What if you could go from owning just a few rental properties to controlling over 300 units in just a few years—without millions in the bank?
Christian Osgood proved it’s possible. Stuck in a traditional W2 job, he realized that the slow and steady approach to real estate investing wouldn’t get him the financial freedom he wanted. Instead, he focused on creative financing, seller-financed deals, and strategic partnerships to scale his portfolio faster than most investors dream of.
One of the biggest keys to Christian’s success? Relationships. He didn’t just rely on market listings—he built strong connections with sellers, brokers, and fellow investors to unlock deals that others never even saw. By mastering the art of networking, he found off-market properties, negotiated better terms, and positioned himself as the go-to investor when sellers needed a creative solution.
In this episode, Christian shares his full journey—from his first two duplexes to the breakthrough moment that changed everything. He walks us through the exact strategies he used to grow his business, the mindset shifts that set him apart, and how building authentic relationships gave him access to deals that most investors overlook. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale, his insights will challenge the way you think about real estate investing.
Key Takeaways:
06:45 – The problem with saving for a down payment and why it’s the slowest path to building wealth
12:30 – How seller financing really works and how to negotiate a deal where everyone wins
18:50 – The 38-unit acquisition that changed everything and how he made it happen
22:10 – How Christian built relationships with sellers and brokers to find off-market deals
25:15 – The power of partnerships and why Christian never does deals alone
31:40 – How mindset and calculated risk-taking played a major role in his rapid success
Connect with Christian:
- Website: https://multifamilystrategy.com/
Connect with Corwyn:
- Contact Number: 843-619-3005
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CORWYN:
So good morning, good morning, and great morning, guys. Welcome to another fabulous, fabulous episode of Exit Strategies radio show. Hey, I’m your host, Corwyn J. Melette, broker and owner of Exit Realty Low Country Group in beautiful North Charleston, South Carolina. So guys, if this is your first time, your very first time, like this is like it, like we’re going to do this today, listening to this show, hey, you’re in for a treat because our mission is very simple, and that is to empower our community through financial literacy and real estate education. Guys, we’re legacy building. That is what we do. We’ve told you for a while to put a hashtag on it. So when you’re tuning in, when you’re focused on that next level, what are you going to do? What are you going to leave? Hey, this is a place where you can get some information and some insight to help you achieve that for you and your family. So I got to give a quick shout out to those who listen to us faithfully. You tune in to us and hey, look, guys, we are, don’t tell nobody, but we are going into a new market. I’m super excited about it. And we’re going to be sharing this content and this information in multiple cities now on radio. I’m super, super excited about that. But thank you guys for tuning in from monkey’s corner and my mama live out there all the way down to Hollywood, what you know, no good all the way through Charleston guys. You guys rock for those who tune in around from around the world, listen to us on your podcast applications. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in. So today, today I’m super excited. Anytime we talk money, you know, OJ’s made this song money, money, money, money, money. Every time we talk that I get super excited because it is an opportunity for us to take it to the next level. So when we are able to quote, unquote, grab hold of somebody who is at that next level, Hey, we’re super honored. So I’m super humbled to have with us. None other than Christian Osgood. Now Christian is a one. He’s my tonic kind of guy. He is that I started from here. Now I’m here. Hold on. Drake made a song started from the bottom. Now I’m here. I love that. So he has that guys as a storyline, if you will, in his life and his journey in real estate, investing and educating and helping others. So I’m super excited to introduce him to you all as a member of the exit strategies, radio show family. So Christian, how are you doing today?
CHRISTIAN:
Dude, I am doing fantastic privilege to be here, man. Thanks for having me on.
CORWYN:
Well, Christian, thank you for taking time out your busy schedule. Now, if you don’t mind, you know, give our listeners that 50,000 foot view of who you are and what got you here.
