How I Bought a $1.2M House for $560K (Real Estate Secrets) | Donovan Camarotti DSH #1009

I bought my personal house recently too, and the way it went down is they were listed on the market for $935,000.

Then they dropped it to $850,000.

I offered them $5.50.

Damn.

And they were like, no, we can't do $5.50.

I was like, all right, what can you do?

They're like, well, we'll do $560.

You low-ball them.

Yeah, I low-balled them.

Wow, so you got that for like 40% off?

Yeah, put like 250 grand into it just to make it nice and they don't want to.

But you know, it was solid property.

Dude, you got to steal.

You doubled your money overnight.

All right, guys, Donovan Camarati here today.

We're going to talk Airbnb, right?

Yeah, Airbnb, flipping, whatever, man.

Let's go.

And you're a young person to be in this space.

I am.

21.

Did you start at like straight out of high school or?

Yeah, I really kind of just started, you know, looking into it.

You know, when I was like a senior in high school, I needed to figure out what to do.

Then like first week in college, started, you know, I got my first property first week of college and just been doing it ever since.

Wow.

How'd you afford that first one?

Saved up some money.

Had to, you know, basically just put everything I had into it.

And then, you know, just bought that one, ended up having no money.

So sold it, then I had some money and then bought a few more and just kind of kept doing it.

Oh, so you were able to flip it quick?

I was, yeah, within a few months.

Nice.

And what gave you that conviction to pick that specific property?

Well, you know, it was it was cheaper.

It was easier.

It was like a condo.

So it was like super easy to get into.

And it was a light renovation.

So it was like a good first property.

Nice.

And how did you learn how to like fix it and everything?

Honestly, I I kind of just figured it out by doing it.

I, you know, my parents had like this handyman that worked for them.

So he kind of just like did the renovation.

Had to find a couple other subcontractors and just basically figured it out.

A good handyman is important, I feel like, for that business because you get ripped off with certain guys.

Yeah, certain contractors will take advantage of people, especially if they don't know like, you know, dude, I've been on or whatever.

I've been getting wrecked out here in my house.

Have you?

Bro.

Because I just bought a house.

Did you?

And I've never had to use contractors before, but a lot of them be highballing and you have no idea what what to compare it to.

Right.

So you're just overpaying.

Yeah, if you have like no reference, you know, you'll pay 100 grand for something that'll cost you like 40, 50.

Yeah.

You know, normally, actual cost.

I just paid like 12K to fix a leak.

Oh, gosh.

I got wrecked.

Yeah.

Yeah, that should be like a couple thousand max.

Right, max.

Max.

Yeah, so you live and you learn, though, man.

100%.

So is your main strategy to fix and flip?

Yeah.

I do have like one Airbnb and then one that's

in the process of being built.

But fix and flip is my bread and butter.

I feel that.

What do you think about this section 8 stuff?

Section 8, I mean, you know, it's good for some people, and I think it works for some people.

But I don't think it's really something I'd want to get into.

I mean, I know people can make a lot of money, but not so much my thing, I think.

Yeah.

You know, just attending class.

It's, you know, lower level people is what you're dealing with.

It seems kind of too good to be true, the ads I'm seeing for it.

I mean, it's nice because the government will pay

the rent basically, or they'll guarantee it.

But then, you know, you get just the lower class of people, which, I mean, it's kind of unfortunate to say, but like me personally, I would rather kind of just deal with businesses.

And, you know, I'd rather rent to a business and, you know, they have a, you know, guarantee on it.

And it's just a lot easier.

Yeah.

So you're targeting me instead of like B2C.

You're targeting like the upper middle class.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People that are a little more stable, a little more, you know, they just are comfortable essentially.

You know.

So how many units do you have now?

So I currently have just under 40 flips on the books right now.

And then, you know, the two Airbnbs as well.

