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Danny was left at an orphanage when he was 5 he did not develop a quirk on time and was abandoned.
Danny turned 7 his quirk finally came in, he was running away from some bullies, he turned a corner and came to a dead end he wanted to disappear so they could not hurt him anymore. When they turn the corner they started to call out to him, but they could not see him even though he was right in front of them, and after a couple of minutes, they left him. He then look down at his hands he could not see them. He can turn invisible he does not tell anyone.
When Danny was 8 some of the kids in the foster home lock him in the shed when people were coming to adopt. It was one of the hots days of the year. For some reason, he did not overheat ice had formed on his arms. Later one of the adults that were working there came and got him, he got in trouble for hiding when they had people over, and that night he got no dinner. He learned he can make ice he does not tell anyone.
10 it was the end of school and on the last day the school, the school had brought all the kids to the park to play and wait to be picked up, some other kids from school had come up to him and asking if he wanted to play with them, and like an idiot, he agreed. They played a couple of games before they suggest hide and seek all of the kids ran off to hide Danny found a hole in a tree to climb in, it started to get dark and he had not been found. Danny climbed out of the tree and walk back to the park he looked around but no one was there he had been left behind. He slowly made his way back to the school and from there he can figure out where to go. As he made his way back he heard an echoey voice telling him to run and hide, and that's when a person called out to him he turned around and saw a person with a hood they were walking up to him. He heard the echoing voice again telling him to run and that the person was bad, Danny took off running and he can hear the person chasing him, he was running out of energy that's when he heard the same voice he saw an older girl waving at him to follow her, as he followed the leads him thought out the ally's until she pointed to a door that had been border up there was a little hole that he can fit into. After going into the hole he heard the person that was chasing him run past, he look at the girl to thank her when he notice that she is transparent and had bruises around her neck. That day he learned he can see the ghost he does not tell anyone.
When he is 12 some kids stuffed him in a chest and lock it they left him there. Danny started to panic because it had got harder to breathe he pushed on the top of his chest trying one last time to get out When he went through it. It was nighttime when he freed himself he ran back to the house knowing that he was going to get in trouble. He can faze through things he does not tell anyone.
Danny is 14, school just let out he was wandering around, ever since he was 10 he had been working with the ghost as a broker he will sell information to the police and heroes. Over the 4 years, he had gotten the money he would then hide it in the park in the tree hole, he had been working so he would not need to stay in the foster home he plane to go to UA, and he had the ghost help him create a new Identity that he can use he did not put down any of his quirks, instead he put down that he had an intelligence quirk. He is going to use the inventions that he has made to be a hero. A lot of his inventions come from dreams, he has even based his hero suit on one of his dreams. The suit in his dream was red he made his black and white. He decided to become a hero without using his powers.
He won't tell anyone want he can do he does not want to be seen as a monster.
#My post#Bnha x Dp prompt#BnhaxDp#MhaxDp#Danny slowly gets his ghost powers back#Danny was bullied because he has quirkless#Danny works as a broker to get money#Danny dose does not want people to know about his quirk#because he does not want to be compared to all for one#The ghost told Danny about the boogie man#Danny has vague memoirs of his past#Danny will get all his powers back when he dies
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Old-Time Tradition: Folk Musical: Hello Dolly by Gene Kelly, 1969
Opening Thoughts
Gene Kelly's Hello Dolly (1969) is set in New York City in the 1890s, and follows the charming antics of widowed matchmaker, Dolly Levi (Barbara Streisand). While working as the marriage broker for wealthy business man, Horace Vandegelder (Walter Mathau), Dolly begins meddling in the romantic lives of Vandegelder's niece who is in love with a man he does not approve of, and of his head clerk whom he never gives a night off. All the while, Dolly is scheming to advance her own romantic aspirations. The story takes us from Yonkers to the shining streets of New York City where the characters experience life and love like never before.
What do the musical numbers signify about identity in the course of the film's narrative?
The film opens with a solo sung by Dolly, clearly conveying her charming, meddling, and involved personality. The song, "Just Leave Everything to Me", asserts her as someone who knows people, and whom specializes in arranging people's lives, singing, "I'll arrange for making all arrangements". This opening number sets the tone for the rest of the film as the rest of the characters soon fall into Dolly's respective plans for them. The firmness of her personality is further asserted in a musical number towards the end of the film, "So Long Dearie", where she does not bother to waste her efforts anymore on a man who rejects her. The next song, "It Takes a Woman" sung by Horace and an ensemble of men working at his shop, is a bit ironic as it is about how "it takes a woman, all powdered and pink/ To joyously clean out the drain the sink". This song makes audiences aware of the time period, as it speaks strongly to female identity, and how they were expected to perform all of the home keeping tasks, but with a smile of course. However, the song is quite silly as even though it puts the man in the position of power, it is Dolly who takes charge not only over her life, but of those around her including Horace's.
The film's narrative is one of finding love, and therefore, over the course of the film, the music creates a joyous and light hearted sense of being swept away in the various emotions love brings. Since the cast is primarily white, and follows the stories of white characters, the story is void of social issues that would be present in the lives of the cast were they not white during this time period. It is because of this I think, that the film is able to tell this story of love taking precedence over social and economic status.
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What is the purpose of the songs in the character's lives?
Over the course of the film, the musical numbers convey the desires of the main cast, whether they are waiting for love, wanting to experience new things in life, or moving on from mourning. For example, Cornelius (Michael Crawford) and Barnaby (Danny Lockin), two young men who work for Horace, conceal their identity to pose as prominent figures in the New York City social scene in order to woo the girls whom Dolly has set them up with. Without much money to their name, they see it necessary to pretend to be something they're not so that they might get to experience love and luxury even just for a day. Listen below, musical number "Elegance".
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Many of the songs also serve as catalysts, connecting one segment of the narrative into the other. Especially with large ensemble numbers with no dialogue, and music coming from outside the diegesis. For example, the number, "Dancing", is a cheery song about overcoming fears surrounding not knowing how to dance--which really represents the Cornelius' fear of being caught in the lie that he is rich. For Cornelius, learning to dance is a way of freeing himself from his reservations as he gains the confidence to pursue his love.
In his essay, "Is Car Wash A Musical?", Richard Dyer argues that a musical number in white musicals "embodies a sense of release from the confinement of everyday space and time, a glorious escape from the restrictions of modem living" (Dyer 95). This is how the numbers incorporate themselves into the character's lives, and how they create meaning in them. This is seen used in the film a lot in numbers like "Dancing", "Put On Your Sunday Clothes", and "Hello, Dolly!". In these scenes, the characters break into large scale, choreographed routines. The ensemble makes use of their space, whether they are in a park, a restaurant, or a platform at a train station.
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In what ways are the songs and/or musical performances racialized and/or gendered?
Circling back to the beginning of the film, "It Takes a Woman" is clearly a very gendered number. Not only is the ensemble performing all male, but it talks about the want for a woman who does everything to keep herself pretty and "fragile", yet who is also happily willing to do several miscellaneous chores from "setting the table" to "cleaning the stable". Another example of a gendered musical number is Irene Molloy's (Marianne MacAndrews) "Ribbons Down My Back". This song speaks to her desire to find love, and how she will gladly wear ribbons down her back to be noticed by someone. The song looks to love with hope, and reinforces traditional female gender expectations by portraying Irene as the passive figure, simply waiting to catch a man's eye.
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Moving away from the content of the songs, the way in which the songs themselves are performed and inserted into the narrative is a whole different story. The film falls within the characteristics of what it is that makes a white musical. These characteristics include non-diegetic music, reprises, cheery/love songs, and an escape from reality, topics I'll discuss further below.
What elements of the film align with White musicals’ longing to transform the ordinary into utopia?
Dyer speaks to the differences between white and black musicals, informing readers how race dictates how stories are communicated to their audiences. White musicals allow their white protagonists "opportunities for expansion and freedom", not confined to their reality alone as we briefly covered above when talking about how these numbers play into the character's lives (Dyer 95). The musical numbers are meant to remove the characters from the world, and insert them into some sort of utopia where music comes from nowhere and everyone knows the same dance.
A strong element of the white musical utilized in the film is reprise. Dyer says reprise is "generally used either to mark the change that has occurred in the narrative (...) or to signal the closure of the show" (Dyer 95). Reprise, of course, is repetition, but it serves the purpose of expressing growth, resolve, and a happy ending for our characters. the number "Hello, Dolly!" has a reprise at the end of the film, a big number with the whole cast to celebrate the marriage of Dolly and Horace, and effectively welcome her "back into the world" after she was away so long in mourning. In black musicals, repetition in the form of the reprise isn't common, rather repetition remains a more consistent part of the narrative.
Another way the film aligns itself with the longing to transform the ordinary into utopia is how characters burst into song. Unlike in black musicals where the music often comes from within the narrative space, such as a radio or someone playing an instrument. These sudden musical numbers work to create spaces, as Dyer says, "freed from labor" (Dyer 97). Whereas white protagonists are encouraged to experience joy outside of the material world, black musicals often convey black joy as being experienced while working. This reinforces social expectations, and limits the black experience in musicals to a more stationary life devoid of growth. The film, however, makes it very clear that white joy lies outside of work, as Cornelius and Barnaby's whole journey involves abandoning their jobs and eventually quitting as it isn't worth giving up their newfound love for.
How does the film reflect the temporal circularity of Black musicals?
To further on this concept of growth within black and white musicals, Dyer talks about the concept of temporal circularity in black musicals. In black musicals, this circularity encourages stasis, as there is this understanding of "spatial boundedness" and of how "Black people don't get out of their situation, eventually or geographically" (Dyer 102). With this, the possibility for characters in a black musical to change their circumstances for the better is discouraged, as Dyer writes, "The musical numbers do not take the characters out of the moment, "transport" them, resolve their problems; the emotions and experience of the music do not lead to fundamental changes in their situation" (Dyer 104). However, these themes more commonly seen in black musicals are reflected in the film.
Though white musicals are able to provide a vision for a better world, it is often just that. Hello, Dolly! reflects this to an extent. The film ends where it began, Yonkers, New York, but we still see growth despite the circularity. The final scene is of Dolly and Horace's wedding, and the two other couples, (Cornelius and Irene, and Vandegelder's niece, Ermengarde (Joyce Ames) and Ambrose (Tommy Tune)) are also to be married. So despite this circularity, the characters were able to fulfill their desires expressed throughout the film.
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Discussion questions
From what you can gather, how do both white musicals and black musicals imagine happiness?
Why is it that black musicals and white musicals focus on "two different constructions of happiness"?
Why do you think white musicals, in all their longing for utopia, still often fall short of that hope for change in the narrative space?
Can you think of any examples of contemporary black musicals that challenge the characteristics of black musicals? How about contemporary white musicals? Have you seen characteristics of either being utilized in any contemporary musicals today?
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Mafia au
Again for myself but just to get down what I have right now-
Setting
Vaguely set in a 1920s era big city, there's some amiss going on within this town that never sleeps. Whether it be the constant warring of the major crime families that inhabit it or the supernatural only spoken about in niche tabloids, it's hard to deny the mysterious things that wash ashore or the even strange deaths. Yes it seems the eldritch beings only spoken about in old myth and legend have woken up from their sleep.
The major crime families are: The Kostenkos, The Toscanos, The Amanomes, The Yamaokas and The Adams.
Muses with Mafia Aus
Minor players
Danny: No specific ties to any crime family, just a general information broker and investigator while being a serial killer for hire for fun, but also a necessity, because of the thing living inside of him that needs to be fed
Jake: Works as a bartender Luanne's gay bar "The Rose Lounge", works as a high price escort, but is primarily a spy for Luanne to keep tabs on other crime families.
Viktor: Former student set to be valedictorian, but was expulsed after less than ethical experiments were found out to be going on in his lab. He fell off the face of the earth after that presumed to be dead, but really he works for the Kostenko crime family as their eldritch consultant.
Aita: Main tattoo artist for the Amanome yazuka family, there's not much that Aita values in life. He's lost after moving to the big city with a friend and just riding the high since then.
Luka: Fortune teller and drug dealer, he is the main information broker of the Toscano crime family. There's something off about him, but no one can really tell exactly what.
Carmina: Only spoken about in the supernatural tabloids, Carmina is the corpse of a former underground street artist after being brutally murdered by the former Toscano family head prior to Vittorio's involvement, rumor has it her corpse roams the back alleys looking for something to satiate the being that lies within.
Ji-Woon: A famous singer at the Amanome family night club and bar, though much like Danny, he is also one of the cities serial killers doing it for fame and attention. Rumor has it he's gained some new found powers...
Pearl: Drag queen and advertisement model for the rose lounge, he knows about the mafia involvement, but doesn't really care. Money is money.
Major players
Tarhos: Trusted body guard of the Toscano family, the rumors that surround him are endless. In truth- the old body guard had been disposed of long ago and now what lives inside is nothing human at all. Instead the fragment of the consciousness of a sleeping war god resides within the dead mans skin.
Luanne: Head of the Adams crime family a once dominating force over the city now fragmented and absorbed by other gangs, Luanne likes to stay out of other peoples way while she gathers herself and what better way to do that then to run the only gay bar in the city?
Kazan: Former crime head of the Yamaoka crime family forced to retire after his grandson brutally murdered his wife and child, he's now mentoring the now resurrected granddaughter Rin. The crime family has been using eldritch beings for years to keep their heads relatively immortal.
Julie: Julie is the daughter of the current Kostenko crime head though her dad may be the face of it, she's really the one running the operation. Her and her "legion" set up masquerades brutally torturing and maiming people for the highest bidder in hopes of summoning whatever the client asks for. Not many survive and on the surface she seems like the only person to offer this time kind of service to the elite. Her body became possessed by a fragment of the god of the depths not long after Tarhos's summoning and a robbery gone wrong.
Frank: Former foster kid that became friends with Julie after he was found by her in the under ground fighting scene. She offered him a job and really is was only robberies and breaks in until recently. Now he's her muscle, he does all the horrific things she asks of him letting the god of the depths feed off of the suffering being caused. Due to his loyalty he was shared the fragment of the gods blessing and he's so in love.
Seiji: Current family head of the Amanome yakuza family after his dad unfortunate passing, he is well aware of what is going on in the city, but tries not to participate in all the ritual summoning happening. He runs a pretty tight shift and controls the docks meaning everyone has to negotiate to get product shipped and received.
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Brave New World*.
The War and The Doors's and Windows's perspectives.
Admirável Mundo Novo.
A perspectiva da Guerra, Windows and The Doors.
Por: Fred Borges
By: Fred Borges
Texto bilíngue com parte transcrita para o Inglês, traduzido, e com versão autoral.
Bilingual text. Translation, version, transcription by the author.
Thank you:
Agradecimentos a:
The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Feature
The Talented Mr. Huxley
The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.
Danny Heitman
HUMANITIES, November/December 2015, Volume 36, Number 6
Photo caption
Aldous Huxley in 1934.
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Transcrição do vídeo : The banker and the truth.
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The banker and the truth.
"Hello, my name is Montague William III and what I will tell you may well sound absurd, but the less who believe It the better for me, for you, see I am in banking and big industry, for many years we having controlled your lives, while you older struggle and suffer in strifes.
We created the things that you really need
Your sports cars and fashions and plasma
TVs
I remember it clearly how all this begun family secrets from father to son
Inherited knowledge that gives me the edge
While you peasants, people lie sleeping at night in your beds
We control the money that control your lives
Whilst you worship false idols and wouldn't think twice
About selling your souls in a place of sun
This thing doesen't matter when your time is done
But as long they are there to control the masses
I just seat there and control my assets
Safe in the knowledge that I have it all
While you common people are losing your jobs
You see I just hold in utter content
But the smile in my face,well,It just make me a exempt
For I have a weapon of global TV
Whish gives us connection and invites empathy
You would really believe that we look out for you
While we bankers and brokers are only a few
But If you saw that then you would take back the power
Hence dayly terrors to make you cowers
The Panics, the crasches, the war and the illlness
That keep you from finding your Spiritual Wholleness
We rig the game and we buy out both sides
To keep you slaved in your pitfull lives
So,get out and work, as your body clock fades
And when it' all over, a few years from the grave
You' ll look back on all this and then you'll see
That your life was nothing, a mere fantasy
There are very few things that we do not control
To have Lawyers and Police Force was always a goal
Doing our bidding as your march on the street
But they never realises that they' re only just sheep
For real power resides only in the hands of a few
You voted for a parties, what more coul you do?
But what you don't know they are one and the same
Old Gordon has passed good,old David then reigns
And you' ll follow the leader who was put by you
But your blood will runs red, while our blood runs blue
But you simply not see it' s part of the game
Another distraction like money and fame
Get ready for wars in the name of free Vacinations for illlness that will never be
The assault of your childrens impressional minds
And micro chipped world, you' ll put up no fight
Information impression will keep you in toe
Depopulation of peasants was always our goal
But eugenics was not what we hoped It would be
Oh, It was us that funded Nazis!
But as long as we own the media too
What really happens doesen't concern to you
So just go on watching your plasma TV
And the world will be run by the ones you can't see."
Tradução-Por: Fred Borges
O banqueiro e a verdade.
Olá, meu nome é Montague William III e o que vou lhe dizer pode parecer absurdo, mas quanto menos acreditarem, melhor para mim, para você, veja, estou no setor bancário e na grande indústria, há muitos anos controlamos suas vidas , enquanto vocês mais velhos lutam e sofrem em conflitos
Criamos as coisas que você realmente precisam
Seus carros esportivos, moda e televisores de plasma
Lembro-me claramente de como tudo isto começou, segredos de família de pai para filho
Conhecimento herdado que me dá vantagem
Enquanto vocês, povo, povo-pessoas dormem à noite em suas camas
nós controlamos o dinheiro que controla suas vidas
enquanto você adorava falsos ídolos e não pensaria duas vezes
sobre vender suas almas em um lugar ensolarado
essas coisas não importarão quando seu tempo acabar
mas enquanto elas estiverem lá para controlar as massas
eu apenas sento lá e controlo meus ativos
seguro sabendo que tenho tudo
enquanto vocês, pessoas comuns, estão perdendo seus empregos
você vê, eu apenas mantenho conteúdo definido, absoluto ou essencial
quanto ao sorriso no meu rosto, bem, isso só me torna isento
pois eu tenho uma potente e perigosa arma: A mídia
que nos proporciona uma conexão, um vínculo emocional e convida à empatia
você realmente acreditaria que cuidamos de você?
embora nós, banqueiros, bancos centrais, agentes econômicos e financeiros,formos e somos apenas alguns, a ordem, o sistema não muda
mas se você observasse, analisasse, se preocupasse, quisesse mudar o sistema,poderia com isso, você recuperaria, o poder
daí os terrores diários para fazer você se encolher, se reduzir a sobreviver
os pânicos, as crises, a guerra e a doença
tudo isso o impede de encontrar sua totalidade espiritual
nós manipulamos o jogo e compramos ambos os lados
para mantê-lo escravo em suas vidas miseráveis
então, saia e trabalhe e continue não pensando,sem reflexões, flexões, movimentos que possam vir a abalar o sistema, enquanto seu relógio biológico desaparece, sua morte diária o emudesse
e quando tudo acabar, alguns anos após no seu túmulo
você olhará para trás e verá e terá a visão que tudo isso
que sua vida não era nada, uma mera fantasia
Existem muito poucas coisas que não controlamos
Advogados, juízes, políticos, Estado Paralelo do Deep State, além de Forças Militares e Policial, isto sempre foi o objetivo e meta
cumprindo nossas ordens como sua marcha, marcha de martelos procurando pregos na rua
mas vocês nunca percebem e nunca perceberão que são apenas ovelhas
pois o verdadeiro PODER reside apenas nas mãos de poucos
você votou em um partido, o que mais você poderia fazer?
