I Took My Family To a Mountain Mansion

If only.

To put your heart through.

This is what we. What we grind for, right, is to make enough money to enjoy life. And the only way to really enjoy life, like, deeply, is to make sure that all your people are taken care of. So take your family on vacation. Go in debt if you have to.

Hello.

This is amazing.

How are you? It's crazy because whenever I would come here as a kid, all these. These places were like little cabins. Now it's like these, like, ultra modern mansions. Crazy. Like, I was looking out the door and I was like, I thought that was a public fire pit, but it's. It's like ours. We got the hot tub over there, too. People don't know about. About Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Some people do, actually. I feel like a lot of people do. But I remember when I used to come here and I was a kid, we would just, like, the whole dad's side of the family would save up and all throw in on one cabin and. And we would have four kids in one room, like, half of us sleeping on the floor and sleeping bags. But we did it every year to do this. Now, as you know, I'm the adult. I'm the one getting the cabin. And then, like, things have definitely upgraded a bit. It's cool. It's. It's super cool. So what's the verdict?

It's fabulous.

What's the verdict, Vera? What? You like this place?

Yeah. Yeah, bro.

She said it's whatever. It's all right. She said yeah, up the middle. Oh, I can't wait for s'. Mores. These are like, good graham crackers, too. Look at that.

You know me, I had to.

Anna is like the super health. Look at. Look at. But, but, guys, this is. I'm thankful for this because she made little waters. Like, these are like. We. She made these at the house.

Everyone's got their own dietary restrictions. We got to make it work.

Yeah. We stay healthy in this house.

Oh, yeah. But, you know, we did go to one cabin.

They were. No, they were all cool. They were all cool. But it's just like, it's.

I almost like, this is weird.

This isn't even really a cabin.

No, this is not.

It's more like. Like, ultra modern.

Yeah, bro.

This place is absolutely crazy. It's literally got these driving simulators. Dude, when I was a kid, I would have lost it if I would have had this spot. It's so crazy. Like, we literally were playing, like, board games. But to be fair, that kind of stuff's cool, too. Even got another poker Table. This place is crazy.

And the kitchen refrigerator. Like, I'm sorry. I mean, that didn't make any sense.

What?

I just said the kitchen refrigerator. I meant the restaurant refrigerator. I know, it's beautiful.

Stand next to the refrigerator to show how.

Like, dude, this thing is huge.

I gotta say, it's beautiful out here, guys. Like, if you guys have never been up here, it's Gatlinburg. I mean, I will say the actual town is a freaking tourist trap, but if you know how to do it, just go to a cabin and enjoy the family time, which is kind of like, you know, what the vacation should be about. A lot of the vacations I go on, I'm going, and you're just like, run, run, run, run. Dinner. This thing, that thing. And by the time it's said and done, you have such a busy itinerary that you don't really, like, spend time with family. So I'm excited for this. We're literally doing nothing except sitting at the house.

Look.

No, leave it on. It's funny now because you said. Because you were going to church at that time, and you said, mimi, they said that I should bow, and I'm not doing it.

What's it called at karate? That's funny.

He said, you're not gonna bow. He was so little. He looked so tall, but he was so young. I mean, he just towered, like, a foot over most of the kids, right?

Yeah, I was, like, abnormally tall.

Look, this is funny. This was a really funny day.

That's Jacob, right? Yeah.

But isn't me and Ma and Jacob on that. That horse? I thought that was hysterical. Oh, that's one of my favorite pictures of you. So cute. It is adorable how that drip on. There's not that many in here. Isn't that so cute?

Yeah, that's that painting I was talking about. Whenever I said, my grandfather's in that. The 82nd Airborne. That's what I was talking about.

Exactly like that.

But, yeah, that one, I was like, oh, it was an 82nd Airborne.

Gary Panda. We tried to get you to, like, golf.

Honestly, I want to get into golf now that I'm older.

I mean, you're good at hitting it.

I mean, I'm. Oh, yeah, I'm good at hitting it far enough.

It's crazy how you look exactly the same. This is so cute. Oh, my gosh.

Look at that. Look at that.

That was Mimi's bedroom, her tree.

Look at this, bro. Young stunner. Oh.

A big old head.

Oh, my God. Big brand. Really?

