Rich Habits Podcast - Q&A: Book Recommendations, Stocks That Go To Zero, and Spending $7M to Buy Out a Family Member

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

In this episode of the Rich Habits Podcast, Robert Croak and Austin Hankwitz answer your questions!Should I buy a house or continue to live with my parents?Do you have any book recommendations?I'm... about to get a $21K bonus, what do I do with it?Will SPYI or QQQI ever go to $0? Should I max out my Roth 401k? I want to buy out my uncle for $7M, what do I do?---Subscribe to the Rich Habits Newsletter, click here!---Public has finally launched options trading on their platform! To create an account and begin trading options, click here!---Watch the replay of the Direct Indexing Webinar with Frec, click here!---⭐ Download our FREE Budgeting Template – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Earn 5.1% on your savings with a High-Yield Cash Account – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Trade stocks, options, music royalties and crypto on Public – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ ⁠⁠⁠Listen to Public's new daily podcast, The Rundown – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Automatically buy stock where you shop with Grifin – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Protect your family with term life insurance from Suriance – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Use code “Spotify” for 15% off our 4-module video course – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Optimize your portfolio with Seeking Alpha – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⭐ Explore debt consolidation loans on LendingTree – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠---👤 Explore everything Austin does – ⁠⁠click here ⁠⁠👤 Explore everything Robert does – ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠❓ Ask us questions for our Q&A episodes – @richhabitspodcast on Instagram📬 Inquire about working together – christian@witz.vc---Disclosures: Options are not suitable for all investors and carry significant risk.  Certain complex options strategies carry additional risk. Options can be risky and are not suitable for all investors. See the ⁠⁠Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more.For each options transaction, Public Investing shares 50% of their order flow revenue as a rebate to help reduce your trading costs. This rebate will be displayed as a negative number in the “Additional Fees” column of your Trade Confirmation Statement and will be immediately reflected in the total dollars paid or received for the transaction. Order flow rebates are only issued for options trades and not for transactions involving other assets, including equities. For more information, refer to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fee Schedule⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Open to the Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. See ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠public.com/#disclosures-main⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more information.Hankwitz Group LLC has an existing business relationship with NEOS Investment Management LLC. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and the author owns several NEOS ETFs.

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Starting point is 00:01:05 Have you all checked your email inboxes yet this morning? If not, you definitely should because you might have received the first edition of the Rich Habits newsletter. In this weekly newsletter that comes out every Thursday morning, we share updates on the markets. We have a chart of the week that illustrates some important financial information you need to know. We have Robert's biggest takeaways from the week. We have Austin's biggest takeaways from the week, as well as a general update on business news that has been released throughout the week. This is going to be your all-encompassing TLDR.
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Starting point is 00:02:13 year. Yes, I'm so excited for this. And as Austin stated, we have been working on this for a while. We're so excited to build the newsletter, build more educational tools for the community, and just really grow this thing that we have put together. here with the Rich Abbots podcast and community, so we're very excited. If you've not yet signed up, there is a link in the show notes. You can go there, check it out, look at our landing page. Get signed up and just be right there with us in this journey and have all the best information we can provide. And yes, of course, the newsletter will always be free. Now, Robert, before we jump into this episode, I just, that webinar yesterday with direct indexing boggled my mind. I feel like I learned so much.
Starting point is 00:02:54 The FREC team is so insightful. And if you've not yet watched the replay on that, you are probably losing money. Just how awesome this was and how important it can be from a tax loss harvesting perspective. Yeah, I feel like we're minors because we're always out there with our shovels and our picks, finding the new stuff, finding the old stuff, and really figuring out ways to help not only ourselves, but everyone that follows along with us, how to build wealth in a better way and get those bigger gains and just really uncover the best information in the markets we can. So, yes, I definitely learned a lot on the webinar, and it was awesome.
Starting point is 00:03:32 And you crushed it as well. Thanks. I appreciate that, Robert. And if you are listening right now, you miss the live webinar. There's a replay in the show notes below. Go click that. Be about an hour and a half long, but it's so worth it. You're going to learn so much.
