fumbled upon that folio and that was the biggest aha moment. All of a sudden we said to ourselves, it doesn't matter how many units you add onto your portfolio, if you're not managing them efficiently and extracting as much value from them, that's going to be a big problem. So I think managing is the most important. It's ongoing.    Jake: There's more to it though, to James' point. Here's why. Once you buy the deal, there's no going back. You paid the money, you paid that price. That is fixed. That's why I always talk about the back leg of the wheelbarrow being fixed. If you finance the deal for 10 years, and I don't care if you have stepped down or you have your maintenance defeasance wherever you want to say, you're fixed, what are the levers do you have to pull? It's the management arm of it. That's the piece that you're going to be able to. Exactly. Right. That's a great point.   James: Yeah. Yeah, so that's why I always tell my friends and my followers in my Facebook group and all the people who come to me; the operations where you make the most money because before you buy the deal you are putting a proforma, right? You think it's going to be like that. You think it's going to be like that. You think it is going to be 3% operation. You think insurance is going to be this much. Right? So it's a lot of assumptions, but once you close on the deal, it's avail game, right? You are like, Hey, you know, now you have every tool in the box to really trap. That's where you really make the money and you, if you really work hard on the operation, you can make at least, you know,  2-3% more than if you give it to a third party management. Because third party management, they have a lot of other issues. It's not their baby.   Jake: You're not the only customer. Here, we're the only customer baby.   James: And they have a different profit center that they need to really make sure.   Jake: And we won't take on other clients. We only manage our stuff because it's ours and you're absolutely right. We're managing our baby, we're making sure our babies are doing well. There are little soldiers out there working for us. We want them to keep returning.   James: Yeah. Yeah. And also [13:28unclear] if you look at even your own operation, I can decide to, let's say my occupancy drop, I can reduce my staff today just by a phone call. Right. And reduce my expenses as well because my income is reduced. Right. So, but you can't do that on a third party. Right. You are like at the mercy of them. Right.   Gino: I agree with that. And you're also controlling; you're controlling. You can add on more employees. You can actually say to yourself, Hey listen, I want to implement this system. I want to raise my rents so you can have real-time. That's what's great about it.   Jake: Even think about the marketing piece. They may be using, you know, apartments or they may be using roof or whatever they're using and you tell them, well, I want you to stop using that. Well, that might be two or three emails or a week-long conversation to actually get that pulled out. And they may tell you, fly kite here, we just kill it.    James: Yeah, we just kill it. Yeah.    Jake: Move on. There's no question.     James: I have to give credit to my wife. She runs the property management side of it.    Jake: She must be a strong woman.    James: She's a very strong woman.   Jake: We should have her on the show.   James: She's at the property today. So I do the underwriting and investor relationship and acquisition and she does the construction and property management. And you need a lot of...   Jake: You're taking it easy, then man. Come on, you gotta get hurt...   James: My work is a lot on the front end. Right? But one it's closed, it's her work. And I do help out a lot too. Right? So, let's go back to a bit more details on syndication was owning, right? Because this is something that I've been thinking, right? Because Hey, you know, I was like you guys when in the beginning, I did a lot of short term loan, bridge loan and we make a lot of money for us. I syndicated, but my investor was so happy with it, he made so much money. But now with the market being at peak and there are not many deals out there, you know, we have to still get good cash flowing. We still do value-add deal, but no more deep value add deals. Right. So I presume that's what you guys are doing, right? Still, value-add deal but no more like a deep value add when you syndicate.   Jake: No, even the one we just did, we were talking about that; we did it in December, it was 26 a door and we're going in new decks, all new interiors and we have a ton of vacancies. I'm not afraid of it. The key is though, since we have our own management group, I don't want to take on five of these things at once because it's a resource issue at that point. We have resources to do one real heavy value add at the time so we're fine having one of those in the mix. But if you start stacking them, you know you really got to add team members and that's when it gets even more challenging. So for our size of scale right now, I'm very good with, you know, one at a time, getting it kind of rolled up. And we kind of we're just coming off the tail end of another one and then we ramped up into this one. So it's been working out for us.   Jake: So the problem with this deal, not the problem, the opportunity with this deal is we're using community financing. We've got an 85% LTV with loan to cost. So we've got 80% of the loan proceeds going into doing the cap-ex work. We're going to refi that property and bring it to the agency once it's all done. So there's the value there. And the only thing was when we bought it, we were able to have economies of scale. It's near a couple of our other assets are, we're able to use maintenance guys on that property. So that's another one of the reasons why we're able to do that cause just added to our portfolio. If this was something I was all by itself in, you know, down somewhere [16:30 unclear] assets, maybe you'd think twice. But there's always other reasons for doing the deal. And that was really one of the important factors that we saw.   James: And at what point did you start syndication? What was the timeframe? Was it like last year, two years ago?   Gino: So we started, we actually when we came off of our first event, I signed up like 30 people in our event back in November of 2017. I said to Jake, I've got all these investors floundering and that's the thing, when you're signing up investors, James, you have an important role. You need to reach out to those investors and you need to make substantive relationships. You need to start giving them value or else they're going to fall off. So I felt compelled to say to Jake, we need to start creating these relationships with these investors. We decided to hire somebody on and become a partner of that company. The beginning of 2018, February, March, April, we started ramping up, took us a few months to find our first deal. We find our first deal in August and that period timeframe for us, our first syndication, getting the PPM is soft commitments, emails.  It was pretty overwhelming and daunting but we did a small deal. It was only $6 million. It was 132 units. It was something where you can like consume and do your first deal for us. We raised $2.6 million in two days because we had all the framework, we were ready to go, we had the investors, they were prime, we had the podcast, we had the brand out there. But one thing with syndication that's a little different is things move really quickly, and it's a little nerve-wracking that you have to get everything in order. You have to get your emails out, you have to have your documents down, you have to have everything in order. You have to make sure that, you know, you get your webinars going and everything's spelled out clearly to your investors. And that's why it took us a little bit longer cause we had never taken money from the investors. So when it's your money and cash flows and come into the month, Jake says, Gino, septic fields scrapped out. We're not getting paid this month. I can deal with it.   Jake: Plus there was a demand thing we had people asking for it. And it was kind of like at some point where they're going to do, we flirted with the idea for so long as either we're going to do it or not. So we gave it a shot.   Gino:  And that's the thing we could have bought that deal without syndication. But I think it was just the ideal opportunity. It was a new market. It was small enough for us to say, you know what, we can handle this with the syndication. Let's try it. You just got to commit and then figure it out. And that's what we ended up doing. We committed to doing it. We worked with a great attorney, Kim Taylor. She walks through the process. We had great team members and then we just ended up pulling the trigger and we ended up closing in November of 2018 and we followed up with another purchase in April of 2019. About six weeks ago, we closed on a deal and at an additional 240 units in that market. So it's a great learning plus. Once you do one, you figure it out, you figure out the ramifications, the webinars, adding the investors on the documents. And then it's just 'rinse and repeat'.   James: Yeah. I think you guys are the example of why syndication exists, right? So syndication is not like a get rich scheme, right? Not everybody can do it. Not like somebody who was doing W2 can or can do, I'm not saying they must do syndication, right? So in my mind, syndication is like a mixture of an experienced operator, right? So you guys have proven that operator and there are some passive investors which want to place that money into this experienced operator, right? So if I'm getting some guy who was coming up from a boot camp or a  2-day course and trying to do syndication that he doesn't have the experience, I mean he might be coached by someone who's experienced, but I think that's where the syndication comes very powerful, right? When you marry people who really want to be passive with people who are really, really good at what they're doing that's where you get the beautiful marriage there. Right?   