Beards On The Street - Episode 44 - Real Estate Hustle and Handyman Tales: Networking Mixers, Legacy Building, and the Surprise of Non-Alcoholic Brews

Roll up your sleeves and pour yourself a non-alcoholic Belgian brew as we swap tales of manual labor and the gratifying toil of personal renovation projects. Reminiscing about my days as a painting contractor brings back memories of high ceilings and scaffolding battles, a stark contrast to my latest adventure in flooring. But the real magic happens when we reflect on last night's business networking mixer – a hive of buzzing professionals from various realms, all congregating for a night of forging alliances and dreaming up ventures as bold as the Jiffy Lube concept.

Joining us at the mic is none other than Gabe, my progeny leaping into his second week in the real estate game with a vigor that only the young and fearless possess. You'll catch the fever of his enthusiasm as we chat about the pulse-pounding rush of diving into a new career path, the value of a solid handshake on doorsteps, and the power of a vibrant social network. We wrap up savoring the exceptional service at Charlie's Wing Company and the unexpected zing of a good non-alcoholic brew, all while sharing insights into the art of building a legacy in the world of property and titles.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey, hey, hey people, Welcome to Beards on the Street
.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Happy Friday y'all.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Happy Friday and hey, check this out.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're early, we're early.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're early and I'm not even stressed out.
Is that why Dean's smiling?
Wow, I'm not even stressed out.
Is that why Dean's smiling?
Wow, I'm not even completelystressed out.
I'm too damn tired to bestressed out, even working.
Dude, dude.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Working like a rented mule and you know what it looks
good.
You're going to have a lot ofpride in that floor.
Dude, it's not just the floor,I know, but For crying out loud
I was a painting contractorbefore that Dude, it's not just
the floor, I know, but Forcrying out loud, that's this
week's project.
I was a painting contractorbefore that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and I don't know what was worse, because
when I was painting the ceilingsare so high I would have to I'd
set up scaffolding, so I'd haveto walk up the scaffolding,
walk up a ladder without eatingshit and dying, work in a space
that I could reach back down theladder, back down the

(01:29):
scaffolding and move, and thensame thing, back up, back down,
back up, back down.
No, no, yeah no, it was, it'sbeen.
My 57 year old body is a bitpissed off right now.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's a.
It's a quick reminder how muchyou enjoy real estate, huh.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, the cush Sure.
No, I like what I do for aliving.
This manual labored man.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
You guys out there that respect for that Matt
respect, so you guys that workmanual labor.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
it's especially like okay, so I've been doing the
floors and man just on yourknees up and down and cuts and
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's just dude, you'reconstantly moving.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm surprised I haven't lost 50 pounds.
Sounds like your singleformative years, right.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hey Ron.
So since we're on the subject,I'm going to play this quick
video.
It just kind of shows.
All right, people Hear howtired I am.
You do so sorry.
Have the stove in tomorrow.

(02:42):
It's in.
Still got stairs and that oneedge.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
This is all done.
Hopefully I'll get my stairtreads.
That guy sounds like he's aboutready to this like fall over.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
He is got a new door coming for the shower.
Getting rid of that pimp, daddygold, yeah it's amazing how
much that just improves the putjust the flooring and the plant,
paint you know, we always sayflooring and paint set of stairs
to sleep for the stair treads,and that room is now done as

(03:22):
well.
So we all finished, man we allwe all finished with the floor,
other than I definitely have thestairs coming out.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Hey, I'm noticing the shirt.
Yeah, pg's, uh, pg's uh uh.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Refinery yeah, pleasant grove, man refinery,
but uh distillery distillery,yeah, refinery yeah, just human
consumption refinery, yeah same,just human consumption refinery
.
So, buddy, what's new with you?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
We had a really good mixer last night.
Yeah, let's talk about it.
Oh, what a fun night.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It was good, had a great show up, great people.
You know it was fun.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I had one of my better turnouts and I was in
connection mode it was.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I mean literally, so I had a.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's about bleeping time, dude, I had designers and
stagers there.
I had an artist who was thereto meet the designers and
stagers to be able to do customartwork.
I had friends in title.
I had multiple realtorrelationships there and I was
just ping-ponging around theroom meet this one, gotta go
over here and talk to dude.