That's so fast because you started recently yeah yeah within the last three years holy crap so that's like 15 a year almost flips yeah well i'm on track to do about like 80 flips 80 to 100 flips um you know in the next 12 months um and then you know just kind of like scaled up so like my first year i did like nine flips second year maybe like 22 and then now it's just like you know totally took off damn exponential growth so what was that thing that did you change anything from what you were doing well so between year one and year two i learned how to raise money right because like you can only do so much in real estate just know money wise right um and then from year two to year three i figured out how to hire people so i hired project managers i hired acquisition i now have an assistant um you know disposition as well so everything is like kind of covered essentially so that just allows us to scale like crazy yeah i feel like raising money is really hard to figure out yeah but once you got that and you have a good roi system in place like right why would you not continue investing and well i kind of had to raise money just out of necessity you know yeah you didn't have any you know my fifth or sixth flip you know i already had a proof of concept like i I know I could do it.

Um, and then I just, you know, ran out of money.

So I was like, okay, hey, I need, you know, 50 grand for the down payment on this house, you know, paid someone interest and, you know, just basically

kept doing that.

I was like, oh, wow, I can do this and do a hundred properties.

You know, why stop at one or two or three or four?

I feel that.

Any flips where you lost money?

And if so, what was the big lesson learned there?

Yeah, 100%, dude.

I lost like 50 grand on my third flip.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Which sucked, right?

Because basically what I had made, I lost.

But the good thing is that that property, you know, didn't sell for like a year.

So with the holding costs and everything, that's why I lost.

But I was able to flip other houses during that time.

So it kind of just made up for it.

Got it.

And I would say like the biggest lesson I learned is not hiring bad contractors or not always hiring the cheapest, you know, bid.

Obviously, you don't want to get ripped off like we were just talking about.

But,

you know, you don't want to go with the cheapest guy because he's probably underbidding it for a reason.

Either he doesn't know what he's getting into or he's just going to put in cheaper material and not do as good of a work.

You know, so that's what bit me on that house right so maybe get someone in the middle of high and and low like if you get three bids and you got one guy at 10 grand one at 12 one at 15 go with like a 12 guy yeah that's probably the safest play 100 yeah because if you go with the cheapest it sounds good but then you got to pay for the fix right and then it's double right yeah that happened to me yeah and you pay the extent it's expensive guy to do it yeah yeah i feel that man um so it took you how long to be profitable after that after that 50k loss so i mean it was kind of it was profitable you know during that time right?

Now, obviously that hurt the P ⁇ L at the end of the year.

But we were flipping other houses during that time.

So like, you know, we were able to survive it.

Got it.

So this, this business is, is interesting then, because a lot of businesses, you're not profitable for a bit.

No.

And I will say, like, I didn't really take any profit and any distributions, you know, other than very small ones for like the first year, year and a half, you know.

And then only recently I started taking big ones and I was actually able to take big ones comfortably.

Right.

So you got to lock in for a year.

Minimum, minimum year in this business.

Did you have a mentor?

you know i have um a few mentors right and um i kind of just i get different things from every one of them now none of them being like one-on-one per se um but like you know i i think you had him on the um podcast ryan pineda yeah he's been a big one for me right um you know i have um the guy that runs our local ria you know he's taught me a lot um just by being in there and listening to what he has to say you know i learned a lot on youtube honestly youtube university baby yeah i for like probably at least like nine months maybe a year um before i really jumped into it i was just watching youtube learning everything i could about like fixing and flipping houses you know how to talk to sellers how to run um comparable sales you know how to estimate rehab costs everything like that yeah and you won't learn that in college no not at all hell no no so do you even have a real estate license i don't have a real estate license but i have agents you know that now work for me that do have a real estate license so got it and how are you finding the houses on on the ml uh so on the mls we do find some houses um a lot of the stuff is you know just through google pay-per-click marketing.

You know, honestly, the best, though, has been the organic leads and the referrals that we've gotten.

Really?

Yeah.

That's been like by far the best.

Number one, they don't cost anything.

And number two,

they're really high quality because you don't have to like sell yourself.

They kind of already trust you because it's a referral.

Wow.

So that's the strategy right there.

That's been the best for me so far.