Oh, this Is priceless. This is one of my most.

Like a dad when I.

Innocence. Pure innocence. Yeah.

There was my grandfather. That was my grandfather out there.

Cool Guy Jeans. Runs in the family.

Yeah.

That's a good picture of your dad.

I know, right?

You look so similar in that picture.

That's cool.

Isn't that funny?

I don't know. Which one is these?

Oh, mom and dad.

Oh, that's when.

Oh, that's a cute one. I love snow pictures.

This is. My dad had longer hair. A little bit, wasn't it? Look at.

I said Rick and Jesse, Tennessee. 14 months. I was 14 months old. I was at Mimi's house, too. Or at Mama's house. My mom. That was my mom that was from, like, the 60s. So cute.

That one's cute. You were just a baby.

Here's my Mimi and me. So we are going to have some s' mores and go out here and enjoy the night. First, we've got to power up.

Oh, my gosh. What? Oh, I didn't know. Look at the. Look at the archway over here, the doorway. Isn't that beautiful?

Yeah. This place is crazy. Like the movie theater in here. We're gonna come in here and watch Ratatouille later.

Yeah, we're gonna watch Ratatouille as a certified hood classic. You hear that, right, Mom?

I love Ratatouille.

Actually, there's two of them. They fill them out every time so they're clean. There's like. There's literally one right there and one over there.

Does it work? Oh, how exciting.

Extremely hot.

Happy birthday. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys for coming. Thank you. Thank you.

My roommate would take pictures, and we'd go develop them in a black box or a black bag thing, put them inside and roll them up and pour chemicals in them. Develop.

You sell them to the golfers.

$35 for two pictures.

Hustler. See, that's where I get it from.

Then we'd end up. We'd make about. We'd get a percentage of it. A guy who owned the cameras and the film and bought all the equipment. But we did.

So, wait, so you guys did the work and they'd give you a cut?

Yeah, we got a cut table. And I'm sitting over there, and Dave's sitting by Gary. Mama's down there. And Terry and Gary said something about not when he was doing something, he was going somewhere. And he called dad an old man. He said, oh, man, I ain't doing any good. And by the time he said old man, dad took him by the back of the head and slammed his head down in the hibiscus and gravy on that plate. Busted the plate. So if you ever come in old man boy really mad at him.

He punched him in the face.

Oh, yeah. Well, he took. He got something out of him one time, but he had. Gary had a shotgun under his chin, and he's calling the deputy sheriff. He hadn't put in jail. He got put in jail and seen Gary behind the plate glass window and trying to get dad to let him out. And he's telling me he didn't get me out. I said, ain't nothing I can do about it. You're in here for whatever dad said, not me. You know, y' all are crazy. Gary was mean. Gary's mean as you all sound mean. He was real mean.

It's a whole different side of Rick. And I was really asking myself if I should marry him because they said, do you know why his nickname is Tick? Because he won't get off of you until he draws blood. And I was like this sweet, little, adorable man. That's just precious. Lovable, mild manner. He did that.

What do you have to say about that, dad?

If their little brothers had to keep up with.

Yeah, that's why I'm taking care of him better than me.

Here, Let me see Mr. Hartson's. Yeah, this guy's been through it all. She. Don't let her lie to you. She left him outside for two weeks. No food, no shelter.

He caught rabbits.

No, he didn't. He starved in a thunderstorm. This guy, he was outside, and we found him and saved his life. I found him after we told you to look for Mr. Harson. It's fun to get the family together because it's one thing you go on vacation and, like, ball out and, you know, do all the lavish stuff, which probably gonna go do later this week because it's my birthday and I'm gonna go to Miami. But there's nothing like spending time with your family, guys. So at the end of the day, this is what we. What we grind for, right, is to make enough money to enjoy life. And the only way to really enjoy life, like, deeply, is to make sure that all your people are taken care of. So take your family on vacation. Go in debt if you have to.

Damn.

Here we go again. Common passed on his beat. I made it to a jam.

He was on them things. He got mad because of something to do with the ball game. He pulled a damn knife on me.

I beat the hell out of him. That day I beat him like a damn dead red tip show.

The good always triumphs over evil.

Don't you remember this love?

True love never dies.

Remember that, boy?

Yes.

Oh, so cute. Made me jump.

