Episode 67: Randy Akins, The Riding Realtor, Helps Buyers Find Home in Wise County

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All right.

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If you love Harley-Davidson
and real estate,

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you are going to be in for a treat today.

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Hello everyone.

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I'm Nate Carver,
your favorite mortgage guy, and our guest

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today on Between Two Doors is Randy
Akins.

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Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome

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to Between Two Doors.

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Hey, Randy, how are you?

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Good, Nate. How are you?

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I'm doing good.

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Getting ready for the 4th of July
this weekend.

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So we got a lot of cooking out and fireworks
to set off, and

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Someone, somewhere out there
today has ten fingers, and

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after the weekend,
they probably will have less than ten.

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I saw that too.

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Today, it's like,
yeah, there might be some people come

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Sunday who may not have all ten digits.

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I hope not,

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but statistically, yeah it's there.

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Well, welcome to the podcast.

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You are, you've got

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some great branding,
and I definitely wanted to,

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highlight that and tell me, Harley

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Davidson motorcycles.

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So first, I just want to thank you
for having me on today.

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I appreciate you reaching out.

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Motorcycles
have just become a passion again.

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I, rode dirt bikes when I was a kid.

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When I was in the Air Force,
I totaled a crotch rocket.

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Two years
later, bought a fully dressed motorcycle.

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It was a Honda.

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And then, after I got married,
no more motorcycles.

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And so.

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So, I guess my wife gave in

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because I only have one kid at home still,
so she's 15,

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but, we, I purchased

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my motorcycle last year, actually,
right out a year ago.

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Okay. And.

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You know, I just love getting out.

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It's a chance to clear your head,

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and it's probably because the wind blows
through one ear and goes out the other.

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I don't know,
but it is, a great time to reflect.

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Great time to pray.

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And a great time
just to get in your thoughts.

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And so I, ride my motorcycle to closings.

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I ride my motorcycle,
I've got saddlebags.

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I put my drone in my saddlebag,
go out and drone a property.

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I go to closings on my motorcycle.

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So I try to incorporate that
as much as I can

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to reach out to the motorcycle community.

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Yeah.

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What style of motorcycle
did you get?

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So it is a cruiser.

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Cruiser?

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Everyone knows motorcycles.

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They know it's a cruiser.

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And that's what I like to do, you know,

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I'm too old for speed.

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Outgrew the speed.

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And now,

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my favorite time to ride

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is on these country roads.

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County roads?

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Yeah. And where my where my speed.

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Maybe 40 to 45 mph.

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It's not too much wind; I can just take

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in the scenery, the sights, the smells,
the sunsets.

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It's just an awesome time.

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Nice.

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Does your wife ride, too?

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Every now and then.

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She's scared.

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Yeah.

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Hey.

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So when I found out, you know,
with your branding with Harley-Davidson,

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and then we got this scheduled,
I went down to Harley-Davidson,

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shop over in McKinney, Texas.

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And there's a particular bike
that I've always liked.

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It's the Softail.

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Yes. And,
I got on there, and guy came over,

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start asked me a whole bunch of questions,
and he basically,

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I don't know, I just I describe it
like getting fitted at a shoe store.

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I they knew what they are talking about
there.

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Right.

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And so, had me
sit on a whole bunch of bikes

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in, in and up until I don't remember
what it was exactly.

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I love the Softail
look. That motorcycle is fantastic.

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But they fit me on.

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They sat me on another one ultimately.

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So I had a full comparison,

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I guess, of how your body adjusts,
I guess.

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And,
there was one particular bike in there.

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Man, it fit like a glove.

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Fit like a glove. How?

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I walked out of there
without a motorcycle, I don't know, but,

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it's like they tried hard to
get me to buy that day, and I'm like.

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I've, I can't today.

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It's so.

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Can't pull the trigger.

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Well, you know, a lot of people

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don't think about that,
but it is like fitting for a shoe.

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Yeah. One is, you know, what's your plans?

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How are you going to ride a motorcycle?

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Are you going to take,
you know, long trips?

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Do you need luggage or a place
to put luggage or

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clothing for overnight stay?

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Are you just going to be
what they call a cafe racer?

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You're just going to go up to the coffee
shop, you're going to go to a restaurant,

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or do you have that need for speed?

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Are you going to want some kind of,

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you know, a Suzuki, you know,

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just like a racing motorcycle
that just screams, you know?

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So it really depends on the style.

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And a lot of people

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don't think about, you know, seat height
and that type of thing, too,

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because you're right, you're
going to be standing on your tippy toes,

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or you can be standing
flat-footed at a stop, you know, so

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it is like fitting a shoe.

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Nice, nice.

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Let's see.

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So we go we go way back.

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Our families have known each other.

