On the show today we talk… Working Full Time from the Road with Jennifer Beadles & Joe Bauer!
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Show Links:
– Jennifer Beadles Instagram
– Our last podcast with Jennifer SeattleInvestorsClub.com/110
– AgentsInvest.com
– AddictedtoROI.com and on Facebook
– Joe Bauer’s Instagram
– Joe’s the Get Better Project and The Vantastic Life websites
– AllStays app
– FreeCamping.net
Show notes for Working Full Time from the Road with Jennifer Beadles & Joe Bauer!
The Vantastic Life is…
– is at Crystal Mountain Ski Resort
Joe Bauer:
Welcome to The Nuts & Bolts of Real Estate Investing Podcast. My name is Joe Bauer and I’m here with my cohost, Julie Clark. Julie, how you doing today?
Julie Clark:
What’s up guys? I got my morning gear, Pacific Northwest hat. I don’t know RV. I’m trying to hang with you guys on our topic today. So, I am doing all good in the hood, Joe. How are you doing? You and Jennifer Beadles here, what’s up?
Jennifer Beadles:
Hello, hello.
Julie Clark:
Not in the… I say in the house, but actually not [crosstalk 00:00:43]-
Jennifer Beadles:
In the RV.
Julie Clark:
… in the RV. Yeah, it’s going to be fun today, guys. We’re chilling it. Old school here today, different topic. We’re just going to talk about RV living and investing and working on the road with Joe and Jennifer here who have been on the road for quite some time living the good life that the rest of us stuck in our offices here are striving to copy and emulate and live vicariously through. No doubt is that, no doubt that, that is happening. So, I’m just going to kick it off here because this is a different one today. And I think you guys all know, how do I point? One direction, my partner here, the handsome Joe Bauer, the handsome and muscular Joe Bauer.
Julie Clark:
He’s my co-founder here at Seattle Investors Club, and we have been… God, we’ve been together Joe dating in our business life. We’re not married. Some people probably wonder, are we married? No, we’re not married. He’s not my brother. We’re just business partners here. And we have been hanging out since 2012. It’s been an awesome time to get to know Joe, and I feel like he is part of my family now, and I’m so happy. I love you, brother. And so, for those of you, many of you know this because I brag on him all the time. But Joe is the founder of something called The Get Better Project. And his whole life which we can all be jealous of he chronicles through his social media channels called the Vantastic life. But Joe, in your own words, why don’t you tell us about The Get Better Project and what you’re up to there?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, so basically, we’ve been on the road for two and a half years now. And the first year, we tested The Get Better Project, let’s say because stepping back before that we were very competitive in fitness and doing that at a gym and not really sure how it was going to go when we were on the road. So, the first year we tested doing all of this stuff with just a couple dumbbells and a kettlebell. And it works so well that we actually in some cases got more fit than we were before. Not in super heavy lifting weights, but in a lot of the other categories that are like wait, we can go run up mountains, we can go skiing whenever we want to. We can look really good and in shape.
Joe Bauer:
So then that kicked off to let’s publish the workouts that we’re actually going to be doing since I’ve been doing this for so long, and I can write a good program for other people and help them with not only the workouts, but the nutrition side, stress, sleep, all that fun stuff. So that turned into The Get Better Project, which is pretty much workout anywhere with no equipment with two dumbbells or we have programs for people that have that full garage gym that those people are building out right now because of COVID. So, that is The Get Better Project in a nutshell.
Julie Clark:
Awesome. Awesome stuff brother. And he’s doing this all on the road, which is the point of today’s podcast. And then also with us today to make this super fun we have Miss Jennifer Beadles. I’m going to look at my notes here guys on my side screen here. So, Jennifer, by the way, if you haven’t… You kind of have your head in your sand if you know us, and you don’t know who Jennifer Beadles is, but she is also been… You can learn more about Jennifer on our podcast number 110 where we did a deep dive with Jennifer and got to know her a little bit better. Today we’re going to get to know what she’s been up to since then. But Jennifer Beadles is the founder of the brokerage firm Agents Invest and a powerhouse investor community called Addicted to ROI.
Julie Clark:
She founded Agents Invest in 2016 in hopes of putting more investor clients into your business. Agents Invest is actually a referral brokerage offering access to more investor clients. And she’s also built a network of real estate investor again called Addicted to ROI. Go look on all the social media channels and you’re going to find that out if you don’t know what that is already. And Addicted to ROI is a community of real estate investors that are pursuing financial freedom through passive income. She is the queen of referring and finding you off market deals or on market deals even out of state. If you are looking to invest out of state, and you are not a member of addicted to ROI or plugged into agents invest, you are missing a lot of opportunities to grab great deals. And if you are an agent and you want to be a referral partner with Jennifer’s program, definitely plug in and check out Agents Invest. Jennifer, you want to add on top anything on that today?
Jennifer Beadles:
Thank you, Julie. Yay, I just want to take you everywhere with me. [crosstalk 00:05:38]. Thank you for the introduction. Shoot, what should I add on that? I think you’ve covered everything. So, I’m a real estate investor. I’m a real estate broker. I’m a mom. I am someone who just loves my freedom and travel and living this what I kind of call this passive income lifestyle. So yeah, super excited to be here with you guys. This is a topic that I am extremely passionate about with two of my favorite people. So thanks, guys. Can’t wait to chat about this.
Julie Clark:
Let’s do it. It’s going to be fun today. So I’m going to kick it off. I’m going to kick it off here. I’m going to say, where are you guys at? Where are you at, Joe?
Joe Bauer:
I am in the Crystal Mountain Ski Resort parking lot. And if you guys are watching this may be able to see back here. Can you see it snowing back through the window. [crosstalk 00:06:29]. It is snowing out there right now. I’m going to put that back up, so it doesn’t wash me out. But yep, snowing. We’re going to go skiing or snowboarding right after we’re done here.
Julie Clark:
Jealous, jealous. Awesome. Jennifer, where are you at? Amazing.
Jennifer Beadles:
I am in the most haunted city in the United States, Savannah, Georgia. And in the last, let’s say 48 hours we’ve been in three different states. So last night we were in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. And then the day before we were in St. Augustine, Florida, but this week, Savannah, Georgia.
Julie Clark:
How do you guys determine where you’re going? I mean, Joe, I know you had a plan initially when you kicked this off a few years ago that your plan was to hit all the national parks of which how much did you accomplish? All of them or what?
Joe Bauer:
Yes. So we have… I’m looking at my list right now. We’ve got a list on the wall. This is cool we have video going on [crosstalk 00:07:28]-
Julie Clark:
Family.
