 It's D.K. and I'm back, back, back again with Band Talk episode 6. We are here in the mix and if you hate me, you're a bee, if you hate me, you're a bee. Come up below and let me know what else this is. Now, I do need you guys to make sure you smash the subscribe button, also give me a thumbs up on this video and make sure you put me on your big screen video. You guys had questions and I have answers so we're going to get to it. Ain't nothing to it but to do it. Let's go. Okay, question number one comes from At Off Topic and they say, thank you so much. They have been waiting for the video that you posted about the companies to find dedicated routes. They know it's not usually your expertise but do those types of companies usually require commercial insurance? So, you ain't been watching the videos, I already know. You haven't been watching the videos or know how I know? Because it was watching the videos and you would know that I've said previously that some of the companies that were on that list, they actually have their own insurance. You can go through them. You don't have to have commercial insurance so you can go under their insurance and they're just going to take out some money every week, two weeks or every month. I'm not sure exactly when it's going to be but some of those companies, for sure, I know for sure that T-Force has that. T-Force Suggestions for sure has a thing where you can actually go under their insurance and they're going to take it out to a check every week, every two weeks, every month. I'm not sure exactly when but guess what, go out and get them dividends and win. He also said, have you ever had to create your own bill of lading for freight that you needed to move? No, no, I've never had to create my own bill of lading. Usually they send me an e-mail, I get it that way, print it out with the little printer I got. Hey, if you want your printer, you won't have to deal with all that. You want your printer in your van or your car or whatever. Somebody dogs jump over their fence. That joint is out here. So if you want your printer like I got, all you got to do is click a link in the description and go ahead and get that printer, baby. Printer, printer, chicken dinner. You are going to be a winner. He's right at your door. Look, look at this dog. He's just jumped over that, he's just jumped over that fence. You know you won't get in trouble. I don't even know why you did that doggie, doggie doggie. He's a good doggie doggie. Question number two comes from Atteam Run It Up. And they say, love your videos and your advice. Did you have a lot of money saved up before you started the cargo van business? And if you so, how much do you recommend for someone to have before they start their own business? That's a great question. I get this type of questions all the time. Honestly, I don't believe that, I mean, everybody has their own definition of a lot of money. A lot of money to somebody may be a thousand dollars. Some other people may be a 10,000. Some people may be 10 million. Some people may be 50 million, a billion. You know, it depends on the person you're asking about a lot of money. I will say that this is my personal opinion. I do think that you should definitely watch my guy, big CJ video. He actually has two videos on how he started his, well, his one year review on his cargo van business. It gives out a lot of great information. Me personally, I do think you should have at least six months reserve set aside so you can start the business. Now, you should have the vehicle already. That's my personal opinion. And then you should have at least six months of reserve set aside. So if anything is to happen, that you will be OK. Because there are going to be some slow days, as you guys know, and you've been tuning to the channel. There are going to be some slow days where you're not going to make some money. Example, today. Today we went out. I got up in my regular time. They don't have stuff I need to do. Put in Ferrari orders. They can get them. And we literally made $0.00 today. Zero. This is the zero. So you have to have money set aside so you can be able to get past those days. And also, I do want to say this, if you don't have money set aside, if you don't have money saved up to start the business, and you just get your van, and then you have $1,000. What happens if something happened? So what happens if you're a tire go out or something like that? That's something you've got to think about. And not to mention, when you have the less money you have, the worst decisions you make. This is what I think, in my personal opinion. I think that if you have $1,000, you're just going to be thirsty. You're going to go do stuff that you shouldn't be doing. And you're thinking you're making money, but you're really not making money. You're really losing money. You just see the month dollar sign. So you see the dollar sign saying that you should go 200 miles for $200. But in order for you to run your van, it costs you $1.50 to run it. And