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news this week a couple things a lot of things actually so Nancy the Nancy
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Pelosi her husband that video released there’s been a lot of controversy about
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whether it’s real fake doctored up go ahead and watch it you’ll find it
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anywhere I’m sure it’s on it’s been on YouTube tick-tock it’s been everywhere
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go ahead and find it I don’t I I mean it looks real to me but with Photoshop deep
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fakes all that kind of stuff anything can be faked I don’t know I do believe
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it it may be real now I think you know the investigations over they finally got
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the guy we all know what it looks like so now they released the footage a lot
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of people saying it’s doctored up I don’t know I really have made a decision
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I did I don’t know I watched it but not with a lot of interest I think at this
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point we know who did it and all that and I don’t know why they bothered to
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release the footage because I think some people thought he was lying I don’t know
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but either way the footage is up you can go ahead and see it now if you want you
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know it’s out there so very important about that that was a very important
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topic like I said that they made sure to bring up several times and all they
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released the video and I’m like who cares if you just gave the news something
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to talk about so the Treasury blocked the hunter Biden investigation from from
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happening as of right now and I and I’m gonna be I know some people are gonna
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get upset me for saying this but I think at this point I think that that is
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actually a very good idea and a lot of guys gonna say why why why I think you
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know with the Treasury having to you know kind of finagle funds until we get
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this whole situation straightened out with the debt ceiling because you
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realize if they do that it’s going to have to come out it’s gonna you know all
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that fun it’s gonna cost money to do that and that money is gonna have to
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come out of the Treasury which is gonna shorten the runway for this whole
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situation that’s going on right now with the debt ceiling remember they only have
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I think – what it would April they think it’s in March or April so if they did
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that that would shorten the runway a little bit those you don’t know the
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runway is it’s the time they have before the money runs out that’s a term for a
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business term you know runway means how much money you have left but that would
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shorten the term because that money would have come out and remember the
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Treasury only has so much money to float this along so that would shorten the
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moment and I think maybe that’s why the Democrats were pushing so hard for it
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because they are the Republicans are pushing so hard for it because it would
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squeeze the Democrats even a little bit more because now they would not only
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would they be having this investigation going on but they would lose a couple of
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weeks with this whole situation as far as you know they would lose a couple of
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weeks on that debt ceiling argument still no thing yet they want to cut back
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so of course they want first thing they always pull out so we’re gonna cut back
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Social Security I knew they were gonna say they always pull that out first
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that’s always the first thing that they always say when they’re fighting for
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this any kind of budget cutback the Republicans always say we’re gonna cut
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coastal security they’ve been saying that for years then maybe they might cut
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back on the increases people are gonna get but they’re not gonna completely cut
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back so come on I mean I think maybe they’ll cut back the the increases people
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are getting but nobody’s nobody’s even getting less money I mean they might up
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the Medicare stuff a little bit that might cause people to get a little less
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money but I I think I don’t know they always the first thing they always do is
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go after Social Security any kind of public assistance and it’s a first thing
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Republicans always go after it’s always been a thing it’s nothing new but like I
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said that’s the reason why the the Treasury denied it because that would be
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that’s money that’s gonna come out and that’s gonna make the the whole
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situation with the debt ceiling the whole time they have to figure this
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whole thing out even shorter so that’s why they said no I think after the debt
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ceiling thing does get straightened out I do think that you’re gonna see for
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sure you’re definitely going to see investigation but I do think it’s gonna
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have to be it’s gonna be after the whole debt ceiling thing gets figured out I’m
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almost positive that’s when they’re gonna go ahead and they’re going to you
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know allow this investigation so I do think it is gonna happen I do think it’s
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just a matter of time it’s just getting the whole debt ceiling situation and
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taking care of first before they go ahead and and you know spend money on it
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also to something else I want to do something else that I thought was
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interesting to me anyway meta is going to restore Trump’s Facebook and
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Instagram accounts apparently like I said I talked to this a little bit last
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week but apparently they’re saying that this could really mess things up for
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true social saying because they’re saying that Trump might have to
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restructure his deal with true social because of the way that this the whole
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situation works one of the reasons why and this is a kind of interesting thing
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one of the reasons why they’re saying that tech companies anyway are saying
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the reason why Facebook is doing this is because one Twitter already you know
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already allowed his account back but if Twitter was was like the bullhorn or the
