Digital Social Hour - How I Bought a $1.2M House for $560K (Real Estate Secrets) | Donovan Camarotti DSH #1009

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

Discover how this 21-year-old real estate investor scored a $1.2M house for just $560K! 🏠 In this eye-opening interview, learn the insider secrets of finding and closing incredible real estate deals in today's market. From flipping 40+ properties to managing a growing real estate empire, Donovan Camarotti shares his journey from high school graduate to successful real estate investor. Learn how he identifies undervalued properties, negotiates amazing deals, and scales his business through smart hiring and money raising strategies. Get the real scoop on: • How to spot and close massively discounted properties • Dealing with difficult HOAs and problem tenants • Scaling from single flips to dozens of properties • Raising capital and building a real estate team • Managing contractors and renovation projects • Navigating market changes and interest rates Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, this conversation is packed with actionable insights on finding deals, building wealth through real estate, and scaling your business. Learn from someone who's actively crushing it in today's market! Ready to transform your real estate game? Watch now for the full story behind this incredible $1.2M house purchase and many more real estate secrets! 🔑 💰 #airbnbbusiness #realestate #wholesalingrealestate #houseflippingmistakestoavoid #passiveincome CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - Donovan's Real Estate Journey 02:19 - Section 8 Insights 03:19 - Rapid Scaling in Real Estate 06:26 - The Importance of Mentorship 08:05 - Squatter Stories in Real Estate 11:44 - Dealing with HOA Conflicts 15:09 - Money Laundering Issues in HOAs 16:31 - Florida Real Estate Market Analysis 17:30 - Austin's House Discount Strategy 18:59 - Wholesale vs Novation Explained 20:40 - Strategies to Profit in Real Estate 21:54 - Weather Comparison: Florida vs Vegas 22:56 - Car Enthusiast Discussion 24:26 - Choosing Your First Car 27:58 - UFO Experiences 29:10 - Impact of Dogs on Our Lives 29:49 - Biohacking and Personal Growth 30:12 - Connecting with Donovan 30:48 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Donovan Camarotti https://www.instagram.com/camarottihomes https://www.camarottihomes.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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with iGaming Ontario. My personal house recently too. And the way it went down is they were listed on the market for 935 grand Then they dropped it to 850. I offered them 550 damn and they were like, no, we can't do 550 I was like, all right, what can you do? You low ball. Yeah You got that for like 40% off. Yeah

Dude you got a steal you doubled your money overnight all right guys Donovan Camerati here today we're gonna talk Airbnb right yeah Airbnb flipping whatever man let's go and you're a young person to be in this space I am 21 did you start like straight out of high school or yeah I really kind of just started you know looking into it we know when I was like a senior in high school or? Yeah, I really kind of just started, you know, looking into it. You know, when I was like a senior in high school, I needed to figure out what to do. Then like first week in college started, you know, I got my first property first week of college and just been doing it ever since. How do you afford that first one?

Saved up some money. Had to, you know, basically just put everything I had into it. And then, you know, just bought that one, ended up having no money. So sold it. then I had some money and then bought a few more and just kind of kept doing it. Like that. Oh, so you were able to flip it quick? I was, yeah, within a few months.

Nice. And what gave you that conviction to pick that specific property? Well, you know, it was cheaper, it was easier, it was like a condo. So it was like super easy to get into. And it was a light renovation. So it was like a good first property. Nice. And how'd you learn how to like fix it and everything um

honestly I kind of figured it out while doing it I you know my parents had like this handyman that worked for them so he kind of just like did the renovation had to find a couple other subcontractors yeah basically figured it out a good handyman is important I feel like for that business because you get ripped off with certain guys yeah certain contractors take advantage of people especially if they don't know like, you know, dude I've been I've been getting wrecked out here in my house Bro, cuz I just bought a house and I've never had to like use contractors before but a lot of them be highballing And you you have no idea what to compare it to right? You're just overpaying

Yeah, if you have like no reference, you know, you'll pay a hundred grand for something that'll cost you like 40 50. Yeah, normally actual cost. I just paid like 12 K to fix a leak. Oh, I got wrecked Yeah, yeah, that should be like couple thousand max Yeah, so you live in you learn though, man So is your main strategy to fix and flip? Yeah, I do have like one Airbnb and then one that's in the in the process of being built. Got it. But Fixed Flip is my bread and butter. I feel that. What do you think about this section eight stuff?

Section eight, I mean, you know, it's good for some people and I think it works for some people, but I don't think it's really something I'd want to get into. I mean, I know people can make a lot of money, but not so much my thing, I think. Yeah. You know, just attending classes, you know,

lower level people is what you're dealing with. So. It seems kind of too good to be true, the ads I'm seeing for it. I mean, it's nice because the government will pay, they rent basically or they guarantee it. But then, you know, you get just the lower class of people, which I mean, it's kind of unfortunate to say,

but like me personally, I would rather kind of just deal with businesses and you know, I'd rather rent to a business and you know, they have a, you know, know guarantee on it. It's just a lot easier Yeah, you're targeting like that of like B2C you're talking like the upper middle class. Yeah. Yeah It's a little more stable a little more, you know, they just are comfortable. Yeah, you know, so how many units do you have now? so I Currently have just under 40 flips on the books right now. And then the two Airbnbs as well.

That's so fast, because you started recently. Yeah, yeah, within the last three years. Holy crap. So that's like 15 a year almost, flips. Yeah, well, I'm on track to do about 80 flips, 80 to 100 flips in the next 12 months. And then just kind of scaled up. So my first year I did nine flips.

Second year, like 22, and then now it's just like you know totally took off. Damn, exponential growth. So what was that thing that, did you change anything from what you were doing? Well so between year one and year two, I learned how to raise money, right? Cause like you can only do so much in real estate,

just you know money wise, right? And then from year two to year three, I figured out how to hire people. So I hired project managers, I hired acquisition, I now have an assistant, disposition as well. So everything is kind of covered essentially. So that just allows us to scale like crazy. Yeah, I feel like raising money is really hard

to figure out. But once you got that and you have a good ROI system in place, why would you not continue investing? Well, I kind of had to raise money just out of necessity. Yeah, you didn't have any. My fifth or sixth flip, I already had a proof of concept. I know I could do it. And then I just ran out of money.

So I was like, okay, hey, I need 50 grand for the down payment on this house. Paid someone interest and just basically kept doing that. I was like, oh wow, I can do this and do 100 properties. Why stop at one or two or three or four? I feel that. Any flips where you lost money and if so, what was the big lesson learned there?

Yeah, 100% dude. I lost like 50 grand on my third flip. Oh wow. Yeah. Which sucked, right? Cause basically what I had made, I lost. But the good thing is that that property. Bet MGM, authorized gaming partner of the NBA, has your back all season long.

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But I was able to flip other houses during that time. So I kind of just made up for it. Got it. And I would say like the biggest lesson I learned is not hiring bad contractors and not always hiring the cheapest, you know, bid. Obviously, you don't want to get ripped off, like we were just talking about, but you don't want to go with the cheapest guy

because he's probably under bidding it for a reason. Either he doesn't know what he's getting into or he's just going to put in cheaper material and not do as good of a work. So that's what bid me on that house. So maybe get someone in the middle of high and low. Like if you get three bids and you got one guy at 10 grand, one at 12, one at twelve one at fifteen go with

A good twelve guy. Yeah, that's probably the safest play Yeah, cuz if you go with the cheapest it sounds good, but then you got to pay for the fix right and then it's double Right. Yeah that happened to me. Yeah Expensive guy to do it. Yeah, I feel that man So it took you how long to be profitable after that after that 50k loss So I mean it was kind of it was, it was profitable during that time, right? Now, obviously that hurt the P&L at the end of the year, but we were flipping other houses during that time.

