If you have a 30-year time frame to invest, okay, and you wait one year to invest, you actually have a 29-year time frame, so you lose the last year, which is the most valuable year. Right, so the key thing is to take action. I've had a lot of my audience ask about real estate. Even though I double dabble into it and I have a history of it, it's not really my forte. And so I know it's your forte. So what I would love to do today is run through the ABC crash course analysis of people who are interested within the real estate space or interested in getting into the space of where do they start? There's a lot of information out there. There's a lot of different opportunities. There's a lot of strategies when it comes to real estate investing, whether it's condo buying, multi-family home, commercial buying, et cetera, et cetera. So hopefully you can shed some light on your past experiences, what you've done in your past who were successful and worked for you, and hopefully this will be valuable for people. Yeah, sounds good, definitely happy to help. Cool, so the first question I have is, where was your start within the real estate realm? So I actually started not really planning to get into real estate investment, right? I mean, I think that's how most of us started everything, right, from business, everyone always asks, entrepreneur, how did you get started? The real truth is that you didn't really mean to. You accidentally did, like for most people. Same thing with the real estate. So I bought, when I was 19, I bought my first house, not because I understood real estate investment or that it was a good deal, only because in my naivety at the time, I said, I don't wanna pay rent. And I thought, okay, paying rent is kind of throwing money away. If I could buy a house somehow, then I could actually be saving that money instead of throwing it away. And so I actually, I never thought I was crazy, but I thought, well, why can't I buy a house, right?  Why would you wanna buy a house? Why would you shackle yourself financially? My dad was pissed.  Why are you doing this? Like you're gonna throw your whole life away, right? Like why burden yourself with debt? But I kept on persisting. I was like, no, I wanna do this.  He's like, it's like a hundred is minimum. He's like, I can find you some shacks, like for what you're asking for, maybe when they show up in the market. So I was like, okay, fine, I don't care. I just wanna, I just need a place to live, right? I just don't wanna pay rent.  It's not hooked up to city water. And he's like, he's like, you know, you gotta pay to have it hooked up to city water. I was like, oh, I don't have any money. I've got like, at that point I had like $2,000. He's like, you can't buy a house with no money. You know, gotta pay down payment. And so he's like, if you dig the ditch to connect the water, right? Then you can, you know, do that. And then trying to get a loan. I talked to so many mortgage brokers are like, no, no, there's no way you get, you have a credit history. Finally, I found this kind of shady mortgage broker. And he's like, yeah, I got a deal for you. It's like 13% interest rate, three year prepayment penalty. And I knew I was getting, you know, fleeced on that. But I said, well, you know what? I'll take it because I don't have any other option. So I took the deal and ended up buying the property and it was a mess. I had no idea what I was doing. I lived in the property at first and then I got this job offer in Los Angeles in Santa Monica. And it was a really good job offer at the time I was 19. So I got this job as a software developer for 75 bucks an hour. I was also at the same time I happened to get transferred. I was doing modeling and acting and I got transferred to an agency there, a parent agency was like, okay, I'm going LA. So I'd hop in my Geometro drive to LA and I let my friend live in my place, like rented out. I also had like a garage there that I was trying to convert over to actually make it into a unit, a rental unit. And man, it was a mess. So we don't have time for the whole story, but I had no idea what to do as a landlord. I had no idea how to rent the properties out. The property got destroyed multiple times. And what ended up happening though when I was in Santa Monica, like here I was 19, I was making 75 bucks an hour and a lot of that was per diem. So like around 25% of it was tax free. So I was making the equivalent at 19 and this is 20 years ago, of about $170, $180,000 a year about that equivalent salary. And I thought, okay, man, I'm rich. I'm solid, like you can't get better than this. So I said, okay, how long before I'm a millionaire? I sat down one night to do the calculation. And so I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, well, if I save as much money as possible, I'm still gonna have a high taxes, right, tax rate. But let's say I could live off of like $40,000 a year in LA. I was sleeping on the mattress on the floor at the time, by the way, like I was like, I'm gonna save all this money. I'm gonna become rich.  Oh, but then I forgot about inflation because it won't actually be a million dollars in 10 years. So realistically, it'll take 13 years of saving $100,000 a year, right? And I thought that's insane. I have to keep this job, not get fired, sleep on a mattress on the floor, right?    There's like, who's making more money than me? I knew no one making more money than me. I mean, what can I even make? Like $250,000, $300,000 a year? That's insane. There's no way. I'm already 19. I shouldn't even be getting paid this much. So I started researching and I said, how did people make money? Like, how do wealthy people make money? And it all came back to real estate. Every time I was like, wow, the way that people generate wealth in America is through real estate, that's the way. Because I even looked at, you know, what if I put money in the stock market and you know, I took a compound interest calculator, which by the way, that's a tool that everyone listening should be familiar with. Like you should play with a compound interest calculator. After this podcast, what I want you to do is go and find one online and just plug numbers into that until you realize what different rates of return and different initial capital and different times, length of investing. So you understand this, right? Because when I did that and I was looking at returns in the market and I was saying, oh, what if I get five or six percent return? It was like, still, you're talking 25, 30 years before you can actually have any real amount of wealth. So I was like, that's not an option. I was like, what most people think is an option, that's not an option. You're not gonna get rich that way, no way. But it came to real estate. And so that's when I started studying real estate. It's kind of funny. Back then, Trump was my guy. I was studying Trump way back, you know, 20 years ago because he was the guy, right? I mean, he had really done well in the real estate. I was studying other people as well, you know, and Gary Keller, for instance, he's got a really good book called The Millionaire Real Estate Investor that was one of my first books in real estate. So anyway, I figured out real estate was the way. And eventually I ended up dealing with a lot of problems with the property. I moved back to Boise, Idaho, where I had started. And immediately I bought a townhouse and then I immediately bought the unit next door. And I still had a big learning curve. I still made a lot of mistakes, you know, but this time I hired a property management company and I had to fire the property management company. But I basically made this commitment.  Was it flipping it? No, just hold it, buy and hold, rent it out. And so what was your down-to-pause strategy? Was it just regular? Well, I'm not too sure the percentage down there. So what I did then was I was putting 10% down and then I was either getting a second mortgage or just getting PMI, which is mortgage insurance. And then paying it off, they're paying off the, either the second mortgage, which I don't know if they do second mortgages anymore. Probably they do, but... So the mortgage insurance down, is it if you put down 5% only? It was if you 10%, 10% was the minimum. If you have 20%, you don't have mortgage insurance. So that's basically what I was doing to buy those properties and yeah. And then the strategy was when you had the mortgage insurance that if the property value went up, you could have it reassessed, essentially get a new, get the new value and then drop the PMI off of it. So...  I just sold it this year. I held it for 20 years. 20 years. Were they a crude value at least? Yeah, so I bought it for $68,000 and I think I ended up selling it for about $150,000. So pretty good amount of value, but the real value wasn't just that. I mean, I originally had rented it out for 500 bucks a month. And by the end, I was renting it for a thousand bucks a month. So, I was making a lot more cash flow on that plus also I had depreciation, right? Because see, there's three main ways that you make money in real estate. Technically, some people say four or five, but essentially you make money from cash flow. So if you buy property and you collect the rents and the rents are higher than the mortgage or if you bought it cash, you're gonna make money from there. Okay, now that's the smallest way you make money but you do make money from cash flow, right? So for example, you buy a property that has a cap rate of let's say 6%. That just means that if you bought it all cash, you'll get 6% return on your money, which is not bad. Just compared to other investment vehicles. So that's one way. The second way that you make money is through depreciation. So depreciation, at least in US tax law is such that if I have a property, let's say it's $100,000 in value, let's say 80,000 of that is structural and 20,000 is land. On the $80,000, I can straight line depreciate that property over 23 and a half years, right? So that is, and I think I always mix it up the number of years, but it's 20 something. I think it was 23 and a half. But anyway, for residential property, what that means is that I can take that $80,000 divided by 23.5 and I can show that as a loss on my taxes every single year, right? So you make money through that depreciation. The third way that you make money, actually I guess I'll get four in this case, is principal pay down. So you have a mortgage on the property, especially if you have tenants paying it and even if it breaks even, it washes. So you've got zero cash flow on it. The mortgage is being paid down. So you're paying down the principal, right? So you can imagine if I held a property for 20 years, I had quite a bit of principal pay down on that property that is essentially free, right? I'm not paying that, my tenants are paying that or that's one way of looking at it. And then the fourth way, which is actually the most important when you make money is through leveraged depreciation. And leveraged depreciation is the key. That's where you make the most money. What that means is that, so let's say I bought a property cash. If I bought a property cash, $100,000 property, let's say there's a 6% return on that property. I would make $6,000 a year. I'd make 6% a year. And when you buy cash, are you talking about just deposit or full straight cash? Full straight cash, just like if we just invested 100. Yeah, if I did that, I wouldn't have leveraged depreciation. I would still have appreciation. Let's say that that property goes up in value, okay? So I have a $100,000 property. I bought a cash and it goes up to, it goes up 10% in value. So it's now worth $110,000. What's my return on my investment? Did that again? It's a question. So I have $100,000 property. I bought it all cash. It goes up 10% in value. What's the return on my investment? Let me 10K. Yeah, and what in terms of percentage? 