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SPEAKER_02 (00:07):
Today, we're gonna be reviewing a live seller close
from Caesar La Costa, whichhappened a couple weeks ago
during one of my live streams.
But here's what I want you toreally understand about this
close that you're about to seeis the work that Caesar has put
in on refining his craft.

(00:28):
Caesar is a student of the gameand he's constantly working to
be better, whether it be on hisown YouTube channel, working
inside of Titanium University,member stream yard, Zoom calls,
attending implementation calls,doing live seller call reviews.
He's always working to becomebetter at closing.

(00:49):
Today I had a one-on-one withCaesar, and it's not the reason
why I'm I'm releasing thisvideo.
I was going to release a videoanyways, but we had our
one-on-one today, and Caesar wastelling me that this past
weekend he did not call anysellers, despite the fact that
that's what he normally does.
He stopped what he was doing togo back and work inside the

(01:12):
modules from TU, watch some ofhis own live seller calls, and
really analyze where the gaps inhis game were so he could
improve.
And we talked a lot about thattoday.
Now, what you're gonna see is avery skilled closer, but someone
that has been working for monthsand months and months, close to

(01:34):
a year at this point, to improveto get to this level.
Now, the reason why I wanted toshow this close here is because
there's several things thatdon't happen on this video.
One, we don't see that thiscontract got signed, but it did
get signed right after the livestream.
However, when he closed it, hebrought us titanium investments,

(01:58):
the deal, so we could dispo it.
We ended up dispoing this dealfor a modest$5,500 assignment
fee.
So not a large assignment feewhatsoever, but this is the
power of community and workingtogether.
That was the first time thatTitanium Investments and Caesar
had JV'd on a deal inside thestate of Illinois.

(02:21):
So fast forward to the nextcouple of days, he gets a second
deal under contract in Illinois,brings it to us, and we assign
that deal in 12 hours for a$15,000 assignment fee.
So what you're gonna see here isa close that's not assigned
contract on the live, but itends up being one that leads to

(02:44):
us successfully pushing out$20,000 in assignments together.
It's a power of community, it'sthe power of working together.
It's why I love doing these livestreams with TU members, seeing
their growth and their skillsets developing, but also
opening up an opportunity wherewe can make money together.

(03:05):
And this is an awesomeopportunity.
This is a lead from PropertyLeads.
It was a$30 lead, which isawesome.
If you haven't checked that out,go to propertyleads.com slash
RJ.
$30 exclusive leads anywhere inthe country.
Everyone inside of TU is rockingwith those right now.

(03:26):
And this is the reason why.
A$30 lead ends up to a$5,500assignment, ends up getting
another one that leads to a$20,000 assignment.
So watch Cesar La Costa closethis deal, but also think about
how much time and effort he hasput into refining his craft to

(03:46):
get into the point where he canclose deals anywhere in the
country.
I will say, I'm not going to saythe specific amount, but this
morning when I was talking toCaesar, he shared that in the
past three months, he's mademore money working solo all by
himself, only doingacquisitions, JVing out all the

(04:10):
dispositions with other TUmembers.
He has made more than theaverage annual salary in the
United States in the past threemonths.
So, Caesar, I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of you for being aleader inside of Titanium
University.
Those of you that are watchingthis, show Caesar some love.

(04:30):
Like today's video, and giveCaesar your biggest takeaway
from his clothes inside thecomments.

unknown (04:41):
Hello.

SPEAKER_00 (04:42):
Hello, Miss Fade Ron.
Yeah.
Ron, good afternoon.
My name is Caesar.
Calling by your property on uhMissouri Street.
Yes, sir.
Looks like you filled out aform.
Uh you still looking to sellthis property by any chance?

SPEAKER_01 (04:55):
Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 (04:56):
Wonderful.
How much are you looking to getfor it?

SPEAKER_01 (04:59):
Um as much as I can get, or as little as I can get.

SPEAKER_00 (05:03):
Yeah, same here.
What's what's that right pricefor you?

