Episode 38 - Build Real Estate Wealth Like a Pro: Alex Bradshaw’s Best Tips
In this episode, Stephen sits down with Alex Bradshaw, a real estate agent, investor, and house-flipping pro based in Seattle. From growing up learning the ropes of construction with his dad to teaming up with his 18-year-old brother (who already has a contractor’s license), Alex’s story is all about hustle, family, and building something incredible. Alex shares his journey from laying floors in his dad’s rentals to scaling his real estate business, along with his plans to make bigger moves in the Seattle market.
Stephen and Alex talked about:
00:00 – Introduction and Greetings
03:45 – Cold Calling and Early Challenges
05:25 – Problem Solving in Real Estate
07:34 – Social Media and Real Estate
08:50 – Early Jobs and Hustles
14:29 – Adapting to Different Clients
22:58 – Mentorship and Long-Term Goals
28:56 – Investment Passion and Future Plans
36:56 – Balancing Work and Personal Life
38:23 – Real Estate Strategies and Goals
39:56 – Acquiring Properties and Creative Financing
40:15 – Reflecting on Past Experiences
48:29 – Seattle Real Estate Ventures
TRANSCRIPT
∎ Teaser / Highlighted Clip
[Alex Bradshaw] (0:00 - 0:28)
I just feel that it's really easy for my age group to just like complain about little things Whereas like I look back and i'm like god, dude, we have all the tools to do it We just literally have to do it and I think it's hard because also Like my attention span is like zero I get bored so quick now and it's not okay Like my instant gratification like needs to be there and I think it's because my generation has grown up like that So I just think when we don't get something like right away
[Stephen Husted] (0:28 - 2:33)
It's very easy for us to like shut down mentally
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∎ Guest Introduction:
Hey everyone, welcome back to the breakthrough with Stephen Husted today I've got a super inspiring guest for you.
My buddy. Alex Bradshaw. Alex is a real estate agent investor And an all-around hustler who's been making waves out in the seattle area What's wild is that alex has been flipping houses building rentals and putting his mark on the real estate scene all while teaming up With his 18 year old brother who already has his contractor's license Yeah, they're building something special together and it's definitely a family business with some serious hustle in this episode Alex breaks down How he got started?
What makes seattle's market so unique and his plans for scaling up while juggling it all? Plus we talk about his love for the process the ups and the downs of flipping and his vision for the future Trust me. It's a game changer This conversation is packed with insights Laughs and big inspiration for anyone looking to break into real estate or to take the next step.
You don't want to miss it Let's dive in.
∎ Podcast Proper:
So You're the next one on the seattle list.
You know that i'm snipering everybody, right?
[Alex Bradshaw] (2:34 - 2:42)
Well, thanks for having me man. It was cool that you reached out Yeah, man, i've been seeing them kind of I checked out the page and just saw them kind of get pretzeled out So that's awesome.
[Stephen Husted] (2:43 - 2:48)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I had your friend on vayna And she brought you up.
[Alex Bradshaw] (2:48 - 2:48)
Oh, yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (2:49 - 2:50)
Yeah talk highly of you.
[Alex Bradshaw] (2:50 - 3:01)
Oh, that's awesome I love vayna man. I feel like we have grown up. I mean, we're still growing up But we have grown up together in this from the very start So it's cool to like be able to experience it all with her.
[Stephen Husted] (3:02 - 3:07)
I really am passionate about that Yeah, and tell me a little bit about how you met her and then how old were you when you met her?
[Alex Bradshaw] (3:08 - 4:10)
I believe I was 18 and she was 19 and Basically, my buddy got an internship. She was already kind of getting the ball rolling She was just starting out but she was maybe 8 to 12 months in and my buddy was like, hey, man I got this like internship at this real estate firm And and I was like cool and he was like we're having a poker night if you want to just come and I walked in and i'll never forget because she always tells me now She's all I just thought you were like, I thought you were an idiot. That's what she told me Yeah Yeah, just the way I dressed and I had these like really cheap earrings in and she was just like cooking me but I sat down there And we were just playing poker and I was like, hey if I like beat you in this hand of poker or this card game That we were playing you got to give me a shot at an internship and I I did I beat her.
So that was my start Yeah, so it's really random I was in college and then that was like my intro to real estate and here I am like almost five years later, so Wow, I didn't know it's been five years It's technically like I think it's like four and something four and maybe six months. We're going on five.
[Stephen Husted] (4:11 - 4:16)
Yeah, it's wild Okay, so you won and then walk me through what happened next.
[Alex Bradshaw] (4:16 - 4:55)
Yeah, so I like I kept going to the office. I was just showing up I was doing school work for most of it and then I would like make these cold calls on the side And you know, I was just being a realtor and trying to find business and I would call these four sell by owners I'll never forget like I would call them over and over and over and I'd just tell them. Hey, I got great news for you Like hey, john, I got great news about your property I don't know what the hell I was doing But I was like, I got great news I call this dude like 15 times in a row and it's like my first month in and he calls me back He's like Alex.
What the fuck is the good news? It was comedy, but that was how I started so just literally calling and trying to figure it out.
[Stephen Husted] (4:55 - 5:05)
Yeah So wait, how did you get your license before you started working with vayna or? No, no, okay, so you went in the office and got your license Right.
[Alex Bradshaw] (5:05 - 5:14)
So I've started with vayna for eight months. I was like Calling under her for eight months, but I wasn't licensed. I was just kind of acting as like an unlicensed assistant almost.
[Stephen Husted] (5:15 - 5:19)
Okay. Yeah And so what did that cold calling teach you?
[Alex Bradshaw] (5:20 - 5:48)
That's how I run my business today. Honestly, it's through cold calling So I definitely have had this huge learning curve of just getting better at it but I think it was just a matter of showing up and Talking to people and realizing like how you can and shouldn't talk or how you Can and shouldn't present yourself when you're talking to someone or on the phone or in person, whatever it might be So that was definitely a huge like pivotal point And I didn't sell any houses. It took me like eight months till I sld my first house But I stuck with it and we figured it out.
[Stephen Husted] (5:48 - 6:08)
So yeah, there's definitely a a skill to it and an art of how you communicate with Homeowners Sellers and what you're trying to do and there's some people that really do it really bad They're just going in for a sale right off the bat and you really have to start off trying to solve someone's problem For whatever those problems are.
[Alex Bradshaw] (6:08 - 6:33)
Yeah, I think that's been like one of the biggest pieces of my business that's really helped me actually convert people is when they Tell me they have a problem instead of just telling them. Oh, that sucks It's like here are the solutions on the table Even if I know i'm probably not going to get anything back So many times something has come back to me just for giving them that piece of advice or giving them a resource Even just the craziest stories of it. So I agree for sure.
[Stephen Husted] (6:33 - 7:46)
It's being a problem solver being a problem solver I did some wholesaling in kansas city back during covid Briefly for about a year and it was just to find more properties like hey, let's cold call Let's try to wholesale and we'll keep some deals for ourselves. Yeah, so we had a little mini team and Two of the gentlemen that were actually calling on properties were in the midwest and They kept coming to me like I think I have a lead and here's what's going on I'm, like well run me through the questions. Like what did you ask them?
