So I remember 2017 sitting now at the end of the year, we're at this restaurant, me and him, and we're looking at the deals all year and asking ourselves, what were our best deals? And it was these random deals that had problems. And I wouldn't let any deal go because, like, I'm hungry. You know, I got no money. I got, well, I got some money, but it's relative. Yeah, yeah. So I'm hungry. And when four or five owners would show up, one of them would have a child support lien from not paying like baby mama child support. One of them got sued for not paying a credit card. All these problems, they wouldn't sell. Those are the deals that hadn't yet sold in that part of town. Right. So at that time, I would go back. I realized those were the best deals and thought, how can I get some more of these? So that's when this little baby. And what year was that? 2017. So you start off buying land. It's pretty easy. Nobody's doing it. It's whatever. Yeah. You don't get lucky, but you just kind of wing it. I made some good choices. And there was some luck. I couldn't recreate what happened. Yeah, great timing, right? And then you find this partner. And obviously, you've been one of them ever since. It's been great. And then you start to realize, okay, foreclosures are kind of dying because less people are getting foreclosed on. Big hedge funds are coming in the door, buying up everything, right? I saw that in Vegas. You know, I got started in Vegas in 2010 as a realtor. Oh, you're right in the heat of it then. It's coming right after that. Yeah, and Vegas had the most foreclosures in the nation. So I remember people would tell me about these auctions.

And I mean, even on market in Vegas back in 2010, the average home was $100,000.

That was the average house now.

Five.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

So it was crazy.

And, you know, with that, I just remember as a realtor, it sucked because you make 3%. Like, I'm not an investor. And nobody could buy in 2010. Everyone had been foreclosed on. No one had capital. Oh, gosh. You know, you couldn't get listings because no one owned houses. It was all foreclosures. So, like, in Vegas, I think 90% of the listings were foreclosures. That was after they had already been through the auction and no one wanted them. Yeah. Oh, my God. It was crazy. So, long story short, I remember all those TV shows started to come out, and a lot of them were in Vegas,

where they were going to the auctions and buying these houses for like 30 grand, you know, houses in Las Vegas. You're watching on TV? Like, uh-oh, what's up? Well, I'm just like, how are they even doing that? Like, I thought $100,000 was a lot of money. I'm like, dude, these houses are $100,000. and they're getting them for 30.

I don't know how they're doing this.

And anyways, long story short,

I'm in the business for a while.

And then,

20, I'm like, dude, these houses are 100,000. They're getting them for 30. I don't know how they're doing this. And anyways, long story, short, I'm in the business for a while. And then 2015 was when I started flipping houses. So I went five years where I didn't flip at all. I just was like a realtor doing stuff, not really having success. I start flipping couches and doing all these other things. And then I come back to real estate in 2015. And this time around, I now understand investing more because I go

to like bigger pockets and all this stuff. And I was like, oh, okay. Like I get what was happening

back then. They were going to the foreclosures. Well, at that point, what started to happen was, well,

actually way before 2015, the hedge fundsosures. Well, at that point, what started to happen was, well, actually way before

2015, the hedge funds came in because the hedge funds came in and they started buying up every house.

Like before you could go to the foreclosures, my buddies would tell me about it. They were like,

dude, we would be at the foreclosure buying houses for 30 grand. Houses in Las Vegas,

1,500 square feet.

Yeah.

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