SPEAKER_01 (05:08):
I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (05:09):
Um yeah, well, Ron, usually when I go to the car
dealership, there's a there's asticker price on the window, and
then I decide whether I want tobuy it or not.
You know what I mean?
Um, you filled out a form of mysite, so if you're looking to
sell, I am looking to buy.
Just want to know uh how muchyou're looking to get for it

(05:30):
while I look this up.

SPEAKER_01 (05:32):
Well, uh, I don't want to cut my throat.
I'd rather you throw out anoffer and then we we go from
there.

SPEAKER_00 (05:39):
Oh, absolutely, man.
And and I hear that a lot.
And and to be quite honest withyou, if you're thinking that my
offer is gonna be higher thanyour number, brother, tell me.
I I mean, it won't.
I mean, my my goal is toobviously get this as the lowest
that I can uh for me to make mymargin.
But you know, at the same time,I want to make sure I put as
much money as I can in yourpocket too.

(06:00):
You know what I mean?
I want to make it a win-winsituation.
Um, so there's so the reason whyI'm asking is you know, the last
thing I want to do is waste yourtime.
So if you give me the number, Ican quickly look at this and see
if it would work for me.
And if it works for me, thenthen let's make a deal.
And if not, no harm, no foul, nopressure on my end, you know?

SPEAKER_01 (06:17):
Right now, are you an investor that basically has
other people come over beforebefore closing?
And I'm well, I know you're notgonna have a couple people come,
but are you having otherinvestors that would come over
and um you know basically yousell it before you even own it?

(06:39):
Let me ask you that.

SPEAKER_00 (06:40):
Oh, great question, man.
Uh yeah, that's a greatquestion.
So I am an investor, and as aninvestor, I do have multiple
options.
I can flip it, I can flip itmyself.
I am a flipper.
Uh, I can keep it as a rental ifthe market tells me that it's a
good place to to uh to rent it.
And if you're talking aboutwholesaling, right, like selling

(07:00):
it before, heck, if it makessense, I'll do that too.
But you know what though, I'lltell you this how I differ from
everyone else is I I'm up front.
I always tell folks I'm not abaker, I don't like to sugarcoat
things.
So if I feel like wholesalingwould be the route for me, I
will let you know.
And at the end of the day, ifyou want to do business with me,

(07:21):
let's let's go to war together.
If not, no harm, no foul.
There's other houses for me tobuy, you know.

SPEAKER_01 (07:26):
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I I I heard that.
Well, uh well, I I I don't well,if if you're interested, that's
cool.
But I'd like to just just sellit to you and then you you
handle your business with it.

SPEAKER_00 (07:40):
Yeah, I mean, I don't mind doing that.
I kind of like that.
I mean, you sound like a prettycool guy, but you know, I only
want to hang out with you formaybe 14 days and that's it.
You know what I mean?
Like uh, I want to make it asquick as as painless as
possible.
Uh, I like to move quick, I paycash, I'll pay all the closing
costs and I'll buy it as is.

SPEAKER_01 (08:00):
Um, but yeah, you think if we come to a number,
you could close it as little as14 days, as long as the title
comes back off, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 (08:09):
As soon as title clears, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (08:12):
Okay, okay.
Uh well, I've I've had a fewdifferent offers, and uh I
wonder, I mean, if you could be30-ish, I'd probably I'd
probably be all right with that,but we'll see what you say.

SPEAKER_00 (08:27):
Okay.
Well, while I look this up, canyou tell me a little bit what
you got going on over there?

SPEAKER_01 (08:32):
Uh it's a three-bedroom, one bath.
Uh it's got the uh hot waterheater is probably, I don't
know, four or five years old.
The the uh furnace is probablythree or four years old, the
roof is probably ten years old.
Um it's I mean, it it does needhelp.

(08:57):
I mean, the kitchen is dated alittle bit.
I could send you some picturesif you were interested.

SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
Yeah, that would be great.
Um, you don't have to send themto me right at this moment, but
yeah, at some point, that wouldbe awesome.

SPEAKER_01 (09:08):
Okay.
Um, I mean, I'm just looking touh relocate and uh get my money
out of this as quick as possibleand then go to the next or
gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 (09:21):
You're saying relocate, so does that mean
you're you currently live thereright now?

SPEAKER_01 (09:25):
Uh I'm back and forth between here and my uh
lady friends.

SPEAKER_00 (09:31):
My man, how's I'm talking about?
So when you say relocating,where are you moving to?

SPEAKER_01 (09:40):
Uh I'll probably wind up just living with her for
a minute and then I'll uh I'llfigure it out from there.

SPEAKER_00 (09:48):
I like it.
All right, and so uh if we if wewere to move forward on this, I
mean what's the ideal timelineand solution for you?

SPEAKER_01 (09:57):
Uh basically as soon as that title comes back, let's
close.

SPEAKER_00 (10:01):
Got it, got it.
Okay.
So you mentioned a few things.
Um let me ask you this.
At the end of the day, if I wereto flip this and you know, like
what are some of the things thatI would change besides you said
the kitchen?

SPEAKER_01 (10:14):
The kitchen in the bathroom, definitely.
It's some pain.

SPEAKER_00 (10:17):
Got it, got it, okay.
You know how much do you thinkthat would cost me?
How much do you think I need tosink in there?

SPEAKER_01 (10:23):
I'd say you're gonna spend probably 20 grand to do
all the updates, and then youcan bucket, and then you could
uh probably get get marketvalue.

SPEAKER_00 (10:34):
How much do you think I can sell it on the
market for after I put in 20grand in there?

SPEAKER_01 (10:40):
I really don't know.
I know they're taxing me at like130, but that's outrageous.
It's a rural, it's a rural area,and I really don't know what
houses they're selling for.
I've only been here a few years.

SPEAKER_00 (10:59):
Got it.
Now, by the way, I'm lookingthis up right now and it's
saying, is it a thousand squarefeet or thirteen hundred square
feet?

SPEAKER_01 (11:07):
It's thirteen.
I thought it was closer tofourteen hundred, but whatever
the internet says is probablythe truth.

SPEAKER_00 (11:14):
Got it.
Did you convert the garage oryeah?

SPEAKER_01 (11:17):
The garage is uh I didn't do it.
It was like that how I did it.
It's kind of attached to thehouse to the garage.
It's a funny setup, but there'sa door from the kitchen that
leads right into there, andthere's not a door for a car to
get in there.

SPEAKER_00 (11:33):
Got it, got it.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I'm definitely interested.
So let me ask you this.
Um if I can close on this assoon as title clears, like I
said, I pay all the closingcosts, no realtor fees.
I'll buy it as is so you don'thave to worry about fixing
anything.
Pretty much take whatever youwant to take with you and leave
behind what you don't want.

(11:55):
I mean, what's the best pricethat you can do?

SPEAKER_01 (12:01):
Throw a number out there.
Yeah, I mean, you're doingyou're you're you're crunching
the numbers on the internetright now and throw something
out there.

SPEAKER_00 (12:10):
Yeah, well, I mean, you did say 30 earlier.
I was really hoping you'd saytwenty-five.

SPEAKER_01 (12:21):
I tell you what, I would do it for thirty.

SPEAKER_00 (12:28):
Well, why don't we say uh let's meet in the middle
like peanut butter and jelly,and uh and I'll bring all the
bread, all twenty-seven thousandof it.
What's your email address?

(13:01):
Got it.
Okay, so what I'll do, so let meexplain to you the uh the
process wrong.
Uh so what I'll do is I'll goahead and send over a two-page
agreement right now, probablytake me about 15 minutes.
Um good thing is only two pages.
Uh, and then once we both signthat that agreement, then uh in
the next 14 days, a few thingsare gonna happen.

