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There's a huge difference in terms of residential property and commercial property. Do you mind just taking us through some of these fundamental differences in terms of how they look and if one is looking at even buying commercial property to let out, what are some of those things that are unique to that space and that they may just need to be aware of before they do something like that? Good evening and welcome to the Private Property podcast right here on our Private Property Facebook page.  So if you are interested in what we are about to talk about today, I am sure that you're going to be interested because we are talking tips to buy to let and have success amid the rental boom or the property rental boom currently that is happening in the market and I'm joined by Megan Ladbrook who is the general manager at the only realty group. So do stick around for the conversation tonight. It's going to be a very insightful one. So if you are also joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. If you're joining us on the Twitter spaces, thank you so much for coming through. Hopefully you'll stay to the end of the conversation. It's going to be a really good one especially if you are thinking of going into the buy to let space. Maybe you want to buy an apartment and let it out or you are already in that space. Maybe you are going to learn something tonight that will help you maximise that investment. Megan, thank you so much for joining us and how are you doing tonight? It's a pleasure. I'm really happy to be here. Always love doing private property podcasts and Facebook lives. They are awesome. Thank you so much. Let's just jump right in and start talking buy to let and the success rates that you guys are seeing or in your experience have been seeing. Do you think that this is still a lucrative investment for a property investor to go into or do you think that maybe they should start shifting their focus somewhere else? Well, you're firstly asking ex-rental agent. So obviously rentals are our focus. I'm always going to say that it's a good investment. One of the key things is if you don't start investing now, it's never going to be a good time. So all those things are very different at the moment and then obviously post COVID times have been very interesting. We have seen quite a shift actually at the moment obviously the interest rates just gone up again. So people are now all concerned and worried about what it's going to be and what it's going to mean for their finances. So yeah, at the moment I suppose everything's really up in the air for people who aren't I suppose seasoned property investors, but I just want to say they shouldn't panic. It's actually a really good time to get into property investment. We're going to see a lot more people looking to rent versus to buy because they're just going to be concerned their own finances and affordability might not lend towards buying at the moment. So yeah, I think we're going to see an influx of really good tenants. So buy to let is always a good place to be. No, definitely. And if someone is already in this space and you're already a landlord, you already have tenants maybe that are occupying one of your properties or maybe you've got vacant properties and you're looking to let them out. What would you say in terms of this person making this mode of investment lucrative? One of those things that they could do or maybe marketing strategies or whatever they could actually adopt now, in order for them to increase the profits that they're getting and possibly let out those places that are currently vacant. So one of the key things would be to run it like a business. I think a lot of people go into property and they're very good business people and then it comes to property and I think they can invest in it. They get a little bit too emotionally attached to the property or to their tenants and sometimes it leads to them making decisions which they wouldn't normally make in a day to day business situation. So it's really important to understand what your monthly costs are, exactly what you need to cover and build in a bit of a buffer there for items like maintenance and ongoing improvements and upkeep which will make your property more attractive to tenants and definitely will play a big role in making sure that it's not vacant. So that would be my biggest tip. If you think of something as a business and you take out the emotion, it helps you make more rational decisions when it comes to what's going to be profitable and what's not going to be profitable. Yeah and you know you said something at the beginning that with COVID and the different things that are happening in the industry, there's so many interesting things that are coming up and that are changing the way your business is being done. Do you mind just going through some of those things and some of the trends that you have picked up and if there are any challenges maybe let's start focusing on those to say what are the challenges that are coming out from the current business of the day and how can one also really try as much as possible to circumvent them and make sure that they don't do their business in. So one of the most interesting trends I think just holistically in any industry is the rise of working from home. So if you apply that into our space it's seen people moving from different areas looking more towards obviously there's been a huge shift towards immigration and living in an area where you want to live versus where you have to live for work. So that's been a huge shift and when you look at those kinds of trends, one of the biggest things that impacts people is the ability to work from home. So things like fiber and wi-fi and those kinds of things have become quite attractive to people as tenants. So we've seen a lot of land was actually making a huge effort to also make their properties work from home friendly and by doing that they've been being able to attract a larger number of potential tenants. So you know that's been a very interesting space to be in. We've seen people make decisions purely on whether they have the ability to to have fiber in a property or not. So