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Then you bring it into the micro. Okay, well, if you want to make $250,000 a year, that means you need to make roughly $20,000 a month. Awesome. Now we're in the micro. Well, how do you make $20,000 a month? Well, you could. You could wholesale two properties a month, a 10 grand net profit each. Awesome. Okay, well, how do I find two properties? Then it comes back into lead and data enrichment and then automation CRMs, right? So then it's how many calls do I need to make, how many offers do I need to make, etc. But now you brought it down to two. $10,000 wholesale. Then at the end of the quarter, you need to make sure that you're on pace to hit $30,000 in wholesale fees. Or, you know, not $30,000 in wholesale fees, six wholesale deals or $30,000 in wholesale fees and $20,000 in wholesale fees. Sorry, guys, $20,000 in wholesale fees. And then you look at the quarter and are you on pace or are you off pace? And then you go into the second quarter Q2, and you say, okay, what do I need to change? Am I on pace? Am I off pace? Am I ahead? Right? And if I'm ahead of pace, I need to pour on momentum. I got to pour on to whatever I'm currently doing and keep that thing going. Because as we all know, the hardest thing in the world is to get momentum. And so once you get it, you want to keep that ball rolling as far as it can roll. So again, the brief summation. Start with a macro. Find your end of year goals. How much money do I want to make? How many deals do I want to do? How many rentals do I want to buy? Then you bring that into the micro. You say, what does that mean per month? And then what does that mean per day and week within each month? What does that mean per quarter? What does that mean for six year or six month? And then what does that mean at the end of the year? So go macro, break it down into the micro, makes it way easier, and you start to be able to measure your goals. And lastly, and probably the biggest point I want to bring up to you guys here on this episode is 2025. I believe in what I'm going to be focusing on is collaboration. I'm going into 2025 with a mindset, with a heart, with an attitude, with my actions, all in the direction of collaborating versus competing. There's a lot of people out there that still have that, like I'm the biggest, I'm the best, no one can with me, I don't care. I'm going to squash anyone in my way. And while I used to be that guy, I can understand that guy or gal. I believe moving forward, collaboration beats competition and it always has. I've over time leveraged collaboration to such a benefit to myself, to my business. And I haven't given enough focus or I haven't given it enough recognition, I should say is how far I've come through collaboration. Whether it's other real estate investors, realtors, students and members of REI Live and the Science of flipping, whether it's other coaches, whether it's other mentors, whether it's other community members, mastermind members, colleagues. Like collaboration has just made me more money. And another way to say that is working with other people, collaborating with other people, shaking more hands and made me more money. And so I'm going into 2025 with full blown intentions and I hope you do too, to collaborate more, do deals together. I would rather do deals and do 50, 50 deals. That's what REI Live Co is all about. REILIVE CO. It is all about doing deals. 50, 50, right. And I want to do that with everybody and I want to collaborate more with individuals. I want everything to be a collaborative effort versus me, just winning and squashing everyone. Now that takes some intention and that takes some, some muscles that usually are not utilized often, right? That takes the ability to realize it's not just about me, it's just not about what I'm out to do. It is also about the other people and what value you can provide and what value they can provide. And if you do collaboration in the right way, you should be making way more money and working less than if you just try to take it on yourself. Now I'm going to bring this full circle right back into data technology, AI and goal setting, right? So I'm going to combine all of these within collaboration. If I can find resources that have better data and skip, trace it through Rocket skip and I can use automation like Rocket League AI and then I can actually use and collaborate with other people in markets that I might not be able to have boots on the ground with that. I know if I have a hot lead I could actually have them go knock the door and do a 5050 deal. Knocking the door. I have a member right now, a member of REI Live right now actually has a cold caller from Egypt who actually is not getting paid to do the cold calling, but they are collaborating on the efforts. The Egyptian cold caller is calling for free and gets 25 revenue of whatever wholesale deals my member of REI Live Co makes. That is a great collaborative effort. And so whether it is collaborating with the right data and the right people in the right marketplaces and to help them grow and to help them make money, you will always make more money. Now 2025 is going to pose its own challenges, right? Obviously we're bringing in a new president, which I think there's a lot of people who are excited about that. I myself am. But I don't believe it is going to be this real estate, I don't know, wet dream, for lack of a better way of saying it. Like we are still going to have challenges with interest rates, we're going to still have challenges with affordability, we're going to have challenges with inventory. And what does that mean for us? Well, that means there's still going to be a lot of opportunity because the person who does actually focus on the data and refining that data and then has great nurture sequences with follow up and AI, they're going to find deals that those that don't aren't. There are still going to be a lot of people who are going to go through a challenging time because the economic downsizing, right, Meaning there's a lot of companies laying people off still. Now the government and the news or whatever, they don't want us to recognize that that's not something they want to actively show or talk about too much. They do some, but my gut feeling is this way larger than it needs to be or that is being represented currently. And that creates for the person who is a hustler, for the person that's really ready to go get it, it creates an opportunity because people aren't going to be able to afford their homes. You see, when the goings were good Covid 2020 to 2023 and a half, people started over leveraging, right? They were doing high lines of credit and boats and multiple cars and all these other things. And if they lose their job, they could be making a quarter, 300,000, $500,000 a year. But they started to live a lifestyle that could support that in 2020 and now they're not. And it creates these opportunities for the hustlers. Now again, the challenges become affordability and then the lack of inventory. You would think the lack of inventory would keep the prices up and affordability would bring them down, but the affordability part isn't actually bringing them down. And in a large part is because people do still have very low interest rate loans. I think we need to bring into baby boomers, into this case, people who have owned their home for 20, 30 years. They're not gonna, you know, those are gonna be people that you do want to have nurture in, in circuit, you know, AI and sequences to follow up. And my goal for 2025 about collaboration is not just Stripe helps many of.