They are cute. Does funny look stolen to you?

All right, so we are wrapping up the day. And guys, I gotta say, like, this makes me happier than anything at the end of the day. Like family is everything and I don't know, man, I'm just super happy that we put this together. So when I wake up tomorrow, Anna is going to be the amazing woman she is and cook breakfast for my whole family. Like, isn't that sick? I don't know. That's like. It's a little things, right? Talking about how you're going to cook breakfast for everybody. We're going to get pancakes, bacon, eggs, fruit, some sourdough toast, and then actually don't know what we're going to do. And that is the beauty of it, is we're just going to figure it out as we go. So explore this big ass. This house sleeps 40 fucking people. I'm not, I'm not just saying like, oh, it sleeps 40 people. Like, like it literally is supposed to sleep 40 people. That would be some savage shit if you had that big of a family. Like, I would have brought more people. But I'm gonna read my book cuz I'm a nerd. I got this book right now. Yes, I read on vacation. It's called.

Guns. I'll say. Yeah, guns, Germs and Steel. It's just like human history. I get sick of reading business books every once in a while and then I start reading like history or psychology. That shit teaches you a lot. Like in different ways. Like one of my favorite things to read is biographies and autobiographies. Like if you haven't read like biographies of like super successful people, not just like fucking tech, like Elon Musk or something, like read about like Napoleon, right? I'm not like endorsing my Napoleon. I get he, you know, killed a fuckload of people, was not a chill guy. But funny story about Napoleon. One time he literally went on vacation and before he left the country, he conquered and like redid their entire government. Go look this up in seven days. Like if you can't learn lessons on that, that help you better be better at like trading or business. Like, anyways, there's your TED talk. This is what my fiance has to look forward to the rest of her life. It'll be either me reading this book or she'll hop out of the shower and it's like I'm watching some documentary on like Soviet Russia or World War II in color. All right. And I am done with work. So, you know, one of the biggest benefits about you know, being on the go or having a lot of things planned is that it forces you to only focus on the actual important stuff, right? Like if you are like me and you love what you do and you'll, you know, you're always trying to build something new. You're always trying to work on things like between trading, between building this software that I'm building, between my real estate, business content, I mean everything. It's like I can, I literally have an endless to do list. Like it is endless and I can always find something to do and usually I will like if I'm at home, I'll lock in most of the day other than the gym and you know, spending a little bit of time with my fiance. But whenever you're on the go, it forces you to kind of eliminate all the low leverage things. And it's kind of mind blowing when you, when you really realize it because you know, the Pareto principle is so real, right? Like 80% of your results come from 20% of your actions. And it's almost like you intuitively just know what you actually have to do whenever you're either on vacation or if you have a lot of things planned outside of work. Everybody you see out here, that is crushing. It has a really good team behind them and without them I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the. Bring the vision that I want to bring to life and dude, I can't wait. Like the software that I'm building you guys have, it's going to be crazy. Like the amount of data that we have taken in over 10 years time and thousands of markets to figure out the different correlations, inverse correlations and build actual data. Data backed strategies that have edge not just based on, you know, a back test, but based on different factors that play into the market. I mean I've literally hired people who have PhDs in quant finance and masters in quant finance and some of the best talent in the world. I've spent an ungodly amount of money doing this but honestly I've been more excited about this than really anything I've ever done because it's going to have the ability to impact way more traders. Like any of you guys watching this will be able to access the in some way which is super exciting. So a lot of you guys I know are Grinding, working towards your goals. And you. You get this discipline culture shoved down your throat 24 7. And if you're not careful, you end up just becoming mindless. And you're in the weeds. You're not thinking of the bigger picture, because if you look at the most successful people, they're always masters of strategy. Not just tactics, but strategy. Would you look at that? My beautiful fiance is down here making us breakfast. I wish you guys could smell this, because everybody knows the absolute best smell in the world is bacon. Preferably early in the morning, but let's see what we got for breakfast over here. Dude, this house is so big. It's literally like four stories tall. It takes like. You have to. Like, we were getting lost, trying to find each other. Oo.

Oh, man.

Look at that. How's yours, babe?

What's the verdict?

Very good.

