Yeah, its a business plan. Its, uh, but its the short intervals, like 2025 5, 15 minute intervals that you do each day on. Im gonna If you dont, then you have no exposure. Come in and talk about your new venture. David, he said, Heres the thing. Dave Seymour is a famous entrepreneur that became known thanks to real estate series Flipping Boston that focuses on house flipping in Boston area. And hes asking my opinion. I mean, we all its the education. Were already beginning to see a $5 million capitalization rate, which is coming in the verbal commitments at this point. Welcome to another episode of Build a Business Success Secrets. I just identify the very best people that I can in the core competencies that I need fulfilled. Alright. Its big boy time. I want you to know that the and we all come from and I think you were just in a maybe a different circle. When when my house was in pre foreclosure and it all went on my wifes credit cards and I straight up, she looked at me on that Sunday morning and she said to me, What do you think? And thats where 99.9% of the people fail. You understand it. Yeah, if you go. Dave Seymour In a first for the Real Estate Crowdfunding Show, today I welcome a veritable reality show star, Dave Seymour, the former lead on A&E's Flipping Boston. But he sent me a funny sent me a vanilla application for a download toe. Theres a Perry belters and current Matt Bai sack. His story is crazy and goes to show that you can make things happen for yourself and become anything you want.Daves brings you a weeks worth of positive energy and inspiration. You bet, Brother. But the you see these people, and you just youre like, Man, youre in here every day. So we look at that as an opportunity to be a great landlord, to be a good business and give great housing to people. Theres no guarantees on anything. But until you put your head on the pill as an entrepreneur with a payroll due on Friday, you just like teach. But for that we could work work capital very aggressively and safely at the same time because of our proprietary underwriting and then verticals to fix these assets, put new property managers in their turn them around. Yeah. Look, man, its a story I was I did an interview with Jack Canfield last week. Peter Souhleris and Dave Seymour gamble on a strategy to give them an edge in a tough market - they design high end and they flip fast. Jefferson. But Im going back to Ah, Hunk just just started back on the the exercise routine and getting back to where I need to be. Or let me learn some, or Im gonna learn some more and some or Im gonna analyze some more numbers. But Ive walked away from probably 10 or 15 flips that I would have done pre co vid. Is that correct? And maybe Ill stop at the gas station. Learn more about Dave Seymour - movies and shows, full bio, photos, videos, and more at TV Guide. Private Equity Fund Manager Star of A&E's Flipping Boston Dave Seymour | Danvers MA JF2348: A&E's Flipping Boston With Dave Seymour. On Look, that isnt easy, because, you know, if youre a good guy or a good girl and you like people, you kind of want to entertain, you know, entertain ideas. And so Im with you, baby. The projections were confident that the 100 Milby in the account and out on the street by the end of the year were already fleshing out the the big ideas around Fun too. You know that that guy was good too. Its too scary. Dave. Well, a lot of people say Im too scared to be a landlord. Episode: 103 Dave Seymour Join David Pere and Alexander Felice with Dave Seymour as they talk about the Firefighting Millionaire. I dont wanna go pound the pavement, man. Like you are not going in the right direction and just every ounce of me. Its a business plan that meets all of the legal. How could I do that? Sounds simple, right? Thats thats, you know, wrapping that up. Im great, man. You know, if you want to make more money than you trade more time but times the one commodity, we never get back. Hi Dave I come from Australia and love your show. Well, three. I was I was in school in London and I and I met a girl in, uh in a local ale house and she was American, and we were dating. But the application of this rule can still be tricky. Well have you back in a few months. And were bringing that methodology to the fund. But, did you know Dave started out as a Firefighter of all things? And its obviously outperformed the stock market as well because of the volatility of the stock market. I like the plot. You could do it as an active investor or a passive investor. But as I listen to you, do you think that your success because that educational program you were all in the room, you all had the books and and frankly or candidly, three instructions are in all of these books. With 29 episodes of A&E's Flipping Boston behind them, local real estate duo Peter Souhleris and Dave Seymour have garnered beyond-compare tips on the art of finding a deal. If if their friendships, Im for always Im gonna wrap it up with this one. Yeah, we we were affiliated or align whatever term you want to use with Daymond John from Shark Tank. And thats what differentiated you. Im also I kick ass multiple firefighter. An active investor is what Ive been for 12 plus years of my career from single family houses, too small apartment houses, toe, you know, larger apartment houses, toe lending, toe hard money lending private lending notes. Look, man, I I went, I just looked at her and I said, I cant I dont know what to tell you, darling. I am so resilient. Its not a moral judgment on anybody. I grew up with a single mom, and I always say, like Im overeducated with all these degrees because if you come from a single parent, it doesnt have a lot of money. Where if actually, if you were just so egotistical and you were willing to just be like, No, Im always right, you actually might have done better. Ill be on it. There's never a dull moment when Peter's attention to detail gets in the way of Dave's need for speed. Would have to do any person saying I gotta get a British passport. Follow this plan that