So, we were able to survive it. Got it, so this business is interesting then, because a lot of businesses, you're not profitable for a bit. No, and now I will say, I didn't really take any profit and any distributions, other than very small ones, for the first year, year and a half. And then only recently I started taking big ones

and I was actually able to take big ones comfortably. So you got to lock in for a year and then? Minimum, minimum year in this business. Did you have a mentor? I have a few mentors, right? And I kind of just, I get different things from every one of them. Now, none of them being like one-on-one per se,

but like, you know, I think you had him on the podcast, Ryan Panetta. He's been a big one for me. Right? You know, I have the guy that runs our local RIA, you know, he's taught me a lot just by being in there and listening to what he has to say. You know, I learned a lot on YouTube, honestly.

YouTube university, baby. Yeah, for like probably at least like nine months, maybe a year before I really jumped into it, I was just watching YouTube learning everything I could about like fixing and flipping houses, how to talk to sellers, how to run comparable sales, how to estimate rehab costs, everything like that. Yeah, and you won't learn that in college.

No, not at all. Hell no. So do you even have a real estate license? I don't have a real estate license, but I have agents that now work for me that do have a real estate license. Got it. And how are you finding the houses on the MLS?

So on the MLS, we do find some houses. A lot of the stuff is just through Google, pay-per-click marketing. Honestly, the best though has been the organic leads and the referrals that we've gotten. Yeah, that's been by far the best. Number one, they don't cost anything. And number two, they're really high quality

because you don't have to sell yourself. They kind of already trust you because it's a referral. Wow, so that's the strategy right there. That's been the best for me so far. Yeah, because if you're looking on MLS, everyone else is looking. Yeah, and you're gonna pay the most. 100%, yeah, because they can run comps and everything,

so they have a better idea of the market and they have an agent representing them Right exactly, and then you know it's just getting out to everyone so you're just gonna if you win it You're just probably the highest bidder. Yeah, you know percent any crazy stories with squatters or anything Where are you doing this what state Florida? Oh guys is good because the laws there are like decent You know for for the property owner now, it's still kind of difficult depending on, you know, what's going on and how they became squatters. The first time I ever dealt with a squatter was a property that I bought. There were like seven people living in there. By the time

I had closed on it, there were like maybe four people living there and this lady like overstayed her welcome basically. And then she said she left and I was like, okay cool. So we went into the house and her bed was still there, her cats were still there, it looked like she was still living there. I was like, I don't think she left. So we went back a little bit later.

Sure enough, she was in there. I was like, oh boy. And it wasn't me, it was actually my project manager that went in there. Funny enough, I was on the phone with him and he walks in and we were just talking whatever. He's like, hey, what do you want to do with this, you know, base word? And he goes, hey, you cannot be here, like really loud, you know, really imposing voice. And I was like, bro, what's happening? And the lady's name was like Lisa.

I don't know, I probably shouldn't say that, but who cares? She's a squatter. She's like, Lisa, you cannot be here. You have to get out right now. And then sure enough, he kicks her out, she gets out, and change of locks, whatever. I set up a camera. The next night, she climbs in the window

and gets back in the house. No way. Yes. And apparently, two of her other friends come in the house too. Whoa. So we walked into the house one morning. The bathroom guys were there to like, you know, work on the bathroom, whatever. They walk into the house and they got one person

in the back porch, one person in the closet sleeping, and then Lisa's in her bedroom. So they're like, hey guys, you can't be here. You gotta get out. And they left pretty easily, but this one lady, Lisa, kept coming. Two freshly cracked eggs, any way you like them. Three strips of naturally smoked bacon

and a side of toast. Only $6 at A&W's in Ontario. Experience A&W's classic breakfast on Now, dine in only until 11 a.m. Coming back, like every night she would come back to sleep. And she was like, yay, I'm getting out today, getting out today. She never got out, right? AM. me a little bit of a hard time because they were like, hey, you know, technically, you know, you're not the owner of record yet. I was like, yes, I am. Here's all the paperwork.

It just hasn't updated on public record yet. And I had to, you know, basically convince the cops, like, hey, guys, help me get this person out. This is not supposed to be here. And I had to prove, you know, my ownership and everything. And you know, they had a conversation with her and she was like kind of like a meth head. So she in that moment, she agreed to get out. I helped her literally take all her stuff

and put it at the curb so she couldn't come back in. We, you know, put sticks in the windows to lock them. And after that, she finally got out. She didn't come back. I later found out that she got arrested. And all the proceeds from the sale, she sent to her meth dealer. No way.