it's a huge huge part of I think our day-to-day life now and even people who are going back into the property market as a as a tenant versus somebody who's been owning their own home and we've seen a lot of that with the same immigration happening. We have seen people who have been property owners now looking to rent in the sort of new area of choice of living until they get a feel for the space and they want to commit. So I mean a lot of that is happening at the moment as well. So the ability to understand in your environment and make sure that that they can carry on their day-to-day life has been a huge trend. One of those challenges that people they need to sort of understand is that it's named quite a competitive space because there are a lot of tenants that are looking for properties and especially in Hattang coastal areas we've also seen quite an uptick in places like in Kumballanga. So more of the lifestyle areas and because there's an influx of tenants and the competition for a landlord to find a good tenant is a little bit fierce. So making sure that your property takes all of the boxes for your target market I think is probably the biggest challenge. And you know for letting or for buying to let there's a huge difference and this just comes from a Lingmans looking at it. There's a huge difference in terms of residential property and commercial property. Do you mind just taking us through some of these fundamental differences in terms of how they look and if one is looking at even buying commercial property to let out what are some of those things that are unique to that space and that they may just need to be aware of before they do something like that? So I'm not an expert in commercial but it's important to understand that the challenges are actually very similar. In the commercial space we've seen obviously a lot of downsizing from large offices to smaller offices into more flexible spaces. So if I was going to be looking at a buy to let investment in a commercial space I would definitely pay attention to those trends. Something that is possibly a little bit more flexible for your tenants so they can grow with the property as their business grows or grows back into being one where there's full-time employees on site. So flexibility I think is one of the biggest needs in the commercial space and just you know from from a landlord's perspective making sure again that the property is very conducive to having people on site. A lot of businesses are not going to want to invest in a big space if there's not enough parking for instance for employees. So parking is a sort of a big challenge when it comes to commercial spaces. Again we've seen people that have opted not to buy or rent a commercial space purely based on the parking and the ability for the employees to be sort of on site and have somebody to park somewhere safe to park. Cape Town again that's quite a parking is quite a contentious issue. So from a commercial perspective that's what I would look for.  So those people you've got to make sure that if you're in an area where maybe small office parks are very much needed that's what you should be investing in. If you're in a space where there's a great need for commercial large warehouses that's what you should be investing in. So I think a little bit of research will go a long way if that's your intention to get into the commercial space but similarly also in residential researching what's needed and where you are and where you're looking to invest will tailor make what you're buying. If you know the need is the greatest in a specific price range or type of property you'll be able to to make sure that if you're investing in those types of properties you're probably going to have more demand and more demand is obviously better for you. You know just before in the recent past rather we've been hearing that it's a it's a buyer's market and if you want to buy property this is the best time because the interest rates are low and you know this was before today. Do you perceive that now this this this is going to change the narrative a bit? I know you said earlier that there's still a good time to buy property but are we going to maybe or are we predicting that more people are now going to stop buying property and you know seeing a little bit of this impacting the letting market because previously people were now leaving rental rental property to go and buy houses and for them to stay in because they they were just generally they are just people who were letters you know there were there were tenants rather and now I want to be home owners. Do we now see this market now fluctuating and maybe also just really creating that the market being volatile? Yeah I definitely think we're going to see that. What's quite exciting though is you know obviously when the interest rates were very very low it was great advertising you know lowest you know for however many years and I think people got very caught up into it and didn't really think that you know it would be going up so soon which obviously you know is something that you know gets caught up in the optimism of being of a property owner and so we did see a lot of people take that step from being a tenant into to buying their own homes and first time buyers so it was it was very interesting and a lot of those people have probably overextended themselves and probably can't actually accommodate you know another one or two interest rate increases besides that you know there's municipal increases that are coming into play so we're anticipating seeing a lot more people that are purchasing to let versus purchasing to live in the property themselves so from that aspect I think you know that there's going to be a shift there. We're also seeing a lot more people choosing to be tenants even if they can afford to buy and we see a lot more people choosing that because obviously owning a home there's costs involved with that which you can limit if you're a tenant you know the maintenance and upkeep and improvements also afford to the landlord's responsibility so we are seeing a lot more of that so yeah I agree with you I think you know we always in for interesting times but as I said at the beginning