HE FLIPS TICKETS AND MAKES $10,000 A MONTH?! 😱 LEARN HOW! ft. TAYSHAWNTHEPLUG

What's the most you've sold a ticket for? Who's the hottest ticket in the last three years?

It's either the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny go crazy Crazy. Bad Bunny go crazy. There was a two day LA event. They made $70,000 each day.

70 grand.

70,000. I'm talking about profit.

What's the most you ever made for one ticket?

I think the Super Bowl 40K, easily. 40K. Or that bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny would go crazy. Damn you. Bout to get a Bad Bunny tattoo, bro. You remember that?

Bad. You remember all the concerts? That's good. Those two are probably the biggest.

40,000 one day.

Yeah.

Okay, easy. Yeah.

If you want to find some tickets for the lot, go on offerup, go on Facebook, Marketplace, go on Craigslist. There's always people who have tickets that they don't need, they want to get rid of and they'll give it to you at a nice little discount. And then what you do is you hit them up, purchase the tickets and then turn around and go put them right on ticketstubhub or Ticketmaster and resell them. You'll get them for the low. Sometimes you get them for the low.

Welcome to the real estate newsroom. I'm your host, Charles Noonan. Today's headlines is absolutely crazy. It's going to shock my guy right here. We got some wild landlord, tenant, tenant stuff going on. Let's take a look. The other tenants in the building, they can also be put at risk. My biggest frustration at this point is my inability to manage out dangerous or disruptive tenants. Osho Berman says he became a landlord to offer stability to low income people who face face barriers that other property managers wouldn't deal with. He says it's backfired badly. It's just a nightmare in Seattle. It's just an absolute Seattle in the building.

Come on, look at this.

What? You know what that is?

It might be north Seattle.

That's the north side, I think.

So.

Is if we agreed to a limited dissemination so we could not disclose how violent he was to other landlords.

Tenant friendly up there.

Oh, they're tenant friendly. Look at this. Look at him. That's him.

Look, look. Look. Damn, that's wild. That's the owner.

That's him. He went to collect his rent.

He went to go get his bag.

Hold on, hold on. Oh, that's it, bro. He went to collect his rent. You see him like, like he get with his hand out the gun, started chasing him.

I don't. How did he get the Came. That's crazy. It must have been in the building.

I. It could have been, yeah. Surveillance. I don't know, man. These. These things just get sent to me because, you know, we do the real estate news, and it just goes craz. One of the wildest that I've seen with a guy. So I've seen landlords get beat up. I see tenants get beat up. I've seen landlords go to tenants jobs and get it handed to them at the job. That's the worst place you can go to collect your rent money.

Right.

Because now, like, you embarrassing them at the workplace. So it gets absolutely crazy, bro.

That's sad as my city too, man. Yeah.

Did you know I was gonna have something like that on here?

No, I didn't know.

My reach. My reach is crazy, bro.

Do his homework and game work, huh? Ye.

Yes, sir. All right, so we got Tayshawn Jones all the way from Seattle. What part of Seattle?

I'm from the west side, across the bridge.

The west side. Give me a little breakdown of Seattle, because I'm not really familiar. Is it like the north is good, south is bad? Like, give me a little breakdown.

I mean, everything's gentrified right now, pretty much. But growing up, the west side was somewhat. You know, you had your neighborhoods around from high point area a little rough. You got north Seattle, which was pretty much the good area.

Okay.

Then you got the east side, which is like Bellevue. That's more side across the other side of the bridge, where Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

Oh, nice. Okay.

And then on the south side, you have more, like, a little bit more hood, a little more rough.

Okay, so cool. We always hear on the. On on the east coast, good things about Seattle, man. So I'm happy you and I see the boat culture. Y' all got some boat. Yeah. Is it like y' all be on the lake with the boats? What's going on? Yeah, so you ain't know you? Yeah, I do my homework, bro. What's going on with that? Yeah.

Yeah.

Is that, like Sunday fun day?

So summertime, we, you know, we. We really turn up out there on the boats. You know, everybody bring their boats out, we tie up, and we just have a big old party on lake Washington. You know, I used to bring my boat out, but unfortunately, I sold it, so.

Yeah. But yeah, wild and crazy. Would you agree that a boat and a relationship don't mix?

It don't mix. You're gonna mess around and be single.

You gonna lose one of them, Right?

Come on.