Yeah, because if you're looking on MLS, everyone else is looking.

Yeah, and you're going to pay the most.

100%.

Yeah, because they can run comps and everything.

So they have a better idea of the market.

And they have an agent representing them.

Right, exactly.

And then, you know, it's just getting out to everyone so you're just gonna if you win it you're just probably the highest bidder yeah you know 100

any crazy stories with uh squatters or anything oh squatters man

where are you doing this what state uh florida okay which is good because the laws there are like decent you know for for the property owner um now it's still kind of difficult depending on um

you know what's going on and how they became squatters.

The first time I ever dealt with a squatter was a property that I bought.

There were like seven people living in there.

By the time I had closed on it, there were like maybe four people living there.

And this lady like overstayed her,

you know, welcome, basically.

And then she said she left.

And I was like, okay, cool.

So we went into the house and her bed was still there.

Her cats were still there.

It looked like she was still living there.

I was like, I don't think she left.

So we went back a little bit later.

Sure enough, she was in there.

And I was like, oh boy.

And it wasn't me.

It was actually my project manager that went in there.

Funny enough, I was on the phone with him, and he walks in, and we're just talking whatever.

He's like, Hey, what do you want to do with this, you know, baseboard?

Um, and he goes, Hey, you cannot be here, like, really loud, you know, really imposing voice.

And I was like, Bro, what's happening?

Um, and the lady's name was like Lisa.

I don't know, I probably shouldn't say that, but who cares?

She's a squatter.

He's like, Lisa, you cannot be here.

You have to get out right now.

And then, sure enough, like he kicks her out, she gets out.

Um, and

change of locks, whatever.

I set up a camera The next night, she climbs in the window and gets back in the house.

No way.

Yes.

And apparently, two of her other friends come in the house, too.

Whoa.

So we walked into the house one morning.

The bathroom guys were there to like, you know, work on the bathroom, whatever.

They walk into the house and they got one person in the back porch, one person in the closet sleeping, and then Lisa's in her bedroom.

So they're like, hey guys, you can't be here.

You got to get out.

And they left pretty easily.

But this one lady, Lisa, kept coming back.

Like every every night she would come back to sleep um and she was like yeah i'm getting out today getting out today she never got out right so one night i saw her on the camera i was like near where the house was so i just went over there um and i was like hey you gotta go i got the cops over there

and the cops were actually kind of like giving me a little bit of a hard time um because they were like hey you know technically you know you're not the owner of record yet i was like yes i am here's all the paperwork it just hasn't updated on public record yet um and i had to you know basically convince the cops like hey guys help me get this person out.

That's not supposed to be here.

And I had to prove, you know, my ownership and everything.

And, you know, they had a conversation with her.

And she was like kind of like a meth head.

So she, in that moment, she agreed to get out.

I helped her literally take all her stuff and put it at the curb.

So she couldn't come back in.

We, you know, put sticks in the windows to lock them.

And after that, she finally got out.

She didn't come back.

I later found out.

She got arrested.

And all the proceeds from the sale, she sent to her meth dealer.

No way.

And she lost all all the money that she made from that sale.

What?

Yeah.

That is nuts.

Yeah.

Wow.

She endorsed the check over to him because she didn't have a bank account.

And he ran off with it.

That's it.

I was like, what did you expect, man?

You're lucky you were in Florida.

I feel like if that was Callie, you would have been screwed.

No shot.

She would have still been there.

Yeah.

What is it?

Like six months if you're there, you own the house or something?

I don't know exactly.

I actually had this one guy I know in California.

He basically became a squatter.

Like Chase Bank, you know, still is like on the deed, but he's owned the house for like 20 years and he's collecting rent on it yeah um he's like renting it out and now there's like nothing they can do about it because it's in california that's crazy yeah so he's making rental income for 20 years on it

how do the hoas feel about what you do in their neighborhoods You know, it's interesting.

Some HOAs are fine, and then some you just get like these Karens, right?

That just have nothing better to do.

They're retired or they don't work, whatever.

