Dec. 17, 2024
Dirty Deals and Smarter Tech: Septic Secrets for Savvy Investors
In this episode of The On Purpose Investor Podcast, Eric and Josh dive into a surprisingly fascinating topic—septic systems—and the invaluable lessons learned at their most recent Deal Maker Atlanta meetup. From cost-saving strategies with risers to tips on maintaining septic health as a landlord, this conversation is packed with actionable insights. They also discuss the importance of attending local meetups, building meaningful connections, and leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT and others to streamline both business and personal life. Whether you're managing properties or looking to optimize your workflow, this episode has something for everyone!
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Welcome to the On Purpose Investor.
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My name is Eric, and this show is where intentionality meets investing in yourself and your finances.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the On Purpose Investor Podcast.
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I'm your host, Eric, with my amazing co host, Josh.
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Man, it is great to see you out there.
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Hope you're staying warm and absolutely crushing it.
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What's going on in your world, my main man, Eric Vogel.
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Dude, I am still on a high from our meetup last night.
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I'm still feeling the buzz in the air, the energy in the air.
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And it's so strange to say that there's so much energy and hype and buzz in the air when all we really talked about was poop.
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Look, I'm just saying we that was the dirtiest conversation we have ever had at a meetup, but it was absolutely incredible.
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In fact, it was so insightful.
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We had started thinking this was going to be like, 10 to 15 minutes and everybody got so engaged and so many questions.
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It ended up taking two thirds of the meetup because the information was.
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Absolutely.
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Like incredible, man.
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I was taking notes on septic, man.
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It was crazy.
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I met Chris about three or four months ago.
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And he, he introduced himself, said, I'm a septic guy.
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I started a new company.
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I'm a septic guy.
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And if you ever need help, let me know.
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And I was like, actually, I do need help.
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I have a property that the backyard is underwater and it hasn't rained.
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So obviously we have a septic issue.
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And he went and took care of it.
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And I, I told him, I said, you've been so knowledgeable throughout this process and sharing knowledge with me of things that I didn't really knew to look for, didn't know to ask that I think it would be really great.
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If you sponsored and spoke at dealmaker Atlanta, he said, yeah, okay, I'll put together a 10, 15 minute presentation.
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It'll be great.
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People to just learn about, don't be afraid of septics.
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Don't be, don't run away from properties if there's a septic or stuff like that, just approach it with knowledge and it'll be great.
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And he put together a presentation last night.
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And, oh my gosh, he really hit a home run with it.
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And just sharing things that I didn't know to ask.
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Yeah, first off, I probably will have saved as a result.
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A couple thousand dollars, like he talked and maybe Eric, you already knew about it, but I didn't.
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Can I just tell you what my biggest takeaway of this thing was we've had septics installed constantly.
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And I'd already said that Chris is like my next call, but he was saying that basically you can put to forget the words like the manhole cover.
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Say it again.
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Risers.
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You can put two risers so that like right inside the box tank there's on both ends.
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You could put a riser on one side where the flow of the waste comes into the box.
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If you have a riser there, you can unscrew the bolts, go into the riser and basically take care of a basic toilet paper, whatever clog up traffic jam right there because that's where it has.
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It's saving you the time and the money of the septic company having to come out and dig the whole lift up the big lid and all the other stuff.
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And you can also put 1 where things sometimes kind of build up at the filter that goes out into the drain line in that moment.
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Just putting in 2 risers above the septic so that you have an easier way of maintenance.
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Thanks.
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Eric, that right there is a couple thousand dollars saved for those of us that are landlords with a lot of different properties because some of that I could do myself.
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But when I call Chris to come out and do maintenance, he's not having to charge me to bring all of his equipment out and, do all the stuff and all the manual labor.
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He has quick access to Go to the two locations that are 80 percent of all phone calls.
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And I thought, mind blowing, why did I not know that?
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So Chris has even generated some like language around it.
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He said, you're six bolts away to saving 600.
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And that is really the truth of it because there's six bolts that hold in that riser.
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You take those off, you take the cap off you look down there with a little flashlight, and you say, oh, look, there's a whole bunch of junk, crammed in the intake line.
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Just take you an old rake or an old broom, flip it upside down, use that handle to shove it on down in the tank, and the water's flowing again.
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And, six bolts away from saving 600.
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That's huge because that is what a company is going to charge you to come out there.
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They're not just going to open it up and check it out.
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They're going to pump it.
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They're going to tell you, you need to pump it.
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And he gave a lot of information last night on what to look for when you call a septic company to come pump your tanks and knowing that.
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There is a certain timeline that you should have your tanks pumped, but not every tank needs a pump every time.
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And that's how septic companies, they make their money.
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But he said, don't fall for those Google ads that say, get a pump for 150.
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And he's, he was really transparent in saying that's really just a play to get them on your property.
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And once they get on your property, they're going to dig up the lid.
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They're going to have your yard tore up.
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They're going to be onsite.
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They're going to be ready to do work.
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And they're going to tell you, Hey, there's these five things wrong with it before we start.
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And we can't move forward unless you accept these five things.
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And that's going to be something along the lines of a blowback, which if you don't know what a blowback is, that's where they pump all the liquids out.
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And there's a lot of solid stuck to the bottom.
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So what they do is they reverse the flow on their truck.
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And then they literally just jet blast.
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your solids on the bottom with the poopy water that they just pumped out.
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So and every time they do a blow back, it's like 150.
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So imagine you have three or four blowbacks they have to do.
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And then they'll tell you, Hey your filter is bad.
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That's another 85 to 100.
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or your intake up.
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We have to rebuild it And what chris has approa to saving investors and h Is setting up a maintenance plan where he will come out install the risers and I think riser installation for him I think was 600 bucks And he will install the risers and come out and visit your property twice a year to inspect that the septic health is good Meaning it is at a level.
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It's supposed to be at it is flowing And also checking the filter on the back end and making sure it's not clogged up and making sure it's functioning the right way because you don't want the top layer of your septic going out into your drain field.
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That top layer is your oils, your greases and stuff like that.
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And he said maybe he didn't say this last night, but something I've heard over the years about septic tanks is when people open up the lid and homeowners are out there looking at it and the water is all the way at the top.
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And every time, usually homeowners or investors will say, Oh my gosh, the septic tanks full.
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It's full.
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The thing is, it's supposed to be full of water.
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It's supposed to be full all the way to the time.
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It's that the solids go down to the bottom, the water comes to the top and then it goes out to the drain field.
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That's one common thing that a lot of people don't know about.