Starting point is 00:03:45 It's completely for free. We want you guys to be learning this stuff alongside of us. So definitely go check that out. All right, Robert, before we jump into this episode of the Rich Habits podcast, I want my optioned traders to listen up because I want to talk to you for a little bit about public.com. But first, have you ever actually thought about all the fees that you're paying to trade options? Aside from regulatory fees, there are commissions and most platforms charge a per contract fee as well. That's why today's sponsor, public.com, is so interesting. Public doesn't
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Starting point is 00:04:51 And to start earning up to 18 cents per contract traded, head over to public.com forward slash rich Habits is a link in the show notes below to learn more about that. I personally just traded some options on on cloud. They've got earnings coming up and I'm bullish on the stock, Robert, so I got my little rebate there on public. Now, of course, this was paid for by public investing. Options are not suitable for all investors because they carry significant risk. There's a full disclosure in the podcast description below if you want to read it. And this is for U.S. members only. Now, let's jump into the first question of this episode, brought to us by Jake. Jake says, hey guys, love the podcast.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Here's my question. Should I rent or should I buy a house? I'm 20 years old. I live with my parents. I make $60,000 a year. I've got $30,000 in my taxable investment account on public and I contribute to my 401k. I've got $10,000 in my savings as my emergency fund, and I'm unsure if I should really bulk up the savings to go have a down payment and put it down on a house.
Starting point is 00:05:51 or if I should instead just rent for a longer period of time. Robert, I think we've been talking about the sort of buying versus renting dilemma for a while now. So I'll let you kick off this answer while I kind of gather some data to share with Jake. I love the question, Jake, and congrats on the well-paying job and then also having 30K put aside. In my opinion, in your situation, I would stay with the parents as long as I can, especially with the high interest rates right now. But also, I think it comes down to a mindset thing of understanding, is it really worth buying a home right now at your age? I would really want you to consider, instead of buying a primary home or a condo or something like that, to house hack right out of the gate with your first property, if you're going to buy.
Starting point is 00:06:35 But man, at 20 years old, if I could stay with my parents two more years, think about that. If the average rent, let's say in America's $15, $1,800, and you could stay there for two more years and keep investing that money, you would be setting yourself up in such an incredible situation. But if you're really hell-bent on owning a property, I would look at a duplex, triplex, or a quadplex, look at that Fannie Mae 5% down mortgage and go that route rather than just buying a traditional home or condo. So according to rent.com, Jake,
Starting point is 00:07:06 the median monthly rent price in America right now is $1,987, which is up from $1,584, in January of 2020, right? So the pandemic definitely accelerated rents. And so, Jake, if you actually want to go out and buy that median priced house in America right now, I also ran the numbers there, and you'll be paying after you include PMI, as well as taxes and all the other different things you have to think about for repairs, you'll be paying around $27 to $2,800 a month, which is about $1,000 more here than the average rent in America. So if I are you, Jake, especially you're 20 years old, man, like, of course, your long-term goal should be to buy a house, but you shouldn't want to, you know, be emotional about it.
Starting point is 00:07:50 You should want to be very methodical. This is not something that should take, you know, only six to 12 months to figure out. This is a multi-year process, especially only making $60,000 a year. So if I were you, I would continue to rent. I would mooch off mom and dad for a little bit longer, right? You've got a wonderful, taxable investment account on public at $30,000. That is huge for your age. I know you're contributing to your 401k. You mentioned you've got a couple thousand in a Roth. Just continue to invest and build your base. I would really encourage you, Jake, to build your $100,000 base, which I think would probably come in the next four to five years, considering the trajectory you're on.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And then when you're 25, 26, or 27, that's when I'd really consider going out, buying a house, house hacking, things like that. But at 20 years old, man, I would just keep it cool and be a kid. You don't need to go out and buy a house, take on a crazy mortgage. What a great question from Jake. Our next question comes from Rachel. Hey, guys, love listening to the show. I miss the webinar, but I'm going to be.
Starting point is 00:08:44 going to watch the replay this weekend. You all always talk about continuing education and staying up to date on the markets and business in general. Do you have any book recommendations for me as someone who's learning about investing in wealth building for the very first time? I can start this one out. I have three of my favorites and the good thing is, is they're different from Austin's. So my three go-toes if someone's just learning and wants to get the mindset right, understand how the markets work and how people build wealth. I would start out with Think and Grow Rich. Okay, that's Napoleon Hill.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Richest Man in Babylon. I love that book. And also check out Atomic Habits. I love that one for the mindset stuff. It really helps you get things in perspective. So those would be my top three. Robert, I love those recommendations. I've read them on myself 10 out of 10.
