so this is what seven thousand four hundred dollars gets you in new york city so for seven
thousand four hundred dollars per month i live in a two-bedroom apartment in an old loft building
in soho now as most people have read new york city is now the most expensive city in america just
edging out san francisco by 10 on average for that price of an apartment and i was very fortunate
during the events of the past year rents plummeted they dropped like crazy there was a ton of deals
and let's just say i got this apartment for a very good deal and nowadays a place of this size
this neighborhood would go for anywhere from seven thousand to eight thousand per month and that is
what seven thousand four hundred dollars gets you per month in new york city i hope you enjoyed this
video just kidding you know a lot of people ask for this this is just a casual saturday morning
vlog here in the city and in this vlog we are actually doing a fun diy project my mom actually
was the the brains behind this she loves pinterest so that metal staircase the white one we're going
to be painting that jet black check out these inspiration pictures it's pretty cool i really
think it'll match the theme of the apartment with the black on the windows than the wall that i put
up another new addition to the apartment is the fig a lot of you in the apartment tour
saw that i had a fake fig this is a 100 genuine real fig and these things are a pain in the ass
to take care of so here's the stairwell as you can see it's just been painted that white color
i have my super 73 underneath and we are painting this jet black and we're also painting the trim
above jet black just to match the wall that i built and with that i'd like to thank benjamin
moore for sponsoring this week's episode if you've been watching my channel for a while you know that
i used to do daily vlogs i used to do videos monday through friday so almost every single day
and a lot of times you know my family would be in the videos i'd just film whatever i was getting
up to so that's what this episode is just a fun weekend vlog the question will you help us paint
or get in the way okay get to work benjamin moore makes it so easy to get paint all you have to
do is go online to their website put in what you want we went to the tribeca paint shop and picked
up this beautiful regal select semi-gloss finish i'm very positive that this is going to look great
we need a ladder it is weird filming a vlog i haven't made a vlog in like a long time i know
it feels kind of strange should i move all that off there no are you filming right now
i didn't think this was gonna fit in the house 15 foot ladder all right
first things first we had to get that shelf out of the way and the shelf was pretty heavy
so after moving the shelf then we set up the ladder and i'm lucky that we actually
have a ladder in the building that is this is probably 13 foot ladder if you're not gonna help
and you're gonna get in the way we're gonna have to put you in the bedroom we put down this tarp
to cover the floor and theo immediately just lays down on it and first things first we're doing the
trim with these tiny brushes and painting is a lot more difficult than i remember but this
benjamin moore paint goes on so smoothly it makes painting actually enjoyable for this project we're
going to take our time enjoy the saturday theo is hey theo are you going to help no here you want
to help there you go here put on your beak at least it looks cute but yeah i will report back
when we finish the trim on the wood you want to come up here theo you want to come up here
he's trying so hard to help out we just finished the top half i think the black makes the space
look more modern more upscale i love it benjamin moore paint goes on so easily only one coat it's
definitely giving the bang for the buck as far as the value next up the staircase
we're calling this the moody vibe i'm very impressed because you were saying you sit on
pinterest at night and you look at different like inspirations and i mean this is a little peak of
this little peak but it's coming just tease them just it's a little tease we underestimated how
labor intensive this would be which isn't a bad thing i mean how often do we get to just
spend time doing the task painting doing some deep mother-son bonding yeah the conversation's
going on right now i can't put in the vlog but uh yeah heavy conversations but i i want to ask you
i've been thinking about starting a podcast just to have unfiltered hour-long conversations with
interesting people if that's something you think would be cool comment down below with that we're
going to keep on painting it's totally going to be a two or maybe three day projects don't even
say that three days no i had to go back to work oh so i realized that whole shot i had that on
like a tight angle sorry about that and here it is this is the after of the paint transformation
and the space is totally transformed it's definitely more moody a bit more refined
almost has a sexy feeling to it before it was very earthy and i have to say the black looks amazing
but i'm kind of partial to how it was before so let me know down below should we keep it as black
or painted back white i'm gonna let it sit for like you know two three weeks and see how i feel
in the space but if i do want to paint it back to white i can just simply go to benjamin moore they
have an awesome e website again i want to thank benjamin moore for sponsoring this section of the
vlog if you want to shop all their awesome paint the link is down below in the description of the
video so theo is going with my mom while i'm traveling i have a trip next week and