Mas o que você não sabe, eles são a mesma coisa, farinha do mesmo saco
o velho Lula passou bem, o "novo" Lula então reina
e você seguirá o líder que foi colocado por você
mas seu sangue ficará vermelho, enquanto nosso sangue ficará azul ou verde de dólares
mas você simplesmente não vê que faz parte do jogo, um simples peão do jogo
outra distração como dinheiro e fama
prepare-se para guerras em nome da ordem, da nova- velha ordem, de vacinas gratuitas para doenças, epidemias e pandemias que nunca existirão
o ataque às mentes impressionistas de seus filhos,mentes abertas,abertas para criar, mudar, questionar, reinvidicar o PODER
e de um mundo micro-chipado, da I.A. ou IADG, você não resistirá
A impressão e multiplicação de informações irá mantê-lo alerta, mas ao mesmo tempo anestesiado, drogado e manipulado
o despovoamento dos camponeses, povo, população das camadas mais pobres em países desenvolvidos,do contrário será o : " crescei e multiplicai-vos" para manipular a manada pelo voto obrigatório, sempre foi o nosso objectivo e meta controlar as massas, massificando e deteriorando a educação
Mas a eugenia não era o que esperávamos.
Oh sim, uma confissão, fomos nós que financiamos os fascistas, nazistas e até mesmo os comunistas "de faixada"!
Mas enquanto,em paralelo também formos donos da mídia
o que realmente acontece não lhe diz respeito, nada que nos interessa, interessa a vocês, vocês são as ovelhas que serão sacrificadas, ovelhas de barro e de ouro
então continue assistindo sua TV de plasma, sua Internet alienante e viciante
e o mundo será governado por aqueles que você não pode ver, enxergar e morrer.
With this impactful text we could feel satisfied, but our stomach turns, there is a poor digestion going on, our body, mind and spirit react, they try to come into harmony, a dictatorship of happiness tries to be established, where laughing is a duty, where comedians normalize what is considered normal as corruption, usurped and manipulated elections, layers of maneuvering masses and what is natural becomes common and common is normal, and what is normal is to sentence a woman with the Bible in her hand preaching the salvation of Brazil to 17 years in jail, while leaders of the PCC, CV( Organized Crime), among other parallel commands( paramilitares forces), are honored by corrupted Justice,by the sale of Judicial sentences, sentences phrases weak in semantics and syntax.
The war is here, the Gaza strip is here, how many died from bullets lost and found in the bodies of honest workers and children?
In the State of Bahia-Brazil alone, according to the Security Secretariat itself: 1,464 (One thousand four hundred and sixty-four people), of these 30 were children died due to massivo conflicts between Police, Paramilitary Forces and Drug dealers.
This happened only in one State!Multiplies by 27, It'll give you the total arithmetic average of 810( Eight hundred and ten people) - of children a year!
In the Ghaza Strip there have been already 3,000 (three thousand) children died).
If the numbers of bankers, the money of an elite kill or "new order" to kill, with the coexistence and convenient "new global disorder, what will happen to Earth's future?
After all, were we created to make live or to make die?
After all, democratic elections, are a big farce?
After all, is Democracy a big lie?
Questioning is necessary!
Change is needed!
While the policy of Inclusion and Reparation receives crumbs from POWER, minorities become the majority overnight by magic, in a Hollywood great production and performance, in a theater of the absurd, absurdities become routine, vaccines, pseudo-democratic gaps!
As for The Doors and The Windows, numb and drugged, bring and dredge for themselves the democratic simulacrum, Pandora's** box, statue of salt and coke, Coca-Cola and Cocaine of the POWER that alienates, the people are alienated by Bill Gates' Windows.
And please don't give me the crumbs!
Crumbs from bankers, tycoons, billionaires who suspend glasses above the masses,stepping on the massas, and hiding their real intentions, permeate, snakes, behind Foundations, NGOs, Institutes that promotes charity with the people's hat with the consent of Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Com este texto impactante poderíamos nos dar por satisfeitos, mas o estômago embrulha, há uma má digestão, nosso corpo, mente e espírito reagem, tentam entrar em harmonia,tenta ser estabelecido uma ditadura da felicidade, onde rir é um dever, onde humoristas normalizam o considerado normal da corrupção, das eleições usurpadas, manipuladas, das camadas das massas de manobra e o natural se torna comum e o comum normal, e o normal é sentenciar mulher de evangelho na mão pregando a salvação do Brasil a 17 anos de cadeia, enquanto que líderes do PCC, CV dentre outros comandos paralelos, são agraciados pela Justiça corrompida, da venda de sentenças, sentenças fracas na semântica e sintaxe.
A guerra é aqui, a faixa de Gaza é aqui, quantos morreram por balas perdidas e achadas em corpos de trabalhadores honestos e crianças?
Só na Bahia- Brasil, de acordo com a própria Secretaria de Segurança: 1.464( Hum mil quatrocentos e sessenta e quatro pessoas), destas 30 eram crianças.
Na faixa de Gaza já são 3.000( três mil crianças já morreram)
Se os números dos banqueiros, o dinheiro de uma elite mata ou manda matar, com a convivência e conveniente " nova desordem mundial) o que será do futuro?
Afinal fomos criados para plantar ou matar?
Afinal as eleições são uma grande farsa?
Afinal a Democracia é uma grande mentira?
Questionar é preciso!
Mudar é preciso!
Enquanto a política da Inclusão, da Reparação recebe migalhas do PODER, minorias se tornam da noite para o dia maioria,numa grande encenação, num teatro do absurdo, absurdos se tornam rotina, vacina,lacunas pseudo democráticas!
Quanto ao The Doors e o The Windows entorpecidos e drogados tragam e dragam para si o simulacro democrático, caixa de Pandora, estátua de sal e coca, Coca-Cola e Cocaína do PODER que aliena, alienado povo está pelo Windows do Bill Gates.
E por favor não me venham com as migalhas!
Migalhas dos banqueiros, magnatas, bilionários que suspendem taças por cima das massas e se escondem ou se escamoteiam, permeiam, serpenteiam por traz de fundações, ONGS, OSCIDS, Institutos que promovem a caridade com o chapéu do povo!
*Aldous Huxley transcribes the emotionally arid landscape of Brave New World into visual terms, translating the dormancy of the human soul into a city devoid of bright colors. In his description of a laboratory where new citizens are conceived, he writes:
The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north . . . for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. . . . The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-colored rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.
The Doors of Perception achieved considerable cachet in the drug culture of the 1960s. The rock group the Doors took its name from Huxley’s book, and in a sad irony, its lead singer, Jim Morrison, struggled with drug abuse and alcoholism until his death in 1971.
Huxley transcreve a paisagem emocionalmente árida de Admirável Mundo Novo em termos visuais, traduzindo a dormência da alma humana numa cidade desprovida de cores brilhantes. Na sua descrição de um laboratório onde são concebidos novos cidadãos, ele escreve:
A enorme sala do térreo estava voltada para o norte. . . apesar de todo o calor tropical da própria sala, uma luz forte e tênue brilhava através das janelas, procurando avidamente alguma figura leiga envolta, alguma forma pálida de pele de ganso acadêmica, mas encontrando apenas o vidro, o níquel e a porcelana de brilho sombrio de um laboratório. . . . Os macacões dos trabalhadores eram brancos, as mãos enluvadas com uma borracha pálida da cor do cadáver. A luz estava congelada, morta, um fantasma.
As Portas da Percepção alcançaram um prestígio considerável na cultura das drogas da década de 1960. O grupo de rock The Doors recebeu o nome do livro de Huxley e, numa triste ironia, o seu vocalista, Jim Morrison, lutou contra o abuso de drogas e o alcoolismo até à sua morte em 1971.
**Pandora, (Greek: “All-Gifts”) in Greek mythology, the first woman. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, after Prometheus, a fire god and divine trickster, had stolen fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mortals, Zeus, the king of the gods, determined to counteract this blessing. He accordingly commissioned Hephaestus (a god of fire and patron of craftsmen) to fashion a woman out of earth, upon whom the gods bestowed their choicest gifts. In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Pandora had a jar containing all manner of misery and evil. Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, who forgot the warning of his brother Prometheus and made Pandora his wife. She afterward opened the jar, from which the evils flew out over the earth. Hope alone remained inside, the lid having been shut down before she could escape. In a later story the jar contained not evils but blessings, which would have been preserved for the human race had they not been lost through the opening of the jar out of curiosity. Pandora’s jar became a box in the 16th century, when the Renaissance humanist Erasmus either mistranslated the Greek or confused the vessel with the box in the story of Cupid and Psyche.
Pandora, (grego: “Todos os presentes”), na mitologia grega, a primeira mulher.
De acordo com a Teogonia de Hesíodo, depois que Prometeu, um deus do fogo e trapaceiro divino, roubou o fogo do céu e o concedeu aos mortais, Zeus, o rei dos deuses, decidiu neutralizar essa bênção.
Consequentemente, ele encarregou Hefesto (um deus do fogo e patrono dos artesãos) de moldar uma mulher da terra, a quem os deuses concederam seus melhores presentes.
Nas Obras e Dias de Hesíodo, Pandora tinha um jarro contendo todo tipo de miséria e maldade.
Zeus a enviou a Epimeteu, que esqueceu o aviso de seu irmão Prometeu e fez de Pandora sua esposa.
Depois ela abriu o jarro, de onde os males voaram sobre a terra.
Somente Hope permaneceu lá dentro, a tampa foi fechada antes que ela pudesse escapar.
Numa história posterior, o jarro não continha males, mas bênçãos, que teriam sido preservadas para a raça humana se não tivessem sido perdidas ao abri-lo por curiosidade.
O jarro de Pandora tornou-se uma caixa no século XVI, quando o humanista renascentista Erasmo traduziu mal o grego ou confundiu o vaso com a caixa da história de Cupido e Psique.
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Themes in Luke Cage s2: The Quest for Control
What separates the good Netflix MCU seasons from the weaker ones are how well integrated their themes are into the setup of the story. Daredevil‘s first season did it well with its exploration of the thin lines between heroes and villains, the difficulty of choosing what is good. The first season of Luke Cage focused heavily on the idea of not being able to go backwards, only forwards. The first season Jessica Jones and even the deeply-flawed Punisher tried to tackle issues like sexually assault, survivor’s guilt, and PTSD. But none of them ever quite reached up to the level of that first season of Daredevil.
Then along came this season and I’ve got more themes than I can wrap my head around. I’ve only watched it through once, so take this as a preliminary digestion of what I saw and feel free to add your thoughts and nuances to my arguments.
I’m going to start with the theme that is central to Luke’s character arc for this season: the quest for control, and particularly the idea that this quest is futile. This idea that one can achieve omnipotence is the hubris of classic tragedy, and make no mistake that this season is a tragedy.
Luke’s journey is probably going to be the most controversial element of this season. I get this, to a certain degree. Sometimes you want your heroes to be paragons or to triumph over adversity. Sometimes you want them to skirt the dark side. It’s certainly best if you can have a mix of both, but there aren’t many black superheroes out there. It’s easy for me, as a white woman, to appreciate Luke’s struggle with the dark side this season because I have, at this point, plenty of representation of white women both noble and messed up available for me in media. If that is not what you want right now, I respect that. That same issue is why, as a person with a mental illness, I dropped the second season of Legion once I started seeing where it was going (though rest assured, Luke doesn’t do anything nearly as awful as what David does by the end of that show).
Luke throughout the first season was a very reactive character, partly because his story didn’t actually begin that season. It began in the first season of Jessica Jones, where Luke is a very active character, actively hunting down his wife’s killers. And what does he get for it? Well, he finds out that a woman he cared for was involved in Reva’s death and had been lying to him the whole time, and then he gets his mind controlled by a telepathic supervillain who tries to force him to kill Jessica just like she was forced to kill his wife, and he is only stopped by a shotgun blast straight to his head that nearly does him in.
It is thus perhaps understandable that Luke Cage didn’t want to be a hero anymore and was trying to live a quiet life. His arc for the first season was realizing he loved Harlem too much to do that. In the meantime, though, he was a highly reactive character. This is not always a bad thing for superheroes; go too far in the other direction of actively hunting down bad guys and you get Frank Castle. It did mean that the villains drove most of the plot rather than Luke himself. (spoilers follow...)
In the second season, motivated I believe by being so out of his depth with the Hand in The Defenders and seeing Misty lose an arm, Luke tries to take back control of his life. The problem with that no one is ever really in complete control of their lives, and in trying to get total control, Luke winds up becoming more controlled than ever.
We open with Luke attempting to hunt down every stash house selling heroin with his name on it – not because this drug is particularly more lethal than any other, but because it is using his name without his permission. This focus on controlling his image is one that hounds Luke throughout the season. He’s reluctant to sign promotional deals not so much because he doesn’t want to make money, but rather because he doesn’t want to be “bought.” He doesn’t want Nike or whoever to have any control over him. He wants to be his own man.
Yet thanks to not copyrighting an app early on, he is easily found by almost anyone, most of them armed with cameras. While Luke is sometimes able to promote himself – his “Yo, I’m Luke Cage” speech with all its chest-thumping and dabbing being the most prominent – it also means that when Bushmaster wipes him out, the video goes viral, and is sold without his permission to ESPN, leaving the narrative entirely out of Luke’s hands.
Unable to have control of his public life as a hero of Harlem, Luke shifts his focus to control of his personal life. He refuses his father’s efforts to reach out to him, and when Claire pushes for them to reconcile he dismisses her. When Claire questions his excessive force with Cockroach, he accuses her of “castrating” him. Given that Luke doesn’t much demonstrate many other signs of toxic masculinity, I think this hyperbole has less to do with her “unmanning” him and more to do with taming him, making him docile, under someone else’s control. While I firmly believe Luke was never in any risk of hurting Claire, he does get angry enough to break her wall, losing control of himself and losing her. Once again the quest for control backfires on him.
Even the fan-service-y cameo episode with Danny Rand serves toward this theme of need for control, as Luke works on self-control of his anger through Danny’s advice. To a certain degree this works; Luke is in much more control of his emotions towards the end of the series than towards the beginning, but that doesn’t solve his biggest issue, his frustration with trying to control the criminal world that swirls around him.
Much of his vigilante work involves him chafing at the restrictions and controls presented by legal options. He’s not alone in this. Misty Knight has a similar path of trying to determine how comfortable she is with following the law versus going her own way. She was this close to going full Scarfe and planting evidence when the lawful means of going after a domestic abuser weren’t working, and turned in her badge because she felt that she’d crossed a line and could no longer be police. She scorned at Ridenhour’s compromises, and started assuming a vigilante role.
Misty, however, has power thrust upon her unexpectedly when she is made the temporary commander of her precinct, and in being in actual control makes her realize how much she misjudged the people who had been in control of her before. Heavy lies the crown as they say, and instead of becoming more rogue in her new role, she becomes more conformed to the establishment, more willing to strike deals and work in the system. The downside of this is her having to accept that her “wins” might be fewer and far between. The upside is that she probably the only character in this season to come out in a more positive position than she was in the beginning. To gain control, she has to give up some control, albeit on her own terms.
Contrast this to the walking disaster that is Mariah Dillard Stokes this season. Mariah’s miserable childhood has left her unable to develop trust with anyone, and so she takes on all decisions by herself and keeps control of her assets in her hands, despite repeated efforts by Shades to convince her that he wants to help her share her burdens. Probably due to the stress of taking all of this on herself, Mariah spends about half this season drunk and thus very not in control of herself, making more and more bad decisions as the series progresses. Trusting someone else means giving up control, and when she’s done that she’s been hurt, horrifically. So she trusts no one, betrays everyone, and winds up alone and dead.
These two parallel paths offer two possible models for where Luke goes after the end of this season. This season ends with Luke deciding to take absolute control of Harlem, taking Mariah’s place as the power-broker keeping a wall around the neighborhood and making deals with the bad guys to keep them out.
Yet the utter irony is that Luke only winds up taking this position of “dictator” (more on that term later) as an option of last resort. He is forced by Mariah’s machinations to take her position, with Mariah specifically having chosen him as her “heir” over her own daughter. He loves Harlem as much as she does, and Mariah finds he is the only person to be reliable around her - reliably against her, that is. And of course she also chooses him out of spite, to see how long he can remain incorruptible if he follows her path.
It is a trap. Donovan tells him so, bluntly. But Luke walks into it because he believes he’ll finally get his control in the end, and because it is the only option he sees left.
And try as I might, I have a hard time imagining what alternative he really had. He stops a gang war by becoming the boss of crime, he ends bloodshed, and the scale of what was unleashed on Harlem was beyond anything anyone was prepared to handle by other means. So perhaps this is the best choice among bad choices – for now.
Less forgivable is his decision to turn away Claire in the final scene (and if I can criticize the show for a moment, I really wish we could have seen her to know how she reacts to that rejection). That is a decidedly Mariah move, pushing away the one who loves you because to love is to let someone else have some control over you, if only your heart. (There are direct scene-for-scene parallels between some of Luke’s moments with Claire and Mariah’s with Shades for precisely this reason).
This arc for Luke seems to borrow heavily from Bendis’ run on Daredevil where Matt Murdock declared himself the new Kingpin of Hell’s Kitchen, and established a peace by force much as what Luke is planning. It did not end well for Matt; he wound up losing all his friends, his girlfriend, and going to prison. I hope it doesn’t go that far for Luke. At the very least, he seems open to continuing to work with Misty Knight, though that door-closing shot (a direct reference to the end of The Godfather) doesn’t bode well for that relationship continuing. But we also got a glimpse of connection between him and Danny Rand that promises maybe, maybe he can be convinced to be a true dictator.
Because, as anyone who has seen The Dark Knight knows, ancient Roman dictators were an emergency position created to deal with crises, at the end of which they were supposed to give up their power. Can Luke make the hard choice, the truly strong choice, and know when it’s time to relinquish his quest for total control, to be vulnerable, to allow himself to not be omnipotent?
I guess we will have to wait and see. Though I have other reasons to hope, but that will require another post on another theme of this season: families, both good and bad, found and hereditary.
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Barcelona transfer news LIVE: Neymar £273m January deal, Messi talks with Man Utd star | Football | Sport
Barcelona transfer news LIVE updates from the Nou Camp
Tuesday, September 10
Jurgen Klopp has backed Philippe Coutinho to succeed
PSG chief Leonardo wants to sell Barcelona transfer target Neymar
Leonardo would ideally like to offload the forward in January
Man Utd midfielder Paul Pogba has spoken with Lionel Messi
Valencia fitness update
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez are still training separately from their Barcelona colleagues.
The attacking duo are both suffering with calf problems that leaves them in doubt for the weekend’s clash with Valencia.
Spanish publication Diario AS claim Barcelona coaches believe Suarez and Messi will return for the La Liga showdown and the Champions League opener against Borussia Dortmund.
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Wanted: Fabian Ruiz
Barcelona are ready to intensify their efforts to sign Fabian Ruiz.
The Napoli star, 23, has been on Barcelona’s radar for some time and the Catalan giants are ready to pull the trigger.
Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo claim Barcelona will make a January swoop for the Spanish international either in January or the summer of 2020.
The central midfielder is contract to Napoli until June 2023.
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Pogba talks with Messi
Paul Pogba has spoken with Lionel Messi amid continued speculation about his future at Manchester United, according to his brother Mathias.
The World Cup winner was wanted by Real Madrid during the summer transfer window but the midfielder stayed at Old Trafford.
Yesterday, Bernabeu legend Sergio Ramos sent transfer rumours spinning when telling Pogba that the door is open at Real Madrid.
But talks with Messi could suggest that Barcelona’s stars are also sounding him out.
“I know he’s spoken with a few players, but not Sergio Ramos,” Mathias Pogba told El Chiringuito TV when asked about Ramos’ recent praise.
“Who? Oh, Lionel Messi. Sometimes, not always. Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Antoine Griezmann, because of the national team.”
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January Neymar decision
PSG chief Leonardo wants to sell Barcelona transfer target Neymar, according to reports.
Neymar wanted to leave the Parc des Princes for a stunning return to the Nou Camp, just two years after his controversial move away from the La Liga giants.
The European transfer deadline came and went, however, with Barcelona unable to come up with PSG’s £273million valuation needed to broker a deal.
And Tuttosport say that PSG chief Leonardo wants to get rid of Neymar when the transfer window reopens in the winter.
Neymar has agreed to stay at the Ligue 1 titans until next summer.
But Leonardo is said to be tired of speculation surrounding the Brazil international and would ideally offload the forward in January.
Klopp backs Phil
Jurgen Klopp has backed Philippe Coutinho to succeed at Bayern Munich after joining on a season-long loan from Barcelona.
Liverpool sold Coutinho in January 2018 for an initial £105 million, which could rise to £142m.
The move didn’t worked out as planned for the Brazilian international or the Catalan giants, who were keen to get him off the wage books during the summer transfer window.
“[He’s a] world-class player, really good transfer for Bayern and the Bundesliga,” Klopp told Bild. “I thought it’s a good fit for both when I first heard about it.
“It may sound strange, but we didn’t have enough money to get him. We’d already spent all the money we got for him. I have already told him in person that he and Bayern will be a good fit.”
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Diego Costa on Antoine Griezmann
Diego Costa never tried to convince Antoine Griezmann to snub Barcelona to stay at Atletico Madrid.
Griezmann, 28, joined Barcelona in the summer for £108million to link up with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
“His dream was to play alongside Messi and Luis Suarez,” Costa told YouTube channel Que Partizado. “As a footballer you always want to try different things and it’s normal that he wanted to try his luck there and see if he could become an important player at Barca like he was at Atletico.
“Griezmann wanted a new experience and he’ll find that in Barcelona. I didn’t try to convince him to stay but if he had asked my opinion I would have told him that everybody should try new things.”
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Manchester United active in January
Manchester United will be active during the January transfer window.
That’s according to the Manchester Evening News, who claim Ed Woodward plans to recruit providing the right players are available.
The Red Devils brought in three players over the summer with Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James signed for a combined £148million.
But with the departures of Ander Herrera, Romelu Lukaku, Matteo Darmian, Chris Smalling and Alexis Sanchez – United have money to spend.
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Ramos > VVD
Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy believes Virgil van Dijk cannot be considered as a better defender than Sergio Ramos until he wins more silverware.
Van Dijk is widely considered as one of the world’s best defenders and was rewarded with the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award at a ceremony last month.
But Murphy does not think Ramos gets enough credit for his glittering career for both club and his country, Spain.
“The perception of players sometimes is based on the personality, rather than their footballing ability, and I think that’s happened with [Ramos],” he said on talkSPORT.
“This subject, I’m bringing it up because who’s better? Who’s better than Ramos?
“You would choose Van Dijk now, of course, but Van Dijk hasn’t played at the top for as long as Ramos and won what he’s won.”
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I solved the Messi problem – Maradona
Barcelona legend Diego Maradona has claimed he taught Lionel Messi how to score free-kicks during his time as Argentina boss.
“I coached the best, Messi,” he said after being named manager of Gymnasia de La Plata. “And nobody can tell me otherwise, because he was able to skip past up to five players – a phenomenon.
“He had an issue with free-kicks. When we finished every training session, we kept Leo behind so he could practice, and he started to hit the post.
“I didn’t teach him how to take a free-kick, then he asked me how I was able to score.
“I said, ‘you just have to hit it in the middle. They aren’t going to give me an Oscar to teach you this’.
“And he replied, ‘but I hit it in the middle and the ball goes this way or that way’.
“And I told him, ‘don’t worry, you’re going to make it’. Now he just can’t miss.”
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074: If We Had to Start Over in Real Estate, What Else Would We Do?
What if we had to do it all over again? What if, for some reason, we were told that we COULDN’T work in the land business?
What else is worthwhile in the real estate industry? What else could we actually have a fighting chance of succeeding at?
In this episode, we’re talking about what other viable options are on the table in the real estate business that we, personally, could do well at.
If you’re NOT interested in the land business for whatever reason (or even if you are and you want to pivot to something else), we’re going to cover some of the other solid options out there.
Links and Resources
060: How to Become a Hard Money Lender and Investor with Ryan Wright
Simple Wholesaling
What is a Triple Net Lease?
Hard Money 101: Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started With Hard Money Loans
051: How Mike Wagner Made $750K Flipping a Self Storage Facility
028: The Good, the Bad (the Dangerous) and the Ugly of Self Storage Investing w/ Scott Meyers
072: Is it Heroic or Idiotic to ‘Burn the Ships’?
What is a CCIM in Commercial Real Estate?
What is Turnkey Real Estate?
FlippingJunkie w/ Danny Johnson
123flip w/ J Scott
Backyard Underground Bunker Tour
Kolbe Test
A Review of Frank Rolfe’s Billboard University Boot Camp
Bob Marley’s Redemption Song
Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a
Lo Fi Hip Hop
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Seth: Hey there, and welcome to the REtipster podcast. This is a show that teaches self-motivated people how to make great money from real estate while minimizing risk and creating more time for the things that matter. My name is Seth Williams. I’m here with my co-host Jaren Barnes. And in this session episode 74, by the way, you can find show notes for this episode at retipster.com/74.
We’re talking about a pretty interesting topic. Jaren and I have both spent a lot of time in the land flipping business and a few other real estate investing business models. We know the land business like the back of our hands and we found success here for a lot of different reasons. Which by the way, Jaren does a really good job of outlining in a video he created called “Land Flipping is Better”. I’ll go ahead and link to that in the show notes. Again, retipster.com/74.
So, land is great and all that, but what if we had to do it all over again? And what if for some reason we were told that we could not work in the land business, what else out there is worthwhile? What else could we actually have a chance at success with? In this episode, we’re both going to talk about what other viable options are there in the real estate world that we personally think we could do pretty well at. If you’re somebody who is not interested in the land business for whatever reason, or even if you are, but you’re looking for a way to pivot or something else to do, we’re going to cover some solid options out there that might be worth considering.
Jaren: Yeah, man, I’m excited. It’s always fun to ask yourself these questions because it’s easy to get tunnel vision when you’re in the weeds of pursuing whatever strategy that you decided to execute it on. And for a good reason too because you definitely want to avoid the shiny object syndrome. But I feel like it’s still helpful to just kind of like really reconnect with the “why” behind what you’re doing. And I feel like that’s what we’re going to be doing in today’s episode.
Seth: I also think maybe this is just my view on the subject, but the land business is kind of a means to an end. Like it’s one step in a longer journey. It’s not the final destination of where I see my life going and my career going, but I think it is very critical maybe even the most critical step. I sort of see a real estate investor’s career going in phases.
Phase one is sort of like, we need the cash machine. We need something that’s very active, that’s going to take a lot of work, but it’s going to make a lot of money relatively quickly. For some people that might be like house flipping. It might be house wholesaling. It might be like a commercial broker or even a residential real estate agent. In my case, or in Jaren’s case too, it’s the land business. It’s something that it’s not passive at all, but it makes lots of money, way more money than just a regular 09:00 to 05:00 job would in most cases.
And then step two in my mind, again, maybe other people might have a different path, but phase two is like, “Okay, now we’ve made a lot of money. Where do we park that money? How do we start making this passive? How do we put it to work so that we don’t have to work so hard anymore?”
I think some of the things we’re going to cover here sort of fall into both buckets. Some of them are really active and some of them are more passive. And we’re also going to talk about just knowing what we know now, because we’ve been around the business for so long. Some things that we’re pretty sure we would never do because it doesn’t align at all with our strengths and what we want to do with our lives. So, Jaren for you, if land is off the table, what do you think is the first thing you would pursue outside of that strategy?
Jaren: Well, I think I have to say apartment syndications or midsize apartments because that’s what I’m actually pursuing in real life.
Seth: And when you say that, do you mean like you being the syndicator or you just throwing money into somebody else’s syndication?
Jaren: I want to be on the general partner of the deal. I think my easiest course of action is to find the deal and bring it to a syndication company that has the infrastructure in place.
Seth: You could be good at that, man. I could see you really doing well there.
Jaren: Yeah. I mean, I’m trying. I’m talking to a couple of people and I think there might be some opportunities for me to start hunting for deals. I’ve been kind of on the fence. I know if you guys have heard some of our past conversations, I’ve been on the fence about going after larger stuff versus smaller stuff. Because I feel like there’s a big opportunity in kind of the like 5- to 50-unit range, because most large syndication companies don’t want to touch that space because the property management and financing aren’t as ideal as if you go after something that’s larger than 75 units.
But I feel like there’s less competition there and there’s going to be more opportunity for truly motivated sellers of owners of those kinds of properties. So, I’ve kind of been back and forth on whether I want to pursue kind of midsize… It’s all relative. I don’t even know what to call it because to me being in the more residential space, like anything over 5-units is a big property. But I talked to a syndicator and they’re like, “Yeah, that’s small stuff.” I don’t know what the right verbiage is, but I’m kind of on the fence about what to pursue. Now that I’m talking to some people that have an infrastructure in place, I feel more comfortable going after bigger stuff, but I don’t know. I still think I might do kind of a combination of the two.
That’s something that it’s slow and steady. It’s been months since I’ve been researching and just taking it one bite at a time, one step at a time, but that’s not that interesting. I think it would be more interesting to talk about things that I’m actually not doing if I was not pursuing the apartments and I was not doing the land business. You know what I would want to get into Seth? I would really like to get into hard money lending or private money lending and triple-net.
I think that people don’t realize that being a private lender, a hard money lender is actually a really viable strategy. Technically it’s not real estate per se, but a lot of real estate investors obviously use private and hard money. But I just liked the idea of, I don’t know, maybe putting a fund together or having my own capital and being like, “Okay, I’m going to take $100,000 that I’ve saved up or whatever and I’m going to deploy $25,000 loans to wholesalers or flippers or land investors and then let them do all the hard work. And I’m just going to sit back and make money.” Especially in land because a lot of the private money guys, they lead with 50-50 splits. So, they get half the profit for just doing nothing but putting up the money.
Seth: Yeah. And if the listeners out there are hearing this and they’re like, “What is hard money lending? I don’t get it.” We actually had a really good conversation about that whole topic with a guy named Ryan Wright in episode 60. If you go to retipster.com/60 you can hear that and get a really good overview of what hard money lending is and a lot of the stuff involved with that.
Yeah. I see what you mean, man. I think hard money lending has a ton of potential if you’ve got money and if you’re able to put together an underwriting process that is efficient enough and doesn’t slow up the deal flow. It seems like it requires a lot of due diligence just in terms of understanding your borrower and also understanding what deals they’re after. Every business has things like this that are just not fun, but it seems like one of those things about that model that would be taxing on me personally, if I were to go after that.
Jaren: Yeah. I definitely think that’s the pain point for sure, it’s the underwriting. But if you can get a handful of guys, I go to like Brett Snodgrass who has a proven system and proven infrastructure in place with wholesaling. For those who might not know who Brett Snodgrass is, he’s actually my former boss over at Simple Wholesaling, which is a wholesale operation in Indianapolis. I think about finding him or finding Tyler or finding some land investors that are credible and have a good reputation and then just partnering with those guys. And then that’s why I don’t know if maybe hard money is not the right word. Maybe it’s more private money. But just having like, I don’t know, 5 to 10 buckets that I deploy cash in that I’ve vetted the person and I’m committed to the person. Even if we have a couple of deals that go south, if like the person is a high performer and they’re trying to make success happen for themselves and I just partner with that, I think you can really ride a pretty amazing wave there. I think there’s just a lot of opportunities. Yeah, there’s definitely trust and due diligence on the front end for sure. But after you’ve established that relationship and done a couple of deals, you can just rinse and repeat and it’s pretty passive.
Seth: It’s an interesting thing because I always seem to come across plenty of people who either are saying what you’re saying, Jaren, where are like, “Hey, I’ve got money. I don’t want to do the work. Can somebody find me somebody who’s willing to do the work so I can just lend the money?” And other people who are like, “Hey, I want to do the work. I don’t have the money.” It seems like there’s a lot of both parties out there. It’s just a matter of them connecting. I think maybe some of the friction is that the people that don’t have the money, not in all cases, but in many cases they’re also very inexperienced. Like they don’t know what they’re doing yet. So, like why would a person with money want to throw the money at a totally inexperienced person?
It’s almost like there is this sweet spot where a person has a proven track record and they’ve done maybe 50 deals or something like that. Like they get it, they can prove that, but they also don’t have the money yet. Or maybe like, they’re always willing to go after deals. And at some point, inevitably, they’re going to run out of their own money and that’s when they need the hard money. So yeah, it’s an interesting business model for sure.
Jaren: Yeah. It’s always intrigued me and there’s actually not a lot of material on it. I don’t know of any course. It’s like, “Hey, how to become a hard money lender or like a private money lender as your primary strategy?” I know there’s a lot of stuff for passive investors in the syndication world, like for apartments and stuff, there is content. And that’s a very similar model, but you’re just deploying your cash in an actual apartment deal instead of just with a land deal or several land deals or houses or whatever. But yeah, so that’s kind of a strategy that I would probably look into. We should talk about triple net, man. Because I know you you’ve been thinking about some triple net stuff too, right?
Seth: Yeah, yeah. And triple net for those out there who don’t know what that is. So, it’s basically a triple net lease is a lease where the landlord is leasing their building. Maybe it’s a warehouse or a retail establishment or something. The leasing it to a tenant. And the tenant is not only paying rent. They’re also paying the property taxes. They’re also paying the insurance and they’re paying maintenance and repairs. They’re paying literally everything. So, the landlord just sits there and collects them money. It doesn’t have to manage any of the other expenses on the back end. And usually, because the tenant is paying everything, they’re paying a discounted rent price because they’re bearing the burden of everything else. So that’s what a triple net lease is.
So, when people say the words triple net, like Jaren just said, what they’re talking about is investing in properties where it’s pretty much hands-off, maybe not 100% passive, but pretty darn close to it because there’s no management. There’s no other stuff to worry about. It’s all on that tenant to take care of it all. Yeah. I would agree. I think that’s totally something that I’m actually planning to do at some point. I don’t think I’m there yet.
Jaren: I heard a commitment from Seth Williams.
Seth: I didn’t commit. I said, well, did I commit? Because I’m planning> Yeah, maybe I do. I mean, I don’t know.
Jaren: Here’s the thing because you’re very selective on the language you use and it’s like I’m giving you some crap on there. That was a very big commitment coming from Seth to say that. Even for me, that would probably be like, “Yeah, I’m thinking about it”, but for you, that was a big one.
Seth: I can’t test that as a commitment. And to make it clear, I am not committing to doing that. Maybe to phrase it differently. It is a dream that I would love to pursue someday. Maybe that’s a better way to say it.
Jaren: Yeah, like that.
Seth: Just so people understand. I give Jaren grief about that sometimes. I’m like, “Hey man, don’t throw any hard commitments down because then if you don’t do it, you’re going to look dumb.” So that’s why he’s given me a hard time. But I think triple net is a pretty cool concept as many real estate investing strategies are on paper. To me though, it’s sort of strikes me is not an entry-level strategy unless you’re already loaded with cash and you have the right connections and you know where to find an awesome deal.
But for somebody starting from scratch like me, for example, in my early 20s where I had hardly any money to work with, triple net is not something you start with. That’s like once you’ve made your money in your active stage one business, maybe as the second or third phase, that’s when you start going after triple net stuff. And maybe if there’s a triple net investor out there who would disagree with that, let me know. Go to the show notes and leave me a comment.
Jaren: Yeah. Maybe we can have you on the show. That’d be really interesting.
Seth: Yeah. Actually, it would be really cool. Yeah. I think it’s a pretty sweet idea. One of the drawbacks or I guess, risks maybe is the word that comes to mind is one of the things of a triple net deal, it’s like, maybe it’s a restaurant building or a warehouse or some kind of a big commercial property where there’s like a tenant that comes in there and they pay a lot, obviously a lot more than like a residential house. But what if that tenant goes away and nobody else wants to rent your building? What if the market as whole changes or people move away and you’re stuck with this property that has, I don’t know, a $50,000 annual tax bill and nobody’s renting it from you?
I think a lot of the triple net investors out there are like REITs big groups that own like hundreds of these properties. So, if one does sit vacant, it’s not the end of the world. I don’t know if they’re like me where they own like one or two or three of them. So, they all have been working for you or you’re in trouble. So that’s what kind of freaks me out about that. I’m sure there’s a way around that, but I don’t know what that is exactly.
Jaren: Something that I find interesting too, is I feel like for anybody who’s been exposed to REITs your mind jumps, at least being an outsider looking in, your mind jumps to really expensive properties. If we’re talking triple net property in California or Chicago, those are going to be really, really expensive. But something that’s interesting is I think you and me, we’re looking at some stuff in the Grand Rapids area a few months back just for fun. And there was some triple net stuff that was in the $300,000 range, $350,000 range. And I think if you looked at like more small rural areas or small towns, you might have some opportunities, but you still have that risk of like, okay, you buy this triple net property in downtown nowhere-USA that the area has a declining population or maybe the main job provider goes belly up. And so, all of a sudden, the town goes desolate and you’re stuck with a really expensive property that you have to take care of. I definitely think the location is the biggest risk factor with a triple net lease.
Seth: Yeah, I think you’re right. I think another part of that, say if you were to buy a property like a triple net property. So, in the banking world, there are buildings called special-purpose buildings. And this was something I dealt with when I was doing SBA loans all the time. A special-purpose building is a building that basically can only be used for one thing and nothing else. For example, one of those tunnel car washes or an oil change facility where there are pits in the ground, you can’t use that building for anything else other than a carwash or an oil change place. So, if you lose a tenant, there’s a very specific kind of tenant that can come and replace that other one. And if you can’t find them, you’re out of luck.
So special purpose buildings require a slightly higher down payment from the borrower because it’s riskier. It’s a bigger risk to the bank because that collateral it’s not necessarily worthless, but it’s just more specialized. Like there’s only a very specific subset of buyers or tenants who would ever be interested in buying that. So I think if I ever do go that route, I would not be ever buying a special purpose building. It would be more of a white box commercial space where this building could be a store or it could be a restaurant or it could be an office or it could be a gym, like fill in the blank. There are all kinds of different things that could be here. I think that that would be the kind of property to get if you were going the triple net path.
Jaren: I didn’t officially ask you, what would you do differently if you couldn’t do land?
Seth: There’s just a small handful of things I would consider. And I sort of either have already done them or I’m in the process of figuring them out right now. Because like I said, land isn’t the final destination for me. It’s just one step on the way there. But I know like just residential rental properties. So, I think I would go that route. It’s just because I’ve owned them, I’ve seen the concept proven and I’ve also seen like the drawbacks and the places where they fall short and I’m okay with that. I’m willing to fight those battles.
I also know how to find good property management, which is really the biggest piece of the puzzle, I think. The biggest drawback to residential rentals is that it’s usually a long slow ride to financial freedom. And again, I sort of see this as like a phase two of investing. There was a really smart businessman that I met a couple of years ago, who was telling me that…
Jaren: Was his name Jaren Barnes?
Seth: Nope. But he’s another very smart one. And he told me, “You make your money in your business. You preserve it in the market, not the other way around.” And to translate that for real estate investors, it would mean that you make your money in an active real estate investing strategy, like wholesaling, house flipping, maybe being a broker, the land flipping business. That’s the business. And you park it in rental properties. That’s sort of the equivalent of the market to generate income and preserve the value of your cash. I’m not saying rental properties isn’t a business because it is. But it’s people who invest in rentals like their primary strategy is cashflow and it’s very a slow drip, drip kind of cashflow. It’s not like bam, $50,000 in one month. That’s not how rental properties work.
Jaren: When you say rental properties, are you talking like small, like 2 to 4 units?
Seth: Pretty much. Yeah. Either single-family houses or duplexes, not big apartment buildings or anything like that. So anyway, I think I still believe in the rental property model, but I think in my case, anyway, I sort of needed to find an active model first that generated the cash. Because if I was just using the money from my job or whatever, it’s going to take a long time to get there. It’s going to be just kind of frustrating if you’re expecting it to do anything big for you in the short term. Because that’s not really how they work. Unless you get totally lucky and find a cash flowing deal for $50 or something. I mean maybe, but that’s usually not how it works obviously.
Jaren: That’s one of the reasons why in the rental property space, I’m attracted more towards the commercial stuff because of the economies of scale. And the word on the street is obviously this is all theory from my perspective at this point. But word on the street is when you get into the higher above 75 units or higher range, property management is so good, it is actually really passive.
So, for people who want to have kind of the whole cash flow four-hour workweek lifestyle, it seems like even though the barrier to entry is higher because you have to figure out how to get the funds together to go after these big properties if you could figure it out and then your objective was to hold and not flip and sell in five years, but maybe like flip and then refinance out and pay off your investors and then hold the asset – You could get there potentially a lot faster because you’re just dealing with so much more units in a different tier of vendors that can help service the property a lot better.
Seth: I mean, I know one of the big drawbacks with any kind of real estate, for the most part, is that it’s just as an investment, it’s very illiquid. It’s not like stocks where you can convert it to cash today. It’s going to take some time. Possibly a long time. Is there validity to the thought that apartment buildings are far less liquid than say a single family home? Like if I wanted to just quickly sell off one of my 20 houses, that’s not that hard, but selling off a 100-unit apartment building, that’s going to take me some time. Is that accurate?
Jaren: I would think so. I mean, again, I’m very green in the space side. By no means, I want to present myself as an expert, but I would think that it would be harder to sell or you’d have a smaller buyer pool, but I know that the multifamily space is extremely hot right now. And if you’re in the right market, people are paying really dumb prices. Even right now I think that word on the street again, is that things are probably going to adjust in six months to a year. But as of right now, people are spending way too much money on deals in the multifamily space. I think that there’s a lot of really interested buyers, but it’s definitely not as easy as selling a single-family house. I would think I would imagine.
It just depends on what your strategy is and what your goals are, but I’ve always been more attracted to the idea of something that could pay me $10,000 a month, every single month for the rest of my life, versus having a million dollars in cash in the bank. Figuring out even if for the first couple of deals that I walkthrough, I do as a flip because the people that I work with or whatever want to do that model, at least I can learn the process and then pivot when I can do my own deal down the road from selling to just refinancing out and paying investors off that way. Because that’s what I want, man. I just want to take the money from land and from other endeavors and just buy something that’s going to pay me every single month for the rest of my life.
Seth: Yeah. I know what you mean, man. I was actually looking at a self-storage deal, kind of like that couple of weeks ago where the monthly after expenses after debt service income was like $8,000 a month kind of thing. It was kind of cool just to be like, “Hey man, one deal, boom. This is it”. It’s a $3 million-plus dollar deal. Well, do I have $600,000 or $700,000 cash to put into this right now? I don’t know. Not really. So, it’s like, those can be found, but you got to have something and you have to have a lot of it to put into it.
Jaren: And that’s where I think having to figure out the syndication game really comes into play. Because even though it feels on this side being still like a beginner in this whole apartment syndication journey, it feels very intimidating and overwhelming, but people on the other side say, it’s not that big of a deal. So it’s still to be determined, but having the ability and the skillset to know how to go through the process of pulling a bunch of funds together where it’s like their $25,000 buy in or $50,000 buy in, you can come up with that $700,000 down payment or whatever, relatively easy. And then as long as the deal can facilitate at means for you to increase revenue to the point where you can refinance 5 to 10 years or whatever the strategy is and then pay them off, then all of a sudden you can get into a $3 million deal with maybe $50,000 out of pocket yourself. Or maybe nothing if you’re the syndicator. There’s a benefit to that. But it’s skill set and it’s paperwork and attorneys and feels very scary on this side of the fence.
Seth: That’s really an interesting thing you said there, man. Because it’s funny how many times that has struck me in the past year or two. It’s just funny how money is such a relative thing. Like I remember the first time I did a deal that made me over a thousand dollars and it was like, “Whoa, I cannot believe I am doing this, messing around with this kind of money”. And now it’s like, “Man, a thousand bucks? What is that? Who cares? It’s a small change.” And this whole idea of how you define a lot of money is all relative to what you’ve seen and where you work in. $3 million today seems like just huge insurmountable. There could be a day where it’s like nothing. That’s like…
Jaren: Just a small deal. Yeah.
Seth: So, it’s easy to get and just be like, “Oh, I can’t do it. It’s too much.” But as we get further in life that perspective can shift quite a bit.
Jaren: Yeah, man. So, is storage units a major pursuit of yours?
Seth: Yeah. I think that is on my list of things I would do instead, or also do. So I haven’t proven the concept to myself yet. Like I haven’t done my first deal. I’ve looked at a lot, but haven’t closed on anything. So, I’m pretty sure it’s a solid approach. I know plenty of people who have done well at it, but the jury is still out on whether I can do it personally simply because I haven’t done it. I believe I can but since it hasn’t been done, who knows?
And I also kind of think it is sort of like rentals and that it’s like a phase two money preservation cash-flow vehicle unless there is an immediate opportunity to improve the facility, like by expanding it or changing the rents. Or if you’re planning to sort of flip the thing, kind of like how Mike Wagner did it when we talked to him in episode 51, and sort of how Scott Meyers does it as well. So, if your goal is to flip the thing, then that’s definitely more of an active approach. But personally, my approach is more to buy it and just keep it for the cash flow. And that’s kind of a different game you plan.
Jaren: So, to peel back the onion a little bit there, are you planning on going after a small to midsize unit size for your facility? Are you looking for, I don’t know, like a 20-unit facility or something?
Seth: I hesitate to say the word planning because that’ll be construed as commitment. No, but…
Jaren: Are you dreaming…?
Seth: So, I’m dreaming. Yeah. So, the deals I’ve been looking at has been in this sub million dollar, like those are the ones I’ve been seriously considering. Actually, making offers on and that kind of thing. Maybe it’s one of those limiting beliefs things where it’s like that’s all I believe I can do right now. I’ll be the first to tell you. Maybe I’m just selling myself short. But I guess when I think about putting down the money that would be required to get a loan for that kind of thing. I’m not in the place where I can on my first deal ever throw like $500,000 of cash out. I’m not willing to do that. I don’t know what I’m doing yet. So, I’m sort of looking for a small pathetic for lack of a better word deal to go after, just because I want to learn. I don’t see it as being the final destination, but just sort of something that can help me figure out the business more. So, those are kind of the ones that I’ve been looking at.
Jaren: So, I’m just curious because that’s your goal. When we went to the Scott Myers event in Indianapolis together, Scott Meyers material kind of suggested that you shouldn’t go towards like rural areas. I don’t even remember the exact criteria because I haven’t been in that world for a while, but I think there was a certain amount of like traffic count that you looked and some other things. But then he had somebody that spoke on stage that did the exact opposite and the guy’s primary strategy was to buy all rural properties because he can get crazy deals on them. So, are you kind of venturing more towards rural stuff or?
Seth: Yeah, I think the guy’s name is Greg Michael or Greg Michaels. But yeah, that is kind of what I’m thinking. Actually, I thought his presentation was my favorite part of the whole thing, just because…
Jaren: Mine too, actually.
Seth: It’s like, “Hey, that’s something I can do.” So yeah, that’s sort of been my mentality this whole time.
Jaren: Yeah. I like it. I think that’s cool. Especially if your goal is to hope because at that point it doesn’t really matter. I mean, as long as you can get renters in there or tenants in there. Not renters, but if you can get tenants in there, you’ll be fine.
Seth: Yeah. I think the drawback of that is you’re not going to be able to find a property management company to handle that for you. You sort of has to either do the minimal management yourself or find somebody local who can do a lot of the ongoing tasks for you. Which I’m not like thrilled about, but that’s kind of the main drawback, I think, from what I’ve learned.
Jaren: And that’s probably why there’s less competition. So, it’s like a double-edged sword.
Seth: Yeah. I just want to get my bearings and figure out what I’m doing. If I’m going to screw something up or buy wrong or mismanage it, I’d rather do that on a cheap deal than on something I’ve dumped everything I have into.
Jaren: You’re a wise man.
Seth: I don’t know. Maybe, we’ll see.
Jaren: Don’t burn the boats, bro. Don’t burn the boats.
Seth: Yeah.
Jaren: Have the contingency plan.
Seth: Check out episode 72 if you haven’t, you’ll understand what Jaren is talking about. Yeah. Another thing on my list and actually I considered this for a short while is being a commercial broker.
Jaren: I could see that.
Seth: Yeah. And it’s because it’s definitely a very active strategy that it almost requires salesmanship and a lot of head knowledge and understanding what is, or isn’t a deal. And almost like salesmanship to put people together and do networking and all that stuff. So that’s a pretty solid phase one strategy. You don’t need a ton of money to get into it. It’s a way to get really smart about how to network and find the right people, identify deals, find opportunities that not everybody sees, and fund partnership opportunities.
A lot of the commercial brokers I know are partners, like maybe a five-way partnership on a strip mall or something like that, an apartment building just because they’re around that all day. They have those opportunities all day long. So that sounds pretty appealing. The downside though, is that I think it is kind of like being a financial advisor in the beginning in that there isn’t much income to start with. And until you start closing deals, you’re not going to make much money. And so, I think if you’re going to go that route, you sort of need to have your finances in order because if you don’t produce, you’re going to starve pretty quick.
Jaren: And I think that what I call the “24-month rule” is very much in play. All the guys that I’ve known who’ve gone down that route, they didn’t make money for like the first two years.
Seth: Yeah. Sounds about right.
Jaren: You got to be able to commit that somehow some way, whether it’s driving for Uber or doing something on the side.
Seth: Yeah. And on the flip side of that, when you do get through that and if you do make it work, it’s like the button guys that do really well. They can make tons of money. I think the opportunity along with the things you’ll learn and the networking opportunities, I don’t know, it’s a pretty solid approach, I think. It also seems like every commercial broker I’ve known, maybe this is just bias or something, but they sort of seem like they’re on a different level than our residential. Like they just seem to know more. I mean, don’t get me wrong. There are some resident residential agents I’ve known who are brilliant. Like they’re very, very good at what they do, but I feel I’ve encountered…
Jaren: They’re the exception.
Seth: Yeah. I’ve encountered more that are just like, “This is just kind of my side job I do on the weekends. And I like talking to people, so that’s why I do it.” Whereas commercial brokers are like, they’re there to make money. I feel like they are taken more seriously in general.
Jaren: Well, it’s funny you brought that up because I was actually going to say from somebody who is licensed, it’s very true. I feel like the standards that commercial brokerages expect, the standard that they hold their agents do is, or their brokers do is much higher than residential. And the training is a lot better. You go work for Marcus & Millichap, it’s like getting a degree man. And it’s getting a degree in a lot of things. It’s not just how to underwrite deals, how to run due diligence, understanding investment language. But it’s also cold calling and grit and hustle and salesmanship. If you come on board, it’s an incredible, incredible experience. And it’s cutthroat. That’s a survival of the fittest for sure.
But if you can survive that whole intense hazing process and overcoming your learning curve, I think it’s an incredible profession. I think that it’s a really high standard of professionalism. And I kind of wish universally in order to get licensed, you kind of had to be held to that kind of standard. I would almost say that I would rather see somebody have to get like a college degree, like a four-year degree or at least a two-year degree in real estate before they could get licensed.
Seth: There is. For commercial brokers, I believe it’s the CCIM. I don’t know what the license or what that is, but it’s a…
Jaren: It’s a certification.
Seth: Yeah. When I was looking at it, it’s like a big deal. It takes years to get the thing. You got to take classes. I don’t know if it’s on the same level of difficulty as getting a CPA license or not, but it’s not something that just anybody can without much effort. Like you really got to work hard at it and sort of earn your stripes. So, my dad, he’s worked for various nonprofits as the executive director or the CEO of different nonprofits for decades now. And he’s bought and sold and built a lot of different buildings in that process. And there is a commercial broker he’s worked with pretty consistently to do a lot of those deals. He’s telling me how this broker, his commission on one of these buildings was $30,000. And he just donated it to the nonprofit. It’s like, “Yeah, I don’t need it. You can just have it.” Seriously? How much money is this guy making? If he can just sort of like… I mean, that’s obviously very generous and nice of him, but like, this guy must be loaded if he’s like, “Whatever, you can just keep the $30,000. No big deal.”
Jaren: Yeah, man. They make a lot of money. I mean, you think about like 3,5% commission on $3 million property. Like you’re saying, you do one of those a year, you’re sitting fat. Imagine if you did $6 million.
Seth: Isn’t it like a 10% commission for commercial deals?
Jaren: It could be, I don’t know. But even if you just apply the residential standard of 3% to 3,5%, on your side of the representation, even that is a lot.
Seth: Yeah. I mean, if you put any percent on a multimillion-dollar property. Say if it’s like a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, someone’s making a lot of money on that transaction.
Jaren: Yeah.
Seth: Yeah. Were there any other ones that you think you would go after Jaren, other than land?
Jaren: Yeah. I’m more interested in the kind of phase two type of things.
Seth: Like the passive cashflow kind of stuff?
Jaren: Yeah. From a phase one standpoint, I’m pretty biased towards land. I think that it’s the best vehicle.
Seth: But you can’t do land, remember? What else do you need it for?
Jaren: But if I can’t, I probably would look at wholesaling. Wholesaling. If you have a construction background, flipping houses can be pretty awesome. But I encourage people who do not have a construction background to be very leery about getting into flipping houses. Because if you don’t understand rehab costs and what good quality work looks like, you just don’t have that skill set, you can get taken advantage of and you can underestimate your rehab cost quite a bit and really get hurt and lose your shirt.
So, I think flipping houses is definitely a good vehicle for the right person. I don’t know if I’m the right person for that. In fact, I know I’m not because I have very little experience hammering nails and doing all that stuff. And I’m not the most mechanically inclined. I’m just having horrible flashbacks of putting up curtains.
I probably would default back to wholesaling, even though it’s not as nice as land. You have a lot of upsides because what you could do from an 80/20 standpoint as a wholesaler is you can just go to a turnkey operator or handful of turnkey operators, figure out their criteria and their desired markets, and then just get to work, finding the deals. And you could have one buyer and just build an entire business on that and be really efficient.
Seth: That’s a really good point you made about the house flipping thing. Just the ability to walk through a house and look at something and know how much it’s going to cost to fix that. And just keep mental track of that. That is huge. If you don’t know how to do that, or even if it takes you a lot of time to figure that out, that’s a serious disadvantage. And I think a lot of people that’s sort of their situation. Like that was mine. I remember after taking a couple of courses, I felt like I kind of got there, but I never was like, an “expert” at it.
Jaren: Well, and it’s so subjective too. Some people would tell me to get a water heater installed, it can be as little as $500. Sometimes as little as $250. But retail is like $1,500, a $2,500. So, it’s like there’s such a spectrum. And then if you talk to contractors, it’s kind of like the news media, like who do you believe? Who’s telling the truth?
Seth: That’s true. Yeah. And that’s the thing, like, I’m sure you can do it for $500, but only if you find the right contractor and then they got to be good too. You’re relying so much on so many different parties to do what they say they’re going to do and give you the prices they need. I’m sure it can be done. I know it can be done. But whereas like other strategies, you can rely more on software and stuff that it’s consistent. There’s no human error. You don’t have to wonder if they’re lying to you. It just is what it is.
The wholesaling thing, that was actually on my list of things that I don’t think I could ever do, or I just wouldn’t want to do. And I think that’s one of those businesses where if you are the hunter mentality, you can do really well at that. If you enjoy the thrill of the chase like it’s perfect for that. I don’t really like it though. That would just stress me out. I know Jaren, you’ve talked about just like the giant swings in revenue from one month to another, or like just the huge marketing costs. I’d have an anxiety attack doing that kind of thing.
Jaren: I remember the day I stopped working at Simple Wholesaling. Like literally the day after. I sure have had like PTSD.
Seth: Post Traumatic Stress?