10%. Yeah, 10%. Okay. Now that was a easy one. It's kind of a trick question. So now let's say that same property I buy for $100,000, okay? But instead I put 20% down on it. So I invest $20,000 into the property, okay? I rent it out and everything. I lose the 6% cash flow on it. Forget about that. It ends up being a wash on the cash flow. Tenant rents it out, okay? But I'd break even on it, okay? Now, same scenario, it goes up $10,000. So the property value increases by 10%. Now what's my return on investment? I don't know, what is it? It's, so, okay. So if it was all cash, right? And it went up 10%, then you said I made $10,000, right? So I'm still making $10,000, but I invested $100,000 in the first scenario and I made $10,000. So that's a 10% return. In the second scenario, I invested $20,000, but I still made $10,000. So I got a 50% return on my initial investment. And that's the power of leverage appreciation. And that's the key to becoming rich and to making money in real estate, is that you're buying these properties, right? And my strategy is to buy and hold, okay? That's the only sensible strategy for real estate investing. Now, a lot of people are gonna get mad and upset, but I'll talk about the other activities I don't consider to be investing. They're real estate business activities, but they're not investing. To me, the definition of an investment is that it has to not rely on future events in order for it to produce a return, right? So speculation in my mind is anything where you need something to happen or you're hoping something to happen or you have good knowledge that you think something will happen, that's speculation. Investing in my definition is that it doesn't matter. Right now it's a good deal, right? So in that case, right, what we're doing or what my strategy is, I'm buying properties, okay? I'm renting them out. The tenants are paying the mortgage so I'm getting the principal pay down. I might get a little bit of cash flow on it or if I get zero, it's fine, it doesn't matter, okay? So I'm getting the principal pay down. I'm getting huge depreciation on the properties, especially when you own a lot of properties, but I'm biding time for them to go up in value because I have leverage appreciation. It's a leverage investment, right? So if I'm 5x levered, which means that I'm essentially borrowing 80% of the money from the bank, I still make money on the bank's money. That's the key to the leverage appreciation. And remember the debt service for that money that I'm borrowing is paid by the tenant, is paid by the rent that's coming in. So that's taken care of. So I'm essentially getting the bank's money for free and then getting the value from that appreciation which is a leverage to my investment and that's the strategy, right? And if you do that, then you keep on buying properties every year, then what's gonna happen is that you're gonna be getting somewhere, you might not get 50% return on your money every year, but if real estate on average just goes up, let's say 3%, okay? It's a 5x lever.  So if real estate goes up a modest 3% per year, you're actually making 3x5, 15% on that investment. That's not including all the other ways you make money, the depreciation, the principal pay down. So on average, a real estate investment, even if you're dumb, okay?  And if you buy good investments, it could be 30, 40, 50% return on your money. And we're not talking overall return. We're not talking irrespective rate of return at the end of the, we're talking yearly return, right? If my property goes up 3% and I have 20% down into it, I'm getting 15% appreciation return every single year. So that compounds very quickly. And that's why the compound interest calculator is such a great tool is because if you punch the numbers in, if you say, okay, well, if I invest in the stock market and I put $100,000 in the stock market and an S&P 500 index fund, okay? Probably the smartest stock market investment if you're gonna do that, okay? And you look at the historical rates of returns. And if you say, okay, let's say I can get a 7% return every year, right? If you punch that in and you start with $100,000, it's gonna take you a long time to even accumulate a million dollars. A very, very long time, okay?  And that's if everything goes well. Plus you're gonna pay taxes on that. Whereas with real estate, if you take that same $100,000 and you deploy that, let's say you deploy that as 20% investment in a $500,000 property, okay? And you're getting a return rate of 15%. Let's be conservative here. You're gonna be rich very quickly. When I say very quickly, I mean like 15 years, okay? That's, you're gonna have a significant amount of money. Plus you're not gonna pay taxes on that because at least I'm not sure what the laws are in Canada, but in the US we can do a 1031 exchange, which is a tax deferred exchange. So we never have to realize the gains of the property. We can just roll it into another property and continue our investment. How long does you have another property? You just have to identify another. There's some rules around that. I just sold like four, actually I sold, but no, six properties this year and rolled them all into one big commercial property doing a 1031 exchange. So I didn't pay any taxes on a huge gain that I made from those properties. Yeah, so if people are wondering what John's talking about, it's just that depending on, this applies to stocks or any commodity sale is capital gains tax. Yeah. So what kind of strategy did you have originally though for the type of properties that you wanted to acquire? So what I was looking for in which, again, going back to my whole theory of my definition of investing is cash flow properties. Cash flow is king because that means it's a solid investment. So there's a lot of different terms we could use that investors use. Cap rate would probably be the best term to describe this or you could say cash on cash return. Okay, cap rate is simply, like I said, if you buy the property, 100% cash, what is the actual return after all expenses that you will make on your money? So typically, you might see cap rates in residential markets anywhere from four to 10% depending on the market, right? If you buy a property in Los Angeles, you might see a cap rate of like two or 3%. If you buy one in somewhere, you know, Hillbilly, Alabama, it might be like 10 or 12%, right? Because it's not as desirable of a location. So, but cash flow is really the key thing because that is what makes it a solid investment and that's what makes this strategy work over time is because you just, you know, it's a game of survival. Really when you're buying the property, what you wanna do is you wanna hold onto that thing, okay? And that's the key thing. Now, a lot of people, you know, there's a lot of quote investment strategies. And like I said, I call those real estate businesses but they're not investment strategies. So for example, the most popular one is buy and flip, right? So buy and flip, it basically can be broken down into two components, right? So one component of it, and let's say, okay, let's just look at buy and flip. I was thinking buy and repair and hold, but if you just buy and flip, what happens is, let's say you buy property for, I don't know, $80,000, okay? And then you put $20,000 into it.  So you didn't really invest in real estate. What you did is you ran a real estate business because what you did, if you take that, it's not like your money worked for you. It did in some degree, like the capital, that was the capital in order to start this business, think of that one property as business.  When I invest in a piece of real estate and I hold onto it for 20 years and I have property managers running the property, I'm not doing anything. My money is working for me and that's why it's investing. Whereas buy and flip can make you money, okay? A lot of people make money, but they're spending their time doing it. It's building a business. It's actually, you know, it doesn't automatically happen. You have to put in the time, even if you're not doing the work yourself, you have to hire the contractors, you have to manage the project, right? So that's why I don't consider that to be investing. I consider that to be a business. And there's a lot of other things that people do. Even when people do things like, you know, buying foreclosed properties or like, you know, there's no money down type of scenarios. What you're doing is you're essentially trading your labor and effort for a discount, for cash. Like you can, it's an actual gain that you're making, but the investment aspect of it is a totally different aspect, right? So if I go and I find a property, foreclosure property and I'm knocking on doors and I find an owner that will sell me their property, that's going to be in foreclosure and I set up the deal, right? And maybe I get a property that's just using 100,000 because it's an easy number, but that's let's say worth $100,000, but they give it to me for 60,000, okay? I made 40 grand and let's say I'm holding that property, but I made the 40 grand not from investing in real estate, but because of the work that I did in finding and scouting a deal, right? So that's a separate piece than the actual investment part and I count those things separately. In fact, when I look at my own returns on my property, I don't look at the discount that I got in negotiating a good deal and said I look at what is the actual market value of the property because if I buy a property under market value, let's say it's worth $100,000 and I buy it for $80,000. I made $20,000 because of my skill in negotiating and that's cash money that I already have right now. I don't consider that a return on my investment for the property because the property is still worth $100,000 because I could sell that property right now and realize that $20,000 gain. So it's equity, it's money that I'm investing in a property at that point. I know it's a little bit complicated, but yeah, so the moral of the story is just this, is that investing is the key in long-term investment for building true wealth in real estate. You know the saying goes location, location, location, because I can give you classical examples here in Canada.  And so for you as a real estate investor, what heuristics or what do you use to determine like this is type of location that will mature in a crude in value within the next 10 years? So in general, it really doesn't matter that much, okay? Now, that seems like an indefensible argument, but let me give a little bit of a background on this, right? So for one, my investments are geared for 20 years, right? I consider anyone that if you really want to be serious about investing in real estate and building wealth, you should plan on holding a property for at least 20 years, that should be your plan. There's very few bad deals after 20 years.  