All right, we are making a little road trip to get another bathing suit because the other one was not up to my daughter's liking. So we are rolling up in the G wagon. You guys, look how much of a gentleman. And you got to slam these. For those of you guys who've had G wagons or been in them, you know, you literally got to, like, slam these things. It's so funny, too. My daughter, like, she's kind of just used to this because ever since she's been old enough to really, like, you know, remember a couple years ago, you know, we. She was riding around in a Sonata and she never realized it. Now she's, like, riding around in the G wagon and, like, the McLaren and stuff. And it's funny, like, her mom was telling me she told her friends at school, which I tell her not to do this stuff. She was like, my dad has a McLaren. But you guys all remember whenever you're like, a little kid and there's that kid that says that about their dad, and they're lying. Like, my dad has a Ferrari. But all the friends thought she was lying. I told her. I was like, don't do that, because it's just not good habits to brag. But I thought that was kind of funny. Oh, they have them. Look.

The tank is clean, though, because usually when it's not, it smells really bad.

But these are.

Look at them.

Can you get one?

No. No.

So that's how they get you. It's full circle. I remember my parents. Yeah, my parents usually did. They didn't ever actually. I don't even know if I ever actually got one. It died.

Sure he did.

They'd get me fish. We had an aquarium but then that they got rid of that whenever we had to move houses and stuff.

Yeah, I'm gonna just drink my coffee. That's every day. So I know I said no work, but I do still have to have one call with my team, so I'm gonna hop on with them. I've done a good job of building everything in a way that I have a really great team of people. And I focus more on the strategy of we prioritizing on what are the big objectives and key results over the next two weeks and just assigning things out with due dates, making sure everything is put into our project management system by my assistant and ensuring that at the end of the day, like, everybody owns the way they do things. Like, one of the ways that I like to lead is I don't really tell people how to do things. I tell people what the goals are. So when you tell people what the goals are, and you give them freedom to figure out the path to that goal, and of course, give them the ability to consult with you and say, hey, is this a good plan? I found that when you do it this way, people own things, people are empowered. You also bring the best out of people, and you start to help people grow and build on themselves. And at the end of the day, the way that you can form the most meaningful relationships is by bringing the best of other people. It's something that my mom taught me when I was a kid, is that you always want to do that, whether it's friends, family, anyone, anyone. You just want to, like, set things up so that everybody is happy, everybody's motivated, and everybody's always growing. Because when you do things that way, you're much stronger than if you're the man, right? If you're the smartest person in the room, you're doing things wrong, Right? You're on the wrong people. Or maybe the people that, you know, you could be lifting up, you're not lifting them up. This is where most people get stuck and never are able to scale anything is because they're too controlling and they have the fear of letting somebody else do. They think, oh, only I can do it. I'm the best at this. Like, nobody's going to do it as good as me. And maybe even if they do it at 60 to 70% of you, but if you have 10 people, you're going to get farther. So I'm hopping this call, and then after that, it's no more work today. So I am done with my calls. I am about to go back downstairs and see what the fam is doing. And yeah, I think we're going to. I think they have, like, a cake that my fiance baked for me. I'm pretty sure it's a surprise, but I know that it's. I know it's happening, but I'm excited for it because I don't ever eat any kind of, like, stuff like that. Where they at? I don't know. This house is so big.

He told me that he brought his test strips to see if the hot tub is, like, up to standard.

Yeah, my dad's crazy. My dad's funniest. My dad and me are like the same person. I don't know if I would do this, but he brought the. He brought test strip because he knew they had a hot tub here. So he brought test strips to see if this hot tub was, like, up to standard and taken care of properly. Like, he literally brought them from the house. What's the verdict, Mr. Hot Tub?

That's what the thing these things are supposed to be.

What did I tell you guys? I said, you have test strips. I did, Yeah.

I brought that. But that right there is the one that could be. Should be green, but it's not completely green.

So it's supposed to be like the. The second green, but it's like lime. Honestly, in general, like, hot tubs are kind of gross when you really think about it. Yeah, this place is crazy. They even had two hot tubs. They didn't have just one. They have two hot tubs.