(04:39):
Connections were made and then,uh, one of my friends is is
looking at building a, uh, ajiffy lube kind of concept.
Yeah, he's got, he's got familythere with chevron direct and
all that and so crap, shanerolled over there.
Shane's gonna help him startlooking at actually building.
And so I'm gonna be looking forsome commercial, spit

(05:00):
commercial, uh land and nice inlehigh yeah, well, you know, uh,
I've been chatting with shanealong.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Uh, as you know, I hooked him up with my next door
neighbors.
I actually have their lot forsale right now but uh, he told
me last night that they're uhjust finishing up all the pre-am
stuff and breaking ground inabout three weeks.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh my gosh tell me that's not cool.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Absolutely yeah shane is such a stud he really is
dude he is.
That guy is is just good peoplethrough and through he was.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I think he was the last guy standing last night in
our mixer.
Good for him.
Yeah, not me Connecting withthe gal that I brought who's a
designer, and getting into realestate no, it's awesome, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, well, that's what they're all about.
You know, I had a mortgage galwalk into my office this morning
and I was telling her she wasthere last night.
And I was telling her she wasthere last night and I was
telling her start participating,start bringing your own people,
Start using this organization,don't reinvent the wheel.
Because she was saying that shewanted to get with Cynthia or

(06:00):
somebody and start doing stuff.
And I'm like tap in.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, what's funny is so you heard as I was
walking out I just picked up asolicitation call.
It was a young title guy and Idon't if he saw our, our footage
or what we're doing.
But he goes how do I, how do Iget your attention?
Basically in so many words, andI'm like, well, we know title,
you know the laws and whatnot.

(06:25):
You're not able to really right, you can't, you know, pay into
it all that kind of stuff.
And I said I'll tell you whatreally Nothing for value.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
What is it like, $5?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, but you know what value is now?
Because it really is.
Everything is a relationship.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh, it is.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's called.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, this is something they can do, that
isn't a monetary value.
That they can do and not get introuble.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I told him all about it, and he's the announcer for
the St Paddy's Day Parade.
That's his job.
Oh, that's fun.
Yeah, and I'm like my partner'sa Mick man.
You ought to come meet him.
Anyways, he knows Dave, he'sall tied into all that.
So he's coming to this nextmonth's mixer.
I'm like he goes what aboutlunch?
I go well, I don't do lunch,man, I have a team.
We spend time with them.

(07:06):
No, you want to earn business?
Come invest in me, which meansspend some time.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, I like it.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll tell you a funnystory.
So, as you know, darian wasbombing my phone and your phone
last night.
Yeah, she was.
But so, dude, I was thoroughlyconfused because, as you know, I
started I got a beer up at thecounter to begin the night, Okay
, and then I wanted to orderfood, just kind of prime in the

(07:33):
night, get primed up.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, I actually that's all I did.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's all I drank and I was, I was, I know, screw
you, aaron, anyways.
Um, when I went to leave, Iordered food from a different
guy uh-huh so I told him, I'mlike my card's already over
there.
I already have an open tab.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh this is where this happened.
Yeah, this is why this happened.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'm telling you, I'm bringing you up to speed, yeah.
So then the gal came over to meand said I heard you want to
tap out and I'm like, yeah.
So she handed me the receiptwith my card and I looked down
and I said what about my food?
And she says no, no, you'll payfor that up there.

