On today's episode of Gathering the Kings, I focus a 100% on bringing in funds capital to truly change the industry because they think that I found was that if you don't have access to capital quickly, when there's a fantastic opportunity to purchase Yeah. You just don't have the opportunity to purchase it.
You are listening to Gathering the Kings with Chaz Wolfe featuring fellow 78 and even 9 figure business owners who have real battle scars from business and life, but have prevailed as the king that they are designed to be. We welcome high performing entrepreneurs to the stage in order to reveal the reel of the reel. On what it takes to build a successful business today. Your picture of the journey of success and how you too can get there.
Through this dialogue, you will learn the value of growing your network and surrounding yourself with power players and keys like today's guest. Grab your pen and notebook because we're about to dive in. Alright, everybody. I'm Chaz Wolfe. I'm your host. I'm back. Gathering the king because I've got Brandon Schwab on the table here. King's table. Welcome. You know, I was just telling you offline. Oh, today Chaz been a packed Monday. I assume it's been that for you as well. It has been.
It has been crazy for sure. You know, the listener didn't get the privilege of being in our few before we turn the record button on. But, you know, you said you were up late last night talking with some investor friends until, you know, past midnight Yeah. Bro, this this takes me right into two questions. I've got I wanna know what business that you're in, and I wanna know why you still do it. You were up late last night digging. And I wanna know why.
So first, tell us what kind of business that you're in. I operate a fund, and this fund is built to change the industry for the elderly and how they are being cared for in a very cozy home compared to a big cold type of a place with a 100 to 200 people. Our fund is basically gear to change the industry by giving funds to operators who could not open if they didn't have access to all of those funds. This past evening, we had a group of investors come in from out of town.
They were from the East Coast, and We got done with touring all the houses and did all Chaz. And then I'll just get back to our office. And we began playing cash flow, the board game at about 6 PM. We didn't end till, like, almost quarter to 12. And then afterwards, all of us talked about how much we talked for 45 afterwards. And by the time all's are done, it was 12:30. And it was just like an awesome time and go How is it 12:30?
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm digging in, you know, with with like minded guys and gals that are pressing towards the future. So just to be clear for the listener, you're operating. You have multiple of these locations, but you have you're operating senior living facilities, but in a much, much different way. So, yes, The answer is kind of. I founded a company back in 2014, and I was operating them all the way up until June 2021. So I actually got out of operations after almost 8 years. Got it.
I found out that the things I'm awesome at, it didn't include operating the assets personally. So I actually found another person to do Chaz, and I opted out of the day to day type ops. Yep. I actually focused on after that. I opened up our first true fund, and I did do a fund prior, but I didn't think of it as an actual fund. I chose to do the fund full time because I had a deal that I was trying to close.
I was buying a portfolio of 7 homes, 55 total beds, And we call them the assets that we operate are gonna be 10 beds to about 20 beds per home caring for the elderly. Right? Yeah. So this portfolio, we had the deal through the SBA. And the SBA was giving me a fantastic deal. It was 2.5%. It was fantastic. It was only 10% down. Wow. And what happened was I did not get it finished because they asked for a extension for 30 days.
When I went back to the person that was purchasing from him, he goes Brandon. I can't do that because I just got an offer that was 1,500,000 higher than your offer. So I scrambled for 30 days, and I tried to bring up 12,500,000 in cash in 30 days, and I just couldn't do it. Yeah. And a thing that that taught me is you need to think of the things you have to have before you have to have it because in those 30 days, I was just desperate for cash. I was calling everyone.
And I just said, you know, that isn't gonna ever happen ever over. I am gonna be thoughtful because that deal, I was buying it at a 14.5% cap rate. It was a fantastic deal. That would have 2 x, our current portfolio. So I think to answer your question, I do have and our elder opco company, I've got 5 homes k. That have been operating a bulkum for the past 5 years. And there's 2 that I was able to open it, and I've got 2 homes that are opening.
Those are gonna be pending to open permit, probably quarter 3 2022. And then I've got a piece of land that is 7.2 acres that I was going to build about 5 houses on. So I've been in the operating company for 8 years, but the answer is I'm actually out of the operating company today Yeah.
