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The Truth about Ben Mallah.

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meet ben mollom his life is for sale and

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we're gonna go look at some real estate

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for one quarter of a billion dollars

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walk away for a quarter of a billion

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dollars

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she owns multiple private jets a house

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that most would call a resort on the

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beaches of florida with a giant lazy

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river that's powered by jets so you

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don't have to kick you just float

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[Music]

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very simple modest home really when you

0:42

think about it there's also a car

0:44

collection which starts with a his and

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hers garage

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this garage here these three spaces in

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this garage belongs to my wife my side

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garage is over there rolls royce dawn

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convertible

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x7 m50i

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rolls-royce

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v12

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phantom e wb

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extended wheelbase has a sticker price

1:13

of over six hundred thousand dollars

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and uh comes with curtains

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here we have my work car this is the

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going out car this is my everyday work

1:23

car this is a beautiful 2000 i think 18

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bentley mulsanne

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rf1 lt

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these happen to be made in germany by

1:35

named after you re

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wacko big numbers so this

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here will tear down the road and go

1:42

right in the water and turns into a

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giant jet ski and then there's what made

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ben an over 200 million dollar real

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estate empire and today we get to meet

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ben

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[Music]

2:10

i'm gonna go look at some real estate

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not the typical real estate we look at

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so get ready there's something you need

2:16

to know about ben mahler and it's that

2:18

if you want him to listen to you

2:20

sometimes you just have to yell right

2:22

back at him six hundred dollars you

2:24

could have done the bathroom and you

2:26

would bring this this is what somebody's

2:27

gonna do i'm trying to tell you

2:30

so then we go to yankee town on ben

2:33

mala's dixie cup plane get it cause it

2:35

looks like a dixie cup it's about a four

2:37

million dollar twenty year old plane and

2:40

ben bala has some advice on how to pay

2:42

for things like planes versus how you

2:45

pay for things like real estate real

2:46

estate makes you money pay when you

2:49

spend money you want partners when

2:51

you're making money you don't want no

2:53

partners so you keep it all yourself so

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then we go to yankee town which is where

2:58

ben's buddy frank is considering

3:00

speculating on a land and marina deal to

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maybe build a resort and attract people

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to

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yankee town

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who's your typical customer

3:12

typical well the typical customer would

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be someone moving from california

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which ben mahler tells us are not the

3:19

kind of people to want to jet in

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are you judging the quality of playing

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in terms of what kind of customers here

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yes

3:27

i checking out the money go where you

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see the money but i don't know you know

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you got to look at every aspect of it

3:35

so far uh we landed a jet here that's a

3:37

good sign

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you're the only jack people in well got

3:40

to start somewhere look what was vegas

3:42

before you built it there you go

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will you build it and they come

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are you into taking that kind of risk

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because what if the people don't come

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i'm not into that taking a kind of risk

3:56

uh no but i mean you know

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i'm familiar with the area somewhat then

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uh the kind of people who are looking to

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come here aren't going to be finding on

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jets they're going to be coming in rvs

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and why build a hotel room to rent it

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out for a hundred dollars a night when

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you could rent out an rv pad for a

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hundred dollars a night well then we get

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to yankee town and we learn a lot more

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about yankee town first when we land

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frank asks the locals by telling him

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that he's an investor

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and asking hey should i invest here

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should i bring my dollars to your town

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and guess what they had to say what i'm

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trying to find out is why would we you

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being the leader here why would we move

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here what what and and start business

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here why wouldn't you

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so

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this is the fastest one of the fastest

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growing places in the state of florida i

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like to play this strategy a little bit

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different and when we went to a

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restaurant with the mayor and the

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mayor's assistant i talked to the wait

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staff before they even knew i was with

4:54

the same party because i walked in late

4:56

because i was filming a youtube video

4:58

for you

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better like the videos

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anyway

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i walked in late they didn't know i was

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with him so i sat down at the bar acted

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like i was part of a different party and

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briefly asked some of the employees hey

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you know i'm a little bored what's there

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to do around here what do people do for

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fun and they said well

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most people leave

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that is there's not much to do here

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other than there's an observatory tower

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over there some people go camping not

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much entertainment but we do have

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half-priced appetizers between three and

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six

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oh okay so anyway the truth comes out

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when people don't know what you're

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really up to

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you know i like the idea of cash flow

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but i will say i do also like the idea

