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@Nutural1234 @ShawnRyan762 Ah, I understand what you’re saying now. Sorry you went through that.

@OggieO @ShawnRyan762 I listed the main concern. Putting a bunch of traumatized children or adults together causes more trauma, not healing. Healing involves being around better people/better environment with room to grow and overcome.

Foster Mom Exposes the Demonic Fraud Inside Foster Care “She goes, ‘Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month on foster care.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, because I have this many kids.’ She goes, ‘Here’s the thing. You want to make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up. Every time they don’t pass a grade, your rate goes up because they’re a more difficult kid. Every time they need medication, your rate goes up.’” @jen_lilley

@Nutural1234 @ShawnRyan762 Did you have bad foster homes? Is there something that could have been done differently that would have messed you up less? I ask to understand. My wife and I fostered and adopted two kids. And while I’m biased, I feel we provided a stable and loving environment.

@ShawnRyan762 Foster care messed me up way more than my own parents. It’s not natural or right to put a bunch of messed up people together and expect great results. The same goes for the prison system.

@TheSoftWashPro @stevehunsaker1 Is that your story? That’s sad to hear. What happened and what could you have done differently?

@stevehunsaker1 Hello guys in lawsuit right now with PE sounded like it was a sweetheart deal until they got a few years in and realized they are now owned and they can't do anything about it and they're not getting the payout they thought

Are the PE backed companies all greedy bastards or are they actually just the profitable ones?

@stevehunsaker1 @Seth_Parker_ @TheSoftWashPro Is it worth paying the extra 3% that some companies charge to use card? We spend $30k a month in dump fees and if we use card, we’re charged that 3%.

@Seth_Parker_ @TheSoftWashPro My girlfriend and I will fly business class all over Europe this summer for $0 out of pocket on the airfare. It’s one of those business owner perks that I just love to use.

How is everyone traveling via air these days? I’ve always been an Amex/chase point redeemer. Pretty much puts me on American 9/10 times out of AZ. Flew Delta the other day and it was a substantially better experience than American. Have I been incorrectly loyal to American? Should I transition to United/Delta?

@stevehunsaker1 Built our own for Christmas lights, can do mockups, estimates and invoicing. Has some email and text functionality as well. Built using Claude code, works great for us, not sure how it would do for others. Heard potential scaling issues with AI apps

Home service guys, we’re testing new YouTube content. Would love to see some data. Which home service CRM do you use? (If you clicked “other” reply which one you use and one of the replies will get a $25 Home Depot Gift card)

@ianncushing Email

Sending cold emails took my cleaning business from 6 to 7 figures in 2025. Comment "EMAIL" and I will show you exactly how I did it.

@TommiPedruzzi @danclachar How do you check if it’s profitable?

@danclachar What’s the topic? I can check if is profitable

R.I.P. Traditional Real Estate: A New Asset Class Just Landed and it costs $0 to acquire. One of them recently beat a $325,000 rental in pure monthly cash flow. Let me show you something that will change how you think about building wealth forever. Look at this comparison: Left side: A $100,000 property makes around $500 per month. Right side: A simple eBook (a PDF file) made the same $500/month... with no upfront investment. Same income. Completely different game. One requires six figures and years of work. The other needs a laptop and about 30 days. >> Here’s the math Wall Street never talks about. Traditional Real Estate Costs: • Mortgage debt • $5K–$15K in closing costs • Property tax, insurance, legal fees • $20K–$30K for the down payment • $2K–$5K every year for repairs & maintenance Total just to begin: $25,000–$50,000 minimum It’s like running a small business… with risk at every corner. eBook Publishing Costs: • $0 ongoing maintenance • $0 inventory, storage, or shipping • $0–$1,500 one-time production cost • $0 platform fees (Amazon KDP is free) Total to start: A few hundred bucks (or literally nothing if you DIY) You're basically comparing a down payment on a house to the cost of a laptop charger. Plus The Timeline Nobody Tells You Real Estate: At 7% returns, it takes 14+ years to earn back your investment. eBooks: Most books recover their cost in 30–180 days, and are pure profit after that. One path takes until you're middle-aged. The other pays you back before summer ends. >> The Risk Factor Real Estate comes with risk: - Market crashes (2008 anyone?) - Can't sell quickly if you need cash - Legal liability if someone gets hurt - Bad tenants destroying your property - Expensive repairs eating your cash flow eBooks come with almost no risk: Once the book is live on Amazon, it sells 24/7. No repairs, tenants, late-night calls or lawsuits. You create it one time, Amazon handles everything else. One of my students published a single book in June 2022. - No paid ads. - No email list. - No social media following. Just Amazon's search traffic. 22 months later: $41,882 in semi-passive royalties Investment? $800–$1,500 total. Now here's where it gets crazy: To generate $22,000/year from real estate (what this book averaged annually), you'd need to invest $325,000 at a 7% return. That's 300X more capital for the same monthly income. And you'd wait 14 years just to recover your initial investment. The eBook? Paid itself off in 60 days. Then printed cash for 20 more months. >> Another Live Example Right now, there's a simple paperback on Amazon earning $200/day ($6,000/month). The writing? AI + freelancers. The book cover? Made on Canva. The sales page? Amazon's built-in listing. 814 sales per month at $15 = $12,210/month from the paperback format alone. That's one book. To match that income with real estate, you'd need 2–3 rental properties worth $300K+ each. Or... you could publish 10 books and hit the same number in 6 months. If you could find out what people need help with and provide them with the solution in your eBooks... This will be the biggest opportunity for you in 2026. Here's quickly how you can do this yourself: - Find a profitable niche - Use AI to create the book - Publish on Amazon - Let search traffic sell - Collect royalties & repeat. Now you can use that cash to buy your first rental property. Or keep stacking books and replace your 9-to-5 entirely. Your call. >> The Real Difference Traditional investing says: "Save for 20 years, then maybe you can afford to invest." This new asset class says: "Start today with nothing, stack cash fast, then buy whatever you want." One requires wealth to build wealth. The other requires a system and a laptop. I'm not telling you to abandon real estate. I'm telling you to stop waiting for permission to build wealth. Use eBooks to generate capital FASTER. Then invest in hard assets SOONER. That's the play. I've already helped hundreds od people start making their living with this system. And if you want my exact blueprint too... I'm giving away the complete 5-step system my students use to launch profitable books in 30–60 days. Zero fluff or motivational stuff. Just the process that generated $41,882 for a complete beginner. Like this post and Comment "Send" I'll send you the free blueprint. (Must be following so I can DM)

