Tim Woodbridge - From Nurse To Mobile Home Park Investor

After being a nurse for 9 years, Tim Woodbridge read Rich Dad Poor Dad and knew his future was about to change. Armed with his superpower of taking action, Tim was able to acquire $15M in mobile home parks in 3 years, which allowed him to retire from his nursing job to pursue real estate investing full-time. Hear how Tim was able to ditch his W2 & get into real estate investing full-time to change his life, and the lives of his investors.

In this episode, you will be able to:

• Learn how Tim is working to achieve financial freedom through strategic real estate investments in mobile home parks.
• Unlock the wealth potential of mobile home park investments.
• Navigate the transition from traditional employment to real estate success.
• Harness the power of mentorship for real estate triumph.
• Master creative financing strategies for lucrative real estate deals.

The key moments in this episode are:
00:00:00 - Real Estate Investment Success
00:02:22 - Transition from Nursing to Real Estate
00:06:20 - Taking Action in Real Estate
00:10:00 - Filling Vacant Mobile Home Parks
00:13:43 - Adding Value in Commercial Real Estate
00:24:37 - Slow Growth and Learning Process
00:25:47 - Strategic Decision Making
00:27:02 - Partnering for Success
00:31:30 - Reaching Out and Helping Others 

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Read the full transcript:

Tim Woodbridge
We bought it for 250, and when we refied it, it appraised for 570. So a lot of the money for the home infill, a lot of that came off my personal credit cards and me like, figuring out how to pay things and, you know, credit cards and, or personal savings and stuff like that. It was a lot of sleepless nights, but it was something I figured out how to do. And then, you know, it appraised for over double what we paid for it. It's myself and a partner. So returned everyone's capital, you know, got a little bit of cash, and we're just like cash flowing, you know, since then.

Mike Swenson
Welcome to the REL Freedom show where we inspire you to pursue your passion to gain Time and financial freedom through opportunities in real estate. I'm your host, Mike Swenson. Let's get some real freedom together. Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of REL Freedom. As we talk about different ways that you can build Time and financial freedom through opportunities in real estate, I'm your host, Mike Swenson. If you want to get started on your real estate investing journey, check out our website, freedom through realestate.com. we've got a lot of great information on there for you to check out. Articles, stories, podcast, interviews to be able to see who do you resonate with what story. And really it's about kind of picking a path that, that you want to follow and that path can change. And so we just really want to encourage folks take action, move forward, decide what you like, what you don't like, and continue to go. Today's interview is actually just a really great example of that. We've got Tim Woodbridge. He's a former nurse, worked as a nurse for nine years. Read Rich Dad, Poor dad, which tends to be a common theme through people that, that we meet. So if you haven't read that book, check it out. Decided to take some action. Decided to invest in some mobile home parks. Fast forward now. You've got a portfolio of $18 million in a few different states in the south, primarily in terms of mobile home parks and a goal of a top 50 operator of all mobile home parks by the year 2029. You've now quit your job as a nurse. You're doing this full Time. Excited to hear your story, Tim, thank you for coming on.

Tim Woodbridge
Mike, thanks so much for having me, man. Really a pleasure to be here.

Mike Swenson
So why don't you just start by sharing a little, little bit about your background, how you started thinking about real estate. Why real Estate and we'll take it from there.

Tim Woodbridge
So, you know, like you said, I'm a former nurse, retired nurse, three over three years ago. So, you know, I grew up and everyone said my dad especially, right, get a work hard, get a good job, get a good safe job. And so I did that and that's all I knew. And you know, I became a nurse and I was like, oh man, as soon as I'm a nurse, that's when everything's going to be amazing. And then I was a nurse and I was like, well, it's, it's not, it's not in the same way that I thought it would. And you know, it, it wasn't until, honestly the last couple of years or so that I had have really reflected that. It's not the getting someplace that I'm excited about, it's like the working towards it. So yeah, while I was in school to get a bachelor's in nursing, like, that was exciting. And then when I was done, it was just like, oh, like, like what's the next step? Right. Anyway, so, yeah, you know, I was moved to South Carolina eight, seven, eight years ago or so and you know, just kind of started reading more, picked up Rich Dad, Poor dad, had no idea about anything. I didn't know wealth. I didn't know, like I always say, I read Rich Dad, Poor dad and he talked about assets and liabilities. Those were new terms to me. I, I had no, like that I'm not from a family like that, you know, very blue collar workers in a lot of way. Very like, roll up your sleeves and get a good job. That's, you know, you work till you're 65 and then retire. But yeah, so, you know, I read it and I was like, oh, wow, you know, okay, this is, this is how people are getting rich. This is how millionaires are doing it. You know, like the idea of being a millionaire was so foreign. And then I was like, oh, okay, this is how. And so from there, like I just did a deep dive. You know, what books could I read? Read a ton by Brandon Turner. Read a ton by, you know, anything that seemed interesting. Real Estate wise also looked up meetup.com and you know, started going to local real estate meetups here in Charleston. And yeah, you know, I just soaked up information like a sponge. I didn't know what I was going to do, had no idea, but just, okay, maybe if I just keep coming back and then like, I'll find a path and you know, listen to a lot of the bigger pockets podcast Episodes. And then Brandon Turner had Frank Rolfe on the podcast. And Frank was talking about, oh, you know, like, I'm in mobile home parks. I love it because of this is this. And it resonated with me. You know, it was. It was. He was talking about how you got stickier tenants, you have lower operating expenses, and, you know, it's a dwindling asset because they're not really making more of them. And then on top of all that, it was just a little bit weird. It was a little bit different. And, like, I'm attracted to that. You know, I have always kind of resonated with things that. That are not the mainstream. Like, that's not the norm. It's not what everyone's doing. So, like, you know, I just. Okay, yeah, that sounds exciting. And so from there, I just did more research, read some more, did as much as I could, but, you know, found in the podcast, Frank was like, go and look on mobilehomeparkstore.com which his partner Dave, I believe has. And it seemed like a fake thing. And I looked it up, and it was real, and there's actual mobile home parks there. And, you know, found one, reached out to the owner and, you know, just building relationships and whatnot from there. But mostly it's just, okay, this is what I want to do. What action do I need to do to get this done? And I just kind of followed that, you know, that's awesome.

Tim Woodbridge
I mean, I think for people listening, what they need to realize is you painted the story well. Like, you didn't have a background or a knowledge of kind of the path you needed to take, or even, like, you mentioned, you know, assets and liabilities and just even the terminology of things, and you slowly started to figure it out. And what was maybe like, this. This big murky cloud started to get a little bit clearer and a little bit clearer and a little bit clearer. And I think for people listening, they have to realize, like, I'm not going to know everything. I just need to know a little bit to take another step. And for you, it was education, was kind of that first set of, okay, I got to learn a little bit more, understand the lingo, understand what I'm looking for, and then eventually you get to action. But I think a lot of people just kind of get stuck in, like, oh, I'll never be able to figure that out, so I'll choose not to do anything, or I'll just get stuck learning a lot about it. Right. I'm really going to educate myself so I can Take the right step, but it's taking the first step of action, getting into that first deal, that's going to help kind of illuminate the steps after that.

Tim Woodbridge
Yeah, I don't think there's any right first step or really I don't think there's any right step. Generally, it's you take the step and then, you know, you, you have a direction where you want to go. I mean, I got into real estate because I wanted to be rich. That's. That's all I knew. There wasn't anything, like, more sophisticated about it and. But yeah, definitely. I mean, you can, you can, you know, think yourself out of all sorts of deals. And I almost did. Right? So, like, I know it's, it's easy to say all my story, like, from five years from closing that first park, but, man, I mean, you know, got it under contract and thought I was overpaying. And, you know, I knew a guy who had a lot more mobile home parking experience, and he said, it's a bad deal. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know. And then just like, figuring it out. Even though, like, people had said, you know, this is a bad deal, and just, I knew, I knew that I could figure it out, and I could figure out, like, so it was 10 to 36 lots occupied. So it's like, okay, you know, maybe it's a bad deal as is, but I think I can make this into something. And I did. I didn't know how. I didn't know how at all, but I knew, like, what direction I wanted to take with it. And from there, you know, it just led me down all this other path. So really, it's like, you know, a ton of people say the most important thing is just to get started. Just like you said, you know, do that first step. Because once you do that first step, it compounds and you just keep rolling forward. Whereas if you're just, okay, I'm going to find the perfect deal, you're never going to do anything. And it's like, well, you're, you're, you're preventing yourself by overthinking things.

Mike Swenson
The perfect deal is probably not for sale, number one. And so not to you.

Tim Woodbridge
Not to you or me.

