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- 1:37Speaker 1: when you're planning your goals. My next guest is a
- 1:40Speaker 1: real estate and investor in entrepreneur. He started investing in
- 1:43Speaker 1: real estate when he started watching a YouTube videos, just
- 1:47Speaker 1: YouTube videos, you know, self health videos. You can just
- 1:49Speaker 1: turn on the people start talking about how you can
- 1:50Speaker 1: make money. And now he owns over two million dollars
- 1:53Speaker 1: in property. So obviously he learned something from those YouTube videos.
- 1:57Speaker 1: So that's that's part of our story that we're gonna
- 1:59Speaker 1: talk about to He wants to share his story and
- 2:01Speaker 1: he's written a book, an e book called interest Free
- 2:04Speaker 1: Money Guy. The book was written to educate you on
- 2:07Speaker 1: business credit. This This book was created to provide a
- 2:10Speaker 1: step by step guide on how to effectively utilize business credit.
- 2:14Speaker 1: His book will teach you how to access interest free
- 2:16Speaker 1: credit on Twitter. Fifteen business card to cards, I got
- 2:20Speaker 1: a bunch of so hey, I don't have twar the fifteen,
- 2:22Speaker 1: but I got a lot of credit card And we
- 2:23Speaker 1: will also discuss how he got started in the real
- 2:25Speaker 1: estate at such a young age. Please walking to money
- 2:28Speaker 1: Making Conversation straight out Louisiana by way. I'm laughing, yette,
- 2:32Speaker 1: Mr O'Neill Parker. Are you doing man? How are you
- 2:36Speaker 1: doing pretty good? Well? You know you're that real estate
- 2:39Speaker 1: game and uh, you know they said when the pandemic hit,
- 2:41Speaker 1: did it? You know? What type of real estate are
- 2:44Speaker 1: in the commercial real estate? Are you at homes? What
- 2:45Speaker 1: type of real estate are you in? Residential houses? Okay,
- 2:50Speaker 1: okay with brother, Now, how was that when you were
- 2:53Speaker 1: well you were able to show your homes? Or how
- 2:56Speaker 1: do people didn't stop completely? Or where are you at
- 2:58Speaker 1: right now with residents? You're on themselves. Honestly, everything went
- 3:03Speaker 1: pretty well, so we didn't really get affected by the
- 3:07Speaker 1: coronavirus that bed, so all the tenants kept playing. So
- 3:10Speaker 1: the thing what I do is are big on rent.
- 3:12Speaker 1: To own and section eight. So you know, sex, it
- 3:15Speaker 1: has never entertainment since it's been opened, and the thing
- 3:18Speaker 1: would rent to owners. Um, the tenants that living those properties,
- 3:22Speaker 1: they put a big down payment and they're committed to
- 3:25Speaker 1: buying that hus. So basically I become the bank on
- 3:27Speaker 1: that property. And I'm not really just a landlord. That's
- 3:30Speaker 1: like you know, you when you buy your house, you
- 3:31Speaker 1: don't call Wells Fargo when the toilet goes out, so
- 3:35Speaker 1: you just yeah, that's just the bank for you. Okay, cool.
- 3:38Speaker 1: So basically, what with that being said, what exactly is
- 3:42Speaker 1: your business model that you put in that you have
- 3:45Speaker 1: in the real est game game? Because I heard you
- 3:46Speaker 1: say section eight and then forever we get started, I've
- 3:49Speaker 1: heard that term a lot in my life. Sex and eight.
- 3:51Speaker 1: What exactly is a section eight person? Okay, So I'm
- 3:55Speaker 1: gonna start with the section eight question. Um, sex is
- 3:58Speaker 1: basically regularly evil um with low income. They use the
- 4:02Speaker 1: government to help him out because they're not making enough money.
- 4:05Speaker 1: So the government pitches in and pays a portion of
- 4:08Speaker 1: the rent or the whole rent. That's all sex made.
- 4:11Speaker 1: It is just a federal program help low income people.
- 4:15Speaker 1: And when you said low income people, What are we
- 4:17Speaker 1: talking like under twenty thousand dollars on the fifty annually
- 4:20Speaker 1: or fifteen thousand dollars and you only thirty what is
- 4:23Speaker 1: that the worst they considered a low income number. First,
- 4:27Speaker 1: every market is different. So you know, Louisiana pretty poor.
- 4:30Speaker 1: So if you make um like under twenty thousand, you
- 4:34Speaker 1: can apply for session. But it really just depends you
- 4:37Speaker 1: can make twenty five thousand. Just the people that make
- 4:39Speaker 1: twenty of course they're gonna pay more than rent compared
- 4:42Speaker 1: to the people that makes twenty five tho years. So
- 4:44Speaker 1: sex pays lazers say you're into eight hundreds, that poblic
- 4:47Speaker 1: day seven fifty and the tenant pay fifty. But depending
- 4:50Speaker 1: on what your job is and how much money you make,
- 4:52Speaker 1: it just depends on how much they're gonna pay. Okay, cool,
- 4:55Speaker 1: and now I reached I bring that up and inquiring
- 4:57Speaker 1: because when you when you talk about you watch television,
- 5:01Speaker 1: you talk about it, you you you're doing business with
- 5:04Speaker 1: people and they consider to be uh uh slow payers
- 5:08Speaker 1: or no payers, uh a dead beat, people who are
- 5:12Speaker 1: just sponges off of the government. That's the negative that
- 5:14Speaker 1: you get when people use the word welfare or section
- 5:18Speaker 1: eight people, So explain why did you decide to have
- 5:22Speaker 1: that part of your business model. People on the on
- 5:26Speaker 1: the indie section eight platform. Uh, you know what they
- 5:30Speaker 1: say about those people is really just um it's here thing.
