In this episode of Cash Flow Pro, we talk with Melanie McDaniel, Navy Veteran and Founder/CEO of Freestyle Capital Group. Melanie grew up in Utah and was taught to pursue the typical American dream. She decided to take life into her own hands and...
In this episode of Cash Flow Pro, we talk with Melanie McDaniel, Navy Veteran and Founder/CEO of Freestyle Capital Group. Melanie grew up in Utah and was taught to pursue the typical American dream. She decided to take life into her own hands and joined the navy instead of going to school to travel the world and become independent. After four years, she was still unsure of what to do with her life since she loved to travel and got a degree in hospitality administration. Later she became a park ranger. She was listening to bigger pockets at work and read rich dad poor dad and was ready to take on the real estate world as her new career. Tune in on this episode to learn about how she paved her way to financial freedom and what she learned along the way!
In this episode, we discuss:
Find your flow,
Casey Brown
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: hey there and welcome to today's episode
of cash flow pro your daily real estate
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: investing podcast and you tube channel i'm
here today with meloni daniel a free style
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: capital group meloney how are you today
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm good how are you
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: awesome i had to click back over
to the sheet to make sure i got
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that got that mouthful of free style
capital group right so that everybody knows what
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: we are talking about so mellen why
don't you start by kind of telling us
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a little bit about your background where
you're from what you do and then what
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm sorry what you were you from
what you did and then on into how
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you got into raising and we can
kind of dissect everything from there
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: already so background grew up in utah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: you know normal house middle of the
road sort of go to job go to
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: job go to school and then get
a job well go to school then go
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: to school again and then you get
a job
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i kind of at a young age
already was pushing back against that because i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: didn't
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: really know what wanted to go to
school for so i joined the military instead
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and it's not because necessarily i wanted
to serve my count though you know that
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: was kind of one of the bottom
of the list of one of the reasons
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: but the top reason was i wanted
to travel the world get out from under
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: my parents wings get money for school
when i was ready to go to school
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and just be on my own too
eat so the military
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: gave me that got lucky i joined
the navy and italy was my first duty
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: station so i hit that travel box
pretty quick so i did my four years
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and when i was getting out i
didn't really know what i wanted to be
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: still when i grew up but i
thought well maybe if i did something i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: love then i'd be happy right so
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i started thinking about what i loved
i love to travel so what did i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: study travel i have a degree in
house halt and travel administration
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: interesting
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i know weird that was in denver
colorado and then my first job was working
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: on a submarine off like k and
it didn't take too long for me to
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: realize that i didn't really want climb
a corporate ladder but i still didn't now
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: what i wanted to be when i
grew up so i kind of fell back
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: into what i understood and that was
get a job specifically with the government my
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: dad worked for the utah state prison
his wife was a park ranger for the
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: national park service so i ended up
being a park ranger
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and i thought i could just do
that by myself some time but i ended
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: up doing that for nine years so
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: that was a big chunk of my
history my past
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: interesting
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: twenty
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: kind of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: fifteen
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a mix
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i read with
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: of everything
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: dead
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean i gotta stop and like
just kind of point i mean it's like
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a that's like the what do they
call that stuff my mom to take to
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: like family picnics water gate salad we
hear something along those lines
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: like a little bit of everything is
in there and it's
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: just kind of mushed up and here
we are
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i don't mean to to like anything
you said the water gate but i just
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: mean it's nobody knows what you know
it's it's all in there it's kind of
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a mish mash but i like spent
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm definitely a part in a whirlwind
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: there you go
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and i like the park grand part
that kind of brings a yogi bear element
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to the whole thing
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that we weren't really expecting so um
uh real quick before we jump into it
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and in my audience i want you
to understand and know a little bit about
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: so my audience knows or if they've
been listening very long i'm a huge proponent
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: of of women in business specifically women
in i particularly like the real estate business
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: but i guess i have to be
partial to one but the main reasons are
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who who just because because you seem to
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hey i'm going to push back against the
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: norm and i'm going to do things
my way and which is very much like
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: the two little girls that i have
at home who we all adore and love
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: about sixty percent of the time than
forty percent of the time we want to
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: as my stepson says give them up
to the adoption center and
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yes
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: bat girl ladies women and females in
business is something that i'm a huge proponent
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worse than when my daughter or daughters or
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do that only boys can do that or
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girl because they are taught on a daily
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: basis that they can do whatever they
set their mind to no matter what it
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: absolutely
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: go along really well with my ith
my girls and and how you push back
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and you're like well i'm going to
do things my way and i like that
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i like that so anyway going forward
let's let's talk about two thousand fifteen i
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: think you said you were you were
that was the end of the parker anger
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: years before the end because i was
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: whole job career retirement live within your
means you know set yourself up for you
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: average future that's exactly what i was
raised to be right
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: that american dream
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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rich dead ported in twenty fifteen
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: blew my mind because i was a
pretty intelligent kid school was pretty easy anything
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i put my mind to i wouldn't
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what i loved
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: which was like the law enforcement piece
you better believe if you put me in
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win the fitness competition
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: right but it doesn't necessarily mean it's
who i am it's just i'm a i
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miserable and i didn't know it because you
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seen any different so it took me two
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was raised to have even when i was
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: leaving my job my dad's like don't
do something and quit your job and that
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i was driving across the country because
i moved from california that was here i
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my first thing this was in twenty seventeen
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: when i pulled chalks left the career
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was driving across the country and my dad
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can't believe you quit your job don't ever
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right and a dad or a parent doesn't
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you to fail they do that they say
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: they don't
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and i never forget the day i told
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my grandmother and i were real close and
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: it was much the same way as
i'm going to work for myself and she's
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see her now just with her head just
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it wasn't it was just i don't know
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good luck or best i don't know but
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: it's their own limitation
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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is fine there they're doing the best they
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: can and they really love you and
they really are truly concerned it's not because
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: she wanted to hold you back it's
not because my
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: dad wanted to hold me back it
was just so outside of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: his comfort zone
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah so by the time i had
that conversation with him i was very well
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: still motivation but the next thing is
i'm going to show you
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i don't need to say anything i'm
just going to go and be successful and
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: that that's it that was my my
way of handling it
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: so real estate agent two and a
half years but i mostly served investors because
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: by the time i by the time
twenty seventeen rolls around i have spent hundreds
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: if not thousands of hours on patrol
listening to bigger pockets
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: there you go
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean that's that's talk about using
one time for i mean that's that's the
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: true essence of buying your time back
i mean
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: ah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and educating yourself
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i wasn't the best government employee ever
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: well you got the job done right
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah yeah and then i did the
rich dead ported elite legacy twenty seven thousand
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: dollar coaching program thing so i had
that under my belt and i had all
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: the hours of listening i was ready
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: right take it on so when i
became an agent i knew that wasn't the
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: end i knew i gave myself three
years that was the amount of time that
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i was going to be an agent
i got out of it in two and
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: a half years but during those two
and a half years started off real slow
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: very dry and painful the first six
months but once i took off i took
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: off because i did i started a
meat up i had all sorts of investor
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: clients and you know investors i don't
buy one house every seven years they buy
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: seven houses a year so as soon
as i got my base clientil it was
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: kind of i hit my stride i
had to start a team i had to
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: start handing out a lot of business
and when the end of twenty nineteen rolled
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: around i had made enough money and
i had a big enough team that i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: told them i believing i sold everything
i have no had no belongings except my
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: car booked to trip to tie and
and told them give me six months of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: runway where i would still get my
splits as the team met team leader and
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: then i'll give you my book of
business and the team can be yours so
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: that was the de ma i shipped
off for ty land in january spent a
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: month there and launched free style capital
group because i knew i wanted to move
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: from obviously the agent thing but i
had picked apartment complexes and i had done
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: michael blanks coaching program for the apartment
we closed on our first apartment in january
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: of twenty twenty that's while i was
in tyland and that was kind of the
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: start of the journey in the process
of buying that twenty four unit i realized
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i didn't like most of the acquisition
process i really wasn't interested in managing a
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: property manager i really just like talking
about money and investing and helping other people
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: just like me get out if the
rat race get out of you now get
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: their money working for them and building
that passive income so they could be financially
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: free
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: so that's where my heart was and
that's why i kind of lean toward the
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: capital raising launched free style capital group
and that was the start of the path
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm on now
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: awesome and of course that's for for
the listeners that just so there's some context
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to what she say and basically she's
talking about a s p v special purpose
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: vehicle which is in essence another term
for fund of funds or something along those
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: lines of depending upon how the i
guess that really is just a fund of
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: funds honestly isn't it i mean
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that's that's basically at the at the
end today exactly what it is but so
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: don't
