 is DK with Cars and Cribs and I'm back with another video. Shout out to everybody that's tuned in, make sure you guys like the video. You guys have questions, I'm gonna give you some answers and honestly, there's some of these questions I do not wanna answer, but I wanna answer them anyway. So I need you guys to go ahead and smash that like button, also smash the subscribe button. If you are not subscribed, it's time for us to slide. We're about to do band talk episode two. You already know what we about to do, baby. None of them are flow sick like the flow. You already know that, baby. So huge shout out to everybody in the Cars and Cribs crew. If you're a partner crew, you already know what to do, baby. Go ahead and throw them C's up, throw them C's up in the comments section, but it's time for us to answer these questions. Let's go. Okay, question number one comes from at Darius Northern and he says, have you ever considered taking your cargo van to a shop that specializes in sprinters opposed to the dealership? That is a great question. Honestly, I've thought about it before, but again, I want to protect myself at all times. What I mean by that is the reason, that's the reason why we go to the dealership because everything is going to be documented. It's going to be documented. We got the oil changes here. It's going to be documented. Everything that we needed to get fixed, it got done at the dealership. That's in case something happened. Now, we are going to save money in the beginning with the specialized cargo van or Sprinter van person. We will save money in the beginning, but in the end, are we? We don't know because I don't want no problems with Mercedes being this almost, oh, what just happened? Oh, this happened. You ain't do this over here? I don't want no problems, man. I want everything documented. If it make any sounds or anything, I make sure when we go get the oil changed, I let them know, hey, the van was making a funny sound. I want it all written down. I don't want to play no games because sometimes people get finesse with the warranties, especially if you get in the third party warranty. So I want to protect myself at all costs. I'm trying to take over like Karen and Rick Ross. Okay, question number two also comes from Darius Northern and he says, do you have any end of your purchases in mind that are tax write-offs? For example, new tires. That is another great question. You come up with them good questions. Honestly, I haven't really thought about it as of lately, but we do have to take smoke to get oil changed in the next 1500 miles. So when we get there, that's probably gonna be probably be like a week or so. When we get there, if they say we need to get some new tires, then we're definitely gonna get some new tires. I want to say huge out to my guy, it's some certain tires he used for the winter and the snow and all that stuff out there. So we might get those. I'm not sure if we don't need tires. I'm definitely not wasting our money, but you do have a good point. It could be for a write-off. So I don't know. We will see when we get there. Hey, it's time for us to put it in the air. Okay, question number three comes from Elma Buscato and she says, what's your goals? If the gig gaps are slow, then what's your next plan? My goal, my short-term goal is to make $500 a day. That's my short-term goal for right now. Then after that, we're gonna push to 1,000. Then we'll keep on going higher and higher and higher. We'll just keep on doing it like that. That's my plan. Now, what do I do when the gig gaps are slow? If the gig gaps are slow and the carry company is slow and I ain't getting no dough, it just is what it is. Sometimes you are gonna have some bad days, baby. I'm just telling you right now. Sometimes you're gonna have some bad days where you make very little money. But I do want to say this. What you don't want to do is try to be too thirsty. And what I mean by that is, I told you guys before, you need to have money saved up before you start this business. If you do not have money saved up, you might make some stupid decisions. This just don't make sense, baby. Especially if you make money. You're thinking that you're making money, but you actually losing money. So save your money. And then after gigs after slow and everything, I just, it is what it is, baby. I just chalk off the day. I know that you can do this and do that. Dude, I'm not about to do all that. It just is what it is. Some days are not meant to be. We're gonna have some great days and we're gonna have some terrible days, but it all comes with the territory. And that's the reason why I tell you guys, if you just want to make as much money as possible, then you might want to get your dedicated route and do the gig gas on top of that. So that's what I recommend to you guys, if you're about to start out in this business. Okay, so question number four comes from MotownYB. And they say, huge shout out to you and your business partner. When I'm out here on the grind trying to shine, are there any rules that state that you can or cannot carry protection air quotes? Or are they breaking the rules? Honestly, I know for sure. This is what I do know. This is what I do know for sure. If you are doing some Amazon flex, some Amazon flex, flex, flex, you are for sure breaking the rules. I'm gonna tell you right now, but I do want to say this. I'm gonna break the rules every time. That's just me. Don't, I'm not telling you all to do what I do because look, I don't want no problems. But all I'm saying is I'm gonna protect myself at all times. Amazon don't want you carrying anything, but guess what? Those are the same peak drivers that get mowed over by dogs. These are actually a dude who got killed by two people. I'm not playing no games with nobody. Dog, I'm not playing no games with nobody. I just want to come here, do what I need to do and go home. But you could be in a bad situation. You could be going to get some gas and something can happen. I recommend protect yourself at all times. We could be definitely breaking these rules though, but I'm gonna, this is me. Everybody could do it how they want to do it, but I believe in the second amendment right. And I'm gonna keep my pockets tight with that thing baby. That's just how I'm moving and grooving. So it is what it is. I don't know what you guys feel about it. Come up below and let me know what you thought about it. Do you guys carry or not carry? Carry some maize, carry something. Carry something, cause you never know baby. You need to carry something. You might not have some, but you need to carry something. So that's what I recommend everybody. But if you don't want to listen to it, that's, it is what it is. But ask yourself this, are these apps worth your life? Is it worth your life? I'm just gonna ask that question before we go. Next question. Okay, question number five comes from Jace. And they say, how much is your van payment and insurance a month? Y'all have been wanting this for a long time. Ever since we got the van, y'all been wanting to know about the insurance and how much the van costs and all this stuff about the van, man. This is one of the questions I didn't really want to answer because I gave you guys the opportunity to find out the answer, but you did not smash that like button. I'm gonna tell you right now, smash that like button. I'm gonna give you the good button ugly. Smash that like button for me, baby. Just do that for me. Give me, give me right. I'm trying to get my pockets tight. I'm trying to push yourself on the YouTube algorithm. I know I'm procrastinating but I'm gonna tell you guys right now. The question was, what was it again? How much is the van? How much is your van payment and insurance a month? Okay. The van payment. Drum roll please. Y'all ain't gonna want to hear about it, I'm about to say. The van payment is $1585 a month. The insurance is $435 a month. That is not including the general liability insurance. That's just the insurance for the van. That's it, that's all. So it's about $2,000 and some dollars a month. Okay. And the next question comes from Zav Hussles and they say, piggyback off that last question. How much did you pay for the van? I'll be so sorry. Y'all wouldn't know what you paid for the van. I know y'all have been voting on this for a long time. Out the door, I'm talking about taxes, insurance and all that stuff. We paid $62,000 and some change for the van. It was probably with $62,100. I don't know how many hundreds but it was $62,000 for the van. Okay, so what's your interest rate and down payment for the van? The interest rate is 7.95 and we put down 26,000. It's 26,000 or something. I don't remember the exact number but 26,000 or something. Okay, and then they just say, what's the monthly payment? But you just said that in the last video. The monthly payment is $1585. The insurance is $435 and the reason why that, I know you wonder why. Why would you pay 1500? The reason why we're paying $1585 a month for the van is because we are only on a two year loan. It's only for two years, that's it. We wanted the minimum amount of interest payment. So we ain't even trying to get them all our extra money. We wanted the minimum amount of interest payment and the smallest business loan we can get was for two years. So we went with that. This is all really to build the business credit so we can buy whatever we want later. So watch you out there. Just do what's best for you. Everybody say, I don't wanna pay that much, I understand. Everybody don't have to pay $1500. Some people pay 500, 600, 700. It just depends on you and what you wanna do. How I do it does not mean you have to do it that way. Do what works best for you. If you wanna give you a five year loan or a two year loan, three year loan, for however many years you wanna do it. Do what's best for you. What's best for us was to get the van and get a two year loan and we pay $1585 a month for the van. Okay, question number seven comes from at Jumpstar and they say, what's the farthest you're willing to travel? That's a good question. I'ma tell you the truth, man, look, I ain't really gonna travel too far. I think it just really depends on the money. That's really what it is. That's the reason why I'm not doing the OTR. They gotta pay me a handsome lead. That's the mark the mentor word. They gotta pay me a greet to the body. They gotta pay me a greet as a model money for me to be driving on the miles. That over the road stuff is just not for me, man. I'm sorry, but it's just not. Why would I go over the road when I can make the same amount or similar money staying home? And I could go to sleep in my own bed. I ain't trying to be in no hotel, sleep in the back of the van. I'm not trying to do all that, baby. I wanna sleep in my own bed, watch YouTube, play Call of Duty. I wanna live life to the fullest. So maybe I'll say mileage wise, like 250, that's pretty steep though. 