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And there was a huge gap in life

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when I, I didn't see, you know, sudden
you showed up in Texas.

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So tell me, tell me your life journey
where you started from.

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And, I guess where we met
and then where you are now.

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So, I'm

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originally from Nashville, Tennessee,

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and, grew up there, went to high school

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there, grew up in a real small town
right outside of Nashville.

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That's where all the country music
singers live.

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And then went in the Air Force, stationed
in Myrtle Beach,

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South Carolina, and tough duty station

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and then, after my,

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tour in the Air Force,
I went back to Nashville.

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And at that time, I got into bartending
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management, that type thing.

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And then at that point, I met my wife

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and we dated for

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six weeks and then got married

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July 27th.

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We will be married 37 years.

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Wow. Good for you. Give you all.

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Wow. So, we were in Alabama.

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We got transferred to Alabama,
stay there maybe four years,

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and then got an opportunity
to come to Dallas and, transferred

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with a company to Dallas in sales
and, from there, kind of hopscotch

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around the few little,
you know, areas inside the metroplex.

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And then in 2020,
we moved out to Paradise, Texas,

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in Wise County,
and we moved in the country.

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I'm an hour from Fort Worth.

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And we absolutely love country living.

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Yeah. Three acres.

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I've done the goats, I've done chickens,
I've done a

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lot of different things. And,

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they make

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better neighbors in the neighborhood
sometimes to me.

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What what let you,

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Why did you join the Air Force?

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You know, I really didn't have a choice.

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I, there was no college in the future
for Randy.

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Not meaning,

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that there, you know,
that I couldn't get into college.

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I just mean the.

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There wasn't an opportunity.

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Meaning one. My family.

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I left home when I was 17.

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I was still in high school
when I left home.

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And, my option was struggle

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or, you know, go into the military.

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And so I chose to go in the Air
Force, to one

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buy some time.

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And I recommend it for everyone.

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If you're to me, it makes more sense
to graduate high school.

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Either work somewhere

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or go into the military,
maybe for four years

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because it to me, at 18, 19 years old.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if you really are ready
to make a decision on what you want to do

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with your life. Right?

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So it gave me four years to sort that out

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and gave me time
to put in some self-discipline and to mature.

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Yeah, yeah.

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As fellow veteran,
I can totally identify with that.

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And, I think that was one of the,

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the big key reasons
why I, why I enlisted because I figured

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I was going to get some time
figuring things out, grow up a little bit,

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get a roof over my head,
an income and some food.

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Right. And so, yeah, in there.

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It's kind of like prison,
except not behind bars.

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Yeah, right.

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Yeah.

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And they gave me a gun.

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And they gave me a gun.

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Yeah. Are
you sure y'all want to do that?

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What's something
from your four years in?

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What?

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Is there something that you took away
from the military

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that you still see in your life today?

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It's just,

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you know, being on time,

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being respectful of other people's time.

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Yeah.

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And, just that self-discipline to.

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Yeah.

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You know, to do, you know,
if I say I'm going to do something

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unless I, passed away in between the time

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that I'm supposed to be
there, I'm going to be there.

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And so I think it help also develop you
to become a man of your word.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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So, Harley-Davidson, let's jump in.

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We touched a little bit on it.

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When did you first, like,
did you grow up on bikes?

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Did you your first bikes?

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Motorcycle. When was that?

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I was,

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one day my dad came home
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60 motorcycle, and it was a little enduro.

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It was orange and white, and,

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I rode that thing every day.

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We had a big field behind our house
that somebody owned that

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let us kind of build us a little track on.

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And I would collect.

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You know, a lot of people listen to this,
man, I can relate to this, but,

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I would collect returnable bottles

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that people throw out
the windows of their cars.

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At that time, gas was $0.75 a gallon.

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And so I would collect enough bottles

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to go buy a gallon of gas
so I could ride my motorcycle.

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And that's nice.

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Yeah.

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That I can really from
there moved up to a larger,

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you know, enduro to a 175.

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Then my dad got rid of the bikes
out of nowhere.

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You know, he just said, hey,
I need to get these back to your uncle,

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sell them back to your uncle.

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You know, and then I didn't ride again
until I got,

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the Kawasaki GPz
550 when I was in the Air Force.

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And, that thing was fast.

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I mean,

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you know, 120, 130 miles an hour.

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I was always doing speed.

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Right.

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But the day that I totaled it,
I was doing 35.

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Which is a good thing.

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Yeah.

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It didn't kill me. No.

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What?

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Someone that doesn't own a bike.

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And we'll get into real estate here
in a little bit.

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But for someone who doesn't own a bike,
a Harley, how do you.

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What do they not understand?

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I don't think they understand.