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: get caught up on the terms but
all right so so tell us specifically about
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: your fund how you got it started
and what did what did it look like
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: when you basically so you end up
with a p p m an operating agreement
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and some contacts as far as operators
to work with right and i'm assuming that
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: all of that kind of is sitting
there and then you have to go out
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and get money so how did how
did all of that look and and what
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: just kind of walk us through the
steps
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: um okay so for the s p
v and so s p v is a
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: single purpose vehicle or a special purpose
entity s p e there's the same thing
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: even if fund of funds those terms
can all get interchanged depending on who's using
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: them for what companies can use them
to to keep risk out of the big
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: part of the company so they'll start
an s p v a special purpose vehicle
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: or a special whatever purpose i take
whatever to do some other side business within
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: the business but for us in our
space if we are bringing capital to another
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: sponsor then we can form a single
purpose vehicle which is for the purpose of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: one dentified i mean it could be
multiple identified but the idea that they're identified
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: is not a blind fund it's a
single purpose so um starting in twenty twenty
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: when i launched free style capital group
i thought oh i'm going to raise money
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: for x y and z and so
i've just like sitting back waiting for them
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: to call me right well covid happens
we get shut down in february of twenty
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: twenty nobody's buying deals
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and it wasn't until like july started
seeing some of my preferred operators buying deals
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and i'm call them up hello guys
hey
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i see you just did a deal
and you didn't call me and they're like
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh we're good melody when you're at
a dry spell for a sec once we
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: don't need money and they're like okay
next one and then they did a second
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: deal and nothing they didn't call
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: me so i thought oh my goodness
i had all my eggs in the basket
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: of these three operators who i thought
for sure would be my guys and then
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: call me so first lesson if you
are going to participate as a fund of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: funds or an s p v or
whatever into a sponsorship you need multiple
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: sponsors and at this point i would
say even hundreds of sponsors because depending on
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: how stringent you are on underwriting i
think i love a sponsor and they've got
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: a big track record they're doing twenty
deals a year and then i look at
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: their underwriting and i'm like oh my
gosh i would never raise capital for some
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: of these guys and they've got these
huge platforms and doing all sorts of deals
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: so the first lesson is building those
relationships first of all people that you can
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: partner with and depending on what type
of person you are like you're not going
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: to do every deal that comes across
your desk
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: right
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: in fact you probably do like per
cent of them or less
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: correct
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: so it took a long time to
do the first deal
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: first deal came in july and we
didn't close till september and that was with
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: someone who i think i met like
a virtual meet up because you know in
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: twenty twenty those were big
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: everything was virtual in twenty twenty
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: all right sorry no i didn't even
do a deal in twenty twenty it was
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: twenty twenty one it was literally year
and a half before i did my first
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: deal sorry so i lost all all
of twenty twenty and that was where i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: went to
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: okay
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: a ton of virtual
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: so
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: meeting
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: let's let's back up real quick i
think i need to clarify for the listeners
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i think there's there's probably going a
b a little bit of confusion around this
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: this this topic and when she's talking
about a single purpose vehicle basically what's happening
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: is is an operator underrightes of property
and sets up an acquisition signs a contract
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: calls her and says meloney i need
you to would you be good raising say
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: two million dollars of our five million
dollar capital need then mellen raises it into
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that vehicle then that vehicle invests in
one two three main street apartment complex deal
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: with that selected operator now what what
which is essentially how a fund of funds
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: works same same interchangeable term however a
fund of funds can also be like for
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: instance my fund is set up to
cater to three specific operators who also have
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: funds so we are taking pooled capital
and investing it for diversification purposes across multiple
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: operators within the fund so we talk
a lot about fund of funds on here
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: so i thought it definitely needed to
be explained because when you talk about a
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: single purpose vehicle that's why you're talking
about then the timing of a certain deal
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: so you're privi to all the underwriting
you're privi to all of the base call
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: everything and then you step in i'm
assuming under maybe slightly preferential terms if you
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: can in my right in right in
that matter now some of the preferential terms
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: have gone away as as there's been
a bunch of capital that's been in the
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: market place some of the preferen tall
terms have kind of dried up as far
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: as like um but i'm assuming there's
some preference somewhere for them to call you
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and say malone will you raise two
million dollars of our deal we'll give you
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a one percent better prayer for a
ten per cent better split on the back
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: side something along those lines and that's
typically why somebody would go to a person
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: like melloni to invest with her because
then she's getting preferential treatment from the operator
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: then she can pass that preferential treatment
back to her investors now am i right
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: about all of that is that pretty
much how everything is set up