he's going to live the life down on the beach in jersey while i was painting with my mom
we were having some really just thoughtful conversations and it's been such a long time
on this channel where i sat down and just had a good conversation you know with some kind
of substance don't get me wrong home tours are awesome the home tours they don't really show
my thoughts beliefs ideas things like that so i went on instagram and i asked you to uh ask some
questions and we're gonna do an old-fashioned q a before we start let's top off the coffee
good old french press okay now we can get into this first question how long will you live in new
york city i'll live in new york most likely the rest of my life i always plan on having property
in the city most likely within the next year two years i plan on buying an apartment here
and doing a full-on renovation like i mean a gut renovation of ideally a soho loft what makes you
the happiest it can be anything i was thinking about this last week if you know me i love surfing
last week we had some great hurricane swell i was out with my brother surfing and i just got
this incredible ride and the sun was peeking out from the clouds and i saw my brother smiling like
he saw my wave and i just had the utter feeling of just satisfaction and not satisfaction like
accomplishing a goal but satisfaction and being just completely at peace not thinking about the
future or the past what makes me happiest surfing spending time with family simple things it's been
such a crazy ride especially if you've been watching this channel since 2015 like what if i
would have went back and kind of like snapped and saw a glimpse of this i wouldn't have believed you
i wouldn't how did you get in real estate like the process from day one and where you are now
my journey into real estate is it's very very out of the ordinary i don't really think many other
people have done it kind of reverse engineering it and the thing is i'm an expert in marketing
real estate i'm not gonna go and say i'm the best agent in the world because that's not the truth
my strength lies in marketing which has given me some pretty awesome opportunities
as far as referrals and the fees that come along with that but to answer that question i
reverse engineered it i built up my audience as large as possible with these home tours
and then after i reached a certain point for me was crossing 1 million subscribers
then i got the license that is what i am good at it's marketing and building brands on social media
and i have something coming very soon that can help a lot of people out what's the thing that's
changed the most for you mentally since starting your youtube channel that question is such a
big one everything has changed my entire life has changed when i started this channel i was filming
my videos on this on my iphone i was using imovie on an ipad to edit them and mentally i have to say
it has shifted because it's become a business and a pretty successful one at that i never expected
that aspect so i think mentally just keeping the fun and the reason why i started this in the back
of my mind especially doing things like this doing a q a where it's just sitting down and having that
one-on-one conversation and not thinking so much about views or working with brands or the business
side and really just making fun stuff that i want to put out there moving to new york city
did every apartment you live in have mice bed bugs terrified no only one place had cockroaches and
mice that was actually no two places did but that first place if you remember that that was bad most
places don't that's not the norm in the city but it's definitely out there you just have to really
do your homework don't live above a restaurant live in a place that you know you can just you
can see when a place is clean versus not clean so really just do your homework and uh when you're
looking at the apartments really nitpick the place apart are you investing in stock market or
cryptocurrencies yes and this is one thing i'm not going to give any financial advice to anyone out
there but i will say definitely do your homework there's tons of youtube channels out there that
give very sound financial not even advice but just information graham stefan meet kevin these guys
give out information that has helped me if you are in that earlier 20s late teens you have one thing
that many of us especially one question how old are you i'm 31 almost 32 you've got a decade on
me to compound that growth and accumulate that money so definitely open up an account again
not financial advice but highly consider looking into investing uh cryptocurrency i do own crypto
i'm actually a big fan of crypto i believe in it in the long term especially in the next five
ten years goals in six years i have a lot in six years i will be 37 years old and that is insane
i like these q a's and i'm going to keep this one pretty long because i do look back
on them and it's very very interesting to see that some of the things i say in these videos
end up manifesting themselves into real life so goals for the next five six years and i
will say these as affirmations that's why i say my goals as if they've already happened
i will have a show on netflix i'll have a child most likely potentially i'll be married these are
still kind of question marks those last twos but professional goals it's just like when i
set my mind to something it's inevitable that it's going to happen and i got a lot of questions about
motivation and that's the biggest piece of advice i have you have to buy into your dream because
no one else will you have to buy into that as clearly as you're seeing me as clearly as you can
