Achieve Financial Independence: Embrace the Lifestyle REI Revolution

Brett McCollum (00:00.782)
All right, guys, welcome back to the show. I am your hearth, Brett McCollum, and I’m here today with Adrian Smude. And today we’re going to be talking about lifestyle REI. As if you can’t see it on a shirt, right guys? Before we do, at Investor Fuel, we help real estate investors, service providers, and real estate entrepreneurs to 2 to 5X their businesses to allow them to build the businesses they’ve always wanted and allow them to live the lives they’ve always dreamed of. Without further ado, Adrian, how are you, man?

Adrian Smude (00:26.859)
Great, how are you today, Brett?

Brett McCollum (00:28.718)
Bro, doing good, man. Great catching up with you before the show and everything. Realized we have a lot of the same friends for sure. And unfortunately, or unfortunately, I don’t know how you want to look at it. It’s the first time we’ve got to meet. So thanks for being here, man. Exactly. Dude, I know we could just talk for just just talk for talking sake and we’ll do a good job at it. But let’s try to

Adrian Smude (00:42.711)
Yeah, but at least we’re finally meeting.

Brett McCollum (00:52.994)
Give people a good show. Let’s back up a little bit, catch people up to speed, rewind. Who’s Adrian? Like catch us up to speed, man.

Adrian Smude (00:59.383)
All well, I got started in real estate investing a little over 20 years ago and because I was a terrible, terrible tenant. Now, this is back in my party days, college years. I was up in Gainesville actually partying. I didn’t live there, but my friends went to school. So we had huge parties. We were on even Police Beat, if you remember that. So it’s like a local cop show. So I brought those type of parties.

back to Brandon, where I was renting with some friends. So we had spaghetti wrestling parties, mud wrestling parties, pudding wrestling parties, and the landlord didn’t like any of those. The neighbors didn’t like that stuff. You know, now I understand why. We even have an eviction notice for my friend parking his motorcycle in the living room. However, we did not get in trouble for the pool party that we had inside the living room. Somehow we didn’t get caught in that. But

Brett McCollum (01:41.934)
Yeah, I bet not.

Adrian Smude (01:57.398)
Long story short, after all these evictions, you get tired of it, I bought a house. I had a family member, he was a mortgage broker. I remember 20 years ago, you didn’t need anything, you just signed a piece of paper and they gave you a house, they gave you the mortgage. So I bought the house, I moved all my friends in that helped me get evicted. That actually worked out better than it sounds on paper, we’re still living today. But I learned, oh yeah, these parties aren’t good, now that I own the house.

Brett McCollum (02:19.637)
Okay.

Brett McCollum (02:26.21)
Hmm.

Adrian Smude (02:26.422)
What I did then, and I didn’t even fully realize what I was doing, I was just doing the massive imperfect action, is I was renting out the rooms and subdividing my mortgage. I lived for free at 20 years old, not with mom and dad, which is really cool. I went to go do it again. I bought another house a few years later. That time, the mortgage broker said, you’re going to lose a little bit money every month, but don’t worry, real estate goes straight up.

Brett McCollum (02:42.083)
Yeah.

Adrian Smude (02:54.282)
you’ll be fine, you’ll refinance. A few years later came, I went to refinance, we were coming down on the market. I had that adjustable rate mortgage, my mortgage payment was going up. So I eventually sold that property almost to the day of the bottom. So I bought it at the top, sold it at the bottom as a short sale, compromised my integrity, my credit, of course. And then fast forward, I did not give up.

I ended up buying a few more houses. I got frustrated with houses because that short sale was in the back of my head. I didn’t want to you know, compromise my entire it again. And I didn’t even understand the right way to run all the numbers. I was just kind of running them. But that’s how I got the mobile homes is I started at the real estate investor clubs. I heard the the old wise guy and girl, the ones with silver hair, if they have hair at all. And they talked about mobile homes.

So then I started buying mobile homes. I found the cashflow of them. I started selling off my site built homes. And today I buy single unit mobile homes with the land. Meaning like the single family world, the home and land, but it happens to be a mobile home versus a wood frame or a concrete structure.

Brett McCollum (03:50.008)
Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (04:07.608)
Love it. Man, we’re gonna go back to Gainesville, Florida, because that is where I live presently. That’s kind of funny, man, like the, and you’re now out in Colorado, right?

Adrian Smude (04:22.643)
Yep, I am in Colorado right now.

Brett McCollum (04:25.302)
Yeah, that’s why it’s funny. like you just don’t, it’s a small world, right? Like going back and you know, the Gainesville Florida days, you’re probably what, 18, 19 years old at the time?

Adrian Smude (04:34.677)
Oh yeah, yep, 18, 19, 20-ish. One of my friends, he graduated college and stayed. He took like one more class so he could still take intramurals. don’t know, there was a movie about that, the guy that just kind of stayed and lived at college. We thought that was gonna be him for a bit.

Brett McCollum (04:39.768)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (04:51.022)
Yep. That’s listen, there’s so many like living in a college town, you see it all the time, right? It’s actually one. Here’s the truth story. And I don’t think he’ll mind me saying this. If he listens to this, he’ll know I’m talking about him. But maybe he won’t listen. I don’t know. Good friend of mine, great friend of mine, one of my best friends, actually. I’m 38. He might be 363736.

And up until probably two years ago, because him and his wife are married now approximately two years, up until about two years ago when they got married, we all thought like, this dude is never going to adult, you know, it’s not gonna happen. You know, but it’s the same thing you come up, he came up, you know, to school, got here, started having fun during the same and then, you know, lived the single life forever and there was no response.

Adrian Smude (05:30.514)
You

Brett McCollum (05:43.852)
no kids, no responsibilities, just, know, easy, you know, and he’s, you know, just doing this thing. it’s college towns, man, they can, you know, if you come for a, but they can, there’s a certain personality that once they grab a hold of that, they don’t want to let it go. Yeah.

Adrian Smude (06:00.148)
Yeah, I mean it was a lot of fun for me too, because I just came into town, partied when I was part of the host of the house, and then I left. I didn’t even stay for cleanup. I left early the next morning, so I didn’t have to clean up the whole mess of the big house parties. So it was a lot of fun for me.

Brett McCollum (06:05.848)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (06:18.286)
Yeah, so it’s like, so me now fast forward, I’m married, I’ve got four kids, the whole nine. And that’s almost like a that same thing. It follows you because my in laws, they love taking care of the grandkids because they can just give them back. Right? They don’t have to. It’s that same like I can come and leave and I have to worry about the app and they can go like, Hey, give them right back. It’s the it’s the yeah, it’s anyway.

Adrian Smude (06:36.734)
Yes.

Brett McCollum (06:47.02)
But man, yeah, so again, I just wanted to drop on that because like, you know, my hometown, cool for you. But yeah, so you bought a house. you’re 20 years old, you buy a house. Like you said, if you could fog him here, you could get a house back then, right? You know, and that’s not wrong. This is approximately when what year was that?

Adrian Smude (07:07.38)
So that would have been 22-ish years ago, we’re in 25, so 2003-ish, I think. Actually, 22 because it was in December. So it would have late December 22. Oh, sorry, not 22, 02. Sorry. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (07:20.951)
Okay.

Brett McCollum (07:26.402)
Yeah. then, yeah, I, sorry. Yeah, I followed, I was tracking with you. Yeah. That yes. Okay.

Adrian Smude (07:32.862)
Well, you can not be the best at math and still understand real estate and be successful. Look at that.

Brett McCollum (07:37.486)
Oh, I’m the world’s worst. am right there with you. All right, so 203, you buy this house. And you it wasn’t even a term back then, you know, your house hack and you. Yep, it’s not even a term back then. Did you have any idea in your head like like this is actually really cool? Or was it all just kind of I was just living life.

Adrian Smude (07:51.376)
Exactly.

Adrian Smude (08:03.38)
I was living life, I realized how cool it was. So I did grow up in a family of entrepreneurs. My parents, I mean, we literally lived in the middle of the business. Two and a half acres as a garden center and wrought iron and statuary, which my brother has since taken over. So I understood the value of small business and the freedom it can give you. I’ve also understood that it’s all consuming and then you can not have a life anymore. But I have a cousins and uncles so.

Brett McCollum (08:09.239)
Okay.

Brett McCollum (08:29.582)
Hmm.

Adrian Smude (08:31.269)
It wasn’t like the mindset of switching me over from a W-2 to an entrepreneur. That was already there. I didn’t want to be a W-2 employee. So the house, I had already seen a family member that had a few houses in UCF area for college rentals over there. So I saw it, but I don’t think I was planning, yeah, this is going to be what I do in life. It took about a decade for that because I had a few rentals of the room by the room, the house hacking.

which was a lot of work, you now I see it, like, man, there’s some smart little hacks that people put to make that so much easier than I did. But it was that launching pad. I like I I lived for free. And even during the recession, so I was in event marketing when we had that recession, I went nine months, eight, nine months without working at all. And I still had a roof over my head. I moved into the laundry room of that house, ridding out the other rooms.

Brett McCollum (09:20.344)
Wow. Yeah.

Adrian Smude (09:28.013)
And so I lived in a seven foot by seven foot room. Actually, one of my friends would stay there multiple nights a week because we didn’t work. So I was living off like five dollars a food a day. But I did not lose that house because the house was being paid for by my tenants. And that was like the just the most ground piece of real estate. As long as your tenants can pay for your house safely, you don’t lose it because I lost that other house or I gave it up. You know, it was my choice to give it up. But I gave it up because.

Brett McCollum (09:50.222)
Right.

Yeah.

Adrian Smude (09:56.334)
I was having to pay part of the mortgage every single month and at some point when I didn’t have money I could no longer do that. When the tenants were paying for it could continue doing it.

Brett McCollum (10:03.384)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (10:07.182)
Yeah, that’s, I mean, that’s powerful there. And you had also said, and I thought this is kind of an interesting phrasing and I want to, think it’d be, it’d be, I’d be remiss not to come back to you. So the second property you bought, the market you bought at the top, sold at the bottom. I mean, I totally get that. mean, like, if you guys have been in real estate and trying to sell at the end of 23 into 2024 in Florida, that is, there’s a lot of that.

Adrian Smude (10:33.49)
No.

Brett McCollum (10:35.406)
Maybe not in other parts of the country, but here there’s a lot of that’s been happening Look a new construction by the way here in Florida. It’s major dips going on right? but You said compromised integrity a couple of times and I I Think it’s a person that actually has a lot of integrity that would admit to somebody that they compromised integrity So I’m curious to I want to come back to that a little bit

and talk about what that means.

Adrian Smude (11:06.854)
Yeah, so I didn’t realize that at the time of why I was hanging on so tight and did not want to sell because I held on to that house a few years at a loss. Even after I, you know, everything was going terrible. That’s why I ended up selling at the bottom. I did not want to. I mean, I said I was going to make these payments and I didn’t. You know, so I’ll back up something I don’t talk about real often is my parents filed bankruptcy when I was a kid.

Brett McCollum (11:22.776)
Hmm.

Adrian Smude (11:35.997)
And that was really hard. My mom still doesn’t say that word because it’s an integrity thing. She calls it the B. It’s embarrassing, but the deeper thing I realized and embarrassing, it’s an integrity thing. We said we were going to do something. So I saw that once I’ve dug in what really happened, that was a repeating cycle. And now I vowed to never repeat that cycle ever again. Of course for other people, but really the bigger thing is it’s selfish thing. I don’t want to ever go through that again inside.

of compromising my integrity. If I say I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it.

Brett McCollum (12:09.708)
Yeah. Yeah, that’s and I had a feeling it’s kind of where you were going to go with that. know, it is such a difficult thing. Like integrity is is not when it’s easy. Right. And I mean, we’ve all had things happen, you know, where, you know, but I have any choices. There’s always a choice. You know, there is some like I do take a position of sometimes, sometimes

Adrian Smude (12:30.577)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (12:39.502)
then it’s probably 1 % of the time, okay, where bankruptcy exists in the right circumstances. Okay, it does, but it shouldn’t be our default exit. It should be done everything you can do, and you’ve done everything you can, and you’ve done everything you can, and you’ve done everything you can, and literally, you’ve done everything you can, right? So.

Adrian Smude (12:54.318)
Exactly. Yes.

Brett McCollum (13:04.974)
But most people are not willing to stay the course. just like, you know what? I’m not going to quit. It’s too hard. It’s too hard. And I get it. It hurts. I bet that taught you some, that whole alligator skin, like you were Floridaans, you get the alligator skin of, I can take a lot of hits now having gone through stuff that’s something that difficult. I just…

Adrian Smude (13:30.256)
For sure. Yeah, I mean, I don’t wish and hope for more bad things, but I have learned every rough path to my life, the alligator skin. really like that analogy. Like I’m a little tougher. I understand how to get through it. And then now I use those past tough times to help me with future tough times and current tough times, you know, to keep getting through it. I love a quote. think I don’t remember art’s last name.

Brett McCollum (13:37.251)
Right.

Adrian Smude (14:00.546)
It’s bad to, it is bad to bet on the end of the world because it only happens once. And I think that’s the same with, like the end of Adrian will only happen once. So I should bet on the good. I’m going to make it through it. You know, there’s other people say the quote, you know, you’re strong enough to get through it because you always have. You know, if you really think about it, you always have, even if you’re still in something really crappy.

Brett McCollum (14:23.692)
Right, yeah.

Adrian Smude (14:29.251)
You still have gotten through some hard parts of it and you’re still awake today, you’re alive.

Brett McCollum (14:33.902)
Yep. Yeah, that’s not wrong. Actually, a good friend of mine said that the other day we were talking. He said that exact same thing. An outlook I take on that I’ve heard said before is and I’m not trying to make her like Debbie Downer by any stretch, guys, like this is there’s a lot of positive things. We’re getting ready to move transition into the whole lifestyle side of things, which is going to be a lot more fun, I promise. But I wanted to before we get there. Life is not always a season of like super high highs, you know.

or even low lows, right? But it’s a you’re either going into something, you’re going through something or you’re coming out of something. And that’s the cycle at all times in and out. And in the out, we all want to be going out because when we’re going out, it’s like, we did it. It feels good. You know, like everybody wants that. You know, the toughest time is when you’re going through it, you know, but it’s when you what you said before, it’s like you’ve always made it through before.

Adrian Smude (15:06.318)
Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (15:33.87)
There’s nothing is forever, you know? And it’s difficult. I mean, I know we’ve talked some stuff pre-show that we’re like, some connection points that we have and it’s like, dude, some of this stuff is hard. Life is not easy, you know, but I, yeah, I do want to work.

Adrian Smude (15:50.244)
Yeah, I want to add one more thing to that before you pivot the conversation is I’ve learned I’m good at patterns. Like Tony Robbins finds all these patterns and it is a skill set I have. And I have found that to be the pattern. All actually successful investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, not the ones that have been two or three years, the long term, they’ve been through hard stuff and they can get through it because as you already said, it’s

you are going to have hard days. you’re in business long enough, you’re have some really sucky days, business-wise, and then it falls over into our relationships too. So it’s really difficult to keep them separate because we’re human beings and we come home and we’re tired and we’re worn out. So learning to get through those, and I think that is the difference of the successful ones that make it, because they don’t quit and they learn how to get through it, and the non-successful ones quit when it gets super hard, and it’s going to get super hard.

Brett McCollum (16:46.562)
Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that’s in business. You’ve heard the phrase, don’t mix your business and your personal life. Listen, that is a false statement. From my point of view, that is a false statement because we are not. You’ve watched the show Severance. Have you heard of that one on Apple TV? The basic premise is they have a chip in their head and they go to work and they have the Severance chip that they’re just workers and they don’t have. And so they can split their personal and their business.

Adrian Smude (17:04.192)
I’ve heard of it, I haven’t watched it.

Adrian Smude (17:10.894)
Mmm.

Brett McCollum (17:14.766)
That is not real life.

Adrian Smude (17:17.07)
That’d be nice, right? So I better just turn it off? Yeah.

Brett McCollum (17:20.012)
I mean, some days that would be nice. Yeah, some days that would be great. But like, you got like, it’s not real life. You know, and and so if you guys are going through stuff, you know, just, you know, let it be an encouragement. Like, you know, people like me, people like Adrian, that were we have gone or going through stuff. It’s a, hey, you can make it you’re tougher than you think you always have made it through, it’s be okay. But I do want to pivot because I don’t want to stay in the the in the Debbie Downs of the day. Let’s let’s let’s

Adrian Smude (17:41.474)
you

Brett McCollum (17:49.282)
Let’s perk this thing back up, Adrian. So I’ve known you from your branding with mobile homes and stuff and buying stuff, but now with lifestyle REI, catch me up to speed on that.

Adrian Smude (18:02.219)
So after buying mobile homes, becoming financially free, I prefer the term beat money. But you basically I live off my real estate. I don’t have to go and do another deal. I have enough for my means to live off my mobile home business. And because I wear bright colors and I talk about what I do, which is not the most popular in the mobile home space, people started asking me, you know, hey, would you share what you do?

Brett McCollum (18:26.254)
Yeah.

Adrian Smude (18:30.318)
And so I’ve started speaking locally a little bit. And then I learned once I got over like the extreme fear of speaking, which by the way, at my local RIA, they had me reading the legal disclaimer and they said I physically shook up there reading it. I don’t remember because I think I blacked out. It was so hard. So I got through all that and I learned I like teaching. I love speaking. So I started traveling around the country some, which now I’m pivoting away from that.

because of the lifestyle. I’m wanting a more grounded, rooted lifestyle. I have a girlfriend and I wanna be more in her life. I don’t wanna be traveling 50 weeks a year because how do you have a relationship that’s successful if you’re never there? Unless she just doesn’t like you, then she wants you to travel, but that’s not the case. I’ve been pivoting that direction, but I love helping. That’s why I love getting on here. You get to do all the hard work of making sure this podcast.

Brett McCollum (19:18.574)
Okay.

Adrian Smude (19:27.841)
gets out there and I show up and talk and have fun and get the help.

Brett McCollum (19:31.032)
That’s it. Yeah. See, I love the fact that you bring back lifestyle and you bring back, you know, being grounded and you being back because, you know, and I know I said I just go away from it, but like it’s going through those things, by the way, that allows you to have that outlook today that goes, you know, this lifestyle is what I really am pursuing and are doing actively. Right.

Adrian Smude (19:54.082)
Yeah, and I’m not a debt-free guy, but I am a lower debt guy because I can manage me and my team 35 rentals-ish, we’ll say, and live a good lifestyle. Better for me, for my goals, than 100 rentals leveraged where I’m making a little bit more, but it’s a lot more work. And yeah, maybe I have a few nicer things, but I like to measure everything in net dollars. I don’t like the gross dollar conversation.

Brett McCollum (20:20.974)
Mm-hmm.

Adrian Smude (20:23.423)
unless you’re in a very short spurt where you’re ramping up the debt to then pay it off. I can see some gross dollar conversation there, but I like the net dollars. What can I actually eat every month? I keep the business relatively lean because I just want a business that supports my life. I can travel around, I can have fun. I can be on here on a Monday and no one said, hey, you have to be here, you have to be at work, or you have to do, this is not work to me, this is fun.

Brett McCollum (20:51.15)
Exactly. Yeah. And I love that you said that too, because I mean, at the end of the day, I think we’re all shopping for peace, right? You know, and trying to find out like, how do we get to that point of, you know, because, you know, it’s if you guys are some, know, Adrian has, you know, real property, some of you guys are flipping houses, some of your wholesaling, some of you are, you know, name it, right, you’re doing it. And we’ve been taught, like, if you’ve been in the game for any period of time at all, or if you’ve been on YouTube University, or you’re talking to other, you know, scale.

You have to scale Adrian or else like you don’t have a good business if you don’t scale, right? That’s, I think that’s kind of tricky, know, depends on the business I would say, right? But you don’t have to scale to be happy in that piece, you don’t.

Adrian Smude (21:36.04)
Exactly. I’ll give you a powerful thing that helped me get through that. Once you have the passive income, and rentals are not 100 % passive, but they’re close. So once you have that passive income that meets your basic needs, know, pays for the roof over your head, all your bills, you you don’t have to go out and make more money, but you can’t go on vacations, you know, then every dollar you get after that is spendable money.

Brett McCollum (21:54.574)
But…

Adrian Smude (22:05.42)
So if you can just beat that piece, then you just get one more rental and you have $300, $500 of play money every month. That is a way easier mind shift for me to get there. And then it becomes like, that’s a lot of money I could spend every month. That’s a whole nother vacation or whatever it is, you start stacking those and now it becomes a lot of fun.

Brett McCollum (22:05.667)
Hmm.

Brett McCollum (22:28.342)
Yeah. So a lot of the things that you’re teaching in the lifestyle or AI side of things, it more like centered around that? is it like, what is, I guess, what is your main pitch? Is it more on the side of buying more rental property to afford the lifestyle that you hope to achieve? that?

Adrian Smude (22:43.797)
It.

Adrian Smude (22:51.123)
Most of my courses, so I’ve recorded most of my stuff up teaching and put it on as courses. It’s mostly mobile homes because that’s what I became known for. There was a void in the market of good mobile home education. Now I’ll say hidden inside of there, there is a lot of this mindset we’re talking about. So you’re basically buying a mobile home course and you’re getting some of this conversation weaved all inside. I do have some marketing.

But going forward as I figure out what I want, there is gonna be a lot more heavy of this. I wanna talk about more of the behind the scenes, that 4.30 in the morning, wake up that no one sees, unless you’re Jocko and you post your picture every morning of your alarm clock. Those very hard moments of this really sucks right now, but how do I get through it? The stuff we were talking about in the beginning, I wanna pivot a little bit more of that, because that gives that freedom. I’m very big into yoga and meditation.

So that helps calm and center me so that I can go and finish the day. And I’m very big in nature. Hal Elra, the Miracle Morning. I mean, I’ve been out close to 10 years practicing the Miracle Morning. I’ve probably missed a few dozen days out of the 10 years. So I want to pass that on. That’s the stuff. Mobile homes are my widget. Yes, I think everyone should own some mobile homes. And I think they’re a great investment. They make me a ton of money, but not everyone wants them.

Brett McCollum (23:58.949)
huh.

Brett McCollum (24:05.774)
Wow. Good for you. Yeah.

Adrian Smude (24:18.281)
So what’s the behind the scenes? You just plug in your widget. If you’re a really good wholesaler, wholesale. If you’re a good fix and flipper, we need all of these. But the behind the scenes really stays no matter what product we’re in.

Brett McCollum (24:28.075)
yeah.

Brett McCollum (24:32.098)
Yeah. No, and the reason I asked that is more from the, it’s the so Mike, you know, you guys, if you were you’re listening to the show, you heard Mike, you know, pre show and such. Mike has a famous line that he always gives out. It’s like real estate is always the thing that leads to the thing.

You know, and you’re able to now like take this expertise in mobile homes and land and then say, hey, I know that this is the thing that’s going to lead me to this lifestyle. And hey, guys, now that I figured that out, that’s doing this, I want to show you also the same thing because it’s. So let’s talk to this lady at our meetup, you know, and she’s a older lady and she said it just like this.

I mean, she’s probably like 75 years old and she goes, it’s a poor frog that doesn’t doesn’t croak its own pond. And I said, what does that mean? It all was like, I’ve never heard anybody say that is a poor frog that doesn’t croak about its own pond. When you have something that you are passionate that it works and you’re passionate about, you’re not telling other people about the thing that thing.

Adrian Smude (25:25.042)
You

Adrian Smude (25:39.466)
Mmm

Brett McCollum (25:41.518)
And I’m like, that quick for me, I was like, Oh, wow, because I was always a person that was like, Oh, I don’t want to like, you know, be like, beat my chest, like, look at what I can do, right? It but that’s not the same thing as saying, Hey, guys, this can change your life. Like it did mine. How about you? Let me just at least open your eyes. Take a look. You know, and, and then you show them how

Adrian Smude (26:01.258)
Exactly. And that was a huge touch on that. That was a struggle for me starting to talk about mobile homes more is that I had a bad thought process with people that bang in their chests and the big ego. And there was a way that we can talk about it without being that over-egoed person that doesn’t sit well in my mind. And I feel selfish if I don’t share and help other people.

And not everyone wants to sit, so… You know? Yeah.

Brett McCollum (26:32.014)
That’s a shift, man. You got it, yeah, and you did it. And I’m glad you did because you’re not here talking to me if you didn’t, right? And you don’t have cork materials and you don’t have things like that because the fact is, guys, whether it’s this, and I know, Adrian, I know you’re not gonna mind me saying this, whether it’s this or something else even, right? You said something way early in the conversation on the intro. You said massive and perfect action. Whether it’s this or something else, taking action,

Adrian Smude (26:39.996)
Exactly.

Adrian Smude (26:57.331)
Hehehe.

Brett McCollum (27:01.742)
at a high, like just every day, massive, even if it’s you messed up and you sit imperfect, you’re moving, you know, and whether it’s a guy, you got to do it because like at the end of the day, like, don’t get stuck in that middle part of our conversation, Adrian, where we’re like, the hard part of this is the sucky part. And it’s so easy to get stuck there. But no, there’s a lifestyle choice that you get to make. And Adrian can help you, you know.

Adrian Smude (27:28.189)
Yeah, I want to throw one piece in there that I forgot to say when I said massive imperfect action, which I got from one of my late friends Bill, he always talked about that. The piece I added on is then ask for help because by saying imperfect, we’re implying we’re going to fail at some point. If you’re taking imperfect action, you are going to fail. So now ask for help. then it goes with, like you said, when you’re in that hard point, that’s why a mastermind, the groups, the rea groups, a coach, all of those.

Brett McCollum (27:41.966)
Mmm.

Brett McCollum (27:46.082)
Yeah.

Adrian Smude (27:58.31)
are those people you go and ask for help for when things do get tough or you took too fast of action and now you’re overwhelmed. That’s why I stay in all those groups. You mentioned I’m out here in Colorado and I’m not investing out here, but I still go to the meetings and they’re like, why are you here? I’m like, second AA meetings for me for real estate. I just wanna talk about it, but it keeps me sharp as well because I’m managing my business from a distance and I get to hear stuff like, I never thought about that.

Brett McCollum (28:02.574)
That’s right.

Brett McCollum (28:10.872)
Yeah, that’s a

Brett McCollum (28:19.169)
Yes.

Adrian Smude (28:27.613)
how can I put that into my business? Or I’ll go to them with a question. And because we’re in different markets, you still think a little different. And it’s a very important thing to stay sharp for me.

Brett McCollum (28:39.116)
I love that. Man, we could do this a lot. And I know we could. We’re going to kind of wrap up a bit here. I would be remiss not to like if you could pay one or two little nuggets of like something to take away from this, you know, what would you say to the person listening?

Adrian Smude (28:56.834)
we just talked about the massive imperfect actions. That’s what I would say. So leading on that is there’s something from this episode and then every other episode that you can put into action right away. mean, pull over in the car or stop at the gym, whatever you’re doing and send a message to your team or put it on your to-do list or go ahead and just send that email out really vague. Hey, Brett, can we talk this week about mobile homes?

And then you can figure out the rest in between whenever you say, yeah, Thursday’s good. All right, now you have a few days to figure it out. But just that little bit, now it holds you to it. If you wait until you’re done, it’s three or four hours later, like, well, maybe Brett’s busy this week, whatever. So just take that really quick thing you can do that moves you forward. The people that work on the 1%, 1 % better every day. If I can give two items, I think you asked for two. If not, I’m giving it to you anyways. It is the mindset that I’ve already alluded to.

Brett McCollum (29:47.276)
Yep, that’s right.

Adrian Smude (29:55.954)
You know, everyone has a morning routine, but some people are intentional with their morning routine. I’m very intentional these days. I talked about Elrod’s Miracle Morning. Some days it’s a seven minute version and some days it’s an hour and a half of my Miracle Morning, my version of it. And I’ll tell you, the days I don’t do my Miracle Morning or I only do too many days in a row of my seven minute, I start seeing my happiness.

trails down a little bit, my productivity, my alertness, I’m needing more caffeine, I’m a little more edgy. I found that correlation for me. So now I know, all right, if I’m gonna be on vacation and I’m not gonna be doing my full routine that morning back, I’m gonna do an hour and a half. And that is my one task for the day, to reset me of, all right, cool, I love it. So have some type of intentional morning routine.

whatever it is for you, you know, I did cold plunging for a bit. It’s been so long now that I’m a little scared to do it again, so that means I need to do it. But it’s that consistently starting your morning instead of social media. And I found myself getting stuck back in it, so now my phone doesn’t go anywhere in reach. So I cannot get on social media first thing in the morning.

Brett McCollum (30:59.736)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (31:13.346)
Wow, good for you. Well, if people want to reach out, connect with you somehow, what’s the best way for that to happen?

Adrian Smude (31:20.071)
I’m on, well, I was gonna say most social media is I’m not on Twitter or X or any of those other TikTok. I’m on Facebook, very active. My profile is on LinkedIn and I check every once in a while. I’m on Instagram. So it’s adriensmude or you can go to lifestyle-rei.com. And actually if anyone’s interested in busting your myths on mobile homes, we didn’t talk about them. Just shoot me a message.

And remind me you’re on here, Brent’s podcast and Investor Fuel, and I’ll shoot you over some myths busted, because that’s the first thing is changing our mindsets, so that we don’t think we’re all trailer trash. And we can actually help people and make some money in between.

Brett McCollum (31:59.885)
Yes.

Brett McCollum (32:07.16)
to kill our guys, then this will all be in the show notes, right? So make sure you guys look up Adrian. He’s a leader worth following, guys. Somebody you guys should really connect with. And I can, for very certain plus, and tell you guys the mobile home space is looked over and you shouldn’t. But man, Adrian, pleasure having you on here, man. I really appreciate hanging out with me today.

Adrian Smude (32:32.23)
Appreciate you having me man, thank you.

Brett McCollum (32:35.062)
Alright guys until the next episode we’ll see you on the next one. Take care everybody.