Gino: Also students who want to raise deals for others. So James, let's say you're coming short on a raise and you say, Hey, listen, I need to get some way, maybe you can get somebody to raise money for your deal. Obviously they have to be comfortable with you as the operator, as a sponsor. And Jake and Gina is a sponsor with a lot of students start that way by raising money for other people's deals, getting in the game, putting a little lower skin in the game and learning how the syndication process works. And then learning how much work there really is and saying, wow, this syndicator is not putting any money in this deal. But there's a lot of work and there's a reason why there's no money going on the GP side of the business. It's they're signing under debt and they're doing a lot of work for this and that's a great way for people to start getting in the business. Raise a little bit of money for another syndicator if they need that platform, then learn that process. And that's how you learn the process and then you can move on and succeed in getting your own deals.   James: Yeah, absolutely. What's the structure? Can you guys walk through the structure of your company, right? Because you have property management, asset management, you have renovation team, you do some kind of a mortgage brokering as well. On top of that you have an education platform, right? So how big is the whole team?   Jake: You know, probably and not including vendors and whatnot, it's probably just shy of 60 people,   James: 60 people. And how many people...I mean, property management would be the biggest, I guess.   Jake: Oh yeah. Property management is definitely the biggest. And you know, I'm really excited. You know, we do these weekly meetings. I'll meet with every property manager weekly. You know, we meet with the managers of the different divisions of our companies and we call them weekly L10s and we're just really looking forward to this year cause we're gonna really bring everyone together. I think one of the biggest things is when you start to scale and you start to grow, that culture piece is tremendous. Last year we did this big whitewater rafting trip. We brought everyone out. So we're looking for another event this year, but we're going to break down the barriers. We're going to get the core values going, get the tee shirts, bring everyone together for an event. And it's going to be interesting because what we're trying to do now is even get those synergies amongst the different companies jamming that much better together. Get everyone walking to the same beat and so I'm very excited about that.   James: And how many of the 60 people, like a property management. Do you have a number?   Jake: Well, we're going to be creeping up close to 46-47 on that soon. So, you know, we'll have a couple on the investment side of the business and then a handful on the continue education side.   James: Okay. Okay.   Jake: Okay. Property management and that's including our renovation team called the cap-ex crew. They are the elite Navy seal ninjas of property management and they go in when others can't, they get it done.   James: Yeah. So your renovation crew is supposed to be, I mean it's in house, but it's not really announced in terms of financial, right, because they're not supposed to be part of the P& L right? Is that correct?   Jake: Yeah. So that's basically going through the property management group.   James: Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's very interesting. And how did you guys...   Jake: He wants to see an income statement now, Gino.   James: Because...   Jake: I'm just messing with you man.    Gino: So James, I'll dive into the education a little bit more. We started the education about four years ago. October 2015 we launched the book with our profits behind me and it was just me basically quit my restaurant and said, Jake, I need to do something. I'm in New York. Let's start a podcast. And we didn't know why we started the podcast. We should have probably started it to get investors. But we just started because we wanted to learn. I mean, how many times can you speak to Ken McCroy or you know, Robert Kiyosaki for an hour, right? I mean, it's just amazing. So that's where we started. And then from that, we said, okay, how do we continue to build this? So we started selling, creating educational products. We wrote the book, we have trainings on Kajabi, we have mentorships, we have coaching.   And to grow and scale that business, I can't be doing one on one coaching all the time. So we hired a community director. We've got an operations manager in that business full time. We've got three part-time, we've got three full-time sales guys. We've got four coaches right now. We have two deal review coaches on top of our accountability coaches. So as you start growing, you commit, you figure it out, you start scaling up. But the real thing that you need to do is you need to get really qualified people. You need to get great people. Like Jake talks with the culture and our culture is basically a blue-collar work ethic. It's we don't want to hear 'it's not my job' because I'm still packing books. I'm still doing $5 an hour work when I have to. And Jake's doing the same thing. And I want that to convey those small startups with Jake and Gino and we're going to be able to expand this. We're gonna be doing weekend events to just start selling more products and we're going to start bringing on more sales guys. And as the community grows, I think that culture is going to be pervasive throughout all of the entire organization where it's like customers first, you know, students first. It's not me, it's we and whatever it takes gets done. I think that can permeate throughout all of the layers and all the multifaceted multifamily. And that's really important. So when we first thought about Jake and I, Jake will tell you, he thought culture was crap and it was working corporate because it didn't serve him. But I think as he sees it, it's everything right now. Because when they see Jake and I working hard and doing that, it just, you're the leader, you're supposed to be part. If you're going to put in a mission statement in words, and I got house rules over here, if you're not following your own house rules, how do you think your employees are going to follow the house rules.   Jake: James, nothing fires me up more than 'it's not my job'. You want to see the roof come off this house right now, smoke start coming out of my ears. That's the one thing that I can't handle.   James: My wife and I get upset when somebody said I do not know, I said, don't tell me 'I don't know'. Tell me, 'I'll figure it out'.   Jake: Or you know, let's ask and work on it. You know, it's like I can handle that a lot easier than 'it's not my job'. Cause that's like a moral and a work ethic issue and everyone else is working so hard and you're going to sit there and say something like that.   James: It's a clash between ownership mentality. I mean, especially with the property management, right, with the ownership mentality and employee mentality, right? Because a lot of times in property management, the people are working with employee mentality, but owners, we are more, we want to see the profit. We want to be really part of the profit center. Make sure everything runs as how we want for the investors. At the same time...   Jake: Gino knows about the blue-collar work ethic. We finished up a podcast with who was the guy that used to be in Bigger Pockets, who was the guy there? It was Brandon and Josh. And we got a video. We were out there one day. A tree fell across one of our assets that we just bought and was laying across the sidewalk. You know, we didn't have anybody at the time to do it. So Gino and I went down there, took out the chainsaw, chop that bad boy up, threw it in the back of the trailer and made a day of it. We got a video, I think it's still out there on YouTube, so it doesn't matter. I don't care what job it is, I'll do it all myself if we have to.   That's not how you scale, number one. That's 'I'mma' mentality. But if it comes down to it, if it needs to be done and there's no one else to do it, I'm going in and I'm going to do it. It's just period.    James: Awesome. Awesome. That's the work ethic, right? Sometimes you have to do it.    Jake: It's gotta get done. Somebody has got to do it. And the idea is to build a machine and put the systems in place to make sure it runs fluidly. You know, every day the best work that I can do is help working on the machine and building the machine. But it's not always going to be there. And sometimes, you know, a bolt falls off and if I gotta be the guy to screw it back on, I'm going to do it.   Gino: I think it's important to say that the machine isn't built from the very first day. From the very first day you're going to grow as a person. So four years ago, I wasn't doing the best work of what I had to do. I was just doing whatever work I needed to do. But now as you scale, and as you're able to do that, as you become financially free, you can start thinking about working on the business as apart as the working in the business. And the first three or four years, Jake and I were really working in the business. And we weren't able to create these multiple streams of revenue. We're just surviving and learning. And that's fine. That's what everyone's progression is. But once you get into it, when you start doing it, you can start transitioning out and start like what Jake said, start creating those systems. But if you don't start with a 25 unit property, you're never going to be able to do what you know, what actually transpires after.   James: Awesome. Let's go to some market selection questions. So how did you guys select this market?   Gino: Well, it's funny, Jake was going down in 2011 he moved down there and I had it on one of my other podcasts with my wife. He went to Knoxville, move there for six months without his wife, struggled. I mean, it's not an easy thing. He left New York, he abandoned New York and I'm up there at the restaurant. I had just met him and I'm like, Jake, these numbers work down here. Let's start looking at deals in Knoxville. His metrics for moving was; there were no state income tax, close to New York, decent weather, cost of living is great. So he moves to Knoxville. And ironically, enough, that's what makes it a pretty good market to invest in multifamily, right?    