Yeah, man. So we got my guy, Tayshon Jones. What's your Instagram?

My Instagram. You catch me at Tayshaunthe Finesser. That's once again, Tayshon the Finesser. All right.

Awesome, man. Yo, so yeah, bro, what brings you to New York?

Actually, I was here for the world series. Baseball. Yankees versus the Dodgers.

And what got you here? So you. You're a fan of sports or heavy fan of sports.

I've been playing sports all my life, so.

Okay.

Yeah.

And then you made some money. You managed to make some money by being in New York.

Definitely. You got to make money on the go, man.

You capitalize, man. Talk about that a little bit and about. Because what you do is unique. We all see it. We, like, really helps people. Right? It really helps people because when people go to games, right? So let's just say me, one of my friends are going to a game, somebody else says, yo, I want to go. And we like, damn, we got these tickets six months ago. So how often and what you do, do people come really needing an extra ticket? And then explain what you do sometimes with sports?

Yeah, definitely. There's people that always needs tickets. It doesn't matter if it's a sold out event or not. There's always somebody that wants to go. Case in point, you have the Yankees, for example, versus the Dodgers. You know it was supposedly sold out, right? Yeah. But if someone wanted to come last minute, which I specialize in, I could still get you hooked up. I have a network of friends and family members and just people I've built over the. Over the years, clientele that usually have tickets that they. They had, let's say, eight people in their group that they purchased in advance.

Yeah.

Two of them couldn't show up. They call me and say, hey, hey, Tayshawn, I got two extra tickets. What can you do with it? How much can you give me for it? And I usually give them a little less than what they're worth, and then I'm able to pass on those savings to the. The end buyer, pretty much.

Okay, how do you describe that? Is that a scalper? What would you. How would you define what you do? Because you told me some. Some serious numbers, bro.

Yeah. So the. The real name to it is called a ticket reseller.

Okay.

AKA ticket flipping, flipping. Okay. So if you take, for example, real estate, you got wholesalers and what wholesalers do, they flip property, right? Yeah. So the same thing happens in real estate. Excuse me, in tickets, you have the market value of those tickets. Say they're a thousand dollars Right. I come around, I buy them for 500.

Right.

Because there's, it's just gonna go to trash. And yeah, I could resell it to you or someone else for 750, 800 bucks. Make 2, $300 on those tickets and still give someone else that bottom. A nice little savings. 200 bucks.

Yeah. And that happens a lot, man. With real estate, like, and, and I'm gonna say succession or with heirs, they end up, like, they don't want the property sometimes or like the, the kids live somewhere else. That property will go to a wholesaler. The wholesaler is going to grab the property and sell it for much more.

Correct.

In your scenario, you have a network where people know you can help them get rid of their tickets, get something for their tickets, because the event's going to happen and it's gonna pass. So they'll get them to you and you'll, you'll resell them for sure.

I'll pay. I actually pay them out. Right. Right then and there though, too.

Oh, you'll buy it?

Yes.

Not even knowing if you can move them or.

Not even knowing if I can move them?

Yeah. That's pretty cool. Most of the time with wholesalers, they, they, they line up, they get it in contract and then they shop it and then they get a buyer for it. So they're kind of a little safer.

Yeah. But in any event, they kind of know what they got and they're dealing with in the real estate as a whole seller. Like, they buy, they say when you buy, you win when you buy, not when you sell. Right. Same thing with the tickets. I know if I got enough gap in it, I'm likely going to sell it.

Okay, now this, this, this whole industry is something that I don't know a lot about, but I understand the concept. So let me ask you. And you don't have to get into like real personal numbers, but give me some ideas of the types of numbers that people can make on a monthly basis.

I can tell you there's two ways, depending on how you go about it, which makes it a little bit different. Let me give you both scenarios. As a ticket reseller, you have two different angles. You can go, you can do the online market where you're able to reach larger audience and not have to be in one position, in one place, one space. And then you have the people who are at the live venue selling tickets as well. So those are two different markets. I can say in any of one of those markets, you're gonna at least make 10 to $20,000 a month if you're consistent in what you do.

10 to 20,000.

Yes, 10,000.

So this could be done at home.

Could be done from a laptop.

If you can just. What's, what's, what's. Two of the keys to making $10,000 a month and ticket flipping.

Buying at the right time, just like real estate.

Okay.

And also knowing how to market.

Okay. Can I share what you've taught me so far?

Sure.

