From Extreme Job Burnout to Breakthrough with 2 Rentals (He Quit His W2)

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19:34Ashley Kehr:So Brian, you were a captain leading a crew. And one day you're rolling code three and you look over at your engineer behind the wheel of a 50 ,000 pound fire engine, and he's in full cardiac arrest. Take us into that moment.

19:51Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, that was February 26, 2017. So I remember the date. I remember the time. I remember the call. I remember the street adjust we were going to, and we pulled out of the engine and turned right. and I look over and I go, hey, Bob, we're going to, you know, 1426 Saranac. And I looked and I thought, Bob, you know, and his name is Robert. But we have such a good friendship now that I call him Bob. And so, yeah, he slumped over the wheel. And this guy was 54 at the time, the fittest guy in the department, six foot four. He's got all his hair, right, which I'm a little envious of. and great family man.

20:33Tony J. Robinson:And so he slumped over the wheel and we probably go another 150 yards at 35, 40 miles an hour on this fire engine. And all I can think of was number one, don't die on me today, Bob. And number two, I got to figure out how to get this thing stopped. And so, yeah, I unbuckled, climbed over and there's an emergency airbrake that now we have them installed on the right side, specifically because of this incident for the captain to pull. But we didn't have it. And I didn't even really go through the process. I just acted. And some of it I don't even really remember. But yeah, we pulled that. We missed two cars as we were going code three right through an intersection by inches on both sides.

21:13Tony J. Robinson:Ran around. Brandon and I pulled him out, which 6 '4", 190-pound man is pretty difficult to climb up inside a fire engine and pull him out. But he came out with ease. We got him out just in seconds, laid him down to start a CPR. And before we left the scene, he had a viable rhythm, which gave me hope. And so, yeah, he went code three to the hospital. I followed up in the battalion chief's rig, code three. We had another crew from Ventura County that was nearby having breakfast. So they heard my voice on the radio. I've had to listen to it. I don't remember what it was, but I listened to the recording.

21:52Tony J. Robinson:And they could tell that something was seriously wrong. And so they were like two minutes away. So we had help. We had two additional engines to help us within probably three minutes of when we got him out and started CPR. So your engineer survived and, you know, walked out of the hospital fully intact, which is, you know, a miracle. But honestly, Brian, like most people will call that like a career highlight of a lifetime, right? Like you saved someone's life, like one of your close friends. But you also said that it was actually the beginning of the end of your fire career. why did saving someone's life break something for you instead of kind of building you up?

22:30Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, it's a good question. And one, a lot of people, and I still struggle with even today, all these years later, but what happened was I took an oath to protect my crew and the citizens then in the community that I serve. And I felt like I failed, even though everybody else had said, oh my gosh, like look at what you did. And it was notorious in our county. And then I ended up flying to San Francisco and won a Medal of Valor, a meritorious award from the governor's office as well. But it was never really complete. And Robert ended up retiring a year later. He wasn't coming back to the fire service after that.

23:10Tony J. Robinson:He had done enough. And And so what happens is for, you know, I probably have run 20 ,000 medical calls and fires and traffic accidents and anything you can imagine I've seen, you know, and that is a bucket that continues to fill up. And I didn't know that what PTS was or a post-traumatic stress injury. I didn't even know what it was at the time, but they just told me, Hey, like, let's get back on horse and put you back on the engine as soon as we can. And then six months later, I went and met with a psychologist because I would just have these moments. I'd be standing in a store and I would think everybody around me or somebody's just going to drop dead and I'm going to have to go to work again, you know?

23:54Tony J. Robinson:And that's kind of a psychological break that happens with PTS. And so I went and saw a psychologist with the help of my wife. She said, you should go get some, get some help and talk to somebody. And I went through it and he thought, he told me, he goes, well, number one, you should never work again. And they told you to get back on the engine in a few days. Like you needed months or years off, you know? I thought, well, that's not me, right? I'm a fireman. I'm a captain, right? Like that's not who I am. And so you fight through that. But the good part about it is we had a peer support team with the fire department.

24:36And then I spent the next year building it up.

24:41Tony J. Robinson:And so we built a team and we brought people on because I didn't want that to happen to anybody else. What happened to me? I didn't have any resources and I had to go out and find them all on my own. So I hired a doctor, psychologist to work with the department. We did peer review meetings. I did battalion level training with peer support. But funny enough, as I was building it, I ended up using more and more of these resources and then eventually that was where I say that was the beginning of the end that I ended up going out we lost another firefighter medic when I was in Kauai and he was on Maui and he went in a cardiac arrest and I was considering going over there and helping him with his wife that was on his third year anniversary I lost my captain before that time to cancer and so we had just seen a lot in our small department.

