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The Titanium Vault hosted by RJ Bates III
RJ Bates III, affectionately referred to as the Viking Wizard by his students, started his real estate investing career in 2014 after attending a real estate education program that put him $65,000 in debt. RJ contracted his first deal he found on the MLS and wholesaled it for a $7,500 assignment fee. That was the end of his former life and the beginning of his venture into becoming a real estate investor. Since that moment, RJ has become an influential figurehead in the real estate investing industry. He has successfully purchased and sold over 2,000 properties all across the USA including wholesale deals, rehabs, rentals, owner finances and short term rentals. One of his passions is being the host of The Titanium Vault Podcast where he interviews the top real estate investors and finally, RJ has won back to back Closers Olympics earning him the reputation as the King Closer!
The Titanium Vault hosted by RJ Bates III
Between Two Belts with King Khang
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Hello and welcome to Between Two Belts. I'm your host, rj Bates III, today. Let me see, this is a fucking joke. Your name is King Kong. That's correct, dude. I thought Asians were all about Godzilla. Why are you with King Kong? King Kong, yeah, no, godzilla. Y'all like Godzilla, not King Kong.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that's Japanese, I'm Vietnamese, so what's the difference? Probably different language, man, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what's your real name?
Speaker 2:Your parents didn't name you King. Yeah, yeah, yeah, correct, no, that's a good point. So my actual name is Kong Lee, and then when I started my social media about seven years ago, and they used to make fun of me back in high school, calling me King Kong and for those who don't know.
Speaker 1:You know in Asia black.
Speaker 2:Consider you're poor, you're ugly. It's just not good, right Like you're out on the farm all the time.
Speaker 1:So when I you know, when they call me, that you were on the farm all the time.
Speaker 2:All the time, bro, All the time. What kind of farm? Rice farm, A rice field. You know where they were. The Chinaman had they bent over and they cut the. You did that, Bro. I did that when I was six, bro.
Speaker 1:You have a true guru story From the rice farms.
Speaker 2:From the rice farm living in a mud hut. For those of you, you probably don't even know what a mud hut is. A mud hut, bro RJ. Every single time we have a rainstorm, bro, my room changes, bro. It goes from small to big, big to small to medium. Bro, what the fuck is a mud hut? Okay, so, bro, what the fuck is a mud hut? You don't, okay. So it's made out of clay. So we have a big store. Literally do, a whole entire family will go out and we'll reclaim a whole fucking house. Where is this at?
Speaker 1:in america? No, vietnam, vietnam, yeah, okay. So rain comes, you slap some mud together, that's your, that's your house, that's it, baby, can you wholesale that?
Speaker 2:dude, I think that you can wholesale anything. I mean, I don't know, I don't know if I can, but I know RJ can wholesale anything, that's the one thing I know that's too kind.
Speaker 1:Have you tried wholesaling in Vietnam?
Speaker 2:I don't dude, I've never gotten a deal through Asian, like they'll buy a deal Through an Asian. Yes, any Asian, except for Caucasian, but any Asian, you know. So I've never bought a deal from an Asian person, I've solely dealed to an Asian person.
Speaker 1:But wholesale doesn't work. So not even in Vietnam, you wouldn't do that, not even with a mud hut. Okay, let's go back to where you came from Mud hut, right. When did you come to america? At the age of nine, nine, yeah. How did you get here?
Speaker 2:so dude, long story, but basically my mom got, I don't have a long time, so just okay, shut up well, my mom got in contact with an american soldier. Bam pop out my sister. My sister was half white.
Speaker 1:We did the paperwork that's what I'm talking about, yeah like my mom, dude, my mom was a closer bro. Yeah, she fucking took one for the team, bro, she took one for the family for sure.
Speaker 2:Thanks, mommy.
Speaker 1:All success comes to mom taking one for the team. Dude, absolutely, bro you like your sister man. No, you owe everything to her.
Speaker 2:Oh, my sister.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the little half-breed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean like we don't really talk, but we do get along a little bit somewhat.