A little bit. Let them know if I, if I give too much, it's gonna be too late.

I'm an open book.

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They can come check.

Yeah, but look, all right, so you. So one of the things that I've learned is you buy them pre sale.

Correct.

And those are the lowest prices.

Correct.

And then you, you can put them on ticket broker sites and at a much higher price for sure. And you can just double your money that way or get it sold that way.

Get it. So it's easy. One click away, one click away, one click away. You ready to make some money?

How do you price it? Do you price it based on like market rate or do you want to double every time? So you buy Pre sale Taylor Swift 300, you put it out there for six.

So the beautiful thing about these platforms that you use, like these ticket broker insights, they have it to where they can do the marketing and the basically gauging which you should advertise it for too.

Okay.

So you can go that route or you can wing it and do what I do. But I'm a seasoned expert, so I know what the market does. And then I also can price compare with the, the big, the big three. We call them Ticketmaster, StubHub, and like Seatgeek.

Seatgeek. Yeah. Those are the only three I know. Actually.

There's more.

Yeah, I know. Is this something like genius seek genius or something?

There's Tick pick is a big one because they have no fees. You got StubHub, Ticketmaster, game time.

Okay. Yeah, there's starting to be a lot of them.

Yeah, there's a lot do you view.

Those as competitors because you like to go to the event and actually sell your tickets?

I do. I like it. I like to be. I like to see the smile on the customer's face when they. When they're happy. So they are competitors. Yes, they are, but they also. I mean, there's competitors in any market. I like to have that, Derek, Because I can always beat them. If you can beat the market, you can always make money, right? Yep.

All right. Cool, man. I love it. So tell me some of, like. Tell me some of the good stories, because I live maybe, like, five minutes from the Barclays Center.

Okay.

I don't always get a chance to buy tickets to something I don't even be knowing. I find out there's a concert going on, I'll just. I honestly do this. I take the dollar van. You seen that dollar van?

I ain't peeping.

Nah. There's, like, these little box vans. They drive wild and crazy, hacking people up.

And they will.

They will cut you off. They drive wild, but they go straight up and down Flatbush Avenue.

Okay.

That's where the Barclays center is.

Okay. Okay.

They'll pick you up and take you, like, all the way down Flatbush. $2. So I don't got a park or whatever. It's, like, super easy because it's right down the block.

Oh, that's dope.

And I'll just go find the guys selling tickets and buy them. You tell me, am I paying too much for those, or am I. I feel like. I feel like as the event starts to start, gets closer to starting, the price goes down. I never feel like I'm overpaying, so it's tricky sometimes.

Majority of the time, as. As the time approaches to the event starting, yeah. Tickets typically decrease in value, so they'll drop. Unless it's an event that's sold out. Like, a Taylor Swift is not dropping, it's gonna actually go up. So that 2200 ticket, that's. It's five minutes before the event's gonna start, it's gonna go to 3200.

Okay.

And so, yeah, it's crazy. Them Taylor Swift fans, they're nuts.

What's the most you've sold the ticket for? Like, who. Who's the hottest ticket in the last three years?

I would have to say it's either the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny go crazy Crazy Bad Bunny.

Go crazy hey, Shout out to Taylor Swift for selling out tickets and just going crazy with the prices. Shout out to Bad Bunny. I've never been to a Bad Bunny concert.

Let me tell you something. Let me just say this. My peoples, There was a two day LA event. They made $70,000 each day.

70 grand.

70,000. I'm talking about profit.

Damn.

Yeah.

Give me some sauce on that. They just Pre bought like 20 of them and held them.

They have connections. So some of them buy in advance sometimes. Most of the time they buy them in advance, but there's always some connections. Let's just say that we got inside connects some as well, you know what I'm saying? Where you're able to get, you know, with people who got mad Maxes and stuff like that.

Yeah.

They get benefits of, you know, buying early for. At a lower price. Right.

Oh, I love it. That's the same thing with real estate though. It's the same concept.

Definitely.

If you have contacts in the city like I asked you for, your guy in Alabama, could he get me some land? Right. That's the, that's the connect. Because they're building brownstones right now for $1.4 million. I want to get on it, in on it early.

Right.

And it's the same concept as the city gentrifies, as it starts to grow and expand. Right. The prices go up. It's the same exact thing, same concept. But you said 70.

70, that's two days in a row.