Mike Swenson
Right, right. And I think too late. Yeah, Especially starting out for people to realize, like, you need to get something to get some experience to maybe get to the better deals. Right. There's a little bit of a resume building that happens. And so it's showing you can do a deal then getting to maybe A bigger deal and a little bit bigger deal or something like that. Or, you know, you can partner with people and accelerate that, but realizing, yeah, the sweet, awesome cherry, perfect deal isn't going to happen. Deal one. So you've got to kind of figure out what are the set of problems now for you. You had mentioned, what, 10 out of 36 units were occupied right out of the gate. I know a lot of people would see that and say, okay, well, is there no demand? Like, how are we going to get this full? What if we can't get this full? So maybe kind of walk through your process there. The. The doubts, the questioning that you had of, okay, why hasn't somebody else taken this deal? And then how can I start to turn this thing into a profitable park?

Tim Woodbridge
First, I would say, like, I did not go into it, like, with sophistication. So, you know, I did, which probably is a good.

Mike Swenson
A good thing. A little bit of a strength. You didn't overthink it, right?

Tim Woodbridge
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, I am more of an action taker and I. Rather than someone who overanalyzes. And, you know, there's strengths and weaknesses to that. But, yeah, so, like, I didn't go into it thinking, oh, you know, why is there no demand, really? When I met with the seller and, you know, he was showing me around the park, and I was like, look, I don't mean to be rude, but how come you didn't fill this up? And he was like, well, I make, you know, so much money. I owe no debt on it. I don't have to. You know, he was a retired pharmacist, so it's not like he's just like, yeah, this is just kind of. He put some money in, you know, in a place to. To preserve wealth, and it wasn't like he needed to do all this. So, you know, I was. And I am, oh, 35, 40 years younger than him, probably. And, you know, it's just a different stage of life. So whereas he didn't need to fill them up. He could just get that check me. I came in hungry, and I was like, okay, I don't know how we're going to do this, but I know that this is what we do need to do. I didn't know anything about demand or anything like that. Didn't even think about it. But, yeah, so, like, the fun story about that, like, so, you know, 20, 20 hits, Covid hits, not fun for anyone. I'm not saying that's fun, but what happened is legacy homes sent out an email to people, to park owners and said if you know, we're trying to keep our factories open and we will finance 100% of these homes to anyone who's you know, buying a minimum of six homes. And I said, well you know, that's what I know that I need to do. I don't know exactly what to like what that entails, but let's, let's get them. So we bought seven homes. We had to, you know, get them set up ourselves. And I had no idea. Again I didn't know, but I knew people who might know. So I had the seven homes delivered. I talked to a company that sets up, you know, friend of a friend. And so yeah, got them to set up the homes, got those homes filled. So that put us to 1736. And then we had two organic move ins, meaning two people moved their own homes in. So it was at 19 of 36 and all of a sudden I did a refi after that year, you know, and so let's see, we bought it for 250 and when we refight it, it appraised for 570. So a lot of the money for the home infill, a lot of that came off my personal credit cards and me like figuring out how to pay things and you know, credit cards and, or personal savings and stuff like that. It was a lot of sleepless nights, but it was something I figured out how to do. And then, you know, it appraised for over double what we paid for it. It's myself and a partner. So returned everyone's capital, you know, got a little bit of cash and we're just like cash flowing. You know, since then we've done a little bit more work, added six more homes since then and you know, did a few other things where we really increased the occupancy. I think we're like 33 of 36 right now. So yeah, I mean, you know, just figuring out how to do it. Like I had no idea, I had no idea how to do anything, but I knew what we had to do and then that just kind of guided the direction.

Mike Swenson
And for people listening, that's the beauty of a, of a commercial loan. For people that maybe start investing in like a duplex or whatever. You think, oh well, what's the comparable properties here? When you add value to the property, it's worth more. And so if you can find a way and whatever asset class that might be, whether it's multifamily mobile home park storage or you know, other things, you Just have to find a way to add value. And yeah, of course, when you put new units, you know, on the lots, that's going to add value to your portfolio of what you own. And a bank's going to say, yeah, I'll, I'll take a bigger risk on that because you've shown that there's more value there. And so I think someTimes people kind of gloss over that fact and don't realize the power of that. And for you to go from 250 to 5 70, you added that much value. And the bank said, yeah, I'm willing to lend on that. And then, boom, that's kind of the catalyst for being able to grow. And so, yeah, if you're listening to this, like, there's real power there. When you can show how you can add value onto a commercial space, it.

Tim Woodbridge
100% felt like magic. When I got the appraisal number for the refi, I was like, what? Like, yeah, I, I worked my ass off for sure that in 2020, don't get me wrong, but it felt like, oh my gosh, this is magic. I mean, when, you know, I was a nurse, you know, making. And granted, I mean, it's, it's equity, so it's not like it was all cash in pocket or anything like that. But, you know, increasing something by what is that? 250 plus 70, you know, by a substantial amount of value. Like, that's more than I made in five years. So. Right. 320, by the way, is the number that I was looking for. Yeah. So it felt like magic. It's not magic anymore, but it took a long Time for me to really get a grasp on, like, how things work. You know, I knew, like, okay, buy real estate, hold it, the value goes up. You know, you do, you, you improve the value of it through forced appreciation, and then you get rich. That, that, that's it. You know, there wasn't anything crazy with my, my thinking at that Time. And you know, now, of course, it's like I get the nuance of it, but I'm still learning stuff, you know, I'm still there. Yes. Like the, the gray cloud is like semi cleared, but like, it's still, there's still a cloud. And it's, it's always like, okay, how can I learn, like, what's going to make me better at what I'm doing? And so, like, if I know this, you know, oh, I learned recently about prep equity and what that is, and I'm like, oh, okay, that, that makes sense. I'll probably do my best to stay away from it, but like that was a new term to me. I didn't know what that was. And yeah, the funny thing is I hope we do this like another one of these in two years and I'll be like, man, I love all my pref equity partners because I'm always wrong. I'm always wrong and it's always fun.

Mike Swenson
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Tim Woodbridge
Yeah, that was never the intention. Like I didn't go into it like that. I, I did go into it that wanted to get rich but like in my brain there was no correlation between like quitting my job and being rich or anything like that. But yeah, so two years, two years into like around that after I purchased that first park, I was working and I was just kind of like, I need to go into this full Time, you know, like I need to, you know, I was in the space longer. I think I had a second park, didn't have anywhere near replacement income, but I knew that like, okay, so like I had sold, I had sold a condo that I had and so I had like a chunk of change in the bank and so I was like, okay, I've got real estate that's not really paying me, but I do have, you know, single guy, no kids. I got a chunk of change in my bank account so I can live off of that. And so, you know, I quit thinking, okay, I will figure this out. And just having faith in myself that, you know, worse comes to worse, I'll go get another nursing job. But I knew that if I didn't take that risk, that I would regret it. Kind of like, if. So I was living in Phoenix as a nurse, and my ex and I broke up and my youngest brother invited me out here to South Carolina. And I didn't know anything about it, but I knew if I didn't do it, I would regret it. And like, yeah, that, you know, I figured if I didn't like it, I'd just keep moving. But it. It was life changing. Like, so many positive things have come out of living here. So, yeah, I'm kind of. If I get the gut feeling that I'm going to regret it, then I don't, you know, I. I don't not do it. I'm just like, okay, quit the nursing job, move across country. You know, figure something out.

Mike Swenson
Now, out of curiosity, did your. Your coworkers kind of know what you were doing and were they kind of in the loop or was this just something you kind of kept private and then curious to hear, like, what their thoughts are of, like, oh, gosh, here. My co worker, Tim, now quitting his job because he bought this mobile home park, and now it's, you know, turning into a career. I'm just curious to hear kind of what your. Your coworkers thought about at that.

Tim Woodbridge
I'm loud. I don't keep a ton of, like, if I'm excited about something, then I tell all, like, my friends. And you know, the funny thing is, is the first mobile home park was found by one of my nurse friends. You know, they like, were from that area, so hour. Hour 15 from Charleston, small town. They were from there originally. And they're like, oh, look this, mobile home parks for sale there. Because I had already, like, oh, my gosh, like real estate. Y'all need to check out rich dad, Poor dad. It's life changing. And like, so, you know, I'm excited. I want to share all this cool stuff with people and like, okay, yeah, I just heard about mobile home parks. What do you guys think? And so, like, yeah, we were, you know, they. They were aware. They were aware. And then, you know, I, I had clothes on that park. And I was just telling them how excited I am and, you know, all that stuff. And then I was. It's funny, those same. That couple, you know, good friends, good nursing friends, they're like, getting into multifamily real estate and stuff. And so, like, I'm super excited for them. But, yeah, so I was at, you know, I was at a different job at. When I quit, I was at a different job. And, like, everyone there knew that I was, you know, also in real estate. Again, like, I. If I'm really, like, fascinated and, like, excited about something, I want to share things with people like, oh, my gosh, look at this. Granted, it has taken me a few years or, you know, two to three years to realize that not everyone's going to be excited. And, like, that's okay. And it's like, so now it's more like, okay, this is what I do. And if someone wants to hear more, then I can have that conversation. But, like, yeah, when I first discovered it, I was like, oh, my gosh, this is amazing. Y'all need to do this. I swear it's going to be life changing. But, yeah, so, you know, at that. That other job, I was, you know, everyone knew what I was doing, and, you know, that I was looking to buy more and more. And then, like, you know, friends from that job knew, hey, you know, I think, like, I had just sold my condo, I had money. I think I'm gonna kind of go for this. And, you know, people think you're crazy, and that's okay. It's not a reflection on you. It's a reflection on them and their fears and whatnot. And, you know, I felt a little bit like I was crazy, too. So I fault no one for thinking that. But it was. Is definitely, you know, what I learned now or what I realize now is that you're not going to get. Or I. I didn't. I didn't get the kind of response from people that I thought I would. And I understand that more now and am okay with it. Whereas before, it's like, what do you mean? Like, you know, like, what do you mean? This is amazing. Why wouldn't you be into that? Like, I don't know, getting outside of my own head and being more empathetic to how other people feel. That's. I'm grateful to have more of that now.

Mike Swenson
I think a lot, and I explain to people when we're talking about capital raising, like, it's not your goal to convert every person, you know, to invest in the things you want to invest in. It's just going and finding the people that that message does resonate with.

Tim Woodbridge
Right.

Mike Swenson
I mean, there's a. There's, you know, however many billion people in the world. I don't have to have my 10 closest friends and family convince them to. To invest all their life savings in what I'm doing. It's. No, I just got to go find the people that are like, oh, that sounds really good too. I want to be a part of that. And it's just going and finding more of those people. And with that, like, talk about the scaling piece, because you turned, you know, your first 250 into 575, and now you're up to 18 million. Talk about that scaling process of finding capital or finding partners to work with to be able to scale.

Tim Woodbridge
Sure. Yeah. I mean, so bought the first park two years later, the second, a year after that, the third, and then, so that would have been end of 22, and then 20, 23, we bought seven, and then 24. Bought seven more in between. Like, in 24. Yeah, I think 24. Four or no, 23, you know, got the 34 unit apartment, got the 26 unit RV park. So, I mean, was slower. And it was a lot of me figuring out how to do things and run things effectively and just partnering with different people on different deals and, you know, seeing what works. Seeing what doesn't work. Yeah. I mean, it was always like, okay, need to buy more. Need to buy more. I don't know why, but I need to buy more. And, you know, like, 21, 22, everyone was buying, like, at super high prices. And I thought I was stupid because I couldn't make the numbers work. But it, you know, people were just looking at different metrics than I was at that Time. I'm glad I didn't, you know, other than that second park, I'm glad I didn't, you know, go in for, like, all the craziness that people were buying. I'm glad I did not. And it's not because I'm smart. It's just because I didn't know how. But. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, it was slow. And then. So really, you know, 23, we did a lot of creative deals. And then, you know, so let's see. The first one was the two. It was. We partnered by the second one, like, my friend and I, we bought, like, a equity position. And the third, like, you know, was the same partners on, you know, someone else found that, and I was running it. And then, like, the. The seven were mostly creative in 2023. And then only this year have we started syndicating and raising capital. So, you know, really got a solid foundation on mobile home parks, how to run them effectively, how to, you know, do different things, how to increase the value, stuff like that. But yeah, it, you know, my partner Matthias, I tell him like, I knew how to take down mobile home parks. He has made me consistently make money from mobile home parks through there, like the syndications and stuff. And so I met him in the deal room, which is like all multifamily group. And like we. He said, you know, I live in Spartanburg, South Carolina. I'm into the, there's four mobile home parks on market and I want to like go after these. And I was like, yeah, you know, I've worked with that broker before. Let me talk to him and see kind of where the sellers are. I had already talked to the broker about that deal and had made an offer. It didn't work. But, you know, so called him up, hey, where are your guys at? And he's like, okay, we can probably get it done for this price. And so I told Matthias and he went and he ran the numbers and that's what I didn't do. That's the missing piece for me is I knew how to do it, but I didn't run numbers really. I, I knew nothing was going to negative cash flow. I knew like how to run numbers like that. I didn't know like, we could do an asset management fee and an acquisition fee. And like, these are the returns we're going to get investors. You know, I knew like, okay, like we're not negative cash flowing. We're going to run it and we're going to find a way forward. But like, so, yeah, he got super granular. And like, again, so we keep investors returns top of mind and you know, we're getting 2x equity multiple in five years for all invested capital. And in that underwriting, you know, yes, we're doing the acquisition fee, yes, we're doing the asset management fee. We're getting paid for the work we're doing. And so it's just a lot more sophisticated with being around the right people.