Jaren: Yeah. I had a moment where I slept in because I didn’t have anything to do, right? My body jolted out of bed and I was like, “Oh my God. I got to, I got to go. I got to get to work. Well, what am I doing?” And then I realized, “Wait a second, I don’t have to do anything.” For like close to three years or three and a half years, whatever it was I mean, literally every day, all day doing nothing. Like Christmas day, birthdays, deals, all day long. Me and my wife’s like evening routine sitting there in the bed, she’s on her laptop. I’m on mine. 11 o’clock talking to buyers and like trying to move property. It’s a lifestyle and a half, man. So, it is very intense and very stressful, but it’s fun. There’s something intoxicating about it.
And to be honest, there are times where I kind of miss it. I don’t think I miss it to the point where I’d ever want to like do it again, like have that be my life again. But there is something thrilling and exciting about the ups and downs of deals coming through or falling through. And I don’t know, it’s intoxicating. I would make a case there that flipping houses is worse.
Seth: Oh, I can see that. Get all this money, sunk into a deal. Yeah.
Jaren: Yeah. I would never want to be a house flipper because knowing what I know from houses, even as a wholesaler, just getting a rough idea of an estimate, we have costs for that I could relay back to buyers, potential buyers. I mean, you can buy a house and then you remove a wall and all of a sudden you have a huge mess on your hands and you got to replace everything. And you’re like, are we actually going to even make money? And then you have to have so much more infrastructure in place when you flip houses because you have contractors and marketing. And then, I mean, I’m stressing myself out there. I’m so thankful that I can do the land business.
Seth: When I’ve talked to Danny Johnson of Flipping Junkie and I haven’t talked to Jay Scott much about it, but the vibe I get or the impression I get is that people who do well at flipping houses, they’ve got a big team in place. They’re doing like 10 deals a month. There’s like a machine, a well-oiled machine that can handle that, knows how to do it, knows how to deal with the unexpected things that come up. And if a deal does lose money, they’re making tons of money out of their deals so it’s okay. For somebody like me, I would be starting with one house at a time and it’s like this better work out or I’m screwed. And that sounds hard to me.
Jaren: Yeah. I mean, it just goes to show how much better land is, man. And it’s not that I’m stuck on that. Because again, it’s more of a phase one strategy and there are other strategies definitely that have their place. But I can make the same kind of spread on the average per property basis that a lot of wholesalers make in Indianapolis with substantially less marketing costs. Even the fact that I can have leads, go to prerecorded voicemail and then just drink my coffee and sit there and listen to voicemails. It’s just so much more manageable.
Seth: There’s a lot of luxuries to it. For sure.
Jaren: Yeah. And what were you telling me the other day that ruined you to looking at self-storage deals and other things?
Seth: It’s actually been a huge mental block. Like I have a really, really hard time. The margins are so thin in their stuff. Maybe it’s a symptom of the market I’m in right now. Or the people have been talking to you, but people are just asking just stupid prices in a bad way. Like way more than I think they’re worth for their facilities. I was talking to a guy who wants a million bucks for his existing facility that has no room to expand. Rents are almost as high as they can get. And as it is, the thing would lose me like $1,500 a month. Are you on drugs or something? What makes you think you can ask this? And so, I offered the guy $600,000 because that’s just the point at which yes, this is now a no brainer deal for me.
And obviously he just like laughed my offer off. And so that’s what I’m dealing with. And I think part of this is, I mean, I feel like I’m just sort of being smart. Like I’m just not willing to offer more than a deal is worth for me. I want a deal that there’s no question, this is a good deal. But people aren’t entertaining those kinds of offers right now. And part of it, I think is because of land. Because you can make those offers all day long and get them, but most strategies are not like that. So, it’s kind of messing me up a little bit.
Jaren: It’s just incredible. Another thing too, I noticed about the land space is that because I don’t know if it’s because it’s data-driven or if it’s like the whole chicken or egg thing, but there’s a lot of really sophisticated people in the space. For whatever reason, it attracts like software engineers and a lot of engineering minds. And there’s so much like tech and savvy strategies around land that… I mean, there are in other places too, but I don’t feel like to the same degree as they are in land. And the space is a lot smaller. So, from an 80/20 standpoint, it feels like there’s a lot of smart people doing it. So, I guess the subliminal message here guys is, if you’re smart, you’re going to go over to the Land Master Class at retipster.club and get started in the land business.
Seth: That’s right.
Jaren: Yeah. One other strategy too, that is very intriguing to me, even though it’s not passive. And from a logical number standpoint, I don’t know if it’s necessarily the greatest strategy out there, but all the same, emotionally I’m attracted to the concept of short-term rentals. I like the idea of having places and all these exotic locations, condos that are beachfront and Florida or like Savannah, Georgia again. If I don’t think about Savannah, Georgia on a daily basis, it’s at least every other day. Like I love that place so much. And I dream about having short term rentals. And I don’t know if it’s like Airbnb or if I go through the syndication stuff and eventually get into syndicating hotels or resorts or whatever. I think about Savannah, Georgia and I think about Belize all the time. And my wife is sick of it. She hears about Belize every other day and Savannah every other day. So that’s something that, again, it’s in my logical brain of like, what’s a good strategy, my brain doesn’t go there, but the heart Jaren definitely finds that really fun and potentially an option in the future.
Seth: Yeah. I’ve always been fascinated by that and it seems really appealing for a lot of different reasons. In normal times I think people can make pretty good money from those and it would be fun. I think it’s fun to decorate a space to look… I don’t really have a good eye for interior design, but I know when it looks good and I like that. And I like how short-term rentals it’s like if you’re dealing with nice properties in nice neighborhoods and you’re making a lot more from the deals. And it’s one of those things like I’m sort of spooked by it now though, because of COVID-19. I saw an article on the Wall Street Journal just earlier this week, talking about how short-term rental investors are getting killed right now. And you can imagine why. If nobody’s traveling and these things are like worst luck ever. Because they didn’t do anything wrong, it’s just happened to them. It’s not like they made a bad buying decision. This is just this bizarre event. And so, it’s like, I don’t want to make a fear-based decision on something that is probably never going to happen again in our lifetime. But still it really spooks me now. That’s like, man, I’m really glad I’ve been too busy to try that out because I could be totally screwed right now if I did.
Jaren: Yeah. Especially the guys that went all hard on leveraging it or are doing the Airbnb arbitrage thing where they have a bunch of leases, like their tenants everywhere. And then they’re subleasing to Airbnb. Those guys, I saw some articles they have like a $50,000 a month bill. They have no attendance to cover. They’re just straight-up going to have to file bankruptcy. A lot of them. It’s intense. But you can do it in a way that’s conservative, right? Like if you buy in Belize, I’m assuming that you could keep costs low. If you buy tiny houses or alternative housing stuff like houseboats, or I’ve been looking into bunkers. There’s actually a whole world of, you can buy really cool houses that are just like tanks in the ground. And that would be really cool.
Seth: Yeah. I’ve looked into that, man.
Jaren: Yeah. That would be a really cool Airbnb experience. I’m just going down in the dirt and I’m going to spend a night down there. That’d be super cool. Condos, if you’re in the right area, like in the South, like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, you can get really cheap beachfront condos and in the on the season. It’s awesome.
Seth: Yeah, man. The underground bunker thing and like earth-bermed houses. Like I don’t even know why I think that’s cool, but I do.
Jaren: I’m totally telling my wife because she’s been thinking I’ve been off my rocker man. Like she’s been giving me so much crap for getting all geeked out about it, but I think it’s really cool.
Seth: Yeah. You can get these, like you were saying, these big tanks you can put underground and connect it to your house. So, there’s like an underground tunnel to your bunker. And you can even hook up like a network of bunkers underground. So, there’s like multiple rooms that are all like, nobody would even know are there because it’s underground. If I ever did that and installed those, I feel like I’d be praying for a nuclear bomb to go off. The zombie apocalypse. Just to be like, “Yes. See, I was smart.”
Jaren: There’s a YouTuber named Collin something. He’s from the UK. He actually has been on YouTube for years and he has a pretty big following, but he installed a bunker in his backyard.
Seth: I think I saw that video just a little while ago.
Jaren: Yeah, it’s awesome. It’s like an epic man-cave. He goes down there and he has a drum kit and he’ll like go just have a blast and nobody will hear them. It’s awesome, man. I think it’s really cool.
Seth: If you’re an introvert, that’s probably like, a really good idea. Are there any strategies that you would never even think twice about pursuing just because they’re so bad and so hard?
Jaren: Like stuff that I would not pursue?
Seth: Yeah. I had one more on my list and it was residential property management. There’s just…
Jaren: Yeah, never.
Seth: It sounds like an absolute nightmare in every way. And of the managers I’ve talked to, they can confirm. Yep. It is.
Jaren: I don’t know why people do it though.
Seth: I think if you have no money and if you’re willing to do just the horrible work involved with that, it can be a good way to make money from other people’s properties. And admittedly, there are some times, even months when a property doesn’t require anything. So, I see why people do it. But some people might enjoy that kind of stuff, honestly. So, I don’t want to speak ill of that if somebody legitimately likes those challenges. That’s possible. But me personally, if I didn’t have two pennies to rub together and I wanted to start it in real estate and get experience, I could see that being a good way to do it. It’s not a pleasant way to do it, but you can make money from other people’s stuff. And in most states, I think you have to be a licensed real estate agent to do the job above board. So, you’d have to do that too, probably. I don’t want to say never, but just knowing what I know about it and where I am now, like never. Never, ever, ever would I do that.
Jaren: Yeah, man, I think a kissing cousin to that for me would be turnkey operations because it’s kind of like joining a flipping operation with a property management operation.
Seth: Can you clarify what you mean when you say turnkey operation?
Jaren: Yeah. There is a business model in real estate where a company will find the property. They will employ outside investor cash, so they’ll sell them off the property. So, let’s say, I guess the best example would be like Indianapolis is a lot cheaper than the San Francisco Bay Area. If I had a turnkey operation in Indianapolis, I could attract buyers from California who see the types of properties in Indianapolis. I could charge them market value or higher because to them they’re used to a market that’s way more intense and has fewer returns than Indianapolis. And then I can manage the property for them. So, I make money that way. I can buy the property, renovate it for them or buy the property, renovate it and then turn around and sell it. And it’s just a lot of moving parts.
Essentially turnkey is this concept where you set it and forget it as an investor. So, I could just buy a property from a turnkey operation and it’s 100% passive. And I’ll make 12% or whatever it is on my rent. And I’m good to go. And now I’m a real estate investor. It’s a great service I think if you are the right buyer. I really think that there’s a lot of value because if you have an ethical turnkey operator, you can literally just start buying properties in your retirement account. And then just ride that out. And I think that’s really cool.
But from an operation standpoint, they have to buy so many deals. They have to rehab so many deals and then they have the property management side where they’re dealing with all the tenant stuff. So, it just seems like it’s all the worst aspects of real estate to me all join together in one big monster.
Seth: Yeah, man.
Jaren: There’s a lot of money in it though. That’s why people do it. Like there’s a lot of money in it.
Seth: Is it, really?
Jaren: Yeah.
Seth: That’s if you can build the big business and team and operations to make it all happen.
Jaren: Yup. But because you can charge a premium for it. Because it’s kind of like the CarMax model versus going to used cars dealership. You might be able to get a better deal at the used car dealership, but because it’s plugs and play…
Seth: It’s the perceived ease of it. Yeah.
Jaren: Yeah. People will be happy to pay. Especially if you’re dealing with people from New York or California, because to them they’re still getting a huge, amazing deal. So, it’s a win-win.
Seth: Yeah. That makes sense. There are some things out there that I sort of like have always been curious about, and I don’t know enough to say whether I would or wouldn’t even consider it. But things like mobile homes and parks, that’s always seemed interesting to me, but I just don’t know enough if I would be good at that or not. Note investing, hard money lending was one of those for me. Apartment investing and syndications. I know Jaren, you’re more into that stuff than I am. But I guess the cool thing is though like there’s a lot of different ways you can go. It’s just a matter of what you want to spend your time learning about and what things you feel like you’d be competent at dealing with.
Jaren: What would you say to somebody who’s listening right now and trying to figure out what the most optimal route to go in real estate is? Because I know the way my brain thinks where my paralysis of analysis comes from is like, I want to pick the best route. And there are so many good routes, I don’t know which one is the best for me.
Seth: Yeah. That’s a really interesting question. Something I’ve actually been doing in the past week. Are you familiar with the Kolbe personality test?
Jaren: I am actually. Yeah.
Seth: I don’t know if it’s a personality test or what that is. The idea is to figure out how a person deals with problems. In what ways are the most proficient or good at dealing with problems and like why they do it that way? So, disclaimer, I haven’t taken it myself yet. Actually, I have it on my to-do list today to take it so I can experience it and understand what my score even is. But there’s a Kolbe index A where a person can figure out how they operate. There’s also something called a Kolbe index C, which the idea behind that is to figure out what does it take to succeed at a certain job and that how does the person score within that framework?
If a job requires certain attributes or certain ways of handling problems, but the person scores very low on those attributes, you can sort of understand, “Oh, okay, this person’s not the right fit for this job. Or yes, this person would be perfect.” But it would almost be interesting to come up with a Kolbe C index test result for each one of these strategies to understand like, “Hey, this is what you got to be good at if you want to do this profession.” And the person could take the Kolbe A and figure out how they score in relation to that strategy. I just had this idea as we’re talking now.
Jaren: No, that would almost be like a real estate strategy personality test product that where people could buy and have a questionnaire and then figure out, “Hey, based on your personality, you’d be good at these strategies.” Yeah. It’s on the list, Seth. The other bajillion things.
Seth: Yeah. I don’t even know if Kolbe is the right thing to do this, but I just thought the concept was interesting how you could sort of finding a way to distill, “Here’s what you need. Here’s what you are. Does it match up? Yes or no.” So anyway, I’ll let you know Jaren, I’m talking to you right now. I will let you know what my results are.
Jaren: Yeah. If you want me to take it too, I’ll take it.
Seth: Haven’t you taken it before?
Jaren: I have but I don’t remember what my results were. But you said an answer to the question for the lonely guy in the audience. He’s crying right now. Don’t leave me to abandon. I need the answer to that question.
Seth: What should people do?
Jaren: Yeah. Because that test doesn’t exist yet that we know of.
Seth: Well, yeah. I think sort of the reason I even mentioned that is because it is helpful for a person to understand what they’re good at. And a lot of us don’t really know. Especially I think maybe younger people in the audience, like in my 20s, I didn’t know. I just kind of did stuff and sometimes it went well and sometimes it didn’t. But the more I’ve tried to understand, okay, I probably should do this because I will probably be good at that because of this. Because of these tests I’ve taken and I sort of know where my strengths are. The more I know about that, the more it can inform what things I should or shouldn’t go after. So, I think if a person has taken a few of those and they sort of understand their natural gifts, it’s a good idea to pick something that is in line with that.
And how do you know which things line up with that? Probably just getting educated about what does this business involves? What do I have to do? Do I need to be an extrovert? Do I need to be a hunter who likes chasing down deals? Do I need to be a super-organized person or not? Where do my strengths need to lie in order to succeed at this? That’s one of those questions that’s like, it’s easy to ask, not always easy to answer. And sometimes you just have to start working in the business to really figure what that is.
And so, maybe pick three that you think you might do well at and then start working on one or maybe even two of them. And give it a few months and try to do what you’re supposed to do. And is it going well? Yes or no. I mean really, I think the only way to ever know what you’re going to do well at is to do it. And short of that, it’s all kind of just theory, which there can be something in that, but the only way to really know is to give it a shot. So maybe just distill it down to three and then pick one or two of those and go after that.
Jaren: That’s a really interesting piece of advice that you just gave. I want to ask you one follow up question related to it. Most people are afraid of failure, but you pretty much said, “Hey, pick three with the expectation almost that one or two of them are not going to pan out.” So, test the waters and intentionally be aware that you’re testing the waters, knowing that this may not end up being the right fit for you. And I think that’s super healthy. And I think that that’s a very different advice in what most people receive, because most people say like burn the boats.
Seth: Or do what I’m doing. Like this is the right thing for you. Even though I don’t know you or what you’re good at, do the thing I’m selling you.
Jaren: What would you say to somebody who’s afraid of failure or they’re in a position where they need to figure out a way to start making money sooner rather than later, because they got family obligations or whatever, and they are having anxiety. They feel like they might not have the luxury to pick three things and then fail at two. They kind of have to land on one.
Seth: Well sort of like what we talked about in episode 72 – retipster.com/72. I wouldn’t put unnecessary pressure on yourself. Don’t feel like you need to figure this out next week. Because you’re not going to. It’s just going to take time. That’s how things work. But I think part of the challenge in what I said a few minutes ago, pick three, try one or two and see what works. Part of the challenge is just getting the information and understanding like, “What does it really take to do this?” Because that’s not always very clear when you’re just reading the blog posts or watching a video. You’ll hear the highlights, but you won’t hear like the actual, really hard stuff about it. I’m reviewing a course right now about billboard investing. Basically, starting a billboard business where you’re advertising signs on the side of the highway.
I’ve always thought that was a fascinating business model, but not knowing anything about it or how it works, it’s kind of like, “Yeah, I’d love to do that someday.” But it wasn’t until I went through this course that it does a really good job of like laying out all kinds of information. Like what does it really take? What does the property have to be like? What does the zoning have to be? What are the state and city laws have to be like? There’s a ton of stuff that goes into it that I didn’t realize until I took this course. And as I’m getting through it, I’m realizing I don’t want to do this. This is not for me. And without that course, I wouldn’t have known. I might’ve even tried to do a big direct mail campaign chasing down something that was not smart. But by getting educated through this course, I’m realizing, “Oh, okay, well, I don’t want to do it.” But I’d rather pay some money and figure that out and stop wasting time there than wasting a lot more money chasing after something I don’t understand and realizing like this isn’t the right fit.
If you can get all the information quickly or as quick as possible without spending thousands and thousands of dollars to fail and figure it out the hard way. It’s really just about getting the information. Understanding what is really required to do this, whether that’s by job shadowing somebody or taking a course or reading a book or reading several books. Whatever it takes to get that information I think it is kind of the ticket.
And I think kind of what messes that up sometimes is that it can be hard to get that information. Like sometimes you’ll take a course and it still doesn’t give you all the information. It’s kind of missing part of the story and to really get it all, you just have to implement it and realize, “Oh, okay, there’s even more beyond what I was told.” And it’s one of the difficult things about business, I think is that it’s very rarely are you going to be spoon-fed every possible thing you’ll ever have to know. You sort of have to get your feet wet.
Jaren: Yeah, I like that you’ve made it so that failure is actually kind of a good thing, but you just want to minimize it. I really liked your advice there because if somebody brings down the expectation and they say, “Okay, like I don’t have to have it all figure it out tomorrow. I can explore.” And even going back to kind of our banter about commitments, like if that is your expectation, then when you’re talking to people, you’re not committed to anything, you’re just exploring. And it keeps your reputation intact and it doesn’t present this, “I’m all in. I’m going after it.” And then you fail radically and look like a flake. It’s a good way to approach it.
