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estate is your go to guy for guidance
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and unmatched service. Taylor just
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for you, Please, Welcome to Money Making
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Conversation Master Class. Justin Lee
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Senor how you doing, sir man, I'm amazing,
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blessed? How they feel? How about yourself. Well,
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it's been about three years since I talked to you justin
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and when I talk to you, I
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mentioned the fact that you was in a real estate business
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and you were young, and being
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a young person talking to people generally maybe
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twice as older than you, maybe feel
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that a young person what does he know about home ownership?
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Tell the people of being a guy over the last
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three years. Now you do
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a twenty four. I believe when I met you, now you're twenty
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seven. Talk about the experience being a
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person who didn't allow age
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to stop them from being successful in real
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estate. Absolutely. I think that you know,
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going into rooms often when you're
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the youngest in the ring, that kind of makes you a little uncomfortable,
1:50
but also makes the other people around you a little uncomfortable.
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So what I did was learn to embrace down
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comfort and make you one of my biggest strengths. So
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I started to network more in rooms
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that had more experienced people, and
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I said, Hey, instead of y'all standing over
2:05
there and I'm standing over here, let's work together. I need
2:07
to learn something from you and let me break some of this new
2:09
millennial technology to your business as well.
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So developed a lot
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of great relationships branched
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off into commercial real estate, which was an
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amazing experience as well. It
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also led me back to school, so I became
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a real estate broker. Now in the last
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three years, I have my own brokerage. I
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also finished my doctorate degree, so I'm now
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Doctor Justin Lee, which is also
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an amazing the commie graduation.
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Thank you, I appreciate that, man. So
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it's been amazing. I'll say. Using the
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youth for my advantage and continue to grow and develop
2:41
over the last couple of years has been amazing. But I said, I think
2:43
the most thing I did in the last few years was go
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back, learn more and kind of
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owning on getting those certifications of education
2:50
in those key areas that I wanted to develop
2:53
and growing. Now, okay,
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you say you're a blending young guy. What did
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you bring to the table that would enhance
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veteran person of the real estate game? Two
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words? Social media.
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So that's
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something that most people don't know
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about. Do you have a TikTok? Absolutely?
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I Dodos the
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United use it though. Absolutely. If
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I'm my baky, that's why I use my TikTok for well,
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you're different. You are one of the rare people
3:24
from your generation that know how to use TikTok,
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Instagram, threads and
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so on and so forth. So what
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I realized that we're going it to lead
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where everything is online.
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You know, some people look better online
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than in person for a reason, So
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you have to make your business look the same way
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online, you know. So I started to develop
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with older developers, older real estate companies
3:47
and brokers that they're not ever sold some presence in
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the presence businessmen.
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We were charged to be honest. People on their
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phone more than anything. Yeah,
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that's true because ninety percent of the people who use
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social media are using their phone, which
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means that that's a generation that's usually
4:02
for more than just taking pictures of food or
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getting direction of GPS. Is
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a lifestyle and also social media
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is a Some people say they are addicted
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to social media, but we're in a real estate game.
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You know. In the African American community of community
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of color usually are left behind.
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We are usually renters. Why is that
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justin I
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think that it just comes from socioeconomical
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knowledge, right. So typically
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in European aging
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other cultures, they are taught financial literacy
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within their own your tough financial literacy within
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their house, Whereas when it comes
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to African American people, I think
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that we often have to figure it out.
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And when it comes to being
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able to purchase real estate, the most important thing
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is going to be credit. Most
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of the time, our parentsing and articles and
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our teams and say I don't use no credit card. You don't want
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to know debt, right, They'll they'll
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they'll give us that advice, which is great at but
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kind of bad advice at the same time when you're trying
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to actually grow, because it's a difference between bad
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debt and good debt. Real estate is
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always going to be good debt. Bad debt is
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the Mason's card, the Amazon
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call when you just buying everything. But it
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comes really from that foundation of knowledge.