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Just the freedom of,

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being in the element,

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you know, and that can, you know,
the element can be tough, too.

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I mean, it can be rain.

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It can be, you know, cold,
but it's just being out there.

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You are so much more aware
of your surroundings

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versus riding around in a steel cage.

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Yeah.

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Because the car, with windows up

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isolate you from the nature
and the outdoors, whereas

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a motorcycle,
you're thrust right into the middle.

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You know, I can smell
if somebody is smoking some brisket.

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I also can smell that dead
skunk on the road.

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I think, you know, any kind of roadkill.

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So, just the smells,

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the feels, you know, the the wind.

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Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

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Here.

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Lately, it's been really windy,
and I don't really like to ride

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when it's really windy, but,
you know, I turn music on and just.

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It's a it's a getaway.

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You know, one of the things
that I found out in my life

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that's important to me is, alone time.

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And that just gives me alone time.

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Yeah. I'm by myself

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and that's a big value to me.

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It lets you clear your head.

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Well you use

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the opportunity
to solve a lot of problems too.

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Favorite place you go or ride.

286
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Yeah. What. Okay.

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Favorite place to ride?

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And then

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what's your dream ride?

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I mean, is there a place out there
you just gotta go cruise?

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So there's,

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My favorite ride is in the in the,
evening around sunset.

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Because Texas has a beautiful sunset.

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Unfortunately, it's warmer

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that time of the day than it is,
you know, for a sunrise.

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Right.

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But again, it is mostly going

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to be your county roads.

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I don't ride in the metroplex.

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I don't ride with all those cars
and people distracted with phones.

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I ride where a deer might jump out

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in front of me
or possum on the road or whatever.

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But curvy, you know, hills.

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I call them twisties.

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County roads.

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That's my favorite
road. Now, my dream ride

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would be in the,

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we went to San Francisco last year,
first time to go to California,

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and all I had ever
heard of was bad things about it.

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But, but I really enjoyed it.

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And I want to go back and we went from

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San Francisco over to Santa Cruz.

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And there is a Redwood State Park

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that you can go,
and it actually goes over some mountains

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and then over to the coast to the,
you know, to the west coast.

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That is the most beautiful road.

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There was a ton of motorcycles,
tiny little sports cars,

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you know, doing the driving,
going really fast.

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I wanted to do that.

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That would be a dream, a dream run.

321
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Yeah, I can imagine.

322
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Oh. I have to get do that.

323
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How do you get to do that? Yeah.

324
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And then there's Tail of the Dragon
and, you know,

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East Tennessee and North Carolina,

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and it's a strip of road
goes through the mountains,

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but there's over 100
turns in like 30 miles.

328
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And so it's a really famous place
to ride.

329
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So both of those would be on my list
to do list.

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All right, all right, all right.

331
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So you've learned a few different hats
from military, restaurant, sales.

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What got you into real estate.

333
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You know,

334
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it's I
had a friend that was in real estate,

335
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and she used a, phrase
that I really don't like.

336
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I never have liked it. And it was, Randy,

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You can sell ice cubes to an Eskimo,
and I just.

338
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I don't like that phrase because it's
all about sales and not helping people.

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But, she talked me into

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getting my license, and I got my license.

341
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And I know that real estate is a tool
that can be used

342
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to help people achieve their dreams,
whether they're selling or buying,

343
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relocating, downsizing.

344
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It's just something
to help people achieve.

345
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And just like in the restaurant business,
in the military,

346
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it's service related.

347
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And that's probably my why.

348
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I like it.

349
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Now you

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you met your wife six weeks later.

351
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Y'all were married.

352
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Yes, sir.

353
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You've been you're coming up on what
anniversary?

354
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37. 37.

355
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Audience, what's the secret or your, your,

356
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your opinion or advice on on a

357
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on a great marriage.

358
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You know, marriage is always work

359
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and it's something
you constantly have to work on

360
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and in the relationship,
you know, there always has to be a hero.

361
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And the hero is the one that says,

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I'm sorry or I was wrong or whatever.

363
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And it's to not be selfish.

364
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You know, that's really a secret to

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to a marriage is caring for that person.

366
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There's times that it's been tough,

367
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but there's been times
that it's been easy.

368
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And probably the secret

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is before you say "I do,"

370
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you really need this?

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Think about I will.

372
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And that means, you know,
when it does get tough

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that you're not gonna, you know, bail out.

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You're going to stick
to that covenant of marriage.

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And that's what I think keeps,

376
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you know, people that have been married
for a long period of time.

377
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It wasn't just a ceremony,
it was a covenant.

378
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So you're,
you're living out in the country.

379
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Is is it
fair to say real estate in the country.

380
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Is that a niche for you?

381
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Is there are there?