you know it's a cliche for a reason it's always it's always a good time to buy especially if you're going to focus on on letting the property at the moment. Thank you so much for that and if you just joined us we are talking tips for buy to let success amidst the property boom and I'm sitting with Megan who is from who's the general manager at Only Reality Group and we're really talking about how you can maximize your investment if you are somebody who's already a property investor you are landlords they are tenants that are living in your property currently how can you maximize this investment you know and how can and if you're even sitting with vacant properties how can you ensure that they are led and you know you're making money from them and grow your ultimate property portfolio by getting more getting more properties and of course letting those out. I'll take the poll for the date now and one of the questions that we asked was that would you consider buying a property to rent it out and the first answer that we gave you the first option was was that I'm already doing so two yes I would or three I wouldn't and one of our regulars came in guns blazing and she Martha Shinganga said she is at one she's already doing so and of course that's because she is a regular here at the private property family so she has gotten so much insight and she's probably handling or managing that property like a boss. Kenneth Mochella says number two he would definitely do that and would be a good way to have extra income like to pose a question or a comment please do send those through right now on our social media pages and we will try and ensure that we get those questions answered and I had some come through earlier and someone is asking with the with the interest rate rising should I expect a hike in my in my rent if my should I expect a hike in my rent if my landlord if my landlord's bond price has increased should I expect oh yeah they're asking the same thing should I expect a rise a rise in their rent because of the interest rate rising up. So it does it does firstly depend on your rental contract if you're in a contract for a fixed term and you've got a rental that's set at a specific amount and then for the at least the remainder of your rental contract you sort of locked into that price and you should be fine unless there's a provision for your landlord increasing the rent midterm if there's any expenses that have have sort of a arisen like an interest rate hike or maybe a levy increase and so on that it really depends on what your rental contract says and what situation you're in in general though you know we are expecting landlords to try and recover the cost of the bond increase maybe at the next renewal and if they in that cycle so you could be faced with a situation where your landlord is going to try and increase the rental to make sure that they're still making their you know coming out comfortably whether that's breaking even or making a small profit on the property you know they need to sort of maintain that so we do expect people to sort of increase their expectations for a rental increase accordingly and the flip side of that you know if you if you're sitting in a situation where you've got an excellent tenant I'd always advise to try and keep that tenant and be negotiable with your tenant make sure that you're accommodating towards their needs it's not always the easiest to find a replacement tenant and you might end up with a short vacancy which obviously will cost you maybe far more than what you're actually trying to achieve by increasing the rental sure no definitely because you don't want to lose that that tenant and then sit with an empty apartment yeah having having a good tenant that the the key to to success if you're a buy-to-let investor so you know keeping a really good tenant as you are prize number one and I think later on just before we round up we will talk a little bit in terms of how a landlord can can find a good tenant and if it's good to even have estate agents but before before I jump in on that let me take this this question that also came in from social media where someone is asking which is better to buy is it a standalone house or a sectional title in terms of letting out and managing any in your advice what would you say sure that's a that's a really difficult question to answer and it's really area dependence different areas lend themselves to different types of property in terms of demand and so that would be something that I would say check to your local estate agents but and get an understanding from them what the demand is really like obviously a standalone house and you wouldn't have the cost of levies but then there's obviously maybe additional costs that you wouldn't have to factor in if you had a sectional title property related to maybe security so there's there's really different different pros and different cons for both and neither is better again it depends on what's the need in your area the greatest need you know could be student accommodation or could be flats it could be houses for and actually Cape Town and you know I'm in Blobe we're seeing such an influx of people coming from Khartin that are looking for lifestyle and they're all looking for houses and the majority of them are looking for houses family houses so it really depends on your on your area I would definitely check to a local estate agent and and get their insights sure and talking about estate agents right no definitely and thank you so much for that and I really hope that someone who's watching who's a property investor really takes that advice because that is how we harbor those good relationships and ensure that we are able to really grow our investments while we also just also really giving back because you know when you are in this kind of of business where you are giving people accommodation it's not just also a financial and monetary transaction you are legit giving people a roof over their heads so it's important for you to know how how those relationships can be can be made to work someone is asking my landlord has worked the levies the the estate levies into my rent is this lawful and is it lawful for them to work it into your rent and again I'm going to say it depends on what your contract says and a lot of contracts make provision for the levies or the rental and so if the levy goes up that does make provision for the landlord to increase the rent accordingly and I would have to say I would need to understand how they've worked it into the rent and a lot of people do so if you're saying for me as a property investor and my bond is 10,000 rand the levies are 2,000 rand so I'm going to need to rent it up for 14,000 rand to be in sort of a good position and you could also say that that's working it into the rent and so yeah I think that's something and be happy to have a look at it if the viewer wants to maybe message me or email me and I'm happy to have a look at it and sort of unpack it a little bit for them I don't want to answer without seeing you know the actual contract and situation that they're in yeah no thank you so much for that and I'm guessing that that's that's the nature of it it was just really worked into the price of the house and now and that's what they're paying and you know with with people who live in estates they shake such information you know maybe randomly someone comes onto private property to see how much the houses or even the apartment is going for yeah and I mean it's one of the biggest it's one of the biggest tools that people use and you know they'll go onto property they'll see what's available in the area they'll see what other people are paying and they'll use that as a negotiation tool with their landlords so you know it's really important that you educate yourself and see what is available out there make sure you as a tenant in a buy flat property and are actually making the right decision for yourself and then maybe the property that you in offers you all of the amenities that you need at the price that's that's fair yeah no definitely thank you so much for that and thank you so much for taking our time to talk to us tonight really enjoyed the conversation tonight and I'm sure that somebody who's watching who is who's a property investor has gotten such good information for them to be able to make good decisions in order to grow their portfolio thank you so much and have a good night no it's a pleasure thanks a lot for having me bye and that is how we get to the end of our conversation tonight where we were talking by buying to let property and how you taught to be successful tips on how you can be successful in how the property market currently looks and ensuring that you are able to let out that property you know have have good relationships with your tenant so your property never sits vacant thank you so much for joining us tonight we will see you next time right here on the private property podcast 7 p.m on a weekday that 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I know that one Western governor knows a good governor when he sees one, and John is another one, and I think he should be there for four more years. I know that the space needle is a symbol of your city, and it stands for a city of pride and progress, a city and a country that is upward bound, and that space needle also symbolizes the great contest that's now going on in this crucial election, because it stands for the future, and my opponent seems to have a grudge against the future. Abraham Lincoln said, we must disenthrall ourselves with the past, and then we will save our country. And four years ago, that's what we did. We made a great turn. We got out from under the thrall of a government which we had hoped would make our lives better, but which wound up living our lives for us. The power of the federal government had over the decades created great chaos, economic chaos, social chaos, international chaos. Our leaders were adrift, rudderless, and without a campus. Have you ever noticed in these big buildings there's an echo? Our leaders in the past have been adrift, rudderless, and without a campus. Four years ago, we began to navigate by certain fixed principles. Our North Star was freedom. Our constellation was common sense. We knew that economic freedom meant paying less of the American family's earnings to the government, and so we cut personal income taxes by 25%. We knew that inflation, the quiet thief, was stealing our savings, and we had the highest interest rates since the Civil War, and they were making it impossible for people to own a home or start an endeavor of an enterprise of any kind. We knew that our national military defense had been weakened, and we decided to rebuild and be strong again. Thank you very much. We knew this strength would enhance our prospects for peace in the world. It was a second American revolution, and it's only just begun, but our efforts have brought about a great renewal. America is back, a giant in re-emerging on the scene. Our country is powerful in its renewed spirits, powerful in its economy, powerful in the world economy, and powerful in its ability to defend itself and secure the peace. But now, four years after our efforts began, small voices in the night are sounding the call to go back, to go backward to the days of confusion and drift, the days of torpor, timidity, and taxes. My opponent this year is known to you, but perhaps we can gain greater insight into his leadership abilities and his philosophy if we take a look at his record. To begin with, his grasp of economics is well demonstrated by his economic predictions. Just before we took office, my opponent said our economic program is obviously murderously inflationary. And that was just before we lowered inflation from about 12% to around four. And just after our tax cuts, he said the most he could see was an anemic recovery. And that was right before our economy created more than 6 million new jobs in 21 months. And just before, nearly a record, nearly 900,000 businesses were incorporated in less than a year and a half. My opponent said that our policies would deliver a misery index, the likes of which we hadn't seen in a long time. When out there he was partially right. You get the misery index when you add up the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation. Now they invented that back in the 1976 campaign. And they