So they came 140 in total. I love it. Now, any of y' all know Bad Bunny? Yeah.

How the Spanish artist out? Yeah, he's like bigger. I think he might be bigger than Taylor.

Give me the song. One song. You know any other songs?

I don't know none of the names. I don't know.

It's just not our lane. But in his lane.

In his lane.

He's bad at Hispanic community.

Yeah, they repping. They rocking with him. He's the Taylor Swift of the Hispanic culture.

So Bad Bunny announces a tour. You on the phone like, yo, give me 50 tickets right now.

That might be too less, too low. Too less. You might want 100.

And then you're just gonna resell them.

Those tickets will be sold before the events, months before the events. Eventually, if I bought them, the pre sale.

Yeah.

And I wanted to sell them online.

Yeah.

Like not do the wait to the event the day of those tickets are selling, like in a month or two.

Damn, I love those.

They go crazy.

Hotter than real estate. It's hard to make $70,000 a month in real estate. It's hard to make. Some people don't make $70,000 a year. In real estate, and they call themselves killing it. $70,000 flipping tickets is something new, man. I'm happy you're sharing this with us. So some people might be watching this, and there's, like, a downside, right? I use the word scalping. They don't use that word no more.

No, we still use that word, scalping. I mean, in fact, most people still use scalping. Ticket reselling is like a new type.

Of thing, a better word, because it's not illegal.

Right. And it's not. It's more sexy to say ticket reseller.

Okay, give me some of the. Like, we. Some people might think ticket reselling is illegal. Do you have any. Have you had run ins with the law on it?

Ticket reselling online is not illegal. It's. It's perfectly legal. There is a kind of a gray area when you're dealing with live events. However, it's. It's not illegal. Where it gets sketches is when you're doing it on property, on the premises. Okay. And you didn't have permission first, per se.

Okay?

But let's just say you was on a public sidewalk right there. Where the event's at is perfectly legal.

Okay? And look, man, I'm all for it because I've had some tickets. I actually bought, like, season tickets to the. To the. To the Net, Barclays center, and I couldn't use them, so I put them right back on. Like, StubHub. Made some money from them, too. I made a couple of dollars from them, too. Actually, you know what? I actually flipped. I didn't even know. This is what happened. I bought them the season. Durant was here. Okay, Durant was in Brooklyn. Right. But I bought him before it was announced. And, you know, when you buy him the season ticket, they have sales people. Yeah, right. That sell. They just. Dude, used to beat my phone. Charles, you really should get the full season. I'm like, dude, I don't really. You know, my schedule ain't really like that. So I bought them then. I was actually. Because they show, like, the value, right? It's like 850.

Okay?

I was selling them for, like, 1250, $1500 for the tickets.

Easy money.

I didn't even think about that. I. And. And it was so easy because I just put them on StubHub.

Wait for your money. Yeah, you got your money going to deposit.

And I had a little app, too. I had the app with StubHub, and, yeah, it goes.

I got a payment coming through my phone probably in the next two days. Damn.

I didn't think about that. Yeah, that's a clean way to make it, bro.

Right? And then there's little hacks that you can do. Like, I'll give some sauce. You guys want some sauce? Okay, so yeah, if you want to find some tickets for the low, go on offer up, go on Facebook, Marketplace, go on Craigslist. And there's always people who are. Have tickets that they don't need, they want to get rid of, and they'll give it to you at a nice little discount. And then what you do is you hit them up, purchase the tickets, and then turn around, go put them right on them on the ticket stub hub or Ticketmaster and resell them. And you'll get them for the low. Sometimes you get them for half off.

Yeah, yeah.

Double your money up.

And you didn't do nothing because people don't know. People think. So where do you buy tickets? Because if I want to buy tickets, I'm gonna go to StubHub. I'm gonna go to Ticketmaster. But those are. Those are resellers, right?

Well, so it depends. Ticketmaster can also. They can be a primary ticket holder for that. That event. Let's just say, right, they have the rights to a concert, the Yankee Stadium. Let's just say that, right? Then StubHub will be. Is of the official reseller. You know what I mean? Or a game time or tick pick. Those are resellers.

Okay, so.

But they all have tickets for that event.