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way he got the information out he wanted Facebook would have been his bank
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apparently a lot of money it came through Facebook from donations and
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stuff like that I guess Facebook and donations were like were almost like
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hand-to-hand for him he received an incredible amount of financing for his
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campaign through Facebook now you have to understand to Facebook is I think if
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I’m saying if Facebook takes a percentage of that because they do the
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processing of the credit card so if I’m not mistaken I believe that the other
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reason why Facebook did this is because that’s a way of them you know Facebook
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has been struggling financially and this is a way of getting one payment pro you
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know payment fees to getting more people to the platform you know you know because
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it’s what Facebook’s doing I mean yes it’s because he’s running for president
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but I also agree that it’s it’s a way of Facebook driving traffic to the platform
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which it is it’s a way of them like I said earning money because all the
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people that are gonna make donations of Trump through Facebook apparently they
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say from the couple articles I’m reading it’s saying the majority of his campaign
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funding a big large portion of it came from his website and Facebook donations
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so imagine all that money that Facebook made on on Trump just from his just from
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his campaigning so I thought that was definitely something I wanted to look
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into and the fact that I was one kind of it’s like interesting like why are they
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allowing his account because they had originally said it was gonna be a ban it
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was gonna be a lifetime ban unless he ran for president ganks and they have to
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allow it and they did and so but I think – it’s also a way of driving traffic to
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the site it’s a way of Facebook making money at a time when they’re hurting
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they’re losing a lot of money that metaverse thing has not seriously working
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out for Facebook like they thought it was going to and I really believe that
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that is probably one of the main one of the main reasons why he is you know why
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they’re allowing it so interesting you know with that so Biden and AOC and
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Nancy Nancy Warren let’s call her Pocahontas um you know as somebody who
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is a landlord and owns multiple properties I get so annoyed when any of
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three of them get together specifically to AOC and Pelosi so apparently they
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want to roll out a federal program that will allow for regulation with landlord
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so simpler to have you have similar how do you have rent control in states
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certain states like New York New Jersey have rent control Pennsylvania does not
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which is where I am there are other states that don’t have it as well there’s
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only like Philly like Philadelphia Pennsylvania to regional so like
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Philadelphia I believe has rent control I think Pittsburgh does but we don’t
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there sir it’s very it’s more regional here since we’re a Commonwealth where
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as faces like New Jersey and New York are like it’s mandated by the state but
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apparently they want to roll out a federal you know if the federal they
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don’t even have a word for it we want to roll the exact words that we wanted to
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roll out a a federal rent control or federal landlord control so they don’t
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even know what the hell they’re calling it which is really annoying to me but
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apparently they’re saying it’s do all because of the governor’s saying that
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they can’t get affordable housing in the cities anymore or a lot of other places
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so this is their answer of course the federal government let them step in
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they’ll they’ll fix the problem they’re not gonna make it worse than it already
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is so apparently this was like a proposed by my three fit my two favorite
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people AOC and Elizabeth Warren and you when I say favorite people I’m being
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overly sarcastic just so you know so they are saying they’re oh don’t now I’m
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gonna go on my rant they are part of the reason why that whole nightmare with not
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being able to evict people during kovat happen AOC and and Elizabeth Warren oh
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people can’t afford to move people can’t people shouldn’t be moving because ago
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let them live there rent-free and oh god they get don’t even don’t even get me
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started they they are the biggest I just can’t those two people alone just really
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don’t even they’re both of them just they don’t understand they don’t
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understand rent they don’t understand landlord as a business we’re not a
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charity they are just the biggest they don’t understand it believe me they
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don’t get those two annoy me more than anybody in the entire house but
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apparently they want to say they’re saying that landlords are raising rents
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too high well of course landlords over the rents went up we have to make up for
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the stuff that we’ve lost over the last couple of over during kovat and the
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eviction process and people when they get evicted to trash the place of course
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the rents went up people we have to make back what we lost thanks to you yeah so
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they said the first part of this would be the with the renters bill of rights
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it’ll never let me tell you something okay as a landlord renters have more
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rights than I do okay and let me they don’t need more rights where’s the
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landlord’s bill of rights they’re saying that this would allow people to only go
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up with rent would limit rent increases okay it would allow rent control in most
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cities they’re saying that they’re saying that 50% of progressive lawmakers
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including Elizabeth Warren again my favorite person and AOC sent a letter to
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Biden earlier this month urging the president to take executive action to