Speaker 1:So you came here. Where'd you go?
Speaker 2:You know we landed in Lansing, michigan, dude RJ. It was the first time I've seen snow.
Speaker 1:You skipped like three-fourths of the country. How did you go all the way to Lansing Michigan?
Speaker 2:Because that's where our sponsor is. So here's how it works. So, basically, you go from Vietnam, you station in Philippines. All right, and I blend in. Obviously Right, you station in.
Speaker 1:Philippines. This is a good story. Yeah, you just remind me Sponsor. Hold on, we have a sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Eric Klein, the sales goat. He does not believe these belts hold any water, but I do have his respect. Thank you, eric, for supporting Between Two Belts. Continue on, eric. Thank you, sponsor.
Speaker 2:Okay, lansing so basically, we go to Vietnam, to Philippine, we live there for six months and then you wait for your sponsor. Our sponsor happened to be in Michigan, Lansing, michigan.
Speaker 1:Dude, it was some of the Spartans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, correct. So it was the first time I saw snow dude, my whole, bro. It was crazy. It was the first time that I've seen carpet, first time I saw refrigerator and dude, my whole entire family opened the refrigerator because the sponsor said hey, go open that. We speak no English, right? Everything was like sign language, bro, right. So they say go open that, dude. We opened the fridge, we're like dude. No wonder why America is rich. They got something cold. They got a bunch of food, dude, we struggle to like dude. What will be our next meal?
Speaker 1:What are we?
Speaker 2:going to have tomorrow? Is it soy sauce and rice, or soy sauce, rice and a little piece of chicken?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you're on the rice farm, I mean why wouldn't it always just? Be rice? Yeah, Doesn't rice make you live forever, Dude? I mean yeah, absolutely dude. All right, so you're in Lansing, You're.
Speaker 2:Dude. No, we actually took them out, Wow because, because I realized that grateful. Realized. I realized in America you have carpet, your poor. So we're like, rip that shit off and let's put up some hearty plant.
Speaker 1:When you, when you rip up the carpet, do you ship it back home to Vietnam, so they can you know what did I should have done that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was my bad selfish yeah.
Speaker 1:So you're nine years old. Yeah, you have carpet. You're excited. Yeah, exactly. So you're nine years old. You have carpet. You're excited. Yeah, you have refrigerator. Yep, how'd you learn about? I mean, what did you go from there? How'd you learn how to speak English?
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, Dude, believe it or not. Somewhat school, but mostly cartoon, so I would go home watch.
Speaker 1:Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry doesn't talk. Give me one that talks.
Speaker 2:Bro Rugrats.
Speaker 1:Rugrats Fucking great comedy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rugrats, hey Arnold.
Speaker 1:Dude, I would watch all these cartoons that one sucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then I would just learn and practice Batman animated series.
Speaker 1:Yes, x -Men yeah.
Speaker 2:And the biggest thing you know what I've learned? It's the one that is not shy to talk to people. Those are the ones that learn the quickest out of all of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't imagine you being shy ever.
Speaker 2:Oh, rj, you're wrong bro, really, dude, I grew up dude, extremely shy and insecure, extremely Like dude. I've gotten to the point where In high school Dude, in high school, I got bullied Really.
Speaker 1:Everybody wants to fight.
Speaker 2:Everybody dude, everybody's like dude. You're Jackie Chan, motherfucker. If I was Jackie Chan, bro, I would have kicked your ass right now.
Speaker 1:I mean, but that got to make sense.
Speaker 2:Everybody relate Asian to like dude. So everybody wants to fight, everybody wants to pick a fight.
Speaker 1:So I shouldn't say any of my Asian jokes.
Speaker 2:No, now, dude, I love it Like nothing offend me. Now, I think that when you, when someone says something to you and you get offended, it's not the other person, it's something within you.
Speaker 1:See, you're like the older version of Jackie Chan now that's exactly he doesn't bite anymore now. He just makes comedies and everybody loves him. Yeah, you know, you love everybody. You don't get offended, yeah, when did you get into? Wholesaling.