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I know so many people that have worked
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the job as a janitor, a school bus driver,
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a teacher, secretary of I
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Burier thirty years, never missed the day on holiday,
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but don't own. They rent because they're scared
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and they don't know what it takes to rent
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and versus purchase. And most of the times
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that they ring is more hard than purchase,
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and they want three times to a mount of money. They're rent
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when and purchase and it's not even the same
5:39
right now. So that's
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the fear we look at. You know, they are known. How
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do you educate? Do you have courses available
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to people that they can reach out to you that can educate
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them and show them the value
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of ownership or home ownership. Yes,
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So ultimately on Mondays every
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Monday, I do a lot. It's called Motivational
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Monday. Do it at seven o'clock Eastern Standard
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time on my Instagram Jamie the Realtor on
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that I allow what to call it chew in a where allow
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people to come in and ask questions about whatever
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it is that they want to know when it comes to real estate investing
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and where to start. I think that
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that's always resourceful. I
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think that another place that people can look for
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is going to always be their local home
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buyer Associating. I also
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have a podcast that I have that released every
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Thursday that we talk
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about these topics of business growth, credit,
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taxes, financial literacy, and so on and so
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forth. So we always give out, you know, the
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information to the community to help them to
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develop and grow, and you know, in any questions
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that they have, we're always open ascent
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no matter where they are located. In the nation. The information
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is society pretty much. Okay, let's
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just go through some steps here, doctor Lee.
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When we talk about real estate, if
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someone comes to you, what
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is the process do you get
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them clear for a long pride to you taking
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them I was looking for a home? Or how does
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that process work? That's
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an amazing question. See, it just
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depends, right if I see someone and I
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can kind of have a quick conversation with you and say, hey,
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you know, what is your credit score? What
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is your income before taxes? Did
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you file taxes after? I know those
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three essential questions that tell me if you're approvable
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today or if you're approvable in the future.
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But either way, I'm going to take you to see
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houses. And the reason I do that is
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just because you're not a provable today doesn't mean you can't
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go get a job that is your salary job
7:31
baby, or work these amount of hours, or
7:33
fix this credit score. But I want to show you what's
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possible and say, hey, this house
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is worth two hundred K, this is an eight
7:41
year hod What more, if you're paying twenty two hundred
7:43
for a seven hundred square feet apartment, this
7:45
is what's out here. So we try to motivate
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them. So that's always the first step. It's going to
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be an onboarding call where we discussed, like
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I said, your credit score, your
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did you file taxes, and do you have
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income? The most important thing is going to
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be income documented income, and that's
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either through a job or through taxing
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signs as entrepreneurs. Sawing that you made
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money the last two consecutive years.
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Credit scores are a little bit more flexible and
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there's ways to increase your credit square. We can actually
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help you all with. But once we do that, we connect
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you with the lender that album. Step two. The lender
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would go through the same thing that I just asked,
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but more in depth. They want to know your job,
8:20
your social your birthday, employment
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history, so on and so forth. Then they say, okay,
8:26
justin Europe two for three hundred thousand, here's
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a letter, go buy whatever you want. And
8:30
then from there we go out see the house that you like,
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negotiate with the sellers on your then
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within thirty to twenty five days going on the
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contract, you will be moving it to your new house too.
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I was speaking that doctor justin Lee. Three years
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ago, I interviewed this young man who was twenty four years
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old in the real estate game. His
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legacy because he learned from
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the family on how they understand
8:51
HPCU, Guy Warehouse that
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he's a doctor. That's what I call him, Doctor Lee.
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He's a single father, three year old
8:58
child. Importantly, he's
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in the game of real estate, which we know is
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dominated by white people.
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That's gonna be real because you said that
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in your first interview, and you said it was important
9:09
that you step over each
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other side of the lay. How is the real
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estate industry three years ago as
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it is today for you?
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So Mike Ferre has been at full three sixty.
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I think it's a three sixty because three years ago
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I was newer to the industry. I was learning from
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It's a lot of YouTube, and I decided
9:29
to say, you know what, the best experience is
9:31
time and learning. So I went out. It starts to do
9:33
deals. And as I got into the
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industry, I realized that it is
9:37
not as hard as we think. The industry was
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dominated back then, and primarily
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it is dominated by white
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men europeonns on and so forth, and foreigners.