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of appreciation

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and i don't know how much of that we're

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going to have

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in

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in areas that could at some point in the

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future be

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not so profitable anymore you can see

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what happens is sometimes and i think we

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frequently forget this because

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national real estate prices have only

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been going straight up right but once

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you get into down markets you get into

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recessionary times you do actually get

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towns that go bankrupt and they

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disappear right towns can go bankrupt

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remember that i have found my home

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the flip flop repair shop it's so

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peaceful here

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very relaxing but that's because

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nobody's here yeah but it's nature is

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here

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this is called the name make a great

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cemetery

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okay so i have absolutely no idea where

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we are right now but we're at some kind

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of marina i think it's like a yankee

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marina or something like that next to

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this wichila hoochie river which the

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speculation appears to be that maybe you

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could turn this into some kind of

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destination where people would

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come for airbnbs and

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boat charters and rentals and such i

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mean this is a call option is what this

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is this is a call option that expires in

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three years that is if you buy this and

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then in three years you have not

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managed to

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uh attract customers here

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your call option loses money now you

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still have some base value but you're

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gonna lose a lot of probably your

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investment unless of course the area

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around it appreciates and uh you know

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for some reason uh other aspects end up

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going your way but but then that's

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that's luck

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if it's a nice place they'll come

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if you have nice pads you gotta have

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nice hookups you have a decent clubhouse

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you're gonna have to have a swimming

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pool so you have to have nice dogs you'd

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have to put everything in because i mean

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like if somebody wanted to come here and

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do wave running rentals or jet ski you

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know whatever you know air boat rentals

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you'd have to have all that

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infrastructure in here i don't think you

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have that here you have nothing here

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you've got nothing yeah towards the end

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of our lunch with the mayor the mayor's

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assistant i asked hey tell me a little

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bit about the development history around

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here because i don't see much about it

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and that's when the truth started coming

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out we learned about a 2008 development

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war where the local attorneys wrote a

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plan to restrict people like frank from

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coming in and doing anything and maybe

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that's why the population's plummeting

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because apparently 85 percent of the

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locals are against changing the

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character of yankee town and that we

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should review the comprehensive plan on

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the town's website which during our

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drive back to the airport is exactly

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what i did that's when i found out that

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yankee town's got a 27 poverty rate a

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population of under 600 that has

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actually fallen from about 580 to about

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504 as of the last count in just the

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last few years so people are leaving not

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coming this makes

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well yankee town in my opinion

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pure speculation and take a listen to

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what i told ben mala which for me was

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the nail in the coffin about my findings

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of what was on that town website and

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that over 500 page comprehensive plan

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all right so uh another thing i learned

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is uh well the mayor talking about 85

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percent of people being against

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development there which was the opposite

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of the 85 pro development texas

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and then then i went and actually read

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his plan

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the county plan and

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and through the entire thing they talk

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about how historical and picturesque it

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is then they talk about how the only way

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will prevent new development is if our

9:08

systems can support it and then they go

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into about 17 different sections talking

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about how our sewers can't support new

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development our water systems can't

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support new development our schools

9:17

can't support it nothing can support new

9:19

development so they got this 400 page

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400 page document to basically give you

9:24

a big middle finger for development hey

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so the next day we decided to talk about

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something i'm more familiar with and

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that's not speculating on land it's

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getting into single-family real estate

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now ben did a great thing he bought a

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property right

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but how's he trying to sell it and who's

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right about this renovation or are we

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both right because i have some different

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opinions about the style that ben chose

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to either leave or change compared to

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what i would suggest

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but the luxury housing market is falling

10:36

off a cliff especially in florida so is

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this the time for ben to cut and run

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what do you think this house has 12 000

10:45

mol

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mol you'll see that a lot real estate

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terms it means

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more

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or less because it's really hard to

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exactly measure a house of this

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magnitude of this size plus you got out

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buildings you got a bathroom over there

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uh you know uh extra room here you know

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so it's mol 12 000 square feet

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and there you go and we're gonna put it

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on the market when it's ready

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for 12 million dollars why

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because 12 000 square feet

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a thousand bucks a square foot for this

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is 12 million dollars it's simple math

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probably right hand one

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i'm gonna get this thing on the market

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we already put a a test sign out there

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telling people it's coming available

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as soon as the pool's done and matt

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finishes the goddamn list i've gave him