382
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Specific areas. Or.

383
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I don't know that I really have a niche.

384
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I, I've done,

385
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you know,
one of my like like my second transaction

386
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I ever did was a commercial transaction
selling commercial property.

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And I mean, I was, I was

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new. I mean, I had only been a realtor
for maybe six months.

389
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Yeah.

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And, I went and I had a really,
really good broker at the time I was

391
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this is back
when I was with Keller Williams,

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and I went and talked to Liz about it
and asked her if she wanted to

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bring someone else in on, on this
because it was a commercial.

394
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And she just looked at me
and she said, Randy, you're a smart guy.

395
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And she goes, you can do this.

396
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You're you're capable of doing it,

397
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and you can do a commercial,
you know, some some,

398
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brokers won't let someone new,

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do a commercial deal.

400
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But I've done commercial.

401
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I've done residential
in the city, Fort Worth, Keller.

402
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Tarrant County, Dallas County.

403
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And then I've done,

404
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out here in Wise County, I've done

405
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raw land.

406
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I've done,

407
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of ranch and Farm and Ranch.

408
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I've done leases.

409
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You know, I never thought
I would see myself doing leases, but

410
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I just did a commercial lease last week.

411
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And so I don't know that
I really have a niche.

412
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But I do kind of

413
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specialize in properties
that are hard to sell.

414
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I had, I've had two properties

415
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recently
that I've sold that are listed and sold,

416
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and both of them had two dwellings on
and one was seven and a half acres,

417
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and the other one was 21,
almost 22 acres, right.

418
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That had two dwellings.

419
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So that's a that's you know,
you've got to find somebody

420
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that really wants 2 to 2 houses, right?

421
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,520
You know,
I don't feel a lot of people does.

422
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And both of them sold, you know, within
four months, in today's market. So,

423
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I think

424
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that's probably something
that I kind of specialize in is properties

425
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or that not distressed,
but properties that are,

426
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out of the ordinary.

427
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:05,800
Right?

428
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:06,920
A little bit unique there.

429
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,280
Yeah, I see it on the lending side.

430
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,200
Not very often.

431
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,040
So you're right, those
those are going to present some unique,

432
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I guess

433
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a smaller pool of buyers versus
someone that's just looking

434
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for single family,
residential, three bedroom, two bath and.

435
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,920
Exactly, exactly. Yeah.

436
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,880
It's kind of like people, pools,
you know, everybody's.

437
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,920
What's your opinion on pools? Well,
it depends.

438
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,440
Do you want a pool or not? You know that.

439
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,200
You know, that's what you're you know,
that's what you're looking for.

440
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,480
The number of houses that have pools
is obviously a lot less so.

441
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,000
Right.

442
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,360
I don't, you know, my house that we live
out here in the country, we have a pool.

443
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:52,680
And when I bought the house,
I that was the one thing I that was

444
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the one know for me on the property
we're currently currently in,

445
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,640
because pools are expensive
and pools are, labor intensive.

446
00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:04,800
Yeah. And the,

447
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:06,840
you know, a lot of

448
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,800
people
think it attracts people to buying a home

449
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,440
if there's a pool, you know,
not necessarily because

450
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,040
5050 has one half.

451
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,520
People may want a pool, half may not.

452
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,520
And so you just took out half of,

453
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,720
you know, the buying the buyers
that are out there.

454
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,200
Right.

455
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,080
Tell me tell me about Paradise, Texas,

456
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,440
and the surrounding areas
that you serve people.

457
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,160
And listening to this podcast.

458
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,600
I mean,
they could be anywhere in the country

459
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if they're moving to Paradise.

460
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,800
What do you want them to know?

461
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,880
Paradise is a,

462
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very family oriented,

463
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,520
community that's a very tight community.

464
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,760
The the school system is unique here.

465
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,600
They do have the
Ten Commandments on the wall.

466
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I made sure of it.

467
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,800
And their classroom,

468
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the my son was

469
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he was in, kind of

470
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,480
sent my private school,
but also did some homeschool,

471
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:27,600
and we moved out here and he was adamant
he wanted to go to public school

472
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and he wanted to play football.

473
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Well, at that time, this community,

474
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he was one of two black kids in a,

475
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in the school district.

476
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You know, my my family
consist of one biological son,

477
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one adopted son and two adopted daughters.

478
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And so James went to the school

479
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,160
and the community probably was a,

480
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,600
you know, was almost like the movie
blindside.

481
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,360
You know, he got to my parents,
they bring a black kid into,

482
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majority black and white school,

483
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and he goes and plays football.

484
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,880
And it's funny, he actually played
the same position in football.

485
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,880
He protected the blindside
on the offensive line,

486
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,520
and he just had the

487
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,520
ability to get to gain friendship.

488
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,320
He could write the book on how to win
friends and influence people,

489
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:36,040
but,
he was at a school, like I said, that

490
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,440
didn't have many, black
or African American people.

491
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And by his senior year,

492
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he was voted homecoming king. Wow.

493
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,040
And like I said, it's a small school.

494
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,480
His graduating class,
I think maybe had 90 students.

495
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,240
And so it's just a,

496
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,240
it's a farm community,
a lot of horses, a lot of cattle.

497
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,040
So you got you either rope
or you raise cattle.

498
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,000
One of the two

499
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000
or neither, like me, you knew real estate.

500
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,600
But, that's kind of the community.

501
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,680
Surrounding area.

502
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,280
Springtown in Parker County, one of the
fastest growing counties in the state.

503
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,280
You've got Jack County, you've got,

504
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,000
Wise County, which I'm in.

505
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,080
Denton is pretty close.

506
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,960
One of the, you know, towns that I've,
I've sold several,

507
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,480
listings was, Alford, Texas.

508
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,520
And the reason is because

509
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,720
it's it's right on 281 to 87.

510
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,960
That brings you right into Fort Worth.

511
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,240
So you're not far off the beaten trail.

512
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,640
Now if you want the fishing community,
the fishing life,

513
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,080
the lake life then you got runaway Bay.

514
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,920
So the county in this area

515
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,080
offers everything except for,

516
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,080
you know, sandy beaches in the Gulf,
you know, or,

517
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,760
or, you know, Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

518
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,320
But it has something for everyone here.

519
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,040
Nice.

520
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,880
Sounds so fantastic.

521
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,040
Would you tell
what would you tell people that are,

522
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,520
waiting or for that perfect quote unquote
perfect time to buy?

523
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,640
What would you tell them about a home?

524
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,440
I would think I

525
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,400
would say you need to do your homework
and know exactly what you're looking for.

526
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,200
I think a lot of people
get into starting this process

527
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,400
and looking at a lot of stuff,

528
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,400
but they really don't
have their goals in place.

529
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,560
But if you know
exactly what you're looking for

530
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,680
then it's it's probably out there.

531
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,520
The the second thing that I would
probably say is

532
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,640
don't worry about the interest rates.

533
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,680
You know, people are so you know and Covid

534
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,320
you know, the interest rates were down.

535
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,680
You know my interest rate on
my house is 2.75.

536
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,960
Those days are gone.

537
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,120
You probably never see him again.

538
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,720
Right.

539
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,800
In year I mean back
when we bought our first house in the 90s,

540
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,920
we had what they called
a good, good interest rate.

541
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,960
Guess what you think it was.

542
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:33,600
Oh gosh.

543
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,280
It was probably somewhere around ten.

544
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,520
Nine, nine, 9%.

545
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,160
And that was a good interest rate.

546
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:42,480
Yeah.

547
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,800
Well, we're hovering at, you know, five

548
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,800
and a half to six,
you know, on extra strength.

549
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,720
And that's that's fair to me.

550
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,560
It's not. Yeah.

551
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,080
It's below the average.

552
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,840
You know it averages like seven
somewhere right above seven.

553
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,680
But yeah we're you know mid to upper 80s.

554
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,800
Yeah. Stop waiting is my advice.

555
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,080
Well and you look at appreciation in homes

556
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,760
in the, in the Texas
market certainly in North Texas market

557
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,880
where you're at

558
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,240
you waiting a year

559
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,280
can cost you

560
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,200
what it's going to cost you, the equity
you could have gained.

561
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,200
But definitely you're
now you're paying for

562
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,320
a home that's appreciated in value,
and you're going to

563
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,320
that's going to reflect in your, your,
your mortgage payment,

564
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,960
or require
a higher down payment by the same house.

565
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,480
So that's a place and we.

566
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,360
You know, we bought

567
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,280
where we

568
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,280
go, where
we live, we bought where we live now.

569
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
And, about a month

570
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,280
and a half
after we had purchased the house,

571
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,280
the realtor called me out of the blue
that sold us the property.

572
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,680
And of course,
I was the buying the buyer side.

573
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,640
And she said, how did you know?

574
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,800
And I said, what are you talking about?

575
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,600
And she goes, do you know what the equity
in your house is?

576
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,600
This is two months
after we bought the house.

577
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,920
It was it was like a 40% increase
in the equity of the home.

578
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,160
So I mean, just right away.

579
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,200
And so.

580
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,840
Like you said, if you wait,

581
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:35,160
you will miss the equity
as the prices continue to climb on.

582
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,600
You know, real estate,
whether it's a new purchase

583
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,440
or whether it's an existing home.

584
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,280
Yeah. Wow.

