All right, and like I guess today on the A game podcast we released bonus episode number seven of 10 to wrap up 2022. So we got Austin brother for today.

Fantastic gentleman. I had to honor meeting him at one of Mark Evans events earlier this year. He'd been on the podcast prior to that.

A lot taller in person than it looks on the computer, but guys just killing it killing it in crypto Airbnb's social media stuff. He's another one just if you guys are not following Austin brother for the social media.

If you're investing on any level or if you're any sort of entrepreneur looking for any sort of value or nuggets or tips or or just somebody you should model yourself after awesome guy. Good demeanor.

Here nothing will get things about him from everybody that knows him and there's nothing but a gentleman what I met him as well. So thank you so much. Awesome for being a good guy coming on the podcast and it was great to obviously meet you in person connect and look forward to seeing everybody again.

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All right my guest today on the A game podcast is a former basketball player turned entrepreneur and social media star he is the author of valid to millionaire and the founder of elevate life in real estate education company teaching entrepreneurs to invest in all aspects of real estate is become very wealthy through real estate investing crypto currencies and branding himself through social media as a real estate investor he's a master portfolio of over $10 million in his razor over 15 million in private money.

He's in hundreds of transactions including flips wholesale deals rentals creative finance and short term rentals welcome to the A game podcast thank you so much for being here today Mr Austin Rutherford absolutely right i'm looking forward to today and I appreciate you having me on I appreciate you coming on man I've been following your social media game is outstanding and I've had you on a lot of different podcasts and you you've kind of come in as guest speakers on some of the masterminds of stuff that I'm in and you're always talking about something different and you're always just giving it as like such straightforward content and such really good info.

That's digestible so I like the way you teach I like the way you give stuff out and you just have a good energy man so I really really appreciate you coming on and digging into some of these things especially you know everybody today wants to talk about either social media real estate or crypto and you seem to have covered all those so thank you so much.

Absolutely I mean people always ask me like I see three opportunities in today's world real estate it's always been around it's always going to be around eyeballs which is social media and then cryptocurrency so I'm all in on it.

Nice man I love it I look to definitely start out with with real estate and I usually like to do a little bit of a deep dive into a different deal but I heard you talk a little bit about your first thing I think that there's probably a great one to start with to talk about so if you can go into a little bit of that and we'll just kind of go off from there.

Yeah man so I kind of had like technically two first deals so my first first first real estate deal was a rental property that I bought when I was 20 years old it was a duplex the cash flowed about a thousand dollars a month only for about seven years sold it a couple months ago you know made multiple six figures on it it was a great deal but my first deal that I like I really talk about is my first flip like the first time I bought renovated and then sold out so I wanted to flip houses that was how I was taught you know to make a lot of money.

You know to make a lot of money very quickly so start a marketing for deals took me 16 months of marketing and working ballet and going to college take a 15 credit hours 16 months of grinding that out finally got the first opportunity ended up buying it for $74,000 put $170,000 into the rehab of the deal and then ended up selling it and metting in my pocket $107,000 in that profit.

Then people see that that check the check was actually for 184,000 dollars but only 107 of it was met so people see that check and a lot of this is easy but like that you get 16 months of failure you know leading up to that but yeah that was my first investment I was $170,000 rehab we did a 600 square foot addition to car garage 25 grand into the foundation plumbing electric HVAC group siding windows debtors like literally anything you can do you know we knocked it out I bought a one house 21 so.

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