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: uh yes but more importantly we're dealing
in securities so it's not just like i
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: raise capital and bring capital to a
deal that's not how it works at all
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm not a broker dealer i don't
have a license do that so
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: correct
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i actually have always gotten g p
shares and i have a job on the
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: g p i am still as the
operator the manager of the fund or fund
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: of funds i have on the the
g p that make me a actual partner
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: in the sponsorship
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: kay
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: even though my fund is just an
l p i am a g p or
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i've structured it before where my s
p v gets the g p shares
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: gotta
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: and then my my upside or my
pay day comes at the end when we
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: um exceed
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: returns then that's
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: gosh
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: when my pay day comes so
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: i always try
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: to get paid
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: from the sponsor so i don't have
to dilute the investor returns at all and
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: that's typically in the of g p
shares it could be in the form of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: a due diligence fee could be anything
could be negotiated but at the end of
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: the day yes we
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: can if we write a bigger check
you can get preferential
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: treatment and you can qualify for classes
of shares but
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ah
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: not always
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and i think it's important to point
out for the listeners as well that um
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: when we talk about finn we talk
about securities and and and what we're doing
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: or it's very ultra actually it's ultra
important to point out that none of the
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: compensation from the operator or the entity
or the property associated with the deal can
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: come to somebody like melon based on
how much capital like they can't call millin
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: up to hey if you raise five
million dollars i'll pay you half million dollars
364
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: it has she so she's going in
as a qualified par and ere on the
365
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: g p because she actually has responsibilities
like maybe let's say like for instance maybe
366
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a marketing gig inside the inside the
the company where like they say hey mellon
367
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you take care of the marketing you
take care of the graphic design part and
368
00:18:37,490 --> 00:18:41,237
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that's going to be your job as
far as the g p side goes and
369
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: so obviously those are ex poles probably
not exactly what you do but i guess
370
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i think it's just ultra important that
people really really understand that these things are
371
00:18:52,616 --> 00:18:56,862
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you have to just tread lightly this
can't be something you just go into and
372
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: just splash and start throwing capital around
and and and and buying it because you
373
00:19:02,168 --> 00:19:10,699
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: will you will tread over into s
c c regulated territory fairly easily if you're
374
00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:18,918
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: not careful and the s c c
is pretty much not your friend most of
375
00:19:18,978 --> 00:19:19,299
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: the time
376
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: ah no they don't exist to help
us at all exist
377
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and a lot
378
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: to
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: of people
380
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: protect
381
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: think
382
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: the
383
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that
384
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: american
385
00:19:26,872 --> 00:19:27,053
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a lot
386
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[melanie_mcdaniel]: people
387
00:19:27,093 --> 00:19:29,396
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: of people think that if you get
in trouble with them that c c is
388
00:19:29,416 --> 00:19:36,308
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: going to call and say hey so
you you messed up and now they're going
389
00:19:36,328 --> 00:19:39,233
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to call and they're going to say
we want your email server we want every
390
00:19:39,353 --> 00:19:43,680
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: email you've ever sent we want your
computers we want everything here it has to
391
00:19:43,741 --> 00:19:49,354
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: be sent to us at your expense
and your attorney i mean and it's just
392
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: boom i mean the there's no joke
they don't they're not there to be like
393
00:19:55,881 --> 00:19:58,584
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: make you give a warm and fuzzy
feeling like your mom used to do it's
394
00:19:58,884 --> 00:20:03,208
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: no it's boom boom boom we want
this and you're guilty until you send us
395
00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:06,035
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: enough stuff to prove that you're innocent
ye
396
00:20:06,021 --> 00:20:06,904
[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah yeah
397
00:20:07,021 --> 00:20:07,103
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: go
398
00:20:07,105 --> 00:20:07,165
[melanie_mcdaniel]: we
399
00:20:07,164 --> 00:20:07,369
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ahead
400
00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,616
[melanie_mcdaniel]: don't want to we don't want to
go there by any means
401
00:20:09,670 --> 00:20:11,036
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: no so
402
00:20:11,412 --> 00:20:11,554
[melanie_mcdaniel]: um
403
00:20:11,579 --> 00:20:12,884
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: anyway proceed i'm sorry
404
00:20:14,131 --> 00:20:17,156
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i was i don't know he you're
talking about the s p v so the
405
00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:19,620
[melanie_mcdaniel]: first day it was an s p
v a fund of fun so yes the
406
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,947
[melanie_mcdaniel]: fund has its own p p m
its own subscription agreement everything and then the
407
00:20:24,087 --> 00:20:27,742
[melanie_mcdaniel]: fund is an entity by and that's
what invests as the l p and the
408
00:20:27,782 --> 00:20:32,135
[melanie_mcdaniel]: sponsors deal so if you're wanting to
do something like this you need a deal
409
00:20:32,216 --> 00:20:35,140
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to raise for right you need to
deal to participate in and you don't have
410
00:20:35,221 --> 00:20:38,686
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to be a g p or have
co g p shares you just can't get
411
00:20:39,007 --> 00:20:44,216
[melanie_mcdaniel]: paid any way from the operator on
less you do so you can negotiate higher
412
00:20:44,336 --> 00:20:46,740
[melanie_mcdaniel]: splits because you if you can come
in you put all your friends in an
413
00:20:46,860 --> 00:20:49,124
[melanie_mcdaniel]: s p v and you all go
together and you can write a five million
414
00:20:49,144 --> 00:20:52,970
[melanie_mcdaniel]: dollar check you better believe they're going
to give you some some treatment
415
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:53,402
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: prefer
416
00:20:53,512 --> 00:20:53,813
[melanie_mcdaniel]: above
417
00:20:53,543 --> 00:20:54,187
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: tea yep
418
00:20:54,114 --> 00:20:57,723
