Ekabo Home Financial Freedom Mastermind Podcast
A podcast for those who do not believe they were put on this earth to work 40 to 50 hours per week for 40 to 50 years, to hopefully retire at the age of 65.
Ekabo Home Financial Freedom Mastermind Podcast
134: Ditch Your 9-to-5: Transform Your Life with Real Estate & Entrepreneurship!
🌟 Break Free from the 9-to-5: Unlock Your Financial Freedom with Game-Changing Real Estate Secrets for 2025! 🌟
Welcome to the Financial Freedom Mastermind Group Podcast! I’m your host, Niyi Adewole, and I’m thrilled to have you join us this Wednesday. Are you ready to escape the never-ending 40 to 50-year work grind? Join us as we unveil transformative investment strategies that can accelerate your journey to financial independence!
🎉 Episode Highlights:
🔥 Exciting Announcement!
Join us for our first in-person event of the year: Bowling After Dark with the Ekabo Home team at Atlantic Station on February 28th! Don’t miss out on networking and fun with fellow members!
🗝️ Today’s Open Session:
We’re diving into an open discussion where we tackle pressing questions from our community. Plus, we have an inspiring quote of the week:
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
This powerful reminder encourages you to pursue your goals, no matter the challenges!
🔍 We’re Unpacking 3 Game-Changing Questions from Our Community:
1. Final Walkthrough Insights
➣ What to do if a home has dramatically changed since you put it under contract? Learn the importance of the final walkthrough and how to address unexpected issues!
2. Handling Mold During Inspections
➣ Mold can be a deal-breaker! Discover how to effectively manage mold findings during the inspection period and negotiate with sellers to protect your investment.
3. When to Move a Property to an LLC
➣ Confused about legal structures? Niyi shares expert insights on the best timing for transferring properties to an LLC based on your investment strategy.
💡 Why This Matters:
In a world where financial security feels increasingly elusive, this episode is your essential guide! We’re delving into actionable insights that could revolutionize your financial future. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting out, these strategies are vital for thriving in today’s competitive real estate market.
Imagine building generational wealth, achieving financial independence, and living life on your terms! This isn’t just talk; it’s a roadmap to success. Tune in to learn how to leverage communication, overcome challenges, and take decisive actions that propel you towards your dreams. Your journey to financial freedom starts NOW!
📌 Key Takeaways:
➣ Master the Final Walkthrough: Understand the critical steps to take if a property has changed since your initial contract. Learn how to protect your investment and ensure everything is in order before closing.
➣ Mold Management Strategies: Discover effective tactics for dealing with mold found during inspections. We’ll guide you on how to negotiate repairs and ensure safety without compromising your deal.
➣ LLC Insights for Property Owners: Gain clarity on when and why to transfe
🗓️ Tune in every Wednesday at 7 PM Eastern! Don’t miss out on our journey toward financial freedom through smart investments.
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Niyi Adewole is a licensed realtor in Georgia, brokered by EXP Realty. Feel free to reach out at Niyi.Adewole@exprealty.com if you would like to work with an investor friendly real estate agent.
Welcome to the Financial Freedom Mastermind Group Podcast. Here we're all about breaking free from the 40 to 50 year work grind and accelerating our journey towards financial freedom. Join us every Wednesday at 7 pm Eastern as we explore different types of investments that can fast track your path to financial independence. We serve as a hub for connecting with fellow members during our sessions so you can share successes, ask questions and keep the momentum going.
Speaker 2:Good evening everyone. This is Nigi Adewale, host of the Acaba Home Financial Freedom Mastermind Podcast, and I'm super excited to be joining you here on this Wednesday, the 12th of February, and I want to kick this off with some housekeeping. First and foremost, I know you've been getting the messages, but we are super excited to be hosting our first event in person this year, and it's going to be Bowling After Dark with the Acabo Home Team. It's going to be at Atlantic Station this well, not this Friday, but the last Friday of the month, on February 28th and so we would love to see you all there. 2025 is the year of getting back outside and actually seeing people in person, and so super excited to be able to spend some time and see who's going to be the best bowler of the group. And so tonight is going to be an open session where we have some guests lined up for starting in March, and so we're excited to kind of get that piece kicked off. We do want to bring on some more guests that are focused in real estate and business that can help us all learn, and so that's going to be coming down the pike. But today is an open session, so we're going to open it up to the group as people start to join.