- 5:34Speaker 1: So you know, you can't get advice from people that's
- 5:36Speaker 1: not really in the business. So the people that are
- 5:38Speaker 1: really in the business, they enjoy sections to what the
- 5:42Speaker 1: section vouchers. The thing about section it is the people
- 5:47Speaker 1: that has all those headaches, that all those people in
- 5:49Speaker 1: the landlords that accept the first person. So it's the
- 5:52Speaker 1: same as if you're written into a regular family. You
- 5:54Speaker 1: don't just take the first person. You have to do
- 5:56Speaker 1: all your due diligence. So it's the same with SECNIC.
- 5:59Speaker 1: You with your application out there, you put your problem
- 6:01Speaker 1: out there for rent, and then a lot of people
- 6:03Speaker 1: start calling your texting your Hey I'm interested in this property.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Of course you're not gonna accept the first person. So
- 6:09Speaker 1: you gotta do your proper due diligence to do your
- 6:10Speaker 1: background check, you know, check the job, check their credit, um,
- 6:15Speaker 1: call their former landlord and things like that. So if
- 6:18Speaker 1: you follow the steps, you can usually get yourself a
- 6:20Speaker 1: good tent. Now you get you know, you get the
- 6:23Speaker 1: person that said they got it. That's typically a bad
- 6:25Speaker 1: tenant because you're not doing nothing of your research on
- 6:27Speaker 1: that person. I understand what you're saying here. You're saying
- 6:30Speaker 1: rashand look, they're bad apples in a batch. Okay, don't
- 6:35Speaker 1: do your like like you know, like you're trying to
- 6:37Speaker 1: hire good employee. You're any person, you call their references,
- 6:42Speaker 1: you go on their social media that he got some
- 6:44Speaker 1: crazy pictures on social media. That might not be the
- 6:47Speaker 1: person you want to hire. So the same thing here,
- 6:50Speaker 1: So the same thing here. You have to do the
- 6:52Speaker 1: same thing with these individuals. It's not about a stigma
- 6:55Speaker 1: than being in section age. It's some people out there
- 6:57Speaker 1: who are trying to live a better life, try to
- 7:00Speaker 1: step up, trying to get into a better environment for
- 7:03Speaker 1: their kids, for their families, and your your situation and
- 7:07Speaker 1: enables that. And it's worked out pretty well for you.
- 7:10Speaker 1: And you're based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Correct, Yes, sir, that's
- 7:14Speaker 1: my market. That's your market. Now are you looking to
- 7:16Speaker 1: expand out of that market? You're just gonna dominate, laugh,
- 7:20Speaker 1: gonna be the king of Lafayette, that's what you're trying
- 7:22Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, I'm trying to take over a little bit.
- 7:24Speaker 1: So it's currently my market to laft market. So if
- 7:32Speaker 1: anybody doesn't know where laugh he had left head is
- 7:34Speaker 1: right on I T N E S. And what he
- 7:35Speaker 1: just said is you go just go straight down I
- 7:39Speaker 1: Tennis heading from Houston, Texas. Okay, just going down there,
- 7:43Speaker 1: you're gonna hit laughy at first, then you're gonna have
- 7:45Speaker 1: the capital that's baton rouge. Then you're gonna slide right
- 7:48Speaker 1: on end to New Orleans. So he's he's really going
- 7:51Speaker 1: down there. I called him. I'm gonna call him the gumboat,
- 7:54Speaker 1: the gumbo real estate man, right because he's doing the gumbo. Bro.
- 7:56Speaker 1: He controlling all the gumbo right there, Mr Parker and everything.
- 8:00Speaker 1: I'm trying to man, we're good. Well, you know I was.
- 8:03Speaker 1: I want to talk about you getting started this business
- 8:06Speaker 1: because there's so many TV shows on, you know, Flip That,
- 8:10Speaker 1: Flip Dead by this, your people coming to town talking
- 8:13Speaker 1: about you can get read if you listen to their model,
- 8:16Speaker 1: and how you can get into the real estate game.
- 8:18Speaker 1: Now you yourself. When I was reading your bio, he said,
- 8:21Speaker 1: you started watching YouTube videos. That's how you got in
- 8:24Speaker 1: the real estate game. Correct, yes, sir, yes, Sara, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: so um I started my business back in two thousands sixteen,
- 8:33Speaker 1: is around November. I closed my first deal. So I
- 8:35Speaker 1: started my business. It was sixty three dollars. So you
- 8:38Speaker 1: know all the YouTube videos that watches like you can
- 8:40Speaker 1: get into real estate with little money or no credits.
- 8:43Speaker 1: So you know, I want to figure it out and
- 8:44Speaker 1: see that's true. So um, I orted mid some blank signs,
- 8:48Speaker 1: so you know the political sign that you say like
- 8:51Speaker 1: both for this guy or whatever, those type of signs.
- 8:54Speaker 1: But I ordered some blink one and I wrote we
- 8:56Speaker 1: bought houses on them. So I put those signs out
- 8:58Speaker 1: within three weeks of May, two thousand dollars and then
- 9:01Speaker 1: umdy hold on the park right, So I got a
- 9:05Speaker 1: couple of houses. And because I live in both cities
- 9:08Speaker 1: and different cities, you know, I always get these these
- 9:11Speaker 1: little cards people mailing me calling me tellut I buy
- 9:14Speaker 1: my house, we'll buy your house, We'll buy your house,
- 9:17Speaker 1: you know, and I have to ignore them because I'm
- 9:18Speaker 1: not selling my house. So you just said you had
- 9:21Speaker 1: some signs, like those little political signs that you see
- 9:24Speaker 1: people stick in the yard, and you put we buy houses,
- 9:27Speaker 1: and then you jumped to saying you made two thousand dollars.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Now there are some steps that you missed that we
- 9:32Speaker 1: have to say on Money Making Conversation dot com. So
- 9:35Speaker 1: you put the sign out, you put the sign out,
- 9:38Speaker 1: you you put on that neatly road, we buy holl
- 9:41Speaker 1: we buy homes, or we buy houses. What happened after that?
- 9:45Speaker 1: All right? So basically I did my market the strategy
- 9:49Speaker 1: that I've used to do that was called hotelling, which
- 9:52Speaker 1: hotelling is if you're advertising to the stressed sellers. So
- 9:56Speaker 1: people have gone through the vorce. Um, they have two
- 9:59Speaker 1: in their pairs. You can't fix long grass co violations. Uh,
- 10:04Speaker 1: this is a bunch of different things. So I'm marketing
- 10:06Speaker 1: into direct directly to the stress sellers. So I put
- 10:10Speaker 1: those signs out marketing. We bought houses, started getting phone calls. Um,
- 10:15Speaker 1: there was a father and the son. The house just
- 10:17Speaker 1: got flood So I was in the bad Movis market
- 10:19Speaker 1: at the time. We had a big flood in two
- 10:21Speaker 1: thousand sixteen. So the house was flooded. They had flood insurance,
- 10:26Speaker 1: so they got they checked there was just ready to
- 10:27Speaker 1: settle house. So I went to the house, offered them
- 10:31Speaker 1: seventy thousand. So the a r V at the house
- 10:34Speaker 1: was called after repair that you have to order repairs
- 10:36Speaker 1: done like a brand house was about two hundred and
- 10:39Speaker 1: thirty thousand. So I got under contract seven thousand, and
- 10:43Speaker 1: then I saw that pizza paper to another investors for
- 10:46Speaker 1: seventy two thousands? How many two thousands on that deal?
- 10:51Speaker 1: And now that's called hostel in real estate? Okay, okay?
- 10:55Speaker 1: And so that person gets the house, they pay seven
- 10:59Speaker 1: to two thousand four and they can sell it wherever
- 11:00Speaker 1: they want to selling that right right, So typically they
- 11:04Speaker 1: buy it for me for seven two to put all
- 11:07Speaker 1: the repairs into it. Let's just say they all in
- 11:09Speaker 1: that one fifty and they tell us a two tony
- 11:11Speaker 1: and they make a profit. Now you got all this
- 11:14Speaker 1: from a YouTube video? Yes see, not just want to
- 11:18Speaker 1: see you? Okay, Now, what motivated you to go to YouTube?
- 11:21Speaker 1: Because you hear all these commercials on TV, you know,
- 11:24Speaker 1: buy this or dialoade this, or go to a webinar.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Would you recommend people going to YouTube to learn about
- 11:30Speaker 1: how to get in the real estate business, I would say,
- 11:34Speaker 1: me and myself, I'm cheap, so that's the first step
- 11:37Speaker 1: for me. Let's see all the information I can find
- 11:39Speaker 1: free first and to see if I'm really interested in
- 11:42Speaker 1: because why I pay money if you don't even know
- 11:44Speaker 1: if you're interested in that type of thing. So that's
- 11:47Speaker 1: my that's my idea. And you know, and uh, YouTube
- 11:50Speaker 1: is like a big university, have pretty much everything anything
- 11:53Speaker 1: you need. You know, if you need a sixty cards
- 11:55Speaker 1: on there, you want to buy a house or learn
- 11:57Speaker 1: to trying to buy houses on there. So I always
- 11:59Speaker 1: say that's the first step google YouTube, figure out what
- 12:02Speaker 1: it is. You know, if you're really interested, then you know,
- 12:05Speaker 1: take the next step. Say somebody has been through its
- 12:08Speaker 1: know what to do, and then you go from there. Well,
- 12:11Speaker 1: it's an interesting thing about it. First of all, I
- 12:13Speaker 1: don't want to you can say because you cheap. That's
- 12:16Speaker 1: I say, you're smart because of the fact that technology.