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Septic tanks is when they, when you open them up.
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There is going to be a level of water all the way to the top.
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If there's no level of water all the way to the top, you have a really big problem.
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That means waste is coming out the bottom of the tank and not where it's supposed to go.
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Yeah.
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I, he, I wanted, I didn't realize this too, Eric, but he told us that, when you're determining how big your tank is going to be, 500 gallons, thousand gallons, 1500 gallons, that by code, at least in our state, we're in the state of Georgia.
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It's determined not by the number of bathrooms or kitchens, but by the number of bedrooms.
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And so that could be interesting.
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I mean, imagine a house where you have a night, not that you would have this, but I mean, you could have a 5 to 7 bedroom house, but only one bathroom.
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Or what if you had a two bedroom but two bathroom house, but you got to think there's more water being flushed and there's actually more demand on the system because it's a smaller tank, but yet there's more water.
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And I didn't realize that leaky faucets can cause problems in your drain field because it gets things so saturated.
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And I'm really good about fixing stuff on our properties anyways, but that's a further wake up call to maybe someone who just lets, what do they say it deferred maintenance.
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They're trying to make nets that your leaky faucet could end up costing you a whole lot more.
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Yeah, he said a drain filled on average cost about 40 a linear foot.
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So most septic systems are at least 100 ft long of drainage.
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Some go up to 5 600 ft of drainage and a running toilet can absolutely in a leaky faucet can absolutely ruin your drain filled.
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because it's just constantly pushing water out into that drain field and it oversaturates it.
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And the ground is not able to absorb that water as quickly as it's going in, even with a little leak, which is usually about 1 to 2 gallons an hour.
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But if that's going on for weeks and weeks, One to two gallons an hour.
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We're talking an extra what?
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20 to 40 gallons a day over the course of 14 days.
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That's 400 to 800 gallons of water.
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That's quick mental math.
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I'm not great at math, but four to 600 gallons of math.
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That's five kiddie pools just dumped into your yard.
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Over the course of two weeks, it's going to fail your drain line.
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And if you only have 100 feet of drain filled and it's 40 a foot, you're at 4, 000.
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You're at 4, 000 of repairs on something that could have cost you only 150 from a plumber to come out there and fix that plumbing issue.
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Or, 15 minutes on YouTube, figuring out how to do it yourself.
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Yeah, man.
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It's I was, it was like mind boggling, like I septic, man.
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I just learned a ton about septic, but something else too, that I've really found as we're finishing up the year two with dealmaker Atlanta.
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I look back to when we started that meetup with about 10 or 12.
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And then we ran out.
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I don't know if you noticed, but we ran out of chairs last night.
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And I was having to grab chairs from other places and it was really kind of a special thing for me just to see the people in the room in the community that's been created.
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And at the networking time now, it's funny, the 1st 1, we finished the meeting and we kind of left at a logical time.
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But last night, we finished the formal part of the meeting.
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It's a couple hours later.
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And we're finally like, guys they're shutting this place down.
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We're gonna have to network outside.
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And for me, it's just a sign of.
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People becoming more than just business sponsors or business partners, not sponsors, but partners, people are becoming friends and that's yeah, that's how a lot of deals get done.
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But as we're nearing the end, and it's kind of Christmas time, I'd like to say that even in the investment space, you can find people that make a positive impact on you beyond investing.
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But as a person, yeah, absolutely.
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I loved.
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Just seeing new people make new acquaintances.
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And in a way I kind of saw myself and a lot of the people there that we had about 15 new people come to our meetup last night.
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And I saw myself in a lot of them in the kind of timidness and the not really sure a couple of things, where to sit what to say anything at all.
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How to mix and mingle, how to even talk to people.
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I saw myself in that and saw the hopes and saw the aspirations in their eyes.
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Yeah, we talked about septic tanks last night, but I promise you there were people in the room that went out of their way to meet these new folks and just ask them the right questions of, Hey, what are you looking to gain from being here?
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What?
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Why are you here?
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Are you looking to become a real estate investor?
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Are you looking to become a lender?
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Are you do you have something to offer the community?
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And, Chuck, what's his, like Chuck Glover, he's an incredible leader of spirituality and mindset in the real estate community.
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And one thing he likes to say is you have to be in the room and Alexander Hamilton the musical I think who's the guy that, that shot Hamilton.
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What's his name again?
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Alexander Burr, sir.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Aaron Burr.
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Was it right?
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There you go.
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He said, in that song, I gotta be in the room where it happens, but that's really where you want to be.
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Forget what the topic is.
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It doesn't really matter.
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You may not need to know about septics or if we're talking about, self directed IRAs, you may not need to know that because that's like step 25 and you're on step negative one, right?
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But the biggest thing about it is being in the room where it happens.
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Because when you're in that room where it happens, you're gonna be sitting alongside and maybe across the room from someone that has 20 or 30 years of experience.
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And millions of dollars of transactions under their belt that, someone that is negative one on their step journey approaches them and says, Hey I'm new to all of this.
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Do you have any advice or, Hey I'm looking to make my first deal.
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What words of wisdom would you give me, getting the answer from them versus.
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trying to absorb it through thousands of hours of podcasts and hundreds of pages of books, you're gonna get the answer much quicker and you're gonna get depending on whose meetup you're going to depending on who's in the room, you're going to get an answer that is likely going to catapult you quicker than listening to all those books or reading all those books or podcasts and stuff like that.
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Yeah, I agree with that, man.
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I, it's so funny.
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So last night in the room.
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First off, I give credit to the the awesome community we built with deal maker, Atlanta and the community, Jim Ingersoll's building with elite deal maker in Virginia, who kind of really started all this stuff.
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And we're kind of honored to take what he's really given us and carry it forward in our community, but also a local pioneer, Danny Williams, Danny being there last night and And his amazing group.
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And I remember when I, long before we, you and I got together with it started dealmaker Atlanta, I started attending one of Danny's groups.
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And what's interesting about that is, is within that space, I met my first.
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Private money lender that did not give me money.
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I wasn't ready yet, but my first person that heard me out and then gave me some feedback, gave me, I'll never forget that first pitch.
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And then now within the space last night, there's two people in the room that have lended me money on the deals.
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And then I, this year had a situation, I got stuck in something.
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There was another financial friend who I met through the Neil, the network.
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That helped me navigate that and get through that.
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And then folks like Chris that do septics, where do we find all these people that do the right level of work at the right place price and stand behind it and do quality?
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We met them at these meetups and that's, in addition, as a real estate agent, clients that I've picked up in the room because I was an investor and they were an investor and we were headed in the same direction.