said that Jerry Ford had no right to seek reelection because his misery index was 12.6. Now you know they didn't mention the misery index in the 1980 election. It had gone up to more than 20. And they aren't talking about it much in this campaign because it's down around 11. My opponent said that decontrol of oil prices would cost American consumers more than $36 billion a year. Well, one of the first things we did was decontrol oil prices and the price of gasoline went down 8 cents a gallon and the prices are still headed down. Now you know it's occurred to me that maybe all we have to do to get the economy in absolutely perfect shape is to get my opponent to predict absolute disaster. He says he cares about the middle class. But he boasts and I quote, he says I have consistently supported legislation time after time which increases taxes on my own constituents. Doesn't that make you want to be one of his constituents? Now he's no doubt proud of the fact that as a United States senator he voted 16 times to increase taxes. But this year he's outdone himself. He's already promised of course to raise your taxes but if he's to keep all the promises he's made to this group and that he will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of $1,890 for every household in the United States. Now that's more than $150 a month. It's like having a second mortgage. And after the Mondale mortgage there'd be a lot of foreclosures. His economic plan, his economic plan has two basic parts. Raise your taxes and raise them again. But I got news for him. The American people don't want his tax increases and the American people aren't going to get his tax increases. I have to give my opponent this though. He's given me an idea for Halloween. If I can just figure out how to get a costume like his economic program I'll wear it and scare the devil out of the neighbors. He sees in America in which every day is tax day, April 15th. We see in America in which every day is Independence Day the 4th of July. What we want is to lower everybody's income tax rates so your families will be stronger, our economy will be stronger, and America will be stronger. But I'm not finished here. I'm proud to say that during these last four years on another subject, not one square inch of territory has been lost to communist aggression. And the United States is more secure than we were four years ago. Yet there's so much more to say about my opponent. His grasp of foreign affairs is demonstrated by the following. Sometime back he said the old days of a Soviet strategy of suppression by force are over. And that was just before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And after they invaded Afghanistan it just baffles me why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have. But then there's so much that baffles him. One year ago, a year ago we liberated Grenada from communist thugs who had taken that country over and approved. You know that my opponent called what we did a violation of international law that erodes our moral authority to criticize the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But I will say this though. The administration that he was a part of did meet out strong punishment not to the Soviet Union, to the American farmer. The American farmers, they paid. Unfortunately, he supported the grain embargo and he spoke out often. He even questioned the patriotism of a senator from his own party when that senator called that embargo just what it was, unworkable and unfair. But now he seems to have changed his tune. He says he privately opposed the embargo. Very privately. As a matter of fact, in the last several months, he's claimed that he opposed a number of the administration policies when he was vice president. But as Jody Powell, who also was in that administration said, and I quote, I guess I was out of the room every time it happened. And after the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, he praised it, democratic progress are stirring where they have long been stifled. But we know that the Sandinistas immediately began to persecute the genuine believers in democracy and to export terror. They went on to slaughter the mosquito Indians, abuse and deport church leaders, slander the pope, practice anti-Semitism and move to kill free speech. So why isn't my opponent speaking out about that fresh wind now? More recently, he failed to repudiate the reverend Jesse Jackson when he went to Havana, stood with Fidel Castro and cried Long Live Cuba, Long Live Castro, Long Live Che Guevara. You know, I could say, I could say of his economic program, that he will either have to break his promises or break the bank. But I won't say it, because Senator John Glenn, a Democrat, has already said it. I could call, I could call his economic program a collection of old and tired ideas held together by paralyzing commitments to special interest groups. But I won't, because Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, has already said that. I could predict that he will create deficits more than double what they are now. But I won't, because Senator Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, has already said that. And now if on political issues, my opponent dares to be wrong, on domestic policy issues, he has the courage to be cautious. A line item veto to help control wild government spending. I had that when I was Governor of California. I don't know whether you're one of the 42 other states. You have it, your governor has it. 42 other states have it here in the Union. But my opponent says that's not part of the liberal agenda. He has long approached also enterprise zones to help the most economically troubled neighborhoods in the country. They use tax incentives to go in to stimulate industry and business there to provide jobs for people. But then a few weeks ago, he was a deathbed confession. He said, he's for them. Well, if he's for them, then why doesn't he ask Tip O'Neill to get the enterprise zone bill get out of the committee where it's buried in the House of Representatives. This month, an American woman walked in space. Catherine Sullivan made history. And then she returned to that space shuttle in which some of the