It's very rare for that to happen, okay? Now, you can avoid that by being smart and investing in areas that have had strong markets and are, you know, for example, I wouldn't invest in Boondock, Alabama, like in just some random po-town, okay? I would invest in Montgomery, Alabama. I would invest in, you know, in Kansas City, I have investments in major cities, right? And some of those, you know, there are still things that could happen, right? If you invested in Detroit at one point, there's probably a 20-year period where if you invested in Detroit, you would regret that investment, but okay, it's a very rare happening. And you can write it out. So, you know, one of the biggest credits I have as a real estate investor is that I bought a majority of my property initially before, it was at 2009, was at the year the collapse before the big bubble, right? Oh, eight, yeah, okay. Yeah, so yeah, I bought them before 2009, right? So, oh, eight is when the event happened and I was holding, in fact, I had just bought a property, okay? I bought a foreplex for $425,000 in Boise, Idaho. And the next year, I got, you know, there were other buildings in that, in an apartment complex. And people were short-selling their properties, okay? And the value of the properties, the comps, people were selling identical foreplexes right next to mine for $225,000. So, my value got cut in half, 50% decline in one year, one year. Now, what did I do? Did I panic? Did I lose my shit? No, not at all. You know why? Because I had a 30-year fixed mortgage and guess what, didn't change. The mortgage payment didn't change. The rents I was getting didn't change. It was still a good deal. In fact, the rents went up because- The interest was the same, right? Yeah, the interest was the same because a fixed loan, if you get a 30-year fixed mortgage, it's not variable, it just stays, right? Now, there are a lot of people who are investing at the time that lost their asses because they got variable rate loans. And I remember going into the mortgage broker's office and they'd be like, oh, you're crazy. Why do you think you're smarter than all these other investors that are driving porches and shit? And they're getting these pay option arms and fixed variable rate loans. I said, no, I'm here to invest. I'm here for 20 years. I want a fixed rate that I know is not gonna change because it's a stable investment. I know it. Now, I still own that property, that forplex. I think it's how much that forplex is worth now. It's worth $600,000 now. So not only did it recover, but it went well beyond the recovery and I made a lot of money on that property. In fact, the whole time I was holding the property, for a majority of the time I was cash flowing, the rents went up. When I first bought the property, the rents were about $650 per unit and I have four units in there. I just rented one last month for 1,050. So the rents have almost doubled on that same investment. So my cash flow situation is much better than I just held it. And I had a lot of property that got cut in half in that 2008, 2009 timeframe, but I just held them and the property values eventually went up and it didn't matter because I had a 30 year fixed mortgage in there. So it's not to say that you can't ever pick a bad location and have something bad happen, but if you're in it for 20 years and even more so if you're in it for 25 or 30 years, it's almost impossible to make a bad real estate investment as long as you do just a small amount of due diligence, right? Again, you should avoid investing in sums and obviously bad areas where you're getting something for super cheap because it's like in a drug infested gang area. That's just common sense, but if you're investing in some suburb area or something like that, see the thing about location, location, location is that people use that to justify speculative moves. So people say, okay, well, I'm gonna invest in LA where they're buying a property that is negative cash flow and their only way to make money on the property is for the value to go up. In fact, they have to get, they can't get a 30 year fixed loan because they're losing money every month and their only hope, their only exit strategy for this property is that it goes up and they're like, well, it's a great location it's by the beach, property values in LA are gonna skyrocket. That's what's wrong right now, man.  Yeah, so I would not invest in Toronto not because of location, but because of cash flow, right? That's why I evaluate everything by it because if I look at properties in Toronto, you can't get your rent to pay your mortgage, man.  Right, so then that is an automatic no for me, right? Anywhere where I can have a property, just think of it this way, right? If you're never gonna sell the property, which if you do 1031 exchanges, you don't need to, or if you're just gonna hold onto it forever, you don't need to, right? You can make good money on the property, but if you get a property with a 30 year fixed loan and the mortgage is gonna stay the same for 30 years, okay, so payment is gonna stay the same. The rent is gonna stay the same or go up, right? Rent's do not go down. That doesn't ever happen.  Then if that's a solid investment, you're getting a decent return on that, you can continue that. It doesn't matter what happens to the market. It doesn't matter if all the prices go up, it doesn't matter if they go down, it doesn't matter what happens. You're still getting a solid return on your money and that's the game and that's how you make money is by being patient and being able to play the long game in real estate and that's the key.  Like if you had to rewind again, what would you do differently? So I've thought about this quite a bit and it depends on where you are financially, right? So here's the most important thing is that you buy now, like stop delaying and I'll tell you why. So again, I love the compound interest calculator. It's my most fun toy, okay? Because it blows people's minds and shatters their dreams. Okay, so if I were to invest for 30 years in something, what is the most valuable year? What year do I get the greatest return on a compounding as interest investment? That's a question. The day that you sell. So most people would say you're 30, right? Because you actually get the highest, because if it compounds over time, but my answer is you're one, because if you have a 30 year timeframe to invest, okay, and you wait one year to invest, you actually have a 29 year timeframe. So you lose the last year, which is the most valuable year, right? So the key thing is to take action, right? Because when you're losing time, you think you're losing it off the front, but you're actually losing it off at the end. And that's where you make the most money, is that last year. So what I would recommend is that, you know, first of all, you just figure out whatever you can do to actually start investing. Okay, now I'm saying that first because I'm gonna outline what I think is ideal. And then if you can't do what's ideal, then you should do what's secondary. So what's ideal, and it took me some convincing, but I, you know, Grant Cardone finally convinced me. I was talking to him at an event where I was looking at investing and doing some investments with him. And he kept on saying about buying big. And see, I had always been the idea of buying some houses, buying some foreplexes, right? And what finally convinced me is he said, look, how do you like your property management company? And I was like, well, not so much. That's the problem, right? And he said, well, you know, you're hiring someone to do a service for you, but you're the customer when you hire a property management company. But when I have my big 40 unit or 100 unit building, I hire someone who works for me as a property manager. They work, I cut their paycheck. I'm not just one of their customers or clients.  So they are going to do a really good job, otherwise they're going to lose their job. And that's what convinced me was because the biggest struggle I've had in real estate investment is dealing with property managers and unfortunately them ripping you off, right? It's just, you know, one of the pitfalls of real estate is that you do have to deal with this. You know, I'll be honest with this. It's not all, you know, flowers and sunshine, right? There's this element of it. But so not only that, but the other argument is that if you buy big, you get a much bigger leverage return, right? So you can make a lot more money, you know, buying a big property. So what I would recommend, if you have the scratch to do it, is to buy the biggest property that you can, right? To invest as large as you can and to leverage yourself to the point of about, usually about 20%. And now you can mess with the leverage if you need to to make a deal work cash flow wise by putting less or more down, right? The more leverage you are that you can cash flow, the better. Now you have to make sure that you take into account maintenance and capital expenditures. So things that you might need to invest into property over time is that, you know, you're not gonna get your ideal scenario.  There's gonna be some vacancies, you know, all that. But if you account for that, I'd recommend actually starting off buying an apartment building if you could, right? Or something big, right? Now I realize that most people don't have that, but for the people that are listening, that are running businesses that are making good money, that maybe you've got a couple of hundred thousand dollars in the bank and you're looking to invest, I wouldn't mess around with little houses or little properties for a couple of reasons. One, like I said, property management and just the leverage of it, okay? And two, because it's a big hassle, right? Take it from me, at one point I had 29 individual units that I owned, okay? This year I told you I sold six of them. It's like, if you wanna buy a big property and you wanna sell six small properties that are like $150,000 or so, it's a big, it's a lot of work, that's a lot of hassle, right? Dealing with real estate agents and all of this and contracts. And I mean, it's hard to move that money when it becomes big. Now when I was younger and $150,000 was a big deal, was a lot of money to me, sure, it seemed fine. But if you keep on acquiring little properties, at some point, you're gonna have to deal with this whole portfolio of little properties that you have which has a lot of overhead to it and I would have rather just had big properties. So what I'm doing now is I'm moving everything into big properties. I just bought a commercial property for, I just bought a cash for $1.1 million and I'm gonna refinance it later. But that's so much better. I took those six properties, I turned them into one commercial property and now I just collect the check and there's no hassle and if I wanna move it later, I can do that with one transaction. So that's, I would recommend going as big as you can, but if you can't, then just, again, the reason why I said at first that taking action right away is so important is just buy one property, just buy a house, just buy a condo, townhouse. It doesn't actually matter what the property is as long as it has a good return. If it has a good cap rate, right? If it has a good cash on cash return, if essentially your mortgage, like the rent, what you rented out is more than the mortgage and it covers all the other expenses of the property, golden, go for it. Stop wasting your time, stop trying to decide what is the best way, like if you waste a year, that'll cost you more money than analyzing and finding the perfect deal will gain you, right? And that's the critical thing to understand. If we're talking about a 20 or 30 year investment and you're getting compounding interest on that, taking action right away is so important. And I have a lot of real estate coaches or clients that I coach, I run a coaching business and that's the key thing I tell them is I give them all the advice. I coach them on how to find a good deal, how to negotiate a deal and how to find what markets to invest in and all of those things. But at the end of the day, I say, look, I'm telling you all the optimal things, but don't let that get in the way of you taking action, right? I'd rather you pay too much for a deal and get the deal and do it now and do another deal next year than you miss a deal that we wait six months and you do nothing or a year and do nothing because that will in the end cost you more money than you'll save or you'll earn by cutting a really good deal. That's good advice. Would you recommend then people for first time home buyers also go for a fixed interest rate for the mortgage? I always recommend a fixed interest rate. I think that's just the... And interest rates are historically low. It's basically free money. Today's free money, it's great. When you're talking three to 4% interest rates, just give me that all day long. Give me as much money as you can at a three or 4% interest rate and it doesn't... I don't even have to invest in real estate. See, the thing is why you invest in real estate is because the bank will give you the money on that. But if the bank just said, hey, I'll give you $5 million at a 4% interest rate, I will put that, I can make... I know I can make 6% guarantee so I'll have a 2% gain on their money, right? But if I put it in real estate, shit, I'm gonna make at least 10% more than what they're charging me interest, maybe 20% more. So that's the thing, that's the key here is, so fixed interest rate, go for it. And it secures you. Again, remember what's going to happen also, right? Real estate is a hedge against inflation. And a lot of people don't realize this as well. So let's say, to use that $100,000 property again, put $20,000, you borrow $80,000 from the bank. So you have a mortgage for $80,000. Now let's say inflation rears its ugly head, right? And we get inflation 2.5% to 3% every year, but let's say it continues over time and it goes up in time. So that $80,000 you initially owed, okay, debt, it's now worthless. It has decreased in value, you owe less money, even though on the dollar amount is the same, the dollar is worthless, that dollar, that you could buy 80,000 Big Macs before, okay? And then 10 years from now, that same $80,000, it only buys 40,000 Big Macs or whatever. You see what I'm saying? Like you have to equate it to something other than cash. Like a lot of people have a hard time understanding inflation because they don't understand that the dollar is actually losing value against real tangible things. Because a dollar is only a promissory note. It only is an IOU. It only represents value, right? But a Big Mac is value.  