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It was just a natural fit.
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I mean, being a part of our local meetup.
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Eric is probably, it's changed my business, but it's probably fair to say it's changed my life.
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Yeah.
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And it's going to continue to change, not just yours and mine, but everyone that is there, it's going to continue to change everyone.
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There's a power beyond first touch, right?
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Because an initial meeting of someone, it doesn't always end there.
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They say this in marketing when you would say you go to a local sandwich shop and you eat their sandwich.
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The impact of that great sandwich didn't end when you took your last bite and threw the wrapper away.
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It doesn't end there because you're going to go back to your work or back to your home and it's probably going to come up.
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Oh my gosh, have you tried so and so sandwich shop?
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Cause it was so good.
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And then they're going to go try it.
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And then they're going to tell the next two people or three people they see.
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And then it's going to continue to expand and grow.
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And that is the power of attending real estate meetups as well.
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As you come to that meeting and you tell one person, Hey, I'm looking at doing this.
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And they may have another connection for you, and then they're going to have another connection for you.
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And just by meeting one person, you've expanded your network.
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I don't know the exact number, but, 10x, 15, 20x.
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By being in the room and meeting one person, the reach goes far beyond what you can actually see.
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So I just want to say that the power of being in the room is not necessarily limited to just the room.
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It's going to continue to grow.
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Yeah, I mean, huge.
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And I think the evidence of that is the number of wins that we've been celebrating for the people that we know that have been just attending.
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And that's something else too is, look, everybody wants a little positivity.
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And you and I have been just really excited and cheering on a lot of folks in our local community that because they're involved in everything they're crushing it.
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They're getting out there.
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I can think of 3 people that have done their 1st deal since June when we got started.
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I know we've got several private money lenders.
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I forget the amount, but it was, they were all chatting the other day.
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And I was just listening in and they've, mean.
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The deals that they've done on the lending side has been massive, and it's just people coming together and celebrating each other's wins.
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And it's just amazing what you can do when you're with a massive group of people, all moving in the same direction.
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Speaking of directions, we talked a little bit at the meeting, too, about A.
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I.
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Yep, we did.
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Yeah.
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So we actually put together a list for everyone that attended our meetings.
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We like to give make sure everybody walks out the door with something.
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And so the thing that we walked out of the door with last night at the meeting was a list of 75 tools, mostly AI.
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Some of them just websites or whatever, but 75 tools that someone could implement in their business.
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E like immediately.
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Yeah.
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What say you, Eric, do you have anything like you have any forms of AI that you use?
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And if so, what do you use it for?
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What is, what's your thoughts on this?
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Yeah.
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So I have, Slowly integrated AI into multiple different things that I use throughout my business and honestly, my personal life.
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I use chat GPT of course, on many different things, but I think you use chat GPT probably more in depth than I do.
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So I'm gonna let you talk about that.
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But one of the biggest tools I use AI for is in my Airbnbs.
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And the Airbnb space, you don't, you can singly.
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Run your Airbnbs through the Airbnb platform or on the VRBO platform, or if you're direct booking, just in your direct booking and using emails.
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But what I use is something called hospitable and hospitable is a third party that integrates.
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Verbo and your self direct your direct bookings and Airbnb and puts them all in one place.
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And it synchronizes all of your calendars.
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You can integrate it with price labs, which gives you your dynamic tool pricing.
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So that, a Wednesday night is cheaper than a Friday night and stuff of that nature.
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But the biggest use of AI for me is when you're in this business of Airbnb is you're in the hospitality business.
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And for someone like me, yes, I'm a people person.
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I do like to talk with people, but when people are being rude and sassy and very demanding, I don't necessarily like to respond very nice and cordial, but I have a buffer and that buffer is the AI tool built into hospitable.
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Because all I have to do is when someone sends me a nasty gram about, Hey, I don't know who your cleaner is, but they missed a hair on the backside of the toilet and this is unacceptable and I want a refund and all of this stuff.
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And in my mind, I'm like it's one hair.
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Have you ever tried to clean your sink, or have you ever tried to, and get every last little speck of dust and all that I was in the military and during basic training and during all of my different training core activities.
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we would have to make sure there wasn't a speck of dust or hair or anything on any surface.
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And to get to that level of intense cleaning, you have to clean it five or six times and then go over it at the very end with one little square of toilet paper and go through every little square and just kind of rake it into your hand and because you don't want it to get on the floor.
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And that would take hours to clean one bathroom.
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And then still get your room tossed because they found something else, right?
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And so to expect that level, I mean you go to these five star hotels and you're gonna find something, right?
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And so what hospitable does for me is I type in my response the way I want to respond And I'll say, Hey, listen, I, it seems like you have really unreasonable expectations upon what, this house is, it's an older house.
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And, there's this and that, and this is going to happen.
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The AI tool on hospitable makes it very warm.
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It takes out any, misinterpreted essence of tone.
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It makes it really nice and cordial.
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And I just say, okay, here's my response.
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AI convert.
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And then the guest on the other end sees, Oh, wow, Eric is so reasonable and understanding and he's so warm and thoughtful.
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Five star review is on the way and it's that's not what I was really wanting to respond with, but that's how it came out.
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And, maybe I'm kind of blowing myself up here by saying it, but you know, I'm not the best guest relations kind of person.
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Because I, I know what goes into these things to give the best stay to give the best experience and sometimes to give the absolute best, it would be out of the price range.
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Of the people that want to stay there and is sometimes you just have to bring expectations back down to reality.
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And AI helps me do that very nicely.
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Yeah, I love that.
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I use chat.
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GPT is very similar for me.
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I use chat GPT for everything.
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I need to do like a seminar on chat GPT, but as I'm sitting here talking to you, I have.
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My email is now attached to my chat GPT, and I'm receiving emails and chat GPT already knows all of my responses.
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It knows what I would write.
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It's analyzed all of my writing.
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It is currently it instantly writes replies to every email.
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And then at some point today, I'll go into my draft box and then I'll just open up and go.
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Yep.
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I agree with that one.
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Send.
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Yep.
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I agree with that one.
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Send.
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And so what used to take me hours to reply to emails, I can do in probably 10 to 15 minutes home inspection reports, we have our home inspections that we do for our properties that we're wanting to purchase, but also as a real estate agent.
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I mean, I've got home inspection reports coming in for clients left and right.
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And in some cases, multiple cities.
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And when I'm working with a licensed agent, another state through a referral, like I, if that's my person, my customer, my client I'm still there with them.