Seth: You look at any successful person. I guarantee it, they failed like crazy and they probably quit all kinds of stuff. I think Seth Godin has a book where he talks about how successful people quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff. They don’t keep trying to beat a dead horse and make something work that clearly is not for them. So yeah, I mean, dispel the myth that failure is bad. It’s obviously not what everybody’s looking for, but it is a necessary step to any end that’s worthwhile. Like it’s going to happen. So just embrace that. And if you’re going to fail, try to fail quick and don’t spend years chasing around circles.
Jaren: Yeah. It makes total sense. This was a good episode.
Seth: Yeah, it was good. It’s funny. Before we started this, I sent Jaren a message. I’m like, do you think we’re going to have much to talk about here? What would we do other than land? I mean, is there, what? Like a couple of things. And I thought this would be like a five-minute episode. But I guess, what do you think? Should we ask one of these closing questions like we always do?
Jaren: Yeah, man.
Seth: So, the question is this. In your opinion, what is the best piece of music ever written?
Jaren: Man, that’s tough.
Seth: That’s kind of one of these impossible to answer questions because there’s no way to adequately account for the best music ever.
Jaren: Yeah. It’s super subjective because there’s so many genres. And I mean, if we talk about technical skill, most pop music is not technically difficult.
Seth: It’s almost more like production to it. You can take a person who really can’t sing, but if the producers and editors are good enough, they can make it sound pretty cool. But it’s not the talent of the artist necessarily, it’s more of the production value to it.
Jaren: Whereas if you talk classical music or jazz music. And it’s interesting because sometimes it doesn’t even really sound that good, especially in jazz, but it’s so technically superior than any other form of music that it’s intriguing. So, I don’t think I can answer that question.
Seth: Well, you have to. Sorry. It’s a very subjective thing for sure. I think anything you say, there’s going to be thousands of other brilliant things that could also be said, so there’s no way to really adequately answer it. But I will say this past December, my wife and I took our daughter to go see the Nutcracker. Like the theatrical performance with the symphony orchestra playing along in the background. And I got to say that for me classical, it’s probably not my favorite genre, but it’s out there. It’s probably like number three, maybe, because there’s a lot of brilliance in the writing of that and just the way it’s all composed.
And I got to say that the guy that wrote the Nutcracker and I can’t even pronounce his name, it’s Tchaikovsky, I think is the correct pronunciation. But if you just read the spelling of it, it doesn’t work well in English. But it is just a masterpiece. There are several songs in that whole arrangement that everybody recognizes. They’re very well-known tunes. And I had never spent a whole lot of time dwelling on his music. But when I heard that it’s like, man, this thing is just amazing. Like he really wrote a great piece of work here. I don’t know if it’s the best ever, but what stuck out to me is, this guy did an amazing job.
Jaren: Yeah, man, I really love classical music for that. I feel like it’s on my bucket list to go to a live orchestra. I’ve never been.
Seth: You have never been?
Jaren: No, I haven’t. And I always tell my wife every year for my birthday, that’s what I want to do.
Seth: You got to come to the Grand Rapids symphony orchestra. It’s an unusually good group of performers for the size of Grand Rapids. Usually like cities like Chicago and New York will have these kinds of things, but not a Grand Rapids size city. But yeah, there’s a symphony that plays pretty regularly. Pretty good.
Jaren: Man, I’m totally down. We can double date or something.
Seth: Yeah. I feel bad about this, but every time I go to one of those performances, I get really tired and almost fall asleep in them. It’s weird. Because it’s really good music, but just the nature of just hearing classical with no lyrics, not like a steady beat, like a rock song. It just sort of puts me to sleep.
Jaren: Interesting. Yeah, man. But I would totally be interested to see that. So, I guess to answer the question on my end, for whatever reason, Bob Marley’s Redemption Song came to mind. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard it.
Seth: How does it go?
Jaren: Do you want me to sing it?
Seth: That’s what I’m asking right now.
Jaren: No, this just got really awkward.
Seth: I’ll find a YouTube video for Bob Marley Redemption Song and I will link it in the show notes in case people want to hear what Jaren is talking about.
Jaren: Yeah. I just really like it because it encapsulates kind of that whole like the 60s-70s vibe of fighting against the establishment for the good of mankind. He was a pretty significant political figure in Jamaica. I don’t know all the details, but there were like two rival political parties that he helped bring a lot of unity to. And so I don’t know. I like reggae a lot. I pretty much literally like every genre of music now. I used to say, I don’t like country. And then I went to Nashville with Seth and got turned on to country music. It finally clicked and I got it. And so, I’m all about the country now. A particular kind. I don’t like pop country, like commercial stuff. But there’s a guy named Tyler Childers that I really like a lot. I don’t know. It’s hard on that one, man. I like music and I appreciate all aspects.
Seth: Yeah. It was crazy in Nashville how much talent is there. Man, I mean just everybody, every performer you hear is amazing.
Jaren: Yeah. It was sounded like we were listening to CDs and they are live. And a lot of pop artists, they can’t sing live. They sound terrible. But all these country artists they actually know how to sing like for real.
Seth: Yeah. That one, were they called Charlotte or something? That band that was playing at that meetup thing. The guy had perfect pitch. I don’t think his voice ever was off key. I don’t know. It’s unusual to see people who, well, maybe not Nashville, but in most places it’s unusual to see people who are that good.
Jaren: Yeah. It’s really intense, man.
Seth: Yeah.
Jaren: I mean, I like all kinds of music. I’m really getting into lo-fi hip hop right now because it really helps me concentrate and it is good background music. And it’s kind of interesting because it’s like jazz or classical with like a hip hop beat to it with some weird ambient noise layered on top. And I like it. I don’t know why, but I’m really getting into that, that scenery right now.
Seth: Yeah. I agree. I hadn’t even heard of that until you shared that video. By the way, Jaren started an interesting thread in our new forum by the way. I’ll link to it in the show notes, but he was asking what music helps you concentrate. And he posted a YouTube video of this lo-fi hip hop music. And it’s pretty cool. I can totally see how that would help me focus in and just kind of does something to your brain I think when you can find the right music.
Jaren: Yeah, man.
Seth: Cool. Well, I think that’s pretty much it. Again, if you guys are listening to this on your phone, take that phone out and text the word FREE. F-R-E-E to the number 33777. You can get access to some stuff that we don’t normally talk about here on the podcast or on the blog. It’s kind of like top secret members-only kind of stuff. So, no pressure, but just putting it out there. That’s there for you if you want it.
If you want to check out the show notes for this episode, you can find them at retipster.com/74 because this is episode 74. I know we mentioned all kinds of stuff in this conversation and I’m going to have links to everything. And you can also see transcripts if you would rather go back and read this instead of listening to it again. That’s there too.
Jaren: Nice.
Seth: But again, thanks for joining us. I hope you guys enjoyed it and we’ll talk to you next time.
Jaren: Later guys.
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Another one, this is fun, this is good, yes, hi everybody my name is Lee and lie, we spoken before in my partner for this exercise is Danny and we both, working for a mortgage broker at work for an incredible mortgage broker Danny is a business and life coach and we are, we’re both Professionals in a hugely saturated Market, you can’t go to any networking event and find three or four mortgage brokers three or four business life coaches, i don’t know Danny while but my business my mortgage broker Partners phenomenal has been in lending for over 10 years, he could get, a cat approved for mortgage I’m kidding, he’s just phenomenal his contacts his resources his abilities people find him on LinkedIn they see, he came on LinkedIn people I met at networking events bounce me and they connect with him months later online, linkedIn I know that person I met them while they came after me, How do we Market ourselves brand ourselves, in a very very saturated Market of, semi-professional to self live cultures mortgage broker real estate agent, or, consultants in all these things, what’s an integer, daddy daddy, good night, so, now they’re not to put you down but you know what I mean like with people in to tell people to all my life coach, one of those right, it’s like this so many people I liked on his coaches out there, the problem with those type of, professions, is that, from most people’s point of view., that they can, tell, the difference, maybe you do care about your clients more and maybe you are smarter maybe you have more experience but from the consumers, point of view they can’t tell the difference, they can’t tell the difference, so to differentiate yourself it’s let me see a couple principles with you, And it’s apply to everybody number one is you want to call yourself anything but, because the Dominica Samurai one of a life coach, people have a preconceived idea what that is, so did you finish yourself I would do a couple things, number one, knowing that in any industry, this is a framework that I teach I’m trying to see if I can remember it so bear with me okay bear with me I might not get a hundred, so you have what I call a a generalist, okay a generalist is someone a doctor write a a lawyer a mortgage, broker a, coach, and then you have what I call a specialist they specialize maybe like Andre lawyer, 74 Tremont right or acquisition lawyer, or in the doctor you have surgeons, call Anil cosmetic surgeons maybe not let me ask you a question who makes more money JLo or special, Specialist specialist.
So then, you have still from there you’re General specialist so the first that we got to do is how can U Niche what you do, so instead of, then what kind of Coach what who do you coach, 45 to 60 years old, what type of people, like what what what what problems you solve for them, yeah he was fierce you see how f****** bra that is, that is like a bra, 45 to 60 years old, how can you specialize it some more, how can you narrow it down and say you know what this is who I serve, who is your ideal client, you might think while but then did I’m giving my tenant business away yes you are, but then in the moth from the marketplace point of view when you say I do this, people can’t people like to pigeonhole you, Do you want to know that you are an expert at something, when you say you do such a bra thing is like, it’s like imagine you go to your dentist, in the dentist checking your teeth, checking a teeth, and you like you know what your teeth is pretty good you want to let me check your food as well, why I’m at this right, chiropractor work on you, you like what the f*** is this, because it’s going to be everything everybody, so you want to be a special assistant first step, okay and then you wanted what I call become the expert, this is kind of a lot of wealth, expert in any industry makes more money than specialist, and more money than generous, an expert people is the go-to person, it’s just like the Punisher you work with, he’s an expert they can say people talk about him on LinkedIn people seek him out and keep the sea, We have to Chase business has no business comes to you, okay, so as an expert, that’s good, and then the highest letter well is what I call, celebrity Authority, that’s the one that makes the most amount of money, i think now, i think I’m somewhere between here, givens bold maybe 3-4 years I’ll be here, celebrity Authority, tony Robbins yes, dan Kennedy yes Tony Robbins for sure yes, who else, oprah Winfrey yes, gordon Ramsay absolutely right, any other names in other names, so you know any category that usually only one or two of them, and the other one the next, emergeortho of the majority of the money, you have how many Tony Robbins wannabe, copycat, you think about motivational speaker you know how how much money do you know by the way, Do you know, huh, normal in a year hr21 for coaching, a million a year, no that’s not how much you make if you know, yes, guess just have fun, i know the number you know, so let me compare other motivational speaker Tony comes from, comes from the NLP industry, neuro linguistic programming, all the NLP guys hate him, they hate him, cuz they he thinks he’s not very least doesn’t fall the traditional NLP path and kind of comes up with his own thing, so these guys, speaking of which I had actually back pain 11 years ago in Toastmasters there’s an NLP guy when my data, wannabe NLP guy and he hates Tony, he’s in disgrace to NLP Community he’s probably, you know what have you complained this about anyway, he from his seminal how do I know these things because I’m a friend with his son, Red Robins.
So Tony his Empire, from Unleash the Power siente with Destiny 2 seminar coaching all that a hundred million a year, but that’s only part of what he does, tony almost 20-something Parts Company total, kids group of companies do you have a 6 billion dollars a year, the sum of the pieces like a tiny percentage of what he actually money, but you keep mix, but that’s that’s right, he’s a celebrity Authority, gordon Ramsay same thing, so then the question is what, what are the yes, we take on construction mortgage, nice so that’s being a small specialist right construction Mortgage in what type of mortgages, not able to, whatever Josh to all the people who can approve the mortgages at you like you know what, how do people can do it we can do it the top ones, awesome so that’s a specialist that’s awesome, so from here for your for yourself, How can I go from here then to here, so my question to you is how do you go from here to here, by the book that’s how it would be good, what else, volume, adding value, yes speaking for free speaking that’s good yes, a block, yeah, publish content online articles, youTube yes, videos yes videos, interviews, interview all the experts, that’s a good powerful how many years ago, when I was getting started as a copywriter, and I was trying to get clients, and I was, how to remember open up the yellow page, and I would call their business owners, hey you know you need a ride I can I talk to you, a lot of rejection a lot of hang up so I’m like okay this is no good, sorry I did not talk to spill these acts expert copywriter, You got to know what cop reading is, do you know, okay call printing meaning, it’s the people who ride your your ass, marketing advertising, so they write the headline there right there a full-page ad yellow page ad on your website, operator, so, and I would talk to all the copywriters who all has been in business for many many years and I would say what can I do I want, want to do what you do I want to be more successful, oh damn you got a you’re too young, omni Hotel before, right and then you know how it is you’re too young you’re too young and you’re too young and one day you are, like somehow like, what the hell is a 1 is the perfect age is it, it’s a 36 in 10 months nobody can answer that, anyway so, and you got to work with people and you know in about 10 years because at the time the top copywriters in the world, Talked about $10,000 in campaign, $10,000 I was charging $200, i’m like okay so $10 and lost $200 how do I do what you do 10 years, i don’t have 10 years, look up ticket my mom I got to pay the bills, so what could I do there’s no shortcut, it has to be, okay, i said, what are the who are the experts in the industry who are charging, this kind of money is what I did, it stopped raining by association breading by what, association, so at a time I put together a product information product, cuz septic, cassette tapes okay I came up product ratings, a million million million dollar marketing secrets of the greatest copywriters there was a long title, but I put together product, and I picked a top, 1518 Copper Ridge in the world, and I interviewed him, Cathartic.
I was doing it from my home, like that with a cassette tape recorder, does notebook know Skype Batman it was just like that, and I would record the conversations, and because, speak this date because I have the cassette tape right so loud, so we doing like that, okay for an hour was stupid, anyway I put together this product, pinch A Penny, but what happens is, all these guys are charging $10,000 to write a campaign, the best in the world, i find a friend to interview me, and I put myself in there, it as a package, and I use this package, and I give it to you potential client, and so you know what I am feature in the here, it’s my product but I’m featuring here, and I say and and you know I know right coffee for people, 10000 mm, oh I’m not going to pay $10 so that’s what I did I used it as a zombie generator, Mission as a, trust-building thing so I didn’t tell any of it but I just give it away, and sometimes I give that cassette to some people I see your name and I’ll how are you what would he need soda, that’s how I got my foot in the door, let me tell you one more thing, how many have heard of Jay Conrad Levinson, do you know Jake on Levinson, so J, Levinson hero a, mini photo book of guerrilla marketing, telemarketing, today, Levinson is, the all time best selling author for business book, daiso about 30 million books worldwide, post offices, sogo lahmacun series online, so at a time I know going back to this tragic I share with you, who could I get if I get that person as a client with give me everybody else, Chapo J, Levinson, aJ, i saw your, can I rewire your ad for you no charge, i just, if it is good great if not, if it’s good just give me legal testimony I would appreciate it, a&J Cycle young guy that’s awesome. I’ll do it for you and we did so we’re always at and actually nothing AAA, conversion, aAA cell, was there a happy, give me a little testimonial morning., hillier smart guy, why do I, endorse you to my list, linda happens what do you say, hell yeah right thank you and and he did, and if I’m there did he mention through the roots of Mm Mm within 2 years, maybe even a year-and-a-half, b200 box 2002 from here from here getting the endorsement from Jay, v 5710 pain, very short period of time, people talk about this, do not, we are conditioned to want to call climbing the ladder of success, From school, grace by Grace 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 9, and then what you do gray 10 11 12 right enough to that what you do, what are you, no but then you go to university right, and then I go to university how many years, there for years and I’ll figure out University what do you do, get a job and you work your way, yeah and then until you, that’s what it is, recondition to climb this ladder of success, instead of what I do I say don’t look for the ladder to climb, took the elevator incident, and that’s how I stink, it takes 10 years, f*** that, how could I get there faster, well I do some other box stuff, associate myself with expert successful people, get endorsements from celebrities in their niche, and I could increase my prices, and move up to this ladder, This is not fair but it’s a fact.
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California's Top Real Estate Agent
Luxury Apartments in Los Angeles home market shows no signs of cooling. The average luxury home sales price in the city grew 10.5 percent — to $7.4 million — during the second quarter of 2015, while the average number of days on the market fell 11 percent (to 88 days), according to a Los Angeles real estate agent. Witness record-setting sales in some of the hottest markets — with many buyers paying all cash. "It's a healthy market, and there's no better place to invest," says John Aaroe Group's Aaron Kirman, one of THR's top 25 agents — presented here in alphabetical order — selected for their client rosters and killer deals.
Josh and Matt Altman
These star real estate agents moved their business to Douglas Elliman in February after nearly a decade with Hilton & Hyland. During the past 12 months, they have represented the unnamed buyer of Reba McEntire's Beverly Park home ($22.25 million) and Miley Cyrus in the purchase of her 5-acre vineyard estate in Hidden Hills ($5 million). Brothers Matt, a former talent agent, and Josh, who is writing a book about selling property, hold the listing for Denise Richards' nearly $8 million Hidden Hills home Residences at W Hollywood.
Santiago Arana
The Bolivia native, who moved to the U.S. short-term to learn English but decided to stay when he found his calling in real estate, was part of the team that sold author-screenwriter Victoria Foyt and director Henry Jaglom's Santa Monica home at 609 E. Channel Road — used in Beverly Hills Cop — in July for $23 million, one of the top sales to date in Santa Monica. "I'm having the best year of my career by far," says Arana. He also represented the buyer of Michael Strahan's $21.5 million Brentwood home and sold Dan Romanelli's Malibu estate to Lady Gaga for $23 million.
Joe Babajian
The hottest type of home right now is a one-story house on a flat lot with a promontory view over the pool, says Babaji. "You would think it would be common, but it's not," he notes. "That's been the formula for getting the top dollar." This year, he sold such a house in Trousdale Estates for around 3,000 dollars per sq ft — an original price per square foot on the Westside. He has a piece of land in Beverly Hills with an asking cost of $49 million in escrow, and he's listing Cheryl Tiegs' Bel Air home for $15 million. Previous sales also include Dean Martin's old home. "When I sold Nic Cage and Tom Jones' house owned before by Dean Martin, Nic walked through the house saying he had a vision of Dean in the house and that's why he wanted to buy it," Babajian recalls.
Ernie Carswell
"What I'm seeing built back up is a very different mountain than I've seen in my 30 years of business," says Carswell of the current real estate cycle. "This is a mountain of cash, not loans." He is representing Katy Perry in her high-profile attempt to acquire a former Los Feliz convent for $14.5 million. He also has begun working with a developer on Della Reese's old Bel-Air home, which she sold for $7.5 million in November. "Quickly built, fast money making doesn't interest me," Carswell notes. "Solid classics and something that will be here 100 years from now — that's what I want for me and what I want to represent when I represent someone else."
Chris Cortazzo
The Malibu dynamo, whose first client was Richard Gere, sold Gere's former $60 million Paradise Cove bluffs home to Jimmy Iovine in January. "That's a great way to start the year," jokes Cortazzo, adding that Malibu is only getting better: He auctioned a Frank Gehry-designed residence acquired by Patrick Dempsey for $15 million in June, and he's listing David and Yolanda Foster's Carbon Beach residence for $23.5 million.