25:31Tony J. Robinson:And I kind of felt like that was my future. It wasn't going to work out. If you work in the fire service for basically forever, and there's a few that have divided all the principles, but if you do 30, 40, 50 years, it's not going to end well. It's a good, it's a great job. Make no mistake. And I love the service that I provided, but within a few years after Bob's incident, I needed a transition and I needed to do something else. And then I did take time off for the PTS. So I took about a year off. Yeah, Brian, I think it's incredible. And you know, we see the folks in the fire engine and, you know, we understand like what comes along with their job, I think from the outside looking in.

26:20But, you know, to your point, you said 20 ,000 service calls and you've seen everything under the sun. Like I think we as folks who aren't in the fire department don't realize the weight that actually comes along with that, you know, and yeah, it just kind of opens my eyes up a little bit more into what that actually looks like. So I appreciate you sharing that with us. But as you have this realization that this, you know, you said it was your dream career, the thing you've been building towards, you realize that maybe there's a better path for me here. How does that start to bring you back into real estate?

26:52Because you basically started from zero after you sold all the Arizona properties, You kind of parlay that into your dream home in Santa Rosa. How do you get restarted? What's the next step after you have this realization?

27:03Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, so I met with psychologists throughout my year when I was off and under the diagnosis. And I continued to get better. And the first six months, I thought there's no way I'm going back to the fire service. But as I got closer, I thought, okay, I can go back. I want to end on how I want to end my career. And, and I've never heard a psychologist say this, but they actually said, you're crazy, right? Said, you're crazy when you're going back and they go, okay, I support you. But if you have any issues, let me know, which was great. But with that, we had always loved Mammoth Lakes, California, and we'd been snowboarding up there.

27:43Tony J. Robinson:We go during President's Week and we go during Christmas holidays. And then the summer times are really fun. And so we mountain bike up there and we do all these things. And I thought, okay, I told my wife, Jill, why don't we buy a vacation home? Because there is this bonus depreciation. I still pay attention to real estate through all of this, even though we sold. And I thought, okay, so if we do this, you get bonus depreciation. I have to work a hundred hours into it. We can make it a short-term rental. Can you please like, let's get on board and give, let's do a little project. So I stay busy, you know, with my mind and really envision what my retirement would look like of the hiking, the biking and the snowboarding and all of that.

28:28Tony J. Robinson:And she was a hundred percent supportive. And so we went up there and started looking at places and we bought in June of 2024. We bought a two bedroom, two bath with underground parking, a great little condo, which we have, but we turned that into a short-term rental. And that was the next pivot point of where we're at today. And Brian, I want to get into the short-term rental component of it because I know you've gone on to do some additional things there. But we've got to take a quick break to hear a word from today's show sponsors. And when we're back, we'll hear how this short-term rental transition works out for you.

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30:40Ashley Kehr:Get a quote or find an agent today at thehartford.com slash small business. All right, we're back here with Brian and Brian just walked us through the struggles of the early real estate investing, the triumphs of actually buying the right properties in Arizona and other places and using that to buy his dream home, but then having this realization that maybe his dream job isn't what he thought it was and then transitioning to short-term rental. So Ryan, you mentioned the property in Mammoth, which for those who don't know, is a very big vacation destination here in California. But you said you bought, what year was that in?

31:12Tony J. Robinson:We bought in 2024. We closed in June of 2024. Okay. So that is also a time when a lot of people are maybe waiting on the sidelines because rates are kind of going crazy at that point. Prices have somewhat exploded after COVID. Why did you, I guess, maybe walk us through why you still pull the trigger and what those first few months look like? when the property launched? Yeah. So I listened to Dave Meyer on the market and I went against Dave Meyer and he still has proven to be right.

31:42Ashley Kehr:We're going to tell him.

31:45Tony J. Robinson:He's going to hear this or don't tell him or tell him. It doesn't matter. Smart guy. But I thought, okay, I would expect that the interest rates probably would have come down quite a bit in 2025 or started to come down a little bit, which they didn't at all. And so what happened is we got out there. We were our first weekend was July 4th and we cleaned it up, listened on Airbnb. And, and then I went to a market to get something in the morning at like seven 30 in the morning. And then I came home and my wife told me, Hey, good news and bad news. Good news. We're running for July 4th. Bad news is we have to leave tomorrow.

