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Brandon Brittingham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1330 total appearances

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Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

charging them between 20 and 30 annualized return which i know sounds too good to be true but if you understand how that works by the time they get that ground ready and sold off and they have their let's call it 50 profit the interest rate that i charge for that 12 months actually becomes about a two percent interest on the entire project yeah yeah it's nominal but a bank still won't do it that's why you have alternative investors like us right and uh

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

charging them between 20 and 30 annualized return which i know sounds too good to be true but if you understand how that works by the time they get that ground ready and sold off and they have their let's call it 50 profit the interest rate that i charge for that 12 months actually becomes about a two percent interest on the entire project yeah yeah it's nominal but a bank still won't do it that's why you have alternative investors like us right and uh

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Which we get to, much like you, we get to proudly say that we've never missed a quarterly distribution. We've never paid less than the preferred interest that we've offered. We've had six profit-sharing interest quarters in a row.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Which we get to, much like you, we get to proudly say that we've never missed a quarterly distribution. We've never paid less than the preferred interest that we've offered. We've had six profit-sharing interest quarters in a row.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

And what we've helped, LTV, which is another important factor, is this $75 million that we've raised for my strategic partners, they're now sitting on $1.5 billion of retail ground in their pipeline. Yeah. So at 50% of that, that's $750 million. So I've got a 10% LTV against the profits that they're expecting. So it's, man, it doesn't get much better than that.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

And what we've helped, LTV, which is another important factor, is this $75 million that we've raised for my strategic partners, they're now sitting on $1.5 billion of retail ground in their pipeline. Yeah. So at 50% of that, that's $750 million. So I've got a 10% LTV against the profits that they're expecting. So it's, man, it doesn't get much better than that.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

So this is, you know, this is obviously a very profitable niche that you've discovered and really been able to leverage it and make it work really well. You know, how did you figure this out? Like, you know, this isn't. And when you think investing in real estate, you don't wake up usually and say, hey, I'm going to go after dirt and figure this out. It's a great play. I've done it.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

So this is, you know, this is obviously a very profitable niche that you've discovered and really been able to leverage it and make it work really well. You know, how did you figure this out? Like, you know, this isn't. And when you think investing in real estate, you don't wake up usually and say, hey, I'm going to go after dirt and figure this out. It's a great play. I've done it.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Not at the skill you've done it, but to your point, we were doing developments and I had a couple of nationals come knock on our door and say, hey, before you start that next one, we'll buy the ground from you at X. And I said, shit, I can't build the houses and make that much money. Right. So how did you I mean, how did you figure this out? Was it a deal that you did? It was just an idea you had.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Not at the skill you've done it, but to your point, we were doing developments and I had a couple of nationals come knock on our door and say, hey, before you start that next one, we'll buy the ground from you at X. And I said, shit, I can't build the houses and make that much money. Right. So how did you I mean, how did you figure this out? Was it a deal that you did? It was just an idea you had.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Like, how did you get to this point?

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Like, how did you get to this point?

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

So it was a combination of a few things, and we called a little bit of dumb luck that we kind of fell into it, but fell into it and then realized that. It was like a light bulb moment. And it was one specific piece of ground.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

So it was a combination of a few things, and we called a little bit of dumb luck that we kind of fell into it, but fell into it and then realized that. It was like a light bulb moment. And it was one specific piece of ground.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

It was a piece of ground that we called the Oneida parcel out in Charlotte, North Carolina, which, by the way, our strategic partners were operating in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Texas currently. we have the ability to scale this across the country with, and we sell to 14 of the top 25 national builders in the country. And they're always begging us to come to their markets.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

It was a piece of ground that we called the Oneida parcel out in Charlotte, North Carolina, which, by the way, our strategic partners were operating in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Texas currently. we have the ability to scale this across the country with, and we sell to 14 of the top 25 national builders in the country. And they're always begging us to come to their markets.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Like I can't raise capital fast enough. You know, you have to give me some time, but it was one piece of ground. It was going to be 99 townhomes. We picked it up for $3 million from the bank, a legacy lot, you know, from the 2008 collapse and no sooner than we bought it, Ryan Holmes, their rep, Tim Samuels came to us and said, hey, we were getting ready to buy that ground.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

Like I can't raise capital fast enough. You know, you have to give me some time, but it was one piece of ground. It was going to be 99 townhomes. We picked it up for $3 million from the bank, a legacy lot, you know, from the 2008 collapse and no sooner than we bought it, Ryan Holmes, their rep, Tim Samuels came to us and said, hey, we were getting ready to buy that ground.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

And our partner, Lindsey Jarvis said, well, you're too old, too fat and too slow, I guess. And he tracked us down and he's like, look, if you ever want to sell it, call us first. And we were sitting on it. We were building other stuff, single family homes and some scattered lots and some smaller parcels we're working on.

Wake Up to Wealth
The Secret of Investing in Dirt with Brandon Rooks

And our partner, Lindsey Jarvis said, well, you're too old, too fat and too slow, I guess. And he tracked us down and he's like, look, if you ever want to sell it, call us first. And we were sitting on it. We were building other stuff, single family homes and some scattered lots and some smaller parcels we're working on.