Christian Osgood walked into a seller's office and proposed buying all five properties the owner planned to sell each year for the next five years. The seller said yes, becoming a repeat source. Osgood met about 50 owners annually to find the one or two willing to hand off their portfolio.
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them open transactions. I've still never asked for a deal. I've never asked anyone to sell anything before. They proposed a 6-plex and we came into their office and I asked, if your plan is to sell 5 properties every year, what if we were just the buyer for all of them? You want to do this over 5 years? Let's just knock them out one at a time. Every single one that you'll do, I will, I will knock out every single one. And he was quiet for a second. He's like, super deep voice, too. That's exactly what I would like to do. I was like, oh, perfect, we're in. And that's, that's someone who has consistently sold us a bunch of deals. And there's been a few people like that. You meet 50 people a year, 1 or 2 are open to a proposal of like, wow, you've built an empire. He's like, yes, I would like to sell it to someone else who would also like to build on my empire. It's like, sweet, can I have all of it? You don't need that many yeses, you're set.