May 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Nick Mayes joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Tune in to learn about the start of Trent and Nick’s friendship that dates back 34 years, the job fair Nick attended that changed the trajectory of his career, and how asking questions and learning from others guided him into both healthcare and commercial real estate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, we're coming down in three two.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to a Home with Roby. I'm Patrick pc Isaac
from Roby Commercial in Services on with Trent Houston from
the Ruby family of Companies. We are your hosts man, Trent.
We're really getting to the string of things with these podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, I mean surprisingly, I'm really enjoying Kelvin. I know,
it's surprising, surprising you're paying attention.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Of course, he's alert, he's at I mean, he ain't
messing around a half step in here at iHeartRadio, right, Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean I got your name right after a couple
of days, Right, you did.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
He had the text to himself miss last, scroll up
a couple of texts. Check it out, check it out.
He's got the k E L dash b e N.
Just to make sure we get it all right, not Kelvin,
which I'm sure you get.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
A lot perfect. I'm still learning y'all's name, so we're good.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We got really tough ones.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So we talked about the exchange student and me mispronouncing
her name last show, which recorded two shows, yeah, same time. Yeah,
so that was a little earlier. And I said, I said,
can you say my name? And she said trump. Okay,
it was not.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Uh, she said it correctly. You get one tomahawk alace.
Remember that trick when you were a kid. If you
want to know how many syllables there were, you did
the tomahawk chopping.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm not from Atlanta, or you can do the clap.
I don't remember, honestly, I don't remember grammar. I mean
you might be able to pick up on that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What about country grammar like the Nelly song. You probably
remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I don't remember any of that. I remember how how
you had your little beat box. My neighbors talked to
me when they told them to go do something for him.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Man, that's funny. Uh, hey, sod while you were while
you were in Nashville, I think I forgot to tell
you this. We went to Montana, Montana, Montana, out to
uh the big country, big sky, big Sky, went out there,
and man, I'm telling you what, that is a beautiful,
beautiful piece of the country. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, God bless America. Yeah, cool people.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Just I mean, the scenery is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So we haven't talked about this. Did you skate?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We did and my wife didn't get hurt this time,
which was good. Last year I mentioned on the on
the on the radio show she got blowed up by
a snowboarder that was out of control, which wasn't good.
But they had this thing called Big Colore's see you
take a tram all the way to the top of
the mountains eleven thousand feet in the air, and you
were talking about having to have a guide on your
(02:34):
kiteboarding trip. This thing is so dangerous. It's a triple
black diamond. We certainly didn't even sniff go near it,
but you could watch people come down and you have
to have you have to literally go to a little
called the ice box. You have to go to a
little hut on top of the mountain, sign your life
away and the guide and has almost watch you go
down and start in your life waiver, I mean all
(02:55):
kinds of waivers.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's called dude.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It was unbelievable. Were watching these guys from the bottom
do it. I mean it's like something you watch on TV. Wow,
it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
What about like a intermediate like me going down it?
You see some of those folks for you and I
don't need to be you need to be on Big,
Big Gloric.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It doesn't need anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, these folks that I'm going uh kite boarding with
this week are are extreme sports junkies. They might know
about this. They they I will talk to them about it,
but they do a lot of helly scheme, which Raagan
told me. If I can't get there with a chairlift,
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'll tell you the chair list will make it will
make your knees knuckle a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I mean they do a lot of you know, they'll
they'll they'll get off the chairlifting and hike up a
ridge for two hours and then ski down it. She
basically said, if the chairlift stops, that's where you start.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well that that's very good advice, and said, these guys
that probably know about this thing, then it's a I
did a YouTube video on it when I got back.
It's like twenty twenty eight minute video. I'm kind of
the how it happened, how they got people up there.
In the video, two people fall and they just they
don't just like slide down. They just see them like
foot over heels tumbling down this mountain. Anyway, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Did you video it on the GoPro? I did not
do it. You got it off of YouTube. Okay, I
need to listen better.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The older I get, I think, the more risk averse
I am when it comes to stuff like that, I'm like,
that looks like it really might hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know if I've ever seen a triple black
diamond that was rated. Maybe I have. But so you
had some travel. We hadn't really regrouped on this because
then Easter weekend happened and all that. You had some
travel mishaps on the way there. How did that all
work out? Actually it was fine, Oh goody ended.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Up working out of just find although the first time
I left that we were waiting by the plane and
literally like twenty cops descended on a gate and they
were on a mission and it ripped open. The door
went flying into the plane, and by the time it
was over, there's probably twenty five to thirty police officers
surrounded this gate.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm hang back here and see if flew into the plane.
They have jet packs on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they were going at a swift pace.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was just good terminology for the story you were telling.
Planing fly.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I appreciate altogether. It confused me. Thanks for noticing anyways. Anyway,
so the poor guy had a sea nothing. I thought
we were gonna have like guns blazing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Plane.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, it was another plane.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was pacing around on the phone with customer service
because our flight got canceled. But uh, I'll telling the
lady on the plane like that something about to happen,
something about to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
She was like, what is it? You definitely you definitely
didn't want anything bad to happen. And I hope the
fellow that had the seizure is okay. He seemed to
be all right, okay, good. It was intense, man, intense.
So I was talking to you during this time. I
think that was the last time we talked until today.
(05:53):
Uh actually and uh you you said y'all mised a flight.
You didn't know if you were gonna make it to Montown,
but you you said, as we talk about on the show,
the Golden rule and just be positive and how you
know we talked with Jack Jack Salizman have grace and
uh are you said, well, it'll be an adventure and
(06:14):
we'll figure it out. And if we have to stay
in I said, me and Forda stayed in Dallas last year.
Coming back yeah, east and uh the girls had school
so they went on and uh, and he you know,
we went to a little motel at twelve thirty at
night and we watched dirt track racing. And then that
(06:34):
was about a year ago, year and a half ago.
And then he told me, I think I told you
this the other day about two weeks ago. He's like, man,
you remember when we went to Dallas and we watched
that dirt track racing all night. That was so fun.
And I was like, man, we would have never had
that memory had we not not been able to get
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's our perspective, man, Mikah, you told me the one time.
I love this. This phrase is more popular now then.
But turn chicken s into chicken salad.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And I mean to do but I mean, listen, everybody's
dealing with something. Uh. The word grace is very important.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well, ironically, I have to go back to Dallas this
weekend for our friend Scott East. His father passed away
unfortunately dickies and they're doing a celebration of life in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
God blessed Scott and his family. And I wasn't able
to make it because I had we we we were torn,
uh college to Charleston. I have a family trip. But uh,
my my great friend Eric Berg in my YPO form,
his mother passed away, man up in the Northeast, and
and he had the funeral yesterday. So God blessed the
(07:44):
Berg family and everybody involved there. And it's been a
tough time. I love him to death. So uh got
to raise these people up, man, be positive. I don't know.
