why i just sold the jet..

It's official. I just flipped a $12.9

million jet aircraft for a profit after

flying it for my startup and myself for

3 years and over 800 hours. I could not

be more grateful for this opportunity.

And I have to say I'm absolutely blown

away. Like somebody pinch me. How is it

possible that after 3 years that's us?

My my flight instructor was filming my

takeoff. It's like I I love aviation.

Like the pilot community is so cool. I

love everybody in it. And flying is so

freaking thrilling. But how was it

possible that after 3 years of flying

this aircraft and using it, I was able

to sell it for a profit. And where do we

go now? What's the next plane? What's

the next project? Why did I sell it? Did

I have any intentions of becoming a jet

pilot and then selling the aircraft?

We're going to break all of that down.

But I have to start with something very,

very important, and that is a massive

thank you. None of everything that I do,

whether it's the ringing the bell at the

New York Stock Exchange, becoming a jet

pilot, or providing value on YouTube,

would be possible if it weren't for you,

the viewers. You make it possible for me

as a dad of seven children to come here

almost every single day and do my best

to provide value. And thank you for

watching. Thank you for joining the Meet

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works hard. I think a lot of people work

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So, thank you. I I really appreciate

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Schumer Siesta. that'll expire on

Wednesday. Uh, and a lot of people say

this could be a tax writeoff. A lot of

people have, by the way, been in this

since 2017. Uh, and they've been getting

this value. They paid once back then and

they've been getting value since then.

It's pretty remarkable. But for now,

seriously, the thank you. I don't want

to go into this video without being

crystal clear that this would have not

happened if it weren't for you. I'm 32

being a solo jet pilot, rated it, rated

pilot. I can't even get the words out

correctly. Crazy. Absolutely wild. And

I'm so grateful for the opportunity.

Now, with that said, let's talk money,

cuz that's what's on everybody's mind.

Well, usually this jet sale is not about

a lack of work or money. There's plenty

of work every single day. We, like I

say, provide, I think, great value, and

you make it all possible. That said,

there's plenty of cash for me to not

only keep paying the aircraft if I

wanted to, or invest it into House Act,

or just sell the aircraft and pay my

taxes. Instead, this is all about the

mission. And so, what I learned will be

in the timestamps below. But spoiler

alert, and I think I'm being very very

public about this, so I don't think it's

insider information if I'm talking about

it on YouTube, but what I'm seeing right

now with House Hacks Artificial

Intelligence, which we call Reinvest AI,

same company we which we really started

going heavy into in about April of 2025.

That's also conveniently when I became

licensed as a jet pilot. Well, what I'm

seeing Reinvest AI, which you can see at

reinvest.co. I won't bore you with all

of it, but what I'm seeing here is so

exciting with what we're doing with our

artificial intelligence that I think our

alpha release that's coming up, our beta

release that's coming up, and what we've

got in terms of project plans for 2026

are so massive that I would rather take

extra money that I have now and plow

every dime into House Hack one way or

another. Now, house hack never paid for

the aircraft. But money that I have

that's extra I could give to house or

invest into house hack, right? See, here

we are with the stock market, gold,

bitcoin, all of them are trading near

all-time highs. And in my opinion, I'm

looking going, okay, do I want to buy

these companies at all-time highs, or

would I rather plow much more money into

a company that's a private stock trading

for a buck 40 a share that's based on a

broker dealer valuation who gave it a

valuation of a buck 40 to $2 in August

of 2024. That's over a year ago. That's

back when the company had a lot more

staff because of that. Wasn't making

money or anywhere near as much money as

we're making now. Had zero AI ambitions

at that point. And now the opposite is

true. We're cranking money. We've

ridiculously lowered our costs. We're

plowing money into research and

development because we're about to

launch this real estate AI SAS, which I

personally will believe will be the best

real estate artificial intelligence that

exists in the entire world. This is not

just like some crazy LLM rapper. It's

literally our own trained data and

machine learning data based on my

experience in real estate. And I think

as a result of that, we could explode

the valuation of this. So I'm looking

I'm like do I burn money on jet fuel or

do I throw money into the stock at a

buck 40 a share the old valuation and I

get a 5% yield on top of that again like

dear SEC and to all those like I'm very

public about this this is not a

solicitation like if you want to invest

you go to reinvest.co or houseock.com

same company I'm really optimistic I'm

the CEO I'm not making any guarantees

like I've made mistakes in the past I'm

just really hopeful here and I could be

wrong but like

to me. Do like every single time I'm at

an airport and they're like, "All right,

here's your fuel bill for $2,000." Like

you go to a gas station, it's like

$2,000. Like, you know how many shares

at a buck 40 I could get my hands on at

House Hack with this? And if those 10x,

that's like a $20,000 a fuel bill. And

if those 100x, that's like a $200,000

fuel bill every single time. And 200

Well, $2,000 of fuel goes really fast.