everybody else laid out for me and your sons of guns lie. They I like that question, because what youre referring to is whats called a wreg A or Regulation A for Alfa Fund, or its called a reggae fund. Actually, if you go to Freedom Venture, theres theres a video there that you scrolled through that just is like a razzle dazzle piece toe Excite people about the Florida market, and then theres, Ah, theres a button that you compress on that front page Brendan that says Mawr information on that button. We lease up the empty units. You know? Just a warm them up. And now. Right? Lets get to it. And whats interesting is this is that we are already beginning to see the inbound calls coming in. And this was put together with a company out of Boston and you do all these videos and you wrote with these beautiful women on this big video screen right in front of you. You know, I was actually, uh, aside and I want to get to your fund that you that you dealt with all this experience and bringing that actually to the to the I dont know what you call a normal person who wants to buy into an opportunity. Oh, my God. 120 hours a week. We dont deviate from the buy box because the buy box, you know, it pays the investors. Shes like, Yeah. Im going to say something on this, this this goal with you that I dont think Ive said before. He says, that hes applyingWarren Buffetts main rules of investing into stock on properties. Were gonna be financially free. They dont know how. I try and put my finger in the pot and add my genius expertise in a specific area marketing, for example, where I have none, right? Im stand there and say your Ah, gazillionaire when youre not, tell your story and tell the truth. Flipping Boston. If we hit three million like weve only been in our race face for about 3 to 4 weeks right now, theres kind of interested in watching the difference between raising capital and a fund and raising capital as a syndicator. Thats the truth, That is, that is the truth. How many days are you hitting that thing? Fail forward. Flow. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Thats a really cool video that we put together kind of sales piece that talks about the volatility of the stock market and why an alternative investment like this could be good for you. I hit it every day. I was online marker since 1996 and we all ran in the same circles. And, you know, its funny, Brennan, I always think about you know, you said it earlier on today, before we started recording planting seeds on. Its just factual, created, unprecedented opportunities in business and development and change. He specializes in home design and many major TV networks ask him for his own opinion. It was a gift for May, right, the gift of desperation, the gift of financial ignorance, the gift of getting hurt over and over and over again and still standing up and trying to do it the same way, expecting a result, failing every single fricking day, a trade in time for money and trying to find joy and freedoms. Something like four million forbearance is in the country right now and unfortunately, because of my blue collar mentality, which is prevalent, right? Check this out there trying to do one play right now to double their assets on the management in one move. Because heres the way I look at it today. John W. Simpson (1873), one of the founders of New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Last, I could go on like I love this stuff. So we went through the investment to create the fund. Whos that handsome were gonna talk about? Like, uh Well, Dave, I gotta drive, actually down to L. A. Yes. Thats what youre offering me to dio on a commission. Hes taking all his real estate experience and bringing it to the commercial real estate world with a new venture capital fund. I was I actually, Im really mad at Russell Bronson. Forget all the stuff in between. We did one season. People go more money. Theyve heard all of my personal relationships. If somebody calls and I can help him, Ill help him. $2.5 million. It talks about the methodology of our invest in it talks about the Floridian market. But it was almost like a biblical journey in the sense that I came from another country. You know him from flipping Boston. Man, Im like, Run, Forrest, run! Lets go. So its its prime to do really, really well for our investors. They scroll down to the bottom of that page. About Dave Seymour: After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the nation's top real estate investors. It really is reciprocity in a two way street. Yeah, I just want a better rate of return on my money than the stock market. Maybe so. Its definitely thighs and legs and chest them back and its Its a Its a nice little workout. We love like the 20 toe 1 41 60 apartment complexes. It was right as the market was crashing and Im looking for a way out. I was going to pontificate on that one myself. Its Its just a knob survey, shin of of implementation. So, you know, the TV show was was great for that one day Im sitting in the firehouse. And straight up a Z, Im standing here in my office in Boston. And, you know, the people that are underneath the desk right now the skys gonna fall chicken little put their hands over there is believe all the bs that youre getting media. So accredited investors $100,000 minimum commitment to the fund that buys them shares or units in the fund, and now they benefit from everything thats inside the fund rather than just one entity inside the fund. Where is everyone? Awesome scroll all the way down there. And you know, I turn around at what? And look, man, its not. Do you think that people need to be in that spot, or can they be in a different spot? I choose Thio. Like, I believe that theres something bigger and better. Thats at the top of the Thats at the top of the agenda. Its just sort of standard operating procedures. Hes like, Why? You and I were talking before we got on, and we talked a little bit over emails as a leading up to this podcast. Just gave me a gut punch right there. The company that I invested money