We are betting on all things that are like opposite to AI.

Everything sucks. Everything's hard.

Is this like my flavor of suck? Is this my flavor of heart, right?

51% of the economy is owned by small businesses ages like 51 to 70 or something.

Anybody that says they're like, oh yeah, I love SBA.

I'm like, they're never bought a business.

I wish I would have just partnered up and done a bigger deal sooner. Blake Daly calls me and say, hey, I need a million dollars. It's like in 24 hours. All right. Tim, welcome to the Action Academy podcast, my friend. How are you? What is going on, Brian? Good to be on, man. Dude, good to finally talk. You and I connected over Instagram and I was like, dude, we're just going to be boys. Like, we need to, we need to hop on the pod. We need to go travel. We need to go build some hotels together, man. I'm excited to hear about your story, what you got going on, how you got there, and what what value we're delivering to the audience

today. So for somebody that's unfamiliar with Tim Ensman, who are you? What do you do today? And then

we'll reverse engineer it. Yeah, man. So I'm Tim Ensman. I'm actually at Tampa Florida right now,

but we are betting on all things that are like opposite to AI. So experiences, getting out with your friends,

like building, you know, building those memories. So that's really what we're focused on and,

you know, creating these like really unique experiential types of properties. And we're doing

that across the United States. Beautiful. So what properties do you guys own and run today? And then which ones are

you developing currently? Yeah. So we started out with short-term rentals. So that's kind of our

natural progression. So myself, the natural story. The national story. Yeah, man. So you get 20 plus

short-term rentals. You're like, oh, my gosh, we need to learn

a little about scale. Have we ever considered, hey guys, it's like you just sit around a campfire. You're like, what if we had all of these under one roof? You're like, oh my gosh, really? Yeah, exactly. So yeah, so now we have three boutique hotels, say boutique hotels, but they're like experiential type, resorts. And then we have our management portfolio, which is you still own a couple of Airbnbs,

but also manage others as well.

Beautiful.

So let's reverse engineer it a little bit because boutique hotels are the, you know,

kind of the hot girl at the bar right now alongside as much of a hot girl as plumbing companies

for some reason now and laundromat. So buying a boutique hotel so walk us back so you were what were

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