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for the past three months and the

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landscaper finishes the baby's going to

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the market

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perfect so tomorrow

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and you

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know plenty of people in california in

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california

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this wouldn't buy you a house one tenth

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to size

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did you put in the led lights in the

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court no

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so what was wrong with you i painted the

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poles very dirty

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so uh why didn't you glaze this i didn't

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want to know what glaze this man what do

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you mean

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what does that mean well this is like

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90s pink tile it's boring glaze you'd

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never glaze tile you talked about like

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epoxy over it yeah they spray painted it

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yeah epoxy we do it on pockets it's

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great and guess what happens the grout

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lines disappear too it's really good but

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like you know what's gonna happen is

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this

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i like a lot of cushion if somebody

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comes in the air and the wife goes i

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don't like the bathroom in the pool area

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yeah how much yeah all right 20 grand

12:32

done take it off the price yeah or you

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spent 600 now don't have that 20 grand

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conversation what are you doing tomorrow

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i'm not painting this

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mark it down get a bid on uh

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you talk about just painting white whole

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white white now just white it out a

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little epoxy whatever put a nice shower

12:50

head on come on man this is like 99

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cents you got off 99. you got that at

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the dollar store

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that was old yeah i know put down a new

12:57

shower no he's right these are the

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things that are going to trick this

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house out you need shower head get a

13:02

price on spraying this thing in whitey

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things right stuff the stuff people see

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like you don't have toilet bolts on this

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toilet the bolt caps you see that's

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nasty man yeah this on this side it's

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like black and gross you know it's that

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little stuff uh you know i don't even

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see the boat

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i know

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this is the nitpicking stuff we need to

13:22

do now because we did all the major work

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now we're going to get some finicky ass

13:26

person like him in here that's going to

13:27

tell us all a little detail like like

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the screws ben they got to be straight

13:33

old washer dryer but what are you gonna

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do

13:36

what this should be semi-gloss ben

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they're using they're not actually

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they're using uh they're using a matte

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paint that's why you're getting

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fingerprints on that or it's exposed to

13:44

the weather so you're 100 right and all

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right tell me another thing don't tell

13:48

matt not mad matt ray tell ray it looks

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like there's a low sheen on it

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but tell me we want high gloss

13:58

well protect the weather yes uh ten

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bucks man box hinges hinges

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clean them up yeah cleaning

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what he does he he stands them or some

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or whatever steel wool the hinges

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on the bathroom door need have neil fix

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these things like it did in the house

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your painter painted the bose speaker

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thing shut those schmoes look at this

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baby

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oh

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brand new green egg baby couldn't fit a

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bigger one see but the problem is it's

14:27

personal property it's technically not

14:30

it's an extra

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how much this thing cost

14:33

six hundred dollars you could have done

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the bathroom

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do both

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when you're dealing with millions this

14:39

is penny any you want a cushion on

14:42

these deals so when they start bitching

14:44

you have something to give them that's

14:46

when you give them the green egg

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i'm also not buying it with this 90s

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kitchen what are you doing spending all

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that money

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you don't get the whole concept here

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i don't get the car this is a 90s house

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this is somebody who loved the

15:02

90s

15:03

all right this is the 90s you could buy

15:05

a new house you could buy an old house

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but can you buy a preserved 90s house

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i'm thinking to put a disco ball

15:12

in there that's 80s

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nobody wants the 90s

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what year were you born 92 that explains

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it that's why you keep wanting to kick

15:21

me out and get rid of me

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look at this 90s baby you did nothing in

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here not my 90s

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what are you doing man all right you

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know what you could do here

15:31

but you want a lot or i could give a

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credit

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come on oh i don't like that kids

15:37

how much 100 grand could you spend a

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hundred grand make your schedule really

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look nice i can make this kitchen all

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right so now give me your drink

15:44

i'll give them a hundred thousand dollar

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discount if they don't like the

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kitchen see this is that's the way i do

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yeah you throw away a hundred when

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you could spend four and keep the

15:53

hundred seasons we've got time for that

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i'm trying to get my projects

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outside the materials the

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the gc's or whatever like the workers i

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ain't got time for that

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first you always try to split it without

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doing the work if you can and still make

16:10

a profit if that doesn't work now you

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could be right yeah i might show this

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house 20 buck at times and nobody likes

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it because it's outdated then you know