- 12:19Speaker 1: And I always tell that to Abody because my predominant
- 12:21Speaker 1: artist is African Americans, and sometimes we don't take advantage
- 12:24Speaker 1: of what technology provides us, you know, right, and and
- 12:29Speaker 1: then you know, and the research is out there for
- 12:31Speaker 1: free as long as you have WiFi, as long as
- 12:34Speaker 1: you and you can do this on your phone. You've
- 12:35Speaker 1: got your cell phone. You're doing your cell phone, so
- 12:37Speaker 1: you can know. You don't have to go get a
- 12:38Speaker 1: laptop or go get a computer, or you know, go
- 12:40Speaker 1: to a tech store. You can do this on your
- 12:42Speaker 1: phone and educate yourself. And these were just YouTube and
- 12:45Speaker 1: you just went on YouTube. We just google you real
- 12:48Speaker 1: estate or what do you do on YouTube? That you
- 12:50Speaker 1: was able to get you to to the right videos.
- 12:54Speaker 1: So I'm gonna break down the store. So I was
- 12:57Speaker 1: twenty one, my first house. Nobody told you to do this.
- 13:02Speaker 1: You just decided to do this on your own. Yeah.
- 13:06Speaker 1: So the reason being I was living in left It
- 13:08Speaker 1: at the time, and my job was in Baton Rouge
- 13:10Speaker 1: and I'm not I don't like the drop, so I
- 13:11Speaker 1: wanted to live close to my job, so I went
- 13:14Speaker 1: um straight from my parents house to my own host.
- 13:17Speaker 1: I was just uh looking in the area looking for
- 13:19Speaker 1: the house to buy. Couldn't really find anything, and I've
- 13:22Speaker 1: seen the house that they just pulled a slab. So
- 13:24Speaker 1: I got with a developer. We got together and finished
- 13:27Speaker 1: the house and then that's how I did that. And
- 13:29Speaker 1: I purchased that house with f h a loan which
- 13:31Speaker 1: is three and a half percent down. And then a
- 13:35Speaker 1: year after that, I was just on YouTube again. Searching
- 13:38Speaker 1: how to make more money, and then uh, real estate
- 13:41Speaker 1: kept popping up, and then hotels popped up, and then
- 13:44Speaker 1: I took off from them. And that's how that happens.
- 13:49Speaker 1: You just took off from there, and now you have
- 13:51Speaker 1: over two million dollars and real estate problems. Yes, yes,
- 13:56Speaker 1: and you you you do you leave that so many
- 14:02Speaker 1: parts it because you talk your fast talker to I
- 14:04Speaker 1: can tell that to you. You you you talk quick now,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and so I'm gonna slowing you down because I'm a
- 14:08Speaker 1: Texas boy. I like for people to talk, especially when
- 14:11Speaker 1: you're talking about money. That's when you're talking about money,
- 14:13Speaker 1: what you can't do and say, well, you know, I'm
- 14:15Speaker 1: went from seventy to seventy two and now I got
- 14:17Speaker 1: two million dollars. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You know,
- 14:21Speaker 1: you can't do me like that. You can't do that,
- 14:23Speaker 1: you can't do my listeners like that. Because there had
- 14:26Speaker 1: to be some some like some slow down moments. So
- 14:30Speaker 1: oh no, wow, that wasn't a good move there, Wow,
- 14:34Speaker 1: because you am I not. Everything has been a solid success. Nah,
- 14:40Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot more to it all. This
- 14:42Speaker 1: really starts from the beginning, which is what your mindset.
- 14:44Speaker 1: You know, if your mindset is not right, you can't
- 14:46Speaker 1: do none of this stuff I'm talking about, right, So
- 14:48Speaker 1: that's the first step. What I had to do this.
- 14:51Speaker 1: I had to focus on what I want to do, realize,
- 14:54Speaker 1: you know, what I want to do with my family, well,
- 14:57Speaker 1: realize what I want to do myself, and just cool
- 15:00Speaker 1: us a little bit for like two years. I say
- 15:02Speaker 1: lots and read books podcast. I'm not really a clever
- 15:06Speaker 1: type of person, so I wasn't really going out of anything.
- 15:09Speaker 1: I wasn't really talking to friends. I was just spoken
- 15:11Speaker 1: on what I had to do. And that's how it really,
- 15:13Speaker 1: That's how everything happened. How it to go. Well, a
- 15:16Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that they have to sacrifice
- 15:18Speaker 1: a lot of things to get what you really wants,
- 15:20Speaker 1: and a lot of people are not ready for that.
- 15:22Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about. Because everybody wants
- 15:25Speaker 1: that that ferrari, everybody wants that diamond ring, everybody wants
- 15:29Speaker 1: that fat bank account. But there are sacrifices that you
- 15:32Speaker 1: have to make, and we make those sacrifices. There has
- 15:35Speaker 1: to be a goal in mind as to why you're
- 15:37Speaker 1: making those sacrifices and That's what we're talking about because
- 15:40Speaker 1: you start, you made that that conscious decision at twenty one,
- 15:43Speaker 1: and we all know twenty one mindset is to you know,
- 15:46Speaker 1: to be out the club and party and hanging, and
- 15:49Speaker 1: you decided to know this is uh, this is an
- 15:52Speaker 1: opportunity to better my life. But you now are you?
