- What is going on, you guys?
Welcome back to the channel.
So I'm here with a man who needs no introduction,
Ricky Gutierrez.
He has, easily, the largest stock market channel on YouTube,
the largest Facebook group, as well.
And he's invited me here to do a quick house tour.
We're doing a couple videos together,
so we're gonna show you guys his pad here.
And we are obviously starting out here on the trampoline.
- You gotta do the front flip test.
(laughing)
- I don't know. - It's called flip check.
- I don't think I can do the front flip,
it's been like 10 years.
- All right, I'll do it.
- I'll let you do one, though, let's see one.
- All right now we're ready to show the house.
All right, so this is the backyard.
I bought the house a little bit over,
I wanna say two months.
Put a trampoline next to the pool.
Not the safest thing but-- - Was there a purpose
behind that, so you can jump into the pool?
- Yeah, when I bought the house I already told the guys
that I wanted to buy a trampoline just so we can put it
next to the pool and do some flips into it.
So I know it's not the safest, but it's pretty cool.
Got a really nice pool, there's fountains and lights.
The pool lights up like green, blue, red.
All this to do crazy stuff in the middle of the night.
The jacuzzi lights up.
We're still getting it furnished but, obviously,
we come on over here and
shoot your shot, 2019.
But, yeah, this is pretty much the outside.
- Well, let's check out the inside.
- Let's do it.
Yeah, this is where Harley cooks,
he's one of my roommates.
This is where we're always mainly working,
kind of like the living room area.
We have an office, we have multiple offices,
yet we all always just work here.
It's just so relaxing.
Over here, this is my YouTube room.
So this is where all the magic happens.
We got the lights, we got the background,
we got the adjustable desk, we got the green screen
behind Michael right now.
We're still setting up the whiteboard over here.
Very simple, I think, setup with the lights,
two monitors, my laptop.
And the really cool thing that I try to focus on
on my channel is that I'm not here to like,
and this is a Maserati, right?
So I don't showcase the Maserati
and say like, "I just bought a Maserati,"
and flex it on the Instagram or social media,
and "Look how much money I have."
Not at all.
The way that I showcased this on YouTube
when I first bought it was,
I bought the cheapest Maserati in my area, $30,000.
2014 Maserati Ghibli Q4 S, very simple.
Yeah, this is a 2016 Black Edition lowest price GT-R
in the country for the Black Edition,
in the year that it's at.
So, I really like the red one,
I've never had a red one before.
This is my fourth GT-R.
And then I have the silver one that's out here.
It's a 2015 Stage 2 silver GT-R.
That one's probably one of my favorite ones to drive.
And then I have my 2016 McLaren 570S.
And for people that love to say that it's rented out,
I'm like, yes, I rent 365 days out of the year.
(laughing) - So, again--
- Expensive rental. - Expensive right?
So one of the things that we focus on is, again,
just trying to understand...
So like, let's say a Camero.
I try to understand what this car is worth within my area.
There's so many people that have this car for sale.
I make a bunch of offers below the lowest price
in the area, and I build myself that margin.
It's making sure that you make all your profit
when you buy the car. - Right.
- So you get to enjoy it, you have that peace in mind.
If something happens or if something goes wrong
with the car, then guess what?
That's why you built that margin.
- So you don't, obviously, just go out
and impulse buy exotic cars.
There's a lot of thought and planning
that goes into this, right?
- There's not one car that you see here
that I bought because I wanted it.
I've made about 25...
I had an offer, so that one was under a pending sale
and I didn't accept it.
They offered me, I think it was like 66 or 67,000,
and I told them 67,500.
Again, I really enjoy driving it so much--
- Yeah, so you didn't need to sell it.
- Yeah, if they wanna offer me the price
that I'm asking for, great.
If not, then guess what?
I get a lot of miles per gallon on the GT-R, so--
- That's a good way to look at it.
- I'm all for it.
- Now which one of these is your daily driver,
or do you switch around?
- Well, that's my roommate's, Justin.
This is my roommate's, Harley.
He actually has a flip in that garage
that's a Maserati Quattroporte.
He bought it for $9,000.
But my daily driver would be one of these two GT-Rs.
And then the one that I enjoy driving the most would be,
obviously, the McLaren.
(car engine starting)
(Car engine running)
- All right, Ricky, so one of the first things
I wanna have you talk about.
I cheated.
I watched your other videos talking about
how you became a millionaire.
