Ep 279 - Week 40 Live Progress Update

Hey, everybody. Flip and Danny here, founders of the Freedom Real Estate Group, family of companies. And welcome to another episode of our.

Podcast, which is called Freedom through Passive Income.

That's right. And welcome to another episode. This is another live. Live, Live episode. And we're. We're actually still in Florida. Yeah, still.

Y. Almost in a while.

Yeah, I know. I had to think about it. But we're actually still here next week, though. We'll be somewhere new.

Yes.

Or old. Different. Anyway, so we're still down here in Florida, and we survived the hurricane, which we talked about last week, and we're coming down from that whole experience. Yeah. Ordeal. But. So this is a live week. 40.

Yeah.

That means there's only 12 more.

Only 12 more of these guys. What are we gonna do?

I can name. Would you.

Yeah, yeah. Of all the things that we can do with ourselves.

Yeah. Let me show you that list. But so let's go back. Let's talk about this last week because I always love these days because. Oh, let's look at the calendar. What happened this last week.

Yes. That's exactly how we prepare for these episodes. We both look at the calendar real quick. We look and see what happened since the last Thursday episode. And so we're like, okay. Oh, Lyle. My brother was still in town at that point in time, and we took him to Epcot on Saturday.

Yeah. His very first time to Epcot Center. So that was fun. In typical Flippin Danny fashion, It was about 20 years ago that my mom wanted to take our whole family to England. So we said, sure. Well, why don't we go on this month? And we went and we got to London, England, and we found out it was the Queen's. Rest in peace. It was a Queen's Golden Jubilee. Just a little bit of a party in London while we were there to sightsee. So we went to Epcot center on Saturday, and unbeknownst to us, it was the 40th anniversary of EPCOT Center. To say it was full is an understatement.

Yes.

And what made it even funnier is that we read all of the rules about getting in and getting reservations to Epcot center and that currently they're only allowing a third of the capacity. So if that was a third of the capacity, Lord help me if I'm ever there when it's full capacity, because it would be just standing room. You can't move anywhere.

Yeah, yeah. And that was a big question mark for us. Right. Because we were looking at the reservations, and the reservations came about during the pandemic and they wanted to make sure that they're only at third capacity, so they're requiring reservations. The fact that they're still doing reservation is what is confusing to us. Does that mean they're still at third capacity or they decide reservations was a really good idea and so they're still doing it?

It was full.

It was full. So we're thinking that was not third capacity. Cause that was crazy anyway. But it was a fun day. It was a fun day at. To show Lyle around and take him around the world. This is the very first time we went clockwise instead of counterclockwise.

Yeah, we always go counterclockwise. We always go. We walk in. We go to Canada and England. I don't know why we always go that way first. And we end with Mexico. And we asked him what he wanted to do, and he wanted to go clockwise. And we're like, ooh, yeah.

So it was interesting for us to see kind of new things. It was a new perspective going the other way. So it was really cool. We got to see some cool things. We can talk for a lot about that day, but we'll keep on going. Then we spent the time for the next few days prepping the house for the videographer.

Yeah, we had a videographer fly in on Tuesday to do. I don't even know how many videos and pictures we did. It was a lot. But he was coming in Tuesday morning, late morning. And so we had all of Sunday and Monday to get this house in video worthy.

If you ever want to unpack really fast or get a house ready really fast, force yourself to have guests over or to do a videographer session where you're gonna have to show people around, because we literally were just taking artwork and just going, this can go here. This can go here. It may not live in the places that it's now at forever, but at least they got on the wall.

There are some drawers that are full of some interesting things right now.

So I will say the house looks better. Yep, it looks better. It feels better. There's no rooms that are. Well, there's a couple catch all rooms. They're the guest bedrooms that we don't use right now. That's where a lot of things got thrown. But, yeah, the house looks like. It actually looks like we live here.

Yeah. Yeah, I know. Let's go. Let's go to Ohio for a week.

And then Tuesday was.

So that was the video day. So he got it. He got in a little bit late or, sorry, late morning just before noon. And we're like, okay, what are we doing? And. And he had said originally that, you know, yeah, we'd love to get. You know, I'd love to do something or I don't know what, but something with your. With your car and possibly with golf cart, you know? And. And so he got here, and we did a couple videos, and he went, wait, where's my phone? And he goes, oh, I left my phone in the Uber driver. And the Uber driver thankfully only lives, like. Like a half mile from our house.

Right.

So we had to drive the golf cart and the car over to get his phone. And so I was driving the car. Who was driving the golf cart?

That was my very first time driving a golf cart. Oh, yeah, A golf cart. I guess I have driven a golf cart before, but you're brand new.

This is not your normal golf cart.

Yes.

Yeah. Golf carts don'. 30 miles an hour.

Yes. And Skyler. So Skyler's, you know, videoing Flip back behind us with Corvette. And then Skyler turns around and says, hey, Danny, how fast does this thing go? And I go, I don't know, 25 miles an hour or something like that. He goes, all right. I said, you want me to go? He goes, yeah, so. And Flip was just like, whoa, she's going fast.

Yeah, she had the pedal to the mountain.

And it turns out that golf cart goes, like, 30 miles an hour.

We found that out.

That was crazy. So some other firsts for that day was that you actually went to the driving range for the very first time.

Yeah, because he was like, I'd love to do something with the golf clubs and clubhouse, because we've been here now for two months, and I still have not been there. And so we did. We loaded up the golf cart, went over to the clubhouse, and I walked in, I said, hey, we're doing a video shoot. I need, like, three balls, you know, just to hit a couple balls. And they said, Yep, small bucket, $7. So I paid $7 for three balls. Well, that's kind of like my round of golf. That's usually what I pay, you know, And I lose those three balls. So it's normal for me. But anyway, so we went to the driving range, and then I actually went to the driving range again the next day because I could. It was nice.

Yeah. And you now knew what the process was.

Yeah.

Right.

Yep. I drive a golf cart right over.

There to actually go there and only get to hit, like, a few balls because our videographer was there, and we had to, like, go back to the house. And catch the Uber back to the airport.

Yeah. Almost as much of a tease as it is. L. On a golf course and not golfing.

Yes. And then Wednesday, this whole ordeal of my brother coming into town, the hurricane happening, the videographer coming, like right after next and having to get the house already, we were just done, spent, done. So on Tuesday night, as we're just sitting there kind of going, oh, it's over. We did it. We decided we were taking Wednesday off.

Yep.

So we did not do anything on Wednesday. This is why I have such or. I'm so grateful for such an amazing team. Because I literally said to Jody, hey, Jody, is it okay if everything waits until tomorrow? Because I was planning on doing a little bit, but I was just. I was so dang tired. I just didn't want to do anything. I couldn't get that. I couldn't muster the energy. And so she was like, no, it's okay. You can wait till tomorrow. And so took the entire day off yesterday, like you said. You went and did a driving race, came home, brought me flowers. Thank you so much. You are such a prince. Our dogs came home with pumpkins.

I know.

They did some decorating on pumpkins. We got it all on Facebook if you want to see it. They even did a fall photo shoot. You can't see those yet. We actually sent them to the marketing team to see what they wanted to do with them.

And they're priceless.

They are. They're so, so cute. So it was really nice. And this morning woke up so refreshed. So my takeaway always for days like that are when you need a day off, take it. Because you're so much more productive the following day because took time to rest and rejuvenate. So it's so, so important to our bodies and our health and our minds.

Just take a beat.

Yep, that's right. Take a beat. So, yeah, that was our week. Oh, but deals. Sorry.

Yeah. This is my favorite part because now I get to hear about what's going on.

We have been talking a lot of personal stuff lately on the week to week because of this move. And so many things are taking our time. Yeah. On a personal level. But that's part of this too. Right. To see a day in the life. A little bit of. That's why we did a daily podcast. But deals. So we actually have three. We have a pending closing that we're not announcing yet because we want to make sure it's still pending. But by next Thursday, we should have an announcement. So I'm super, super excited. Waiting to hear the news on that one. But we're not going to talk about it today. But it's exciting. We'll tell you more soon. And then we have three other deals in the works. Yeah, I think one's in. I'm not gonna say the states. They're in three different states. Three deals. Three different states. And these are big deals. So the team has. We're always in the background. Even though we talk about a lot of personal stuff. We got some big things coming and.

We'Re getting really, really excited. I love to hear this.

Not to mention the videographer was here because of our marketing team. There's a lot of things happening behind the scenes that are foundational, that aren't super exciting and we don't talk about. And then suddenly they come and we're like, woo, we're here. So we're really excited about what's going on and happy to share it with you all as we go. Yeah.

Wow. We have three deals in the works.

Independent closing.

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They don't know about the investor club either. They will privately know it before any of these guys know once it becomes official.

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