CHRISTIAN:
Well, unlike a lot of real estate investors or entrepreneurs, a lot of people, they read Rich Dad Poor Dad. I hear that on my podcast all the time. People are going, I started with Kiyosaki. I started with Dave Ramsey’s. I started the opposite end. And that was what my father told me to read. My mentor at the time told me, Hey, this is the way to do it. Take on a minimal or ideally no debt, save your way up, eventually buy rentals. I went from first grade, second grade, third to fourth, middle school to high school, college to first job, all the way through four different sales jobs, eight years of career to save up to buy my house and two duplexes. And I got to a point in my career where I’d started. I started as a screen printer of t-shirts and then I moved into the sales company for the distributor. So I started at 1150 an hour and I worked my way up to about a quarter million dollars a year in sales through a career. So I scaled a scalable career. A lot of people make a lot more than that in sales. A lot of people make a lot less. I would say I was doing well in sales. That’s a healthy salary. I got to that point. It got me two duplexes. They cashflowed each just a little north of a thousand dollars a month. So about a little over $24,000 a year. That’s net. That’s what I was, what I had at the end of paying all the bills and the mortgages to pay myself, which was super convenient as my mortgage on my house was $2,000 a month. So it took me eight years built a place. And I felt great about this. I remember sitting down with my wife and going, the real estate is paying for the real estate. My real estate is now effectively free from here on out. My tenants pay all three mortgages. This is great. I have four units. Well, then we had a little thing that happened in 2019, 2020, where everyone was going from working from home. I won’t say the word so we don’t get a strike on whatever algorithm is out there, but there’s a thing that happened where we had some extra time to think. My wife was a kindergarten teacher. So she was teaching kindergarten in a really impoverished area of Seattle. A lot of refugees at the time were being placed in that area. So we had a lot of kindergartners. English is not their first language. Many of them, both parents work. Many of them have four or five other siblings all trying to use the internet at the same time. It was a disaster. It was absolutely awful. Then we get back from that. And immediately my wife gets injured. It was a mess. The school district mishandled it. And so we went from, Hey, we’re really content and we’re really happy. And we’re buying a few rentals one at a time, moving forward financially. My goal shifted. It wasn’t just, Hey, I would like to be more wealthy for time. It was, I want to retire my wife now. Two duplexes. If anyone’s bought their first rental property, you may know this. Four renters is not enough to retire you. Two transactions, that is not financial freedom. That is $24,000 a year. That is I’ve moved forward. That is not I am free. I was looking at it. I’m like, how could one retire my wife in two years when it took me eight years to build $24,000 a month. Around this time, I left my super high paying job to go figure out the answer to this question. Like many people made the mistake of thinking, well, the easiest way to be an investor, I should start with getting a real estate license. I’ll give you guys a hint here, by the way, if your sole goal is to own real estate, the way you do that is you buy real estate. It is not going to license. It is not going to job around it. It is once you buy a property, you are in fact a real estate investor. If you want to be a larger investor, focus on buying more properties and increasing your cash flow. But I went to a brokerage and in that office, there was a, at the time he was 19, just to turn 20. He had 24 rentals. He bought two duplexes. He had never had a W2. He had only sold one duplex. So he’s made like $5,000 in his life as a real estate agent. And he’s bought like at the time it was about two and a half million dollars of real estate. So I just closed on my second duplex. He buys the sixth unit across the street. He’s now 20 with 30 rental properties. They’re all performing quite well. And so I sat down with him. How are you doing this? He’s well, keep finding these deals. I talked to people and a lot of people, about 40% of owners own their properties outright. So less than 50%. I’ve just been asking and when someone’s willing to carry the contract, I don’t need to go through the bank. I don’t need an approval. He did his first three deals, seller finance. And I was at the time I was just turned 29. I was like, okay, is it possible for me to get to 30 units by 30 doing what you did? Or do you feel like you just got lucky? Or do you feel that this is repeatable? His name is Cody Davis, by the way, he’s the most watched episode of all time on bigger pockets. He loved his response. He’s well, I don’t think I can help you because I want to buy a 38 unit and I need a partner to help me run it. But that would put you at 42 units. That would not get you to 30. You know what? That math makes sense to me. We ended up taking out that building. It was on market for 13 years at $2 million, 38 units. It was underperforming when we picked it up. At the end of the first year, it appraised for $4.1 million. We got a bank refinance. We funded it 85% seller financed, had no friends or family who had money. I had spent all of my money buying those two duplexes, the Dave Ramsey’s way, save and buy them. I had no cash. Cody never had money in his life, so he didn’t have any cash. He’s 20 and unemployed. We went through, I called another broker in the office and I said, hey, do you have anyone buying fourplexes who wants to buy bigger multifamily? These are all people I’ve never talked to, don’t know. I’m two levels removed. It’s a broker who I’ve heard of and his clients. We called four people. It was a great deal with great terms. Three of them said, I’ll throw in $100,000. We raised the money first time ever in our lives. $300,000 came in less than two days. We closed the deal. We bought them out of a cash out refi. I never spent a dollar on that property. It is cashflow positive day one, all the way through. Investors bought in at three. I bought them all out at six, which means the remaining million and a half dollars of net worth that went to Cody and I. Rest of the cash for that refi, we reinvested in the building. We approved it. We got collections on that building from $5,000 a month to $31,000 a month. Two weeks after that, we bought a sixplex. A week after that, I bought a sevenplex. A month or two after that, we bought a twelveplex and a tenplex. We just kept buying real estate and it turned out it kept working. I did this in central Washington. Then I started buying in Texas with my buddy Caleb. We did the same thing in Texas, Laredo, McAllen, Houston, Stephenville, which is still my favorite market in the US. I love that little college town. It’s a little south of Dallas, Tarleton College. Absolutely phenomenal areas. The same strategy worked in red states, blue states. Today, I’ll be closing in about two weeks on a 44 unit. We just got financing approval, so that will close. That’ll put me just over 300 rental units. I’ve been doing this for about four years. It’s been an amazing journey. I’ll stop rambling and I’ll let you do the thing and host this.
CORWYN:
I’m over here just giddy. For anybody who’s watching the video, y’all probably, wait a minute, what did his face just do? What was that? I’m over here giddy. I love it. I love it. It’s interesting, the concept and the constructs that you’re talking about. We make things more difficult than what they need to be. I got a deal on the table. I got an opportunity on the table. Instead of me trying to figure out how I’m going to do it all by myself, which is what most people do and they miss the deal because they can’t do it by themselves, let me go figure out a little bit of leverage over here to help me get in here and I can always buy them back out later. I love that.
CHRISTIAN:
Where everyone gets stuck, this is normal. If you don’t have the money to buy the real estate and if you have a million dollars, you want to buy a $10 million property, you still don’t have the money. Regardless, if you have $0 or you have millions of dollars, if you have less money than the amount of real estate that you want to buy, you start with the opportunity. Everyone goes, well, I don’t have the money, so I need to go and I need to find the money and I need to build the network and I need to get Rolodex to be able to… You need an opportunity. If you get in front of someone who has all the money you need and you have nothing to present them, you still have no money. Yeah. If you start with the deal, which is what we did with 38 unit, I believe in this deal. It’s been out here forever. No one else has pitched the seller finance term. We can make this deal work and I believe this is going to work, so I have an opportunity. Then we found what financing options are available. Before I went out and tried to find additional money, what are the options? Like, okay, well, this seller finance package, we can get to 85%. I’m trying to raise 15% of a deal that makes money day one that has millions of dollars of upside. Anyone on planet earth can raise $300,000 if you believe that it will make a million and a half to $2 million. You can find that money. It turns out without any experience, relationships, or knowledge of how one would structure these, we were able to get through four calls and three people gave us $300,000 and we use those to make our first million each in real estate. That is the order of operations that everyone needs to… That’s what changed for me. It’s deal, then debt, then equity. It’s not go out and find the money. It’s not equity, deal debt, which is how most people get stuck. Try to match the deal to the money. You’re going to limit yourself on deals. If you try to match the money to the opportunity, money is really easy to tailor. You can buy them out later. Cashflow’s heavy. You can use debt. You can blend debt and a future buyout. You can offer preferred returns, delayed return. Tailor the money to the opportunity you have and all of a sudden, you have infinite opportunities.