And I focus a 100% on bringing in funds capital to truly change the industry because they think that I found was that if you don't have access to capital quickly, when there's a fantastic opportunity to purchase, Yeah. You just don't have the opportunity to purchase it. And I yeah. And I thought I I thought I was able to have this thing done through the SPA, and they just asked for 30 days. And if I had a fund in place at the time, I could been able to use that to have things closed.
And then the SBA could have taken out the capital for our fund about 30 afterwards. And I said, you know, Brandon, I goofed it up because I've been talking about talking on it painful in that moment, but it spurred you, you know, the success that you're having today. So I love how you're gonna be able to give us, you know, operational business stuff. I love what you said there Chaz you know, really your lane in the business at this stage, obviously, is to hone in on on a couple of things there.
I also love what you're doing from an angle of the elderly care space is obviously, you know, just on fire gonna grow, but then it's it's a it's tied to real estate. And so that's how we met. I think maybe through a real estate group or something. I can't remember on Facebook, but, you know, the the reality there is that it's it's not just a business. Sure. You know, it's a it's a business and a estate play.
And so I think that you're offering a unique deal to to your investors, and so I love that. So we'll get into that some of that. But at this stage in the game, Chaz was my second part of that question is, I mean, you were up until past midnight last night talking about, you know, a silly game, but not really, though. It's like the game that we're playing in life. I know he's pushing at this level, though. You've made it, you know, quote, unquote.
Dude, there gets a point when you don't do it to earn. So as you do it to, like, truly change the industry and have Chaz purpose is incredible. It is awesome to have the, I think, the opportunity to change the industry because a thing that I didn't tell you earlier or I think I told you before this call is is I had a you experienced personally where a person in our family had to go into a place that that had over 200 people. And it was cold, and I hated the atmosphere and the odor.
And that's where he was at when everything ended for him. And I felt so bad for him because they just offered terrible care. And I took that personal experience, and I turned that into I can take that and I can turn that into a a op that I can help elders that they don't ever have to do Chaz. Because this place, we pulled the Wolfe cord to get a person to be able to go in there to help them, and it took them 15 2020 by 25. So I got kind of upset, and I had to go find a person to offer him care.
And I can't tell you the thing that I told them, but I'll tell you I was pretty direct and and I was very over the top to get them to come into offer care. And afterwards, I felt terrible that I had that that I had to act like Chaz. So fast forward to today, I got into this thing at first to earn 10,000 each month, and I did that in our very first house in 2000 15. And it in fact, I earned 2 X ed, actually.
And as I got past that, I was like, you know, if I can help change the industry for other people that they don't have to do what all of us had to because ten thousand people per they are able to turn sixty five years old and 45100 every day turn 85. Everyone turn in 85 that end up in all of our homes today. And those people don't get old. And if you have to get old, you need to have lots of funds to take care of it. Cause if you don't, those places if you are out of funds are pretty disgusting.
Yeah. I love the purpose there. We've we've talked about, you know, purpose on on many of these shows and at some point, right, like, it has to go past the money, like you're saying. I love how you just gave us the really clear description how it was about money for you. Like, at the beginning, it was like, I just wanna make 10,000 a month, but it was tied to, I can do this better. This was a terrible experience, which so many businesses start that way. They go, sure. I can do this better.
Let me let me start out. Let me make a little bit of money. But eventually, you've had enough success and building these locations and providing the service and now building it into a fund to where now it's about, like you said, changing the industry. So when you're thinking about your purpose, now did you have that in mind then, or has that grown over the course of time? One of the things that happened is that there I opened up home too. I finally had the funds.
So I was able to hire an outside coach to come in. And he came into our l 10 event Chaz was a 2 day event off-site. Right? He began asking me the purpose that I opened up this company, and I gave him the answer that I told everybody. And this guy goes, No. I don't think so.
Just kept digging and digging and digging and digging and digging and he got back to a day that I just told you on, and I didn't even have any clue that that was the purpose that I opened it because soon as I got to that point, busted into tears. I mean, I was a absolute train wreck because Wow. The day that I acted that way, I acted as if that didn't ever happen. I just I felt so so bad. And if you have to get old, you need to have lots of funds to take care of it.
Cause if you don't, those places if you are out of funds are pretty disgusting. And that purpose changes things. Now fast forward to today, I figured out that I can take a home that's about 5000 feet and get it to have a a total income of about 50 to 55,000 each month with with expenses of about 30 to 32 each month. So I figured out how these things can earn 20,000. So each month, then Right. I said holy cow.
The thing that happened is our 1st 6 years before COVID, right, We had about eight people in that house that they had their final time here Yeah.
It was in that house, but I think it was really cool Chaz our company tracked the KPI of everyone that was able to be in our house that ended up in Old Pass, but also the thing that all of us are able to track was the people that were in there, could they answer the place that they were going to end up after Earth and then also how are they gonna get there? Yeah. We had a 100% people could answer that question. And then I said, wow. This isn't just on earning money.
This is a thing that he called us to be here to help people and their final because a a thing that's actually really cool is if you can answer that before you're able to pass, So all things back before that don't actually play a factor into it. So even if you are a person that's terrible, if you get that in the end right, you were all good. So COVID happened. Right?
So Yeah. Just before COVID so I said in 25 years, because we are gonna have 25,000 people pass in all of our homes that are able to answer that question. And then I said in order to hit that goal, because that's the, have you ever gone through the book, Jim Collins from Good To He's has the big hairy audacious goal, and then I chose 25,000. And then after I chose that, I was like, wow. By 2045, we're gonna have 25,000 people. And then I go, Oh, boy.
I better get going because in order to do Chaz, so so, like, we need to have, like, thousands of these home 3000 Homes coast to coast by 2030. And I said, I have to get going in order to help that because if you think about the taxi cab industry, right, they're ancient. Right? In order to call 1, you should to just go here, taxi taxi. Right? Right.
And then that whole type of injury got changed because they came up within a good idea and go, how about if you use technology and change the whole thing upside down? Well, I feel like I'm the company that's going to be using technology to change this whole thing upside down. And we are gonna be the Uber changing this industry because Yeah. This industry, unfortunately, is ain't like dinosaurs. They barely use technology.
Have you ever gone into any place cares for the elder that has 100 to 2 to 200 people, and just the odor is terrible. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think that that is actually caused by? Because people aren't getting changed. Right? Yeah. I mean, you would think. Yeah. So if you could use technology to keep that from happening, wouldn't you do that? Of course. You would think so. Yeah. But but people stay in their lane. Interesting. So interesting. Okay. So you've given us quite a bit.
Little bit of the history too. I love the purpose. Thank you. The heartfeltness behind it because at this stage, like you said, you can you can continue to press. Correlating that to the listener, do you think that for us having them get to that point, that's the top purpose of us being able to be here, like, is we can change the industry, but also we can operate it and how it ought to be done. Right. Where I don't ever go anything under about 10 for each home, and I don't go over 20.
That's purposely done so that they feel Yeah. And you're talking about beds? Yes. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. And so I do that purposely because the atmosphere is key. The place that they don't feel that they are there just to end things, you know, if you are at a mutual place with 200,000 people or that is 200,000 feet, there Chaz there is there is 200 people, that tells you you are probably gonna end things here.
We are gonna have awesome homes, cozy homes, things going on where it tells them the total op it. Yeah. I love that. So it's important to have that vision as what I'm hearing you do for the listener. Okay. So let's go back into your journey a little bit. I wanna go you've kinda give us how you got started and kinda where you are today, but in the middle somewhere, you were making some decisions. And and I wanna know a good and a bad decision.
So tell us about a good decision that you've made that just literally catapulted your entire business. That would be helpful to listener. We had a choice early on, and this was probably about 2017 or 2018 where we could continue and do it. However, else is able to do it, or else we could offer awesome care in a home. We chose to do offer awesome care in a home, but all of us knew it was gonna come at a very big expense.
And what we realized was that we had to do first what how it ought to be done and then, b, to figure out afterwards how to get things to earn out. Sure. Now typically in our industry where if anyone has to have help, if they if they if they have any thing that they'd have to go out, then they typically are are gonna go out. All of us found quickly is that if you have people go out, sometimes they don't come they don't come to your home. Interesting.