9:46
To be honest, because they have learned
9:49
to have a unified front. See what's
9:51
going on in the industry, and it's the same thing going
9:53
on now. They're pulling together
9:55
what you call syndications and say I make
9:57
ten thousand, you got ten thousand, you got forty thousand,
10:00
Let's pull it together. Let's go buy an apartment complex.
10:03
They're then purchasing properties together and
10:05
growing wealth together at
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a quicker pace. So what I did in
10:10
the last couple of years was I went back to my line
10:12
brothers, my chapter brothers, my more House
10:14
brothers, friends and family and saying, hey,
10:16
let's develop a fund, a private
10:18
fund, not public that anyone can just jump
10:20
into, but a family fund if you will,
10:23
to invest in and acquire properties. And
10:25
since then we'll crowd over one hundred and fifty apartment
10:27
complexes and units, commercial
10:29
real estates, on and so forth. And it really
10:32
was no different than what I was doing back then, except
10:34
I was taking I would wait and try
10:37
to say thirty thousand and forty thousand, versus
10:40
connecting with everyone that might have ten
10:42
and ten and going to the table together.
10:45
And when I really learned that it's
10:47
really strengthening these groups, these really investment
10:50
trust their groups. It's not one person, there's
10:52
groups of individuals. It has shown me
10:54
how far we can go on how fast we can go? But together.
10:57
Wow, that's a very powerful statement because of the
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fact that getting people to understand
11:02
the value of poorly
11:04
money versus standing it out there? How did
11:06
they come together and did it? And
11:09
everybody, when you start talking money, you have dollars,
11:11
you have people who don't trust. How were you
11:13
able to pull it together to get a group
11:16
of people even though you knew them, to
11:18
pull their money and get into real estate
11:20
game. Because somebody out there should be
11:22
hearing this very intently, because
11:24
it can be used in other models around
11:26
the country. Absolutely. So
11:29
what I was able to do really was I
11:31
went out and did the full work and said, Okay, these
11:33
are some properties and areas that I identified
11:36
that we can develop and grow in. I
11:38
targeted New Orleans, where I'm from. I
11:41
targeted the New Orleans East more specifically,
11:43
which is one of the more dangerous parts of town.
11:46
Will run down, but to me, that
11:48
means opportunity because
11:50
what's already down, let's go back up at some point.
11:53
So I connected with people and
11:55
showed them the numbers. I said, okay, even though I reside
11:57
in Atlanta, the numbers in Atlanta for
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four plex is about four hundred and
12:02
five hundred K, and New Orleans the
12:04
same four plex, it's like one hundred k.
12:07
But the rent numbers balance out because
12:09
if it's fifteen hundred in Atlanta for
12:12
a three bedroom and it's three thousand in
12:15
Atlanta for a three bedroom, it's the same
12:17
numbers. You're paying five hundred versus one hundred. So
12:19
why not get into the game with the lower start
12:22
to make the same amount of profit. The numbers are
12:24
bigger, but the profit margins are the same.
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If that makes sense, So let's go where we can
12:29
get in, where we can actually afford. We
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don't got to be here as it's cool. Let's go where
12:33
it makes sense, right right,
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Because with bit I have a math degree. That number
12:37
made a lot of sense to me. Okay, very
12:39
fast, because sometimes we get caught up in
12:41
the big numbers. You know. It's like I remember
12:44
when I was offered an opportunity
12:46
to get a franchised, like a franchise
12:48
like a Burger King or like a McDonald's. And
12:50
then it's not the only one
12:53
of them, it's owing multiple that
12:55
you really generate the revenue you might
12:57
own one. This is just a fact. Might
13:00
want unfranchised. It might just pay you profit
13:03
wise fifteen thousand dollars a month. You go, wow,
13:05
fifty thousand, I expected to make more money. Well,
13:08
how about getting three of those? Then you
13:10
hit forty five thousand dollars a month,
13:12
then you multi a lot of that time is twelve and
13:15
you over a half million dollars. So
13:17
that's tune with five hundred thousand dollars.
