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Good morning listeners. We are here together and holidays are
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upon us. So it is so wonderful that we are
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in the midst of holidays and there are a lot
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of exciting things, and.
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to do on my bucket list.
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For twenty twenty five, it's important to have that bucket list,
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In the beginning of twenty twenty four.
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I had decided that I wanted to be on head stage,
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as I'm sure if it would happen or not. The
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key is dreaming about it and then from dream to
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making it a reality and then going for it. So
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And also we want to thank you each and every
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one of you.
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For being part of our show and we.
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Really wish you a wonderful, wonderful Holidays season where it's
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the joy of giving and sharing love and making memories
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with your loved ones.
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So let's bring in our guest welcome eron.
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Thank you for having me on.
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Absolutely, So let me start out from the early beginnings
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in life. Do you recall a moment or a person
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who left a post mark on you?
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You know, I was very very lucky that I had
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a lot of supported neighbors in my neighborhood that gave
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me advice that I still think about today. And I
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had a mentor of somewhat in my twenties that talked
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to me about money. And I think because of the
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people that touched me throughout the years, it.
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Kind of molded me to the way I am.
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I have to say my father was my biggest inspiration
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because I always am looking to emulate how he would
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handle any kind of situation. But I've been very very
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lucky throughout the years to have great people in my life.
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So what would you say that made them great? Mentors.
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You know, sometimes a great mentor will put you in
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the moment to steer you in the moment, and then
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sometimes mentors will tell you what can happen in the
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future and you will understand it better. And the way
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you use what they give you is the way your
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life will kind of move forward. One mentor in my
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twenties told me that I would never understand money until
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I went bankrupt, and I told him I'd go, well,
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I guess I never want to understand money because I
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never want to go bankrupt, and he goes, every great
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entrepreneur who is pushing themselves will either go bankrupt or
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lose it all and have to start all over again,
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and then they truly will understand what mistakes they did
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how to protect them in the future. And you always
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hope that happens early on in your careers. And so
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it actually happened to me during the recession where I
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went I was worth several million and I went four
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million dollars in debt. Nothing I had had any value,
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and I was able Right then and there, I realized
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exactly what that mentor told me twenty years almost fifteen
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years earlier. And because of that, when I was building
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back up what I had. I made corrections, and I
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remembered exactly what he told me, And so the mistakes
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I made previously, I made sure.
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Never to make them again.
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And even though I was four million dollars in debt,
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I went on to selling one of the largest art
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galleries in the United States, and I have a big
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real estate company, and I still I now do pretty
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well for myself, even though in two thousand and nine
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was four million dollars a day.
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Well two thousand and eight, I don't think anybody was
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there who remained untouched by it.
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I agree.
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I have to agree because I remember a lot of
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pain during.
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That time myself.
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So I can definitely see you mentioned about not having
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to make the same mistakes. So can you share with
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past the mistakes that you made at that time so
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that our listeners can learn from it.
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Yeah.
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I owned an art gallery call the Fascination Street Fine
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Art in Denver, Colorado, and I would take every dollar
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I made, and a lot of the money I paid
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myself and put it right back.
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In the company.
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And I never ever kept a cushion, never kept a
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bank account that just had a rainy day funded it,
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and never thought I was going there was going to
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be a hiccup in the economy, So I was never
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looking to the future.
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I was only looking for it today.
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And when you do not look into the future and
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understand the economy, it's not in your control. You do
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not control it at all. I don't care how big
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your company is. And once you understand that and do things,
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have a rainy day fund, protect your personal assets, your
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business assets, and always have money to lean back on.
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That is so important. And if I would have had that,
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I would have been I probably would have been worth
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one hundred million dollars because I was big into real
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estate and when my gallery tanked and all.
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My real estate was worthless.
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If I would have had atten rainy day found here
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in Denver, I could have bought up a ton of
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property on pennies on the dollar and really did very
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well for myself. But I was for the moment, spending
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too much on things I should be spending on and
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definitely not looking into the future.
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So definitely.
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So it sounds like, you know, you had a company,
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you lost it, and then you rebuild it. So what
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was that transition like and what did going from for
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a million in debt how did you come back to
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where you're at?
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You know, I was just not only four million dollars
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in debt. In thirty days, I my wife and I
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almost lost their child you unborn child. Sorry, yeah, we
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almost lost her life. And then I was going through
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financial problems.
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And then this is all within thirty days.
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And in January fifth, two thousand and nine, I had
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a massive heart attack. It's called the widow maker, and
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usually people don't come back from that. And so I
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realized I was given a second chance on this earth,
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and I came back with a vengeance. I did start
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to look into the future. I did think of everything
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that guy told me. I redid my art gallery. My
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art gallery was very tired and did not look welcoming,
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and I took money I did not have and totally
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rehab my art gallery made it look beautiful and stunning.
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And it was during the recession. And everybody called me
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crazy and said, Aaron, you know you don't have any clients, now,
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why are you doing all this? And I'd go, if
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I build it, they will come, a famous line from
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a movie. And that's exactly what happened. Six months later
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my gallery, the economy started to come back around slowly
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but surely people old clients would fall into the gallery
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sometime and they would love what they saw. And then
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the gallery just boomed again, and I was within the
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Denver was the last to hit the recession and the
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first to come out.
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And I was very lucky that.
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I started to look into the future and do all
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the right things and not for the moment. And I
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slowly but surely got myself out of there. I was
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able to scrape some money, buy to buy some real estate,
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and at petties on the dollar, it's not as much
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as I would like. And all the things I did,
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all the hustle I did, went to work and worked
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for me, and I became very successful because of it.
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M HM. So so many of the younger generations would
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learn a lot from this, because success doesn't happen over
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a night, over a minute, you know, as people tell
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us so, especially those instant TikTok and quick fix ads.
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So you mentioned that you know you did the hustle,
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you move through it, and that's really really important.
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But so much is happening, like you.
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Know, with the real estate pricing is so high right
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now that so interest rates may be high, the house
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pricing have escalated. So for the younger generation, like you know,
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for them to have a house is like a dream, Like, oh,
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if somebody doesn't support me, even if I say it's
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not going to happen, what can you tell them about
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the side hustles that you talk about with the garage sale?
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Like so even with their jobs, like they have the jobs,
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how can they build the future by having a side hustle.
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That's a great question. And when I was going through
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the recession, I actually leaned on all my experiences. I'm
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going to garave sales, state sales, using praise list, buying
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and selling on eBay. I was looking at any way
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I could put money in my pocket. And because we
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have Facebook, Marketplace, next Door Marketplace, eBay, people can just
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start with having a garage sale, whether it's at their house,
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at their apartment, even putting it all on Facebook Marketplace,
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generating some money, and then use that money to start
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to buy and sell collectibles or.
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Anything that they have a value. Go to.
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Every state has a whole bunch of live auctions or
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online auctions that people can buy and check the prices
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and then flip it either put it.
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Back on eBay.
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See if you can if you buy a storage units,
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go through that see what's valuable in those. Learn from
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my book how to become the grind sale Millionaire.
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It's not to get rich quick fixed.
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You have to take your time and go to a
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lot of garage sales and look at a lot of
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things on eBay. But you don't become an expert and
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a handful thing and then knowledgeable and a lot of
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things and do your daytime job and at night. This
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is a great side hustle.
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So you mentioned about states having some live auctions, So
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tell us, like you know where are the for example,
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like you know what kind of things are available, and
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where they getting this and where.
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Can people learn about the state auctions.
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So if you google.
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Live auctions in your city or in your state, you'll
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come up with some of the biggest ones that keep
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on doing them over and over again, and then you'll
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get on their email list, and so when they have
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their next online auction or live auction, they'll email you.
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You want to get on as many as possible. And
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throughout the United States, the government has online auctions, you know,
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the Treasury, the Irs, all these places have online auctions
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that you can get on and buy and buy things
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and get them shipped to you. Some bigger things you
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have to go and pick up.
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And then you start.
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You get a great eBay site and you put the
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smaller valuable things on eBay, the bigger things on Facebook, Marketplace,