Brady McDonald
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Correct. Yeah. We, we, we will actually close on the land. We close. And then basically our buyer closes the same day. So it's essentially, yeah, we have transactional funding. So we'll get it under contract and have like 150 days due diligence time and then 120 days entitlement period. So we're not, you know, we're 150 days.
And as long as our buyers know we're moving forward with entitlements, because we are, we're actually showing them and we're communicating to them, like over going above and beyond, then they give you more time.
Right. Because, and I think that's the half of the battle with almost anything is just whether it's investor relationships, dealing with municipalities, dealing with, you know, contracts, it's communication. Yeah. People just want to know what's up.
And you can do it in any asset class. It doesn't have to be storage. We started by just finding big lots in a town, right? And if you just know that an R1 lot is this frontage and this lot size, well, then just go find a lot that's twice as big. And you sever the thing in the middle.
Well, one of the things that too helps is just using local civil engineers and relying on local, uh planning consultants and that that is part part of it too because they can navigate a little better exactly they know who to talk to and and like
I'm saying this in the same sense that I don't know that it's actually that important, but they just know the nuance that we don't, that would probably make it take us three to four months later because we'd screw up a few things. Yeah, dude, for sure. That is a lot of money that you could be deferring down the line.
Oh, that's totally true.
Just to be fun. I'll throw the stupid in there. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, not really stupid, but I just think it's funny. Yeah. So I'd be stupid, especially when I was drunk.
Yeah.
I wasn't like, I mean, it was literally John, like it's not even may. So it hasn't been two years. Um, Yeah. Well, when I quit drinking, okay. So before this, you know, like I realized it was in 2021, I did the 75 day hard. And so again, a professional drinker, right? We had the big boat at home and that's what we lived on. And so it was like Thursday to Monday drinking every day.
And I was just tired. And I saw one of my buddies do the 75 day hard. And I'm like, what's that? And he tells me the rules. I repeat the rules to my wife. One is not drinking. And she laughed her ass off. She's like, there is no way in hell. Like I've been drinking since I was 14 and I'm like, I know I'm scared too. Right. But I was just like, I was just done.
And the people that I was hanging around was just like, just limiting like, And I just knew it. I'm like, the conversations are the same, right? We're not, you know, they're not doing anything near what I'm doing. You know, I'm the top of the pole here. And so I went and did this thing and I changed my mindset. I changed my body. I became a better dad, blah, blah, blah, all those things. Right.
And took the family to Costa Rica, had the courage to do that. So I just had this clarity and stuff. And then, so when we got back from Costa Rica, back into Canada in 2021, they locked us back down. And that's what really triggered us to come to the U S cause I said to my wife, like next winter, we're going away, but we're going to the U S and we're going to scale life and business there.
And so went back and hung around the same people, start drinking again, just like I was everything kind of, you know, went back to normal, same old thing. Right. Well, then I said, okay, well, I'm going to get back into fitness because the 75 hard was the thing that kept me clean and sober. And I wasn't a raging alcoholic. I was just like everybody else, right?
And so I did a couple of half Ironmans and that worked. I'm like, perfect. I'm focused on that. I'm not drinking as much, you know, more focused on business, being a better dad, better communicator. Well, then all that stuff I just told you happened with the bleeding of the money, the company, the interest rates going through the roof. And eventually I just came to my wits end.
And I just, my dad also died at 73, just not too long ago, like a year before. And he started drinking at 50 years old and did all that damage by the time he was like 65. Right. Just like heavy drinking. Right. And I just realized like I just looked inside myself and I saw my daughters like they're going to follow whatever I do. Yeah. I was literally sitting on my boat.
We have a 53 foot boat in the Exumas looking out the back and I'm bleeding. The business is bleeding to death. And I just like I just said tomorrow's the last day I'm drinking. And I told my wife that, and that was the decision. I made it. And it wasn't harder than that. And then from there, I went to Kent's office, and I also started training for a 50-mile run.
So I think the running that we'll get into here in a second was the thing that replaced the boost. And it gave me that thing to focus on. It kind of silenced the mind.
See, I probably weighed about as much as I do now, like 205, but I was just like poofy. The wrong 205. Yeah, the wrong 205. I was just poofy.
My knees are garbage.
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