Starting point is 00:09:32 The first book I would recommend Rachel to read is called Own Your Money by Michaela Aloka. The sort of subtitle there is practical strategies to budget better, earn more and reach your six-figure savings goals, like that first 100,000 invested that we always talk about. It's one of those books that you've got to sit down, take notes, and get after it. Another book I really like is The Little Book of Common Sense Investing. That one's very straightforward. If you're having trouble thinking about investing over the long term, maybe you have these knee-jerk reactions, and you kind of get a little bit of emotional when the markets go up and down.
Starting point is 00:10:03 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle is an incredible book that's going to help you zoom out, think about investing for the long term, as well as just keeping it simple with the index funds that Robert and I talk about. And the last book that I would encourage people to read, especially if they want to get a little bit more Rachel on the side of single stocks and analyzing companies and better understanding kind of how to build a portfolio is a book called 100 Baggers by Christopher Mayer. This book really opened my eyes to all the variables that goes into stock picking and understanding and analyzing different companies. So if you're a super nerd like me and you really enjoy learning about the stock market and very specific things that these companies are
Starting point is 00:10:47 doing to make their stock prices go higher, 100 baggers by Christopher Mayer might be a good book for you. Another one that I wanted to mention, and it's an older one, but Peter Lynch beating the street. I love this book. I learned a ton early on in my career from it. And don't sleep on this book. I think it's a really good one that no one really talks about. When Peter Lynch was running his fund, his annual average return was 29.2%. Beating by double the S&P 500 during that 1977 to 1990 sort of time horizon, right? So I love that book. I think, gosh, man, if people really care about investing and want to learn more about market beating strategies, beating the street,
Starting point is 00:11:24 what a great idea to read that one for sure. Really, really good question, Rachel. Our next question comes from Tanner H. Tanner says, hey, Robert Nostin, first and foremost, thank you all so much for such a wonderful podcast. I absolutely love it. and I listen to it every single week. I'll be earning a lump sum of $21,000 from my job as a bonus at the end of the summer. I plan to take this money and park it inside a T-bills to save it as a down payment on a house.
Starting point is 00:11:49 But I know interest rates are high right now and Jerome Powell might not cut them by the end of the year. So should I keep this money, save it up and build it? Or should I begin to try and find a better place to put this money? Or should I focus on house hacking? What do I do? Robert, I'll let you kick this one off, man, because you are the guy that knows house tacking like the back of his hand. Tanner, great question. Yes, I'd love to kick this one off. This is a tough one. I love that you're thinking about T-bills. I love that you're thinking about
Starting point is 00:12:14 saving the money, but I definitely don't want to see you take all the money you have and put it into one property while not having built your base yet. So I would rather see you take that lump sum from the job, get that into the T-bills, get that Roth IRA started, get this basket of index funds we talk about all the time up and running so you're moving towards building your base then maybe consider the house hacking a little bit further down the road i just think it's so important for people to not jump into real estate as their first investment it can work out really well but many times it doesn't so many people jump in head first with that first chunk of money that they've saved or gotten from an inheritance or their job or whatever only to find out that then their money and their credit is tied up and it doesn't
Starting point is 00:13:01 cash flow or do as well as they thought or even worse they lose money on the first property so i'd love to see you build the base first keep your eye on the prize as far as adding real estate and house hacking after and that's how i would get started i think that is the perfect playbook and as someone who's first big investment was real estate the only reason it worked out for me was because i got a three percent interest rate on my mortgage and i happened to buy a house in a wonderful part of the country Nashville, Tennessee, which was booming, it has been booming for so long. And I bought this house back in 2019, right? And so that's why it worked for me. Those situations aren't exactly happening right now, interest rates on mortgages are closer to 7, 8%. You know, a lot of Florida and a lot of other,
Starting point is 00:13:44 Texas, other parts of the country right now are definitely in a gully, as we might say. Shout out to the big short. But there's a lot of volatility happening right now in real estate. So I'm right there with you. You know, Tanner, if you want to buy a house, we're off for it. House hack, do the thing. great idea, but maybe not right now. To Robert's point, build your base first, right? Don't put so much of your invested capital and your net worth into something that could go south, whereas we know putting our money in the index funds we talk about, the S&P, the NASDAQ, things like that. We might see some market volatility, but we know that's a very long-term play, whereas real estate right now seems just kind of too rocky. So, Tanner, if I were you, I'd build your base, aim for that $50,000 to $100,000,
Starting point is 00:14:24 and then once you have that invested in working for you, then it's time to say, okay, I need to go find $20, $30, $50, $100,000 to put down as a down payment. Oh my gosh, crazy to say that, on a house. And hopefully by that time, interest rates, well, I'm sure by that time, interest rates will begin to sort of pull back down a little bit and things will be a little bit more optimistic for first time homebuyers like you, Tanner. And also, I do want to mention many people don't realize or don't consider that real estate is illiquid. So when you take that lump sum and you put that into one property, you can't just go back in and grab some of that money out, unless you were to do a he lock or another type of loan against the property.