great scientific and medical advances of the future will be made and are being made now. Cures for diabetes and heart disease may be possible up there. Advances in technology and communications. I know what the space shuttle, as I know, all of you do. But my opponent as a senator led personally the fight in the Senate to try and kill the entire shuttle program. He called it a horrible waste. The truth is, if my opponent's campaign were a television show, it would be, let's make a deal. You get to trade your prosperity for the surprise hidden behind a curtain. If his campaign were a Broadway show, it would be promises, promises. And if his administration had been a novel, if you read it, you'd have to read it from back to front for a happy ending. I've probably been going on too long here, but now, you didn't mean with the four years that you wanted me to stay up your talking for four years. As the turn we made in 1980 was right. And we were right to take command of the ship to stop its aimless drift and to get moving again. And we were right when we stopped sending out SOS and started saying USA. Let me say here that the 1984 election isn't just a partisan contest. I was a Democrat once in fact for the greater part of my life. And I always respected that party. But in these days, his leaders weren't the blame America first crowd. His leaders were men like Harry Truman. Men who understood the challenges of the times. They didn't reserve all of their indignation for America. They knew the difference between freedom and tyranny. And they stood up for one and damned the other. To all the good Democrats who respect that tradition and I hope there are many present here. I say you're not alone. You're not without a home. We're putting out our hands and we're asking you to come join us and walk down this new path of hope and opportunity with us. But here in this state, in this state we can't discuss those who have led the Democratic party without talking about Washington's great son the late Senator Henry Scoop Jackson. When we talk about Scoop Jackson he reminded that above all politics is about principles and Senator Jackson had among the strongest principles of anyone I've known. The first of those principles was that politics stop at the water's edge. Time and again he provided the key leadership essential to preserving our nation's interest. Not all of Scoop's colleagues took the same course. Indeed my opponent almost always was the opposite when it came to maintaining the strength of the United States. In 1970 as measured by the National Security Index of the American Security Council Senator Jackson had a rating of 80 on key issues while Mr. Mondale had a zero. In 1972 Scoop again scored 80 Mr. Mondale again zero. In 1974 and again in 1976 Henry Jackson scored 90 while Mr. Mondale scored zero and then managed to get an 11. Now whether it's the old math or the new math the bottom line is the same. On nearly every occasion the Senator Henry Jackson cast a vote for America's defense. You would not only find Walter Mondale voting against him, but on 37 of 38 times you found him voting with George McGovern. So if you like George McGovern's defense policies you'll love my opponents. And today we're not surprised to find that he would cancel the B-1 and the MX programs without requiring one single corresponding action by the Soviets. By the way, wiping out the B-1 would also wipe out about 5,000 jobs in Washington State in 1986 and 87. You know in all the years that I negotiated union contracts and I did. I was President of my union several times. I never heard of giving up your strongest negotiating leverage without getting something in return. Moreover Mr. Mr. Mondale has never to my knowledge created his or criticized I should say his running mate's support for a congressional proposal to slash our defense budget by more than $200 billion over the next three years completely eliminating several new and essential systems and substantially reducing US conventional presence abroad. The very centerpiece the very centerpiece of Mr. Mondale's policies has been his warm embrace of the so called nuclear freeze. But he doesn't tell the American people that Brzezinski Mr. Carter's and Mr. Mondale's own national security advisor has called this a nuclear hoax that is not achievable and not verifiable. Is it any wonder that my opponent's Democratic colleague, Senator Fritz Hollings has said Walter Mondale thinks the Soviet Union would never violate an arms agreement I think he's naive and it can't come as any surprise that Senator John Glenn who had been an astronaut and in the military himself believes his opponent's would or my opponent's policies would leave this country emasculated. My friends Scoop Jackson left a legacy to America that rests on a timeless principle. The principle has nurtured our beloved nation for two centuries. Peace and freedom flow from the same well and that is the well of strength and preparedness. We will never be confused with our resolve. It's our resolve that will preserve the peace and keep our freedoms forever. And you have a sign in your state that exemplifies this. It's a sign which stands over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base here in Washington and it reads peace is our profession. And that says it all. And now I'm so happy when I see an auditorium like this real rally with so many young people. I started out to say something the other night in the debate and ran out of time. I'm going to finish it here to the young people of America of our country. Let me say nothing. Nothing has touched our hearts more than your wonderful support.  It is your future. It's your future that we care so much about. Your generation is something special. You are truly something new on the scene. Your idealism and your love of country are unsurpassed. I consider it our highest duty to make certain that you have an America that is every bit as full of opportunity and hope and confidence and dreams as we had when we were your age. My generation and a few generations between mine and yours we grew up in an America where we took it for granted. That yes you could dream and there was nothing to keep you from making your dreams come true except you and your own ability and your hard work. And that's what our obligation is to you, those of us of those other generations to make sure we hand you that kind of an America. An America free and in a world that is at peace. All of us. All of us. All of us together are part of a great revolution and it's only begun and we'll never stop. Never. This country must never give up its very special mission in the world. There are new worlds on the horizon and we're not going to stop until we all get there together.  