32:24Tony J. Robinson:And I thought, okay, So we're in, we're in the Airbnb game. And so that was ultimately why we bought and why we're up there was that lifestyle, the bonus appreciation. And I thought, okay, let's do this. So, you know, I have a project that we can work on. But yes, everybody was sitting on the sidelines at that time. And so from that point, moving forward, I became a little bit more involved with the fire department, I wasn't giving it the true love that we needed to make it a really good short term rental. the bonus appreciation worked out phenomenally well. You know, we ended up getting a tax check back for about 60 grand at that time, which is great.

33:07Tony J. Robinson:And that was with 60 % bonus appreciation. So again, with the cost seg and doing that, it's like, okay, so we can carry this, but we were losing money every month and we knew that, but we were using the property as well. And so, Jill, bless her, she got into kind of the operations of running the short-term rental while I was back at the fire department. And she was doing a good job. But what I found was guest communication, five-star reviews, dynamic pricing, all of this really matters. And it's everything to make a short-term rental operate and operate well. And so, we did pretty good. We did about 7K a month through, you know, December, January, February, even though it was a pretty poor winter.

33:57Tony J. Robinson:You know, we were at about 280 inches of snow. And the years before the operators, they did about 60 to 70K and they had 700 and 800 inches of snow. So now we've got everything's betting against us, right? The interest rates and we're at an eight and a half. Even the weather's going against you right now, you know. And now I'm going, okay. But I believe, right? Because back in 2009 and 10, I did everything opposite. Well, I wouldn't say it's working out great now, but we still bought, we had an eight and a half note on it. We put 10 % down, but we did the bonus appreciation. We made that all work.

34:33Tony J. Robinson:We were bringing in about 7K a month during the peaks. And then when I started to retire, I had a couple more injuries happen. And I thought, okay. And that was in May of last year. and we only brought in about$600 for that month. Now that's a shoulder season, but we didn't put a whole lot of effort into it. We were more focused on our lives and what we were doing. And then the minute I retired, I went all in on optimization. And then I ended up hiring a revenue manager because that was the only thing my wife and I fight about is if it's vacant, do we drop the price? How far out do we start moving the price around?

35:11Tony J. Robinson:So now it's optimized. And I can tell you it's a pretty different story. Now we're at 70, 72 reviews. We have a 4.93. We did have a couple of hiccups on cleaning about a year ago. And so now we follow the process of deep clean. but Tony I do want to give you a shout out I joined your the alpha host group to go how do I do this how do I how do I get coaching to make it right and in the fire service I always coach people to successfully complete their captain's exam and their simulators and I thought well if if those people are out there let me find a coach that I can that I can work with and your program was phenomenal and so we did that and then I'll share with you guys some numbers if you're ready for where we're at now today.

35:59Ashley Kehr:Yeah, I would love to hear.

36:01Tony J. Robinson:Okay. So now, now that we're optimized from December, 2025 to March of 2026, those are our highest months. We brought in about 45 ,000. So we do 11, three per month. Before that we did 28, seven at 7 ,100 a month. So we did about a 57 % increase in where we're at today. Now, as we're recording this, It's 90 degrees in Santa Rosa Valley, as you know, in Southern California. So the snow is melting. But we did months in last summer where we did six and seven thousand dollars a month because it is still a good time of year to go. And then working with our revenue manager, one trick we did was we extended our length of stay.

36:46Tony J. Robinson:So, as you know, the gross revenue might be, you know, 11 or 12 thousand a month, but you might pay the cleaner, you know, 10 or 12 times. Whereas now we focus on four, five and six day stays. So we pay the cleaner four times. So your gross is much better or your net is much better. And then the hard part about Mammoth, and I'll tell you, if anybody's thinking about buying for cash flow in Mammoth, I can tell you there are better places to do it. Don't do it. You will not cash flow unless you bring in, you know, 30 or 40 percent and put it down and then use it as tax strategy and appreciation.

37:23Tony J. Robinson:but we're in it for the appreciation plan long-term and then the use and the tax benefits.

37:30Ashley Kehr:Don't forget.

37:30Tony J. Robinson:And the tax benefits, they were huge. So that kind of really got us off the ground. And then we believed in what we can do and what we have accomplished. So even though we're barely break even, we're still for a two bedroom, two bath and mammoth. We're one of the highest producing in our area, obviously, in our little market area there. We'll do 80 to 90 ,000 in our trailing 12 months once we get through the end of next year, for sure. That's kind of our projection. Right now, including that really bad May that we had last year where we put everything kind of stagnant, we're at about 74 ,000 in gross revenue.

