Inside my $4,500,000 Seller Financed Boutique Hotel - Robin Hood Village Resort

Hello YouTube, and welcome back to the Robin Hood. This is my seller-financed resort. Now, while I'm a multifamily person, I have this resort. It's one of the first properties I ever did. I recently had the partners bought out, so I own this by myself. $4.5 million purchase. Let me tell you about the Robin Hood. One of the things you can do at resorts like this is you can outperform, which is the only advantage, the only advantage I can think of that hotels have over multifamily. Behind me, you see a bunch of food trucks. I'll be walking over to the concert area, which doubles as our wedding area. Weddings, events, when we bring in hundreds and hundreds of people over the weekend here for Hoodstock. This is all free marketing. People are taking pictures, visiting the Robin Hood, booking cabins. Not only is it a revenue stream, which is cool, but you get to be a part of the community. This is something unique about having a business backed by real estate. What I want to illustrate in today's video is with creative finance, you can do anything, any business, anything backed by real estate assets that you can take debt against. The seller financing has great collateral. We financed this at 4.5% interest on an 8-year note. Walk over to the concert area here. Check this out. This is the warm-up, by the way. I'm here in the morning. This goes till 10 o'clock at night. Look at this. That, right? Cruising through, I'll show you the marketplace. We run a few events here through the year. This is my favorite one, this Hoodstock. There's also a singer-songwriter series that's amazing. We do about 15 weddings, maybe 20 weddings here a year. It is definitely a summer town. It gets a little cold and rainy here in the Pacific Northwest, but we're in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains on the Hood Canal. Dude, check that out. Full-on marketplace. When I was working the 9 to 5, there is no universe in which I imagined this could be my life. And it technically cost $0. Now, lots of time, lots of effort, a little bit of negotiation, but the seller financed this entire dream for me. Brought on a few partners, recently bought them out. Events like this allow us to grow the resort beyond what it ever could have been. This never could have happened without the people in the community, without the relationships. Which brings me to my main point of today's video. Real estate is a relationship game. We have 19 cabins here, 18 cabins, soon to be 20. We're adding a couple up the hill. I'll walk you guys through that. As part of buying out the partners, I'm bringing in a little bit more capital to the Robinhood. We got rid of partners to reduce drag. I had a little bit more income, a little bit more capital than partners. I had a different vision for where I wanted to take this. We are going to completely revamp the cabins, deck them out, new furniture, solid hot tubs. We have all these inflatable hot tubs, which are pretty cool. I'll show you one. But the hard hot tubs actually last longer, are less money to maintain. So you have spaces like this invading someone's hot tub area, fully leased today. But these things have been great for what they are. We want to take this thing to a new level. I understand what this resort is. This is an epic location and a 3-star resort. It's nothing fancy. We have nice mattresses, but it's a bit dated. It's a bit tired. I get what it is. We would like to try to push this thing to 4-star. We can do over $100,000 of landscaping because we're on 13 acres of the woods. We want to have this beautiful forest retreat, redo the fire pits, solid hot tubs, brand new beds, nicer furniture, new artwork. You paint the outside of the whole resort. This thing could be epic, but we're not quite there yet. All right, check this out. RV rental spot. We own the whole hill here as well. I've never showed this on any of the past YouTube videos, but as you're going through the Robin Hood, we actually have our staff on site here, which is really convenient. It's called work camping, but essentially RV here. That's our director. She gets to live in the woods, gets paid to live in this beautiful area, runs the resort, coordinates the cleaners. We have maintenance lives nearby. So this is a full-on staff thing. We have 8 staff members in the summer, usually go down to 4 or 5 in the winter depending on how busy we are. As we open up a new marketing budget for the Robin Hood, we may keep more staff in the winter this year. That mobile and that mobile, also part of staff housing. If I could go back in time and I could buy this again, I would have structured it differently where I didn't have the partners. One of the problems that we had with the Robin Hood is I brought a full team of multifamily people into the deal. And so the Robin Hood, while it's still profitable, We never got it to where it should be in the original partnership. There wasn't enough liquidity or enough capital raised, and we didn't have people set on a bigger vision. We wanted to operate it the way it was and grow it through basic marketing, organic. We had this business plan that didn't really involve spending