And right it's funny they get to this point, but we're stuck right here. I'm like, okay. She's 88 And what she's hesitant to move, but she needs to move.
Why does she need to move? Well, she wants to be closer to her son. I'm like, okay.
Well, let's find her a place Let's figure out how we're going to pull that off And then she had a bunch of stuff at her house and she was concerned about that We're going to take care of that We need to solve all her problems before even thinking about selling getting the property on a contract that period. Yeah And they're like that sounds good i'm like this is but I think I had taken it for granted because I was an agent You know, I'm still an agent. So I understand like that Having those conversations first and foremost.
It's about trying to solve their problems, right?
[Alex Bradshaw] (7:46 - 8:05)
That's the way I look at it is like first like hey, do you even want to sell or do you have a problem? And then it's like okay Motivation like what can I do to help you? Get to the point of selling, you know, so that's the way I look at it So I get that whole perspective of like, yeah, you gotta figure out what she needs man And so how do you how did because I know you sell a lot of real estate, right?
[Stephen Husted] (8:05 - 8:32)
Yeah. Yeah, I try to do my thing By the way, I was in seattle last week and I was driving down from seattle. I was on like five and Somehow it rerouted me I was going to tacoma and it rerouted me somewhere.
It was kind of A busy like an expressway type street and I drove by and I saw your sign It was a corner it was a corner lot it looked kind of modern maybe one story. Yeah. Yeah.
Yep.
[Alex Bradshaw] (8:32 - 9:02)
I know what you're talking about There's that guy there's alex's sign right there He's gonna be on my podcast Let's go that's dope. I always love that like people they'll send me pictures too Like when they're driving around a lot of like my buddies, especially I even did one time I was like, yo, if you like take a picture next to my sign Like i'll send you five bucks like just that's an incentive to post me on their story And the seller sends me a picture of like five dudes taking a picture in front of my son and they're like you alex who the hell are these people and i'm like
[Stephen Husted] (9:04 - 9:06)
Sorry, man, they're all making five bucks.
[Alex Bradshaw] (9:06 - 9:11)
Yeah, they're all making five bucks, dude Get a little creative though. Yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (9:11 - 9:27)
Yeah, that's great. So Walk me through a little bit about what type of jobs you had before getting into real estate What did you do that kind of led in because I think some of your There's always clues in the beginning of like different jobs. What leads you into sales or just real estate in general?
What were you doing?
[Alex Bradshaw] (9:27 - 10:11)
I was a bus boy at a restaurant in des moines And then I was an umpire like a baseball umpire, but they were like summer games I played baseball like summer ball like I was a huge baseball player So I did that most of the summer and then after school But then like I had to make money and I was also like I was just a hustler like I Would like buy and sell phones. It was called the brachial repairs I would fix people's iPhones until I didn't and then that business was over. That was kind of my story I was like a man with just a couple side gigs and a bunch of side hustles like reselling on ebay So I was always trying to make some money because my parents would never give me any so I was like, okay I want to go to the movies with this chick.
How do I make this happen? I'm gonna find a way Yeah, yeah So just a little bit everything honestly, yeah, that's good.
[Stephen Husted] (10:11 - 10:26)
I mean and that that is leads up to sales and real estate It's straight up hustle. Yeah, right just figuring finding a way literally it's on your mind all day every day Yeah, for sure Do you do you find it's hard to to kind of switch off?
[Alex Bradshaw] (10:27 - 10:45)
Yes And my girlfriend will tell you the same thing because like i'm literally in bed and i'm just like it's always something after another it's really hard to just This time i'm done like i'm done, you know, you've been on vacation. It's it's something's happening. I try but it's tough Yeah Over time.
[Stephen Husted] (10:45 - 11:25)
How old are you now? 23 20. Oh my gosh I was telling this to vayner when vayner was talking and I think vayner made a video And it was something about not being very happy with where she is at exactly or how much she's done in the year and I said And I totally understood what she was meaning by that, you know, I think sometimes we get so into what we're doing That we really don't see the growth happening even though and there's points And i'll speak for myself through my life It's always been up and down, right?
There's been points where it's just really kicking and sometimes it flattens off and I just i'm blown away by you guys What you guys are doing?
[Alex Bradshaw] (11:26 - 12:01)
I appreciate that, but I was going to raves at 23 like I was partying I I definitely like the party still but i'm like, all right, how can I? You know be disciplined at the same time. I definitely get that problem though with vayner I think thatch which is one of our you know mentors has done a really good job of implementing yo Like this is where you need to get to you.
Don't gotta do it all right away, man So he's helped bring us down but it's also tough because I think Especially with social media. It's like comparison, you know comparison It comes in and me and vayner have talked about like trying not to do that as a main focus So it's it's tough.
[Stephen Husted] (12:01 - 12:40)
I I get where she's coming from though for sure, but also trying to stay happy Yes, I think the social media part of it is, you know a big part of you know, I I go through it myself Right, you know, it's easy to compare yourself to others and oh they're doing better or they got more money Or they're doing this and they bought that or they're going, you know, it's It's it's tough. Yeah, it's it's tough. I actually had dinner with vayner When I was in seattle, we spoke at ann curry's uh event And we were talking about you know little things that go through on social media and right It's like a double-edged sword.
You need it. But then sometimes you just don't want it.
[Alex Bradshaw] (12:40 - 12:58)
Yeah, it That's the best way to put it. There's only a double-edged like headed sword, honestly Yeah, i've had many times where i've like deleted social media and obviously I get it back but you know, it's i'm just like I need a break like I need a just a week break of just Yes I get with you.
[Stephen Husted] (12:58 - 13:10)
I go through that same thing and I do that, you know Sometimes i'll just disconnect even when I got all this, you know things going on in the background that I should be sharing I just don't right because I just need like alone time in my own brain.
[Alex Bradshaw] (13:10 - 13:29)
You know, it's it's I'm with you on that. I tried that. I think I do a pretty good job of sometimes just being like All right, like I just got an x y and z but also it's tough in our industry too because it's like All right, you know all the coaches are telling us Okay, we need to pull some socials like we got to keep it up, you know So there's a balance and it's hard to like make sure you're on that fine line.
[Stephen Husted] (13:30 - 14:26)
We need it for our business we need it to Explain to people what we're out there doing educate people inspire people to do things, you know entertain whatever the case may be But yeah, I was anti social media up to about a couple years ago. Oh, really? Yeah yeah, I was obviously I was investing I was a realtor, but I just didn't like marketing the way that marketing was done in real estate in the very beginning until I started Seeing videos and how people were doing videos where you can educate them.
Okay, this makes perfect sense Right. This is much better like I can educate and talk about what i'm doing But it's not like i'm just doing generic just listed just sold type, you know, right? I just sold this house and you're like, okay, but you sold that house.
But what was it like representing those buyers? What did those buyers go through during that transaction the good or the bad? Video gave me like the gateway where i'm like, okay, this is this is way better.