And she lost all the money that she made from that sale. What? Yeah. That is nuts. Yeah. Wow. She like endorsed a check over to him because she didn't have a bank account. And he ran off with it. That's crazy. I was like, what did you expect man? You're lucky you were in Florida. I feel like if that was Callie you would have been screwed. No shot. She would have still been there. Yeah. What is it like six months if you're there you own the house or something? I don't know exactly. I actually had this one guy I know in in California. He basically became a squatter like Chase Bank You know still is like on the deed, but he's owned the house for like 20 years

And he's what he rents on it. Yeah He's like renting it out and now there's like nothing they can do about it because it's in California. That's crazy Yes, he's making rental income for 20 years on it. How do the HOAs feel about what you do in their neighborhoods? You know, it's interesting. Some HOAs are fine, and then some you just get these Karens that just have nothing better to do,

they're retired, or they don't work, whatever, and they just want to feel like they're in control. So, one example, I had this one lady who, this is probably the craziest story, where she was like, hey, you can't be doing work without a permit. I was like, yeah, I understand. Here's my permit. And I showed her the copy of the permit. She's like, well, it has to be posted in the window.

I was like, okay, my bad. You know, I didn't know. And then we had it printed out, posted in the window, but it didn't get done that day. So what she did that day is she went into the unit. It was a condo. she went into the unit, it was a condo, she goes into the unit, she kicks out all the guys that are working there, which I don't know why they listen to her, but they do.

And she takes the keys out of my lock box and she holds onto the keys. Now I live like an hour away from where this property is. So I get a call from the contractor like freaking out, he's like, hey, this lady just took your keys. She kicked all my guys out of the unit. Like, you know, what's going on? I was like, oh, this is ridiculous. So I hop in the car, I go down there,

and I go knock on the door, because the contractor, he was like, hey, she's in unit like 204. So I go knock on 204. What's the wrong lady? I was like, give me her crap. I was like, hey, you took my keys. And she's like, I didn't take your keys. And I was like, Hey, you took my keys. And she's like, I didn't take your keys. Um, and I was like, yes, you did. Like they said, it's two,

two oh four. And then he was like, no, it's three or four. Oh dude, you told me poor old lady. It was poor old ladies. So I had to go back and apologize to her. Um, but, and then I find the lady in three or four, she's just nasty, man. Um, and there's actually a video on my Instagram about it, um, where, about it where we're yelling back and forth. I was like, give me my keys, lady. And she's just not giving me my keys because I don't have the permit in the window. I was like, well, hey, the H.O.A. has it on file.

I do have a permit. You cannot take my keys and go into my unit. That's breaking and entering. Ended up having to call the cops. But before that, she tries to take off. And I tried to get in front of the car so she didn't go. She tries to call the cops. But before that, she tries to take off. And I tried to get in front of the car so she didn't go. And she tries to run me over. Holy crap.

So I had to hop out of the way. Whole video's on my Instagram. You recorded all this? I recorded all of it. Wow. Yeah. And then so she tries to run over me, whatever. Cops come and I got her license plate

So then you know they called her back in yeah and They got her they talked to her HWA president ended up like coming out He was like you know kind of on my side, which is nice And he was like hey you cannot be doing this and the cops so they gave her like a citation They were like you can press charges, but honestly it's probably not with your time She does it again go ahead press charges. Thankfully she didn't's probably not with your time. Like if she does it again, go ahead and press charges. Thankfully she didn't, but yeah.

Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's like attempted like vehicular, like manslaughter or something, right? Plus breaking and entering, plus you know, whatever else. Yeah, she could have gotten the whole book. Holy crap, she did not like what you were doing. No, it's like, why? You know, nothing better to do.

I guess it was loud or something, right? That noise. I guess, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, that's something that's know I guess it was better to do I guess it was loud or something right that noise Yeah, I mean that's something that's just part of being a homeowner like your neighbors are gonna do work once in a while like that's yeah Like what if she wanted to do work on her house exactly like what are you gonna do there? But you know then there is on the flip side you know some H ways that are really cool And they're like hey you took this really ugly house and made it nice. Thank you so much Here's some other houses that are ugly Offers so there are some good. Oh, that's cool. They're not bad all the time, but just some of these.