Speaker 2:But we also have the quote of the week, and so the quote of the week is that the person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it, and this quote is pretty self-explanatory. Not interrupt the person doing it, and this quote is pretty self-explanatory. Don't let the doubters or the haters keep you from pursuing your goals and your dreams just because it hasn't been done that way before or just because it's not a traditional route. You should not let that keep you from making those moves. You want to be measured, you want to definitely assess the risk, but you should go ahead and make those moves.
Speaker 2:I can tell you that the thing I think about is all the conversations I had with different individuals before making the jump into full-time entrepreneurship. I was on a trajectory to reach super high levels in the corporate setting right. I was getting promoted every 18 to 24 months, and it was pretty consistent from when I joined the company I was with to when I reached director status. But when I looked down the road, what I saw was more and more responsibilities, more and more headaches without having the ability to truly control your time and so being able to shift into this realm. What I've learned is that when you're doing entrepreneurship, you can build this however you want. You can literally build this around your life to kind of fit that piece. And the best thing about it is, if you get awesome partners around you, it almost allows you to not even feel like you're at work each day. Right, when you start to hire other professionals that can help you with different parts of the business, you get to do the fun pieces and it grows and expands from there and there is an incredible, incredible superpower called focus that will allow you to accomplish a lot. And so if you are a shaker and mover, in whatever setting that you are, and you've had aspirations of maybe starting your own business or doing something on the side, I'd say go for it Now. Ideally, you want to start your side hustle while you're still working and then grow it to a level where you need to make the move into it. That's what I did, and it's definitely a little more comfortable, but highly recommend not putting it off. You do not want to have any regrets.
Speaker 2:And then we have three topics we're going to talk about today. The first is what happens if a home has dramatically changed since the first time you put it under contract during the final walkthrough, and so I can give you an example. There was a home this was a couple of years ago now where we helped the client purchase it, and on the final walkthrough, about two days before closing, we noticed that a toilet was missing. Literally, we walked in the house, we're checking everything. It's like, okay, this is good, stove's good. We're walking by the bathroom, and it took a second walk by to really see it. I'm like, okay, something's missing here. And then we walked by again. I'm like there's no toilet. And so, long story short, what we did in that situation is we reached out to the seller, let them know, hey, we expect the toilet to be there right before closing, and they were able to get it installed. There's been other instances where we've had, say, repairs that should be done to the house not completed to the standard that they should be, or done at all, and so in those instances what we typically would do is push the closing back and make sure that it's done and or negotiate the credits so that we can get it done post-closing. But the reason for the final walkthrough is to walk through that house and make sure that it hasn't significantly changed in the bad direction since you put it under contract. So that's the benefit of the final walkthrough.
Speaker 2:How do you handle mold when it's found during inspection period? So mold is one of those things that, understandably, people freak out about when they see it pop up on an inspection report. And so one of the things that we do is, if a general inspector says that there's mold in the house, we don't just go by that, we bring out our mold specialist to go and run tests and give a quote on remediating that mold. So we can then use that in the negotiations. Mold's one of those things where, if it's a good amount or if it's like not just because there's mold in the air kind of everywhere, but if it's like, hey, this is mold that's starting to appear and things of that nature, it typically is taken very seriously by the sellers, because anybody that buys that home and does an inspection more than likely is going to call that out. And so we take it a step further by getting the actual quotes from the mold specialist, getting the lab results, so we can send all that over and make a real strong argument to get those credits or get it remediated before closing. And so mold, just like anything else, is just another repair item You've got to factor in.
Speaker 2:Hey, how much is it going to cost to get this done and then make it happen from there? And when should you move a property over to an LLC? This is one that actually came up earlier today, and so it really depends on how you buy the property. If you buy it as a house hack and you're living in it for that first year, right, you want to keep it in your personal name. You do not want to have a home that you live in under an LLC, because it just overcomplicates things much more than it needs to be. And that's the high level.