K. So we decided to bring the RN, bring the m to our team had everything go into our house. Now that came at a huge cost. We added in our end expense because we felt that if you can do it in there, that was a good choice, but the the backside of it was that it blew up what our costs were of how we were first operating. But we we felt that in order to be profitable Chaz way, we needed to keep under or over 10, but under about 20 beds. But collectively, our whole portfolio had to go out.
So I had to have other homes because our overhead quickly got to about 500,000 per year. And when you have got 2 or 3 houses, 2 or 3 houses can't cover the overhead of a of about 500,000 per year. That forced us to go out. So I so I think in order to answer that question, it is both and that choice right there. That was a very good choice to do the type of care that people ought to have and don't do what everyone else does.
Yeah. But on the flip side of that coin was it forced us to expand faster because the overhead that I took on the type of people that I had on our team to offer that, they were expensive. And 500,000 dollars per year by 2 houses, doesn't pan out. I wasn't gonna cut it. Yeah. So so what I'm hearing from the listener is that the experience, the service that you're providing, the end result, but you didn't you didn't cheapen it out.
You didn't you didn't tell you didn't choose to go the cheap route. You didn't choose to go the economy route. You chose to go the well done. Route. And even though it cost you a little bit more, you chose to go that route, but then figure out other ways to be able to bring the revenue in. And so Yeah. That principle in itself can be applied in any business out there and it's make the experience. Actually, try this. Make it an experience, right, not just a service, making an experience.
And then and then you're providing something so lasting for you guys. Obviously, it's, like, attached to their family. It's attached to their their spirituality. Like, there's so many deep connections that you guys offer, but for somebody who doesn't have that opportunity, their experience in in whatever they're providing can still be connected to as many areas of that person's life as they want them to. They just have press into those. For sure.
Might cost you a little bit of money, but figure out how to either go get more customers, raise your prices, like, figure the revenue piece out don't stamp on the experience. Bingo. Oh, okay. What about a bad decision? What about something that just was like, oh, stay clear of this. Red zone. I bought a house that was out of the 10 to 20 range. It had 8 in it, and I thought I could always add 2 extra to it. And that house was about 45 from our elder houses.
And that was a bad choice because what happened was that house didn't ever earn the type of income that dealer houses did. Yeah. And it it always it ended up costing the total portfolio that that had to pay in to help that house. So we operated it for 2 years, and there were times where I was cutting checks for 5 to 10,000 each 30 days just to keep it going.
Yeah. And then I quickly figured out that if a house cannot get up and operational on its own within 12 to about 15, you just got to cut your ties and Yep. And we ended up closing it. So Yep. That was hard. I felt COVID forced it because we had we had caregivers that were basically paid to go don't go into work every day. And that put us into overtime. And when you're cutting $10,000 each month just to keep things open, Chaz get that gets old quickly.
And I finally just said that if we can't find the care team in the area to truly care. We just have to close it till I can get things tighter. Yeah. You know, I love what you said there because it it yes. The the the, you know, the nail in the coffin may have been the stress of COVID and the fact that you had to pay over time and But the real problem, which you already said, was it wasn't in your buy box. Right? It wasn't in a close enough area, so your economies of scale was difficult.
All of the other things that were making your business successful weren't applied to this one because you didn't follow, the steps that you had set out for yourself. And and I just so relate to this, I'll tell the the listeners my quick story is in my journey with edible arrangements before I started getting into real estate and and other types of businesses. I I opened up my 4th location, and it was the only out of all the 7 that I've owned, it was the only location that I opened out of fear.
It was the only location that I opened so that someone else wouldn't take the territory. And I'll tell you what is the same exact thing. The portfolio was paying for that. It's gonna be open. Eventually, I had to just close it down, and it cost me 100 of 1000 of dollars, but I'll tell you what. What I learned from that is is you you make decisions in a specific way. Like, for you, it was the buy box for me. It was like, okay.
