I'm pissed like sh9t I'm pissed. really frustrated in this video. I Have three announcements and I will guarantee you this. None of those three announcements have to do with the coupon code expiring tomorrow and the lifetime access to the programs on building your wealth With a bunch of new lectures coming out over the next 30 days including the Elite Hustle Drop tomorrow. None of them Yeah. I Know that big sale ends tomorrow. that's still happening. but these announcements don't have to do with a coupon code. they have to do with reality and reality starts by going back into my past a little bit. See, not only did I used to play RuneScape a lot, but I also played World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike Splinter Cell and Rust I was a gamer and I always found whether it was in gaming in Life or in business that if you want it done right, you do it yourself. You want the group project done right, You do it yourself. You want Construction done right. You hire your own construction staff so they do it your way and expand on that. You want to do real estate investing correctly. You do it yourself. You manage your own properties. That's what. I Did you want to do large-scale investing in real estate correctly I Don't invest with somebody else. invest in house hack because that's going to be done to meet Kevin way nobody else does wedge deals like I do in my opinion for long-term rentals or short-term rentals I Purposefully bring everything under my control because I truly believe if you want it done right, you do yourself. It's that simple. it's a jaded Outlook but it's always been that case when I was a real estate agent I got my own broker's license because I wanted to do marketing my way. you can look on YouTube meet Kevin TV commercial and you'll see my first TV commercial ever. You want lending done right I was frustrated with lending so what did I do? I got my own lending license Want photography done right? What did I start doing I became my own version of an expert real estate photographer I learned I studied how to do it so I could do it myself. It went so deep that I was pissed off with the people who would install the real estate for sale signs and then hang your sign on it. I'm like your signs look gross. they look old. you're putting them in the wrong place. I I just was never satisfied. It had to be perfect. It had to be Kevin way and it took too long to get him. So what did I do? I hooked a trailer to my Prius a little like 4x6 and on top I put my own real estate for sale signed posts and the arms and signs were in the car. So when I signed a real estate listing I could walk out to my wrapped car with my face on it Hammer the stake in the ground, stick the sign in and the sellers would come out and go. Dude, we just signed the listing 30 seconds ago and there's already a sign in our yard and I'm like that's because that's how it should be. Oh man, it's true though. it like people like: Kevin you need an editor I'm like I edit my own stuff I can't handle it. Okay, so uh anyway, that's not to say you can't have employees I've got some wonderful employees. uh that that I honor and and love so much and I'm so thankful for especially here on Thanksgiving But I gotta get to these announcements I Just wanted you to know this background about me Kevin So a little bit more background I have two sons. one of them is Jack and this is actually important to the story. He's seven, the others Max he's four and uh, he made me realize something very very important. That pissed me off and and quite frankly this has to stop. He was watching YouTube like you are right now. except he's like really in control like when he watches YouTube he's like I watch YouTube It's not just playing in the background, he's like got the controller in his hand and and he's he's ready for something else to tempt him. So he sits there and he's watching one of his favorite YouTubers Who's like lanky box or unspeakable? This kid saves up money just to go buy lanky box boxes. or like the little unspeakable green character. It's like all right, that's awesome. Anyway, he sits there and control the remote and he's done this in the past before but he just did it again and I'm like oh wow Okay so he's sitting there and we're six minutes into like a 20 minute video. I'm making a cup of coffee and Jack goes watching lanky Box all of a sudden, Lanky Box or whichever one it was has something effective. And now for a quick message from our sponsor, click Jack switches the YouTube channel and I'm like Jack you you're not gonna finish the video I hate sponsors I'm like but you could have just like hit the forward button a few times and and like Fast Forward no sponsors I'm like dude, you're seven, no sponsors um and and so it made me reflect a little bit on like his jadedness which made me reflect on my jadedness which was do it yourself if you wanted to own right or do it yourself. When I started my YouTube career about nine months saying I I launched a course, there was zero to million in a real estate course. uh and really really good. You know it was my entire career of experience in in real estate investing. yeah and it still gets attitude but uh I always said that I prefer pitching my own products because I have control over them if somebody says Hey Kevin I wish there were a lecture on this I can add that if somebody says Hey Kevin I don't like how you said this or I don't understand this I can fix it I have control. It's my product and so this is where the three big announcements are coming up. This is a bit of a fall on the sword, but I deserve to fall on this sword. Yeah, in part this has to do with the famed letters FTX as well, but it's not just that it's extending because see: I was on a cruise ship and I want you to know this just about my personality: I was on a cruise ship and I uh just last week and I took 30 minutes away from Lauren to talk to a Wall Street Journal uh uh author. hopefully I didn't get billed cruise ship rates although now I'm thinking about it I may have anyway for 30 minutes about this article she was writing about somebody who signed up for FTX had 800 stuck in FTX and they signed up because I had suggested the platform as as a sponsor and I felt so miserable. I'm like I will give you as much time as you need to make sure the world knows about this effort because I am so sorry and I feel like the best thing that I can do is make sure people know about this and it never happens again. there's still talk By the way, if you are stuck in FTX us that maybe through bankruptcy, customers will be able to actually get their assets back I Have doubt about that, but let's see where all these cards fall in long term. this is not an FTX video. I've already made multiple FTX videos I Just want you to know about my personality is whether it's good news or bad news I will talk to you I've gone on haters channels before I've uh, just to be as transparent as possible I will do whatever I can to make sure people have all the perspective they can. but anyway, following up on Jack's jadedness about no more sponsors combined with this: This Disaster that happened which I'm terribly sorry for. but on Thanksgiving I want you to know that I'm thankful for you, not the fraud who should be in prison I'm thankful for you even watching this I Start the video off with I'm pissed and you're still here watching I owe it I owe the following to you And so here are the three announcements. These are promises. these are announcements and I don't expect to flip-flop number one: No more external sponsors I'm done. No more of this. You have to scroll through for 90 seconds. No more external sponsors from now on. I'm done no more I I Don't care what company it is, anyone who emails us or even contracts we have right now, we are putting in our cancellation notice I'm done here on YouTube I exist to provide value I Love nothing more than waking up digging into banking Finance Real Estate research putting together valuable content for YouTube and if it doesn't do well on YouTube because it's too Niche or too specific like tax benefit strategies for the end of the year, whatever. I'll make a course lecture on them, but that's what gives me satisfaction and is is the feeling of providing value to people foreign, not sponsorships. So number one, no external sponsors. We're done. The only link would be you know the the C word I said I wouldn't say it again but my obviously my course number two, no external affiliates. these are Big Okay, like these are huge changes like these make up a substantial portion of people's revenue on YouTube and I'm just I'm just over it. I'm done. I'm out. let other people pitch them I I don't I don't even care what other people do. uh like I'm just gonna focus on Meek habit and providing value Now this is sort of like a side note, but I recognize that sometimes in one video uh and I recognize this because of you. Thank you, thank you for that. uh I recognize that sometimes I mention the courses and and the c word too much and so what? I'm also going to do and this is not the third announcement, this is still part of. The second answer is I I'm going to make sure that I only mention the courses once. Uh, so you know, maybe that's two or three minutes in? It's like a 20 second plug. and that's it. That way, if it's a 10 minute video, it's a 20 second plug. It's my own thing. It's not some external crap. It's my stuff. It's mine. And it's just one time. That's it. No more life insurance, No more, You know. Weeble Or whatever we're done. That's it. We're done. No more sponsorships, No more external affiliates. Done The third announcement and this is this is a win-win is if you go to Metkeven.com affiliate, you can sign up to be an affiliate. For my courses, you'll get 35. So if a friend of yours signs up, you'll get 35 percent. Now what's cool about that is it's a win-win because it's in my opinion, a way of giving back to you because a lot of you who do sign up for the courses do recommend it to friends and family and I want to give back to those of you. But in addition to that, hopefully that will more than offset. I'm just being transparent here. Hopefully that will more than offset the revenue that I'm losing from not doing external Affiliates and not doing sponsorship deals. So I'm I'm also trying to be a transparent business person, right? I Think that's reasonable? If you don't want to be an affiliate, don't like it's fine, It's fine. Don't go to Metcavin.com affiliate right? But that way if those of you who are like Ardent course supporters and you're like I love this, you could in like three referrals, make your money back and since the price goes up over time, you might only have to do two referrals to make your money back because you maybe you bought when the prices were lower. So those are my three big announcements. But I want to be crystal clear here I am so thankful for you I I Want to ideally meet all of you in New York City on December 9th I will be ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange uh I'm I'm trying to get like a giant Banner that I could put on the New York Stock Exchange So I could say I put myself on the New York Stock Exchange um but I want that event to be our event I want to share it with you so December 9th closing bell uh if your course member 125 of you will be invited inside uh if you're not a course member, we will probably have to do a a sign up form for the outside. So if you want to meet me uh we'll do like pictures or whatever outside we'll actually do it in the secured area of the front of the New York Stock Exchange So that way you actually get a feeling of like being in that air like the stock exchange Area or like the public can't go. Uh, so even if you can't go inside the building, you're not part of one of those 125 I still want to get you inside uh, the the external area. uh as just a way of giving back I Don't have that sign up for them yet though, so just just stay tuned for a future video and then we'll talk about that. Um, but that's it. So thank you to Jack Thank you to watching the channel. Um, this is it. This is I'm scared to post this. it's a big moment. but I'm done, you know. And this is. This is how you learn and adapt. You make a mistake, You learn and adapt and you change. No more external con sponsors, no external affiliate links. It's the right thing to do. Thanks for watching.