I'll tell you one thing is you as you get older,
more people just disappearing, right, and then what happens? I
think that's that means your agent? And then I don't know, Man,
(08:07):
a lot of people having cancer. We lift all those
people up that are fighting with illness. Got a lot
of people close to us, A lot of folks in
the Roby family network are fighting it too, So we'll
raise those up. And that is a setup. So so
say a prayer, but that is a setup. Uh. Our
guest today is doctor Nick Mays. I mean, wait till
(08:32):
you hear his story. We met at Harding High School.
Came to Harding. Y'all know, Chris Mayner is one of
my very best friends in the whole world. Works with
what works with our company every twenty one years. They
were east side best friends and Harding was a magnet school,
so they came kind of as a package deal and
I let him take it from there. But now he
(08:54):
hells from Columbia, South Carolina, and we got a story
to go with this, and we we've really become close
in the last couple of years. Has been really really
special and recently I was like, you got to come
on the show man. Yeah, we got to talk about
this and laugh a little. So when we return on
that Home with Roby show, we have doctor Mays. We'll
(09:16):
be back. And don't forget.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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That's Roby Services now dot com. Welcome back that Home
with Roby. I'm Patrick mcaac from Ruby Commercial and Services.
On the Trent Hayson from the Ruby family of Companies.
We are your hosts, Trent. We have the second Heartingrim
(09:42):
in the last month.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, with your boy Dan Bailey. Was first Dan Bailey
and let it off and then uh and then and
then doctor Nick Mays.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is the bookend in the Hearting the Hearting Tour and
Nick is so humble.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I've never up until doing this show, I've never called him.
I've never said doctor Whart of that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It's just Nick. That's easy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It is just Nick. It is just Nick. We uh yeah,
Dan the Man and doctor Nick. But but uh, I'm
just trying to give you props because uh it is
you are Nick to me. But it is hard earned.
And I know I know who you are and your personality.
Uh you really don't care at all, but but some
(10:29):
people do care.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah. Well, no, it says I'm just like anybody else,
just stayed in school way too long. That's all that
happened there. That's what That's how that plays out. But
I'm excited to join you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, so, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They I am a hearty gram That's right. I'm Charlotte guy.
I miss it. I'm in Columbia these days, but spent
a lot of time there and still have a lot
of great friends. Fact, there's a lot in the Ruby
crew as it were.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, so tell us, tell us back in middle school
how you made your way to Harden going into high school.
I've never really asked that question.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah. Yeah, so Chris Maynard, you know very well. It's
my best buddy for years and years we were at
East Way on the east side. I'm going to put
up the e while you throw up your dub over there.
So we were coming from the east here from the
east and then a group of us had the option
to do the magnet program, probably more our appearance back then,
(11:36):
but a kind of group of five or six of
us said yeah, we're going to go do this thing.
And the magnet ended up being Harding, which was on
the west side. So we got shipped over there, you
know when high school came about, and spent our years
over on the west side, and now we kind of
know the best of both worlds, and so that was
(11:58):
That's kind of how that played out. But we were
kind of all in ten and we were all going
to go together one way or the other. It was
harning or Garringer, those were our two options.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, no, it was great. It was that that all
y'all came over and hung out with us, because we
all became homies, whole group, including Dave McGuire from the
South Side.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, I was going to say, I was going to
say two things. One is uh, doctor Nick Nick, My
my daughter actually just had a he's not liking this
by the Way track meet at east Way Middle School
a few weeks ago. Said we were over there for that,
And were you like Dave McGuire, where you were trying
to get on a high school soccer team and that
was the reason you came to Harding or.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
With more of an academic you know, none of the above.
I just wanted to hang with my friends. I mean,
I wasn't I was not motivated, and that's a good
lead up to my Hearting career. But back then it
was not either of those things. I was just trying
to hang with my friends.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That was so Nick, tell us, so Nick, you get
out of school? Uh tell us, So give us a
give us a journey on how you how you went
to medical school and became a daughter, because it is
the coolest story.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Sure, well, you know didn't. I was unfocused in my
Hearting days, really kind of struggled to get into the
academic side. Trent was running laps around me back then,
still is, but I was definitely lagging in that department.
And out of Harding, I worked with Wallace Newman construction
(13:35):
clean up, and he and Charlotte people might know the
that that fleet of phenomenal vehicles that were out in
the streets. I was part of that team cleaning up
the construction sites for a couple of years. Chris and
I did that and some other friends, and then had
kind of an epiphany one day when we were cleaning
up a site with a guy through his trash right
(13:58):
kind of in front of me, like kind of treated
me like a dog, so to speak, just kind of
here you go, peon and threw his lunch at me,
and I just kind of was like, well, you know,
this is this how I'm going to roll forever. And
after that decided to go to CP Central Pimont Community
College and kind of see if I can give this
(14:18):
academic thing a run. So plugged in there, started going
to school and writing the ship a little bit, and
along the way there was a job fair at CP.
I'm a big proponent of CP.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
By the way, Amen, they do a lot for.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That community, and I'm a big supporter of what they've done.
They've helped me tremendously. But they had a job fare
on campus and Presbyterian Hospital had a booth and I'd
been working with Wallace Newman and working at Subdude or autobill,
just bouncing around whatever odd end jobs and got a
job at the hospital to transport patients. So did that,
(14:57):
and I worked for the raineology department, and some of
the technologists kind of took me under their wing and
kind of knew that I was interested in more things
and introduced me to the radiologists were the physicians that
read X rays and cts and MRIs. And then they
hired me to hang films from them back in the
day when it wasn't all digital, there were hard copies
(15:18):
of films. And I saw those guys and said, hey,
you know, my go to in life these days is
just asking questions like how do you do this? Why
do you do this? That's one of my mantras these days.
So I did that to them back then, and they
told me what they do, and I got to hang
out with them and see what they do, and it
kind of clicked, and said, well, I'm going to figure
(15:40):
out how to become that. And then went to U
and ce Charlotte and got my grades together, went on
to medical school and here we are. That was a long,
longer version, but CP was pivotal. Pivotal in that I
always say, I like to give them credit, dude, ship.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So CP is Central Piedmont Community College, which is a
wonderful asset for our community, a wonderful, wonderful school. My
mom taught UH dental dental assistance there. Dan Bailey was
is a big proponent. He coached soccer at CP, who
was on her show a couple of weeks ago. His dad,
(16:23):
his whole career was there. Uh but Nick, I had
never heard that story in that detail, and that is
such an awesome story. And I'm gonna say the way
that Nick and I he moved to Columbia, you know,
made his career, has a family, beautiful daughter, wonderful, wonderful,
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got it going on. And I'm gonna say time flies.