I have a love hate with them. Yeah, me too. Because the monthly fees a lot. And then so dude, my H.O.A. in Vegas, they found the money laundering. Really? Yeah, they were keeping all the money. No way. Yeah. So what's going to happen with that? I don't know. I left that neighborhood, but I think they're getting sued. I don't know, but that's probably common, because they're getting all this money, they're obviously not spending it all. Right. Like, let's be honest.

There's a big thing in Florida with condos, because I don't know if you've heard about it, but there's something called a milestone inspection, where if the property's more than three stories tall, they have to come in and do an inspection, make sure it's up to spec and everything. If there's not, they get these huge assessments. There's this one that had foundation issues near me. It was probably like 70 something unit deal on the beach and

they wanted to sell it for like a million six, which is worth like $20 million. Whoa. they wanted to sell it for like a million six, which it's worth like $20 million. Whoa. Yeah. It just because they were going to dissolve the HOA and just wanted to get rid of it. Damn. So yeah, right.

So someone scooped that up. So it's a whole process. I'm trying to. Yeah. But it's a whole process to like dissolve an HOA and everything like that. Yeah, it sounds complicated. Yeah.

Yeah, but like, you know, they didn't have the reserves to do the fine foundation repairs and you know the people Didn't have the money to come up with you know for the assessment and everything so they were just hey It's better to just get rid of it. Yeah, how's the market in Florida about you right now right now? There's a lot listed in Vegas. Yeah, there's there's a decent amount listed in Florida, too I would say like a few months ago. It was it was a little worse It's picked up a little bit now with a little bit of an interest rate cut.

But it's definitely slower than it was like last year or year before. But it's not horrible, we're still selling stuff. It feels like there's like a stalemate still. There is a little bit, right? Because people think interest rates are gonna keep dropping, which they probably are, so then they're kind of just waiting.

But then again, if you wait, then you know, prices are probably gonna go up. If you wait, yeah, and there's more offers. Yeah, exactly. You're gonna be competing with more people and you're gonna pay more for the property. That's why I bought now, because I was killing. I was the only offer. I had all the leverage. I was like, you know. You know, I bought my personal house recently, too. And the way it went down is they were listed on the market for 935 and thirty five grand Then they dropped it to 850. I offered them 550 damn and they were like, no, we can't do 550 I was like, alright, what can you do? They're like, we'll do 560. Wow. All right, cool. You low ball Yeah, low ball them like Ross. You got that for like 40% off. Yeah, and

It when I bought it it appraised for 1.2 million. Holy crap Yeah, so like it's so much easier to get better deals right now. That's insane. Now I'm gonna have to put like 250 grand into it just to make it nice and like how I want to, but you know, it was solid property. Dude, you got a steal.

You doubled your money overnight. And you didn't do any work to get that appraisal? No, I mean, it appraised as is just cause it's a big house, nice neighborhood, big pool on the golf course. And just like that neighborhood, with that size of a house, you know, was north of a golf course. And just like that neighborhood, with that size of a house, was north of a million. It sounds like that's your competitive edge. You're really good at identifying these deals.

Yeah, you have to be. You've probably seen so many at this point where you can just see it and no- I'll tell my acquisition guys, hey guys, I want you to, if I tell you a street name and I tell you the approximate size of a house, I need you guys to tell me how much that house is worth. Because I know it, right?

Like if you tell me, you know, I live in Port St. Lucie, if you tell me, hey, it's this street in Port St. Lucie, three, two, 1,700 square feet, I know that that'll sell for 400 grand. You know? Is that memory or is that just skill? Knowing the market, you know?

And now not everywhere is gonna be like that. You know, where houses are not so cookie cutter or whatever. But yeah, I mean, you have to be able to know what properties are worth so you can identify a good deal right away. Right, that's important. Cause you gotta act quick if you see a good deal. 100%, yeah.