Speaker 2:I'm sure a certified personal accountant could give you the details behind that, but I am a layman's terms person, and so I boiled everything down when I asked this question to myself close to a decade ago, when I was just getting started hey, why do I want to move into an LLC? Why don't I buy everything in an LLC? That was the boilerplate answer I got is hey, if you're living in it at that time, don't put it in an LLC. Once you move out, that's when you move it to an LLC, right? So that's, if you're buying a house hack or a personal residence, then you're going to turn it to a rental. If you're buying a house as a rental, you can wait. Typically I usually wait about 30 to 45 days and then I will quit, claim that property into the LLC for that legal protection and so that the entity is the quote unquote owner. And as long as you at least knock on wood and again, I'm not giving you legal advice and things of that nature, but to date I have not had a due on sale clause and I've not even heard of anybody within my network or reach have a due on sale called on them. As long as they continue to pay the mortgage on time, the mortgage companies pretty much will leave that stuff alone.
Speaker 2:And so those were the three questions for today, but we're going to open this thing up to anybody on the line or chat. Feel free to throw some questions in the chat and or join live. Would love to see some people on here today. Yvette, how you doing, super good. Come on now and welcome back. I'm loving the consistency. Yvette, this is awesome. And Desmond, how you doing. Man, I think there may be something up with the audio because we could not hear you, but I'm assuming you said you're doing good and that you're happy it's Wednesday.
Speaker 3:What's new? I just want to follow up on a couple of points that you had made with the final walkthrough. I know a lot of our clients like to go maybe the morning before, because they made the day before. You know they have to take off time from work, but ideally, I guess, is it better for them really to go the day before, because it just gives you more time if there's a problem.
Speaker 2:So typically, if it's a house that's already pretty well to do, right, like it's already fully renovated, things of that nature there should not be a problem, right the times that we've seen something happen is, say, there was a tenant in there that we negotiated where, hey, the tenant's going to be gone at this time. We may come back and, hey, a washer and dryer is gone that clearly labeled it's supposed to be here. Maybe the tenant took it. So, guys, we need that washer and dryer installed. Or, you know, maybe the stove's not functioning anymore and it was functioning when we first did the inspections, and so that's typically when we would see it.
Speaker 2:If the house is vacant and it's already renovated, you typically wouldn't see much. If the house is vacant and it's beat up right, like, say, it's going to be a fix and flip and things of that nature, there may be more damage to it, and that's when you really want to make sure you take a look as well. But for the most part especially some of our, like, short-term rental clients or house hack clients most of those houses are going to resemble the same. It's only on small, small cases I'd say maybe, like I don't know we've closed so small, small cases I'd say maybe, like I don't know, we've closed. Okay, so maybe like 5% of the households that we've closed have had something a little bit weird where we had to ask questions, maybe extend and kind of get something done and I can't tell this is lagging a bit, but can you hear me?
Speaker 3:I can hear you.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, perfect, perfect, and that was a good question, desmond, can you hear?
Speaker 4:us. Let's see if this works out. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Welcome back, what's up, what's up how you doing.
Speaker 2:Super good, super good. I know we talked a little bit Earlier this week, but Excited Wait, hold up. Did you get a haircut? What is going on here?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I did, I did, you didn't huh.
Speaker 2:No, I did not, man. Yo hey, you're not like me because you got a lot more hair, but you're coming closer.
Speaker 4:I know man, I had to change it up in 2025. I figured I'd switch it up.
Speaker 2:Hey, this is dope. This is dope. Welcome back, new year, new Desmond.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:New year, new properties. Come on now. What's new in your life? How are the properties that you currently have going as far as stabilization?
Speaker 4:Yeah, they're actually going really well.
Speaker 4:So luckily I haven't had to do any huge maintenance things here recently, which is nice and definitely a switch up from last year. But as I was telling you right kind of earlier today and earlier in the week, I'm starting to transition the operations into a man, into a management company, right, and um at least control my listings through that and flow my income um kind of through that company. But then also later in the year once I can really, I think, build that out and get that to a point that I'm happy with and like kind of play test it on myself where I'm gonna be be you know kind of like my first client and I can like generate you know owner statements and I can like sign my own commission statement stuff and you know kind of go through all of the motions that I would be doing with the real owners. So I want to kind of build it out first, test that out later in the year with you know a first client and see how that goes and kind of see where it goes from there, like I was you know we kind of talked about it Like I have a lot of the operations in place, like once you start to become a short-term host and you've done it for a year or two, right?
Speaker 4:You definitely have, I'd say, a suite of software. If you're doing it, you know, as like a modern day host, right, um, and I have a lot of that operations kind of built out, so I'm curious to see you know how that'll go. We'll see. I'll keep you updated.
