The roller coaster of the economy and the housing market keeps rolling on with each day seemingly

more confusing than the last.

But today, James, Kathy, and I are here to help you understand what is going on in the

housing market and the news, break it all down for you, and help you make sense of what you should be doing with your own portfolio. Kathy, how are you? Thanks for being here. I'm doing great. I'm here at a conference. So God, I could be at both here with you and at this conference. Nice. What are you speaking about? This morning was on new construction. This afternoon will be how to squeeze cash flow out of

properties today. And then also doing a syndication group, all kinds of things.

Oh, you were the star of the chef.

Oh, well, maybe a little. I'm just glad to be here.

Nice, James. How are you?

I'm good. I just got back to Arizona. It's sunny and warm, and I was in the mud all week. Here in Seattle. Yeah. I think I ruined four pairs of shoes. Oh, wow. And your shoes are expensive, man. I've seen those shoes. It's a lot of money. James also was the star of the show. I don't know if you all saw it, but we did a Seattle value ad conference

over the last weekend, and you should have seen it. James talked for nine straight hours about

value ad. At one point, Kathy, you would appreciate this. He had an IV sticking out of his arm

while he was standing in front of you. Are you kidding? I'll send you the picture. No, I will send you

a picture. Oh, of will send you the picture.

Oh, of course he did. The funniest part is, James, forever doesn't know, James likes doing these IVs. I don't know what's in now. Your vitamins. But like, you were speaking in front of the conference and you didn't even mention it. You were just kind of thought it was like a natural thing to do when people were sure. I guess I didn't mention it, did I?

It was so funny.

Well, a lot of comments are. thought it was like a natural thing to do when people were sheds home. I guess I didn't mention it,

did I? It was so funny. Well, a lot of conferences right now, but a lot of fun. If you guys

don't go to any real estate conferences, you should. They're great ways to network and learn.

You obviously miss these two, but the BP con tickets are going up for sale, early bird stuff right now.

If you want to join me, James, Kathy, and tons of other people in, I think it's the best event of the year. I'm biased, but I love going to it. It's so much fun. It's October 2nd through 4th in Orlando. Definitely check those out. You just can't miss it. And it's in Orlando. Come on. It's going to be fun. Oh, yeah.

All right.

Well, let's turn to the headlines because so much is going on. Honestly, I woke up today. It's Friday, April 3rd, we're recording this. I woke up today and I was going to be like, I'm really scared of stagflation. That was going to be my headline. I was going to make my own. And then all of a sudden, we had a great jobs report today. And I'm like,

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