Joe Bauer:
We have a list on the wall right there that shows all of the national parks that we have gone to and there are three left on that list. Unfortunately, there’s a couple more that they’ve added since then that we’re not… We’re going with what we started with. And the three that are on there. I’m sorry, there’s four on there. The Olympic National Park because we haven’t been there in the van yet. But the American Samoa Yosemite we haven’t been to yet, and Rocky Mountain we haven’t been to. And those are not… We’re not hurrying through them. We’re trying to hit them in the best time of the year, and that’s why we didn’t get through those. But figuring out where we go next. Right now we’re on this really big kick of seasonally snowboarding in the winter, and finding the best snow spots, specifically on the icon pass right now.
Joe Bauer:
So we’ll spend a lot of time in Colorado this winter. We spend the holiday season up here in the Pacific Northwest. And then we got so into mountain biking, which is also very good in Colorado, Utah, Arizona that the summer months we’ve been varying in that direction and trying to hit our favorite spots and finding new spots and figuring out how to work where we can get little internet zones and things like that. So it’s kind of up in the air. It’s not super specific, like a line like the national parks, but there is some method to the madness.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? What’s your game plan? Do you have a roadmap you’re trying to hit?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so for some context. So, we left Seattle on October… I think it was October 3rd. And our first mission was to get to the state of Tennessee outside of Nashville because we were closing on a new six unit property. And so we just, I guess for the first time ever go see one of the out of state properties before closing. So that was kind of a funny deal. And we hung out in Tennessee for about a month. And when the weather changed literally we left Nashville on a Friday and it started snowing on a Monday, the Monday after we left. And so, we headed south, and so right now we’re actually kind of doing the Snowbird lifestyle, I guess you can say.
Jennifer Beadles:
So, we’re hanging around in the south just chasing sun, beaches, exploring cool old historic cities. And that’s kind of the plan we’re on now. Joe and I were chatting about what’s next. We booked maybe a couple weeks at a time. So we are very last second, last minute fly by the seat of our pants kind of family. And so, yeah, we just been going that direction. And so far, so good. And so, I think we’re just going to stick with that plan for now and just see where it takes us.
Julie Clark:
I always wonder when you guys are doing this sort of thing, how do you know where to park? I mean, you got to find a place, right? How do you know? I mean, that creates stress for me thinking that where am I going to park for the night? Because my kids are driving me nuts, and I got to get out of this car or this van. I got to know where I’m going. How do you guys… I mean, what’s the secret sauce there? Or is there any?
Joe Bauer:
That is a fantastic question right there, and it did it… Well, for a long time, it definitely caused us stress. We try to have some sort of a plan with the where we’re going to park thing. Is that going to be a campground? Is that going to be using some sort of app that shows us where we can go that’s off grid, so that we… And then we put it into the calendar. So there’s a plan for that because we definitely didn’t have a plan early on, and that ended up putting us in places that we’re either trying to pull down somebody cul-de-sac that looked dark and just sleep for the night and do stealth camping? Or find a Walmart that allowed you to park in or-
Julie Clark:
Because Walmarts let you, right? Walmart will let you park in their parking lot. Is that a camping person’s secret info that Walmart allows that or? I heard that. Is it true?
Joe Bauer:
They don’t all. So, you do have to check, and a lot of times if you’re looking on freecamping.net or Allstays or something like that you can figure out if that particular Walmart is allowing it. And sometimes you have to go in and ask or call ahead. Our favorite place right now if we have to do something that’s in a city is Cracker Barrels. So Cracker Barrels, we’ve never had them tell us no. And they almost always have RV, large scale parking in the back, and they’ll let you come in and just stay. [crosstalk 00:12:08].
Julie Clark:
Do they bring you out any sausages or anything like that while you’re there?
Joe Bauer:
We’ve never asked them to but they probably would, especially at COVID times, you could probably order something and have them just like come and drop it at your door. [crosstalk 00:12:22].
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? How do you guys figure out where to say?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so for us, it’s a little bit more challenging than Joe because we have a 44 foot fifth wheel with also obviously a large diesel truck that can pull that thing. So we need at least 60 feet of space to park our house on wheels. And so yeah, so we mostly stay at RV parks that can fit us. We have had some really cool stays though on BLM land. So BLM is Bureau of Land Management. And for the most part, you can stay on BLM land for free. So, sometimes the roads getting into those places can be a little sketchy, especially for us with this gigantic fifth wheel. But yeah, I mean so far on this trip we stayed in Wall, South Dakota, kind of middle of nowhere where we just had this incredible view out with the sunset and sunrise and bighorn sheep out there. Amazingly, really good internet, which was a fantastic bonus.
Joe Bauer:
Was it the over the Badlands?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah.
Joe Bauer:
Where you pull that gate open and you went through the gate and you went out on the-
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah. I mean, that was probably one of my favorites stays.
Joe Bauer:
Ours too.
Jennifer Beadles:
And then also… It was incredible. I mean, I feel like anyone that has an RV needs to stay there at some point. It’s just incredible. Cabela’s is another favorite of ours. So, Cabela’s is fantastic. The Cracker Barrel like Joe had mentioned is also a great option. We stayed at our real estate agent’s house for a couple of weeks in Tennessee. So that was really fun. What do they call that mooch docking from friends and family? So we’ve done that a couple of times.
Julie Clark:
You own properties all over the place too, right? You just go stay in the parking lot of one of your properties.
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, we could. Our apartments don’t have as much parking. At least in that instance, as a real estate agent did she had a really nice long driveway. But yeah, that would be another option too. Stay at your own properties.
Julie Clark:
Well, I’d like to invite you both to stay in my driveway if you ever need to. I have a long driveway. You’re welcome. I have extra parking. You’re welcome to park in my driveway anytime. So let me ask you guys, Joe, you’ve got a Sprinter van. What is it? Like a Mercedes Sprinter van, and Jennifer you’ve got an entire house. a 60 foot house. Do either of you in hindsight now, do you wish you had a bigger home on wheels, Joe? And Jennifer, do you wish that yours was smaller so you can park more places? Just curious, Joe, are you happy with the size of your unit? [crosstalk 00:15:16].
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, we actually have gone back and forth several times on should we build another RV out and have come back to the conclusion that the choices that we made have been really great. And we would probably not do it different other than maybe had picked a few different manufacturers for parts and things that we used or companies that… Like for example, we have this pop top. So, we had the top cut off of ours, and it pops up and down. So the bed is up top and we keep the living area separate. And it makes it really nice and open for working situations, so it’s super light. And that’s great. But the people that did that work, we probably would have changed that.