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what i'm going to say

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get in there and date it up but

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i'm gonna test the water first but then

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you've ruined your because if i test the

16:27

water i get that property who

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won the next year maybe but then you've

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ruined the the first impression people

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see oh it's back in the market he just

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put a little more lipstick on it it

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kills it that's the market we're in it

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kills it the market's about to change

16:38

look bet here's what you do all right

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we'll take it we'll relax a little bit

16:41

okay here's what you got to do let's

16:43

relax let's go it's not much there are a

16:45

few things you could do that take it to

16:46

the next level but the first thing you

16:48

got to do these are good cabinets

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they're really good very good cabinets

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okay but they look like because

16:52

this is an old college change of

16:54

hardware nobody wants these cabinets so

16:56

what are you going to do

16:57

you're going to paint them there you go

16:59

you prime them with a wood non-sand

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primer maybe a quick little rub down

17:04

everybody likes a quick little rub down

17:05

and then you paint them probably if

17:08

you're going to keep this stone you go

17:09

white

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or you change this to like a sparkly

17:13

white quartz and you paint them great

17:15

and now you've got a modern 2020s

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kitchen

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probably talking about the hardware well

17:20

all that gold shit's got to go i mean

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that was understood gold is coming back

17:24

you see the price of gold

17:25

no it's been flat uh and this this

17:29

this is not the kind of gold people want

17:30

don't let him don't let him look at the

17:32

inside refrigerator i'll let you feel

17:34

yourself around let's see let's get to

17:36

meet kevin tour i'm just shocked you are

17:39

spending so much money outside and you

17:40

didn't do that

17:42

your reference is oh we want the woman

17:45

to be happy and yet you dropped the ball

17:47

here man new faucet baby

17:50

look at it has a gun look at that that

17:52

is the right color but who installed

17:54

this

17:54

tell neil titanforce

17:57

oh ben did you know the lesson on these

17:59

the what the lesson the lesson the

18:01

lesson uh yeah don't ever try to

18:04

save it the guy trusts me a fortune

18:05

putting them all back together what's up

18:07

you don't use this to open and close it

18:08

you know it's what do you do

18:10

yeah you finger it like that yeah you

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like to bring your stuff

18:13

well you know why because your staples

18:14

come out you've actually got this one

18:16

that's something people like to grab the

18:18

stick and some people like to use them

18:20

no look at this this this staple is your

18:21

finger guys some of the other guys are

18:23

stick men

18:26

this is the button i can't believe you

18:28

kept this crap oh my god don't

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with it it's antique i'm

18:32

fondling it i looked him up you know how

18:34

much he paid for those back in the 90s

18:36

he paid hundreds of dollars for they're

18:38

trash those happen to be special knobs

18:41

hand crafted in gold in saudi arabia

18:45

yeah i want some chinese quick sets here

18:47

right now

18:49

[Laughter]