Speaker 2:I got into wholesaling. Okay, so I got into real estate at the age of 27. I got into the fix and flip. I don't know if I told you that, oh, you got into the fix and flip. Well, it was a nightmare, I did that for four and a half years and I almost went bankrupt and lost everything. At a point I was doing about four flips or so at the same time and in my area, four flips I got about 1.5.
Speaker 1:Where's your area?
Speaker 2:Bellingham, washington. So it's an hour and a half away from Seattle and 30 minutes to the Canadian border. So I'm so close to being Canadian I'm 30 minutes away from being Canadian Super super liberal up there?
Speaker 1:right, absolutely, bro. Yeah, you voting for Harris. What Are you voting for Harris?
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:You avoid this topic. Wait, you're upset because your boy's not there anymore. Joe, sleepy Joe. Oh dude, you don't want to talk about politics, do you? No comment? Are you uncomfortable right now?
Speaker 2:No comment. But the one comment. I can tell you this Wow, is that Asian.
Speaker 1:That was closer. You see how you just deflected that and just moved on to something else.
Speaker 2:That's super skilled right there. One thing I can tell you is that Asians love Trump.
Speaker 1:That's all I've got to say.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's all I've got to say Dude. All right, what hey, hey?
Speaker 1:That's all I'm saying. So you're in Seattle, you're one of the good ones.
Speaker 2:No, you're wrong, I'm not in Seattle.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Seattle's where the rich people are. Dude You're not rich no dude, I'm kind of the middle class, so I have to travel. Bro, I have to travel an hour and a half away to be in the blue collar. Look at your watch.
Speaker 1:Okay, You're super rich. And when did you become King Kong? When did you decide hey, that's going to be my name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so seven years ago, when I got on YouTube and then I was telling my story about how I was making fun and then, obviously you know, the subscribers said hey Kong.
Speaker 1:This is before you started dancing on TikTok, right? That was before I started, yes, dancing on TikTok. Okay, so were you YouTube famous or TikTok famous first?
Speaker 2:I wouldn't consider YouTube famous because I wasn't that big on YouTube.
Speaker 1:But TikTok really helps a lot. Tiktok, yeah, Can you say your catchphrase?
Speaker 2:Oh you already know what time it is. Baby, let's go get this money.
Speaker 1:How did you come up with that?
Speaker 2:How did I come up with that? Did it?
Speaker 1:just accidentally come out, like you say it that way yeah.
Speaker 2:Dude. When I'm around friends and family, I talk a lot of time with accents Even though obviously I still have an accent right.
Speaker 1:None of us noticed.
Speaker 2:Really. Oh, thank you, dude, that's the best compliment ever. You're welcome, Dude so the first catchphrase that I talk about was on YouTube. So I did so. I took a comment from a subscriber.
Speaker 1:Pause, real quick, lean back. Yeah, I don't want you to be able to see this, ah gotcha, all right, continue. So it was on YouTube, dude.
Speaker 2:That was the first catchphrase, bro, that we went to Max Maxwell and everybody know it. And the reason it came out of is some guy commented on one of my videos and basically he's an excuse maker. So I, you know, for me, you, you, there's only two type of person, bro. You're either an excuse maker or you're a money maker. People that do that, people that make money, never make excuse and people that make excuse never have any money. So the guy comments some bullshit. I read it and I said come on man, shit, bro. Dude, that thing just took off, bro, like come on man, shit, dude, that thing just fucking went wild. So that went freaking wild for a while on YouTube. And then, obviously, when I started TikTok I really don't know where the you know, let's go get this money.
Speaker 1:I don't know how that came about, so want to make sure I've got it because I want to use it moving forward. Sure it's. Come on, man, shit.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, you got to stretch it a little Shit. Come on, man there you go. There you go, baby.