[melanie_mcdaniel]: you know so i mean if you
were trying to get paid then at that
419
00:20:57,783 --> 00:21:00,809
[melanie_mcdaniel]: point you could just take a promote
or having a fee of some sort in
420
00:21:00,849 --> 00:21:04,134
[melanie_mcdaniel]: the fund but then you're diluting investor
shares so that's why i try to get
421
00:21:04,174 --> 00:21:08,882
[melanie_mcdaniel]: paid from the sponsor and honestly if
i am bringing an investor capital and their
422
00:21:08,942 --> 00:21:11,987
[melanie_mcdaniel]: are limited partners and they have no
say in anything and i bring it to
423
00:21:12,067 --> 00:21:15,773
[melanie_mcdaniel]: a deal i want g p shares
i want to be on i want a
424
00:21:15,874 --> 00:21:19,319
[melanie_mcdaniel]: vote i want to sit at the
table when big decisions are being made because
425
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,494
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i need to do that and represent
the people in my s p v or
426
00:21:23,514 --> 00:21:23,856
[melanie_mcdaniel]: my fund
427
00:21:24,930 --> 00:21:25,215
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
428
00:21:25,171 --> 00:21:28,516
[melanie_mcdaniel]: so yeah so i did my first
s p v it was actually twenty twenty
429
00:21:28,576 --> 00:21:31,421
[melanie_mcdaniel]: one so all of twenty twenty i
was just building the data base
430
00:21:31,350 --> 00:21:32,520
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
431
00:21:31,521 --> 00:21:32,743
[melanie_mcdaniel]: talking to sponsors looking
432
00:21:32,550 --> 00:21:32,570
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m
433
00:21:32,803 --> 00:21:36,469
[melanie_mcdaniel]: at deals throwing out deals and twenty
twenty was a hard year anyway to do
434
00:21:36,529 --> 00:21:40,534
[melanie_mcdaniel]: deals so it's kind of like a
whole last year to me but when we
435
00:21:40,594 --> 00:21:45,299
[melanie_mcdaniel]: went virtual and everybody was on virtual
meet ups virtual conferences virtual everything i was
436
00:21:45,419 --> 00:21:50,068
[melanie_mcdaniel]: all over the nation sitting in my
chair at my house in voice or salt
437
00:21:50,060 --> 00:21:50,202
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
438
00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:53,536
[melanie_mcdaniel]: lake or arizona wherever i was i
was homeless nomadic at the time i was
439
00:21:53,597 --> 00:21:58,466
[melanie_mcdaniel]: living all over the place so um
twenty twenty was a year of building the
440
00:21:58,526 --> 00:22:01,371
[melanie_mcdaniel]: relationships and this is going to be
very important for what i think what we're
441
00:22:01,391 --> 00:22:05,558
[melanie_mcdaniel]: going to talk about later for the
raising capital and finding people right i do
442
00:22:05,618 --> 00:22:09,825
[melanie_mcdaniel]: it different i don't do it way
of a funnel i don't have a big
443
00:22:09,905 --> 00:22:14,282
[melanie_mcdaniel]: funnel with thousands of people i have
i target a small group people who re
444
00:22:14,362 --> 00:22:18,348
[melanie_mcdaniel]: invest with me over and over so
the relationship piece is huge it goes for
445
00:22:18,428 --> 00:22:22,575
[melanie_mcdaniel]: investors but it goes for sponsors as
well because sponsors need to trust you like
446
00:22:22,656 --> 00:22:24,679
[melanie_mcdaniel]: you and and want to work with
you as well
447
00:22:25,551 --> 00:22:31,541
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and part of what you touched on
back a few sentences ago i'm a real
448
00:22:31,881 --> 00:22:37,871
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i like talking about alignment of interest
and i think that i think that's a
449
00:22:37,971 --> 00:22:43,340
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: term or a topic that that gets
passed over too many times in some of
450
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:50,472
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: these discussions and again with some of
the more complicated dynamics of a fund a
451
00:22:50,572 --> 00:22:58,005
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: fund alignment of interests is huge and
especially with what you're talking about where where
452
00:22:58,105 --> 00:23:03,815
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: like for instance you said i don't
want to delude investor fun if and when
453
00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:10,365
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you when you start raising capital and
you look back if you're if your investors
454
00:23:10,606 --> 00:23:15,514
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ever feel sub lined and maybe that's
not even a tub but sub line i
455
00:23:15,554 --> 00:23:21,344
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: mean like like hey he's out looking
looking out for himself before he has any
456
00:23:21,424 --> 00:23:26,195
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: interest in even talking about our money
and if you ever become blind with your
457
00:23:26,275 --> 00:23:32,573
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: investors man you're in some trouble there
because not necessarily in financial trouble or jail
458
00:23:32,674 --> 00:23:37,462
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: trouble or anything like that but but
you're in a position where reinvestment becomes less
459
00:23:37,542 --> 00:23:43,474
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and less likely the further down that
path you go so alignment of interests is
460
00:23:43,655 --> 00:23:49,254
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: really big and again i think that
the industry as a whole that almost needs
461
00:23:49,334 --> 00:23:54,915
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to become more of a topic on
the forefront of discussion i guess is making
462
00:23:55,015 --> 00:23:59,482
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure that that as you raise capital
your investors always feel like you're all in
463
00:23:59,643 --> 00:24:06,777
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: with them not for not not i'm
sorry forward and with them but not yourself
464
00:24:06,857 --> 00:24:10,225
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ahead of the game so go ahead
and i'd like to hear a little more
465
00:24:10,266 --> 00:24:12,650
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: about where you were headed with that
m
466
00:24:13,292 --> 00:24:17,138
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i was just saying that was i
did one s p v so after that
467
00:24:17,178 --> 00:24:19,662
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i did a couple of co g
p deals and co g p is where
468
00:24:19,983 --> 00:24:23,789
[melanie_mcdaniel]: you're going direct with the sponsor you're
part of the sponsorship team you're using their
469
00:24:23,869 --> 00:24:29,178
[melanie_mcdaniel]: portal investors go directly into the deal
with their p p m and there investor
470
00:24:29,238 --> 00:24:33,245
[melanie_mcdaniel]: portal you are just a partner of
the sponsorship team so that was so my
471
00:24:33,345 --> 00:24:36,771
[melanie_mcdaniel]: first one the s p v was
a multi family in san antonio and then
472
00:24:36,811 --> 00:24:40,317
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i did an assisted living co g
p and i did a triple net co
473
00:24:40,377 --> 00:24:46,347
[melanie_mcdaniel]: g p and then the next one
i launched a fund so it's a it's
474
00:24:46,387 --> 00:24:50,233
[melanie_mcdaniel]: a full blown fun but it's not
a blind fund customisable fund so i still
475
00:24:50,514 --> 00:24:54,140
[melanie_mcdaniel]: it's deal by deal and it's still
acts like a fund of funds but now
476
00:24:54,721 --> 00:24:58,046
[melanie_mcdaniel]: everyone's just in one fund you signed
the p p m one time and then
477
00:24:58,087 --> 00:25:01,472
[melanie_mcdaniel]: you can be in multiple deals and
you can pick steals if i have a
478
00:25:02,594 --> 00:25:06,841
[melanie_mcdaniel]: a storage deal a department deal and
assisted living deal and a triple net deal
479
00:25:06,881 --> 00:25:10,768
[melanie_mcdaniel]: and you only want to be in
the assisted living and the apartment deal then
480
00:25:10,808 --> 00:25:16,537
[melanie_mcdaniel]: that's what you choose so the calculation
that the software does is calculated based on
481
00:25:16,597 --> 00:25:19,101
[melanie_mcdaniel]: how long and in which deals you're
in so you can kind of like robin
482
00:25:19,141 --> 00:25:21,626
[melanie_mcdaniel]: hood for stocks that's robin hood for
indications so
483
00:25:21,670 --> 00:25:21,871
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure
484
00:25:22,086 --> 00:25:26,355
[melanie_mcdaniel]: that's the gout i ended up going
because s p v is if people want
485
00:25:26,415 --> 00:25:27,979
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to do that it's expensive
486
00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:28,602
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
487
00:25:28,711 --> 00:25:32,182
[melanie_mcdaniel]: every time you put legal documents together
like that you're out of pocket ten to
488
00:25:32,242 --> 00:25:33,266
[melanie_mcdaniel]: fifteen grand just
489
00:25:33,081 --> 00:25:33,245
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
490
00:25:33,406 --> 00:25:34,168
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to do an s p v
491
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,306
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean i'll never forget i could
i wired nine thousand of my own money
492
00:25:38,366 --> 00:25:42,733