I shouldn't make decisions out of, like, fear of losing out on something. It should be what's part of my game plan? Does it fit in the game plan? Does it not? You know? Yeah. Crazy. Well and a thing that is funny is at the time I had I had 3 houses open. And this house was home 4. Yeah. There you go. It's that it's that weird number 4. Weird four number. You know, it's Chaz because careful on 4. Be careful on 4. Skip past it. In fact, I tried to skip past it because I opened up number 4.
No. I take it back. No. It was number 4. I was gonna say it wasn't, but because I opened up 5, 6, and 7, all in the same, like, 2 week period, but it was number 4 that got me. You know? So anyway, just so appreciate the Yeah. Exactly. Stay away. Keep straight to 5. Alright. So when it comes to decision making, since we're kinda joking about this this such a huge topic in business.
Do you have any sort of, like, discipline or any sort of process that you follow when it comes to trying to make good decisions now rather than the bad ones? Yes. I do today now. Back as I opened things, as I had the first the first home open, home 2. I would even tell you home 3. I had a pretty good internal feel of, like, is it good? So is it bad? Fast forward to today. Now I figured out that I'm only really good at about 2 things, possibly 3 things, but I'm terrible at everything else.
So I'm gonna find people that are awesome at all of the things that I'm terrible at. And then I get to pose options, and then all of us just talk on it. And then all of us could argue on it for an hour or 2 hours. But at the end of it, whatever the team is able to end up with is it. Like, it's it. It. And that has helped us because our team is awesome. Our oldest is 74 who's been in the health care industry for 48 years. Wow. His His partner is also on our team as well.
Theresa's been on board in the health care industry for 38 years. All of these things are great because I am good at opening up the homes. I am good at being able to have them purchase, do all that But as far as being able to operate them every day, I'm actually pretty terrible. That's a thing that all of us collectively talk on it I just got done with finishing the book. Who? Who? Not how? Not how? And it and that book the whole time that's a thing that I have been able to do.
And this guy could have just told me to to do all of this earlier Chaz could help us exponentially. Yeah. But, of course, I had I had to do things the hard way. You know, I Yeah. Tell people I have done everything possible in correctly, I'd say 2 to about three times each. It took me that time. I think that that has also taught me is that that experience you've got to go, hey. That's good or that isn't good, but then you've got to change things quickly.
Yeah. And I have built a team that takes things on early, and they get it done quickly. And then all of us are able to talk on it, but then after, the team is able to come up with it. Boom. A deal that I could talk on that could potentially be a choice that I bought that was bad is during COVID, I bought a house on the East Coast that was on the MLS for 2,200,000. I gave them 2 offers the first offer was 1,800,000 owner carryback financing, and the other offer was $700,000 cash closing 5 days.
Which offer do you think they took? It depends on what their motivation was. They took the option to close quickly. K. Wolfe And they took all cash. So we argued because I was just adamant open up this property. 15,000 feet. It's gorgeous, and our team argued and argued and argued and came up with Brandon, put it up for sale. And our team just got an offer. We got a LOI offer on it for 1,800,000 that our company is gonna clear over $500,000.
Like, that's the thing that I personally pushed to open it because everyone else goes, nope. Put it up for sale. I said, Alright. Fine. Boom. And it did anyway. Good. That's such a, like, process to follow, but then you gave an example there. For the guy who maybe doesn't have, like, an executive team like you do, I mean, your house 1 or 2, and it's just kinda you and maybe a couple of other people, does that format still apply there, or does it change a little bit for that guy?
Back before I had a full team of people that I had on our team so I always had been able to hire a person to help me. Yep. And it isn't a person that's always in the particular industry that I'm in, but I found a coach that I could hire that can help keep me going because in the 1st couple of years, I didn't really feel like I could talk to anyone. I didn't feel that anyone got any clue of everything that I was going on, but I would go crazy if I could not talk to anyone.
And even if he didn't have every answer. But if I could just talk it out with them, typically at the end of it, it was a easy option that I typically answered it. But the whole time, he just asked me good questions. And then at the end of answering, I said, alright.
And if you don't have people on your team, you've gotta find a person who has done good things that that I think you could ask to just to talk to, and typically people who have been able to do things for 10, 20, 30 years, they don't typically have a ton of people asking them. And that's a thing that's crazy today. If you have a person that's able to absolutely just crush it, just asking for help. Typically, people are like, hey. That's cool.