James: Population growth.    Gino: And we got lucky, we got lucky with that one. But we started investing, we started looking at deals. I think, you know, the Southeast is great. So like you said, we're vertically integrated within three hours of Knoxville. So that's what we're looking. I mean, throw a dart, there are so many great cities around there to invest in that market. We don't want to go up in the blue States, we want to stay. Texas is a little bit overbought. I mean, you know why. I mean, you have been an engine of economic growth there. People are flocking there because there are jobs there because there's infrastructure there and because people want to live there. So, that's what's happening. So I think, you know, as far as us, we just got lucky. We picked Knoxville and now we're able to go out into these other markets that mirror what Knoxville is.   Jake: And in addition to that too, we have a specific strategy that we're looking to be the best customer service property management company for C and B apartment complex. We own some A stuff but it's kind of because the deals worked and we bought it, but we see a discrepancy where C and B operators typically do not have that good of customer service. I love what Chick-fillet does with a $7 chicken sandwich. How are you doing today? It's a pleasure to serve you. How can I help you? It's that great customer service and I truly believe that is a blue ocean. That is our blue ocean strategy. It's going to separate ourselves and we rebrand all our properties, brand as our property management company so that when people pull up, they're going to know that these people care. We believe renting is personal and our residents are our number one priority. Okay, that's what we're about and that's the difference in how we run our properties and I think longterm it's not going to happen overnight. That's a longterm strategy is going to take years to fully implement, but that's the separator from us and the other guys.   James: So how do you guys standardize this? You know, the awesome operator experience for class B and C, how do you standardize it across the organization?   Gino: Yeah. Well, first thing you do is you start going on training platforms like Grace Hill, you start systematizing platforms and training. We're creating our own internal training right now for our maintenance techs. And then we're going to transitional to training our leasing techs. That's really important to have something standardized to train them. And I'm doing the same thing on education. So when we were onboard, as a coach, I created a training platform for our coaches to watch videos and show how to coach them. And it's the same way in anything. You want to be able to have something standardized where they're all playing from the same drum.   Jake:  So I'd like to elaborate on that a little bit as well because, so it starts with the basic stuff, like Gino mentioned Grace Hill. Now we also have a product called Kajabi where we've taken the Grace Hill training and we have, it's basically our elevated in house training that we're putting on the Kajabi platform where we're teaching our guys if they don't know how to do something, we're having level one, two, three and four for maintenance techs, for example. And then there's a YouTube page where they can go on and actually from their phone remotely check the video, Oh, this is how I need to change out this garbage disposal or thermostat, whatever the case may be. And so as we're going through, you're talking to us as we're in the middle of launching this entire customer service training program. In addition to that, it started with Grace Hill. We're moving to down to a Kajabi and we're working with Grace Hill on Kajabi at the same time. Once we're done with the maintenance end of it, and we should be done in the next couple of months with that end of it, it's then going to the full-service customer service piece. We have weekend trainings now. I don't want you to think that we're just starting this, but this is how we have the full-on slot of our strategy implementation. In addition to that, we've started working with Petra, they work with scaling up. I don't know if you're familiar with that.    James: No, not Petra.   Gino: Okay. It's Verne Harnish's book, Scaling Up.   Jake: And essentially, they look at people, strategy, execution, and cash. And you know, we've gone through top grading and making sure that we're getting players on the team. But the one piece of that is we fill our funnels up really full. We have all these ideas that we want to implement. So we have a good strategy, we have good people, we have good cash, but it's that execution piece that we need to get better at. So, you know, while we have an education company, we're open-minded and we know we can always grow and get better. So we're bringing in the best of the best. This is, you know, from everything I've seen, the best scale company in the country and they're working on our business as we work on our business to make us the best customer service property management group in the industry. So that's where we're going.    Gino: The cool thing about the whole education platform is we never would have done this training internally if we didn't have Jake and Gino. Because Kajabi is our online training platform for education. So it just bled over. And I've mentioned that, I said Jake, we need to do these videos to show the maintenance tech when he goes in, how to change a toilet, how to fix a hot water heater. This can all be documented by training videos. So if we didn't have the education platform, this never would have been even been a thought in our minds. And I think the other thing when you are going out as a business owner, keep your eyes open to what other businesses are doing.    My son had gotten a job down the street or at a restaurant and I was amazed at how many applications these people were taking in. They had an ADP platform and I said to Jake, this is another scaling up option where we can start onboarding our employees. And it's just a great tool. So, you know, a tip for everybody out there, if you're in multifamily real estate, see what other industries are doing because you can adapt and pull from other industries and use it to your advantage.   Jake: I want to talk about that a little bit though, Gino, because what we're basically getting with that is we've used ADP for years, but they have, I'm going to call ADP plus. It's their, whatever, you know, higher-end product. But they will give us for all our different brands, we will have a very corporate and professional landing page now. So we have something called the ran pride video. It's showcasing our folks, talking about our culture, which, you know, not have a history of the company video. All of these videos will go on these landing pages. So when potential employees want to look at us, Hey, that's what these guys are about. So we're selling ourselves; let's not kid ourselves, we are in the tightest job market in 60 years. So we need to be recruiting the best people in and we're not going to have a good organization.   So we're doing everything we can to make it a great work environment, get great people in the door and keep them. Because once they come in, we have a very low turnover. But you know, from ourselves, marketing ourselves to the outside world, we need to let them know what we're about. And then as they're coming through, they're putting their W2 information all into the ADP. It's all electronically saved in the cloud and that carries them through. It also has the HRS software so that our HR folks can manage that throughout the entire lifespan of their time with us. So we're really focusing, like I said, on scale culture and operations because, you know, the other things, the people, the strategy, the cash we've done very well with. So it's that execution and pulling it through I think is gonna propel us over the next 10 years.   Gino: And James, do you need it when you have 100 units? Maybe not, but if you're thinking of getting bigger, you're going to have to implement all these systems. Don't be overwhelmed with it now at 100 unit market, just think that you know, as you grow as a person, as you grow as a business person, you're going to be able to figure out those ideas and go...   Jake: Yeah, we're laying the framework to go from 50 to 500 employees.   James: Yeah, that's really good because I know Grace Hill, because I use it as well, we use ADP, but I've never heard about HRS and I mean I know about Kajabi, but I didn't know that you guys are using Kajabi as well.   Jake: So we blended the two together and then we're actually using a YouTube page for the videos so that they can get it right from the app on their phone. And it's coming together pretty nicely actually.    Gino: And there are so many app platforms out there. You can use Lightspeed, you can use Kajabi. We are one of the founders on there seven or eight years ago when they launched. So we've been using it for a while and we just got comfortable with it. There are so many different, you know, LMS systems that are out there.    Jake: The executives within our company, they love building this because they see the need for it. So they enjoy it and they're great. You know, there some of the ones out there filming, well not filming uncle Shawn's doing that, but actually, doing the tutorials on the maintenance or the customer service videos. So everyone's getting involved   Gino: And they're creating the assessments too, cause you want to actually have them watch a video and then do the assessments. So they're creating all that also, which is awesome.   James: So let's go into a deal, deal level detail or how do you, I mean, let's say today you get a deal today, right? From broker, off-market, right? So what are the things that you would look at, look at it quickly to either reject it up? Cause I presume a lot of deals, you guys don't even underwrite it, right?   