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I'm, I'm getting my realtor license. I'm getting it so I can collaborate more with realtors. So I have a better relationship with them, so I understand their side. Am I going to go work as a realtor? Absolutely not. When people ask me and I get asked this a decent amount, do you, do I suggest for someone else to go get their realtor license? More often than not I say absolutely. It's going to help you more and it's going to hurt you. Do you have to play by the rules? Of course. But shouldn't you be anyways? I mean, you know, playing in the gray line is always going to be playing in the gray line. Right? But you should still be playing by the rules. There are ways that you don't have to assign and there's ways to raise money and get transactional funding and so on and so forth. You don't have to just, you know, assign deals that in states or in cities where it's not assignable. So I'm going to collaborate way more with realtors. I'm going to collaborate way more with those that you would think are my competition. Why? Because when there are challenges posed, we are better together than we are apart. So when we are going to go through this, what I think is still a winter going into 2025.

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Right.

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And I, I think we'll come out of it going into 2026 and then we'll start to feel the benefits going into 2027. So I think we're still in a 24 month window of challenges, let's say, because I don't know to the extent, I don't think there's going to be any big economic crippling scenario. But when we are at this point, I would rather be collaborating with all the people that you've seen out there, all the other podcast hosts. Why do you think I have so many of those hosts here? All the big influencers that I work with already that I'm friends with. Right. We are collaborating in a great way now, right from the pace Morbi's of the world, Jamil Dames of the world, all the way up into the bigger influencers like myself and Grant, myself and Sean Whan and Garrett J. White and Andy Elliott, Brad Lee. These are people we are now collaborating. Bedros Coolian and I are going to be putting together some things. So I say that because collaboration can get us further faster rather than just trying to do the uphill lift by yourself. I, I used to be this guy all the time. And I'm telling you guys, going to 2025, you need to recognize collaboration will get you further faster, you know, and it can help you get more deals done and make more money, create more opportunities. Now I want to kind of leave this episode here with the idea of money and opportunities over going into 18 years. I've been a real estate, full time real estate investor for 17 years. Going into my 18th year, not only am I changing my point of view into collaboration, but what I've really come to understand and know to be true is the more money that is made by you, by me, the more opportunities that become given. And I want you to think about this deeply going to 2025 because I have. What are the opportunities I would like to have? Why can't I have those opportunities now and then what needs to happen for me to get those opportunities? When it, when you think about what opportunities you'd like to have and then you start to think about what opportunities, what needs to happen to make those opportunities? Mostly, mostly it's you putting yourself in, in the right position. But B, the real part is it's, it's money. Can I create opportunities that I likely wouldn't have if I didn't have as much money? And the answer every time is no. No. Being able to take four to six massive vacations a year, we go to Orlando Disney World for at least three nights, four days, four times a year. Very expensive. This last time we had that private VIP host that toured us around three different parks privately. Cut to the front of line, every single one rode more rides than I've ever ridden because we were