Speaker 1:I can do this. You started blowing up on social media, right? Yep, I mean, dude, you're famous, you're like the most famous guy here. Oh, stop it you know what Like Pace Morby goes to sleep at night looking at your TikTok followers, just wishing he could be like you.
Speaker 2:You know what Honestly dude. All I care about is I just wish my bank account was either your or Pace Morty. No, no one gives a shit about their bank account?
Speaker 1:None of these, everyone in this room. All they care about is how many followers they have. Click, click, like you know. That's all they want. All right, so what do you consider right now? Well, everything that you, you know. You went from the mud huts right, you were a terrible real estate investor to now you're, you know, a somewhat okay wholesaler that says money and come on, man, shit bro. You know, and you're famous. What's your biggest accomplishment in life? Don't say your wife. Dude honestly bro it's being able to make her dream come true.
Speaker 2:I remember, bro, when we first dated, we were living in a shed.
Speaker 1:You just went through it. I literally asked you not to You're going to say your wife.
Speaker 2:Bro. I wouldn't become the man I am today, bro, if it weren't for her.
Speaker 1:I know I mean she's amazing.
Speaker 2:RJ dude, I was such a shy and insecure guy, bro, and the man that I am today is who I really always Well, I wouldn't say that's a lot, I mean she's great, but yeah, yeah. But I would say that's probably the biggest dude is being able to make her dream come true. Bro, Make her dream come true, Correct, by marrying you? No, because she's the one You're saying that made her dreams come true, no because she's the one who wants to become a millionaire.
Speaker 2:She's the one who wants all of these. Dude, I could have been done just living the shit Like dude. I could have been done when I was 27. Like I would have been like tap out, I'm making $107,000 a year. I'm good, I could have been done, bro. But she's the one who said hey, come, dude, we're not going to stop here. We not going to stop here, we're going to keep going. And I want to be the man, bro, that she can lean on and depend on to make shit happen. When Lon say it, dude, I'll make it happen, even though I'll be like, because I remember when I dude. I remember clearly when I was driving home from the mall 10 pm at night.
Speaker 2:I was coming home and she was sitting there and she wanted so. Her dream was to become a millionaire, not save her way until she's 65 and become a millionaire. She wants to be the person who lives that extravagant lifestyle that she sees on the magazine, how the celebrity lives. But there was a point, rj, that her mind tells her that you can never have it. It's like you want something so bad, but you're. And so she went depressed for a while and then one day she came across. Dude, it was the movie the Secret and that let her know, bro, anything is possible in this lifetime. That movie, that movie.
Speaker 1:Honestly, after all this, why did I interview you? I should have interviewed her. Dude like I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Come on, man Come on man.
Speaker 1:Shit bro, I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Come on, man Come on man. Shit bro. I don't even know why I have the following when she should have been the one.
Speaker 1:King Kong. What's her name? Lon.
Speaker 2:Lon yeah, l-o-n Like lone, but she doesn't like to loan money. She hates it when people borrow her money. It doesn't matter if you're leaning forward again so earlier, when we were in the car with the other rj, the less famous rj there's another rj, yes yes, the less, less, less good looking one right. What's his name? Rj? What rj pineal or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah yeah. He's a loser Fucking using my name like that. What the fuck's wrong with him?
Speaker 2:My shit's fucking trademarked.
Speaker 1:I didn't know how to respond to that no one told him he can use my fucking name. So, okay, you were in the car with him. Yeah, so we were in the car. You were borrowing an Uber.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, so you were borrowing an Uber. Yes, yeah, so we were in the car. And then we're talking about quick and loan. You know, quick and loan, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I said lawn is fucking loan.
Speaker 2:She ain't going to loan to anybody. You like that.
Speaker 1:That was pretty good. You got good lines, all right. Last thing Me and you, we went and talked to sellers together one day. Right, yep, I closed the deal. Yep, you didn't close shit. No, I didn't. That's all I got. I mean we are that's our episode of Between Two Belts. Yeah, we got King Kong and we got the King Closer. See you guys.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much.