585
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,680
I want to shift

586
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:49,120
gears a little bit because,
I mean, you you've been building

587
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:54,000
relationships across
a lot of different walks in life, and,

588
00:31:54,520 --> 00:32:00,320
you and your wife do some pretty,
I think pretty spectacular.

589
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:06,080
Tell me, tell me about Chosen Ones, and,
we'll we'll come back.

590
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,240
We're going to do a whole podcast on this,
but tell me, I guess the 30,000ft

591
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,240
view of of what The Chosen Ones is.

592
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:19,200
So Vicki
and I, started the adoption process

593
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,960
through, foster care, where we found out

594
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,480
that you could get children of all ages,

595
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,800
but even babies through foster care.

596
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,640
And if you were the foster parent,
then you had the first choice

597
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,640
of whether to adopt.

598
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,160
And so at that time, we only had one
son, our oldest son, Spencer,

599
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,720
and he was an only son.

600
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:50,400
My wife didn't have any more children,
and we decided to seek other avenues of,

601
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,480
enlarging our family.

602
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,560
The, during that process,

603
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,120
we saw and found a need

604
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,080
for families that go through that process.

605
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,080
One of those being just just support,
emotional support,

606
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,080
for the foster families.

607
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,760
The other was,

608
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,680
you know, I'm a sales guy,
and I know that if I can take, away

609
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,440
an objection or address
an objection early,

610
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,880
then I'm more likely
to come to a good result in a close.

611
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,240
And most men

612
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,280
think financially
when it comes to adopting a child.

613
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,480
That's immediately
where their their mind goes.

614
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:40,880
Women.

615
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,080
It's more about the heart,
the feelings, the blessings list off

616
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,280
while the man's stressed out.

617
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,280
How are we going to feed
another mouth type thing?

618
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,280
And so,

619
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,520
also, there was a huge need for foster
children.

620
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,520
And I met foster parents
in the state of Texas.

621
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,040
And so we started recruiting
through our church

622
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,840
and recruiting
and recruiting quality families,

623
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,880
well Chosen Ones became

624
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,600
what it is because of the support
that we're able to offer

625
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:18,040
beds, clothing, shoes,
you know, most kids in foster

626
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:22,520
care come with water in a Walmart sack,
and it's usually two sizes too small.

627
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:28,200
So we have a warehouse and a store
that has clothing of all sizes,

628
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,200
and that's nice stuff
because we sort through it.

629
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,080
We have food.

630
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,360
We're a partner with the tenant area
food thing.

631
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,640
We're a pantry.

632
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:43,160
So we have food, we have formula, we have
baby food, we have snacks, proteins.

633
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,840
We have everything.

634
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,840
We have baby beds, car seats,

635
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,160
bouncy seats, all this stuff that

636
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,120
families can come and shop for

637
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,240
free.

638
00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:00,040
Wow. Where does that look?

639
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,200
It's in Fort Worth.

640
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,600
It's in, It's right at the edge of Fort
Worth

641
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,600
and north and,

642
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,080
Hurst right there.

643
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,200
Right at the loop.

644
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:18,360
And it's close to Northeast Mall, and it's
kind of centered in Tarrant County.

645
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,880
And so we serve that community.

646
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,400
And then, five years ago, we,
also brought in,

647
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,680
enrolled in community care, and that is

648
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,960
pregnant
moms, moms with children under 36 months.

649
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,360
They get the same benefit
that our foster families get as well.

650
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,880
And we're able to take
and serve more people.

651
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,920
And I think, you know,
the last time I checked, we served

652
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,920
probably somewhere in the neighborhood
of 40,000 kids, last year.

653
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,600
Whoa, Randy,

654
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,960
I did not know this about a year.

655
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,080
If we can help somebody.

656
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,960
Yeah. And here's the funny thing.

657
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,160
Vicki has been talking to me and talking

658
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,160
to me, and, she has a dream.

659
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,600
And there are a lot of kids
that when school's out,

660
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,240
they don't get to eat much. Yeah.

661
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,120
You know,
they get the free lunch at school,

662
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,960
but there's kids in our
and our country and our state

663
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,200
and then our communities that are hungry.

664
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:30,640
And so Vicki wants to buy
an old ice cream truck

665
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,520
and convert it into a mobile snack truck.

666
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:36,240
Yeah.

667
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:40,560
Where we can take it to the community
and not give it to the parents.

668
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,280
We're going to give it to the children

669
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,960
so that they have something to eat.

670
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,280
Last week, we had one of our partners,

671
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,280
sent an email to Vicki
about an experience that she had.

672
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,000
And these two boys
saw her unloading these dry food bags,

673
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,360
brown paper sacks,
and he goes, ma'am, what's in those bags?