Joe Bauer:
So, it’s been fantastic in the smallness and the lifted van with the big tires allows us to get lots of places, although we almost did drive it off of a hill in the mud and snow in [inaudible 00:16:14]. Was it two weekends ago? Looking at a property. So, I guess it’s a double edged sword. It makes you think that you can go a lot of places, but sometimes you can’t actually or shouldn’t go there.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so we started this journey in July of this year. And we started with a 30 foot travel trailer and then the truck that we had at the time, which was a Dodge Ram 2500, and that was pretty good. But we found that for a family of three with a very active now six year old, we needed more space. And I also needed a dedicated work area so that I could continue to do what I do with my businesses. And so, we ended up upgrading to this 44 foot fifth wheel that is also a toy hauler. And so, currently I am in the back of the toy hauler here. My husband built me this really cool custom working desk. My daughter’s bed is above me. It’s a queen bed that comes down. She has her own separate bathroom, and really she has her own separate space. She probably has more space than we do for the rest of the trailer. And for us that works really well.
Jennifer Beadles:
Now are we limited on where we can go and where we can bring the trailer and where we can stay. That’s a downside. But obviously for us we can park our trailer. We can drive our truck pretty much anywhere we want to go. And so for us, we’re really happy with this decision. It’d be nicer I guess if we could fit more places. But obviously we wouldn’t have the benefits that we have with more space, which is important to us.
Joe Bauer:
There’s always the give and takes, and it’s so important to just be happy with what you… Or figure out what you want, I guess, and then just go with that.
Julie Clark:
So, speaking of what you want, I’m going to ask this question to you guys. Why are you doing this? What is the reason you decided to do this? Joe ahead, I’ll let you go first, Joe. What’s your big why?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, so I think that for me, I always would go on vacation and would come back from vacation and be like, “Man, I wish that I could continue just working from that location and go and ride more mountain bikes or do more trail runs or hike up that mountain again.” So this allows us to not stop working, but then be in places that the accessibility to the things that are super fun and vacation like for us. There’s out the van door. And for us that is… It just allowed so much more adventure constantly. It’s just constant adventure. So, that’s the big one for me.
Julie Clark:
Does the constant adventure take the excitement a little bit off the edge of the fact that you get to do it every day as much as you want? Does that… Jennifer is like, “No, no.”
Joe Bauer:
No.
Jennifer Beadles:
It never gets old.
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, we’re two and a half years in, and it’s not, definitely. Like having the ski resort out the door. Like doing this podcast right now with you guys, which is so cool, and getting productive work done. And then opening the door and walking up to the chairlift. I mean, can’t beat it.
Julie Clark:
Word.
Jennifer Beadles:
I completely agree with Joe. For us it was to have more adventure and create more family memories. Some of our best memories together as a family is just these adventures, these travels, these experiences that we’ve been able to have because we’ve worked really hard to build this lifestyle. And so, same, so yesterday I had done a couple of hours of work analyzing deals, visiting our properties virtually. And then there we drove up to South Carolina and we did a five mile walk watching the sun go down. And so, you can’t beat that kind of lifestyle, at least for me. We weren’t able to have that in Seattle while we had great hiking, and there were trails. If the weather wasn’t cooperating, we found ourselves stuck inside for weeks, and oftentimes flying out of Seattle to spend winter somewhere else. Whereas now we can just hook up and within a couple hours drive be in a different climate, and a new adventure in a different area.
Julie Clark:
Sounds good to me, I’ll tell you what. So, how many hours a day are you guys working? I know Joe’s girlfriend Emily is with him. She has a full-time job. So tell us about the working situation, Joe, between you and Emily. And then Jennifer tell us because we know you’ve got to be busy with all your adventures. So you’re keeping me busy? You’re on the road. What’s going on there?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, so for us. For me, in particular. Like we talked a little bit before the podcast, I have very structured days. So, some days are set up so that they are way more heavy on work than others and need more internet or more fast internet. So my day is varied. Emily’s are a little bit more structured in that she tries to put in seven to eight hours of work per day. That being said, the company that she works for Trupanion is super supportive of what we’re doing. In fact, the CEO for a while was having us send him pictures of where we were every month so that he could live vicariously through us, and he’s big adventure guy himself.
Joe Bauer:
So we do put in a lot of work time, but it’s very strategic. When you don’t have to work at a specific time of day, or you just have to get certain amount of work done. We can design our work schedules around where we are and what we’re trying to do. So, like today, we’ll probably only work a half day max, maybe close to that. And then we overloaded yesterday so that we knew that we’d be out playing today.
Julie Clark:
Nice. How about you, Jennifer? You’re a little bit busy. How do you handle it?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so same as Joe. I schedule a couple of days a week where it’s a little bit more of a fuller day. Actually, I shouldn’t even say it’s a couple days, maybe one day a week is where I have a full day. But other than that, I mean, our schedule is we get up together as a family and we go on walks, or we do a family hike. So the first probably hour of our morning is family time. And then we come back and my husband and daughter work on schoolwork. And so, they do this virtual learning kindergarten school work that they’re doing together while I do some work. We pretty much wrap up our day, mostly around two o’clock in the afternoon. And then in the afternoons and evenings we go out on adventure, and just do different things together as a family.
Julie Clark:
Do you guys… This is kind of a personal question. Do you guys get sick of each other at all? I mean, it’s like… I mean, I met my neighbors. I love my neighbors in my neighborhood. I have a real tight mom crew from all my moms at school and my neighbors are awesome, and I love socializing with all them. And that seems to be maybe you’re just meeting people on the road, you get to meet new people all the time. But maybe you like your kids and your girlfriend more than… No, I’m just kidding. How’s that going? Is there tension? I mean, not prying into the personal stuff. But there’s got to be something there where it gets tough. Sometimes you wish you were around other people. How do you deal with that?
Joe Bauer:
That’s a good question. That’s actually a question that we get a lot with the whole living in a van, especially a very small van. And Emily and I lived together and work together from a small apartment for a couple of years before we did this. So, we kind of tested the waters with our relationship in that sense before jumping into it. But we tend to have personalities are very similar and like a lot of the same things. So I don’t know that if it would be that great for somebody that had a bunch of different things that they liked. But we’ve had a great time with it and haven’t had really any issues with our relationship.