a lot of capital. As I've gone through more business, I realized it's better to raise all the money you need and get all the way through a project as fast as humanly possible. If I could go back in time, I would have bought it with an extra $500,000 in the account. That's what I'm doing now. I've personally invested money into it. I'm going to do a new capital raise, bring more money into the Robin Hood, allowing us to, instead of spending 3 years fixing it up out of my own income, we'll do it all in about 6 months, have a brand new Robin Hood, bring in new events, new marketing, and really push this. By the way, we are in Washington, so it is raining like crazy. It is part of what happens out here. Let me take you guys all over to the waterfront. All right guys, cross the street. On the other side of the street, we have the Robin Hood waterfront. In addition to the hot tubs, the creek that runs through Robin Hood, the events, the food trucks, all the stuff that we get to do here, we also have some kayak rentals. This is another thing that we're going to completely revamp. So on this, we have an easement. I believe it's for the next 97 years. We did a 100-year easement, about 3 years— that makes math. But you have this cool little waterfront area. This is all usable by the Robin Hood for the next, you know, century. Uh, we're replacing this shed as it's, uh, the roof disappeared this year. You have all these kayaks. People can come out here. This is the fjord. This is the Hood Canal, the only fjord on the West Coast. This is salt water. You'll see seals occasionally, orcas running through this. We have salmon who actually come right through there. Do you see that water wheel. That's actually my yacht in the background. I came with the White House over there, which by the way, I also bought seller financed. When I started this video, there was a lot less water. I'm going to be pretty soaked by the end of this. To anyone who's aspiring to do hospitality, and granted, this is not my main business, for anyone aspiring to do hospitality, the best thing you can do is community relations. If you can get people bought in, you can actually contribute, make a music venue, open up the pub for, for events every once in a while, do things for the community and actually network. These projects work unbelievably better. Multifamily, it doesn't matter all that much. Provide great housing for great people, price competitively, and you'll keep your units full. That's pretty much the magic of multifamily. Multifamily is simple and it's boring, which is why I love it and why most of my money is there. I want my money to be predictable. This is a much more variable project. This is the type of thing you get to do for fun. I would call this a luxury, though stabilized, the Robinhood is more than enough to retire almost anyone multiple times over. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash flow when run correctly. All right, I'm going to get inside. Freaking barbecue back there. This is epic. You don't have a 10 by 10? Hello, how are we doing on extra large, uh, gray hoodies? I believe that would be appropriate. Yes, this one, or do we have— we have— I think the gray one's actually awesome, right? Here you go. Thank you very much. And after all that, welcome to the Old Pub. Historically, this used to be a pub. In fact, the Gates family lives very nearby in their, uh, their summer resort. By the way, the community hates it when I share that. So I am sorry, City of Union. That's fun fact that back in the day, Bill Gates used to have his Macallan 18, I believe it was here. But this used to be a really popular bar. Today, occasionally we'll open it up for music. So we'll have musicians here, I'm sure tonight. Throughout the summer, whenever we run these music events, we usually get a huge party in here because our friends at Hoodstock are so awesome and we love them so much. We've went ahead and opened up the pub for free for them. So they have the space to do pretty much whatever they want as long as they don't destroy the whole thing. But yeah, this is a one of one resort, which is what is really fun about this project. As I finish it out over the next, you know, roughly 6 months, this winter should be the last time that this is all historic and unrenovated. We're still going to save all the cool things that make it the Robin Hood, but we are going to deck this place out and take it to the next level. I am so excited. For those who have followed the journey for the last 3 years of Robin Hood, back when Cody and I first bought this, here's where we're at today. Thank you for following the journey. We have made it through and we are almost completed finally with the largest deal that we did in that partnership, a $4.5 million seller finance purchase. Use this as encouragement. If I could do this with no money and no experience, I'm not that smart. You can do it too. Like, follow, subscribe, do the thing. We share a lot about all the deals and I try to do everything I can from the field. We've bought about $50 million of real estate. So if you want to take $50 million of lessons and pack it into one YouTube channel, you found the right place. See you guys on the next episode.