Six or seven years ago he called me or texted
me or something out of the blue and said, hey,
I'm interested in excited about real estate. I've been to
his story about working in the hospital. I mean, he's right.
(17:10):
And he said, uh, you know you know about this
and helped me. And I said, okay, well I'll send
you a couple of books or a book, or go
get this book. I don't know how I happened. Patrick
knows that that's how I challenge people over over my
career and uh, and he is a doer and read
(17:33):
the books. And then he said, hey, if there's ever
a chance I would be interested in investing, And I said, hey,
you know, I really don't like to force the thing
in real estate. That's when a deal goes bad. They
come along in waves. They don't come along. But when
the deal is right and I feel like it'll be
(17:55):
a good deal, Uh, it could be tomorrow or it
could be five years, I'll hit you back. And we
stayed in touch a little bit and then a deal
came along and he invested. He put his money where
his mouth was and uh, we've done several deals together
here that have done pretty well. And then now I
(18:18):
have done my first deal with Nick leading down in Columbia.
So now that's a good way to diversify diversify our
portfolio together. And man, I cannot wait to see where
this thing goes with you because you were so driven
and so passionate.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well, its way too kind. No, I like to jump
in and try things, for sure, and you've been a
good kind of mentor and supporter through this thing. So uh,
it is exciting, and you know, i'd like to see
what we kind of do together and what each of
us do. That's the fun part to see each other succeed.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So yeah, these deals have been fun. And like Trent said,
he kind of helped me along the way, and when
the right opportunity came, I was just kind of ready
and wanted to jump in and see and he was
kind enough to include me on some of the inner
workings and kind of his vision and how he works
through problems. Because what I've learned and I'm still learning
(19:20):
a lot about, is the problem solving it takes to
find deals, get through deals, close deals, exit, so on
and so forth. I think a lot of that is
what he's perfected and you know, complete novice on. But
it's fun to hear about and learn, and some of
it's just kind of jumping in and having to kind
of wade through it from my early undertakings here.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I mean it's fortitude and grit and I know that
you know, Trent and his whole family are are very
full of both of those things, and it kind of
resonates throughout our company at Roby. Is is that I mean,
it's the same type of problems and with I assume
really any industry and profession it's just kind of white
knuckling it and getting through it and not giving up.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And so I knew.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think I'm familiar with maybe some of the deals
that you worked through with Trent and seeing some of
the things that had happened along the way. I mean,
it's just just keep pushing.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, well, there's so many moving parts in a simple,
a simple commercial real estate deal. Nick Nick has has
did residential very successfully, very similar to me. That's what
my dad knew. You know, save up, save up fifty
thousand dollars and don't get any debt because that's bad.
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And buy a fifty thousand dollars rental house and collect
six hundred dollars a month. Because you go build a
relationship with somebody and you provide the housing for a family,
you and you become friends. Really. But Nick's done very
well with that. I think I think he had a
property has still has a property down down in Clemson, uh,
(21:02):
that he invested in. And obviously we have an investment
with Yeah, Mike Alterman who's been on the show, who
Nick needs to meet him. But his term is in
the way real estate, and that's kind of that summed
up when he came on the show about a year
(21:24):
a little over a year ago. He said that, and
it was like an AHA moment for what I believe
in real estate. It's like, some people want to own
something forever and cash flow and some people want to
do this. Some people I want something that isn't pretty,
but it's in the path of progress, baby, and other
people are gonna take risk. And I think that's uh,
(21:46):
that's that's what Nick Nick has done. That's what we
invested with him on this deal in Colombia. But getting
this deal done being commercial real estate and that you
can attest to this. I mean, is it not crazy
how many things.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Wasn't prepared for it? It was, And you know, I'm
over here stressing out trying to figure the thing out.
Trent's cool the cucumber like, oh, that's how it goes,
It'll work out, and I'm, you know, here's seasoned in
it and I'm not. And I was, I'll tell you
he it took a lot of help to get through it.
But now I'm a little bit more aware than I would.
(22:25):
Just expect the unexpected on the next one, you know,
and just be ready, like you said, have some grit
and fortitude Patrick, and something comes up, you know, we
figure it out, find a way through it. And that's
kind of what it took to get that one done.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well. You know, I've done this for a career, full time,
twenty five years. And when I was a project manager,
I mean I rent and raided and did this, and
my clients appreciated we're building a house form of renovating
their house. They appreciated how, you know how. And I
watched my dad and he was he was They loved him,
(23:01):
but he was laid back. And as you get older,
I mean, I can't do that now I'm twenty five
years in I would I would have a heart attack.
Uh and I would be miserable. So uh, you just
got to say so too will pass and I'm gonna
I'm gonna keep doing my diligence and checking my boxes
and finding efficient times to work on this when I can.
(23:25):
And uh, I mean my dad used to uh a
memory of my nick I said this on the radio.
Before my dad, My memory is that he was always
at our baseball games, at my baseball games. I know
he might have missed a couple, but when I got older,
this is before cell phones. He would just miss an
(23:45):
appointment showing that my baseball game. Someone will handle it.
And I'm not saying that you want to disappoint people.
I'm not saying that. But yeah, his priorities in line,
and uh, nothing and tragic ever happened because because he
missed an appointment to go see his son play baseball
and give me a vote of confidence. And uh, I
(24:08):
think that's how you approach real estate. But but but
you also do the diligence and the homework and the
preparation to build the gaps to where it will succeed
or yeah, build the stop gaps to where it will succeed.
But but but I'm impressed Nick, and you're working on
a couple other things. What excites you so much about
(24:31):
about commercial real estate in that arena?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I like learning new things, like you you said,
I've done residential for six seven years and that's been
good to me and that's fine. But as my network's
grown here in Colombia, I've met more brokers and friends
and connections than you just kind of opened my eyes
to that world. And going back to you know, historically,
(24:58):
if if there's something that just piqued of my interests,
I'm going to start asking questions. So that's what I
started doing. And you know, now I'm kind of jumping
in it and trying to see kind of I can
navigate away through this, and probably I shouldn't, you know,
But I do have a good crew to lean on.
(25:18):
I think that's important as having a network of friends, contacts,
connections that you can trust and I'll have your back
because you go into it with the best intentions and
you're trying to do well for yourself and do well
for your partners and friends and investors. So I think
it's just critical to have that good team around. And
(25:40):
I think I've I've found a good team, so I'm
kind of lean on them and I jump in and
they help me sort through problems and I'll just continue
to learn. But it was learning a new facet of
real estate of the commercial world which intrigued me well.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And more so than I think of. I'm an economics
major guy, so I kind of tate it. The micro
economics is kind of one you can focus on this
one little thing. It's kind of like a residential rental property,
whereas commercial is more macro. It involves all these moving
parts that can go wrong, but it also involves this
(26:16):
whole network to be successful, in this whole bank of
knowledge that not one person can hold, and who has
the inside knowledge on this and who knows this, and
who's helping you here and where you're going to find
your money and all that stuff is more macro. And
(26:37):
I've said this before. You know, when you read the
business books when you're sixteen and you want to be
a rock star business person, I so vividly remember this.
It says it's all about who your network is in business,
and it's your attorney, your financial advisor, your you know,
everybody that's around you, and you have done such a
(27:00):
good job. I took He was calling me one of
one of the we I wanted to and he wanted
me to come down, and I wanted to see Columbia.
I think Columbia is an awesome place. I think it's
going to do very well. I think the university is awesome.
I'm learning this through my kids. Uh looking at colleges.
(27:21):
The business school is awesome, and uh so, so I grabbed.
I had planned on coming down, so I grabbed. Everybody
knows David Stoffel has been on the show a couple
of times we invest together in this type of stuff,
and I said, come on, man, come right down to
Columbia meet my friend. And uh and he he is
an investor now with Nick. He's been an investor with
(27:44):
Nick on some of my stuff. But uh and and
just in love with with Nick's passion and Nick's network
and his desire to desire to put a team together.
That's what it is, put a team together. Patrick, Well, and.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You had started out the show talking about how humble
Nick is, and he keeps talking about asking questions, asking questions,
asking questions, and really, you're humble enough to ask for help.
I mean, I think that's a lot of people get
get out over their skis because they're worried to ask
for help on things that they don't know. And it
sounds like you're the poor opposite is that, you know, Hey,
(28:17):
Trent's expert in this. I'll ask him and maybe one
day I'll get to be as good as him or
know as much as him.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But he just gets you there much faster.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, some of that's from the richest man in battle.
I want to Trent's recommendations out there is kind of
go to who knows who's the expert and whatever you're
dealing with. In my coming from where I was to
where I am, not like I'm anywhere special now, but
it took a lot of asking questions and eating some
humble pie and realizing a lot of times I just
(28:47):
don't know, Jack, But you just can't be scared to
ask for help or something doesn't make sense, just say
why is that? And it served me well over the years.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's the saying an old tongue will wag.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, tongue likes to wag. That's Rich's man of Babylon.
I mean really and I and I learned that, I
tell everybody my greatest My greatest gift that I received
was being able to come into this family business that
was not as humongous business or anything, but had a
wonderful reputation on honesty and hard work. But we got
(29:22):
to serve our gift is we got to serve the
movers and shakers and the business leaders in the Charlotte
community in their home at their most weak moment when
they have their kitchen torn up and they have these
young kids in the house, and uh, you hear, I
(29:42):
know Patrick's hurts forever I hear so many contractors, general contractors.
I mean that's who I've lived my whole life with. Say, oh,
I don't never, I'm never gonna do custom residential renovations.
And because it's the worst, But if you look at it,
glass half full? Was how you how you get to
know people if you can, if you can win, win
(30:04):
that and still still be able to ask them questions.
They'll tell you everything. And uh, you know, I had
a lot of a lot of a lot of businessmen
say take care of my wife and I'll hang out
with you. And I'm like, okay, let me figure out
how to do this. So we took care of the wife,
the dogs, the kids, the mailman, you know, uh, the
(30:25):
cleaning lady. I mean we're doing everything.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Pulling the trash cans into it from the curb to
the house. I mean, just this little basic stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You can't build that on a on a change older
either commercially you can, uh, said Nick, tell us a
little You have one daughter, correct.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes, this one?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And what is her? What is her? What is her?
What is her hobby?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
She's a dancer. I'm a dance dad. Yeah, that the competitions.
We're in dance season now, so recitals and competitions, but
dances her life. She's four nights a week and she's
if we're at the grocery store, she's sitting there dancing
while we're sitting.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Really, that's cool. How old is she?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
She's eleven. It's a sixth grader. So it's it's a
lot of fun. It's a long days. Let's say that
everybody else there has had dance dance daughters. And what's
her what's her name again, Emily Emily is her name?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Awesome? Yep, Dodtor Emily May. I'm kidding, I'm just picking
on it. I'm going to tell you this, Nick, it's
been it's been awesome for us to grow our friendship
and and uh network back together and it's and it's
getting stronger. Who knows in twenty five years what we'll
(31:48):
be talking about. But every time you talk about your
family and your daughter, you glow and it's special and
I I just think that's really cool. And I have
not been around dance, so so I like to hear
you talk about it just so you know.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, yeah, oh well that's that's great. No, it is.
I mean, that's why we do everything right. It's for
the family, and that's obviously where my heart is. But
and it's because she enjoys it so much. Right, So
you're I know, you've got five kids, now, I think
you had a time. You have a whole squad, but
you've seen the whole spectrum of their sports and interest.
(32:26):
But when they get really excited and they glow about something,
you probably can't help but just extend through you the
same that she loves it so much, so why you know,
it just gets me excited to see her, So that's
where that comes from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Assume, Well, Nick Man, is there anything you want to
leave our audience with? This has been awesome. I have
learned so much from a guy I've known for thirty
five years.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I'm bored him to sleep pretty good. But no, no,
it was it was great. I'm sorry my story is
kind of long winded.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
There was good.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The only thing I would leave people with is ask questions,
you know, kind of be inquisitive. If you're wondering about anything,
ask questions that you know, and then you'll find people
that will help you along the way. Kind of just
what Trent said, that's the biggest thing, and I do
that to this day.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Patrick, what you got to say ask questions. I like
it well, Nick, thanks for being here, and thank you
for our friendship and our business partnership. And I can't
wait to see all the success that's gonna find you
over the years. And I'm really proud of the story
that you told going back. But we have been hanging together.
(33:37):
I think I just did the math. I have known
you for thirty four years. That is a long time.
I don't know if that makes us a younger old
when you're young.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Just had another gray hair pop out when you said it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, well you got here at least poor Maynard.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Ev there you go. That's right, we got them on
that one. Well, man, our are revisiting and rebuilding that
friendship because you know, twenty years of family and living
other places. It's real special to me too. Really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, awesome, Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here, Nick,
go do the Golden rule. Treat others the way you
want to be treated. Carrie, A smile around on your
face today. Thanks for listening to a Home with Ruby.