with and the program that I was supposed to implement was horrible. And when everyone is greedy, you sell. No dunk a dunk money over. So actually, when I get off this call today at two oclock, I got a marketing meeting with my guys on. The results that Ive got have not given me joy. But the bottom bottom line is when youre in the trenches, when youre doing the work, you actually know what is actually happening versus being a professor. And now He's taking all his real estate experience and bringing it to the commercial real estate world with a new venture capital fund. And he was playing again to like I know I know hed take the Betas well, and we structured it so that Kevin came on as an advisory board member on in return for that, we get to do, Ah, a huge amount of coal marketing. No, Brendan, it wasnt them that helped me a counter, brother. Amazon Prime is has got all of our shows on there right now, which is a trip. Now youre credited. I need your help. Brandon, with a lot of investors. But the real estate business in the education space, were always working in tandem, friend. Youve done it before. As of 2022, Seymour's net worth is cca. An expert to expert interview. Is this specific thing going toe add or detract from our core vision. Thats Ah, thats a nice little you know, its a gift. Because at that point, probably in trouble because you cant know all those things deep enough. The late Sorry, the lady on score box. to be in a really estate investor, and I know youve told this story before, but can you tell our listeners just a short version of Really, how that how that happen? Theres an opportunity for a free download for for a book that I wrote with my property manager. That body is, you know, dumps quarters off a za stress in a process for one of a better term. You know what Im saying? Now, not that I wont believe someone, but this one decision that was made that I fundamentally new was wrong. I started to get financial education a zwelling as real estate processes, systems and education. Ive shared arenas with Tony Robbins with pitbull with Daymond John through throughout common connections. Ive been around enough marketers and entrepreneurs to know that if I was gonna fill out an online app, I was either going to get buried in the stack or I was going to get it recognized. I was listening to you. Be smart, right, The risk of verse, But be prepared to fail forward. But the I think you know, the people that I learned the very most Roman are mentors if or coaches or whatever the right word is who were actually doing their business. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of A&E television network as well as multiple news organizations including CBS, ABC, CNBC, FOX News, and CNN. Is it cured in this fund? And one thing I do want to say on that panel, I think that people in general, I think we all have those imposter syndrome type feelings. I was hurting my my house was in pre foreclosure. And its not. I mean, thats thats thats it. A man of faith, You know what I mean? Like, were not in each others lives every day. It might look easy on the screen but the real life is full of people who lost a lot while buying for someone elses money. Knowledge is powerful because the end of the equation is the implementation of the knowledge. Get an update and see how everythings going. Right now, the CEO is a young gun cool guy. If you like a little Bob Marley, what that does is it. And then and then in that nanosecond, the voice off truth for one of a better term over palette It and that voice had a lot of profanity in it. I said, Look, Im just coming out of the worst financial situation Ive ever experienced in my own life, and now Im standing on these stages in front of 400 people sharing the you know, the love and the Alleluia for for wealth creation through through real estate, he said. You know, Look, man, Im not a huge religious guy, but Im definitely a man. I dont know what that is. And they went No. What am I supposed to be doing? Theres no you are targeting close at the end of this year and then e I mean, but youre a soon as you hit that threshold day, youre gonna start investing like thats how the fun starts, right? Theyre small. Kevin offers just that business acumen, man. Come for Boston. But I was I was drinking back then. Yes, Im proud to stand next, he said. You look back and you gauge what investments have outperformed, what other investments and then their risk analysis. Im like, Okay, you want to get married? Im great. And there was the guy. See, White. Youre on the other side of the country, right? Then jump on the rower sitting the stoner get hot and sweaty come toe work So it Zvili pretty good. Just that business acumen. I ran in, sort of, ah, acquire circle, mainly because I had this fishing site and everybody was like, Yeah, youre never gonna make money with that Little did they know that, turning all that traffic into. The host of the A&E reality television show. You never surrendered. Just awesome. Now, this is an interesting one. Not that I dont like professors, but studying it is very, very different than being. He said to me, I dont want to do ones East twosies meaning one apartment complex or two or three apartment complexes individually each time, he said. Flipping a house. I could go forever. Should I get like a doctorate, a masters or whats the one underneath that I go? We have no in the fund, but individually weve done in the past. Jack Canfield, influential Go in My Life, sold me hope so me hope that if I do the things that they do, I will get the results that they get. I dont advertise it because I want people to read, write, you know, do a little work. You dont have to be the expert. You had so much energy running around the room and doing all this stuff. Just come filming. Look, probably, Yeah, it was a commission basis. Right? We went down to tamper a couple of weeks back and actually shot like a 20 minute Its an infomercial man, but its Its four. Im like, How can I help you? May He treated me well, and he gave me opportunity. So