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protect tenants from rising rents well how about you protect the freaking
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landlords how about we start with that okay in the absent in the absence of
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affordable housing the land the the president needs to step in and allow for
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affordable housing for people apparently they’re believing that the rents have
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skyrocketed due to rising right the landlord’s rising landlords raising
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rents yes it’s all started because of kovat we have to make up how many of us
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had people living there for over a year and never had pay rent see that’s the
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problem folks with with these people down in Washington they don’t know okay
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and most of them think okay that us land that there’s landlords you know they
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first of all they think the house is paid for okay which it’s not a lot of us
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have mortgages okay they think the houses are paid for they think we’re
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you know they think all landlords have a ton of money so you know we can afford
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to float these people along I mean you know that this is the problem with the
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federal government they don’t understand that landlords are not rich we are there
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to make a profit it’s a business renting a home to somebody is a business as a
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least as a contract okay but no they think all the landlords or houses are
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paid for the the taxes of course are not are free you know we cannot pay those to
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the federal government and of course the government will just say oh you know the
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true you don’t have to pay these taxes if you’re not making money on the house
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just just don’t pay the taxes that’s fine they don’t say that they want their
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tax money okay so this whole thing is a bunch of crap okay rent prices rose seven
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point four five percent year over year in November they’re saying that that’s
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triple it should the annual rent increase should only be two point two
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percent again a lot of us are trying to make up our losses and the other problem
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is okay is a lot of people that people are renting to have literally trashed
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the places and these poor landlords they had to spend a fortune to evict the
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people because remember evictions aren’t free though you know even though the
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federal government caused a problem during kovat by not letting people live
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there for free okay was it free to evict them no we still had a bill we had a
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bill for that too okay so and then okay now they’re saying that you know the
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problem is that they’re going up to a people can’t afford houses well I’m
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sorry I hate to break it to you but you know we were all landlords are not rich
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and we all can’t afford you know to to float people along forever okay so you
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know this whole thing with this with them oh we’re gonna do we need to do
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something for the landlord we need to do or we do something for the tenant we
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need to do something for the tenant well what about the landlord what about us
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how we got screwed was there any for was there any any mortgage forgiveness for
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us was there any yeah by the way folks I want to point that the federal
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forgiveness for mortgages that you know that was only in your primary residence
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that did not count towards rentals so was there any mortgage forgiveness for
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us no okay we all we just had to suck it up and and deal with it you know this
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whole thing with again these these particular specifically these these
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these groups of these couple people okay they cater to the people that get them
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elected and those are the low the the lower income people which usually rent
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now I’m not saying anyway low income there’s nothing wrong with anybody it’s
00:16:58.120 –> 00:17:03.140
low income hey I grew up it was tough growing up sometimes okay but the peop
00:17:03.140 –> 00:17:08.440
most people that are lower income that have no credit are renters and that’s
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why they’re doing this because they know that that’s their voting base and if
00:17:12.780 –> 00:17:17.620
they can get them cheaper rent and all that kind of stuff that’s votes
00:17:17.620 –> 00:17:21.760
everybody gets cheap that’s all gonna be votes for them okay they know that it
00:17:21.760 –> 00:17:25.300
doesn’t matter that the poor landlord is suffering no of course not cuz we’re all
00:17:25.300 –> 00:17:28.440
rich you know that everyone even one of us that owns properties we all tell Tom
00:17:28.440 –> 00:17:32.520
we’re all rolling in money it doesn’t matter that somebody causes $10,000 in
00:17:32.520 –> 00:17:36.460
damage when you evict them no no no that doesn’t matter all that matters is you
00:17:36.460 –> 00:17:41.140
know there’s that these people can’t afford their rents well you know what
00:17:41.140 –> 00:17:47.740
let’s talk about something else okay the rising housing prices okay have
00:17:47.740 –> 00:17:52.020
everybody’s taxes have been reassessed I have properties and I’m that I’m paying
00:17:52.020 –> 00:17:55.900
almost double the taxes on I was paying three years ago so what am I supposed to
00:17:55.900 –> 00:18:00.040
do you went up with the taxes okay trickle-down economics means that I have
00:18:00.040 –> 00:18:04.420
to make that up somewhere the person that’s the customer is the tenant so
00:18:04.420 –> 00:18:08.420
their rent has to go up so that I can absorb the taxes you want me to go down
00:18:08.420 –> 00:18:14.460
with the rent go down with the taxes it’s that simple man am I wound up about
00:18:14.460 –> 00:18:18.940
this I’m sorry folks I’m sorry I’m like in war mode about this because I am
00:18:18.940 –> 00:18:22.820
somebody who has been a landlord a long time I’ve always been fair with my rents
00:18:22.820 –> 00:18:28.220
but unfortunately last couple years economic change has caused me to have to
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go up with rents nothing I can do my taxes have gone up my insurance has gone
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up everything has gone up so I have to charge more rent because I have to make
00:18:36.340 –> 00:18:41.280
a profit I cannot own a home and be breaking even on it especially if
00:18:41.280 –> 00:18:44.860
there’s repairs then I’m losing money okay it is a business I have to make
00:18:44.860 –> 00:18:48.220
money it’s a price it’s a business where either their profit needs to be made
00:18:48.220 –> 00:18:53.340
there’s repairs that have to be done there is inspections there is you know
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may upkeep and all that and I can’t run I can’t have houses that are losing
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money I have to make a profit because there are years that it’s gonna be big
00:19:01.060 –> 00:19:04.740
repairs okay you know they don’t understand this you know every you know
00:19:04.740 –> 00:19:09.060
they don’t they they you’re dealing with people that probably never rented to
00:19:09.060 –> 00:19:12.340
people they don’t know they just want affordable housing so that they can get