Because it is able to give them an opportunity just to help talk, but then also they can take all the things that they've gone through personally and give where they can help different person by all of that. And that that part's really, really cool. Yeah. I think the perspective there is that you don't have it altogether.
You know, someone else, even if they don't have it all or all the right answers, having that that counterpart, and then specifically what you said is having someone who has some experience. Yep. I can just bounce some things off of you or even just ask good questions. Yep. I think that a lot of entrepreneurs fall into the trap of I'm over here. I created this thing. I'm by myself, and so I'm gonna just figure it out, which is fine. Like, there's there's an ownership factor to Chaz.
But Sure. But, man, it gets you trapped and stuck in that place of, you know, you're by yourself and you don't have anybody to talk to and and and also ego. Like, it just gets in the way, and then you don't have any creative thoughts or anybody, like, poking holes and what's your plan is. Or Sure. There's just so much value in having those other people, whether they're local, whether it's a group that you're part of, whether it's a coach, you know, whatever it might be. So love that angle. Okay?
Thank you. You ready for the speed round? Sure. Go. K. We're gonna go one word answers here. First one is if you could only track one metric inside of your business. Only one out of all the things that you track, what would it be, and why? The people that are going to pass in our homes that they are able to go up to heaven because that's the only thing that if you take care of that part correctly, I feel that he will take care of everything else for us.
Yeah. I love Chaz, that you have the ability to tie that to a metric. That's so cool. Not many businesses that have that opportunity, for sure. Okay. What book would you recommend Chaz a 6 figure owner read? Life and air. Life and air? Life and air. Life. Okay. Steve Steve Steve. It's the author is Steve Cook. Cook. K. I got a Steve Cook. And, of course, you mentioned who and how by Dan Sullivan, what a what an incredible read.
Yeah. I would tell you for this audience right here, I would say the book by Jim Collins. Good to great is a fantastic read. Yeah. I agree. I agree. That's an awesome book. That thing changed everything. That's good. I still reference the language of seat on the bus from that book. So love that one. Do you intentionally network in mastermind with other entrepreneurs to grow? I do. I probably spend $60,000 per year to be in those groups.
And It's some of the top ROI that I think I've ever have, and I do. I have that's a big part of it for sure. That's huge. And I know, I think just from our conversation that we talked about, I know one of your groups is real estate specific, are the other ones real estate specific also or business oriented? Like, what what kind of groups you're part of? So I've joined Collective Genius back in 2017. Chaz group is great for technical, like, do and deal part, but I'm the only one in that group.
There's about 150 of the 1st year I was in Chaz, I absolutely just crushed it. It changed our whole company. The other groups I'm part of, one is a Mhmm. Fund. It's called IFS. And they have a years now. So that has helped us open up our fund. And the other group I'm part of is with Steve Cook personally, he has a group that keeps me not going 80 hours per week. Those three groups One is 1 is 20,000 per year, and the other one is 10,000 per year, and the other one's 10.
And those 3 grew are great because they keep everything good, where I could go and put in about, so, like, 80 hours each week easily. But I also get that if I did that, I would not be a good person at everything else. I've got 2 kids that are 8 in 14. And Kelly, who I've been together for 15 years, probably couldn't put up with me being just busy. So I'm a thing that I do is I go 1023 every date. So I'm putting it in about 30 hours each week. Yeah. I love that. I love that you put your schedule.
Yeah. I was gonna say you've purposely scheduled it that way. Yep. And I think every entrepreneur would love to get there, and they're trying to build systems and processes to get there. I love how you've given just even some credit to just other people that you've been around with the help you've gotten there. So Last question. If you lost it all, Brandon, what would you do? Lost it all. All gone. Being at that place isn't a good place to be at.
But if you've been there before, it's good because I feel like that type of hunger pushes you harder for anyone that hasn't ever been there. So if I lost it all and had to begin over, I would start a fund and I would bring in capital. And then I would explain how I would change the industry because there is tons of capital out there today that is getting killed.
If you look at inflation of 8.5 percent plus, there is 1,000,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars out there that people are just getting killed right now. Where if you can help them, So I Wolfe open up our first fund. If I had to, I would partner up with somebody. If I didn't have any cash to open up our first fund, I would partner up with somebody and get the first one done because I have the experience of how to go do it. I am confident that I can go do it over.
I'd find an industry that I was into just totally into where anything that you do, you have to be like all in. Yeah. And if you aren't all in, don't do it. So I would do this industry over, and I would do a fun because I think that's the easiest avenue to get to places that I think you're trying to go is you need to hold the capital. And there is a ton of investors out there that don't have any clue like, what to do with it.
Yeah. And if you can help them help the elderly and earn a very good ROI, I could probably build everything that I have today plus some in half the time. Yeah. But it took me the 1st 8 years to just, like, just get things going through it. But, like, if I had to begin from absolutely, so nothing. So as long as I had my church family, I could do anything. Even if I didn't have any access to anything, I would go find people and then I would help change the industry. Absolutely. I love it.
You know, I think the just the energy that you bring to the the fund piece and what you've been able to learn through Chaz, I think super eye opening. And then also just the the idea that that you just keep going. I think is super encouraging because I think most entrepreneurs out there right now think that it's frail that it can it can be lost at any moment. I think there's, like, almost even, like, a healthy balance there of, like, you probably should work. Like, it can be lost at any moment.
A little bit of that hunger that you're you were you referenced, but to know that, like, even if you lost it all, you'd keep going, I think, is super inspiring. So Thank you. Brandon, you've got you've got a couple of links here. We're gonna put them down below, but How can someone connect with you? Maybe they wanna be part of the fund. Maybe they want to be an operator on the other end. Maybe they wanna just connect with you as an entrepreneur. Like, How can someone connect with you?
So the top way, some Chaz can get in that is interested in investing to go to the fund page on the Internet, which is gonna be posted down below. But then the best way, probably for anyone to get in contact with Chaz. Is it go to the page that I have on the internet is my first name and then it's s. It is schwab. And if you're able to go there to book a a time to talk with me. If you are interested in opening up your own home, I will give you an 85 page book of how I opened our first house.
There was a point that I thought I was gonna get into teaching people how to do this. And then I quickly figured out that I am not. So for anyone that has gotten to this point of this call, if if you go to select my first name and then it is schwa be Yeah. Brandon Brandon Schwab.com, and I will have Alyssa below. Yep. And if you can book a call 15 minutes and just ask for the e it's an 85 page book. The e a that I have will take care of that. I used to charge 2000 for that book.
I will give that to anyone free of charge. However, don't act like it is free. If you pay $2000 for it and you're gonna put time and efforts, I would tell you to take this and go. If anyone's interested to invest, I would probably book a call with me first for about 30 minutes for us to first talk. And then all of us can answer if this is a good fit for you and if you would be a good fit for us. Great. That's probably the best options. Perfect. Let me let me reiterate here.
You got boutique senior living fund.com. You can check out there for for funding if you wanna be an investor, but book a call with Brandon, brandish Schwab.com. Yep. And and he can help you through this stuff, but But more importantly, the guys that have been listening that are interested in growing their business, I hope that you've been paying attention because Brandon has giving you some amazing things here today about just some ups and downs, man, and we all have them.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man, it you have you found your lane only just in the niche of business because I'm even before, like, you didn't say it today, but in our previous call, you said you were kind of floundering in around in real estate, but You found your spot of real estate that works really, really well. Right.
Even inside of that business, you found a couple of 2, 3 things that you are, superhero at, and then you've got a team surrounding you doing the other parts of the business, and it sounds like you guys are crushing. I'm just so thankful that you got to be here and and give some value here So if you wanna connect, the links are below, and then, dude, I just wish you nothing but success. I know we talked about you coming to Kansas City, so we're gonna have to do some business together, my man.
We are going to, man, for sure. Soon as I finish our first pot of 30 homes here, which will be by the end of 2022. We are definitely interested. I've got 10 different areas picked out. And Kansas City is number 4 or 5 on Chaz. And, dude, it's an awesome area. Love all about that. And I thank you for being here today adding so much value We really appreciate it. Thanks for listening to Gathering the Kings.
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