Cool. You got to help me with this one, bro, because I got burnt. I got burnt buying a. Buying a. Buying tickets to a Broadway play. I brought them from a site and I think they charged me like this huge fee. Like a. Like a broke, not a broker feet. Some kind of fee, service fee. Tell me which ones, like, charge ridiculous fees because. And I don't even think. I think I actually had to buy them twice because I was like, surprising somebody with some tickets. And then I kind of. I feel like I bought them. But that site wasn't super official. I actually had to go to the, like the actual site of the play and buy them again.

Yeah. So I tell people, man, listen, if you're going to buy tickets, either go a. To the. The company that's selling it. Like it's. If it's a Broadway play, go directly to their website to buy it.

Okay?

Secondly, if you're not going to go to them, go to like, Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster. Their fees are decent. Yeah, Stub up. Their fees are crazy. You know, they might. So the trick is, some sites, they'll have a low ticket price, but they'll rape you up on the fees. Yeah, and then vice versa. Some. Some ticket companies, they'll have a high ticket price, but the fees below, more transparent prices. It's just tricky marketing.

Yeah, you got to be careful with that, man. But I appreciate you sharing that and sharing, like, how you've made so much money in it. What's the most you ever made for one ticket?

For one ticket or one event?

What you comfortable sharing?

I'll give you both. Sauce. I think the super bowl is probably one of the biggest events that I've done. 40k, easily. 40k or that bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny.

We go crazy.

Dan, you about to get a bad Bunny tattoo, bro. You remember that Bad Bunny concert?

You. REM concerts. That's good. But, yeah, I mean that those two are probably the biggest, you know, biggest money makers.

40,000 one day. Yeah, okay, easy. What about losses, though? So have you ever gone home with, like, eight tickets in your pocket?

Yeah, two times. I'll give you two scenarios, actually. There's sometimes where I buy a boat amount of tickets, right? I'll make my money and kill him in the ticket game, right? But I buy so many of them that. And I get them at a good price. Even though I might go home with 20 tickets in my pocket. I only paid 20 bucks for them, but I already killed them, okay? I already made six, seven thousand dollars already. So if I just. I probably lost four hundred bucks, okay? But I still won. You still.

You still play ahead, okay?

And then. And then there's. There's times where sometimes we're out, you know, I'll take a gamble. I stick my neck out, you know, pay too much. Just like we're real estate. You might pay too much for a property, and you thought it was going to do better, but those are seldom. I mean, less than 10% of the time that happens.

Yeah, man. It's a nice game, bro, because I see those guys every time I go to the concert or to Barclays, and I see those guys out there, and I'm wondering. I'm like, man, like, they'd be happy too, man. The bigger the event, the happier they are, definitely. So they. They really banked already?

Already banked.

And now as it's getting closer, they like, hey, you need tickets? You need a few. You need some. And they be moving them, too. I'll be like, man, I wonder. But now I know what's going on.

And I just tell you, I grossed like 17,000 for this World Series.

Damn.

I win. All five games I got. The proof is in the pudding.

Uh huh.

And it was beautiful. And not only that, I get to enjoy the benefits of going to the events. And then, like, I'll say this. Yesterday or actually two days ago, I took a homeless guy to the game for free.

Okay.

You know, and I let him, you know, experience it.

Because you had an extra.

Yeah. And then it was like seeing the smile on his face, it made him feel good. You know, he did 24 years in the penitentiary and he just came home, so I blessed him.

What made you give him a ticket? Like, how did that. Tell me about that, how that happened?

I was actually taking a group of 16 clients in, and he was getting close to the first pitch, and I seen the dude with a sign, he was looking sad, you know what I'm saying? Looked like he wanted to go to the game. So I'm like, hey, bro, you want to go to the game? He's like, he was stuck. I said, man, do you want to go to the game? He was like, yeah, yeah. And he was just, like I said, standing on the corner right there. I was like, come on, bro. Took him to the game with me. He was, man, he felt, he was. He was in men. And he felt indebted, of course. Crazy, of course. And that felt good to me. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Awesome, man. Is that like one of your better stories and just being able to bless people with experiences.

Yeah, that and then just there's been times where I would sell some tickets to an individual, a couple or something, and they. They'll call me back two weeks later, three weeks later, and say, hey, man, I appreciate you. I got the chance to see my favorite artist and I just. You just were so, so genuine with me. Like, you walked me all the way to the event. You made sure I got in you. You didn't charge me up front. You let me go in and didn't actually pay you. Once I entered the arena and that just. Just going that extra mile. People. People respected it and they cherish that.