00:19:12.340 –> 00:19:16.820
their votes okay because that’s what it comes down to they call us this problem
00:19:16.820 –> 00:19:24.300
by upping the taxes by upping the fees by upping energy prices okay and they
00:19:24.300 –> 00:19:28.820
caused this problem how about this bring me instead of instead of making me have
00:19:28.820 –> 00:19:33.100
lower rent how about you lower their heat bills or lower their gas bills okay
00:19:33.100 –> 00:19:37.020
you know that there’s there’s other places that the change can be made not
00:19:37.020 –> 00:19:42.420
always a landlord’s fault okay I’m fair with my tenants I repair everything when
00:19:42.420 –> 00:19:49.940
it breaks I have always been a good landlord like that but but okay if if if
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the if I can’t go up at the rents because of the taxes and all that okay
00:19:53.140 –> 00:19:56.420
and I’m losing I can’t lose money every month I can’t lose money every month in
00:19:56.420 –> 00:20:01.020
a house I can’t do it there’s no money I’ll go bankrupt okay there’s no money
00:20:01.020 –> 00:20:04.380
that way I have to go up with the rent so that I can have put money aside so
00:20:04.380 –> 00:20:08.260
when there is repairs or damages I can have paid for them okay if I you know
00:20:08.260 –> 00:20:11.620
they don’t understand that they don’t understand that those higher prices are
00:20:11.620 –> 00:20:16.020
now because the landlords have to make up for their losses make up for put money
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aside so they can pay the higher taxes pay the higher fees pay that you know
00:20:20.020 –> 00:20:24.460
that there’s so much more their inflation problem caused that how about
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the fact that the interest rates keep going up and some of these poor
00:20:27.140 –> 00:20:31.540
landlords now their mortgages have gone up two and three times what you know
00:20:31.540 –> 00:20:35.100
let’s talk about that problem nobody talked not only in order to have fixed
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mortgage rates okay they have adjustable mortgages sometimes because they’re
00:20:38.140 –> 00:20:42.140
commercial property some of them okay how about the poor landlord that because
00:20:42.140 –> 00:20:44.940
you keep telling the federal government go up with the interest rate go up with
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the interest rate to slow the economy down now you’d have landlords that have
00:20:48.340 –> 00:20:51.740
had to go up with their rent because they’re freaking mortgage payments have
00:20:51.740 –> 00:20:55.140
gone up two or three times what they were three four years ago let’s talk
00:20:55.140 –> 00:20:58.980
about that no of course not they’re never gonna talk about that they don’t
00:20:58.980 –> 00:21:03.740
that’s not there there’s no money in that come on there’s no votes in in in
00:21:03.740 –> 00:21:07.100
that there’s only votes in making cheaper rent and making a landlord
00:21:07.100 –> 00:21:11.500
suffer so that they can give votes well there’s not many times I get wound up on
00:21:11.500 –> 00:21:15.940
this podcast folks but I’m really wound up about this because they caused this
00:21:15.940 –> 00:21:21.980
problem with taxes okay and with interest rates they cause this problem
00:21:21.980 –> 00:21:26.520
and now they’re asking Biden to take an executive executive order to fix the
00:21:26.520 –> 00:21:30.820
problem for the tenant no how about you take executive order and fix the problem
00:21:30.820 –> 00:21:33.980
for the landlord how about that and then he doesn’t have to go up with the rent
00:21:33.980 –> 00:21:41.340
oh boy am I wound up a boy oh boy am I wound up without this because this is
00:21:41.340 –> 00:21:47.380
just something that to me it’s just it’s beyond it’s beyond stupid and they don’t
00:21:47.380 –> 00:21:50.580
they don’t understand how business works most of them don’t and that’s why you
00:21:50.580 –> 00:21:55.940
know like this one today White House approved 16 million people okay first
00:21:55.940 –> 00:22:02.020
student loan forgiveness plans okay whether they see relief or not depends
00:22:02.020 –> 00:22:05.500
on Supreme Court we don’t know yet but okay how about the people like me who
00:22:05.500 –> 00:22:09.700
didn’t get any student loan forgiveness I just had a how to pay our student
00:22:09.700 –> 00:22:13.100
loans what about us what am I getting my student loan forgiveness back I paid all
00:22:13.100 –> 00:22:16.780
my student loans for 15 years what am I to give me give me some forgiveness for
00:22:16.780 –> 00:22:21.840
the money that I paid but no they don’t do that it’s only you know they’re
00:22:21.840 –> 00:22:27.100
catering to then I’ll tell you why and I hate to say this but and I’m not saying
00:22:27.100 –> 00:22:30.260
everybody that went to college got a good job and all that and I know that’s
00:22:30.260 –> 00:22:34.500
not his case but here’s my other issue there’s a reason why he keeps forgiving
00:22:34.500 –> 00:22:40.060
student loan debt okay one because the millennial base is his main base of
00:22:40.060 –> 00:22:45.620
support them every time he see he helped somebody wipe away a loan that’s it that
00:22:45.620 –> 00:22:52.140
that’s a vote okay that’s the way it is and it’s that way on the Republican side
00:22:52.140 –> 00:22:55.360
every time they make something better for somebody else that’s a vote okay
00:22:55.360 –> 00:23:00.100
that’s the way this world works but but but they know the millennial base is
00:23:00.100 –> 00:23:04.780
Biden’s base now the most your millennial bases are people coming out
00:23:04.780 –> 00:23:08.320
of college in college or will be going to college this way is all student loan
00:23:08.320 –> 00:23:17.020
forgiveness stuff because that’s votes but nobody talks about that okay now
00:23:17.020 –> 00:23:20.200
they’re talking about in New Hampshire they’re saying that there’s they call
00:23:20.200 –> 00:23:24.760
Trump fatigue is apparently he’s been he did so much campaigning in New Hampshire
00:23:24.760 –> 00:23:29.100
apparently now a lot of people are apparently saying the people he’s gonna
00:23:29.100 –> 00:23:32.500
have to stay out of New Hampshire people are they’re saying his rally numbers and
00:23:32.500 –> 00:23:35.580
stuff like that are down because people are kind of getting sick from always
00:23:35.580 –> 00:23:39.500
campaigning there so I thought that was an interesting story by the way liquid
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thing for you but I don’t like water so liquid iv you pour a little stick in you
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there dude there’s a diet what’s it called ice drops and so there’s a lot of
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different stuff out there but I like liquid iv just gonna have a lot of
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choices with flavors but if you’re like me and you don’t like water I really
00:24:17.660 –> 00:24:21.660
recommend liquid iv like I said they are not a sponsor guys but the reason why I
00:24:21.660 –> 00:24:26.220
bring them up is if you are going out in the woods hunting or camping and you’re
00:24:26.220 –> 00:24:29.100
gonna be sweating and exerting yourself or if you’re going hiking in the summer
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if you put a little liquid iv in there it helps give the water a little extra
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oomph like I said it gives you sodium it gives you all different kinds of
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nutrients and stuff like that that’ll help keep you going it’s like kind of
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like Gatorade but without the extra sugar so I strongly recommend that
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liquid iv they’re not a sponsor I don’t get paid a dollar for that ad but like
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it’s not expensive you can get a box of it for like three four bucks at Walmart
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it’s one of the very few things that with the cost of inflation is still
00:25:01.380 –> 00:25:04.980
pretty cheap the other thing that surprised me too about cheap I want to
00:25:04.980 –> 00:25:07.980
talk about that for a minute has anybody else noticed that that’s the one thing
00:25:07.980 –> 00:25:11.740
that hasn’t gone up during inflation and hasn’t been to shrinkflation is Amazon
00:25:11.740 –> 00:25:16.700
Arizona tea it’s still 99 cents and it’s still 20 ounces as big cans just want to
00:25:16.700 –> 00:25:20.860
point that out that’s the one thing that hasn’t gone up I don’t drink as much of
00:25:20.860 –> 00:25:25.140
it as they used to cuz I’ve been dieting lost losing weight but I’m trying to get
00:25:25.140 –> 00:25:30.260
in shape but I have noticed that but when I was drinking I did notice that tea
00:25:30.260 –> 00:25:35.380
is the one thing that has not gone up for has not gone up during the all this
00:25:35.380 –> 00:25:39.340
