This is Real Estate Rookie episode 323.

My system now is I have my contractor come in on every job and just walk through everything we want to do and then just bid a price and then we set that price and then his that's kind of like his incentive because it's like, okay, if this job is going to cost us 20, if I'm going to pay you 20 grand and you get it done in three weeks and you just made 20 grand in three weeks, if I'm going to pay you 20 grand.

So my name is Ashley Care and I'm here with my co host Tony J Robinson and welcome to the Real Estate Rookie podcast where every week twice a week, we're bringing you the inspiration motivation and stories you need to hear to kickstart your investing journey and today we're back with another guest we got Matt Ramirez on the podcast and actually going to talk a little bit more about Matt as an individual and my history so unique, but Matt's going to share a couple of really important things for you. He's going to share the worst way

to pay a contractor. He's going to share how a panic attack at work pretty much changes whole life trajectory and it's going to talk about how to find off market deals lots of great content coming your way one thing that we learn about Matt in this episode, he is going to tell us how he lost 80% of his income during COVID, then he has these life events that happen and almost forces him to become a real estate investor to survive.

He also ends up having to move cross country to live with his father in law and how that actually might have been a good thing for his real estate investing.

So hold on before we dive into today's episode let's take a quick break.

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Matt welcome to the show thank you so much for joining us today I want to have a little fun before we actually get into the full episode and play a game are you up for it always up for a game.

So we're going to play true two truths and a lie okay I'm going to read these and I want our audience to guess which is actually the lie so you're listening right now pay attention okay and don't reveal what are the truth before we've we've let Tony guess okay.

Okay so here are the three things made six figures as an entrepreneur operator of a corporate focused fitness company for 10 years second one is trained sea animals and performed on stage weekly with a walrus named Gus for five years and the third is you were a part time stuntman on 50

50 different TV shows and movies so Tony what do you think is the lie I feel like the most outrageous one is usually the truth so I'm going to say the lie was was a part time stuntman on 50 TV shows and movies.

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