[Alex Bradshaw] (14:26 - 14:56)
Yeah I like that too That I think that's the way to go about it instead of just like the repetitive like just listed just so like they're cool To sprinkle in there, but it's not a thing to like, you know, make your whole feed and I mean I also have always been anti-social media so much so that I literally had to tell my buddy like Hey every week I don't post at least one thing like I gotta send you 500 bucks So if you go on my feed, you'll see every post is sunday at 9 p.m. Because i'm like fuck I gotta post dude So I definitely am with you on that
[Stephen Husted] (14:56 - 15:21)
Yeah, it's funny and it's funny coming from you because you're really great on screen. I can tell you're being yourself You know, I mean like you have your your personality is your personality and that's sometimes hard for people to kind of break through in the beginning Because it's scary being on on video But what has it done for you as far as in your business? Have you gotten business from it?
Does it help you or does it is it more of a? social proof awareness that you get
[Alex Bradshaw] (15:22 - 16:20)
I think That's a good way to put it this year has definitely done more like before I didn't really post I would post here and there like people knew I was selling houses But most of my business just came from like hitting the phones really hard But this year i've seen like a huge influx of business from like my database and my friends and family And it's because they know that i'm actually producing and i'm actually putting stuff out there.
They're seeing me do it, you know I think they see my age and they're like, okay, you know, he's a little bit of a younger dude Maybe I wouldn't try but now they're saying okay. Look he's doing this. He's doing this.
That's badass, man Let me give a shot And so i've done like more business this year for my database and I think it's mainly because of the social media i've had You know quite a few people just dm me like hey, man, i'm looking to buy a house They're like, hey, my auntie's, you know sister is selling her house And so it's cool that they see my stuff and they're like i'm gonna give them a shot because of it So definitely social proof and then also just hey, like i'm young but like i'm doing my best to do what I can man you know, so
[Stephen Husted] (16:21 - 16:39)
I think that age thing was something that was part of real estate a while ago but nowadays I don't think man.
I think that it's it's I don't know 23 you're old. You're you're an adult you're old enough to Yeah, like when I was first starting out.
[Alex Bradshaw] (16:39 - 17:05)
Well, I think I was more worried about it than like others were and I think yeah It's like inside of my head thing I mean, I even would go on my listing presentations and like I had a line in there that I would use that like Put it like just straight up confronted and like look i'm young So it but I probably didn't even need to do all that and that's what one of my coaches told me They're like dude, just like just run with it.
I mean, you're good. If you can do it, you can do it Oh, yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (17:05 - 17:56)
Yeah. Yeah, I fully agree with that when I first got into real estate I came from more of a creative background. I was a hairdresser dj and you know have tattoos and back in 2008 you know like there wasn't people with tattoos and get into real estate it was one of those things and but everybody my broker was like You gotta lean into this like you're gonna be the original one.
So people are gonna gravitate to you because you're different but it still was a hang-up like it really, you know, like I wanted to wear a button up to an open house or You know, whoever I was meeting if I didn't know them like that they were, you know referral i'd always wear a button up Yeah, you know and you know just to kind of and then as time went on we got comfortable I would like I would slowly take the button off at one point Maybe we're getting ready to close and I show up in a t-shirt and then you'd be like what?
[Alex Bradshaw] (17:58 - 18:24)
Yeah I get that so hard. I used to tie. I literally used to go suit and tie though I mean, especially the listing presentation.
I would go fully suited up tied up and now i'm like way more lax But I remember like there's a couple times where I mean I have i'm a snapback and sweatpants type of dude So yeah, I pull up to like closing or take a sign out of the yard and they're like bro You look like completely different than when you fucking listen Look So i'm with you i'm with you.
[Stephen Husted] (18:24 - 19:34)
Yeah, but that's okay Yes, of course depending you know, you should just dress the part to who you're gonna get in front of and that's kind of my thing behind it, but You also want to feel you want to feel confident in what you're wearing too true You know what? I mean? I wear black.
I love black. I love dark gray I'm gonna wear it because I feel good I get up in the morning. I put a black shirt on I'm ready to go.
I didn't have to you know I mean like I didn't have to think about a million things pick out a hat and i'm going on with my day So yeah, i'm with you. I'm a black t-shirt dark gray type of guy as you can see. All right.
Nice. Good. Good.
Good So let's dive in a little bit about your business and like how you've been what's your I want to kind of understand Because you you first you started with cold calling right? And so at that point you're learning how to get on the phone You're you're getting comfortable. You're putting systems in place is ways of doing things but then you probably took those skills and then Basically just brought it into how you call for You know upcoming listings and sellers, right?
Did you just you got it into a pattern of like this is going to be consistency This is what I need to do every day no matter what to get more business. Is that what you how you do it?
[Alex Bradshaw] (19:34 - 21:14)
Yeah, so basically I started off I was doing everything myself just figuring it out, which I did, you know Went on a lot of appointments lost a lot of appointments started to make some money by selling houses I'm like, okay. I've got money in the bank. What can I do with this money to help grow my business?
So Huge i've got an assistant. I've got four bas that also call alongside me I still call every day, but it's less like I'm not doing a bunch of like hours of circle dialing or farming anymore It's mainly look i'm hitting more of the niche like pre-foreclosure probate Expired cancels and then my warm weeds so i'm kind of rotated out and then also my goal is for 25 like less calling because I'm pretty much 8 to 12 every day, you know, like the whole like mike ferry way like I still do it Well 8 to 12 every day is kind of what I run with So i'm like solely trying to build these systems where I can have the va's help me the assistant help me Just like close deals and I don't got to be so much like calling, you know, i'm getting kind of Yeah burned out on it, right for sure. What do you think your superpower is? I think that Man that's a great question.
By the way, i've never been asked that I I think I do a really good job of just getting along with people not even. Oh, he's a cool dude. Super cool guy.
No, just like any type of personality type I feel like I can Really connect with whether it's like an analytical and expressive like someone that's really amiable I feel like I I do a really good job of hey This is the type of person they are and this is kind of how I approach the situation and just like we're on the same page and not being fake but just You know, I make the adjustments, right? I make the adjustments. Yeah, I think that's my superpower.
[Stephen Husted] (21:14 - 21:42)
Honestly, and I I would say so at least yeah Yeah, and that's a absolutely that's an amazing skill to have in sales Yeah in real estate real estate investing your your sphere people is that right? I think that's a and I think that's a characteristic I see in a lot of people in sales, you know, I mean like they know how to just Get in there and they read that person like okay. This is probably how they're gonna tick I'm gonna tone this down or maybe I go like this with them, right?
[Alex Bradshaw] (21:42 - 22:34)
Right for sure and even like i've got one-liners that i've memorized for like certain personality types that I whip I will bring out on the listing presentation that I know will make them laugh because it's that personality type So i've got like this bag of arrows. I almost call it So I think that's it's cool that that would be my superpower like as far as something i'm good at bad I'm bad. I'm not that organized of a person That's why I hired the assistant because I just i'm like go and i'll figure it out later but like the back Okay, I need to do all these, you know so Have you ever done one of those personality tests that had it you asked I have I forget like the you know They've got the really like in-depth one.