you can't run it now. But you did run it, but you ran it for $1. So now you really lost money. You think you gained money, but you lost. So that's the way I think about it. Come up below and let me know what you guys think about it. Question number three comes from On the Road with Ram Rican. And he says, I got a question. What's the best approach to getting involved with medical supplies and carrier companies? He's looking to expand into doing loads this year with his van, and he wants to know your opinion on how to approach these jobs. Honestly, see, let me just explain to you guys something. There's a very big difference between it being an independent contractor and being a W-2 employer. It's not the same thing. When you go for these interviews and stuff, it's not really an interview. It's just pretty much them telling you what you're going to be doing. Like when we went to T-Force and just just to do that interview, it was more like an orientation. They say, this is what we're going to do. This is what you do. You got these other packages right here. You're going to get all these packages. You're going to pack up your van. And then you're going to go that way. And then you just come back and do this and do that. So it's best pretty much how it goes. Now, as far as medical carrying goes, in my area, this is my area only. I want to speak for my area. I don't know about everybody else's area. But we do have a company called Spoke Logistics that I talked about in a previous video. And they actually have medical carrying stuff. Also medical supply stuff. Also, T-Force has had some medical supplies, too, as well. So I think that this is what I'm going to say. I think that you need to do some research, research, research. Go on Indeed. All of those five companies that I listed in that video, I actually found every single one of them on Indeed. You can go to Indeed. Also, I recommend that you go ahead and check out Mark the Mentor channel. He's talked about different dedicated routes and never dedicated loads and all that stuff, final mile stuff for box trucks and cargo vans. And how he thinks that you can make the most money in which each vehicle. He's done it for a while. He did it before. He had like 15 trucks and all that stuff. So he's very knowledgeable about all the information. And you definitely can get you some games. So you can go out there and get your change. OK, question number four comes from at Darius Northern and he says, with the fluctuating pay we experience on gig apps in conjunction with driving loads that should be worth way more than we expect than we accept, especially on roadie. What is your take on the idea of a union amongst gig drivers and how could that idea come to life? I think that's actually a great idea. I have always said this since the beginning of time. If we have stuff, if we all stuck together, the parties will go up. There is no question. There's no infants and boys about it. But there's always going to be people who is not going to agree with it. They're going to say, I got to go feed my family. I got to go do this. I got to do that. It's just the same way as when people try to go on strike. If they try to go on strike without a union, then some people are going to sneak and go to work and then others are going to stay outside and all that stuff. So I do think that a union will help us out a lot in the situation. But another thing about the union is for the most part, those people who are in a union, they have to pay dues. They have to pay a certain amount of money towards a union. Now, is everybody going to want to do that? You know, some people, they want all their money. They don't want to play no games. They don't want to worry about a union. See, you know what would be crazy about people, right? Nobody wants to pay out for the union, but when something happens, then they wish they did. That's how it be. That's how it be in life. A lot of people, they say, I ain't been paying no money. I ain't been doing this. I ain't been doing that until something happened. I don't want to be a part of the union. Absolutely not. I do think that it is an excellent idea. And I also believe that we all stick together and we was on the same accord. We will be able to afford a lot more things. Can we be off there getting that green? Nothing in between. Now, as far as how that can come to life, I honestly have no idea. I just don't know. I don't know who will be the spokesman. I don't know what will happen, how will happen, when will happen. Maybe we have to vote, everybody voting to it, but it steals so many people across so many states that I don't know how it's going to be possible. How are we going to each reach every, how are we going to come together? I don't know how that will happen. I really don't know. That's just my honest to God truth. I really don't know, but I would definitely like it to happen, but I don't know how it would happen. Comment below and let me know, how do you guys think it would be possible to