And they just want to feel like they're in control, right?

So like one example, I had this one lady who, this is probably the craziest story where she was like, hey, you can't be doing work without a permit.

I was like, yeah, I understand.

Here's my permit.

And I showed her the copy of the permit.

She's like, well, it has to be posted in the window.

It's like, okay, my bad.

You know, I didn't know.

And then we had it printed out, posted in the window, but it didn't get done that day.

So what she did that day is she went into the unit.

It was a condo.

She goes into the unit.

She kicks out all the guys that are working there, which I don't know why they listened to her, but they did.

And she takes the keys out of my lockbox and she holds on to the keys.

Now, I live like an hour away from where this property is.

So I get a call from the contractor, like freaking out.

He's like, hey, this lady just took your keys.

She kicked all my guys out of the unit.

Like, you know, what's going on?

I was like, oh, this is ridiculous.

So I hop in the car.

I go down there and I go knock on the door because the contractor, he was like, hey, she's in unit like 204.

So I go knock on 204.

What's the wrong lady?

I was like, giving her crap.

I was like, hey, you took my keys.

She's like, I didn't take your keys.

And I was like, yes, you did.

Like, they said it's 204.

And then he was like, no, it's 304.

I was like, oh, dude, you told me 204.

Poor old lady.

I was like, it's poor old lady.

So I had to go back and apologize to her.

But then I find the lady in 304.

She's just nasty, man.

And there's actually a video on my Instagram about it

where, you know, we're yelling back and forth.

I was like, give me my keys, lady.

And she's just not giving me my keys because I don't have the permit in the window i was like well hey the hoa has it on file um i do have a permit like you cannot take my keys and go into my unit like that's breaking and entering ended up having to call the cops uh but before that she um tries to take off and like i tried to like you know get in front of the car so she didn't go and she tries to like run me over holy crap so i had to like hop out uh of the way whole videos on my instagram you recorded all i recorded all of it wow yeah um and then so she tries to um you know run over me whatever cops come and they got, like, I got her license plate.

So then, you know, they called her back in.

Yeah.

And

they got her.

They talked to her.

HOA president ended up like coming out.

He was like, you know, kind of on my side, which is nice.

And he was like, hey, you cannot be doing this.

And the cops, so they gave her like a citation.

They were like, you can press charges, but honestly, it's probably not worth your time.

Like, if she does it again, go ahead and press charges.

Thankfully, she didn't.

But yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

That's like attempted, like

vehicular, like manslaughter or something, right?

Plus breaking an inner ring, plus, you know, whatever else.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She could have gotten the whole book for her.

Holy crap.

She did not like what you were doing.

No.

It's like, why?

You know?

There was nothing better to do.

I guess it was loud or something, right?

That noise.

I guess.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I mean, that's something that's just part of being a homeowner.

Like, your neighbors are going to do work once in a while.

Like, that's...

Yeah.

Like, what if she wanted to do work on her house?

Exactly.

Like, what are you going to do there?

But, you know, then there is on the flip side, you know, some HOAs that are really cool.

And they're like, hey, you took this really ugly house and made it nice.

Thank you so much.

Here's Here's some other houses that are ugly.

So there are some good HOAs.

They're not bad all the time, but just some of these.

I have a love-hate with them.

Yeah, me too.

Because the monthly fees a lot.

And then, so, dude, my HOA in Vegas, they found the money laundering.

Really?

Yeah, they were keeping all the money.

No way.

Yeah.

So what's going to happen with that?

I don't know.

I left that neighborhood, but I think they're getting sued.

I don't know, but that's probably common because they're getting all this money.

They're obviously not spending it all.

Right.

Like, let's just be honest.

There's a big thing in Florida with condos because like, you know, I don't know if you've heard about it, but there's something called a milestone inspection where if the property is more than like three stories tall, they have to come in and do an inspection and make sure it's like up to,

you know, up to spec and everything.

And if there's not, they get these huge assessments.

Like there's this one with had foundation issues near me.