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So now I'm looking at home inspection reports from other states, but I can upload that report into chat.
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Chat.
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GPT will analyze a 75 page report.
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It knows what state it's in.
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It's already looked at all the laws.
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It knows everything about FHA guidelines, conventional guidelines.
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It knows everything about every loan product they'll pretty much ever get.
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It'll then take it.
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It puts everything into order, but it needs to be repaired.
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It's assessed the values.
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It's come up with a list of suggestions that I might want to use to negotiate with the other side of the transaction.
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It's come up with a list of suggested contractors and contact information, and it has put that list in order by Google reviews.
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And then finally it scripts the email and puts everything together so that I have the email to send the client, have the email to send the other agent, I have an email to send the late the lender.
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And if needed email that I could send for a follow up for the appraiser, and it does all that in about 10 seconds.
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And that's, that is a time saver.
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That's the biggest use of AI I feel is it replaces your time doing monotonous tasks.
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And, I've seen some videos.
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Of kids in college these days, and the kids are in class and they are attending and they have an AI tool set up and it's taking notes for them.
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And the way I see that this is the best use of AI for college kids is when you're writing and typing.
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The notes that are on the board or the things that the teacher is saying when you're writing it actively There's unless you're a stenographer.
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You're not keeping up with 100 percent of what that professor is saying you're kind of lagged and you're gonna miss some things And when you miss the things you might miss the one thing that's on the test, right?
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You might miss the one thing that you needed to really hear The thing is ai is going to capture all of that for you so that you don't miss anything and during that I feel like we're getting better learners Because of it, they're actually able to sit there and listen and then later on go back and read what they listen to, and even more.
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So you can use a I'd regenerate that presentation from that professor.
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Or if you're at a let's say a presentation or you're at a conference or something, you can plug.
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that script that, that whole dialogue from that professor or speaker or presenter, and you can plug it back into chat GPT and there's different plugins you can use on chat GPT on the 4.
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0 and you can get somebody to re deliver that to you in different ways.
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You could say, deliver it to me as if I'm a fourth grader, or take all of these notes and tell me I don't know what.
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This is, or I don't understand this and you can use AI to be your personal tutor.
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Let's say you go listen to Peter Fortunato speak on creative deal structuring and stuff like that.
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When you listen to Pete, you don't understand because he speaks in a way that it's really hard to get the first time or even the 10th time you don't understand, but if you have AI.
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They're listening to Pete talk and hoping it captures everything it says.
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You can say, Hey, tell me what Pete just said, but elaborate, or tell me what Pete says, but break it down.
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Or tell me what Pete says and explain it to me.
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Like I'm too.
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You can also upload spreadsheets and charts and things related to your market into chat GPT and go explain the data or help me predict what the future trends might be or and that sounds like you can actually predict with eerie accuracy what a home value will be in 60 days to 90 days.
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I'm not saying I'd use chat GPT because it doesn't understand like COVID and random things that happen across the globe, but it can predict pretty precisely 60 to 90 days out in the market, barring a crazy unforeseen circumstance.
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The amount of just knowledge, like the fact too, that you can upload, I did this.
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I had a client one time that was not understanding something really well.
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So I asked chat GPT to create a deliverable JPEG graphic.
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That put what I was trying to explain into a picture.
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And it did.
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Yeah, it was awesome.
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Also, I haven't used it for this, but chat GPT can create HTML code for your websites.
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If you want, if you're trying to create we buy ugly houses website and you want certain functions on that website chat GPT can create the code for that.
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Yeah.
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I use another thing too, called like it's a virtual staging tool.
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I don't know if you've ever used it, but yeah.
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Yeah.
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Virtual staging.
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ai.
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But I use that a pretty good amount.
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I use doll slash E.
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And it'll do visuals and designs tailored to some of my campaigns.
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And then a big one is script builder because you can get the there's a lot of different ones, but you can use the actual script builder app and you can actually sit there and create scripts for cold calling that you can do over the phone that make things flow pretty naturally.
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Also chat GPT can do that as well.
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Yeah.
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If you're out there and you're listening to this episode, you know what I'm feeling kind of generous, man, it's Christmas.
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Normally we only do handouts for the people that are present, but I tell you what we'll do.
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If you're listening to this episode, if you will go to dealmakeratlanta.
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com, you might just scroll to the bottom of the page by the time you hear this podcast, but we'll put a button on there.
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Let's see.
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It's December, 2024.
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So I'll take it off.
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February the 1st of 2025 to make room for something new.
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But if you're out there listening for that, we'd love it.
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If you'd go to dealmakeratlanta.
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com and look, go take our list of 75 tools and go check them out and see if they'll work for you.
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Absolutely.
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And I went to a mastermind not too long ago where we were talking just AI and everything we talked about for three days was AI.
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And there's two three very important links.
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I want to share with y'all.
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One is for image creation.
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I know Josh, you're using doll e.
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I think that's D.
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A.
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L.
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Dash e.
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Is that correct?
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That's correct.
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Another one is called leonardo.
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ai.
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It is a free tool and you can use leonardo.
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ai to create promotional material.
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Stuff like that.
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If you're looking to create video material and you're looking to create something of, explaining what your business does, but you're not camera ready and you don't want to be on video, you can use Heygen, H E Y G E N dot com.
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Heygen is really good at creating video that people look and sound like they're talking and all of that.
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And the last tool I have for you is if you just want to learn about AI even more in depth and you want to take some courses, you Vanderbilt University has a lot of free education courses out there on ai.
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So if you go to coursera.org, you will, you can look at all of the AI courses that Vanderbilt University has to offer you for free.
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Now, some of them are paid, and, but at the end of it, you'll get a, you'll.
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Certificate saying I am certified that I know how to prompt chat GPT or that I know how to do these AI different tools.
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So just we'll put these links in the show notes to make sure you don't miss it.
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But I am next week going to be going through one of Vanderbilt's courses.
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It's like a a four it's a three course series is what it is.
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And it says it takes about three hours a week for one month, and then you'll be AI certified.
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So I'll let you know how that turns out.
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Will know someone who has AI certified.
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All right, let's go, Eric.
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Josh, I know you're not feeling so hot today.
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A little under the weather.
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Hopefully you get it all taken care of before Santa visits.
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I'm sure your little boy is excited for Santa to visit and happy birthday to him now.
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We just recently, thanks man.
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I'll let him know.
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You said it.
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He is.
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He is fired up.
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He's still singing happy birthday and his birthday was like four days ago.
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Your wife told me that the gift that we got him is his favorite gift and she can't wait to turn it off every day.