Jake: We do a quick underwriting. So we're looking for cash flow from day one and the opportunity to force appreciation in the future. So what does that mean? You know, if it's a stabilized deal we want to be, I'd love a six and a half cap, you know, if we're a little bit lower than that and you know, six to six and a half cap, I think we can typically make it work if it's in a good location, if we're going to syndicate that deal and we're seeing, you know, 8% cash on cash, we like that. And you know that typically, we'll take it to the next level and start looking a little deeper.   James: Okay. Okay. Got it. Got it. And I presume deep value add, it really doesn't matter on the entry capital, on any of that.   Jake: Let's talk about that. So the deal we just bought, you know, if you're talking about actual is was a, you know, like probably like maybe like a...   James: 2%   Jake: And it was a beat to crap 1970s build. But you know, what are we talking about? Like do we really care what the cap rate is on that deal? No, because we know when it stabilizes the cap rates going to be more like a 12 so it's again keeping your mind open to each deal. What can I do and what's the opportunity with this deal? How do we want to take it down? Is it going to be an in house buy? Is it going to be, you know, a bridge financing, whatever the case may be as an agency? Or is it a syndicated deal? You know, all of these things weave together.  And that's the beauty of this game is that we have multiple things that we can do to extract value and create great things. And so, it gives us an opportunity to have fun with it.    Gino: And James, Jake's speaking up specifically, if we're in the 26,000 a unit, we need to add another four or 5,000. If you're into it for 31,000 a door, I know that that asset in right now is trading over 50 a dor. So I know that that right there is a whole month for us. So that's another way I like to look at the per-unit cost of what we're buying. And I like to look at the expenses. If I'm underwriting a deal, we know that the expense should be 4,200 and the operator is running it at 4,900, you know there's value in there. If there's other income that they're generating, that's only 2%, we know typically we can get 10 to 12% of other income. There's another income, there's another value add right there so we're looking for those.    And you know, you'll hear from brokers every day of the week that you can raise rents, you can raise rents. So I have to spend 10K a door to raise a $50 rent, or can I spend 3 K a door and get that same $70 rent bumps. So you have to really try to analyze the market. And I think the other thing you need to be careful is where you're buying. You know, marginal areas, you're not going to get as much elevation right now and it's a little bit riskier. So, you know, we're just buying an asset right now; if it's in a great location, we'd like it. And Jake likes to say he likes to be your Kroger's Wholefoods and Chick-fillet if you can buy in that location...   Jake: Starbucks, bring it on.   James: You guys do value add, right? So let's say your rehab budget got cut into half, right? 50% of what you have. First of all, let me ask you, what is the most...   Jake: Why did that happen and are we playing the what-if game.   James: You never know. Yeah, that's a good question because I want to, tune your mindset to the question that I want to ask. So what is the most valuable value add that you guys have seen? Jake: What is the most valuable value add? Like what is like did we get the most out of doing flooring? Did we get the most out of...?    James: Correct. Let's say you have a budget got cut. Now you have a small amount of budget.   Gino: That's a great question. It depends on what property you're looking at because some properties may, if you put a dog park and you fix up the clubhouse and you do a good job of the pool, you may not see incremental value on that. But all of a sudden you're keeping the tenants and in your act you have to compete with the property down the street. So on one of our properties, we put a dog park in, we've put a fitness center and we did a nice job in a clubhouse and we actually did a pool and the decking. That didn't translate...I'm thinking, it translate into increased value and increased rents, but it also made be able to compete with other people in the market space. I think landscaping, people don't understand; power washing, landscaping, and painting are three of the most important things.   On our property, when we took over November, we actually had rents at 525; they went to 675. And we saw them in the Google reviews. These tenants were saying, you know what, these people were raising rents, but they care; customer service. That's one of the biggest value adds, customer service. We put out exterior lighting so they feel safe at nighttime. We took care of the landscaping there. We put in a gazebo there. We stripped the parking lot and seal the parking lot. We put in a dog park there. Signage was really important. Not huge amounts of money, but anything to turn the look of the property, the feel of a property, you want to show your tenants and any of your customers that you're adding value and not just going there and raising the prices. At the end of the day, why are you raising the price on me if you're not giving me some type of value?   Jake: I'll dive into it a little bit more too. I mean, the basics that, you know, I feel like that you have to go with a lot of times are, I personally love sheet vinyl. I know a lot of people want to put in the plank and this thing. We have this amazing, it's called nature's trail. If anyone wants to go out and look at it, it's skinny, it's white. So it looks like the barn style flooring, it's beautiful, it's got great, great tones in it. Installed, we're $1.74 a square foot. I mean, that's phenomenal. And it goes in, it looks beautiful. It looks like there's hardware throughout. So if I had to really get down to bare bones and I'm turning a complex, I'm going in with my nature's trail, I'm going in with my proposed gray and I'm going white on the wood. So the woodworks, the trim, and the baseboard, I'm going a nice pure white Sherwin Williams and it gets like a 7004 or something like that.   Jake: And then, in addition to it, the property we did in December, we were like, okay, let's pull back a little bit because we're painting the cabinets. And we saw a little bit of a spike in our available units. So we went back in, we reassessed it, and we said, you know what? It looks too damn good not to, it's an extra 350 bucks. Let's just keep painting the cabinets and then we're back to zero available units. So it's always, I think, and this goes back to what you were saying earlier about being a hands-on operator; looking at these things, looking at your KPIs, saying, what the hell, why do we spike? Oh, it was my fault cause we're being cheap. So we went back in and now we're filling it back up like that.   Gino: At the same time, Jake also, you don't have to spend $170 on a ceiling fan. Maybe you see your supply spiking like they did a year and a half and saying, hold on, this unit doesn't need $170 ceiling fan.   Jake: It's a beautiful $75 ceiling fan. They're beautiful fan blades. You get the multicolor here. So yeah.   James: What do you guys think that, I don't know, this is my experience that I see. I mean a lot of times you can put in Capex and all that, but I think the management itself, just managing it correctly, people are just so happy paying you 50 to $75 more   Jake: But you're talking about customer service then.    James: Yeah, customer service. Yeah, correct. I'm not saying that's the most valuable value add, but I'm just saying in terms of...   Jake: I'll say it. Listen, if you come in and you say it's a pleasure to see you, it's a pleasure to serve you. How may I help you? What can we do to make your unit better? We have this unit today. We're gonna treat you like gold. I'll take that over the new paint.   Gino: Jake also, the other thing is when they call for a maintenance request, don't want to wait six days for hot water heater, you have to get to them.    Jake: You're not going back to the hot water heater on me again; are you? Comeon man.   Gino: I love the hot water heater in my house the other day. 44:20crosstalk] We took over the third property. I remember I was in the restaurant and Jake is sending emails, we're turning units. And we had a client come in and started crying cause we've fixed the stove. He didn't have his stove for how long Jake? It was just like the silliest thing in the world. I mean come on. So, I mean, the customer service is really, when you get a maintenance request, send out the maintenance tech and get it done. You know, that's simple.   James: Yeah. It's just amazing on you to just take care of the tenants or the residents and they are so happy to pay you so much money compared to, why didn't a new ceiling fan you? I mean that's all secondary for me. So it looks like we share the same concept as well. So, let's go back to a bit more personal stuff flow. Maybe, one by one, right? Why do you guys do what you're doing?   Jake: Yeah, I'll get into that. It literally is about control and freedom for me. I am responsible for myself and my family and I was not in a position of control or a position where my family's life was secure. It was in the hands of others and I did not feel good about that. I, ultimately at the end of the day, am responsible for everything that comes into my environment and I need to handle that. Multifamily gave me an opportunity to take control of my destiny. And you know, by adding value to others, I was able to in return receive value. And it's been a phenomenal thing for me because I don't want to be, you know, dependent on Wall Street. I don't want to be dependent on a CEOs decisions. I have a lot of faith and confidence in myself and Gino and I know if we do the right thing it'll come back to us. And again, it's something that I don't ever want to be in a position where my family is worried about, you know, where's their next meal gonna come from. Great thing about all this is we've created abundance in our lives.   