Before someone else scoops it up. Definitely. That makes sense. Damn, it sounds like you're gonna surpass Pernada. Well, he's doing a lot. You know, I think he changed the strategy a little bit. He's doing a lot more like wholesale innovation deals, which is awesome.

I'm honestly, I'm getting into that. Wholes you said? Yeah. Um, you know, where, you know, he's not taking down as many flips, um, just cause the risk, you know, um, cause I, I mean, a lot of flippers myself included, you know, 2023, um, you know, when the market really slowed, it's like, Hey, if you're carrying 40 flips and they all drop by like 30 grand, that's $1.2 million. That's a big hit. That you just took an L on. And I think that's kind of why he's switched

into the wholesale novation strategy because there's a lot less exposure. It's not like you have to go and own a property for six months and then sell it and make money. If you can't get the price you want, you just cancel the contract. How does Novation work? I haven't heard that one.

So it's a little bit complicated. It works a little bit different in each state. But essentially, instead of wholesaling the house to a cash buyer where you get a contract, let's say for 300 grand, and you go assign your contract for 320 to a cash buyer who's gonna flip it and you make that $20,000 spread.

Innovation is when you actually will sell it to a retail buyer, someone that's gonna live in the property because those people can pay a lot more for the property than an investor can because the investor's trying to make money. Someone who's living there is just, they don't need to profit most of the time. So you're like middlemanning basically,

similar to wholesale. Yeah, it's similar to wholesale, but you're selling to buyers who will pay you more, right? And then in turn, you can get the seller more money. Right. That's like a big pivot that he's been pushing and it's, I 100% see why. And I'm honestly gonna be doing that.

Yeah, there's so many ways to make money in real estate. I know people buying land. Yeah, same here. Yeah. And flipping it for like crazy profits. Well, cause you can change the zoning on land too. If you buy an agricultural, maybe 10 acres and you get it mixed use commercial,

I mean you're gonna probably triple, if not quadruple the value of that land. And I feel like that industry specifically, the land, if you have the right connects with politics, you could really run it off. Get in there and lobby and yeah. I mean, let's be honest, that's how the top guys

are probably doing it. 100%, yeah. Because I mean, you know, like where I am in Florida, it's like if you fly over Florida, like you go into the airport, you just see it's like, by the ocean it's just extremely dense and extremely populated, and then you go like a few miles out, it's just like trees, and you know, at the Everglades, right?

And it's just, it's slowly moving west as people you know just keep building and keep building so you know people will buy this agricultural land a couple years it'll be you know a neighborhood yeah yeah they'll get priced out of all the major cities and Florida's the best probably the best state in the country to live in right now in my opinion yeah well and it's nice too because you know you have the beach you have you know like woods you have the beach, you have woods, you have access to water, access to the Caribbean, which is so nice. Good airport.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, you could fly pretty quick to, out of the country, so. 100%. I'm a fan of it. If it wasn't, the only thing is the humidity, dude. Humidity is what I'm talking about. Dude, I walk outside, my glasses are fogged.

Yeah. But other than that. that Vegas is I was here Like three months ago in in July. Oh, it's hot man 120 Yeah, and it's like a dry heat like in Florida. It's like, you know, you can breathe cuz it's humid I live in Florida. I'm used to it. Yeah, you sweat more but like I'm coming out here to Vegas and it's hotter But I'm not sweating as much but dude, I can't breathe Yeah, it's so dry and I'm not sweating as much, but dude, I can't breathe. It's like, it's so dry. And I'm sure you get used to it when you live here, but.

No, you don't. My lips have been chapped for four years. Oh my gosh. I get bloody noses still. You don't get used to this shit. No. No, literally everyone here carries around Chapstick or something.

Really? Because your lips just don't get used to it. Yeah. Like it's tough out here. Yeah, that's right. I would pick wet heat over dry heat. Yeah. And you know, it gets cold in the winter.

I didn't realize Vegas. It does. You know, I figured desert, you know, it's like still warm. No, it's cold. Yeah, I was here in January and it was like 40 degrees No, you need a hoodie and sweatpants. I didn't bring anything like that. I thought it's gonna be hot. Nah Florida correct t-shirt and shorts the whole year. Yeah flip-flops and whatever you're good. Yeah, you're set now Florida's big on super cars. I know you got one, right? Yeah recently. What'd you get? I got a McLaren 570, which is like, you know, entry level. I wrapped it orange, cause you know.

