Thomas Rohlader

@AngryCitizenxx You’ve got this!

For those of you who've just recently stumbled upon me; I am on day 16 of my sobriety journey. A little over a year ago I lost my Newborn son Isaiah at 53 days of age to a contaminated vaccine. Since that day I spent nearly every waking hour completely and utterly wasted spiralling into the the most abhorrent version of myself. Here's me building myself back up. Let's do this together.

@bairdk Big baller stuff, love the transparency as always!

The sad story of two crappy self-storage deals... sourced on-market via LoopNet, bought near the peak in 2022 and 2023 at 5.8% and 5.6% going-in cap rates, sold this week at 9.2% and 8.5% exit cap rates, but managed to return 22.2% cash on cash, 67.8% IRR, 5.1x MOIC, and $1.8m net proceeds to roll via 1031 exchange into a $6.5m purchase of less-crappy assets in a less-crappy market. Property 1 Purchased: Sep ‘22 Price: $1,000,000 Initial Investment & Capex: $81,597 Cashflow (after debt svc): $188,466 Annualized Cash on Cash: 63.0% Sale Price: $1,750,000 Net Proceeds: $861,047 MOIC: 12.9x IRR: 128.4% Property 2 Purchased : April ‘23 Price: $1,400,000 Initial Investment & Capex: $337,799 Cashflow (after debt svc): $152,613 Annualized Cash on Cash Return: 14.7% Sale Price: $2,000,000 Net Proceeds @ Sale: $940,340 MOIC: 3.2x IRR: 48.7% *Fun Fact: I have only ever seen this property in photos, never in person. Combined Hold Period: 44 months Initial Investment & Capex: $419,396 Cashflow (after debt svc): $341,079 Annualized Cash on Cash Return: 22.2% Principal Paid Down: $174,916 Net Proceeds: $1,801,387 MOIC: 5.11x IRR: 67.8% Okay, not that sad. The actual sad part: I was originally under contract to sell for $4.1m early last year. Buyer's primary business was imports. Tariff Day cratered the deal the day before DD ended. They came back after a few months at a lower price, I begrudgingly agreed, they couldn't close after multiple extensions, left me with $20,000 hard earnest money (not included in my return metrics). I'm not sad. It all worked out perfectly in the end. Why did I sell? You get rich by holding forever, right? 1) I enjoy most the part of adding value. I added my value. Stabilized is boring. 2) I'm making a deliberate effort to consolidate and expand my portfolio closer to my home market. Figured I could find some deals closer to home (and I did). These were an outlier in my portfolio. 3) The sold properties were generating a combined 8% cash return on net equity and 11% if you also consider principal being paid down. I can do better (read on). Now the deal I'm rolling proceeds into: 100k sq ft across 3 locations in my home market, where I am already the largest single owner of storage. Sourced via a multi-year courting process, consummated magically 3 weeks before close of this sale. $6.5m purchase price, $65/sf, in a market with comps for well-run assets that are, um, higher than that. Conservatively, I expect to generate 16-23% cash flow return on the rolled proceeds and 20-30% if principal pay down is considered. Double the returns if I just held. May 27 close, $150,000 earnest money hard (from the start). Let's f_cking go. I'll leave you with something that gives me a lot of pride - what these deals were doing before they were mine, what I told my lenders they would do, and what they actually did. Mic drop.

NEVER DOOM.

The one debt you can’t ever pay off ? Your insurance premiums. You literally will pay an insurance premium monthly, till you die. But we don’t look at it like it’s a debt paid to an insurance company that will do all it possibly can never spend it on your care. We are working on a non -insurance solution. The day HSAs no longer require an insurance policy, it all will change. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/health…

@TheSalonDon That’s really tough

The difficult thing about managing people is When do you push them And when do you baby them Obviously I need a manager to handle these tasks without complaining But “I’m overwhelmed” is a huge cry for help

@vrexec This is a banger

I like Jay. I do think you can do both. There are a lot of young people who might be inspired by this, and should be. But, again, as with everything in life... there's nuance. For one, it's important to know when to stop chasing accomplishments. Second, one should never deify or idolize another person. Anyone, no exceptions. Nadal is a great champion, but battled anxiety and nearly walked away from tennis to preserve his mental health. He achieved greatness... but as he defines it, I'm sure. That's wonderful. But honestly, how often do you think about him? Taylor Swift has battled her own inner demons and depression... literally wrote a song about faking happiness while suffering internally. Alexander the Great died at 32 because he literally could not stop conquering. His army begged him to go home. He refused until they mutinied. His only legitimate son was born after he died and was murdered at 14. His empire collapsed immediately Cleopatra kylt herself at 39 to avoid being humiliated by Rome. Her eldest son was executed. Her remaining children were paraded through the streets of Rome in chains. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake at 19 years old. The king she helped crown made no serious effort to save her. Isaac Newton is known for calculus and gravity, but the majority of his life was actually spent chasing alchemy and trying to decode biblical prophecy, and he died alone at 84. He had no children. Think about all these stories when thinking about your own life and what matters to you. Deify no one.