It was a

probably like 70 something unit deal on the beach and they wanted to sell it for like a million six, which it's worth like $20 million.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It just because they were going to dissolve the HOA and just wanted to get rid of it.

Damn.

So yeah, right.

So someone scooped that up.

So it's a whole process.

I'm trying to.

Yeah.

But it's a whole process to like dissolve an HOA and everything like that.

Yeah, it sounds complicated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like, you know, they didn't have the reserves to

do the foundation repairs.

And, you know, the people didn't have the money to come up with, you know, for the assessment and everything.

So they were were just, hey, it's better to just get rid of it.

Yeah.

How's the market in Florida by you right now?

Right now, there's a lot listed in Vegas.

Yeah, there's, there's a decent amount listed in Florida too.

I would say like a few months ago,

it was a little worse.

It's picked up a little bit now with a little bit of an interest rate cut.

But it's definitely slower than it was, you know, like last year, year before.

But it's not horrible.

You know, we're still selling stuff.

It feels like there's like a stalemate still.

There is a little bit, right?

Because people think interest rates are going to keep dropping, which they probably are.

So then they're kind of just waiting.

But, you know, then again, if you wait, then, you know, prices are probably going to go up.

If you wait, yeah.

And there's more offers.

Yeah, exactly.

You're going to be competing with more people and you're going to pay more for the property.

That's why I bought now because I was chilling.

I was the only offer.

I had all the leverage.

I was like, you know.

You know, I bought my personal house recently too.

And the way it went down is they were listed on the market for $935,000.

Then they dropped it to $850.

I offered them $550.

Damn.

And they were like, no, we can't do $5.50.

I was like, all right, what can you do?

They're like, well, we'll do 560.

Wow.

I was like, all right, cool.

You low-ball them.

Yeah, low-ball them.

So you got that for like 40% off.

Yeah.

And

it, when I bought it, it appraised for 1.2 million.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

So like, it's so much easier to get better deals right now.

That's insane.

Now I'm going to have to put like 250 grand into it just to make it nice and like if I want to, but you know, it was solid property.

Dude, you got to steal.

You doubled your money overnight.

And you didn't do any work to get that appraisal?

No, I mean, it appraised as.

It's just because it's a big house, nice neighborhood, big pool on the golf course.

and just like that neighborhood you know with that size of a house you know was north of a million it sounds like that's your competitive edge you're really good at identifying these deals yeah you have to be you've probably seen so many at this point where you can just see it and yeah like i'll tell my acquisition guys hey guys i want you to if i tell you a street name and i tell you the approximate size of a house i need you guys to tell me how much that house is worth because i i know it right like if you tell me you know it i live in poor st.

lucie if you tell me hey it's this street in poor st.

Lucie 321700 square feet I know that that'll sell for 400 grand whoa you know is that memory or is that just skill knowing the market you know and now not everywhere is going to be like that um you know where houses are not so cookie cutter or whatever um but yeah i mean you have to be able to know what properties are worth so you can identify a good deal right away right yeah that's that's important because you got to act quick if you see a good deal 100 yeah before someone else scoops it off definitely that makes sense damn it sounds like you're gonna surpass prinada

Well, he's doing a lot.

You know, he's I think he he changed his strategy a little bit.

He's doing a lot more like wholesale and novation deals, which is awesome.

I'm honestly, I'm getting into that.

Wholesale and novation, you said?

Yeah.

You know, where, you know, he's not taking down as many flips just because of the risk, you know.

Because I mean, a lot of flippers, myself included, you know,

2023,

you know, when the market really slowed, it's like, hey, if you're carrying 40 flips and they all drop by like 30 grand, you know, that's...

That's $1.2 million.

That's a big hit.

You just like took an L on, you know?

And, you know,

I think that's kind of why he's switching to like the wholesale novation strategy because there's a lot less exposure.

You know, it's not like you have to go and own a property for six months and then, you know, sell it and make money.

Yeah.

You know, if you can't get the price you want, you just cancel the contract.

How does novation work?

I haven't heard that one.

