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Would you buy 6 top-performing Italian franchise restaurants spread across rural West Texas?Sponsors:This episode is sponsored by Capital Pad – a game-changing platform that connects acquisition entrepreneurs with investors and capital. Whether you're buying or funding a deal, visit https://www.capitalpad.com and tell them Acquanon sent you.Thanks also to Edler Zain, the CPA firm built for entrepreneurs. From QofEs to full-service CFO support, get the Builders Package at https://www.edlerzain.com – and mention Acquanon!In this episode of Acquisitions Anonymous, the full panel—Mills, Bill, Michael, and Heather—dives into a listing for six Fazoli's franchise locations scattered across Abilene, Midland-Odessa, and Lubbock, Texas. With over $13M in revenue and $1.1M in EBITDA, the team breaks down the dynamics of buying a foodservice business in rural America. They explore the challenges of multi-location management in a geographically spread market, the hidden costs of restaurant leases, CapEx requirements, and why existing franchisees might be passing on the deal. From franchising quirks to fast-casual Italian economics, it's a meaty one—hold the marinara.Breakdown of a $5M asking price on $1.1M EBITDAFranchising dynamics: Why aren't existing franchisees buying this?Real estate challenges: 6 locations, none of the real estate includedCapEx cycles in restaurants and why “no CapEx required” might be misleadingGeographic dispersion: Managing 6 locations spread across West TexasWho the ideal buyer is—and why it's probably not youSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking here Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations. For inquiries or suggestions, email us at contact@acquanon.com

Would you buy 6 top-performing Italian franchise restaurants spread across rural West Texas?Sponsors:This episode is sponsored by Capital Pad – a game-changing platform that connects acquisition entrepreneurs with investors and capital. Whether you're buying or funding a deal, visit https://www.capitalpad.com and tell them Acquanon sent you.Thanks also to Edler Zain, the CPA firm built for entrepreneurs. From QofEs to full-service CFO support, get the Builders Package at https://www.edlerzain.com – and mention Acquanon!In this episode of Acquisitions Anonymous, the full panel—Mills, Bill, Michael, and Heather—dives into a listing for six Fazoli's franchise locations scattered across Abilene, Midland-Odessa, and Lubbock, Texas. With over $13M in revenue and $1.1M in EBITDA, the team breaks down the dynamics of buying a foodservice business in rural America. They explore the challenges of multi-location management in a geographically spread market, the hidden costs of restaurant leases, CapEx requirements, and why existing franchisees might be passing on the deal. From franchising quirks to fast-casual Italian economics, it's a meaty one—hold the marinara.Breakdown of a $5M asking price on $1.1M EBITDAFranchising dynamics: Why aren't existing franchisees buying this?Real estate challenges: 6 locations, none of the real estate includedCapEx cycles in restaurants and why “no CapEx required” might be misleadingGeographic dispersion: Managing 6 locations spread across West TexasWho the ideal buyer is—and why it's probably not youSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking here Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations. For inquiries or suggestions, email us at contact@acquanon.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump will be in the Midland/Odessa next week for a deep pockets fundraiser and many other stories from the campaign stack.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.After saving Lubbock County taxpayers from a big tax increase, commissioners Corley and Rackler have to deal with petty political retribution from Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, lameduck Kovar, and admitted Democrat Flores. Commissioner “No Tax Increase” Corley tells us about it.Appeals court turns down A.G. Paxton's lawsuit over licensed concealed carry at the State Fair of Texas. Frankly, this is an issue for legislators next session and it's time once again for them to prove their Second Amendment loyalty by eliminating most of the remaining restrictions to personal safety.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

Lords: * Erica * Casey Topics: * Isn't it great to have a coelom? * Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem * Mammals learning to eat cephalopods * https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/ * A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson * https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/ * Personal project retrospectives Microtopics: * That thing you just heard. * Assigning your new hire an office. * Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas. * The Topic Lords Promise. * A bag that your organs sit in. * Undifferentiated tissues. * How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm. * Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen. * Organisms with high diseectability. * The anti-coelom lobby. * Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression. * The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to. * Fluid things going on in the organism. * A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem. * Good car ideas. * A bad thing happening but it's not your fault. * Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online. * Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house. * Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs. * Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag. * The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about. * Serial Podcast Monogamy. * Podcast guilt. * Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness. * Non-Stop Coelom Celebration. * My own very special walking bag of guts. * Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell. * Losing your baby lips. * What it's like to eat a planarian. * Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals. * The giant squid that have never been seen alive. * The colossal squid vs. the giant squid. * Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest. * Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall. * Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea. * Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid. * Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak. * Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading. * Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both. * It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre! * A polysexual attitude towards nature. * Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme. * Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia. * Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong. * Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing. * Befunge. * Clojure and other Lisps. * Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better. * A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game. * Fine-grained tactical mistakes. * Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game. * The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world. * Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship. * Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for. * Modern Jim-Style Content. * Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you. * A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback." * The George W. Bush childhood home. * A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave. * The ethic of owning a shotgun. * The last of the Midland Odessa complaining. * Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns. * An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories. * The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial. * A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis. * Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough. * An assassin of federal judges.

In episode 92 the show starts off with Damien recapping his week, which includes a new Taylor Swift album, moving, and turning 27. Courtney doesn't have a weekly recap but what's “on his mind” is a big one, the state of education in Midland/Odessa is, bleak. The Millennial Moment focuses on the 1996-1999 crowds inability to start and maintain relationships.

Wall, Mason, Sonora, and Miles advance. Midland/Odessa schools defeat El Paso rivals. Who won and who each team is playing next. Scores, analysis, highlights, and coaches interviews from Friday night, Nov. 10, 2023, after the first round of UIL State Championship playoffs were played with Matt Trammell, Ryan Chadwick, Matt Cutrer, and James Bouligny.

”Your purpose will have passion but not every passion will have purpose!” -Kevin Dawson, founder of Maybe in Midland/Odessa    In today's episode of the Krista Escamilla Show we visit with community leader and influencer Kevin Dawson.   What a treat to visit with Kevin about his leadership role in our community!  He shares three tips on how you can become a great leader.   Kevin also drops a few hints of the new businesses coming to Midland/Odessa.   If you love quotes like I do you will really enjoy this convention and leave inspired to make all your Dreams come true!   A special thank you to our sponsors Kevin Foreman Financial, Tapestry Hotel Midland, Rig-ID, Midland Cap Co. , www.joincapclub.com and  Www.thinFR.com     LINKS TO THE KRISTA ESCAMILLA SHOW:   Thanks for hitting the subscribe button and sharing our show with someone you love   Apple:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-krista-escamilla-show/id1617347165?i=1000628717129   YouTube:   https://youtu.be/lS925SE_KJI?si=3TYm9K7-Rr-HENsS   Spotify:   https://spotify.link/k8yZPa3jhDb     Please follow @kristaescamilla on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook for daily motivation!       Dream Big~Believe~Never Give up YOU make it a great day     #believe #dreambig #nevergiveup#happyeverything #thekristaescamillashow #lookforthegood #permianbasin #westtexas #leadership #communityovercompetition #helpothers #shareyourgifts #giveback 

If you have worked in nonprofits in Midland-Odessa, you've likely met this episodes' guest along the way. Joining MSS Executive Director and Host, Autumn Vest in the Recording Library of West Texas Studio is Kay Crites, the soon to be retired executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Permian Basin. MSS is proud to be a partner with Pioneer Natural Resources. With Pioneer's partnership, we are working to create impact in our nonprofit community with programs like State of the Nonprofits, IT Services and more.   "State of the Nonprofits" is a program of MSS produced in partnership with the Recording Library of West Texas. 

In this episode, we delve into the dynamic world of real estate with the remarkable mother-daughter duo, Jeaneen and Amber Pruitt of the Jeaneen Pruitt Team. Jeaneen, with over two decades of experience, is the team's proud owner, and Amber, an accomplished real estate agent, brings her unique insights to the table. This dynamic duo provides five-star service to the Midland-Odessa area, placing a high emphasis on personalized customer service and forming lasting relationships with their clients. In this episode, they share their deep understanding of the local real estate market. The market experienced a buyer strike in the fourth quarter, leading to a decrease in sales and a stable inventory. Currently, there are 431 active listings in Midland, Texas, resulting in 3.1 months of inventory. However, buyers are gradually returning, intensifying competition. They discuss the pros and cons of living in Midland, highlighting the welcoming community and opportunities for high-paying jobs, while also acknowledging challenges like service quality and unpredictable weather. Amber and Jeaneen also open up about their experience working together as a mother-daughter team, valuing their shared history, effective communication, and maintaining professionalism even amidst personal disagreements. They provide an insightful look at the daily life of a real estate agent, highlighting the importance of flexibility, adaptability, prompt client communication, and the reality that success in real estate requires more than attending events and maintaining a public image. They touch upon industry statistics, mentioning that while the median home prices in Midland are around $374,000, the average sales price for their team is $423,000. They also note that while the top 20% of agents do most of the business, the average agent sells only four to five homes per year. For new agents, they recommend finding good mentors, learning the basics, and understanding that building relationships, serving clients, and honing negotiation skills are critical for long-term success. In an era of social media and instant gratification, they highlight the importance of standing out by providing real expertise and value. They believe that indicators of an agent's success go beyond social media followers, focusing more on the scale of homes sold, bank account, and volume of sales. Looking ahead, they share their goals for continued growth, providing a higher level of service, and staying up-to-date with changing consumer needs. They intend to maintain their team's high level of expertise and might consider adding a few agents in the future, always prioritizing quality over volume. This episode is packed with valuable insights, whether you're considering a career in real estate or looking to buy or sell a home in Midland. Tune in for an enlightening conversation about the real estate market and the journey of the Jeaneen Pruitt Team. Don't forget to subscribe and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest episodes. Your likes, shares, and comments help us to continue providing quality content. See you in the next episode! #MidlandTexas #RealEstate #JeaneenPruittTeam #Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestofmidlandtx/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestofmidlandtx/support

The NPSL returns to west Texas in the form of West Texas FCLead owners Melina and Jason Cannon drop by to talk about the return of the market to the league this summer and what the sport means to the Midland-Odessa region...

The NPSL returns to west Texas in the form of West Texas FC Lead owners Melina and Jason Cannon drop by to talk about the return of the market to the league this summer and what the sport means to the Midland-Odessa region...

This week we have the pleasure of interviewing the Franchise Owner of Rhea Lana's Midland/Odessa, Natalie Nolen! Rhea Lana's is a childrens consignment event with over 100 franchises in 24 states. We have shopped Rhea Lana's since Natalie brought the sale to our town! Even if you are not local to us, you will find so much valuable information that Natalie has to offer, so check their website and find a sale near you! As always, thanks for listening and don't forget to rate our podcast 5 stars and leave us a review! We love each and every one of you!  FOLLOW & CONNECT WITH RHEA LANA'S MIDLAND WEBSITE: https://midlandodessa.rhealana.com FIND A RL NEAR YOU: https://midlandodessa.rhealana.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/rhealanasofmidlandodessa/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/rhealanamidland   FOLLOW US: INSTAGRAM: Podcast- https://www.instagram.com/whatthemotherpodcast/ Taylor- https://www.instagram.com/taylorjfoos/ Megan- https://www.instagram.com/freesethemrs/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/whatthemotherpodcast/?view_public_for=105167887743605Check

In episode 10 of wait,WHAT!? Damien and Courtney are joined by the one, the only, the famous and fabulous: Chef Willie. This episode is a chaotic one, featuring stories, laughs and dad jokes from Willies time both in Midland/Odessa for Basin Pride and his time on Master Chef both past and present. The show as always, ends with recommendations from the 2 boys and their guest.

ARCHIVE (11/08/04, episodes 80-81) Jesse Lee Peterson interviews Pastor Leonard Cotten of Calvary Chapel of Midland/Odessa, Texas. They discuss how to recognize preachers who are not called by God, the push for women to become "pastors," and wives not submitting to husbands. Jesse has a great conversation with Pastor Cotten about thoughts, how people are plagued by thoughts — yet they are not responsible for creating those thoughts! They also talk about the need for white Christians to tell blacks the truth. Very interesting pair of episodes from God's Learning Channel! (Runtime: 55 mins) TIME STAMPS 00:00 Ep. 80: JLP on GLC 01:13 Leonard Cotten: Called by God? 04:17 Listening to preachers at a building 05:04 Women taking over 12:57 Most men are weak 14:45 Born again: Still sin? 16:24 Do you create thoughts? 19:59 Tormented by thoughts 22:02 White preachers fear blacks 25:05 Jesse Jackson: Good or evil? 27:25 Ep. 81: Leonard Cotten 28:18 What is a real man? Know any? 29:47 Woman submits if man follows Christ 34:31 God loves us as we are, as sinners? 37:28 How to accept Jesus? 38:57 Spiritual battle: Call out evil? 41:10 Abortion, babies out-of-wedlock 43:10 Democrat platform: Evil 45:15 How to know you need to be saved? 47:25 Children closer to mothers 49:18 About Calvary Chapel 51:25 Bill Clinton, Al Sharpton, good or evil? 52:59 Closing: Accept Jesus 54:01 Support BOND Jesse Lee Peterson hosted a show and made numerous appearances on God's Learning Channel between late 2002 and late 2005. SEE MORE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpSkvyhrlXraijfb60xKna4tkPMp4ScOJ

Episode #64. I am thrilled to have Shannon Murray on the podcast today. Shannon Murray is a reporter and anchor for Fox 4's morning show Good Day. She grew up in the Dallas area and went to Duncanville High School. She then graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Her career has taken her from Los Angeles to Midland/Odessa, back to Austin and now, finally, home in Dallas. Outside of work, you may catch her running on a trail around town or at a dog park with her blind rescue dog, Boo Boo. Shannon volunteers as a coach for Girls on the Run DFW and serves on the Healthy Living Community Advisory Board for YMCA Dallas. You can watch her weekday mornings from 4-10 am on Good Day. I loved this conversation so much. In today's episode, we talk about her journey to her work today, how to be bold and let other people know about our goals, the power of networking, and how comparison can steal our joy. I felt so motivated after this conversation. I can't wait for you to listen! Connect with Shannon: Instagram Connect with Lupe: Website Instagram

This is PART 1: "Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas's Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can't quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice president of communications at the Foundation for six years. His other experience includes an independent media consultancy, a consultancy at Booz Allen Hamilton, vice president of policy at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, service as both a speechwriter and an international-health professional in the administration of George W. Bush, and a United States Army officer.www.PrattonTexas.com

This is PART 2: "Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas's Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can't quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice president of communications at the Foundation for six years. His other experience includes an independent media consultancy, a consultancy at Booz Allen Hamilton, vice president of policy at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, service as both a speechwriter and an international-health professional in the administration of George W. Bush, and a United States Army officer.www.PrattonTexas.com

Leslie Wehmeyer of Floresville has one heck of a story to share! Not only has Leslie recently discovered that he is one of 11 siblings — his newfound brother, Dennis Helms, provided him with a stem cell donation that saved his life! It all started about 55 years ago, when Lester and Jannette “Peanut” Wehmeyer adopted Leslie through an agency in the Midland/Odessa area; Leslie was an infant at the time. His parents were blessed to raise him, as they could not have children of their own. The Wehmeyers raised their son in Stockdale; he graduated from Stockdale High School...Article Link

Ben Samuels - CEO of Sourcerock Midstream recently came onto the podcast to talk about his passion for philanthropy and some of the causes he is involved in, including Sky High for Kids, a non-profit focused on raising money for leading hospitals and research centers in their quest to end childhood cancer. If you live in the Midland/Odessa area, be sure to check out their upcoming 2021 Permian Basin Banquet & Sporting Clay Tournament that is taking place September 17-18. To get registered for a ticket, please visit https://skyhigh.salsalabs.org/2021permian/index.html.