Speaker 2:Come on now and and you know I'm rooting for you and it's one of those things where it's just a nice adjacency that makes sense. Once you get to X number of properties, it's not that much of a lift to add another one on. And when you look at short-term rental management versus long-term rental management, the reason that even the Acaba Home Team got into that short-term piece is because just the dollars make sense, right. You can charge absorbently more With a long-term rental. You can charge between 6% and 10%, and so you need hundreds of properties to even make it make sense to hire people, Whereas with short-term rentals, with one property, that property, if it's really performing well, could give you about what somebody's making as a long-term rental manager with 15 properties, and so it definitely makes sense to look at that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I'm curious too, right, because obviously you're doing it at a nice size scale. What would you say is the hardest part about doing management for other people, right? So what's the some of the pain points that you've ran into when dealing with owners?
Speaker 2:Man. So it's definitely evolved over time, Right? I think the first one that I came to was and we've solved for each of these little by little, but was being the point of contact for everything, right To where it's like, hey, you could be in the middle of whatever and something pops up and now the guest is calling, now the owner's calling. So you really have to make sure that you set those boundaries and create systems to where they can communicate with you, but it's not necessarily through the same communication channel. So I'll give you an example, right. So the first year that we were doing the short-term rental management, it was just my number right.
Speaker 2:So it was my number on everything, including for the owners, and so I get a lot of messages, and the rest of the team wasn't necessarily seeing this. They were communicating with me and then I have to communicate with the team. So there was a lot of back and forth and there may have been a delay. And so over the last two years, what we installed was this thing called Open Phone, which is similar to like a Google phone, except everybody on my team has access to it. And now when owners are reaching out and we've directed everybody there like, hey, what is this? I want to block out these dates, things of that nature. Everybody can see it, including myself, and take action immediately. And so that was one thing. The other piece was just making sure that we set those boundaries early and often and getting comfortable with that. Initially we would have calls, you know, so say you have a guest. That was like hey, I'm having issues getting into the door right At like 9 PM, so the guests would send the message. Then we get a message from the owner, and now we're trying to answer both at the same time call the guest, call the owner, let them know, and so definitely making sure that the owners know hey, we're on this, we're going to handle this. If you need anything between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, reach out, we'll connect with you or let's set up some time to talk and getting comfortable with that.
Speaker 2:But that was one of the pieces. The other piece was maintenance. So this was what forced us to actually build out the management and maintenance team. So there was one time when I was in Chicago and this is still when I was working the W-2 as well and so I was in Chicago for like a meeting, and it was around May or June, right when the weather shifts and it starts getting hot, and we had like three HVAC systems go out and I'm still the guy that's calling everybody. So I'm like all right, trying to coordinate with this person, that person, and they're busy right now because we're not the only ones that need the work. So I'm like all right, like how do we figure this out? And it was at that time I was like, hey, I need some help, funds to kind of build this thing. And so it happens little by little. Initially you're going to be the point of contact for everything, but the quicker you can start to move some of this stuff off, especially like guest management and messaging on a daily basis, the easier it gets.
Speaker 4:And it's funny you said that because I was just responding to an inquiry right now, so coincidentally. But yeah, no, that definitely makes sense. Right, and I think you were saying too earlier the first person you had hired out was someone to help handle the guest experience, so to help do the responding to those messages, and kind of, when you first hired, when you hire the first person, did you make sure that they were in a different time zone or kind of? How did you think about that? And I know right now you have the 24 seven operations, but it probably didn't start there, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2:Man, you are spot on and I love this question. So initially it was it was somebody within our network, somebody within the network that was joining these calls, that wanted to learn more about real estate, and so it was the same time zone and we just didn't have coverage overnight and there wasn't necessarily enough money to actually pay somebody on like a base that would make sense not what we're paying today and so it was really selling people on the vision of, hey, we're going to grow this thing, and then giving a percentage, saying, hey, this percentage and what we used to give was 10% to the guest experience managers, just saying, hey, this is what we can afford. And so if we're bringing in three grand as a management company, you're going to get $300 per month, which is not a lot, but if we grow this thing, it could be a lot. And so that was the first piece. And then what we iterated to and a lot of it came with the advances in technology, with hospitable right.
Speaker 2:Hospitable, as you know, has gotten much better with the knowledge, ai.
