Digital Social Hour - Why You’ll NEVER Get Rich With a 9-5 Job I Nick Perry DSH #495

Starting point is 00:00:00 I was constantly making mistakes over and over and over again, and it took me 11 months and 104 face-to-face seller appointments before I finally got a yes. I love the honesty because some people will say they got a deal in the first month or something. Nobody wealthy has a W-2. For you guys out there that are working W-2s, you're not going to become financially free driving Ferraris with a W2. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe. It helps a lot with the algorithm. It helps us get bigger and better guests, and it helps us grow the team. Truly means a lot. Thank you guys for supporting, and here's the episode. All right, guys, we got Nick Perry here. Love the outfit, man. Love it, man. Hey, you know what? When you're showing up places,

Starting point is 00:00:45 people are going to remember you more for what you wear. It's always the first impression, right? So I guarantee you guys are watching this right now more for my cowboy outfit than what's coming out of my mouth. I love it. That's why I bought a watch though. You know, we live in a very presumptuous society. So yeah, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Starting point is 00:01:08 Facts. I held off on a nice watch and car, but eventually got to the point where this could lead to more business for me. So it was a business decision. Absolutely. And people think you're just flexing and stuff, but there's deeper thought to it. I agree. I mean, you know, when, when you show up somewhere and you look good, people, it's going to open up doors for you. People are going to want to talk to you. You know, you show up looking half, you know, the chances that, you know, that business opportunity is going to come your way is less than as if you show up and, you know, got a nice watch on your presentable. Absolutely. Yeah. I used to pull up to conferences and sweatpants. No one would come up to me. Now I go in jeans, nice watch and do my hair and stuff. So it definitely matters. So you started off with wholesaling, right? That's how you made your money.

Starting point is 00:01:46 Man, I started off broke. I started off homeless in the back of my car and was a personal trainer, showering at the gyms. And all my clients were wealthy, pulling up in Bentleys and telling me about their trips to the Maldives. I was like, man, I'm doing something wrong. So I interviewed all my clients, kind of how you're interviewing your successful people now. And most of them were in real estate. So I was like, dude, well, success leaves clues. I should probably learn how to do this real estate

Starting point is 00:02:14 thing. That was 2013. And I moved out to Austin, Texas. I taught myself how to wholesale through YouTube. And here we are 10 years later. Nice. Because wholesaling, you could start with very little money, right? You don't need much. Yeah. You don't need credit. You don't need any money. And I was like, well, then I'm qualified. So how long did it take to get that first deal? Man, it took a long time. It took me 11 months to get my first deal. Damn. Yep. And this was not like a half effort. This is 100% all in handwriting, yellow letters on my,

Starting point is 00:02:47 you know, on my kitchen and putting in the work. But I was striking out, striking out, striking out because I didn't have a mentor, anybody to really guide me. And so I was constantly making mistakes over and over and over again. And it took me 11 months and 104 face-to-face seller appointments before I finally got a yes. Wow. Yeah. I love the honesty because some people will say they got a deal in the first month or something. No, no. I always tell everybody, this is 10 years to become an overnight success. Right. Yeah. And you were training these guys, interviewing them while you're working them out, right? Exactly.

Starting point is 00:03:28 And they either owned a company or they did real estate. Nobody wealthy has a W-2. So for you guys out there that are working W-2s, you're not going to become financially free driving Ferraris with a W-2. Yeah, very rare. You'd have to be at like a top 10 company probably. Maybe. Maybe if you're number two or three at Facebook or Google, something like that. But it's very rare.

Starting point is 00:03:50 Yeah. So does wholesaling still work in 2024, you'd say? Absolutely. It works better now because the advancements in technology, all the information is there. When I started, there was a couple of guys teaching it, but there wasn't a lot of information out there. So you had to really, you know, put things together. Um, old school now, you know, with your everything online, you know, Google ads, it's completely changed the game. Yeah. You were able to work your way up to becoming number one. So how many years did that take to get to that level? So it took me seven years till I really looked around and said, there's not really anybody else doing more volume than us right now.