create us a union? Question number five comes from at CS, and they say, are you and your business partner still in the real estate game? And if so, is it residential or commercial real estate? We are absolutely still in the real estate game, and we do whatever you want to do. We could do commercial, residential, industrial, whatever you want to do, you want to farm, whatever you want, we could do it. We split the hot floor. We have sold some commercial buildings before. We have sold some residential buildings before. We actually sold a big gun shop here in our area, and they actually turned it into like a grocery store, a bakery and all that stuff. It was low-key exclusive, low-key exclusive. We still haven't been there since they redid and everything, but we definitely did sell that. That was early on too. We, hey look, I'ma say this, whatever you want to do, we can do it. We're in Illinois, we're licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, so whichever state you choose, hey, you ain't gonna lose. It's fancy dealing with us. Hey, call Rome when you want to buy or sell your home. Question number six comes from at Ride Share Lisa, and she says, you do a lot of van work, but it seems like it has its issues. Have you thought about getting back into catering? It does pay really well. Shout out to Ride Share. Ride Share Lisa been here for a long, Ride Share Lisa has been with us for a very long time. Make sure you guys don't subscribe to her YouTube channel because she put in a lot of content over there. As far as the catering stuff, actually, hey Ride Share, Ride Share, I'ma tell you something. Look, we just had our second highest pen delivered order yesterday. That video dropped it soon. I don't know when it's gonna drop, but it dropped it soon. Monday. It's gonna drop Monday. Our second highest pen delivered order, well, they ain't got an order. So it was super sweet. So I definitely, me personally, I go wherever the money at. If it's delivered order or delivered at order, or any type of order that comes in, if it's good, I'm choosing that joint. I'm going out there to get busy. I don't care about where it's located and all that stuff. If it makes sense, it makes sense. So I go wherever the money go. I don't really care about the carry companies. I don't really care about the other apps. I don't care about nothing. I go wherever the money go. If the money go here, I go there with it. So, shout out to my girl, Ride Share Lisa and make sure you guys subscribe to her YouTube channel. Question number seven comes from At Responsibly Broke and they say, appreciate the videos and the information. Would you consider doing a challenge with other content creators in the cargo van space? They gave two examples, maybe like you in versus big CJ or Pat Gigtainment, and you do like a challenge or something, like seeing who can make the most money in three days and the other person's city or state. Oh, so he won't, he won't mean to go. They come to, we go to each other's state. Yes. I don't know how that would happen. She's dead. That's critical. So I had to go all the way down to Texas. I know it's hot as fish grease down there too. I got to go all the way down to Texas and then Pat Gigtainment, I think he may be in New Jersey or New York or somewhere out East. He out there on the East side, on the East side. But honestly, I don't think that's, I don't know, this is what I'm gonna say about the challenge. I don't think that anything is wrong with friendly competition, everybody you know competing with each other and all that stuff, but I would rather, instead of compete with each other, let's eat with each other because sometimes the supporters and a subscriber, they take things the wrong way and they might overdo things because sometimes you may have somebody, you got somebody, someone's gonna make no money to you. Someone's gonna do this, someone's gonna do that. You know, a lot of times some subscribers, they always got something to say negative about everybody and how they doing everything. So I don't want to create a division between any of us. All of us need to work together. All of us has our own separate lines. All of us do our own things separately. Like CJ do how he do it, Pat do how he do it, St. Mike, everybody giggies, everybody do how they do it. Everybody create content, how they create content. Everybody, I think that we should all group together and it would be greater in groups. This is what I think. I don't think nothing is wrong with the friendly competition but I don't want to send a wrong message out to the subscribers and the supporters and everything that you know it's a B for, we're going back and forth and some people do, some people love the drama though. Now get me wrong. Some people love the back and forth and all that stuff. They like that. I'm not really into that. I'm not here to do that. I'm here to help everybody make as much money as possible and then change as many lives as possible. That's why I'm here. And I'm