Thank you very much. Thank you and God bless you all. Have your attention please. You think I'm not excited? I'm from a small steel town in Ohio and I've never even met the mayor of that town. President Regan we know that you played football in Illinois. We know that you did the color for Iowa. We know that you did the Jipper for Notre Dame. The Husky team wants to make you an official Husky. Thank you.


So I have all these really cool slimes and I was thinking yeah I want to make a video about them. I can't open the lid.   I've got this one as well. And I'm really interested. No, Pasta not your slime. Not your slime. Not your slime. No. No. Okay she's gone. Sort of. I was thinking that I would do a video like I did with the squishies where I do a character based off the slimes. Oh yeah. Ultra rare. Wow. It's got some skank in it now. Ewww. Nice slime. Let's put that away. It really smells of Fanta, like sweets, which is kind of nice. Okay let's get a drawing shall we? Okay I started out by drawing a sketch in my sketchbook and then really liking some stuff that I had done. So I took it to the computer and I scanned it and then I printed out a bigger version and I inked it out on the lightbox. I then taped it down and proceeded to paint my characters. So a little bit about the characters I thought what I'd do is I take each color of the slime. So there's pinks, oranges, yellows, greens and blues and then there's this see-through color. And I thought I would do is just do like free school girls on maybe like a science project field trip type thing where they have to capture like tadpoles or like just look at the ecosystem of a river they're visiting or something and they all have maybe different personalities. Their aesthetic is based on the colors and I think maybe one is just you know trying to net something but then what appears is the character that was inspired by the see-through slime. So she's sort of like maybe this magical creature who's come across them and she's gonna give them powers or something and then they can become like these these superhero girls or just like card captors Sakura kind type girls I don't know and I really have this idea that the three of them just weren't friends to begin with and they've all been lumbered together on this school field trip as a as a team project type thing and one of them is just playing the switch that they've brought along with them not bothered not even noticing this creature coming out and one of them is like in the background is based on the blue slime.  I really liked this story that I came up with and it was really bizarre because I thought oh I'll just make some cute girl drawings off like the slimes but the whole story just came to me and I thought it was just a nice little story and a cool concept behind a drawing. The imagery was obviously painted on this watercolor paper but it's just this cheap watercolor paper that I have lying around because I ran out of like my my nice watercolor paper which was like this block one so I had to use this cheap one because I didn't have any of one and it just didn't hold the water very well and I would put it down and it would just like not spread well enough and it bothered me a lot so I want to invest in some really nice watercolor paper maybe when my Kickstarter is funded which it's fully funded by the way in case you are wandering and I'm really excited by that I want to obviously use it to help me create more art which is really exciting and yeah but anyway complete tangent the paper was bad so it was quite hard to work with then I went in with some pencils and made it more of a mix of media vibe because I really like the way the pencils work with like the watercolors and stuff and I think you just gave it like texture and more depth so in the end it turned out pretty fun and I liked it a lot I especially liked the story as I said before and I hope you guys like it as well let me know in the comments down below what you think and yeah that's pretty much all I've got to say about this piece maybe I'll re-draw these girls again with the powers they receive from this magical creature from the lake okay so it wouldn't be a slime video without some slime mixing I'm gonna mix all these slimes together and make a gelatinous um brown mass which is what tends to happen because you know if you mix all colors together it's going to be brown like poop you didn't know that fact did you you'll learn something new every day let's go so that's the end of the video guys I'm super satisfied by this it doesn't even look brown I think because I added so much blue it's kind of turned into this sea green which is really nice and I'm gonna put this all back in these little pots and just have loads of these sea green slime colors how cool that is as for illustration I'm really pleased in the way that it turned out I probably talked about this already in the in the speed paint but I just love these girls and I think there's such a cool story behind them and who thought that that could all come from a slime as inspiration thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe for more stupid crazy content and I will see you the next time bye this is exhausting honestly what have I got myself into by the way guys my Kickstarter is up and running for the horror comics so if you would like to check that out go ahead the link is in description and there's some great rewards to be had I'd really appreciate it thanks I just like to give a shout out to all my 12 dollar tier patrons they are the real mbps they are Liam Steff, Tom, Cecile, Tim, Megan and James if you would like a shout out at the end of my videos then check out my patreon down below