able to jump around super fast. Took the back roads, went behind the, behind all the buildings. Like where? No, no, none of the public was. It was very cool. But it's very expensive now. Not only that, think about the, all the episodes that I talked about about why I fly first class. First class is expensive, but think about the people you meet next to first class. I've met politicians, I've met jewelers, I've met doctors, I've met a lot of people sitting first class. That has created a lot of opportunity. In fact, one specifically a politician. We are now very close friends. His wife and my wife talk about school for our kids and, etc and all these different things. And that has played a big effect into my opportunities, right? Getting kids into schools that I, I have no way to get into. And that's a very real thing. And so I want you to think about making more money this year. What do you need to do to make more money? Because what are the opportunities you don't have? What are the opportunities that you want and what needs to happen to get those opportunities? From vacations to very expensive dinners. Later tonight, as I record this episode, I'm taking my wife on a husband, wife, daddy, mommy date. We're actually doing a little staycation, nice dinner, maybe a little bit of shopping and stay at a hotel and just relax and just be us. And that opportunity to get connected to my wife is the type of opportunities I'm talking about. Is that the opportunity you need? Because again, for us to get reconnected and have alone time without the kids and to decompress, it's going to cost money. Sure, you can make the argument, oh, it doesn't have to and you can, okay? But let's face facts. We can do it the easy route, we could do it the nice route, we can feel good, we can be in a nice hotel. The reality is going to cost money. So I say all this to say and to wrap this up. Focus on collaboration, focus on the opportunities you don't have, what are the opportunities you want and then what needs to happen for you to get those opportunities. And if you do that right and you set your goals right in the real estate game, specifically focusing on data, focusing on automation in technology, you are going to win. Automation, technology is how we started the episode focusing on how to shoot for your end of year goals and then collaboration. And the last thing we wrapped up with was opportunities and making money because I want you guys to make so much money and I want to collaborate with you and I want to do thousands of deals with you in the next 1212 months. That's a lot of deals. Crazy amount of deals, but I want to do as many as we can. Even if we hit 100 deals together, you and me doing deals, that's what it's all about. It's all about the collaboration. Let's go focus on making a whole lot of money, creating a whole lot of more opportunities. So then when you hear this episode going into 2026, all your goals are different, baby. That is it. That is the year. 2024 is a wrap. I love all of you. Thank you for the support. If I can encourage you guys to screenshot and share these episodes that you're listening to gain more and more traction. This podcast has done very, very well this year. I just want to keep the momentum going. I love you guys. Appreciate you guys. Keep sharing the love. Share these episodes with your friends and I'll see you guys in 2025. Peace.

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Stripe helps many of the world's most influential companies grow their revenue and build a more profitable business. Whether it's Hertz making checkout a smooth ride for their customers, OpenAI answering unprecedented demand, or PGA chipping away at back office inefficiency, Stripe's financial infrastructure platform helps companies achieve ambitious goals. No matter what success looks like for your business, Stripe helps ensure the complexity of financial systems doesn't get in your way. Learn more@swepe.com Happy Holidays Want to give.

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