Starting point is 00:04:32 And what do you think was the key decisions that led you to that level of success? I took a major risk in my business. When everybody was local and doing a few markets, and then staying in their backyard, I decided I was going to go national against all the better judgment of all my peers and mentors. They said that don't do it. And I said, you know what, if I can figure out how to do this, my company will explode. And it took me about a year or two to really get it dialed in. But once I did, then we took off from there. That makes sense because you can only scale so much locally.

Starting point is 00:05:09 You're not going to reach hundreds of millions in your local city. So we market exclusively on Google. If you're doing Google ads, when you do Google ads locally, your cost per click is so much more competitive. So if I just did Las Vegas or Dallas, my cost per click is going to be through the roof. If I do national, my cost per click is so much more competitive. So if I just did Las Vegas or Dallas, my cost per click is going to be through the roof. If I do national, my cost per click is a fraction of what it is. And if you try to target locally, right. So I was able to do that and get leads 10 cents on the dollar from what everybody else was doing. Damn. The problem is, is the logistics and doing deals all over the country like that. And so that's what I pioneered and figured that out over.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Right. So you got to build a team in every city. So there's a lot of supply chain going on. No, I figured out how to do it without boots on the ground. Oh yeah. Yes. Wow. Everything, everything over the phone, basically just dispatching people, um, and controlling everybody from our office in Austin, Texas. Dang. So you would get these leads of people looking to buy houses? I would get leads of sellers that want to sell their house anywhere in the country. My guys will pick up the phone, get their property under contract. And then from there, we'll have them do some of the legwork to open up the house for us, allow us to access the property.

Starting point is 00:06:24 And then we've got network of buyers, you know, all over the country and we'll send them in. And then once they decide, you know, to agree to what we want to sell it for, we go and turn those pieces of paper into the title and we get what's called an assignment fee. That's the spread in between. So will this recent NAR settlement affect your business? The NAR settlement is actually good for wholesalers because, you know, there's right now, what are people going to do? They're either going to sell to retail or they're going to sell to an investor. So it helps me out. Nice. That's cool. That was a big deal though, right? In the real estate space, like a

Starting point is 00:07:01 lot of people got affected. Yeah. For, you know, your, um, agents, it's gonna, it's gonna change the landscape, but for investors, here's the thing about being a real estate investor is people are always going through right. Death, divorce, um, you know, financial circumstantial issues always going to happen. And as long as that stuff is happening, there's always going to be a place for investors to help, you know, sellers and buyers. Nice, man. Your story is crazy because a lot of personal trainers don't, don't have success like this. You know, from a young age, like I just always knew I was always the troublemaker. I, you know, was high school dropout, you know, on probation, house arrest, and couldn't follow rules. And I, the reason I couldn't follow rules is because

Starting point is 00:07:45 I've always thought rules were stupid. I always felt like, you know what, if I can just come up and make money, then nobody can tell me what to do. So when I was younger, I was like, the only way that I'm going to actually be able to do what I want is to become financially free. And so I had a deep desire to become financially free because I didn't like to be told what to do. And additionally, you know, I came from a lower class neighborhood where all my friends were going to the movies and getting new cars when they're 16. And I was wearing, you know, Walmart and Goodwill and, you know, couldn't afford to do that kind of stuff. So it created a deep drive in me to come on. Got it. Humble beginnings. Yep. And were your parents kind of supporting your journey or no?

Starting point is 00:08:27 You know, my mom's best hope for me was to become a plumber. Wow. Yeah. I love my mom. Shout out to my mom. But, you know, she didn't see me being able to, you know, create that, but she never saw anybody do that. So that's cool.

Starting point is 00:08:41 You know, I just knew that there's something you got to always have it deep down. Like you're meant to do something great. And if you feel like you got that seed of greatness in you, then just go for it. I think that's hard to teach though. You know what I mean? No, you can't teach it. You either got it or you don't. I believe that too. Yeah. Cause you see these studies on kids that grow up in rich environments and studies on, you know, people that went through what you went through. And I think 80% of what happened to you are successful people now. Yeah, rich kids got it the worst. I'm grateful that I came up in hard times because that's what creates the drive to be able to go out and do great things. Yeah, it's like that immigrant mentality, that lower class mentality.

Starting point is 00:09:23 On the other side, the access to information in these poor communities isn't there, you think, right? No, you don't have it. So you got to be resourceful. But there's no excuse right now in 2024. All you got to do is pull out your smartphone. Right. It's different now. You can learn a lot quicker now.

Starting point is 00:09:37 Correct. Yeah, I feel like when we were growing up, we didn't have other information. Yeah, you got Harvard classes online now. Yeah, I don't think I'd ever go to Harvard. No, it's a waste. Yeah. You got Harvard classes online now, you know? Yeah. I don't think I'd ever go to Harvard. No, it's a waste. Yeah. You know, I'm, um, I'm in the mentality that if you're, if you're on the fence and you're saying, should I go to college? Should I not go to college? Unless you want to be a doctor engineer or something like that. College is a waste of time. Go work for somebody that's already where you want to be. That's the fastest way to get to

Starting point is 00:10:04 where you're trying to go is surround yourself with people that's already where you want to be. That's the fastest way to get to where you're trying to go. It's surround yourself with people that are already in a position that you want to be in. 100% mentorship, right? Absolutely. Yeah. You had a couple of interesting Instagram posts. So you don't work with people that bounce industries every few years. Listen, it's a huge red flag when you see the guy that's bouncing from industry to industry to industry. If I don't see somebody that can stick with something for at least 5, 10, 15, 20 years,

Starting point is 00:10:29 then I don't want to do business with them because they don't have what it takes to go through the challenges and the difficulties and the ups and downs. And a huge part of success is stick-to-itiveness, being able to stick through something long enough to finally get a reward. People think that success takes a few months. It takes years. Absolutely. You also spent $71,000 on a first-class flight.

Starting point is 00:10:55 I spent $71,000 on a first-class flight paying for my Amex bill. So if you watch the video, I got a ton of publicity for it, but I just paid off a business american express and i put the caption i literally spent seventy one thousand dollars on this flight but it was me paying my american express bill so you use the points is that how it works well yeah i had seventy one thousand dollar flight or a seventy one thousand dollar credit card bill do

Starting point is 00:11:20 yeah and i just paid it while i was on the flight yeah all these flights got wi-fi now exactly dude the wi-fi on flights is a game changer now the best um wi-fi for flights because i fly a lot is delta really delta's leading the pack okay that's good to know because on united you can't even watch a video on the wi-fi it's brutal on instagram but it's a game changer when you got wi-fi and you know some nice seats yeah i don't even mind being on the plane yeah absolutely and you're living abroad now, right? I live in Mexico. Wow. So before that, I lived in Panama, but I've been out of the States for three years now. And was that because you just saw the country just going through a lot of stuff? Yeah. After the 2020 elections and all the turmoil and the fighting

Starting point is 00:12:00 and the corruption, I realized that there's no advantages to really being in the U.S. We're brainwashed coming up that the U.S. is the best country in the world. You know, we've got it better than everywhere. Everywhere else is like third world and dangerous. Until you get out and travel, you're going to, you might be brainwashed that, but you guys got to get out. I would not come back to the u.s i'm tired of getting ripped off this morning here in las vegas i spent uh 72 dollars for an omelet and a cup of coffee right crazy now that's unheard of you know somewhere like mexico and my place in mexico is way nicer than the five-star resort here in vegas wow and i pay a fraction of the cost where in

Starting point is 00:12:44 mexico are you? I live in Cancun. Ooh. So I live right on the ocean in Cancun. That's where all the tourists are, right? Yeah, that's where all the tourists are, but you got everything in range. So Cancun is a huge hub.

Starting point is 00:12:58 You can go anywhere direct from Cancun, Europe, United States, Latin America. I can go direct to Vegas. I can go direct to, you know, Vegas. I can go direct to Des Moines, Iowa. Wow. Because it's the second, Cancun is the second visited tourist destination in the world behind Paris, France. I didn't know that. Yeah. Wow. It makes sense though. I went there growing up. So, um, do you have to speak Spanish? Um, yeah, Espanola is my last practice. No, I cannot. My Spanish is terrible. Okay. Um was model that's the practica no i cannot my spanish is terrible okay um but that's a good thing but you know uh most people speak english down there i can speak conversational

Starting point is 00:13:31 spanish enough to get by but my girlfriend's full colombian as well so that helps out i'm going to colombia this year i'm pumped oh you're gonna love it then yeah i just got a hair transplant surgery oh down there that's half the reason i'm wearing the uh the cowboy hat right now but you guys can see it you guys can see on the camera this was two months ago i got hair transplant surgery it's already starting to come back in damn so you were bald well it was you know you started to get the receding hairline yeah hey and if if you got money there's no excuse why you should have a receding hairline yeah so i went and that done. And now you can see it's already starting to come back, but it takes six months now in the United States,

Starting point is 00:14:08 they will not do PRP injections into your head. So it'll take a year. And a lot of times if you get hair restoration surgery in the United States, it won't take damn. Yeah. So most people you'll see them fly to Turkey where they use the same hair restoration practices in Columbia as they do in Turkey. And it's way cheaper to go to Columbia than it is to fly all the way over to Turkey. I think I'd rather be in Columbia anyways than Turkey for the weather

Starting point is 00:14:36 and the food. Oh yeah. Columbia is a big medical tourism place too. I'm going for some cells. Yeah. We, uh, there's a place in Medellin. It's called, uh, El Tesoro. We called it build a because you can walk in there and there's a menu of anything that you want done. You want, um, you know, you want to get your teeth done. You want, uh, you want boobs, you want lipo suction, you want hair restoration. You just go there and you can literally no appointment, go in there and say, Hey, I want a lipo. And they're like, okay, we'll do do your consultation we'll see you back here in the morning that's crazy it's crazy that would probably cost way more in the states it's uh yeah it's like four or five times more geez in the states wow how's the safety in mexico though any cartel stories um no so in the the cartels run you know

Starting point is 00:15:21 mexico yeah but the um cartels all they care about is money right so they do not want anything happening to a family or you know tourists or anybody when they come down there because one bad news article or dhs warning means that it's shutting down everything so the cartel has got rules okay you know they you can't like if you say you were you were out there and one of your buddies punched a cartel member he was drunk no well the cartel member can't retaliate really no wow they have laws and rules to make sure that you know the tourist and you know civilians stay safe that is crazy yep okay Yep. So you only see, you know, cartel on cartel violence down there. You don't see any issues with civilians. So it's similar to the mob out here

Starting point is 00:16:10 then. Correct. Yeah. Unless you're out there dealing drugs, you're safer than in Mexico than you are in the United States. Yeah. Do you do a lot of credit hacking? I do a lot of credit hacking. I'm a credit nerd. You know, know um one thing that helped my business and also allows me to you know travel you know first class you know five star everywhere i go okay and what's the you need to spend a lot on the cards right to do that yes and no so if you're if you got a business you should be racking up a lot of points already yeah but there's ways of manufactured spending so you don't like say if you you don't have a business but you want the points yeah you can manufacture that spend and um be able to rack up points like when i was broke before i had you know

Starting point is 00:16:59 a lot of business spend going on yeah i would go to apple and i'll go buy like three or four macbooks on my card so like i would take i would take like an american express platinum yeah and then i would take my debit card and i'll go put um are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest we'll click the application link below in the description of this video. We are always looking for cool stories, cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life. Click the application link below and here's the episode, guys. The majority of the spend on the Amex Platinum and then I'll put like maybe $100 on my debit card. Oh, you could split? I would do a split pay. Okay. And then what I would do was I would go back into Apple the next day and I would go ahead and say, Hey, I'd like to return these,

Starting point is 00:17:49 uh, these, uh, laptops would be like $10,000 for the laptops. And I want to put it all on my debit card and then return the money all to the debit card. And then I would take those funds. Once I got a return to my debit card and pay off the credit card. Oh my gosh. That's brilliant. Cause that's 10,000 points, right? Correct. Oh, it might be even more with the multiplier. Correct. So there's still retailers out there that do that.

Starting point is 00:18:10 I don't know if Apple still does. Yeah. But you could check it out. Dude, that's brilliant. Because with 20,000 points, you could probably fly domestic for free at that point, right? Yeah. Or you could use the cash back or point hack.

Starting point is 00:18:21 But I want to give you guys some sauce when it comes to point hacking because I just got back from a month and a half in Asia, in Australia. I didn't pay for anything. I went to nine different countries, all five-star first class. Wow.

Starting point is 00:18:38 And I was able to do it all on points. So here's how you're going to be able to use your points to the maximum. Never use the credit card portal. If you try to book your points using the American Express travel portal or the Chase travel portal, you're going to get wrecked. So most of you guys know, hey, transfer your points to the airline or transfer your points to the hotel yep but what they don't tell you this is how you're going to be able to get 10x the redemption value is if let's just say you're trying to book a first class trip on delta so you go to delta and the flight pulls up and it's

Starting point is 00:19:19 you have 200 000 points for that first class flight. Well, Delta, um, is an alliance with a bunch of other airlines. For instance, air Canada and Delta, they have an alliance. So you could go on air Canada and you'll probably find that same flight for 50,000. Damn. Right. Or 25,000. Holy crap. So, um, rather than you guys having to go and figure out like all this stuff there's a website that i use i'm not affiliated with it or anything like that it's called point.me point.me will crunch all the you know algorithms to show you what partners and what you know what's going to give you the best redemption value for your points that's good to know man that's a hack because i'm going to egypt this year and i don't want to play so i want to use points yeah just use point.me tell it you know when you want to go

Starting point is 00:20:07 um what credit cards you have you know you want first class that's big time does it work on hotels too uh no they don't have it for hotels so if any developers are out there listening that's a probably a multi-million dollar idea yeah that'd be major because some of these five stars be charging 3k a night correct it's crazy yep and it's not even worth it i mean i mean maybe but correct but yeah i mean the moral of the story you guys gotta stop using the credit card portal i got wrecked i had a million points and i used it all on a cancun resort oh my on an amex travel portal wow i could have probably used it on like 10 different five-star resorts yeah you could have flown around the world for that living your learn though that's right yeah but you could get a million points in a month. If you spend

Starting point is 00:20:47 250K on Facebook ads, get 4X on the gold. Yep. 4X on American Express gold. Yeah. American Express and Chase are the most commonly taken on the airlines and also on the hotels. So those are my two favorite. I use the American Express Platinum and Gold, and then I use my Chase Business Unlimited. Yeah, I like those too. You got a black card yet? I've been offered, but it's a ripoff. Yeah. So I got the invitation like two or three years ago,

Starting point is 00:21:18 and then I looked at it. The difference between the American Express Platinum and the American Express Black is nothing nothing it's just a flex you got to pay a fifteen thousand dollar uh annual fee just to have the card be black damn yeah that's a lot so the concierge service that they use for the amex black card is the same concierge service you use for the platinum what the heck yeah it should be different correct so there's no additional incentive unless you just want a black card. Yeah, that's not worth it. So you said you only do Google ads, right? For marketing in my real estate business, we only do Google ads, PPC, and then Bing. There's also a huge search engine. Bing ads. People use Bing still?

Starting point is 00:21:57 All the older generation still uses Bing. Think about it. If you get a Windows computer and you're not savvy enough to download Chrome, then you're stuck with the default internet explorer browser. You're going to be using Bing. Wow. I did not know that. I haven't used Bing in like seven years. So if you want to target the older demographic, you use Bing. Smart. You never dabbled Facebook and TikTok though? A lot. I mean, I spend over six figures a, for our education business on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik TOK. Oh, okay. So for that type of service, it works. Yeah. It works really good for, um, you know, that, but here's the difference between social advertising on social media versus advertising on a search engine. When you advertise on social media, it's called

Starting point is 00:22:41 interruption marketing. You're interrupting somebody's precious scrolling. Right. Right. And then, oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe I'll check this out versus if somebody decides, hey, I want to go ahead and figure something out. And they go to Google and they type in like, sell my house fast. Yeah. That's a much more intentional search. Right. Somebody's scrolling on social way more targeted. Correct. Yeah. So those leads are a lot better, much higher lead quality. Yeah. I definitely agree with that that did your level of happiness go up a lot when you started making money yes anybody that tells you money doesn't uh make you happy and doesn't know where to shop i'm just kidding i'm not very like i don't care about stuff but um money solves 95 of life's problems. So I've always been happy.