And you know, we started something called Ran Carriers last year and we were able to actually feed 10,000 kids for Thanksgiving. And so, you know, we'll see if we can match that or do about 15 this year, Gino. And so it's when you bring abundance into your life, you can't help someone else if you don't have the means to do it. So by us driving the ship, we've been able to create abundance. We've been able to create good homes for folks and we've been able to give back. So it's been pretty special.   James: Awesome. What about you, Gino, why do you do what you do?    Gino: I wouldn't  know what to do if I didn't know what I wasdoing right now. I mean, honestly, I'm pretty much financially secure. If I didn't have Jake and Gino, I could just probably live off of the draws of the property. But that gets to be a little boring after a while. So I'm doing what I really like. I mean, the education, growing a business, I always wanted to grow a business from the ground up. I was wanting to help people out by buying properties and by coaching them in motivating and inspiring them. And if I can monetize on that, it's a home run for me. So I enjoy what I'm doing right now. I mean it took me a long time to figure out, and it's funny cause I feel sad for kids coming out of college. What do you want to do when you get older? If you're an adult and you figure it out by the time you're an adult, you're a little lucky. Most adults can't even figure that out.    So Jake talks about it, you know, don't follow your passion. I mean sometimes if you're passionate about opening a restaurant and that's what you want to do, but sometimes it turns into a job. So you just be careful. You know, if you're lucky enough to become financially free and then figure out what you want to do and do something that you love, I think that's like the most important thing in the world for me.   Jake: He's been humbled right now. The G dad is a giver. He likes helping people and you know, not for nothing. The education has allowed people to buy over 3000 apartment units. And I know that's what Gino gets excited about. You know, it's helping other people and, and it's that giving back piece because it's a tremendous community that we have. And the folks inside the community are all like-minded, hardworking individuals. And I think it's because of the, you know, the sort of persona that we give off and we tell people about the values and necessarily what we're about and people are connecting, they're converting and it's been amazing to watch. And they'll get inside the private Facebook group, Hey, we just knocked out a hundred units today and then everyone gets on and start congratulating, how'd you do it? Let's hear about the deal. And it's become great networking. We'd love to see the continued success.   Gino: The phone calls that you get and the 48:42unclear]  year-round. When a student says, I just left my job, or I'm leaving New York and I'm moving somewhere else. That's really worth a lot, man. Because when you get those emails saying, Hey, you know, you've changed my life. There's something that, you know, you can't replace that; that's something that you can't put a dollar amount on, cause you're helping others and you change somebody's life and you change someone's family's life. And that multiplies in effects of people that they know. So that's really cool. That's one of the cool things about education.   James: Yeah, that's one thing that you bring to your end days, right? So it's not about the money. I mean, you usually forget how much you've made, but the appreciation that people have shown you for you're helping them, it speaks. Second personal question. I mean, this is probably, each one of you can answer it. Maybe you can combine together. Is there a proud moment in your life that you think you will never forget, that that moment really impacted you then and you are really, really proud of that moment and you want to tell their stories to your grandkids?   Jake: Yeah, I got one. I got one coming up now. And it's not about myself. It has to do with Gino as well. We were at the event last year, we had a phenomenal event in Nashville, you know, and Gino calls them the 'do rules'. We had over 500 people there, whatever. And it was all about multifamily for two days and just great speakers. It's our annual event, multifamily mastery. And that it wasn't necessarily anything other than it created an opportunity for my daughter. And she went out there and Gino's kids were there and they were learning business and we had some fun shirts that said like Jake and Gino are multifamily masters or something. But my daughter at the time was three years old, she went out and started networking with people and she actually sold a shirt for like 15 or 20 bucks and then she came over and she was so proud. She hugged me and told me about it and I was able to announce it to the whole room and the whole room like erupted because it was just, you know, it's this little girl going out there and then she was making it happen. So I'll never forget that. And it just is, you know, because of the community that it created that moment for me. So that was very special to me.    Gino: So we'll leave it at that cause I've got so many stories, but that's one story.    James: Take one story.   Gino: I mean one of my proud moments March 1st, 2016 when I left the restaurant and it wasn't because I was leaving a bad situation. It was finally saying to myself that I achieved something that I had been working for forever. I finally was saying to myself, I don't have to do that anymore. I have been there doing it for 20 years, over 20 years, locked in the same job and if I can change after 20 years and having those limiting beliefs and being able to grow and do something different, I think I just wanted to inspire other people that do that. So that was really a proud moment in my life.   James: Awesome. Awesome. We're at the end of the show, why not you guys tell the audience and listeners about how to get in touch with you guys?   Gino: He's the sales guy, so I'll let him shoot.   Jake: Listen, if you can't find this, we're not doing our job very well, but it's really simple. Jakeandgino.com, ranpartnersllc.com if you're looking to invest or rancapllc.com if you're looking into the debt side of things   Gino: and please subscribe to the podcast. We have the number one multifamily podcast on iTunes called Wheelbarrow Profits. We have four shows now. I've actually launched the show with my wife called Multifamily Zone. We have the Movers and Shakers podcast, which highlights a student's success every week. And then we have the Rand Partners podcast on syndication. So we're doing shows, we like going out there as part of our fashion.   Jake: Hold on, Gino, there's more. We're going to give a teaser. So we had the best selling book, Wheelbarrow Profits on Amazon and we're phoning it up this year, right? We've got the honey bee coming out in October. We put a lot of work into this thing. It is a phenomenal book. And it tells a great story and this is not your traditional business book. Gino give a little bit more on that. What would you say about the honeybee?    Gino: It's a parable basically about a gentleman who's frustrated, is very similar to Jake's story. Going around, has a boss, hates his job, and then just stumbles upon an older man who's willing to mentor him and find out that, you know what, there's more to it. How do you have all this? The analogy of a river with little tributaries growing into a big Russian river and it's all about creating multiple streams of income, starting small and making the stakes, and then all of a sudden, five years later, you've created something really great. So we just wanted to translate our success and just have people open up to the idea of that you can start small but create those businesses and then from one little stream of revenue, you can end up having four and five like you do James. And like we do.    Jake: And I'll just leave with this because the one thing that I really picked up from Gino early on in our investing career was to get rid of limiting beliefs. I know it's like a big Tony Robbins thing as well, and people talk about this, but it's so impactful because you know, you'll sit there and say, Oh, I can't do that. Well, you're right, if that's the way you're going to think about it, you're right. I grew up in a super small town on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere. And that's the truth. And you know, we've been able to grow this business to, you know, over a hundred million in assets and you know, created financial freedom and generational wealth for our families. So there was, you know, literally in the town that I grew up in, you could work at the school, there was a factory that made chairs and you know, my family was like, well, maybe you should be a cop... Gino:  Or a gym teacher.  Jake:  You know, I literally went to school to be a gym teacher because I played sports and that's all I knew. So don't limit yourself because look, multifamily is not rocket science. It really isn't. Get educated. I always say education times action equals results. It's possible for anyone out there to do it, especially a pizza guy and a job rep were able to do it.  James: Yeah, I always tell people, if you think there's no deal out there, you are right. If you think there are deals out there, you're absolutely right too.   Gino: I love that.  James: It's that mindset that you have to get away from. Jake: Listen, look at the deals for two or three weeks and then having them not pencil out, it can be very discouraging. Try two years. That's how long it took this guy and I to get into our first deal. So yeah, I always say, you know, the best thing we ever did, we were pesky. We hung in there. We kept driving.  James: Exactly. All right guys, thanks for joining this podcast. You guys added tons of value and we're happy to have you share.  Gino: Thanks James.  Jake: Thanks James. 

