Max Armand | Real Estate

I would go to the bank and pick up $2M+ in cashiers checks every morning. It was 2011 and I was 22 years old. Checks in hand, I would hop in my green 1997 4Runner SR5 (loved that truck), light a cigarette (😮‍💨🤢), and drive to the courthouse. Dozens of investors from all over San Diego would be crowded around the auctioneers, awaiting that days foreclosure sales to hit the block. After reading off the postponements and cancellations, the game was on. Headset in my ear, I’d call the war room and relay what property was up for sale to my Auction Director. In the war room, a team of Agents were pumping out resale values. Assistants were reviewing Title chains and property photos. And the Director would be calculating our numbers, relaying to me in real-time how much to bid on the property for sale. My favorite phrase was “add a hundred”, the minimum amount allowed for the next bid. It bought the team time to further evaluate the purchase, and more time always meant we were going to push our bid higher. There was nothing like the rush of being in a competitive bidding battle. And I always felt like a boss being the winning bidder. A 22 year-old kid signing over $300-400k per house, handing millions of dollars per day to the auctioneer. After a year as our courthouse Runner, I moved into the office as an Assistant. After a year as an Assistant, and after getting my Broker’s license, I was promoted to Director. Over the next year+, from 2013-2014, I green-lit the purchase of over 700 houses across SoCal at live and online auctions. This was all my first job in Real Estate.

I set up an AI Assistant that has her own email address. She is linked to my Task Management systems (Todoist + Google Sheets) and is trained on all my past emails and my tone of voice. The goal is that she’ll be CC’d on all showing requests, offer submissions, escrow emails, etc. Claude has full access to her email address with authority to Draft (not Send, yet) email responses immediately, and have them sitting in my outbox. So I’ll simply have to review the responses and either hit Send, or edit then Send. For simple things like showing requests, I’ll set her up to just auto-respond with pre-set instructions.

A cool AI product/company would index whatever expertise/knowledge you have, record every phone call, every email, watch and film you every second for like a year and then create an AI agent that you can sell to end users for a discounted monthly price

@jamesonhaslam Let’s sell your place and find you a fixer you can renovate.

just realized I have to move after putting all this work into my house 😔 (I don’t have enough space for all the fruit trees I want to plant)

@CarolWalshReal1 4 Pending, 10 Active (2 Under Contract), and listing 4 new ones within the next 5 days.. staying busy!

@MaxArmand 10!?

Pro tip: With 10+ active listings I’ll get dozens of showings requests per day… so I set up text replacement for each property to quickly respond with a standardized response.

@AdamRapoport General > Keyboard > Text Replacement Then in Phrase type your message, and set the shortcut to #(XYZ). I just use the first 3 letters of the street address

@MaxArmand Is that done on iPhone? If so how just wondering how.

@aeste015 Haha yeah I’m a 1-man operation and bandwidth is wearing thin… 4 in escrow, 10 active, and listing 4 more next week! 😄

@MaxArmand Beast! I have 4 and damn is tough, working them, prospecting new businesses, and the boring admin stuffs.

@GuidoMotorz duurrrrr Joe Rogan dduurrr

@MaxArmand Joe rogan saved 26 million dollars in taxes on his first contract, he moved before he signed. Just sounds like a SMART move to me.

Moving from SoCal to Texas because of taxes is the most beta move imaginable

@ViralManager Right after they experience one Texas summer and get their first property tax bill

@MaxArmand they always come back

@BigtyneMonte2 Go spend a weekend on The Strand in Hermosa Beach and see if this opinion changes

@MaxArmand CA isn't worth paying double in taxes anymore

@striderx41 Being so weak that you downgrade your quality of life because of politics is beta

@MaxArmand "getting fiscally raped by the government is alpha"

@charliemikepath Can’t imagine being so weak that I’d let politics control my life like that. Def not alpha

@MaxArmand Right, you should move out of CA to TX because of the politics. That is the alpha move.

@lolwutok69 lol wut ok

@MaxArmand Not when you’re making real money you broke fuck.

@SVP_of_Retail Valid

@MaxArmand What if they are moving for affordability, safety and job opportunity?

@jamesonhaslam @TrinityBuildDFW Stopped thinking of one after I read this comment because it can’t be beat

@TrinityBuildDFW Increíble

what is a good name for a luxury chicken coop? Cock of the Walk? McNugget Mansion? Pollo Palace?

@ThinkAppraiser @winwithyotta Ask Graham Stephan

Does anybody have any update on Yotta Bank? @winwithyotta They still have all my money frozen for almost 2 years Does anybody have any update on anything regarding this company or evolve or synapse?

@REExchangor Did today. Looks like they’re gonna send an amended payoff to eat the $15k

@MaxArmand May wanna email his bank. Yes, his bank.

I’m in Escrow with a Buyer, and we are dealing with a non-cooperative Seller. He’s a flipper who is underwater on the sale, has refused to bring in the necessary funds into Escrow to close, and is ghosting his agent. Tonight, I’m going to email his mom. Yes, his mom.

@Kevin_Root Feel like you’d want to round the countertop corners, or deal with a lot of hip bruises

How do we feel about kitchen islands placed at 45°?

@ccmembersonly Don’t think my owner-occ Buyer has the cajones for that

@aremuhknee She’s the Broker of Record at his family RE company

@MaxArmand Don’t email his mom bro, wtf is that gonna do? I know what it’s like to want a deal to close-spend the energy finding another deal while this one works itself out.