Yeah. So people have your phone number, and if there's an event coming up, they'll call you and be like, bro, I need two. And you'll be able to locate.

Yeah, I just had a call where I was here watching you earlier. Yeah, I need someone. Needs six tickets. Damn. So he's waiting for me to call him back, Right?

That's good business, man. That is good business right there. I ain't even going to lie. I like it, man. I like it. Yeah. All Right. So look, I know who to call when I get some tickets. Well, if I get those pre sales, I'm gonna just hit you up like, hey, how much can I. How much you want me to get?

I'm gonna just tell you. I'm gonna tell you what you do get whatever you get and I'm gonna show you how to resell them and get that sauce.

Yeah, we gonna make some money. You just asked about making money. He gave it to you, bro. He gave it to you. I told you it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. So many people come through this podcast and they share how they made so much money, bro. So just stay in the room, all right? Just stay in the room. So talking about that and talking about millions, that's going to lead to our next article or our next headline, right? And this one talks about millions more coming from, coming from the city for uptown infrastructure. And Birmingham is a city that I heavily invest in, right? Me buying my land there early is almost like me buying the tickets super early, pre sale, right? I'm buying it before the city actually blows up. But as we see articles are coming out every day that the city is actually investing more in the gentrification. The city is actually taking the schools. This article talks about the city is actually taking the schools that are vacant or abandoned and they're turning them into like nursing homes, they're turning them into high end hotels. They're doing a lot with the city and they are investing themselves. So I really like, like the, like, the comparison is very simple. It's very similar to what we're doing. We're kind of like hedging the market. We understand it. I can guarantee, I get up and read every morning these real estate articles, like, right, like this is what I do. But I guarantee you're doing the same level of research and intel to know when things are going to happen next so that you can get ahead of it.

Right?

Yeah. So that's pretty cool, man. I like that you do that. So going, going, going to, to our next headline, right? The next headline talks about Birmingham Housing Authority. Birmingham Housing Authority is to receive over $53 million for Section 8 expansion. So what's happening is they are busting at the seams with an overflow of individuals that need housing. It's just like busting at the same. You can have section 8 and not have a place to stay, even though you have a voucher. So when I do my research, when I do my homework on the market, one of the things that I'M looking for is like, is there a need, right? What's the demand? Very similar to what you're doing. Like, you know, the top artists that are going to the top stadiums, the top venues, right? Demand is super high. So just the same thing in real estate now. A lot of what I'm doing in Birmingham is just hedging the market, and I'm going to a place where I know the chances of me winning are way higher than any other state in America.

That's filthy.

It is, man. But at the same time, I do my homework, right? The same time you do your home, you might spend $25,000 in buying those Taylor Swift tickets or whatever you spend up front, right? You know, it's going triple, quadruple, you know you're going to get it back. It's almost the same thing with Birmingham.

That's beautiful.

And here's another article, right? If we could just go back to the previous headline. The previous headline, right? It talks about the city of Birmingham. They are taking a $4.5 million loan from PNC. They taking a 4.5 million dollar line of credit from PNC to invest in the city. So they're doubling down, right, on their. Their city itself. So that's one of the things that kind of backed my investment. So when it's time for me to either buy more land or it's time for me to build in a certain area, when I read articles like this, it makes it clear to me that this is the right place to invest. This is the city to go. So before we wrap up, man, I got to get to this because we talk about good news, we talk about bad news, we talk about good markets, we talk about bad markets. The way we met, right?

Yeah.

You called me, you said, hey, bro, not this one. No, no, no. Let's go to just a blank screen on this. There can be no distractions with this one, right? So look, so how'd you end up investing? So I got you out of a little bit of a jam, right? A little situation, right? Little real estate situation. So you, how'd you end up investing in Detroit? Because you bought the house before. Before I knew you, you already had one, which was dope because the word gets out, but people just don't know markets or how different areas move, right? So how'd you buy a land bank house in Detroit?

I guess. Let me give you set the table. It's funny because my boy Mark, he's a ticket flipper scalper, right? And he's been in the game for, like 40 years selling tickets.

40?

Yeah. So I used to. I used to hang with big dogs that's been in the game. He hit me up. He was like. We were just moving around. I think we was in Houston or something. He's like, hey, I just bought a duplex in Detroit for 2,200. I said, man, get out of here, man. Yeah, come on, man. Quit playing.

Yeah, because they don't have that in Seattle.