- 15:56Speaker 1: Are you working a full time job? Now? Is real
- 15:58Speaker 1: estate all you do? Yeah? I say my full time
- 16:02Speaker 1: job as well. But the thing about my job is
- 16:04Speaker 1: pretty easily exact. Over forty of the week, works like
- 16:07Speaker 1: maybe two hours a day. So while I'm at that job,
- 16:09Speaker 1: I'm still working real estate as well. That's another thing
- 16:12Speaker 1: I want to talk about. A lot of people don't
- 16:14Speaker 1: like their jobs or like what they do, but they're
- 16:16Speaker 1: not really maximizing all the time. They do have to
- 16:18Speaker 1: get out the job that they don't want to have.
- 16:20Speaker 1: So you can't want to be at your job complaining.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Are they're not really doing nothing about it after you
- 16:24Speaker 1: get off of work or doing your lunch break, And um,
- 16:27Speaker 1: that's how I started. So while I was at work,
- 16:30Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything. I got on my computer and got
- 16:32Speaker 1: to work and they started calling people making deals happen.
- 16:35Speaker 1: And then that's how it all happened for me. And
- 16:37Speaker 1: then after work, I was going to sleep at like
- 16:39Speaker 1: ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, working at three or full five
- 16:42Speaker 1: in the morning to do the same thing over and
- 16:44Speaker 1: over again. And as the things I was telling you about,
- 16:47Speaker 1: a lot of people not really sacrifice all their time
- 16:50Speaker 1: to learn and developing, but uh time and work into
- 16:53Speaker 1: their business. They rather um after work, go hang out
- 16:57Speaker 1: at the ball, go play softball, play the video games
- 17:00Speaker 1: and things like that. Man, that's hindering the growth if
- 17:03Speaker 1: you're not really all in on what you're trying to do.
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- 19:01Speaker 1: dot ai. Well wow, and that's all. That's all I
- 19:05Speaker 1: tell people money making conversation is there's a technique to success,
- 19:09Speaker 1: and your technique is saying luke, I can I can
- 19:12Speaker 1: paint you an easy story and tell you that you
- 19:15Speaker 1: know that you can do this too. But this is
- 19:18Speaker 1: not cut out for everybody. This is this is not
- 19:21Speaker 1: and that's why you said yourself, you wasn't really cut
- 19:23Speaker 1: off for this, so to speak. That's why you said,
- 19:25Speaker 1: ray Sean on the reel, I went this direction because
- 19:27Speaker 1: I didn't want to spend any money. That's why I
- 19:29Speaker 1: went to YouTube, which was really smart because YouTube, like
- 19:32Speaker 1: you said, you can want to learn how to fix
- 19:33Speaker 1: your car, You want to learn to make a cake,
- 19:35Speaker 1: you want to learn how to how to make a rocket,
- 19:37Speaker 1: you want to learn how to be a marathon runner.
- 19:40Speaker 1: You can go to YouTube. It's on there. Just type in,
- 19:42Speaker 1: just type in search and a lot of options will
- 19:45Speaker 1: pop up and so that's what you did. And so
- 19:47Speaker 1: now with that being said, but also I like the
- 19:49Speaker 1: fact was that I always tell people that if you
- 19:51Speaker 1: have a full time job to follow your dream, that
- 19:54Speaker 1: doesn't mean necessarily you should quit your full time job,
- 19:58Speaker 1: and in fact you should. You should try to married
- 20:00Speaker 1: to two and try to realize I'm a staping, I
- 20:03Speaker 1: said all the time. But Parker, is this, if you
- 20:08Speaker 1: have twenty four hours in a day, learn to take
- 20:10Speaker 1: advantage of every hour. And that's what you did. And
- 20:13Speaker 1: you said, look, I got a nine five, I get
- 20:16Speaker 1: up at three and give be four or my lunch break.
- 20:17Speaker 1: I called somebody. Since I get a work, I called somebody.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Now has has that led to any complications? Because I
- 20:24Speaker 1: know you said your job is unique it allows as
- 20:26Speaker 1: you do that. But what if somebody was a banker
- 20:29Speaker 1: or bank to working at a bank or or working
- 20:31Speaker 1: at a typical ninety five that tells you that you
- 20:34Speaker 1: have to come to work, you have to do things
- 20:36Speaker 1: nine to five, because they still accomplished what you're trying
- 20:39Speaker 1: to make happen on Neil of course, so let's say
- 20:43Speaker 1: you said nine to five, So what are you doing
- 20:45Speaker 1: between seven eight thirty? You gotta think you might have
- 20:48Speaker 1: to wake up a little earlier, stay of a little later,
- 20:49Speaker 1: so you can do a lot of things. Just how
- 20:51Speaker 1: committed all you to do what you want to do. Now,
- 20:55Speaker 1: there's always, of course to you wor nine at least
- 20:57Speaker 1: get out of lunch break so you know, go sitting.
- 21:00Speaker 1: I don't really tell boys, don't tell everybody what you're doing,
- 21:02Speaker 1: because of course they're gonna gonna go around the office
- 21:04Speaker 1: and then that might be a problem. So you gotta
- 21:07Speaker 1: post it in lock in and then do what you
- 21:08Speaker 1: gotta do. Now, with that being said, you've written a
- 21:11Speaker 1: book because you need book. I mentioned it in my
- 21:13Speaker 1: opening introduction to you. It's called Interest Free Money Guide.
