Welcome to Real Talk Real Estate, the show where we cover how to build wealth in real estate with no fluff, no BS, and no sales pitches. I'm David Green, and I've been doing this for over 10 years. I've seen the ups, the downs, and everything in between. This is the show where we pull back the curtain and show it to you too. So if you want to build wealth through real estate or you just love learning about it, you found your home. What's going on, everyone?

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I'm David Green. wealthy real estate or you just love learning about it you found your home what's going on everyone welcome to real talk real estate this is the david green show i'm david green and i'm joined by my good buddy nick lamagna as he says like lasagna but with an m he is a brazilian jiu jiu jutsu black belt you'd never see it coming because he is happy and nice and friendly like a chipmunk, but he's like a murder chipmunk that will absolutely tie you up into a pretzel and leave you there begging for mercy. He's also a real estate investor out in the East Coast, travels all over the place, and took me to my first UFC fight, which was actually a blast. Nick, how are you doing today? Doing good, man. I appreciate you having on it. It's always always good to get on and catch up with you, sir. And that was a really great time with the UFC, man. I didn't realize that was your first one, man. You handed it a like a pro. Dude, it was a little shocking seeing our buddies like with that weight cut. I just was like, whoa, man, like that's an insane amount of weight to lose.

They just, I mean, it's like, you see why people say this is not healthy when you see what your

friends look like with that much.

I never seen that soon off the scale before.

And I was blown away.

Like I almost, I didn't even want to hug out, Joe.

I like, I was like, it's, it makes you really think about like what those guys go through that people don't see it. It's insane, dude. Yeah, I believe Al-I Quinta was there too. And we had him on a previous seeing green episode. So you guys can check that one out if you like today's show with Nick. Nick, before we get into it, give a little background on yourself. What's your investing experience? What do you do? And like, what's the lens that you're looking at real estate investing through? Man, you know, I, uh, I tell everybody, I'm, I'm not great at anything. I got a lot of experience doing a whole bunch of different stuff. And, uh, I go back and forth sometimes my superpower is my lack of focus because it's allowed me to embrace a lot of different opportunities

where I've done a bunch of stuff from, you know, Burr's to residential fixing flips, wholesales,

wholesales, I've done your basic house next door to some luxury stuff. I've wholesale deals I made

$1,500 on. I've wholesale deals I've made $141,000 on. I've sold land. I've done tax liens, tax

deeds, multifamily land development. And I started with a national model where really I was getting

into remote real estate investing in 2008, 2007, before it was like a really popular thing.

And we had all these amazing tools with technology like we had because I'm a New York

guy and trying to start out in New York City with no money, no credit, no experience is extremely

challenging. So I was almost forced into this out-of-state model, which I had a ton of bumps and bruises

along the way. I wasn't really happy that I was forced to invest out-of-state, but it allowed me to put

a lot of processes and experiences together that, you know, it comes to 2020, the pandemic comes around.

Everybody has to switch to online and it wound up being something I was already a little ahead

of the curve up. So, you know, I got into doing some bigger deals, doing some multifamily stuff,

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