stuff I was kind of surprised I’m my version of tea like to go up to like a
00:25:39.340 –> 00:25:43.420
dollar five or something like that or go up even a dollar one penny more I’m I’m
00:25:43.420 –> 00:25:47.620
really I’m waiting for I know it people say it’s not gonna happen but I don’t
00:25:47.620 –> 00:25:50.980
know I think it eventually it’s it’s gonna have to I just I think there’s
00:25:50.980 –> 00:25:53.740
gonna come a point where you’re just gonna have to go up at the price if
00:25:53.740 –> 00:26:00.140
they’re gonna stay you know make money so some others some other things that do
00:26:00.140 –> 00:26:07.100
want to talk about apparently in Midtown New York Mayor Adams he wants to convert
00:26:07.100 –> 00:26:12.100
some of Midtown offices into apartments I want to talk about this for a minute
00:26:12.100 –> 00:26:15.420
only because well one we’re talking about rent things over that so that was
00:26:15.420 –> 00:26:19.180
one of the reasons why I wrote this story down but I want to point out too I
00:26:19.180 –> 00:26:22.380
think that is a lot of people said oh that’s prime real estate for businesses
00:26:22.380 –> 00:26:28.220
but I know since kovin a lot of businesses have gone remote a lot of
00:26:28.220 –> 00:26:32.980
people like uber and places like like people like Twitter and places like that
00:26:32.980 –> 00:26:36.940
have not reopened their offices in New York especially the dot-com people and
00:26:36.940 –> 00:26:39.980
some businesses obviously did go out of business during kovin but I know
00:26:39.980 –> 00:26:43.620
specifically dot-com some of that a lot of companies that could work remote did
00:26:43.620 –> 00:26:47.460
work remote and a lot of that office space has been empty for over a year now
00:26:47.460 –> 00:26:52.220
and I think he’s trying to because I don’t forget to it’s empty that means
00:26:52.220 –> 00:26:55.820
people that means less people in the city less people spending money in the
00:26:55.820 –> 00:27:00.140
city you know I’m sure there’s some probably maybe issues of taxes in that
00:27:00.140 –> 00:27:04.060
building but I think he wants to turn it into higher end I mean it’s gonna be
00:27:04.060 –> 00:27:07.220
high-end apartments there’s no way it’s gonna be affordable for Johnny you know
00:27:07.220 –> 00:27:11.820
you know the little guy but if they turn these they turn those up those places
00:27:11.820 –> 00:27:16.660
into apartments I’m sure people will buy them and use them but this is all still
00:27:16.660 –> 00:27:21.420
so roll you know I would say overflow from code but it’s all basically because
00:27:21.420 –> 00:27:25.880
of kovin you know a lot of businesses especially dot-coms did not go did not
00:27:25.880 –> 00:27:28.780
open their offices back up in the city and they’re just letting people work
00:27:28.780 –> 00:27:33.660
from home now so I think he’s kind of looking at that office space saying hey
00:27:33.660 –> 00:27:38.020
what can I do to kind of get this back on you know get these people renters
00:27:38.020 –> 00:27:44.180
whoever back on the real businesses renter somebody in those buildings are
00:27:44.180 –> 00:27:47.540
not vacant in because that’s New York City man I just prime real estate right
00:27:47.540 –> 00:27:52.340
in New York City so like I said I’m not really I kind of figured they were gonna
00:27:52.340 –> 00:27:56.060
do that and I think it is a guy I don’t think New York New York is the business
00:27:56.060 –> 00:28:00.620
capital of the world but I I just don’t I think converting them the apartments
00:28:00.620 –> 00:28:04.220
high-end apartments might be the best way to go because I just don’t see
00:28:04.220 –> 00:28:09.020
people going back to the cities like they used to I don’t see many many I
00:28:09.020 –> 00:28:14.380
know a lot of computer company a lot of businesses tech companies especially
00:28:14.380 –> 00:28:17.980
that are just starting remotely they’re not getting offices anymore they’re just
00:28:17.980 –> 00:28:22.140
letting people work remotely and this way they have a bigger pool of people to
00:28:22.140 –> 00:28:25.780
work from and you know to get as far as employees and some of that so I just
00:28:25.780 –> 00:28:31.980
don’t see you know those those places being occupied by especially tech
00:28:31.980 –> 00:28:35.700
companies or any real company anytime soon especially with all these
00:28:35.700 –> 00:28:39.220
technology layoffs right now that are going on with all these big tech
00:28:39.220 –> 00:28:44.660
companies I just I don’t I mean doc I mean now’s a really tough time with this
00:28:44.660 –> 00:28:48.980
economy to start a business let alone start a tech business and afford the
00:28:48.980 –> 00:28:53.480
rent of something like a New York so I have a feeling that what he’s thinking
00:28:53.480 –> 00:28:56.900
is okay well let’s let’s at least get these apart really turn you know we
00:28:56.900 –> 00:28:59.780
spend money to convert these into apartments and at least this way we get
00:28:59.780 –> 00:29:03.200
people back in them because I could tell you right now there are especially with
00:29:03.200 –> 00:29:05.780
the way these tech layoffs are having there’s a lot of programmers right now
00:29:05.780 –> 00:29:12.340
and you know if you are a tech company that you know needs programmers now’s
00:29:12.340 –> 00:29:16.380
the time to hire but I could tell you right now I know a lot of tech startups
00:29:16.380 –> 00:29:20.220
are not going to be spending money on New York rent places and a lot of
00:29:20.220 –> 00:29:26.360
businesses in general especially you know any kind of stores and and and open
00:29:26.360 –> 00:29:29.580
you know big boxers of that are not going to be going into New York City
00:29:29.580 –> 00:29:34.020
right now with the cost of everything so like I said there you know I think he’s
00:29:34.020 –> 00:29:38.180
looking at it as okay this is if we put these as apartments at least they’ll be
00:29:38.180 –> 00:29:45.120
used and they won’t be sitting here you know I’m just collecting dust those of
00:29:45.120 –> 00:29:48.300
you that are listening you can hear what you’re hearing in the background here is
00:29:48.300 –> 00:29:53.820
Opie the the Wonder Dog he’s apparently he wants attention and that’s why he’s
00:29:53.820 –> 00:29:58.460
here and then Scruffy my other little guy is is here as well so the the boys
00:29:58.460 –> 00:30:01.860
want attention now they’re walking around in my office so I’m sorry for all
00:30:01.860 –> 00:30:07.580
this all the noise in the background so speaking of tax relief apparently
00:30:07.580 –> 00:30:11.340
Michigan if you’re in Michigan they do they’re trying to approve legislation
00:30:11.340 –> 00:30:15.980
for 1 billion in tax relief so apparently what they’re doing is they
00:30:15.980 –> 00:30:20.580
want you it’s good you’re not gonna see it like it’s like in the cash like in
00:30:20.580 –> 00:30:22.500
the form of stimulus check but what you’re gonna actually do is they’re
00:30:22.500 –> 00:30:25.860
gonna apparently in your tax return if you live in Michigan you’re gonna get
00:30:25.860 –> 00:30:31.460
some tax rebates back first part of your income tax to actually try to try to
00:30:31.460 –> 00:30:34.360
help people and help stimulate Michigan apparently Michigan’s they’re having
00:30:34.360 –> 00:30:39.060
some issues over in Michigan I guess especially with the same layoffs and
00:30:39.060 –> 00:30:43.460
stuff of that so they’re trying to help stimulate that that particular state by
00:30:43.460 –> 00:30:47.940
giving refunds back for some of the stuff you know not refunds back but
00:30:47.940 –> 00:30:53.660
money back in people’s tax refund that’s what I’m trying to say so Hasbro had a
00:30:53.660 –> 00:30:57.780
round of layoffs the toy company they had a round of layoffs so I wanted to
00:30:57.780 –> 00:31:01.260
point that out you be the work that you know I keep every time I see these
00:31:01.260 –> 00:31:04.140
layoffs I put them down here on the list of something to talk about because it
00:31:04.140 –> 00:31:06.620
just shows you how many places I mean it’s not just tech company it’s
00:31:06.620 –> 00:31:10.340
everybody that’s laying off but I just want to point out this is just a sign of
00:31:10.340 –> 00:31:15.180
the upcoming you know I mean this is basically a sign of the upcoming
00:31:15.180 –> 00:31:19.540
recession is what this is all these ladies is what happens I mean layoffs I
00:31:19.540 –> 00:31:22.700
mean this is exactly what I’m 2008 the only difference is the housing market
00:31:22.700 –> 00:31:27.900
hasn’t crashed yet but everybody losing their jobs it very well might so because
00:31:27.900 –> 00:31:31.340
I pointed that so I was like well the housing market is great yes but between
00:31:31.340 –> 00:31:36.180
Facebook Microsoft Google and every other company Amazon and then all these
00:31:36.180 –> 00:31:41.380
other companies that are laying off it’s a very good possibility that the
00:31:41.380 –> 00:31:44.980
housing market might might you know crumble they’re like oh there’s tons of
00:31:44.980 –> 00:31:49.940
people places everybody’s looking for help and I’m like yes but you’re talking