13:20
Then it was five hundred five hundred
13:22
million dollars. Don't you tell it right?
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You're five hundred thousand dollars. And so I
13:27
just said I was a math guy with a math degree. And
13:29
so that's that's scary. And so that's why
13:31
you are able to be able to
13:33
live better when you understand how the numbers
13:35
build out. Now, getting your
13:38
friends involved, was it one? Was at two?
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Was it? Several of them? And when
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Absolutely. Man, So initially
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I started off. It was my brother
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and I and a couple of our cousins,
14:21
right, and we all pooled together.
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You know, I might have had ten, he had five, he had
14:25
two, he had one. He might have had
14:27
the job that we needed to personal guaranteed
14:30
a loan, but you didn't have CAD. One might have had a
14:32
eight hundred credit score with no cash either.
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We pulled together and use the strengths of each
14:36
other to purchase. And
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the way we really secure each other was that we
14:42
formed a LLC and the LLC
14:44
took title to the property. So
14:47
at that point, we had an operating agreement that
14:50
we all drafted that said, Okay, each
14:52
of us owned x percentage of this
14:55
business, so based upon our
14:57
respective percentages, we will receive
14:59
x min out returned. And
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that's how we did it. We all have faith in each
15:03
other. We knew that, hey, if
15:06
this don't work out, we could sue each other. We already
15:08
ain't got nothing anyway, so we gotta
15:10
make this work. That's what we got, you know what I mean.
15:12
So we made it work, and man,
15:14
it's been growing. So
15:17
many people come to us and say, hey, we
15:19
will have this amount of money for you. Can't invested. Can't
15:21
you do it? Can't do it? And our response says, hey,
15:23
we don't want to do it for you because we're crippling
15:25
your Let's teach you to do it. Let's do it together.
15:28
Well justin let me just talk about this. I
15:30
would call you the you know you triple
15:32
header when I met you. You know you just in real estate.
15:35
Now you're in the construction. Now you have a
15:38
contractor Griblear with Amazon. Let's chart
15:40
your contractor gribboard Amazon. What
15:43
is that? So that came about
15:47
two years ago. I have what you call an Amazon
15:49
DSP. I'm a delivery service partner.
15:52
And what that means is those great Amazon
15:54
bands that come to your front door, that works
15:56
seven days a week, three hundred and sixty three days
15:59
a year. Those are owned by somebody. And
16:02
I was blessed and fortunate to be nominated
16:04
to own a DESP from
16:07
one of my amazing brothers Morehouse
16:09
Brothers fraternity brother super Bowl chap Ramon
16:11
Hairwood. He owns one
16:14
as well out in Cincinnati. I
16:17
learned about opportunity. I said, man, you're crazy.
16:19
I'm not delivering, no packaging. It's too out outside,
16:24
he said. He said, Man, you're sure, he
16:26
said, when you see these numbers, you're
16:28
gonna want to put your vest on, your boots, hey, your hat
16:30
if you're there just crack of water. I
16:33
said, you might be right, So I
16:35
could be numbers mean sense anything.
16:38
Amazon. Surprisingly,
16:41
they want the average person. They want
16:44
someone as willing to commit. They don't want
16:46
someone that has all this business experience, this
16:48
person that's super duper smart and hey,
16:50
didn't want the average person to develop
16:52
and grow into these businesses and make you
16:54
ultimately financially free in a millionaire.
16:57
So I was blessed to go through
16:59
the process. I launched my business
17:01
in September twenty twenty two.
17:04
Since then, we started off with five trucks,
17:07
and as my work was good and
17:09
I continue to grow, we got to forty
17:12
two trucks today. Will be two years next
17:14
month. It's been an amazing experience
17:17
to lead and learn
17:19
from a business like Amazon.
17:21
It is a major powerhouse. Man, but
17:24
the way it runs is so efficient and smooth
17:26
and every day man only two days
17:28
off per year, seven days a week.