That should have sick, though. You know, that's the goal, like, one day. Because as you guys know, I'm doing the real estate stuff, and we've got up to. If this. This one gets accepted, which, I mean, they've already verbally accepted, it'll be eight doors this year added. The big picture goal with that is to basically do the burr method. Like, I'm buying these houses. Like, for example, what I'm putting off rate I bought, I'm buying for 25,000, right? And it's definitely needs some work, but I'm gonna buy for 25,000. Then I'm gonna put in. If the furnace is bad, It'll be like 25, 000. The furnace at H Vac and stuff, because it's a very small house, like, but if not, we'll probably get out of it for like 18 to 20, 000, maybe a little less. You know, I'll be in it for less than 50, 000, right. That house, based on two houses in the neighborhood that recently sold for one of them sold for 180. One of them sold for 187, I think or something when it's some odd number. So it'll probably be like around 180. Anyways, what I was saying is that I'll have around 50k in that house, right? So 50k and probably like a month or so, maybe a little bit more. I like to, I always like to have. I like to overestimate how much things will cost and how long they'll take. Something I've learned over time doing business. But we'll say two months and what, 50k into it. Two months of work. That property, if it appraises for 180k, well, we're going to be able to pull out 75%. So we'll pull out 75% of 180k and then which will be well like 130,000. And basically, you know, we turn 50,000 into 130,000 plus 25% equity in the home. And that loan we're pulling out on the property because we're pulling at 75% of the value, it's not taxable. So you basically can take that money and we rent the house out, we'll cash flow pretty decently on it and then we'll just keep rolling that into higher and more and more property, which is what I've been doing. And the only way this really works, the way like is because I have other income coming in so I can look at it and say, okay, what's the worst case? Like let's say if all my houses were vacant for a year, could I just pay off the mortgages? And like I could have the mortgage on these for quite a long time. We're straight there. So, you know, the big goal is just to continuously do this for two to three years, maybe even a little long, less longer if we find a good deal and then find a place like this. Like, look at this right here, this place. And I'm gonna come back one day and I will make a video on this. Now this would be a pretty ambitious job because I guarantee this is many, many millions net worth now. But like, let's just say, you know, you could do two things. Like let's say if you just bought the property and then you put in the infrastructure and paid for all of this. I know it would be, this would be a bigger project than I would do at first. But this was a play. Like, you know, this is a figure play. There are a few things that are as fulfilling as seeing how well My fiance gets along with my family and just, I don't know, as a man, you know, it's like you should be super proud of that. Like the way that your wife, a fiance, your girl, like, if she's, you know, going to be around for the long term, like how they interact with your family, right? Like, how do they take care of your family? Because as you get older, like, guys, I'm over the hill, right? Well, for a lot of you info, guys are young. I turned 29 in a couple days. And I'm at the point now, like, where we're taking, you know, control. Like, I am now the patriarch of my family. I am not taking care of everybody. Everybody. I'm responsible for everybody. And that means people come to our house for vacations. People, you know, we take care of people, we organize things. And man, it's just like such a good feeling. And I'm very grateful to, to be able to do it the way that we do it. Use that as your motivation. Not a Lambo. Oh, look at this. This is sick. I got this from my mom's friend. Sick. And then also this.

You know, it's funny. Like, I've got a couple watches. I've got this Rolex and I've got some others, but I mean, I'm into watches for sure. I'm not into them as much as like some people are, but I want to get into them more as like a collectible. Going to get myself a prezi. I wanted to get it whenever I hit a big milestone, though. But I might just say fuck it and just buy it, because I've hit a lot of big milestones. But at the end of the day, like I said, milestones, pretty aggressive, which you should. You should set them to the point where they seem unrealistic to you. If you're not, then you're not setting it the right way. All right, so let's see this cake. My fiance said it was ugly, but I don't think it is. I think it looks like it's going to taste super good. We got chopstick is makeshift. This makeshift Airbnb. It looks. It's an orc of art. We'll see how this. Let's see how this goes. It looks good though, to be honest. Like, I know it's not like a designer thing.

I've never made a cake before.

I can't wait to taste it, but I'm hyped. We even got the little high class chopsticks.

It was falling.

This camera is so good.

Graham crackers. Oh, yeah.

This makes crumpling up crackers cinematic.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Jesse.

See?

Happy birthday to you.

I love you guys.

Love you, too.

Thank you.

With porch.

I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard it's pretty good.

It's really.

It's delicious.

What do you guys think? Yes. Yes. I love it.

Top peely, over the top.