Anyway, let's let's get into some actual

aircraft details here. But that is that

was one of the realizations that I came

up with. I'm like, bro, everything's so

freaking expensive right now. That's a

dirt cheap opportunity. So, that's just

like in the back of my mind, okay? So,

keep that in the back of my mind. Now, I

never had any intentions of selling the

aircraft. And even though as exciting as

it is to plow money into my real estate

startup and now AI startup, I never had

the intention of actually selling the

aircraft until I started getting

multiple offers. I started getting

multiple offers for hundreds of

thousands of dollars more than what I

paid for the aircraft 3 years ago in

December of 2022. Now, obviously, in the

meantime, there are going to be

operating costs, but that's normal. I

mean, that's the price you pay for

travel. So, I'd see that as somewhat

independent, but I'm blown away that the

actual asset would have gone up in

value. And so, I never thought I'd sell

the plane. In fact, when you buy a

plane, you pretty frequently get tons of

broker text messages all the time.

People send you messages all the time.

It's like mind-blowing. It's just like,

"Hey, Kevin, you want to sell? You want

to sell?" Like, all the time, I would

politely tell folks, "No, please. Like,

go pound sand. Politely, respectfully,

go away. I'm not selling the aircraft.

I'm using the aircraft." Well, then the

big beautiful bill passed. They brought

back the 100% bonus depreciation on the

aircraft, which that expired in 2022,

which is when I bought. Uh, and I got

multiple offers for more than what I

paid for the plane in part. Thank you,

Donald Trump. And it was at that point

that I'm like, wait a sec. You're

telling me I could sell this bird that I

flew for 800 hours for a profit? And now

the extra money that I have, I could

just plow into my real estate startup

right before we launch our AI. Bro, this

is just I would be an idiot to say no to

this. Like it really it these things all

like independently lined up as puzzle

pieces that I never thought would line

up. And then when they lined up, I was

looking at this painting and I'm like,

"Bro, I would be a dumbass not to do

this. How could I not do this?" All

right. So, I think the profit on the

aircraft ended up netting to about

$69,000, which is kind of insane because

the tail number from day one was 694

PPP, which is kind of like a fate loves

irony situation where you look at that

tail number, oh yeah, 694 PP and it's

like, yeah, you got $69,000 for your

private plane in profit, huh?

Oh,

>> but I like I wanted to take a moment and

and just recognize or help people think

about this for a moment. I bought an

aircraft with like 140 hours. I sold it

with like 950 hours, which is like 800

something hours of of flight time. Uh I

used it to help explode a startup from a

0 money raise situation to over a $100

million valuation with over $80 million

in cash and real estate and no bank

debt. Again, thank you to all of my

subscribers. And I now sold the very

aircraft that helped me build the

foundations of the company with no cost

to that company for a profit.

[Laughter]

Now, also balance that with the fact

that if there actually ends up being a

recession, which I'm I'm like on a

teeter totter of, right? Like we're

probably like 60% shot of not having a

recession here. like we just saw land,

but there's enough that says there's a

good 40% chance of us tanking into a

recession that takes 10 years to get out

of because the, you know, it's

impossible to get jobs back. It's

possible.

If there's a recession, the value of the

freaking plane's going to tank, you

know, in addition to that, you still

have to pay the debt, right? Because I

had a loan on the aircraft. Now I don't.

Now I'm literally debt free because I

also paid off my homes because at the

point where we are in the market, I

personally am just of the mindset that I

don't really want debt and that's why my

startup doesn't have bank debt either.

That's it. What about the next jet? So

everybody wants to know, all right,

Kevin, so like you got rid of the

Phenom, like what's the next jet going

to be? So the reality is for now,

mission accomplished. The first and

hardest part for house hack was finding

our footings of deploying real estate in

various different parts of uh the

western United States while also

exploring Texas and Florida and

realizing in 2022 and 23 that those were

not the best places to invest which was

I'm very grateful of because prices

tanked over there up to 25% whereas

where we ended up buying prices actually

went up and I credit my many hundreds of

hours of research and flying to these

areas for that uh so this was a lot of

work, but we don't really need to do

that at the moment. We've deployed

almost all of our capital. We just

bought an extra 10 properties for the

startup. We're going to actually take a

little break on buying right now because

we just bought another 10 properties. We

got to renovate them and and fill them

with wonderful families or renters or

whatever.

So, we've got a lot of work to do and we

don't really need to fly for that work.

So, I realized I was kind of paying for

the aircraft for it to sit around or be

my training aircraft. And that doesn't

make a lot of sense. We'll talk about

training in just a moment because I

really love flying the aircraft. Like, I

I actually kind of enjoyed going out and

training, but I have to say it does get

a little old. Like here's me over the

coast of Santa Barbara, which is

absolutely and ridiculously beautiful,

going to stall the aircraft. We actually

just had a couple of professional pilots

stall a hawker uh and crash it uh and

die, you know, like I always felt really

safe, but SH9 happens, right? And so

here you can see the air speeds going to

like 96, you know? I'm I'm There you go.