Exactly, that's it, there you go, there you go. So anyway, when you invest that money, right, and you get a mortgage from the bank over time, especially if you have, now, it only applies if you have a fixed interest rate, right? Because if it's an adjustable interest rate and inflation happens, the bank will adjust the interest rate based on whatever it's tied to in order to make it so that you owe the same amount of money or more, right? Depending on how the market moves against you. But if you have a fixed interest rate and you're getting 4% investment, like 4% rate on that loan, the value of what you owe goes down over time, which is amazing. It's the best way to guard against inflation. If you have money sitting in the bank, it loses value. If you have money owed, if you owe someone money, you gain money. It's as simple as that. I do have a question, though. I think United States applies for the same, but if you look at Canada and you look at all the provinces and all the territories, and you look at the medium salary, at least for the man is around 45K.  It's like one of the highest in all of North America. They'll go toe-to-toe against New York, Los Angeles.  And so as a first time home buyer, that's 20%, right? So that's $200,000. I don't know about you, but I don't know too many people walking around $200,000 liquid cash. But my biggest concern for people entering the real estate space from the liquid cash standpoint is like, is there any strategies, advice or tips to kind of help people at least get their foot in the door? Yeah, so there's a couple of things. So first of all, we have to separate investing from making a smart financial decision in terms of buying, of where you live. Okay, so it's a false dichotomy to say which is better renting or buying your home. Because that's, so here's the way I try to explain this and it's sort of a hard thing to get your head around, but let's say that you're investing in property, okay? Basically, if you buy a home for you to live in, you're getting, it's two transactions, okay? So you've got the investment of the property itself, okay? But you're, and with that investment, you're gaining the best tenant you possibly could, okay? They're always gonna pay rent on time, okay?  They're gonna be just the best tenant, because it's you. That's your own tenant, okay? That's one side. The other side of the transaction is you as a renter. Now, if you buy a house that is too expensive or too big for you to live in, okay, then any of the money that you're paying in the mortgage, right, as the renter, because you're effectively paying rent on that or what the market value of the rent is, you're essentially paying that and so that's a waste, right? So again, it's kind of hard to wrap your brain around this, but you just have to think of it as those two separate things, right? You as the buyer or the investor and you as the renter, okay? So even if I find a good deal on a property and I buy it and I'm like, okay, I can live in it, I have to think about what is the market rent on that property? Because let's say I buy a property in Toronto and I buy it for a million dollars and I'm like, okay, well, I'm gonna buy my own home because that's a smart thing to do. It's better than renting. And so I buy a million dollar home and now I'm paying a mortgage of let's say, I don't know, $3,500, okay? So me as the investor, I have to then say, could I rent that property for $3,500? No. The most I could rent it for is like 2,000 or 2,500, okay? So it's a bad deal for me as the investor. Even if I have a tenant that will pay me the 2,500, the best tenant possible with me, it's still not a good deal for me as an investor. Then I have to look at it on the side of me as a renter. So as a renter, as me as a renter, I say, do I want a property that like, would this be the property that I would live in and pay $2,500 a month for? Or actually the full mortgage amount, $3,500. Would I overpay to rent a property? No, I wouldn't over, I wouldn't pay $1,000 more a month to rent a property.  So you have to separate those out, like, you know, have this multiple personalities and think of it that way. And when you think of it that way, then those two decisions make sense. So as a renter, you should be trying to maximize the place you wanna live, location and the value and minimize the amount of rent that you pay, okay? As an investor, you should be wanting to buy a property that maximizes the value of the rent in comparison to the price you pay. They're maximizing your return on investment. So if you're living in Toronto now and you're making $45,000 a year, okay? Or you're probably not making that little, if you're living in Toronto, I don't know how you're getting by, but if you are, if you're, whatever, or you're trying to invest in real estate, don't invest in Toronto, okay? If you're gonna live there, rent there and find a cheap place to rent. In fact, if you're young and you can pull this off, don't even rent a place, rent a room, okay?  They ask how can I become richer?   It's gonna suck, right?  This is not what people want to hear. They don't want to hear 20 years on the road. They don't want to hear renting a room and having roommates. You gotta give up some of that stuff, right? So if I were not making a huge amount of money, right? Now let's say I'm making $45,000 a year. The very first thing I would do is minimize my expenses as much as possible. So I would get rid of my car.  I would go and I'd rent a room, okay? And I would make sure that I don't have any debt and I'm living as frugally as possible. Then I would take whatever money I could save and I wouldn't invest it in real estate, okay? Because if I'm only making that much money, I'm not gonna be able to buy very much real estate. I would invest it in me.  You have not, you need to make some more money. Like you need to be making $90,000 a year. And you can.  However, I don't care how you invest the money in yourself, but invest it in yourself and get to the point where you're making at least six figures. Then let's start talking about investing in real estate. Because it's really, it's gonna be so hard for you to do it on such a small income and the highest return investment that you can make, real estate is the highest return investment that you can make in general. But in specific, when your only, when your salary is so low, the highest return investment you can make is to invest in yourself. If you take $10,000 and you invest in yourself. His number one investment of all time was investing in public speaking. Yeah, yeah. His best investment hands down was becoming a better communicator. And that's, and look who that's coming from, right? I mean, that's, it speaks to the power of it. And so, so that's what I would do is I would invest in myself, get to the point where I'm making a good salary, again, still being frugal as hell, still living in a room, right? Renting a room if I can. Or if I have a family, like really getting the smallest little place that I can, or, or, you know, living outside of Toronto, that, you know, whatever it takes in order to save that money. And then when I have that money, so for the people that are making a decent income, you know, say a six figure income. Now, what I would do is not invest in Toronto, invest somewhere where you're gonna get a good, a good cap rate, where you're gonna get a good return, where you're gonna get cash flow. So go look at other markets, okay? Maybe there's other places in Canada that you could invest, okay? Or outside of Canada, right? I don't know how, I don't think there's any restriction from Canadian citizens investing in the US, at least not that I'm aware of. Yeah, so do it. You could have the same investment, like we're in a worldwide, you know, global economy now. You have the same investments, no matter who you are, where you are, at least if you're in a third world country to invest. So pick the good spot to invest and invest there. Don't invest necessarily where you live. In fact, me as a real estate investor, I've bought several properties sight unseen. In a city I've never even been in, or stepped a foot, and I didn't step a foot in it. I closed on a property and owned the property before I had even seen it. Because all I need is the numbers and the information. Well, John, I just want to thank you so much for sharing this. I know my audience will appreciate it. Is there any final words or any tips or advice you want to give people before we wrap this up? Let's see, I guess I would say one, go play with the compound interest calculator. Because, you know, in my Bulldog Mindset membership, I have a homework in there and I tell, and it's a dream crusher video where I'd say, how are you actually gonna achieve your financial benefits?  Like how much money, calculate how much money you need to retire and then go plug that in and see what is the, you're making on the money that you're investing, right? How much money are you gonna invest and what is the return and see how long it's gonna take you, okay? You're gonna be old for most people. Otherwise, you better come up with a better plan, right? You either need more money or you need a better interest rate or you need more time. And time is not an option. So you either need to make more money or you need to have a better interest rate. So that's what I'd say is number one. And then, you know, if anyone wants to find out more about this kind of stuff or join the Bulldog Mindset membership, you can go to bulldogmindset.com. I've got a quiz there, which will tell you what your Bulldog score is from zero to 100 and will tell you, you know, how you're doing. It's got some financial questions in there and it's hard. It's hard. Most people score like 20s or 30s in there. But from there, I can help you with, we have a membership program where I have these lessons on real estate investing and building a business and a lot of things like that in there as well. So. Cool, John. Well, thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, I highly recommend go check out John's website, go check out his quiz. Once again, John, thank you so much for sharing your insights and knowledge and years of experience. Like always, if you guys listen to this on iTunes, leave a review. And if you're watching this on YouTube, leave a comment below this video. I'd love to know your thoughts, guys. Until next time. Adios.