each episode if I I remember watching you is a project correct into its correct. Right. Ive seen some stuff, brother. And I was thinking about it. She said, I cant I cant buy anything else Im like, What do you mean? I said, Yeah, Ive seen his apartments and know it I know him personally. I was trained, but as Im in that dark place, Im in my truck F 1 50 pick have to 50 back, then pick up truck. I am. Thats Ah, thats a great, great question, Andi. Ive been blessed to be where I am. People have to qualify to see it on. You gotta make noise in the marketplace. So I got myself recognized by filling out my application with the most horrendous profanity I could think of. Then Im like, call back, please call back. You want to teach it? Check this one out, part time retail security in a grocery chain nights and weekends trying not to get stabbed by shoplifters and wearing the uniforms. Investing inreal estatecould be a very profitable line of work. Remember that? And when I start talking about our preferred rate to return and targeted capital targeted returns on quarterly distributions and lifetime, its like it. How do you get the experience? The bank has to take the next box on the checklist, which says, loan modification, short sale for clubs. So how did you How did you get across that pond? Real estate investors. Im pivoting out of what Ive been doing with my current investments. She said, I work in a government agency. Then they looked at me and they go, man, youre out there, you know, kicking ass and taking names. Amount of people out there that are like six and seven and eight figure owners who dont understand the tax advantages of real estate, whereas, you know it rolls off rolls off of my back. Exactly. And it zannex, citing time. And I realized that day that that things needed to change. But Russell Bronson sent out a blast emails or a few select people saying that there was a company in New York that was looking to bring back the house flipping genre. Not just real estate entrepreneurs, actually. Lets talk about covert. When I first met you, I didnt really know what to think. I you know, were just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and, you know, trying toe try to pivot, man, play the game in a new landscape in a new world. So Ive learned those lessons. I have all this internal dialogue in nanoseconds and Im like, Theres a matter of fact. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the nation's top real estate investors. So hows that? Dave's not from the military, but you may know him from Flipping Boston. But at the end of the day, yeah, of course, people like, Oh, you, Brandon, you like, get a lot of attention. When people try to make that to be a bad thing, its not a bad thing. Dave Seymour was one of the stars from A&E's hit show Flipping Boston. How did the couple on Flipping Boston meet? So for us, instead of going there on everything we went bullish on, what we see is the opportunity that Kobe creates. Im like, What do you mean, teach it? In my career, Ive turned away capital because the person offering it wasnt necessarily a right fit for the project that we had, you know. Thanks for being on the podcast. And Im screaming and shouting and praying to my guy. So that knowledge piece was always very interesting to me. It was just a kid. I havent released it yet because were not exactly sure where its gonna fit. I went out to dinner that night at a party, but its its kind of interesting. Then I would work. So we ended up doing 3, 3.5 seasons. Yeah, Im gonna Right. He goes back again. But Anyway, lets get back to the story. Were on score box and theres Joe and Andrew and Becky. Now, anyone would be very hard to argue that you had a ton of experience. We had to grind, and it was a blessing, you know, it was a blessing. You got this? I dont wanna deal with 10 minutes toilets and trash I just want to create income from real estate without doing any work, and thats a passive investor. Then if youre okay with that, then understand this, he said. Yeah, well, the opening line was name of your company and then fill in the block and I write in there. I got this field and thats where it started. A free 1.5 hour seminar coming in your neck of the woods. Dont lie. Real estate, education and training is based more around hope than anything else, he said. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the nation's top real estate investors. So it was a powerful journey. The online funnel. Its like an entrepreneur like you could study being an entrepreneur, you could want to be an entrepreneur. Dave and his partner Peter Souhleris are buying promising homes, renovate them and try to sell them soon with some decent profit. But at that point, or youre sober, then. Its beginning toe. Now you it looks like you got the original shark from shark tank Kevin Harrington onboard. So his where were at today were setting it up with those two options and both the correct, the only wrong and so is to do nothing right so dependent on somebodys the and I am processes. We figured that would be the end of it on. Those are the options that theyre gonna have no matter what the government decides to go. It came out really, really well. Youre here in the States. Weve got to make sure that youre a fit for us, as we offer you. Latest News See All. Guys, come on. You know what I mean? I gotta fail forward. It was interesting. So just throw that in there. Whats the landscape look like? I never forget that lady, and I kind of took it to heart. And if I, you know, if I was brutally honest, I allowed influences to I dont want I dont know what the right word to use Brandon, but I allowed influences to lessen or soften the impact I could have had. And I always try to push people towards that exercise. Yeah, I did 20 $27,000 with education programs. Apply for this show Ive been around enough entrepreneurs and youll testify to this, right? A lot of investors are contributing and committing their retirement funds, so you allow him to come in through self direction. Some of these conversations have been this. Of course. So Dave became the big, angry guy on the TV show, Flipping Boston. Aside from having his own business, he also created . Yeah, its, You know, its zits. So you so Okay. Well, this just I mean, honestly, Dave, I wish you the very best of luck, but this just makes sense for your career, like this is how it works. This is gonna be fine. But understand, that book is really written for the active investor. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the nation's leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. They have one billion with a B dollars under under management assets under management. Opening Up More Opportunities. Her visa ran out. Guest Bio: Dave Seymour, a retired 16 year veteran of the Fire Service launched his Real Estate career over a decade ago, rapidly becoming one of the Countries top investors. You know, we we did all of those episodes and and it it just brought a lot of traction with it. Build a Business Success Secrets newsletter, Build a Business with Brandon Podcast Homepage, How to Start a Business Online: Step by Step Guide in 2023, Week #22 Email Update: An honest look at where inflation really is from Brandon on Sept 17th, Week #21 Email Update: How to get customers to love your brand from Brandon on Sept. 10th. So I picked up the phone on I look at it. Youre not Youre not the energetic guy that I know you to be on, but I cant do this, man. Like I just began to change my environment. I say that youre gonna lose the opportunity thats in front of you will be. Its people like you who have been generous with your time, who have helped us hit the charts until the next episode. So you took that. And then we were the first ones to come back in 2000 and 10 or 11 is was around there. And theres a gentleman there, a ton of experience. Were still pre Cove in in the sense of we dont see the results of fully of what Cove is going to do afterwards. So I guess theres a double edged sword. Talk about what investments youve made. I ran in a in a I was on the east Coast. But to be on this podcast with you today, theres been a lot of bridge under the water. I will never make again and agreed. He said, Oh, you could choose to get off on the fifth floor, the 10th floor. Ill be very, very, very direct with you. Yeah, I actually dio I I like the media. It doesnt matter. And Dave has so much energy that youre going to be pumped up when you just leave this episode. We crank up the engine, we get rid of the crappy property managers. I want to go back. You earned it, You poor accountability. Probably wont work for me because Im a immigrant to the United States. And if you clicked on that, what that would do is is that would take you to a, um, account set up page on. Always assume that you are standing againstmarket expertsas Dave is. Is this accredited investors? I worked full time in the fire department, prayed for the phone to ring for an overtime so I could trade another 10 or 14 hours. Yeah, if you scroll down, friend. Just Oh, I just got a TV show. So just just I mean, you have, like, we cant You just cant skip that. David Seymour dating history, 2022, 2021, list of David Seymour relationships. It put me in a position where I can touch gloves with guys like you. I was in a relationship with my now wife, Mary Beth, and Im looking for opportunities, man. Now, for those of you who understand investing, we do what theyre called. I remember I watched a clip of that particular moment and you stole my body language. Im really Steve, really stay on the market and Im like, Oh, I gotta stuff. I said, Im transitioning. Youre in this bad place, I guess 30 years sober now. And then two is the take away is its really execution, like at some point, I almost like this is not even in my self interest or years day, but its like, Hey, if youre listening to this podcast and you listen to like 90 of my episodes, stop listening and go do it like dont listen to any more of my dont listen to any more education like youve got enough knowledge to just go go spend half of it implement. Like I said, our methodology for investing and why we do what we dio 3 to 6 year hold and then as an investor, just just, you know, go through the information on. I guess the dirty secret is no one actually reads the book, so Im not that worried, but if you read the book, Im reading his new traffic secrets. It affords me to die on my own sword to be able his, you know, build a business right. You know what I mean? Im grateful to be around like minded people. Awesome look, real estate investing is theres really only two ways to do it. Id love to be on it. Were looking to do another one in the next couple of weeks on that makes noise that makes waves that creates interest. If youre trying to fix a huge ship and turn the corner, it takes way too long. Im gonna stage in my life where I am ready to tattoo Ah, heart where my heart goes on my chest Because above it is going to go The words with every beat underneath it will say I move forward because for May, its been Its just been a theme in my life, man. Maybe maybe first end the first quarter. You could go all the way to the basement basement, one basement, too. I mean, theres theres a whole group of those thats, you know, Frank Kern. Right, So youve got these thes gems of assets. Man. And then theres other companies that just made decisions that were good for them and not for their clients. Im being mentor by a company. Yeah, it was a trip. Whether thats the educational program that you brought college, whatever, like theyre theyre. But anyway, no, I dont have an American passport and a British. Ah, small construction company on the outside and a 120 hours a week You pay us since their price. 