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Look, it plays non stop Eric.
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I'm glad our gift could be the head of the Boyd household.
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All right, y'all.
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Thank you so much for joining us today on the On Purpose Investor.
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We hope to see you in person at our next deal maker, Atlanta meet up.
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With everything else being said for today, all I have left to say is happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas out there.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the On Purpose Investor Podcast.
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I'm your host, Eric, with my amazing co host, Josh.
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Man, it is great to see you out there.
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Hope you're staying warm and absolutely crushing it.
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What's going on in your world, my main man, Eric Vogel.
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Dude, I am still on a high from our meetup last night.
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I'm still feeling the buzz in the air, the energy in the air.
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And it's so strange to say that there's so much energy and hype and buzz in the air when all we really talked about was poop.
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Look, I'm just saying we that was the dirtiest conversation we have ever had at a meetup, but it was absolutely incredible.
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In fact, it was so insightful.
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We had started thinking this was going to be like, 10 to 15 minutes and everybody got so engaged and so many questions.
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It ended up taking two thirds of the meetup because the information was.
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Absolutely.
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Like incredible, man.
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I was taking notes on septic, man.
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It was crazy.
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I met Chris about three or four months ago.
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And he, he introduced himself, said, I'm a septic guy.
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I started a new company.
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I'm a septic guy.
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And if you ever need help, let me know.
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And I was like, actually, I do need help.
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I have a property that the backyard is underwater and it hasn't rained.
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So obviously we have a septic issue.
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And he went and took care of it.
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And I, I told him, I said, you've been so knowledgeable throughout this process and sharing knowledge with me of things that I didn't really knew to look for, didn't know to ask that I think it would be really great.
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If you sponsored and spoke at dealmaker Atlanta, he said, yeah, okay, I'll put together a 10, 15 minute presentation.
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It'll be great.
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People to just learn about, don't be afraid of septics.
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Don't be, don't run away from properties if there's a septic or stuff like that, just approach it with knowledge and it'll be great.
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And he put together a presentation last night.
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And, oh my gosh, he really hit a home run with it.
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And just sharing things that I didn't know to ask.
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Yeah, first off, I probably will have saved as a result.
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A couple thousand dollars, like he talked and maybe Eric, you already knew about it, but I didn't.
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Can I just tell you what my biggest takeaway of this thing was we've had septics installed constantly.
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And I'd already said that Chris is like my next call, but he was saying that basically you can put to forget the words like the manhole cover.
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Say it again.
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Risers.
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You can put two risers so that like right inside the box tank there's on both ends.
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You could put a riser on one side where the flow of the waste comes into the box.
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If you have a riser there, you can unscrew the bolts, go into the riser and basically take care of a basic toilet paper, whatever clog up traffic jam right there because that's where it has.
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It's saving you the time and the money of the septic company having to come out and dig the whole lift up the big lid and all the other stuff.
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And you can also put 1 where things sometimes kind of build up at the filter that goes out into the drain line in that moment.
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Just putting in 2 risers above the septic so that you have an easier way of maintenance.
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Thanks.
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Eric, that right there is a couple thousand dollars saved for those of us that are landlords with a lot of different properties because some of that I could do myself.
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But when I call Chris to come out and do maintenance, he's not having to charge me to bring all of his equipment out and, do all the stuff and all the manual labor.
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He has quick access to Go to the two locations that are 80 percent of all phone calls.
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And I thought, mind blowing, why did I not know that?
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So Chris has even generated some like language around it.
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He said, you're six bolts away to saving 600.
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And that is really the truth of it because there's six bolts that hold in that riser.
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You take those off, you take the cap off you look down there with a little flashlight, and you say, oh, look, there's a whole bunch of junk, crammed in the intake line.
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Just take you an old rake or an old broom, flip it upside down, use that handle to shove it on down in the tank, and the water's flowing again.
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And, six bolts away from saving 600.
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That's huge because that is what a company is going to charge you to come out there.
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They're not just going to open it up and check it out.
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They're going to pump it.
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They're going to tell you, you need to pump it.
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And he gave a lot of information last night on what to look for when you call a septic company to come pump your tanks and knowing that.
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There is a certain timeline that you should have your tanks pumped, but not every tank needs a pump every time.
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And that's how septic companies, they make their money.
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But he said, don't fall for those Google ads that say, get a pump for 150.
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And he's, he was really transparent in saying that's really just a play to get them on your property.
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And once they get on your property, they're going to dig up the lid.
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They're going to have your yard tore up.
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They're going to be onsite.
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They're going to be ready to do work.
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And they're going to tell you, Hey, there's these five things wrong with it before we start.
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And we can't move forward unless you accept these five things.
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And that's going to be something along the lines of a blowback, which if you don't know what a blowback is, that's where they pump all the liquids out.
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And there's a lot of solid stuck to the bottom.
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So what they do is they reverse the flow on their truck.
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And then they literally just jet blast.
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your solids on the bottom with the poopy water that they just pumped out.
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So and every time they do a blow back, it's like 150.
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So imagine you have three or four blowbacks they have to do.
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And then they'll tell you, Hey your filter is bad.
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That's another 85 to 100.
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or your intake up.
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We have to rebuild it And what chris has approa to saving investors and h Is setting up a maintenance plan where he will come out install the risers and I think riser installation for him I think was 600 bucks And he will install the risers and come out and visit your property twice a year to inspect that the septic health is good Meaning it is at a level.
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It's supposed to be at it is flowing And also checking the filter on the back end and making sure it's not clogged up and making sure it's functioning the right way because you don't want the top layer of your septic going out into your drain field.
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That top layer is your oils, your greases and stuff like that.
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And he said maybe he didn't say this last night, but something I've heard over the years about septic tanks is when people open up the lid and homeowners are out there looking at it and the water is all the way at the top.
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And every time, usually homeowners or investors will say, Oh my gosh, the septic tanks full.
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It's full.
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The thing is, it's supposed to be full of water.
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It's supposed to be full all the way to the time.
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It's that the solids go down to the bottom, the water comes to the top and then it goes out to the drain field.
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That's one common thing that a lot of people don't know about.
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Septic tanks is when they, when you open them up.
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There is going to be a level of water all the way to the top.
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If there's no level of water all the way to the top, you have a really big problem.
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That means waste is coming out the bottom of the tank and not where it's supposed to go.
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Yeah.
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I, he, I wanted, I didn't realize this too, Eric, but he told us that, when you're determining how big your tank is going to be, 500 gallons, thousand gallons, 1500 gallons, that by code, at least in our state, we're in the state of Georgia.