Now this is our stall pusher breaking me

into a stall. Uh, and uh, and and you

make got to make sure not to double

stall the aircraft. Point the nose down

a little bit, get some speed and come

back uh, to a climb. You know, now I'm

at 150 knots. It's a jet aircraft, so

it's it's it's pretty fun. Uh, like

there's some cool things you could do

with it, whether it's steep turns or,

you know, flying through the clouds,

like breaking out of the clouds to do a

touchandgo into Santa Barbara. Like this

is top G stuff. This isn't like Andrew

Tate top G where, you know, he's just a

poser. This is like I think this is top

G. This is actually freaking awesome,

right? I love this. Uh but but let's be

real. Saturday morning, do I want to go

do stalls over Santa Barbara or do I

want to go spend time with my beautiful

seven children or my wife? See, and

we'll get into this in the piloting

aspect and the training aspect, but over

the last 18 months, I would argue how

sack really maybe utilized the plane

about 10 hours. And Houseack never paid

a dime for it. Uh the board hated that I

was flying, by the way. They're they're

like, "Kevin, this is too risky. You

should not be flying. We know you're

flying with professionals and and you're

doing a great job here, but it's still

too risky. It's it's not worth it. like

focus on house hack AI. This is a touch

and go into Santa Barbara. Well, it's

actually not a touch and go. A touch and

go is what you would do with a Cirrus.

Uh this would be a bulked landing at

about 50 feet is what you would call it

in a jet. But I mean like this is

beautiful. This is awesome, right? This

is so cool. Like I get giddy about the

idea of this. But I get it. I get it.

There there there are some risks

associated with this, right? Anyway, so

the mission for right now is done. The

mission will come back though and so

that's where it's worth talking about

the next jet and how I would handle the

next jet. When it comes to the next jet,

I'll tell you when we're going to buy it

after I say this. I have so much for the

so much respect for the aviation

industry now that even though I've got

like 600 hours or whatever, maybe 100

hours of jet time, multi-engine jet

time, I'm going to be clear about this.

I don't think I'm going to be the pilot

anymore. I have so much of a respect for

the aviation industry and the true

professionals who put tens of thousands

of hours into this industry. I'm honored

to have been a part of it for the time

that I was a part of it. I've really

enjoyed it. I I loved uh passing the

tests. Honestly, like it's it's a

personal accomplishment to to pass tests

and to like get these certifications. I

feel like uh an individual who, you

know, had a great opportunity to be this

pilot and go pick up a donut for happy

National Pilot's Day at the Signature,

you know, aviation or whatever. That's

cool. But I realize

the amount of effort that it takes to

stay great and to really butter those

landings all of those times is just not

what I'm interested in putting in,

especially at a time when I need to be

focused on growing my startup. So, in

other words, I think I was a great pilot

when I was flying all of the time, but

as I flew less, I realized my ability to

nail those landings with butter started

to kind of melt away. And so it took

consistent training every weekend almost

to be a great pilot. And I feel like

after my training was complete, I went

from great to good. And I don't want to

be a good pilot. And I don't have the

interest in spending the time to be a

great pilot when I want to spend these

weekends with my family. That's the

point after all. So when am I going to

buy a new aircraft? Well, I'll set some

rules. I believe that not only are we

going to use professional pilots the

next time we have an aircraft, but there

are three ways we would buy a new

aircraft for house hack. Number one, our

AI valuation explodes. If our AI

valuation explodes for House Hack, in

other words, we release our AI product,

you know, it's going to be an alpha day

one, then it's going to go into beta,

but like if it picks up mainstream in

2026, House hacks valuation is going to

explode. If that happens, we're going to

have a lot of money. And just like the

name of the company is reinvest, we're

going to reinvest that money into real

estate. So, we're always going to be an

assetbacked company. And that's what

makes me really excited is we've got

like the three tabs here. Reinvest AI.

Then we have our building and renovation

side, but then we also have the real

estate ownership side where we take

nasty homes and we make them beautiful

so people can live in them, right? And

we also build new homes so we contribute

to new housing for our neighborhoods.

Like this is what we do. You can see all

of this at reinvest.co. But anyway,

if our AI valuation explodes, we'll need

another aircraft to go expand to the

East Coast. I would love to go buy

Brooklyn real estate, Florida real

estate, go buy the dip on Toronto real

estate. I'd love love love nothing more

than to buy East Coast American real

estate. But for right now, until our AI

valuation explodes, it's not necessary

because frankly, real estate is very

capital intensive and we don't have any

more capital. Like, we've already

invested the capital. So, until our AI

valuation explodes, we don't really need

to buy that much more real estate. And

once it's rented out, it's kind of easy.

You don't really have to go visit it all

the time once it's rented out. Uh second

potential is that our tokenization

strategy explodes and we end up

reinvesting a lot more into real estate

because we get you know some crazy

crypto inflows or whatever through our

tokenization strategy which I think will

be a big win for all of the house hack

shareholders. So that would be number

two, which would also then lead probably

in the future, like the only way house

hack will do it is if we have so much

freaking money. But house hack will just

buy the next plane. And again, I expect

that would only happen if our AI

valuation explodes and we need it or our

tokenization strategy explodes and we

need it or who knows, we raise a lot

more money like the Saudi Wealth Fund

calls me up and says, "Kevin, we love

what you do with American real estate.

We love wedge deals.

here's $2 billion. Then we be like, "All

right, we'll go buy a plane because

we're going to make a whole lot of money

with it,

right?" Like, those are the three ways I

see buying an aircraft again in the

future. Or we IPO and and it the IPO

goes really really well, right? which

it's possible that if our a like these

things can happen in combination. If our

AI and tokenization or investor strategy

or whatever really takes off and then we

IPO and we raise even more money that

obviously we'd use a a co company

aircraft to go deploy real estate on the

other side of the country or whatever.

Now, here's the aircraft strategy I

would go with with professional pilots

should the time come to go buy another

aircraft. Obviously, dear SEC, no plans

to buy an aircraft right now. uh you

know like I just want to be very clear

about that. This is also not a

solicitation or a promise that the

company is going to blow up with with

all of these really cool verticals. So

no guarantees. I'm an optimistic CEO.

But the aircraft that we would choose

would be either actually probably a

combination. It would probably be a used

GFream 600 or 650. You could get a

10-year-old like 550 or 600 Gulfream for

around $24 million. uh or potentially a

650 for closer to $30 million. Like

there's no reason to buy a new one of

these for 80. It's insane. Just get them

at the bottom end of their depreciation

curve. And these would be great with two

professional pilots. I ain't going to

fly. uh for west coast to east coast

expansion because they're going to get

me to the other side of the country with

no stops and they'll be comfortable

enough to sleep on uh without some of

the downsides of needing to stop for

fuel or not being able to make it to

places like Hawaii which would be

another great place to invest uh

especially buying the dip on Lahina for

example with the burn lots

very sad what happened there but anyway

they need infrastructure they need the

development they they need the investors

and and it'll be great in the longer

term. But anyway, a larger aircraft

would be great for those purposes.

However, the Phenom 300, which is a

fantastic business jet, is the most

popular business jet in the world. It's

backlogged for multiple years. Uh,

almost every single Phenom is selling

for more than MSRP right now because of

the backlog for these aircraft. NetJets

buys them like crazy because they're

really fuel efficient, which is somewhat

of an asterisk because when you look at

the fuel burn for a Phenom 300, they

advertise it as a 165gall per hour fuel

burn, but that's only at max cruise. So,

I remember I was sitting at 45,000 ft

one day and I'm like, I'm all the way up

at altitude. Uh, and you know, I'm like,

hey, you know, wait a second here. Why

is my fuel burn so high at these lower

altitudes? uh well like compared to

where we are now and then I go to

calculate it and I'm like wait when I'm

at lower altitudes my f fuel burn is

probably somewhere around double what my

fuel burn is when I go into you know

when I'm at 45,000 ft and the

advertising people they advertise you

the best fuel economy when you're at

45,000 but I'm not at 45,000 ft all the

time you know cuz when I'm taking off or

I'm landing or I'm doing shorter flights

I'm often coasting at you know in the

20s or low30s. Obviously, coming into

land, I'm burning twice as much fuel

when I'm doing this kind of stuff. This

is Heber, by the way. Really, really

tough airport to land in. It's a very,

very narrow runway, very dangerous. No

instrument approaches, all visual, very

bad in the weather. I would never go

into here with in the weather. And um

you know, this this is a stressful

landing. Like, I'm just getting anxiety

just looking at the landing. It's a

great landing. Freaking buttered this

sucker. did a great job, but uh still

stressful. So anyway, um you know, like

the fuel burn was a little a little bit

misleading.

Anyway, uh fuel burn very efficient

aircraft. Uh either way, you slice it.

Uh and I get why NetJets buys them, but

if you're coming into fuel stop, you

kind of ruin some of that anyway. I

think NetJets just does a lot of really

short like 1 to 2 hour flights, and the

Phenoms are great for those, and that's

why there's such a backlog on them. But

I don't think I would buy another

Phenom. As much as I like Embry Air and

support them, I would buy a Gulfream for

those coast to coast expansions. They're

just way more GFream pilots than there

are like parader pilots. And I would buy

a Vision Jet or an SR22 Turbo for closer

distance stuff. See, there are times

where I'll fly the Phenom or I'd fly the

Phenom and I need to get into like a

4500 ft runway and I'm like, "All right,

cool. We're going to get into a 4,500t

runway. This is cool. Uh oh, wait. It's

wet and it's not grooved. Okay. Well, if

it's wet and it's not grooved, do I

really want to go land on a 4500 ft

runway with the Phenom? And the answer

is no. It's too risky. Like, I want more

of a margin of safety. So, I was just

looking at some more clips here to see

if I could find another uh uh runway uh

landing. We showed you this one. And

I'll pull up another runway landing, but

uh coming into land on a wet runway

that's too short. Hell no. So all of a

sudden you're finding yourself

in, you know, turbulent situations or

weather situations or whatever where

you're like, am I going to go into a

4500t runway, which is where I need to

go in a Phenom jet, or am I going to go

to a larger runway and be safe? Great.

Then I go to the larger runway and I'm

safe. But then I didn't save any time

taking the jet. So, ironically, for a

lot of the places we would go for house

hack, we needed the ability to land on

smaller runways, 4500, 4,000, 3,800, and

an SR22 turbo or a vision jet would be

perfect uh for those situations.

So the phenom was in this sort of like

too small to get east coast consistently

without stops but too big to be that

near flyer everyday flyer where I can't

even land on Catalina Island for

example. Not that I'm buying real estate

on Catalina Island but it's kind of

cool. You're better off with these which

this is like a you know what was this?

This was probably the SR22. Uh love this

aircraft by the way. These are really

really cool aircraft. Uh, I think this

is Kingman. Man, I freaking love the

Kingman cafe. But anyway, these are

cool, you know. Oh, this was um I think

I did a a soft field on this where you

just ye it up here. Oh man, the G's you

feel there. So freaking fun.

Uh but anyway, so excellent aircraft. So

SR22 Cirrus jets, Cirrus prop planes,

amazing. You get the caps parachute

system. Vision jets also single engine

caps parachute system great aircraft uh

or just Gulfream if you're going to go

cross country right

Phenom great if you want to go charter

people around which I thought about for

a while I'm like I became a pilot I'm

like hey maybe I could like charter

people around but then I'm like no man

the amount of training that I would have

to do to consistently butter landings I

just want to spend the time with my

family I'm not going to do this I'd

rather build a greenhouse than do this

over and over again so professional

pilots for the future

In the meantime, if we really need to

get somewhere, I'll just use netjets or

wheels up or frankly just fly

commercial, which isn't that bad. Like,

I just flew to Hawaii on a a commercial

flight. I used my uh Air of Miles. I had

points with JP Morgan on the Sapphire

card. I freaking hate JP Morgan. I'm

going to make a separate video on them,

but I had some leftover points, so I

burned them on a first class flight to

Japan. Well, I paid for all my whole

trip to Japan and Hawaii. had absolutely

loved flying to Hawaii. The United

Airlines crew took us in the cockpit.

They made the kids a little uh like

paper airplane. These people pamper you.

The United crew, true professionals.

Hawaiian Airlines crew, true

professionals. And they have Starlink.

And I'm like, bro, I didn't even have

Starlink on the Phenom. I when I bought

the Phenom, I was promised that Starlink

would be available in Q1 2023 and it

never became available. And so when I

went in to cancel in September of 2025,

like 2 and 1/2 years later, this is like

Elon time or something. They're like,

"No, no, no, no. Don't ask for your

$155,000 back. Please, please, we'll

install it in a few months." And I'm

like, "Nah, man. Just cancel at this

point." So, they actually did give me my

money back. But it's crazy cuz the

Starlink was amazing on Hawaiian. And I

realized the best Starlink is somebody

else's Starlink.

Mind you, also I have Starlink on the

Cybert truck. And in some areas,

T-Mobile is faster than Starlink.

T-Mobile in LA was giving me 900

megabits down and 90 up. And Starlink on

the Cybertruck was giving me 150 down

and 10 up, which basically means

T-Mobile was 5 to 10 times faster

depending on if it was down or up.

That's crazy. But Starlink on a plane is

pretty clutch. I could just never get it

on the Phenom even though I paid for it.

Thanks Elon.

Uh so the other thing to consider is

that when you look at companies like

NetJets versus Wheels Up, the break even

of using these charter aircraft

companies for shorter distance flights

rather than like international where you

should really just fly commercial. It's

just not that bad. And you don't save

that much money. I mean, sorry, you

don't save that much time using a

charter or your own aircraft. uh you

actually just burn a lot of money and

it's not worth it. If charters are great

for like 45 minute flights, you save

massive amounts of time. Having your own

aircraft, massive times saver if you're

going to do like 45minute commutes,

right? Huge time saver. Uh but the break

even is about 250 hours a year. Over the

last three uh three years, I flew about

800 hours, which works out to about 266

hours a year a

uh at a break even of about 266 hours

per year, I was probably running this

aircraft at like $7,000 an hour roughly,

all the costs included and everything,

which I was okay paying for that. But I

don't think I'm going to fly 250 hours a

year. I think if I just use a netjets or

like a wheels up card, I'll probably fly

like 50 hours a year for these shorter

term flights. And then I don't have to

deal with parking it in a hanger,

deicing it, paying landing fees, dealing

with all the bull crap that you have to

deal with with actually reserving the

spot for the aircraft. Like it doesn't

matter if I fly somewhere and it's a

nets, you know, they take me to Heber

and they empty legs somewhere else. I

don't have to worry about getting a

hanger space for that aircraft. Like,

that's somebody else's problem. There's

a lot of peace of mind in that. And I

don't actually have to fly it, which

don't get me wrong, I love takeoff and

landing, but when you're on like a

4-hour flight somewhere on the Phenom

cross country, it gets a little boring.

Takeoff and landing is fun, but when

you're cruising at 45,000 ft, you're

kind of just up there like,

"All right,

autopilot's still set. Looking good."

you're not really doing anything. Like

you could be replaced by AI very easily.

Now takeoff and landing, you want

professional pilots. Emergencies, you

want professionals who are trained in

emergencies. This is why I would go

train stalls and stuff. But then again,

it also requires the time commitment to

do that training, right? So, it's like

with that jets and wheels though, you

could just sit in the back, get pampered

with sho sushi or champagne or whatever,

which like I didn't drink when I was

flying because as a pilot, like I got I

look back and I see everybody else

taking shots of fireball and I'm sitting

in the in the front like

sober but ready for the emergency. Come

on, give me something to do. Not that

you ever wish an emergency when it's

just like, man, I'm bored, dude. You

know, so the jet was a utility. It was

there when I needed it. But when I

became a pilot, it became more of a

training tool than anything else. And

then I'm like, why am I doing this? I'm

training 10 hours for every 1 hour that

I'm actually utilizing it. Like I'm

looking for excuses to go fly and this

doesn't make sense. Like I'm burning jet

fuel for nothing. And that gets to the

lifestyle aspect. I'm not a lifestyle

YouTuber. I don't consider myself to be

a Rolex or flashy big mansion guy. I

live in a small house with no driveway.

It's so small. In fairness, we had to

buy the house next door, which is also a

small house because we live in a small

neighborhood in Southern California.

It The weather is amazing. The neighbors

are amazing. The families that live here

are amazing. Halloweens are amazing. Can

you guess what I'm going to be this

year? I'm going to be a clown. Okay, I

deserve it. I made a bet. I lost the

bet. I'm going to be a clown. But we

love it here. We think we're getting a

wedge deal on where we live. Like, we

should be paying $45 million for a house

for the weather that we have here. We're

paying like 900 grand. It's not that big

of a deal to have the most beautiful

weather in the United States. But again,

I'm not Mr. Flashy Lambo, Rolex. Yeah,

I'm going to buy a Tesla. Yeah, I'm

going to buy a Sprinter for my kids. And

I'm grateful that I'm able to afford

buying a house next door, which I

realize that's bougie, but it's also

when you have seven kids, you kind of

need it. So now we finally have like

4,000 square ft, but it's divided into

two homes, which is also kind of weird.

We just know how to move. So anyway, uh

so what's the future? The future here is

really playing it safe, focus on family,

and just keep providing value for my AI

startup and my real estate startup. It's

one and the same. houseack.com reinvest.

It's the same thing. It's just a DBA.

All right. Same company. There are no

other entities. Like if you're an

investor in house hack or you're

considering being an investor in house

hack, you're an investor in Reinvest.

It's the same thing. So, uh, like some

things that I did learn though from

being a pilot, triple-checking. Not

because I don't trust other people like

my co-pilots that I flew with, but

because I am mentally incapable now of

not triple-checking checklists. And I

love it. I became a more patient person.

I think I became a more humble person. I

think I became a more uh patient person.

Like I think all around through this

experience I became a better person. I

believe that now enables me to provide

better value for you because I have all

these experiences now in addition to

what I had before. Uh I also realized

that like I would park my jet next to

people like Taylor Swift and Mark Cuban

and Jeff Bezos.

It ain't that different. their their

world isn't that different. I know this

is like probably the most unrelatable

thing, but I'm saying it because

I got into the same, you know, Escalade

SUVs. I walked into the same field fixed

based operators, the FBOS's, the

lounges, the golf cart treatment, you

know, whatever. Coming off your

aircraft,

bro, give me a Toyota Camry and let me

go do my job. Like, it was just a

utility. Like, I get it. It's cool the

whole like jet setting idea, but there's

nothing more interesting to me right now

than providing great value on YouTube

and building a greenhouse with my kids.

I also care a lot about safety. It's

actually one of the reasons I kind of

wanted to fly because I wanted to feel

more safe flying. So, I wanted to see

what all goes into it. And again, I

think I was a great pilot when I was

flying all of the time. I could butter

my landings. I was really, really

proficient. But as soon as I went to

Japan and then I took three weeks off of

flying and then I come back and I'm

like, "Oh, I've lost some of the

butter." It's not like driving where you

just get back in the car and you're

mostly good again. You really have to be

flying all of the time to be great. And

I don't want to be a good pilot. I only

want to fly if I'm a great pilot. And

again, I think I was, but as soon as I

realized I was no longer staying great,

it was time for me to be done. And so I

have a great respect for the profession.

I'm so grateful that I did it, but I

don't need to keep doing it. It's just

not worth it for me in my situation. So

now I want to give some shoutouts. Okay,

so if you're thinking about getting into

aviation,

All-In Aviation in Henderson is a

fantastic place to go, book yourself a

local like Marriott hotel or a Holiday

in. go to All-In Aviation and get

trained in how to become a private

pilot. You could use their Cessnas or

their Cirrus aircraft. The Cirrus

aircraft are more expensive. It's like

the more Rolls-Royce version of the

Cessna training, right? I liked it cuz

it had a parachute. To me, it felt

safer. And it was also a Garmin 3000

flight deck, which is what I would have

been flying in the Phenom anyway. And

then, of course, eventually was so it

was a very easy transition to go from

Cirrus to Phenom. So, for many reasons,

it made sense for me to use a Cirrus to

train instead of a Cessna.

That said, shout out to Allin. I wish

they did multi-engine training. I went

to I think it was Blue Aviation in

Florida. I just outside of Orlando. Blue

something uh Blue Line Aviation maybe. I

don't know. Something Blue in in uh

outside of Orlando. I think it was in

like Winter Haven or something like

that. They were cool. I was only there

for like 3 or 4 days. Got my

multi-engine uh license and then I got

out of there. Uh, so shout out to All in

Aviation and the multi-engine people in

Florida. Shout out to Airfleet Capital

for financing the aircraft with a 20year

fixed rate loan with no remargin

provision. That's a big deal because if

you go into a recession and you have a

plane loan and there's a remaring

provision, the bank can literally call

you and go, "Yo, we need you to put

another million bucks down on the plane,

otherwise we're going to foreclose on

it." Now, I never ran into that issue,

but it's just like like it could happen,

right? JP Morgan Chase, they are scum.

They are absolute dirt scum. They have

done nothing for me in my career. And

I'm going to make a whole separate video

on this, and I really I I don't like

bagging on people, but I thought that if

I built a relationship with a bank for

15 years, it might actually come with

some perks. It doesn't. Basically, what

they want you to do is sell your stocks.

They pressure you to sell stocks so you

can buy their JP Morgan funds and they

can make more money in exchange. Did

they ever give me any of their

institutional research? No. I had to buy

it from different sources. So, screw you

JP Morgan. You couldn't even give me

your own research even though I was a

client of yours and promoting you, which

I regret promoting you. How about real

estate loans? Nope. can't finance people

with more than four properties. Well,

screw you JP Morgan. You're worthless.

How about a plane loan? Oh, yeah. 7-year

adjustable rate mortgage basically on a

plane with a remargining provision and

like 40% down. Airfleet Capital on the

other hand, 20% down, no remarggining

provision, 20-year fixed rate financing.

And I'm like, what good are you, JP

Morgan? And then I'm like, "Hey, JP

Morgan, how about like a blanket loan on

our single family real estate?" Oh, no,

no, no, no, no. We we don't do that. We

don't do that. Uh, and then I call other

guys that that do this stuff and they're

like, "Yeah, we could do interest only,

20% down on investment property for

corporate entity. No problem. We'll

finance it all day long. We'll even do a

40-year loan where we'll do 10 years

interest only advertised over the next

30." So, I'm like, every reason I would

have wanted a bank, JP Morgan sucked

for. I guess I've made my whole JP

Morgan video right here. And then you

look at the technology and it's

antiquated. The apps are antiquated.

Like, I like the Sapphire card. I got to

give him credit for that. But, you know,

the Capital One Venture card, Venture X

card is a nice replacement for that. But

anyway, like what the hell JP Morgan,

you guys suck so much. And then the

infrastructure sucks. Like, I'd much

rather use Mercury. I I think I have

sponsored banners for this stuff. Like

this is all sincere. Like I you don't

have to use this stuff. Like I don't

even want you know I'm not even going to

put it up because I don't want people to

think this is like a sponsored pitch for

these things. I don't care. Don't use my

affiliate link. Uh Mercury is such a

better bank with technology. In it

banking is good too for certain purposes

like recurring bills or payroll or

whatever. Uh that as a combination is so

much better than what JP Morgan could

have ever done for me. So sincerely,

especially now that I'm debtree, a royal

double middle fingers to JP Morgan.