17:31
You know, it's impressive,
17:33
man, of how it grows. But that actually taught
17:35
me really how to be an actual
17:37
CEO. Because you've got w two
17:40
employees, You've got eightp payple,
17:42
you've got four White King tuition reimbursement,
17:44
health insurance, life insurance. You
17:47
know. So I have a team of about two hundred people
17:49
HR, accounting, legal,
17:52
you got a old nine, a lot of compliance,
17:54
you got dot regulations from the state.
17:57
I mean, it's just so much that goes into it, man. But
18:00
like I said, I'm so blessed a fortunate in the precip
18:02
of the opportunity. That opportunity actually
18:04
allowed me to jump start more financial investing
18:07
because of the liquidity that they created
18:09
for me and my family. It's
18:12
just been an amazing experience. Man. I highly recommend
18:14
everybody to look at it. You can find out more information
18:16
about that if you type in logistics dot
18:19
Amazon dot com. It is free to
18:21
apply. They give you a grant for ten
18:23
thousand dollars. If you're a minority so African American
18:25
people listen to me, go out and apply. You
18:28
will never go wrong with the program. One
18:30
hundred percent recommend it. You have nothing to
18:32
lose applying, so definitely go out of the fly.
18:34
So this is an opportunity. They just have to put forth
18:36
their airfoot to apply. I'm gonna look
18:38
at over it at my producers. Y'all heard that, young man. They
18:42
on the website right now, because
18:47
that's all I'm saying that. That's why I love about you justin
18:49
because of the fact that they are you.
18:51
They see you, you're their age. But wealth
18:55
can be created at different levels. And that's why I always
18:57
admire my conversation with you, because
19:00
that was saying, Okay, I gotta be thirty to start thinking
19:02
like this, I gotta be farty, just start thinking like this
19:04
because that was instilled in you through your family.
19:06
Tell us about your background and your family before
19:09
we get to the construction call. Talk for
19:12
sure. So, like I said,
19:14
I'm from New Orleans. I grew up really
19:16
during the Katrina era. My
19:18
mother was a single mother. I was raised by
19:20
my mother and my grandparents. They
19:23
were very old school. My grandmother was
19:25
born in thirty three. My grandfather was born
19:27
in twenty two. So that can kind of tell
19:29
you how old these people were. Military.
19:32
My father, my grandfathers in the military. He
19:34
didn't go to school, he didn't go to college. You
19:37
know, imagine to being born in nineteen twenty two. He didn't
19:39
really have opportunity to go to college. He went to the military.
19:42
But what he did do was every day read the
19:44
newspaper, wash the news, stay
19:46
abreast with everything going in the world, and made
19:48
sure that me as well as my brother was
19:51
the same way and his kids as
19:53
well. So my mother taught
19:55
us very early on sometimes it's not
19:57
what you know, is who you know and to
20:00
yourself in the right rooms. So
20:02
I learned early that knowledge was power, and
20:04
that that's the one thing that nobody can take. They can take
20:06
their house, they can take your cars, they can take your clothes, but they
20:08
can't take their mind and what you know. So
20:11
after going through something like Katrina, it
20:13
was such a traumatic experience that I said, Okay, I
20:16
want to learn more about how I can be someone
20:18
to help my people, how to help my people
20:20
grow developed. A lot of my family
20:22
were Section eight rentals, where I thought my
20:25
it house was her house because she'd been there my whole life.
20:27
But it ain't her house. It's a Jewish man house. And
20:30
when Katrina came, I got
20:32
nothing. She can no FEMA, no insurance,
20:35
no no nothing. You know what I'm saying, It's
20:37
in a super dome, scared for all lightey
20:40
because she has nothing to do. So I said, man,
20:42
I want to learn how to help my people. So my
20:44
mother was a very big pioneer in that. After
20:47
Katrina, she started to purchase city blocks of properties
20:50
after the Stone where people kind of was just letting them go, and
20:53
held onto our portfolio. So when we got FEMA
20:56
checks, we still live like we was broke. But
20:58
my mom had so many properties that when
21:00
she got her checks, she didn't spend any
21:03
money on anything but going
21:05
to acquire more properties. And
21:07
these are the properties now that we're still fixing
21:09
and currently developing and grown to
21:12
help out, and they're all paid for. So
21:15
she understood the fundamentals of that.