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It's determined not by the number of bathrooms or kitchens, but by the number of bedrooms.
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And so that could be interesting.
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I mean, imagine a house where you have a night, not that you would have this, but I mean, you could have a 5 to 7 bedroom house, but only one bathroom.
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Or what if you had a two bedroom but two bathroom house, but you got to think there's more water being flushed and there's actually more demand on the system because it's a smaller tank, but yet there's more water.
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And I didn't realize that leaky faucets can cause problems in your drain field because it gets things so saturated.
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And I'm really good about fixing stuff on our properties anyways, but that's a further wake up call to maybe someone who just lets, what do they say it deferred maintenance.
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They're trying to make nets that your leaky faucet could end up costing you a whole lot more.
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Yeah, he said a drain filled on average cost about 40 a linear foot.
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So most septic systems are at least 100 ft long of drainage.
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Some go up to 5 600 ft of drainage and a running toilet can absolutely in a leaky faucet can absolutely ruin your drain filled.
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because it's just constantly pushing water out into that drain field and it oversaturates it.
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And the ground is not able to absorb that water as quickly as it's going in, even with a little leak, which is usually about 1 to 2 gallons an hour.
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But if that's going on for weeks and weeks, One to two gallons an hour.
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We're talking an extra what?
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20 to 40 gallons a day over the course of 14 days.
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That's 400 to 800 gallons of water.
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That's quick mental math.
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I'm not great at math, but four to 600 gallons of math.
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That's five kiddie pools just dumped into your yard.
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Over the course of two weeks, it's going to fail your drain line.
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And if you only have 100 feet of drain filled and it's 40 a foot, you're at 4, 000.
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You're at 4, 000 of repairs on something that could have cost you only 150 from a plumber to come out there and fix that plumbing issue.
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Or, 15 minutes on YouTube, figuring out how to do it yourself.
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Yeah, man.
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It's I was, it was like mind boggling, like I septic, man.
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I just learned a ton about septic, but something else too, that I've really found as we're finishing up the year two with dealmaker Atlanta.
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I look back to when we started that meetup with about 10 or 12.
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And then we ran out.
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I don't know if you noticed, but we ran out of chairs last night.
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And I was having to grab chairs from other places and it was really kind of a special thing for me just to see the people in the room in the community that's been created.
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And at the networking time now, it's funny, the 1st 1, we finished the meeting and we kind of left at a logical time.
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But last night, we finished the formal part of the meeting.
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It's a couple hours later.
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And we're finally like, guys they're shutting this place down.
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We're gonna have to network outside.
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And for me, it's just a sign of.
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People becoming more than just business sponsors or business partners, not sponsors, but partners, people are becoming friends and that's yeah, that's how a lot of deals get done.
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But as we're nearing the end, and it's kind of Christmas time, I'd like to say that even in the investment space, you can find people that make a positive impact on you beyond investing.
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But as a person, yeah, absolutely.
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I loved.
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Just seeing new people make new acquaintances.
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And in a way I kind of saw myself and a lot of the people there that we had about 15 new people come to our meetup last night.
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And I saw myself in a lot of them in the kind of timidness and the not really sure a couple of things, where to sit what to say anything at all.
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How to mix and mingle, how to even talk to people.
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I saw myself in that and saw the hopes and saw the aspirations in their eyes.
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Yeah, we talked about septic tanks last night, but I promise you there were people in the room that went out of their way to meet these new folks and just ask them the right questions of, Hey, what are you looking to gain from being here?
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What?
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Why are you here?
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Are you looking to become a real estate investor?
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Are you looking to become a lender?
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Are you do you have something to offer the community?
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And, Chuck, what's his, like Chuck Glover, he's an incredible leader of spirituality and mindset in the real estate community.
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And one thing he likes to say is you have to be in the room and Alexander Hamilton the musical I think who's the guy that, that shot Hamilton.
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What's his name again?
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Alexander Burr, sir.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Aaron Burr.
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Was it right?
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There you go.
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He said, in that song, I gotta be in the room where it happens, but that's really where you want to be.
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Forget what the topic is.
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It doesn't really matter.
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You may not need to know about septics or if we're talking about, self directed IRAs, you may not need to know that because that's like step 25 and you're on step negative one, right?
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But the biggest thing about it is being in the room where it happens.
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Because when you're in that room where it happens, you're gonna be sitting alongside and maybe across the room from someone that has 20 or 30 years of experience.
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And millions of dollars of transactions under their belt that, someone that is negative one on their step journey approaches them and says, Hey I'm new to all of this.
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Do you have any advice or, Hey I'm looking to make my first deal.
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What words of wisdom would you give me, getting the answer from them versus.
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trying to absorb it through thousands of hours of podcasts and hundreds of pages of books, you're gonna get the answer much quicker and you're gonna get depending on whose meetup you're going to depending on who's in the room, you're going to get an answer that is likely going to catapult you quicker than listening to all those books or reading all those books or podcasts and stuff like that.
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Yeah, I agree with that, man.
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I, it's so funny.
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So last night in the room.
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First off, I give credit to the the awesome community we built with deal maker, Atlanta and the community, Jim Ingersoll's building with elite deal maker in Virginia, who kind of really started all this stuff.
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And we're kind of honored to take what he's really given us and carry it forward in our community, but also a local pioneer, Danny Williams, Danny being there last night and And his amazing group.
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And I remember when I, long before we, you and I got together with it started dealmaker Atlanta, I started attending one of Danny's groups.
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And what's interesting about that is, is within that space, I met my first.
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Private money lender that did not give me money.
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I wasn't ready yet, but my first person that heard me out and then gave me some feedback, gave me, I'll never forget that first pitch.
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And then now within the space last night, there's two people in the room that have lended me money on the deals.
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And then I, this year had a situation, I got stuck in something.
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There was another financial friend who I met through the Neil, the network.
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That helped me navigate that and get through that.
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And then folks like Chris that do septics, where do we find all these people that do the right level of work at the right place price and stand behind it and do quality?
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We met them at these meetups and that's, in addition, as a real estate agent, clients that I've picked up in the room because I was an investor and they were an investor and we were headed in the same direction.
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It was just a natural fit.
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I mean, being a part of our local meetup.
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Eric is probably, it's changed my business, but it's probably fair to say it's changed my life.
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Yeah.
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And it's going to continue to change, not just yours and mine, but everyone that is there, it's going to continue to change everyone.
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There's a power beyond first touch, right?
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Because an initial meeting of someone, it doesn't always end there.