- 21:18Speaker 1: What exactly is that book about and why did you
- 21:20Speaker 1: write it? So that book is really about business credit
- 21:23Speaker 1: and teaching our communities, the black community about um utilizing
- 21:27Speaker 1: and leveraging the credit scores, because many people have good
- 21:30Speaker 1: credit and don't know what to do with it, or
- 21:32Speaker 1: they have good credit don't own anything. So basically, this
- 21:35Speaker 1: book is teaching how to leverage your credit scores to
- 21:38Speaker 1: get interest free money from the banks, to investing yourself,
- 21:42Speaker 1: your business or some type of thing, some type of
- 21:46Speaker 1: investment to make you more money by leveraging the bank's money,
- 21:49Speaker 1: which is called OPM. Also reference to other people's money
- 21:54Speaker 1: because a lot of I'm sure a lot of people
- 21:55Speaker 1: hear other people's money, but they really don't understand what
- 21:57Speaker 1: it is. Other people's money is everybody else's money other
- 22:01Speaker 1: than your own. So me myself, I teach people how
- 22:04Speaker 1: to leverage the bank's money and you can get big
- 22:06Speaker 1: lines of credit fifty too, you know, two fifty dollars
- 22:10Speaker 1: per LLC, and it could be a brand new LLC.
- 22:13Speaker 1: A lot of people in our community has no knowledge
- 22:15Speaker 1: of that. So it was my goal to write the
- 22:18Speaker 1: book to teach people about that because, like I said earlier,
- 22:21Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know about it, and we
- 22:23Speaker 1: need to start taking advantage of it because the other
- 22:24Speaker 1: communities have been doing that for a while, and that's
- 22:27Speaker 1: what we're behind because we don't know any better. Now,
- 22:30Speaker 1: how do we get there? Now? You're on my show,
- 22:32Speaker 1: might to make a conversation. Are like you said, I
- 22:35Speaker 1: have a newsletter. If you don't mind, I'd like to
- 22:37Speaker 1: drop this information about you. My news letter goes out
- 22:40Speaker 1: to any thousand people and what what would you say?
- 22:44Speaker 1: Is so you know, if I had to write copy
- 22:46Speaker 1: about you and drop it in the newsletter, what would
- 22:49Speaker 1: you say? Will be like three sentences I shouldn't include
- 22:52Speaker 1: in the copy about you in regards to what you're
- 22:54Speaker 1: trying to do with your book. Okay, so I'll say, um,
- 22:59Speaker 1: the reason you need to because it's giving you access
- 23:02Speaker 1: to thousands of dollars that you can use to make
- 23:04Speaker 1: more money for you, your family, and your kids in
- 23:07Speaker 1: generations to come. That's all it is, basically, And how
- 23:12Speaker 1: did you find out about it? Just just too you know,
- 23:14Speaker 1: first of all, let's let's look back, because you what
- 23:17Speaker 1: are you? Am I wrong? In that age years old?
- 23:22Speaker 1: Twenty one years of age, you were trying to find
- 23:24Speaker 1: out who you were? All right? Because you want YouTube
- 23:28Speaker 1: and you file these real estate videos. You looked at them.
- 23:30Speaker 1: You said, I can do something. When I got your
- 23:32Speaker 1: home in bad Rouge and did a wholesale deal, made
- 23:35Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. This is in Now we're twenty and
- 23:38Speaker 1: the middle of a pandemic. You have two million dollars
- 23:41Speaker 1: of valued property out there. You have good unners or
- 23:45Speaker 1: some of them are Section eight people. They're loyal, You
- 23:48Speaker 1: do your research, You you have Creed. You have a
- 23:51Speaker 1: personality that have said that I don't want to be
- 23:54Speaker 1: a ninety five, but you're still holding on to your nine.
- 23:57Speaker 1: How does how can one say? How did you figure
- 24:01Speaker 1: this out? O'Neil, I gotta got you. So it's really Uh,
- 24:07Speaker 1: I'm a learned term thinking, long term planning, so I
- 24:09Speaker 1: know my job uses me, so I do everything I
- 24:12Speaker 1: can to use them. So you got to realize that
- 24:14Speaker 1: banks like people that have uh, two weeks checks was
- 24:18Speaker 1: just considered a guaranteed check. Banks that were like entrepreneurs
- 24:21Speaker 1: because they don't know where the next check is coming from.
- 24:24Speaker 1: My next check is not a guaranteed so I know, Um,
- 24:28Speaker 1: I want to buy Reynolds, build my past of income
- 24:30Speaker 1: to of course replace my job, maybe even double my
- 24:32Speaker 1: job income. So when I do quit, I have those
- 24:35Speaker 1: two year tax returns with my business, and I have
- 24:38Speaker 1: my assets to pay for everything that I'm trying to do.
- 24:41Speaker 1: So that's the reason why I kept my job. I
- 24:42Speaker 1: still have my job because it's a lot easier to
- 24:44Speaker 1: get funded from banks and private lenders, hard money lenders
- 24:47Speaker 1: and things that need So it's all about long term
- 24:51Speaker 1: thinking and planning for the future, not just for now.
- 24:53Speaker 1: So I see what you're saying. As an entrepreneur like you,
- 24:58Speaker 1: people don't know there's no guarantee because you are what
- 25:00Speaker 1: they say, an entrepreneur. But because you have a full
- 25:03Speaker 1: time job, they see a steady check, a guaranteed check.
- 25:08Speaker 1: It means that could be a guaranteed commitment to making
- 25:11Speaker 1: that monthly payment. Exactly, you gotta look good to the banks.