@mhp_guy Which brand does lifetime warranty?

$7900. Lifetime warranty. 290 linear feet. calendly.com/granttldfw/koe…

When you buy a forever home you buy forever home things. Today’s its permanent lighting on the front & side of my house. Not cheap! I expect to “break even” in ~8 years. I’ll be able to use them year round and control the patterns & colors from an app. Any guesses how much? 😅

@stevehunsaker1 That’s our next hire, next year. Do you keep them year round or just hire every season? I thought about trying to get some pest control door to door guys, not to do door to door sales but if you can do D2D, I’d think everything else would be easy.

@OggieO I had 4 sales people at one point this season. Fired one, another one just had a health complication so he’s done for the season. 2 full timers to finish out this last 2 weeks. Why I over hire

November is long and full of terrors

@bprintco Love it! If starting over, what would you start with?

(Early, I know… but when you’re already booked into next year, it counts.) What. A. Year. We kicked off January with one machine, but we knew machine #2 was coming in April when the season kicked off. By the end of May, we had it sitting in the driveway ready to go. And then… It rained. A LOT. Two machines. Fully ready. Sitting idle. Season start delayed a month and a half. Not great. But we kept selling. Kept quoting. Kept stacking jobs. One a day. Per machine. Then suddenly we were booked 4 months out, way too far. So we did the thing you’re not supposed to do: We ran 7 days a week. Jobs kept selling. Machines started breaking. Turns out running 2 machines every single day means… You actually need 3 machines. So we bought another. And jobs STILL kept coming. We raised prices. They still sold. Three machines running nonstop and the schedule is still stretching into the horizon. Leads keep pouring in. Ads off. Still pouring in. At one point I’m driving 1,000 miles a week just doing quotes. We realized: We have to catch up. Four months is too long to tell a customer. So we bought machine #4 and a new truck to haul it. The remote controlled hillside machine. The expensive, risky one. The one we weren’t sure would pay off. Within days, hillside jobs started pouring in. We’re the only company in Cincinnati with one, that alone created its own demand. And the thing is a WORKHORSE. Low ground pressure. Can run in Winter. Can run in wet ground. Doesn’t care what season it is. Basically never stops. Now it’s booked out too. While all this is happening, we streamlined everything. Quoting, scheduling, invoicing, routing. Winter schedule filled up fast. Doors opened to commercial work and government work. The commercial side is already ramping. Our first government job starts next month. This year we did 5× last year’s revenue, even though we lost almost two full months of workable season due to rain. Next year we’ll need: - another haul truck - another trailer - a support truck - and probably another machine (because… obviously) 18 months ago, we started this thing with one machine, no clue what was coming, and one question: How far can we go? What’s possible? We’re still finding out. And honestly… We’re just getting started.

@ashreddy11 @pjmcgeary Hmm. Can you describe the business more? Hearth as in the spot in front of the fireplace? So you’re selling firewood carriers, the poker and brush and such?

@pjmcgeary Well located hearth shops that sell and service hearth products. I bought one as an investment last year and it's doing incredible.

What’s the best hidden gem business? Not stuff that’s huge and obvious. Stuff in the background that’s always there, but no one talks about. I’m talking like owning porta potties or something like that. Interested to see some cool responses 💸

@stevehunsaker1 Do you tell them you’re only keeping 12? Or do they not know they’re competing? Seems like a solid strategy. And if all 20 are good, I’m sure it’ll motivate you to get more work for them so you can afford to keep them!