So it's a little bit complicated and it works a little bit different in each state.

But essentially...

Instead of wholesaling the house to a cash buyer where you get a contract, let's say for 300 grand and you go assign your contract for 320 to a cash buyer who's going to flip it and you make that $20,000 spread.

Novation is when you actually will sell it to a retail buyer, someone that's going to live in the property because those people can pay a lot more for the property than, you know, an investor can, because the investor is trying to make money.

Someone who's living there is just, you know,

they don't need to profit most of the time.

So you're like middlemanning basically, similar to wholesale.

Yeah, it's similar to wholesale, but you're selling to buyers who will pay you more, right?

And then in turn, you can get the seller more money.

So that's, that's like a big pivot That he's been pushing and it's I a hundred percent see why and I'm I'm honestly gonna be doing that Yeah, there's so many ways to make money in real estate.

I know people buying land.

Yeah, same here.

Yeah, and flipping it for like crazy profits well cuz you can change the zoning on land too you know if you buy an agricultural you know maybe 10 acres and you get it mixed use commercial like I mean you're gonna probably triple if not quadruple the value of that land and I feel like that industry specifically the land if you have the right connects with politics like you could really run it off get get in there and lobby and yeah i mean let's be honest that's how the top guys are probably doing it 100 yeah because i mean you know like where i am in florida it's like if you fly um over florida like you go into the airport you just see it's like by the ocean it's just extremely dense and extremely populated and then you go like a few miles out it's just like trees and you know at the everglades right and it's just it's slowly moving west as people um you know just keep building and keep building so you know people will buy this agricultural land couple years it'll be you you know, a neighborhood.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, they'll get priced out of all the major cities.

Exactly.

And Florida is the best, probably the best state in the country to live in right now, in my opinion.

Yeah, well, and it's nice, too, because, you know, you have the beach, you have,

you know, like woods, you have,

you know, access to water, access to, you know, the Caribbean, which is a good airport.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, you could fly pretty quick to

out of the country.

So 100%.

I'm a fan of it.

If it wasn't, the only thing is the humidity, dude.

Dude, I walk outside, my glasses are fogged.

Yeah.

But other than that.

Vegas is, I was here like three months ago in

July.

Oh, man.

It was hot, man.

120.

Yeah.

And it's like a dry heat.

Like in Florida, it's like, you know, you can breathe because it's humid.

And like, I live in Florida.

I'm used to it.

Like, yeah, I use sweat more.

But like, I'm coming out here to Vegas and it's hotter.

But I'm not sweating as much, but dude, I can't breathe.

It's like it's so dry.

And I'm sure you get used to it when you live here.

No, you don't.

My lips have been chopped for four years.

Oh, my gosh.

I get bloody noses still.

You don't get used to this shit.

No, literally everyone here carries their own chapstick or something.

Really?

Because your lips just don't get used to it.

Yeah.

Like it's tough out here.

I would pick wet heat over dry heat.

Yeah.

And you know, it gets cold in the winter.

I didn't realize Vegas.

It does.

I figured desert, you know, it's like still warm.

No, it's cold, man.

Yeah.

I was here in January and it was like 40 degrees.

No, you need a hoodie and sweatpants.

Yeah, I didn't bring anything like that.

I thought it was going to be hot.

Nah.

Florida, you can wear a t-shirt and shorts the whole year.

Yeah, flip-flops and whatever.

You're good.

Yeah, you're set.

Now, Florida's big on supercars.

I know you got one, right?

Yeah, recently.

What'd you get?

I got a McLaren 570, which is like, you know, entry-level.

I wrapped it orange because, you know.

Classic.

Yeah, like, I always wanted an orange McLaren.

But, you know, I really got it

more as an investment, right?

And some people might be like, oh, yeah, it's not an investment.

But I think it is.

Because just in the few months that I've owned it, I've gotten offers, you know, to be literally on TV shows and, you know, have someone

write a whole pitch for me to to do that.

I've gotten people that wanted to sell me their real estate deals.