- 25:15Speaker 1: You gotta look look exactly how the people that's letting
- 25:17Speaker 1: you the money wants you to look to get the
- 25:19Speaker 1: money that they're trying to live. So I figured that
- 25:23Speaker 1: out and I just kept my job. So I could
- 25:25Speaker 1: have quit my job. So going back to the beginning
- 25:28Speaker 1: of my story, I started to busing sixty two thousand
- 25:31Speaker 1: and three weeks, I mean fifty thou and four months,
- 25:34Speaker 1: So at that time I was making like sixty sixty
- 25:37Speaker 1: sixty five thousand a year. But net that's really like
- 25:39Speaker 1: party to forty five thousand a year, I mean, more
- 25:42Speaker 1: of my part time job than my full time job.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And most people just walk away. But because see what
- 25:48Speaker 1: I think about the long term game, they think about
- 25:50Speaker 1: right now, we're just the downside of being an entrepreneur.
- 25:54Speaker 1: If there is a downside to being an entrepreneur because,
- 25:57Speaker 1: like you said, I'm sure dude, you can do you
- 25:59Speaker 1: get help in the fits with your full time John, Yes, okay, go,
- 26:03Speaker 1: so you gotta help. Benefits you don't have to worry about.
- 26:05Speaker 1: You know that check is gonna be coming to you
- 26:07Speaker 1: on a regular basis, you know it. It's like a clock.
- 26:10Speaker 1: What is the downside of being an entrepreneur compared to
- 26:13Speaker 1: a person who's living both lifestyles? Right now, O'Neil, you're
- 26:18Speaker 1: a full time employer and you are basically a full
- 26:21Speaker 1: time entrepreneur. So you get to tell me exactly the
- 26:24Speaker 1: benefits of being a full time person and the benefits
- 26:27Speaker 1: of being a full time entrepreneur, because you clearly have
- 26:30Speaker 1: figured out the twelve hours and giving this and twelve
- 26:33Speaker 1: hours to give this and I'm gonna sleep somewhere in between. Yeah.
- 26:38Speaker 1: So the benefits of both is of course what I
- 26:40Speaker 1: said earlier, the funding and everything with the job, uh insurance.
- 26:44Speaker 1: You can also leverage your full one K, so I
- 26:47Speaker 1: do that as well. Um so going towards the following, kids, like,
- 26:53Speaker 1: your job is giving you whatever the match six percent
- 26:56Speaker 1: you put in the thing, so now you're building Uh,
- 26:59Speaker 1: I say even as a car or something like that
- 27:01Speaker 1: with the company. So I did, uh, maybe like a
- 27:03Speaker 1: month ago. I took half of it out. So right
- 27:05Speaker 1: now with the coronavirus, you can either depend on your company.
- 27:08Speaker 1: You can take all your going call not have a penalty.
- 27:11Speaker 1: But I only took half of which is a loan
- 27:13Speaker 1: to myself. Put that in real estate, make more money
- 27:15Speaker 1: with it, and then I'm really just paying myself back
- 27:17Speaker 1: with interest. So you can leverage your job that way. Um.
- 27:21Speaker 1: The other benefits of being an entrepreneur is I don't
- 27:27Speaker 1: really need the job, so I don't have to work
- 27:28Speaker 1: over time. I don't want to. I just worked my
- 27:30Speaker 1: party I was gone, so I'm not really tied down
- 27:34Speaker 1: to having to go over there, So that's another benefit
- 27:37Speaker 1: of it. Uh. And also just um, building my freedom,
- 27:43Speaker 1: leveraging my job to make me more money, change my um,
- 27:46Speaker 1: you know, change my lifestyle. So that's the huge benefit
- 27:50Speaker 1: leverage them what it leveraging me in a partnership right now? Absolutely? Absolutely?
- 27:56Speaker 1: And so being an entrepreneur you have to be self motivating,
- 27:58Speaker 1: I'm sure, oh yeah, And do you work with any
- 28:03Speaker 1: other people in achieving your success story? Right now? And
- 28:07Speaker 1: from an entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial side of the table. Yeah.
- 28:12Speaker 1: So you know have kind of bility departments to have friends.
- 28:14Speaker 1: A lot of friends out there. Uh. Just started another
- 28:16Speaker 1: business in January. Are my business partner Mr Tyrn. So
- 28:19Speaker 1: we helped. We hold each other kind of boo. Of
- 28:21Speaker 1: course we both have to play out partunate the business
- 28:23Speaker 1: to seed. So that's a big part of uh the growth.
- 28:27Speaker 1: And uh we're start another hostealing business. So I stopped
- 28:30Speaker 1: within those four months that we talked about earlier. We
- 28:33Speaker 1: started one again in January. Reason we started this business
- 28:36Speaker 1: because we're both looking at the future. Want to Uh
- 28:40Speaker 1: the generational was by more property. So we're start another
- 28:43Speaker 1: holestealing business. Keep our pipeline full so we can pick
- 28:46Speaker 1: out the best properties to you know, either flip or
- 28:49Speaker 1: run out for that long term. Weal Wow. In your book,
- 28:53Speaker 1: you know the book we needs written this any book
- 28:55Speaker 1: that you can get, Uh, it's called interest Free Money Guide.