Speaker 2:They've gotten much better with the chat, gbt functions, and you can put so much data in there that you don't necessarily have to have all these spreadsheets and things of that nature to understand like, hey, this is how you work with this property and that property, and so that allowed us to then start to shift over to VAs.
Speaker 2:Right, that may not know the customs and things of that nature within the US, but if we put together some loom videos and we put a lot of data into the actual software and show them where to pull the information from, they can find it, they can respond quickly and be that first line of defense. And so if I were to start over today, like where you are right now, I would say lean into some of the tools that are available in hospitable and start with the VA. One, it's going to be a lot cheaper. And two, that person that $300 a month or whatever you want to pay is going to go way further right For them to where they're fully focused on this and working with you, than it would for somebody that's US based.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely, and that makes sense. So are you using the I'm guessing you're using the knowledge base and are you using the automatic responses from the AI, or do you guys kind of look to edit those responses or like filter them before they go out?
Speaker 2:So we had the first VA team that was literally just clicking and sending, and sometimes it was way off right.
Speaker 2:So, we had to pull them off of that and say, hey, don't use this, use all the stuff that we had before. But now it's gotten better and we actually recently about two months ago made the switch from the I think it was the second VA team that we had right. The first VA team was just clicking stuff. Second VA team gave us the 24-7 coverage and we're a lot better than the first one. And now we found a rock star who also, coincidentally, helps us on the real estate side. He's amazing, and so he wanted more work. He said me I can do more, I want to take on more, and so we've introduced him to this side and he's a rockstar, amazing, definitely worth every penny. And so now we have him and I think he has a partner that helps him as well that are handling all the messaging, and it's just like I would message honestly.
Speaker 4:So you let them, you let the AI do the generation and they edit it before it goes out if needed, and clicks in.
Speaker 2:Yes, and the key to the VA that we have now is he had experience in customer service as well as in real estate in general, and so what you're looking for is exactly what companies are looking for when they hire us right, which is problem solvers. And so if you can get somebody in that role, that's a problem solver and it's not going to come to you for everything. That's a major win. So, for example, the other VAs that we were using before, it was always more messages to us hey, this guest had something happen at 2 am. Let me message these guys. Hey, I don't know how to do this, can you show me?
Speaker 2:Whereas the person we have in there now literally went through Hospitable's whole background, looked at all these videos on YouTube and basically trained himself. And then we just help interject with certain things, like, okay, if there's a water issue like today there was like a roof leaking right and one of the properties and he's like, hey, this is pretty urgent, who should I call? I'm like, okay, call this person if there's a water issue. So now he's got that locked away and he's calling our maintenance guy. So it's, it evolves over time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, no, that's super cool. So, speaking of VAs, right, because you definitely mentioned that term a couple of times right, the virtual assistant. What are some tips on hiring VAs and how have you improved? You know how you hire them and, like I know, fiverr and Upwork are some common websites and are you using those? Or you know what are some tips around securing that type of position?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I would say it's going to depend on your budget initially, right, and our budgets expand significantly because we manage a lot more properties. The cheaper way to go initially is through the fivers, through the Upworks, right, and you can train somebody. Personally, I would look for, maybe a personal assistant, somebody that's used to that type of work. Typically, you want to find somebody who's either in the Philippines or maybe like Pakistan. Those are two awesome areas for education, things of that nature where they can really take over it, and then you're going to be responsible for most of the training.
Speaker 2:What we've evolved to now and it comes with a higher dollar amount right, we're in the four figures now for the payments for different businesses but we started using management companies to hire our VAs, like companies that will train on your whole processes initially and then turn them over to you. And so there's a company called Cyber Backer. That's been awesome. They're pretty solid that you can look into. But again, minimum there, I think, is like $1,200, $1,300, something like that, right, to even get started over there per month, and that's a set fee that you're on. So you definitely want to build your business to the level where you can handle that piece. Another company is Hello Leverage that we utilized in the past before and it's the same type of deal where they can help you, source and train and kind of get you through that piece. But I'd say, starting out, fiverr was where we went to and were able to find pretty good help and then build from there.
Speaker 4:Good to know. Great answers, thank you, of course.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to what would you call your management company, desmond, what you got, what names you got.
