Let's talk about real estate. My company home run offer, you know, has been around officially

since 2017. I started flipping in 2015. So, I mean, we're going on a decade in this business.

And over time, I have learned many different things. You know, I've made lots of money flipping

houses over the years. So we flipped six, seven hundred

houses at this point. I've done millions and millions of dollars. But I've also lost millions

on bad deals. And as I have kind of gone about it over the last few years, in some ways I have

overcorrected. In other ways, I was reckless. And so what I'm about to share

with you are goals now that I think are more important to me as I've gotten older and as I've

taken a lot of wins, but also a lot of losses and how I plan to kind of like find that happy

balance of risk versus reward. So,

um, first thing is to give some, uh, hindsight, you know, from 2018 to 2022, I was predominantly

all flip, meaning I was actually buying the properties, fixing them up, um, taking on lots of debt, all the risk.

You know, my investors didn't take any risk.

I personally guaranteed everything.

And look, I mean, it made me a lot of money from 18, 19, 2020, 2021, and the beginning of

2022.

But when interest rates doubled midway through 22, I got left holding the bag. I mean,

I paid back all my investors. It was super painful to do. I mean, I'm thankful I had the money

and all that different stuff, but they didn't lose anything from it. I personally lost millions

selling off all of our deals, paying back all of the interests due to our investors,

paying back all their principal. It was a huge learning experience for me. And, you know,

going into 2023 and 2024, I said, you know what? I never want to have that many flips again.

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