Derrick Clark, president, Epic Site Solutions and Membership Chair, Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Clark gives an update from the Permian Basin as well as an overview of the vibe in Midland Odessa. The Permian Basin Cook Off was moved from Saturday to Thursday March 11 and Clark lists the [...]

The Texas Department of Transportation recently released data showing an increase in traffic fatalities and crashes in the oil rich areas of Texas. South of San Antonio and out in West Texas are areas with large oil and gas stores. That has lead to more traffic and more crashes. Transcript: Oilfield Injury Attorney Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis. [music] I think it's fair to say that no matter where you live in the state of Texas, you know that Texas is associated with oil and gas production. I came from a town called Burkeburnett, Texas. It was known as boom town and there was actually a movie with Clark Gable named Boom Town about Texas' oil production. Everybody's heard about Spindletop. The movie Giant spends a long time discussing our Texas moved from cattle ranch and farms to oil and gas. The movie There Will Be Blood. The TV show, Dallas, Texas' oil and gas is as any other state in the union and probably the most of all States. With that being said, Texas is in a new peak of oil and gas production. In 2017 Texas oil production exceeded the peak of oil production that Texas on 1972 and then they beat that production in '18 and '19. Without a doubt, Texas is going through a huge renaissance or revitalization of oil and gas production in the state of Texas. A lot of that has to do with the technology advances and fracking or hydraulic fracturing and finding new energy plays in the Barnett shale, the Eagle Ford shale, the Granite Wash, the Hainesville and Bowser shell and the Permian basin and the Wolf camp and you could go on and on about all these new areas where oil and gas companies have found essentially oceans of oil under the ground. What that means is there's a lot of oil production, meaning there's a lot of people working in the oil and gas industry and there's a lot of people working in the sectors that support the oil and gas industry. In San Antonio, for example, there's a lot of people that work in industries that support either the Permian basin or the Barnett shale and that can range from delivering water to taking wastewater, to loading mining and delivering sand to building pad sites and to actually be in a roughneck out in the oil patch, either as a driller or in a frack crew or any of the other areas that are supporting the oil and gas production in the state. That also trickles down to just regular jobs like gas station workers, grocery store workers, the HEB in Karnes City or outside of Kennedy was seeking people to work and were paying high wages because they could not get workers because workers were going to the oil and gas industry. This also means that a lot of people are on the roads in communities that aren't used to that. The traffic in the Midland Odessa area and the Permian basin area in the Barnett shale, is in numbers unseen before. A lot of that traffic is 18-wheeler traffic and commercial motor vehicle traffic. What we found is that traffic crashes in these energy producing areas have increased just substantially. For example, in 2019 TxDOT said there was over 205,000 crashes in counties defined as the Texas energy sector and that's defined by the Texas Railroad Commission and it includes large portions of West Texas, South Texas and some metropolitan areas or edges of metropolitan areas like Dallas and Fort Worth and even El Paso. The number of crashes represents an approximately 3% increase from the year before and these crashes led to almost 1700 fatalities. Now we personally have worked on a lot of these cases and a lot of them involve unqualified drivers or drivers over hours. A lot of them involved distracted drivers driving 18-wheelers, 80,000-pound vehicles and...

President Trump arrived in the emerging coronavirus hotspot of Midland-Odessa this week to fundraise and lend his support to the struggling Texas oil and gas industry. But his visit was overshadowed by the fact that two Republicans, Rep. Louie Gohmet and congressional nominee from Houston Wesley Hunt, were diagnosed with Covid-19. Meantime, new Texas GOP Chairman Allen West welcomes the decision by comedian Joe Rogan to move to Texas from California because of "more freedom." Connect with Scott Braddock, editor of The Quorum Report and Houston Chronicle political writer Jeremy Wallace. Support the show: https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcast

The world may have changed since Danielle, Bryan, and the girls took their early February trip to Big Bend National Park in Texas, but hope for future family adventures springs eternal. With those eventual vacations in mind, Everybody’s National Parks presents the first episode in its Big Bend roundup. Painted landscapes, dark skies, and lessons in border policy await at the stunning junction where the US and Mexico meet. And this wouldn’t be a family trip roundup without eyewitness reports from Everybody’s National Parks junior ranger correspondents. Discussion includes the following: [00:01] Introduction to Big Bend podcast series. [01:14] Danielle & Bryan set the scene - with a little help from TripPossible: Big Bend National Park, ENP Yosemite National Park series, ENP Yosemite TripPossible episode [06:01] Know before you go: gateway cities El Paso, TX and Midland-Odessa, TX [07:50] Know before you go: car rental issues, Avis [08:40] Oil country: reflections on a drive through the permian basin [10:18] Know before you go: when and where to stock up on supplies Terlingua, Marathon, Marfa [11:23] Beautiful views and home base options: Chisos Mountains Lodge, Chisos Basin Campground, Chisos Mountains Lodge Restaurant & Patio DAY 1 [13:08] West Side: Chisos Mountains Visitor Center, ranger programs, Fossil Discovery Center [15:22] Touching extinction: K-Pg Boundary site [16:22] East Side: Rio Grande Overlook, Rio Grande Visitor Center Rio Grande Village Nature Trail [17:18] Know before you go: Boquillas, Mexico border crossing [20:51] Boquillas Canyon Trail [22:02] Nightcap: Ending the day at Hot Springs Historic Trail DAY 2 [26:32] West Side explorations: Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Panther Junction Visitor Center [28:04] West Side highlight: Santa Elena Canyon, Castolon Visitor Center, Cottonwood Campground, seeing prairie dog. [29:18] Desert hiking: Lower Burro Mesa Pour-off Trail [29:39] Day 2 activity run-down: Sam Nail Ranch, Sotol Vista Lookout, Mule Ears Spring Trail, Tuff Canyon, Castolon Visitor Center, Santa Elena Canyon [30:55] Bryan’s trip highlight: Santa Elena Canyon DAY 3 [32:40] Divide and conquer: Lost Mine Trail [34:06] Divide and conquer: Ranger tales [35:15] Window Trail, Chisos Basin campground [35:59] Starry night cap: Night Sky program DAY 4 [38:32] One last hike: Grapevine Hills Trail to Balanced Rock [39:20] Junior Ranger swearing in [39:36] Big Bend bucket list: Exploring the region’s Native American history, Persimmon Gap Visitor Center, The Comanche Trail, Empire Of The Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne [40:48] Junior Ranger report, part I: Bear facts, Night Sky review, Hot Springs Canyon Trail review, javelina facts [47:58] DIY joke: Royal dinos [48:52] Junior Ranger report part II: Lost Mine Trail review, palm tree fun fact, roadrunner fun fact [52:58] DIY quiz: Big Bend origins story [53:53] Ocean origins and lemurs [55:20] Night Sky review NOTE: DUE TO COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK WAS CLOSED AT TIME OF RECORDING THIS EPISODE. PLEASE CHECK NPS WEBSITE FOR UPDATES. Actions: Subscribe to our podcast. Tell your friends about Everybody’s National Parks Visit our website https://www.everybodysnationalparks.com/ Send us your national park stories, recommendations, comments, or questions to Hello at everybodysnps.com. Support us on Patreon Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Please tag us from the parks you are visiting at #everybodysnationalparks and @everybodysnationalparks

Elena Levario, a CPA with years of experience in the banking world, joined us for this episode of the Where Accountants Go podcast. We originally heard about Elena's inspiring story while attending a state CPA event, but we didn't know quite how inspirational it was until we had her join us for the program. Elena originally migrated to the United States from Mexico with her family at the age of 4.  She and her sister were the first in their family to graduate from high school, which was an accomplishment that was highly supported by their mother. Initially Elena actually wanted to be a nurse, and in fact has a degree in nursing.  However, she had to work while in college and during that time realized that she enjoyed business.  She remained at the bank where she worked while continuing her education for a second degree, this time in accounting.  That accounting degree ended up launching her into the career she has today, as an Assistant Controller with a well-respected bank in the Midland / Odessa area. If you have ever felt like you had a few life situations working against you, or that it was “too late” to pursue your dream, you need to listen to Elena's story.  You will find inspiration in the tale of how Elena's career has ended up unfolding. If you enjoy this episode, make sure you check out these others as well:  Amanda Aguillard and Shanikwa Davis To listen in on this interview with Elena Levario, please use the player below:

The Supreme Court says it won’t intervene in a high profile Texas death row appeal. But that might not be their last word on the case of Rodney Reed, we’ll have details. Also after El Paso, Midland Odessa, Sutherland Springs and Santa Fe high, are attitudes about gun control shaping up to be a factor...

The Supreme Court says it won’t intervene in a high profile Texas death row appeal. But that might not be their last word on the case of Rodney Reed, we’ll have details. Also after El Paso, Midland Odessa, Sutherland Springs and Santa Fe high, are attitudes about gun control shaping up to be a factor...

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But anyway, as usual, we're going to start off with our first month of 2020 median single family home prices didn't do much in terms of changing at $770,000. But on the condo prices, we did see an uptick of almost 8% $229,000. That's like slightly under $400. From prior year, January. So that's a pretty big jump. That's for1:17 the year, right? Not month over month. No,1:19 this is actually month over month. Huge man. Yeah, that is that is and year every year to there was an uptick also, especially in volume for 2019 versus 20. At night, that would have been a good thing to talk about too. But um, there was a 2019 was actually a very robust year for a wahoo investors or real estate owners. Yeah, so very healthy real estate economy. Really good. You think that seven and a half percent on Oh, that's kind of a big deal. Yeah.1:49 Just like who knows, right?1:51 Yeah, I mean, we could we could chalk it up to the building, you know, Kakaako stuff, but like you said, it could be just like a hit. up, it's very generalizer because we're talking all of all. So that's the challenge in terms of trying to pinpoint it on one single thing. Yeah, but I'm close sales, we see a very big upswing on both sides both went up almost 8%, or single family at 265, close sales for the month and then 16% increase it 379 close sales for condos. The interesting side of this is that the last rule the third rule, where it's kind of contrary to the first two stats were median days on market for both single family and condos got slower at slower to 35 days for single family and 60 slore to 33 days market for condos. Now we're going over the one month mark, I guess you could see us that's kind of big. So I'm very interested to see what's going to happen next month because I look at the median days on market is more like the leading indicator versus the other stats. Like I did the last few months I've been trying to simplify it because he talked about the numbers, yada yada yada so picking a winner for January 20. 20 sellers or buyers and the winner are the few sellers3:06 dramatics I all right3:08 so I mean yeah overall with the prices going up like you said lean with that on the condo side jumping up so high overall we gotta go with the price increases the main reason for and the volume for that matter for sellers being the winner for January changing over to some new information so on Oahu for the high central multiple listing service, we started something new and it's this coming soon status that's now available instead of you have active we have in escrow showing in escrow not showing and sold. So now we have this new status called coming soon. That started just January this past January 2020. So what it allows listeners and agents to do is to almost like to pre list your place for sale and you can do it up to 30 days before you actually go live within active listening is relatively new. So what we're seeing is ism. You can use it if you know your network. Ready to go live yet maybe a tenant is checking out or you know, not transitioning out or you're still trying to do some repairs to get it ready or you haven't gotten it staged or whatnot. So while you're in transition high central is now allowing us to pre listed with this coming soon status. And I can see potential benefits in using this status for both my sellers as well as my buyers. And I say potential because I think it's not really being used because it's relatively new. So as of last night, I think there are only 24 coming soon listings on all of wahoo. So I think once people start using it the way it was intended to I think there's potential The way I see it, and again, this new but it would be like pocket listings, where you might be able to be in contract before you even list the property. So it could potentially saving money for sellers. You know, you don't want to put in the new carpet because this potential buyer reached out and negotiate something with the price. That's how I see it. And I've been trying that with my others now and we'll see how it goes. So if you guys are in anyone's interested in how this could help you guys hit me up you guys know how to reach me you know other cool stuff5:06 try nothing better nothing better to do right then5:09 we're trying to you know I'm trying to be progressive right and training for Harvard can't help my clients save money so I'm not sure 40 hour week day job part time real estate agent on the side anymore.5:21 You know that you know that like the coming soon like you would think like you put it on there you just gonna have a lot of bottom feeders just throwing you junk offers right so you get the free list price. So you're desperate. Yeah. Are5:34 they seeing if the sellers does?5:36 Okay, I could see that as a potential but I also see it as say you have a potential buyer looking in complex that they really want to buy in so they have an auto mailer that will send them any active or coming soon inventory that pops up so they get it now you have this information and the buyer really wants it and you know, the CO we discuss it's been it's been a strong seller's market for so long that buyers in certain areas. I mean in certain price points they're losing out because some multiple offer situation and so it could potentially have buyers being able to not necessarily sneak in but get a jump on a potential listing and potentially talk to the other side and see if he can strike up a deal and save money on both sides because like I said, maybe the seller is prepping it all we're going to change the cabinets or we have to redo the flooring because it's totally messed up but you could have a potential buyer who's like, Hey, you know what, I'll take it as is because I know the bones in this building are going to be good and it'll cost me at most five grand to do the flooring or something and I'm fine with that because I lost our last few times on my offers on this building and I can't wait any longer so it could not necessarily I mean like you said there's potential for like low ballers go bother investors or whatever. But then if that's the case, you just wait till it gets listed right? So it gives sellers more options. If anything,6:51 I can feel it could hurt you like if you're listening my condo in here, right? And we're going to market we're on market for like a few weeks already. At the Soccer comes on coming through and right. And then he blows our this thing out of the water. It just makes more competition7:06 for selling right, potentially. Right. I mean, that's but then again, he's listing it coming soon for a reason he's not ready to go live. So yeah, like you said it gives way to more competition from the standpoint of your no sooner before it comes on. And so it's just more of a transparent market, I guess. Yeah.7:23 Yeah. I wonder and whenever they have something new like this, there's all kinds of loopholes, right. And people always trying to gain the system. I wonder if you can put something on coming soon. Take it off, put it back on 45 days, take it off, put it on and find out right. Yeah, right. You're gonna try that one? Yeah. The7:42 husband chose getting smart today change certain rules to get around the loopholes to like Nicole, you said if someone didn't want to show the cumulative diesel market because they temporarily pulled it off and on. So it's a dynamic process. And I think,7:55 yeah, you're not trying to cheat. You're not playing by the rules, not for your client. Right. Right. Right. Hey baseball, fields zine business8:03 when you borrow money,8:04 so that transition to our next topic, which is associations in the news. So I think last month, we talked about how our association dues maintenance fees, it's not that they're totally sunk costs, we're getting value for what paying right in terms of deferred maintenance, saving the funds in reserve to do capital improvements, like roofing, elevators, things like that. So I was trying to talk about the good side of association fees. And so last week, in the news, there was kikki johannah. tower that came out maybe eight months ago, like last year, and this is reserved housing majority of it was reserved housing. But just recently, I think in the last week, they announced that they're going to increase their maintenance fees as much as 50%. And that's mainly because the common area operating costs like electricity in the common area and labor to maintain the grounds were under estimated when the first set the fees. So now of course rate, if euro by the body months, I'd be up in arms too. So now they're trying to figure out how they can try to reduce these costs and therefore not increase the fees. So much. So, and this is on the flip side of the association fees, it can kind of hurt you, right? So, and again, this was reserved housing. So like a two bedroom condo was was going for, like 500,000. So they're getting very reasonable deal. And of course, you know, they have to qualify for it. And this is in the heart of Kakaako. So it's prime urban sprawl prime living so lucky for them, I mean, the prices unlucky for them is Association fee hikes and feel for9:36 them, but what you can do right, so I just wanted to talk about that a little bit in terms of the good bad and the ugly of association fees. And most people like think condos are cheaper, right pricing there is but then you got this implied fixed costs going on and potentially variable costs in the future.9:52 Yeah. And the thing too, is that one had mixed use,9:54 you know, down below was on the lobby was9:58 CVS, right. So you think that would offset some of the coming era costs but friendly not so. Oh anyway next I wanted to give another update on corage development again this is a neighborhood that's coming up in between is pro city and Mililani and YPO jenji so I spoke to my contacts of our castle and cookin basically, sales were pushed back to q2 of this year. I think initially the last time I had spoken to them it was beginning of this year sales are q1 sales are supposed to start and with the first delivery or people moving in the end of this year, so there's no change to that and if you live in the area, you'll see that they are starting a lot of work and it's evident along the fringes along the the South Side especially as driving by Kamehameha Highway st able to take some pictures. So I just want to show you some of the update if you're familiar with the Kamehameha Highway and public storage here by the industrial area on the right hand side of the poster just do now in cultural center. So you can see their masquerading they're opening up this is actually going to be I think One of the south entrance and my understanding is they're starting construction of the houses on this is south entrance I'm serious might have a few more pictures on it to show how they're making it nice and pretty with shining gruesome grass along this grading here I used to make all the neighbors happy right? So here this red I was pointing to exactly where I took those pictures. So if you see that's the southern portion. Here's a Google Maps picture to give you an idea of what it looks like now again, it's all farm area. So all those plots of farmland are going to be houses and all along the h2 freeway. So at the top, they're supposed to be one big on ramp, I think if you So yeah, I just want to give an update on corage. If anybody wants more information or wants me to keep them in the loop on what's going on, feel free to reach out to me11:43 no pricing on that stuff.11:44 They won't say it's all going to be market priced. When11:48 is it like nicer than Makkah, or nicer the couple,11:52 I have to think it's going to be above Malka in terms of the rate. That's it. I mean, it's Don't get me wrong. They're gonna have all different types of gear. They're gonna have Tom houses they're going to have their industrial this was to be elementary school there's gonna be retail but the housing I'm sure it's going to be like how they develop you know anytime in the middle any market rate or the start building at the bottom and then as they go up especially like the Millennium aka those perimeter lots closer to the top and the edges are all the high end more more custom type homes. So if I had to guess it would be like a similar strategy right12:23 because when Kapil a and all the other villages came out it was lower than milania stuff. Right?12:28 Right, right. I mean, you can also think about geographically they're a lot further out west and hopefully this year is going to be cooler like milania Why Why is12:38 higher median income demographic wise?12:41 Yeah. And it's in theory, you know, it's it's closer to town, but further from capoeira, the second city.12:50 Where do you live out here?12:54 And that's partly why I took pictures too is I'm curious to see how this is going to pan out because I live Milani town right? Yeah. And the order set of Mililani13:03 yeah pumping that medium income up for everybody. taxes so you guys mainland investing check out my podcast simple passive cash flow and the local group Aria Aloha. Join our meetup there and the Facebook page but I'm gonna run through a bunch of headlines this one that people from Hawaii really like this Las Vegas news. You know where that is, if you look at that picture, Dean, I'm no I don't know if you've been to Vegas a dozen times but yeah, so this little sliver that you probably bought by your drive by is getting sold. So that'll be changing hands here soon, but some real notice here. So in case you guys didn't realize, but the US government stole a whole bunch of money from you guys this past month, the secure act you probably never heard of it. But it's pretty big deal with this came about if you recall, like the government shut down and this was governance that was put into act to make sure that that the economy can Going by the government kept working. And it's a way of they've harvested funds from taxpayers, essentially, they got rid of the stretch IRA, here are some other changes that are a little less taxing on people, they increase the age for minimum required minimum distributions, the 72, or we call rmds. But here's the biggest thing that not a lot of people realize you're like a stretch IRA Dean, before if your parents died, and they had an IRA, you could inherit it, and you could withdraw it or take it as taxable income pretty much for a long time. But now they said, All right, we got rid of those, you only have 10 years to do it. So essentially, if you your accounting guy or numbers guide, the government just slid a whole bunch of money up in the next 10 years that they can get their hands on,14:47 because they want their income taxes on it.14:48 Yeah, and this is why I don't like retirement accounts because they always do this stuff to us. I mean, not not me anymore. I don't have any of this stuff. There's exemptions for this. So like if you pass away and you're serving You have a surviving spouse, children under the age of 10. disabled or chronically ill this doesn't apply to you but for 99.99% of people out there, you got to pay up you got to take it as income and pay the government your taxes because they want it. And, you know, this is just an example of what happens when you have certain people in office right? It changes like if you call when Clinton was in presidency, it was pretty nasty. You had to the inheritance tax if you had a state bigger than $600,000 you got a tax and anything more than that now it's like 4,000,005 million. It's pretty I know, we never know if the surviving spouse exemption is going to go away stuff changes. So yeah, you know, you guys votes matter leave it at that. I caught multifamily markets in 2020 they're saying small metros are and suburbs are where to look for rent control makes a comeback as housing crisis grows. Late last year, we saw three states passing new laws in 2019 limiting or rent increases. Yo if you Buying and blue states this is what happens. They're talking about that over here too. I like to follow the U haul trends it kind of follows the workforce blue collar workers it's what I personally invest in. So these are where the top growth cities in 2019 a lot of North Carolina a lot in Florida, Texas, Idaho, there's a Manhattan than there and much Alabama's and there's sin there's Anderson Nevada, I put this on here then I realized maybe the city's isn't the best way I'd rather see it marma state level or MSA level director indicator and then you know, I like the U haul because this is where the people like I said blue collar I mean I used to use u haul but Van Lines is a similar report that is more for white collar workers. You know when they get moved their company usually relocates them16:46 immigration trends of your potential tenants. Right right.16:49 Man conservation easements we talked about this last time what it is, but if you didn't catch that one, what this is is for guys making over $350,000 A year when you get above that threshold, you're going to get killed on taxes. So what a lot of credit investors would like to do is they'll donate money in the form of land conservation easement to get a taxable deduction. But unlike when you donate $500 to the self initiative harmony when you donate $1 To a land conservation easement, you get $5 around their donation or taxable deduction.17:25 And this is also one that's buyer beware too, though, right?17:28 Yeah. So it's getting a lot of unpopular attention and Congress as it should, because it's a head scratcher, right?17:34 Until you just the one that my CPA had told me that IRS are kind of cracking down on the industry and the shady ones, at least.17:41 Yeah, yeah. So like what a lot of developers would like to do like golf courses will designate an area as land conservation easement and then sell it to investors and then they'll donate the land essentially, but the head scratching part is like how they increase the value of the property about five times as they're donated value. You know, some of these guys are calling it 510 20 times more and that's when you're kind of getting a little greedy but we're in a holding pattern right now. You need to do it talk to your professionals but a lot of my clients are kind of in a holding pattern doing this stuff, at least waiting till the Department of Justice and the Congress battled this out markets with the largest rent growth and largest rent decrease. So on the top there, we showed this last time, but Midland Odessa, Honolulu had the was ranked number two across the nation as a decrease in percent change in rents. That's not a good thing. Well, I guess depends what side of the table you are right? Right. You know, I'm a renter. That's true. What do you think like if I came the landlord and I was like, Well, here's this data. Can I get like a 1% or 2% decrease in my rent? I wonder what happened? I doubt it. Scranton, Lafayette Lake Charles rounds up the top five of the bad boy list. Decreasing rents but where's it hot? It's Pensacola Phoenix Huntsville, Las Vegas and Portland, Maine. There you are Victor ideon and Las Vegas19:09 and used to enhance story19:10 Yeah, we'll see what happens in a recession who's19:15 got my my19:17 Amazon created this 1.4 million square foot Florida project around Huntsville. But I put in this here it's a little bit of fake news because it's only 500 new full time positions in this fulfillment center usually you're looking for you know, in especially in a tertiary market of like 100,000 population 500 jobs isn't that big of a deal I'll be when you get to a range of one to 2000 that's a little bit more newsworthy in my opinion19:44 would also depend on like the current trend in their economy Nick if we talking about like Detroit or something or they're depressed and in something like this comes about it's bomb to jack it up a whole bunch radiances and taking it is comes with a grain of salt from that standpoint, too.19:59 Yeah. just seemed like the these newspapers just need to make headlines right and yeah, Amazon is a big name. Oh yeah, of course realtor.com and they came out with this 2020 housing forecasts, they said that the mortgage rates will go up by the end of the year to 3.88%. I would argue itself pretty steady anyway. Yeah, average median home price will go up by 2%. existing home sales or volume will go down 1.8% and single family housing starts will go up 6% but I'm, as we'll talk later, it will be much less than the growth rate. There's still a housing shortage, Millennials will make up 46% of the mortgage origination up from 43% last year you working with any millennials? I am Are they the old kind? Or is it like no, no kind of young? Yeah, sometimes you can have a 40 year old millennial to Oh yeah, I got Jason some of this data they, they love, they love like weird ages sometimes. And so They21:00 said You mean mindset? Oh, yeah that too.21:05 We can talk a little bit more about that. We got a slide on that later. Okay. Us monthly volume and pricing trends by sector it for years. You guys listening on the podcast and by the way we have a podcast now Hey, watch this while doing chores for your spouse, and you give massages while you're listening to podcasts. You can listen in 2.0 speed touring. Yeah, a lot faster. Or you can just watch this on the YouTube and just watch the words that we're going to read. But we have some graphs on here on the office, industrial retail and apartment trends. Howard Hughes spends half a billion dollars in Houston on the are narco petroleum and conical Philips old headquarters down there in Seattle, their office employment is going way up. And it makes sense because that workforce space is very tech21:54 oriented. Your old stomping grounds.21:57 Yeah, they don't work out there in the field. Like their offices, largest employer by state, so I have a picture of all the states out there and their biggest employer, Hawaii is alterus Industrial you ever heard what is that?22:11 That's, um, that's outsourcing work. That's labor outsourcing. So that's super interesting. I think,22:17 what is that? Like? What do they do22:19 they outsource work, like, if you need, like a secretary or temp secretary or you need admin clerics like that, then you hire them. I think if that's all just that I thinking of my old employer, we went through them to hire a admin assistant22:32 temporarily. Do they pick from the local workforce? Are they like hiring people out in the mainland?22:37 It was local. Yeah.22:39 I don't know if that's a good thing or not.22:43 No, that's interesting. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's cheaper to go through a third party and you're just paying them an hourly set fee and you have to worry about HR and HR and retirement and medical benefits and stuff. Yeah. So I mean, that's just it's not like outsourcing to India or anything, but if that's True. That's convention that's super interesting23:02 little Nevada where Las Vegas is their highest employer is MGM resorts and everywhere in the south Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, I think that's Virginia and everything we're in the middle is Walmart.23:22 It's even more interesting. I didn't23:23 know that Montana and Wyoming are Walmart to say oh, I work for Walmart you're part of the union or tribe. So I buy mostly BNC class apartments but I kind of look over the fence that the a class stuff from time to time and some of the new amenities you're seeing in a class apartments luxury stuff or like the Hilton bikes peloton. Yeah, you own I love I did not I did not have one in this next year.23:49 It seems really cool. I like it's funny because I was talking to my wife about you know, I really want to I like the rubric just sizes because I like the energy and then he sometimes any Somebody to push me so this is I guess the next best thing right? Because you're at home you have screen either you're watching a pre recorded video or you're live with people yeah, suddenly it's the next best thing then then being at 24 Fitness or24:12 you should check out the the the mirror is in that thing. No, it's like a mirror. That's a mirror but it's also a screen so you can see yourself and watch the person to imitate them. And you can you24:24 Oh, that's actually kind of powerful for like, yeah, dancing so I can see a very applicable24:30 Yeah, but maybe it's just motivating or unwilling to see yourself.24:35 Well, unless it's like makes you look thinner or something then maybe you can bend the outs, words, insights that makes you look thinner.24:41 Yeah, I said I'm thinking or, you know, on the smartphones, yeah, makes your complexion look24:47 nicer, make you work harder. You got a larger gap to fill. I have a graph of this isn't the stock market. This is the US market divided by GDP. So we are right at the 2000 Level year 2000 Oh Macy's my wife loves Macy's Don't worry guys they're not closing they're closing 30 stores across the nation by our beloved one in forage and all the water is here to stay25:17 but the question is for how long range yeah25:19 and across the nation other stores here one are closing down and bows that makes our Bose headphones that allow us to drown out the rest of humanity is going out of business and crying babies on the plane. Yeah. Do you know what Five Below is there to know? What's that? Well, if you go out to the middle of nowhere America, there's these five below. They're like discount retailers. It's like 99 cent store but $5 and below Okay, okay. Yeah, I didn't know either. I walked into one because I thought it was a frozen yogurt place when I was like visiting some properties. Okay, like, Oh, this isn't for you here. Maybe25:55 stuck. You want to watch in a downward economy?25:58 Yeah, in the other session. Yeah, the dollar to Family Dollar went did real good. I remember that26:04 $750 million Ponzi scheme from the income store. So I did a podcast with another gentleman who buys websites. And what they do is they fix it up virtually right? they'll create content, they'll increase SEO, and they'll increase the net operating income essentially and then sell it but I guess what the income the income store I don't really know if I know what it did. You guys can look it up on your own. But it was a place where you can buy and sell these websites, but they turned out to be a scam. Was he telling me about26:35 the income start? No, no.26:38 No, yeah. This is why he did like this, right. They26:42 can work from wherever. Yeah, no, I said you mean you help these guys out and he's accomplished.26:48 But this was a big I think a lot of people went to this website. All right, let's beat up on the millennials now or this case, medium age of homebuyers is now 47 years old. Can you believe that used to be in the 1980 era, medium age of homebuyers in the United States was 31 years old. And in the last 40 years, it's gone up to 47 millennial share of the US housing