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They say this in marketing when you would say you go to a local sandwich shop and you eat their sandwich.
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The impact of that great sandwich didn't end when you took your last bite and threw the wrapper away.
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It doesn't end there because you're going to go back to your work or back to your home and it's probably going to come up.
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Oh my gosh, have you tried so and so sandwich shop?
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Cause it was so good.
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And then they're going to go try it.
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And then they're going to tell the next two people or three people they see.
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And then it's going to continue to expand and grow.
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And that is the power of attending real estate meetups as well.
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As you come to that meeting and you tell one person, Hey, I'm looking at doing this.
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And they may have another connection for you, and then they're going to have another connection for you.
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And just by meeting one person, you've expanded your network.
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I don't know the exact number, but, 10x, 15, 20x.
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By being in the room and meeting one person, the reach goes far beyond what you can actually see.
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So I just want to say that the power of being in the room is not necessarily limited to just the room.
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It's going to continue to grow.
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Yeah, I mean, huge.
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And I think the evidence of that is the number of wins that we've been celebrating for the people that we know that have been just attending.
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And that's something else too is, look, everybody wants a little positivity.
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And you and I have been just really excited and cheering on a lot of folks in our local community that because they're involved in everything they're crushing it.
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They're getting out there.
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I can think of 3 people that have done their 1st deal since June when we got started.
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I know we've got several private money lenders.
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I forget the amount, but it was, they were all chatting the other day.
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And I was just listening in and they've, mean.
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The deals that they've done on the lending side has been massive, and it's just people coming together and celebrating each other's wins.
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And it's just amazing what you can do when you're with a massive group of people, all moving in the same direction.
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Speaking of directions, we talked a little bit at the meeting, too, about A.
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I.
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Yep, we did.
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Yeah.
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So we actually put together a list for everyone that attended our meetings.
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We like to give make sure everybody walks out the door with something.
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And so the thing that we walked out of the door with last night at the meeting was a list of 75 tools, mostly AI.
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Some of them just websites or whatever, but 75 tools that someone could implement in their business.
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E like immediately.
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Yeah.
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What say you, Eric, do you have anything like you have any forms of AI that you use?
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And if so, what do you use it for?
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What is, what's your thoughts on this?
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Yeah.
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So I have, Slowly integrated AI into multiple different things that I use throughout my business and honestly, my personal life.
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I use chat GPT of course, on many different things, but I think you use chat GPT probably more in depth than I do.
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So I'm gonna let you talk about that.
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But one of the biggest tools I use AI for is in my Airbnbs.
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And the Airbnb space, you don't, you can singly.
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Run your Airbnbs through the Airbnb platform or on the VRBO platform, or if you're direct booking, just in your direct booking and using emails.
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But what I use is something called hospitable and hospitable is a third party that integrates.
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Verbo and your self direct your direct bookings and Airbnb and puts them all in one place.
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And it synchronizes all of your calendars.
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You can integrate it with price labs, which gives you your dynamic tool pricing.
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So that, a Wednesday night is cheaper than a Friday night and stuff of that nature.
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But the biggest use of AI for me is when you're in this business of Airbnb is you're in the hospitality business.
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And for someone like me, yes, I'm a people person.
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I do like to talk with people, but when people are being rude and sassy and very demanding, I don't necessarily like to respond very nice and cordial, but I have a buffer and that buffer is the AI tool built into hospitable.
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Because all I have to do is when someone sends me a nasty gram about, Hey, I don't know who your cleaner is, but they missed a hair on the backside of the toilet and this is unacceptable and I want a refund and all of this stuff.
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And in my mind, I'm like it's one hair.
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Have you ever tried to clean your sink, or have you ever tried to, and get every last little speck of dust and all that I was in the military and during basic training and during all of my different training core activities.
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we would have to make sure there wasn't a speck of dust or hair or anything on any surface.
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And to get to that level of intense cleaning, you have to clean it five or six times and then go over it at the very end with one little square of toilet paper and go through every little square and just kind of rake it into your hand and because you don't want it to get on the floor.
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And that would take hours to clean one bathroom.
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And then still get your room tossed because they found something else, right?
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And so to expect that level, I mean you go to these five star hotels and you're gonna find something, right?
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And so what hospitable does for me is I type in my response the way I want to respond And I'll say, Hey, listen, I, it seems like you have really unreasonable expectations upon what, this house is, it's an older house.
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And, there's this and that, and this is going to happen.
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The AI tool on hospitable makes it very warm.
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It takes out any, misinterpreted essence of tone.
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It makes it really nice and cordial.
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And I just say, okay, here's my response.
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AI convert.
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And then the guest on the other end sees, Oh, wow, Eric is so reasonable and understanding and he's so warm and thoughtful.
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Five star review is on the way and it's that's not what I was really wanting to respond with, but that's how it came out.
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And, maybe I'm kind of blowing myself up here by saying it, but you know, I'm not the best guest relations kind of person.
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Because I, I know what goes into these things to give the best stay to give the best experience and sometimes to give the absolute best, it would be out of the price range.
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Of the people that want to stay there and is sometimes you just have to bring expectations back down to reality.
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And AI helps me do that very nicely.
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Yeah, I love that.
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I use chat.
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GPT is very similar for me.
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I use chat GPT for everything.
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I need to do like a seminar on chat GPT, but as I'm sitting here talking to you, I have.
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My email is now attached to my chat GPT, and I'm receiving emails and chat GPT already knows all of my responses.
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It knows what I would write.
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It's analyzed all of my writing.
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It is currently it instantly writes replies to every email.
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And then at some point today, I'll go into my draft box and then I'll just open up and go.
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Yep.
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I agree with that one.
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Send.
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Yep.
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I agree with that one.
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Send.
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And so what used to take me hours to reply to emails, I can do in probably 10 to 15 minutes home inspection reports, we have our home inspections that we do for our properties that we're wanting to purchase, but also as a real estate agent.
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I mean, I've got home inspection reports coming in for clients left and right.
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And in some cases, multiple cities.
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And when I'm working with a licensed agent, another state through a referral, like I, if that's my person, my customer, my client I'm still there with them.
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So now I'm looking at home inspection reports from other states, but I can upload that report into chat.
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Chat.
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GPT will analyze a 75 page report.
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It knows what state it's in.
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It's already looked at all the laws.
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It knows everything about FHA guidelines, conventional guidelines.
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It knows everything about every loan product they'll pretty much ever get.
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It'll then take it.
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It puts everything into order, but it needs to be repaired.
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It's assessed the values.