here, I'm pretty sure that they're probably doing the same thing. I know for sure big CJ is on that. I'm not sure about Pat giggies. I'll actually talk to big CJ personally one-on-one type, you know, through emails and all that stuff, text messages and stuff. So that's what he's on. Everybody has their own line and they doing their own thing but guess what? Well, all that matters at the end of the day. So they out there getting their own chain. That's all that matters. You know what I'm talking about? But that was an excellent question. Huge shout out to you. Y'all already know what to do. Smash that like button. Question number eight comes from at Mike Finnelli and he says scenario time. You pick up a return order from Topgolf and bring it back to the courier warehouse. Before you go and pick up the return, the courier dispatchers ask you, can you bring two boxes down to Topgolf from the warehouse due to someone else for getting to deliver those two boxes down three days ago? This part of the order would be for free and the return part would still be paid. Would you be okay with that? So they want you to take boxes from the warehouse to the Topgolf and drop off the Topgolf stuff you were supposed to drop off or you got to go back and forth for. First off, let me just say that. I don't even really matter. Absolutely not. If you ain't paid me, I'm not doing it. I'm sorry. This is not a do me a favor time. I'm not doing no favors. They ain't gonna do you no favors. They ain't gonna say, yeah, Mike, you know what? Even though you ain't coming in today, we're gonna pay you. They ain't gonna do that. Look, this is business, it's not personal. It doesn't have anything to do with their personality if they cool or not and none of that stuff. This is business. It's strictly financial. That's it, that's all. If they want you to do it, got to pay me. Now you, me, if I'm you, I mean, if I really got to go over there anyway, I'm doing it for a little bit less, but y'all still paying me something. I'm not going for the free ski. Because that wasn't my fault. That ain't got nothing to do with me. That ain't my fault. And once you, let me tell you this right now. Let me tell you, everybody who watches this video, once you start doing it, they ain't gonna want you to stop doing it. Every time somebody forgets something, they gonna call you, Mike, yeah, Mike, yeah, Mike, Mike, now you running for free. So do not start it. If you don't start it, you ain't got to stop it. That's a saying my mom always said, if you don't start it, you ain't got to stop it. They need to stop it with the free stuff. If y'all want me to do this job, y'all need to pay me, baby. That's it, that's all. We trying to ball, not stall. He made sure to comment afterwards that he said no because he wasn't gonna get paid to bring those two boxes down, but he just wanted to your input. And I agree with you, I agree with you. Hey, we ain't, but hey, we can't be playing these games with these people, man. I'm gonna tell you right now, they ain't gonna try to get over every single time. And if they can get over 10 times, they're gonna get over 10 times out of 10 times. So we have to stick to our guns and do how we do it. I spit that out fluid. I thought y'all knew it. Question number nine comes from at Bob Church. And he says, McHenry Bob here, love your videos. This isn't an easy business to be in. What are your thoughts on getting into real estate doing flips? Oh my God, McHenry Bob. Shoot the sounds of my God, McHenry Bob. Actually, McHenry Bob, we have done a couple of things. We actually did two flips, but I wanna say this again, I'm, look, I'm saying this every time you reach out to me, McHenry Bob, whenever you wanna come out of retirement, we about a property. Look, how about this? I'm gonna make your offer, McHenry Bob. And we're still gonna pay you. The next time we gonna find us a property, we're gonna buy it. Me and my business probably gonna get the property and everything. And guess what? We can create a whole other channel or something like that. And you can come there and show us how to do everything. You're still gonna get paid. I'm still gonna pay you. I'm paying you to teach me. I'm gonna still pay you however much you charge. It gotta make sense though. It gotta make sense though. However much you charge. But my whole thing about this is to learn how to do this stuff. So I'm definitely down to do it. I'm into real estate. I love real estate. Why I don't love real estate? I love what make me money. I'ma say that. I love what make me money. And real estate happens to be one of those things. I definitely would love to flip some houses or even get a, you know, pretty beat up, not too bad, not find us just problems off. Pretty beat up. And hold on one way. Before I get into that, I wanna say this. This is the type of people y'all wanna talk to. Shout out to my guy McHenry Bob. I tell you guys, you need to conversate with different people. And I also wanna say this about YouTube in general. YouTube has opened doors up for me and it got me to talk to different people. People I would probably have never met if I didn't do YouTube. So me putting myself out there is gonna help people and also I can meet new people. Like my guy McHenry Bob. Now, not to mention my guy McHenry Bob. He is a carpenter. Well, he's a retired carpenter. He might come out of retirement. Me don't know yet. He's a retired carpenter. And I'm sure that he knows people that does all the different trades. Roofing, this, that. So guess what? That's a good person to know in my life. Especially because I'm in real estate. But, that's what I'm saying. So, what are my thoughts on doing where the state get into flips? That's what my guy McHenry Bob wanna know. I'm gonna tell you guys. Me personally right now, the interest rate high man. If you got straight cash, you got cash hundreds of thousands of dollars you could buy a property and do a do it like that. I would recommend you do it. It depends on how fast you wanna flip it. The interest rates are pretty high right now. So less people are buying. It's like a very low amount of percentage that people are buying right now. So, the deal just really have to make sense. If the deal makes sense and you can make money here, I think that it's a good, you can do it. But it's very sad that you're gonna find a good deal nowadays because everything is pretty much overpriced and the interest rates are high. So unless you find a killer of a deal, the only way I think you can find a killer of a deal if you meet a private owner and do it that way versus you going through a real estate agent and all that stuff, you might find a deal here and there but you ain't gonna find as many as you know somebody that know somebody and know they got this house, they about to move out of state. They're going to Florida or something. They wanna get rid of it. You can just deal directly with them. Y'all both can save money. You can save money from them having to pay the real estate agent because if they pay the real estate agent, you don't have to pay more money. Even though I'm a real estate agent, I'm just gonna tell you the truth about business. This business ain't personal. The reality of it is I think it's okay right now but I think it would be better when an interest rate come down somewhere because it's super high. But I definitely, I'm with it. Hey, make every buy. If you wanna do some deals, we can make it happen. Do you think that maybe some houses would, you know, maybe going to foreclosure soon since people, you know, during COVID, they couldn't kick you out but all that is kind of starting, you know, end of and it's starting to catch back up. I do think that they're gonna have some foreclosures going on but I do also wanna say this guys, a lot of people don't be really knowing about foreclosure. They be hearing about what everybody else hear and they try to, you know, talk about foreclosures or talk about this, talk about that. They just hear a lot of stuff they hear on the internet and reality of the fact is for the most part with the foreclosure is the bank's owner property. After everything is foreclosed, they own property. And what is the bank's job? Y'all tell me, comment below and let me know. I'm gonna give y'all five seconds. Three, two, one, zero. The bank job is to make money. Now, you think you're gonna wanna get this foreclosure for way less than it's supposed to be, way less than it's supposed to be priced for and it's not gonna happen. You wanna know why? Because the bank gonna have it in praise already and they gonna know exactly how much the house worth before you even go on and think you're gonna go get it. So they're not gonna lose money on the house. They already look kinda, they not low-key gonna lose no money at all. They actually still gonna gain, it's gonna be a tax right off for them. That's how they gonna break even off that and then they gonna sell a house and then you gonna buy it. You can't fix it up and make it better and possibly make a profit but it's less likely than most people think. They, everybody, I'm gonna give me a foreclosure and I'm like, hey, it's the same thing. It's really a fixer-upper. That's really what it is. Sometimes the foreclosures are worse fixer-uppers because people are mad that they're getting kicked out so they literally start ripping everything out and take stuff with them. Porn, what they be pouring? Porn, concrete, and the toilet. I just don't know what type of stuff it's crazy stuff. My grandpa, you know my grandpa, he had, oh, grandpa, I think he had like five properties. I can't even remember how many he had. I don't really know, anyway. Look, he said people be pouring concrete in the toilet. So that joined hard and then you gotta get the whole pipes ran out and all pulled. Ooh, that was crazy. You gotta get the pipes cleaned out and everything. So with the foreclosures, you get what you get. Question number 10 comes from at Blazing Tundra and they say, I noticed you do some orders