market is small and shrinking. So the little graph of where the baby boomers were at and then the Generation X people, yeah, Gen X or Yeah,27:26 Mm hmm. Well, what I was curious about is the last stat is like, I'm assuming that that's all owner occupied. So like, what about guys like you are renting but using your money to invest you fall on as a non buyer, Daniel?27:38 Yeah. Or it's like other statistics on unemployment, where they like phone people, but how do you measure all the people who are pissed off and they don't want to answer that too, because they're out of work?27:49 Yeah. Well, yeah. And the dare say that the unemployment rate is is very skewed to because it's excludes the unemployed who have totally stopped for a long time now.27:58 Yeah. People get up, right? Yeah, right.28:01 It's good also that the statistics are skewed in that sense, and including the ones that are continuing to try to apply for jobs legitimately or illegitimate. Right?28:11 collect unemployment rate. So there's ways to not be in that number. So that's deceiving, I think when you guys are looking for houses to sell, but there's a recent trend in CO showering and multi generational houses, and I read this one article, and it kind of showed all these things and that's what I picked out. I don't know if it's literally people are coming together to save money, but I do know like a property that was built in the 1980 or 1990s. So not too old. Well, what we're going to do on that is we're going to get rid of the tubs and put in a new column luxury shower, but you know, it's not that expensive. People would rather have a shower than a tub will get a $50 rent increase for that.28:52 I know of people who get a single family and chop it up two rooms or even like little cubicles, and it's almost Like not a youth hostel per se but they're renting out the room and then they have shared kitchen and bath and they're all individual usually singles in a maid military or doctor or residence or something and then they don't mind this need a place to sleep and they don't mind sharing kitchens and the bathroom with other people they don't know and then they end up getting to know them so it's almost like a long term Airbnb, I guess. I don't know how else to explain it. But in that sense, yeah, the landlords happy because you're you're collecting way more than you would if you're just renting to one single family long term and we can see he totally handle your vacancies very because if one person leaves and it's like one out of five or one out of seven, so29:35 I went through I said it on a pitch for this guy. He was doing an app and it's like crowd surfer but he was like exactly what you said the long term renters but they just want a room. He was telling me all these nightmares that would have initially right when they first started out they had to make it was the same sex or because obviously you know the issues with that with it and I think they gave the people free Netflix. subscription because they found out if they're just on their phones all the time or watching Netflix that there's little interaction and that's where the problems of the company is when tenants interact. So if you keep them at their problem,30:15 that's their reality, right? They're watching the Netflix and that's where their world is at. So, right the outside world is there in their matrix.30:23 Another trend Hilton is launching a new lifestyle brand called Temple by Hilton. It is designed to appeal to ambitious modern traveler I needed glasses I thought that said women travelers for strategy strategies for 2020 success in the classroom multi speaks to the first one was new markets so getting out of places that everybody has been talking about for the last half a decade Dallas, Texas since everybody's looking there and everybody knows it's a good market tech so they said like old tri news be I'm not gonna say her name a LEX a because things will start to happened if I say that word here or other forms of technology in the apartments, treat your employees? Well, a lot of these places, the employees, the office staff and the handyman workers are on salary as opposed to paying your tenants or you're paying your property manager certain percentage primarily. And then different regulations. As we said, you know, the rent control Diem, did you know that in 2025, there will be more people turning 65 than babies being born.31:27 I did not know that. They are doing the assisted living. But yeah.31:32 That's like everybody talks about that thing. And it's man, are you looking for something super hard and difficult where you haven't owned a property31:40 for high liability? Yeah, well, I mean, if you talk about trend, I mean, that makes it spot on right, that hits that heartstring right there in terms of telling me where to look. So maybe it's not that maybe it's things that he's 65 year olds are going to be using31:55 that type of market my buddy he does venture m&a is like the cool way of saying it but merger acquisitions. But you have all these older people who have built businesses and obviously haven't really employed the best technology and systems and practices but just created with hard work, right? Good old fashioned business sense, but they're unable to sell the business. So mergers and acquisitions is a good way to play that I think is you take a business like a restaurant or an insurance practice, or like a dentist franchise, and you buy it. I think that's a better way to play it.32:28 That makes sense. I've seen that too. Like in the accounting world on the CPA world, a lot of CPAC start off the work for the big four are being backed into the big six and then you know, they find out they want to be entrepreneurial, or do you want you don't want to be partner here. They want to work on their own. So they open up their own practice. And then by nature, it grows because they get more and more clients and then they call you said they're hiring employees who are good at doing the work. But when it comes time to succession planning to hand it on, even their children don't want to take it over. So what do you do now? Right, so I've heard great stories of operatives. Ladies like that, I guess you could say for the small practices that don't have a plan, it is great. I mean seems to be like a win win. Because usually, if the agreement works out, the employees are retained and the management company gets company to take over with more volume and more actually adds a different niche to the larger companies that might have had larger clients.33:21 Yeah, it's definitely interesting, right? The phrase that's always said is who is the person that has the keys here, right, if that CPA leaves or retires business is going to fall apart? Yeah, that's why you don't want to buy that business. But there's always a way to keeping that person on retainer and making their buyout contingent on X amount of clients thing.33:40 And a lot of times you know, it's not to say that the partners are irreplaceable and they are facing the challenges like you said, you need a smooth transition because of course you're gonna have attrition rate. So the plan is you just make sure in your that m&a deal when you're pricing it out, which is usually based on digicash rules is that you're you're taking to account if you're on the buying side that the attrition you follow34:00 You want to do is retire and play pickleball three four times a week then why get into all that stuff?34:06 Yeah. Where do you play pickup on case people want to hang out with you?34:11 I started off playing in Mililani town there's a we have a recreation rec center three and so there's eight dedicated courts so if you're not come by hit me up. I'll go all over the island though you guys want to play? I love Ilene honestly, it's a great sport. It's one of the fastest growing and young guys are getting into too. I think a 21 year old professional came down from the mainland he stopped by and we got to experience some pro to corporate flying artists Honestly, I do enjoy it. I laugh about it initially. This is an old fox game and it's kind of dorky and stuff but I'm enjoying it a lot.34:45 I well, while you're doing that, I would say hundreds of thousands or millions of employees are trying to race for the spiky thing in corporate America. Somebody right now is working his 14th or 16th hour needs to go home and sleep for four hours. Before coming back35:01 Super Bowl commercials on it right to rice and anything35:04 yeah another statistic I was at this family office meeting and they're talking about how in that slide to the right is how energy storage is has changed and will change before it was a power plants to the houses and then now we got all the solar panels and maybe the solar panels might feed outwards eventually but the other statistic was in 2026 the cars will they'll be more electric cars than gas cars35:31 I thought by then don't be hundred percent. I mean, a lot of manufacturers are saying bye. I thought it was a 10 years they're gonna be out of production for Dynamo fields are gonna be easy. I thought there are shifting you have people already off the grid with some battery storage.35:46 I think I'm going to buy that Tesla truck. Really? Yeah, that's gonna be a couple years I still gotta drive my car. So next headline here housing market following short by nearly 4 million houses as demand grows. So as much as you see housing prices going up, the demand is going up much faster vacancy rates have been going down over the past decade and home ownership vacancy has gone down slightly also. And I think that's at the end here. I do my little book report to you, Dean. I've been reading this book willpower doesn't work by Ben Hardy. Did you36:21 tell me about that? I bought it from the library. You read it? I think I skimmed it, but I had to return it by the time go talk about it. I need to hear what you get to36:29 see. Well, that's exactly why willpower doesn't work. You don't need the damn book.36:33 Oh, it's because I didn't take the distractions out right? Because isn't that what it is in the whole premises because we'll Park doesn't work you need to take all the distractions out of your life so that you can focus in on the things you gotta do. You know, these36:44 books are just kind of space fillers, right? Half of it is you're a human being you're not a machine, right? And I already kind of know that. But then the other half of the book are things like you said, and then creating systems to set yourself up for success which you36:59 are The master of lean and let's say you can't make any37:02 systematic changes this past month I can steal37:07 no nothing earth shattering I still gotta keep on looking back at my vision board and for me it's the passion is still the real estate sales but one thing that I've had to refocus on his power talking about like he said to be able to play pickleball as they still want to increase my investment portfolio my real estate my buy and hold real estate portfolio so that means I need to increase my deal flow from that standpoint so that I haven't been I've been working more on the real estate sales side and helping others out so you got to step back and help yourself on to me the real estate sales part is the fun part and I enjoy that and passionate about that but I need to also step back and own a build my deal flow because I also have my own personal investing goals set for the year on my vision board. So I got to relook at that I guess yeah,37:53 buy another cup of health if you can play four times a week. That's a part of it right rewards setting rewards for yourself. Yeah, I think that's what they talked on this book too.38:03 Okay, yeah, we're gonna travel the world with you to link one of these days.38:07 Have some fun. This is the part where we talk about the legal disclaimer and you're not giving any legal tax or investment advice relationship advice, advice that's it and hope you guys liked it check out the YouTube channel and join ariella Hall comm check us out there and anything else for the folks there, Dean. Oh, just keep on keepin on. All right. Take it easy, everybody. Bye. Bye.38:37 Three real estate investing you check out our e i aloha.com.Transcribed by https://otter.ai See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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It's an opportunity to make an impact on families and communities while earning returns. start investing with a zoals hundred bucks in invest in hp. com if you want the free burn zone book please send me an email at Lane at simple passive cash flow calm1:03This week we are going to be doing the 2020 February edition of the green sheet investor letter you guys can check out all these letters and past videos at simple passive cash flow calm slash investor letter. And make sure you check this out on the YouTube channel to make a bunch of slides. And if you're listening to this on the podcast version, probably going to want to check out a lot of the graphs that are put in there to kind of brings another dimension to this. But however you guys want to consume this podcasts YouTube channel, it's all fine with me. And those of you who are high net worth passive investors1:36still using a 401k or self1:39directed IRA, you're doing it all wrong, man. I don't have any retirement accounts because I would rather pay taxes on it today when my income is less than in the future. Just very counterintuitive. People will say that you're going to make a lot less in the future, which as you know, we do things a little bit differently at simple passive cash flow, why I'd like to not use a timing plan or what we call requalified money is that I want to avoid the unify and you bit tax now the one way you can do this VA retirement con is called a QR p or qualified retirement plan you guys can check this out at simple passive cash flow calm slash qR P and also fill out the form there and you can get a free book sent your way to learn more about it and here is the show is2:20a story about a dude named Lane he moved to the mainland and bought one place to stay and then one day he went try to rent them out2:28and then he became one real investor.2:33It is February 2020. This is the monthly market update or I collect a bunch of news articles that I've sifted through. You guys can find the show notes on the sun at simple passive cash flow calm slash green 10 that's with a one zero green one zero. And I do this every month recapping what I've been up to at the end and some of the biggest news headlines that I've been seeing that I think in pack macro and some Micro markets out there. Again, all these will be posted on the YouTube channels if you guys are missing out on the audio or the video version, guys just checking on this on the audio version, you guys can check out more there too. So if you guys don't know who I am Lane Kawaoka, I still have my PE and you guys probably found me through the simple passive cash flow podcast. But if you guys haven't already joined our Facebook community online, probably find it by going through simple passive cash flow. We is what we call ourselves. So biggest news that happened this month case you didn't know it, but they signed the secure act which basically Rob millions of millions of dollars and millions of Americans without you guys even knowing. So let's break this down. What is the secure act here? So you remember when the government was kind of going bankrupt and they needed to come up with some new laws to not have that happen while this is the byproduct of it. And what it is, is a way of generating income for the government, which is typically not very good for us. Americans is In a better way, kind of the deal for us got worse. So here's a few bullet points it expanded the ability to run multiple employer plans for plan years beginning after December 31 2020. Had safe harbor rules apply for plan years beginning after December 31 2019. Long term part time workers permitted to participate in 401k plans which applies generally to plan years beginning after December 31 2023 consecutive 12 period the employer has at least 500 hours of service a repeal the maximum age from making IRA contributions which appeals to contributions made for taxable years beginning after December 31 2019. Increase the age for a minimum required minimum distributions which we call it rmds to 72 and applies to distributions required to be made after December 31 2019. With respect to individuals who attained age 70 and a half after such You guys are probably sleeping, you guys are probably just like any other Americans probably didn't pick up anything, nothing really popped up there. But here is there were some good things in there. Frankly, I don't really care because I don't have any retirement plans myself, I rather invest my money and take all the depreciation today and live off that today. So they changed the rule with rmds after death. So before they got rid of stretch IRAs, you guys can go all that you want. But basically what you were able to do is say your parents died and they had an IRA, they could give it to you and they would keep going stretch, but now they have this little nasty rule a year that basically requires all IRAs and qualified plans to be distributed within 10 years of death. So you got a limit. So if your parents die and you have this money, you got to spend it in 10 years, so the red flag should be going up. Everybody got screwed out there. The Senate version had a five year limit by the way, but it turned out to be a 10 year time horizon. There is a next Up to the 10 year rule for surviving spouse. So if your wife or your husband dies, they have the IRA that 10 year rule doesn't apply. Also exemptions children under the age of minority. So basically, if you're a kid and once you become an adult, I believe that 10 year old clients at that point, it doesn't apply if you're disabled chronically ill, and another individual who is not more than 10 years younger. So look at it from this direction the government wants to wants to harvest returns from us, the citizen, they want us to pay taxes they want. They want to get the money out of these silly retirement accounts that they promised everybody that they would have tax free, but at some point, they're going to tax these things. And the government's just sliding all this revenue up quicker. That's essentially what's happening here. So it's a big, big deal. This is just a good example of how these tax laws can change. Back in the clinton days they inherited tax with way less, it was like 600,000 today their inheritance taxes. Super, super high. You know, that's why you have kind of read government at this point. But if somebody else gets in there, these rules might change. And one of the biggest things in here is under the RM DS. The biggest exemption is a surviving spouse, they may just choose to get rid of that whole surviving spouse exemption, which means if your spouse passes away other than all that the heartache and the sorrow you're gonna have to pay taxes on their estate, which I think is unfair, but hey, that's like a one of the coolest byproducts of this is if you guys are doing the QR PS you guys can contribute up to when you file your taxes. So if you're like me and all the cool kids filing your taxes in September and October, you can contribute to your to your P for the previous year, all the way up to that point, just like how you're able to do for your Roth IRAs or IRAs, same kind of rules apply. So the secure act kind of open that up and then now you can have annuities and your retirement plans. So that kind of opens up a whole new door for those of you You guys, you know playing around with life insurance, Internet Banking concepts there. If anybody has any questions on this, feel free to type it into the chat, but I'm going to move on to kind of more rapid fire headline title is top multifamily markets in 2020, or the small metals and the suburbs. And they're seeing as a result of the slower economic growth apartment demand is projected at 240,000 units in 2020, which is approximately 20% less than that of 2019 estimated 300,000 units CBRE are he comments. rent control is sort of making a comeback. There was real laws passed in late 2019. Limiting and rent increases. If you read into it. It doesn't seem as bad I guess depending which side of the table you're standing on right politically, but sometimes they'll put in restriction where it needs to be based on some higher number that they're really never get, I think is sort of fair. But regardless, I mean, if you're investing in California, I don't know why you arguing that or even any other blue state for that matter probably not getting the rental value of the 1% rental value ratios for anything that's not a war zone property or C class property or worse. So I don't know why you would be doing that the U haul release their top 20 growth cities for 2019. And this is something I tracked closely This is the U haul is which used to move around with when you are broke and you didn't have any money. So it's it's a good indicator for what the blue collar workforce housing folks are doing when they have to move. A lot of the influx of people are in the Florida State Raleigh Durham, North Carolina is number one, Ron Rock, Texas is number for a lot of Florida ones in here, Cortland, Idaho Manhattan, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Actually, I don't know if this chart is incredibly useful. I mean, its top growth cities I'd rather see in the more regions and states that'd be how I would use the U haul Report.9:58I'm super excited about new program. I'm rolling That's going to reinvent scammy Real Estate education programs. So excited like Marie Kondo cleaning stuff up excited. Announcing my new mastermind program which consists of a closed members site with 27 packed weeks of content, plus bi weekly group video conference calls to us whatever half of the calls will be centered around granular investing tactics, and the other half will be holistic wealth building strategies that I have learned from the wealthy.10:25That's 25 plus hours of group coaching and masterminding and a secret Facebook group too. I know what you're thinking none another flippin Facebook group. Well, this one's going to be different, more intimate, exclusive, and no cheapskates or shady vendors in it. I've been coaching individual clients over the past couple years and I figured out what you guys need in a way to provide it in a cost effective way. learn more, go to simple passive cash flow.com backslash journey and join for the first cohort fills up, an introductory pricing goes away.10:59Update online conservation easements This is more for the accredited folks who make over two to $300,000 adjusted gross income per year but for everybody's entertainment what our land conservation easements so land conservation easements are a tricky way of getting a tax write off by designating a piece of land a land conservation easement, it no development can go there in the future by doing this, it becomes sort of a taxable donation. So just like how you take a bag of old clothes out to the Salvation Army, and you arbitrarily call that $500 but what you're doing here is you're taking a piece of land that has some nice environmental value to it like they usually put it around like chump will do this around his golf courses, and they'll designated a land conservation easement. But the tricky thing is that they'll like they have the value of land but then they'll mark up some kind of like fictitious development plan to be basically get an appraised value of when you are five to 10 times higher than what the land is actually worth. So what guys will do is though and invest or basically donate 50 grand and it goes on a taxable donation, but they get like a five to one pop on this stuff. So for every 50 grand they donate, they get 20 $50,000 of deductions, not credits, deductions, but for a guy and, you know, making more than $350,000 a year, that's a lot of money at 50 cents of every dollar of tax savings. The news is recently a lot of this has been getting a lot of unpopular attention, and it is kind of fishy. So investors are kind of in a holding pattern, how they're doing this. If they really need to get the tax deduction. What they're probably doing is just chancing it and doing it but they're not being overly aggressive and they're sticking to a boost ratio of five to one or less. So it's kind of one of those things where you don't want to be greedy, was it pigs get slaughtered hogs get fat so he basically buying charitable donations at 16 cents on $1 couple of charts markets with the largest rent growth year over year from November to November 2008 22,019 and the with the markets with the largest rent decrease I have these charts flip flop but the list you don't want to be on these are the losers number one Midland Odessa number two Honolulu number three bathroom rage before Scranton and number five, Lafayette Louisiana and the winners a top five markets are number one Pensacola which went up 8.3% Phoenix Arizona went up 7.9% number three Huntsville Alabama went up 7.1% for is Las Vegas 6.4% and number five, Portland, Maine which we went up 6.3% I'm aware of all these markets of Pensacola was kind of a weird one. I got surprised by that one someone told me it had to do with I guess there was like a hurricane there a while back ago and now this is part of the bounce back. Most markets will just kind of get keep pace with inflation, maybe two to 3% a year more of the hot markets will be five to 8%. So these are hot markets here. Amazon's 1.4 million square foot Florida project near Orlando is taken off. But don't be misled by another Amazon fulfillment center. This one's only going to have 500 new full time positions. And when you're looking at a tertiary market, for example, Huntsville, 500 jobs, it's nice right but not that much. Usually a bigger announcement from a major employer might be more like on the 1000 magnitude or higher one the few thousand jobs that's a big news but I think you see a lot of these new sources for real estate they'll say a search an employer, but at the end of the day, you really have to see what kind of what's the numbers how many people are going there. And also what is the multiplier effect for like a Boeing or like a car manufacturing on you have a lot of the ancillary other providers like bait build other pieces of the car the airplane. I don't know how it is with these Amazon fulfillment centers maybe if somebody sells snacks at the 711 or something like that but I don't think you have a big multiplier on on that but I could be wrong realtor.com came out with their 2020 housing forecast and they are take it for what it's worth right a bunch of realtors then again they do like to spend money on a lot of things like probably a lot of number crunchers and data