Tomas Grizas

🙋‍♂️ Looking to connect with Europe-focused real estate investors. More on that👇

@TimurNegru Incredible! I bet that from an investment perspective it could be both life-changing & super attractive - money, ROI wise - projects, investments.

What's better than the Swiss Alps? The Italian Alps. Same mountains, half the price, better food. Found this estate in Valchiavenna, a few km from the Swiss border. €1.5M ($1.76M): - 7 chalets (3 fully renovated to A3 energy class, 4 more to develop) - 7.4 acres of land, 2 hectares of which is chestnut grove and 1 hectare is berry farm (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants) - a working agritourism with sauna and hot tubs - a small organic food brand called Hunum (honey, beer, juices, natural cosmetics) Lake Como is just south, Lugano (CH) ~1h 50, Milan airports under 2h. St. Moritz, Bormio and Livigno for skiing 1-2.5h depending which one. Same view as St. Moritz across the border, but way cheaper.

@ollieforsyth Vwry interesting & useful, Ollie! I’ve been building a community - both online & IRL - for almost 2 years and it has been - and still is! - one of the greatest experiences so far! Happy to share/chat!

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@gregisenberg So how many domains in total in your domain portfolio? 😉

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We'll soon see the rise of the "Chief Clipping Officers" at companies The person who figures out the 47 second moment inside the 2 hour podcast that gets 10M views Probably will be the highest paid marketing hire of 2027

@MenonSaideep @gregisenberg @tadasgedgaudas that’s your domain I believe 🙂🤜

@gregisenberg I see potential for Chief Yapping Officers as well.

@hispanicnomad @TimurNegru I guess we all wish the same 😊🙏🤜

@TomasGrizas @TimurNegru Yeah we’ll always have some form of government or other I just wish it was less intrusive and cared about our wellbeing

Someone is selling their mountain in Andalucía (Spain). 280 hectares. For €1.5M. That's 692 acres of private wilderness: deer, Ibex, wild boar, partridge - with a 6-bed cortijo built to a high spec 12 years ago. Wine cellar accessed through a hatch in the floor, outdoor kitchen, pool, solar panels, the lot. ~30 minutes from Granada city. Near the Embalse de Colomera. Now here's what makes this interesting beyond the estate itself. There's a constant debate on here about what happens post-AGI. When AI does most of the work, what do people actually do with their time? I think places like this become the answer. A private estate where you can hunt, hike, grow food, entertain, build things, raise animals..basically live a full and physical life. What do you guys think.. is this the best post-AGI investment?

@MikeyPesto Appreciated. Much appreciated, sir.

@TomasGrizas Touché Tomas. Touché.

Anyone running a local newsletter and not hosting their own events should rethink that approach. They are wonderful ways to: 1) Create a new revenue stream 2) Build partnerships with businesses 3) Hang with subscribers 4) And have a darn good time This one is going to be a banger and a wonderful way to raise money to protect our rivers and streams.

@hispanicnomad @TimurNegru I think things like crypto will help/change some things/persoectives, no? There will, of course, be - and should be - certain taxes, etc. But you probably cannot “eliminate” the government 🙂🤷‍♂️

@TimurNegru We just need to convince the government to leave us alone

@TimurNegru It is, without a doubt! 🙂🙏

@TimurNegru @affordihome @anastasia_neg 🙋‍♂️

Would you come here with me this summer to experience Italy and talk real estate?

@TimurNegru @VAHiker2 @affordihome @anastasia_neg What’s the weather like there in July? Not too hot? 😊

@VAHiker2 @affordihome @anastasia_neg at the moment we are thinking of doing it in July but let's see how our planning goes. I'll be sharing more news next week both here and through our newsletter :)

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How to 10x yourself in 2027: - Build 10 side projects - Read 5 books - Eat 90% clean food - Lift weights for 250 days - Go to bed at the same time - No alcohol Reply to commit

@simonasbartkus @LTairports An interesting/useful add to this would be how many passengers used each of the airports just for transit. Hut half a mil for both LT & Riga per MONTH are pretty impressive numbers!

Let's check the last month of December in Baltic airports: Vilnius Airport: 378K pax, +18% y-o-y; Kaunas Airport: 120K pax, -2%; Palanga Airport: 37K pax, +14%; @LTairports total: 535K pax, +13%. Riga Airport: 559K pax, -5%; Tallinn Airport: 287K pax, +9%.