Starting point is 00:15:02 So just keep that in mind. Whereas if you took the 21K and you built it towards your base, you could have that money anytime you want if you decided to change lanes and get that piece of real estate. But it doesn't work that way. Conversely, if you put that money into a property. That needs to be clipped up, mic drop. Like, that needs to be a headline right now for people to realize.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I mean, talking from experience, Robert, to buy the house I'm sitting in right now, I had to put 20% down on it. And so I had to put down total cash out of my bank account about $90,000. And that was July of 22. I had to buy a house, a couple of things going back there. But it was the right decision for me at the time. All as well. Worked out great. But that $90,000, I mean, a lot of people are in that same situation, right? If it's 90, it might be 50, might be 60, might be 30. But to your point, that's money that is now locked away in equity inside real estate. That is not a liquid asset. Sure, you could get the money out if you wanted to go into debt or if you wanted
Starting point is 00:16:01 to sell the house, but I mean, gosh, that's just a whole process. And yeah, I 100% agree. So, so important, Robert, for people to understand that you can always build your base and use that money to go buy a house. But conversely, you can't buy a house, then use that money to build your base. What a great, great takeaway. Our next question comes from Amir L. Amir says, thank you guys so much for the recommendation about carry money. I've been using it for my solo 401k and may get back to a Roth IRA as Fidelity doesn't offer that. I'm now on a pursuit for passive income, which means I'm investing into SPYI and QQQI. However, I'm scared to have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested because I remember Austin once said any stock can go to zero and I just
Starting point is 00:16:45 don't want these to go to zero. That'd be very bad for me. So what do you guys think I should do? Amir, if yes, if they went to zero, it'd be bad for us too, right? Because we're big investors. Okay, so let's talk about this for a second, Robert. When I said any stock can go to zero, I was talking about that from the perspective of sort of penny stocks and other, you know, very single stock companies. Peloton is a great example of this. Let's just look at their stock price real quick. So if we go to Peloton stock price, we will see that Peloton IPOed around $25 a share. During the pandemic, they went up to about $200 a share, and now they're at $3.56 per share. They are down $80,000. 5% all time and they are down, gosh, what is it here?
Starting point is 00:17:29 98% from their all time high. That is what I talk about when like stocks can go to zero. Single stocks can go to zero and it's not exactly that common, but it does happen. Now, the difference between a single stock like Peloton and the ETF, SPYI or QQQI is that SPYI and QQQI are tracking the indices of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100. That again are the 500 largest, most profitable companies in the United States, right? That's the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are the 100 largest companies trading on the NASDAQ, which are also massive, profitable companies. And so, Amir, what I'm trying to get out here is SPYI and QQQQI are not exposed to the one anomaly of a single
Starting point is 00:18:20 stock that might be under bad management and go under like Peloton or Carvana was last year. But instead, they are exposed to 500 of the largest most profitable companies. Right. So by investing into SPYI, you are essentially buying VOO. You're buying Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Tesla, right? You're buying these big names that have been around forever and will continue to print profits for their shareholders. So Amir, SPYI, KKQI, they're not going to zero. Well, they have volatility as the indices that we all no one love also experience volatility? Sure, right? But that's just part of investing. But I can say with certainty, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are not going to zero. And this takeaway really illustrates the importance of diversity. That's why we tell everyone to build their base. Don't start with
Starting point is 00:19:05 individual stocks. We don't think people should start with their first investment being buying a piece of real estate. We believe that you should build your base within these funds that we talk about because it's been proven over decades and decades of time that they go up into the right and that these drawbacks are going to occur over time, but the markets are generally much safer when you're in these funds rather than individual stocks. It's just so important to understand that because some people tell you if you find a good investment, go all in. Well, guess what? A lot of people thought Peloton was a great investment during COVID when everyone was locked down in their houses. They couldn't go outside. They couldn't go to gyms, et cetera, et cetera. And they were wrong.
Starting point is 00:19:44 And like Austin said, this just doesn't happen very often, so I wouldn't worry about it. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are great places to put your money, and I would never worry about going to zero. And just so we're on the same page, too, SPYI and QQQQI are allowing you to take some of the price appreciation that you would experience in the S&P or the NASDAQ and translating that into monthly dividend income that hits your brokerage account, right? you're trading the price appreciation for income. And SPYI has a 12% distribution yield. KQQQI is about a 14%. So every year you can expect between 12 and 14% of income yield against your investment to hit your brokerage account, assuming you own both those ETFs. So really great question, Amir, if you're wanted to build passive income, you're in the right ETFs. I'm a big passive income guy. I've got both the ETFs. Robert does as well. And we're super bullish. And if you want to learn more about their
Starting point is 00:20:40 ETS, we actually did an interview with Troy Cates, one of their managing partners at Nios Investments. I want to say six episodes ago, six or seven episodes ago. It's titled, How to Generate Your First Thousand dollars of Passive Income. So go take a look at that and go learn something. It's great. Really good interview. Great question, Amir. Thanks so much. Yes. Earlier in the show, you heard us talk about the investing platform, public.com. That's where you can trade options with no commissions or per contract fees. And you get a rebate of up to 18 cents per contract traded. Nerd Wallet recently gave Public 5 out of 5 stars for options trading.
Starting point is 00:21:14 So if you want to see why, go to public.com and start getting a rebate of up to 18 cents per contract traded. Paid for by public investing, options not suitable for all investors and carry significant risk. Full disclosure and podcast description. And remember, US members only. Our next question comes from Kiko T. Robert Nostin, I love the Rich Habits podcast. and I just use Sherryans to sign up for term life insurance. Thank you for that recommendation.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Really glad to hear that. Here's my question. My employer offers a Roth 401k, but there's no match. However, I have full autonomy over my investments, and I keep 100% of it invested into VO, your favorite ETF. I'm loving it. Should I continue to invest toward this account or take the money and invest it elsewhere? I'm already maxing out my Roth IRA.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Robert, what a cool situation. that Kiko's in having that sort of autonomy over there 401K there. But I'll let you answer this question first. I was actually thinking I wanted you to answer it because I love the fact that they're using Shuriant, which was really, really a great learning curve for me last weekend at our event. But I'd rather you take this one because I want to hear your spin on it first because this is a really good question. All right, Kiko, I got you.
Starting point is 00:22:30 You are doing everything right. If you are investing in your Roth 401K, I think you can max that out at like 23 or 23 or $24,000 a year. If you're doing that and you're able to put that into VO, you're just double-dipping at this point. I mean, so many people are jealous of your situation because we only have autonomy, generally speaking, over our Roth IRAs, right? Normally, the 401K is, you know, employer-sponsored. They tell us what funds it's in. It's normally underperforming, blah, blah, blah. Robert has the stat. What was it about 401Ks, Robert? Oh, I think it was 5.6% over the last 10 years. Something terrible. Very dismal. Something terrible, right? So no one wants to really have their money in their 401Ks, but they've been told they need to, and that's what the whole thing is there. But you, Kiko, you are able to put all of your 401k money into VOO, which is the North Star of 401k retirement investment investing, right? So Kiko, max out the 401k, max out the Roth IRA, do everything you can to really pile money into your retirement investment accounts. Because when you turn 59 and a half, if you're doing this throughout your life, you're going to retire a multi,
Starting point is 00:23:37 multi-millionaire, knowing that the S&P 500 returns anywhere between 9 and 12% per year, on average over a long period of time. I love this situation that you're in, and I would take advantage of every moment. Okay, so I'm going to put a little bit of a different look on this. When you're going to get that new job, say you're trying to level up in your financial situation and you're looking at a new job. This is hypercritical to understand when you're looking at the employee benefits package to look deeply at what the actual offer is on these 401ks, whether it's traditional or raw, because you want to understand how much autonomy do I have. What offerings are in there that I can invest in? Because obviously with having autonomy and being able to invest in VO is