peoples but they're saying mortgage rates by the end of the year will be going up a little bit to 3.8% average median home price will go up almost 1% existing home sales will go down 1.8% and I believe that talking more about volume than pricing and then homeownership rate 64.6% and single family home starts which are new builds will be going up to 6%. And another site but I found from our friends@realtor.com are is that millennials make up over 46% of the mortgage rates. donations up from 43% last year according to realtor.com. So maybe the millennials are finally moving out of mom and dad's basement and getting into the game. It's about time we have some more news on that later. Another news headline says us monthly volume and pricing trends by sector. This is post setup at simple passive cash flow calm slash investor letter, and then you can drill into the February report. From there Howard Hughes spends bottom half a billion dollars in Houston and his portfolio includes the former headquarters of a narco petroleum and chemical Philips plus a warehouse and developable land. A Seattle office report says that in Seattle, there's strong market dynamics continue to support the metros rapid expansion with a saturated tech sector extending and shaping the current real estate landscape. So yeah, Seattle has a lot of tech jobs, the big white collar workforce apparently they Working in offices, right? Go figure that there's a little chart there showing the growth of that more of that office space employment. So here was that us monthly volume and pricing trends by sector. So you have the office, industrial retail and apartment space shown. A lot of you guys are into technical analysis. I don't know if you guys are any good at it. I was never but you have the price growth, which is the line but then you have the volume bars underneath it. And usually when you have a lot of volume and you have movement, then that's a positive signal that you can really look at as a trend. And when you have movement on low volume, that's typically a maybe a false positive trend, a little map here of the largest employer in every state. Some of the more popular ones where our community is mostly based out of Washington is bowling. Oregon is Providence health. California is the University of California. That's a little weird, Nevada. MGM resorts, we don't care too much about those other states. Hawaii is altered industrial and never heard of them. But pretty much everywhere south east of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina. I think that's Virginia. Everything south of there is Walmart or the biggest employer in the state. So a little bit of trivia there. So I was reading some articles on newer trends in apartments and some of this was more on the E Class side. Coffee calls the A plus side I mean, these these are like the 1500 dollar to 20 $500 one bedroom apartments. So they're saying like, what are the new amenities that are going in and all of this has nothing to do with stuff I buy, which is the more workforce housing It is interesting to see what is going in there. So they're saying like the peloton bikes, the ones that had the little computer screen that apparently people are going crazy over recently, they have gyms in the apartments they want the tenants to feel special. I don't know what that means but more like white glove service. I know a lot of people have kind of been taking my advice and selling your primary residence because it doesn't make you any money invest the money instead and a lot of people are really liking the apartment life. You got the pool, you got kids, you don't have to worry about cleaning anything. They like the pool, you got a gym, there's a pool, and it's a lot cheaper to don't believe that nonsense of renting is just throwing money down the drain. I mean, whoever said that's probably stuck at the day job. You don't want to listen to that guy. impact of the next recession on the multifamily market is the next on topic. This came from the US Census Bureau data. So in the green line, it's showing that the vacancy rate, which typically is between six and 11%, obviously after the recession kind of spiked a little bit but over 10% but slowly but surely the past 10 years it's been coming down to almost all time lows for About 7% or so. And homeowner vacancy is usually about 1% to 3%. I pulled a chart of the stock market here. I honestly don't really follow the stock market stresses me out. But from time to time I like to know what's happened just so I can kind of poke fun at people who like trade stocks and options and think they know what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, pretty much at all time highs where we were in year 2000. Here market US market cap divided by GDP is what I'm looking at. So I don't know if you guys have bosses that shop at Macy's but they might be really sad because nearly 30 of the retailers 641 locations wash clothes following a decline in comparable sales through the holiday season. And we've been following this trend the last few months ago and listen to pass investor letters to get was forever 21. I can't think of the other ones but a lot of these storefronts We're kind of going out of business. It's the whole click vs brick battle get it click on your Amazon versus anyway another article that I put up is the retail property taxes is likely to rise and Sapir one announced that it will close up to 450 stores the electronic store Bose A lot of you guys like to wear and be anti social as you go out in public will close the remaining 119 retail stores but it's not all doom and gloom because if you shop at the discount retailer Five Below they will be opening 180 stores actually bought that place was like a frozen yogurt place at one time and then I went in there and I found that otherwise so Ponzi scheme alert $700 million from the income store. Now we did a podcast maybe about a couple months ago about buying websites sort of like how you buy a distressed house you buy distressed website that is suitable for me you make it a little bit better. So the income store I understand that This this model, right is is sort of like a trading you could you could buy and sell websites on there. I don't know exactly what they were doing. But apparently they took everybody's money and this kind of story came out, which is kind of a shame. You know, I'm all for getting these marketplaces open so entrepreneurs can get involved, but it's times like this where like, it makes everybody gun shy where you get one back after that kind of spoil it for everyone. We were talking a little bit about the millennials possibly moving on and finally buying homes. So there was a study that came out by the Deutsche Bank research that the median age of homebuyers is now 47 years old. And that went up from 31 to 47. And there's a little graph there. That shows, you know, way back when in 1980, the median home buyer age was 30 years old, and it's just been going up year after year after year. A lot more since the financial crisis. I mean, I guess people are having kids lot later. Another graph millennial share of the US housing market small and shrinking. So this graph is showing the millennial home ownership, slum share of American real estate home by each generation by medium cohort age. So showing how the baby boomers are they love that homeownership stuff. And then the Generation X folks, they're kind of hitting their Apex it looks like right now and then the millennials are kind of behind some new trends in apartments or in housing in general are bigger showers so you can cold shower, I don't know maybe have two people in there. I don't know what that's all about. But it was interesting. Like we have a more of a nicer apartment more of a B plus asset. And what we're having to do there is removed a lot of the bathtubs because people just don't use it. They'd rather have a more fancy or tiled shower than have a bathtub. They'll pay more for that. So I don't know if they're gonna fit two or more people in there but the showers a little bit more popular more modern these days maybe that has to do with people just being too busy. They just got to go in and out. They can't put rose petals around their bathtub and drink wine around that time. I was just joking there. Some of you guys need to laugh a little bit later in the day here. And then multi generational housing is becoming more popular and Hilton's launching this new brand called temple. So it's supposed to cater towards ambitious modern traveler, whatever that means you'll have iPhones or something like that for strategies for 2020 success in class, the multifamily space I've kind of moved on from classy properties, they're really difficult they never pay I think it's just better to be more in a B class type of asset unless you have a really really severely under market and you're going to do heavy value add like more than five six grand per unit rehab per unit. But this article that there's four strategies that they cited, first one was new markets. So looking markets that people aren't looking in number two was employing tech. And I really understand this whole tech angle. They're saying like, Oh, you have to use Alexa and all you know the little things, all that Amazon stuff, you don't put that in class B and C properties that'll grow legs and you'll you won't find it anymore. But maybe they're talking more about the smart thermostats. It didn't say 10 employees because in these type of areas, your employees are very important the leasing agent you pay them on salary in apartments and then regulations because like all the new rental control laws has been upon all that stuff. Very important recently went to a mastermind and a family office gentleman came in talk to us about a few trends that are happening said that in the year 2025, there'll be more people turning 65 then babies born so that means there's going to be a lot more older people soon but don't go to simple passive cash flow calm slash elf and start to learn how to make your own assisted living facility like A lot of you guys will do that is a huge, huge undertaking and something I tried to do and I just backpedaled and plus the silver wave isn't there yet, like a lot of the baby boomers are finally retiring, it's going to be another decade or two until they really start to use that assisted living facilities. Another big trend that they cited was the race for 5g and I don't know how to pronounce right, like who way but there's this big, big thing versus them, the United States where they don't want to use their technology because they think they're going to steal from us. I don't know if that's true if they really gonna steal from us. But you know, being from America probably isn't good if they win that race. And it's sort of the modern day race to the moon. It's riddled with backdoors. Lane two, don't trust it. Don't trust it. All right. Good thing. We're still getting the G here in Hawaii. So it'll be a while. Another thing that I found interesting from the presentation was, I think in the year 2026, there's going to be more electric cars than gas cars. That's sort of the inflection point. You know, a lot of these guys are family office money. And if you've never heard of these terms private equity family office and venture capital private equity is kind of the syndications people who are a million dollar to $5 million network. We're family offices are more on the scale of 50 to 100 plus million dollars, big money housing market falling short by nearly 4 million homes as demand grows. So this is just more of a general article. That's just reiterating. Look, guys, the country needs housing, and especially housing for folks who don't make $100,000 or more. And we're continuing to build new product, but the pace of population growth is increasing, and it's not keeping up with the pace with demand. And that's why I think why a lot of us fall back to real estate because it's sort of a commodity and you'll always need it. New podcasts and articles that I put together in the month of January 1 was the financial freedom for dentist so I have a lot of dentists in the mastermind program like almost seven or nine of them I realized so I got a bunch of their thoughts together and I remove the identities and zip codes and social security numbers and I put some of the the thoughts there and might be more of a dentist thing but it might also apply if you're a doctor or any other high paid professional to another article I wrote was the private money lending top mistakes I put it at simple passive cash flow calm slash lend mistakes you can also check out the dentist article at simple passive cash flow calm slash dentists we had an accredited investor Come on the podcast and do a coaching call with me appreciate when you guys do that i a lot of you guys really like to watch vicariously you know for high paid professionals is really many different scenarios that I have a lot of these coaching calls in the YouTube channel. I have them in index and a section if you guys want to check out some of the past ones. Yeah, check those out. And see if they help you but just know that not all situations are like and the biggest part of this at the end of the day is deal flow What are you going to do right like you read that Rich Dad Poor Dad book and you're like All right, we're going to take over the world but what are you going to do? You don't know right? He doesn't say anything because that kind of changes all the time. Who do you work with December 2019 they changed some borrowing standards. Some of you guys are still buying those rental properties or turnkey rentals there was some changes and how they calculate think that to income you guys can check out there all these links are again on simple passive cash flow calm slash investor letter number five here habits you guys miss the goals webinar. I believe the webinar was simple passive cash flow, calm 2020 dash launch. Do you guys want to go and watch that webinar again, but I made a little sub article on habits and I had Richard Wilson on podcast 184. He is a family office guy who manages and millionaire families. You guys can check that Went out at simple passive cash flow calm slash family office catching up on that chat box here one person mentioned or they're asking my opinion on the previous retail malls at least metropolitan areas possibly converting to food halls areas for experience halls I'm looking into like commercial commercial centers, these are the more ones with your haircut, place your food place grocery store, because I think you're always going to have to go to those and that's why Amazon had the insight to buy whole foods of brick and mortar at the end of the day. I mean, still the minority of transactions are done online. I think the problem is the more mulish you know, your cube malls not the big boxes like the Best Buy and those type of areas but going to the mall, that experiences going away. And yeah, I think you point out a good thing here like food halls, eateries and experience observe definitely coming online, right? We're like the old 90s retail mall that's obviously kept dying. But now people want more experiences or something family friendly or just a variety of food options. It's kind of like a one stop place. I guess it just kind of reinvents the idea of what going to the mall is. I mean, I saw I was just wasting all the time couple weeks ago during the holidays watching this like these guys went into an abandoned mall and YouTube probably find them on Dandan mall videos but yeah, I mean people want more funding hop golf will have that stuff the whole Have you ever been to Vegas guys like to do that? Well, I know you guys are thinking something else at this point. But like the construction equipment, like you have construction equipment, you just, you know move dirt around that kind of stuff or like escape rooms I like escape31:38from things like drive a tank or31:40you know, various experiences coming unique. The can't get a lot of places, right? I know that they call them D boxing to where they take a big space and they'll chop it up into these little food halls too. That's another term. I'm more of a spectator with this stuff. I kind of see it. I kind of watch it but I think as an investor, I try and stick to Certain things that I know, but eventually I think at some point multifamily apartments will just get so saturated by people who think that they can do it. Because I guess it's kind of true, you can kind of just pick a property manager and you can get lucky. And it's easy. And that's why a lot of people do it. And that's why a lot of the dumb money goes there. So eventually things will correct. And apartments won't be as good cap rates as other things. But I'm going to move into more of what I've been doing other than spelling things wrong, like I normally do. But these are the six needs that Tony Robbins always talks about. So this is how I always break it up. We're meeting growth, trying to get to know my investors better. I probably had about three four calls with investors every day for the past month. I think everybody wants to get on their 2020 goals and book a call, but we haven't had a chance to connect trying to connect with everybody at least once. So go ahead and do that. And then I'm also planning the tour's been high gain and do a luau in Hawaii and you guys can check that out symbol passes. Cash Flow calm slash week three, that's February 714. To 17 way I'm trying to contribute back to others, you know, and those calls, I always try and make it a point to give some kind of referral or critical feedback to anybody because I didn't really have that when I was building my portfolio. And I think a lot of people don't realize like, I'm gonna bought my first rental in 2009. And I bought my next one in 2011, I think or 12. But for like about five years, it was like watching grass grow. And I wish somebody would have told me don't buy 11 rental properties. They're a pain in the butt. I wish somebody would have told me that number three significance. So I've kind of been turned on to this whole family office concept where you kind of work with a smaller number of clients. So I've been kind of focusing on maybe turning into a family office where I work with people who are one to $10 million net worth folks where I'm sort of the consultant I'm in the middle of the wheel, doing the wealth planning, estate planning, wealth management, tax planning, trust and Corporate Services, family, governments. And then you know, what is the meaning behind your existence like a charity philanthropy, you can't just get a tax guy right on your team because the tax guy doesn't talk to the deal guy who doesn't talk to the wealth management guy, right? It's good that you get specialists on your team and you should, but there's a reason why there are specialists, they don't have the big picture away. I'm getting uncertainty. And the reason why I put this there and I read all I'm really like certainty, and I know all we all do, we all like to stay in our comfort zone. But I'm going to try do the first multi day event in Hawaii. I've been trying to plan it this past week, which is getting to be pretty close up to the wire. That's just how I do things, but it's gonna be cool. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna a lot of fun. I think we got probably about over 30 people coming. So it should be good. How am I getting certainty in my life? So we had a gentleman Microsoft come to our mastermind group to kind of talk about how do you grade different investments and he kind of says great idea of budget 1234 of investment grade versus speculative grade investments, and assuming that the performers are using good assumptions and not just bogus yeah you can kind of break it down what kind of investment philosophy do you have? Are you just want to go balls to the wall and just do a high growth or you just want to do cash flow stuff and should you do that if your net worth is under half a million dollars so you got to take on some risk right if your goals are bigger number six love and connection so I been consciously trying to book four trips a year now they don't have a day job it's hard because I go traveling all the time to check out deals and but I encourage everybody to plan vacations. I know that sounds really silly but most people don't do it because if not you can just be Kobe Bryant and just disappear off the face of the ER was all for nothing. And what some of the resistance or distractions that I've been facing that I'm sure everybody else's the heck it's February right guys, you're one fourth way through the year and you had all these goals, you probably forgot the damn things, you know. Just remember you're gonna be like Janet is March going to be like January other than that no exceptions living a good life things are good some junk is buying your bought this like doorstop it's kind of heavy it's a Boolean to you guys can get the links on the website and I've been like trying to buy a lot of things that are automated. So I have these crazy automation with Alexa and trying to automate everything but I found these super simple you just press the button based on how long you want it to turn on. So the coffee pot I'll just turn it on for an hour so doesn't go on. And I've been reading this book willpower doesn't work by Benjamin Hardy, so heavier ears if you like to read books, but here it is in one minute. As human beings we are terrible at executing we need to give ourselves every single chance that we can get to hit success and a lot of that is building systems around making us successful. So what time you're waking up What do you how do you set the table for your day The next day, I just like reading the book and I would listen to subconsciously and they would mention certain examples and it would like trigger different things for me to change or new systems and put in place I can't really think of any right now. I would recommend it it's a pretty quick read no easter egg for you guys they know happy things. Here's the legal disclaimer And that brings us to the end of the February report. That's it. We'll talk to you guys next time.37:26This website offers very general information concerning real estate for investment purposes every investor situation is unique always seek the services of licensed third party appraisers inspectors to verify the value and condition of any property you intend to purchase. 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What's up simple passive cash flow listeners wanted to announce the first multi day we mastermind in Hawaii will be holding it on my island of Oahu, Honolulu is on President's Day 2020. And that's February 14 to the 17th. And a reminder, Valentine's Day is the 14th. But we'll keep that evening for you. families and couples want to come on down for that we're actually encouraging spouses and families have come down, because that's part of the whole experience. Getting to know other families and getting to know other community members is gonna be a big part of this. So what to expect structured networking and masterminding with existing CWI investors and other affluent investors. We're going to create the time in the environment to build real relationships that you can take For forever and for you, a students out there will do even be doing a full day of networking and mastermind and education. So once again, bring your families we're going to have optional excursions such as a luau, happy hours dinners and some other activities to be able to have fun in the sun. And, you know, space is extremely limited because my vision is to kind of create this as a more intimate environment where we're all one big little ohana here. So come in and combined business and pleasure in a little tax write off hopefully you can get that right off in before the 2019 ends. Those signing up now we'll be able to get a free one on one strategy session that if you want to stick around till Tuesday, we can knock that out or if you're leaving early, we can try and get that done throughout the weekend. But Hope to see you out in Hawaii go to simple passive cash flow. dot com slash week three. And we'll see you guys here.2:26 Okay is January 2020. And this is the monthly market update. If you guys have not heard of me before, I have simple passive cash flow podcasts where it's all about passive investing in real estate and potentially other non real estate items as we get deeper and deeper into the market cycle. So the first is a collection of different news articles that I've got it but I do this every year, those who aren't familiar with what's shown here. This is the Google keywords. You can look at keywords in Google and look up different trends and you can see how the world is what they're searching for, throughout the different times. So I'll go in here and I'll screw around, I'll put in the word recession, and obviously in the year 2008, everybody was searching for it. And it's been nothing so far, except there was some kind of blurb here recently. I don't know what that's all about. But then, you know, you compare it to other words, like I put in in blue here, retirement investing and recession seems like people are starting to get back on the investing bandwagon after 2010. So, you know, a lot of you guys are looking for turnkey rentals or even single family homes in general, man, it's just so competitive out there. retirements kind of been steady. I was in San Diego the other month and a guy from john burns gave a speech on market conditions. They're like good slides in here. I just took this one to add in the presentation. Where do we expect the growth to be the strongest will it's all the southern states and this is what I mentioned before. Peter likes little smiley face in United States. I think the further I had properties was Pennsylvania and Indianapolis. But I since sold those properties. Now my most northern property is up in the mines. And yeah, it's a pain in the butt. You got all this pipes breaking and you know the trends are all everybody's moving to the south. Maybe it has something to do with people getting older and they want to retire. But I believe it starts at markets. You're looking at job growth in the southern states for a lot of blue collar jobs. And I think that's what's driving a lot of the Southern growth to certain markets. So a commercial headline here, Florida's first LGBTQ senior housing breaks ground, kind of interesting, and I don't want to get political or or get people upset or anything like here but so like you Like senior housing it is what it is. They say like seniors like to live in clusters with their own racial similarity people. So it's just it's interesting how these things develop like this, some Huntsville news here and some Arkansas news here, a couple secondary tertiary markets that are