From Seattle, Washington, it's theCUBE, covering AWS Imagine. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Rick here with theCUBE. We're in Seattle, Washington, downtown, right next to the convention center for the AWS Imagine EDU show. It's a second year of the show, put on by Andrew Coe and his crew, part of Teresa's public sector group, really focused on education. Education means everything from K through 12, higher education, community college education, getting out of the military and retraining education, it's a really huge category. And it's everything from getting the colleges to do a better job by being on cloud infrastructure to innovating and really thinking outside the box. We're really excited to have the man who's doing a lot of the work on the curriculum development in the education. He's Kent Eisner, he's the director of worldwide education programs for AWS Educate. Kent, great to see you. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely, nice shout out this morning by Teresa. She said she just keeps asking you for more and you keep delivering. You want to deliver for Teresa Carlson. She is a dynamo and she drives us all. She does. So let's dive into it a little bit. So there was a great line that they played in the keynote with Andy talking about, we cannot be protecting old institutions, we need to think about the kids. There's a story I hear all the time where somebody came from a time machine from 1776 and landed here today. They wouldn't recognize how we talk, how we get around, but they would recognize one thing and unfortunately that's the schoolhouse down at the end of the block. So you guys are trying to change that. You're really trying to revolutionize what's happening in education. Give us a little bit of the background of some of the specific things that you're working on today. Yeah, I think Andy, one of the things that he mentioned at that time was that education is really in a crisis and we need to be inventing at a rapid rate. We need to show that invent and simplify inside education. And he's incredibly, he's correct. The students are our customers and we've got to be changing things for them. What we've been really excited to see is that with this giant growth in cloud computing, AWS, yeah, it was the fastest IT vendor to ever hit $10 billion a yearly run rate. We're now growing at a 42% or 41% year-over-year growth rate in $31 billion a yearly company. It's creating this giant cloud computing opportunity. Cloud computing's been the number one LinkedIn skill for the past four years in a row. And when we look at that software development, to cloud architecture, to the data science and artificial intelligence and data analytics and cybersecurity rules, but we're not preparing kids for this market. Gallup ran a study that showed about 11% of business executives thought that students were prepared for their jobs. It's not working, it's got to change. And the exciting thing that's happening right now is workforce development governments are really pushing for change in education and it's starting to happen. Right, it's pretty amazing, because we were here last year, the theme last year was very much around the community college releases and the certification of the associate programs and trial down in Southern California. And this year, I've been surprised, we've had two guests on, where it's the state governor has pushed these initiatives, not at the district level, the city level, but from the state level, I think both Louisiana as well as Virginia. That's pretty amazing support to move in such an aggressive direction and really a new area. Yeah, I was actually just moderating a panel where we had Virginia, Louisiana and California all sitting down talking about that scaling statewide strategy. We had announcements from the entire CUNY and SUNY or City University of New York and State University of New York system to do both two N4 year programs in cloud computing.  So right, we are seeing this scaling in storeshima play where institutions are collaborating across themselves, they're collaborating vertically with your higher ed and K-12 and yet direct to the workforce because we need to be hiring people at such a rapid rate that we need to be also putting a lot of skin in the game and that's starting to happen. So again, I agree with Andy said, education is at a crisis, but now we're starting to see change makers inside of education making that move. Right. It's interesting, I wonder, is it, I don't want to say second tier that's the wrong word, but it's kind of what I'm thinking. Kind of these other institutions, the schools that don't necessarily have the super top-end cachet who are forced to be innovator, right? We're number two, we try harder as they used to say in the Hertz commercial. It's really a lot of creativity coming out of, again, the community colleges last year in LA which I was blown away. That you kind of understand because that's specifically to skill people up to get a job. But now you're hearing it in much more kind of traditional institutions and doing really innovative things like the thing with the Marines, teaching active duty Marines about data science. Who came up with that idea? That's phenomenal. Well, you know, data permeates everything. It's not just in pure data science jobs and machine learning jobs. Those are brilliantly important, but it's also in marketing jobs and business jobs and so on. Data analytics, data intelligence, security, cyber security, so important that, you know, thank God, Northern Virginia Community College and US Marine Corps are working to make these programs available to their veterans and active military. The other thing is they're sharing it with the rest of the student bodies. So that's, I think, another thing that's happening is this sharing, this ability, all of for this cloud degree program that AWS Educator is running, all of these institutions are sharing their curricula. So the stuff that was done in Los Angeles is being learned in Virginia, the stuff that the US Marine Corps is doing is being available to students who are not in military occupations. I think that collaboration mode is amazing. The thing that I'd say about community colleges and just this new locus of control for education and why it's changing, community colleges, you're right, they're moving fast. These institutions have a bias for action. They know they have to change the ROI, right? It's about preparing students for this workforce, but they also serve as a flywheel to those four-year institutions, back to the 12 and to the workforce. And they hid underserved audiences so that we're not all picking from the same crew. You cannot keep going to just your elite institutions and recruit, we have to grow that pipeline. So thank these places for moving quick and operating for their students. Right, right. And that's where the innovation happens, right? I mean, and that's goodness. And the other thing I thought was pretty interesting was obviously skilling people up to get jobs you need to hire them, that's pretty obvious and simple, but really bringing kind of big data attitude, analytics attitude into the universities across into the research departments and the medical schools. And you think at first, well, of course, researchers are data centric, right? They've been doing it that way for a long time, but they haven't been doing it in kind of the modern big data, real-time analytics, you know, streaming data, not sampling data, all the data. So even bringing that type of point of view, I don't know, mindset to the academic institutions outside of what they're doing for the students. Absolutely, I mean, machine learning is really changing the game. The notion of big data, the way that costs have gone down in terms of storing and utilizing data, and right, it's streaming data, it's non-columner data as opposed to the old pure SQL setup, that is a game changer. No longer can you make a theory and test it out. The theories are coming, streaming by looking at that data and letting it do some work for you, which is kind of that machine learning, artificial intelligence path, and it's all becoming democratized. So yes, researchers need to learn these new paths to make sense and to leverage this with that big data on the medical center side. There are cures that can be discerned against some of our most pressing diseases by leveraging data. So yeah, we got to change, and by the way, we got to change that mindset, not just at the PhD level, but actually at the K-12 level. Our kids learning the right skills to prepare them for this new big data world once they get into higher ed. And then the last piece, which again, we've seen on the enterprise, we've kind of seen the movie on the enterprise side in terms of cloud adoption, what AWS has done, at first it's a better, more efficient way to run your infrastructure. It's, there's a whole bunch of good things that come from running a cloud infrastructure. But that's not the end, right? The answer to the question is the innovation, right? It's the speed of change, the speed of development, and some of the things that we're seeing here around the competitive nature of higher education trying to appeal to the younger kids because you're competing for their time and attention and their dollar. Really interesting stuff with Alexa and some of these other innovations which is where the goodness really starts to pay off on a cloud investment. Yeah, without a doubt, Alexa, we, AWS came up with RoboMaker and DeepRacer at our last re-invent. And there's organizations at the K-12 level like First Robotics and Project Lead the Way that are doing really cool stuff by making this relevant. Education becomes more relevant when kids get to do hands-on stuff. AWS lowers the price for failure, lowers the ability, you can just open a browser and do real world hands-on stuff. Robotics, AR, VR, all of these things again are game changers inside the classroom. But you also have to connect it to jobs at the end. And if educational institutions can become more relevant to their students in terms of preparing them for jobs like they've done in Santa Monica College and like they're doing in Northern Virginia Community College and across the state of Louisiana, and by putting the real world stuff in the hands of their kids, they will then start to attract students. We saw this happen in Santa Monica. They opened up one classroom of 35 students. That sold out in a day. They opened another cohort of 35 sold out in another day or two. They then went from 70 students last year, about 325. They opened up this California Cloud workforce project where they now have 825 students out of five. These Northern Virginia Community College, their cloud associate degree that they ran in tandem with AWS Educate grew from 30 students at the start of the year to well over 100 now. These programs will drive students to them and the students will get a job at the end. Right, right. Well, and can the school support the demand? I mean, that's the problem we see with CS, right? Everybody says, tell your kids to take CS. They want to take CS. Guess what? There's no sections open in CS. So, thinking of it in a different way, a little bit more innovative way, providing that infrastructure kind of ready to go in a cloud-based way. Now, we'll hopefully enable them to get more kids and really fulfill the demand. Absolutely. There's another thing with professional development that I think you're hitting on. So, we definitely have a shortage in terms of teachers who are capable to teach about software development and cloud architecture and data sciences and cybersecurity. So, we're putting AWS Educate is putting a specific focus on professional development. We also want to bring Amazonians and our customers and partners into the classroom to help with that, because the work-based learning and the focus on subject matter experts is also important. But we really need to have programs both from industry as well as government to help support new teachers coming into this field and in-service training for existing teachers to make sure, because yes, we launch those programs and students will come. We have to make sure that we're adequately preparing teachers to talk. It's not easy. Right. But again, we're seeing whether it's Code of Coal out of Roosevelt High School or the people that we're working with out of George Mason University and so on. We're seeing such an appetite for making change for their students. And so they're putting in those extra hours. They're getting that AWS certification and they're getting stronger prepared to teach inside the classroom. That's amazing, because right, teachers have so many conflicting draws on their time, many of which have nothing to do with teaching, right? Whether it's regulations and there's just so many things that teachers have to deal with. So, the fact that they're encouraged, the fact that they want to spend and invest in this is really a good sign and really a nice kind of indicator to you and the team that you guys are hitting something really positive there. Yeah, I think we've had, it's this FOMO fear of missing out opportunity. There's the excitement of the cloud. There's the excitement of watching your kids really transform their lives. And it could be Alfredo Colón who came over from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, yeah, wiped out his economic potential and started taking AWS Educate and learning some of these pathways and then landing a job as a DevOps engineer. When you see the transformation in your students, no matter what their background is, it is a game changer. This has got to be, listen, I loved watching that women's team when the World Cup and the excitement. Cloud is like the new sport. Robotics is the new sport for these kids to help bring them on pathways to careers. Right. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes. Can the passion come through? Andrew Coe's a big passion guy and we know Teresa is as well. So, it shines through and keep doing good work. Thank you so much for the time. All right. He's Ken, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're here in downtown Seattle at AWS Imagine EDU. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.