(13:24):
One, I'm gonna go ahead and opentitle, make sure title is clear,
right?
Okay.
Uh the second and third thingthat I'm gonna do are I'm gonna
send my general contractors outthere, okay?
Okay.
And I'm gonna sell I'm gonnasend my local partners out there
as well, just to make sure thatI get my set of eyes on there.
Um, if everything you say checksout, we should be good at that
number.
Uh, if we walk in there and halfthe roof is missing, then

(13:47):
obviously, all right, I'm gonnahave to come back to the table.
I'm not here to nickel and dimeyou, but if it's something
that's gonna cost me a wholelot, then we're gonna have to
have another conversation.
Uh other than that, I think youknow we should be good to go.
How does that sound?
Perfect, perfect.
Perfect.
Do you have any other questionsor anything that would uh that

(14:08):
would prevent you from movingforward on this?

SPEAKER_01 (14:10):
Now we're gonna close in a place local to here,
right?

SPEAKER_00 (14:14):
Yeah, so what I would do is I will have my TC
reach out a couple of uh titlecompanies to make sure that we
can close in 14 days.
Um so I'll call a few and thenuh we'll go from there.
Do you have a title company inmind?

SPEAKER_01 (14:28):
No, no, no, no, just something local.

SPEAKER_00 (14:30):
Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 (14:32):
I see you're in California and I don't want to
fucking fly out there to close.

SPEAKER_00 (14:36):
No, I I don't want you flying out a communist
country of California either,man.

unknown (14:40):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (14:41):
All right.
So I'll send this over rightnow.
Um, and then um and then uhwhen's a good time for me to
maybe give you a call back and Iquick I can quickly go over it
with you from top to bottom soat least you know what you're
signing.

SPEAKER_01 (14:54):
Um I'll just look it over if I if I feel as good,
I'll sign it.
You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 (15:01):
Okay, cool.
Why don't I do this?
Uh let me drop this over rightnow.
I'll um and then once I send itto you, I'll give you a call
just to make sure you got it.
And then if you have anyquestions, I can answer any
questions at that point.

SPEAKER_01 (15:13):
Sounds like a winner.
Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_00 (15:14):
All right, brother.
I'll call you in the nextfive-15 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 (15:17):
All right, bye-bye.

SPEAKER_02 (15:20):
Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 (15:22):
That is a good one.
ARV is 100 right off the bot.

SPEAKER_02 (15:25):
Right off the bat, I mean hundred thousand if it was
a thousand square feet.
When it went up to thirteenhundred, we have a comp on prop
stream uh that sold for 144.
And then we have a 1500 thatsold for 130, and we have

(15:53):
another one that was a thousandsquare feet that sold for 144.
So I do think that we have acouple with the converted garage
scenario that that increases it,that three, four hundred square
foot.
But uh, I think you've got agood one on your hands there.
I still don't think it's gonnabe uh a huge assignment just
because of where it's at inIllinois.

(16:14):
But numbers are are good.
I definitely think that shouldbe able to get moved.

SPEAKER_00 (16:19):
Yeah, and what did you guys say?
We we said 28, right?
28 yeah, okay, cool.
Sweet, awesome.
And by the way, guys, if um ifthat was on my CRM, I definitely
would not send the agreement.
I would just stay on the phoneand uh and have them sign it
right on the spot.
But I'm gonna add it on the CRMright now.

SPEAKER_02 (16:39):
Good stuff, man.
Uh, congrats on the deal.
Who's gonna dispo that for you?

SPEAKER_00 (16:46):
You know who else?
Brittany.
Oh, you guys have Illinois.
You guys want to dispo?
You can display too.

SPEAKER_02 (16:53):
I'm like, oh come on, man.
No, you let Brittany do it.
Uh Danny's killing right nowbecause I'm I'm passing this
off.
Danny's like, I can have thatdispo in one call.
But I know you work withBrittany.
I I love seeing T you work withTU, so let her take care of it.
But good job, man.
Congrats on getting that signed.
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