Mike Swenson
It's awesome to just see how you've picked things up along the way and just added it to your tool belt. And you went from this guy that didn't really know at all what you were getting into to, I'm getting a little bit better, I'm getting a little bit better, a little bit sharper, scaling a little bit more quickly. Now adding something new, adding a couple different asset classes. And so for people listening to this, like, this is a great example of a great story of, like, I don't have to know it all right away. I just have to know enough to get started. And your path is going to continue to grow. And like you said, you, you, you don't know it all yet, you know, and so you're still continuing to learn from people and network with other people and grow and this will just continue to build. So it's exciting to see kind of your journey of what you've done. And obviously it's going to just continue to pick up more steam and go faster and faster and bigger and better as you continue to learn more.

Tim Woodbridge
It's exciting, man. It's, it's, you know, like I was saying earlier when I was in nursing school, I was like, oh, man, as soon as I'm a nurse, that's when I'll be happy and fulfilled and everything. I am happy that there will never be a Time when I know everything. There's always something else to learn, there's something else to be interested in. There's something else to be excited about. And like, I, I mean, with keeping my blinders on right now for mobile home parks, that's all we want to do. There is a world of things for me to learn about. And like, you know, moving more and more into syndications and then fundraising and then like, long term, you know, the goal is to sell to private equity in, you know, three to five years or so. And like, what that looks like, I have no idea what it looks like. I have like, okay, I have an idea what it looks like. It means make a shit ton of money. That's. That's it, right? And like, but what it really looks like, like, I'm excited to learn about that. I'm excited to build a company that can be sold to private equity. I'm excited to build a company with my partners where everyone is doing what they're excited about and what they're best at. Like, it took me so long. A lot, a lot, because I was trying to do everything. And I'm not good at, I'm not good at details. I'm not good at underwriting. And like, clearly, you know, I'm good at high level stuff. And like, I'm so excited that I have people that I'm working with where everyone is working on what they're good at. And it's not like a grind, you know, it's like, oh, like, you know, I Have conversations like this. And this is part of my job now, and I love it, you know, and like, that's, that's what I realize you should be doing. That's what I should be doing. If we could all do, you know, the thing that you love that makes money, that provides, like a positive impact on the world, then, like, what, what else do you need?

Mike Swenson
Yeah, that's awesome. I love your take on that. For people that want to learn more about you, learn more about what you're doing, how maybe they can get involved with that. How can they reach out to you?

Tim Woodbridge
Yeah, so you can reach out to me on Instagram. Tim Woodbridge. So I'll, I'll say our website now, even though we're, we're switching websites, so if you're looking to invest or, you know, have a conversation about that, you can look us up on wcinvgroup.com again. We'll be changing that. So if you click there and it redirects you to another website, that is our doing, not someone else's. And then I always invite new people. So I have like a free course. And like, with our, the underwriting tools, we use everything like that. You can email me directly and my assistant Roel will email you back. So put something in the headline that says, pick your brain. You know, I want to pick your brain because I hate that. I hate that so much. It's such a lazy and bad way to, you know, introduce yourself to someone. And so I like to have fun about stuff like that. And so it's like, like a joke, right? Say, I want to pick your brain. And then we will send you the link so you can, you know, put your email in and it'll. You'll get our free course. Like my, the free course I put together, you'll get the underwriting tools, everything you need to know. And, you know, maybe you're into mobile home parks. Maybe you'll use it and like, go find some deals and we can do a deal together. Maybe you'll look at it and you'll say, hey, this is not for me. Either way, that's, you know, I enjoy helping people. Really. I enjoy helping myself. 3 years ago so anyway, my email is woodbridger e I gmail.com really simple. And again in that subject line, hit I want to pick your brain or something like that. And we'll send you the link to it.

Mike Swenson
Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Tim, for coming on, sharing your story. It's been fun and just the passion that you have for what you do. And the passion for helping others. So thank you so much and best of luck to you as you continue to grow in the future.