How's it going everybody? DottoDoi here with some more Dragon Ball Fighter's Rank Matches. And today we're doing something very special. A lot of viewers have been requesting that we do a random team challenge. We've done something like this in the past, but of course it has been a little while. And these are always a lot of fun to do. Sometimes you get characters that are very top tier and you know how to play. And of course other times you don't get that lucky. So today, let's go ahead and hit this random button and see what team will be taken into ranked. Y-ho-ho, no! And they're gonna say it's rigged, baby. Yamcha, one of the characters I have the most games on, of course. So I'm totally comfortable taking this man into ranked. Vigino! I know this character as well. Very top tier. Super easy to use as well. As long as you're not trying to be super optimal. And to round off the team, the last character we have is... No, dude. I don't know how to play Majin Buu. God, dude. Okay, that one is gonna be the toughest. That one is going to be really tough. But overall, I'm pretty stoked for this team. Oh, yeah, I guess I should also mention that we are playing them in the order we got them. So although I would like Yamcha in the back and maybe Vigino in the front, we gotta keep it... Oh, damn. I was not ready for him to convert off that. You know, we gotta keep it in the order we got it. For the added... Damn, this dude's adding all this already? Spending that cash, okay. No kids to send to college. You can spend that money. But, I gotta go. I didn't say I was gonna keep him out for long.  Where are you going? Vigino dressed up in all what? Okay. You love to see the range on that. Really easy conversion. Also just gonna get him right back in the corner. No, I wasn't prepared for that. Nice. EX the DP, so it comes out a little faster. All right, Majin Buu, thanks for that.  Now we gotta take this raw 2M damage. It's going to be a lot, actually. Plus the knockdown in the corner.  I'm only gonna get hit by that once. Um, the question is, how do I... I got a plan.  All right, panic strats. We're just gonna do a super to get out. Not the... Not the best thing, but... Like, go with that block. Oh, there it is. Not the best thing to do, obviously. It kind of wastes a lot of bar, but... Damn, already? My dude did not get to take the day off. Wait, when did Gohan die? Did I miss that? Oh, I got caught again. Try to bash. When did Gohan die? We're gonna pretend it didn't happen. I knocked him out a long time ago. Damn, I really don't want Yamcha out, though. Time to get Buu his first snack. Let's go. It should kill. Hopefully I wasn't wrong. What? Okay, Buu, just calm down. We can do this. Oh, he's not confirming. He's gonna super dash eventually. I caught God with a beam. I got God. I got God. All right, it's time for us to spark as well. Who's going in? No, I held the sparking, but didn't get anything off it. That was the wrong button. Majin Buu players, channel your thoughts to me right now. I need help. Boom, there you go. I know that's not what you all were thinking, but hey. Sometimes you gotta add a little creative liberty here. What is Majin Buu's block string? I know the combo with him is a little weird. You have to go with, like, a too special. Because that's just, you know, it allows him to jab out of it. But what does the block string go to? I mean, I don't think it's gonna matter for long. I'm not gonna be here.  Oh no, we gotta bring it home with Yamcha. At least I have a lot of experience in this area. Back dash, pointless back dash. I'm the king of those. Level three? No, I'll be too far. Hard cancel, no punish, and I don't. I try to get him with the 2M on the way. Okay, he's gonna level one. I thought he might have messed up there, but nice, dude. Alright, we can get a little more out of Vegeta and Yamcha for sure there. Majin Buu, he is going to be the one we struggle with the most. But we'll take a nice L here to start it off. How many points does he have, by the way? Alright, so he's pretty low to the ground living legend on PC. He's pretty grassroots. Oh, shoulda 2H that one. That was really slow by cross-up standards. My down tech. That was red, nice! Oh, I wanted to get Majin Buu in on the action. Also, I wanted Yamcha to sit in the back. This is so weird, it's so weird. What is it again? Damn it, it's the other way. You can see I'm trying to figure it out as we go. Get your EX legs out of here. No! We got caught a long time ago. Uh, level one will kill here. He doesn't go for it. No need for... Even though we don't know how to play him, there's no need for him to die just yet. Instead, we're gonna go ahead and take out Gohan. Alright, now we can move on to go through GT. Let's handle this little top tier character real quick. And by quick, I guess I need... Miss. He can't confirm that anyway. Get that out of here, now you're in the corner. Alright, never mind. We're gonna get the mix on Super Saiyan here. I didn't know what I wanted. Nice. No, I did it wrong again. I'll back off.  Okay, you took your time. It's okay, we all made mistakes.  No, why would he tag there? I guess he wanted the blue health to recover. Broomie 4 loop though. Again, not optimal. How do we stay safe?  I was looking for an overhead. I was mashing 2H. I was looking for something cheap. Level three, that will definitely kill. Super Saiyan 4 comes out. Damn, Super Saiyan Blue versus Super Saiyan 4? Is this cannon? Uh-oh. Yikes, we're so low on health though. Oh, this is what happened last time. Now, can I actually get the EX? Alright, same mistake, different day. Alright, now let's... Alright, the sparking time is down. Wow, back dash buttons. Bragging rush, hitting behind the Kamehameha. My tech skill is very, very low. I was not taking that one. Get in that corner. No van... No reflect, I kinda wanted to read the reflect. Didn't throw it out, but I got him with the next button anyway. Now, when do we tag into Majin Buu as quickly as possible? Don't get hit, don't... I was trying to make him fear the fist. You know there was a time when I practiced Majin Buu and I actually knew how to do stuff? Hey, there was a time. That was so long ago now, and I think it shows. There was a time when I knew.  A lazy vanish, and now we're really feeling it.   Does he have a wreath for this? A back dash ki blast could kill. Kind of a waste of bar there. Alright, we should be able to kill. Nice. Nice easy kill, wrap it up. A lot of people... By the way, I should mention a lot of people were like... Last time when I played PC, they were like, Dude, stop bullying these low ranks, but... I gotta be honest, guys. PC skill level is like... There's not as many people playing, so the ranks are a little tighter. So, in my experience, the ranks are like one-up. So it's not like I'm picking up people below my belt by too much. Oh, God! Nice. It's kind of wild. I hate that I never get that to work. I always want them to click buttons right away.  Damn, I got an IQ below... I got an IQ below 20. It's gotta be something like that to get reflected twice. And this is gonna be a comeback and a half. It's dropping. It's below 15. I tried mashing lights there. Lock me down. Oh, never mind. We're taking the level 3? Yup. Level 3, here we go. I'm not about to get washed like this. I mean, I totally am. That's the crazy part. Just let them fall. Just let them fall. I don't know if I could have killed from that. Ooh, Mazabooz just actually knocks them out. Okay, I thought I was gonna have to follow up with the heavy. It's actually good in this case because I missed. Wow, I did not expect to come at me, huh? Smart, though. I was at the proper range for that. Get them across the screen. Keep the bar. Keep as much bar as we can. Get that out of here. I'm like a real Vigito player.  You got dyslexia? Oh, no, no, you don't. No, you don't. You don't have to mask the lights. All right, and then level 1, level 3. I hope this reaches. I've never done a level 3 from this far. Oh, candy. Eat them up bite-sized treats. Damn, I'm at the theater line picking out the Goober's baby. You know what? Let me... Maybe my problem with Mazabooz, I've been taking it too serious. Let me just get wacky with it. How do I combo off that? Okay. Backdash.  Understandably. Understandably so. No, I tried. I did it. I did it. Dude, my want to actually hit something with Mazabooz is greater than my want to... What is the combo? I know what there's a key blast thrown in there. I didn't recover after that. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I should definitely have been dead.  I'm just a bit confused. Damn, I'm a genius. This dude is... He's a stagger-like player. He knows when to hold the buttons and when to throw them out. In that case, I was hoping he would throw them out. So, 2-1, he's up a game. Come on, though. I got Yamcha. How are we not steam rolling? Jesus. Oh, wow, he didn't... He got a bit unlucky there. I'm getting really lucky now. Okay. So this is my kind of game. Well, now I'm just wondering if his block button's broken. Wow, that was really lucky. This is like the opposite of last game. Missed the input. Accidentally got the overhead to come out. I mean, he saw that and took real good advantage of it. Now we're in the corner. 