250 miles or something like that. I'm really not trying to go too far at all. Unless it makes sense. So my cousin's staying in North Carolina. If I'm trying to make some money and go to North Carolina at the same time, then yes. I will do a low from Chicago or Milwaukee or wherever and go down to North Carolina or South Carolina or somewhere where my family stays. I'm only gonna do over the road if it makes sense for me to do it. And I'm going there anyway. That's the only time I'm gonna do that. Question number eight comes from the same person at Jumpstart. Do you love what you do? Honestly, I don't really know what I love. Do you want me to tell you the honest truth? I love making money. That's what I do. If that's what you ask, absolutely. I love making money. I love putting people money in my pocket. This is one of my little things. That's what I love to do. As far as delivering stuff, I mean delivering stuff is cool. All of it is cool, man. It's like, what I love, I love my passion, my biggest passion is cars. I love cars. This is my number one thing. I love cars, I can be around them all day without any money. This is my thing. I love cars. But as far as doing this, it's okay. It's like, it ain't like that I love to do this every single day and all that stuff. But no, I mean, it's cool with me. It's making me money right now. But just believe, best believe, baby. I would jump ship at anything. That's what I want y'all to know right now. I just want to be straight up honest with y'all. I would jump ship so fast. I'm going, I'm going. If the money gets too bad, if we can start getting way too slow and we ain't making no money at all, I'm done. I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm about to sit around here and use my feelings and oh, I love this man. Look, ain't no money here no more. We gotta go on and do something else. So that's how I move. That's how I do everything. I've been doing this for my whole life. So all the times where money's stopped here, I go somewhere else and make some money over here and then move this and move this. So I've just moved different places. I'm not a test to anything. I don't love anything. I'm not, I don't have emotional ties to anything. That's not how I think. I go with the money. If the money is here, I will go here. If not, I gotta move on to some other thing. But we do got the van. And the van is something that I will keep even after we done paying it off. It's just gonna sit there and we need to use it. We gonna use it, you know, I really wanna kind of, I'm not being off a little bit, but I really wanna kind of create a business around the van. Some similar stuff like that. Like the dropping off the pallets and all that stuff. That's cool. But I really wanna create our own stuff. I don't wanna have to worry about no low boards, no gig gaps, no nothing. I wanna create my own stuff and I wanna direct to consumer. So that's really like one of my very short term goals. So that's one of the things I wanna do. Okay, question number nine comes from Gigabit. And they say, do you keep any basic tools or parts just in case something happens in the middle of nowhere? Absolutely. We do got a tool bag. I do got a tool bag after the craftsman drill. I got a nice little kit, I got a little kit set up. But as far as keeping like, like. They said tire plugs are cooling. Oh, that's a good question. No, I don't have those things. That's something I might wanna look into. That is actually a great idea. The thing is I don't really go that far. As I told you guys on the other question, I don't really go that far. So somebody can get to me fast, but I definitely need to get that type of stuff. I need to get me some tire plugs and everything. I already know how to plug a tire and all that stuff. Pause, I already know how to do all that stuff. So I definitely should give me a little kit and keep it in the van. We got like the cones and like markers and stuff like that. But I do need to keep like some extra tools and all that stuff. Just in case something do happen. That's a great idea. I appreciate the question. You just got my mind racing right now. Okay, question number 10 comes from Taren. And he says, what should I do if I wanna buy a home? First, I wanna say this. Shoo, shout out to my guy, Taren. Taren is my number one subscriber. I'm sorry to let you guys on. I know some of you guys may think that you are, but Taren is my number one subscriber. Taren has been around since we were doing house reviews. He was there for house reviews, car reviews, and then all the way to the gig apps. So he's been around since for a long, long, long time. He's an OG subscriber. He's been since the beginning. I actually had different names for the channel. It was called Ron's House Reviews. It was called The Life of Realtor Ron. And then it went to Cars and Careers. I think it's been through three different transitions. And my guy Taren been there the whole time. So a huge shout out to him. Now, in order for you to buy a home, you're gonna have to have some money saved up. And the money is gonna need to be seasoned. Now what they mean by seasoned is, the money is gonna have to be in there for a certain period of time, like two to three months. You can't just put the money in the day before and then inspect it by home. That's not how I work. You can't do that. They're gonna ask you, and they're gonna be in your business so they wanna know where the money came from, when you get the money, they wanna know all that stuff. Also, you're gonna need a credit score of between like 620 to 640, somewhere around that range in that area. And that is the minimum. So that's the minimum that you're gonna need. Then you're all gonna need the twos. I call them the twos. Your last two bank statements, your last two paystubs, if you work your WC job, your last two tax returns, and your last two W twos. I call them the twos, baby. You're gonna need them four things. And you're gonna need a lot of patience. You're gonna have to have patience with this process. It's not gonna be a boom, boom, boom, boom. That's not how I go with the real estate thing. Unless you're paying straight cash. If you're paying straight cash, you don't need nothing. You had a cash in the bank, you're gonna say, this the house I want, you're gonna go look at it, and then you're gonna put the offer in, they're gonna set the offer, and you can close it like 14 days. So you can do it that way. It really depends on how you wanna do it. But again, choose how to my God, Taryn, and I appreciate your question. Okay, the next question comes from Mike Finnelli, and he says, what's the number one mistake people make getting into the cargo van business? That is a great question. That's a great question. That was a good one. That was a real good one. I like that one. Honestly, I'm gonna tell you guys from my guy Mark the Metro says, they don't make a business plan. They just come in here, they don't have a plan. That's the main thing, they don't have a plan. There's Walsin, they see me do a YouTube video, they see Big CJ and whoever do a YouTube video, and they think it's just gonna buy a van, just do, do, do, do, that's not how it really works. And you don't even know your market, cause you ain't doing no research. All you did was try to go get a van, and then you put the van in your regular name, instead of your business name, and then you get the van, and then you start doing gig apps, and then that's slow down. And then what you do after that? They don't have the business plan. They don't have everything mapped out, and they don't do enough research. And I know a lot of times people may think that, oh, you giving away the game for free and all that stuff. I'm just giving you information. This is information. It's up to you to put it to play or not. Most people are not gonna put it to play. So, research, research, research, and you need to know your market. And before you even jump in, I would say when you be seeing them people with the cargo vans, talk to them. I told you guys, you gotta talk to people. Start talking to them. Talk to them and say, what you doing? Move, move, move. So how did you move? Talk to different people and also do your research. So that's number one, research. Research and business plan number one. Number two is money. And number three is definitely patience. So we're gonna go to money. A lot of times people get into this business and they don't have enough money saved up. I told you guys this multiple times. I'm gonna keep on telling you. If you do not have money saved up, do not start. I'm gonna say it one more time. If you don't have money saved up, do not start. And number three, you're definitely gonna need some patience. You're gonna have to be very, very patient because everything is not gonna happen how you think it's gonna happen. You're gonna get the thing, you're gonna jump over here, jump over here. That's not how it goes. I know I begin to comment, why you only do this way? That's not how it works. In real life, that's not how it really works. And I know that you guys see different videos and talk about people, talk about direct shippers. It look, it's not sweet. I'm just wanna tell you right now. If it was sweet, I'd be doing it. Make sure you do your research. That's the number one problem I think that people have getting into this business. This one comes from at Chris KUC. And they say, do you feel like you're helping some drivers by giving them everything ready at the plate? And in the same time, ruining it for others because you're bringing new drivers to an app that these people use. And at the same time right now, it's less work. So what do you think about that? I wanna say, this is the best final question that could ever be on the channel right now. I'm gonna say it right now. That was a great final question. We're gonna end it off with a bang. I got a lot to say about this. Let me say this. I'm gonna start off with this. The first thing I'm gonna say is, you can take them to the water, but you can't make them drink it. You can take them to the water, but you can't make them drink it. What I mean by that is, if I tell a thousand people about an app, it was a 1,000 people, how many people are really gonna go ahead and put the action in? Probably, I say out of a thousand, I probably say like, maybe 10 to 15 people. It's not as many people as you guys think it is. It's every so often as a person here or there, here or there, here or there, here or there. But this has spread out over 50 states. It ain't just one state. I'm in Illinois. I don't know what state you're staying in. Somebody makes, my guy CJS Texas. Bleep.