But I think it was really interesting for me
hearing about your upbringing
and where this all started for you,
because I think a lot of people assume they see somebody
with a bunch of sports cars, they think,
oh, maybe there was some family money involved.
And from what I can tell, that was not the case
at all with you, right? - Correct, yeah.
- So how did you get started?
What was your upbringing like?
I know you said that your dad was a tile worker.
- Yeah, so my dad lays down tiles.
As of right now, that's still essentially
kind of what he does, but he's 63, 64 years old.
So I grew up in a...
Both of my parents are from Mexico,
and I grew up in a very traditional Hispanic family.
I loved my upbringing, and it was never made very...
I feel like we were raised pretty well.
It wasn't until the market crashed in 2008 that, obviously,
because of all the work that my dad
does have to do on homes.
At a point where after the market crashed,
he had no business.
Yeah, there's no more work after that,
and it really put a huge toll in not only the relationship,
and the environment at our house,
but I really started to see my parents struggle.
And not just financially, but in their relationship.
And that was just something that I told myself
that I never want to be in that position,
because I knew how much my parents loved one another
and to see how money can have an influence on a relationship
was just so mind-boggling to me.
I had this fingerboard company
where it was like a little skateboard--
- Like the Tech Decks, right? - The little Tech Decks, yeah.
So I made those, I started a company.
I grew up to 3,000 followers on YouTube.
And I originally came up with the idea with my friends,
but then it grew to me doing it myself,
and that was how I started my first actual business.
I was always reselling things on the side, like iPhones,
and I would buy Gatorades from Costco and then sell them--
- Sell them at school?
- Yeah, and lots of stuff like that.
And the thing was, it wasn't until I started
that first official business where I consistently
had to make the boards myself.
I would wake up in the morning, make one of the molds.
Take the old deck out of that mold, make another one,
go to school, come back.
Take that mold out, put a new one in there.
Do my work, what I would do on the day-to-day,
manage orders, make videos, and then come back...
Or before I go to sleep,
take that one out of the mold.
And it's just that consistent factor, that consistency,
that discipline that I learned at a very early age
was what I think really molded this now-consistent factor
that I have of like, I never gave up investing
in the stock market.
I never gave up in learning how to buy my first house
at age 20, or how to invest in cars.
There's always obstacles that I encountered,
but when I really set my eye for something,
that's something that I really told about myself
at a very early age.
I remember there was a counselor meeting where we were
trying to decide what university I wanted to go to
and what my GPA had to be.
My sister was in the room and a counselor said that,
oh, Ricky, you have to work towards having this grade here,
but there's no question that I know that you can do it.
And my sister just really resinated very well with me,
that she was like, "Yeah, Ricky's a go-getter and every time
"that he sets his mind to something, he just does it."
And it's very easy for anyone to say that,
But to hear it from my little sister--
(other car revs) (laughing)
To hear it from my sister...
(laughing)
That's Justin.
I think he wants to race, right?
- [Ryan] Looks like he wants to race.
- [Ricky] You've never been in a McLaren, right?
- Never. (laughing)
(car engine roars) Holy (bleep).
(laughing)
I think we won that race. - Right.
Oh my god-- - Oh my god.
- Is this a cop?
Is this a cop?
This is Jeeves, so yeah, I think that is a cop.
My dad would take me to work every single morning,
even when I was in elementary school,
reminding me that if I don't want to do this type
of hard manual labor for the rest of my life,
that I better do good in school or I better figure out
something because he knew that I was, again, really good...
We had a computer and stuff like that, that I could
do something so much more effective and efficient
without having to do so much work with my hands.
- So he encouraged you to use your mind more so
than your hands with your labor?
- I don't think there's a better way to put it, yeah.
And it seems like you had a lot of different businesses
or things you were doing when you were in your teens,
or maybe even early twenties between the fingerboards.
And then after the fingerboards,
is that when you started out trading?
Or was there something between that as far as--
- I was just trying to figure out like,
I knew I wanted a GT-R and I was always just very active.
I think I was very...
If anyone watching this video has started selling things
at a very early age, I think it's very easy for them
to relate to just trying to figure out a market
that you can excel in.
So I was buying and selling stuff,
both in person and online, as a way to make money.
I was trying to learn how to invest in the stock market,
I got exposed to the stock market at age 14.
So it was like and on-and-off.
I wasn't successful right away with it whatsoever.
I knew that you could make money on it, but I was making
much more money, like let's say, making and selling
my fingerboards, or buying and selling cars,
or buying and selling stuff online.