One of the bigger changes to our company culture: Over hiring every position. needed 12 full time installers? Hired 20. First no-call no-show gets dismissed politely and respectfully Underperforming employees used to hold me hostage. Now culture is competitive and loose

@NoahEpstein_ Replace

Companies paying junior devs $60K/year to build automations are having a very uncomfortable realization right now. Most of what they're paying for can be described in 2 sentences. And this new app builds it in 4 minutes. I watched a startup pay a developer $5,000 for a 3-week project: "Build a system that pulls Typeform submissions, scores leads based on responses, adds qualified leads to Airtable, and notifies sales team in Slack" Took their dev 3 weeks to scope, build, test, and deploy. Here's what that looks like with this app: Sentence 1: "When someone submits my Typeform, score them based on budget and timeline responses" Sentence 2: "If score is above 7, add to Airtable and send notification to '#'sales channel in Slack" 4 minutes later: complete workflow ready to import. The work their dev spent 3 weeks building. Built from 2 sentences. This isn't about developers being slow. It's about 80% of automation work being describable in plain English. The only reason companies need developers is because the tools require technical knowledge to use. This app just removed that requirement. What this actually means: Junior devs building basic automations: that role is cooked. Their entire value prop was "I understand the technical tools." Now anyone who can describe what they want can build it. The companies still paying $60K+ for basic automation work will figure this out. Question is: are you the one telling them, or are you still pretending you need to hire someone? Comment "REPLACE" and I'll send you: ✓ The 10 automation projects companies pay $3-8K for ✓ How to build each one in under 10 minutes ✓ The app that does this + exact setup guide ✓ How to position yourself as the person who knows this exists (Must be following) The junior devs building Typeform → Slack workflows for $5K don't know this app exists yet. But the companies paying them are about to.

@stevehunsaker1 Mine is ‘maintenance’. Too many vowels for my liking…

30 years on this planet… still struggle to spell restaurant without the assistance of technology

@ewastematt We’re looking for a property now to start a transfer station for our dumpster business. Our goal is to separate everything we can, I’d love to learn the e-waste game. We’ve thrown away God knows how many dollars in metals over the years.

The biggest supply chain shortage on earth isn’t oil or chips…it’s the metals trapped in our trash. The world’s tech appetite has outpaced its ability to recycle, and that gap is pure opportunity. Right now, critical material shortages are colliding with record device production, and old recycling systems can’t keep up. Gold, palladium, and rare metals are sitting in landfills while prices surge and regulations tighten. The result is a once-in-a-generation opening for entrepreneurs who can bridge the gap between waste and resources. Barriers to entry are low, margins are rising, and demand is growing daily. The smart play isn’t to wait for policy to catch up. It’s to move now, while the market is still fragmented and wide open.

@stevehunsaker1 @irentdumpsters @andy_wlker Nice! What are you spending on google ads and how many leads are you getting? We did postcards this year but just did it once. Guess we should have ordered more to do it more than once. Haha.

@OggieO 95% residential. 4 crews. Google ads with @irentdumpsters and @andy_wlker Facebook ads in house Postcard mailer campaigns 5-6x to the same houses

Not a single hour of overtime. Weekly install numbers for Christmas lights. I used to say I was capped on installation bandwidth at about $800,000-$1,000,000 a season. I now am fully convinced it was a skill issue and that was a self limiting belief.

@MyGuyServices Lights scaling

🔥🎄Read to the end if you want to scale your Christmas light business from $100K to $500K for just $1. I've had tons of DMs begging for a course on exploding your holiday lights game. Everyone digs the model (killer add-on for home services or a side hustle to crush your 9-5)... But nah, no standalone course from me. There is more! Instead, I'm cracking open my playbook with what rocketed us from $254K year 1 to $1M+ in just 3 years - Dropping: 🔥How to get Commercial Christmas Light Contracts 🔥Full scaling blueprints with automations 🔥Plug-and-play sales & marketing playbooks 🔥Pricing, quoting, and ops SOPs 🔥Backend efficiency tools 🔥Access to my team's templates, calculators, and growth hacks Plus weekly group calls for live coaching – so you're never flying solo... And a buzzing Skool community packed with driven owners gunning for $100K-$500K+ this season. This is the proven system that 5x'd my biz in record time, and what we're using to smash $1.5M+ now. For the X crew only, priority spots in Thursday night group calls (spots filling fast – got a lights empire to build, no cap). If you're done watching others light up their bank accounts with Christmas lights... Comment "LIGHTS SCALING" and I'll DM you the $1 Skool link.

@rampulla_andrew Cool! Thanks. Always love to hear how others operate to learn and improve our own.

@OggieO Will respond to this tomorrow

$16,144 of Christmas lights installed today. 1 crew. (I didn’t touch a bulb). Another $10,370 sold. I can’t even keep up with our install crew. Need to start selling $15-20k/day lol. We’re cranking boys.