really starting to get on the radar. And I think Gone are the days where you can just wait for deals coming from Memphis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, you know all the perennial turnkey markets that have been pushed for almost a decade now. You've got to go you've got to go and uncover some higher hanging fruit these days. So Redstone Arsenal is in Huntsville are going to 50,000 workers by 2025 new plants new a class development there and spring for Arkansas. They just leased to BNSF logistics company that I'm very familiar with. The railroad company railroads are known to be leading indicators for the economy at least that's how it was for when you were coming out of the recession in 2010 2012. They're the ones who are are hauling a lot of the raw materials the lumber the chemicals to to industries to them process and make the final product top markets for multifamily rent growth from multi housing news look at that Huntsville Alabama and I'm a little upset because I don't want anybody to know about little Huntsville This is probably the first month I've ever seen it on crack this list Las Vegas has been there but we all know kind of stay away from Las Vegas because it's a very cyclical market. Pensacola was number one Phoenix was number two Huntsville was number three Las Vegas number number four and five was Portland, Maine, and that is 4% change year over year growth. The some news that we've been falling on the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac saga in past news, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, it becomes sort of public entities after the Great Recession of 2018 Kind of collapsed government stepped in and there's there's talks about them going back to private organizations, some articles here and we'll have all this in if you guys go to simple passive cash flow calm slash investor letter, all these articles and links are found there if you would like to share that with other people, maybe you have a person who is not completely on board with investing. So Freddie Mac says here that they expect the housing market in 2020 and beyond the GSE also expects home prices growth to slow over the next few years with annual growth rates of 3.2% 2.9 and 2.1 respectively, from 2019 to 2021, respectively,7:45 still growth but I think that7:46 everybody's integrins that things are kind of slowing down but still moving forward. But definitely that Gone are the days of the four to 7% increases another article at the end offending me Freddie conservation ship by 2022 They're saying that if all goes well 2021 2022 will see a very large public offering of these companies. What does that mean? Well, I think most investors will get freaked out because oh my god, I can't find a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac loan for my properties anymore. I wouldn't worry about it. There's always going to be some other way. And then this is the government. I'd be surprised if anything you mean happens by 2023. This is also happen. I think, earlier this year for our deals. We were talking to our direct Fanny lender, and they said this is in the summertime that they had hit their annual quarter or quota for 2019. And they weren't gonna be lending anymore, but they had a meeting of the minds and then a couple weeks later, they get it all figured out and then they just move some things around and they they opened up the floodgates again, next article here on a year over year basis. The September starts of buildings with five or more units were 5.8% below September 2018. These two charts are showing the rents been pretty stable. Between a 2% to 4.3% rent increase and in relation to the CPI and then on the right side here is a chart of the multifamily starts and what that is, is new inventory coming online. Typically Class A builds are being built up ranging in 300,000 to 450,000. This last calendar year. Have you ever listened to a podcast or been in a seminar and too afraid to ask a slightly personal question, our mastermind will have an intimate feel where people are going through the program together and at their own pace if needed, in order to foster friendships. When I was learning and paying thousands of dollars for masterminds and mentorships the network however, hokey pokey as it sounds was a big part of it. What happens in the mastermind stays in the mastermind will use the BI weekly webinar sessions to the set concepts with real life examples here how someone else might implement something like infinite banking concept on a hotseat session. Our group will attract thought leaders to meet just with our exclusive group. We can get FaceTime and ask individual questions. Why? Because our group will be people who put their money where their mouth is and go out and make things happen as opposed to your local Rei Club, which is traditionally just a bunch of tire kickers and some sharks simple passive cash flow calm backslash journey to learn more.10:28 Us job gains surprisingly solid in October says real page and this comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So unemployment has gone down from almost 10% to now little under 4%. So almost like a straight line steadily going down. I mean, everybody's working out there seems like monthly change in employment if they fluctuate, but I think the orange line shows the story right there all time. lows in unemployment now one of all time but been the lowest since about a decade, another Interesting market that I've been kind of looking at lately is Phoenix, Arizona. This article here Phoenix multifamily report is showing the metro sustain economic performance and demographic expansion continues to be reflected in the multifamily market. I'm watching it it's a hot market and it typically is if you look back at the last correction and growth cycle it's growing a lot now but i don't know i mean, me personally, it's very intriguing but yet it also fell a lot in the recession too, but I think I think it would work if you bought like a smaller multifamily in a higher price area like Arcadia submarket is super solid a class but if you push like a C class up to be of course that sounds good in theory, what sounds good in theory isn't really found the ball out there. It's very rare, but I think that would be a cool way to ride this wave. So the yardie matrix report is a pretty good news source for real estate and commercial real estate. Some of their takeaways is that the US economy is a glass half full glass half the The situation where the GDP growth in quarter three was okay at 1.9%. And we expect q4 to be a little lower us oil production is keeping inflation low below 2%. The yield curve, which has inverted been inverted for five months now, or we're talking about is that people talk about the yield curve when the 10 year curve inverted and that was supposed to be marking the end of humanity and the markets as we know it, but we're all still here saying it's flattened following the September 18 and October 30. rate cuts the European and Chinese economies are still in poor shape. The US service sector labor market is extremely tight in wages continue to rise, manufacturing and farm sectors are struggling. There is a highly elevated risk of recession mid 2021, which that's their opinion. I'm reading other news sources that are not free that don't say that but I again, I think it's good to go into deals with cash flow in mind. Just don't get caught with your past. Down is kind of the same yardie continues to say here demographic and lifestyle changes are fueling strong demand for multifamily due to aging population increasing divorce rates and more younger people living at home contribute to smart demand. And overall housing production is unlikely to catch up with household formation. And this is what keeps putting upward pressure on rents and occupancy. And I think this is why you're seeing pressure for rent control a lot of the California type of markets and it continues to talk about some more political risk more from yardie. They came out and it's just another graph here of GDP growth. It's been pretty much positive for a decade Consumer Confidence Index. I don't know how they measure that, but right now it's at all time highs for the last two decades and the Atlanta fed GDP q4 2019. forecast is 1.1. So they also brought up this interesting thought about inflation. Why is there no inflation and they're saying the US oil is flooding the market now I only recently started to check oil I did an oil and gas deal by myself and the last year14:05 so now I'm actually know what the what the price of oil was before I didn't really care. But now I'm kind of starting to pay attention to it. And that's I think that's indicative of like learning, right? Like if you wanted to learn Bitcoin go put in 500 bucks and you'll start to pay attention to it. So I think what what they're saying here is why isn't inflation going up? Well, the US oil supply is kind of coming into the market and I think that's what's kind of I don't know if I'm saying it right, but maybe it's a cheaper support soil. For those of you guys doing Airbnb and short term rentals. I do have a simple passive casual Facebook group just for that but I'm not a big fan of doing the short term rental stuff and other bad news headline here Airbnb is banning all open invite parties and events says Newsweek hosts who attempt to circumvent this ban, and allow guests to throw large parties will be subject to consequences. Now I thought this was a great idea about 510 years ago right? If you're pretty frugal and you want to downsize or have a small apartment you want to have friends over what do you do you get a cool big air b&b and you you trashed a place there or you have everybody come over there but apparently Airbnb dawns upon that five markets with the greatest rent loss so you don't want to be on this list number one Midland Odessa they had a percent change of negative 4% number 200. Hawaii Gee, I wonder where that is. It's it's kind of funny because we don't really have boy doesn't really have seasons out here. Number three, Baton Rouge number four Scranton, number five Lafayette like Charles I'm in some fields and like Charles downs kind of alarming to me. So a lot of you guys sent me this article and I thought I'd put it in here because since you guys were interested in me, I didn't really care. Number one, it still has to go through a lot of voting. But so the SEC is proposing to update accredited investor definition to increase access for investments to a minority portation what they're doing is they're adding this term sophisticated are accredited for accredited investors, you can sort of test your way into being accredited by doing like a series six or seven. They haven't figured it out yet, nor have they approve this. But for those investors who are sophisticated, and maybe like half a million dollars net worth, you're able to test to be a credit status. But again, I don't know why this even matters because 97 to 90% of deals out there, if you go to the SEC website, you, you look, we actually spend the time and go look, the Egor database, 90 to 97% of those deals out there are 456 beat deals, which include non accredited investors, sophisticated investors, I don't know why people always fight to get into five or six seed deals. In my opinion, the reason why they're doing is they can't raise the money from their list. That way, they have to go to some crowdfunding website and they have to kind of throw a hail mary for investors, but that's just the way I look at it. crowdfunding websites just cost too much too. Obviously not for the investors but for the audience. Operator it just costs too much money to have money raised that way. I don't know why any good operator would use that as a means of raising capital unless they're desperate average new apartment size shrinks in the East and West Coast City says the national Ari investor in buildings developed since 2010. Apartments average roof size was 940 square feet that's down from an average size of a roughly 1000 square feet in buildings created or before 2010 same prior to 2010 properties were more likely to feature a more prominent mix of two and three bedroom floor plans as opposed to studios in one bedrooms in this kind of goes hand in hand with like like in Hawaii, they there's a lot of multi family households, a lot of people living under one roof. So if you guys have been keeping up with simple passive cash flow, calm content, I say that jokingly because it's almost impossible to do it but these are the new articles that I created this month and the first one is transitioning to syndications and help Tips webinar that was a recent podcast and it's also an a webinar video forum. So if you guys haven't checked out this and passive cash flow YouTube channel, go ahead and search for that if you're listening to this on the podcast just all be on video form for you to look at the cool pictures I spent all my time searching for you guys make it worthwhile for me check it on the YouTube channel. And so the next article here that I worked on was infinite banking with whole life insurance for 2020 when I have Chris miles as a guest, and he actually went through and showed a comparison of two policies, something that I know it's never been done before, but I keep telling these guys like my podcast listeners, and my folks are super smart. Like you just can't keep bringing the same old lame stuff. It's boring. Number three here, new investor portal with three modules and the past deal webinars. So I launched the simple passive cash flow members portal, it is free, but you only get the first three modules of the course and you guys can do that by signing up for the newsletter. The investor club at simple passive cash flow calm slash club I also created this other 2020 goals lunch which after this meeting, we are going to stick around and we are going to go through this goals lunch exercise together and it looks like we have a good amount of people. So we can definitely do a lot of utilize these virtual breakout rooms to hair off and get some interaction within our tribe. So I'm kind of transitioning to my personal activities this past month, it gives my investors insight into my life and maybe gives you some ideas and some things you guys to work on. I break them up into six categories. And the first one is growth. So I spent a lot of December planning for 2020 I one of these ideas I had in my head was to finally do a multi day mastermind in Hawaii. And we've done one in Sonoma before and then last year we did one in would have been Phil Washington near Seattle but never in Hawaii because I had this living belief that nobody would fly out to Hawaii to see me but apparently a lot of people will these days or maybe it's just Hawaii but you guys can check that out simple passive cash flow calm slash Hawaii three h UI three for details on that if you'd like to join us but personally I've implemented this new idea of profit first by Mike mccalla Wits he gave a keynote speech at our last mastermind and initially it's kind of sounds kind of obvious almost elementary like yeah, obviously dummy like you pay yourself first right you put money aside first he brought this matrix here and I'm showing on the screen but it shows where you are in terms of how much money you bring in says real revenue range but that's more of like20:42 instead of real revenue concert more profit. So let's just say you're bringing in zero to two quarter million dollars your profit you should put aside as pure profit is 5%. So you should put like, you know, out of 100 grand five grand into the bank or make Different bank account like me personally, I'm going to put that in my wife's account and consider that gone. Hopefully that builds a little goodwill for me. So I can keep investing. The next category is owners pay. So this is where you pay yourself a salary for what you're doing. And it's different. It's a little different from profit, but very similar. So they're recommend in here 50% to set aside so your salary and these kind of go back to overview of this, like this is more for entrepreneurs, but I feel like all us real estate investors are sort of like entrepreneurs, where the trouble is like, when do you take profits off the table and actually start living instead of putting your nose to the grindstone and keep saving and putting more money into the next few in the next few in the next in the next year. This gave me a little bit more framework. The next category is taxes. So it's 15% whether you make zero dollars or bazillion dollars, of course some investors making over $300,000 a year might say like what the heck, that's 15% but I see it all the time. You know, that's why you got to be investing. You got to get the deductions and then the bonus depreciation, that's how you get down to that 15% number 2018, I paid 14%. And this past year, I paid 4% of taxes and all following the rules. So the IRS wants to automate, they can come and get it, you know, maybe they'll learn a thing or two, when I figure or at least tell me how to do it the right way, operating expenses. Now, this is something that I took away like, and this is what I see as an investor as the, you know, putting back into your business or buying more properties. So they're saying, the less you make, the less you should be putting back into your business or investing but for me, it was I was doing so many things by myself in terms of running the investment side and running the education company and then going to the gym every day and stuff like that, I realized that my overhead was super low. And I was working like 12 hour days. I mean, last night, I was up to like three o'clock in the morning doing some of this stuff, and that shouldn't be the case and that's going to probably going to lead to burnout. So going through this profit first exercise, I really lies that I need to allocate at least 30% to spending on things like I bought this drink this drink is like a fortune it's like five or six bucks but as opposed to going to the store and buying all the vegetables a cold press it I just buy23:13 it at some point time is more valuable than money. But if your net worth is under a quarter million dollars, I'm not talking to you, sir. You need to keep working and being a cheapskate In my opinion, second category or contribution I'm going to lead this goals seminar right after this. That's kind of like give back to the community I do every year made it a lot better this year than last year. So there are some new things if you guys have done it in the past. So people like like to go through this exercise. It's kind of a live experience. And we'll be doing this also in Hawaii, but I've got a few other tricks up my sleeve to add to the content. But those of you guys who be sticking around the whole thing is playful out and I think you'll get a lot out of it. third category is significance. So close couple of deals late last year, the hundred four unit and how Phil and then the 212 unit in reflections that I went and visited last time I was in Dallas last month and I played around with the golf cart. You guys saw me on social media playing around with that. Yeah, that's that's why I do what I do. Because I can play around with the quote unquote, other property is that what that is called approach on higher level guests and others and authors on the podcast. So what I'm looking to do, there's find things that you guys are interested in. So if like, I'm having a more mindset person coming in, but not one of those fooful people, and I'm going to steer them in the right direction. But this is all simple passive cash flow. It shouldn't take very long to do all this stuff. And I keep telling a lot of people in the mastermind, if you're spending more than like, five, six hours a month, being a passive investor, you're doing it the wrong way. You need to figure out how to do a lot more efficiently because you're doing it wrong. And I get it like if it's your first few months, you're going to be consuming podcasts left and right, but there's an easy way of doing it and then there's a hard way of doing it. So if there's any content out there that you want Want me to use the simple passive capital podcast to get certain guests to ask our questions and let me know. I'm always looking for feedback for the podcast to add more value out to you guys. category four is uncertainty. I'm trying to take some new mastermind groups and stop going to the normal real estate groupie ones out there which just usually has a bunch of newbies at it. And what's been frustrating is I can't tell who are like legit people because everybody is wearing their nicest suit and everywhere you go, it looks like the NBA Draft. So I've been trying some different mastermind groups outside of real estate and just traveling to new places meeting different people. I will be out to Huntsville earlier this month. If you guys want to come in, walk some properties with me out there, put that out to the mastermind group. I usually release my travel schedule a number five certainty to here because you always want to have certainty in your life. You can't be all like get all your comfort zone nonsense all the time. So I went to Japan last week I was in Japan and just ate a bunch of food. It's very comfortable. There. That's, that's what I did. My Christmas number six year love and connection schedule more meetings to this. I mean yesterday I talked to like eight people throughout the day but before the year gets moving and if we haven't talked before let's get on the phone and let's connect simple passive cash flow calm slash talk before the year gets busy and I don't have time for that anymore get signed up for that some resistance distraction barriers or noise that I've been dealing with, you know, with all the holidays, and I can't seem to get anything done. Everybody just wants to have dinner things like the holidays are over. Also, you guys have any friends who are interested in simple passive cash flow getting that lifestyle and you're tired of talking to them blue in the face, and they don't listen to podcasts and things silly things like that recommend the e commerce and connect us via email and then I'll pay out a referral fee. Let me do the hard work and educating and you can just have lunch with them 510 years from now when you're both retired.27:00 other random things I bought I bought this cold pressed juice subscription. I guess that's I don't I guess that's considered something where it's super easy and maybe I should probably find something harder to do but that's what I bought this month and it really buying myself any Christmas presents, unfortunately this year, but I've been reading this book, David Goggins a lot of people talk about this guy. So my good buddies, they listen to this podcast, he's kind of crazy. He does ultra marathons and he went to buds like three times if you listen to like the first chapter, it's all about his childhood how he's abused and it's actually kind of graphic and I listened to it on my audio book I don't read it's definitely shakes you up for sure. Here's a link out to that and I've got all my other recommended books if you click this link in the show notes, which is at simple passive cash flow calm slash investor letter, and then the the easter egg here is that the passive investor axillary and mastermind is in your 2020 and if you guys are interested in that, please go to simple passive cash flow calm slash journey and if you just Interested in the E course, go to simple passive cash flow calm slash e course. But maybe we have time for a couple of questions. If you are any comments about some of the news we kind of went through earlier, we can do that now. Or we can go right into the goals seminar about the recession at the beginning, what could happen with a recession and the return on the syndication, say that the recession of three years and what will change in the expected return? Well, I mean, I don't know specifically what deal you're talking about. But every deal is different, right? And that's why you can be investing in all types of things. For me, I go into investments that are producing cash flow today, so that there's a little bit of buffer there, right. And I think a lot of people, they'll have this mindset of I'm not going to invest because everybody's saying it's the top of the market cycle, right? But we don't know it could go for another four years, Trump's likely going to get reelected and this week could be on this part drunken party for another four years. You're gonna miss out you're missing out because you listen to somebody Random headline or some there's a lot of fear base articles and new and new subscriptions out there and I wouldn't get cash flow investing confused with fix and flipping real estate is all for it's all considered real estate and I think that's to me that's hot that's the difference that I see if it cash flows. That's that's a big indicator that I look for this website offers very general information concerning real estate for investment purposes every investor situation is unique. Always seek the services of licensed third party appraisers and inspectors to verify the value and condition of any property you intend to purchase. Use the services of professional title and escrow companies and licensed tax investment and or legal advisor before relying on any information contained herein information is not guaranteed as an everyday investment there is risk the content found here is just my opinion and things change and I reserve the right to change my mind. Above all else, do your own analysis and think for yourself because in the end, you're the only person who is going to look out for your best interests. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tex went back to Texas, where he’s from in the western Midland-Odessa area, after his mother died there, but now he’s back in Reno, where he’s lived on the streets before. He found out some of his friends had died while he was away. “They died out here freezing to death because they had nowhere to go,” he said. “The shelter, I don't care if they have space, I will not ever go there because it's nothing but disease… It's just nasty. People fighting all the time.” He used to wok in saw mills, but injuries have weighed him down. Still he says he’s a survivor. “I know how to live. Can't knock me down. I got more metal in my legs and I feel every screw right now in this cold weather. It doesn't matter. I just keep moving. They told me I wasn't going to walk again. I said bullshit. I call bullshit on that.” During the winter he says the key is to keep your feet dry. “I mean, this could be a Vietnam for us out here, 24-7, but you gotta keep your feet dry and clean,” he said. This podcast episode is from our archive interview vault with reporters Prince Nesta and Jordan Blevins.

On this episode of Sharing Sweat Equity we welcome Texas State Representative Lina Ortega in the studio to recap her second year in the legislature. We cover a variety of topics from transparency in government contracting, to the 2020 Census, to protecting voting rights in Texas, and potential changes to gun control legislation in Texas in light of the shootings in El Paso and Midland/Odessa.

Mike Emanuel is the Chief Congressional and Senior Political Correspondent for FOX Newschannel. A proud Rutgers University alum, Mike discusses his undergraduate days at Rutgers where he started his broadcast career at WRSU-FM. He shares experiences from his television career which began in Midland-Odessa, Texas and ultimately led him to Washington DC where he has covered three presidents.

Midland-Odessa, El Paso, Santa Fe, Sutherland Springs… We’ll take a look at laws that may have helped prevent these mass shootings. Also, three Texas border cities are part of the Trump Administration’s so-called “remain in Mexico” program. But there’s some confusion in the rollout, we’ll explore. And a think tank with a focus on renewables...

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Buckle your seatbelts and hold on cuz we're going from 20 to Skillman this week! Can I Please Hold the Mic Podcast starts off with a game of 'This or That?' (11:38). Prayers to the lives and families involved in the Midland/Odessa mass shooting (15:07) also prayers to Kevin Hart as he suffered major back injuries in a saw accident at the start of the week (20:23). T.I. is coming for our podcast bag with a new podcast 'ExpediTIously' (22:00). Meek Mill is free (25:49)! Naomi Osaka defeats CoCo Gauff at the U.S. Open (28:53). VMA'S....performances and more (34:05). Khrystal's Korner- Power, Love & Hip Hop Hollywood, Growing Up Hip Hop BY and Basketball Wives (47:55). Brandy v. Monica... the age old rivalry (1:09:15). Album reviews- Jidenna, Rapsody, Missy Elliott and Young Jeezy (1:20:00). Main topic - societal pressures (1:41:04). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/CIPHMPOD/support

The tragic shooting in Midland/Odessa over the weekend claimed the life of a Panhandle native, the Amarillo City Council set to meet this afternoon, the High Plains Food Bank needs your help, and more with today's ICYMI Eagle News Update.

The Governor says The status quo is unacceptable in the aftermath of the second mass shooting in West Texas in a month. We’ll have more on reaction to this weekend’s mass shooting in the Midland Odessa region and the mounting sense of frustration over what to do to end what the governor calls the status...

On Today's Episode of Hard Factor...Hurricane Dorian absolutely destroyed the Bahamas over the weekend, and now it's headed for the US. Here's a charity that you can donate to if you want to help: https://www.bahamas.com/hurricane-relief. Other terrible headlines, including a mass shooting spree in Midland/Odessa, TX, violent escalations in the Hong Kong protests, and a horrible diving boat fire in California. It's not all bad though, a guy in Singapore got arrested for making other men look bad, Brazilian politicians want to choke French President Emmanuel Macron and are cutting hilarious fight promos, and a man trolls an entire town into Bigfoot delusions.Get $20 matched on your first deposit to bet on political futures: http://www.predictit.org/promo/hardfactor20SUBSCRIBE BELOW:iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-factor/id1396058631?mt=2Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4SuHIQmibGsVoSOofO7QNk?si=2bggCEvRRnOCWjT1i7RU1QiHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/58-Hard-Factor-29438152/?cmp=web_shareStitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=195267 Follow Hard Factor on Twitter: @HardFactorNews: https://twitter.com/hardfactornews@HardFactorMark: https://twitter.com/HardFactorMark@HardFactorPat: https://twitter.com/HardFactorPat@HardFactorWes: https://twitter.com/HardFactorWes@HardFactorWill: https://twitter.com/HardFactorWill

After the El Paso and Dayton shootings, I felt inspired to write a poem about the intersection between kill counts, political talking points, viral messages, and being at a loss in between all the words. The audio is available via the podcast. You can watch the video below: Get on the email list at strongcom.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit localleadership.substack.com

Originally aired in a live format on 4/13/19 in San Antonio. Aired between 4/20/19 - 4/21/19 in Houston (iHeartRadio), Corpus Christi, Dallas and Midland/Odessa. Episode 199 of "In The Oil Patch" This week on "In The Oil Patch": host Kym Bolado welcomes Karr Ingham, Economist at the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers onto the show for a special live show! During the live taping, Kym and Karr took phone calls from a live call-in line, so stream this whole episode to see how it went! Be sure to catch In The Oil Patch every weekend following this schedule: Saturdays from 8am-9am KSIX 1230 AM, 95.1 FM & 96.1 FM Corpus Christi Saturdays from 1pm-2pm KWEL 1070 AM & 107.1 FM Midland / Odessa / Permian Basin Saturdays from 2pm-3pm FREEDOM 1160 AM San Antonio / New Braunfels / San Marcos / Austin Sundays from 8pm-9pm KTRH Newsradio 740 AM Simulcast on the iHeartRADIO app Houston / Worldwide Let us know what you think about our shows on our Facebook page - Facebook.com/intheoilpatch and be sure to share, follow and like us on Soundcloud, Twitter and LinkedIn too! "In The Oil Patch" is brought to you by SHALE Oil & Gas Business Magazine and proudly sponsored by the South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER). Stay tuned for more great episodes every weekend! For our full schedule, please visit our Radio Show Schedule page and if you have any questions for our experts, please email them to radio@shalemag.com.