We don't got. You couldn't. You couldn't get us nothing.

Nothing. Just like New York.

Yeah, right. There's nothing. The burn house is not ever gonna be that. But he's like, yeah, I got a duplex for 2200 in Detroit. He said, you know, I gotta fix it up and everything. I said, man, you quit, cat? He's like, nah, for real. He whipped his phone out on me and showed me the land back home. Yeah. And then I'm like, wow, how much? Yeah, he spent $2,200 on it. I'm like, what you doing? What? He said, I'm trying to get it together. So that's how I was introduced to the land bank. So what I did is I said, damn, I gotta get in. I gotta get in early.

Yeah.

So I studied, did a little bit of research, figured out the word to get the homes. I end up buying it on my birthday. And I paid $4,000 for a single family home out there. So that's how I found out.

How'd you feel when you bought it? Was it like, yes, I'm killing. I'm about to go crazy in the lotto.

I thought I hit the lotto. I hit a lotto. And then I had a little inclination of it in the past because I had an older cousin who was moving back and forth state to state, and he was stopping in Detroit and running this little, you know, whatever.

Doing what he doing.

Yeah. And he was. He bought a couple houses back in the day. Yeah. But he bought it for different purposes.

Yes. All right, so we know what time it is.

But. Yeah.

So look, man, so. So I'm online and somebody who just left. We used to buy a lot of properties in Detroit, like tons of them. And, you know, we got history. So we going hard in Detroit. We buying them, we flipping them, we buying them, we renovate and we renting them out. And we went through the struggle. We went deep through the struggle. We New York, you know, the cloth we cut from. We're not losing. Right. We're going to make it happen. So we making it happen in Detroit. And then a good friend of mine was telling me, because it's true, you only. People only post their wins. It's very hard to see people talking about their losses and nothing else just say, damn, I just lost 10,000. I paid a contractor, he disappeared on me. That's not nothing to talk about, right? We don't talk about that. But if you get the win, like you said, somebody just called you to buy, right? That's a convo. So here we go. My guy's like, bro, you got to teach this. Because I've never heard of houses for a thousand, two, three, four thousand dollars. We don't have them in New York City. We don't have them up north. It's very few places you can get a whole house for 2,000, $4,000. So I started teaching it, and then as soon as I started teaching it, land bank is something that is not a common term. It's not nothing that people have really heard of. It's not something you're going to search on Instagram because you don't even know what to search. You have to kind of, like, be in it or around it. They don't really market. So I'm talking about land bank, houses. People calling me crazy. I never heard of this thing. What is it? Like, explain it. It was just a foreign language. A few people called me like, yo, I need some help, right? I'm like, like, what happened? Let me guess. You got ripped off the land bank gonna take your house. You ain't do this, right? You ain't do that, right? Like, basically, right? So one day, I think how I have it, you hit me on Instagram, you text me what happened?

I think we was rapping back and forth, and, yeah, I think you wanted me to get the course or something. Buy one of your courses and get to get the game, get the info, right?

So here's what happened. You called me and he was like, this. This ain't working how I thought, right?

I remember, too, the time, yeah.

He was like, this ain't working how I thought. I said, all right, cool. Did they say they're gonna take the house? He was like, yeah. I said, how long you had it? He was like, such and such. I'm like, all right, you want the house? He was like, yeah. I said, bro, I can get. I can save you the house. I just need to make a phone call. He was like, man, get the hell out of here. What are you talking about? I've been acting for a year. They say I got to do a B, C, D, E, F, G. And he's like. I said, how far you get? He was like, I'm at B. I was like, all right, now we not going to do that, bro.

Right?

So I said, look, I'm gonna connect you with my guy. He's gonna make a phone call. I'm gonna make a phone call for you. You're not gonna lose your house. He was like, man, you serious? I was like, yeah, I got you, bro.

You made the phone call that day.

I made the phone call that day.

Right.

So when people are good to you, you good to them, and then you get that relationship.

Sure.

So I was like, look, bro, I need you to help save one of my guys. You know, we need. We need the package, right? We need the package asap. So, boom, we did the package for him. Then I seen you made a video. You was like, hey, look, y', all, whatever. Charles doing the. Charge it at 25, 23, whatever it is. Hey, just pay that.

2500, man. He was. He was. He was everything he said he was.

Let's just say that it happened, like, asap. Like that.

Appreciate it.