Jake James is a former oxycontin addict who spent 7 years in prison for robbing a drug store with a syringe and attempting to commit suicide. Jake tells a couple terrifying prison stories and explains how reconnecting with his brother Luke, and being introduced to heavy metal music saved his life. Follow Jake - https://www.instagram.com/phlorida_man Follow Luke - https://www.instagram.com/juke_lames

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Friday Night Movie's adventures at Gamer Comic Expo continue! We get deep with cosplay celebrities J9Lives and GeekArtCosplay. We talk cosplay inspirations, fitness competitions, and what would happen if Wonder Woman had her own Office-style sitcom. Then we sit down with content creator and famed video game journalist, Jake James, to talk about what Hollywood has to do to finally get the video game-based movies right. Stay tuned for more Gamer Comic Expo interviews throughout the weekend!  --- Friday Night Movie host and filmmaker Becky Korman's short film Ataguttak the Hunter will be screening on November 13, 2019 at 5:00PM at Cinepolis Chelsea as part of the DOC NYC Film Festival. Get your tickets now!  Play along with Friday Night Movie at home! Read the FNM Glossary to learn the about our signature bits (e.g., Buy/Rent/Meh, I Told You Shows, Tradesies, etc.) and then head on over to our merch store your very own official FNM t-shirt.  Also, send us your recommendations and your tradesies! We'll watch them and report back on the show! Email us at pancake@pancake4table.com or tweet @FriNightMovie, @pancake4table, @chichiKgomez, and/or  @paperBKprincess.  Follow our creations and zany Instagram stories @frinightmovie and @pancake4table. Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for exclusive giveaways and news! Theme music by What Does It Eat.  Subscribe and leave a review on IOS or Android at www.fridaynightmoviepod.com.  Follow all of our pop culture shenanigans at www.pancake4table.com. 