Joe Bauer:
As far as finding other friends though. Early on, that was actually pretty cool because non COVID times we’d meet tons of people on the road. We’d even hop around to different places and keep in touch with them on Instagram and meet up for let’s go have dinner or whatnot. Since COVID though that’s been a little bit harder to do and we haven’t done it as much and we are right next to actually Emily’s sister and brother-in-law. So we do stuff with family that we know we have this COVID bubble going, but it hasn’t been as much as it would have been. Usually, we probably would have met people that were in this line of RVs, but not so much right now.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, yeah. So we’ve had a couple of instances where we were all just feeling a little cabin fever. And a little like we were all kind of climbing on top of each other. So yeah, when we were in Tennessee for that month, there was a week of just not great weather. And so, the three of us were pretty much stuck in the trailer that whole time. And we found ourselves a little short with each other, and actually a little grumpy. And so, it was really fun. My husband was like, “Hey, we got to get out of this trailer.” And so, we ended up booking a hotel. And going to this really cool resorts, the Opryland Resort in Nashville just because we needed a break. And that was exactly what we needed. There’s a lot of really fun stuff there for kids. We also took turns. My husband, and I like hanging out with our daughter for a little bit, and then the other one would go do their own thing. And so yeah, so for us, that was exactly what we needed.
Jennifer Beadles:
Now that we’ve been in some nicer weather, and also places where we can go to the beach and re-energize based on our surroundings, and having just better weather in general, we haven’t had that issue. But meeting other people has been key for us. We actually have a really fun couple who have a great story. They sold everything. They lived in Wisconsin, and they are now doing an RV trip around the United States. And we’re meeting up with them in Tampa next week for Christmas. And we had a really fun RV park Thanksgiving with these new friends that we had just met two days prior, just had a blast. So, meeting really cool people on the road just makes all the difference.
Julie Clark:
I’m going to ask you, how much do you guys spend a week or a month on gas? I mean, I guess or what’s the cost? Let’s go into the cost of living on the road. And then I’m going to ask you boring work questions a little bit, but what’s the cost of living on the road? Like for you, Joe? And what are you spending your money on?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, stocks, and saving… It varies so much, and that’s a really tough question. Because it could be that we spend zero money other than on food, essentially, on the road because we haven’t moved for a week, which is great. And then you spend drive for a few hours, and it costs us anywhere from let’s see, 40 to 60 to $70 to fill a tank of gas or 24 gallons of diesel. And then the RV parks are usually going to be around… Gosh, they can be anywhere from 10 to $80 a night. So it’s really variable, and I would say the average that we probably see is around 20 to $30 a night, 35 maybe, where we’re typically staying, as we hardly ever plug in unless it’s the winter since we have solar and we don’t use up much energy.
Joe Bauer:
So, you put that together and say that and our rig just so people have an idea cost us about 130 135,000 so you have that to start with and then the gas, the insurance is a little bit more. What do we pay for insurance? That’s 1,600 a year for insurance, and then the part or the places that you’re staying, which could be… We’ve run into people that never paid to stay at places. So, you could go like never pay to stay or you go to the KOA, whatever they call them, adventure or however they are, and they have pools and all this stuff and those are going to cost you 80, $100 a night maybe.
Julie Clark:
Awesome. How about you Jennifer? What are you guys finding? Or Joe what’s your… Before I go to Jennifer what’s your highest expense on the road? It feels like gas would be, I don’t know, it or something.
Joe Bauer:
So, if we’re staying a lot of places like in the winter, for example, when we’re having to find hookups and a lot of the free places in the winter are closed so you can’t do that quite as easily. Then camping is the biggest expense. Right behind that would definitely be the fuel. And then behind that is going to be groceries. And that’s just because you’re pretty much… Or at least for us, we find a certain place that we like and we found that because we can work at Whole Foods, and it just coincides with the most expensive groceries. We’re spending a lot more money on things like that, but it’s good food. So either way, that’s the expense list.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? Because I’m sitting here looking at the math, and it sort of feels like it’d be easy to spend, I don’t know, 1,500 $2,000 a month just on food and gas. Or I mean, not food because everybody’s got to eat their food, so we won’t count that. But like, campsite stuff or gas. It might be easy to spend at least 1,500 bucks a month. Is that fair to say? I mean, it’s not like… When I think of camping or doing what you guys are doing I think of, “Oh, my God, it’s cost effective for sure.” But it isn’t free. Is it cost effective or is it more that you have the freedom? You know what I mean? Because it ain’t free.
Joe Bauer:
It’s definitely cost effective if you want it to be, but it doesn’t have to be. You can go either way. Like when we were in Arizona hanging out in Sedona or Flagstaff for a month we didn’t pay for camping one time for a month.
Julie Clark:
It depends how long you stay somewhere, I guess. Or if you’re on free-
Joe Bauer:
And the place.
Julie Clark:
BLM land or whatever. Well, how long will BLM, Jennifer, let you stay there? Will they… You know what I mean? Do they kick you out after a few days or what?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, that’s a good question. I’m not sure. I don’t know if it’s area specific. So, yeah-
Joe Bauer:
It is usually.
Jennifer Beadles:
Okay. Yeah, we haven’t stayed much longer than five days in an area. So, I think it depends. But yeah, I agree with [crosstalk 00:31:35]-
Julie Clark:
Yeah.
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, I agree with Joe. I think it depends on your setup, and then your travel style. So for us amenities are very important with our six year old. So we tend to stay places with pools and playgrounds and full hookups for us to feel most comfortable for the kind of travel style that we want to have. So yes, and we’re paying for that. We’re paying for those amenities. We’re probably spending anywhere from 1,200 to $1,500 a month on just where we’re staying. So these are like mostly RV parks. And then gas, we’re paying an obscene amount. To be honest, I have not been tracking that. But it’s pretty expensive to go from one place to the next.
Jennifer Beadles:
Now, we move about every week. So, it’s not every day that we’re moving. But the more you move, the more frequent you move, the more you’re going to spend on gas. We also when we were in Tennessee, and it was getting a little bit colder at night, we were spending more on propane as well, and some cases going through maybe 50, $75 worth of propane in three days. So that was an added expense as well. We pay $85 a month for a high speed internet that we use to get Wi-Fi everywhere. We don’t tend to use park internet. It’s unreliable that we found and it’s often not very good. So yeah, I would say we’re spending the most on where we stay, and then gas, groceries, propane is right up there, and then all the activities that we’re doing as well.
Julie Clark:
And how did that compare to your mortgage payment if you had one before you sold your house? You know what I mean? I mean, I guess I’m saying that… I mean, lots of us that’s why we’re talking about it today. We’d love to live this lifestyle, but it ain’t free. You know what I mean? Necessarily, and I think the reason people are doing it is probably for the freedom and not the low cost living, maybe.
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, let’s just say… I mean, we’re not saving 1,000s of dollars every month based on not having a mortgage payment. So I would say it’s pretty similar to what we were paying to live in a nice house in Snohomish, Washington outside of Seattle.
Julie Clark:
But Joe, maybe not for you because you guys are doing it a different way, right?
Joe Bauer:
Like I said, it’s really variable. In the winter, we probably spend about the same amount of money that we were before and in the summer we usually save. Depends on but it could be quite a bit of money, and it’s just so variable.
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Julie Clark:
Well, let’s talk about the number one driver probably is internet. Tell us about the internet on the road, and is that… After we talk about that, what are the top three challenges I guess I’d say about being on the road? I feel like internet probably is one of them.
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, definitely for us internet is probably the biggest challenge in being on the road. And the way that we attack internet is we have right now three devices that have 15 gigabytes of hotspot per device. And we have separated that between AT&T and Verizon so that we can get different carriers, which definitely helps is a huge advantage. And we don’t usually go over that, but then we also if I’m doing a lot of [inaudible 00:37:02], which I do, and on my heavy day of work I will need to have a solid upload connection. And I try to not do that on the hot spots because I could burn through all of our stuff in a couple days.
Joe Bauer:
So what we’re looking for is places that have consistently fast internet. If you can go into a Whole Foods, they have the fastest internet across the whole country bar none. They are the best of the best. Better than Starbucks, better than anyplace else. They have, I would say minimum 30 gigabytes up and down every store. And then from there, when you can’t go into the stores, what we’ll do is we’ll just go and park close to a coffee shop, usually a Starbucks and just use the internet in the parking lot or someplace else that we can find. A library is also another good place. Like if you’re in California right now, they are actually promoting that you should go to their parking lot to use the internet, and they’re trying to make it work for you. So the internet is definitely a thing, and the hardest part, I would say.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? What are your ninja tricks?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, I agree. So, that was something that we had to have figured out before we left. And so, I watched probably, I don’t know, too many hours of YouTube videos trying to figure out how people do this. I had also had a couple of Facebook friends and I was just private messaging like, “Hey, guys, how do you do your internet? What does it look like?” What I found is that it’s ever changing. And so it’s really fun. We ended up meeting up with a Facebook friend of ours that we had never met in real life. We had only met on Facebook, and we’re both full time RVers now.
Jennifer Beadles:
And so, we ended up meeting in Orlando and their previous internet setup was no longer available. And so they got cut off by AT&T because they had a no throttle data plan. And so, anyways, they were asking for our advice on what we were using. And so, that’s a topic of conversation that comes up a lot with Rvers. And so, our setup is we have a plan through Bix Wireless, which is an authorized reseller of AT&T currently unthrottled plan. And so, we get about 200-
Julie Clark:
What does throttle or unthrottled mean [inaudible 00:39:20]?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so throttling is when you go over a certain amount of data, and then they slow you down. And so, that’s not ideal if you’re using a lot of data. And so, trying to get a hold of these truly unlimited unthrottled plans is really hard to get. And so, it’s interesting. So, like right now, at least at the time of recording this you can’t go to AT&T, you can’t go to Verizon and get a truly unlimited data only plan that works with multiple devices. But there’s these third party retailers who somehow… I don’t know how it works, but they have access to these, and so you can buy the plan from them. And so, we’re not on a contract with Bix Wireless, but Bix Wireless has access to this plan. It’s a little SIM card.
Jennifer Beadles:
And then we ended up buying a specialized router that streams to all of our devices. And so our rig has four TVs, then we’ve got three laptops, and two cell phones. And so, we can pretty much run… Depending on the area, but pretty much run everything every month on that plan through this mophie router. And then my husband and I both have Verizon phones with mobile hotspot. I believe we have 75 gigs of data on our mobile hotspot. So if I’m in a situation where AT&T does not get good service, then I can tether from my mobile hotspot on my iPhone using Verizon. And so, so far, so good. That has worked really well for us. In some areas, the service isn’t as great. So then we have this giant antenna thing that we hook up, and it boosts the cell service, which then gives us that data plan that we need.
Julie Clark:
Wow. That’s all I got to say. [crosstalk 00:41:11].
Joe Bauer:
And after all that it still doesn’t work sometimes.
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah.
Julie Clark:
Crazy it is. So how long y’all planning to be on the road? Joe, are you just like, “I don’t know, we’ll just go until we don’t feel like going.” Or do you have a specific plan in mind to come back or not or just open?
Joe Bauer:
Not really. I mean, yeah, we’re taking it season by season. It’s hard to imagine slowing down right now. And we even found a piece of property that we’re trying to buy right now in Cheyenne and build a house on. But we don’t know when we are going to do that. It’s like, “All right, well, we may as well buy the property because we know that we really like it, and some time if we decide we want to slow down. We’ll put a house on it.” But it’s not… We don’t know. We don’t know. It’s so much fun right now that it’s hard to imagine just stopping.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? You guys [crosstalk 00:42:08].
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah. So I agree, Joe, and I were kind of chatting about this earlier of is there an end in mind or is there like a final destination? And it’s really interesting, when we started this plan, we were shopping for new places to live. We wanted to find an area that had better weather, that we could do a lot of outdoor activities, even in the wintertime. But now that we’ve had this experience of having everyday adventures in different areas every week, it’s kind of like, “Oh, that lifestyle doesn’t sound very appealing anymore.”
Jennifer Beadles:
And so, yeah, so we don’t currently have an end in mind. This is kind of like an ongoing adventure for us. We’re very open minded to where we’ll end up, and where we’ll go, what we’ll do. We’re also eyeing some visa programs and other countries in Europe and Asia. Other countries are starting to offer like single entry visas. Digital nomad visas I think is another term they use. And so, for us, we feel like we have a somewhat limited amount of time with our daughter who’s six years old before we have to get serious about the school things. We have a couple of years, I think ahead of us. And why not take this time to just create these memories together with our family?
Julie Clark:
So, is that your plan once she gets into first grade or something that maybe you’re going to come back and get her in school?
Jennifer Beadles:
That’s a consideration. The comeback part I’m unsure about. I don’t know where we’d be coming back to or even I love the idea of an international school in a different country. So those are all talking points for our family and trying to decide I think what would work best for us long term.
Julie Clark:
Who is living on the road not work for? For example, if somebody is like, “I want to do it.” Who do you recommend that it might be challenging for leaving me out of the equation? Who would it might be? What do you think Joe? Like personalities or situations that it may be more challenging for?
Joe Bauer:
I would say somebody that’s very routine oriented to the point where they have their certain spot where they drink their coffee and do their work and go on their walks and the people that they hang out with because that’s constantly changing. That being said, I-
Julie Clark:
Well, with that said you were quite a structured person before you left town, I would say. You’re the most structured person, routine person that I know. So, did that throw you for a loop for a while?
