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So, given that you clicked on this

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video, you're either a real supporter or

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you just hate me and can't wait to get

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rid of me. Uh, good news and bad news.

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Uh, bad news for the people who just

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really want to get rid of me. This is my

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last video for this year and I probably

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won't post anything tomorrow and I have

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a lot to share in this video that I

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think will be really useful. So, good

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news for the supporters. See, this video

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is more than just a reminder that yes,

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the Reinvest AI is out as promised,

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which means yes, the coupon expires

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tonight and we raised the price a lot.

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This video is actually to give you a lot

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of tips, a lot of commentary on things

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that worked really well for me in 2025

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so that hopefully you could learn even

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just one thing from this video and

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improve your life. because many of you

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come to the channel and you see me do

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fundamental analysis and technical

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analysis and cover news or do deep dives

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and then I go run this real estate

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company and now we develop an AI app.

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There's a lot and so I wanted to share

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some of the things that went really well

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in 2025 mostly just to for free help you

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uh also have a great 2026 and I think

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you know there's no better day than

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frankly December 31st to do just that.

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So, uh, the first tip that I would like

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to give is I'd like to keep it nice and

1:16

straight and simple here and we'll make

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some promises as well. We'll make some

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commitments here. I think that's always

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a good thing to do on New Year's. But,

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uh, the first thing is get the

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productivity app. It's free. It's it's

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not a sponsored app. It's something that

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I use. You know, there's no affiliate

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link or whatever, but you could get this

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in the Apple App Store. I'm not sure if

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they have it for Android, but it's

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called Productivity. I'm sure you could

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get a different kind of thing as well,

1:38

but I basically call it like my World of

1:40

Warcraft daily sheet. And uh so what I

1:43

do in it is I just put things in there

1:46

that I know I need to do on a daily

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basis. This is different from like my

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checklist or my to-do list. We'll talk

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about that in a moment. I don't think

1:55

you should mix up bare minimum things

1:57

that you should do on a daily basis with

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your regular to-do list. That gets too

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blurry and then you can't focus on the

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things you need to do. You get

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distracted by the basic things you

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should be doing on a daily basis. But if

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you don't have both of these lists,

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you're really likely to not do things

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you should be doing on a daily basis.

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Now, what could some of those things be?

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Well, I'll give you some examples. So,

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it could be as basic as brush your

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teeth, floss, and mouthwash on a daily

2:23

basis. It's really important, especially

2:26

if you're prone to cavities like I am.

2:28

And so, I do that on a daily basis. And

2:30

I've been doing that on a daily basis

2:31

pretty much all year long, which is

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really exciting because in the past I

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didn't and just sort of like get to it

2:37

or I'll skip a night cuz I'm tired. Now

2:39

I don't and it's great. Uh, another

2:42

example is get my daily wealth email out

2:46

or, you know, notification out if you

2:47

use the Meet Kevin app for it. I've been

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very consistent on this since logging

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this in my daily sheet and I really

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enjoy it. Like I say, it's like my World

2:55

of Warcraft dailies. You know, you got

2:57

to get out there and grind, right? or

2:58

things like logging my state of mind

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every day. You know, what are the things

3:02

that made me happy and what didn't? You

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know, I actually just got like an AI

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Apple insight and it's like, hey, we

3:08

noticed 76% of the time you said you

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were really happy uh was time you were

3:13

spending with family, which we'll have

3:15

an update on family in just a moment as

3:17

well, which is kind of exciting, which

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is cool. But anyway, uh then we talk uh

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you know, I I make sure that I do things

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like I journal. Hey, what did I get done

3:26

today? Did I do anything productive

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today? I find that there's also a

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correlation between getting things done,

3:33

not necessarily like money coming in

3:35

like, you know, money coming in is

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great. Okay, that's fantastic. I mean,

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like I look at house hack, you know,

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we're we're we just bought 11

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properties. We as of December 16th went

3:45

EPS profitable, which is great. I mean,

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the accountants will finish off uh you

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know, all the accounting or whatever

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they got to do for the rest of the

3:51

quarter and then we'll do our filings

3:52

and that which is really exciting.

3:54

I mean, this is amazing because we have

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now we bought 11 properties in the

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fourth quarter as we promised we would

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go buy properties in the fourth quarter.

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Now we got $15 million in the bank

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because people kept investing and

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believing in House Hack and the vision

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of what we're doing with House Hack and

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Reinvest, right? Same company or our AI

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product. Really excited about that. Uh

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so I like it's it's not a matter though

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of dollars. It's a matter of getting

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things done, working those little things

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that every single day get you closer to

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your mission and that logging that

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satisfaction. Some things that could be

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as simple as like, you know, hey, did I

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get a better insurance policy that

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protects the business better, that is

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something that satisfies me. It's

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something that nobody sees and it

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doesn't make for a sexy YouTube video,

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but it's something we we all know we

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have to do that kind of junk and it's

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annoying. Like I'll give you some other

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examples uh that those are things that

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you want to log and you're like I got

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this done so at least you can document

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that success and you get happiness out

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of doing it. It's why I like logging or

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journaling every day what I did. I think

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it's a huge hack for happiness and

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motivation. But like look the last 4

5:01

months we finished laying off people. We

5:04

we hated having to do it but we were

5:06

overstaffed. We just don't need as many

5:09

people as we originally did when we were

5:11

buying in a bunch of different cities.

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We've now bought most of our real estate

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in different cities and so we just don't

5:18

need the staff. We don't need an onstaff

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construction crew. Like there are just

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so many things we don't need that we

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thought we needed. And so we've really

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collapsed our expenses, which we'll talk

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about like hedging in the market in just

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a moment, but spoiler alert, when you

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reduce your expenses, it's a whole lot

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easier to hedge in case the market goes

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weird. Now, you know me, I'm 5050 here

5:39

as to what's going to happen next year.

5:40

But either way, uh like just think about

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little loose ends that you want to grind

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on that is a pain in the butt, but you

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should be logging as a success. So, do

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you actually have all of your insurance

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coverages, right? I mean, like I look at

5:52

some of the insuranceances coverages

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that we have and and the list is insane.

5:57

Uh I'll pull it up and then I'll read

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you some off here right now. But it's

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not just that. It's also thinking about

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retirement, not just for yourself, but

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if you have children, like I actually

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opened up Kougan accounts in California

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for my kids. So that way when I pay

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them, some of it goes into a child's

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Cougan account uh and some of it goes uh

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into their UTMA account that I have at

6:16

Fidelity and then I move that income

6:19

that they get after they pay their taxes

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on it, which is basically next to

6:22

nothing. Uh and then we move that into

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their Roth uh uh retirement account.

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Like to me, these are really cool things

6:30

that everybody kind of should be looking

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into setting up as as soon as your kids

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are old enough to earn income and

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actually do something functional at

6:37

let's say your side hustle, your family

6:38

business. And even if you're employed,

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you can have a side hustle. You could

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get a real estate license, a lending

6:44

license, or do electrical work on the

6:46

side, or you know, I know a guy that I

6:48

love and adore. Uh you know, he he is a

6:51

tech guy and he does uh firearms

6:54

training on the weekend. And I'm like,

6:56

"This is awesome. Good for him." Like, I

6:59

love that kind of stuff. I I really

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admire and love to hear stuff like that.

7:03

Uh because it's great. Now, you can also

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write off more. Not only can you write

7:07

off more stuff, but you can employ your

7:08

children. You can build up their 401,

7:10

you know, their 401ks or Roths or

7:12

whatever. Usually, children aren't

7:13

eligible for 401ks depending on what

7:14

kind of plan you have. But anyway, their

7:16

Roths, which is great. Their taxes are

7:18

so low anyway, right? You may as well.

7:21

But anyway, accounting, other loose

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ends. These are all the things you want

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to put in. Like I look at some of the

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insurance things we have here. master

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insurance policies for bundles of

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properties, workers comp, health

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insurance, vision and dental, too

7:34

expensive, property management, ENO, uh,

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directors and operators and investor

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insurance, cyber security, EPLI, life

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insurance, different policies, techno,

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cyber eno, IP insurance, media

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insurance, business owner policies

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and all of these policies require like

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negotiating and working, right? That's

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all the unsexy stuff that doesn't show

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up in a YouTube video, right? Like

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nobody wants to talk about that stuff.

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But the way you kind of make sense of it

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or the way you make it enjoyable, so to

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speak, is in my opinion, you go out and

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say, "Hey, I'm going to log it." And

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that makes me feel success in what I'm

8:16

doing. And I think that's a wonderful

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thing. Uh, another thing like, "Do you

8:20

have your trust set up the way you

8:22

wanted? If you're if you die, does your,

8:24

you know, family have access to all of

8:25

your 2FA? Do you have all do you have

8:27

all your beneficiaries correctly set up?

8:29

You know, do you have like a fireproof

8:31

safe somewhere where somebody can go in

8:32

and like, you know, figure out like,

8:35

hey, like what do I do if you're dead? I

8:37

don't know. Or maybe you have a vault or

8:39

like a safety deposit box somewhere

8:41

where you keep that, right? Like it

8:42

doesn't have to be in your home. You

8:43

could hide it somewhere. Point is, you

8:45

know, people in your family should know

8:47

these things, right? So these just

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little things to think ahead that

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actually give you as a human a lot of

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peace of mind even though none of us

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actually are planning on dying anytime

8:55

soon. Knock on wood. So productivity app

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real big game changer for me and just

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like getting these things logged and

9:03

grinding these things out and you know I

9:05

started my New Year's resolution to

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actually go to the gym and work out now

9:09

32 days ago. Today will be day 33 on a

9:12

streak once I go to the gym after this.

9:14

Actually I already did this one. So I'm

9:15

going to check one of these off over

9:16

here. I already did that, so I'm going

9:17

to check that off. You know, the little

9:19

things you get into these habits and

9:20

forming habits is good. That's something

9:22

good that we want to do going into uh

9:24

2026.

9:27

Now, I've I've got more here and a lot

9:29

of productivity tips. And, you know, not

9:32

only is our I mean, this is another

9:34

thing I'm going to have to do. We're

9:35

going to have to sort of rebuild the

9:37

Reinvest website because, well, at this

9:39

point, the app is live and we're really

9:42

excited about that. You can still lock

9:44

in your pricing if you want. Uh, we got

9:45

to change the coupon. We got to rebuild

9:47

the website a little bit because, you

9:48

know, now our investment round is

9:50

closing tonight. Uh, and so we'll get

9:52

rid of the invest button and we'll get

9:55

rid of the invest section. Maybe we'll

9:56

move the real estate section somewhere

9:58

else. But I want to talk about more

9:59

productivity tips. Uh, not just to think

10:02

about all the things I still have to do.

10:04

Uh, but I want to make a promise. I made

10:07

this promise last in 2022.

10:10

And uh I said that for the foreseeable

10:12

future I would no longer take sponsors

10:14

in 2022. And uh even though you know two

10:17

years later it took two year I did two

10:20

years of no sponsors. Uh and I only

10:23

promised I said for the foreseeable

10:24

future I wouldn't take sponsors and

10:26

people like oh you take sponsor. So I

10:27

did have sponsors for about probably the

10:29

yeah last year maybe year and a half or

10:32

so. And uh I think right now and this is

10:35

just a promise that I'd like to make to

10:37

everybody on the channel that again also

10:39

for the foreseeable future. Uh this

10:41

video will be the last video with a

10:43

sponsor integration. And the reason for

10:45

that is related to the promises that I

10:48

want to make in the latter part of this

10:50

video. And so there are a lot of

10:51

exciting things that I have for 2026

10:54

that I want to talk about. Uh but with

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that said, uh say a silent prayer, a

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They're great and I think they do great

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in real estate and y'all know I love

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real estate. But let's go back to sort

12:33

of the tips. So, after you get this

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productivity app like set up, and you

12:38

should be grinding on this, I recommend

12:40

you have one checklist. Nobody does

12:44

this, but I think it's so important. So,

12:46

you have the productivity app for like

12:47

the things you're going to do on a daily

12:48

basis, right? And you could like journal

12:50

and your reminder, do all that kind of

12:51

stuff. But the next thing you really

12:52

need, you need a checklist. One place

12:54

that you put everything because it's

12:57

getting worse every single day. Every

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app gives you notifications. You got

13:02

text messages, voicemails, missed calls,

13:06

emails. You can't consolidate all of the

13:09

crap. Returns to make to Amazon,

13:12

packages to drop off, things to do for

13:14

the kids, donations to make, things to

13:16

buy, things to

13:19

you can't keep it all straight. So, what

13:21

I actually did is I made uh and and you

13:24

could use this for free. You don't have

13:25

to. like it's no skin off our back

13:27

whether you use it or not. But um I made

13:30

a uh to-do list app. This sounds crazy,

13:34

but you know what? My team and I, we put

13:36

this together, but it the inspiration

13:39

was having one place that you could

13:41

actually put all your stuff. And look,

13:45

there are a million different checklist

13:46

apps, but one thing that ours does that

13:49

I think is really unique, you could use

13:50

a different one, of course. You could

13:51

download the Meet Kevin app if you want,

13:53

but one thing ours does that I think is

13:55

unique is it lets you deprioritize

13:58

tasks. So, I'll show you really quickly

14:00

uh how it works and how I use it and the

14:03

little tricks that I found that are

14:05

really useful for me uh to be more

14:08

productive as uh well, frankly a human.

14:10

And I think that's that's always our

14:12

goal is how can we learn to be more

14:14

productive because that enables us to

14:16

spend more time with family and more

14:18

time making the dalahalas, right? All

14:20

right. So, uh, here's just a quick

14:22

example of how I might use this. So,

14:24

back in the day, if I had like five

14:27

miscellaneous text messages, let's say

14:29

three of them were bills, right? And

14:31

let's say I had to do bills to uh

14:34

Walter, you know, or uh bills to Greg

14:39

and I don't know, I'll do bills to my

14:42

buddy Alio, let's just say, right? Well,

14:45

if I got, you know, text messages and

14:47

emails and voicemails asking me about uh

14:50

bills, well, it's really hard to

14:52

organize that all and I'd like to do it

14:54

all at the same time. So, what I do is I

14:56

when I read these things, I just quickly

14:58

throw them on my list of tasks to do and

15:00

I'll throw them under bills and great,

15:03

now they're all categorized under bills.

15:05

Nice and easy like that, right? But the

15:07

other thing that I'll do is I'll throw

15:09

in here and do like, you know,

15:11

QuickBooks and then I'll do, you know,

15:13

upload receipts or deposit uh checks. If

15:18

I could spell correctly. There we go.

15:19

Deposit uh checks. Still didn't spell

15:21

correctly, but whatever. You get the

15:23

idea. Now, let's say I'm going to pay

15:25

bills through Mercury and I don't really

15:27

want to go into QuickBooks right now and

15:29

I got to do some other things like drop

15:31

off mail or maybe I got to, you know,

15:35

uh, call the venture capital company

15:38

back. We haven't gotten any venture

15:40

capital investments for House Hack, but

15:41

I've had a lot of people asking me for

15:43

pitch decks, and I'm like, before I make

15:45

a pitch deck, I am closing this fund

15:47

raise cuz if I'm going to have to make a

15:48

pitch deck, we are raising the

15:50

valuation. But anyway, so like let's say

15:53

those are higher priority items, right?

15:55

So uh and and let's say, you know, for

15:57

whatever reason, this is the way it

15:58

looks. So I might look at this and say,

16:00

"All right, hm, do I really want to do

16:03

QuickBooks right now?" No. So this is

16:05

the feature that I really like that I

16:07

haven't seen another app do. I can

16:08

depprioritize. So I could swipe to dep

16:11

prioritize, and I just hit prioritize,

16:13

and it pops up at the bottom of the

16:14

list. Call the VC company. All right,

16:17

let's say I did. Ring, ring, drop off

16:18

the mail. Let's say I did. Complete. All

16:20

right, awesome. It's done. And now those

16:22

things also go into my log. Like my last

16:26

actions go into my log. So it's kind of

16:28

cool in case I ever need to undo

16:29

something. So we built this. It's just a

16:31

free feature in the Meet Kevin app.

16:33

That's the same app where you could get

16:36

your daily wealth updates, which I think

16:38

are really cool. Like here's the payroll

16:40

hack up uh hack that I did yesterday,

16:42

which I thought was really cool. Uh but

16:44

anyway, you know, that's just the task

16:46

hack. And then when I finish these off,

16:48

obviously I can complete them. I can uh

16:50

you know if I really want to I can

16:51

collapse that for now and depp

16:52

prioritize it just to get it out of my

16:54

way the bills section. But this is a

16:56

nice easy way to consolidate life.

16:59

Game changer. It is such a stress relief

17:01

to actually just organize things

17:03

correctly. Now uh we already talked

17:06

about gym. I'm not really doing like a

17:09

gym New Year's resolution cuz I'm like

17:10

if I do it on January 1st I'm not going

17:12

to do it long like I'll fail just like

17:15

is normal. So, I actually started in

17:17

Thanksgiving and now I'm getting into

17:19

this on day 33, which is kind of

17:21

exciting. So, that doesn't mean don't

17:23

start today if if you've wanted to. A

17:25

tip that I found for the gym, because

17:27

I've never been able to be consistent in

17:29

the gym, and I' I'm only on day 33, so

17:31

it's whatever.

17:34

Very, very simple. Keep your exercise

17:36

simple when you start getting in the

17:38

routine. I'm not, you know, a personal

17:40

trainer or whatever, but this is just

17:41

what I found that works for me. I want

17:43

to spend less than 40 minutes a day in

17:46

the gym. Like that's I cap out no more

17:48

than 40 minutes. And I'll do an AB and a

17:51

Dday. That's or a B a day and a B day.

17:55

There we go. Uh and really the goal is

17:57

three or four exercises. That's it.

18:00

Three or four exercises, 12 reps, four

18:04

sets, done. Like there's plenty of time

18:07

to do them. Do a quick email. Do them

18:10

again. Do a quick email. Do them again.

18:12

and and then you're out of there. And it

18:14

feels great to get it done every single

18:16

day. Big big big fan of this. Uh and I

18:19

should honestly add this to my dailies

18:21

list. I'm actually going to write it

18:22

down as like things to add to my daily

18:24

list because I like this touch dirt. I

18:26

have a greenhouse now. That was

18:28

something that I finally, you know, was

18:30

able to put together in 2020 uh six or

18:33

five. And I'm so grateful about it

18:36

because or for it because I really feel

18:38

like it makes me happier on a daily

18:40

basis to like look at my plants and see

18:42

my plants grow. But it's more than just

18:44

growing plants. They're also kind of

18:46

like a way of seeing time go by. It's

18:48

like, wow, look at all that progress we

18:50

made over those last few weeks. And if I

18:53

feel like I'm not also making progress

18:55

while those plants are growing, it's

18:56

kind of just like a little slap in the

18:58

face like, man, what did you do? Like

18:59

these plants grew grew up and what did

19:01

you do in the meantime? Like I want to

19:02

be able to see that time go by and go, I

19:05

spent that time well. I got a lot done,

19:07

right? That feels good. And it doesn't

19:08

have to always be work. Like vacation is

19:11

good, too. Trust me, I'm I'm like a

19:13

massive fan of spending time with the

19:16

family and vacationing. And that's

19:18

something, not necessarily vacationing,

19:20

but spending time with the family is

19:21

something that I really want to do more.

19:24

That's probably something that I've been

19:26

less good at in 2025, especially when

19:29

unfortunately we let go of the over

19:31

staff that we had. There was a lot of

19:33

catchup that I had to do. I feel really

19:36

caught up right now. Like so much weight

19:38

is off my shoulders. And it's so great

19:40

because the team we have working with us

19:42

now, they're all so wonderful. They all

19:44

deserve so much praise. from uh

19:45

accountants to CPAs to the lawyers that

19:48

work with us, the broker dealer that

19:50

works with us to our software team, our

19:52

lead engineer to, you know, the staff in

19:55

the office, just everyone just firing on

19:58

all cylinders. It does feel great. But

20:01

that doesn't mean, you know, don't go

20:03

out with your family and go hit the

20:05

powder. Like, you know, if you've never

20:06

skied before, go get yourself some skis.

20:10

Like, you must experience the magic of

20:12

the snow. you know, buy yourself some of

20:15

those Meta glasses. You know, I like I'm

20:17

not the biggest fan of Meta itself,

20:19

although I do think their stock is cheap

20:20

and I buy it. Uh but um the Meta

20:24

glasses, you know, they're great.

20:25

They're a great way to get out there and

20:27

film without losing that moment, right?

20:30

That's what you don't want is you don't

20:31

want to be going through this and

20:34

holding a camera, losing the moment. You

20:36

want to be looking at what you're doing

20:37

and, you know, seeing your 10year-old go

20:40

through this or whatever. This this is

20:41

the fun that you should be having in

20:44

life. Now, I will say if you ever go to

20:46

Northstar, also nicknamed Flatar, I do

20:49

not recommend staying at the little

20:52

Hyatt lodge or whatever. Uh, you know,

20:54

if you do three nights, you get a

20:56

cheaper stay cuz they unlock these like

20:58

little condo rooms. I think it's just

20:59

like some rigged Airbnb thing that they

21:01

do through the hype. We had 30 seconds

21:04

of hot water, no amenities. I'm not

21:06

trying to sound bougie, but come on. I

21:08

need like more than 30 seconds of hot

21:09

water for two people. Okay, I gave Jack

21:11

all the hot water and I was back to cold

21:13

showers, but you know, whatever, right?

21:16

Jack and I, we we escaped and uh we we

21:18

went up to uh Truckucky, which was

21:20

awesome. Like, totally recommend it,

21:22

especially after a dump snow. So

21:25

awesome. Uh but anyway, let's get to

21:27

some more recommendations here. So, uh,

21:30

other recommendations that I think a lot

21:33

of people forget about and and don't pay

21:35

attention to is I really really like

21:39

can't stress it enough. People are

21:41

getting hacked all the freaking time

21:43

right now because they are clicking on

21:46

dumb links. This sounds so stupid, but

21:49

you will literally get a docu sign from

21:51

somebody going contract needing revision

21:54

and it's a fishing contract or like

21:56

PayPal verify your email or your bank uh

22:00

is this transaction fraud and then they

22:02

make you panic cuz it's like somebody's

22:04

stealing from you so you click the link

22:05

and then you log in and you get scammed.

22:07

Never log in from an email. Like this

22:10

sounds so basic but people do it all day

22:12

every day. We just had a local HOA get

22:15

hacked. They've been out for like 2

22:16

weeks. Like if you want to destroy a

22:18

business, go click on links. It's just

22:20

it's pretty bad. Uh and I think AI is

22:23

just making it worse. So now some uh

22:26

those are just, you know, some tips. If

22:28

you want to see more of my tips, you can

22:30

always check them out on the daily

22:32

wealth tab. Uh but I want to talk a

22:34

little bit about YouTube. Also want to

22:36

be a little bit grateful, by the way,

22:37

for what you all are doing. I mean, we

22:40

are raising money for House Hack through

22:43

YouTube, which is insane. I mean, look

22:45

at this. I posted this at 12:00. These

22:48

were just examples of inflows. I think

22:50

some of these 10kers are people who like

22:51

divide their 20k into two credit cards.

22:53

I'm not sure about that. Uh but anyway,

22:56

uh that could explain some of them. But

22:59

anyway, like you know, this was just uh

23:03

from the morning hours over here. These

23:05

were just inflows into house hack. And

23:07

there's still inflows coming in because

23:09

our poor broker dealer guy, he's so

23:11

overwhelmed. He's like, I can't process

23:13

all this. I can't approve all these

23:14

people today. So, he says, you know, he

23:17

promised he's like, I'll get them all

23:18

done by Friday, but you know, cuz

23:19

tomorrow's a holiday. I'm like, okay.

23:21

Uh, but anyway, deadline's supposed to

23:23

be tonight at 11:59 for investing in

23:26

house. Uh, but, uh, yeah, we have a

23:28

broker dealer who has to do KYC and like

23:30

make sure you're not like a known

23:32

terrorist or whatever. Like, I guess

23:33

people from Bulgaria can't invest. I'm

23:35

like, are you guys that mad at Robin

23:37

Hood or something? You know, is this

23:39

like a is this like a slate on or slight

23:41

on uh Vlad or something? I I I don't

23:43

understand. I mean, I I know I know Vlad

23:45

turned off the buy button, but I didn't

23:47

think he was that bad. But anyway, so um

23:51

you know, thank you. We're really

23:52

grateful for that. Uh and we think

23:54

that's wonderful about House Hack. And

23:56

you know, we've been fulfilling a lot of

23:58

the promises that we committed to. You

24:00

know, for example, and then I want to

24:02

talk a little bit about YouTube. You

24:03

know, we promised that House Hack would

24:06

never pay a dime of the plane. And my

24:08

promise to myself was that I would

24:10

always use the plane and pay the

24:11

$250,000 a month or whatever it was for

24:14

the plane. It's roughly accurate. Uh and

24:16

I would pay for that

24:19

unless we didn't need it anymore. And

24:21

you know, we bought real estate in

24:23

different cities and kind of very well

24:25

in my opinion diversified uh for the

24:27

real estate that we have. It's over $65

24:29

million of real estate free and clear.

24:31

No bank debt. House hack didn't pay a

24:33

dime with a plane. I got to learn how to

24:35

fly. became a pilot, instrument rated,

24:37

multi-engine pilot, jet pilot, rated for

24:39

single pilot operations. Not that I want

24:41

to do it, but it was rated for it.

24:44

It's kind of cool, you know? I feel like

24:46

I that was a cool chapter, but I don't

24:49

fly enough to where if I don't fly

24:51

enough, I don't feel comfortable being a

24:52

pilot. Like, that's not saying I'm a bad

24:55

pilot. I think that means I know that

24:58

the way to be a great pilot is by always

25:00

flying because it is a fading skill. And

25:04

uh that's very dangerous. And so if

25:06

you're ever a pilot or with somebody

25:08

who's a pilot and they're like, "Oh

25:09

yeah, I haven't flown in 3 months. Here,

25:10

let's hop on the plane and go

25:12

somewhere."

25:13

Uh-uh. Okay. So, so anyway, u you know,

25:18

maybe I'm just trying to be too

25:19

conservative. Who knows? But uh you

25:21

know, some other promises and then we'll

25:22

hit some of the YouTube thing. You know,

25:23

we we promised that we would release our

25:25

AI app by December 31st. We did. We did

25:29

exactly that. you know, now we have to

25:30

fulfill our mission because we're only

25:33

on visual AI.

25:35

Valuation AI isn't in yet, but we're

25:37

building that and our time frame for

25:40

that is by Q2, but like in the

25:42

background, I'm like, what can we do to

25:44

make this go faster? Like, I'm so

25:45

excited, right? Because I want to I want

25:47

to meet our promises. We promised to buy

25:49

properties in Q4. We bought 11. Uh we

25:53

already rent renovated and rented out

25:55

five of them. The others are in progress

25:57

and they'll be done soon. We promised to

25:59

develop ADUs. We're literally a week

26:02

away from getting final sign off on our

26:04

first two and those honestly will be

26:05

like a nine cap. Uh like the ADUs where

26:08

we got these built money, honey. So,

26:11

we're really excited about those. Uh you

26:13

know, those are those are in a very

26:14

expensive area. Uh we we also promised

26:17

we'd lower expenses and that's I think

26:19

how we you know, we managed to go EPS

26:21

profitable as of December 16th. Again,

26:23

the accounting for the rest of the year

26:24

has to get done. I don't know how

26:25

they're going to finish the accounting,

26:27

but uh I I think it bodess well for all

26:29

of 2026. So, I'm very excited about

26:32

that. That includes depreciation and

26:33

interest, which is great. We got 15 mil

26:35

in cash. Uh no bank debt or bank lines

26:38

of credit. And what I'd like to do is uh

26:42

promise a like conservative

26:46

outlook uh for for what our plans are.

26:48

So what I mean by this is not just on

26:50

YouTube but also with house hack. I want

26:53

to treat this like Warren Buffett would

26:56

like imagine if Warren Buffett were

26:58

doing a tech startup and and like an

26:59

investing real estate startup.

27:02

He would not take a lot of risk. And I

27:05

think that's what we're doing. That's

27:06

how we're building it. We're building

27:07

our AI based off of our experience and

27:10

where we can leverage efficiencies in

27:12

the best way possible. And I think the

27:14

team should be rewarded for that and I'm

27:16

a big fan of that. So I'm really excited

27:18

for the team we've built. Uh I also, you

27:22

know, think that from

27:24

a just market and hedging point of view,

27:27

you know, I maintain that I think it's

27:30

prudent to limit your debt or diversify

27:34

away from single stock risk. I had the

27:36

use carry people actually email me and

27:39

they're like, "Hey, thanks for all the

27:40

referrals or activity or whatever from

27:42

from your affiliate link. I'm not trying

27:44

to uh you know what's it called? Uh uh

27:48

or was it cash? Was it used carry or

27:50

cash or both of them? Oh, use cash.

27:53

That's what it was. Use cash. Ah, that

27:56

Yeah, that's right. I I screw up the

27:58

names. Uh but um you know, they're

28:01

they're the company that lets you

28:02

diversify from like one stock into an

28:05

ETF. And I'm like, damn, that is

28:08

brilliant. Like I wish I wish I could

28:10

have built that back when I was like

28:12

doing my broker dealer licensing and

28:14

stuff like hell yeah guys I'm a big fan

28:17

of this. My affiliate link for them is

28:20

meetke Kevin.com/cash.

28:22

That's uh c a c h e like a cache of

28:26

weapons. But anyway, yeah, they emailed

28:28

me. They're like, "Oh, thanks, bro." And

28:29

I'm like, "Yeah, sure." But uh no, I

28:32

actually think it's a brilliant product.

28:33

They've got cool things here. So, uh, I

28:35

think this is smart, but I'm not saying

28:37

it to pitch them because like I've never

28:40

used them. I want to be clear about

28:41

that. I maybe I'll use them in the

28:43

future. I do think I'll use them in the

28:44

future, but uh, but I don't know. So, I

28:47

I want you to go into that knowing that

28:49

clearly. But the reason I mention is

28:51

just a way to say like I think it's a

28:53

good idea to diversify and I think a lot

28:56

of people aren't doing that because

28:59

they're stuck because of taxes or

29:01

whatever. Like, you know, some of the

29:03

people who are wiring us money, they're

29:04

like, "Dude, we don't want to deal with

29:05

tenants and toilets anymore." Like, you

29:07

guys are a cashbased company. You guys

29:11

have no debt other than a little bit of

29:12

convertible bond debt. And you are doing

29:16

wedge deals. So, you're buying, you

29:18

know, below the market uh uh in terms of

29:20

the real estate like the fixer upper

29:22

single family real estate you guys are

29:23

doing. We love this. And it's a way for

29:25

us to diversify without having to do the

29:27

tenants and toilets. I'm like, "Yeah,

29:29

that's that's the point." So, I couldn't

29:32

be more excited about what what we're

29:34

building here with real estate, but I

29:35

also know real estate isn't for

29:36

everybody. So, that's why I'm like, hey,

29:38

that product could could be fun for

29:40

people to who are really concentrated to

29:43

say, hey, you know, we're we're going to

29:45

we're going to pull back some of that

29:47

single stock exposure. But, you know, I

29:50

was showing this on my uh live stream

29:52

earlier today and I just think it's

29:53

valuable to see. But, I have this before

29:55

and after of you've probably seen it

29:58

before. I was going through this. This

30:00

is just like an old sort of 70s house

30:02

with a old shag carpet. I mean, the

30:05

carpet's probably like 30 years old. And

30:07

you've seen pictures, I'm sure, of this

30:08

before of the nasty kitchen. You know,

30:10

this is always where people try to bag

30:13

on on real estate investors and they're

30:15

like, "Oh, you're just taking homes from

30:18

people who want to live in them." And

30:20

I'm like, "What? Who do you think is

30:21

going to live in this property? Like,

30:23

nobody. You think we're just going to

30:25

put server racks in this?" No. like this

30:28

home is going to be turned into a rental

30:31

for a family. We actually just rented

30:33

out to a military couple and we're like,

30:35

"Oh, this is this is really exciting."

30:36

You know, we're a big fan. Now, some

30:39

people are like, "Oh, I don't want to

30:40

rent a military cuz they can break their

30:41

lease at any point." And I'm like, "I

30:43

don't care. Military tenants are

30:45

awesome. We're such a big fan of of

30:48

renting to to Navy or military families.

30:52

Like, hell yeah, dudes and gals. Like,

30:55

y'all are amazing." But anyway, this

30:56

this is uh this is just an example of a

30:58

of a before here. And what we want to do

31:00

is we want to give people a quality

31:03

home, you know, something that's good.

31:05

So like we probably overspend, you know,

31:08

we tear everything out. We clean up any

31:11

problems. You know, on this one, we

31:13

repaired roof problems. We repaired um

31:17

uh siding issues on railings over the

31:20

garage. We then fix the issues, take out

31:24

any issues, red drywall, reumber where

31:26

we need to. New flooring, new kitchen

31:28

cabinets, brand new appliances, brand

31:31

new front yard, backyard, brand new

31:33

paint, brand new hardware, uh, you know,

31:36

kitchens, bathrooms, like everything's

31:38

gorgeous. We even go in and like epoxy

31:40

the garage. Like, who does that? Well,

31:42

we do cuz we're trying to create more

31:44

quality properties for people. And and

31:46

this is why, like I say, capitalism can

31:48

be win-win. you know, it doesn't have to

31:51

be a thing where, oh yeah, you're, you

31:53

know, some greedy landlord or whatever.

31:55

We actually think, you know, people are

31:57

getting an amazing renovation here, uh,

31:59

for for a very fair rent. If anything,

32:02

we we think we actually under value our

32:05

rentals because we would rather rent to

32:08

a qualified tenant uh than than risk

32:11

renting to somebody with maybe lower

32:13

qualifications or certainly like

32:15

sometimes we'll get applications where

32:17

people will like fudge the numbers on

32:19

their applications and it just doesn't

32:21

align with their actual numbers and

32:22

we're like uh no this is just another

32:24

property that we're working on you know

32:26

like this property I think will easily

32:27

be a 20 to 24% wedge deal but I mean

32:31

It's scary. You know who wants to walk

32:33

in this and deal with all the mildew and

32:35

mold? I do. I love it. Like I walk in, I

32:38

smell mold and all I I don't actually

32:40

smell mold. I smell money.

32:43

It's great. But yeah, I mean it's also

32:45

like I'm so grateful because we've done

32:47

all of this without uh venture

32:50

capitalists, right? Like anybody who's

32:52

asked for a pitch deck, I'm sorry they

32:54

haven't gotten it. I tell people I'm

32:56

like, "Yeah, sorry. It's it's on the

32:58

website."

32:59

You know, people don't get it. And I'm

33:01

okay with that, you know. So, we're so

33:03

grateful we've been able to just do this

33:04

fundra through really just YouTube and

33:07

with y'all. But I want to make some

33:08

promises also for YouTube. So, some

33:11

things I found on YouTube is you all

33:13

really love the morning live streams. On

33:15

average, we have about 3 to 4 thousand

33:17

of you that watch the morning course

33:18

member live stream where we analyze

33:20

technicals, the day, catalyst, and of

33:22

course, do our fundamental analysis and

33:24

sometimes we'll do real estate analysis

33:25

or answer your questions in the course

33:27

member liveream. People get lifetime

33:29

access to that. Uh people have been in

33:30

there since, you know, 2017 and they've

33:32

had lifetime access to those which is

33:34

great. You can get that at mekevin.com.

33:36

But uh what I'd like to do is uh do the

33:40

course member live streams, do our stock

33:44

morning live stream. Still do that, but

33:46

maybe a little bit less of like the day

33:49

drama in the way of making content. Like

33:52

maybe less of the Carolyn Levit,

33:54

although we haven't done a lot of that

33:55

lately. uh and and we'll go a little bit

33:57

deeper, do some more deeper dives on

34:00

some of the news. Not always, you know,

34:02

obviously if there's breaking news, I

34:03

want to pop in and cover it, but um I'd

34:05

like to get some more focus on some

34:08

deeper dives. I do think uh that'll be

34:10

very valuable. Uh and so yeah, we'll

34:12

have this final sponsor uh in this video

34:15

here, but beyond that, the next focus is

34:18

going to be focus on growing house hack,

34:21

focusing on our artificial intelligence,

34:23

growing it in a conservative way, fewer

34:26

but more quality videos, and and really

34:29

taking the extra time that I'm not

34:30

spending trying to chase every news

34:32

headline, and spending some extra time

34:35

with family, which I really look forward

34:37

to. So, those are my updates and uh this

34:41

is my last video for the year. Thanks so

34:44

much for watching. We'll see you all in

34:45

the next one. Goodbye and good luck.

34:48

>> Why not advertise these things that you

34:50

told us here? I feel like nobody else

34:51

knows about this.

34:52

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

34:53

see how it goes.

34:54

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

34:56

much. People love you. People look up to

34:57

you.

34:58

>> Kevin Pra there, financial analyst and

35:00

YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great to

35:02

get your take.

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