Right, we're coming down in three two.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to a Home with Roby. I'm Patrick pc Isaac
from Roby Commercial in Services on with Trent Houston from
the Ruby family of Companies. We are your hosts man, Trent.
We're really getting to the string of things with these podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, I mean surprisingly, I'm really enjoying Kelvin. I know,
it's surprising, surprising you're paying attention.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Of course, he's alert, he's at I mean, he ain't
messing around a half step in here at iHeartRadio, right, Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean I got your name right after a couple
of days, Right, you did.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
He had the text to himself miss last, scroll up
a couple of texts. Check it out, check it out.
He's got the k E L dash b e N.
Just to make sure we get it all right, not Kelvin,
which I'm sure you get.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
A lot perfect. I'm still learning y'all's name, so we're good.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We got really tough ones.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So we talked about the exchange student and me mispronouncing
her name last show, which recorded two shows, yeah, same time. Yeah,
so that was a little earlier. And I said, I said,
can you say my name? And she said trump. Okay,
it was not.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Uh, she said it correctly. You get one tomahawk alace.
Remember that trick when you were a kid. If you
want to know how many syllables there were, you did
the tomahawk chopping.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm not from Atlanta, or you can do the clap.
I don't remember, honestly, I don't remember grammar. I mean
you might be able to pick up on that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What about country grammar like the Nelly song. You probably
remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I don't remember any of that. I remember how how
you had your little beat box. My neighbors talked to
me when they told them to go do something for him.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Man, that's funny. Uh, hey, sod while you were while
you were in Nashville, I think I forgot to tell
you this. We went to Montana, Montana, Montana, out to
uh the big country, big sky, big Sky, went out there,
and man, I'm telling you what, that is a beautiful,
beautiful piece of the country. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, God bless America. Yeah, cool people.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Just I mean, the scenery is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So we haven't talked about this. Did you skate?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We did and my wife didn't get hurt this time,
which was good. Last year I mentioned on the on
the on the radio show she got blowed up by
a snowboarder that was out of control, which wasn't good.
But they had this thing called Big Colore's see you
take a tram all the way to the top of
the mountains eleven thousand feet in the air, and you
were talking about having to have a guide on your
(02:34):
kiteboarding trip. This thing is so dangerous. It's a triple
black diamond. We certainly didn't even sniff go near it,
but you could watch people come down and you have
to have you have to literally go to a little
called the ice box. You have to go to a
little hut on top of the mountain, sign your life
away and the guide and has almost watch you go
down and start in your life waiver, I mean all
(02:55):
kinds of waivers.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's called dude.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It was unbelievable. Were watching these guys from the bottom
do it. I mean it's like something you watch on TV. Wow,
it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
What about like a intermediate like me going down it?
You see some of those folks for you and I
don't need to be you need to be on Big,
Big Gloric.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It doesn't need anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, these folks that I'm going uh kite boarding with
this week are are extreme sports junkies. They might know
about this. They they I will talk to them about it,
but they do a lot of helly scheme, which Raagan
told me. If I can't get there with a chairlift,
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'll tell you the chair list will make it will
make your knees knuckle a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I mean they do a lot of you know, they'll
they'll they'll get off the chairlifting and hike up a
ridge for two hours and then ski down it. She
basically said, if the chairlift stops, that's where you start.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well that that's very good advice, and said, these guys
that probably know about this thing, then it's a I
did a YouTube video on it when I got back.
It's like twenty twenty eight minute video. I'm kind of
the how it happened, how they got people up there.
In the video, two people fall and they just they
don't just like slide down. They just see them like
foot over heels tumbling down this mountain. Anyway, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Did you video it on the GoPro? I did not
do it. You got it off of YouTube. Okay, I
need to listen better.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The older I get, I think, the more risk averse
I am when it comes to stuff like that, I'm like,
that looks like it really might hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know if I've ever seen a triple black
diamond that was rated. Maybe I have. But so you
had some travel. We hadn't really regrouped on this because
then Easter weekend happened and all that. You had some
travel mishaps on the way there. How did that all
work out? Actually it was fine, Oh goody ended.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Up working out of just find although the first time
I left that we were waiting by the plane and
literally like twenty cops descended on a gate and they
were on a mission and it ripped open. The door
went flying into the plane, and by the time it
was over, there's probably twenty five to thirty police officers
surrounded this gate.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm hang back here and see if flew into the plane.
They have jet packs on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they were going at a swift pace.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was just good terminology for the story you were telling.
Planing fly.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I appreciate altogether. It confused me. Thanks for noticing anyways. Anyway,
so the poor guy had a sea nothing. I thought
we were gonna have like guns blazing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Plane.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, it was another plane.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was pacing around on the phone with customer service
because our flight got canceled. But uh, I'll telling the
lady on the plane like that something about to happen,
something about to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
She was like, what is it? You definitely you definitely
didn't want anything bad to happen. And I hope the
fellow that had the seizure is okay. He seemed to
be all right, okay, good. It was intense, man, intense.
So I was talking to you during this time. I
think that was the last time we talked until today.
(05:53):
Uh actually and uh you you said y'all mised a flight.
You didn't know if you were gonna make it to Montown,
but you you said, as we talk about on the show,
the Golden rule and just be positive and how you
know we talked with Jack Jack Salizman have grace and
uh are you said, well, it'll be an adventure and
(06:14):
we'll figure it out. And if we have to stay
in I said, me and Forda stayed in Dallas last year.
Coming back yeah, east and uh the girls had school
so they went on and uh, and he you know,
we went to a little motel at twelve thirty at
night and we watched dirt track racing. And then that
(06:34):
was about a year ago, year and a half ago.
And then he told me, I think I told you
this the other day about two weeks ago. He's like, man,
you remember when we went to Dallas and we watched
that dirt track racing all night. That was so fun.
And I was like, man, we would have never had
that memory had we not not been able to get
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's our perspective, man, Mikah, you told me the one time.
I love this. This phrase is more popular now then.
But turn chicken s into chicken salad.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And I mean to do but I mean, listen, everybody's
dealing with something. Uh. The word grace is very important.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well, ironically, I have to go back to Dallas this
weekend for our friend Scott East. His father passed away
unfortunately dickies and they're doing a celebration of life in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
God blessed Scott and his family. And I wasn't able
to make it because I had we we we were torn,
uh college to Charleston. I have a family trip. But uh,
my my great friend Eric Berg in my YPO form,
his mother passed away, man up in the Northeast, and
and he had the funeral yesterday. So God blessed the
(07:44):
Berg family and everybody involved there. And it's been a
tough time. I love him to death. So uh got
to raise these people up, man, be positive. I don't know.