38:08Ashley Kehr:And do you get to use the property at all yourself for your family?

38:11Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, we went up there.

38:12Ashley Kehr:Another benefit.

38:13Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, another huge benefit. We went up there for President's Week. And even though those are $600 and$700 a night properties, I wanted to stay in ours. And so...

38:24Ashley Kehr:And you'd be paying to stay somewhere else if you, you know, you'd be paying that to stay somewhere else. So, and it's nice to be in your own property.

38:32Tony J. Robinson:Oh, I was just going to say, and then you got to factor in that Airbnb takes 15 and a half, and then the town of Mammoth is 16%. So you only get, you know, less than 70 cents on the dollar. So, yeah, it makes it a little bit challenging. And so we just go, well, why go rent somewhere? Let's go stay in our place. It's fine.

38:51Ashley Kehr:Like it does really like you think first of like, oh, I don't want to lose out on that income. But if you think about what you would be spending to actually stay somewhere else, you're way better off staying at your own place. But after that, Brian, you went on to Blue Ridge, Georgia. So across the country. So tell us about this property. And this was your second short-term rental, I believe?

39:13Tony J. Robinson:Correct. Yes. So because we were losing money initially in Mammoth and now we're getting closer to break even, I still believe in short-term rentals. But we couldn't buy another one. And I needed one that was proof of concept that could produce a financial gain. And so I started looking all around the country and trying to figure out where we want to go. And what I figured out was you want to be two hours from a metro and then you want to work backwards, reverse engineer your pricing. So I had about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars that I wanted to invest. And I wanted to buy I want to put down 20 percent this time because last time we're in 10 percent.

39:59Tony J. Robinson:There's not as many options for refinancing out. And so I wanted 20 percent. We got a great rate. We ended up in Blue Ridge, Georgia. We looked at Poconos, Pennsylvania, Virginia. We looked at a lot of different places and Blue Ridge kept coming up over and over again for a few different reasons. So I figured with 20 % down, I want to put$80 ,000 in and I want to keep my$80 ,000 for design, amenities, contracting costs, holding costs, and the cost that it takes to get these things launched, right? Because on day one, you're not making a lot of money. You got to get your reviews up. And so we're still following that formula.

40:39Tony J. Robinson:And all in on Georgia, we're at about 120K. But yeah, we bought that and closed in November of just 2025. And then I'm happy to share that story with you too a little bit. That was kind of a wild ride. Yeah, please give us the story. So I hired contractors to paint it, sand the floors, stain the floors, and do all the painting. And I hired a design company as well to design it for me. So first off, the designer said, hey, it's really expensive for us to hold it and then bring it to you. So another one of my good friends, Brian, lives in Tennessee. So I shipped everything to his house in Tennessee.

41:21Tony J. Robinson:And so remember, you guys say it all the time, but find out what your superpower is. Find out your network. And so I called him out of the blue and we've been friends for 20 years in fire service. He goes, yeah, I got a full garage, man. I'll just keep it all in there. I go, no, you're sure about couches and patio furniture and everything. And he goes, yeah. So then I hired contractors, but I wasn't hearing back on what they were doing. And I wasn't really getting the proof that the work was being done. But we flew out there and I flew out my good friend, Ryan, who wanted to help me and see this project come to fruition.

41:55Tony J. Robinson:So we flew to Tennessee, loaded up a U-Haul, drug a trailer all the way to Blue Ridge, Georgia, 10 o 'clock at night, drove up these mountain roads at one o 'clock in the morning, and then walked into our place. And it was, I have to say, maybe 30 % of the work was done, kind of what I thought.

42:13Ashley Kehr:And how much were you expecting at that point to be done?

42:16Tony J. Robinson:100%.

42:16Ashley Kehr:Oh my God. Wow.

42:19Tony J. Robinson:I wanted 100 % done. And we walked in and thought, okay, well, let's get out of here and go get a hotel room. Clearly we're not staying here. And so the next day I went back and they were there, but they're just like, ah, the sanding's taking too long. This isn't getting done. We'll come back with two crews tomorrow. So I focused on the outside and we started building furniture and putting that all together. And then the next day, nobody showed up. And I thought, what happened to two crews? I thought, oh man, we're going to get a team of dudes here. You know, let's get 14 guys in here working on this place.