18:52

he painted his hair red and

18:54

green once too he's got a paint fetish

18:56

maybe she goes painting body paints

19:00

we call them spray tans hey but paint is

19:03

more colorful

19:05

advisor decorator you want to come in

19:07

here you want to get all the gold out

19:09

off the doors or the showers or

19:11

everything change all these lights out

19:13

he wanted to go to town and then he

19:14

handed me the estimate i said

19:16

let's try it without it

19:18

no that's big money these days for good

19:20

lighting and good hardware you can't go

19:22

quick setting a million dollar

19:23

mansion yeah you came one of your

19:25

renaults just fine even i know that and

19:27

i like

19:28

i don't know what's the other expensive

19:30

one i don't know whatever so far it was

19:32

about oh it was hundreds of thousand

19:33

dollars every how many lights and

19:34

doorknobs are in this house and

19:36

hinges the list was enormous it was

19:38

hundreds i'm telling he gets the

19:40

cheapest around okay look so it's

19:42

12 000 square feet it's not a rental

19:44

plus it's a high yeah but there's a lot

19:45

of so it's about six 2 000 square

19:47

foot homes my electrical budget for this

19:49

would be 30 grand

19:50

the lights these lights and the hardware

19:53

30 grand and that's a lot that's a lot i

19:56

beg to differ i will save money on that

19:59

let me guess you fixed yourself

20:00

did you fix the central vac it works

20:03

okay all right we're gonna suck you up

20:06

we could play with it if you like later

20:08

yeah

20:08

it's a florida mansion it's not

20:11

california i know how do i turn this

20:13

it's a florida mansion uh they have a

20:15

switch on we already checked into it i

20:17

just want to turn them on

20:19

i can't see it come on critique it's

20:20

cracking what is this crap paint and

20:24

it's not that hard

20:26

but write these down so i don't have to

20:28

worry about nitpicking myself he's doing

20:29

it for me so i'm getting a free

20:30

inspection here

20:32

all right go for it change this freaking

20:34

hardware man

20:37

something that in my opinion would bring

20:39

this this is what it's gonna be i'm

20:40

trying to tell you

20:44

he talks more than i do

20:46

when i catch a

20:49

the crown molding's beautiful but it's

20:51

the wrong color

20:52

it needs to be ultra pure white because

20:54

what they did is they painted it almost

20:56

to blend in with the wall you're losing

20:57

the contrast that sparkle you could have

20:59

even look at the baseboard see how much

21:01

more of a baseboard contrast here

21:02

between the wall and the base

21:04

it's better than this because here the

21:06

crown disappears you don't even see the

21:07

crown because there's no contrast paint

21:10

it

21:11

you're worried about a hundred grand on

21:13

light pictures and stuff which is a off

21:15

anyway then we could be doing little

21:16

things like that then we got to stop

21:17

painting around the doors

21:19

right you pay people forward i should

21:21

paint all the crown and all the molding

21:23

around the windows throughout all these

21:24

windows

21:26

white it out go all the way with

21:28

shiny bright white is that what you want

21:30

yes

21:32

you're right

21:33

i mean i know you're right

21:34

it would brighten it up it would make it

21:36

stand out more

21:37

that's what i'm saying that's you need

21:39

her to come in here and pick out the

21:41

light fixtures cheap you don't spend 100

21:43

grand on this stuff you get them on

21:44

amazon or lowe's cheap you know what you

21:46

need you need the titty lights the boob

21:48

lights you know those no okay they're 36

21:51

bucks for a pack of two packers two

21:53

boobs yeah two boobs for 36 bucks that's

21:56

cheap in california man look this in the

21:58

hallways yeah you can't do this in the

22:00

hallway that's pretty

22:02

i'm just saying that's dirty style

22:04

that's been worn out

22:06

every apartment has um

22:08

you know

22:09

did some she did something similar

22:10

upstairs you're worried about that we'll

22:12

show you he's worried about the bronze

22:14

31 light fixture that'll class it up and

22:16

you're not even painting the kitchen

22:17

cabinets this is crooked look at that

22:20

wait you missed the room that's all i'll

22:21

come back let's see look at that they

22:23

painted it and crooked

22:24

now making it special stop opening the

22:27

blinds you're letting the sun in yeah

22:29

that means i have to run the ac that's

22:31

going to cost an extra 25 dollars a

22:33

month

22:34

look at your windows getting wrecked

22:37

you're not supposed to open these yeah

22:39

probably stained no this this is done

22:41

this one all right new glass no no no no

22:43

you know what you do what you don't do

22:45

this now you do that in the inspection

22:47

you do the kitchen now and when they

22:49

come because i guarantee you they

22:51

will that they want 30 new windows in

22:53

this house for 30 grand

22:55

that's when you give it to them and then

22:56

you close the deal duly noted

23:00

the mirror is crooked do you guys have

23:02

levels in florida we're kind of weird we

23:04

don't see straight

23:06

clear my guy's got one crooked

23:08

eye off a god that does all my work

23:10

all right come join us for a ride oh no

23:13

look at this

23:15

look at the little lights there open air

23:17

elevator

23:19

the wall paint sucks man it's just it's

23:21

the crown it's pink dude the crown

23:24

molding's pink that you don't have to

23:25

change much else rugs paint what do i

23:28

say what i say in every single one of my

23:30

videos every single one was paint and

23:32

carpet what's been doing none of that he

23:34

hasn't taken my courses that's it he

23:36

hasn't taken my courses

23:38

i just put these in these weren't here

23:39

this is empty put the shower glass here

23:42

i had to match the goal because