21:17
And I also admired my mother for her
21:20
ability to be present. My
21:22
mother was present at everything. She had no reason
21:24
to not be worked for herself, so
21:27
she didn't have to miss events,
21:29
miss awards, miss school parent teacher congress,
21:31
is football games's. She was there, but
21:34
it was because of real estate. She was able to
21:36
be there because of the income she made passively.
21:39
So as my brother and I grew up, we
21:41
had to learn how to paint, We had to learn how to lay
21:43
floors, how to linked tile, how to demo,
21:45
so on and so forth. Because my mother said,
21:48
look, I'm gonna teach you all this game,
21:50
and you're gonna learn this skill. You learn the skill, you'll
21:53
eat forever. So I said, man,
21:55
you're right, and we learned the skills from her,
21:57
and as we grew older and
22:00
got into the space, we were just beat. You know,
22:02
I knew how to write at least at ten, I
22:04
was collecting rick eleven years old.
22:06
Twelve years old, you know, following evictions,
22:08
like I knew the whole process
22:10
before I even was in high school of how to
22:13
manage property, develop, renovate,
22:15
build blueprints everything. So
22:17
it's just amazing to be able to grow
22:19
in that error. Wen.
22:22
I appreciate you justin I really do, man, not
22:24
only from your knowledge, but your honesty
22:27
and you willing to share success. In
22:29
other words, you're not afraid somebody else
22:31
will contact that website
22:33
and they have a bigger truck line than
22:35
you. It's about sharing information
22:37
and that's what this show money making conversation is
22:39
all about. Now. Construction, now
22:41
that was something I didn't see your life, young
22:44
man. You're out there building homes.
22:46
Tell me how did that part and come
22:48
into your life. I know you talked about your mom
22:51
getting blocks, y'all, learning how to
22:53
lay tile and all that stuff. But construction,
22:56
that's a whole new game that's definitely
22:59
underserved in the black community. Man.
23:02
So it really came to me by really
23:05
faith. God bought construction to me. It
23:07
wasn't something I was looking for, it wasn't something I really
23:09
desired to do. I entered
23:12
the market and started to do fix and flips
23:15
with my family, with my group of friends, with Tinny
23:17
Brothers. As we've begun to do the business,
23:19
I realized that it was a heavily
23:22
white industry ran So it's once again
23:25
white man is running the construction industry. And
23:28
if it wasn't the white man, it was the Hispanic.
23:31
So I said, well, where are we
23:33
at in this place? And how do we make our
23:36
footprint in this space. So,
23:39
after going through a couple of projects of being taken
23:41
advantage of because I understood
23:44
construction from a work standpoint, I didn't understand
23:46
construction from a paperwork standpoint, I
23:48
said, okay, I'm going to immerse myself in
23:50
this to understand what a change order is
23:53
when you change your mind about this floor and that floor.
23:55
It come with a cost. I didn't understand it. I thought,
23:57
you put the floors down on the floor, because
23:59
that's why I had to do. But the
24:01
business side of it is what intrigued me. So
24:05
my partners and I all agreed that it would make sense
24:07
for me to go. So I said, Okay, little
24:09
cousin, you go get mortgage license. Brother, you go
24:11
get insurance licesn and other cousins getting
24:14
property management license and inspect the license.
24:16
I'm gonna go get construction licensed. So we all
24:18
deployed and had to get
24:20
our license within a year. So
24:23
you did the Lebron James model. That's the
24:25
Lebron James model. You know all
24:27
these balls around here that you go to college.
24:29
You go to college, you go manage this agency,
24:32
you go manage my career. That's what he did. But
24:34
that's what we did marriage. We all went
24:36
through and got our licenses, and everybody, everybody
24:38
made it to the finish line, no matter what their background
24:41
was or what they were doing. We waded
24:43
to the finish line, started
24:45
to do this thing, started to do construction, pick
24:47
and flips, doing content, posting our content online.
24:50
Then, like I said, we got the license
24:53
to just do our ideals, pull permits, you know, not
24:55
have to build a middleman. And now
24:58
as we were posting, people started saying, hey, can
25:00
you help me with this and that? And we were
25:02
like, we really don't want to do it. We don't even how to
25:04
price it. We're doing it for us. But after
25:06
a while, you know, we said, you know, we'll
25:08
take a leap of faith. We started doing it. We
25:11
ended up building out a restaurant called New Orleans
25:13
Crild Cuisine downtown Atlanta. It was
25:15
a ten thousand square for a restaurant and took it from
25:17
Michelle to full completion. That
25:19
said, man, I love this,
25:21
this is what I want to do. This is my passion. Doesn't
25:24
feel like work. And you know, we've
25:26
said grown. So now we've done a ton
25:28
of ton of commercial products.
25:30
Man, I've done Chase Banks. I'm doing ten Atlanta
25:32
public schools right now. I'm doing the athletes
25:35
for corporate head quarters here in Atlanta. I've
25:38
done Little Caesars, J James Fishing
25:40
Wings. I work with a ton of celebrities
25:43
on houses and studios and man,
25:45
it's been amazing. It's been amazing. Hey
25:48
man, look at it. Man, your realities show.
25:50
Baby. We're gonout to sit down, man, I want to tell you the real
25:52
reality to show man. You and your little lord,
25:55
your lord, it's your son, right, you have a son or
25:58
daughter? Yeah, my little boy, little boy
26:00
Justin. Do you
26:02
now this is great? Man, I'm going to tell you something. Y'all
26:05
do me a favorite, Justin. I've interviewed you twice.
26:07
Remote. Hey, I want you to come in studio
26:09
and sit down with me in September. Man, I want
26:11
to take some phone calls with you, make because I'm
26:13
gonna tell you some Man. I'm blessed
26:16
the fact that I know you're you're my fraternity's
26:18
brother, younger version of meat. But the
26:20
hero stories, they all are very simple.
26:23
They're very simple. Man. You don't complicate
26:25
the process, and anybody who listens
26:27
to it, all they have to do is
26:29
develop the plan because the plans
26:32
are all similar, but they have to be consistent.
26:34
That's what your secret to success is. Yeah.
26:37
Literally, if you don't plan, your plan
26:39
to fail. So all you gotta
26:41
do is stick to the plan. Again, I
26:44
want to thank my man Justin, my young frat
26:46
brother making side fire. You know we're saying,
26:48
Fred, let's go put it out there making side fire out
26:50
there. You got Kamala Haron's out there talking
26:52
about it, akas you know what I'm saying.
26:54
We got here doing the Big Dog Country
26:57
and my producers. His dad is
26:59
a make a man too, so you know it's CU's
27:01
right there. They purposely gold. Hey, Justin,
27:03
Man, thank you for taking the time. Man. We're gonna get
27:05
this out here. Man. If you know anything, how can
27:07
they get in touch with we do? As we close out the show.
27:10
Man. Definitely appreciate the time. I
27:13
love the love that I get from you all. If
27:15
anybody has any questions about anything that I can
27:17
help you with, from real estate to business. The easiest
27:20
way to access all of my different businesses,
27:22
it's gonna be my website www
27:25
dot justin. That's j U s t I n
27:28
M. For Michael Lee, that's l e e
27:30
sr dot com. So j U s t I n M
27:33
l e e s r dot com. That reads justinimly
27:36
senior dot com. All of my links
27:38
are there, podcast interviews,
27:41
content all free. Tap
27:43
in there. Check out our upcomingy visit Atlanta
27:46
area and around the nation. Man, thank you so much
27:48
for the time. Man. I look forward to the interview
27:50
in September and coming in and really
27:53
chopping up with you right. Appreciate
27:55
you man, Thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations
27:57
Masterclass, Doctor just
28:00
and Ley send y'a. This
28:03
has been another edition of Money Making Conversation
28:06
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28:08
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28:10
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