CORWYN:
Yeah. One of the things I think people miss, Christian, is that people with money want to have their money make money. They’re looking for opportunities to where they can put their money to work. Oftentimes, when someone is getting over to the investor side, if you will, the consumer side only thinks, I got to work to get paid. I got to work for my money. But investors think, well, my money should work for me. Different mindset, different thought process. I’m loving this. But you use creative financing. If you don’t mind, for our listeners, define creative financing or give us your definition. Then how do you typically use that in your day-to-day approach to a potential deal that you like to take down?
CHRISTIAN:
Creative finance is exactly what it sounds like. It’s creative finance. It’s anything that is not conventional. Your standard transaction, you’d run to the bank. You would ask them what they think of the deal. Some of these deals, they’re absolutely bankable, but I don’t want to go through all the underwriting process, the credit checks, the endless paperwork. I don’t want to do it. I love seller financing because you get what you negotiate. In seller financing, you go to the seller directly. They own the property. They have equity in the property. You can finance anything you own. Instead of buying it in cash, you buy it in payments. It’s the same thing as a bank loan, except that you get to negotiate the price, the interest rate, the loan term, any special clauses you want. It is completely customized money. You can do the same thing with private capital. You can raise from someone else. If you can sustain the debt, you can tailor the money however you would like, borrow it, buy the deal. Also, you have to be a little bit more nuanced with your legal team to make sure you do it right. But with $500 to $1,000 of legal advice, you can do a joint venture with someone and you can tailor the future buyouts or the operational cash. I bought a deal, second seller finance deal that I ever did. We actually wrote it in the contract. The guy I partnered with was a Microsoft employee. I met at a Starbucks. He had lost money flipping property. Then he made money. Then he lost it. Then he made it. When I was talking to him, he said, I’m tired of making and losing money in real estate. I just want to double my money every five years. He just presented. How about this? I need cashflow right now. I’m trying to retire my wife. You have a high paying job. You need less cashflow. You’re trying to multiply. I’m trying to, I’m trying to add right now. Cashflow is $1,000 day one. You provide the $90,000 and I have to buy you out. It has to be an option legally, but I have a buyout option to buy you out for 180 in five years. You double your money. If I don’t exercise that option, you take the buildings. He’s backed by a hundred percent of the buildings. I got a thousand dollars of cashflow immediately. Little six plex. My goal is to get to $15,000 to retire my wife. I was one 15th done with the mission for one set of signatures. I actually bought them out at year three. Now I own that property. Cashflow is closer to three and a half thousand dollars a month today. He’s happy. I’m happy. The property paid for the property. I got the real estate to buy the real estate. No money left my account. I put together the deal and I operated most of the deal. You have to be active in a JV. So all partners have to participate somewhat, but I did most of the work, all of the setup. And for that, without spending any money whatsoever, I was able to own that asset. And that asset itself was able to buy the investor out. We’ve acquired a lot of real estate. Now, when I have money, I spend it on real estate and don’t get me wrong. I’ve made a lot of money in real estate. So I do buy real estate when I have money. When I don’t have money, I continue to buy real estate because again, deal debt equity. If we find an opportunity, then we’ll just go and we’ll find the money.
CORWYN:
Christian, my man, my man, you look at you over here, got me excited and look at your, you’re speaking my language. So you focus on multifamilies. So obviously we’ve over the years, we’ve, and over, over the years in general, we’ve had people that focus single family and all kinds of stuff. We commercial storage units, et cetera. Why multifamily? Thank you for asking that question.
CHRISTIAN:
Multifamily. Okay. You can make money in single family. You can make money in anything. Then that’s the nice thing about real estate. There’s a lot of ways to make money. There’s not a right or wrong way. Here’s why multifamily is right for me. And I think it’s right for a lot of people. First of all is the stability on a single family or multifamily up to four units. It’s appraised based on what your neighbors sold the property for. Like market conditions outside of your control are the primary driver of the valuation of your property. In commercial five units and up, they take your actual operating income that you are able to generate. And then they factor in market conditions and what we call a cap rate. And that’s the return an investor would expect if they bought a building in cash. So it’s a way for us to compare apples to apples. What return do people expect in this market? The market conditions influence price, but your operations are the primary driver. So when I took a 38 unit building, when I take that from $5,000 to $30,000 a month in income, it is worth astronomically more. Now, did I overpay for a building that only makes $5,000 a month? Absolutely. $2 million is insane for that. We wrote a debt product that didn’t have any payments for six months so that we can get the collections up. Custom debt product. I cash flowed all the way through. I was paid to do the project because tenants were continuing to pay and rents increased. Now that is bringing in a lot more though. That’s how we got a higher appraisal. I buy about 100, 150 units a year. We do average across the portfolio per 100 units we buy. There’s usually $100 of rent increase. Sometimes it’s more, but we’ll take underperforming properties. We’re not jacking rent above market. We’re getting people partway to market rent. But in a six cap market, the way the values work in multifamily, you take 100 units, you raise rent $100, which is still way under market rent from where I bought them.
CORWYN:
It’s $10,000.
CHRISTIAN:
$10,000 a month. It’s 120,000 a year. You divide that by 0.06. That’s the valuation. You make $2 million over 100 units. That’s insane. $2 million a year. Now that’s a little bit less than we do in value add because some properties we’ve bought at 500, rents a thousand, we got them to 850. But I have direct influence and control over that. I can say very predictably, I will make two to two and a half million dollars in net worth gain that you can take that to a bank. This is how the appraisers do it. That’s how they’re underwriting. I will make two to two and a half million dollars on this particular project every single year. If I do not scale, I don’t add to my teams. I just do exactly what I did the prior year. I can’t do that in housing. The market goes down, interest rates go up, values change, people fire sell. It changes the value of your property. That’s why multifamily is it for me. This is a business that I want financial freedom and I want scalability from. I want to actually buy business assets that are designed for business, which again, you can make a ton of money in single family. There’s a ton of models to do that, but it’s not designed to be a business. Single family is designed for houses, for families. You can make money in it, but the debt products, the strategy, multifamily runs a little bit more fluid. I’m going to add one thing to this really quick. Owning duplexes, then owning a 12-plex, owning a 38-plex, owning a 44-unit building, a 12-plex isn’t that much harder to run than a duplex. Cost effective wise, putting all those units underneath one roof, one set of utilities, you actually have price efficiency. It actually is cheaper and typically more profitable. If you did a good deal for a duplex or you did a good deal for a 12-plex, over time, a larger building just has more appreciation. You have more price efficiencies. It is easier to run. A 44-unit is not that much harder than a 12-plex. It’s not as difficult as I think people think to scale. At the end of the day, it’s just a building. That’s all it is.
CORWYN:
One of the things I talk about along that vein with folks is obviously scalable, but the other thing is efficiency. Because we have a lot of sites, if you got a vendor that has to go from here, the cost is higher than having everything centralized in one place. Having all the doors helps you to be, again, way more efficient. Because if you have a maintenance person that handles all of your stuff, you’re not losing time with them having to drive from site to site. They have one site to be at. Then you also, if you have a site like that, you can create storage and keep the miscellaneous supplies in one place that, again, increases your efficiency as well in bulk. I love what you’re talking about as far as scale. I do want to pick you for one more thing. We’re getting, quote, unquote, on that tail end, but this is that nugget that I want to pull out of you, if at all possible, which is the mistakes. Because you’ve done this. That means if you’ve done it, I know, Christian, that it was not smooth all the time. What were those, if you will, those big mistakes or big items that you ran into? We’re not going to do it this way again.
CHRISTIAN:
I call this the stupid tax. The Owner Meeting Podcast, I host it with my company, Multifamily Strategy. We talk about this in every single episode. I think it’s important that people learn. The dumbest you’ll ever be when you start any venture is the beginning because you learn a lot along the way. I had a really good one. I made the mistake of thinking, hey, I am a seller financing expert and a real estate purchaser. I’m a real estate investor who does a lot of creative finance. That is not my business. As I’ve matured, I am a multifamily. I like entry-level multifamily. I like servicing people who need housing. I come in on the lower income end. I take properties and make them way nicer than the neighboring properties and I run them very well. I am a value-add and entry-level multifamily guy who happens to be good at creative finance. What we did is I bought a resort, Class A Waterfront Resort in Hood Canal, seller financed, 20 cabins, individual hot tubs, foothills of the Olympic Mountains. You can see orcas from some of the cabins on the water. There’s a river that runs through the campus where salmon run up. We just ended the salmon season. Unbelievably cool asset. I hate running it. I’m not good at hospitality. My team’s not good at hospitality. It takes me a ton of time. It has nine employees. The amount of money that I have lost from the time I’ve spent trying to run a resort as opposed to just scaling my existing business, millions of dollars. I built all the value of that in the terms. It’s one where we bought it for about what it’s worth. We might have slight overpay, but we got 4.5% interest debt, so we won on terms. If you win on terms, your terms are only valuable while they’re in place. If you sell the building and you had a slight overpay and you want out of the project, that is one of the weaknesses of creative finance. There’s not an easy pivot out of it unless you can transfer the existing terms, which the seller’s not interested in. I have looked at it. It makes money. It makes money every single year. If you go all the way through the life of the note, it makes a ton of money, millions of dollars. I am actively evaluating, do I take roughly a million-dollar loss on the property so that I can focus on the rest of my business and make the million dollars elsewhere? Because it’s so much easier for me today to make a million dollars doing the other things than try to do that. A million-dollar loss is insane. I started with $5,000 in my bank account. The fact that we’re having the conversation of, we hate running this so much, and it’s such a distraction and it’s so frustrating, that as well, we could lose a million dollars and not do it, or we can keep doing it and it will continue to suck time from the things that I love. That was the biggest mistake I made, just thinking the hubris of, oh, well, of course we’re going to run a resort. We’re business people. We’ve been successful. Past success does not dictate future results. We learned that the hard way.
CORWYN:
That’s a lesson there, and that’s interesting, Christian, because I talk about that with other people around me, agents in my office, et cetera, because it’s one of those things, where’s your time best used? Just because you can do something. I just said this a few days ago to one of my agents. You know how to change the oil in your car, but the time it’s going to take you to change the oil in your car, you could have been sitting in your car and waiting for somebody else to do it, and you could have made more money doing something else, if you will, because I’m not saying that there’s something wrong with you changing the oil in your car, but if your time invested elsewhere is going to bring you a better return or bring you a return with less headache, then you may want to consider the alternative versus, so that sounds like what you guys are. My God, a resort? Oh, my goodness, man. That is priceless. That’s priceless.
CHRISTIAN:
Hospitality is not for me.
CORWYN:
Hospitality is not for you. I love that. Christian, you guys have a podcast. Obviously, you’ve established other companies, ancillary, if you will, to support the operations that you have, but where can people reach you and where can people connect to you on your podcast?
CHRISTIAN: Yeah, absolutely. Well, my podcast and thousands and thousands of YouTube videos are on my YouTube channel, Multifamily Strategy. I finally got the darn plaque, so we finally got our 100,000 subs, so absolutely check that out. That is completely free, and I share a ton of information because the information is … I just did not have that when I got started, so if you guys can learn from any of the mistakes or successes I’ve had, especially the mistakes, check out that channel. We share everything there, and then you can reach out to me directly on Instagram, Matt Christian Osgood.