So, yeah, man. And that stories like that were helping people with things that I went through so they don't have to go through that stuff really encouraged me in my day to day. It's almost like. And I draw the similarity between us, we found, like, the perfect match of profit and purpose. So you enjoy what you do. You've helped couples. You've helped homeless people. You've helped, like, parties continue. Right. Because it's dead if one person can't get in.

Right.

Like, you know, that feeling of outside and your people are inside is crazy.

Right.

So I found, like. Like, I enjoy you. You enjoy what you do.

I do. I do.

I didn't realize that you guys travel to all the major stuff. Yeah, that's how you be at the Super Bowl.

Soccer.

And free. All of them are free, man.

Everything.

Paid for by the Stop.

Whatever.

Yeah, yeah. Paid for by the person who didn't get that ticket.

I put my. Put my work.

Exactly.

It ain't. It ain't easy. Yeah. You still got to work. You still got to do your homework.

How many years in the game you got?

It's going on 27.

27 years in the game started when I was 13. So you built a nice book of business.

Nice book.

People don't even. People in your network do. You have people that just call you for tickets?

It's crazy. I got people that are buyers from tickets that are clients I got. And I got friends that are actually like. Like how. You got real estate buddies that might call you? I got friends and tickets scalp that'll call you, too.

Okay. Like, bro, you're over here.

Yeah, I got somebody to need.

And then he loved it.

Hey, man, I'll put a wholesale fee in it. Oh, you want 90? Okay, I'll put 100 on it. And then I'll sell it to them for that.

Okay.

And make money from just over the phone.

It's the same thing, man. And I had somebody in here the other day talking about different ways to do real estate and the concepts and. And he was saying, like, you don't got to clean toilets for the flip that you doing. You ain't got to get no phone calls in the middle of the night saying a pipe busted.

Right?

You ain't got to kick nobody out. Right. It's almost like the flip game can be way broader than real estate when we think about it.

It definitely can. It definitely.

Yeah, man. I love it. I love it. So, look, we're gonna wrap this up, man, but before we go, I want to invite you to this event that I'm doing in Birmingham, Alabama. Please have your guy call me, man, because I want to buy every piece of affordable and available land there is in Birmingham right now. If y' all are out there, y' all selling land, please call me directly. 718-541-3187. I'm doing the biggest event Birmingham has ever seen, the biggest real estate event. I'm putting 500 people in one room. So some of that land, I'm going to get it for them, right? I'm putting 500 people, 500 real estate investors in one room. I'm going to teach them how to pick, purchase, and profit from their first real estate investment property in Birmingham in a city we already know is going absolutely crazy. I'm going to go one step further so we don't lose our property. I'm going to teach everybody how to protect their property with a trust. So during that event, in one room, we're going to have the lender, we're going to have the builders, the developers, the realtors, the attorney, as well as the trust attorneys, as well as city officials, too, because the city, as you see, they are extremely investing in. In what we're doing and what in their city. So it's called let's Build Birmingham. It's February 21st to February 22nd. You can get your tickets at let's Build Birmingham.com. look, I might get My man right here. Because platinum is sold out. I might got to give you some VIPs, bro, and let you do your thing with them, man.

You know I'm ready. I'll throw me.

Yo, we only. We literally only have 250 left.

Nice.

So, yeah, man, I got to get you. I got to get you there so you can see the event. You already have people in Birmingham investing, and we got to get you investing in Birmingham because building is way better than that stuff we saw with that landlord, bro.

That was crazy.

That was crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're going to come through.

I'm definitely gonna come through.

All right. I appreciate it. I appreciate it, man. We're gonna have some fun. So it's gonna be fun. Friday night. That's gonna be a mixer in the party, and there's gonna be some event going on because, you know, Alabama has college. You ever. Do you ever do college or dropped out?

I went to.

No, no, no, no, no. Do you do college tickets?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do college tickets.

You make more than half of the people that went to college anyway, but whatever.

Not that only do college.

Alabama's a big ticket.

That's a big money maker.

Big money maker.

Yeah.

All right. Hey, hey, hey. We might. Might make some money while you there, hopefully. Yeah, I know you can make it happen if you wanted to. All right, perfect, guys. That's it. Let's build birmingham.com that wraps up this segment of the real estate newsroom. Thank you so much. I'm Charles Noonan. Make sure you, like, subscribe and make sure you follow my guy, Tayshawn. Give him your Instagram one more time.

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