00:31:49.940 –> 00:31:52.900
about and I’m not saying anything I’m not seeing any bad about anything but
00:31:52.900 –> 00:31:57.300
the people the places that are looking for workers are usually the blue-collar
00:31:57.300 –> 00:32:04.180
restaurants dock workers stuff like that okay the people that that we’re talking
00:32:04.180 –> 00:32:08.780
about that work at places like Microsoft Google those are homeowners okay most of
00:32:08.780 –> 00:32:12.340
them are homeowners okay the people that have jobs like that or have worked at a
00:32:12.340 –> 00:32:17.900
company for 15 10 15 years 20 years they bought a home by now okay so the people
00:32:17.900 –> 00:32:21.820
that are being laid off right now are homeowners okay now I’m not saying that’s
00:32:21.820 –> 00:32:25.320
gonna cause them to lose some might some might lose their houses because they
00:32:25.320 –> 00:32:28.080
can’t afford to pay the mortgages especially if the mortgages have gone up
00:32:28.080 –> 00:32:33.780
due to the increase in the interest rates okay so this is just a like I said
00:32:33.780 –> 00:32:39.140
the big the layoff when you have big companies laying off like this those are
00:32:39.140 –> 00:32:42.340
people that are homeowners probably and I’m not saying anything bad but but
00:32:42.340 –> 00:32:45.300
generally your people that work at your lower-income jobs that are looking for
00:32:45.300 –> 00:32:50.500
help right now like McDonald’s and you know any of those kind of places those
00:32:50.500 –> 00:32:55.460
generally are not homeowners those are renters so and I’m not and I’m not saying
00:32:55.460 –> 00:32:59.540
anything negative I’m just telling you statistics so the people right now that
00:32:59.540 –> 00:33:03.340
are losing their job at these big companies or homeowners and that’s that’s
00:33:03.340 –> 00:33:09.500
that’s just step one that’s what started in 2008 was layoffs then all of a sudden
00:33:09.500 –> 00:33:13.420
the housing the housing bubble the stock market crashed and the layoffs happened
00:33:13.420 –> 00:33:16.220
this time it’s gonna be a little bit different it’s gonna be the layoffs and
00:33:16.220 –> 00:33:19.980
then the housing crash so it’s gonna it’s a you know it’s gonna be the
00:33:19.980 –> 00:33:23.500
similar to the same situation just the occurrence of events is gonna be a
00:33:23.500 –> 00:33:27.620
little bit different so that’s what I’m telling you right now it’s you know
00:33:27.620 –> 00:33:31.700
people a ton lots of people lost their good-paying jobs give it it now they’re
00:33:31.700 –> 00:33:34.420
gonna fall behind on their mortgages give it a couple of years and you’re
00:33:34.420 –> 00:33:38.220
gonna watch the housing market crash watch I could almost guarantee that’s
00:33:38.220 –> 00:33:42.580
what’s gonna happen so like I said just pointing it out not I hope it doesn’t
00:33:42.580 –> 00:33:45.000
have for these people I hope that I don’t want anybody ever have to go
00:33:45.000 –> 00:33:48.860
through losing their home god forbid I pray that these people don’t and I feel
00:33:48.860 –> 00:33:52.340
bad anytime I hear layoffs I always feel bad for people because it’s gonna affect
00:33:52.340 –> 00:33:57.460
their whole lives but that is you know the truth of the people at these kind of
00:33:57.460 –> 00:34:02.120
jobs are people that are generally your homeowner so let’s let’s see what
00:34:02.120 –> 00:34:09.260
happens bed and bath and beyond declaring bankruptcy you know it just
00:34:09.260 –> 00:34:13.100
shows you to how things have changed those of you that watch Shark Tank I
00:34:13.100 –> 00:34:15.660
know a lot of you guys we’ve talked about Shark Tank on the on our rebel
00:34:15.660 –> 00:34:20.740
social that be a couple times a lot of you guys have watched Shark Tank but
00:34:20.740 –> 00:34:23.700
that used to be the biggest thing at your all I’ll get you know Laurie
00:34:23.700 –> 00:34:27.220
Grineer I’ll get you in bed bath and beyond I’ll get you in bed bath and
00:34:27.220 –> 00:34:31.020
beyond that was always a big thing that she can get anybody on QVC or bed bath
00:34:31.020 –> 00:34:35.860
and beyond apparently bed bath and beyond is not doing it too hot and
00:34:35.860 –> 00:34:40.420
declaring bankruptcy I think it’s only a matter of time for the they’re they’re
00:34:40.420 –> 00:34:44.060
gonna be out to eventually I think I think places like bed bath and beyond
00:34:44.060 –> 00:34:46.580
like they’re gonna be like another Sears there’s gonna go out because it there’s
00:34:46.580 –> 00:34:49.500
only there’s only so much stuff you could sell in a store like that just
00:34:49.500 –> 00:34:53.580
like Sears there’s only so I mean Kmart I mean there’s only so much you know I
00:34:53.580 –> 00:34:56.780
mean Target’s gonna be your stay around Walmart’s gonna stay around stuff like
00:34:56.780 –> 00:35:00.980
that but I think you’re gonna see like places like Michaels and stuff like that
00:35:00.980 –> 00:35:04.120
eventually I think you’re gonna see even Hobby Lobby I think eventually you can
00:35:04.120 –> 00:35:08.260
see a lot of these a lot of these big-box niche stores eventually gonna go
00:35:08.260 –> 00:35:10.700
out I think stuff like five below and things like that that are affordable
00:35:10.700 –> 00:35:14.380
probably gonna stay around but I do think a lot of these big-box and niche
00:35:14.380 –> 00:35:18.580
stores eventually are going to gonna go out of business I just think it’s it’s
00:35:18.580 –> 00:35:23.540
I think it’s just inevitable unfortunately other news that I thought
00:35:23.540 –> 00:35:30.380
was very important due to labor shortages again in Walmart and CVS pharmacy by the
00:35:30.380 –> 00:35:33.380
way folks I like to point out to you though those pharmacy techs are the
00:35:33.380 –> 00:35:36.700
pharmacy people themselves are very you know last couple of pharmacy techs are
00:35:36.700 –> 00:35:39.220
basically anybody they hire off the street and they teach just train them
00:35:39.220 –> 00:35:43.720
while they work very hard and there’s stuff to know they’re not the the actual
00:35:43.720 –> 00:35:48.620
pharmacist but apparently due to how do you do shortages they’re going to be
00:35:48.620 –> 00:35:52.660
adjusting hours at the pharmacy not Walmart itself Walmart self still gonna
00:35:52.660 –> 00:35:57.340
be up in CVS still gonna be up but the pharmacy is going to be adjusting hours
00:35:57.340 –> 00:36:01.720
so very important those of you that do use the CVS and Walmart pharmacy we use
00:36:01.720 –> 00:36:07.060
Walmart we used to use CVS but they’re gonna be adjusting their hours so very
00:36:07.060 –> 00:36:11.740
very important if you do use any of those places to know that the hours are
00:36:11.740 –> 00:36:18.340
going to be adjusted so important information for you guys there AAA made
00:36:18.340 –> 00:36:23.040
an announcement the other day I printed this one out print it out but you know
00:36:23.040 –> 00:36:26.460
saved it or whatever remember when you used to print stuff out I mean nobody
00:36:26.460 –> 00:36:29.400
pretty pretty print out concert tickets and stuff for that anymore I mean we all
00:36:29.400 –> 00:36:32.880
do it with our phones now either Android or iPhone everybody I weird on my
00:36:32.880 –> 00:36:36.740
other day that nobody prints stuff prints concert tickets out nobody prints
00:36:36.740 –> 00:36:41.120
passes anymore stuff like that all that’s all digital now like like what
00:36:41.120 –> 00:36:45.160
was it like and I’m I don’t you fly I don’t fly on a plane too much most of my
00:36:45.160 –> 00:36:49.680
stuff is driving but like my wife and I were the other day she was the last time
00:36:49.680 –> 00:36:52.480
you were on a plane like you know like you don’t nobody prints their plane
00:36:52.480 –> 00:36:58.520
ticket anymore it’s all on their phones anymore but AAA had saying some states
00:36:58.520 –> 00:37:04.120
have experienced much bigger gains in gas saying Colorado it’s they’ve seen
00:37:04.120 –> 00:37:12.760
98% increase 98 cent increases Georgia 70 cents Delaware 62 Ohio Florida but
00:37:12.760 –> 00:37:16.400
what they’re saying is gas is actually up usually gas is down this time of year
00:37:16.400 –> 00:37:20.320
people aren’t traveling right now holidays are over generally the gas
00:37:20.320 –> 00:37:24.720
doesn’t start going up again till Easter time but apparently they’re saying gas
00:37:24.720 –> 00:37:34.040
is up due to issues with the my dog again doing issues with the
00:37:34.040 –> 00:37:38.280
refineries and they’re saying that the refineries are the big problem because
00:37:38.280 –> 00:37:42.280
they’re not making enough oil to keep then they’re pushing the gas prices up
00:37:42.280 –> 00:37:46.680
that’s that’s what they’re saying that’s what triple-a is saying in this article
00:37:46.680 –> 00:37:50.840
so I thought that was interesting and I wanted to bring that up to you because I
00:37:50.840 –> 00:37:54.800
was like well that stinks I know some states don’t have the gas tax Pennsylvania
00:37:54.800 –> 00:37:57.880
does but I know like New Jersey if you go to Jersey it’s like 40 50 cents
00:37:57.880 –> 00:38:02.720
cheaper because of the gas tax and once the gas tax get and a couple of states
00:38:02.720 –> 00:38:05.960
trying to put the gas tax on I could tell you this folks once the gas tax
00:38:05.960 –> 00:38:08.840
goes on even they say it’s only temporary it’s never gonna go away once
00:38:08.840 –> 00:38:12.080
they figure out a way to make you pay more taxes it never goes away just so
00:38:12.080 –> 00:38:17.840
you know that folks even these local amenities now have like a Pennsylvania
00:38:17.840 –> 00:38:21.260
here like the local boroughs of have right-to-work tax they call it where you
00:38:21.260 –> 00:38:24.600
have to pay to work shouldn’t they be paying us to work in those way this is
00:38:24.600 –> 00:38:29.800
right now but again once they figure out a way to add on taxes they never go away
00:38:29.800 –> 00:38:34.720
so but I thought that was interesting according to gas buddy calm the app
00:38:34.720 –> 00:38:38.440
they’re saying that gas is going to be four dollars a gallon again by March and
00:38:38.440 –> 00:38:41.520
I remember I said to you I don’t ever see it I’ve been saying in the last
00:38:41.520 –> 00:38:46.640
couple of podcasts I don’t see the gas going down anytime soon especially down
00:38:46.640 –> 00:38:49.840
to two dollars a gallon I don’t think I’ll ever go back down to three again if
00:38:49.840 –> 00:38:53.060
I’m being honest with you I think it’s gonna keep rising and and here’s the
00:38:53.060 –> 00:38:58.080
scary part is the more these energy prices keep going up okay the more it’s
00:38:58.080 –> 00:39:02.440
gonna push inflation up and now you have people that just lost their jobs and now
00:39:02.440 –> 00:39:06.920
their heating bills are gonna be more so it’s really a you know a really tough
00:39:06.920 –> 00:39:13.200
thing I mean the economy is on its way to issues I really is and and I hate to
00:39:13.200 –> 00:39:18.240
say that but I mean I just got eggs today and look at how much eggs are
00:39:18.240 –> 00:39:22.920
costing now I mean it’s it’s really ridiculous how much eggs are costing it
00:39:22.920 –> 00:39:27.440
I mean just that alone milk I mean all the knit and you know necessity
00:39:27.440 –> 00:39:31.400
especially have children or stuff like that are all going up so and that’s
00:39:31.400 –> 00:39:35.520
gonna keep pushing everything else up so it’s really it’s a scary time right now
00:39:35.520 –> 00:39:41.680
folks it’s a scary time so if you’re a survivalist or a prepper scary times but
00:39:41.680 –> 00:39:46.720
so a couple things I did a couple of the lighter note we talked about the doom
00:39:46.720 –> 00:39:51.020
and gloom of the news and unfortunately there’s no other way to say about the
00:39:51.020 –> 00:39:56.720
doom and gloom of the news but I do want to talk about a couple things rebel a
00:39:56.720 –> 00:39:59.600
couple people be strapped me on rebel social and then some other things that
00:39:59.600 –> 00:40:04.760
have people have been sending me I’ve been keeping tabs on things so we’ve
00:40:04.760 –> 00:40:07.000
been talking every week we’ve been talking about these money-saving tips
00:40:07.000 –> 00:40:11.120
right well a couple people sent me a bunch more my wife also contributed to
00:40:11.120 –> 00:40:15.160
these as well I’d like to point that out my wonderful wife gonna be married nine
00:40:15.160 –> 00:40:21.440
years this year coming up we’ve been together for 15 we were married nine so
00:40:21.440 –> 00:40:25.440
no we met longer than we’ve been together yeah 15 years we’ve been to
00:40:25.440 –> 00:40:28.680
get we’ve been married nine so but she gave me some ideas as well for the
00:40:28.680 –> 00:40:32.920
podcast usually she does not participate in any of the podcast notes but we were
00:40:32.920 –> 00:40:36.480
driving home the other night and I told her I was thinking about she was driving
00:40:36.480 –> 00:40:40.540
and I’m I was John I was looking for stuff to for the show and she had said
00:40:40.540 –> 00:40:43.120
what are you doing I said I’m done working on some stuff for the show and
00:40:43.120 –> 00:40:46.600
we were there’s like an hour ride and then we sort of talking about money
00:40:46.600 –> 00:40:49.640
saving tips she threw a couple things at me here so some of these are from her
00:40:49.640 –> 00:40:56.280
like the point some of these out so money the money saving tip number one
00:40:56.280 –> 00:41:03.040
that my wife I thought about is go to a restaurant that’s BYOB so a lot of
00:41:03.040 –> 00:41:06.600
people now we do not my wife and I don’t drink at all but I know a lot of our
00:41:06.600 –> 00:41:11.360
friends her friends especially they like to drink and instead of going to a place
00:41:11.360 –> 00:41:16.040
where you have to order a bottle of champagne or wine which is expensive if
00:41:16.040 –> 00:41:19.320
you go to a restaurant a lot of restaurants are BYOB there’s no quirk
00:41:19.320 –> 00:41:23.640
there’s no quirk fee or anything like that but if you go to a place you know
00:41:23.640 –> 00:41:29.400
buying a bottle of wine from the liquor store is much cheaper and then buying it
00:41:29.400 –> 00:41:34.160
out of the restaurant so my wife had said she recommended going to a place
00:41:34.160 –> 00:41:40.360
that was BYOB bring your own booze you know to to save money so I thought that
00:41:40.360 –> 00:41:42.880
was a good tip so see if you are somebody likes a little wine at dinner
00:41:42.880 –> 00:41:46.000
something wrong with that but if you are somebody likes a little wine with it
00:41:46.000 –> 00:41:50.640
rather than ordering a glass of wine some places if they do some places do
00:41:50.640 –> 00:41:56.120
serve wine and they won’t let you be BYOB but if you are going to a place that
00:41:56.120 –> 00:41:59.600
you know a nice dinner and you want to save a few dollars go to a place that is
00:41:59.600 –> 00:42:03.360
BYOB and bring your own bottle of wine they usually don’t charge you a quirk
00:42:03.360 –> 00:42:07.000
fee or anything like that there are some places that do I want to point that out
00:42:07.000 –> 00:42:11.560
but even so if they’re charging you a few dollars for a quirk fee it’s still
00:42:11.560 –> 00:42:15.720
cheaper than maybe spending 20 you know 20 bucks on 20 you know on two glasses
00:42:15.720 –> 00:42:19.180
of wine so either way you can get a whole bottle glass of wine or a box of
00:42:19.180 –> 00:42:24.960
wine some people do box wine at Walmart so that you know rather than you know 23
00:42:24.960 –> 00:42:27.800
bottles for a whole box rather than you know you have a couple glasses rather
00:42:27.800 –> 00:42:31.760
than just one glass so my wife pointed that out so I thought that was a good
00:42:31.760 –> 00:42:35.400
money-saving tip so you go to a place that’s BYOB you can save yourself money
00:42:35.400 –> 00:42:41.200
on the alcohol by grabbing a bottle and instead of buying it there somebody said
00:42:41.200 –> 00:42:45.920
this to me in the media and a couple people of us we were kind of goofing on
00:42:45.920 –> 00:42:49.800
her she had said eat before you go out so you don’t need to order something big
00:42:49.800 –> 00:42:55.360
um my whole thing is is if I’m going out to eat I’m not gonna eat before I go out
00:42:55.360 –> 00:42:58.440
I know what she’s saying and I do agree what she’s I do understand what she’s
00:42:58.440 –> 00:43:01.880
saying if you eat home and when you go out you just order an appetizer it’s
00:43:01.880 –> 00:43:05.360
much cheaper so I get what she’s saying and maybe in a social situation that’s
00:43:05.360 –> 00:43:10.280
what you do but if I am going out to dinner I’m going out to eat but in a
00:43:10.280 –> 00:43:13.320
social situation that would be good like if you’re going out with friends maybe
00:43:13.320 –> 00:43:16.280
instead of so you don’t have to order a whole meal maybe you just order an
00:43:16.280 –> 00:43:19.120
appetizer and you could save money that way in a social situation that might
00:43:19.120 –> 00:43:23.640
work but um you were actually going out to dinner that would be kind of silly
00:43:23.640 –> 00:43:28.640
can then you be spending twice so somebody says and I thought this was a
00:43:28.640 –> 00:43:30.960
good one my wife had said if she goes someplace with the kids she’ll pack
00:43:30.960 –> 00:43:34.240
snacks or she’ll have to stop and get snacks so those of you that have kids
00:43:34.240 –> 00:43:37.480
you know make sure you bring snacks from a box of non-para you can get
00:43:37.480 –> 00:43:40.360
non-para snacks like if you get and I know maybe not the healthiest thing but
00:43:40.360 –> 00:43:46.120
you could get like like fruit loops I’m sorry you can get like cookies or fruit
00:43:46.120 –> 00:43:49.840
snacks some of that to stay in the car maybe get a box of those over the kids
00:43:49.840 –> 00:43:52.800
are hungry you just give them you know fruit snack right and I have to go out
00:43:52.800 –> 00:43:56.000
and buy it and and spend the two three dollars where there you can get the
00:43:56.000 –> 00:44:00.080
whole box for three or four dollars so that was a good saving tip I thought
00:44:00.080 –> 00:44:05.760
