Mark Evans DM learned dealmaking from his father, starting with manual labor and buying a gutter business with seller financing. His dad gave him room to figure things out instead of telling him what to do, while neighborhood kids played it safe.
I'm sitting there doing all the manual labor for these guys, pulling off their Porsche, smoking cigars like, yo, man, you got another job for you down the street. I just bought this house. I'm like, I want to be driving a horse, smoking a cigar. If he put his mind to it, he did it. He didn't care what it was or what it would take. Like the gutter company. That's a cool story because, like, that was Larry down the street. He got in a bad car wreck. You know, I stopped by and acted like my uncle wanted to buy it, because I'm like, he's not gonna sell to a kid. And then I end up buying it. Put a thousand down and he financed me $24,000 for five years. Small town, you know, trying to make more money.
Mark's dad stepped in and gave him a little space to start getting his affairs in order. It wasn't much, but it was enough for him to understand just the ins and outs of just following the deal maker way of making deals, of understanding how deals work, versus being like some of the other kids in the neighborhood who were just about being a troublemaker. His dad and his experience was the first moment of what it meant to actually make a deal, to make deals. And that's when he realized that the key and the. The path to freedom was a lot.
Of people are afraid to make moves because they're afraid of the unknown, right?