touch your five fingers like it's real you have to believe it's real because if you don't it's not
gonna happen what do you love most about living in soho i love the architecture waking up and seeing
all the cast iron buildings the history just the feeling of walking around and it looking like i'm
living in a movie set that is what i love the most about soho how did you transition into real estate
long story short essentially i had about 300 000 subscribers an agent by the name of ryan
surhan was starting a channel his team reached out to do a collab i recommended that we film
his most expensive listing it was a 20 million dollar townhouse in chelsea we filmed the tour
of my channel got like 5 million views my channel started to blow up his channel gained some from
the collab i was very lucky i had the first mover advantage to this whole youtube property tour
genre and that's why my channel has grown to the largest and it is a shame because i would love to
collab with ryan again or even uh there's another youtuber ennis i've reached out to him a few times
i think that a rising tide raises all ships and i believe in collaboration rather than competition
especially on the internet are you a real estate broker or do you just make videos yes i am a
licensed real estate agent here in new york state i'm working right now in colorado california and
florida getting the license but again i am a real estate marketing expert that is what i do i'll be
totally honest with you i've had an interesting experience starting out selling real estate and
i've been a bit jaded by the let's just say the types of people in the industry and i think i'm
actually too nice and not cutthroat enough to work in luxury real estate so you know the goals for
the next few years especially the next two years is really just building out and hammering away
on the media aspect of my youtube channel and my business when are you going to do an updated day
in your life video i'll be doing these pretty often i'm not getting tired of the home tours
but i want to start getting back to making content that has a bit more meaning a bit more depth a bit
more substance and i think these videos are very very useful it's interesting when i do meet people
in the streets a lot of the time it's the people that have been watching since the beginning vlogs
may seem silly but they are quite powerful and i enjoy making them so they'll be more soon what
keeps you motivated the fact that we're all going to die one day very very morbid that that right
there like if you're actually paying attention and you're watching that and you feel the weight
of what i just said that right there uh when you really pull out the lens super wide and you see
the big picture when you're zoomed in really tight things can seem like the end of the world
especially if you're going through some hard times when you pull that lens way back and you just see
how how beautiful all this is that's just the motivation to why not go as hard as you can
why not experience every emotion the good and the bad why not travel why not just try to do your
best and to hopefully help some people along the way so that's what motivates me just the fact that
yes one day i won't be around and that's uh that's a very uh big feeling it's a big thought how did
you find all these incredible opportunities i did not find any of them i worked my
off to make them happen if you would have seen me when i first moved to the city
no confidence i've found the harder i work the more luck i have the harder and the more
time i put in the more these opportunities come about but at the end of the day all the biggest
moments in my life as far as opportunities have happened when i've went out there i've sought
them out and i've made them happen if you just sit around and wait for things to fall into your
lap you'll be waiting a long time why did you stop collaborating with sirhan uh that was on
ryan i mean i would love especially ryan or team ryan if you're watching this i would love to do
something together it makes sense we are in the same genre we're essentially doing the same thing
congratulations on starting sarhan you are crushing it i think though i think it goes back
to people in real estate are super competitive as am i but to the point where it is just like cut
throat it is so cutthroat ryan's an awesome guy and i would love to collaborate with him and
his team again so if you guys are watching this let's do it favorite breed of dogs easy golden
retriever bulldogs are close second pugs are third how to make abs abs are made in the kitchen
everyone knows that so it's just your diet but how to really get your abs kind of thick and blocky
weighted sit-ups not many people know that it's on the center app weighted sit-ups i normally do 10
sets of 10 with a 35 pound weight just right on my chest hold crunch back down weighted sit-ups will
get you thick abs what would you tell that eric of 10 years ago i don't know if i'd tell him anything
i think that if he would have known what was going to happen it wouldn't have happened if that makes
sense i would tell him to stay positive to not take things too seriously that's probably the
biggest thing but i think you have to go through all those growing pains in order to to make it to
reach your dreams and your goals in life so i just tell them to stay positive and to keep on going
and that's what i was told a lot of people told me that if you did get some value from
this little q a give the video a thumbs up it lets youtube know that you did enjoy the video
it will push it out to a new audience i hope you are well watching this and if you want to
see more videos like this again comment down below and with that i will see you in the next episode