3 bars doesn't spend him. That's probably the right choice. It would have gotten me out of the corner. Rather keep the bar and the pressure. Maybe look for a spirit bomb set up of some sort. That's not what he wants. He wants all that bar. Come out. Oh, I wasted that bar. I tried to get some tricks. Tricks! Speaking of tricks, we got those. I'm so dumb. I don't remember. Nice! He did the dragon rush. I thought the reflex would actually pick up a nice one on his hit. Oh! Level 3 in the air. Okay, this is a good help to get level 3, that I guess. Sparking or no sparking. That is the case. Probably not. It is Majin Buu. I overextended. Overextended. Goodbye, Majin Buu. Hopefully we get another... No, the dragon flash fist! I should have been more careful. Of course, he wouldn't throw it. I guess that's why I wanted it. We got those confirmations. One bar, one kill. Still got 3 in the bank. To pop it any time. But we're Vigito players. Yup. Vigito players, boys. You know what a Vigito player would truthfully do here? He'd read the sparking. So I'm going to be a Vigito player. I should have switched sides. I should have switched sides. I could have done that too. I never make the same mistake twice. Now this time he's going to want to block and just hold it. So we dragon rush. Genius. Got him. I felt pretty confident that entire time. Went for 2 guard cancels. Obviously he wouldn't want to go for that again. So we just dragon rushed there to pick up a nice easy grab. Majin Buu, you're really in the back confident. I don't know if you've really been bringing a lot to this random team. I have enjoyed using them though. I don't know the combo. We hold all this, we reflect. I just got hit by every overhead in the cross-up this set. And it is really showing. That's free. DP, I completely forgot about it. It's been since the first set around. That one we had to look out for. It was the jab. I just wasn't doing fast enough. Ah Majin Buu, no. I felt like we could finally get along. We could finally get along. There's so much life left for us to live together. Majin Buu, you get out of there. Nice, you didn't expect the buttons. He tried something fake. And Yabchu was there to capitalize, baby. Now we just take our time. Space out a few buttons. Play the confident air neutral that we're known for, definitely. Here on the channel, cross-up it is. I'm feeling very good this match. Why not just take Majin Buu out to play? Yup. I told you boys. I was a Majin Buu player once. Tia! Majin Buu, let's go. And that didn't kill, so whatever. We'll take this. I told you, I practiced Majin Buu. It's definitely been too long. I also practiced a corner combo for him. Not enough bar to switch out Majin Buu. Unless we want to, anyway. In which case, why not? Missed it again. Majin Buu, don't care about your overhead. What a beautiful ending. Majin Buu doesn't care. Majin Buu doesn't care about your overhead. Let's go, Buu. That's how we wrap up a nice set. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this one. If you did, I could have some more random matches coming your way. Just let me know down below in the comments. And make sure to leave a like and subscribe to the channel if you like these videos. If you want to watch more of my videos right away, there should be some up on your screen. So give any of those a watch if they catch your eye. Other than that, I've been Dato Doe. 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The question that I get asked all the time and the reason why I'm making this video is do people really think that you could be day trading for a living? You know, you see all of these online advertisements, all these people on Lambos, all these crazy things. Yeah, I have a Lambo, I have all the fancy things. And truth of the matter is it took me a very, very long time to get to this level. So I'm going to talk about my trading journey, what I use to, you know, get to this level. And I'm going to kind of answer some of the questions that you guys have about what is needed to trade professionally for a living.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2013 Ford Mustang V6 Premium is stock number 22D113A. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used sports car headquarters. This 2013 Ford Mustang has the 3.7 liter V86 engine. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and tapped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. 305 horsepower. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood. Performance white is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video on how I do things here at Summit Auto, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, and then click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Auto. So it comes with the 18-inch painted alloy rims, and it has firestone, firehawk tires, these are 23550R18s, and they got a really good amount of tread left, I would say 80-90% of the tread left on those tires. Let's see if I can give you a better shot of that tread, there you go. So a lot of tread left on those tires. Front fender is in excellent shape, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. It does come with the HID headlamps and the LED running lights. It does have factory fog lights, and the front bumper is in pretty nice shape. I didn't see any major dents on there or cracks. The hood is in really nice condition as well. The only thing I saw is maybe one little ding on there. 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Bro, look at this camp boy. You looking good today, brother. Maybe we always looking fly. You looking fly. How you feeling, man? All-star game, bro? This ain't nothing new for you. Nothing, nothing, man. But it's always a pleasure to be here in the red carpet. Enjoy it.  This is right, brother. Okay, I got to ask you, man. You know just as well as everybody else, man. It's obviously a lot of trade rumors. Where you're going to end up, in my opinion, bro, anywhere you go, you're going to make them a World Series contender, man. I don't know where it's going to be. You might, but I don't know, man, but I wish you best of luck. I wish I knew, I wish I knew.  Oh my God, ladies and gentlemen, Luis Severino, bro. You are looking fly today, man. You got everybody with you, man. How awesome is this all-star game?  This is a new experience, you know. Last year, it was in the car. Now it's walking, but it's really nice. I mean, the last time we spent time together was in triple A, bro. You were on your way to the big leagues. Now you have established yourself as one of the best pitchers in the league, bro. I could not be more proud of you, brother. What are we expecting in the second half? A lot of stuff, man. We have a great team. We have our young team, you know. We got our great first half, you know. I will work, you know, to get better, you know. Every time they give me the ball, I want to go over there and get 100%. George Springer, Houston Astros. Brother, it seems like you guys are poised to do it again.  We're having fun. And I think we got a little bit better with our guys in there. So I'm happy about it. Well, I'm telling you, man. I feel like your whole team is here for the All-Star game. I saw that home run derby, the love you were giving, bro. That was amazing. It was awesome, man. I wanted him to do it. You know, he was an underdog and that bad boy, but it's all good, man. I mean, it's all about your teammate right there, and it was awesome. All right, man. So I'm just thinking about this, and I'm going to take you back to spring training, man.  Now, all of a sudden, you're in MVP Canada, bro. Back to being the Matt Kemp we all know and love, man. I'm so happy to see you here. It's fun to be back in LA. The fans have been really great. They've embraced me coming back, and it's been a great journey. So far, so good. A good first half. We're in first place right now, and we're playing some good baseball. Tell me a little bit about the turnaround in Atlanta, man.  Yeah, we're trying to get them based for the big boys to drive us in. And, you know, that's our game. We like to run. We run wild, but secure. We make rounds for it. Wow, it's funny, man. You said the big boys, man. You guys can be the big boys, too, man. So second half, man. You guys are in uncharted waters right now to be in the position you are, man, going for the division title. That sounds good to me in Atlanta. Yeah, that sounds awesome to me. Hopefully we win. We make it, but we're going to play hard so we get there. Who you got here with you today? Man, it's awesome, man. It's a great feeling to be here today with all these great all-stars. So it's a great, great event for baseball. So I'm looking forward to it. All right, bro, second half for the Dodgers, man. Yourself huge turnaround. The team huge turnaround, man. What are we going to see in the second half? I think you're going to see a lot of good baseball from the Dodgers, man. I mean, we all find out who we are this year from their struggle in the April. And we turned our season around. So you're going to see a lot of excitement baseball. And it's going to be a tough stretch in the beginning, but that's where we're really going to see who we are. And I think, you know, we're going to be good. Just to be able to be here with the greatest players we have in the game, bro, at such an early age. Brother, you have the talent to let this happen every year. I mean, that's the plan. That's what you want to do. But I'm just happy to be here. I'm happy to see all these guys. I mean, dude, it's something I'll never forget. Mookie bats, brother. I'm telling you, man, your game has elevated, bro, since you showed up in the league this year. MVP, you and JD, man. That Boston Red Sox team looks like they tough to beat. Yeah, we're good. We've got a one through nine where we're solid and we've got some good arms, too. So that's what makes it. Well, what do you got? Alex Coro, bro. First year over there, man. How's he doing? He's awesome. You know, couldn't ask for anything better. He's definitely one of the best things to happen. So what are you looking forward to tonight, man? You know, it's a huge game. National League, they've lost six in a row, man. You guys need to step it up. I know, right? We need to do something. So I'm just going to go out there and hopefully get in the game and pitch well and enjoy it for sure. How are you feeling about the game tonight? I'm feeling good. I'm excited. It should be a lot of fun. The National League, man. Hey, you guys are up in overall games in the All-Star Game, man. Hey, but you're six in a row. You got to change that tonight. We do. We do. We got to do something a little different. I feel like there's going to be a lot of power arms tonight, man. What are you looking forward to in the game tonight? I'm just kind of taking it all in. I mean, it's a real fun event. I'm just happy to be here and with all these guys. And, you know, hopefully we can get a win on the board. All right, Jacob DeGrom, bro. Your first half has been historic, bro. I mean, in New York City, bro.  