23:44

otherwise i changed all the

23:45

fixtures that's what i'm saying

23:47

i can't believe it and you didn't even

23:49

do the new brass you did the old brass

23:51

we had to max the old brass

23:55

all right he's he's reverse flipping it

23:57

he's going into a flip and dating and

23:59

more i'm so stressed out walking through

24:02

this damn house with this guy over here

24:04

and now

24:06

i'm trying to relax in this rolls royce

24:08

but it's not enough so we got to take it

24:10

up a level

24:11

open this up you pull this pack take two

24:14

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24:16

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24:19

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24:21

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24:59

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25:01

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25:03

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25:05

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25:09

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25:12

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26:12

the way to ben mala's peer we stopped at

26:14

one of his strip malls and i asked him

26:16

about what he has to do to which of

26:18

course he said nothing then i asked him

26:20

what about vacancy and we found somebody

26:22

who could have potentially been a

26:23

prospect who happened to just drive by

26:25

because they really liked ben's car and

26:28

we asked her hey what would it take for

26:30

you to move your jewelry store into the

26:32

strip mall would you consider it what do

26:33

you think about the plaza how do you

26:34

like this plaza what do you think about

26:36

it and she promptly said you don't like

26:38

this one i i don't think it's safe halo

26:41

one to ten the plaza two three uh five

26:44

to which of course ben mala had some

26:46

choice words the only reason why even

26:48

driving through here is cause it's a

26:50

shortcut to the trailer park

26:52

behind my shopping center look she's

26:54

turned in there she's turned in here and

26:56

she's going right in a trailer

26:58

take your ass off my property buttons

27:00

over here

27:01

it closes the blinds

27:04

to the side and back but see i don't

27:06

mind the side and back because i can

27:07

look outside and see pretty things

27:10

i can't block this site then we went to

27:12

ben mallis pier and the most important

27:15

question i have is hey ben how much do

27:17

you actually have to do to maintain this

27:20

pier and get rent from your tenants how

27:22

much uh how much work do you have to do

27:23

here nothing

27:25

the tenants take care of everything

27:26

tenants take care of the spaces we take

27:28

care of

27:29

keeping the place clean and run the

27:30

parking garage and keep it touched up

27:33

and that's it we do nothing

27:36

and how much uh how much are you

27:38

clearing from this place none of your br

27:39

business it's seasonal you know and uh

27:42

so he's losing money

27:44

i never lost money in my life okay what

27:46

about those bonds how about those bonds

27:48

except the freaking stock market

27:50

anything i control is gonna make money

27:52

you know why because i'm in control i

27:54

can touch it i can feel it i can make

27:56

this work and make money

27:58

like that 90s kitchen

28:00

you'll see you will probably get i think

28:03

you bought it well

28:04

trust me i bought it well yeah and i got

28:07

a lot of fat in the deal because i got a

28:09

lot of fat baby a lot of meat on the

28:11

bone bad guys do fat deals

28:14

i also asked him about a tenant who

28:16

takes friday's off and what his opinion

28:18

was on that if this person ever had

28:20

trouble paying their rent i'd say wait a

28:22

minute today's friday your store's

28:24

closed that's why you can't pay your

28:26

rent in the same place we ran into an

28:28

employee of one of the retail stores and

28:31

there were a couple things this employee

28:32

could do to potentially change their

28:34

lives they were by the way subscribers

28:37

of both ben and myself what do you think

28:39

you should do

28:40

he's living in a shed his grandmother's

28:42

backyard no bad way to save money

28:44

it is a good way to save money actually

28:47

man how old are you i'm 22. what do you

28:49

do i work at dd collectibles

28:52

next door yeah oh that's lieutenant yep

28:54

great how about get your real estate

28:56

license

28:59

[Music]

29:08

to make money

29:10

because you can go out and you can keep

29:11

your job and you can still you know try

29:13

to do real estate yeah you know with

29:14

that haircut you'll attract all the

29:16

millennials and all that you know

29:18

and but do it like tonight order the

29:20

stuff online and start like reading the

29:22

or whatever

29:23

no you're studying for a test yeah that

29:25

you're gonna not use any of that crap

29:27

for like in real real estate that's not

29:29

real real estate that's test real estate

29:30

so past that crap with flash cards done

29:33

the only issue is i have to get

29:36

my ged because i didn't go through high

29:38

school by the way let me tell you

29:39

something matt how long did it take you

29:40

to get ged

29:42

uh

29:43

two and a half months from the time i

29:45

started to the end oh wow

29:47

and you could have done it sooner

29:49

but the good news for this employee is a

29:51

couple check boxes ged real estate

29:53

license they could transform their lives

29:57

we also learned a bit about the

29:58

difference between the subscribers who

30:00

watch meet kevin and the subscribers who

30:02

watch ben mala

30:05

hey does she have septic there

30:07

no she doesn't thank god oh i mean look

30:08

at this

30:11

now what

30:12

my audience is older than yours

30:15

that's because i give real info

30:19

listen to this so i've got

30:21

69

30:23

between 25 and 44. you have 61.

30:27

you have 10 between 45 and 54. i'm at

30:30

13.6 only because you got a lot more

30:32

viewers than me between 18 and four

30:36

no this isn't you got two five times

30:38

there's something that has nothing to do

30:39

with how many viewers

30:41

it's a percentage ben think about it

30:44

all right

30:45

18 to 24 you're at 20

30:48

18 to 24. i'm only at 99. 9.7

30:53

that's fake news

30:55

but now we got to talk about the fact

30:56

that self-employment isn't for everyone

30:58

see ben malo started running duck tours

31:00

and that didn't lead to a very

31:03

happy competitor at the same area and

31:06

then post all the time frames

31:08

stupid duck boat right from my website

31:10

or for my brochure you know

31:12

and by the way if you're gonna run boat

31:14

tours why the hell would you get a duck

31:16

boat you know how many things those

31:17

people killed in the last year

31:18

and are you gonna this is what you call

31:21

a hater

31:22

he doesn't realize competition breeds

31:25

business for everybody are we fishing on

31:28

the boat no

31:29

does it does boats go on the road no

31:31

you're blocking traffic mr

31:33

cop get him arrested get him out of here

31:35

big problem i have with duck boats is

31:37

all the road pollution man now you're

31:39

riding a brake duster

31:41

mayor you're gonna kill people

31:43

you're gonna

31:44

watch

31:52

and so what were you saying these places

31:54

were vacant for what how long and which

31:56

since they were built they sat empty for

31:59

probably 15 to 20 years

32:01

dead space never rented all set up to be

32:04

retail stores retail stores don't do

32:07

good on the second floor

32:09

people like walking track well you know

32:11

in new york and may but not in florida

32:14

so basically we took every store and we

32:18

made it into a room

32:20

30 grand a room

32:21

we built out 10 hotel rooms investment

32:24

for 300 000

32:26

so basically we invested 300 grand we

32:27

built out 10 rooms these rooms are now

32:30

worth at least minimum 250 grand each

32:33

based on the income they provide as

32:36

hotel rooms

32:38

250

32:39

times

32:40

10 is a 2 million 5

32:42

for a 300 000 investment how much are

32:45

you getting per night

32:47

it averages by the season anywhere from

32:49

probably a buck 50 to 250.

32:52

this is a hot spot put you right here on

32:53

a boardwalk and uh over the course of a

32:56

year i have to look at the numbers

32:58

but these rooms are probably bringing in

33:00

at least a few grand each a month

33:02

minimum so now you've met ben muller the

33:04

quarter of a billionaire and his life is

33:07

for sale the really neat thing about ben

33:09

maloz it shows you

33:11

that anybody can do it because if he can

33:13

do it you can do it too damn it

33:16

no but seriously folks ben is an amazing

33:18

person and it really goes to show that

33:20

you can make it happen if you put your

33:22

efforts into investing in real estate

33:24

and there are many ways to slice the

33:26

apple that's what's beautiful about real

33:28

estate you want to do triple net real

33:29

estate you want to do single family

33:30

wedges you want to do multi-families

33:32

house hacks flips whatever there's so

33:34

many things you can learn in the real

33:36

estate community and it's a wonderful

33:37

community and you need to follow ben

33:39

molish so go to ben mala's channel right

33:41

now and make sure to follow him and

33:42

subscribe hey by the way if you want to

33:44

watch a podcast between myself and ben

33:47

there are two there's a one that we're

33:48

going to link down below of me in the

33:50

spa with ben learning about how he went

33:53

from where he was to where he is now and

33:56

then a second one of myself on his

33:59

channel where we live stream q a

34:01

your

34:02

questions and give you our answers check

34:05

it out link down below

34:07

all right folks it's time to go house

34:08

hunting over here with ben you hurry the

34:11

hell up already getting a car

34:13

you know me the time for all this

34:14

let's go make some money

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