@ecomchigga Love it! Thanks a lot for putting so much effort into helping others! This post of yours gave me lots of clarity & inspo to push things even more! AND launch an onoi e product (aside from all the other business activities)!

met a guy at a coworking space 3 months ago who was completely broke and stressed out of his mind. laptop held together with tape. drinking the free coffee like his life depended on it. we started talking. "I've been trying to make money online for 2 years bro. nothing works." what have you tried "everything. dropshipping. crypto. affiliate stuff. even tried selling feet pics as a joke." and? "down like $4K total. my girlfriend thinks I'm an idiot." I asked what he was actually good at. "I mean I'm pretty good at excel. like really good. my old job I basically ran the whole company's spreadsheets." bro. "what" you've been trying to sell feet pics when you're an excel wizard? "nobody pays for excel stuff" I pulled up gumroad on my phone. searched excel templates. showed him accounts doing $5K-$15K/month selling spreadsheet templates to businesses. he went quiet for a second. "wait these are just spreadsheets?" yeah. spreadsheets. "I could make these in my sleep" that's the point. we talked for 2 more hours. I broke down everything. saw him again last week. different guy. new laptop. bought me coffee this time. "$8,400 last month bro" from spreadsheets? "from spreadsheets." he showed me his gumroad. budget templates. project trackers. invoice systems. stuff he said was "basic" and "anyone could do." **here's what most people miss:** your "basic" knowledge is advanced to someone else. the stuff you think everyone knows? they don't. I thought everyone knew how to write tweets that sell. then I made a product about it and people paid $50 because they genuinely didn't know. your curse of knowledge is hiding your goldmine. **the conversation that changes everything:** ask yourself: what do people ask me for help with? what do I explain to friends repeatedly? what feels "too easy" to charge for? that's your product. my excel guy had coworkers asking him for spreadsheet help for years. he helped them free. never thought to charge. meanwhile strangers on the internet were paying $39 for templates worse than his. **the skill stack most people ignore:** you don't need to be world-class at one thing. you need to be decent at a combination of things. excel + finance knowledge = budget templates for small businesses design + social media = canva templates for creators writing + cold outreach = email scripts for salespeople organization + adhd understanding = notion systems for neurodivergent people the intersection is where money hides. **what makes digital products actually sell:** talked to probably 200+ people selling digital products this year. the winners all had these things: 1. specific audience (not "entrepreneurs" but "freelance copywriters") 2. specific problem (not "be more productive" but "stop losing track of client invoices") 3. specific outcome (not "improve your business" but "save 5 hours per week on admin") specific. specific. specific. I'm gonna keep saying it because people keep ignoring it. **the product spectrum:** from easiest to hardest: templates: lowest effort, solid margins, people want done-for-them swipe files: just organized examples, stupid easy to make checklists: people pay to not forget steps guides: your knowledge organized, 15-30 pages max mini courses: video but short, 8-12 lessons full courses: only after you've proven demand most people start with courses. that's like trying to run a marathon before you can jog. start with templates or swipe files. graduate up. **the pricing reality:** had another conversation last month with a girl selling notion templates. "I charge $12 because I don't want to seem greedy" how many you selling per month? "like 40-50" so $500/month? "yeah roughly" what if you charged $35? "nobody would pay that" I showed her competitors charging $45 for worse templates. she raised to $35 the next week. sold 38 copies that month. $1,330. fewer sales. 2.5x the revenue. she texted me last week. raised again to $44. still selling. **the underpricing epidemic:** you're not being humble by charging $9. you're telling customers your product probably sucks. price is a signal. $9 = "this is probably garbage but try it" $35 = "this has real value" $50+ = "this person knows their stuff" I've literally had products sell MORE at higher prices. not a little more. significantly more. **the content game:** nobody buys from strangers. they buy from people they've been watching for weeks. the content builds trust. the product monetizes trust. skip the content = no trust = no sales my content ratio: 40% teaching (stuff related to what I sell) 30% stories (my journey, conversations like this one) 20% engaging (opinions, questions, relatable stuff) 10% selling (actual CTAs) most people do 50% selling. that's why most people make nothing. **what my excel guy did differently:** he didn't start with a product. he started with content. posted about excel tips for 6 weeks. built 1,800 followers. people kept asking "do you have a template for this?" he made what they asked for. sold $3,200 first month. let them tell you what to build. **the DM approach:** he also DMed people who engaged multiple times. not "hey buy my template" just "hey saw you're into spreadsheet stuff. what are you working on?" real conversations. some turned into sales. some turned into product ideas. some turned into nothing. but the ones that converted? easy sales. they already trusted him. **the audience building secret:** replies > posts when you're starting. my guy spent his first month mostly replying to bigger accounts in the productivity space. thoughtful replies. not "great post!" garbage. actual insights that made people click his profile. built his first 1,000 followers almost entirely from replies. then his own posts started getting traction. borrowed audiences before he built his own. **the recurring revenue play:** his newest move: subscription templates. $15/month for a new template pack every month. has 180 subscribers now. $2,700/month recurring. before any one-time sales. that's rent covered automatically. **what changed for him:** 3 months ago: down $4K, girlfriend thought he was an idiot, laptop held with tape now: $8K months, girlfriend helps with customer support, new macbook same guy. same skills. different vehicle. he didn't suddenly get smarter. he just pointed his existing skills at something that actually works. **the real lesson:** you probably already have a profitable skill. you're just either: - giving it away free - not packaging it properly - selling it to the wrong people - pricing it like you don't believe in it - not talking about it enough my excel guy had everything he needed 2 years ago. he just didn't see it. **what happens when you see it:** - you stop chasing trends - you stop buying courses hoping for secrets - you start creating instead of consuming - you package what you know - you talk about it daily - you make money it's not complicated. but simple isn't easy. **the timeline reality:** month 1-2: posting, building, feels pointless month 3-4: small wins, first sales, starting to click month 5-6: momentum, consistency paying off month 7-12: real income, systems running my guy is month 4. $8K and growing. by month 12 he'll probably be at $15-20K if he doesn't quit. he won't quit. he's seen it work now. seeing it work changes everything. **what you should do tomorrow:** 1. list 5 things people ask your help with 2. pick the one you could explain in your sleep 3. write 10 tweets about problems related to that thing 4. post them over the next few days 5. watch which ones resonate 6. make a simple product solving that problem 7. tell people it exists that's literally the whole game. not more complicated than that. **the question to ask yourself:** what's your excel? what do you know that feels basic to you but confusing to others? what have you been giving away that you could package and sell? it's there. you just haven't looked properly.