Joe Bauer:
Some of it, yeah. And I’ve had to put little hacks in place. Like I was just telling someone recently that was traveling a lot right now, and he was having trouble doing some part of his routine. And I had admitted that I have to put a reminder with a checklist in my phone or devices to get certain things done. Because there’s not that routine. It’s not like, “All right, I walk into the living room or the kitchen, and this is the thing that I do.” Or I sit down with my cup of coffee, and I fill out my journal or something like that. There’s so many variations of that scenario right now that I have to have something that I go to like an online scheduler or whatnot to see, okay, this is what I’m supposed to be doing right now.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? How do you organize your life right now? How do you do… Are you able to… I know you can make commitments and stick to them and stuff like that, but what’s the biggest challenge with the daily variables that come up?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, yeah. So for me, in the beginning we were moving around a lot, and spending a lot of time in the car. And initially, I thought, “Oh, I can do calls in the car. I can send emails from the car.” Well, until you try that. I mean, you’re driving down the road trying to send emails or trying to have a phone call while also navigating or having your family in the car that just didn’t work out that way. And so, for us, we decided that staying a week in one place is better for my schedule, so that I can actually be productive and get things done. We tend to move on Saturdays as well. So, on the weekends versus a weekday where maybe things come up, or people need to get a hold of me.
Jennifer Beadles:
So, yeah, it kind of took some trial and error to really figure out the best schedule for both having these experiences and adventure with my family while also being productive and getting stuff done. So, yeah, that’s how we’ve done it. I think it would be hard for anyone that obviously has to go into an office every day to live this lifestyle. Obviously-
Julie Clark:
There’s a lot less people these days, right? Maybe even permanently. What about servicing your vehicle or breakdowns? Do you have to… You can’t just roll up to the… I mean, I don’t know. Do you have to have a special RV place or you got special parts? I don’t know what happens. Joe, have you ever broke down or Jennifer have you broke down and needed to get some stuff fixed?
Joe Bauer:
I have a pretty fun… We were in the Frisco, Colorado parking lot where we were stealth camping which means that like our tops down. We’re enclosed trying to hide out and camp there because it’s right next to Copper Mountain. And the thermostat on our heater breaks or it doesn’t stop working, but it doesn’t tell us any kind of… It doesn’t give us any information anymore. Fortunately, it stayed on, the heater would stay on but we couldn’t regulate the heat at all. And it was like 15, 10 degrees outside so really cold.
Joe Bauer:
At that particular point. Fortunately, the people that built our van are amazing. And I called him up and I was like, “Oh crap, what are we going to do?” And he walked me through how to get the part that we needed overnighted. So, I opened up the wall and rewired a new thermostats via his help into the van and got it working well stealth camping in this snowy weather parking lot. So that part and some people may not want to do that, and then you have to go and get it serviced. But that’s probably the craziest adventure. We had our water heater break at one point froze and I had to do that as well. Otherwise, we go to Mercedes every 20,000 miles. We don’t need oil changes in more than any 20,000 miles in the van. So, it’s not too much. But you could have to go to an RV place that’s just on the road and they’re usually really packed so that can be expensive.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? Any exciting fix it stories?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, I mean, we’ve had things break while we were driving. We’ve had things break while we were just sitting in the RV. So yeah, stuff breaks all the time. You have to just live with that. Fortunately, my husband is really resourceful. He’s kind of a… Well, he’s been the general contractor for years. So, he pretty much fixes everything. Whether that be YouTube videos or searching on… We’re members of the model of our RV in Facebook groups. And so, I see people posting all the time, “Hey, this thing broke,” or pictures and everyone from the community gives them tips on how to fix this stuff.
Julie Clark:
That’s cool.
Jennifer Beadles:
So, yeah, we had a really interesting… Probably our worst story was we were driving… Let’s see, we were leaving South Dakota after spending five days boondocking. So, we didn’t have sewer hookups. We didn’t have electric hookups. And we were driving through Iowa, and we had finally found like a dump site. So when you’re boondocking, then you have to go somewhere and dump your waste. And somehow the valve broke, and so it ended up flooding the parking lot off the freeway at this little… Yeah, and so that was quite the mess. That was kind of a bad deal. And to be honest, we haven’t totally fixed that yet. We do have to take the rig at some point to the dealer, and they’ll probably keep it for at least a week to fully fix that issue. But yeah, that was pretty bad. So, kudos to my husband for dealing with that.
Julie Clark:
Well, here’s my last question. My two final questions before we wrap up today. This has been a fun one, right? Just like, hey, I’m sure a lot of people want to do this. So nice to know they have resources from people that they already know and trust that are big time into this. And so, we thank you guys for sharing this all with us today. And one of the questions, the last two questions. What is the funniest or the scariest thing that has happened to you on the road, Joe? Funniest or scariest? Or maybe it was scary, and it was so scary it turned out to be funny. I don’t know. Bear, remember Joe? Where I’m like, “Oh, God, Joe’s out with the bears.” And I felt like a rock in my bed at night worried like a mama bear about Joe. He’s like, “Yeah, oh, Emily got trapped on one side of a bear, and I was on the other side today.” Remember that one? You remember that when you were running?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, we’ve definitely had some bear encounters, that’s for sure. Several of them it feels like at this point, especially being up to Alaska. The Bears seem to be all over. And one very interesting moose encounter where we were trail running, and this moose stepped out of the woods than had like this huge rack. And those guys are enormous. Those guys feel… Obviously, a bear will do more damage and they’re more dangerous. But as far as scared factor that was probably one of the bigger ones.
Julie Clark:
Hypertension.
Joe Bauer:
Oh my gosh, just massive, massive moose. Other than those type of off grid things, though, there hasn’t been too many. People ask that. Like, what’s the weirdest funniest, strangest thing that’s happened? It hasn’t been that weird, really. We haven’t had that many strange encounters. It’s been pretty variable. The adventures are the high point. The coolest funnest things that we constantly do, but nothing like feel in danger or anything like that. Haven’t had that situation.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, I mean see, we haven’t really had a really good story to tell. But I will say so the first time towing home the new rig. It was really interesting. They had tested to make sure that we had the right hitch. And so, they said, “Okay, everything looks good. You’ve got the right truck, right hitch. Great. Come pick it up on this day.” And so, my husband goes out there. And one of the service guys comes out and he’s like, “No, you can’t tow this home. You’re missing what’s called a capture plate.” And so it’s this piece hunk of metal that basically hooks onto the hitch that makes it somehow safe to tow from the hitch to the pin box on the RV. So anyways, we searched everywhere. And of course, due to COVID it’s sold out everywhere. We’re like, “Well, shoot, how do we get our new rig home?”