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It's come up with a list of suggestions that I might want to use to negotiate with the other side of the transaction.
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It's come up with a list of suggested contractors and contact information, and it has put that list in order by Google reviews.
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And then finally it scripts the email and puts everything together so that I have the email to send the client, have the email to send the other agent, I have an email to send the late the lender.
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And if needed email that I could send for a follow up for the appraiser, and it does all that in about 10 seconds.
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And that's, that is a time saver.
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That's the biggest use of AI I feel is it replaces your time doing monotonous tasks.
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And, I've seen some videos.
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Of kids in college these days, and the kids are in class and they are attending and they have an AI tool set up and it's taking notes for them.
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And the way I see that this is the best use of AI for college kids is when you're writing and typing.
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The notes that are on the board or the things that the teacher is saying when you're writing it actively There's unless you're a stenographer.
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You're not keeping up with 100 percent of what that professor is saying you're kind of lagged and you're gonna miss some things And when you miss the things you might miss the one thing that's on the test, right?
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You might miss the one thing that you needed to really hear The thing is ai is going to capture all of that for you so that you don't miss anything and during that I feel like we're getting better learners Because of it, they're actually able to sit there and listen and then later on go back and read what they listen to, and even more.
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So you can use a I'd regenerate that presentation from that professor.
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Or if you're at a let's say a presentation or you're at a conference or something, you can plug.
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that script that, that whole dialogue from that professor or speaker or presenter, and you can plug it back into chat GPT and there's different plugins you can use on chat GPT on the 4.
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0 and you can get somebody to re deliver that to you in different ways.
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You could say, deliver it to me as if I'm a fourth grader, or take all of these notes and tell me I don't know what.
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This is, or I don't understand this and you can use AI to be your personal tutor.
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Let's say you go listen to Peter Fortunato speak on creative deal structuring and stuff like that.
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When you listen to Pete, you don't understand because he speaks in a way that it's really hard to get the first time or even the 10th time you don't understand, but if you have AI.
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They're listening to Pete talk and hoping it captures everything it says.
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You can say, Hey, tell me what Pete just said, but elaborate, or tell me what Pete says, but break it down.
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Or tell me what Pete says and explain it to me.
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Like I'm too.
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You can also upload spreadsheets and charts and things related to your market into chat GPT and go explain the data or help me predict what the future trends might be or and that sounds like you can actually predict with eerie accuracy what a home value will be in 60 days to 90 days.
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I'm not saying I'd use chat GPT because it doesn't understand like COVID and random things that happen across the globe, but it can predict pretty precisely 60 to 90 days out in the market, barring a crazy unforeseen circumstance.
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The amount of just knowledge, like the fact too, that you can upload, I did this.
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I had a client one time that was not understanding something really well.
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So I asked chat GPT to create a deliverable JPEG graphic.
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That put what I was trying to explain into a picture.
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And it did.
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Yeah, it was awesome.
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Also, I haven't used it for this, but chat GPT can create HTML code for your websites.
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If you want, if you're trying to create we buy ugly houses website and you want certain functions on that website chat GPT can create the code for that.
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Yeah.
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I use another thing too, called like it's a virtual staging tool.
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I don't know if you've ever used it, but yeah.
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Yeah.
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Virtual staging.
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ai.
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But I use that a pretty good amount.
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I use doll slash E.
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And it'll do visuals and designs tailored to some of my campaigns.
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And then a big one is script builder because you can get the there's a lot of different ones, but you can use the actual script builder app and you can actually sit there and create scripts for cold calling that you can do over the phone that make things flow pretty naturally.
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Also chat GPT can do that as well.
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Yeah.
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If you're out there and you're listening to this episode, you know what I'm feeling kind of generous, man, it's Christmas.
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Normally we only do handouts for the people that are present, but I tell you what we'll do.
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If you're listening to this episode, if you will go to dealmakeratlanta.
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com, you might just scroll to the bottom of the page by the time you hear this podcast, but we'll put a button on there.
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Let's see.
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It's December, 2024.
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So I'll take it off.
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February the 1st of 2025 to make room for something new.
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But if you're out there listening for that, we'd love it.
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If you'd go to dealmakeratlanta.
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com and look, go take our list of 75 tools and go check them out and see if they'll work for you.
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Absolutely.
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And I went to a mastermind not too long ago where we were talking just AI and everything we talked about for three days was AI.
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And there's two three very important links.
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I want to share with y'all.
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One is for image creation.
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I know Josh, you're using doll e.
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I think that's D.
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A.
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L.
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Dash e.
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Is that correct?
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That's correct.
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Another one is called leonardo.
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ai.
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It is a free tool and you can use leonardo.
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ai to create promotional material.
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Stuff like that.
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If you're looking to create video material and you're looking to create something of, explaining what your business does, but you're not camera ready and you don't want to be on video, you can use Heygen, H E Y G E N dot com.
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Heygen is really good at creating video that people look and sound like they're talking and all of that.
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And the last tool I have for you is if you just want to learn about AI even more in depth and you want to take some courses, you Vanderbilt University has a lot of free education courses out there on ai.
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So if you go to coursera.org, you will, you can look at all of the AI courses that Vanderbilt University has to offer you for free.
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Now, some of them are paid, and, but at the end of it, you'll get a, you'll.
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Certificate saying I am certified that I know how to prompt chat GPT or that I know how to do these AI different tools.
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So just we'll put these links in the show notes to make sure you don't miss it.
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But I am next week going to be going through one of Vanderbilt's courses.
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It's like a a four it's a three course series is what it is.
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And it says it takes about three hours a week for one month, and then you'll be AI certified.
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So I'll let you know how that turns out.
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Will know someone who has AI certified.
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All right, let's go, Eric.
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Josh, I know you're not feeling so hot today.
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A little under the weather.
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Hopefully you get it all taken care of before Santa visits.
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I'm sure your little boy is excited for Santa to visit and happy birthday to him now.
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We just recently, thanks man.
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I'll let him know.
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You said it.
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He is.
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He is fired up.
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He's still singing happy birthday and his birthday was like four days ago.
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Your wife told me that the gift that we got him is his favorite gift and she can't wait to turn it off every day.
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Look, it plays non stop Eric.
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I'm glad our gift could be the head of the Boyd household.
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All right, y'all.
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Thank you so much for joining us today on the On Purpose Investor.
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We hope to see you in person at our next deal maker, Atlanta meet up.
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If you'll go over to dealmakeratlanta.
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com, you can find out all the information to join us there.
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With everything else being said for today, all I have left to say is happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas out there.
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All right.
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