674
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,280
And she said, food.

675
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,880
And one of the boys said, well,

676
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,880
if we help you unload these,

677
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,280
you think we could get a food bag?

678
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,280
We didn't have any food all we can.

679
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,880
And so that's Vicki's
dream is to get a truck.

680
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,040
And go out into the,

681
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,040
these community,
these underserved communities

682
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,280
and provide food for the kids.

683
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:33,960
For you. All.

684
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,320
You know, it's not the kids fault

685
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,320
that they're in the situation there
and it's the parent.

686
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,640
And we don't want to give it to the parent
because you know parent like

687
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,640
sell the food, or trade it for something.

688
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,120
We want to put it in the kids
hands where it will be,

689
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,880
you know, consumed.

690
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,320
Right?

691
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,160
Yeah, I do

692
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,280
in the, in my little community.

693
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,240
I live, you know,
over in Van Alstyne right now, the,

694
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:01,440
a girl

695
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,440
every year I did garden, big garden,
huge garden.

696
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,240
It's a lot smaller.

697
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:10,800
I spend all my free time and,
I give a lot of it away.

698
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,560
A lot of, you know, I planning neighbors
and all that we share

699
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,680
in, but, you know, every year,
pretty much a bumper crop.

700
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,680
And, I'm committed in my sphere of
in circle, my sphere of influence.

701
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,080
If someone's hungry, I've got food.

702
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,960
You know, it's not prime rib.

703
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,960
Okay, I figured out how to grow a prime
rib yet.

704
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:35,760
It's.

705
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:36,360
Yeah.

706
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,800
When I do, I will,

707
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,400
you know. Many of them.

708
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,600
Many of them, but,

709
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,720
and what a wonderful thing

710
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:51,720
you're doing. Wow.

711
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,080
We're about running out of time.

712
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,760
I want to hit you up with some,
some rapid fire questions, and,

713
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,960
and then I'll will, I'll we'll get into
how people can find you.

714
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,040
So real quick, Harley or pickup?

715
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,400
That's a tough one.

716
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,080
It have to be
because of where I live in the farm.

717
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,080
You don't have to be a pickup.

718
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,880
All right? And that disappoint you?

719
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:22,600
Don't be fair.

720
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,640
You do already have a Harley, so, Okay.

721
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,480
Mountains, beach or hill country.

722
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,440
And a mountain. That's definitely.

723
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:35,280
All right.

724
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,640
Coffee or sweet tea?

725
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,720
Coffee.

726
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:39,440
All right.

727
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,760
Being from Tennessee,
what's your favorite meal from?

728
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,280
Tennessee?

729
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,240
So we had this thing called,
There's two haven't

730
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,800
had either in many, many, many years,
but one would be fried corn.

731
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,240
And that is field corn.

732
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,240
It's not sweet, but it's got bacon grease
and all this stuff in it.

733
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,320
Yeah. Absolutely.

734
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,680
And cook it in an iron
skillet. It's amazing.

735
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,680
And then the second would be
my mom used to make,

736
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,720
we always had a garden
and she used to make tomato gravy.

737
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,920
Oh, yes. My mom too. Yes.

738
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:12,840
I know you're talking about,

739
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,520
Nice.

740
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,840
Yeah, that's that's some good stuff.

741
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,840
Favorite Texas barbecue?

742
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,240
Probably, Cooper's barbecue.

743
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:29,240
Cooper's. That's good, that's good.

744
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,600
Let's see.

745
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,600
Favorite place that you've ever visited.

746
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,360
Would probably be, Saint John's new.

747
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,040
We call it New Foundling.

748
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,040
But up there, they call it Newfoundland

749
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,360
new. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

750
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,360
Morning, Ryder. Sunset. Ryder.

751
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,040
Sunset.

752
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,840
Sunset. Nice.

753
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,840
Do Palo Duro Canyon some day.

754
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,560
I want to be nice.

755
00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:59,640
Just random.

756
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,120
I get a wealth of useless information.

757
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,320
So the the Indiana Jones,
the Last Crusade,

758
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:11,760
they finished up that whole movie,
and I believe post-production.

759
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,960
The, Spielberg wasn't happy

760
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,000
with the end of the movie, and they were.

761
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,840
So you got to go out.

762
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,440
You got to go to powder Keenan.

763
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,280
So they did the sunset riding off
into the sunset scene on the horses.

764
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,240
Yes, I'm. Connery, and here's Ford.

765
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,720
That was filmed

766
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,240
at Powder Canyon.

767
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:36,360
So they took. Yeah.

768
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,600
You know, I mean, they were done
with the movie, but they regrouped.

769
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,640
Everybody went out there,
did the shoot for that, and, you know,

770
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,720
probably one of the best movies
ever, in my opinion.

771
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,480
Yeah, I didn't I didn't know that.

772
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,040
But, you know, out in this area,
especially in Texas, you know, Taylor

773
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,720
Sheridan's done a lot of filming and stuff
with a lot of things, you know,

774
00:41:55,720 --> 00:42:00,320
and in Spring Town, you may run into Billy
Bob Thornton downtown Fort Worth.

775
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,280
You could run into,
you know, one of the actors and things.

776
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,040
There's just a ton of filming, around,
you know, this

777
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,040
area of the metroplex

778
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:12,560
kids.

779
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,640
And it surprised me
that that was filmed there.

780
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:16,600
Yeah.

781
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,880
Well, Randy, you're thriving.

782
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,000
You're serving your community.

783
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
You've got a wonderful,

784
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,200
organization,
a nonprofit organization helping,

785
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,200
and you got a great branding
with the Harley

786
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,680
Davidson in your in your,
your real estate business.

787
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,480
Your guy's going to show up
on the motorcycle when someone's in

788
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,680
and help them find their next home,
and then

789
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,240
that's pretty cool.

790
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,360
How best, what are the ways
that people can get Ahold of you

791
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,360
if they're looking to move to, I guess,

792
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,640
Wise County, Tarrant County, Texas.

793
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,560
What's the best way they can get?

794
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,120
Get Ahold of you.

795
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,120
So they can always call you knight
in real estate or office in Dallas.

796
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,520
I've never been there.

797
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,520
Here. It's nice.

798
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,160
But, you can always call there.

799
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:09,800
You can always call me direct.

800
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,280
And (817) 800-3917.

801
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,840
You can find me on Facebook.

802
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,280
I have several pages.

803
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,240
Randy Akins' real estate group.

804
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:23,520
I also have, The Riding Realtor. So.

805
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,120
And then look for me.

806
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,920
I'm on a waiting list of a billboard.

807
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,880
I'm going to,
I've got my eyes on the billboard.

808
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,880
It's going to have a nice house
in the background I sold this year,

809
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:37,440
and then me in the forefront with my bike
standing beside my bike.

810
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
And, you know, it's funny,

811
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,000
one of the things I learned in
real estate was to be

812
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,000
top of mind for people,

813
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,280
and people aren't
going to remember Randy Akins,

814
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:53,840
but for some reason.

815
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,400
Right.

816
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,720
The Riding Realtor sticks.

817
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,680
Yeah. My wife

818
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,680
and I can walk into my men's group

819
00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:05,280
on a Wednesday and there's like, hey,
there's The Riding Realtor.

820
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,280
You know,
I know it sticks because I hear it.

821
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,160
And so, look for The Riding Realtor.

822
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:14,680
Call me, I'll serve you.

823
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,040
I served our country with honor,
and I'll serve

824
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,040
families exceptionally.

825
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:22,840
All right, all right.

826
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,520
I'll put the links down below.

827
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,000
Wherever you're consuming this.

828
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,440
I'm also, I'll link up

829
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,280
Chosen Ones as well,
so that people can learn more about that.

830
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,200
And we're definitely gonna come on,
do another podcast just on Chosen Ones.

831
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,240
There's a huge conversation there. So.

832
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,360
You can have Vicki on that one.

833
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,440
Okay.

834
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,960
Yeah, bring Vicki in on that one. Okay.

835
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:46,680
We'll do it.

836
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,640
Man, Randy,
you think you know someone.

837
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,600
I love what I do.
I'm a mortgage lender.

838
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,560
I get this podcast
I get to host.

839
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,880
And it gives me an opportunity
to go deeper, and uncover things

840
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,040
I didn't know about my Realtor friends,
and my friends in general.

841
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:10,120
And so I just want to thank you for
being a guest on Between Two Doors podcast.

842
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,840
Well, thank you for having me.

843
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:13,880
I appreciate it.

844
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:18,880
And, I was really excited when I saw you
and you said, you know,

845
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,400
and then I got an email from you,
that you'd like to do this.

846
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,920
And so, I'm, I'm really excited.

847
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,280
And hopefully people

848
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,800
get to know a little more about me
than just my name on a card.

849
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,960
All right, there you go.

850
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,760
And that'll wrap it up for us for your,
Wise County, Tarrant County.

851
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,360
Look up Randy, The Riding Realtor.

852
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,480
And as always, I'm
your host, Nate Carver.

853
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,360
Your favorite mortgage guy, Between Two Doors.

854
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,360
If you need any kind of lending

855
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,640
advice or guidance,
you can always reach out to me directly.

856
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,800
Thank you, Randy. Thank you.

857
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:55,360
Have a good day.

858
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,000