Jennifer Beadles:
And so anyways, husband ended up saying, “I’ll figure it out. I’m just going to tell it home.” He ended up towing it home and it went okay. And then the very next day, we did a test run to our friend’s house in eastern Washington. He ended up not only breaking our awnings in our own driveway pulling out to go to this first test run, which we still haven’t fixed, it’s still broken out there. We get to our friend’s house and we see broken pieces of plastic in basically the hitch part, and so something else had broken in that meantime, and we were stranded in our other friend’s driveway for a couple of days until we got the proper parts to fix it all. So yeah, it was not the best start for us with this new rig.
Julie Clark:
That’s funny. All right, last question guys because I know clearly you guys are enjoying yourselves, and we’re all living vicariously through you. I know I am. I go from like, “Wow, I’m so jealous.” To like, “Where’s he at? Where’s he at?” [inaudible 00:54:58]. Where’s the bears? Where’s the whatever? I’m like do you have any weapons? I guess that’s a little side bar. Is anybody carrying any type of weapon or protectionary type of measure besides… Joe’s got personal guns. How about you guys, Jennifer? Are you guys carrying anything for any wackadoodles you might come across?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, we carry bear spray when we’re out hiking in areas like that. So, yeah, we make sure that we’re covered in that area.
Julie Clark:
Awesome sauce. All right last question then guys. Joe, what has been your absolute most favorite best adventure or places that you visited that you know that you will want to go back to some day. Maybe it’s the Badlands that you guys have been talking about, but what has been… Or maybe just like an experience, a moment, the highlight of the last few years for you.
Joe Bauer:
There are so many. There’s a couple that stick out though. And actually, one of them that comes to mind was actually not in the van but was accessible because we were in the van because we were trying to knock off all the national parks. So when we were over in Florida and Miami, we flew out to the Virgin Islands, the American Virgin Islands. And when you get out there, there’s one of the islands, and the whole island is a national park. And the cool thing about the island is it’s kind of like a Hawaii but there’s not nearly as much development there.
Joe Bauer:
And so what we did is we hitchhiked. We would put our trail running gear on and in our trail running packs we would put goggles, and we would trail run through the jungle where there were ruins from like BC times and like petroglyphs and things. And then we would go find these bays and we’d go swimming with like turtles and stingrays. And we did this hopping on a 15 mile trail run day, and then hitchhike back to the tip. [crosstalk 00:56:53].
Julie Clark:
See me, I think of alligators. You talk about that the whole time I’m going, “Dammit, he’s going to get in alligator biting him.” That’s what I think. I guess I’m a chicken. Word’s out, guys. I’m a chicken.
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, there’s no alligators there, and there’s no snakes either, actually.
Julie Clark:
Cool. Well, that sounds fun. Would you go back there again?
Joe Bauer:
Oh, absolutely in a heartbeat, yeah.
Julie Clark:
How about you, Jennifer? Best adventure, best place experience so far?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so my favorite place is Moab Utah. You’ve got multiple parks there. So you’ve got Deadhorse State Park, which is the Utah State Park. You’ve got Arches, you’ve got Canyon Lands. And so, for us we love Moab. We’ve been twice there this year and we’re dying to get back hopefully in the springtime, but our favorite day was we ended up renting a razor. Like a side by side kind of ATV type vehicle. So, it was my husband, my daughter, and I. And the local guy that rented us the vehicle said, “Hey, there’s a secret spot that mostly locals go to.” He gave us a map and he basically said, “Hey, stay off the trails that have the diamond or whatever. Those are not the safe ones. Those are Jeep only. Don’t go there.”
Jennifer Beadles:
So, we ended up going there. And of course we had to go on these trails. So my husband’s been doing this all his life as far as driving these things, and so we ended up going on these trails. There was no one around for miles. I mean, it was pretty hot. It was mid summer so it’s like 110 degrees out. But we ended up going on some incredible trails that were right on the cliff. You could see for miles. You can see Arches out in the background. You can see into Canyon lands and all that. We came across dinosaur tracks. We came across petroglyphs.
Jennifer Beadles:
We hiked up and found this… It’s kind of like an old… There’s petroglyphs in the area, but it was like this cave in the middle of nowhere and you could walk through the cave and get just the most incredible view of the valley. And so, we spent the entire day. I think we were out there for eight or 10 hours really just exploring this area driving probably faster than we should have going through the sand, going up these rocks, and I mean, yeah, I’m dying to get back there. That to me is like the ultimate adventure.
Julie Clark:
Awesome. Sounds so good. Sounds so good. I was sitting here while you guys are talking I’m also thinking about what would you guys need for Christmas? What would be good Christmas present for people that are on the road having massive adventures? Kind of like how do you give them? How do you top? How do you get them something? I live on the water here with beautiful Olympic mountain views and all that stuff, and a view neighborhood, I guess, I’ll say. And I was thinking it would be good for you guys is they have these zoom lenses now that you can attach to your cell phone. So when you’re out on these adventures, and you’re seeing these great views from afar these unique situations, you could get a zoom lens kind of thing that attaches to your cell phone that takes photos. That’d be kind of cool. I might get one for you guys because I love you guys.
Joe Bauer:
I was going to say the thing that you could do that at least we would like most and that we like most from everybody is come visit us.
Julie Clark:
Yeah. [crosstalk 01:00:14].
Joe Bauer:
In Moab or whatever.
Jennifer Beadles:
100%.
Julie Clark:
That would be awesome. You know I would love, love, love to get the girls out to you guys, Joe. So, that would be super, super fun. So again, you guys are living the dream. You guys are… Jennifer, you’re still buying properties on the road. You’re doing your business. I mean, you’re doing an insane amount of business. Has it slowed you down at all. I mean, tell us the stats on what agents invest and Addicted to ROI has accomplished in the last year because it’s absolutely, stunningly amazing. I’m so happy to know you. And I’m constantly telling people to go check out all your stuff and engage with you all the time. And so, I’m just so blessed to know you both. Tell us a little stats on what you’ve been able to accomplish on the road, Jennifer?
Jennifer Beadles:
Thank you so much, Julie. Yeah, it’s been a busy year for us. We launched a membership group where we can work side by side with these investors helping people get into out of state markets. And so, we have a little over… I think we’re at 310 members now, which is really cool. And a lot of our people, they joined in, let’s say May or over the summer. And they’re on their third, fourth, fifth property in some cases. And so yes, we’re really proud of that. We’re really proud of the results that our members are getting while also adding value to real estate agents. So I think one of our real estate agents, she’s maybe closed like 15 million or so in just referral volume from investors within our community. She was also able to start her own property management company. I think she started that about a year ago when investors of ours were buying in her market. And so now she has over 650 units under management, which again, we’re thrilled for her.
Julie Clark:
Which state is that?