I'll tell you one thing is you as you get older,
more people just disappearing, right, and then what happens? I
think that's that means your agent? And then I don't know, Man,
(08:07):
a lot of people having cancer. We lift all those
people up that are fighting with illness. Got a lot
of people close to us, A lot of folks in
the Roby family network are fighting it too, So we'll
raise those up. And that is a setup. So so
say a prayer, but that is a setup. Uh. Our
guest today is doctor Nick Mays. I mean, wait till
(08:32):
you hear his story. We met at Harding High School.
Came to Harding. Y'all know, Chris Mayner is one of
my very best friends in the whole world. Works with
what works with our company every twenty one years. They
were east side best friends and Harding was a magnet school,
so they came kind of as a package deal and
I let him take it from there. But now he
(08:54):
hells from Columbia, South Carolina, and we got a story
to go with this, and we we've really become close
in the last couple of years. Has been really really
special and recently I was like, you got to come
on the show man. Yeah, we got to talk about
this and laugh a little. So when we return on
that Home with Roby show, we have doctor Mays. We'll
(09:16):
be back. And don't forget.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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and get it all done by one. Roby servicesnow dot com.
That's Roby Services now dot com. Welcome back that Home
with Roby. I'm Patrick mcaac from Ruby Commercial and Services.
On the Trent Hayson from the Ruby family of Companies.
We are your hosts, Trent. We have the second Heartingrim
(09:42):
in the last month.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, with your boy Dan Bailey. Was first Dan Bailey
and let it off and then uh and then and
then doctor Nick Mays.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is the bookend in the Hearting the Hearting Tour and
Nick is so humble.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I've never up until doing this show, I've never called him.
I've never said doctor Whart of that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It's just Nick. That's easy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It is just Nick. It is just Nick. We uh yeah,
Dan the Man and doctor Nick. But but uh, I'm
just trying to give you props because uh it is
you are Nick to me. But it is hard earned.
And I know I know who you are and your personality.
Uh you really don't care at all, but but some
(10:29):
people do care.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah. Well, no, it says I'm just like anybody else,
just stayed in school way too long. That's all that
happened there. That's what That's how that plays out. But
I'm excited to join you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, so, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They I am a hearty gram That's right. I'm Charlotte guy.
I miss it. I'm in Columbia these days, but spent
a lot of time there and still have a lot
of great friends. Fact, there's a lot in the Ruby
crew as it were.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, so tell us, tell us back in middle school
how you made your way to Harden going into high school.
I've never really asked that question.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah. Yeah, so Chris Maynard, you know very well. It's
my best buddy for years and years we were at
East Way on the east side. I'm going to put
up the e while you throw up your dub over there.
So we were coming from the east here from the
east and then a group of us had the option
to do the magnet program, probably more our appearance back then,
(11:36):
but a kind of group of five or six of
us said yeah, we're going to go do this thing.
And the magnet ended up being Harding, which was on
the west side. So we got shipped over there, you
know when high school came about, and spent our years
over on the west side, and now we kind of
know the best of both worlds, and so that was
(11:58):
That's kind of how that played out. But we were
kind of all in ten and we were all going
to go together one way or the other. It was
harning or Garringer, those were our two options.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, no, it was great. It was that that all
y'all came over and hung out with us, because we
all became homies, whole group, including Dave McGuire from the
South Side.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, I was going to say, I was going to
say two things. One is uh, doctor Nick Nick, My
my daughter actually just had a he's not liking this
by the Way track meet at east Way Middle School
a few weeks ago. Said we were over there for that,
And were you like Dave McGuire, where you were trying
to get on a high school soccer team and that
was the reason you came to Harding or.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
With more of an academic you know, none of the above.
I just wanted to hang with my friends. I mean,
I wasn't I was not motivated, and that's a good
lead up to my Hearting career. But back then it
was not either of those things. I was just trying
to hang with my friends.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That was so Nick, tell us, so Nick, you get
out of school? Uh tell us, So give us a
give us a journey on how you how you went
to medical school and became a daughter, because it is
the coolest story.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Sure, well, you know didn't. I was unfocused in my
Hearting days, really kind of struggled to get into the
academic side. Trent was running laps around me back then,
still is, but I was definitely lagging in that department.
And out of Harding, I worked with Wallace Newman construction
(13:35):
clean up, and he and Charlotte people might know the
that that fleet of phenomenal vehicles that were out in
the streets. I was part of that team cleaning up
the construction sites for a couple of years. Chris and
I did that and some other friends, and then had
kind of an epiphany one day when we were cleaning
up a site with a guy through his trash right
(13:58):
kind of in front of me, like kind of treated
me like a dog, so to speak, just kind of
here you go, peon and threw his lunch at me,
and I just kind of was like, well, you know,
this is this how I'm going to roll forever. And
after that decided to go to CP Central Pimont Community
College and kind of see if I can give this
(14:18):
academic thing a run. So plugged in there, started going
to school and writing the ship a little bit, and
along the way there was a job fair at CP.
I'm a big proponent of CP.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
By the way, Amen, they do a lot for.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That community, and I'm a big supporter of what they've done.
They've helped me tremendously. But they had a job fare
on campus and Presbyterian Hospital had a booth and I'd
been working with Wallace Newman and working at Subdude or autobill,
just bouncing around whatever odd end jobs and got a
job at the hospital to transport patients. So did that,
(14:57):
and I worked for the raineology department, and some of
the technologists kind of took me under their wing and
kind of knew that I was interested in more things
and introduced me to the radiologists were the physicians that
read X rays and cts and MRIs. And then they
hired me to hang films from them back in the
day when it wasn't all digital, there were hard copies
(15:18):
of films. And I saw those guys and said, hey,
you know, my go to in life these days is
just asking questions like how do you do this? Why
do you do this? That's one of my mantras these days.
So I did that to them back then, and they
told me what they do, and I got to hang
out with them and see what they do, and it
kind of clicked, and said, well, I'm going to figure
(15:40):
out how to become that. And then went to U
and ce Charlotte and got my grades together, went on
to medical school and here we are. That was a long,
longer version, but CP was pivotal. Pivotal in that I
always say, I like to give them credit, dude, ship.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So CP is Central Piedmont Community College, which is a
wonderful asset for our community, a wonderful, wonderful school. My
mom taught UH dental dental assistance there. Dan Bailey was
is a big proponent. He coached soccer at CP, who
was on her show a couple of weeks ago. His dad,
(16:23):
his whole career was there. Uh but Nick, I had
never heard that story in that detail, and that is
such an awesome story. And I'm gonna say the way
that Nick and I he moved to Columbia, you know,
made his career, has a family, beautiful daughter, wonderful, wonderful,
(16:48):
got it going on. And I'm gonna say time flies.
