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Welcome to the show. I am Rashwan McDonald,

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Masterclass. Hi,

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I am Rashan McDonald. I host this weekly

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money Making Conversation Master Class show. The

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interviews and information that this show provides

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offer everyone It's time to stop reading

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other people's success stories and start living

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your own. My next guest is not just

0:49

constructing buildings. He's traded a

0:51

legacy. Whether you're I in a real estate

0:53

deal a groundbreaking construction project,

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this member of the million dollar Club in real

0:58

estate is your go to guy for guidance

1:01

and unmatched service. Taylor just

1:03

for you, Please, Welcome to Money Making

1:05

Conversation Master Class. Justin Lee

1:07

Senor how you doing, sir man, I'm amazing,

1:10

blessed? How they feel? How about yourself. Well,

1:12

it's been about three years since I talked to you justin

1:14

and when I talk to you, I

1:17

mentioned the fact that you was in a real estate business

1:19

and you were young, and being

1:22

a young person talking to people generally maybe

1:25

twice as older than you, maybe feel

1:28

that a young person what does he know about home ownership?

1:30

Tell the people of being a guy over the last

1:33

three years. Now you do

1:35

a twenty four. I believe when I met you, now you're twenty

1:37

seven. Talk about the experience being a

1:39

person who didn't allow age

1:42

to stop them from being successful in real

1:44

estate. Absolutely. I think that you know,

1:46

going into rooms often when you're

1:48

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.

1:53

So what I did was learn to embrace down

1:56

comfort and make you one of my biggest strengths. So

1:58

I started to network more in rooms

2:01

that had more experienced people, and

2:03

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.

2:12

So developed a lot

2:14

of great relationships branched

2:16

off into commercial real estate, which was an

2:18

amazing experience as well. It

2:20

also led me back to school, so I became

2:23

a real estate broker. Now in the last

2:25

three years, I have my own brokerage. I

2:27

also finished my doctorate degree, so I'm now

2:29

Doctor Justin Lee, which is also

2:32

an amazing the commie graduation.

2:34

Thank you, I appreciate that, man. So

2:37

it's been amazing. I'll say. Using the

2:39

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

2:46

back, learn more and kind of

2:48

owning on getting those certifications of education

2:50

in those key areas that I wanted to develop

2:53

and growing. Now, okay,

2:55

you say you're a blending young guy. What did

2:57

you bring to the table that would enhance

3:00

veteran person of the real estate game? Two

3:02

words? Social media.

3:05

So that's

3:08

something that most people don't know

3:10

about. Do you have a TikTok? Absolutely?

3:12

I Dodos the

3:16

United use it though. Absolutely. If

3:18

I'm my baky, that's why I use my TikTok for well,

3:22

you're different. You are one of the rare people

3:24

from your generation that know how to use TikTok,

3:26

Instagram, threads and

3:28

so on and so forth. So what

3:30

I realized that we're going it to lead

3:33

where everything is online.

3:35

You know, some people look better online

3:37

than in person for a reason, So

3:40

you have to make your business look the same way

3:42

online, you know. So I started to develop

3:45

with older developers, older real estate companies

3:47

and brokers that they're not ever sold some presence in

3:49

the presence businessmen.

3:52

We were charged to be honest. People on their

3:54

phone more than anything. Yeah,

3:56

that's true because ninety percent of the people who use

3:58

social media are using their phone, which

4:00

means that that's a generation that's usually

4:02

for more than just taking pictures of food or

4:05

getting direction of GPS. Is

4:07

a lifestyle and also social media

4:09

is a Some people say they are addicted

4:11

to social media, but we're in a real estate game.

4:14

You know. In the African American community of community

4:16

of color usually are left behind.

4:18

We are usually renters. Why is that

4:21

justin I

4:23

think that it just comes from socioeconomical

4:26

knowledge, right. So typically

4:28

in European aging

4:33

other cultures, they are taught financial literacy

4:35

within their own your tough financial literacy within

4:37

their house, Whereas when it comes

4:40

to African American people, I think

4:42

that we often have to figure it out.

4:44

And when it comes to being

4:46

able to purchase real estate, the most important thing

4:49

is going to be credit. Most

4:51

of the time, our parentsing and articles and

4:53

our teams and say I don't use no credit card. You don't want

4:55

to know debt, right, They'll they'll

4:58

they'll give us that advice, which is great at but

5:00

kind of bad advice at the same time when you're trying

5:02

to actually grow, because it's a difference between bad

5:04

debt and good debt. Real estate is

5:06

always going to be good debt. Bad debt is

5:09

the Mason's card, the Amazon

5:11

call when you just buying everything. But it

5:13

comes really from that foundation of knowledge.

5:16

I know so many people that have worked

5:18

the job as a janitor, a school bus driver,

5:20

a teacher, secretary of I

5:22

Burier thirty years, never missed the day on holiday,

5:25

but don't own. They rent because they're scared

5:27

and they don't know what it takes to rent

5:30

and versus purchase. And most of the times

5:32

that they ring is more hard than purchase,

5:34

and they want three times to a mount of money. They're rent

5:36

when and purchase and it's not even the same

5:39

right now. So that's

5:42

the fear we look at. You know, they are known. How

5:44

do you educate? Do you have courses available

5:46

to people that they can reach out to you that can educate

5:49

them and show them the value

5:51

of ownership or home ownership. Yes,

5:55

So ultimately on Mondays every

5:57

Monday, I do a lot. It's called Motivational

5:59

Monday. Do it at seven o'clock Eastern Standard

6:01

time on my Instagram Jamie the Realtor on

6:04

that I allow what to call it chew in a where allow

6:06

people to come in and ask questions about whatever

6:09

it is that they want to know when it comes to real estate investing

6:12

and where to start. I think that

6:14

that's always resourceful. I

6:16

think that another place that people can look for

6:18

is going to always be their local home

6:21

buyer Associating. I also

6:23

have a podcast that I have that released every

6:26

Thursday that we talk

6:28

about these topics of business growth, credit,

6:31

taxes, financial literacy, and so on and so

6:33

forth. So we always give out, you know, the

6:35

information to the community to help them to

6:37

develop and grow, and you know, in any questions

6:39

that they have, we're always open ascent

6:41

no matter where they are located. In the nation. The information

6:44

is society pretty much. Okay, let's

6:46

just go through some steps here, doctor Lee.

6:50

When we talk about real estate, if

6:53

someone comes to you, what

6:55

is the process do you get

6:57

them clear for a long pride to you taking

6:59

them I was looking for a home? Or how does

7:02

that process work? That's

7:04

an amazing question. See, it just

7:06

depends, right if I see someone and I

7:08

can kind of have a quick conversation with you and say, hey,

7:11

you know, what is your credit score? What

7:13

is your income before taxes? Did

7:15

you file taxes after? I know those

7:18

three essential questions that tell me if you're approvable

7:20

today or if you're approvable in the future.

7:22

But either way, I'm going to take you to see

7:24

houses. And the reason I do that is

7:27

just because you're not a provable today doesn't mean you can't

7:29

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

7:36

possible and say, hey, this house

7:38

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

7:47

them. So that's always the first step. It's going to

7:49

be an onboarding call where we discussed, like

7:51

I said, your credit score, your

7:54

did you file taxes, and do you have

7:56

income? The most important thing is going to

7:58

be income documented income, and that's

8:00

either through a job or through taxing

8:02

signs as entrepreneurs. Sawing that you made

8:04

money the last two consecutive years.

8:07

Credit scores are a little bit more flexible and

8:09

there's ways to increase your credit square. We can actually

8:11

help you all with. But once we do that, we connect

8:14

you with the lender that album. Step two. The lender

8:16

would go through the same thing that I just asked,

8:18

but more in depth. They want to know your job,

8:20

your social your birthday, employment

8:24

history, so on and so forth. Then they say, okay,

8:26

justin Europe two for three hundred thousand, here's

8:28

a letter, go buy whatever you want. And

8:30

then from there we go out see the house that you like,

8:33

negotiate with the sellers on your then

8:35

within thirty to twenty five days going on the

8:37

contract, you will be moving it to your new house too.

8:40

I was speaking that doctor justin Lee. Three years

8:42

ago, I interviewed this young man who was twenty four years

8:44

old in the real estate game. His

8:46

legacy because he learned from

8:48

the family on how they understand

8:51

HPCU, Guy Warehouse that

8:53

he's a doctor. That's what I call him, Doctor Lee.

8:56

He's a single father, three year old

8:58

child. Importantly, he's

9:01

in the game of real estate, which we know is

9:03

dominated by white people.

9:05

That's gonna be real because you said that

9:07

in your first interview, and you said it was important

9:09

that you step over each

9:11

other side of the lay. How is the real

9:14

estate industry three years ago as

9:16

it is today for you?

9:18

So Mike Ferre has been at full three sixty.

9:20

I think it's a three sixty because three years ago

9:23

I was newer to the industry. I was learning from

9:27

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

9:35

industry, I realized that it is

9:37

not as hard as we think. The industry was

9:39

dominated back then, and primarily

9:42

it is dominated by white

9:44

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

10:07

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

11:00

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

12:00

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.

12:26

If that makes sense, So let's go where we can

12:29

get in, where we can actually afford. We

12:31

don't got to be here as it's cool. Let's go where

12:33

it makes sense, right right,

12:35

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?

13:25

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?

13:40

Was it? Several of them? And when

13:42

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14:13

Absolutely. Man, So initially

14:16

I started off. It was my brother

14:18

and I and a couple of our cousins,

14:21

right, and we all pooled together.

14:23

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.

14:34

We pulled together and use the strengths of each

14:36

other to purchase. And

14:39

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

15:01

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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