42:52Tony J. Robinson:Nobody showed up. And And so I thought I called the contractor who initially hired him who did do a good job. But he said, I have to farm this out because I just can't do it. And he came over and thought, oh, my God. And he brought his brother. He's a big guy. And he brought his brother because he thought maybe I was going to be so angry that. He had to bring a muscle. I'm not a very big guy. But what happened was I called my contractor and said, hey, I'm going to fire these guys. I called the painters and I fired him. said, don't come back. It's fine. We'll figure out. And he goes, well, I want my money.

43:27Tony J. Robinson:And I go, well, okay, we'll figure something out. Right. I drove to Home Depot at three o 'clock that day, got all the painting supplies, finished the sanding, the stain, all of that. And we worked probably 20 hours a day for the next three days to get it all done. And then when my contractor, Gerardo, he showed up, he couldn't believe it because I was in such good mood because we were making progress again. And he brought his, his big brother to, to make sure nothing went down, but he's like, I can't believe you're, you know, that this is where you're at. But I go, Hey, it's gotta get done. I do not quit.

44:03Tony J. Robinson:Right. And so, um, he said, I'll tell you what, I'll give you my electrician. And then I'm going to give you four guys tomorrow night from five to 10 PM. Have him do anything he wanted. And I had him hang TVs, hang drape rods and do some heavy lifting stuff. And he said, that's on me. And then, um, I ended up paying off the painters for their supplies. And I called my wife on day five and said, almost, you know, I just don't think this is, I'm not going to get across the goal line on this. And I said, Hey, I got to stay for at least three more days. I'm going to be home Christmas Eve morning now.

44:45Tony J. Robinson:Um, because to get your depreciation to do your cost say you gotta get it up and running gotta get up and running and she said well i'll drop everything and fly out there and i go no you don't want to do that take care of the kids we got it and um on the 23rd at 11 a.m we had finished building the first room and i thought oh my god it almost brought me to tears how beautiful it was and my friend ryan my ryan he's so good with staging and filming and a creative mind that he went and staged the whole room while I was in another one working and he goes, Hey, you know, Flint, come here and check this out.

45:21Tony J. Robinson:And I walk in there and that's when it almost brought me to tears. I was like, Hey, number one, we're going to finish this. We're going to do this. Number two, we got a flight tomorrow. We got to leave at five 30 in the morning. So we're working all night long. And I go, well, let me take some pictures, send it back to my wife, Jill, and we get up on Airbnb. So she's at home doing all the logistics. I was going to get a photographer and she couldn't find one. And we and find one on such short notice. So I bought a$20 tripod on Amazon. And then I started filming the bathroom or taking pictures.

45:55I thought, let's start with something easy that, you know, let's start with this.

45:59Tony J. Robinson:And I could feel Ryan over my shoulder. He's leaning in and he's like, you kind of have the door in here in the picture. Let me move it this way. Well, man, good thing you brought Ryan with you. because it seems like he had like the creative vision to bring the space to life. Oh my gosh, Tony, you have no idea. So, and I don't, I'm more of a who, not how type of guy. And I kind of, he said a couple of things. It's like, well, get the toilet paper out of the roll. Let me move this. Let me roll these towels up. And I look back and I go, do you just want to do this? He goes, are you serious? I go, yeah, you can have it, man.

46:37Tony J. Robinson:I'm like, clearly you're better at this than I am. and he started taking photos and I couldn't believe what he was able to pull off. So, but I would get back on him like, Hey, but you got to stage this room now. And he would take, you know, 30 or 40 photos of the bathroom. It's like, let's get out of the bathroom.

46:52Ashley Kehr:So did you end up making the deadline then? Did you have it listed in time before the end of the year?

46:58Tony J. Robinson:Yes, we did. Um, we finally got everything up. We finished, uh, filming and shooting the place in the dark at two o 'clock in the morning. I finished up a few more projects. We worked till about 3.30 that morning and then drove to Atlanta at 5.30 on the 24th to fly out. And we already had it booked by the time I landed December 26th through January 4th.

47:24Ashley Kehr:Wow. Oh my gosh. By the time you landed. Wow.

