yonks.box｜🤖🏛️🪙｜Jason Younker ♾️ will update this soon!! Working on some social media posts which will include a link to this blog post.
Feb 29th is a once every four years day. How will you spend it?
REAL ESTATE:
Long Term Rentals: $3,600
Short Term (Airbnb)/Coop Hybrid Rentals: $4,039
CARS:
Rent to Own: $950
Rideshare (Uber, Lyft): $4,950
COACHING, CONSULTING, AND PROJECTS:
CCP: $0
AFFILIATE MARKETING INCOME:
Affiliate Marketing: $0
MONTHLY TOTAL: $13,539
REAL ESTATE:
Long Term Rentals: $3,600
Short Term (Airbnb)/Coop Hybrid Rentals: $4,039
CARS:
Rent to Own: $1,700
Rideshare (Uber, Lyft): $1,790
COACHING, CONSULTING, AND PROJECTS:
CCP: $0
AFFILIATE MARKETING INCOME:
Affiliate Marketing: $0
MONTHLY TOTAL: $11,129
REAL ESTATE:
Long Term Rentals: $3,600
Short Term (Airbnb)/Coop Hybrid Rentals: $3,744
CARS:
Rent to Own: $1,700
Rideshare (Uber, Lyft): $0
COACHING, CONSULTING, AND PROJECTS:
CCP: $0
AFFILIATE MARKETING INCOME:
Affiliate Marketing: $0
MONTHLY TOTAL: $8,370
I’m documenting the journey I’m taking to make $1 million in real estate. Stay tuned for updates as I add to this page regularly!
Think I missed something? Have a question or comment? Reach out to us!
January, 2023
- Made the decision we wanted to get into real estate full time
- Yonks and MrsYonks co-wrote the white paper for BMT.guide
- Signed up for the real estate license exam (116 hours, virtually)
- Got interested in wholesaling houses also
- Launched 3 investment clubs in Colorado, Ohio, and Tennessee
- Joined the Central Ohio Real Estate Entrepreneurs (COREE) and started to listening to their weekly “Haves and Wants” call.
- Started publishing our weekly income report
February, 2023
- Finished the white paper for BMT.guide
- Started watching calls on real estate wholesaling from https://freewholesaling.com. Learned a ton about:
- Driving for Dollars (driving around neighborhoods, looking for ugly houses)
- Reverse driving for dollars (pulling a list of people who might be motivated sellers and going to them)
- How to close or double-close
- How to write an assignment contract
- How to skip trace
- How to find cash buyers
- Took action:
- Filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request for water shutoffs. Found out that’s considered private info in Colorado. Not available for a pull. Tried again in Las Vegas.
- Filed a FOIA request for the code violation list in my community.
- Took action:
- Reached out The Short Term Shop, the country’s top STR rental real estate firm, to join the team
- Met their founder, WSJ Top 100 realtor, Avery Carl for a 1:1
- Reached out to Jaime Resendez, an eXp real estate coach and digital marketing expert
March, 2023
- Reached out to Suzy Truax, one of the top producers, top recruiters, and top influencers at eXp. Did 2 interviews with her, realized she is a top crypto and real estate expert, and signed up for her to be my sponsor.
- Took my South Dakota real estate state and national broker exam in Lexington, KY. Didn’t realize I was supposed to take the simulation too. Had to drive to Cheyenne, WY.
- Got fingerprinted. They sent the wrong cards. Had to get printed again.
- Started studying for the CO real estate exam.
April, 2023
- Bought some crypto domains and started thinking about branding for when my license gets issued.
- Sent out hundreds of letters, post cards, and made calls and texted for wholesaling houses.
- Got several cartoonish responses – people wanting 5-10x full market value for their houses.
- Added a driver / business partner in Washington State to look for houses that might be for sale.
- Hired a marketing firm to help me attract people who might want to sell.
MONTHLY INCOME:
REAL ESTATE:
Long Term Rentals: $3,600
Short Term (Airbnb)/Coop Hybrid Rentals: $3,310
CARS:
Rent to Own: $1,700
Rideshare (Uber, Lyft): $0
COACHING, CONSULTING, AND PROJECTS:
CCP: $0
AFFILIATE MARKETING INCOME:
Affiliate Marketing: $0
MONTHLY TOTAL: $8,610
I almost always refrain from using the word hate in any sorts of conversations because it typically, IMO, incites negative energy. I go out of my way to maintain a PMA (Positive Mental Attitude). Those of you that know me IRL will acknowledge the truth in this (after all, I am always unbelievable … because I choose to be!!). However, with some recent experiences, I am choosing to use “hate” within the title of this post. Why?
So that we can all work together for the betterment of society.
I was a “coop fanboy” before I became a “DAO / web3 fanboy”.
This article will be an ongoing WIP (Work In Progress) and will likely evolve over time. I will be intentional about creating “revision history” and saving that in a meaningful manner if/when that I make substantial changes to this blog post.