Jennifer Beadles:
That’s in Tennessee. Yeah.
Julie Clark:
And for those of people that don’t know what we’re… First of all, go listen to Episode 110 and get to know Jennifer Beadles and Agents Invest and Addicted to ROI so much better. But what we’re talking about is that you have a group Addicted to ROI of investors, of agents and investors that want to buy these rental properties. And you are connecting with real estate agents across the country in markets that you vetted that have ground teeth, and so forth. And basically, they supply the deals that you… I don’t know if you fully vet them or what your vetting process is, but those people Addicted to ROI and your inner circle then have access to buying these great properties with basically ground teams in place to assist them once they’re able to take them down. And these are both on market and off market properties. Is that accurate?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yep. And so, for us, we say our secret recipe for success is having a community, having the connections, and then having access to deals. And so, yeah, so we just love seeing the results of our members. And just really seeing this come full circle for people because we want more people to have the lifestyle that Joe and I are talking about.
Julie Clark:
Absolutely.
Jennifer Beadles:
And so, real estate investing remotely has been the vehicle that’s helped me achieve that. And so for us, it’s about how many more people can be helped get to the same place?
Julie Clark:
And you’re looking for other agents that are welcome to plug in. I’m sure you have a vetting process. We won’t go deep dive on that. You guys just need to go plug into Agents Invest, and get to know what your opportunities are to be a referral partner agent for you guys in whatever states that you’re in. Are you currently looking for agents in any specific market, Jennifer?
Jennifer Beadles:
So, we do look for markets that meet our criteria for growing population, that there’s job growth, but it’s an area where there’ll be good long term investment opportunities for investors. So for us, we do make sure that it’s a good area long term.
Julie Clark:
Excellent. Excellent. And so, what’s the mastermind or the private group? Is there two… There’s an inner circle group, or is that all everybody who’s in Addicted to ROI are they now in the inner circle group and they join your membership there? Or how does that work these days?
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, so the inner circle is our paid membership group. And that’s where we interact together on a monthly basis. We have Q&A calls. We invite agents in markets that we’re getting a lot of deal flow in to share about their market, to answer investor questions, so that investors can familiarize themselves with those markets and then decide if that’s a market for them. We also have a forum where investors can ask questions in real time. And we do a lot of different events every month, again, for the goal of helping more people remotely invest in out of state areas.
Julie Clark:
Awesome. And those people are on like a deal list with you and they get deals weekly probably?
Jennifer Beadles:
Actually, it’s every day. Yeah, I think we ended up sending… I think we had maybe 130 deals last month.
Julie Clark:
Wow.
Jennifer Beadles:
Yeah, and that’s in multiple different markets across the US.
Julie Clark:
That is absolutely insane. Congratulations on just an explosive amount of success there. Can’t wait to continue to share all the goodness with you guys. And if you guys are interested in what Joe’s up to as well because I know a lot of you people that are on the road probably have similar characteristics as Joe, you love fitness and you love health. I basically say Joe is my doctor. I’d rather go to Joe and get the information from him not to… That’s a disclaimer on there. He’s not a doctor, but Joe, for health and fitness and all the stuff that you can help people with in that regard. What is the best way for them to plug in? And what are you offering? A membership site to The Get Better Project and so forth?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, so we have a membership site that has workouts daily and you get personal coaching from myself and the other coaches that are part of The Get Better Project. And you can find any of our stuff at The Get Better Project online at .com or on Facebook or Instagram and we have a two week free trial. Find that two week free pretty much anywhere as well and try it out. And you don’t need any equipment to get started. You just will need a want to get in look better, feel better. all that fun stuff.
Julie Clark:
Awesome stuff, guys. Well, I’m going to wrap it up today because I’m overloaded with work here stuck in my office. Boo. Oh, well, that’s me. But with that said, I will wrap it up with a couple admin things here. Thanks both of you guys for joining us today, kind of an end of the year fun one here. Not being so serious, and actually talking about what we’re all trying to pursue and achieve, which is some freedom, which you guys have clearly done. Super inspiring. We appreciate that.
Julie Clark:
For the rest of you, whether you’re on the road, or you are stuck at home in your office like me, please join us, engage with us, just join the conversation. Here at Seattle Investors Club we do that every week on Thursdays from 11:30 to 12:30 PM. It’s free, 100% free to just plug in. You go onto our Meetup.com page. Look for Seattle Investors Club and every Thursday morning just grab the access link. And join us on Zoom where we talk about pretty much all topics in real estate. It doesn’t matter what discipline or what your game is in real estate because we pretty much have everybody on there from brokers to agent investors, to agents, to lenders, private money lenders, hard money lenders, conventional lenders, property managers, dropping some big nuggets there every week and resources and tips and strategies and deals. Yes, you’re missing out if you haven’t jumped on that, which is free.
Julie Clark:
One thing that’s going to change for us this year is that those are all on our YouTube page. You guys can watch and listen to all the past recordings of those meetings for the last since March, basically since COVID hit. But starting in January, those new recordings as of January of our weekly masterminds, which I promise you actually don’t want to miss are going to be behind our paid membership site for Seattle Investors Club. Super, super cheap to join Seattle Investors Club. It’s $220 a year. That’s it, you get access to more education than you’re possibly going to be able to handle. And then of course, we have our podcast, The Nuts & Bolts of Real Estate Investing, you guys are already listening. So, thank you for that. And that’s all I got today because I am just inspired to not work as hard, so I’m going to leave it at that. How about that, guys? Joe, where can people find the details of today’s podcast or connect with us?
Joe Bauer:
Yeah, so you can get all the show notes and links that we’ve mentioned today in the podcast by going to seattleinvestorsclub.com/134. That’s seattleinvestorsclub.com/134. And if you guys are liking what we’re doing here, please give us a review on the podcast wherever you are listening to. That could just be a thumbs up on YouTube or subscribe on YouTube or an actual review on iTunes or Stitcher or wherever you’re at. And we would love that. We keep seeing those reviews come in. It definitely helps our show. So thank you.
Julie Clark:
Awesome. Hey, Joe, or Jennifer, will you guys drop into the show notes, the apps. You guys mentioned an app like where to go how to find where to stay when you’re having to look ahead of time or something like that. I would find that. Any type of camping on the road stuff that you guys can drop into this podcast notes that will help people who want to start pursuing this dream themselves would be super awesome. All right? So, Jennifer, you and I, or Sarah and I are talking later this afternoon with some exciting stuff that you have coming up that you’ve invited me to be a part of which I appreciate. I guess, we’ll be talking later today or soon. So, over and out everybody, and catch you next time.
Jennifer Beadles:
Thanks, guys.
Julie Clark:
Bye, guys.
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