Speaker 4:The name is Propello, propello Property Management, and that was helped to be crafted by AI generative AI, yeah. So I leaned into the chat GPT and thought of some tried to think of some cool unique names going to help propel properties forward. So that's kind of the. I haven't thought of the actual tagline mission statement, but Propello is the name.
Speaker 2:Hey, come on now, Yvette. What do you think? What are your thoughts on the name Propello? That's fair and shifting gears a little bit. I know, yvette, one of the things that we talked about is you potentially moving into the management space as well at some point, and so what are your thoughts? Do you think it's going to be more of a hands-on? Do you think you'll hire VAs? What have you thought about that space?
Speaker 3:I'll probably hire somebody to actually do that, and I think when Mark goes into retirement, I think that's going to be one of his tasks. But just to say you've been doing an excellent job, um you know, with the properties. You know some of the Texas I see, you know, coming through and um you know they're definitely after. You know the nine to five, um you know timeframe and um you know the turnaround has been, um you know, really quick.
Speaker 2:Come on now. Come on now, and, and, and, and. I'm happy that we're already giving Mark work for after the work we got him lined up.
Speaker 3:No, he knows he's going to have to do some.
Speaker 2:Hey, this is true, Yep, yep. And honestly, please, please, oh yeah, oh yeah. And it's one of those things where, despite the systems we put in place and it's the same systems I used to treat my own properties we don't treat any property different. Nobody's going to treat your property the way that you can, right, and so that's. That's just a truth across the board for all the properties.
Speaker 2:Now, I've tried to put systems in place and manage it the same way I manage mine. I literally except for the one that's right behind me because I live here I haven't been to any of my properties in the last like six months. I'm just not over it, right, like I just I just don't go Right Cause I'm like, all right, the systems have to work, things that nature hey, this painting fell down, okay, Send the maintenance guys and kind of make it happen from there, and so, yeah, when you get to scale, that's kind of what you have to do. Now, a couple of things that I'm excited about moving forward is, once you do hit a certain number of properties, you just get random opportunities to manage more, and so now we have an opportunity to manage another mansion, which I'm excited about. It's not necessarily going to be a short-term rental, it's going to be more like personal use, but they still need management, and so we could essentially manage this property for special projects like installations and things of that nature, and just keep collecting, which would be awesome. Another piece is we have two other properties that we're going to be managing here soon, one that we're taking over this weekend actually, which is going to be exciting. It's already fully done, ready to go. The owners are moving to a different state and so they reached out and said, hey, can you take this one on? And we said absolutely.
Speaker 2:And then the other one which, yvette, I know you're fully aware of, right is we helped a client in California close on a rehab house six bed, three bath out in Lithonia that is on like two and a half acres. It's amazing and there's a lot of work being done right now, like we have decks being torn down and reinstalled. We've got flooring work starting tomorrow. They're going to rip up everything and redo all the flooring. I'm bringing in painters on Friday to take a look and do accent walls and all this stuff, and this is going to be one of the most beautiful stays that we have within the portfolio once it's done, but it's cool being able to be a part of some of these projects and to see the before and afters, and so we hope to even, within our social media, start to post some of this stuff and keep everybody aware.
Speaker 2:And one other thing I'll mention. We did it for the first time late last week or early this week, but we're going to start using the Facebook group within the Acaba home page a lot more. There's so many deals that come across the table of all the people that work within Acaba home. I mean, yvette the other day was offered an off-market deal just randomly. She was talking to an owner and the owner was like hey, this house is great, but I'm also selling this house, and so we want to be able to push that to our network in that private group and make sure that you're helped at the forefront of properties that may not even be listed or things that are coming soon, so you have the first crack at it as well. Desmond, yvette, anything else top of mind?
Speaker 4:That's it for me.
Speaker 2:Okay, come on out. Hey, always enjoy these Wednesdays. Desmond, thank you for the insightful questions and I look forward to seeing everybody on. Well, we got a couple of weeks on the last Friday of the month. It's going to be awesome to see you guys in person. It's been way too long and hopefully the weather shifts back to what we saw last week. I don't like what we see this week. It's freezing out there.
Speaker 4:That was a big spring. That's what that was.
Speaker 2:They call it the fall spring, where everybody comes out in shorts and the next week you got jackets right back on. Oh, Next week you got jackets right back on. Oh, it's on, All right y'all. Hey, I hope you have an awesome Wednesday and I will catch you a little bit later.
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