(08:22):
So I looked down and I thoughtit was just for the one beer.
So it was like five dollars andsome change, so I tipped a
dollar.
You all, right?
Yep, good, so I tip a dollar.
Uh-huh, she takes off and goes.
I go up there I wait for myfood, the dude brings out my
food and I'm like he's likethere you go and I'm like I
gotta pay you.
He's like no, it's alreadyhandled, you're, it's already
paid, and I go and I'm like Igot to pay you.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
He's like no, it's already handled, it's already
paid.
And I was like he's confused.
I was so confused I was likeokay, so anyways.
Keep hitting that thing.
I know Half the time myscreen's like this in your hand.
Talk with your hands.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
So, anyways, I'm actually in bed, asleep, and my
phone just starts blowing up andof course it's Darian.
She's with the guy who was Ididn't know at the time, but
he's the like the regionalmanager or one of the managers.
And when I first walked in thethe at the very first of the
night the gal at the door Iasked her.

(09:11):
I just told her I'm like we'rethe ones having the event.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
She just looked at me with this confused face and
she's like event.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know anything about an event, so I called
Darian, because she's the onethat set it up and knows this
guy, and she called him andthere was just a big confusion.
But then another lady showed upand she knew all about it and
everything was set us all up.
It was they were perfect.
Man, you, you, you guys.
Trolley wing company.
You did a great job great food,menu great food.
You guys were on top of it thewhole entire time, but because

(09:43):
of those that previous call andmy idiot dollar fusion dollar,
dollar, tip, dollar, tip.
This guy took that as me that Iwas pissed off because I felt
like they they slided, youslided us or didn't take it.
Which number one?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I would never do that and that's what they're saying,
and I said that on the phone aswell, by the way.
Yeah, like no way.
That's not.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
He didn't mean to do that, no so anyways, on a I
guess it was 59, not fivedollars you were.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
You were a high tipper, you thought it was 25%
and it was, oh my gosh dude.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I mean last night before I fell asleep, I'm laying
there and I'm going I don'tthink I paid for my food Like
I'm going back there tomorrowbecause I really seriously don't
.
I'm that guy, yeah, I'm likeI'm not, I'm not out to take
advantage of anybody, dude.
It's like I'm sitting thereliterally having anxiety over it
, thinking I don't think I paidfor my food, and then my phone

(10:42):
starts bombing and I tipped adollar.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I got to talk to him and he was just like, oh my gosh
, did we do?
Okay, I'm like dude, it wasamazing.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, he was stressed out that I was sending him a
message and I was not.
I was just confused, tired,Darian was a little tuned up.
Yeah, so, anyways, that's whathappened last night.
So Darian sent me thatwaitress's Venmo and I sent her
a $20 tip today.
Oh cool, so instead of $1, shegot $21.

(11:13):
Yeah, she got taken care ofGood.
That's good.
Yeah, yeah, no, instead of adollar, she got 21.
Yeah, she got taken care ofGood.
That's good.
Yeah, yeah, no, they did greatdude.
Yeah, it was Dude.
The food was so good.
The food was good, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean, it was that Belgian I got.
That was good.
It was non-alcoholic beer, itwas way good.
Yeah yeah, it had a greataftertaste.
I was like I mean, it was, youknow, some Mexican beers, how
they really have that skunkyaftertaste.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's what it smelled like to me when, when
you handed it to me.
But then, dude, the aftertastewas wheat, and just so good,
yeah, it tasted like work.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
It tastes like a German beer.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good, fake German beer.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
So, uh, anyways, thank you so much.
Uh, charlie, wing company, weappreciate you guys.
I just want to make sure that,uh, you understand that, that
you guys were totally on top ofit.
We had no beefs at all.
I've just, I'm just a littleoff my game right now Cause I'm
freaking, working like a rentedmule, so, but I'll get back in
the, I'll get back in the swing,yep, all right, let's introduce

(12:17):
this cat standing next to you.
Buddy, who is this guy?
Who is this?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
guy, big Papa Pump, papa Pump.
Should I introduce myself?
Yeah, come on.
Who the hell are you?
My name's Gabe.
I'm Aaron's son.
What?
Yeah, hang on.
So yeah, brand new second weekof real estate, so yeah he's

(12:46):
jumping in.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
He's door knocking he's calling his friends.
How cool this is.
How old are you gabe?