I wanted to lend me money on my real estate deal

just in a few months of having it, you know, because they kind of associate that, you know, hey, someone's driving a car that's a couple hundred grand, you know, they obviously have some type of level of success.

Right.

So, I mean, it's, it's a big, you know, marketing thing.

Cars are great social proof.

And I know they get hate, but if you use it in the right way, you can make an ROI on it.

100%.

And plus, I'll go to these, like I'm in this club with a bunch of supercar owners, right?

So who am I hanging around with?

Other supercar owners who obviously have a lot more money than I do.

Exactly.

And they got connections, people that probably invest in what you're doing.

Yeah, it's a win-win.

I need to look into those clubs out here.

Yeah.

Yeah, do it.

I know Fastlane Club.

I don't know if they have it out here.

Fastling club.

They're big in Florida.

And they have a few like national ones, too.

Yeah, I know there's rallies out here.

I've been meaning to get to one of those.

Yeah.

Those look fun.

Yeah.

Are you into cars at all?

I got a G-Wagon.

I mainly bought it for the write-off Last year we had a lot of money or a lot of profit in December.

So I was like, shit, I got like a day to figure this out.

So I went to Vegas Auto Gallery and bought one.

But no, I'm going to get more into it because my house has a lot of spots for cars.

So I need to step it up.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I got my house too because it has like a huge driveway and like a three-car garage.

But there's like, there's room to add like another, you know, two-car garage and probably some lifts.

Wow.

You know, I'm like, I really like cars.

That's the first one for you?

Yeah.

This is like, you know, for the future.

One of many.

Yeah.

And, you know, speaking of cars, too, like, not everything I have is like super, you know, super nice.

Like, I got my truck, my, you know, Ford Raptor, which is like my, basically my daily.

Yeah.

And then I have these, like, two old Jeeps.

One of them I found in a house that I bought, which was awesome.

What?

I got it for free.

No way.

He left his car?

Yeah, he left his car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I, you know, I texted him and I was like, hey, like, you coming to get this?

Or he's like, nah, there's no title.

It's like, you know, I can't get it running.

All I needed was a fuel pump.

Damn.

Drain the old gas, gas, put a new fuel pump in there, and put a new battery in it.

And it got it running, you know, for like 350 bucks or something like that.

That's probably worth like 10 grand at least, right?

Yeah, yeah, it's probably worth a few grand.

I mean, it was kind of in rough shape, you know, but there was also no title to it.

So that was like you had to, you know, go through that process, which I didn't want to.

So what I did is I went.

My parents have like a little bit of property and there's like, you know, more like land, like to ride, you know, ATVs and whatever

out there.

so you know we would just take it on the trails

beat the crap out of it you know and like because you don't you don't really care about it yeah you know it's not like

your nice hundred thousand dollar truck you know so you just whatever um then i'd let um one of my guys drive it and within like 30 seconds he crashed into a tree bro totaled it come on now i've never been off-roading no no no way i want to go dude you have to i heard vegas has some good spots i've heard that too um i've had the best off-road racer in the world on the podcast bj baldwin yeah and he lives out here so he said whenever i'm ready but dude he goes you have to do it bro so fun he goes like 100 miles an hour so i don't know if i want that but we'll see yeah so you know i got um i really liked it was just like this old jeep um and when that one got crashed like it just wasn't worth it to fix it like it actually still ran funny enough um but i just i liked it so much and it was so much fun I got another one on Facebook Marketplace, you know, real cheap.

And I was like, well, you know, if it breaks, whatever, I can use the parts from the other one.

Don't sleep on Facebook Marketplace, yeah.

I know, right?

You know, I just low-balled the dude again, you know, um, got it for like you know, a few grand lower than what he was asking for.

Nice.

Um, and then so I drove it, whatever.

Then we were in a field, just like it was like wet, so we were like doing donuts and whatever.

Caught like a little hole on the front tire, ended up rolling it over.

Whoa, yeah, um, thankfully, I mean, we didn't get hurt or anything like that, but it was like behind a neighborhood, dance, that's scary, yeah.