@emra_cc So! What's the update? ;)

The property first went to auction in 2024 with a starting price of €2,647,008. After several unsold rounds and structural decay, the value collapsed to a €615,000 starting bid. Only 2 bidders joined the final auction. I'm waiting for the final price reveal.

135 hectares of land sold at a closed bankruptcy auction. Starting bid €615,000, roughly €0.45 per m² for hills, olive groves, forests and a 1900s noble villa. One of the extremer cases of undervaluation and value distortion I’ve seen. 📍Moiano | Umbria 🇮🇹

@somecuriousgirl @TimurNegru It's only about their birth rate. Both small and big (institutional) capital will start flowing in more & more (as the price arbitrage, etc., is obvious) & thoughtful investments (buying underpriced boutique hotels as an example) will generate sweet ROI.

@TimurNegru yes, Italian real estate is really cheap. Question is if that will change, considering their very low birth rates.

Under one hour from Milan and comes with 4,000 m2 private park. 1920 Period Villa in Santa Giuletta - 364 m2 house and 92 m2 rustic buildings. Needs love but the potential is there. €190k ($220k)

@thealepalombo This is definitely a direction! I also think (especially coming from a real estate background) that even without the initiatives (taxes, etc.), Italy is underrated - especially its real estate. Add various (global/online/IRL) communities and...you definitely have something!

Moving to Italy from 2026 onward may look different. Tax exemption regimes already exist, and a new idea is taking shape: temporary citizens. Bureaucracy remains the bottleneck, but concrete proposals are emerging, including a simplified digital nomad visa. I just read a long, policy-focused report pointing in this direction and framing Italy as more open to slowmadism. One proposal stands out: legal stays of 4–5 months without full relocation or tax residency. In parallel, the narrative around rural co-living is solidifying and could translate into targeted legislative exemptions. I see two clear use cases. First, people who want to try rural Italy while working remotely for 6–12 weeks (I’d test this myself). Second, tech-driven, temporary pop-up villages with a defined mission (also very interesting to me). A friend bought a small village (around 20 houses, if I well remember) for a distributed-hotel model. It could be a perfect testbed. If Italy introduced an NHR-style regime for people relocating to small villages, it could become a magnet for remote talent. Would you spend 2–3 months in a co-living village in Italy in ’26?

@anastasia_neg Also Italian Alps: how about a box of bubbly to celebrate your new purchase? 🙂

Me: Can't afford a house. Italian Alps: Hold my prosecco The coolest real estate deal in Italy, literally. - 200m² renovated chalet - 2 beds + proper wine cellar - Garden with Alpine views - Ski resort: 6.6km away - €160,000

@andruyeung @meetfibe Great idea & inspiration! Now I gotta think about some merch - and words! - for my community!

When I first started @meetfibe, we made and gave out hundreds of these shirts to our community The shirts say "Be Kind" in massive white text, you can't miss it Bc we realized that if you live in a busy place like New York, it's easy to forget to be human sometimes (everyone is so damn busy and living in their own world) So we gave these out to everyone at our events as a reminder. Since then, our mantra has always been to Be Kind Anyway … whatever you’re up to today, I hope you have a great day and remember to be kind

@MikeyPesto I’m actually selling event tickets and that way gettings subscribers 😊🙏📩

REVENUE / GROWTH EXPERIMENT: Instead of running ads for subscribers then selling product, I’m running ads to the product then driving signups. Results: day 3, ads are crappy and still in learning phase. $52 spent $600 in sales. Promising. $200 today before I had coffee.