Six or seven years ago he called me or texted
me or something out of the blue and said, hey,
I'm interested in excited about real estate. I've been to
his story about working in the hospital. I mean, he's right.
(17:10):
And he said, uh, you know you know about this
and helped me. And I said, okay, well I'll send
you a couple of books or a book, or go
get this book. I don't know how I happened. Patrick
knows that that's how I challenge people over over my
career and uh, and he is a doer and read
(17:33):
the books. And then he said, hey, if there's ever
a chance I would be interested in investing, And I said, hey,
you know, I really don't like to force the thing
in real estate. That's when a deal goes bad. They
come along in waves. They don't come along. But when
the deal is right and I feel like it'll be
(17:55):
a good deal, Uh, it could be tomorrow or it
could be five years, I'll hit you back. And we
stayed in touch a little bit and then a deal
came along and he invested. He put his money where
his mouth was and uh, we've done several deals together
here that have done pretty well. And then now I
(18:18):
have done my first deal with Nick leading down in Columbia.
So now that's a good way to diversify diversify our
portfolio together. And man, I cannot wait to see where
this thing goes with you because you were so driven
and so passionate.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well, its way too kind. No, I like to jump
in and try things, for sure, and you've been a
good kind of mentor and supporter through this thing. So uh,
it is exciting, and you know, i'd like to see
what we kind of do together and what each of
us do. That's the fun part to see each other succeed.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So yeah, these deals have been fun. And like Trent said,
he kind of helped me along the way, and when
the right opportunity came, I was just kind of ready
and wanted to jump in and see and he was
kind enough to include me on some of the inner
workings and kind of his vision and how he works
through problems. Because what I've learned and I'm still learning
(19:20):
a lot about, is the problem solving it takes to
find deals, get through deals, close deals, exit, so on
and so forth. I think a lot of that is
what he's perfected and you know, complete novice on. But
it's fun to hear about and learn, and some of
it's just kind of jumping in and having to kind
of wade through it from my early undertakings here.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I mean it's fortitude and grit and I know that
you know, Trent and his whole family are are very
full of both of those things, and it kind of
resonates throughout our company at Roby. Is is that I mean,
it's the same type of problems and with I assume
really any industry and profession it's just kind of white
knuckling it and getting through it and not giving up.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And so I knew.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think I'm familiar with maybe some of the deals
that you worked through with Trent and seeing some of
the things that had happened along the way. I mean,
it's just just keep pushing.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, well, there's so many moving parts in a simple,
a simple commercial real estate deal. Nick Nick has has
did residential very successfully, very similar to me. That's what
my dad knew. You know, save up, save up fifty
thousand dollars and don't get any debt because that's bad.
(20:40):
And buy a fifty thousand dollars rental house and collect
six hundred dollars a month. Because you go build a
relationship with somebody and you provide the housing for a family,
you and you become friends. Really. But Nick's done very
well with that. I think I think he had a
property has still has a property down down in Clemson, uh,
(21:02):
that he invested in. And obviously we have an investment
with Yeah, Mike Alterman who's been on the show, who
Nick needs to meet him. But his term is in
the way real estate, and that's kind of that summed
up when he came on the show about a year
(21:24):
a little over a year ago. He said that, and
it was like an AHA moment for what I believe
in real estate. It's like, some people want to own
something forever and cash flow and some people want to
do this. Some people I want something that isn't pretty,
but it's in the path of progress, baby, and other
people are gonna take risk. And I think that's uh,
(21:46):
that's that's what Nick Nick has done. That's what we
invested with him on this deal in Colombia. But getting
this deal done being commercial real estate and that you
can attest to this. I mean, is it not crazy
how many things.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Wasn't prepared for it? It was, And you know, I'm
over here stressing out trying to figure the thing out.
Trent's cool the cucumber like, oh, that's how it goes,
It'll work out, and I'm, you know, here's seasoned in
it and I'm not. And I was, I'll tell you
he it took a lot of help to get through it.
But now I'm a little bit more aware than I would.
(22:25):
Just expect the unexpected on the next one, you know,
and just be ready, like you said, have some grit
and fortitude Patrick, and something comes up, you know, we
figure it out, find a way through it. And that's
kind of what it took to get that one done.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well. You know, I've done this for a career, full time,
twenty five years. And when I was a project manager,
I mean I rent and raided and did this, and
my clients appreciated we're building a house form of renovating
their house. They appreciated how, you know how. And I
watched my dad and he was he was They loved him,
(23:01):
but he was laid back. And as you get older,
I mean, I can't do that now I'm twenty five
years in I would I would have a heart attack.
Uh and I would be miserable. So uh, you just
got to say so too will pass and I'm gonna
I'm gonna keep doing my diligence and checking my boxes
and finding efficient times to work on this when I can.
(23:25):
And uh, I mean my dad used to uh a
memory of my nick I said this on the radio.
Before my dad, My memory is that he was always
at our baseball games, at my baseball games. I know
he might have missed a couple, but when I got older,
this is before cell phones. He would just miss an
(23:45):
appointment showing that my baseball game. Someone will handle it.
And I'm not saying that you want to disappoint people.
I'm not saying that. But yeah, his priorities in line,
and uh, nothing and tragic ever happened because because he
missed an appointment to go see his son play baseball
and give me a vote of confidence. And uh, I
(24:08):
think that's how you approach real estate. But but but
you also do the diligence and the homework and the
preparation to build the gaps to where it will succeed
or yeah, build the stop gaps to where it will succeed.
But but but I'm impressed Nick, and you're working on
a couple other things. What excites you so much about
(24:31):
about commercial real estate in that arena?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I like learning new things, like you you said,
I've done residential for six seven years and that's been
good to me and that's fine. But as my network's
grown here in Colombia, I've met more brokers and friends
and connections than you just kind of opened my eyes
to that world. And going back to you know, historically,
(24:58):
if if there's something that just piqued of my interests,
I'm going to start asking questions. So that's what I
started doing. And you know, now I'm kind of jumping
in it and trying to see kind of I can
navigate away through this, and probably I shouldn't, you know,
But I do have a good crew to lean on.