in Wisconsin. Where's the farthest you've gone in Wisconsin? I live in Waukesha, so if you ever need a hand, give me a shout and I'll help you out. Shut up to you. Actually, where is the farthest we went? We went to Oshkosh. Maybe we went to Oshkosh. We went to Oshkosh to do a freight order. Well, we've been in Waukesha a few times, like two or three times. We definitely, shoot a shoe, shout to you. Shoot, shout to everybody in Wisconsin. Now I know I used to live in Kenosha for a little bit. Man, I used to live in Kenosha. You know, I used to be in the keynote getting it in when I was in high school. You know, I graduated from Bradford High School. I was in Kenosha for like two and a half years. Like my sophomore, like yeah, like three years. To like the middle of my sophomore year, my junior year and my senior year. And I graduated from Bradford, Mary D. Bradford baby. So shoot, shout to everybody in Wisconsin. The farthest out, actually let me say this. If you're talking about with this van, the farthest we went, I think it's Oshkosh. No, we took it to Green Bay. We took it to Green Bay to see my cousin for his birthday. We took the van to Green Bay. We thought we were gonna get some orders out there, but we only got one more on our order. So we did go to Green Bay one time. Other than that, with the van, we really haven't went that far in Wisconsin. But I do want to say this. I have been a lot of different places in Wisconsin because I used to work for a place called Second Wing Exercise Equipment. I used to live in exercise equipment everywhere. Waukesha, Walsaw, Stevens Point. I'm talking about everywhere. We used to be going everywhere out there in Wisconsin, but thank you for the question. Huge shout out to you. Get this money is what we're trying to do. And last but not least, this comes from at Darius Northern. It's not really a question, more of a suggestion. And he says that he thinks that you're understanding the value of your brand and charisma. That triple C cars and cribs merchandise, hats, hoodies, safety vests, et cetera. Simple and clean merchandise can go a long way. He also says exclusive content with information with Patreon subscription, cargo van, gig driver essentials, and brand deals that you promote on YouTube. That is a great point. Look, look with the merch, man. I ain't gonna lie. We have been trying for a while to do this merch. It's just we're very limited on time. Honestly, if we had like a company that can create the merch for us kind of sorta, I think that that will work out way better for us. Because the merch that I wear right now, like they redefined the brand merch, you see that merch right there, it merged up. That we actually created it ourselves. Like we got the stuff, we got the transfers, we put on the merch and everything. I mean, we put it on the hoodies, we put it on the t-shirts, the shorts. We had short sets, hoodies, t-shirts. We had all our hats, we had everything. And we pretty much did our, oh yeah, cologne and perfume, we had that too. It's huge how it's a rock. At least you know she was rocking that perfume. She knows what that perfume like. She knows what that perfume like. That perfume is righteous. But we definitely had that stuff. But all of that stuff we did it with our own two hands. So right now we really don't have as much time as we had before. So the plan is to probably find a company that can actually do this for us. Like it's kind of like more hands off. Like we create everything and then they just, y'all order it and they ship it out. Oh, oh, oh, oh, because we really don't have the time. But with that being said, we also need the time to create the actual image of whatever we're gonna be putting on there. I kind of got some ideas of some of the stuff that I want. We got one that's almost kind of done, but we still, we don't got enough time, man. This is the honest truth. With doing the gig apps and the carrier company and then in YouTube channel stuff, it takes up a lot of your time. I don't know if you guys noticed that, but if you got a YouTube channel, you know what time it is. You already know. You already know it takes up a lot of time, especially editing videos. Like it takes hours on top of hours on top of hours to edit these videos. So that's why I'm asking y'all just like the video. That's it. Like the video and subscribe button if you're not subscribed. Also, for that comment, I do want to say if you have any pointers or anything or any information that you have, that can actually help me out. So we can go out there and get busy. Please email me at romshousereviews at gmail.com and let me know because I need to know as much information as possible, baby, because I'm trying to get to that next level. 2024, we gonna go out there and score all day. We ain't playing, it's a clap and bang, bang. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you are not subscribed, make sure to subscribe button. Also, give me a thumbs up and don't forget before we go. Throw them seeds up.