Google Search: fediverse vs web3
As of Feb-2023 Google is still the king of internet search and organizing information. Let’s do a quick search for fediverse vs web3 and see what results are returned. While there are only ~11,000 results, the top ranked search results really amplify the “hate” undertone &/or negative sentiment that the fediverse community has towards the web3 community.
I will let you be the judge on whether the sentiments from this search results page has a negative tone from the fediverse community towards the web3 community.
I choose to dig a little deeper on the featured story on this Google SERP from @strange_matters. Here is a tweet that they sent on 11Nov2022:
The above embedded tweet is a twitter thread that continues to expand upon their negative bias towards web3. The post on StrangeMatters.coop was written by Michał “rysiek” Woźniak (@rysiek@mstdn.social).
ChatGPT3 (chat.openai.com) FEDIVERSE vs WEB3
#ChatGPT is the all the rage in 2023 and getting an unprecedented amount of love from social media, mass media, everywhere actually. Won’t expand further upon that right now.
Let’s take a quick look what ChatGPT says:
Additional Noteworthy Reading
- Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable (TechPolicy.Press | 09Dec2022)
Join the conversation
Why am I creating this post? I believe that we can collectively work together … fediverse + web3 to build better decentralized solutions for a better internet for tomorrow.
Twitter post
This post will be an ongoing WIP (Work In Progress) and will undoubtedly change substantially, especially early in 2023. You can find the permalink URL at https://Yonks.TEAM/exploring-decentralized-social-media
Starting the conversation on Twitter [12Feb2023 1:33 AM EST]
While we all know that Twitter is far from decentralized, “Crypto Twitter” is currently why I spend most of the time as of the writing of this tweet:
I spend the majority of my social media time on “crypto twitter” following interesting people BUIDLing in the Web3 & DAO space. Let’s take a look at the timeline that resulted in Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) 14%+ decline in the market on 09Feb2023.
#TL;DR – US Capital Markets are a “rigged game” that is enabled & amplified by the US SEC.
I’m not going to spend any efforts within this post to substantiate my beliefs about this statement. We will use the “rigged game” tag here on this blog to share our thoughts and ideas about this in the coming months & years.
To be clear, staking enables more people to participate in building the next generation of the internet.
@GOPMajorityWhip (Tom Emmer)
#TL;DR – Timeline Summary
- Tweet from @brian_armstrong [08Feb2023 6:10 PM EST]
- US stock markets trade on rumors [08Feb2023 6:19 PM EST]
- US stock markets open, COIN down ~10% in 1st 15min of trading [09Feb2023 9:30 AM EST]
- Tweet from @danheld about Kraken SEC settlement [09Feb2023 3:00 PM EST]
- US SEC Press Release with Kraken settlement & $30M fine [09Feb2023 3:16 PM EST]
Tweet from @brian_armstrong [08Feb2023 6:10 PM EST]
Whatever rumors that Brian was hearing did materialize to some degree. Perhaps on a much quicker timeline that what may have been expected.
The above embedded tweet is a Twitter thread with a total of 6 tweets from Brian. For those of you that may not go to Twitter to see all 6 tweets, here is another very relevant post that Brian shared stating “3/ Staking is not a security. Here’s a good primer.“
The US stock markets trade on rumors, not on news or facts [08Feb2023 6:19 PM EST]
Within literally minutes after Brian’s tweet Coindesk, a top crypto media outlet, had already created an article and shared that via a tweet [2, Coindesk.com]
Within a few hours Bloomberg (@business), a media powerhouse in the business and financial vertical, had also publish and tweeted their article [3, Bloomberg.com].
A Google search for coinbase brian armstrong rumors staking shows ~126,000 results with the two articles I referenced previously as the oldest.
US stock markets open, COIN down ~10% in 1st 15min of trading [09Feb2023 9:30 AM EST]
The COIN selloff in the first 15min of trading on Thu morning was strong as evidenced within this TradingView … all based upon rumors that Brian Armstrong triggered with his tweet the night before.
Tweet from @danheld (crypto influencer / former Kraken employee) [09Feb2023 3:00 PM EST]
US SEC Press Release: Kraken to Discontinue Staking-As-A-Service and Pay $30 Million fine [09Feb2023 3:16 PM EST]
Kraken agreed to settle with the SEC and pay a $30 million fine literally the next day [4, SEC.gov].
The sad thing about this SEC regulatory action is that @GaryGensler published a tweet with an educational video trying to be funny with steak (the food) vs. stake (crypto yield opportunity). The video does however provide some important considerations people should think about before engaging in any crypto yield opportunities. Another thing that I enjoyed about this 3m37s video from Gary Gensler is that he used the “not your keys, not your crypto.” slogan which is very popular within the crypto community / web3 natives.
My favorite quote tweet to Gensler’s video was from @GOPMajorityWhip (Tom Emmer) which I quoted earlier in the #TL;DR.
We enjoy the work that our frens @BanklessHQ do through their relentless efforts to educate the public with great content. Here was the most liked comment on Gary’s tweet: