 Man, it has been a minute since I made live calls. I tell you what, I've been on here a couple of times and made plenty of live calls with other agents, coaching them through it. Been a second since I actually came on and made these calls myself. So I'm super excited to be here with you once again. Oh man, I'm gonna give it every minute, let everybody come on. I'm calling a Gulffront condo today. One of the Phoenix buildings. You know, up to this point, I've literally been making, I've literally been making past client calls. That's really all that I've focused on up to this point. So this is literally my first cold calls. Now I did call this building a while back, maybe three years ago. So some of these people could potentially already be getting my emails and so on and so forth. Let me make sure I'm all locked in here. Let me know where you guys are from, put it in the comments. Let me hear you. Looks like we got people all over the place. Man, I love it. I love how you guys are just so energetic right now with everything we're going through. That's what you gotta be. You just gotta be positive through these times. You know, don't let anything get you down. You know, focus on what you can do and don't worry about what you can't do. You know, it's all about people. This is a people business. Our job is to reach out to people, help people, make people feel comfortable with us, work hard for people, you know? That's what it's all about. So as I'm letting everybody come on board really quickly before I get the dial going, I got all my notes. So I got the entire building right here. I got like the 01s, 02s, 03s up to 15. This building has 15 units wide. And I've got it marked. Which ones are three bedrooms, one bedrooms, two bedrooms? I know the units that are listed. I have an idea of what each perspective stack and size of unit are worth. The one bedrooms are worth about 330, 340. Two bedrooms are in the 450 range. And the three bedrooms are in the 500, well, mid 500 range. So that's what I'm working with. Now, what are they worth right now? I mean, you know, what we're going through right now, I don't think anybody knows what's gonna happen on the other side of this. I'm hoping we pull out of this pretty quick and we don't see really hardly any price decreases. But you never know. You just never know. Hit that thumbs up button. Let me know that you're there and that you appreciate me continuing to make these calls. I don't know any other coach out there right now making live calls. There could be some. I don't know about them. But that's me. I practice where I preach. I'm out here in the field. I'm out here in the trenches. This is where I like to be right here in the trenches. Making it happen. Communicating with people, connecting with people. So about to get started in just a second, giving it a second for everybody to come on board. Let's see who we got here in the comments. Yeah, so we don't know what's gonna happen on the other side of this. We're kind of at an unknown. We're at a crossroads in the market. But things are still moving. I listed a house yesterday. I got three offers on it today. So that's exciting. Very excited about that. I want to put something under contract. So I put two properties under contract last month. I normally put about 30 under contract. This month it looks like I've got one that I'm about to put under contract. So we'll just kind of see how it goes. I think April's gonna be another really slow month. You know, it's obviously gonna be a slow month. We're locked down the whole month of April if you're in the US. So all right, it's gonna get the dollar going. I got Red X all geared up. I'm using the new Geo Leads Plus. Just pulled it right up. Red X extended their deal on the Geo Leads Plus. So the end of the day tomorrow. They ended it on the first, but I asked them to do it for the rest of the week. For you guys that didn't jump on, but it's 5,000 contacts for $100 normally, but they're doing it for $70 for the next three months. So they more than double the amount of contacts for way less than half the price. So, and it includes email. So there's a phone number in the description. You guys can call that. Tell them you want the Ricky Careuth, Red X, Geo Leads Plus deal. They'll weigh the startup fee of $150. You'll just pay 70 and get those 5,000 leads. Whatever property owners you want in your entire market. Okay, cool. I think I'm ready to get the dollar cranked up. Let's see. Give me just a second to get everything put where I need to put. Right, here we go. This is what it's all about. And I want to applaud you guys that are continuing to make calls through this. You know, this is the moment right here where we're going to see the real top producers emerge from this when this is all over with. So, you know, you might not feel like you're getting anywhere with these calls, but I promise you this is where all the magic happens. This is what I did in 2008 when I got back to the market and the market was crashed. I literally, this is exactly what I did all day long. And I didn't even have a dialer. I didn't even have something I could click a button and get all the phone numbers for. I mean, technology today with this dialer and Red X and all is ridiculous. I mean, there's no telling where it would be if I had all this when I started. So you guys better be taking advantage of it. Okay. Okay, I got 197 numbers in the queue here. Hold on one second. To the dialer. Judy Oxford, this is my emergency telephone on the line where I can take your call at Mothermore. Please call my office at 791-8511. Your message, when you have finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more options. Judy, Ricky Caruth with the EXP Realty down at Orange Beach. Give me a ring when you get a chance. Just checking on you guys. Talk to you soon. All right, first one's a voicemail. You can note it out. Irma. It's Ricky Caruth, EXP Realty at Orange Beach. How you doing? Good, good. Yeah, I'm just dealing with this quarantine. It's crazy, ain't it? I can barely hear you. Speaker there, but I don't know which one on my phone works better on speakers. Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah, yeah, just, I've been working from the house for three weeks. So it's been a little crazy. How about you guys? It's been a little crazy. Yeah. And the infrastructure. And my boss is letting us work. Three of us work three days a week in the upper three. Because he said we're crucial too. So three of us work three days a week in the upper three, work the other. I got you. You got a little system down, huh? Yeah, so that's a lot we can learn that we have that security, you know, so nobody can get through to us. And he's had the front lobby shut down about some time when nobody could come in. And so it kind of keeps us safe. But it's like he said, the guys are having to work and they're doing everything they can to keep them safe. He said the office is essential too. Right. It's crazy, isn't it? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. He actually blew down his beach house yesterday morning. He said, I've never seen it like that. Yeah, some guys working at his house at Beachside. And he had some guys redoing his deck and they're down to their final payment. They actually did some other work on the house. So they're down to their final payment and he doesn't know these guys. They were just referred to him. And he blew down and he said the parking lots is empty, Beach River is empty. He was telling me all about it. Wow. Oh yeah, yeah. We, I've been at my house for three weeks and we finally had to get out of the house. We drove around like didn't go anywhere. We just want to get out. We drove around. I got a five month old daughter. So we just packed everybody up and just rode around for a couple hours. But it was the weirdest thing ever seen. All the kind of parking lots are empty. Nobody's on the roads. I mean, it's wild. All the beaches are closed. Even if you, even if you're out of condo or you own a house, you can't walk out on the beach. I know. Yeah. I know, which we always do. I had my boys that taken off for their 24, 26 and they were, we were all coming to the beach. And I have an 83 year old mother that lives with me. And I got to thinking, I just don't need to be selfish in this thing. I would have loved to come and just thank goodness we didn't come because we decided to wait closer to weekend. And we were planning on coming down on Wednesday and they closed the beaches first. So I'm glad I didn't come. Yeah. Because I think I thought I can't be selfish in this matter because everything I do, I have to worry about her. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Her health concerns and stuff like that. But anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back. And I'm, you know, I know eventually the price is going to come down some more down there. And No, it's Ellen. No, it's Ellen. I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, if it recovers pretty quickly, then we may not see, I mean, I would think that we would see a little bit, but hopefully it's not a whole lot, you know? Yeah. Nobody really knows. That's when I saw mine. It feels like it was growing up like it was and nobody's telling me that. And then of course, every day to this day, I regret that because I never found anything I liked to be better than what I had. Yeah. It was kind of blowing up some off to the ground. Right. And you didn't go to floods and stuff like that. Yeah. And I have regrets now. And but I look again when the timing is right and stuff like that. So. Yeah, yeah. What, so do you have an agent down here that you work with? No, I just, I, you know, that of course, the Phoenix was Brett Robertson. Right. I had the only one I talked to was you, you know, that all transpired. Oh, OK. The only one you showed me those few places there and go, sure. I just like orange beets. I like orange beets better because it's not so congested. OK. Right, right. It's kind of the beach, OK. But I had, you know, I looked around. I couldn't find anything. There was a house down there right there on the floor line, you know, it was for sale. My boys, I don't own a house. I want to come to a complex, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I would find a piece down. But I do have my regrets for selling. But I just, I'm awake to see what happens. And the problem is the recovery, you know, maybe, like Alabama closed their beaches, a whole lot sooner than anybody else. Other than the city, the city closed theirs too. But hopefully this thing won't get too out of hand. If you know everybody, because we have a shelter and place order starts five o'clock tomorrow. I mean, I know y'all about that. The thing, we're in a small town and with county seats. So everybody comes from these other towns that have a lot more cases than we do. Our county only had 10, OK? Right. And but we have all these little communities come in with, you know, they have 20 cases and they come here to buy groceries. So you've got to be extremely careful, you know? Yeah, oh yeah. But this shelter and place, there's so many businesses and how they claim some of these businesses is essential. To me, the only thing I see really that they close down is beauty salons, male salons and fitness centers. Right, right. Somehow everything else remained essential, such as academy sports. And of course, my sons are in college up in the state. And they were telling me, though, that you have to go in one-on-one. They won't have any people in the store with their workers, OK, you have to go in one-on-one. But academy sports, unless they're thinking that people need sporting goods because they're sanitary or something, but you know, furniture companies, I mean, you name it, and they're probably essential. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the academy here, Foley's open. We can't believe it. I called up there. They were open. They can only have 25 people in at a time. Yeah. In start, well, they got like 20 cases of the sale of COVID-19 and they're only letting the eight people because they have like three or four store clerks in there. So they only have eight people at a time and when one comes out, you can go in. Right. And we know we're just a little small community. Of course, our Walmart is packed because it's the biggest one within, you know, 45 minutes to an hour. And so it stays packed for people out of town. And so I'm very careful. I wait till like late at night. I do have plastic gloves and I have some masks. And I'm just, but I'm really a hand washer. I'm really watching everything trying to stay safe. And I know you need to with that baby. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We are watching our peace and queues. I ain't going nowhere. Like there was a guy that wanted to see some condos. And I told him, no, like last week I said, I just, I can't risk it, you know, with somebody from out of town. And I just said, you know, I mean, they got some of the condos closed down like Phoenix 10. They turned the whole water line off from the building, whole main water line. They completely shut it off. I mean, they got it locked down. I don't think you can get in the building. Probably. I'm pretty sure. I know that, I know that I went there probably two weeks ago and met with some people that were on the cell. And they said that they were turning the main water line off the next day. And I went downstairs and they had the bathrooms locked up. And you couldn't get an indoor pool. Everything was shut down. And they said the employees were not going to be there the next day. So I think they completely just shut it completely down. Wow. Yeah. Well, I mean, anything that, you know, they can do just like, you know, with the bars, push all the bars here, like in our county or most of Mississippi, I think it's been closed to drive, you know, curbside service for a long time. And I know that the week that I looked, when we were coming down there, I saw it go down, it was closed. And so, but I just, I'm sorry, that would be selfish. But it's a good thing because that's part of my commonness to be just I love the beach. So yeah, yeah. Well, you sent me those pictures and one of the other rental places that they sent the video says it's 29 seconds. And I've always been after I lost my husband, he was always my happy place. And I was so glad I had my condos here in that time because it helped me through a lot of time. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Memories. Yeah, but I love the beach and I'll get me wrong. It's my favorite place. And, you know, orange beach is only, I don't stop a lot. I can make it like a few hours and 15 minutes. So yeah, it's definitely my place. And I am planning on retiring there. I was hoping by 60, but that's not what happened this year. And I got two boys still in school. Yeah. But hopefully in the next couple of years, they will get out to get their job, my daughter, she's working, she's fine. So I get these boys self-sufficient. Yeah, yeah. Well, oh yeah. Well, it was good talking to you. Yeah, just wanted to check in on you. Yeah, I'm glad you called, and all y'all are well. And like I said, my boss just happened to give me that update. He's a jet, of course, he was a lot down there. But they have it then. And he just wanted to check on that board before we met. Pay that guy's final payment, OK? Yeah. And he kind of updated me yesterday, but it was really good to hear from y'all. But I got it all well and went on to see the covers. And I'll be in touch with you, OK? Absolutely, yeah. When you find yourself, you know, all this clearing up, let me know, and we'll get back at it. All right, yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. How about you? Stay safe. You too. Oh, man, I got to catch my breath. Man, the first person I called actually knew me, and I showed her property. I don't remember. But, oh man, that was too much for a second. I got to recover from that. But anyway, bottom line was that was a really good call. Let's see. Thought I saw some comments I wanted to respond to, but there's too many of them. Man, that one had me going. That one had me going. OK, this person has two bedroom. Order to an automated voice messaging system. 8-0-1 is not available. At the tone, please record your message when you fit. Hey, Mr. Chitwood. This is Ricky Carruth, EXP, Orange Beach. Just calling to check on you guys. Calling for about your Phoenix 6. You can reach me here at 251-752-1138. Have a good day. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Let me make a note of that. That was a good number. You guys are cracking me up in the comments. Automatic voice message system. 2-5-1-2-8-8-2-7-4-4 is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options. Hey, Ms. Galton, Ricky Carruth, EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. Checking on you guys. See how you're doing. Calling about Phoenix 6. Give me a ring back when you get a chance. 2-5-1-752-1138. Thank you. Let me read some of these comments. You've reached Betty. I'm going to be here on the phone if you leave your name, number, and the brief message I would give that to you. Thank you. Hey, Betty. Ricky Carruth, EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. Calling about your Phoenix 6. Checking on you guys. Thanks, you're all right. You can reach me back at 2-5-1-752-1138. Talk to you soon. I'm going to reach it now. All right. There's not a good number there. The first number was definitely a good number. The lady that knew me, this person has a... Hello. Hey, Ms. Lanning. Yes. It's Ricky Carruth and at EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. How you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you. Good. Yeah, I've been working out of my house for three weeks. It's crazy, ain't it? Yeah, it is. That's what I'm doing today, actually. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, I didn't want to take it too much of a time. I'm still selling a couple of things. I normally sell about 30 in March, but I sold two. And then I sold a little house today. So believe it or not, the market's not totally dead. But, you know what I mean? Everybody's still hiding them out with that money, trying to make sure what's going to happen. But you know what I'm trying to say? But yeah, not really sure how to proceed. Yeah, everybody's just hanging on for dear life right now. Well, I didn't know if there's anything I could do for you guys. And they probably not looking to do anything right at the second course. No, we just renovated. We're going to hang on to it. Yeah. I just have decided they wanted to do that. So we've renovated and I actually haven't even seen it. We've had guests in an all-the-month art. I mean, all-the-month art, which was a blessing, considering everything else. It's gone, but that's a lovely little company. And so that worked out well. We ended up getting sick right the week we were supposed to come down. And to put it honestly, we had just traveled to have a short weekend trip over to North Carolina, been in Charlotte, National Honor, came back in December. And then in January, the weekend, we were supposed to come down after all the things were finished at the unit before our people made in. My husband got really, really sick. He stressed for his shoes and all that. A week and a half, two weeks later, I had it. I don't think I've ever been that sick. No, I hadn't been that sick. So we got through. We said, you know, I think we had this already. So you think you- I really thought what we did. I really think this was before that all kind of hit. It was right at the point it was starting to hit at the end of January. And we had never been that sick. We were some of the only ones in my 20s and I didn't tell them for six days I had to put the recliner with breathing treatments and all of our yards and two rounds of medicine. And, you know, I was negative for the flu we were negative for all that stuff. We were sick as hell. When my husband looked at me the other day, we were reading what everybody was saying. You know, we had cops for weeks. I literally was going in with a mask on in my office. And it's a question, you know, quarantining myself in my office, just wearing a mask walking through the building. Yeah. Because I didn't want them to get sick or whatever I had because I couldn't quit profit. Right. And, you know, and so now I was back and I'm reading all this things about what we want to talk about. That's what we want. Man. We probably had it. If I didn't swallow it, you know, that I was, I had been, I had markers for it that it was rough, but we, you know, we just thought we had, they just diagnosed me a respiratory infection and here's you some stuff, go to the house and take it. We took some medicine and then that didn't help. And then three days later it kicked my butt, jumped in here and I mean, I thought I couldn't breathe. And so, you know, you just muddle through and the best you can. Yeah, I just got to muddle. Um, so when, when was that? When did you get sick like that? That was in January and first February. So when we were not in the middle, yeah, in January, by the middle of February, we were both, we had both had it and were recovering. And I guess we finally ended the coughing period about first couple of weeks in March. Maybe. I mean, the cough just, just hung on forever in the old grandbaby. I kept her, so I was quarantined from home for two, two weeks because I was sick, literally for two weeks. Wow. And, and so, you know, we're back on that. We're off, that's all we have. Yeah. Where did you travel to? We just went to Charlotte from in Charlotte. Oh, okay. We went over to Asheville and went back to Charlotte. We just went to Charlotte to be there for you. Yeah, yeah. To kick us. Yeah. I mean, that is the Elm time we traveled at all, period. And we did that about in December, which was about when things were starting to kick off and nobody really knew what was going on. Yeah. So, so did you feel like you were going to die? Very concerned. I thought that I may have been a hospital because of just the respiratory issues, but I'm a nurse and I already had nebulizers and I kept calling my caregiver going, okay, I need some of you all. I need, this is what I need, this is what I need. But then I had a lingering sore throat and kind of not necessarily a toss-a-lot is this lingering issue. Afterwards, that was just, this drainage was just horrible. I couldn't figure out why my throat was going to be sore on one side for days and day to day to the point that I was having to take that Tylenol or something. It was like strep throat, it felt strep throat, but it wasn't strep throat. No fever was made up of it at that point. So I called back and I went to CT&T and then he said, you just got an infection that has just not resolved. And I kept coughing and my favorite cough back up, you know, like that was weeks after I'd had it. And so I thought, okay, he gave me a 15 days of antibiotics. But I think that was a result of something that set up in my pharmacist's chest. Yeah. Wow. You know, but it's one of those and we're, you know, 60. So we just did what we could do and kept through it. And I read the other day that said, don't drink cold things because the virus likes cold. Drink hot things in your mouth because that way if you get it in your mouth, then you'll kill it before maybe it gets down. And if you can get it down to your, you know, your gut, it'll kill the virus. And so I thought, well, you know, the whole time I did hot tea with honey and lemon and I did colloidal silver, which is a natural antiviral. And then I took an over the camera antiviral and which was a homeopathic little granules that you take, you can find at Walgreens. And I took that the whole time. And other than, yeah, other than, you know, the antibiotic that and steroids, yeah. Yeah. And it hit the virus and the body only treats the secondary symptoms. And they put me on a flu or two tablet. She said, you have all the symptoms of the flu because you're testing negative for the flu, but we're going to give you the flu at Madison anyway. And it was two tablets, one dose. And my niece had had the flu and she took it. It was over in two days. Well, two days later, I was like through the morning. Yeah, I just had been sterilized. So I got up and sterilized my house, I cleaned my house. And the next day I got up out of bed and I had a massive suffocation, could not breathe, could not, I was squeezing. I mean, it hit me in a mat like I'm at a truck just to breathe. And then I had fever for literally five days. Wow. And did not get started on an antibiotic until the following Monday. Cause I thought, oh, I just did too much yesterday. And then I went until Saturday and I thought, I don't want to go into those clinics cause everybody in there sick with the flu. Yeah. I'll just see how I am Monday, you know. And so I just treated it palliatively, best I could. And then Monday got on some antibiotic. Tuesday actually was antibiotic. And then Monday or Tuesday. And then that went on that whole week and I did not go back to work until very later. So I was off about two, two and a half weeks. We are so glad you got well. Well, you know, it's just there and it's out there in this hotel and people often have this and just thought they had the flu or self-treated at home or tested. Everybody around here has either had the massive dose of the flu or had the same symptoms as the flu treated and tested negatively. And so they're just doing whatever they can to treat it. Yeah. And I'm sure that's probably what a lot of people have had. Yeah. And you know. Absolutely. So are y'all all doing, is it, do you have many cases down there? Not that we know of. I think there might be a lot that we don't know about. But as far as we know, there's not a whole lot. I think there was like maybe 15 cases involved in County. But that's wrong. I mean, there's definitely more. Cause there was an infant. Well, there was an infant. I was diagnosed with cases. Right. There was an infant in Orange Beach at a daycare that got diagnosed with it. And so you gotta. Are they okay? As far as I know. Yeah. I didn't follow up after a couple of days, but they reported it. And I mean, you know, that infant got it from somewhere. There's adults in the area that, you know, or somebody gave it to somebody. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, in the back of the years, cause I've got a future son-in-law that's in med school. And he said, you know, the bad thing is this came about right during toy season and RSV season and all this other stuff's already out there. And I know when it hit and my mother's in the nursing home and they shut down, you know, they started all of the quarantining. When I went to see her the week before they did the complete shut down quarantine, I went to see her and I was out there these days. And there were people that were already using our quarantine. And I said, why is everybody quarantined? And they said, well, there's a start for it on the other end on the other one of the wards. And we're just making sure everybody's in. So the next, my husband went out there on a Wednesday to carry some, some clothing out there to her. And he said, they wouldn't let me in. And I said, what? And then we heard that they'd shut everything down. And so they've been, you know, they were very proactive and that was probably a couple of weeks before the mandatory shut down the nursing homes. And H.C. just said, no doors locked. Nobody's coming in, nobody's coming. You know, it's out of the employees. And so they're wearing, I talked to the recreational director this morning and they're wearing homemade masks because of course they can't get masks. And so they have three layers of homemade masks that they're putting air conditioning filters that have been cut to fit in there every morning to have a new one. And she said they had churches that are making them. And she said, we change them out every morning. She said, when we leave shift, they go in a bag, they're laundered, we've got freshmen to put on them next morning. She said, they're not perfect, but they're working and they're optimal. And she said it was the design set out by H.C. since they could not get masks. Because only hospitals and very few long-term care facilities are being able to be, what you have in stock is pretty much what they have. So it's an interesting time we're in. That's for sure. First time, my generation, and I know yours that's ever dealt with. And it's not good to any pandemic that has reached us. And so to speak. But you know what's funny, Ricky, is that in 2018, and everybody just turned a blind eye. The flu, the vaccines were, the strengths that were, the vaccines were made for was the long-strength. And they've made them almost a year in advance, depending on what's going on in the rest of the world. And so they turned it in the wrong ones. And so if you got the vaccine that year, it didn't protect you from the strains that actually made it to the U.S. There were over 80,000 people in the U.S. that died. There were over 900,000 hospitalizations. Nobody even realized that. I mean, nobody even thought about it. And this season alone, there have been almost 50,000. There's been between 35,000 to 50,000 deaths already to the point. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Nobody, well, like you said, nobody knew that. And so now everybody in the world knows how many people die from the flu. I didn't know. I didn't know how many people die from the flu every year. Yeah, it's gonna change how everybody does everything. So, but it'll change it all. I know I've been getting lots of communication from them. Brett Robinson, concerning thing, it's plus our rental company that's taking care of all of that. And I know everybody gonna shut down. I'm like, even the day is gonna reopen the beach at all at this point. It's unknown, man. It's unknown now. I mean, they've come out with stuff, but they're playing it day by day. I mean, that's something to change at any moment. They're waiting to see how... I think we're definitely gonna be to the end of May, to be honest, because they say the peak infections are gonna be mid-April. Then it's gonna come down slowly, and I just don't see how they can let us all go back. There's gonna be so much going on in May. As long as we can open by the end of May, because that's the beginning of summer. Yeah, that's gonna be optimal. As long as we can open by the end of May, I'm gonna feel pretty good about our summer, because what I'm hearing from rental companies is that a lot of people are, instead of flying and going on cruises, they're driving here. They're gonna come to the beach, but they will. And that's what I'm not worried because I think we're gonna make up the distance from June till October. I think we'll make up, yeah, well, and you'll be able to charge a little bit of rates in different places, because it will be very competitive. I think so. I think we're gonna have a heck of a summer as long as we can get it open back up by the end of May. I think so too, and I think the governor and everybody's trying their best to do that. They just don't wanna bring in more. And when the weather gets warm, the virus is gonna die. And so you're not gonna have the same issues that you're gonna have now, because it's a cold weather virus. As soon as most plants are gonna be over in April, so I think May's gonna be the upturn in fewer cases, and it's gonna be resolved at that point. But I appreciate you calling, and good luck. Everybody stay healthy down there, and I appreciate you calling. You will. Did you say y'all have an agent you work with if you were to do something? Yeah, got it, got it. Okay, I'm here. Thank you, I appreciate it. Yes, ma'am, you have a good day. You as well. Thank you. Bye-bye. I get it. I gotta catch my breath here, guys, after that. This is getting wild. This is getting wild. I'm gonna make some notes on her real quick. Let me check some. See what you guys got going on here. So yeah, man, look, here's the thing. Like I said from the beginning, these are the first cold calls I'm making. Since the pandemic, everything I've been calling has been passed clients up to this point. I have so many, I still have a lot to call, but I wanted to do some cold calls, and I wanted to go live, I wanted to go live during the pandemic and do some calling for you guys. So, but what I'm finding here is kind of the same thing I'm finding one of my past clients. They're at home, they've been quarantined. They're dying to talk to somebody. They're dying to talk to somebody. So let's see here, let's see here. Yeah, there's a lot of comments. It's hard for me to get through, but I think both of those, both of those people I just talked to, I think they're both future clients. I really do, definitely, definitely. Okay, and for those of you just tuning in, we're making live cold calls here. So good to have you. Let me get the dollar back up and run and you had to take a break for a second. Hey, Ms. Barber. Hey, this is Ricky Cruz down at EXP, Real Teenage Beach. How you doing? I'm doing fine. Good. Yeah, I've just, I've been working out of my house for the last three weeks. I've been able to really show property or do anything down here, but it's crazy, ain't it? Yeah. Well, I'm still selling some properties though. I sold two last month. I normally sell about 30, but I sold a couple last month. I just sold a house this morning. So things are still moving and stuff. So I'm just calling to check on you guys and see if there's anything in the world I could do for you. What's that now? I said, I'm not planning on selling mine any time soon. Oh, okay. Is there an agent down here that you guys work with? If you ever did decide to do something? What's that? Rita Essex. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, she's been helping me for a couple years. Good. All right. Well, I'm glad you guys are doing all right and looks like you're taking care of. So I'm Ricky Carruth. If I can ever help you, let me know and have a good day. Okay, thank you. Thank you. She was nice. I want to make a note on her that she has an agent, a good agent too. Jim, Ricky Carruth, the XP Realty Orange Beach. How you doing? Yeah, sir. This is Ricky Carruth down in Orange Beach. Real estate? Yeah. Yeah. You got a Phoenix Six? Yes, indeed. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. I've been working out of my house for the last three weeks here. It's crazy, ain't it? We're not down there right now with people at home, but that's fine. Yeah. Well, I don't want to take up too much of your time. I'm just doing what I can with my time here at my house. But I have sold a couple of properties. I sold two last month. I normally sell about 30, but sold a couple last month. Sold a house this morning. And I just called to see it. Yeah, I listed a house yesterday and had three offers on it this morning. So it was in a bare point down there in Orange Beach. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. And then I sold it. I was at home after this crisis. Right now they are. I mean, I haven't seen any... I sell about a hundred a year, but doing this 18 years, and I got a lot of clients. And I haven't had any sellers call me or any clients call me and say, let's sell it for cheaper. Let's dump it. Or, you know, back when the oil spill hit, you know, I had sellers calling me, you know, immediately and saying, sell it, sell it. I haven't had that yet. So, and the properties I've sold have been at normal prices too. So I don't know where this thing's going now. It's strange. It is. Well, hey, I appreciate the call. I'm going to settle the dinners. Thanks for the call. Hey, do you guys have an agent down here that you work with? Right? But if you were to buy or sell something though, is that... I'll give you a call. We'll do it everywhere. I just have to have a sell-off sometime. We can give you a call. All right, man. You have you a good day. All right. Thanks for telling me. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You know, you can't beat them all. You know what I mean? Oh, man. Let's see. Looks like I got time for a couple more. Looks like my camera's kind of in a little weird. You have reached, is not in service. This is a recording. The number you have reached is not in service. Next, making out that that's not a good number. I have had some pretty quality phone calls, though. Hey, Mr. Moreno. Uh-huh. It's Ricky Caruth down at EXP Realty Arts Beach. How you doing? Oh, well, if I had runners, I'd be doing five. But I ain't got no runners on those things. I don't have the game ready anymore right now. I know, man. I know. They got me shut down, too. I got a condo down to Dallas where it's West. I own it. You know, I'm sitting here paying the mortgage on it. That's all we do is say, I'm paying that, and paying the monthly account for you on it, everybody. Yeah. Yeah, if they're going to shut us down, they might as well start paying our dues for us. They should. They should on that. Yeah. What else is happening down there? Man, they got the beaches shut down. I've been working out of my house for three weeks. I had a guy that wanted to see some condos last week. I had to tell him, no. I mean, I got a five-month-old daughter. You know, I ain't fixing to get out of the house. I'm not doing nothing. I don't want people getting further. I ain't getting out of my house. I'm sitting here there. You know what, though, man? I don't go anywhere. You know what, though? That's an absolute lie. There's people all ages. There was an infant, an orange beast, that caught it out of daycare down here. Yeah, infant. I don't know exactly how old, but it was a little baby. There's people that are in their 30s, people that died in the 30s, and all kinds of stuff. So I don't know. I know what you're doing. Yeah. It's scary for everybody, you know? Yeah. Well, I'm still... I'm looking at the deals just down there. Nothing yet, man. It's, right now, everybody's just kind of standing still, hoping this thing blows over pretty quick. I mean, if they don't open the beaches back quick, then we will see some deals, because the people can't rent. They're gonna need to sell. So... One of the governors, she's gonna keep it cut as long as Trump tells her to keep it cut. And that's gonna be so, so bad to ennemy. That's exactly what... I'd say we probably open up June and July. We better hope we can fill up every day. Well, you know, if they get it open by the end of May, you know, that's the beginning of summer. And then at that point, I think we're gonna have a heck of a summer, because I'm already hearing from rental companies that people are booking for the summer that don't want to fly or can't fly or don't want to go on cruises. You know, people are gonna be driving here to the beach. Well, I hope so. I hope you hear and write that on that. I'll keep my fingers crossed on that then, because I was on the internet the other day, and I was having about five cancellations all the way up to August. Yeah. They were canceling out on it and everything. So I hope some of them will come back and all. They will. When all this clears up, people are gonna come back to the beach. There's no doubt about it. Well, I know they're gonna venture to come back, but I don't know if it's gonna be this year, but next year we have a hell of a year of the year. Yeah. I think we'll have a good year this year. You know, I mean, people can come down to condos, and they're basically self-quarantine in there. You know? Well, yeah. Yeah, I know that. So, you know. Yeah, I'm not there. Well, man, you got an agent down here that you work with when you buy and sell stuff. Yeah. Who is it? I'm just, I'll tell you what, if you get a good deal on one at Phoenix West 2, call and let me know. Phoenix West 2, all right. Yeah, because that's where my brother's at. I wanna get one there. We both got one at Phoenix 5, you know. You go by Greg? Yeah. Okay. So, but I'd like to get one at Phoenix West 2 now. Got you. We always like to have one in the same units together and everything. Okay. I already got one. So, now for the, I would say the 11th floor. Try to keep the 12th floor down. Okay, 12th floor down. Got it. Yeah, I don't wanna get any high. Okay. I'm going, I might get a little tipsy gold. I'll tell you what, man. I sold some of them on the 20th something floors and I'll tell you, man, I don't even want to go out on the balcony. Oh, man. And I don't wanna have too much strength in there. So, 12th floor and down. That's my goal. Got it, got it. Let's see what you can get for me on that floor. You wanna be, you wanna be on the Gulf front side? They got two sides there. Oh yeah, I want to go front side. All right. Definitely on that side. What's your email? When I was seven, his kids was born. He borrowed, he named them with the M-A-R-E and all. But yeah, they thought that he changed it to M-A-R-I and all. All my uncles and they asked when they had kids, they changed it to M-A-R-I and all. Right. When we were baptizing everything. So, on my birth certificate. So, it's M-A-R-I and all. Oh, it's M-A-R-I, it is M-A-R-I and all? So, I mean, no, M-A-R-E and all. E, okay, I got you, you know, yeah. All right. But if you run across a good deal, you know, keep it on kinda this, this deal here and they said they wanna sell it and they know we're on it. I got you, man. What's the end of that email address? I got the first part. Where's that at? Got it, got it, got it. Okay, all right. Well, man, listen, I, you know, you've heard of me, right? Ricky Crude? Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. All right, well, I'm gonna, I'm going to, man, I'm gonna be looking out for a good deal. Hopefully it, you know, maybe a price is kinda dipped down or somebody gets in trouble. I'll call you. Okay, all right. Give me a buzz. You have a good day. Okay, you too, Rick. Thanks, man. Bye-bye. All right, give me a second. I gotta put him in my phone. I gotta put him straight in my phone. This dude's gonna buy a condo. Got his email. I know what he wants. I'm gonna go ahead and send him some stuff. There's some stuff for selling that building on the 12th 400. So, so, okay guys. So I talked to three people to talk forever. Both, I believe the first one definitely is gonna do some business with me. And the second one, I think they're not really looking to do anything anytime soon, but I think I have a future client there. If something happens to that guy, I'm gonna follow up with that guy. I'm gonna go after that guy. He sounds like he really wants something in that building. So I got all these phone numbers came off Geo Leads Plus. They're still running the deal until tomorrow, $70 for 5,000 contacts. If you already have Geo Leads, it's only $20 more too to add. In my phone, I actually put his name and what property he wants and what he owns. Put all that in my phone. So all that's there. I put a, not a link, but I put the phone number. You have to call Radex to get that deal. You have to call him to get the deal and just tell him you want the Ricky Crook Geo Leads Plus deal. That's gonna be the rest of the day today and just all day tomorrow. Then they're gonna cut it off. Let's see. Let's see what we got going on from here. Man, what a call session. What a call session. That went incredible. Picked up a buyer. This is my first cold call session of the year. Everything I've been calling up to this point's been past client. So you guys got to witness it with me. Picked up, I mean, I picked up some stuff. I mean, just one hour of calling with Geo Leads. I don't know, man. I think that was pretty productive. I could really, I don't know. I could get used to doing this and all the guys would say, oh, cold calling doesn't work and stuff like that. I mean, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? That's the only thing that really will exponentially grow your business. I'm telling you, because what are you gonna do? Why don't Leads come in and then call them? Why are we gonna, why don't Leads come in and spend a bunch of money to get them? Let's just spend minimal money. This is 1.4 cents a lead. One and a half cents for a property owner that owns the type of property you wanna sell. What is better? Nothing. I'm gonna keep preaching this till my mouth falls off and you get it at some point. But anyway, I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in. I just picked a random complex. One, I haven't called in a long time. I'm looking for two numbers per contact. Yeah, yeah, the guy that says cold calling doesn't work. It's ridiculous, man. It's the only thing that really, really, really works. Somebody says I should have asked that guy if he needs to sell that condo before he buys another one. Obviously, he does it. I mean, he was talking about finding one. So I don't think that guy needs to sell before he buys. Okay. Hey, if you need to say something, DM me on Instagram. Definitely join the free coaching program if you haven't, zero to diamond.com. Subscribe to this YouTube channel. It's the best real estate YouTube channel on the planet. And I'm just here to help you guys. So just let me know what I can do. I'm here to put work in for you to get better and better every day. I want you guys to get 1% better every day. Let's go. Talk to you guys soon.