Airfleet Capital, y'all rock. Air7,

greatest cookie FBO ever. Hamario, thank

you. Shout out to Air7. If you need to

hang an aircraft, Ventur County, Air7,

call up my boy Matt. Okay, these are

great people. If you need to buy or sell

an aircraft, call Spencer Bane. That's

brain without the R. It took me a while

to think of something for that. Um,

I don't know how easy he he is to

Google, so sorry. I I hope you

appreciate this. Um, but his number is

6304141293

if you need to buy or sell a plane. You

can text him, too. He's great. Okay. He

actually,

this guy is such a brilliant bastard.

He bought me a Discovery flight in

November of 2024 at All-In Aviation. And

he's like, "Oh, you should try to, you

know, fly a Cirrus." Uh, and so he he

paid for the discovery flight for me. At

least I think he did. I don't know.

Maybe they had some other deal going on

or whatever, but it was so nice. It was

like a nice treat. And then I caught the

aviation bug. And then I wanted to be a

pilot. And then I'm like, I don't want

to be a pilot anymore. And now I'm going

to sell the plane with because I got

multiple offers. And so who am I going

to call? Spencer.

You're brilliant, bro. But you're also

really good at what you do. So thank

you. Seriously. Um that like badass

dude. Uh you got me into becoming a

pilot and you helped me buy a plane

twice and you helped me sell a plane

once. Long story.

Uh so then there's Charlie. Charlie,

you're a badass plane manager. Thank

you. I Business Aviation Solutions. I

don't know if people can look him up. If

not, here's his number. You can text him

to 805907-2422.

Uh pilots, if you need a great Phenom

pilot, uh first of all, the god of

phenom pilots is Sean Thomas out of

Dallas. He basically runs the phenom

pilots forum and he will be able to help

you find a pilot. Uh but otherwise, uh

really really enjoyed my time flying. Uh

probably the pilots that I flew with the

most that I think I really also learned

from the most uh would have been uh

Travis also known as Brian from Texas.

Uh Tanner uh Cavinus from Naples. Thank

you very much. Find these folks on

Phenom Pilots. Uh John from Florida.

You're fun to fly with too, man. Thank

you. Uh VJ and Chandler, I never

personally got to fly with you, but you

were my pilots uh for a very long time.

Y'all rock. Connor Donnelly, you rock.

I'll never forget flying into can loops

with you or 30 knot crosswinds. Uh hey,

you stuck them man. Pretty badass. Uh

Jerry from Long Beach, you're like the

drill sergeant guy that I love learning

from. So thank you. Uh like most chill

during 90% of the flight with a takeoff

and land like your inner military comes

out. and having been a police explorer

for three years and going through like

drill uh and actually also drilling

other people, I actually loved it. So,

it was great. Great training. Great job.

Uh Frankie from All-In Aviation, nobody

hits flight patterns at 10 p.m. quite

like we did. Thank you. Uh Chris from

Allin Aviation, first flight with you

and also my first solo uh with you. In

fact, I think I have video of me. This

was me just after I landed my first solo

ever uh in Kingman, Arizona,

and we butt at it.

Uh so, thank you, Dana from All-In.

Thank you. Really, thank you everybody

at the All-In Crew. Y'all are freaking

amazing. U but I'll I'll never forget

our flight from the International Fun

Place to Havasu for dinner before they

closed. Badass. That was really fun.

Thank you. Uh, and of course I flew with

so many of y'all at All in aviation. It

was it was just it was a complete blast.

There were so many fun uh uh you know,

opportunities we had there and flights

we had. And uh training out of um the

Gene airport is pretty wild, too. But

anyway, um yeah. Yeah. Is there going to

be depreciation recapture? Yeah. And

there are a lot of strategies for

sheltering the tax hit, you know, the

recapture. I'll pay Uncle Sam and I'll

be done. There are also a few other ways

to get out of the Venus fly trap. Some

of the strategies we talk about in the

Trumpomics course, but broadly, I just

want to say really thank you to

everyone. Uh, if you want to learn more

about tax strategies or ideas for

building wealth, go join the Meet Kevin

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the courses, all the new lectures. If

you're interested in potentially

diversifying to real estate, consider

investing in Reinvest. Reinvest that's

you could also go to houseack.com. The

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That's exactly what I'm buying as well.

Uh it's asset backed and we've got some

really cool things coming with AI and

otherwise which is really cool. Make

sure to read the offering circular cuz

this video can't be a solicitation. And

there you have it. There's my full

story. Thank you so very much. I am so

grateful for all of you and we'll see

y'all Monday when we're back for stock

videos and market videos.

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

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>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

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you.

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