Starting point is 00:24:21 incredible, but then also understanding the actual match from the company because what people don't realize, most people don't realize, is it might say a 5% match, but it might only be 100% up to 3% and then it goes 50% and 25% or whatever it might be. So just understand that as part of your compensation package because it could be not as good as you think and hurt you in the long run. So this is a great situation that Kiko's in. But make sure you're really defining and reading up on yours when you take that new job or if you've been there for a long time, understanding your rights and what's available to you in your 401k package is so important. So, incredibly important, Robert, and I am just rooting for Kiko. What an awesome, awesome situation.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Our last question comes from Weston. Weston says I'm 31 years old, and for the last five years, I've been building up my uncle's retail shops and restaurants. Combined, they generate $5 million a year in gross revenue, and I'm actually ready to buy my uncle out of the business, but I'm not sure how to do it. After running the numbers, it's going to cost me about $7 million to buy him out. I have no local banks, and I'm not sure if you all had a perspective. on my situation. Anything helps. Thanks very much. Robert, I have no idea. So I'm just going to let you ramble. All right, Weston. I'm going to ramble. So here goes. I don't know where the $7 million is coming from for the purchase price of these businesses, because generally, if we're looking at $5 million in combined
Starting point is 00:25:50 revenue, and let's assume potentially there's a 20% net net margin, that would get us $1 million in net profit on this collective of businesses. So then if I were to take kind of a traditional, multiple of this EBITA or even the net profit on these businesses, that would put me at a $3 to $4 million total cost on these businesses. So I'm not sure where the $7 million is coming from because you generally want to take the owner's profit of $1 million, assuming the 20% return and multiply that by three or four. In your case, because it's family, maybe you want to go higher to take care of the uncle. So maybe it's $4 million, but I don't see a $7 million price point on those. So that's the first part. Secondarily, I don't know that you need the banks. I would go to your
Starting point is 00:26:38 uncle and say, hey, it's time. We've talked about this. I want to buy you out. Can we buy you out with owner financing? And he might not want to do it for a long term, but you could see if you could do it for maybe three or five years, where you offer him, let's say you're going to offer four million dollars. You offer a 5% down payment, 200k. Then you would say, hey, I'll give you a 6% or 7% interest rate over these next three to five years and then you have a balloon at the end for you to buy him out when you could get better opportunity for financing and the businesses. So that's the strategy I would implement. And then if you can't do that and he doesn't want to do where he's not capable of doing owner financing, then I would look at going to more national banks or some business
Starting point is 00:27:22 lending firms that would understand the business model. They would understand the numbers and be able to give you the kind of loan you need to purchase these businesses. That's a great perspective, Robert. And just so like we can all be super on the same page about this, because I'm trying to learn this in real time. So you'd put $200,000 down on that $4 million purchase, right, that 5%. He would still owe him $3.8 million. And you mentioned like a 6% interest rate. So let's call it $230,000 a year. So he'd pay him $230,000 a year against that $3.8 million. But that's just an income. interest. Does that go against what he owes him in the 3.8? Or how does the balloon payment even work at the end? Yeah. So you'd bring in a lawyer or a CPA to amortize the payments out to a more
Starting point is 00:28:07 normal payment schedule. Say it's like 20 years or 30 years. Then you would add the 6% interest on because you want him as being the bank to act as the bank. So he's double dipping. He's getting his money back for selling you the business, but he's making the 6% on top for carrying the loan for you. This is a great way, especially right now in markets like we are as this episode is posted, for people like your uncle to double dip and make really good money off of an investment. Because you're going to pay a bank six, seven, or eight percent anyway. Why not give it to your uncle? So yes, you would amortize the payment out.
Starting point is 00:28:43 You would add in the six percent interest. You'd make that once a month payment that would include the principal and interest just like a bank. Your uncle wins, you win, and everyone moves forward. Okay, got it. So sounds like Weston has. some homework to do. And hopefully this answer has helped Weston sort of figure out what this looks like for him. Congrats, man. You're 31 with like five million a year in revenue generated from some cool real estate, some cool retail shops and restaurants. And that's awesome. And we're rooting for you,
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