@mindofachaser This is 100% real

For the record, I believe this 100%. Anyone who’s been following me for a while knows I get deep into my own mind on here sometimes. What they are talking about in that video is that point in consciousness where you truly understand, see, and feel the world in seemingly otherworldly ways. Energy. Frequency. Vibration. You can’t really explain it, unless you’re talking to someone who also sees it. @xansnds is one of those that understands. I’ve had some good conversations with him about it. @yachtandstock is another who understands in his own sense. For me, I’ve finally realized how I can use this understanding to my advantage in life. Instincts. Manifestations. Bending reality at your will. Understanding different realms and levels of consciousnesses at the flip of a switch. You ever have those moments like “oh I was just thinking about that person and they texted me”? Imagine that, even more specific, and way more often. I’m still figuring out this part of my mind and life, writing it out like this helps a lot. This post might not make any sense to 99% of you reading. And this post probably sounds like complete non-sense. But that’s okay, because I’m just journaling and idgaf. Lol.

during soccer at high school I just couldn't get my head in the game and I told the coach to take me out because, "I couldn't give 100%" He then said to me, "I've never seen you give 100%” That happened 10+ years ago and any competitive event I'm in I can hear his voice saying that clear as day. Doesn't matter if I'm finishing a set of heavy squats or doing a pick-up game of basketball, I always hear it.

@mindofachaser @_apryor Facts

@_apryor Can’t take any chances.

Unashamed to admit I reply with "thank you" and "please" to LLM's

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. Thats for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

HAVE MORE FUN THAN ANYONE ELSE AND YOU WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE

@WorkflowWhisper RETAINER

the 10 most profitable workflows local businesses are buying right now. i've built 47 of these in the last 3 weeks using synta. here's what they pay, what each does, and how fast they deploy: → missed call text-back ($800-1,500) - 3 min client gets a reply in 60 seconds instead of never calling back → review request automation ($500-1,200) - 4 min google reviews triple within the first month → appointment no-show recovery ($1,200-2,500) - 5 min recovers 30-40% of lost revenue automatically → AI receptionist + call routing ($2,000-4,000) - 8 min 24/7 coverage. zero missed calls. zero salaries. → instant quote generator ($1,500-3,000) - 7 min response time drops from 2 days to 2 minutes → client onboarding sequence ($1,800-3,500) - 9 min forms, doc collection, payments - one workflow handles all of it → invoice follow-up + payment recovery ($1,000-2,000) - 4 min late payments drop by 60% without a single awkward phone call → social proof collector ($600-1,200) - 3 min auto-requests testimonials and publishes to google/socials → lead scoring + routing ($1,500-3,000) - 6 min hot leads hit your phone. cold leads get nurtured automatically. → weekly owner dashboard ($1,200-2,500) - 5 min revenue, reviews, leads, appointments - one email every monday morning average build time: 5.4 minutes. average revenue per workflow: $1,750. close rate when you build it live in front of them: 70%. every single one self-heals through synta's MCP. no debugging. no maintenance calls from clients at 11pm. i put together a free PDF with: → all 10 copy-paste prompts (word for word what i type into synta) → pricing calculator by complexity + industry → the live demo script that closes 7 out of 10 → objection handling for "i'll think about it" → synta MCP setup walkthrough (5 min) comment "RETAINER" and i'll send it. synta(.)io - describe the workflow in plain english. it builds, deploys, and fixes itself. (must be following for DM)

@WorkflowWhisper OPUS

opus 4.6 just mass-produced what consultants sell for $103,500. 10 prompts. 65 minutes. instant n8n workflows. i tested every one with opus 4.6 + synta's MCP connected to my instance. no debugging. no node dragging. no JSON. describe it. deployed. running. here's what each prompt builds: 1. lead enrichment + scoring pipeline - 4 min 2. competitor price monitoring with AI analysis - 8 min 3. full client onboarding (form to invoice) - 11 min 4. voice AI receptionist with call routing - 9 min 5. content repurposing engine (1 blog to 6 platforms) - 6 min 6. invoice recovery + follow-up system - 5 min 7. daily CEO dashboard from 4 data sources - 7 min 8. cold outreach sequencer with personalization - 8 min 9. review response drafter + publisher - 3 min 10. meeting no-show rescuer with rebooking - 4 min every workflow self-healed on first run. opus 4.6 caught the errors, searched for fixes, applied them, re-tested. zero human intervention. i put everything in a free PDF: - 10 copy-paste prompts (word for word) - build times vs consultant pricing for each - opus 4.6 + synta MCP setup guide (5 min) - the 2-message framework i use for 100% completion comment "OPUS" and i'll send it. (following required for DM)

@DoctorDirtNasty @McMasterDaily No you would not have… coming from someone who did. Awful place to work. Check out Glassdoor review for more info

my absolute biggest regret in life is phoning in and interview for a rotational program at mcmaster in college. i had never heard of them and they didn’t really seem sexy after a quick google. so it got deprioritized and i showed up late completely unprepared. would have loved to start a career there in hindsight.

I've been to one of the McMaster-Carr warehouses for a pickup order and tried to see what crazy stuff they use to fulfill orders so quickly. There's no magic sauce, just competence.

why not just raise income tax rates? because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”. you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens. you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.) the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen. the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure. it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking. that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all. i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%. want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes. want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/…

real shit

Mike Green (@profplum99) and I rarely agree on anything, but this piece he wrote is a must-read for every person in business or finance. One of those things you read and then can't unsee what you learned. yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-li…

Conor Neill literally exposed why smart people stay broke: