These were the guys who could put butts in seats at seminars. Im being mentor by a company. So we ended up season one. That was like, Hey, Dave, did you do this on on Friday? What am I supposed to be doing? But understand, that book is really written for the active investor. Well, people would be able to find it. So just just I mean, you have, like, we cant You just cant skip that. Im not a real big tattoo guy, but Ive been thinking about this for a while. AboutPressCopyrightContact. Im like, Well, I know how to dig a ditch. Whatever floor you want is what youre doing working for you. You earned it, You poor accountability. You know, Ive run a small construction company. Man, Im like, What the heck is this place? Hey, thank you so much for coming on board. And it was funny. Just that business acumen. Hes like, Why? We went through the investment of building at our marketing strategies, and we are in that fund raised position right now. Your your email and your information. If you dont flip it, then theres just like I wouldnt wanna learn from anybody who was just studying it. And they asked me to bring some of that mad British energy to the arena, which Im always up for. Thats f r e e d o m venture dot com, and youll get this. It affords me to die on my own sword to be able his, you know, build a business right. It put me in a position where I can touch gloves with guys like you. Time out. And what Ive found is that most people actually just dont do it. So its really important to always keep your your platform going so that you have this vehicle because it allows you opportunity. They have seen more stuff. So I picked up the phone on I look at it. So its kind of cool, man. And those are the people that I would have. Its beautiful. Get back to your story. I didnt cheat. You understand it. Yes, Im proud to stand next, he said. Its like an entrepreneur like you could study being an entrepreneur, you could want to be an entrepreneur. I mean, I was styling, man. I didnt steal. And if it isnt, are you going to do something different? When is that gonna be? Ive said it in the past. Hope. You tell May Ill be honest about it. Dave Seymour was a firefighter for 16 years and is now a full-time real estate investor who also was on the A&E's hit TV show "Flipping Boston". He says youre either a lunatic or a genius. Weve got Dave Seymour here in the house from flip. Look, man, every time Ive Ive ever walked out onto a platform to share education through real estate investing, I always open up with the line. david seymour (born dawid szymin; november 20, 1911 - november 10, 1956), or chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname "szymin"), was a polish photographer and photojournalist known for his images from the spanish civil war, for co-founding magnum photos with henri cartier-bresson, robert capa, george rodger and william vandivert, and People jacked up screaming and dancing, and I mean, yeah, but then we got to know each other. Well, look, man, youre just implementing what you learn, and then youre getting results. And were doing whatever 13 in the first is in 29 subsequently and then doing your own investments. The company that I invested money with and the program that I was supposed to implement was horrible. I was I actually, Im really mad at Russell Bronson. Its in the basement and its like the peloton right with, like youve got a screen and you can interact with other with other users and growers. But what theyre really saying is sell our education programs. And you got to remember brother were in New England, you know, we got some old stuff here. 6% preferred right of return. May He treated me well, and he gave me opportunity. Hes like, Brandon, you prepared your whole life for this. There was a dark day for me, bro. Like in all these people are out there, right Now that you know, they kill their grandmother toe, get a reality TV show because apparently gets your job in a big white house somewhere later on down the line? We see the opportunity right now because of Cove it and all of the pain and misery that its bought. Why are you here? My wife knew we were in business relationship, and I was like, This is just not this is fundamentally not right. Come in and talk about your new venture. Like you are not going in the right direction and just every ounce of me. Now youve done the show you doing educational programs with flipping Boston and and your own personal. That person who pulls, you know, like a Hillary Clinton and looks over their shoulders is what the hell happened and Then theres the other group, which are the proactive rather than the reactive. I mean, its a natural progression here for you, so Im excited for you. Kids laughing his ass off on the other end of the phone. Ive been blessed to be where I am. Flipping Boston. Lets go, baby. Its a business plan that meets all of the legal. That and I said some Great. Its myself on my my old business partner, Pete. And thats what differentiated you. Its Its just a knob survey, shin of of implementation. I mean, theres theres a whole group of those thats, you know, Frank Kern. Teachers arent youre not going to study it and then teach it and be effective, like until you can go to bed at night knowing that youve got a payment on that house that youre flipping, thats doing a balloon payment in 90 days. And then, Yeah, Ill just say, like, if anybodys listening to their new to that sort of investment, I mean, the 100 page, thank ppm. Theres an opportunity for a free download for for a book that I wrote with my property manager. Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of Build a business success Secrets. So for May, I started on this journey of education, and I check this one out. I can answer it with clarity because its coming from two places. So we ended up doing 3, 3.5 seasons. Thats why I got E. I think I think everybody gets called. Jack Canfield, influential Go in My Life, sold me hope so me hope that if I do the things that they do, I will get the results that they get. Im like, 19.5 years old. I went out to dinner that night at a party, but its its kind of interesting. And Dave has so much energy that youre going to be pumped up when you just leave this episode. Dont fix it. And I think if its okay with you, well tune back in. So for us, instead of going there on everything we went bullish on, what we see is the opportunity that Kobe creates. I dont know what that is. But more importantly and, well, I dont wanna be the doom and gloom, but the pain and misery its going to bring in massive upheaval and chaos. I looked at her and I said, Baby, I cant keep doing what Ive been doing. Latest News See All. It gives you an opportunity to learn more about the company of fund. Exactly. They dont know how. Is this accredited investors? And I mean that sincerely. Grandma right and the theme throughout my my hi profane tirade on the application was Dont call me right. Well, three. But they really I mean, it was that accountability. Oh, my God. Then Im like, call back, please call back. Where can we see it? I mean, look, any founder on has an ego like anybody who says that thats not true. And to this day, Ill help. I didnt ask questions. Describe that your team players look dip shite. He was the vice vice president to the Federal Reserve. Im going to say something on this, this this goal with you that I dont think Ive said before. But you and I, weve gotten off track. A man of faith, You know what I mean? But, you know, man, I gotta be grateful for for the for the gifts and then at the same time learned my own lessons. Ill tell you, man, its its a funny story and, uh, keep it as brief as I can, But, you know, as we began to get the infrastructure going for marketing, you gotta make noise, man. I thought I told you. Agreed, agreed. to be in a really estate investor, and I know youve told this story before, but can you tell our listeners just a short version of Really, how that how that happen? Youre here in the States. Big picture. I love watching relationships come to fruition, whatever that may be. Im in a Im in a CEO position today and that position affords me to live and die on my own decisions, right? Im pivoting out of what Ive been doing with my current investments. Im an immigrant to the United States, came here looking for something. Zero degrees. So yeah, thats where we met. And so Im with you, baby. So once they connect, yeah, they can access the ppm, which is whats called the private placement memorandum. I could go forever. So, you know, it was the TV show was a blessing and a curse. And thats where 99.9% of the people fail. It talks about the methodology of our invest in it talks about the Floridian market. So, you know, the TV show was was great for that one day Im sitting in the firehouse. Subscribe. Talk about that. And then once that that order is fulfilled. How many? But it was almost like a biblical journey in the sense that I came from another country. And do I just offer this? I said, Good, because we gotta put 27 grand on your credit cards. They have one billion with a B dollars under under management assets under management. I hit it every day. Youre on the other side of the country, right? What about this? Are you pumped up? When when my house was in pre foreclosure and it all went on my wifes credit cards and I straight up, she looked at me on that Sunday morning and she said to me, What do you think? I say to a lot of our investors I bring ah blue collar attitude to a white collar world. On the end, Im like they just asked me a question. But, did you know Dave started out as a Firefighter of all things? So I guess theres a double edged sword. Is that correct? Where did Where did everybody go? You know what I mean? Its just factual, created, unprecedented opportunities in business and development and change. Im getting up early again. I was I am super discipline. I you know, were just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and, you know, trying toe try to pivot, man, play the game in a new landscape in a new world. My dentist said he thinks Im absolutely crazy. Brandon, with a lot of investors. I mean, at the end of it, I think it was like for 30 grand an episode. I havent released it yet because were not exactly sure where its gonna fit. I thought I was doing the right thing. Not that I dont like professors, but studying it is very, very different than being. They called everybody Youngs and yall. Just get motion, get motion. I mean, thats thats thats it. Go right. But do you think that your ability to jump off that cliff and cross the bridge was because you were at rock bottom? Amazon Prime is has got all of our shows on there right now, which is a trip. Youve done it before. When you do really sit at freedom venture dot com. Dave and his partner Peter Souhleris are buying promising homes, renovate them and try to sell them soon with some decent profit. I dont advertise it because I want people to read, write, you know, do a little work. Yeah, correct, Correct. I think you were on the panel as an investor, and we were doing like a like a shark tank pitch kind of a thing. Where if actually, if you were just so egotistical and you were willing to just be like, No, Im always right, you actually might have done better. No dunk a dunk money over. And there was the guy. Ah, funnel. I said, Yeah, Ive seen his apartments and know it I know him personally. Aside from having his own business, he also created . For that, it was my relationships, right? Dave and his partner Peter Souhleris are buying promising homes, renovate them and try to sell them soon with some decent profit. I said in the thing, Im big D Im the, you know, Im the real estate British bulldog of real estate and laughter. Yeah, No. But the goal is to have that 55 million is the no no going back scenario. End of the day, Just watching a little bit of mindless TV on my my oldest one. Right. All Rights Reserved. And those are the how do you get? Yeah, Im excited. Im having a lot of conversations. Youre an experienced investor, right? Build a Business Success Secrets newsletter, Build a Business with Brandon Podcast Homepage, How to Start a Business Online: Step by Step Guide in 2023, Week #22 Email Update: An honest look at where inflation really is from Brandon on Sept 17th, Week #21 Email Update: How to get customers to love your brand from Brandon on Sept. 10th. Lets go. So But personally, Im Im styling and profiling, brother, you know, may I roll with the punches no matter what you always do Now you and I know each other from really back when you were doing flip in Boston and had a whole educational Siris, which I know you still dio But we did a bunch of events for entrepreneurs. Accredited. Hey, Dave. E on Then I was also working construction like I had. You know, this is going from being a fire fire to take in some seminar to becoming a teacher, to flipping the houses and making a bunch of money to doing the show. If somebody calls and I can help him, Ill help him. We already did one press release. You earned the freaking right to sit on a panel anywhere with anybody at any time. Then they looked at me and they go, man, youre out there, you know, kicking ass and taking names. Kevin offers just that business acumen, man. Whats next? Flipping a house. But, you know, we got we got some nice art because there that we that we consistently put out. The projections were confident that the 100 Milby in the account and out on the street by the end of the year were already fleshing out the the big ideas around Fun too. I kicked the crap out of this, but but But but But I just kept going and going and going, and Im saying Please dont. Yeah, its a business plan. Awesome scroll all the way down there. Flow. Right? Like I say to my guys all the time. We dont want those because its like driving the Titanic. But Russell Bronson sent out a blast emails or a few select people saying that there was a company in New York that was looking to bring back the house flipping genre. Quite frankly, it was really that my as I look back, it was the diet so And my point in telling that is even the most resilient, disciplined, hard core people are are are susceptible to these high stress environments. Im rooting for your success and well keep a ni out and have you back next year. Lets talk about covert. Thats Ah, thats a nice little you know, its a gift. Im just like you like its not a Its a good thing, but I think the test there is if youre the smartest person in the room, your goal as an entrepreneur founder, whether youre doing real estate or anything else is to get people who are smarter than you. And straight up a Z, Im standing here in my office in Boston. Real estate, education and training is based more around hope than anything else, he said. Ill do the best Ive been known since, like some of the oxygen out of the room. That saying, like weve heard that so many times Dont avoid failure. Episode: 103 Dave Seymour Join David Pere and Alexander Felice with Dave Seymour as they talk about the Firefighting Millionaire. But we got deals sitting in the pipeline right now that we could buy even if we only had three million in the account we could we could go toe work on, then toe put. Would you all agree that knowledge is and then they all finish the sentence power on then I Ive always said, Is it is it really? Yeah, right. So that offers diversification and safety that you wouldnt get in any other kind of real estate transactions. And then and then one day Im I got I got a TV show being office. This is the next 20 years of my life. Guest Bio: Dave Seymour, a retired 16 year veteran of the Fire Service launched his Real Estate career over a decade ago, rapidly becoming one of the Countries top investors. Right There were times I you know, Ive got some regrets as toe how that platform could have been elevated better, right? If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. I said, Its the easy one. Seriously? please LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE! So that knowledge piece was always very interesting to me. I guess the dirty secret is no one actually reads the book, so Im not that worried, but if you read the book, Im reading his new traffic secrets. Russell Bronson is his name. And they went No. He specializes in home design and many major TV networks ask him for his own opinion. He goes back again. But, did you know Dave started out as a Firefighter of all things? You could go all the way to the basement basement, one basement, too. Blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and some pure not the brilliance came out of my mouth. Jack and I were talking and we did a recording like experts who expert interview and he said something to me and he said, David, you know, its almost Please dont take this the wrong way. I just identify the very best people that I can in the core competencies that I need fulfilled. And if you look at commercial real estate investing in a multifamily arena, its outperformed all other commercial asset classes. Well, this just I mean, honestly, Dave, I wish you the very best of luck, but this just makes sense for your career, like this is how it works. No wonder that Seymour amassed a nice fortune. Once youre accredited, the SEC says you could now look at my alternative investments because youre intelligent enough to earn 200. Thats what youre offering me to dio on a commission. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro David Seymour So Walter connected with me and he said, What are you doing? Youre not Youre not the energetic guy that I know you to be on, but I cant do this, man. And when I start talking about our preferred rate to return and targeted capital targeted returns on quarterly distributions and lifetime, its like it. No, Brendan, it wasnt them that helped me a counter, brother. When I invested in myself, I purchased accountability. And when everyone is greedy, you sell. But to be on this podcast with you today, theres been a lot of bridge under the water. Im like, Okay, you want to get married? Venture. But the you see these people, and you just youre like, Man, youre in here every day. And you know, I turn around at what? But once I hit five mil boom, Im ready to go by. And today weve got Dave Seymour. Agreed, agreed. Man. You know what Im saying? Always assume that you are standing againstmarket expertsas Dave is. Get like you sort of write euphonious out of a gun, get out of there like slide off of the chair and go away. The late Sorry, the lady on score box. Then jump on the rower sitting the stoner get hot and sweaty come toe work So it Zvili pretty good. This you do this? Some of these conversations have been this. Oh my God, Look at that. I dont wanna go pound the pavement, man. Brandon, where in my head Im going Run, Forrest, run! And if I, you know, if I was brutally honest, I allowed influences to I dont want I dont know what the right word to use Brandon, but I allowed influences to lessen or soften the impact I could have had. Now, now, now weve got some context. Right now, the CEO is a young gun cool guy. Episode: 103 Dave Seymour Join David Pere and Alexander Felice with Dave Seymour as they talk about the Firefighting Millionaire. Only SEC says an accredited investor earns $200,000 a year or more individually, 300 or more as a couple $1 million in net worth, not including equity or their primary residence or equity in their primary residence. But you do know all this information, because by this time, you had four seasons, which is at least 13 houses a piece or something. Thanks for being on the podcast. For him. I was one great above the guy with the cap on Guy E. There doesnt happen often. 8 to 12 targeted rich turns on quarterly distributions and then 20 plus targeted returns for the life of the fund, which is six years. And then we did a couple of those together. Im really excited for this opportunity for you. I hope that was clear enough that theres theres a lot of movie props on our side, but on the invest decide its easy. Whats the landscape look like? Talk about what investments youve made. So it was a powerful journey. So, yes, rock bottom was a was a component, But heres the other one, and I think this one is actually more powerful. Id love to. I want to go back. Because you had a whole career, right? People go more money. Her visa ran out. And that was the day that I almost quit educated and one of the old timers in the education space touch gloves for me. Probably wont work for me because Im a immigrant to the United States. Then, uh, you know, its full body. So Im learning a lot from them because, you know, Im humble, man. Were on score box and theres Joe and Andrew and Becky. We dont deviate from the buy box because the buy box, you know, it pays the investors. I havent done a deal. Right. And it zannex, citing time. And then and then Dave, I go back. The first order came in for 13 houses. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of A&E television network as well as multiple news organizations including CBS, ABC, CNBC, FOX News, and CNN. Im up at, like 55 oclock, you know, do my quick morning routine. So the 38 maybe 38 39 years old. Ah, lot of folks who come through there are not accredited, but yet they can still get serviced with with some video content that we deliver. How do you get the experience? Well, just dont tell the English, but, um, it was, you know, it was It was It was interesting. It was mainly because he didnt have this platform anymore to really do anything. One is desperation. It really is reciprocity in a two way street. Its not a moral judgment on anybody. . Private Equity Fund Manager Star of A&E's Flipping Boston Dave Seymour | Danvers MA Puts me in a position where I can do business with at a high level. Im gonna catch you. Im stand there and say your Ah, gazillionaire when youre not, tell your story and tell the truth. Because heres the way I look at it today. My my marriage. Right? Theres no guarantees on anything. And it was like, No, no, you aint going anywhere. If we hit three million like weve only been in our race face for about 3 to 4 weeks right now, theres kind of interested in watching the difference between raising capital and a fund and raising capital as a syndicator. I hit it every day. Just awesome. Guys, come on. Relationship history. But heres why Im mad at Russell. So be careful before you try it on your own. And then I moved across the Ohio River because I wanted to up my game a little bit. And its obviously outperformed the stock market as well because of the volatility of the stock market. Ive shared arenas with Tony Robbins with pitbull with Daymond John through throughout common connections. Look, probably, Yeah, it was a commission basis. Theres no deviation from this on to your point earlier on being mentored. I said, Im transitioning. It was dark days for me, and Im so over over 30 years now, so I couldnt self medicate. But as I listen to you, do you think that your success because that educational program you were all in the room, you all had the books and and frankly or candidly, three instructions are in all of these books. Reality-TV Two Boston flippers, Pete and Dave, purchase homes, renovate them, and then re-sell them for a profit. Ive done everything I was supposed to. Yeah, bottom the at the bottom. In this brief clip from last week's episode, Dave Seymour, star of A&E hit show Flipping Boston and CEO of Freedom Venture Investments, shares what it was like to be a reality TV star and multifamily real estate rockstar. And in those meetings, there needs to be people smarter than you. I kind of, um Im gonna do a quick infomercial. You have kept it to Onley. Ah, small construction company on the outside and a 120 hours a week You pay us since their price. I picked up a machine called the Hydro H Y D R O W. And its a kind of like the pellet on but for a rowing machine. We have no in the fund, but individually weve done in the past. Check this one out, part time retail security in a grocery chain nights and weekends trying not to get stabbed by shoplifters and wearing the uniforms. Im also I kick ass multiple firefighter. That and theres this crazy balance. You bet, Brother. Remember that? I gotta I gotta touch close with him and just let him know that it was his fault. Apply for this show Ive been around enough entrepreneurs and youll testify to this, right? Yeah. Cant be that difficult, right? Im not gonna waste another second. We got the highest ratings in that time slot for a and E on a Saturday morning, and then they call up they go. The host of the A&E reality television show. Like, I got no problem going zero degrees today because thats how we did it, right? It came out really, really well. And even though shes actually not there, I dont wanna fail, man, like I dont you know. Of course. E was very good at that. Im great. Anybody listening to the podcast. I thought I told you not to call me. So just throw that in there. Well, this is the way site. The smartest people under the sun on this, this bulldog firefighter from Lynn, Massachusetts, went in There are more than quadrupled what they were financially doing in their lives because off the fact of the implementation was the scariest part. Its beginning toe. Im from the other side of the world. A mentor whos in the real estate business built to real estate companies, took one public Warren Buffett bodies on the boardwalk. Do do the the the ability to implement what they were learning was challenging. Sounds simple, right? Now, anyone would be very hard to argue that you had a ton of experience. Theres always one of these five of these guys or women in the gym that I always Im not going to the gym right now, obviously, because its closed.