47:28Tony J. Robinson:Yeah. And that's also helped to my wife who I would just send her a bunch of photos like okay and i had the shell airbnb built before we went out there and um so you know had we not done that it would have just been more work and then i came home fine-tuned it and that one is doing it's doing really well now that one is um where i believe all i ever wanted to make on it was a thousand dollars a month 800 to a thousand dollars a month and i think we're gonna get there we just added a brand new spa so it took eight guys to get it around the house and then lift it up and so there's kind of those unforeseen costs right I had to pay him another 1700 just to get it up around installed and set and then shoring up the deck from underneath but yeah I'm happy to run through those numbers those are pretty interesting too if you guys are ready okay so we put down 80 grand we put about 20 ,000 to furnishing the hot tub 6 ,500 10k and repairs I'm getting it I'm gonna paint the exterior and we're gonna do it like a black exterior yeah and then kind of a wood trim deck on it so we're about 120 K that one our totally monthly cost is 3 ,700 for pest control internet electric propane, you know, trash, water, all of that.

48:54Tony J. Robinson:And then our scenarios look pretty good because our purchase price was$409. We got a 6.375 note on it. If we do$65K in revenue, we'll cash flow about$5 ,000, but that doesn't include any CapEx,$5 ,000 for the year. If we do$75K, we'll cash flow that there's my magic number there it is that thousand dollars a month um and i think we can get there with all the sweat equity i i've talked to a realtor and we're probably up about 50 to 75k in appreciation already which is great um so but with the bonus depreciation here's where it gets really interesting again um i just did my cost seg and finished it and we did 105 back in depreciation costs on that 100%.

49:47It's like almost everything you put into the deal, Brian, you just got back. Yeah, yeah. It's like free money. And that's what, and guys, that's what a lot of people don't understand about tax strategy. I see so many things online where people talk about tax strategies that aren't real tax strategies that might get you, you're just begging to get audited by the IRS. People turn in every vacation into a business trip, right? Or they're riding off their Gucci suits because they have their logo on it. And those sound cool for social media. But what Brian's talking about here is an actual tax strategy supported by the IRS tax code.

50:26And you got back almost every single dollar you put into this deal, which then allows you to keep recycling the same process, produce more cash flow, get more appreciation, and the cycle just compounds. So, man, I love a happy ending to a story.

50:39Tony J. Robinson:Yes, we're there. I feel pretty good about it. The cap rates look good. I love the property. People love the property. We're at 10 five-star reviews already on it. And that's what it is, is that guest communication. You've got to stay on it. And people talk about the Airbnb bust, which is if you're not actively in it. It's a full-time job to run these Airbnbs, as you guys know.

51:05Ashley Kehr:Well, Brian, you actually are doing co-hosting now for other people, correct? Like, I think this is such a great way for people to enter real estate without having to actually purchase real estate is by doing a co-hosting business.

51:21Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. As much effort as we put into it. And then I just happened to be, when I flew home from Georgia, I was on the sidelines of a soccer game and our good friend And Robin was standing there and we started talking about properties. And she's like, your face just lights up when you talk about this stuff. We have a place in Park City that we've been talking about getting on Airbnb for eight years now. And I thought, I can do that. I'll help you. Like, I love it. I love going out there and putting these places together. So we were able to launch that one. And they're very happy.

51:59Tony J. Robinson:And then I co-host for them. And then I'm bringing on another one in Mammoth. And then I'm focused specifically in Mammoth, but there's as of right now, but I'm looking to branch out back into Park City and even Blue Ridge. But I know the Mammoth market better than all of these other ones. So yeah, that's what I'm doing full time now, which is hosting.

52:24Ashley Kehr:Well, Brian, thank you so much for joining us today. Can you tell us where people can reach out to you and find out more information about what you are doing?

52:32Tony J. Robinson:Yeah, absolutely. So the easiest way, the one I track the most is just brian at highlinehosting.net, B-R-I-A-N, and then highline, H-I-G-H, linehosting.net. Have a website that we built through the company. It's highlinehosting.net. And then I'm on Instagram, kind of, at Flint Highline, Facebook Highline Hosting. And then realistically, the easiest way is just to text me. So if people are needing help with their properties or they want to have us manage them as an owner, 805-797-1374. And I'm happy to help.

53:12Ashley Kehr:Well, Brian, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us and the lessons you have learned and also your success as a real estate investor. So thank you so much for taking the time to share with us and the Rookie listeners. I'm Ashley, he's Tony, and thank you for listening to this episode of Real Estate Rookie. We'll see you guys next time. Hey, rookies, if you're watching this, we want you to apply to be a guest on the Real Estate Rookie podcast. That's right. Ashley and I are looking for amazing stories just like yours to be a part of our Real Estate Rookie podcast. Now look, you don't need to be an expert.

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