Josh,  Nikki and Larry Gilbert discuss the new ‘More to Come’ prayer initiative. They talk about the projected social-landscape of Midland-Odessa in the next ten years and challenge people to consider what their part in God’s work could be. They also discuss some practical challenges, myths, and approaches to prayer. They end by challenging everyone to engage in this new prayer initiative.

Originally aired in a live format on 3/9/19 in San Antonio Aired between 3/16/19 - 3/17/19 in Houston (iHeartRadio), Corpus Christi, Dallas and Midland/Odessa. Episode 197 of "In The Oil Patch" This week on "In The Oil Patch": host Kym Bolado welcomes John Tintera, Executive at the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers onto the show for a special live show! During the live taping, Kym and John took phone calls from a live call-in line, so stream this whole episode to see how it went! Be sure to catch In The Oil Patch every weekend following this schedule: Saturdays from 8am-9am KSIX 1230 AM, 95.1 FM & 96.1 FM Corpus Christi Saturdays from 1pm-2pm KWEL 1070 AM & 107.1 FM Midland / Odessa / Permian Basin Saturdays from 2pm-3pm FREEDOM 1160 AM San Antonio / New Braunfels / San Marcos / Austin Sundays from 8pm-9pm KTRH Newsradio 740 AM Simulcast on the iHeartRADIO app Houston / Worldwide Let us know what you think about our shows on our Facebook page - Facebook.com/intheoilpatch and be sure to share, follow and like us on Soundcloud, Twitter and LinkedIn too! "In The Oil Patch" is brought to you by SHALE Oil & Gas Business Magazine and proudly sponsored by the South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER). Stay tuned for more great episodes every weekend! For our full schedule, please visit our Radio Show Schedule page and if you have any questions for our experts, please email them to radio@shalemag.com.

Originally aired in a live format on 2/9/19 in San Antonio Aired between 2/16/19 - 2/17/19 in Houston (iHeartRadio), Corpus Christi, Dallas and Midland/Odessa. Episode 193 of "In The Oil Patch" This week on "In The Oil Patch": host Kym Bolado welcomes John Tintera, Executive at the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers onto the show for a special live show! During the live taping, Kym and John took phone calls from a live call-in line, so stream this whole episode to see how it went! Be sure to catch In The Oil Patch every weekend following this schedule: Saturdays from 8am-9am KSIX 1230 AM, 95.1 FM & 96.1 FM Corpus Christi Saturdays from 1pm-2pm KWEL 1070 AM & 107.1 FM Midland / Odessa / Permian Basin Saturdays from 2pm-3pm FREEDOM 1160 AM San Antonio / New Braunfels / San Marcos / Austin Sundays from 8pm-9pm KTRH Newsradio 740 AM Simulcast on the iHeartRADIO app Houston / Worldwide Let us know what you think about our shows on our Facebook page - Facebook.com/intheoilpatch and be sure to share, follow and like us on Soundcloud, Twitter and LinkedIn too! "In The Oil Patch" is brought to you by SHALE Oil & Gas Business Magazine and proudly sponsored by the South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER). Stay tuned for more great episodes every weekend! For our full schedule, please visit our Radio Show Schedule page and if you have any questions for our experts, please email them to radio@shalemag.com.

Our friend Matt Barnes, formerly of Midland-Odessa and their famed run to the NPSL finals in 2017, has a new job. He is now in charge of the Turks & Caicos national team and involved in qualifying for the Concacaf Nations League. Jon Nelson caught up with Matt to talk about his latest career move.

World Rejects (Adrian Angelo and Phyre) Interview at KE 2018 SXSW in Austin, TX!Exclusive interview with your hosts Dre Coop!!! and Shemaiah Reedhttps://www.instagram.com/yungovaseer/https://www.instagram.com/shemaiahreed/Houston, TX has always been a hotbed for talented musicians and artists across the spectrum of the music industry and its Christian Hip-Hop genre is no exception. While many high caliber acts can be found within its city limits, one group has piqued the interest of many. They are known as the World Rejects.The World Rejects, then an eight-member group, set their city ablaze in 2013 with release of their first mixtape “Reject Familia.” The project garnered a massive wave of grassroots support which helped the group win NGEN Radio’s “Big Break” contest, securing a spot to open for Andy Mineo at Houston’s popular Discovery Green venue. The World Rejects followed up with tour stops in Dallas, Midland/Odessa, and Austin where the group was selected to perform at the acclaimed SXSW Kingdom Experience. Members’ Phyre and Adrian Angelo have since released solo projects, both curated by BeatKaso, which have been well received by their loyal fan base. The World Reject’s roster today is much leaner, respectively, and consists of Phyre, BeatKaso, and Adrian Angelo. Phyre’s gritty and stout vocals have been a trademark for the group. BeatKaso’s creative genius can be heard on both sides of the soundboard. Veteran Adrian Angelo anchors the group, providing leadership at the intersection where ministry and the music industry meet. The Houston trio have just announced their Trill Content Concert Series for 2017 and have a new project in the works entitled “Southern Gospel,” due out later this year.http://theworldrejects.com/Hear this podcast on Googleplay, TuneinRadio, iTunes, Spreaker, Youtube, and iHeartradioPodcast weekly broadcast location:Rockafellas Barber Shop (Owner: Rico Rodriguez)1733 Babcock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229Sponsors:I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by River City Donuts San Ant1723 Babock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by Bay Bay McClinton of All Sports Speed and Conditioninghttp://www.allsportsfitness.net/All Sports Speed and Conditioning is the top sports performance training gyms in San Antonio, and has produce many collegiate and professional athletes since opening. All Sports was founded in 1997 by Bremond “Bay Bay” McClinton. All Sports is based out of the beautiful city of San Antonio, TX. Having accomplished his own career in professional sports; starting a company like All Sports was a natural transition for him. Bay Bay is a native of San Antonio, TX. His 100 meter dash in High School at Roosevelt High in San Antonio was not broken until recently. In college Bay Bay played opposite the great future hall of famer, Darrell Green. He went on to sign a professional career with the Houston Oilers, Dallas Cowboys and played 7 years in the European Leagues before returning to his home town to finish his career “San Antonio Texans”. In 2006, his company, All Sports administered the strength and conditioning program for the East vs West Shriners’s college senior bowl. In 2008-09, All Sports administered the strength and conditioning program for the Division II college Senior Cactus Bowl All Star game in Kingsville. Today All Sports Speed and Conditioning continues to train athletes to elevate their athletic performance to the next level in all sports.I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by D.W. Brooks Funeral Home2950 E. Houston St.San Antonio, TX 78202Email: info@dwbrooksfh.comPhone: 210-223-2045Website: dwbrooksfuneralhome.comI Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by Overflowcafe.com Does your website need more traffic? Well visit Overflowcafe.com today! They make websites popular and over 41,000 people use their service to gain more customers. They are winning at business. What about you? Visit Overflowcafe.com Shemaiah is a proud supporter of beyondbeanie.comFor every item purchased we help a child in need. Rock a beyond beanie. Change a life.Use Shemaiah's code for a 25% discount = REED25

World Rejects (Adrian Angelo and Phyre) Interview at KE 2018 SXSW in Austin, TX!Exclusive interview with your hosts Dre Coop!!! and Shemaiah Reedhttps://www.instagram.com/yungovaseer/https://www.instagram.com/shemaiahreed/Houston, TX has always been a hotbed for talented musicians and artists across the spectrum of the music industry and its Christian Hip-Hop genre is no exception. While many high caliber acts can be found within its city limits, one group has piqued the interest of many. They are known as the World Rejects.The World Rejects, then an eight-member group, set their city ablaze in 2013 with release of their first mixtape “Reject Familia.” The project garnered a massive wave of grassroots support which helped the group win NGEN Radio’s “Big Break” contest, securing a spot to open for Andy Mineo at Houston’s popular Discovery Green venue. The World Rejects followed up with tour stops in Dallas, Midland/Odessa, and Austin where the group was selected to perform at the acclaimed SXSW Kingdom Experience. Members’ Phyre and Adrian Angelo have since released solo projects, both curated by BeatKaso, which have been well received by their loyal fan base. The World Reject’s roster today is much leaner, respectively, and consists of Phyre, BeatKaso, and Adrian Angelo. Phyre’s gritty and stout vocals have been a trademark for the group. BeatKaso’s creative genius can be heard on both sides of the soundboard. Veteran Adrian Angelo anchors the group, providing leadership at the intersection where ministry and the music industry meet. The Houston trio have just announced their Trill Content Concert Series for 2017 and have a new project in the works entitled “Southern Gospel,” due out later this year.http://theworldrejects.com/Hear this podcast on Googleplay, TuneinRadio, iTunes, Spreaker, Youtube, and iHeartradioPodcast weekly broadcast location:Rockafellas Barber Shop (Owner: Rico Rodriguez)1733 Babcock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229Sponsors:I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by River City Donuts San Ant1723 Babock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by Bay Bay McClinton of All Sports Speed and Conditioninghttp://www.allsportsfitness.net/All Sports Speed and Conditioning is the top sports performance training gyms in San Antonio, and has produce many collegiate and professional athletes since opening. All Sports was founded in 1997 by Bremond “Bay Bay” McClinton. All Sports is based out of the beautiful city of San Antonio, TX. Having accomplished his own career in professional sports; starting a company like All Sports was a natural transition for him. Bay Bay is a native of San Antonio, TX. His 100 meter dash in High School at Roosevelt High in San Antonio was not broken until recently. In college Bay Bay played opposite the great future hall of famer, Darrell Green. He went on to sign a professional career with the Houston Oilers, Dallas Cowboys and played 7 years in the European Leagues before returning to his home town to finish his career “San Antonio Texans”. In 2006, his company, All Sports administered the strength and conditioning program for the East vs West Shriners’s college senior bowl. In 2008-09, All Sports administered the strength and conditioning program for the Division II college Senior Cactus Bowl All Star game in Kingsville. Today All Sports Speed and Conditioning continues to train athletes to elevate their athletic performance to the next level in all sports.I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by D.W. Brooks Funeral Home2950 E. Houston St.San Antonio, TX 78202Email: info@dwbrooksfh.comPhone: 210-223-2045Website: dwbrooksfuneralhome.comI Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by Overflowcafe.com Does your website need more traffic? Well visit Overflowcafe.com today! They make websites popular and over 41,000 people use their service to gain more customers. They are winning at business. What about you? Visit Overflowcafe.com Shemaiah is a proud supporter of beyondbeanie.comFor every item purchased we help a child in need. Rock a beyond beanie. Change a life.Use Shemaiah's code for a 25% discount = REED25

Vinney Chopra came to the US from India with $7 in his pocket, and now he can raise $10 million in a day or two. Known for his friendly and engaging personality, Vinney has earned the affectionate nickname of Mr. Smiles. As a multifamily sponsor he has facilitated over 26 successful syndication deals and manages a successful real estate investment portfolio worth over $200 million. On this episode of Target Market Insights, he shares his thoughts on which markets are emerging and how to identify them.    Key Insights Started in multifamily in 2006, did not know the meaning of LOI, NOI, IRR or Cap Rate 24 of his 26 syndications are in Texas, with the other two being in Georgia First deal was 14 units, later that week they bought 109 units At the time, Midland-Odessa, TX had the lowest unemployment rate, flew there and met with brokers Mentored by Dave Lindahl, author of Emerging Markets Emerging Markets: Utah, Dallas, Sacramento, Columbus, San Diego, Portland, Reno, Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio Have the business plan & pitch ready for brokers and investors Looks for cash flow day one 12 syndications in the last two years Can raise $6-10 million in 1-2 days, investor base of 128 investors Selecting the right target market is the key to deliver investor returns Figured out how to have the syndication break up into TICs for reinvestment Creating a $50 million, 506(c) fund for investors What to look for when seeking an emerging market: job growth, population growth, path of progress, where are new businesses, how many units are coming on the market, what are major attractions and retailers? To find topline info on a market, look at an offering memorandum and send info/articles to your investors Bull’s Eye Tips: Winning Your Market: Focus Market Changes: IRR Reports, Chamber of Commerce, market reports, talk to the mayor (mayor’s office) Daily Habit: Meditate in the morning and pay gratitude   Resources: How to Determine Emerging Markets eBook by Vinney Chopra Best Business Books: Emerging Real Estate Markets by Dave Lindahl Rich Dad, Poor Dad, New Edition by Robert Kiyosaki Law of Attraction by Michael Losier  The Secret by Rhonda Byrne   Digital Resources YouTube, Google, Podcasts   Tweet This: “Focus is similar to a magnifying glass”   “If you are unfocused, you can not give your full energy”   “Ask brokers to call owners they sold properties to 6 years ago and tell them you want to buy”   Places to Grab a Bite: Texas Roadhouse Steak - https://www.texasroadhouse.com/   Connect with Vinney: Website: www.vinneychopra.com Phone: 925-766-3518   Leave us a review and rating on iTunes or Stitcher. Be sure to check out more info at TargetMarketInsights.com.    

Joshua Cole might never be on the cover of a bodybuilding magazine. He might never break weightlifting records. He might never be a pro physique athlete. To everyone else, Josh Cole might be just an ordinary man. But in the eyes of his 9 year old son, Jonathan David, he is his personal super hero. At 28 years old, the single dad who grew up on a farm in Midland Odessa has seen and experienced a lot of ups and downs. In this episode, Josh grants us a raw, unfiltered view into the extraordinary life that shaped him into the man he is today. The most important things in Josh’s life are his faith, and his son. Joshua wants to show his son that anything in life is possible. So after getting divorced from his wife and moving to Austin, Joshua decided he wanted to prepare for the first bodybuilding competition in his life. Staying fit and healthy is one thing, but prepping for a natural physique show is a whole different story. Listen to this episode to get tips from Josh on how to create and follow a plan, how to find motivation to reach your goals and how to persevere through personal hardships in times of disparity. He shares with us the importance of not giving up once you hit rock bottom. He gives us tips on how to look forward and how to move forward after a set back. Josh’s message is much bigger than teaching us how to become healthy and fit. He shows us that structure, discipline, faith and determination will take your farther in life than anything else. You have to take responsibilities for your life. He trusts in god and believes that doing positive things for others will create positive things in your life.

This week's podcast recaps the 2nd round Open Cup game against Midland/Odessa as well as the huge victory over defending champs Sacramento Republic. We talk about our upcoming game against Austin and, oh yeah, we play Tulsa as well.