It's Halloween, Jake & James have took it upon themselves to choose and discuss their favourite movie to watch on Halloween. They discuss horror classic The Shining that redefined the genre forever, Ghostbusters, a cult classic that combines spooks with comedy, and... Troll 2  Comment down below and let us know your favourite Halloween flick!

This week Jake & James are doing " 2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003) Discussing the lack of Vin Diesel, instantly forgettable bad guys, generic Hispanic henchmen, and Eva Mendez as the shoe horned in sexy sidekick / undercover cop. Join Do The Franchise as the Fast & Furious franchise reviews continue.

Lance Adams of The Deadbeats of Comedy is joined by Comedian and Radio Host, Jake James. They discuss their different writing methods, funny DJing stories, a childhood movie mix up, and of course, The Five to Drive.

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Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1.  This week Jake & James discuss magic glowing cats, Ron's inability to stop leaks, and how to appropriately bury dead house elves.  Hope you all enjoy, please subscribe, comment and follow the team on Twitter @Dothefranchise. 

Street Fighter is in the house today! Dem Bois™ enlist the help of Knoxville radio DJ extraordinaire (and good friend of the network) Jake James to solve the mystery of the Bed of House Bingy, to help Chase figure out how to talk to women, and to help Tre leave a house full of family members of the lady that just took him home the night before.

This is the fourth episode in our "Rivers on the Road" series in which Rivers Langley drives all over hell and creation doing stand-up and catching up with old friends along the way. Today he's just outside of Knoxville on a back porch in Farragut, TN talking with close buddy and past guest of the show, D.J. Lewis and new pal, comedian and radio disc jockey Jake James. This episode is all about the people (and sometimes sex cults) that own mysterious castles in the Georgia woods. We also talk about D.J.'s new charity and that damn Flat Earth movie.  Follow D.J. on Instagram @DasRebelYell and on Twitter @GutterBumpkin.  Follow the show @TheGoodsPod and find out where Rivers will be next on Twitter @RiversLangley. Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at:  http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. This time round Jake & James are discussing pink teachers who just want to teach classes. Dogs who are also God parents, and James makes a startling comparison between Harry Potter & the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Enjoy!

In this whirlwind of an episode DJ Lewis takes over to tell us about refereeing a fight at a rap show, his new juvenile art program (Y.A.L.L.) and watching a homeless man diaper a baby goat that was shitting all over the inside of an activity center. Lord god it's a doozy. Click here to message DJ Lewis for more information on Y.A.L.L. wellredcomedy.com for tickets

Welcome to Green On The Go — the sustainable travel podcast brought to you by Holiday Extras. This week, India sits down with our colleague and travel guide presenter - Jake James. Last year, Jake was set the ambitious challenge of travelling from the UK to Rotterdam without using any single-use plastic, and in this episode he reveals his insider secrets of how you can do the same. You can watch Jake's experience in Rotterdam here: https://youtu.be/Q2ezwwO-GSg ………………………… What is Green On The Go? Every month, we'll bring you the latest news, tips and trends to help you travel more sustainably and with less plastics. We'll also feature interviews from industry experts from around the world, who will share their wisdom to help you to stay green on the go.

The guests of Hotel California are joined by Aaron Chasteen to discuss The Roast of Jake James, Time Travel, and CP Bingy.