Classic. Yeah, like I always wanted an orange McLaren. But you know, I really got it more as an investment, right? And some people might be like, oh yeah, it's not an investment, but I think it is. Because just in the few months that I've owned it, I've gotten offers, you know offers to be literally on TV shows and have someone write a whole pitch for me to do that.

I've gotten people that wanted to sell me their real estate deals, I wanted to lend me money on my real estate deals. Just in a few months of having it. Because they kind of associate that, hey, someone's driving a car that's a couple hundred grand, you know, they obviously have some type of level of success, right? So, I mean, it's a big, you know, marketing thing.

Cars are great social proof, and I know they get hate, but if you use it in the right way, you can make an ROI on it. 100%, and plus, I'll go to these, like I'm in this club with a bunch of supercar owners, right? So who am I hanging around with other supercar owners who obviously have a lot more money than I do exactly They got connections people that probably invest in what you're doing. Yeah, it's a win-win. I need to look into those clubs out here Yeah, yeah do it. I know I'm fast link. I don't know if they have it out here. I think they're big in, Florida

Yeah, they have a few like national ones too. Yeah, I know there's rallies out here. I was meaning to get to one of those. Those look fun. Yeah. Are you into cars at all? I got a G-Wagon. I mainly bought it for the write-off. Last year we had a lot of money or a lot of profit in December so I was like shit I got like a day to figure this out. So I went to Vegas Auto Gallery and bought one but no I'm gonna get more into it because my house has a lot of spots for cars. So I need to step it up. Yeah, that's one of the reasons I got my house too

because it has like a huge driveway and like a three car garage, but there's like, there's room to add to like another, you know, two car garage and probably some lifts. Wow. You know, I'm like, I really like cars. So that's the first one for you? Yeah, this is like, you know, for the future.

One of many. Yeah. And you know, speaking of cars too, like not everything I have is like super like you know for the future. One of many. Yeah and you know speaking of cars too like not everything I have is like super you know super nice. I got my truck, my you know Ford Raptor which is like my basically my daily. Yeah. And then I have these like two old Jeeps. One of them I found in a house that I bought which was awesome. What? I got it for free. No way. He left his car? Yeah he left his car. Yeah and I you know I texted him I was like hey like you coming to get this or he's like nah there's no title it's like you know I can't get it

running all I needed was a fuel pump damn drain the old gas put a new fuel pump in there and put a new battery in it and I got it running you know for like 350 bucks or so that's probably worth like 10 grand at least right yeah it's probably worth a few grand I mean it was kind of in rough shape you know but there was also no title to it so of in rough shape, you know, but There was also no title to it. So that was you had to you know, go through that process, which I didn't want to So what I did is I went My parents have like a little bit of property and there's like, you know more like land like to ride, you know

ATVs and whatever out there So, you know, we would just take it on the trails. Beat the crap out of it. And like, cause you don't really care about it. You know, it's not like, you're nice, $100,000 truck. You know, so you just, whatever. Then I'd let one of my guys drive it and within like 30 seconds, he crashed it into a tree.

Total bit. Come on now. I've never been off-roading. No? No. No way. I wanna go. Dude, you have to. I heard Vegas has some good spots. I've never been off-roading. No? No. No way. I wanna go. Dude, you have to.

I heard Vegas has some good spots. I've heard that too. I've had the best off-road racer in the world on the podcast, BJ Baldwin. Yeah? Really? And he lives out here, so he said whenever I'm ready. But dude, he goes like- You have to do it, man.

Bro. So fun. He goes like 100 miles an hour, so I don't know if I want that, but we'll see. Yeah. So, you know, I got, I really liked, it was just like this old Jeep. And when that one got crashed,

like it just wasn't worth it to fix it. Like it actually still ran funny enough. But I just, I liked it so much and it was so much fun. I got another one on Facebook Marketplace, you know, real cheap. Oh yeah. And I was like, well, you know, if it breaks, whatever, I can use the parts from the other one.