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to my attorney to pay for mine
and my wife was like what excuse me
493
00:25:44,116 --> 00:25:46,981
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean that's yeah that's money off
the top to start
494
00:25:47,081 --> 00:25:47,781
[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
495
00:25:47,262 --> 00:25:51,431
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that's before you ever raise a dollar
so all right so with that being said
496
00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:56,400
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: um we've got a hopefully got a
clear mud idea as far as the listeners
497
00:25:56,460 --> 00:26:00,987
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: are concerned about what what this this
s p v is and just know it's
498
00:26:01,107 --> 00:26:05,959
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: it's it's a it's lament that you're
raising capital for so with that being said
499
00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:12,603
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: tell us let's let's hear the first
store the story about the first time you
500
00:26:12,683 --> 00:26:17,981
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: raised capital like not not as a
whole but like your first person that finally
501
00:26:18,021 --> 00:26:22,188
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: said hey i'll give you capital i
mean what were some of the objections was
502
00:26:22,228 --> 00:26:26,235
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: there was it was it hard to
overcome and then i'd like to move into
503
00:26:26,275 --> 00:26:29,099
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: maybe hearing about your rays as a
whole
504
00:26:31,664 --> 00:26:32,868
[melanie_mcdaniel]: um so with
505
00:26:33,390 --> 00:26:33,472
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ye
506
00:26:33,691 --> 00:26:37,714
[melanie_mcdaniel]: rising for an s p v if
people are used to doing just straighten the
507
00:26:37,814 --> 00:26:43,059
[melanie_mcdaniel]: indications you have that extra layer of
the fund that you have to explain and
508
00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:47,723
[melanie_mcdaniel]: you might have an extra layer of
splits or however you're getting paid which you
509
00:26:47,803 --> 00:26:54,570
[melanie_mcdaniel]: have to explain so just make sure
you understand your value and then you understand
510
00:26:55,471 --> 00:26:59,137
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean make them understand that they're
getting actually a better deal it's better to
511
00:26:59,177 --> 00:27:02,502
[melanie_mcdaniel]: go through me than direct to the
sponsor because we've gotten better economies of scale
512
00:27:02,562 --> 00:27:06,689
[melanie_mcdaniel]: right or whatever it is that you're
presenting you have to be prepared to talk
513
00:27:06,749 --> 00:27:11,801
[melanie_mcdaniel]: through that so that one one of
the first hurdles i think raising for an
514
00:27:11,921 --> 00:27:15,965
[melanie_mcdaniel]: s p v versa just raising for
a indication because they're an it's a little
515
00:27:16,025 --> 00:27:17,166
[melanie_mcdaniel]: learning experience
516
00:27:17,263 --> 00:27:17,426
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
517
00:27:17,266 --> 00:27:24,203
[melanie_mcdaniel]: just for the investors and and yourself
if you've never done it before it some
518
00:27:24,283 --> 00:27:27,716
[melanie_mcdaniel]: people like look at the deal really
hard and you have to answer hard questions
519
00:27:27,877 --> 00:27:35,041
[melanie_mcdaniel]: about capac plan or assumptions for rent
increases or expenses or cap rate expansion or
520
00:27:35,302 --> 00:27:40,641
[melanie_mcdaniel]: whatever whatever it is like some people
dig into the numbers and some people they
521
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:43,704
[melanie_mcdaniel]: just want an to know how much
money you have in the deal right
522
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:44,022
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
523
00:27:44,184 --> 00:27:48,091
[melanie_mcdaniel]: so i can't really say there were
a bunch of big objections
524
00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:48,473
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yes
525
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:51,917
[melanie_mcdaniel]: some people decided not to invest because
of the s p v they didn't understand
526
00:27:51,957 --> 00:27:52,438
[melanie_mcdaniel]: that structure
527
00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:52,841
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
528
00:27:55,531 --> 00:27:59,377
[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah i don't know it was pretty
it was a good time to twenty twenty
529
00:27:59,497 --> 00:28:02,803
[melanie_mcdaniel]: one we weren't seeing the effects of
all the money that we printed right so
530
00:28:02,883 --> 00:28:06,709
[melanie_mcdaniel]: it's not like today where you have
a lot more to consider like the debt
531
00:28:06,790 --> 00:28:12,283
[melanie_mcdaniel]: piece the assumptions and inflation is that
affecting expenses back in twenty twenty one those
532
00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:13,987
[melanie_mcdaniel]: weren't the things that people were asking
533
00:28:14,231 --> 00:28:14,801
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure sure
534
00:28:14,729 --> 00:28:17,031
[melanie_mcdaniel]: of yeah
535
00:28:16,532 --> 00:28:20,027
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: where were you where what was your
best source of investors
536
00:28:21,431 --> 00:28:24,957
[melanie_mcdaniel]: so back when i was an agent
and i had all those investors that came
537
00:28:25,017 --> 00:28:28,343
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to my meta i had five or
six hundred people on that list that's a
538
00:28:28,403 --> 00:28:34,740
[melanie_mcdaniel]: huge source of my data base right
now is my virginia clients and people that
539
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:35,384
[melanie_mcdaniel]: came to my meeta
540
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:37,882
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that's
541
00:28:37,911 --> 00:28:42,040
[melanie_mcdaniel]: outside of that people i've met probably
at meet ups people i've met in person
542
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,701
[melanie_mcdaniel]: at conferences conferences are big for me
i do a lot of those a few
543
00:28:47,801 --> 00:28:52,768
[melanie_mcdaniel]: people trickle in from social media or
something but a lot less most people are
544
00:28:52,828 --> 00:28:54,330
[melanie_mcdaniel]: people ave connected with in person
545
00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:55,681
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: okay
546
00:28:56,252 --> 00:28:56,996
[melanie_mcdaniel]: they referred to me
547
00:28:57,270 --> 00:29:02,859
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and that's that's i think and it's
hard to explain sometimes but i liken it
548
00:29:02,919 --> 00:29:08,608
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to you know if you drop one
hook in the water you're gonna may or
549
00:29:08,689 --> 00:29:12,795
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: may not one fish if you drop
a thousand hooks in the water you know
550
00:29:13,577 --> 00:29:17,463
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you have basically at least a thousand
chances to catch and that's what i always
551
00:29:17,523 --> 00:29:20,829
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: try to tell folks when we're looking
at when we're looking at marketing because i
552
00:29:20,869 --> 00:29:24,235
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: get that where do you find investors
were who else are in who else is
553
00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:28,181
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: in these deals with you and where
do you how do you source them and
554
00:29:28,602 --> 00:29:32,568
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and where you look at it and
say okay it's those relationships and then those
555
00:29:32,649 --> 00:29:39,480
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: relationship if each person you know you're
has however many people that they're associated with
556
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,366
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: then you start going through the degrees
of separate you know what i'm saying you
557
00:29:43,406 --> 00:29:49,280
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: can start penetrating into getting more folks
referred directly to you so so do you
558
00:29:49,361 --> 00:29:52,008
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: handle like investor calls you just do
all of that yourself
559
00:29:53,562 --> 00:29:59,582
[melanie_mcdaniel]: because i don't have a huge data
base i don't i'm on a lot of
560
00:29:59,662 --> 00:30:02,786
[melanie_mcdaniel]: podcasts i don't have a podcast i
have a youtube channel that i stopped i
561
00:30:02,826 --> 00:30:08,644
[melanie_mcdaniel]: don't haven't posted anything probably since twenty
to anyone minor minds really relationship based
562
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:09,102
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
563
00:30:09,145 --> 00:30:13,392
[melanie_mcdaniel]: and really connecting with people and what
i'm looking for because my fund is a
564