Drew Fenton
Fenton, who has represented such clients as Christina Aguilera and the Osbournes, sold Calvin Klein a 9,350-square-foot view home in the Hollywood Hills for $25 million this summer. He also represented Nile Niami in his $9.5 million acquisition of Scooter Braun's Hollywood Hills home, and he's listing Simon Fuller's Beverly Hills house for nearly $19 million. His company is listed among the Top Real Estate Companies in California.
Josh Flagg
The Million Dollar Listing star says he has sold more than 20 homes at more than $5 million each this year. Among them is a Beverly Hills house on Tower Lane that he sold for $6 million — then sold again a month later for a million dollars more. Flagg, who remembers starting his career by putting together multimillion-dollar deals in his high school math class, also is preparing to list Andrew Getty's 8-acre estate in the Hollywood Hills.
Tomer Fridman
Fridman, who has a law degree from Loyola Law School, says much of his business has revolved around gated communities. "I think there's been a huge trend by celebrity buyers because of the privacy factor and the lifestyle factor," he says. "Their kids can ride their bikes in the street without being harassed by paparazzi." Fridman recently handled the $20 million sales of a Hidden Hills home to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and represented Justin Bieber in his $7.2 million Calabasas sale to West's sister-in-law Khloe Kardashian. On the future of the Los Angeles market, he notes, "We've always been focused on the entertainment industry clientele, but we're seeing foreign buyers and investors and the need to have good access to an international clientele. Los Angeles is turning into an international market. There's a lot of spectacular new construction."
Aaron Kirman
President of global properties at his company, Kirman has shut down about 300 million dollars in sales this year and has a calculated $600 million in listings. He's listing the Danny Thomas residence with 360-degree views atop Hillcrest in Trousdale Estates for a rumoured $135 million. He also is co-listing Malibu developer and Sportsmen's Lodge owner Richard Weintraub's $60 million Malibu estate, La Villa Contenta.
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Interview: Costume Designer Amy Roth Follows in Her Family's Footsteps in ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance. In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn, and finally into the gilded halls of New York’s power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption, and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation. Motherless Brooklyn also stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Cherry Jones, Willem Dafoe, and Bobby Cannavale.
Talented costume designer Amy Roth (The Looming Tower, Indignation), the niece of Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth, based many of her stunning creations for this film on unsentimental photographs from the period including the work of Saul Leiter, Dorothea Lange, and Robert Frank. Working closely with writer/director Edward Norton, Roth stayed away from glossy depictions of the 1950s and instead examined the gulfs between New York’s rich and powerful and the very people they displaced. Sometimes she literally worked with scraps of vintage clothing to showcase how voiceless and neglected some of these characters were.
Danny Miller: I so love your work on this film. I imagine that Edward Norton is the kind of director who gets involved in every detail of his film. Do you remember your first meeting with him?
Amy Roth: Edward’s script really spoke to me, and I did a ton of research on my own before we met. I did a “look book” for him and we just hit it off immediately. He looked at it and said, “That’s my movie!” It was a funny interview because he started moving around in his chair and got very excited. We basically decided to work together then and there which is not usually how it happens. Edward started asking me about the color palette. I told him I thought it should be sort of muted to contrast against the very colorful language and all of these spectacular actors.
Do you think Norton’s own experience as an actor colors his role as director?
He has so much respect for actors. He never wanted to be intrusive at the fittings and always wanted to actors to be happy with what they were wearing and to find the character on their own. He certainly had ideas about how some of the characters should look, but then he’d always say, “You should just talk to them and see what they like.”
It always seems like costume designers have more of an intimacy with the actors than almost anyone else on set. Did the actors on this film have a lot of opinions about their wardrobes?
Yes, but they’re all very different. I remember how wonderful Fisher Stevens was on this film, he’s so creative and he started to get very excited with a lot of ideas. “Oh, I love this, can I wear this, too?” He just went through everything and tried on a lot of things. Cherry Jones was the same way. Gugu was more methodical, really looking at herself and questioning. She wanted to make sure she didn’t look like she was above the fray.
Oh, so interesting because I had the impression that her character in the film would wake up in the morning and be very deliberate about everything she puts on and the image that she’s conveying to the world.
Precisely!
Do you use a lot of vintage pieces for a film like this or do you create everything from scratch?
A little bit of both. A lot of the great vintage stuff is disappearing, sadly. You end up building a lot of clothes using some older pieces. But I love to make the clothes. I made all of Gugu’s clothes and most of the suits for the lead actors. Remember that we often needed multiple copies of each outfit because there were stunts involved, so that also affects how many vintage pieces you can use.
I loved that coat that Gugu wore in the film.
Oh my God, that was one of my favorite pieces in the film! I made that for her based on a vintage coat I had seen. I actually found this vintage fabric from the period, it was quintessential 1950s. I had it slightly dyed which scared me to death. They wanted two, and I said too bad because I really wanted the coat and we didn’t have enough material.
We know that Alec Baldwin and Cherry Jones’ characters were based on real people from that time period. Did you study photographs of them to create their costumes?
I did look at those photos a lot and read a lot about Robert Moses because he was so fascinating to me. I understood that this is not a guy who’s very refined. He grew up with money but I saw him as a guy who had his suits made without a lot of thought. He just went to the tailors on Seventh Avenue and didn’t think much about it. His tailor probably chose the fabric and cut of the suits. So I didn’t want to dress Alec in a manner that made him look like he understood the beauty of what he was wearing.
Kind of like Donald Trump who has all these resources and wants expensive things, but has no real understanding of style.
Exactly. With everything monogrammed because he likes seeing his name so much.
Which seems so different from Willem Dafoe’s character who is down on his luck but still understands and appreciates quality.
Yes. With him I knew that he once had money in his life and he would probably hold onto some of the finest things from his past. For him I did find a vintage suit because I thought I’d never be able to create that kind of patina on a suit. So I got him a very beautiful suit from the 1940s. I used a shirt that was threadbare. Nothing was from the 50s, the tie, the hat, the coat.
Yeah, I had a feeling that no matter how poor he was at the moment, he appreciated the finer things much more than Alec Baldwin’s character did.
I remember thinking of those amazing Dorothea Lange photos of people standing in bread lines in the 1930s. You see all these men who are thin and hungry but they are wearing these beautiful, elegant suits.
I also loved the look of Leslie Mann’s character even though she has a small role in the film (as Bruce Willis’s wife). I wanted her to come back later in the story!
I know! Our producer kept saying he wanted to tell her story in the next movie! Leslie came in for just a couple of days. I wanted to ground her in the reality of what this woman would have worn. The only thing I changed was that I put her in lingerie the night her husband died. Edward loved that. We talked about how she probably thought she’d be seeing Bobby Cannavale’s character that night so when she opens the door she thinks it’s Bobby.
Wow, so there’s an example of how a costume choice that you make can influence an actor’s performance and the back story of the character. Her character almost feels like she’s driven in from a different film, possibly one directed by Douglas Sirk! I love the stories of Walter Plunkett torturing actresses on Gone With the Wind by making them wear real corsets and other period garments under their clothes. What’s your take on that?
Oh, I do the whole thing. I have women wear girdles and other things that I could never wear if my life depended on it. But they love it, and it can help the performance because it sort of dictates the way you’re going to stand and sit and walk. And sometimes I’ll veer from that on purpose. We had two white girls in the jazz club scene and I made up this story in my head that they were from Barnard and they’re not wearing their girdles. They’re just going out in their skirts and sweaters and they’re not going to put on a girdle to go listen to jazz.
I wanted to mention that your incredibly talented aunt, Ann Roth, did the costumes for two of my father-in-law Oliver Hailey’s plays on Broadway. Did you grow up learning the trade from her?
Oh, wow, I just left Ann, we’ve been doing some interviews together, I will tell her that! She’s just amazing. She started out in theater at Carnegie-Mellon and was painting scenery at the Pittsburg Opera. But then she met costume designer Irene Sharaff who told her that the boys will never let her get anywhere if she keeps working on scenery and that she should move to costumes! So she started working for Irene, including in the movies, but she’s continued in the theater as well all these years.
Did you start out in the theater, too?
I haven’t but I would love to do some. I’m actually going on Monday to see the new To Kill a Mockingbird stage production that my aunt did the costumes for. My cousin, her daughter Hannah, and I are almost the same page. So when Ann would do a film on location, she’d always bring us and let us help. She was so generous, she just took me everywhere. I got to see so many things I never would have otherwise.
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UPDATED, March 19, 3:00 p.m.: It was the merger that rocked the South Florida residential brokerage scene. When it was announced that The Jills of Coldwell Banker and the Zeder Team, previously of EWM Realty International, would be joining forces, the industry was abuzz with theories as to why.
Was it a public relations move? Is it just about boosting each team in top markets such as Miami Beach and Coral Gables?
“You can’t be everywhere. If you join yourself with a good team that matches you, you’ll give great service,” one broker said. “Remember also, how many houses can Judy [Zeder] show?”
In early March, the two teams announced that they would become The Jills Zeder Group under the Coldwell Banker umbrella.
Both are powerhouse producers in Miami-Dade County. According to The Real Deal’s ranking of top brokers and broker teams in the county, the Jills were No. 1 for both condo resales, totaling $139 million, and single-family home sales reaching $166.2 million. Zeder’s team was next for single-family home sales, with $129.9 million in sales.
The teams within the newly formed group will stay in their respective wheelhouses, they said, but with a beefier collective Rolodex of wealthy buyers.
For The Jills, which includes Jill Hertzberg, Jill Eber, brother and sister Danny and Hillary Hertzberg, and Eber’s sister, Felise, it gives them a familiar name in Coral Gables and the surrounding areas. And for Zeder, whose team includes her kids, Nathan Zeder and Kara Zeder Rosen, they gain the same in Miami Beach, Indian Creek, Golden Beach and more.
When it came to choosing a brokerage, Hertzberg said she didn’t consider leaving Coldwell Banker, and she would not have joined EWM. Zeder was with the Coral Gables-based brokerage for more than 16 years before she and her children decided to join Coldwell Banker this year.
When asked why they decided to combine as one team, Hertzberg said, “Is there any time that’s perfect? We’re doing a lot of business together. If not now, when?”
The competitive edge
Whether it’s by merger, affiliation or old-fashioned recruiting, a number of Miami’s top brokers remained on top by increasing the number of agents they work with and by expanding geographically.
TRD ranked top brokers by analyzing sales of single-family homes and townhouses that closed in Miami-Dade County last year. Off-market sales were not considered. Agents were credited with representing listing and buying sides, and agents who represented both sides received credit for both. For instances in which multiple listing agents or teams at the same firm were credited with closing a deal, the dollar value of the sale was divided by the number of agents or teams who handled the transaction. If a sale was co-brokered with an agent or team at another firm, each agent or team was given the full dollar value of the sale.
For Riley Smith of EWM, whose team was the third top producer for single-family home sales last year, with nearly $111.5 million in sales, 2018 was the year he covered more ground in South Florida. Smith broadened his coverage area from Homestead to Fort Lauderdale, and roughly doubled his team size, up to 21 agents and nine office employees.
“In 2018, we really started to expand… to get some diversity in markets,” Smith said. “Lower price points are easier and faster. We followed the action: Kendall and Homestead had a tremendous amount of turnover.”
The lower price points, between $300,000 and $600,000, proved to be a good bet. Last year, 6,303 single-family homes sold in that range in Miami-Dade, up 15.7 percent year-over-year. And luxury sales also rose, up nearly 16 percent, to more than 1,000 sales of houses priced at $1 million and up, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.
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“Miami is dealing with an abundance of supply at the high end. Looking at the data, we surmised that the majority of the properties listed on the market would be sold in a 12-month supply” if priced correctly, said Douglas Elliman’s Bryan Sereny, who, with Bill Hernandez, closed $76.1 million in sales last year, marking the third top-selling condo team in the county.
A number of top agents in Miami are optimistic about the market, remarking that they’ve seen a surge of sales of ultra-high-end properties in recent months. In February, a waterfront mansion on the exclusive Indian Creek Island sold for $49.9 million, setting a new record for single-family home sales in Miami. The property was sold by Elliman’s Alexander Brothers (see our full profile on the brokers on page 36).
But the market was still challenging, said Nelson Gonzalez of EWM. “The demand was starting to pick up, but we still had a lot of inventory,” he said. Gonzalez closed $70.5 million in single-family home sales and $22.3 million in condo sales last year.
“But demand now is definitely, definitely ramping up tremendously, and the cream of the crop inventory is now selling,” Gonzalez said.
Finding new buyers
Lourdes Alatriste of Engel & Völkers said her company’s strength in foreign markets helps her secure clients and close deals.
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Alatriste closed $61.6 million in single-family home sales last year, earning her thirteenth place in Miami-Dade. Her strategy is to connect with agents in other markets, such as Chicago, New York, California and Colorado. She also advertises in Mexican real estate magazines to attract Mexican buyers who are looking to park their money in the U.S. now that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist politician, is in office.
“Besides being local here and knowing what’s going on, I travel a lot,” Alatriste said. “You know this business is extremely competitive. It gets people really nasty.”
Elliman team Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon, ranked No. 4 with $71 million in condo resales, said they will go wherever is needed to close sales — including New York, Los Angeles and Aspen, Colorado. A good portion of their business is off-market, Duchon said, which is not included in TRD’s ranking. “Now we’re starting to travel more, adapt and change our business model,” he added.
Luxe Living Realty’s Dora Puig — who ranked No. 2 for condo sales, with $112.7 million in sales volume, and No. 7 for single-family home sales volume, logging $76.6 million — is also seeing the influx of far-flung buyers. She’s targeting specific buildings with out-of-state mailers.
But there are other creative ways to get clients. In April, Puig will speak on a real estate panel hosted by the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association. She was going to turn it down, but once she realized who would be in the audience — venture capitalists, ultra-high-net-worth investors and investment bankers — she changed her mind. “I will do it because that is the market that is coming here.”
Correction: This ranking has been amended to reflect that Douglas Elliman’s Bill and Bryan Team ranked third in condo sales, with $76.1 million in dollar volume. The Carmenate and Duchon team placed fourth in condo sales, with $71 million.
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Miami-Dade’s top residential brokers
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UPDATED, March 19, 3:00 p.m.: It was the merger that rocked the South Florida residential brokerage scene. When it was announced that The Jills of Coldwell Banker and the Zeder Team, previously of EWM Realty International, would be joining forces, the industry was abuzz with theories as to why.
Was it a public relations move? Is it just about boosting each team in top markets such as Miami Beach and Coral Gables?
“You can’t be everywhere. If you join yourself with a good team that matches you, you’ll give great service,” one broker said. “Remember also, how many houses can Judy [Zeder] show?”
In early March, the two teams announced that they would become The Jills Zeder Group under the Coldwell Banker umbrella.
Both are powerhouse producers in Miami-Dade County. According to The Real Deal’s ranking of top brokers and broker teams in the county, the Jills were No. 1 for both condo resales, totaling $139 million, and single-family home sales reaching $166.2 million. Zeder’s team was next for single-family home sales, with $129.9 million in sales.
The teams within the newly formed group will stay in their respective wheelhouses, they said, but with a beefier collective Rolodex of wealthy buyers.
For The Jills, which includes Jill Hertzberg, Jill Eber, brother and sister Danny and Hillary Hertzberg, and Eber’s sister, Felise, it gives them a familiar name in Coral Gables and the surrounding areas. And for Zeder, whose team includes her kids, Nathan Zeder and Kara Zeder Rosen, they gain the same in Miami Beach, Indian Creek, Golden Beach and more.
When it came to choosing a brokerage, Hertzberg said she didn’t consider leaving Coldwell Banker, and she would not have joined EWM. Zeder was with the Coral Gables-based brokerage for more than 16 years before she and her children decided to join Coldwell Banker this year.
When asked why they decided to combine as one team, Hertzberg said, “Is there any time that’s perfect? We’re doing a lot of business together. If not now, when?”
The competitive edge
Whether it’s by merger, affiliation or old-fashioned recruiting, a number of Miami’s top brokers remained on top by increasing the number of agents they work with and by expanding geographically.
TRD ranked top brokers by analyzing sales of single-family homes and townhouses that closed in Miami-Dade County last year. Off-market sales were not considered. Agents were credited with representing listing and buying sides, and agents who represented both sides received credit for both. For instances in which multiple listing agents or teams at the same firm were credited with closing a deal, the dollar value of the sale was divided by the number of agents or teams who handled the transaction. If a sale was co-brokered with an agent or team at another firm, each agent or team was given the full dollar value of the sale.
For Riley Smith of EWM, whose team was the third top producer for single-family home sales last year, with nearly $111.5 million in sales, 2018 was the year he covered more ground in South Florida. Smith broadened his coverage area from Homestead to Fort Lauderdale, and roughly doubled his team size, up to 21 agents and nine office employees.
“In 2018, we really started to expand… to get some diversity in markets,” Smith said. “Lower price points are easier and faster. We followed the action: Kendall and Homestead had a tremendous amount of turnover.”
The lower price points, between $300,000 and $600,000, proved to be a good bet. Last year, 6,303 single-family homes sold in that range in Miami-Dade, up 15.7 percent year-over-year. And luxury sales also rose, up nearly 16 percent, to more than 1,000 sales of houses priced at $1 million and up, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.
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“Miami is dealing with an abundance of supply at the high end. Looking at the data, we surmised that the majority of the properties listed on the market would be sold in a 12-month supply” if priced correctly, said Douglas Elliman’s Bryan Sereny, who, with Bill Hernandez, closed $76.1 million in sales last year, marking the third top-selling condo team in the county.
A number of top agents in Miami are optimistic about the market, remarking that they’ve seen a surge of sales of ultra-high-end properties in recent months. In February, a waterfront mansion on the exclusive Indian Creek Island sold for $49.9 million, setting a new record for single-family home sales in Miami. The property was sold by Elliman’s Alexander Brothers (see our full profile on the brokers on page 36).
But the market was still challenging, said Nelson Gonzalez of EWM. “The demand was starting to pick up, but we still had a lot of inventory,” he said. Gonzalez closed $70.5 million in single-family home sales and $22.3 million in condo sales last year.
“But demand now is definitely, definitely ramping up tremendously, and the cream of the crop inventory is now selling,” Gonzalez said.
Finding new buyers
Lourdes Alatriste of Engel & Völkers said her company’s strength in foreign markets helps her secure clients and close deals.
(Click to enlarge)
Alatriste closed $61.6 million in single-family home sales last year, earning her thirteenth place in Miami-Dade. Her strategy is to connect with agents in other markets, such as Chicago, New York, California and Colorado. She also advertises in Mexican real estate magazines to attract Mexican buyers who are looking to park their money in the U.S. now that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist politician, is in office.
“Besides being local here and knowing what’s going on, I travel a lot,” Alatriste said. “You know this business is extremely competitive. It gets people really nasty.”
Elliman team Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon, ranked No. 4 with $71 million in condo resales, said they will go wherever is needed to close sales — including New York, Los Angeles and Aspen, Colorado. A good portion of their business is off-market, Duchon said, which is not included in TRD’s ranking. “Now we’re starting to travel more, adapt and change our business model,” he added.
Luxe Living Realty’s Dora Puig — who ranked No. 2 for condo sales, with $112.7 million in sales volume, and No. 7 for single-family home sales volume, logging $76.6 million — is also seeing the influx of far-flung buyers. She’s targeting specific buildings with out-of-state mailers.
But there are other creative ways to get clients. In April, Puig will speak on a real estate panel hosted by the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association. She was going to turn it down, but once she realized who would be in the audience — venture capitalists, ultra-high-net-worth investors and investment bankers — she changed her mind. “I will do it because that is the market that is coming here.”
Correction: This ranking has been amended to reflect that Douglas Elliman’s Bill and Bryan Team ranked third in condo sales, with $76.1 million in dollar volume. The Carmenate and Duchon team placed fourth in condo sales, with $71 million.
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Has the “Gimme My Damn Data” movement reached a tipping point?
It’s been nearly ten years since Dave deBronkart was invited by Gunther Eysenbach to keynote the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto. Eysenbach, a medical doctor and health informaticist, was putting the final touches on the conference program and had phoned Dave to ask him what title he wanted to use for his upcoming speech.
Dave deBronkart and Gunther Eysenbach at Medicine 2.0 2009 congress in Toronto. Photo by Gunther Eysenbach
Dave paused. He wasn’t thinking of keynotes or conferences. He was still recovering from a life-changing battle that had begun two years earlier following a diagnosis of Stage IV kidney cancer. He had undergone surgery to remove his kidney and had been enrolled in a clinical trial for a new protocol that used a high-dose Interleukin-2 (HD-IL2). The treatment was harsh and often didn’t work. But it worked for Dave. He beat the odds and came to be known as “e-Patient Dave,” one of the world’s most recognized and respected patient leaders.
A movement is born
So, when Eysenbach reached out about the title for that upcoming keynote, Dave was beyond distracted. He was coping with a high-pressure day job and the added financial burden cancer had imposed. Life, he said at the time, felt like it was spinning out of control. “I really couldn’t think,” he added, looking back. Exasperated, he told Eysenbach, “I don’t know! For now, just call it ‘Gimme My Damn Data, because you guys can’t be trusted’.”
Unbeknownst to Dave at the time, that title would eventually morph into the moniker for a new patient-led movement. “Gimme my damn data” became a rallying cry for a passionate group of patient leaders advocating for access to – and control over – their personal health data.
Patient advocates Casey Quinlan, Regina Holliday and Danny van Leeuwen were among many early leaders of the movement and instrumental in promoting the newly-established Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit organization created to promote data sharing and ownership as central to its mission of medicine as an empowered patient/provider partnership.
Progress was slow but significant. Among the wins, securing “Meaningful Use” provisions that created incentives for the adoption of electronic medical records. Today, 95% of U.S. hospitals have adopted EMRs and more patients than ever have access to their records in electronic form.
But there’s one aspect of this movement that remains fiercely resistant to change: Your health records and data still are not your property. When your healthcare provider collects health data from you, they own it. Not you. Same is true with your pharmacist and your health insurance company. And all of them are free to sell that data to brokers, who in turn sell it to companies that use it for medical research, marketing or other purposes completely beyond your control.
Data is the new oil
This health data market is massive. Estimates put it somewhere between $150 billion to $200 billion, roughly twice the size of the U.S. auto industry! But here’s the rub: Even though that’s your data being sold, you have no right to a piece of the action.
That strikes a lot of people as patently unfair. As ePatient Dave said: “If they extract something from me and sell it to others, they’re treating me like livestock.”
Or as Casey Quinlan stated bluntly in a post last year, if my data is getting sold, “Cut. Me. In. Bitches!”
Giving consumers a cut is precisely what a new generation of startups have in mind. A slew of new companies are scrambling to bring new solutions to market that promise to give you greater control over your personal health data. This includes not just the ability to determine who can access your data, but on what terms.
For example, you could choose to share it freely with a nonprofit medical research foundation, but request to be paid by a drug company or medical device manufacturer. In either case, control is the operative word.
Companies like Hu-manity.co, Embleema, BetterPath, Timicoin and Killi are among the growing number of startups entering the data management market. All are built on a similar premise: Your personal data is an asset with inherent value. (If that wasn’t the case, companies wouldn’t be selling it.) If it’s sold, then you should get your fair share of the cut. Think of it as the “pay me for my damn data” movement. (For the record, Dave deBronkart and many others who spearheaded this movement have not formally endorsed any of the companies referenced here).
The new kid on the digital health block
Virtually all of these companies are leveraging blockchain technology with a goal to enable individuals to seamlessly and securely claim their data, move it around the data ecosystem, and authorize who can use it.
Like many patient leaders, we’re following these companies with great interest and digging in to better understand their business models, leadership teams, patient compensation schemes, technology platforms, and other aspects of the business.
Some are more transparent than others, but one thing is clear: Blockchain technology is making data management very real and far more practical than it has ever been. Most of us know blockchain as the backbone for online cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. But with millions of users globally, the technology has matured to the point where forward-thinking entrepreneurs can find uses for it well beyond the financial services industry.
And that’s precisely what’s happening.
Earlier this year, we began working with one of these companies – Hu-manity.co – after the co-founders reached out to us to explore opportunities to collaborate with patient opinion leaders. The co-founders, Richie Etwaru and Michael dePalma, both came out of the healthcare industry and both were eager to glean insights from patient opinion leaders in the WEGO Health network.
In the weeks ahead, you may see social media posts from us that are intended to let the world know how to download the Hu-manity.co app. We believe this movement, and the potentially game-changing technology fueling it, is too important to our members for us to stay safely on the sidelines. We’ll learn together what questions need to be answered, and what patient leaders think about one of the first offerings on the market.
Why did we start with Hu-manity.co?
The mission and vision behind Hu-manity.co resonated with us and with many patient leaders in our network. Hu-manity.co seeks to take the concept of data property rights to a new level. It has launched a novel #My31 campaign that declares, “Everyone has the right to legal ownership of their inherent human data as property.” The company is proposing that data ownership be deemed the 31st human right, adding to the thirty rights currently recognized by the United Nations and bestowed to every human at birth.
Like other natural resources, Hu-manity.co believes human data is now more than ever a source of massive value. As such, once ownership of your data is claimed as an individual property right, it can be shared, sold, or exchanged in an open market. Or, just as importantly, it can be yours to put under lock and key using the company’s #My31 app.
Early learnings
This summer we used our Truvio mobile platform to convene fifteen patient opinion leaders, some of whom were early champions of the “gimme my damn data” movement.1 We posed several questions to the group, all aimed to better understand how this concept is perceived and valued. We wanted to learn whether patient leaders would be interested in using an app that offered not just greater control over health data, but the option to monetize it as well.
We quickly discovered that interest in these data management technologies is very high. In fact, support for the Hu-manity.co concept was unanimous. At the same time, several important questions were raised about how Hu-manity.co and similar companies make money, how transparent they are about their business model, what the compensation for patient data will be, and whether these companies can themselves be trusted in an industry littered with false hopes and empty promises.
We see our work in this space as integral to our learning process. We’ll share what we learn with Hu-manity.co, as well as with others offering similar solutions. Early next year, we’ll also share findings from a survey we’re running in partnership with the research company, Ipsos, to better understand how the patient community views these solutions. The survey is sponsored by HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance, which has taken a keen interest in applications of blockchain in healthcare.
So, while there’s much for us to learn, there’s one thing we do know: ePatient Dave’s keynote wasn’t just a hit back in the fall of 2009. It was the start of something big – a movement that in due time will change the way millions of newly-empowered patients manage, protect, and value their personal health data.
1 In 2012, at the suggestion of Ross Martin, MD, “Gimme my damn data” was renamed “Gimme My DaM Data,” to represent “Data about Me.”
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Who gained and misplaced the NBA offseason? Are these Lakers locks to make the playoffs?
With practically all the most important strikes within the books, our NBA specialists reply the massive free-agency, commerce and draft questions.
1. Which was the very best transfer of the NBA offseason?
Chris Herring, FiveThirtyEight: I really feel obligated to say LeBron James, provided that he is the very best participant on the planet. However in the event you’re the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, it’s a must to really feel prefer it was locking in Paul George after making the large gamble to commerce for him with out figuring out whether or not he’d keep within the small market. On prime of that, the Thunder bought out from beneath the final yr of Carmelo Anthony’s deal (and all the luxurious tax funds it might have triggered) and managed to get a helpful participant out of it. They will not win a title due to these two issues, however they got here out of all of it fairly nicely, all issues thought-about.
Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN.com: The Los Angeles Lakers signed the very best participant within the recreation. The acquisition immediately rescues a workforce that has spent the previous a number of seasons within the NBA wilderness and restores its model to among the many most related in skilled sports activities. The Lakers nonetheless must assemble some extra items, be it one other marquee free agent or the maturation of a few their younger prospects into bona fide top-shelf abilities, however the golden hue across the Lakers has formally returned.
Jackie MacMullan, ESPN.com: The most effective transfer was essentially the most anticlimactic, essentially the most predictable and the obvious. By no means thoughts that there was a run on graffiti paint since LeBron took his abilities to Redondo Seaside. The Lakers bought their man, the juice of a “massive identify” that pumps new life into the Lakers’ hype machine and an opportunity to place themselves for a game-changing summer time in 2019. Within the meantime, LeBron will settle into his L.A. digs and type by means of the — ahem — colourful solid of characters who’ve joined him. Anytime you signal the very best participant within the recreation, you win. Easy as that.
Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com: Signing the very best participant within the recreation was fairly good for the Lakers, though the Thunder maintaining Paul George was such a monumental second for the franchise that I type of really feel prefer it needs to be put in a particular class. It completely set them up for the following three seasons.
Kevin Pelton, ESPN Insider: I am selecting to interpret this as a transfer with the very best diploma of problem — or, in different phrases, not the Lakers signing LeBron James. In that case, I am going with the Toronto Raptors dealing for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Inexperienced. Though including Leonard is a high-risk transfer due to his harm and impending free company, the Raptors gave up so little along with DeMar DeRozan (middle Jakob Poeltl and a protected 2019 first-round choose) that even when Leonard leaves after this season, the commerce can nonetheless be a constructive transfer for them.
2. Which offseason transfer is least prone to work out?
Arnovitz: We’ll grade the Washington Wizards on a curve as a result of it is unlikely that they imagine the acquisitions of Dwight Howard, Jeff Inexperienced and Austin Rivers vault them towards the highest of the Japanese Convention. However sooner or later, the Wizards would possibly must take a chilly, sober have a look at the roster and measure whether or not they imagine their core, as at the moment constituted, has a robust likelihood of taking part in for an Japanese Convention title. It would very nicely be that the core in query is their finest shot, however the full vary of choices — nevertheless radical — needs to be explored.
Plenty of All-Stars have modified groups recently. Is one thing fallacious, or is the NBA simply getting sensible?
Kevin Pelton offers team-by-team evaluation of free agent strikes as July involves an finish.
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Herring: I actually do not see an excellent match for Jabari Parker in Chicago. I totally perceive the gamble — and the truth that the contract is principally assured for under a single season — however pairing him with Zach LaVine on the wing defensively is basically an invite for opposing gamers to go to the basket at any time when they need. The hope is that his scoring will make up for this. However for all of the scoring items Parker possesses, he is out of place on protection at small ahead. Sadly, that is the place the Bulls plan to play him. I do not see it working.
MacMullan: Does inertia rely as an precise transfer? You need to marvel how each Trevor Ariza and Luc Mbah a Moute walked away from a workforce that was one strained hamstring away from advancing to the NBA Finals. Nobody can persuade me that the Houston Rockets are higher now than they had been one brief month in the past.
Ariza’s determination to decide on the money ($15 million is a wholesome haul at this level of his profession, although not the humorous cash JJ Redick coaxed out of Philly final summer time) was a bit stunning, and Houston die-hards will fortunately level out that the workforce was 15-1 in video games Ariza did not play final season. Truthful sufficient. However the Rockets oozed nice chemistry and can be examined to protect that with out two team-first guys. Including Carmelo Anthony can be a low-risk, high-reward state of affairs, and he fares higher on a workforce that values spacing, however has he lastly realized that you could nonetheless make candy music as a second (or third or fourth) fiddle?
Pelton: Many of the Lakers’ signings after LeBron might qualify, however I am going with giving Lance Stephenson a one-year, $four.45 million deal. That is barely greater than the $four.Three million workforce choice the Indiana Pacers declined days earlier, which implies they clearly did not assume he was definitely worth the cash. And bear in mind, Indiana is the one place Stephenson has discovered success in his NBA profession. As a poor outdoors shooter (29 % from Three-point vary final season) who’s finest with the ball in his fingers, Stephenson is ill-suited to slot in L.A.
Windhorst: Dwight Howard has arrived with fanfare for the previous three summers working. It appears the Wizards are banking on him being an influence participant, however that may be a departure from how the again finish of his profession has gone. We’ll see if he can buck the development. There’s cause to be doubtful.
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Three. Which was essentially the most underrated transfer (or set of strikes)?
MacMullan: I am a fan of what the Denver Nuggets did, beginning with drafting Michael Porter Jr., who stays arguably essentially the most proficient participant within the draft. They re-signed Nikola Jokic (10 triple-doubles in 2017-18, trailing solely that of Russell Westbrook, LeBron and Ben Simmons) and sneaky good Will Barton. Additionally they paid a pittance to guess on Isaiah Thomas, who can rating in bunches and power the problem in transition in the proper setting. That chip on IT’s shoulder has been upgraded to a full-fledged boulder, and he is at his finest when individuals are counting him out. The primary goal right here is to verify he does not muck up the continued improvement of 21-year-old Jamal Murray, a younger, emotional participant who has an opportunity to change into a cornerstone.
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Windhorst: I believed the Grizzlies had a pleasant summer time, including two high quality function gamers in Garrett Temple and Kyle Anderson and drafting a man in Jaren Jackson Jr. who I believe may also help straight away. Mike Conley says he’s pain-free. The Grizz are poised for a turnaround.
Arnovitz: There wasn’t any ingenious front-office witchcraft this offseason outdoors of the collective restraint throughout the league, however maybe the New Orleans Pelicans. They resisted the temptation to pay massive cash to DeMarcus Cousins, then crammed out their roster with a few reasonably priced gamers — one fairly good (Julius Randle), the opposite serviceable with, no less than theoretically, some remaining upside (Elfrid Payton).
Honorable point out: The Memphis Grizzlies for getting Kyle Anderson and Garrett Temple, together with the Jaren Jackson Jr. choose.
Pelton: Brooklyn creating $16 million in extra cap area for the summer time of 2019 by swapping Timofey Mozgov for Dwight Howard, who was getting into the ultimate yr of his deal. Remarkably, after a buyout for Howard, the Nets gave up lower than $Three million in 2018 cap area to make that transfer, together with a pair of second-round picks and money. Good luck making an attempt to maneuver $16 million in wage for the same worth subsequent summer time.
Herring: I truly actually appreciated the Pacers’ summer time. In excellent Indiana style, the membership did not do something all that flashy. Tyreke Evans was possible a needed man across the league, and I am positive a handful of groups might have discovered good suits for Doug McDermott and Kyle O’Quinn. However all of them crammed wants for this membership, which was fairly rattling good final season and did not lose something of worth this summer time. If a handful of issues break proper, the Pacers might make some actual noise within the Japanese Convention playoffs subsequent yr.
four. How assured are you that the Lakers will make the playoffs?
Windhorst: I am 50/50. Even LeBron is brazenly saying he thinks the Lakers can have robust “months.” The idea that these guys “all know easy methods to play basketball” or “all like to play” falls a bit hole on these ears. That is fairly the protection of the strikes. That stated, I acknowledge that what they’re in the present day might not be what they’re in February.
Herring: I am just about all-in on the Lakers making the playoffs, as long as LeBron stays wholesome as he all the time has. I actually don’t love the remainder of the strikes the workforce has made this summer time, as they appear to run counter to the route the league has moved as a complete. However between the expansion the younger, core gamers ought to present and LeBron’s greatness, I might anticipate the Lakers to succeed in the postseason.
MacMullan: Let’s do the mathematics. Eight groups come out of the Western Convention, so let’s rely off the Warriors, Rockets, Thunder, Spurs, Blazers and Jazz. That leaves two spots among the many Pelicans, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Clippers and Lakers. I am bullish on Denver (see above), and the Pelicans flourished at breakneck velocity as soon as Boogie Cousins went down and Nikola Mirotic joined the band. The Timberwolves needs to be a playoff workforce … proper? It could appear that the Lakers are the odd workforce out — besides I’ve seen this film earlier than. So many occasions. LeBron will drag these younger ‘uns into the postseason kicking and screaming.
Pelton: Not all that assured, however I am going to go into that extra within the close to future.
Arnovitz: Very assured. The cavalry of eccentric veterans on one-year offers is not the best supply of consolation, however a LeBron James-led workforce will qualify for the postseason, even in his 16th season and even within the rugged Western Convention.
5. What’s your daring prediction for subsequent season?
Pelton: The San Antonio Spurs will win fewer video games than they did final season.
Herring: The Portland Path Blazers will miss the playoffs, one season faraway from being the No. Three seed out West. Except for the truth that the Blazers seemingly stood pat (re-upping with Jusuf Nurkic and getting Seth Curry after dropping Shabazz Napier and Ed Davis), they watched different groups within the West — ones that had way more harm issues — get higher. The thought of a Boogie signing would have doubtlessly given them an unlimited shot within the arm, however Cousins and Nurkic having the identical agent killed any probability of that occuring. That is too dangerous as a result of it feels just like the Blazers wanted the type of shake-up the Raptors simply underwent.
Windhorst: I do not make predictions, daring or in any other case, however I’ll say that I anticipate three of the league’s 5 finest groups to be within the East. It is the weaker convention, however its prime is deeper.
MacMullan: Jakob Poeltl will emerge as greater than only a throw-in for the Spurs of their blockbuster cope with the Toronto Raptors. We have spent a lot time ruminating over Leonard’s weird determination to extricate himself from San Antonio by any means potential and DeRozan’s pained exit from the Raptors that we’ve not targeted very a lot on the extra items that accomplished the commerce. Poeltl is a strong defender and shot-blocker with good defensive instincts who wants some polish on the offensive finish. He shot a league-high 65.9 % from the ground, however most of these buckets had been from three ft in.
Give him a summer time with shot physician Chip Engelland, and possibly, simply possibly, he can present some midrange prowess. Within the meantime, he is a younger, in a position backup to Pau Gasol who will allow LaMarcus Aldridge to log extra time at his desired energy ahead spot.
Arnovitz: If he stays wholesome and may drag the Pelicans to 50 wins and/or a top-four seed, Anthony Davis will win his first most beneficial participant award.
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