And then, like, the neighbors saw it and they came over right away, um, helped us flip it back over and drove it and it turned on right away.

Wow.

Drove it.

We ended up getting a trailer and just taking it home because like you know, windshield was all cracked.

Yeah.

Those cars are durable, man.

Yeah, I know, right?

Damn.

Yeah.

Is that like the biggest hobby you have off-roading?

I mean, I like doing that.

And it's easy because like, you know, where I live and everything, it's, you don't have to go very far.

I mean, I also love snowboarding too, but I live in Florida.

So I only get to do that a few times a year when I go out to Colorado or Utah or whatever.

I was UFO hunting last night.

Were you really?

Yeah, I had this guest on.

Shout out to Chris Bledsoe.

He's a UFO expert.

Really?

Yeah.

How'd that go?

What's that like?

I can't say I saw one.

I'm not gonna sit here and lie, but I did see some weird like star movements.

Yeah.

Like interesting.

I thought they were meteors, but then we looked it up and there was no meteors that day.

Interesting.

So who knows?

So, all right, a little off topic here, but do you believe in aliens?

Yes, do you?

Yeah.

You know, I never did, but the more I think about it, you know, with how big the universe is, I mean, the odds are there probably is something else out there.

There has to be.

You know?

Right.

Whether it's physical or like a light being, who knows?

But there's got to be something.

Yeah.

I mean, there's some animals that I think are aliens.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like Prang Mantis, they be fucking shit up.

Like, that's not normal.

Right?

Nah, there's like even octopus, they're like way too smart for Earth.

Is that right?

Like, that doesn't make sense.

Don't they have like a little brain in each one of their tentacles?

Oh, they do.

That's what I've heard.

Yeah.

Wow.

Someone can fact-check me on that, but that's what I've heard.

That is wild.

No, but they're super smart.

Even like dolphins, like they communicate with like the energy waves or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, it's wild.

There's interesting animals on there.

Don't underestimate animals, man.

Yeah.

You got any dogs or anything?

I do.

I got one dog.

Yeah, dogs changed my life.

Yeah.

What's that?

Had terrible anxiety.

Really?

Yeah.

Like awful, crippling, panic attacks.

Oh, dude.

And dogs...

They just like heal you, man.

They're so pure.

You come home and they're...

They always love you.

Yeah.

Like, you could have the worst day and then come home and they just make you feel way better.

100%.

Yeah, no, they're awesome.

I mean I you know my parents kind of like fought me on getting a dog when I was younger.

Yeah.

And, you know, for good reason.

But now like, you know,

they, you know, we got one probably when I was like 12.

He's, you know, he's still alive.

He's still doing great.

Nice.

And then, you know, just like that bond is so close.

That's massive.

Are you big in like biohacking, personal development stuff?

I haven't really gotten into that.

Yeah, you're young.

So you could, you have unlimited energy right now, but you'll see as you age, you'll have to start doing stuff Yeah, that's what everyone tells me Yeah, but I remember when I was your age I was working 18 hours a day easy Yeah, sleeping like four hours not feeling shit, right?

But it'll catch up to you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll catch up man, but dude, it's been cool.

Where can people find you?

And do you have a course or anything?

Um, I don't have a course.

I probably will start some type of mentorship later this year.

That is the plan.

Um, we're just kind of working out the details of that.

Um, but honestly, I'm super active on you know, Instagram, Facebook.

Um, you can find me at camaratihomes.com.

It's just my last name.

Camarati C-A-M-A-R-O-T-T-I Homes.

I post pretty often on that.

And people send me messages looking for stuff, whatever.

I'm usually always trying to answer messages.

Awesome.

Yeah.

If anyone here is watching this and they got a house in Florida, you up, right?

I'll buy it.

Perfect.

I'll buy it.

I'll sell it for you.

Whatever.

I love it.

We'll link his stuff below.

Thanks for watching, guys, as always.

Peace.

Hey, man.

Appreciate it.

Yeah.