(25:18):
I think that's important as having a network of friends, contacts,
connections that you can trust and I'll have your back
because you go into it with the best intentions and
you're trying to do well for yourself and do well
for your partners and friends and investors. So I think
it's just critical to have that good team around. And
(25:40):
I think I've I've found a good team, so I'm
kind of lean on them and I jump in and
they help me sort through problems and I'll just continue
to learn. But it was learning a new facet of
real estate of the commercial world which intrigued me well.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And more so than I think of. I'm an economics
major guy, so I kind of tate it. The micro
economics is kind of one you can focus on this
one little thing. It's kind of like a residential rental property,
whereas commercial is more macro. It involves all these moving
parts that can go wrong, but it also involves this
(26:16):
whole network to be successful, in this whole bank of
knowledge that not one person can hold, and who has
the inside knowledge on this and who knows this, and
who's helping you here and where you're going to find
your money and all that stuff is more macro. And
(26:37):
I've said this before. You know, when you read the
business books when you're sixteen and you want to be
a rock star business person, I so vividly remember this.
It says it's all about who your network is in business,
and it's your attorney, your financial advisor, your you know,
everybody that's around you, and you have done such a
(27:00):
good job. I took He was calling me one of
one of the we I wanted to and he wanted
me to come down, and I wanted to see Columbia.
I think Columbia is an awesome place. I think it's
going to do very well. I think the university is awesome.
I'm learning this through my kids. Uh looking at colleges.
(27:21):
The business school is awesome, and uh so, so I grabbed.
I had planned on coming down, so I grabbed. Everybody
knows David Stoffel has been on the show a couple
of times we invest together in this type of stuff,
and I said, come on, man, come right down to
Columbia meet my friend. And uh and he he is
an investor now with Nick. He's been an investor with
(27:44):
Nick on some of my stuff. But uh and and
just in love with with Nick's passion and Nick's network
and his desire to desire to put a team together.
That's what it is, put a team together. Patrick, Well, and.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You had started out the show talking about how humble
Nick is, and he keeps talking about asking questions, asking questions,
asking questions, and really, you're humble enough to ask for help.
I mean, I think that's a lot of people get
get out over their skis because they're worried to ask
for help on things that they don't know. And it
sounds like you're the poor opposite is that, you know, Hey,
(28:17):
Trent's expert in this. I'll ask him and maybe one
day I'll get to be as good as him or
know as much as him.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But he just gets you there much faster.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, some of that's from the richest man in battle.
I want to Trent's recommendations out there is kind of
go to who knows who's the expert and whatever you're
dealing with. In my coming from where I was to
where I am, not like I'm anywhere special now, but
it took a lot of asking questions and eating some
humble pie and realizing a lot of times I just
(28:47):
don't know, Jack, But you just can't be scared to
ask for help or something doesn't make sense, just say
why is that? And it served me well over the years.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's the saying an old tongue will wag.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, tongue likes to wag. That's Rich's man of Babylon.
I mean really and I and I learned that, I
tell everybody my greatest My greatest gift that I received
was being able to come into this family business that
was not as humongous business or anything, but had a
wonderful reputation on honesty and hard work. But we got
(29:22):
to serve our gift is we got to serve the
movers and shakers and the business leaders in the Charlotte
community in their home at their most weak moment when
they have their kitchen torn up and they have these
young kids in the house, and uh, you hear, I
(29:42):
know Patrick's hurts forever I hear so many contractors, general contractors.
I mean that's who I've lived my whole life with. Say, oh,
I don't never, I'm never gonna do custom residential renovations.
And because it's the worst, But if you look at it,
glass half full? Was how you how you get to
know people if you can, if you can win, win
(30:04):
that and still still be able to ask them questions.
They'll tell you everything. And uh, you know, I had
a lot of a lot of a lot of businessmen
say take care of my wife and I'll hang out
with you. And I'm like, okay, let me figure out
how to do this. So we took care of the wife,
the dogs, the kids, the mailman, you know, uh, the
(30:25):
cleaning lady. I mean we're doing everything.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Pulling the trash cans into it from the curb to
the house. I mean, just this little basic stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You can't build that on a on a change older
either commercially you can, uh, said Nick, tell us a
little You have one daughter, correct.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes, this one?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And what is her? What is her? What is her?
What is her hobby?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
She's a dancer. I'm a dance dad. Yeah, that the competitions.
We're in dance season now, so recitals and competitions, but
dances her life. She's four nights a week and she's
if we're at the grocery store, she's sitting there dancing
while we're sitting.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Really, that's cool. How old is she?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
She's eleven. It's a sixth grader. So it's it's a
lot of fun. It's a long days. Let's say that
everybody else there has had dance dance daughters. And what's
her what's her name again, Emily Emily is her name?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Awesome? Yep, Dodtor Emily May. I'm kidding, I'm just picking
on it. I'm going to tell you this, Nick, it's
been it's been awesome for us to grow our friendship
and and uh network back together and it's and it's
getting stronger. Who knows in twenty five years what we'll
(31:48):
be talking about. But every time you talk about your
family and your daughter, you glow and it's special and
I I just think that's really cool. And I have
not been around dance, so so I like to hear
you talk about it just so you know.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, yeah, oh well that's that's great. No, it is.
I mean, that's why we do everything right. It's for
the family, and that's obviously where my heart is. But
and it's because she enjoys it so much. Right, So
you're I know, you've got five kids, now, I think
you had a time. You have a whole squad, but
you've seen the whole spectrum of their sports and interest.
(32:26):
But when they get really excited and they glow about something,
you probably can't help but just extend through you the
same that she loves it so much, so why you know,
it just gets me excited to see her, So that's
where that comes from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Assume, Well, Nick Man, is there anything you want to
leave our audience with? This has been awesome. I have
learned so much from a guy I've known for thirty
five years.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I'm bored him to sleep pretty good. But no, no,
it was it was great. I'm sorry my story is
kind of long winded.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
There was good.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The only thing I would leave people with is ask questions,
you know, kind of be inquisitive. If you're wondering about anything,
ask questions that you know, and then you'll find people
that will help you along the way. Kind of just
what Trent said, that's the biggest thing, and I do
that to this day.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Patrick, what you got to say ask questions. I like
it well, Nick, thanks for being here, and thank you
for our friendship and our business partnership. And I can't
wait to see all the success that's gonna find you
over the years. And I'm really proud of the story
that you told going back. But we have been hanging together.
(33:37):
I think I just did the math. I have known
you for thirty four years. That is a long time.
I don't know if that makes us a younger old
when you're young.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Just had another gray hair pop out when you said it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, well you got here at least poor Maynard.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Ev there you go. That's right, we got them on
that one. Well, man, our are revisiting and rebuilding that
friendship because you know, twenty years of family and living
other places. It's real special to me too. Really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, awesome, Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here, Nick,
go do the Golden rule. Treat others the way you
want to be treated. Carrie, A smile around on your
face today. Thanks for listening to a Home with Ruby.
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