Oh, my God, baby. This is amazing.

Really good.

It is.

I'm gonna need more cake with mine.

This is amazing. Is for me and Pops later. So we're gonna smoke a nice cigar. You know, it's funny, I haven't really been smoking cigars recently. I just. I go through these cycles where, like, I really like doing something and then I just kind of don't have the desire to. I've smoked one cigar in the last month, which for me, you know, I was smoking, like, probably like two or three a week before. But it's better not to say, smoke them as much. So I'm. I'm excited to smoke and I haven't smoked one in a minute. And it makes it. It just makes them more fun, you know, if it's, you know, busting out a cigar with Pops. Yeah. I remember whenever I was young, my dad would always grill the steaks. Now it's my job. I don't know if I'll be able to live up to the name, though. He was the grill master. We're going to let it get little hotter, and then we'll throw these steaks on everybody. Medium is good.

Yeah.

You good?

Medium. I think everybody wants medium. If you want anything past that, it's not allowed.

Typical dad stance at the grill, doing his stretches.

I even got. I put on my dad's shoes, bro.

It's hocus.

My dad's shoes. I gotta get the other ones dirty. It feels good, though. Like, this kind of stuff is like. I don't know, man. I'm just up to that point in life where, like, the most rewarding stuff is just, like, the simple, simple, you know, like this vacation we've literally not left other than to get my daughter, like, swim stuff. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Like, you know, we're gonna go later to Florida this week, and we'll have enough of the whole, like, fast life and stuff. But honestly, once you get kind of used to that, it's always like, the grass is greener, right? Like, whenever you don't have that, that's what you want. You want to go with the wild stuff and then you Know, it is fun, but it gets old, you know? And then once you do enough of that, you kind of just want the stuff that actually matters. And it's like this full circle moment. Like, you're younger, you want this whole, like, celebrity type lifestyle. Once you have, you know, experienced a lot of that, then you want, like, the simple things. And I think at the end of the day, it's balance, right? But, like, few things are gonna make me happier than hearing my daughter laugh like that, you know? All right, chat. How did I do? Incoming. Guy in the comments is gonna be.

Like, yum, dude, you overcooked them.

Looks like there's, like, a fair value gap after a liquidity sweep.

Good displacement. You think so, dad?

Yeah.

Fair value gap.

What is this?

You think it looks like a fair value gap?

So you. You trade them or something?

Hey, he knows. He watches the videos you keep game. He's funded. It looks real good, Apex.

Smell good, too. Okay, let's look like it's a candle.

You guys ready?

You guys like my stuff? My style? Just a new designer. Y' all don't even know about that. Yeah, I guess I just woke up. It's, like, early because I had to get out of here. Checkout's pretty early, but, yeah, I gotta get a haircut, and then we're off to Miami. My good friend Noah is gonna be there, so I'm very excited about that. It's like one of my childhood friends I am sad to leave, though. I'm gonna make it a quarterly thing, because, you know, truth be told, when you get stuck in this. I mean stuck, but when you get caught up in the hustle. Like, I call my parents a lot, but, you know, I wish I saw my parents more. And there's balance to everything, so think that, you know, you just got to make time for the important stuff, because that's why you work at the end of the day is to be able to do what? Make money. So you can be happy and you can take care of the people around you. Or at least that's why I do what I do. So. There he is.

I was just talking. I was just talking about you. Yeah, I was talking about how you told me how to trade fair value gaps.

Yeah. Back when I was, like, three. Really? Yeah. He invented the algorithm.

Bears didn't come, Babe, for everything.

I want to do this more often.

Me too.

When I was at the pool.

All right, so that wraps up the weekend. Honestly, I've had way more fun doing this than any vacation that I've taken. In a long time. This is your friendly reminder. If you're somebody out here that is working hard to get to your goals, don't forget to call mom and dad. Don't forget to spend some time with them. To them it's like really the just the quality time, like that's, that's all they want from you because you got to remember like your dad is the only man that wants you to do better than him. That's the only, only person in this world that, the only man that wants that. And your mom is the only person who's gonna love you no matter what. So guys, just make sure to take care of your people, spend time with them and yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Got a little bit of the inside look at my life, my family, what's really important to me and appreciate you guys for watching. I'll see you in the next one.