It's been fun. You know, I really enjoyed it. And just looking forward to getting the second half started. All right, man. Hey, I read in the paper the other day, you say you want to stay in New York, man. There's obviously been a lot of trade rumors. You are one of the premier pitchers we have in our game. But for you to say something like that, if I'm the New York mess, I could not be more happy about that. Yeah, like I said, I've enjoyed my time there. Like I said, in 2015, when we went to the World Series, that was the most fun I had playing baseball. And there's no better place to win. So, you know, I would really enjoy staying in New York. 68 wins in the first half of the Boston Red Sox, bro. You and Mookie have driven that squad.  One of the biggest markets in baseball, man. How much fun is it? It's been great, man. You know, we got a great team. We got a great group of guys. The guys are always having fun. You know, Alex has come in, done a great job. You know, just, you know, being the manager and really kind of setting the tone in that clubhouse. The fans have been great. It's been fun. You know, we just got to come back to the second half and keep going. You know, we got the Yankees right on our tail. We got to keep it up. Over there, Milwaukee right now. You and Christian Yellich have just changed the culture in that locker room, bro. Just tell me a little bit about that. Yeah, so we're just having a blast right now. You know, just trying to lead the way.  So I said, just trying to be leaders. You know, God, the younger guys. And I said, trying to go out there and play ball. I don't even want to call Michael Bradley. That's what I'm going to call him Dr. Smooth, bro. That's what I know you as, man. I had the privilege of playing with you for four years, bro. Got to see two of those all-star games, man. Now I'm behind the desk right now. Still watching you, man. You're still coming to these things. I'm trying, you know, putting in that hard work and enjoying it, you know, being out here with this great group of guys.  Cleveland Indians, brother. When we first, when we all came over there in 2013, man, we were at the bottom to see where you guys are right now contending for the World Series every year, man. Tell me what that's like. It's awesome. It's a lot of hard work from a lot of good people. It's an organization, first-class organization that put us in these spots. And we got to thank the fans for their support and, you know, all the players that came in and helped us along the way. Mitch Hannigan, bro. You are crushing this year, man. The Seattle Mariners are back to where they are supposed to be, man. What's been the huge turnaround? Just clubhouse vibes. I mean, it's been really good this year. Guys are all on board and everyone's believing in one another and just putting the team first. It just kind of seems like when you lost, one of your best players in Robbie Cano is when you guys really, really took off. That has to do with the camaraderie in there. Yes, exactly. You know, that kind of just brought us together. And we all had a meeting and we said, you know, let's be in the race for when Robbie comes back and he'll help us get to the playoffs. And, you know, we're waiting for him to return. It's going to be great to have him back, but we've been doing a good job of winning some ball games without him. And, you know, we're looking forward to having you back, Robbie, and just keep winning. Tell me a little bit about the Boston Red Sox, man. You guys are crushing so far. 68 wins in the first half, man. You guys are amazing to watch. Yeah, man. Obviously, we got a lot of guys here. You know, that have had great years. We just had a good run so far. You know, we've got a great team, great group of guys, and just trying to take it in. You know, enjoy it. We had talked about this earlier, man, for you to finally get the recognition you deserve as one of our premier players to be here at this All-Star Game. What's this mean to you? You know, it means more. A lot of people ask me if I won it earlier in my career. I wouldn't change it. I like it. Everything happens for a reason. And, you know, to have these guys with me, it means even more, because I know they're going to remember it. They had a blast yesterday. They had the home run derby. So, you know, hopefully they have a good time today. And it's something they'll always remember. Hey, man, Colorado Rockies, bro. You guys are making that push, bro. What are we expecting in the second half? Well, hopefully a lot of wins. That's the goal. But we're playing good baseball, man. It's been a lot of fun. And hopefully we can continue. Ross Shrifling, I'm telling you, bro. Career year so far. What's been the turnaround? Oh, man. You know, just confident. Finally, third year, you get comfortable being able to get guys out at this level.  Got the starting job. Just wanted to keep it. Motivated to keep that job. And found my way here, man. This is awesome. It's amazing. Los Angeles Dodgers. Huge turnaround for them in general, bro. Obviously, guys like Max Muncie have really stepped up and yourself included. Second half, what are we supposed to expect? Man, expect more of the good things. Matt Kemp killing it. Muncie killing it. Getting Justin Turner back. Healthy's been good. He still hasn't taken off yet. That's going to come. Rotation's back healthy with Kershaw, Rich Hill, Kinta Maeda. So, you know, good things coming for the Dodgers should be a fun NOS race down the stretch. Hopefully we can get our sixth in a row. Shinsu Chu, bro, having one of the best seasons in the American League, bro.  I try, man. I try. That's how I be here. That's how I sign for Rangers. But this year, finally healthy whole years and then finally healthy team. I feel very good right now.


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If sauerkraut was a chocolate it would be, I'm going to say it's a milky way purely because it's out of the swastika. I would say Snickers because it's all a bit nuts. I don't know. I don't eat chocolate. Smarties because of the diversity of multiculturalism. It definitely would be fair trade chocolate. See that's really hard because sauerkraut is just sauerkraut so you can't pin it down to one chocolate. The chocolate does not exist. We're all vegans so we don't even eat chocolate. What's the chocolate that has the most nuts and fruits and everything mixed in it? That's a very hard one. It would have to be the best chocolate in the world.


Good morning. I'm Lieutenant Andrew Grady. I'm from the District 5 Command Center, RCC Norfolk. We're here to support the ASARX 2021. It's a joint operation between RCC Lodges, RCC Norfolk, and a host of other nations. It's all about being good stewards of the international SAR system. We all support each other in international SAR. The Canadians are providing aircraft and search and rescue personnel. You have the Portuguese as well, of course, with RCC Lodges and MRCC Delgada. My name's Captain Nicole Lively. I am a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. I'm one of the air coordinators at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. So as part of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Coast Guard were canned in hand to prosecute all air and sea missions. We were fortunate enough to send the RCF side of the house here to the Azores for the ASARX 21 to help maintain and better develop our working relationship with RCC Lodges and the other participants in the exercise. Our search and rescue region borders onto Portugal's search and rescue region, so understanding how RCC Lodges operates on a daily basis and how we can work together as a partnership to prosecute missions that are mid-Atlantic. It's extremely beneficial for us to be able to have that extra level of understanding. I'm Brigadier General Jean Pereira, I go by Skipper. I'm the commander of Azores Air Zone Command which is responsible for this huge area of search and rescue in the Azores. ASARX is an advanced search and rescue exercise. We are in the air base in the middle of Atlantic Ocean where our main mission is search and rescue within a huge area, one of the biggest in the world and the biggest in Europe. And Azores is an opportunity to bring many players from different parts, different experiences, US and Canada in this time and also all our crews that have a main role on the SAR mission or a secondary role to practice together because all together we can learn from each other and improve every day. This is a great opportunity for us and I think for all the players because it's harder and harder in our days to get many players together to play exercises especially during COVID pandemic situation and this was proven that it's possible maintaining some limitations and some restrictions to protect everybody and within the rules that are set to still exercise. So this was outstanding opportunity for all of us and we thank all the participation for US from Canada and also from our crews.


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