Starting point is 00:23:26 I would say my base level of happiness has probably been about the same, but my stress levels have gone down significantly. Really? So money makes you less stressed out. Because there's that biggie quote, right? More money, more problems. I haven't found that to be true.

Starting point is 00:23:41 I have more money, and whenever problems come up, you can write a check for those problems. That's true. Yeah. That's why you see all these politicians never get in trouble. They just write a check. Correct.

Starting point is 00:23:52 So that's if you're wondering, you know, you're on your journey right now and you're thinking, will money buy me happiness? It will buy you less anxiety and it will buy you better, uh, better peace. How tough has dating been? Cause a lot of girls are probably trying to come at you, right? Uh, yeah, but I don't, um, I mean, I've got, I got a baby on the way right now, so, you know, I'm off, I'm all out of the dating scene, but when I was dating, you know, I wouldn't bring up, you know, money. I wouldn't flash, you know, I wouldn't try to

Starting point is 00:24:24 take them out to nice restaurants. Um, you know, be normal i would i would dress you know presentable but i wasn't wearing you know designer clothes and watches on the first few dates okay so so they didn't know no no yeah but they can just look you up on ig though correct so they might have known yeah but back then when i was on then when I was in the dating market, I only had like a couple thousand followers. Oh, got it, got it. So you met your girl pretty early on then. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:51 Okay, that's a real one then. Correct, yeah. Yeah, same with me. I met my girl before I had money. And I feel like if I were to date again now, dude, oh my gosh. It's a minefield out there. It's impossible.

Starting point is 00:25:01 Correct. Especially in LA and Vegas. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is, this is a, probably the sugar daddy. Yeah. This is a sugar daddy hotspot, right? Yeah, for real. But I'm sure the girls in Mexico and other countries are more, more real and authentic. Uh, yeah. I mean, you know, Cancun's a hotspot. Yeah. I would say like the sugar baby, sugar daddy hotspots are going to be Miami, Las Vegas, LA, Dubai, Cancun. Any of those big tourist destination areas are going to have- That makes sense. You've been out to Dubai yet?

Starting point is 00:25:33 I love Dubai. If Dubai wasn't so far, I would live there. I can live anywhere in the world I choose, and I choose to live in Cancun, but Dubai is a close second. The only reason I don't go there is because it's on the opposite side of the world. That's why I haven't been yet. That flight is just too long. It's a haul. You can get direct flights from the West Coast and the East Coast, but it's still 18 hours. Too much, man.

Starting point is 00:25:57 You did a month and a half in Asia. What was your favorite country there? Thailand was on another level. Okay. So if you guys like to party go to thailand um i've been to you know a lot of the best party places in the world you know top hot spots but thailand puts them all to shame damn yeah i mean even the movie hangover three doesn't do it justice now like i would say if you're going to thailand fifi islands in thailand is one of the most insane places i've ever been it

Starting point is 00:26:33 it puts like mykonos ibiza to shame it makes those places look tame wow yeah so gotta check it out you gotta check this i'm not a big partier to be be honest. I'm not either. Once in a while. We went to Japan. Japan was bad. So, yeah, everybody in Japan thinks they're like an anime character. Because it's a whole entire generation raised up from, you know, watching anime. So they dress like anime. They do like the little hand signs like anime. That's funny.

Starting point is 00:27:03 The food I heard is good there. Kobe beef, top in the world. I've been to a lot of really nice steakhouses and best steakhouses in the U.S. And the Kobe beef that you get over there, you can't touch it. Wow. Damn, I got to check it out. Well, what do you like spending your money on then experiences so for me like tomorrow i'm going to ufc 300 got good seats there like that to me is worth uh more than

Starting point is 00:27:35 you know a watch or designer clothes because at the end of the day um all you got is your experiences experiences over materials so i like that advice a lot of people chase materials your materials won't make you happy you know i've had exotic cars i had ferraris you know i sold i sold it because it didn't make me any happier wow yeah even when you're driving it even when i'm driving it you know know, and the, the happiness wears off like, you know, after like three days. So like, if you're out there chasing material goods for happiness, you're going to be like a dope addict. Like after like, you know, the initial shopping high wears off. And even if it's a really nice luxury purchase after three weeks or, you know, a month,

Starting point is 00:28:20 you're back to baseline and then you got to go after something new. Right. It never ends. It never ends. But when I get to the end of my life, I want to be full of experiences. You know, think about think about your life right now. Like if you look back on if I say, John, what are the best moments of your life? I bet you're going to tell me about the people that you're with and some of the places that you went. Absolutely. Yeah. It wouldn't be a material object. Correct. It was the people you spent your time with and the places that you went.

Starting point is 00:28:51 That's what gives you the most happiness. Facts. I love that. Yeah, I need to get out there. I've been to like 16 countries, but I want to hit probably 100. Oh, wow. What are you at? You're probably like almost 50 by now, right?

Starting point is 00:29:02 No, no. I've done most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere. I haven't counted. I'm probably like almost 50 by now right no no i'm you know i've done most of the countries in the western hemisphere i've encountered i'm like probably like in the 40s that's still a lot yeah yeah especially where you came from man people where you grew up probably haven't even been out the country they haven't been out of their state you know damn i think that's a life hack for anybody is get out of your move out of your home city because it forces you to expand. The best decision I ever made for my life was to move out of my hometown.

Starting point is 00:29:31 Yeah, absolutely. Same here. It's one of the best. Did you have to cut off a lot of your friends? Yeah, you know, I was hanging around, you know, the guys from high school and, you know, they weren't going anywhere and they're still doing the same thing

Starting point is 00:29:45 but 15 years later from when i left and they give you hate for it they fall falling off i don't even hear them anymore yeah yeah it's just a shame because people see it as like a negative thing to cut off your your day ones but you got to grow correct i mean correct yeah i mean you if you're hanging around the same people from high school, you're not going to excel, get around people that are already where you want to be. And you'll end up getting there. You're, you're just a by-product of your environment. Your environment has a lot to do with your success. So like if you live in say, okay, no hate on Pittsburgh, but say, if you lived in like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania versus somebody that lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. There's a lot more opportunity here in Las Vegas than there is in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Starting point is 00:30:32 You've got to put yourself in a target-rich environment and surround yourself with success. Then it happens naturally. I could probably be the same person, but I might not be successful if I lived in, you know, uh, I picked the wrong city. Yeah. It's very important. You pick the right city to live in. Yeah. You can't be the top person in your area. No, you want to be, you want to be feeling like you're striving and continuing to grow every single day. Absolutely. That's why I think Dubai is a good one. And probably Cancun. I haven't seen the houses out there, but I assume they're nice. Oh man. It's like Miami.'s miami with dollar general prices so you could get a beachfront house for like a million

Starting point is 00:31:09 yeah a million bucks i mean if you wanted to rent out there you could live on the ocean like 100 you know foot of ocean front yeah beach front for like 10k a month damn i'm sure the food's amazing too so i live in 3200 square foot um condo on the beach on the ocean right it would cost probably 35 000 to do that in miami geez cost me seven grand a month wow that's awesome man i love that yeah so do you still have the u.s citizenship or i still yeah i'm still a gringo okay but i uh i make dollars and i spend pesos so you're like a multi-millionaire out there yeah i do you know i can do pretty much whatever i want within reason out there you know live where i want you know drive when i want but i don't

Starting point is 00:31:56 you know i just enjoy my life i love it dude what's the main focus for you now main focus right now is you know we just talked about it earlier is staying on one path focus right so it's i'm 10 years in but i feel it still feel like i'm just getting started with my yeah real estate journey so you know it's continuing to uh get one percent better every single day what a statement man because you're at the top of the field and you still feel like you're getting better correct you know that's really the key is to just get 1% better every day. Everybody listens to these podcasts wondering, hey, what's the number one success hack? There's no success hack.

Starting point is 00:32:33 There's no magic software. It's getting 1% better every single day. People forget that the compound interest on 1% better every single day is crazy. It's huge. Right. Yeah, it's massive. Well, dude, where can people find you and learn more about learning from you? Yeah, reach out to me on Instagram. It's just Nick Perry, R-E-I. I'm pretty active on there and shoot me a DM. Happy to help.

Starting point is 00:32:53 Cool. We'll link below. Thanks for coming on, man. Hey, man. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Thanks for watching, guys. See you tomorrow.

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