How AI & China Can Save You Thousands in Real Estate Development

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3:26So get three or four quotes and do not be afraid to negotiate. You have to negotiate everything and you have to use tools like AI. I know one thing that I do, when I get a quote now, I upload that quote into my chat, GBT. Yeah, I've done. I did that before. I did that with the water basin thing. And I detailed the whole thing and I said, I gave it the chair. I'm like, how are you feeling? It gave me an estimate of what it should be on the low end, on average, and on high. It tells you everything. And the more details you put into it, the better. Even if you put pictures, like what I've done, I'll put pictures of what I'm looking to do and really break it down.

4:14And then it will give you, like Rashard said, low, high, middle, and then also ask, okay, who are the companies in this area that I should be talking to? And they'll give you, give me the top 10 companies, right? That got the best reviews, et cetera, et cetera. And then it'll give you all these companies, right? So you have to use the AI and the technology that's out here available to help you do your due diligence, to help you research. Because let's face it, we don't know everything. I don't know everything about construction. So I got to use the tools that's in front of me to get the information.

4:48So now when I'm interviewing these contractors, I can have an intelligent conversation because I already have my questions already pre-written, so to speak, with that information. So the due diligence process, especially in 2025 going into 2026 with all this volatility in the market, you have to really dig deep. And that's why I'm really excited to hear you talk about China, because I've been speaking to the China people, Rashad, and I had a call last night, matter of fact, with Blair, and the prices are just absolutely phenomenal, some of the shit that they're telling me right now. I had to send her a deposit ASAP.

5:26Like, let's go right now, because this is incredible. So, but that's later on the show, but I had to put that in there. But you have to do your due diligence, and you might have to do what Rashad did to fly out the country to go check out things for yourself to get better pricing. Or maybe you could just watch what he's done. He done did it for you. My notifications are on. I don't know about y 'all. Community service. First of all, kudos to you, Rashad, because when you told us about this, what was this? In April, we had that call. You said, yo, I'm going to China for this, that, and third. And I was like, all right, this is going to sound...

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10:48Good. Ty going to shout out to Ty. He going to document it. Shout out to Ty. Shout out to Ty. Yo, Shout out the time. He did a great job. Well, you know the thing about it too, because as you brought it up, I think people, okay, there's two people that can benefit from this China play. People that are building a home, furnishing a home, but then also real estate developers. If you are a real estate developer, one of our friends that's actually developing real estate, he's going out there today, I think. If you're a real estate developer, I think you really need to tie in with this because depending on what type of development you're doing, you can get mass items for cheaper.

11:32And that's important because you got to figure if you're developing, let's say a subunit and you're building six homes, right? And you got to put in six kitchens into those homes. So you might want to just do the basic kitchen from Home Depot, but depending on what neighborhood you're building a home in, that might not necessarily fly or that might lower the value of the home, right? You might have to go a little bit higher in on your kitchen. But if you go, you know, like the kitchen is probably going to be one of the most expensive items in the house, kitchen, in the bathroom, right? So you've saved, let's say you saved 30, 40, 50 % times that times five, you're going to have a substantial savings.

12:17What does that do that adds more profit to you the more money you say because you can still charge the same amount of money for the house right it's like you haven't compromised the quality of the home so if you if you're like i probably saved three hundred thousand dollars right but i'm i'm a home i'm just a home owner if i'm a home developer now times that times six seven but then i'm still selling at market rate so now you just made yourself two million dollars by executing smartly right so and maybe it's something that we can talk about at InvestFest let us know in chat let us know in chat if you're interested in having a panel about the old China play in its entirety at InvestFest because I've been getting a lot of DMs and a lot of people you know been following the journey so you know maybe that's something that we can really add to the invest fest portfolio per se but um i do think that you can definitely you don't have to go out there like even you like you know i'm saying like you you're talking like that's the good thing but you got to know you got to work with somebody already there because they're not all the same that's important for people to know like you just can't show up in china and just be like i'm here you can you technically can because it's like you know the area of full strong there that's manufacturing heaven and they do everything from clothes to hair bundles press on nails anything that you think of they manufacture so you can go electronics you can go and just stumble and you can get still probably a better pricing you're paying in america but if you really really want to get like because each like for instance my kitchen in in closet i i went to a store that specializes in just kitchens and closets right and the prices were so good i asked them if they could do everything but they like we really can't because we only specialize in kitchens and closets so i went to like six different stores to put it all together but it's worth it but you got to have somebody to kind of walk you through that process right like you can't just do that on your own because you it's kind of hard logistically to go to six different places i think even from the standpoint and you kind of mentioned in the video but you start to think when you're building commercial spaces or you're building hotels like they've been doing it all the all this time and the difference is that they get to charge you every night yeah so the the long-term pay obviously if you're building a subdivision those are those are homes but the hotel play like that's a nightly income that's coming in especially if you've gotten the things manufactured in bulk whether it's the the nightstand or it's the headboard for for the beds every room pretty much is the same unless you you know get a specialized suite, these things come in bulk.

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