CORWYN:
Awesome. Christian, we quickly got to the end of the show, but I want to get this question out. That might drop questions to 2020, the hindsight question, because you’ve had an amazing run so far. My question to you would be if, knowing what you know now, you were able to go back to the beginning, so whenever it was that you made a decision that at some point in time, maybe when you picked up Dave Ramsey, let’s say, what would you have done differently from that point that you think would have you further along now?
CHRISTIAN:
What I was focused on with Dave Ramsey and then after I finally did read Rich Dad Poor Dad or any of the other finance books, I do a ton of reading, what I was focused on the entire time was getting and saving more money. What I should have focused on was where do I actually want to go? At year eight, I decided, retire my wife, build my dream home, start my family, and be able to spend time with them. To do that, I engineered, okay, well, how much does that cost on a monthly basis, and how soon do I want to be there? I set a real goal. I spent my entire time from Dave Ramsey’s all the way through with the goal being a generic, more will be better, which is a stupid, unattainable goal that has no destination. If I had done anything different, I would have, instead of working for money, I would have worked for skills, the skills that I would need to build what I wanted to do. I would have been much more efficient. I would have had a much shorter career and learned what I wanted to learn. If you’re being intentional, it turns out you can learn years and years faster than if you’re just wandering. Then I would have actually set the course to where I’m going. Meeting that 19-year-old, doing business with him at 20, being a 19-year-old do that, I realized all of the steps that I took, I could have done when I was a teenager, just didn’t because I was trying to qualify myself for a job where I was going to hire myself. This is ridiculous. Work for skills, not money, and plan where you’re going. If I had done those two things, I’d be tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of where we are today because we just, it took me a while to learn it. I’m 32 today. I wish I learned it sooner. I’m glad I learned it as young as I did.
CORWYN:
That’s awesome. I love that. I’ve never heard it put that way, or I’m not the only thing I’ve ever heard anyone say that at all. Christian, thank you for that nugget for our listeners. I look here, I’m going to take that one as well and categorize that over here. Okay, this is what we need to be doing. It’s one of those things, and I know, again, this is your experience, and sometimes it’s others’ experience as well. You set out to do something and you realize, wait a minute, man, I should have done it this way. You’re always making adjustments. Oftentimes, people think that there’s a set plan and a set way it’s always going to execute, but the reality is the finesse in it and the success is found in the necessary adjustments. Okay, I need to tweak this a little bit. I’m going to turn the scroll wheel. I need to loosen this up a little bit. I need to get rid of this dark club resort or whatever it is. That’s where true success lies. Christian, I want to thank you, my man. Absolutely. Man, look here, I’m going to have to get you back on here because literally we have had an amazing show. I want to thank you for your time today, for your insight, and most importantly, for sharing your wisdom.
CHRISTIAN:
I appreciate you having me on. Bring me back anytime. I’m always happy to do it and I will. I messed up the scheduling for this three times. So I will I’ll be easier to schedule next time too. Thanks for having me on man. I really appreciate you.
CORWYN:
No worries. So for our listeners guys, look, you’ve got some tremendous value out of this today and I’m saying that you have it’s up to you to determine that by executing on it and making something happen with it. This is wisdom quote-unquote from the essentially guys. We went to Oz today. That’s what we do, we went to Oz and look here. We have talked with the great and powerful Oz if you will and we have had this conversation and he has shared with us tidbits and nuggets and insights and strategies and all these other tools and resources. He has laid upon you that you can go out and build similar the same or even better. So create your own eyes create that world where financial freedom exists where freedom lives guys. I thank you all for tuning in again Christian. I thank you so much for being on you know what I say, you know how I feel. Hey, we always keep this thing here 100 and real over here. I love you. I love you and we’re going to see you guys out there in those streets.
