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- Alex mied Austin, weil ihm die Stadt politisch zu aufgeladen und konfliktreich war.
- Er spricht Politik nur an, wenn sie dein Geschäft direkt betrifft, etwa bei Steuerthemen.
- Neue Gesetze wie Abschreibungsregeln für Immobilien lohnt es sich als Unternehmer auf Chancen zu prüfen.
- Trockene Hitze in Vegas empfindet er als angenehmer als die feuchtschwüle Hitze in Texas oder Georgia.
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0:00Why Vegas? >> Texas. >> Good question. Yeah, that's a big one. Um, yeah. I mean, so I told Leila we were in Texas and we were in Austin and I was like not the biggest fan of Austin. Super political and like >> I just like I'm Green Party of Green Party is capitalism party. Like I'm that party. Um, >> you just don't really give a [ __ ] about anything else. >> I I have like I have very middle of the path, you know, like beliefs. uh like very common social, you know, socially do whatever the [ __ ] you want, you know, capitalism wise, like leave
0:31>> Yeah, by and large >> that's kind of how I am too. People call me a fence sitter. Do you ever been called a fence sitter? >> Never once. [laughter] Like I never have been. >> Um >> Well, people probably never ask you like supercharged questions. No, I just like I just don't I like you know obviously there's >> there was a decision for us of like media wise like do we want to get into politics and I was like no man I want to talk business and only thing that I'll ever do is like if if something affects business I'll mention it but it's more like here's how you can capitalize on this like oh like big beautiful bill there's like you know new elements for real estate that are depreciation for for real estate professionals which is actually really interesting. It's like okay so how can you a business owner to like offset your your income like okay that's that's cool. Um, but like the other side of politics, like most of my politics is tax is tax related.
1:15>> Yeah. And and and when you're when you're capitalism focused and like personal business growth focused, then there's really only one option out of the two. >> Especially if you have a successful business. Yeah. You know, >> it's hot here. >> It is hot here. [laughter] It's dry though, which is better than wet and hot, which is Texas heat is way tougher than this. Georgia heat, like all that stuff. >> Super tough. Like this is super like this is fine. And it's it's like 100 days of the year and then the other whatever 200 and something are like great.
1:41>> I can't believe you didn't like Austin, man. >> It's again it was like so it was super political and it was like super blue and super red and there's always all this conflict and stuff. Also, the weather is tough. I think it's way worse than than Vegas. And so Leila and I the year that we sold we um we took one way tickets just from place to place to place for the whole year. >> Um which was awesome. Was like let's stay in Denver but like we just like stayed in Denver until we were like I'm good on Vendor. Let's go Salt Lake City. And then we like went there and Cleveland.
2:07>> No, I didn't do to Cleveland. The the hard streets of Cleveland. [laughter] Um, no. Then we went to Vegas and we stayed here for like 2 or 3 weeks and I was like, I don't feel I was like, I like it here. And so we had all our stuff in Texas and I just was like, let's just leave it, whatever. Let's just rent a condo here on the strip. And so that's what we did. And then um it's been four or five years, >> I guess. How do you not get sucked into the Vegas lifestyle? Because man, I like I like I have withdrawn 10K every day for the past well four days now. Yeah.
2:37And it's all gone. >> I think I think entrepreneurs are super gambly, right? I think we gamble a lot. I just gamble in different ways. I just want to have like house. I want to have house odds, >> you know? So, it's like if we put the launch on, we spent probably, I don't know, >> 10 $15 million before even the launch even started. Probably more. I don't know >> how. um, ads, the books themselves.