was good that was my wife brought that one up nothing somebody pointed out to
00:44:05.760 –> 00:44:10.160
put change in a jar I have more money saving tip rather than a money putting
00:44:10.160 –> 00:44:15.080
away tip money saving tip but they said if you go ahead and you go out you know
00:44:15.080 –> 00:44:19.120
you know and you have some change on you put the change away into a change jar
00:44:19.120 –> 00:44:22.960
and that money will build up over time that’s really more of a good saving tip
00:44:22.960 –> 00:44:28.040
rather than a good money saver but so yeah my wife had said shop at the
00:44:28.040 –> 00:44:32.360
Salvation Army I think that is actually a decent tip if and the reason I mean I
00:44:32.360 –> 00:44:35.440
know somebody like I’m not gonna wear Salvation Army clothes but if you wash
00:44:35.440 –> 00:44:38.760
somebody that stays in construction or something like that and you you’re gonna
00:44:38.760 –> 00:44:42.560
know you’re gonna beat the crap out of your jeans maybe go there and get a
00:44:42.560 –> 00:44:46.920
couple pairs of jeans maybe just to knock around in especially if you’re a
00:44:46.920 –> 00:44:50.640
homesteader and you’re gonna be doing dirty work on the homestead rather than
00:44:50.640 –> 00:44:54.160
ruining a good pair of jeans you get a pair of jeans for like a couple dollars
00:44:54.160 –> 00:44:57.200
and that’s what you’ve you ruin them you’re not ruining a 20 30 dollar pair
00:44:57.200 –> 00:45:01.560
of jeans so that might be an idea somebody had said grow your own food
00:45:01.560 –> 00:45:05.280
that’s a tough one only because sometimes that’s not always a cheap way
00:45:05.280 –> 00:45:09.560
it makes healthier but it’s not always cheaper so that one I don’t depends that
00:45:09.560 –> 00:45:13.520
that’s like a yes/no kind of thing if you’re if you’re if you have all the
00:45:13.520 –> 00:45:17.840
stuff that’s great it is gonna save you money if you have to buy everything not
00:45:17.840 –> 00:45:22.320
gonna really save you money one tip my wife did give me was join Walmart Plus
00:45:22.320 –> 00:45:25.320
and another thing I know I told you last week well you know to cut back on
00:45:25.320 –> 00:45:29.040
subscriptions but my wife had pointed this out to me is if you join Walmart
00:45:29.040 –> 00:45:35.160
Plus you get 10 cents off on gas at Exxon and places like that so not only
00:45:35.160 –> 00:45:40.440
and you’re also gonna get Paramount Plus for free so for 10 bucks a month you’re
00:45:40.440 –> 00:45:44.120
you’re not paying for Paramount Plus you’re getting $10 off on gas you’re
00:45:44.120 –> 00:45:47.880
getting free delivery from Walmart so you’re not paying any delivery charges
00:45:47.880 –> 00:45:53.160
so I think Walmart Plus actually may be a money saver because like I said you’re
00:45:53.160 –> 00:45:56.920
gonna get off on gas you’re gonna get free shipping and you’re going you know
00:45:56.920 –> 00:46:01.220
and like I said you’re going to you know save money because they have special
00:46:01.220 –> 00:46:04.480
offers and stuff like that and then like I said also to you know paying from
00:46:04.480 –> 00:46:11.120
Paramount so I do think money I do think Walmart Plus unlike Amazon Plus is
00:46:11.120 –> 00:46:14.920
actually a money saver because you’re not paying you’re you’re you’re actually
00:46:14.920 –> 00:46:19.040
gonna save with Paramount you’re gonna pay save with gas and you’re gonna pay
00:46:19.040 –> 00:46:23.320
on you’re gonna save on shipping so sometimes the Amazon keeps giving stuff
00:46:23.320 –> 00:46:27.260
but it’s not really saving you money except on the free shipping at the
00:46:27.260 –> 00:46:30.560
moment plus you actually do because you’re getting special deals you’re
00:46:30.560 –> 00:46:33.980
getting it which which do save you money you’re like you said you’re getting
00:46:33.980 –> 00:46:36.460
Paramount you’re getting a little gas you’re getting the free ship so there
00:46:36.460 –> 00:46:40.480
there are some I think that one may be a money-saving tip so I want to point that
00:46:40.480 –> 00:46:46.740
one out by the way some people had point had pointed out side hustles that you
00:46:46.740 –> 00:46:49.320
could some people that said to do well what would be a good side hustle I got
00:46:49.320 –> 00:46:53.960
some feedback after the show by the way folks I love all the feedback like I
00:46:53.960 –> 00:46:58.240
said if you want to reach out to me on Twitter it’s my handle KB 3yua my ham
00:46:58.240 –> 00:47:02.360
radio handle also to rebel social media I love all the feedback from the show I
00:47:02.360 –> 00:47:06.760
really do please keep it coming I really enjoyed it it helps me as well prepare
00:47:06.760 –> 00:47:09.800
for the show and kind of know what you guys want to talk about what you want me
00:47:09.800 –> 00:47:14.160
to you know say and some of that so it’s really good some people had said what
00:47:14.160 –> 00:47:17.400
what could be a good side hustle we got into a little chat about this on Twitter
00:47:17.400 –> 00:47:20.200
I think it was on I think was on Twitter I think it was on my thing on Twitter
00:47:20.200 –> 00:47:25.560
but somebody had said something you could do a sell stuff online that people
00:47:25.560 –> 00:47:30.760
said to me what could I sell online some you know yeah you could sell go through
00:47:30.760 –> 00:47:34.080
your basement go through attic go through your garage anything you find
00:47:34.080 –> 00:47:38.200
you could sell online that’s an easy way to start a business without any money
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layout you’re gonna sell it on eBay you go through your you know go through your
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attic go through your garage you know I bet you I bet you if you went through
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your attic your basement your garage your junk drawers and all you could find
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stuff that was valuable to sell maybe not quite a lot of value but you could
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make extra money that way so I thought that was a good tip also to somebody I
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said you want to you know start a good have a garage sale that’s the thing
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you could do and then what I would do the way I would do it personally is I
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would go through everything have my garage sale the first big of big you
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know if you can in your area I have a garage or yard sale whatever doesn’t
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sell then I’ll put it on eBay that’s the way I would do it so you get a bunch of
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money up front and then the rest of stuff you could piecemeal it out on
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eBay so I would do that like I said somebody had said what else could you do
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if you’re in the trades any kind of trade mechanic carpenter plumbing
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anything take side jobs that’s something you could do if you’re a teacher somebody
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said you could tutor I thought that was a good idea craft sales that’s one of
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those things you can and can’t it depends on what you’re doing somebody
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had said and I know myself I used to do this raise birds I used to raise up here
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and it depends on the area you’re in up where we are bird hunting is a big thing
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and people sometimes need the birds off to go on it sometimes you can’t always
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rely on the birds being there so I used to raise quail and sell them that was a
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little side business I used to have for a while I don’t do any more some of the
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time but I used to also – if you have chickens you could sell the eggs they’re
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five dollars some a dozen you could sell them for four the pea person saving a
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dollar and you’re making four dollars on your chickens it helps offset the cost
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of your chickens that’s a money saver so some really good really good ideas there
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from you guys it was a really great a lot of good good good stuff from you
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guys I really appreciate it like I said I want to thank you all for listening
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and we will see you on the next episode thank you very much