Episode 211 LIVE From The Armory Wrestling Show This week on the show we welcome back Jake James!! We spoke with Jake a couple of years ago before a nagging injury left him out of wrestling for almost a year, but in that time he's been on WWE programming, began his own foray into promoting, and is his model of networking with young professionals the new age of wrestling sponsorship? We catch up with Jake on this fun episode!! Plus the weeks news, upcoming events, and more! Recorded LIVE on Blog Talk Radio Wednesday Nights 7pm EST Streamed Worldwide On: www.fnx.network We are on iTunes We are on Stitcher We are on YouTube Follow Us On Twitter @FromTheArmory Please Visit: www.topropebelts.com Please Visit: www.turnbucklecupcakes.storenvy.com We Support IGNITE Advocacy

Title: Blacksmithing is awesome! Guests: Jake James (www.jakejames.ca) Sponsors: Ball and Chain Forge (www.ballandchainforge.com) Summary: We talk with Jake James about his blacksmithing and sculpture Drinks: You Brew Pale Ale Long Trail Citrus IPA West Sixth Amber Ale Duration: 58 minutes 

John Erianne from Sunset Forge has gifted the Blacksmith's Pub podcast a 3.25 rounding hammer to support the podcast by giving it away through a raffle on Instagram.  Go to @theblacksmithspubpodcast on Instagram for details of the hammer giveaway.   Guests: Eve McClanahan (@eve_mcclanahan on Instagram) Sponsors: None Summary: We talk with Eve McClanahan about her smithing, dance school, and chickens.  We also chat a little about the Jake James workshop where we all met. John Erianne (@sunsetforgenj) also popped in with some kind words for us and a donation. Drinks: Tea and Coffee Names dropped: Jake James (www.jakejames.ca) Center for Metal Arts (www.centerformetalarts.com) Luke Proctor (www.lproctorironworks.com) Kevin Stanford (@kevzb7 on Instagram) Stuart Shirley (@smithinstu on Instagram) Victoria Patti (www.ironfusiondesign.com and www.theburnnetwork.com) Links: None Duration: 50 minutes 

Patrick Quinn is a full-time blacksmith in Florida, New York.  He graduated with honors in sculpture from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University continued his education with Southern Illinois University to pursue his masters.  He is now a teacher at the Center for Metals Arts. What We Talked About While completing his bachelor’s degree at Alfred university he focused in fabrication of sheet metal work and hollow forms. When Patrick graduated he moved to Vermont for a job at a production forge company as a welder, but the company only had an opening for a blacksmith to mainly work on the power hammer and hydraulic bending machines pumping out production pieces, so he was hired for that position. While Patrick was working at the production forge he rented a local barn to have his own studio space to practice his hand forging. Eventually, he quit his job and ran his own blacksmith business in Vermont for a few years. This led him to some big stainless steel jobs to complete in NYC during the winters.  This allowed him to live in Vermont in the summertime to work on his portfolio. In 2011, he applied to a graduate program at Southern Illinois University, a 3-year program. He now works for the Center for Metal Arts as the blacksmith program director and class instructor. The school is in Florida, New York an hour north of New York City. The school offers 1 to 4-day classes for all levels of blacksmithing, as well as silver soldering, enameling, and jewelry making. While most of the classes he teaches are on the weekends, he uses the weekdays to make private commissioned work. Most of the commissions are architectural in nature, and he will add his sculptural designs to them. Patrick will be part of the 2016 ABANA conference demonstrations, he is one of the team of 12 working with Jake James on a collaborative sculpture. The school’s shop consists of milling machine, a lathe, 5 welding machines, bandsaws, platen and fabrication layout tables, 3 power hammers, 8 forging stations complete with anvils, forges, and hand tools. Patrick likes to read books that are technique based for forging, open die forging, tool making and older books about crafts. When asked who would he spend a day with learning from – he answered to work with the guys at the Hay Budden Anvil making shop in Brooklyn in the early 1900’s. Guest Links Patrick’s website - http://www.patrickjquinn.com/ The Center for Metal Arts website - http://www.centerformetalarts.com/  A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – The Center for Metal Arts   If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by: telling your friends. sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below. subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q subscribing to the show in Stitcher, http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&refid=stpr Thanks so much for your support!

Jake James is a British-born blacksmith and operates his business out of his forge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has training from the Hereford College of the Arts in England and also apprenticed with Richard Bent for 3 years.  He is one of the demonstrators at this year’s ABANA conference in Salt Lake City Utah.  What We Talked About Jake “stumbled” into blacksmithing early on in his life and was encouraged to attend the Hereford College of the Arts. At Hereford he took extensive classes in the blacksmithing program for one year.  During the Easter Holiday students were encouraged to entre a “work placement” program, Jake was placed in Richard Bent’s workshop.  From there he was then was immediately hired as an apprentice by Richard Bent. Richard taught Jake how to free up his design work and invested a great deal of time and effort into Jakes training. Richard had a saying “There are no mistakes only opportunities” and it’s one of statements that has stuck with Jake through his designing. After spending 3 years at Richard’s shop Jake felt he needed to go find his own design path. He ended up traveling to Sri Lanka and working with low tech blacksmiths making plow shears and farming equipment.  He eventually ended up in Canada and met his wife in a pub one night in Vancouver, and there he stayed! His blacksmith business has been open since 2005 and he has been able to provide for his family of three kids and his wife. He would like to start a product line and specialize in gates and entry ways, though he takes anything that comes through the door. While Jake has a gallery upstairs in his shop for the public to see, he doesn’t advertise that it’s there and open because it’s hard to work on commissions while customers are perusing. Jake’s shop is outside of Victoria, near Vancouver. He has a fabrication area in his shop with a welder, drill press, band saw and a concrete floor.  He also has a dirt floor space that it his forging area, complete with two anvils, one power hammer, a flypress, 3 gas forges and a coal forge.  He has just bought a Massey 300 Clear Space power hammer which is the “Rolls Royce of power hammers”! Jake also teaches classes out of his workshop, his future plans are to offer corporate event weekends for a team building experience. Offering an opportunity for a team of 5 or 6 tome spend 3 to 7 days with Jake making a sculpture they can take back to the office. The Center of Metal arts hired Jake to come and teach a week long class on designing and forging a collaborative sculpture last year in 2015. Eighteen smiths showed up for the class and they made a “Bacchus” with a theme of wine. Something that Jake uses as a design premise is; “Texture should come as a result of generating form”. His design shapes are deeply textured during the forging process, this makes his artistic signature easily recognizable. This year’s ABANA conference is in Salt Lake City and Jake will be there demonstrating with a team of 12 hand-picked smiths making a collaborative sculpture. There are some very talented young smiths that are proving their mettle. Jake thinks there is room for the craft to grow more in the future, the younger generation smiths don’t have to re-invent or revive the craft as ABANA or BABA did in the 70’s, the younger smiths will take it and expand on it. Guest Links Jake’s Website - http://www.jakejames.ca/the-blacksmith/ Jake’s Etsy page - https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/JakeJamesBlacksmith Jake’s Houzz.com page - http://www.houzz.com/pro/jake-james/jake-james-artist-blacksmith A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – www.ABANA.org If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by: telling your friends. sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below. subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q subscribing to the show in Stitcher, http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&refid=stpr Thanks so much for your support!