- 28:59Speaker 1: You're saying that in this book you can teach us
- 29:01Speaker 1: how to access interest free credit on twelve or fifteen
- 29:04Speaker 1: business credit cards. Talk to us about that, all right.
- 29:09Speaker 1: So the thing about the business credit is you don't
- 29:11Speaker 1: need much to get it. So you just need an
- 29:14Speaker 1: LLC E I E n uh seven hundred credit score.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Sometimes it could be six or eighty. So we just
- 29:20Speaker 1: would tell seven hundred less than like five harding cards
- 29:24Speaker 1: in the last six or twelve months, and then you're
- 29:27Speaker 1: really good to go and one personal credit card five
- 29:30Speaker 1: thousand or more. So if you meet all those requirements,
- 29:32Speaker 1: you can get fifty again fifty to two D fifty
- 29:35Speaker 1: thousand prayer le see interest free twelve to fifty months
- 29:39Speaker 1: or the same as cast. If you don't have to
- 29:41Speaker 1: make money off of a fifty thou interest free money this, Uh,
- 29:45Speaker 1: this really isn't to you, So I don't recommend it
- 29:47Speaker 1: to everybody. Recommended for people as responsible and has a
- 29:51Speaker 1: plan to buy assets or interest. The money and something
- 29:54Speaker 1: else has got to make them more money. You know,
- 29:56Speaker 1: if you want to get this to buy a card
- 29:58Speaker 1: something like that, it's not the to you. So you know,
- 30:01Speaker 1: if you have a seven hundred credits for you have
- 30:04Speaker 1: a plan you just are defunding, there's definitely something you
- 30:07Speaker 1: need to get. Wow. Talking to O'Neil Parker, he's based
- 30:12Speaker 1: in laughing at Louisiana. Uh got that little gumbo run.
- 30:16Speaker 1: He's he's doing real estate from Lafayette, Baton Rouge to
- 30:20Speaker 1: New Orleans. Um, here's an exciting book, Um that it's
- 30:23Speaker 1: an e book. It's called Interest Free Money Guide. It's
- 30:27Speaker 1: an e book is written to educate you on business credit.
- 30:30Speaker 1: And that's what we're talking about on the call today
- 30:32Speaker 1: on money making Conversations. UM, so are you comfortable with
- 30:35Speaker 1: me putting your book or link into my newsletter that
- 30:38Speaker 1: goes out to ninety thousand people on Wednesday? Yeah, of course,
- 30:42Speaker 1: of course. And I can also see the link before
- 30:44Speaker 1: they before they can buy. You know, if anybody else
- 30:47Speaker 1: that's on him, you have any coursetion of anything. I
- 30:48Speaker 1: can follow on Instagram or Neil Oh and E. R.
- 30:51Speaker 1: L J. Parker and you got any questions, you can
- 30:54Speaker 1: shooting a message. Yeah, you can definitely put on that.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Oh definitely will I'm thinking something, Neil. I wouldn't try
- 31:01Speaker 1: to give away your book now, he said, I get
- 31:03Speaker 1: a link on so you can, uh, you know, they
- 31:05Speaker 1: can buy it. I'm trying to sell you. You don't
- 31:07Speaker 1: want to make you guy, This ain't free money making conversation.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Dot Com money baking comes say dot com And I'm
- 31:13Speaker 1: just that you know, you know I'm old in you,
- 31:16Speaker 1: of course, and I'm always interested in hearing different plans
- 31:19Speaker 1: of success. And of course I started at twenty one.
- 31:22Speaker 1: I didn't have the technology that you have today, and
- 31:25Speaker 1: you seem to be wise enough to understand that use
- 31:28Speaker 1: the technology because it's free and it's available, and it
- 31:31Speaker 1: can it also can expand your education because your education
- 31:35Speaker 1: and the world of real estate was self taught. Correct, yes, sir,
- 31:39Speaker 1: of course. Well, my friends, I want to thank you
- 31:43Speaker 1: for coming on my show man the Great Conversation again.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Uh we will. My staff is gonna reach out to
- 31:49Speaker 1: you and get those links and get some more photos
- 31:51Speaker 1: and some some some more information so we can put
- 31:54Speaker 1: it in this week newsletter. I wanna thank you for
- 31:56Speaker 1: coming on money to make a conversation or Neil Parker, hey, man,
- 32:00Speaker 1: apreciate you invitement. Man. You know what I said, guy,
- 32:02Speaker 1: that Guta will be here absolutely. And I know you're
- 32:05Speaker 1: saying you're starting your business in September and January again, right,
- 32:08Speaker 1: a new business in January time frame? Right, we started
- 32:12Speaker 1: in January twenty point this year. Okay, great, great, great,
- 32:15Speaker 1: I'll tell you what what we're gonna do in your anniversary.
- 32:17Speaker 1: We're gonna bring you back on in January so we
- 32:19Speaker 1: can talk about how that first year went, went through
- 32:21Speaker 1: the pandemic, coming out of the pandemic, and we're talking
- 32:24Speaker 1: about how you looking to January is all right, I'm
- 32:28Speaker 1: ready for that as the fans one that I'm here
- 32:30Speaker 1: for us man. I appreciate you, my friend, Thank you
- 32:32Speaker 1: for calling my show. If you want to hear more
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