Don't sleep on Facebook Marketplace. I know, right? You know, I just, I low balled the dude again, you know? Got it for like, you know, a few grand lower than what he was asking for. Nice. And then, so I drove it, whatever. Then we were in a field, just like, and it was like wet.

So we were like doing donuts or whatever, caught like a little hole on the front tire, ended up rolling it over. Whoa. Yeah. Thankfully, I mean, we didn't get hurt or anything like that, but it was like behind a neighborhood. Damn, that's scary. Yeah, and then like the neighbors saw it

and they came over right away, helped us flip it back over and drove it. And it turned on right away. Wow. Drove it. We ended up getting a trailer and just taking it home cause like, you know, windshield was all cracked. Yeah.

Those cars are durable, man. I know, right? Damn. Yeah. Is that like the biggest hobby you have off-roading? Um, I mean I like I like doing that and it's it's easy cuz like, you know where I live and everything Um, it's you don't have to go very far. I mean, I also love snowboarding too, but I live in Florida So I only got to do that a few times a year when I when I go out to Colorado or Utah or whatever

I was UFO hunting last night. Were you really? Yeah, I had this guest on Shout out to Chris blood. So he's an UFO expert really yeah I I can't say I saw one I'm not gonna sit here and lie, but I did see some weird like star movements Yeah, like interesting. I thought they were meteors, but then we looked it up, and there was no meteors that day Interesting so who knows so all right a little off topic here, but do you believe in aliens? Yes, do you? Yeah. You know, I never did, but the more I think about it,

you know, with how big the universe is, I mean, the odds are there's probably is something else out there. There has to be. You know? Right? Whether it's physical or like a light being, who knows? But there's gotta be something. Yeah.

I mean, there's some animals that I think are aliens. Yeah. You know like praying mantis they be fucking shit up like that's not normal, right? No, there's like even octopus they're like way too smart for like that doesn't make sense I have like a little brain in each one of their tentacles. Oh, they do that's what I've heard Yeah, wow, I'm gonna fact check me on that. That's what I've heard. That is wild No, but they're super smart even like dolphins like they communicate with like the energy waves or whatever. Yeah Yeah, it's wild. There's interesting animals on underestimate animals, man. Yeah, you got any dogs or anything? I do Dogs change my life. Yeah had terrible anxiety really? Yeah, like awful crippling panic attacks and dogs They just like heal you man. They're so pure you come home

And they're always love you. Yeah, like you could have the worst day and then come home and they just make you feel way better 100% yeah, no, they're awesome. I mean, I you know, my parents kind of like fought me on getting a dog when I was younger Yeah, and you know for good reason but now like, you know They you know, we got one probably when I was like 12. He's, you know, he's still alive. He's still doing great. And then, you know, just like that bond is so close. That's massive.

Are you big in like biohacking, personal development stuff? I haven't really gotten into that. Yeah, you're young. So you could, you have unlimited energy right now, but you'll see as you age, you'll have to start doing stuff. Yeah. That's what everyone tells me Yeah, but I remember when I was here. I was working 18 hours a day easy Yeah, sleeping like four hours not feeling shit, right, but I'll catch up to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll catch up man

But dude, it's been cool. Where can people find you and do you have a course or anything? I don't have a course. I probably will start some type of mentorship later this year. That is the plan We're just kind of working out the details of that. But honestly, I'm super active on Instagram, Facebook. You can find me at camaradihomes.com. It's my last name. Camaradi, C-A-M-A-R-O-T-T-I, homes. I post pretty often on that.

People send me messages, whatever. Always trying to answer messages. Awesome. Yeah, if anyone here is watching this and they got a house in Florida, get you stuff, whatever. I'm always trying to answer messages. Awesome. Yeah, if anyone here is watching this, and they got a house in Florida, get you up, right? I'll buy it. Perfect. I'll buy it or I'll sell it for you, whatever.

I love it. We'll link his stuff below. Thanks for watching, guys, as always. Peace. Amen. Appreciate it. Yeah. Drinking and driving is a decision

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