I forget exactly which one I was I know like out of the four that i'm an expressive technically advana thinks i'm a driver, but i'm an expressive I should redo that. It's been a little while. She made me do it the first week.
I joined her So, oh really?
[Stephen Husted] (22:35 - 22:39)
Okay. Yeah, because she wanted to know how you're going to mesh in with the the team She did.
[Alex Bradshaw] (22:39 - 22:44)
Yeah She did and we had one of each personality type on our team all four four of us.
[Stephen Husted] (22:44 - 22:45)
So, oh, perfect.
[Alex Bradshaw] (22:46 - 22:48)
Yes, she's smart She's super smart.
[Stephen Husted] (22:48 - 23:23)
She's super smarter I love her man She's my big sister you know, hey, she's a She's gonna be a great big sister for you both you guys. I just think that You're in like the the early stages You know and I asked her I asked vayner a question too I asked said Where do you where do you want to be in 10 years? And i'm like, I don't know that might be a little too far out and she's like nope She knew exactly what she wanted to do.
I was like, yeah, okay She's like i'm gonna grind it out work really hard then I want to have a family and then i'm gonna go back to work After the fact i'm like, okay, cool.
[Alex Bradshaw] (23:23 - 23:57)
Yeah There you go. Yeah, I think too like that's our mentor. He's huge on that like he We literally write and he like sits down with us on a one-on-one call for 30 minutes a 10-year letter of like where do we want to be and it's so powerful because I mean, I was born in 2001.
I go back and i'm like reading thatch's 2001 10-year letter But he has one every year up to now and it's like what he thought he was going to be at in 10 years it's kind of crazy, but it's so much like Smaller, but like when you're in the moment, you're like god, that's so far away, you know It's wild
[Stephen Husted] (23:57 - 24:05)
Yeah, that's really cool So these 10 year letters you're basically writing out where you want to be in 10 years and and then reflecting back Is that how it works?
[Alex Bradshaw] (24:06 - 24:31)
Almost yes that but it's you're writing as if you're in the moment Like this is what I feel in 10 years. I was a you know, I wake up in the morning I feel refreshed my life is so abundant. I have so much in front of me I I go down to you're basically like writing as if you're in the moment 10 years from now where you want to be So it's a little different and we all wrote like hey, this is where we want to be in 10 years Let me know you guys are doing this wrong So we just wrote it.
[Stephen Husted] (24:32 - 24:58)
Yeah Yeah and Yeah, and you I have to say this and I know you know this but having mentors at your age It's just gonna shoot you guys up. Oh, yeah, like it's crazy. It is and you know, why because now you know that Thatch could be a mentor.
You might have another couple mentors Who knows then you're gonna be mentoring you're gonna get another little thing from that as well, right? Yeah, because then you're gonna feed off others.
[Alex Bradshaw] (24:59 - 25:28)
Oh for sure literally like a sponge man It's just made me jump so much just by like seeing the path and like okay this is what I need to do because When you're on social media, especially or like youtube and there's like so many things out there like what's the right way? You know, how do I know if i'm on the right path? Am I doing the right thing?
I feel like it's a constant question. But when you have someone that's just like I mean, obviously there's always another way But this is a good way that you should go and this is how I did it and it's like cool. I'm gonna do that I'm gonna do that.
[Stephen Husted] (25:28 - 26:32)
Give me and and I think that I don't you can get real estate figured out and you could have you know, 10 doors and firing in all cylinders And you could change your path at that point, you know, you can go a whole another way. I think it's totally fine I think evolving and changing Direction is is refreshing, you know, and like you guys are still in the early age early innings, I would say But heck i'm 54 and i'm still thinking about how can I reinvent or what can I do different? you know, what can I do to push myself or be excited to get up in the morning and try something new or You know have that that fire on a weekly basis instead of like i'm bored.
I'm done with what i'm doing Yeah, for sure and social media does that right we can go onto youtube and get inspired within five minutes from what some person's doing You're just like wait a minute And then next you know, you're kind of going down and that could be and it doesn't have to be work related it could be You know learning to cook fitness you name it dude. It's everything's there, right?
[Alex Bradshaw] (26:32 - 27:06)
Yeah. No, absolutely. I'm with you on that and it's It's funny because this year has probably been like my best year like financially from just being a realtor like investor all of the time but it's also i've never experienced this, but i'm like And it's I don't even know if it's like selfish to say that like I feel this way But I just I kind of feel that like i'm getting like a little I don't want to say bored But just in the daily routine and i'm like, how can I like spice this up or stay motivated? Which i've never really dealt with but just a little bit more burnout, even though i'm like I feel like this is my best year yet.
So it's it's funny the ebbs and flows of real estate. It's funny.
[Stephen Husted] (27:06 - 29:26)
Yes Yeah, 100 I will tell you that when I got in real estate was 2008 I got my license the day the stock market crashed And I walked into this like mom and pop like they they did loans and real estate was both and I walked in i'm like Yeah, I got my license. I went out and spent like 700 bucks on Clothes and a computer bag and i'm just like i'm ready to make millions Millions i'm gonna make millions I swear the I never forget that I when I walked in the the The guys that owned the company were in the very back and they had clear glass in their in their office I see these papers throw up and like he throws these papers up in the air and he you can tell he was stressed out and these papers were back then when you worked in a mortgage office these reps would come around and give you these sheets that Basically would talk about the different programs that you know, you could offer to your clients They were all gonna go away because bear stearns just went under he was throwing them up in the air and shit was hitting the fan and here I am just like Where's the clients I want to work I want to sell houses. What are we doing?
And boy, I had no clue the ride. I was about to go on Dude It was the craziest craziest market You know, you're dealing with sellers. They're losing their homes They're stripping the houses before they close like Taking everything kitchen full kitchen getting removed Like i'm pissed off the bank So i'm gonna i'm taking the kitchen the appliances to my next rental like literally I showed up at the walkthrough You know three days before we're gonna close And the whole kitchen's gone Gone, it's gone gone Concrete down the the the sink, you know, just it was wild and you know, I kind of grinded that out for a period of time And I wouldn't say I got bored but I think once I got into investing, you know, and that kind of layered on top it was then everything like reignited You know because it gave me other options of things I can do and how to you know help other clients and my you know, my friends and family and You know, it's just a whole different ballgame Did you feel like that you get that same when you got you got your first investment property?
[Alex Bradshaw] (29:27 - 30:02)
Yes, like I'm so passionate about the investing side of real estate like long term. That is just all I want to do. I mean Real estate sales is great and I love working with friends and family, but I don't have a huge database So most of my business comes from people that I call up and you know It's not necessarily like the most fun thing in the world, you know, but it pays the bills but the investing side like man I will get my hands dirty.
One of my places i've got i've got three rv pads. I set up the electrical I set up I did it all myself. I just like doing that type of stuff, you know I'm, like i'm not really as soon as I got i'm more i'm gonna get my hands dirty wear some sweats.
Yeah Good.
[Stephen Husted] (30:02 - 31:19)
Oh, yeah, for sure I love this side. Yeah that It's funny you bring up the you know, you're gonna you'd like to put in the dirty work type stuff, right? We got a property that we're flipping and it's almost done and i've been pretty hands-on on this project.
It's five minutes from my house So i'm there all the time but I was you know over the weekend and we were doing the landscaping it had it was all Hardscape, but i'm went out there i'm picking plants You know went to three different places and you know, i'm i'm dry and I spent four or five hours doing this And I know that it's probably not the best Use of my time where i'm at But then I thought about it and said but it made me happy. Yeah, you know what I mean? I liked picking out the plants.
I wanted certain colors in front of this front door and in this planter box and Screw it That's what I wanted to do and I do this a lot Honestly, I try to time block and do all the things to you know, the most important things and I do have a team behind me but I don't mind doing the things that maybe aren't gonna Be the best roi on my time for sure, you know what I mean? Because it's easy to get caught in that especially like social media I mean, well my schedule's like all those things and i'm getting up at four in the morning and I you know i'm like dude like Yeah, no
[Alex Bradshaw] (31:19 - 31:54)
Yeah, you got definitely got to do what you enjoy, you know, it's a balance I think to it, you know and For me, it's also that way like I find a lot of joy in like just doing the work like especially if i'm creating something It's really fun.
Even if that's I've got to you know, get all dirty and like wet like doing it, but i'm just enjoying it So yeah, I think that's why I like the investment side so much and in someday I long for that if I can get to my cash flow goal I would love i'll probably i'll still do real estate sales, but I would just like to really focus on You know, i'm actually in the process of getting my gc license right now because it's it's like something i'm very much thinking up.
[Stephen Husted] (31:54 - 31:59)
Yeah Yeah. Oh Yeah, you need to do that dude.
[Alex Bradshaw] (31:59 - 32:02)
Yeah. Yes. Yes It's covered.
[Stephen Husted] (32:02 - 32:17)
Yeah, it's coming dude There you go. I think because flipping houses are just design There's so much satisfaction, especially when you're starting off with a house that is just completely run down And you start to see that vision come to life.
[Alex Bradshaw] (32:17 - 32:19)
Yeah, that's what it is.
[Stephen Husted] (32:19 - 32:41)
That's the addiction. It is it is addiction Dude I need to see this again Yes I do. Yeah, what projects are you working on because I went to instagram.
I saw a couple Properties that I don't know if they were flips that you already completed and that's been done But seems like what what's the one that you had the the car that was demolished
[Alex Bradshaw] (32:41 - 33:37)
Yes, that one closed this friday, which is cool, but that was like that was a piece of shit I've had some horror stories walk into some of these places, but I've got that one I've got another one in c tag Uh, these are all in washington, but i've got one in port orchard spanaway and then i'm friday I'm, actually buying one from being a wholesale deal in covington this year I've definitely expanded on the flip side because again, that's what I love I've built relationships with people that have money and i'm I know how to manage the deals I know how to get them start to finish and make money So it's hey man, like if we can jv on this like I would love to do it So that's what i've like really gotten into this year Yeah, and that's doesn't preach much about doing that but he told me specifically he's like Alex, I don't tell many people a lot of this but you can find people to give you the money like you know What you're doing, you know, you can go and knock more deals So that's what my focus has been this year since we had that one-on-one
[Stephen Husted] (33:37 - 34:03)
Yeah, I think that's was Great advice. I don't think everybody has that that skill set honestly, right and and one putting in those systems in place have and having the trust and Once people start seeing point a to b and what you're doing and then you're putting it out there, right?
The only trick to it all, you know, the biggest trick to the whole thing is You got to pick your partners wisely.
[Alex Bradshaw] (34:03 - 34:06)
I know I'm learning that the hard way
[Stephen Husted] (34:10 - 35:07)
He's like, oh no, he's gonna say it But I think for anybody listening to this You know, you can be really good at sourcing and finding a deal, you know running a construction crew You can have that in there and you can have people coming to you that have money and they work in nine to five And they just want to return But you have to understand how to set expectations Is a huge part of it from the beginning and you almost have to tell that potential partner the good the bad the ugly Like up front and if they try to ask you for like, oh, what's the return going to be and what? Yes, you can give rough numbers, but nothing's a guarantee.
You can't control the housing market you can't control someone breaks into your flip and steals the appliances, you know, like the partner needs to be very aware and I've had to learn that the hard way. It sounds like you have learned something I can tell. Yeah.
[Alex Bradshaw] (35:07 - 35:51)
No, I That's literally the one piece of advice. I would have said is exactly what you said. It's like set expectations early so it's like Dude, i'm like really when I run my numbers i'm super conservative like always like I always budget my sale to be 10 20 grand less My rehab would be 10 20 more like that way if I lose a worst case i'm still making money But i'm i'm like look man like this is what could happen like and this is kind of how I expect to run it This is how things are like this is how we work in a partnership and just try to set like all the cards on the table up front so that They know what to anticipate because when it doesn't go as planned and it probably won't You know you want to make sure that you guys are still in a good relationship and at least getting it across the finish line because you Have to at that point you're already in 2d
[Stephen Husted] (35:52 - 35:56)
yes, absolutely, and then it feels like forever because I know
[Alex Bradshaw] (35:56 - 35:57)
Thank you, please
[Stephen Husted] (35:58 - 37:23)
It could be like three months left to you know Get the property stabilized and finished and you're still kind of having these conversations and my partnerships I have A partnership in seattle now. That's new and that gentleman It was my past real estate client. I helped him buy helped him sell He was my client at the salon as well I've known him for a while and you know, he reached out to me and was like, hey, I you know my company went public I want to invest in real estate and I gave him some options of things he could do and I would help him mentor him to you know do this and then he's like well Why don't we just partner up and I had you know and there was a lot of things I had to go through first with him a lot I had to lay it all out and listen to him and pay attention of How he's going to react and so far he's pretty level-headed. He's actually brought a lot to the table Nice and most of my partnerships We've gone through all the bad things already and all of them are they understand it and so it's one of those things that I have to keep that tight because You can over time Because i've turned down some partnerships too where i'm like, no, I think i'd rather just mentor you Let me you'll get all the equity.
Why don't you just hire me on for six months? We'll find you your first deal put your team together and then you you have the property. It's yours and it's stabilized, right?
You know, I mean because sometimes it's you just don't want to you know, spread yourself too thin.
[Alex Bradshaw] (37:23 - 37:41)
Yeah, that's Definitely another lesson i'm like learning right now It's just like gotta keep it so that you're not threading, you know, don't have too much going on and one of my mentors said it best it was good stress and bad stress, but i'm like trying to like still be okay with Like good stress because i'm like dude Yeah, yeah
[Stephen Husted] (37:42 - 37:52)
Yeah, I I hear you what's considered good stress Excitement like you're in something you're you're you're going through something that's just pretty basic, you know, but you're just
[Alex Bradshaw] (37:52 - 38:42)
Good stress is you're doing it. You're making it happen, but it's stressful So for example, like i've got like a bunch of closings, but it's super stressful Like i've always got someone calling me to deal with the problem, but it's like Dude, I want to just sit down and sleep, you know bad is like dude. I have no money Like I need to do a deal So I was like i'd rather be like stressed in a positive way when I have a lot going on It's just a lot to deal with mentally Then I don't have a lot going on and i'm stressed because I don't have a lot, you know With just like I don't have money coming through the door whatever it might be I guess that's his version of good or good stress and bad stress so he's just like you have to start like switching your mindset to Man, that's a good problem to have Now i'm going to deal with it and then later just take a deep breath when I can So that's kind of what he's been coaching me through that's a good point
[Stephen Husted] (38:42 - 39:06)
that's a good point like the fact that you have these stresses are in itself a good thing because you're actually Moving in some type of direction out there. That makes a lot of sense Are you?
In that camp that you want to because I know thatch talks a lot about like you only need 10 really good rental properties Especially out where you guys are at. Is that somewhat of a goal and is that part of your equation as well?
[Alex Bradshaw] (39:07 - 40:11)
Yes and no so like in Me and thatch have talked about this quite a bit because again me and bane i've started with him since we were 19 So we he's basically been like our only like one mind that we've been really like listening to since we started And so we'll just ask him like i'm like hey man Like i'm i've gotten to like not my door count But i've gotten to if I were to pay off all my doors like I can live off this Should I like start focusing on that and he's like honestly you're young like I would Still focus on getting properties, but just make sure that you're not getting any risky deals You know, you're getting things that all the boxes are checked.
They're your ideal location I also don't like I have half my places in the seattle area I also got another half on the other side of the state in moses lake So I like definitely do a little bit of both. I do a lot. I like a lot of creative financing, too So I am in a line with this is my door count and I when I pay them all off But also at the same time like I want to grow and then maybe I sell those properties to pay off the doors But I definitely am still buying like i'm aligned but in a different way
[Stephen Husted] (40:11 - 40:34)
Yeah, and it's like a puzzle right you're trying to put it together and it might look completely different somewhat Completely different down the road too. I mean different point of life for sure.
It's pretty wild So we're with the investment side Are you cold calling? Within looking for seller leads and then is that how you're getting your properties? Are you buying them from other wholesalers like vena?
[Alex Bradshaw] (40:34 - 41:17)
Yeah, so a little bit of both. I probably half my portfolio I found myself from cold calling which is cool. And then all my flips i've never found a flip myself They've all been from wholesalers.
So I love cutting people checks, especially if they're in springboard and then I've actually gotten quite a few deals on market and I love the five percent down house hack That's like my bread and butter I love it if I can make the numbers pencil I will and i'll get creative I'll rent out the rooms. I'll put rv pads on the property. I'll Rent out the parking spaces on neighbor like any way I can get gritty To with five percent down in high rates and still make it pencil out I will do it because you know, I don't I don't have any bankroll.
So A mixture of on market off market that I found myself and wholesalers.
[Stephen Husted] (41:17 - 42:14)
I'd say honestly like a third of each for sure So good, dude That's so crazy Oh man, I went through the same thing with vena. Yeah, she was on and i'm going 23 24 like what? I was like, oh man Just a different time period then.
Yeah, we didn't have information. Oh for sure like you guys do now That's for sure. I mean even back in 2006 I read like rich dad poor dad And you know was like oh real estate and then you know Okay, then I found a conference to go to and i've told this story a million times but You know, I went to a conference and the guy would speak like oh, it's flipping the house I even have the guy's book still yeah, and you you literally walk out of the room, right?
And then they'd have cassettes or maybe it was cds at the time and you'd spend 10 grand And then you go flip nobody was sharing information, right? There was no social media.
[Alex Bradshaw] (42:14 - 42:24)
Yeah, there was no youtube I'm, so lucky. I just oh, how do I do this? Okay.
I'm gonna youtube it. I'm googling I have it so easy Yeah, it's all there. There's no excuse.
[Stephen Husted] (42:24 - 43:06)
There's none. There's no there's no excuse And then some are just wild I was telling my wife this I go, you know, lately i've been watching like these culture podcasts, you know, and they're just young kids and they I wouldn't say they're talking about anything. So like they're not talking finance or real estate or you know, I mean like this they're just talking about like stuff like just and they got these huge audiences and they next thing you know, they're getting Elon musk on the podcast And they're building they're building brands and and it's just so intriguing to watch and it A little bit.
It's the right place right time, but I don't know.
[Alex Bradshaw] (43:06 - 43:25)
There's just there's so much opportunity now There's so much especially with youtube and like google. It's like I just think I have so much access to information which is really nice like being able to but then it's also kind of a Almost like social media like a double-sided sword. I think because it's so easy.
They're like My generation especially is a little lazy.
[Stephen Husted] (43:25 - 43:39)
I mean not a little like kind of hot, you know, like it takes a little bit That's true because I know that gets thrown out a lot But do you find that that's the case and why do you say that because people are online too much or? What gives you that impression?
[Alex Bradshaw] (43:39 - 44:21)
You know, I just think from what i've seen and like i'm kind of like shooting myself by saying this because it's my generation but I just Feel that it's really easy for my age group to just like complain about little things Whereas like I look back and i'm like god, dude, we have all the tools to do it We just literally have to do it and I think it's hard because also Like my attention span is like zero Like yeah, I get bored so quick now and it's not okay Like my instant gratification like needs to be there and I think it's because my generation has grown up like that So I just think when we don't get something like right away, it's very easy for us to shut down mentally I don't know. I guess that's my two cents, but maybe i'm wrong, but that's my thing.
[Stephen Husted] (44:21 - 44:30)
Yeah So besides work, you know, you're saying that kind of keep you Inspired or engaged? What do you do outside of work?
[Alex Bradshaw] (44:30 - 44:31)
Oh, dude.
[Stephen Husted] (44:31 - 44:32)
I know you play basketball, right?
[Alex Bradshaw] (44:33 - 45:44)
I play basketball I go to the club all the like every other weekend. I I just went to a rave last weekend I still go out and do quite a bit, you know, it's definitely like work hard play hard. It's a rave I did that's actually my first one like actual rave at the gorge, which was really fun.
But yeah, is that in seattle? Where where is that located eastern washington? It's called the gorge amphitheater.
It's it's cool. It was a good spot It's up in the mountain. It's kind of like in like a mountainy area and it's got a beautiful sunset in the back It's outdoor too.
So super night Is it an all-nighter? No, it ended out. I think it ended at like two.
So it was it went late Okay But so I definitely I go out I love to eat food like me and my girlfriend eat like I spent all that much money On food. Oh my god. It's it's actually horrible That's what I do outside.
I mean, I hang out with my friends a ton but i'm also like if you ask them i'm like texting clients like in between hooping like i'm like i'm literally at the rave and i'm Like are your mortgage payments gonna come out to me and they're like never put your phone down. Yeah, it's wild bro Work hard play hard I love it. Yeah.
Oh my god, so great He's done a little bit of everything.
[Stephen Husted] (45:44 - 48:26)
I'm interesting Yeah, I used to I don't know if i'm gonna get the year right but I want to say mid 90s mid 90s I went up to seattle Went to some raves And almost died in a hotel room Overdosed Overdosed. Yeah in a hotel and I had went out the the day before and bought these shoes right and they were like from a thrift store and I haven't told the story but I feel like i'm going to tell you because you live where you live but you just brought up the raves and yeah, I overdosed in a hotel and All I was thinking was oh my god, i'm gonna die in this hotel like kurt cobain That was going through my head and i'm not going to get to wear these shoes and I kept I ended up having an out-of-body experience and was floating away from my body But then what would happen is i'd start to throw up. I had taken a mixture at ghb and It makes you throw up violently and when i'd go to throw up it brought me back into my body It was in seattle Leaving a rave Ended up at the hotel room and yeah the following day and I made out of it, of course, but you know my whole chest Was bruised and we left the following day and went down.
We drove down the coast to portland and I was just destroyed but then I think around that time I just know that Yeah, kurt cobain had just passed at some time. And then that was happening like oh Going like kurt cobain and it's interesting Because that was the last time I was in seattle Fast forward to the time that i'm back in seattle i'm clean And now i'm buying real estate in seattle when it all hit Back in march. I went out to seattle for the first time to kind of look at neighborhoods I met up with my agent, you know, we deal with things and I don't think I was in the location where I got the shoes but something triggered that moment and I was like Cool.
Yeah, i'm on the right path, you know, even though it's you know I'm that was probably in my 20s and i'm 54 but I Now that I look back as as i've gotten older Your ages have all these different markers You know, I mean and you're just going to reflect as you get older you reflect back to these points You're young. So you're just kind of starting off your own You're just starting but you're going to have so many of them, especially somebody like you and like vayna Because you guys are doing a lot more than most Does that make sense? I mean, dude like You guys are thinking about stuff that you know, you play your cards, right?
You're going to be pretty set up and you're in your 30s That's that's the goal.
[Alex Bradshaw] (48:26 - 49:01)
But also I I still want to enjoy it, you know, uh, yes keep going to some raves. Yeah But I I like that that's a good point that you made where it's these life markers life markers You're going to remember because I mean I don't have that much yet on the board but like I definitely do have certain moments where it I remember like a certain time when I was like 19 and I lost out on my first deal and i'm like man This is crazy. Like we're here now.
Like I can't believe it, you know, and i'm curious What has you what brought you to seattle? I mean, I feel like everyone's probably asked that question But what brought you to seattle to start looking at deals?
[Stephen Husted] (49:02 - 49:11)
So I I go to the bigger pockets conference a lot. I see and I met justin Camera not there.
[Alex Bradshaw] (49:11 - 49:12)
I love yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (49:12 - 51:43)
Yeah, justin's awesome. So I met him. I had him on the podcast and Then somehow I just started getting connected.
Oh, I was driving up to meet one of my business partners And I was listening to a podcast for furnished finder for like midterm rentals and ann curry Was on the podcast so I listened to her podcast and while this lady sounds she sounds awesome, you know, she's got a great story You just tell she's very authentic and you know real So I pulled it up to the restaurant. I dm'd her on instagram. She jumped on my podcast and then I you know, I heck I trolled the heck out of vayna like She answered my dms and so i'm like oh screw it she's an agent i'm gonna find her online I just went to google my business found her number i'm calling her like hey, I want to get you on the podcast so I just Started getting people on and i'm hearing what what what's going on in seattle as far as like daddoos and Idus and all that and california obviously just passed that same scenario but I just felt like okay.
I just had the contractor the lender The agent this makes sense. So i'm like i'm gonna fly out so I flew out, you know went and cruised the neighborhoods looked at it in person And made sense came back and you know in june we closed on two properties and we're building three daddoos and two basements Well, the funny thing is this is a funny story we bought this one property went on the market thursday evening And it was listed at like seven 750 with a ten thousand dollar credit for whatever reason they were giving a credit out and We wrote an offer only gave them like eight hours to respond and it was going into the weekend And the agent, you know wasn't savvy enough to go Oh, you know, we're gonna wait through the open house or we're gonna see what kind of activity you get we're gonna set an offer date the following week she just Went with it and took it, you know, we we paid all cash. And so maybe that was part of it but it was a two one On a basement, you know eight foot basement on a 12 000 square foot lot hundred feet wide, so we grabbed that one and walked it with my agent and The contractor this guy roman who's part of spring springboard, too Roman, you know roman.
[Alex Bradshaw] (51:43 - 51:43)
Yeah, that's dope.
[Stephen Husted] (51:44 - 56:29)
Yes. He's my contractor. So we did a facetime and ian's like All right.
I got I got roman here and roman's in the background like looking he's dude like his face He's just got this look like, you know, he wanted to just He just wanted to talk and you just want to see this Is a gold mine. He's you got the basement you got the you got the upstairs you got the lot we did it And so we ended up taking the two one upstairs Rehab that now we're doing a two two In the basement. So now we're at a four three.
So from a two one to four three and we're in planning for we're Condemnizing one of the for the daddoos, but then we'll just land bake the other part of the land until 2025 So we're going through all that and that's all you know Yes, i'm an experienced investor But i'm not experienced in this this is new It's new. It's a new it's almost like you start in the beginning you understand things and it's nuanced but you know, it's it's new to me Then this other property popped up and ian went and looked at it, you know Four bedroom two bath on a basement on a corner lot 8700 square foot lot So we wrote an offer i'm like well probably not gonna get it probably gonna go for more and he calls me up and We didn't write that one in our llc.
We did it in our names and because the first offer we wrote on a property the I think something like the seller didn't want to deal with llcs and things like that. So we wrote it in our name and A builder wrote another offer 140 000 above ours The seller Didn't want to sell it to a builder She didn't want to ruin the neighborhood. So she basically said go with the second highest offer, which was us And didn't count her just accepted our offer as is and so we got into contract but it's funny because it's like she just thought that there was two guys to I don't know two gay guys buying a house Just Two of us are buying it and so we and the agent didn't say anything So we locked it up.
We closed on it and then we went to get our survey done and the neighbor behind us Saw the stakes and she's like why you guys are nobody was building here and roman's. Oh, it's all fine We're gonna it's gonna go perfectly with the neighborhood. And of course, there's no fencing from the behind our house So the house that's in the back the lady that was kind of getting crazy And there's one tree one tree That's 80 on our lot 20 on hers, which I guess is technically ours right that That did change the dynamics of the datu that we could build and so i'm like All right.
Well, I guess we're gonna take it down and roman's like, okay, let's kind of ease her into this and then finally my designer was like No, I think you should build the tutu and we use ian's floor his drawings from what he built so that was a smooth thing and Yeah, we're rehabbing that we're building that one, too Dude, that's wild. Holy crap just like that Just like it was so confusing and we have it we ended up hiring a a va Uh full time just to handle seattle Really just to handle seattle yeah, because it was like let's just have one because I knew there was gonna be so much coming up but It's like you get the survey done. There's two payments for the survey the arborist you get two payments for that Everything was in twos, but then you're making two payments, but some things because you have two houses you're making four payments so i'm getting confused going like wait, what's what's not paid and The funny thing is that pushed us into another little system thing that you know, it took this many years to get to this but We're here now Was now we got expenseify where?
the assistant Can reina can take care of all that? She can log in all the invoices. She can make the payments It took that off my plate because i've been the one in control of making payments This whole time and I was telling this to a new investor that this little piece of information that I tell you You might think that it's like oh, that's cool Well, yeah, it is cool.
And this is going to save you a lot of time but this took us this many years to kind of implement Into our ever evolving systems and processes of this of the business of real estate investing. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's just strange and it's you know, I mean like You could be as sophisticated but there's always things that you want to improve, you know, always there's always It's always it's constant.
[Alex Bradshaw] (56:30 - 56:56)
So I was so excited that happened in seattle this last trip like yeah, that's cool If you guys when you guys finish it, dude, you should call me up. I'd love to see I remember seeing uh Ian's when he finished his they were so cool to because that's my next goal It's like I would love love love love to build one and I want to move into it with my girl Because i'm like 45 minutes south of seattle, maybe 30 But i'd like to be like closer in seattle, so Yeah, you're gonna do it.
[Stephen Husted] (56:56 - 57:10)
Nice. You're gonna do it matter of time. It's already in your head man.
You could do it. Cool You've done you've done this so far. I mean, come on Yeah, it's just another new thing for me to experience and i'm gonna do it Especially if you get your if you get your contractor's license, it's really game on.
[Alex Bradshaw] (57:10 - 57:23)
Yeah. Yeah That's what i'm hoping for too and funny enough my little brother. I mean, he's young.
He's 18. He got his gc license So really yeah, so he's been on my flips which is dope wild. Yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (57:23 - 57:37)
Oh my gosh It's so crazy he's 18. Yeah, it's wild and how did he go about Like was he intrigued about this? When he was 16 17 like got into it.
Like where did that all start?
[Alex Bradshaw] (57:38 - 58:32)
He was like Just doing like pressure. He was like pressure washing like he was kind of hustling like trying to start that and then I was like hey like When me and my brother were growing up, my dad's got a couple doors and in order to pay for baseball He's yo, you guys gotta come lay floors in my rental You guys gotta go so we know how to pay like it's all cabinets. We knew all that from the jump So on some of my flips i'd just be like, hey, do you want to go lay the floors?
I'll pay you like two bucks a square foot, you know You're the thumb in and he's sure so it was like money on his side and i'd rather pay him than someone else And if he did that i'd just be like bro, get your ass over there and fix it. So He was doing that then he was doing some trim work for me then he was doing some extra They just slowly piecing it together. I'm like dude with like how much work i'm sending you I have so many friends in the space.
You might as well get your license and do this so He's slowly making his way into it. Yeah.
[Stephen Husted] (58:32 - 58:33)
Oh, that's great.
[Alex Bradshaw] (58:33 - 58:34)
Yeah, that's cool.
[Stephen Husted] (58:34 - 59:04)
Dude. That's so cool. I'm excited for him Wow, I I want it Cool.
I'm gonna watch you guys Grow together on this too, you know because i'm like It's funny because i'm out there now in seattle, honestly And I know I could just be a whining californian, but it is what it is If you guys had great weather out there, I would have already moved. Oh, I would have already moved man. I would have been there The weather is it that bad?
Tell me okay.
[Alex Bradshaw] (59:04 - 59:20)
Some are summers are beautiful. I mean you can't beautiful but the winners get it cool Like I definitely want to have a spot in oc someday and go back and forth like that's my I heard that's the thing. Yeah, it is very much So here especially where I live around like the area I live in there's a lot of snowbirds.
[Stephen Husted] (59:20 - 1:01:25)
Yeah Yeah, I met this lady. I was at a park and it was a beautiful day and i'm like, oh my this place You know california is beautiful. Oh, yeah, california is beautiful And washington's right up there with it like that that is a given But I think that we got you guys being on that that weather front.
So i'm like I don't know. Could I do it? Could I spend it and like so?
All right well, how about I just You know buy a house fix it up and make it into a midterm short term and and just test Test living there, right? I'll see you moved here in a year or so You know another thing I was I tell friends family clients is if you're a first-time buyer and let's say you Moved to seattle. You got a good job, right?
You know, you got some money saved you can go buy a house, right? You could essentially buy a house Let's just say it's eight hundred thousand, you know, you got a nice four two. You got a basement, right?
Got a nice backyard. You could build a daddo You could basically move into the house Obviously you can get financing to build a daddo, right? That's no problem.
You could build the daddo sell the daddo Make 200 grand 300 grand depending on location, right? Right. Maybe you build out the basement now You got a rental in the basement, right bring in some cash flow And then you got your whole down payment that you brought to the table that you saved for how many years?
You just got it all back It's in your bank account and you got a hundred grand invest and then you can go move on do it again And you're living in a house. Yeah with a rental with the rental, dude Seriously, it's game. It's a game changer, dude I can't it's so crazy Like I had that moment on my own.
Yeah, I like looked at i'm like i'm in a great neighborhood, you know Solid solid b. Yeah solid b neighborhood good schools. Oh, yeah That's enticing dude.
Like you can't do that here. You can't do where I live man No, it makes it easy to what part of cali are you san jose san jose? Yeah, las gaddis, you know campbell Downtown like yeah, sunnyvale that area.
[Alex Bradshaw] (1:01:25 - 1:01:31)
Yea man Yeah, it's crazy when you think of it that way. I need to that that's my nice play man Yeah, you could do it.
[Stephen Husted] (1:01:32 - 1:01:46)
You could do it. Well, dude I know it's been probably about an hour from the the beginning that we started I'm sure we can capture that beginning. Hopefully that downloaded but it didn't matter.
It was still it was still good Yeah, we banged it out, man. Yeah. Yeah, where can the audience find you?
[Alex Bradshaw] (1:01:47 - 1:01:55)
I'd say instagram my just my last name here bradshaw and then sells so yeah I'll put you in the i'll put you in the show notes too sleep, man.
[Stephen Husted] (1:01:55 - 1:02:02)
I appreciate it. Yeah, let's get together. Um, When I go out there again, yeah, i'm down.
Let's do it. Yeah Bring out dana too.
[Alex Bradshaw] (1:02:02 - 1:02:03)
We'll get lunch your dinner.
[Stephen Husted] (1:02:03 - 1:02:04)
Yeah, let's do it.
[Alex Bradshaw] (1:02:04 - 1:02:05)
Yeah. Hell.
[Stephen Husted] (1:02:05 - 1:02:29)
Yeah Yeah, it was cool. It was cool hanging out with her. Um The last time and we actually spoke at and uh event it was cool.
Yeah Yeah, good good people so yeah, I appreciate you jumping on man, yeah taking the time to do it and Dude keep rocking it get that light just do everything you want to do man After you're so awesome All right, man. Have a great day. Take care.
[Alex Bradshaw] (1:02:29 - 1:02:29)
See you
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