00:30:13,432 --> 00:30:18,000
[melanie_mcdaniel]: five or six c fund meeting they
need to be accredited i need to find
565
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,712
[melanie_mcdaniel]: people who can invest over and over
again because honestly if i could get away
566
00:30:21,752 --> 00:30:26,054
[melanie_mcdaniel]: with having fifty households that i serve
that's it fifty people that invest and re
567
00:30:26,094 --> 00:30:28,499
[melanie_mcdaniel]: invest with me a few times a
year i would be i would be done
568
00:30:29,170 --> 00:30:29,291
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
569
00:30:29,601 --> 00:30:35,050
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i don't want to go and have
some really heavy duty funnel that's re targeting
570
00:30:35,150 --> 00:30:39,317
[melanie_mcdaniel]: people that's you know i get enough
of those in my email and i don't
571
00:30:39,377 --> 00:30:41,982
[melanie_mcdaniel]: like them so why would i go
span other and
572
00:30:41,902 --> 00:30:42,066
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: true
573
00:30:42,223 --> 00:30:44,931
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm not saying it's wrong there are
people that raise a lot of money because
574
00:30:44,971 --> 00:30:50,133
[melanie_mcdaniel]: they've got you know on point like
marketing program and maybe i've been a little
575
00:30:50,254 --> 00:30:53,940
[melanie_mcdaniel]: slow but the people who invest with
me i know them very well
576
00:30:54,270 --> 00:30:54,391
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
577
00:30:54,631 --> 00:30:54,731
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i've
578
00:30:54,693 --> 00:30:54,774
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and
579
00:30:54,771 --> 00:30:54,891
[melanie_mcdaniel]: been
580
00:30:54,834 --> 00:30:55,016
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that's
581
00:30:54,931 --> 00:30:56,552
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to mexico with some i travel i
582
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,300
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
583
00:30:56,652 --> 00:30:58,634
[melanie_mcdaniel]: see them i'm in town i meet
with them
584
00:30:59,081 --> 00:30:59,245
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
585
00:30:59,135 --> 00:31:02,618
[melanie_mcdaniel]: they can call me any time like
um that's how i want to build my
586
00:31:02,698 --> 00:31:04,620
[melanie_mcdaniel]: business that's just one way is like
the relational
587
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:04,821
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure
588
00:31:05,761 --> 00:31:09,729
[melanie_mcdaniel]: way or there's the know the big
platform and the funnel way for sure
589
00:31:09,751 --> 00:31:13,056
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and that's like my grandfather used to
say there's more than one way to skin
590
00:31:13,096 --> 00:31:17,864
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a cat i mean just because you
get you get business done one way does
591
00:31:17,924 --> 00:31:23,513
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: not mean it's wrong as long as
it suits you is your needs uh and
592
00:31:23,654 --> 00:31:30,004
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: makes your investors good returns and everybody
is happy then hey you have again with
593
00:31:30,044 --> 00:31:33,150
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that same you trop a thousand hooks
it's a whole lot easier to make fifty
594
00:31:33,190 --> 00:31:38,358
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: people happy than it is keep a
thousand people happy so um it makes perfect
595
00:31:38,418 --> 00:31:43,487
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sense and there's no again there's there
anybody that would push back and say well
596
00:31:43,507 --> 00:31:49,685
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you're doing it wrong is obvious le
probably not doing anything herself so well with
597
00:31:49,725 --> 00:31:54,173
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that being said mellen we we're getting
kind of close to our time here and
598
00:31:54,934 --> 00:31:58,780
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: we have a couple of questions that
we ask every every guest comes on the
599
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:03,604
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: show and there's no right or wrong
answer but the first of those questions is
600
00:32:03,845 --> 00:32:08,509
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: what is the best book that you
have either recently read or are currently reading
601
00:32:10,122 --> 00:32:11,165
[melanie_mcdaniel]: the best book ever
602
00:32:12,550 --> 00:32:15,755
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: well and we try to stay away
from a couple of things that i usually
603
00:32:15,795 --> 00:32:18,740
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: don't announce this but we try to
stay away from rich dad poor dad and
604
00:32:18,820 --> 00:32:24,853
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: the bible because obviously those are two
books that everybody has has some degree of
605
00:32:24,933 --> 00:32:25,557
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: connection to
606
00:32:25,605 --> 00:32:25,667
[melanie_mcdaniel]: ah
607
00:32:25,738 --> 00:32:26,643
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and so we
608
00:32:26,601 --> 00:32:26,802
[melanie_mcdaniel]: that's
609
00:32:26,724 --> 00:32:26,945
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: want to
610
00:32:27,142 --> 00:32:29,165
[melanie_mcdaniel]: what an honor for robert kisacky to
be
611
00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:29,770
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
612
00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:29,866
[melanie_mcdaniel]: et
613
00:32:29,871 --> 00:32:29,931
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to
614
00:32:29,966 --> 00:32:30,046
[melanie_mcdaniel]: up
615
00:32:29,971 --> 00:32:30,071
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: get
616
00:32:30,126 --> 00:32:30,207
[melanie_mcdaniel]: the
617
00:32:30,131 --> 00:32:30,272
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: his
618
00:32:30,287 --> 00:32:30,587
[melanie_mcdaniel]: level
619
00:32:30,332 --> 00:32:30,513
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: book
620
00:32:30,687 --> 00:32:30,828
[melanie_mcdaniel]: with
621
00:32:31,014 --> 00:32:31,235
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to get
622
00:32:31,188 --> 00:32:31,208
[melanie_mcdaniel]: a
623
00:32:31,275 --> 00:32:31,395
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: his
624
00:32:31,308 --> 00:32:31,669
[melanie_mcdaniel]: bible
625
00:32:31,456 --> 00:32:34,826
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: book in the bible set to the
side yeah yeah that's exactly
626
00:32:34,453 --> 00:32:34,473
[melanie_mcdaniel]: m
627
00:32:34,966 --> 00:32:35,187
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: right
628
00:32:35,901 --> 00:32:36,141
[melanie_mcdaniel]: funny
629
00:32:36,633 --> 00:32:36,716
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: ah
630
00:32:36,682 --> 00:32:40,609
[melanie_mcdaniel]: um so ridge dead parted would be
my number one choice but it really changed
631
00:32:40,649 --> 00:32:43,814
[melanie_mcdaniel]: my life but the next book and
i read it read around the same time
632
00:32:43,874 --> 00:32:46,519
[melanie_mcdaniel]: as rich dead port and it was
that book that really helped me shift my
633
00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:49,682
[melanie_mcdaniel]: mind set so i could from employee
to entrepreneur is
634
00:32:49,610 --> 00:32:49,734
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yep
635
00:32:49,763 --> 00:32:53,746
[melanie_mcdaniel]: a book called the power of now
and it's by ecerttol it's a little woo
636
00:32:53,947 --> 00:32:57,150
[melanie_mcdaniel]: it's a little out there but it's
about you know living in the present moment
637
00:32:57,973 --> 00:33:03,748
[melanie_mcdaniel]: and getting to know who you truly
are and what your purpose s and for
638
00:33:03,828 --> 00:33:07,895
[melanie_mcdaniel]: life purpose is for life and nothing
else matters that much like we don't need
639
00:33:07,935 --> 00:33:11,200
[melanie_mcdaniel]: the picket fence we don't need whatever
culture is designed for us you can break
640
00:33:11,381 --> 00:33:15,861
[melanie_mcdaniel]: free from that so that book the
power of now is just really about past
641
00:33:15,941 --> 00:33:19,107
[melanie_mcdaniel]: is past we don't even now if
it actually happened honestly the future is not
642
00:33:19,147 --> 00:33:22,011
[melanie_mcdaniel]: promised so right now is what you
have so you just need to do what
643
00:33:22,492 --> 00:33:25,117
[melanie_mcdaniel]: makes you happy now and if that's
to build your own business you do that
644
00:33:25,257 --> 00:33:27,802
[melanie_mcdaniel]: if that's to be an employee which
i doubt it is then that
645
00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:33,138
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: well that's what you just said about
your business i mean hey exactly
646
00:33:32,571 --> 00:33:33,741
[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
647
00:33:33,198 --> 00:33:39,008
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean it's just because yeah i
mean and that's the power of now and
648
00:33:39,088 --> 00:33:44,998
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: again take control now and make things
happen so all right what is now obviously
649
00:33:45,038 --> 00:33:49,024
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: this is going to be kind of
kind of a question that could could could
650
00:33:49,064 --> 00:33:53,993
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: garner i'm sure a hundred answers from
you but i want to know maybe if
651
00:33:54,033 --> 00:33:58,542
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: we can narrow it down to at
least a couple what is a dream vacation
652
00:33:58,662 --> 00:34:01,187
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that you have taken or hoped to
take
653
00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:06,927
[melanie_mcdaniel]: let's go with hope to take because
the past of the past have been a
654
00:34:06,947 --> 00:34:10,993
[melanie_mcdaniel]: lot of places i want to go
on an amazon river cruise safari is high
655
00:34:11,033 --> 00:34:13,981
[melanie_mcdaniel]: on the list in fact i was
on a call earlier today talking to a
656
00:34:14,041 --> 00:34:16,829
[melanie_mcdaniel]: tour company for an kenasofari for this
year
657
00:34:16,980 --> 00:34:17,904
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: m m
658
00:34:17,891 --> 00:34:19,973
[melanie_mcdaniel]: those would be at the top of
my list but of course you know the
659
00:34:20,033 --> 00:34:24,217
[melanie_mcdaniel]: egypt pyramids and the holy lands and
i mean there's so many places i want
660
00:34:24,257 --> 00:34:25,338
[melanie_mcdaniel]: to go as though they've been funny
661
00:34:25,831 --> 00:34:28,295
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i'm in the same boat i will
tell you that
662
00:34:28,713 --> 00:34:28,774
[melanie_mcdaniel]: so
663
00:34:29,317 --> 00:34:36,969
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: there is trying to think madagascar if
i was litnadosefaris i think madagascar would be
664
00:34:38,940 --> 00:34:44,246
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i just i don't know if it's
if it's just the vegetation that's the changes
665
00:34:44,346 --> 00:34:48,380
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i don't i don't know but it's
just there's that's such a i'm just so
666
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,425
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: enamored with madagascar specifically as far as
that kind of stuff goes but i don't
667
00:34:52,445 --> 00:34:54,967
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: know if you can see the big
can you see all of the big five
668
00:34:55,027 --> 00:34:56,349
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: in madagascar i'm not sure
669
00:34:56,791 --> 00:34:57,752
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i have no idea
670
00:34:57,870 --> 00:34:58,052
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i don't
671
00:34:57,913 --> 00:34:58,193
[melanie_mcdaniel]: it's so
672
00:34:58,093 --> 00:34:58,520
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: know either
673
00:34:58,333 --> 00:35:02,680
[melanie_mcdaniel]: different so kenya is close to my
heart because i've been supporting a child there
674
00:35:02,761 --> 00:35:05,706
[melanie_mcdaniel]: since twenty ten i think i'm actually
my third or fourth child by now
675
00:35:06,041 --> 00:35:06,832
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: sure sure
676
00:35:07,108 --> 00:35:12,357
[melanie_mcdaniel]: so that's kind of why yeah you
see the big five there in tenzania madagascar
677
00:35:12,637 --> 00:35:16,023
[melanie_mcdaniel]: they probably something different because other parts
of africa is like like the congo you
678
00:35:16,063 --> 00:35:18,627
[melanie_mcdaniel]: see the gorillas and stuff like africa
is so diverse
679
00:35:18,831 --> 00:35:19,595
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah and i
680
00:35:19,669 --> 00:35:19,729
[melanie_mcdaniel]: in
681
00:35:19,695 --> 00:35:19,916
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: think
682
00:35:19,809 --> 00:35:21,433
[melanie_mcdaniel]: things i'm not sure what go scare
house
683
00:35:21,351 --> 00:35:21,555
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
684
00:35:21,634 --> 00:35:22,859
[melanie_mcdaniel]: maybe he watch the cartoon
685
00:35:23,350 --> 00:35:25,493
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah there you go was cartoon figured
out so
686
00:35:26,061 --> 00:35:27,081
[melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah
687
00:35:26,194 --> 00:35:28,217
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i saw a guy one time i
remember it was in
688
00:35:28,521 --> 00:35:28,848
[melanie_mcdaniel]: oh
689
00:35:28,557 --> 00:35:34,115
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: two thousand and five i think and
you're gonna call me crazy when i tell
690
00:35:34,135 --> 00:35:37,741
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you this but in two thousand and
five i watched it now this is this
691
00:35:37,801 --> 00:35:43,793
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: is pre like preface book being huge
pre tons of so maybe this guy had
692
00:35:43,813 --> 00:35:45,621
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: his own website and
693
00:35:45,651 --> 00:35:48,385
[melanie_mcdaniel]: my space my space
694
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,786
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: yeah we had my space right so
and maybe that's where i picked it up
695
00:35:51,906 --> 00:35:54,290
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i can't remember but i watched the
guy
696
00:35:54,321 --> 00:35:54,567
[melanie_mcdaniel]: yes
697
00:35:55,051 --> 00:35:59,639
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: he swam the entire length of the
amazon river now i know you're going to
698
00:35:59,659 --> 00:36:06,750
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: say there no way this guy swam
the entire length of the amazon river and
699
00:36:06,811 --> 00:36:13,761
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: that is a fact parana crocadai mean
whatever it was every snakes i mean everything
700
00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:20,349
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: now now he had he wore a
dry suit and he had a boat or
701
00:36:20,509 --> 00:36:25,767
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: a raft or whatever you know whatever
the vehicle of choices for the amazon that
702
00:36:25,887 --> 00:36:29,373
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: followed him but they documented they filmed
the whole thing and every day he would
703
00:36:29,413 --> 00:36:33,480
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: swim two or three miles and then
one day he would was feeling sick i
704
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:38,508
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: wouldn't swim much then he would swim
four or five miles and it was absolutely
705
00:36:38,889 --> 00:36:42,314
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: to me it was one of those
moments in time where when he completed it
706
00:36:42,374 --> 00:36:48,445
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: i was like you know man can
do anything man wants to do and that
707
00:36:48,505 --> 00:36:50,508
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: is if you need a look at
it i remember the guy's name but it
708
00:36:50,548 --> 00:36:53,954
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: was i checked it every morning and
they had a live feed you could watch
709
00:36:54,735 --> 00:36:54,815
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: and
710
00:36:54,822 --> 00:36:54,966
[melanie_mcdaniel]: wow
711
00:36:55,096 --> 00:37:00,045
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: again it was pre all of this
reality stuff and anyway it's pretty cool so
712
00:37:00,506 --> 00:37:03,853
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: all right well listen melani if somebody
heard something they want to reach out to
713
00:37:03,893 --> 00:37:06,438
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: you and get in touch with you
what is the best way for that to
714
00:37:06,498 --> 00:37:06,699
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: happen
715
00:37:08,792 --> 00:37:13,894
[melanie_mcdaniel]: i mean my website has all the
ways to get into you know learning more
716
00:37:13,934 --> 00:37:17,118
[melanie_mcdaniel]: about me or just my emails malone
at free state capital group dot com pretty
717
00:37:17,138 --> 00:37:18,240
[melanie_mcdaniel]: easy to remember that one
718
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:22,626
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: awesome good well thank you so much
for your time we really appreciate you taking
719
00:37:22,666 --> 00:37:26,332
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: the time to be with us today
and listeners if you like what you heard
720
00:37:26,372 --> 00:37:31,100
[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: today please please please scroll down give
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: review of the show and let us
know what you like and i want to
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: thank everybody for their time meloney especially
you thank you again for carving the time
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: out to be with us and i
hope everybody has a wonderful s of the
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[casey___melanie_mcdaniel]: day