272 - Justin Colby - The Science Of Flipping; 271 - David Dodge - How To . Maybe you didnt know, right? Im having a lot of conversations. Now, he could send an invite from LinkedIn, and he would get CEOs from various organizations wanting to connect. As soon as I stand still, if I parallel if I over think Ive lost so I just make a commitment to always be in forward motion and and that my friend, is maybe what the differentiator. Quick, I think her name is the girl on Squawk Box. So we ended up season one. Guy calls you up, You hang up on you. For many years, my income was from both training and educating as well as my own real estate businesses. So, production company now it was the same production company that had done flip this house right flip this house at admitted its peak in 2000 and seven. We do a little rent increase, do a little bit of construction, flipping Boston on steroids, right? Lets go, Lets go, Lets go for a split in the sprint. That way I know that that forward motion, you know, it is not being is not being deterred at any time. Now, thank you. And as the CEO of the company, I think I got it the easiest. You know, a lot of these smaller educators just sell him bullshit in a box for 1000 bucks is what I call it. And with that came a lot of failures, right? Ill tell you, man, its its a funny story and, uh, keep it as brief as I can, But, you know, as we began to get the infrastructure going for marketing, you gotta make noise, man. The link is in the bio and comments for the full episode of The A Game Podcast. And the good news is, is that a lot of those those clowns, those those predators are out of the education space today and lots Theres other companies that just grew too quick and couldnt fulfill, couldnt help their client base. You earned the freaking right to sit on a panel anywhere with anybody at any time. My brain is wired this way, but when I flip that switch on, I make a decision. And it was interesting for me because I found myself on the other side of the curtain, if you will, in real estate education, and I learned very quickly that there is good and then there is very, very bad in that arena. And that was the day that I almost quit educated and one of the old timers in the education space touch gloves for me. But you do know all this information, because by this time, you had four seasons, which is at least 13 houses a piece or something. Then I would work part time. And she said, Done, You gotta help me do, Ah, quick wholesale deal I said Why? He goes, Well, what do you have that I said? And you know, bad ever to set me up with short version. Relationship history. So Ive got an eight year old and its a 10 year old boy at home and we were sitting on the couch last night. David Seymour - Biography - IMDb Edit David Seymour Biography Mini Bio (1) David Seymour is known for Flipping Boston (2012), Home & Family (2012) and Today (1952). friend. It was my wife for myself. Yeah, correct, Correct. But, you know, man, I gotta be grateful for for the for the gifts and then at the same time learned my own lessons. You know, the typical the typical things that were out there and this lady came up to me and she was an Asian lady and she she she said, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Im like and I recognized it from other events that I had spoken it and she said, Dave, you gotta help me. Im not a real big tattoo guy, but Ive been thinking about this for a while. Go right. Its a fools game, so yeah, I was rock bottom, but I had I had exhausted all options for May. But it is a platform. Anybody listening to the podcast. Lets stop filming. Ive got assets under management at that moment in time, and its funny. Home; About the Flipping Formula Creators; . And he has purchased large apartment complexes throughout the Gulf Coast region of Florida. Whatever floor you want is what youre doing working for you. When I invested in myself, I purchased accountability. And Look, man, Ive made some decisions in my life. I said, Ive got I got an associates degree in fire science because whats whats an associates degree? Accredited. He starts taping, and you wind up with this top rated show on flipping Boston. David Sive (1948), pioneer in environmental law; founding partner, Sive, Paget & Riesel, PC. Russell is telling all of our secrets in these damn books that hes writing, okay? And Dave joined me to tell me a little bit about his background and how he went from being a firefighter to a real estate guy to a TV star and now his newest venture, What youre gonna love to hear about where he is becoming a venture capitalist in the real estate world. Who is David Seymour dating? But isnt there an opportunity out there to take non accredited investors with some new SEC rules with crowdfunding and things like that? I paid for five specific classes and to this day, I only ever attended to I think, Good Lord. And what Ive found is that most people actually just dont do it. He is famous for Flipping Boston. How do I separate myself from the pack so that I get noticed? This is crazy, man. Onda. When everybody else was running out, I went running in. So, you know, way had to go date. You know, just I couldnt participate in it. Were rolling now. You you went the extra mile. If anybodys familiar with Russell, and he wouldnt even know that he did this for May. Look, man, every time Ive Ive ever walked out onto a platform to share education through real estate investing, I always open up with the line. Lastly, Im not interested in the big units. Then theres an opportunity to register for more information. One is desperation. You know, you got the hang out with other TV people and it amazed me how some of them believed their own press. That person who pulls, you know, like a Hillary Clinton and looks over their shoulders is what the hell happened and Then theres the other group, which are the proactive rather than the reactive. And for us, its housing. I know youre gonna be busy, but my time, please. Im just like you like its not a Its a good thing, but I think the test there is if youre the smartest person in the room, your goal as an entrepreneur founder, whether youre doing real estate or anything else is to get people who are smarter than you. and let me know what I could do for you. Hey, Dave. You know, itss. Hope. Were gonna lets talk about your team in a minute before we, uh this can. Teach me. If I go into the room as a CEO and Im the smartest guy Im scared of, you know what? If you dont flip it, then theres just like I wouldnt wanna learn from anybody who was just studying it. So I go back to my records and I was like, Holy mackerel, you know, I gained 5 and it wasnt that I gave up the exercise. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Digs the ditch, zero degrees, fight the fire. Like, I got no problem going zero degrees today because thats how we did it, right? Well, people would be able to find it. Hes like, Brandon, you prepared your whole life for this. Yeah, thats the landing page on the front page of our website. Just from, uh, I guess he was interested, obviously And what you were doing, And you guys probably know each other over the years. Why are you here? Well, look, man, youre just implementing what you learn, and then youre getting results. Dont call me. Something thio wet somebodys appetite as to the commercial world of real estate investing. However, because people dont know anything about it, they dont invest in it. Look backs, right. How is that? You know, ego stands for these got out and, you know, in the TV world, theres a sidebar. Describe that your team players look dip shite. Done next. These were the guys who created Click Funnel. Im really excited for this opportunity for you. Well, just dont tell the English, but, um, it was, you know, it was It was It was interesting. Thats so insightful? When everybody else goes rushing out, we go running in. But the average investor out there the doctors, the lawyers, you know, the business owners, they know their business. Deal. Weve got Dave Seymour here in the house from flip. Im in a Im in a CEO position today and that position affords me to live and die on my own decisions, right? See All Credits. And in those meetings, there needs to be people smarter than you. Send 15 minutes, Brandon, the phone rings 212 Area code New York. Ive been talking Teoh one of the executives a any past couple of weeks, and we recently bought on Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank onto our advisory board on the fund that were we have Well, lets lets just let me stop you real quick because I want to get back so that people know where we are now. And I talked about him? So Im learning a lot from them because, you know, Im humble, man. Im not just coming out of almost losing my whole life, and you want me to start teaching it? So yeah, thats where we met. You said it was gonna be okay. Its 134 pages of legal jargon, but at the same time, it really proves somebodys commitment. And I think that thats just a natural thing, Dave, that humans romanticize this idea. And commercial came on the radio and it was teach me foreclosure. Dave Seymour | Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Dave Seymour [email protected] My Bio Nationally Recognized Real Estate Expert and Star of A&E's Flipping Boston As both a residential and commercial real estate investor, Dave Seymour has become one of the most recognizable experts in his field. Only for this fun, However, I wouldnt I wouldnt deter anybody from exploring any education they could get from us and that company. And they found a little. So I texted Kevin and, um, hes in Tampa, Florida, which is our market s. So I texted Kevin. It ended. Thats f r e e d o m venture dot com, and youll get this. And then I got to go back and say to my team, Guys, I apologize. Seymour has taken the role of chief executive at Danvers firm Freedom Venture Investments, which is about to begin raising its first $100 million fund. You go in and then you bought this educational program. Lets go. Sidney B. Silverman, trial lawyer specializing in stockholder actions. Why we identify it talks about how we so learn more right underneath the investor portal there. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the nation's top real estate investors. And if it isnt, are you going to do something different? That was like, Hey, Dave, did you do this on on Friday? As Dave himself states, hes big picture thinker and not overly interested in details. I dont You know, Im not always charging money for my for my influence today. That and I said some Great. They just put money in and get a check every month. I said, Good, because we gotta put 27 grand on your credit cards. And then how There how theyre looking at. Do you think would enjoy this podcast? Im 53. You know what I mean? I dont know. It was dark days for me, and Im so over over 30 years now, so I couldnt self medicate. Dave Seymour was a firefighter for 16 years and is now a full-time real estate investor who also was on the A&E's hit TV show "Flipping Boston". Oh my God, Look at that. Dave is now the Fund Manager at Freedom Venture Investments and what you are going to hear from Dave, is the comparison between television and online communications. Just get motion, get motion. Yeah, definitely, Definitely. That and theres this crazy balance. Thats not good for the needs. I have overeducated, I guess if you call to monsters and $150,000 worth of it, not including my undergraduate and some close masters work in another place nearby my house. That saying, like weve heard that so many times Dont avoid failure. 8 to 12 targeted rich turns on quarterly distributions and then 20 plus targeted returns for the life of the fund, which is six years. You know him from the hit show Flipping Boston, one of the first real estate flipping houses shows on TV. Just throw listeners out there so that a lot of inbound stuff it is accredited investors which meet that that minimum income and or quote unquote and assets. Now Thats me. My relationship You cant be be, ah, husband to a wife or a father to a son. We were maybe three weeks into the covert crisis, and I reconnected with a very good friend of mine who is a whats called a syndicator. I dont want to fix it. Im like, what? Right. And and But this is one of those things that just because the past says that it happened doesnt mean that they know the future. You know, I I joked a little while back there about ego coming into the party. Tracked their own coolly and anyway, so Im I was hurting. Its in. Any once the moneys in, were working it for six years. Yeah. Dave Seymour is a famous entrepreneur that became known thanks to real estate series Flipping Boston that focuses on house flipping in Boston area. Ah, lot of folks who come through there are not accredited, but yet they can still get serviced with with some video content that we deliver. David Seymour girlfriend, wife . Yeah, I look around and I go. Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of Build a business success Secrets. I actually just as a quick aside, well get back to your story. X. . We got the highest ratings in that time slot for a and E on a Saturday morning, and then they call up they go. And you got to remember brother were in New England, you know, we got some old stuff here. But you and I, weve gotten off track. Its how I was. E was very good at that. Building a business requires core competencies of multiple people. We already did one press release. And then I moved across the Ohio River because I wanted to up my game a little bit. In my head, Im a firefighter or a heart, right? Hes deployed that capital in that period of time. Subscribe. What are you doing? We dont want those because its like driving the Titanic. And I go back to my team and Im like, I just got bitten by a shark, fellas, you know, but pod. Im not gonna waste another second. Because during this covert time is you know, Dave, entrepreneurs are really just under so much stress and correct. Im Im banging around 2 40 to 50. And theres maybe 400 people up there and Im doing an hour and a half presentation and they could invest in a, you know, in a home study course with some CDs and stuff. And the next day Im on on the today show and Im a You know, Im a pundit on CNBC and Im sitting next to the vice president of the Federal Reserve. Zero degrees. I just cant there on any more hours in the day. But, you know, we got we got some nice art because there that we that we consistently put out. He said The forbearance is that have been leveled against single family homes when they are coming off of the assets and the bank puts their hand out and says, Pay me is going to create a massive change. So I think thats yeah, it makes it really good sense. 'Flipping Boston' stars: 'Army of good' turned out to help Marathon bombing victims When two bombs exploded during last year's Boston Marathon, David Seymour and Peter Souhleris, the stars. As soon as we hit five million, were investing. I kind of, um Im gonna do a quick infomercial. This is really a crux of my question like, Is it that you were that desperate? Venture. The first order came in for 13 houses. Toe leverage All the experience that you have. My my marriage. When I see him, I feel like Im gonna punch him in the face or hug him. Together. Seriously? And heres the thing that I Im working on. Like I say to my guys all the time. Lets see. He said. Lets talk about pre post Covic business life, whatever. I sort of built this home gym that thats worked out great. They said, Well, yeah, the monies in the fund. Well, this is the way site. You know what I mean? Hey, he looks at me. And I remember looking around me of my classmates were fighting away like theyd invested thousands of dollars in themselves as I had. I said, Im in the fact that we live in America and you could file bankruptcy and she started crying and she said I work for the Postal Service, not Postal service. And yet I find I find my my people right around my people and my people at that time in my life, where were real estate educations and trainers online business got eyes and girls. I appreciate you asking me that question. You wind up on these crazy panels. Walter, What do you see? But we got deals sitting in the pipeline right now that we could buy even if we only had three million in the account we could we could go toe work on, then toe put. It has its risks if not done properly. I have a question, Dave. Im like, Well, I know how to dig a ditch. You know, Ive run a small construction company. So its an illiquid fund. A friend of a friend of mine said to me, He said, He says to me Theres three kinds of people going to be Post Cove It he said, either a hunk, a chunk or a drunk and very sad And now proud to say, I came out Ah, Chunk. Freedom Venture is Heres what Ive learned over all my years and all the companies Ive tried in the ones that Ive had successes. I was one great above the guy with the cap on Guy E. There doesnt happen often. Photos provided by City Light Homes. Because you can exercise. These were your Gary V s and the rest of those guys on there. My dentist said he thinks Im absolutely crazy. And were doing whatever 13 in the first is in 29 subsequently and then doing your own investments. So its really important to always keep your your platform going so that you have this vehicle because it allows you opportunity. Four years later, we went, I dont know. You know, I make another step forward. And what was interesting was this is that I became the student extraordinaire because I actually did the stuff right on. Yeah, thats sort of normal. Dave Seymour was one of the stars from A&Es hit show Flipping Boston. He has has so much energy and so much positive enthusiasm. So we focused on the Gulf Coast region of Florida, where Walter is done, the majority of his business. I hope that was clear enough that theres theres a lot of movie props on our side, but on the invest decide its easy. But, did you know Dave started out as a Firefighter of all things? Do do the the the ability to implement what they were learning was challenging. At least scroll down to find something. Kids laughing his ass off on the other end of the phone. You never gave up. You do some education, Obviously goes along with it. Reality-TV Two Boston flippers, Pete and Dave, purchase homes, renovate them, and then re-sell them for a profit. Yeah. 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