It wasn't to a point where I had enough capital
to actually trade.
And not even just the capital, but to have the right mindset
and principles that it took a while for me to
because I was self-taught, to get to that point.
This is Top Golf.
- Okay, cool. - This is the driving range--
- We'll check that out later. - Yeah.
But yeah, it took me a while to be able to become confident
again after I experienced my big loss
when it came down to trading.
But I always knew that you could make money doing it,
it just was something that I had to continue
to refine and learn from my mistakes.
And at 14 it's very difficult to make sense of that,
so as time went on and I matured, so did my investing style
and so did the concepts that I implemented.
(car engine roaring)
(laughing) What do you think?
- This thing is nuts, man. - Right.
(car engine)
We got Caleb over here.
- I like the new shirt.
- Caleb's one of my partners within flipping.
This is Ryan.
- Nice to meet you Ryan, I'm Caleb.
- That's Ryan's channel.
- Hey, what's up, Ryan's channel?
- I opened your package. - Why?
- Master room, so we have the dual rooms here.
The shower, the bathroom.
We have a walk-in closet that goes in all the way in there.
We have another walk-in closet that it goes in over there.
But, yeah, this is--
- Very cool. - Pretty much it.
Very simple, I think.
We do some filming here, not really much.
But, yeah, let's go upstairs.
This is normally, although we do have
our own little office section upstairs,
this is really where we do a majority of our work.
As you see
I just beat Ryan.
All right, let's continue the rest of the tour.
This is kind of our hangout area.
So usually in the morning when I'm done trading
and they finish the first hour or two hours of work,
we go to lunch, maybe we take a little break
and ping-pong is a huge thing that we play at this house.
It's just a little hobby that we have.
We have the air hockey table.
Again, we're still fully furnishing it.
The house came with this support beam.
(laughs) That's why we have that there.
But we have a little bar area here.
And this is our movie room.
We're still getting the bigger TV set up,
so right now we have a pretty small TV,
it's a 65-inch right now.
We have stadium seating movie seats,
two bean bags, super comfortable.
If you lay down on those, you will fall asleep.
They should have a warning label on it.
Over here we have, the guys are actually working here,
but this is kind of like the Techbud's office area,
so not anything that we can really record.
- So I would say, Ricky, that you've really achieved
a level of success that a lot of people strive to,
and especially at 23 years old, is pretty incredible.
What would you say are a couple
of the most important lessons that you've learned over,
basically, seeing your dad laying tiles with him,
and then starting your own fingerboard business,
and then starting off with trading,
and kind of having to figure that all that our yourself,
and then becoming a successful trader,
what were the most important lessons you've learned
through that whole process?
- I think, and this might sound very cliche,
but I have a huge passion for every single market
that I'm actually successful in.
And it's because I was already doing well,
so like I was talking about,
I was doing a bunch of different things.
I was always doing already better than the average person
because of how frugal I was, how much money I was saving,
how much I was doing with my time,
that when I was trying to explore these different markets,
it wasn't a make-it-or-break-it for me.
And it wasn't such an aggressive way to, like,
I have to do with or if I fail,
it's just back to reality, right?
It was always like, I'm doing this at a rate
because I'm extremely passionate about this market,
I want to learn more about it.
And because of that passion being initially
what motivated me, and not the monetary aspect,
the monetary aspect was definitely the goal,
but it's not what motivated me to get started.
And because of that, I just always was someone
that was willing to learn new things.
So when it came down to investing in real estate,
when it came down to investing in the stock market,
When it came down to investing in cars,
it was always just something that I had a huge passion for
and I was always willing to learn more about.
I wasn't someone that was super aggressive about it.
So I really think that knowing that it was going
to take time and I was okay with that,
that I progressively let my passion be what drive me
and be that drive on the consistent basis,
so that eventually it'll lead to my overall success.
- Yeah, I think it's so important to start with a passion
with whatever it is your doing, so that's super helpful.
- Yep, of course.
- All right, guys, well that's gonna wrap up
this house tour.
Thanks for showing us around, Ricky.
- Of course. - Definitely a cool place.
We're gonna have two other videos coming out with Ricky
on the channel in the next couple of days, so, guys,
make sure you stay tuned for those.
And I also linked up Ricky's YouTube channel,
his Facebook group, and everything else
down in the description below,
so make sure you guys check that out.
All right, we'll see you guys in the next video.
- [Ricky] Thank you, guys.