The Titanium Vault hosted by RJ Bates III

Watch Me Close This Emotional Seller!

• RJ Bates III • Episode 700

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SPEAKER_04:

Hi, is Eleanor there? Hey Eleanor, this is RJ Bates calling about your property there on 36th Street. Looked like you had uh filled out a forum about selling that property, is that correct?

SPEAKER_09:

Yes.

SPEAKER_04:

Alright, how much are you looking to get for it?

SPEAKER_09:

Oh eighty, eighty-five.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

As is.

SPEAKER_04:

As is. Alright. Well, tell me a little bit about what you got going on.

SPEAKER_07:

Oh, it was my grandmother's house, and she died. And I had live I've been living with her for the last nine years taking care of her.

SPEAKER_09:

And she had Alzheimer's and dementia. And when she died, my mom died like two years before she did off the wall, you know.

SPEAKER_07:

And so anyway, um, my sister and I were kind of stuck with not knowing where anything was, or anything, or I am anyway. And so I've been living here for the past year, and I am down to the nuts and bolts of everything because I don't have a car, and I was wanting to sell it, you know, fast because I it's too much for me.

SPEAKER_09:

It's three acres and it's three and a half, three bedrooms, and two baths, and living room, den, dining room, and all that, and I just can't keep up with it. Like my electricity's off right now.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_07:

And I'm just getting into, you know, I've been talking to people about selling it, and I was talking to this one guy, and he can't get anything to me till next week. And I'm I mean, I wouldn't sell it today. I wanted to sell it last week.

SPEAKER_00:

Why why can't he get anything to you until next week?

SPEAKER_09:

Well, he's living in he's in where is he? He's in another state, and I'm freezing is why I can't talk why I'm talking like this. And it's just because he's got he's got somebody coming out here to look at it here in the next couple of days, that you know, whatever. Anyway, I've been talking to him for off and on for a week, and I guess I misunderstood what he was saying or something as usual. But where are you?

SPEAKER_04:

I'm in Fort Worth, Texas, but I can promise you this I don't need a week, I need about seven minutes.

SPEAKER_09:

Well I got seven minutes because it's gonna be dark in about three hours.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh man.

SPEAKER_09:

And it's like thirty-something degrees out here as it is.

SPEAKER_04:

Jeez.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, it's not it's not 30, but it's gonna be tonight.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh you got uh you got a fireplace?

SPEAKER_09:

Yes, but I don't have I'm not real sure it's working right now. I haven't used it for three or four years, and I don't want to burn the house down.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_09:

Plus it's down in the part of the house that I don't usually use. I've kind of got it blocked off, not blocked off, but you know, I don't go down there. It's a pretty big house. It's got a pond in the front and it's type fenced all around it. It's got three acres and a barn out back, but it's not I mean, it's just a lean to barn. It's not like a big barn. Yes. And and the pond, you can see it's got beautiful views from this house. This is a great house. It's been a great house. We've lived here for like almost 30 years. My grandmother bought it, and I lived with her for two thousand we bought it in '93. And I got married, I lived out here with her and my son. He was two then.

SPEAKER_07:

And he uh and I got married in 2007, and I got divorced in 2013, and I came back here, and it just happened to be when she got diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

SPEAKER_09:

So she had it for nine. She oh she was almost a hundred when she died. She was two weeks from being a hundred years old, and she had Alzheimer's the last nine years, and I lived with her and took care of her till she died, and she died here peacefully, you know, about as peacefully as somebody can die, I guess.

SPEAKER_04:

Right. Man, you've been you've been going through it.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, I've been really blessed most of my life. It's just today's not a good day.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, maybe I can make it a better day. If I end up buying your house, will that make it a better day?

SPEAKER_07:

Yes, it would. It'd make a better day if you could pay my electric bill.

SPEAKER_04:

How much is your ledger bill?

SPEAKER_07:

I only need about$75 to because I'm on the pay as you go, but the last three days they have they left it on for the last three days for because it was so cold, but it got warmer today for a little while and they turned it off. And you gotta love my mafia pub public service company.

SPEAKER_04:

Shit. All right. Well, I'll make you a promise. We'll get you we ain't gonna let you go s go cold tonight. So let me let me just yeah, I'll I'll I'll get you some electricity. I can't I can't let you just sit over there and sit in the cold all night.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, I used to have a bunch of friends, but half of them are dead and the other half might as well be. That sounds terrible, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_04:

Uh you know what? You sound a lot like my mom. Really? Seriously, you y'all's voice sounds almost identical. Um it's it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_09:

Do you like your mom?

SPEAKER_04:

My mom's pretty cool. She's alright. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

Um that could be a bad thing or a good thing.

SPEAKER_04:

It's a good thing. So if we uh if we call the electric company and we turn if we give them$75, they'll they'll turn that electricity back on.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Alright, and they're pretty quick about it.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, they'll turn it right back on because I'm on the pay as you go plan.

SPEAKER_04:

Alright. Well, you're gonna have to figure out how to tell me to pay that here in a second. But let's get back to the house. I gotta buy the house first. All right. Let's see here. I got three acres, two thousand square foot. Now, shoot me straight. Does the house need work? Is it old or is it pretty?

SPEAKER_09:

It's old. It I mean, it's I could we could do a video call right now and I could check show you everything about it. I mean, just the just the view from the front window is you see the pond. I mean, it's all overgrown now and everything, but my grandmother, we used to keep it looking like a park out here. I mean, it was just green grass and no weeds and no, but I can't take care of it anymore.

SPEAKER_07:

And it's just if you I mean, I've decided at my age that being rich is what you see when you wake up in the morning and looking out this window makes you feel rich.

SPEAKER_04:

So the uh the 80,000, how did you come up with 80,000 as the price?

SPEAKER_07:

Um well, my neighbor was gonna buy it, but I decided I didn't want anybody around here to buy it because I didn't I just don't like people around here anymore. Oakmall gee anyway. And he was gonna get it, he was gonna pay 80,000 because it needs some work. I mean, the house is livable. I've been living in it for the past well, forever. Right. Well, it's pretty much since I got divorced. I mean, you know, it's got running water and it's and toilets work and you know, it just needs a lot of work. The the let me see, what's the thing that needs some it needs new carpets, it needs new carpets, and it needs some of the you know, my son lived here when I wasn't living here, and he's crazy. He's in jail that tells you anything.

SPEAKER_09:

And I mean, all the doors work, I can lock up at night and everything, and the yard needs a lot of work. I mean, it's a beautiful yard, it's got a detached garage and a porch. The it's got a gated in porch over there on the back side. It needs a new roof. The roof is 25 years old.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

But, you know, and uh let me see what else. The kitchen everything, you know, probably needs new appliances because these are pretty worn out. Okay, and let me see. I'm walking around kind of looking at it right now. Definitely needs new carpet and new paint, you know. Yeah, but it's livable, it's very livable because I'd be living here. It's got a master bed bathroom. I mean, it's got a master bedroom with a bathroom in it, with a shower and a toilet, and a sink, and a walk-in closet back there. That was grandma's room. All the closets are big in this house. It's got a laundry room where the washer and dryer goes with a door that goes outside to it. We used to have like a little place where you could hike hang your clothes or whatever.

SPEAKER_07:

And that's a big bedroom that it that you go into that bedroom and it's a really big bedroom, and then it goes that goes into the laundry room, and it's got a cabinet in there where you can pull your clothes and a closet and your washroom dryer go in there, or in there.

SPEAKER_09:

I don't really use it very often because what happened is I after grandma died, I walked away from I mean, I sat out here for like two months, I slept for two months, and then it started getting cold, and my sister came and got me, and I went to her house, which was my mom's house, who had died the year before.

SPEAKER_07:

And I stayed out, I stayed there for a year. I didn't come, I didn't even come back out here for I mean once. And then when I came back here, everything was overgrown, and I had hired this woman to come and help me. She was gonna stay out here with me and help me clean it all up, you know, and get it all back in shape and everything. Well, she came out here and I tr I was working at Casey's then, and when I was in town, I could get to work. And she came out here before I did, and she kind of moved in and she wasn't supposed to have anybody out here. Well, that didn't happen. And then when I did get back out here, she had taken most of the stuff out of the house and burned it.

SPEAKER_09:

I mean, pictures, stuff that you wouldn't even pots and pans, and just I mean, everything. She almost got everything, but I got out here and got her out of here. She was getting ready to squat in this house and try and take it away.

SPEAKER_07:

And I got my machete out and started waving it around at her. Finally got her out of the house, and but when I'd go to work, she'd come back in. But anyway, that's another story. I got finally got rid of her. And then I had to regroup everything, and she she had taken my washer and dryer and either sold them or whatever she did with them.

SPEAKER_09:

And with the money she put in her washer and dryer or whatever it was. And I've just never really got that washing machine hooked back up. I go over to a friend's house and do my laundry. But it works. Everything out in there works. I mean, I just don't think I have that washing machine hooked up right, and I don't not really inclined that way to get myself bent up upside down trying to fix it because I'd probably get stuck, and then that's where you'd find me. Whatever. So anyway, you know, it's an old it was built in the 40s. I think it was built in 1946, 47, something like that. And the the the people that built it lived here until my grandmother bought it.

SPEAKER_07:

So, you know, it hadn't had a lot of people in and out of it except for those freaking weirdos that I let come and I thought help me.

SPEAKER_09:

But I guess, you know, that's just I don't know, that's just part of the story. All this it's got a lot of closet space, got a hall closet with you, you know, that you can hang things up in it. It's got a big old pantry closet in the kitchen, and it's got cabinets all the way around. And I don't know what else to say. It's got the dining room with that has a big that has a cut, you know, like a window seat window in it.

SPEAKER_10:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09:

Three windows that look pretty I mean, it's got three different direction windows in it. That's really cool. It used to be. And then it goes down into a den that's got the fireplace down there with the door out to the patio. And then you've got a detached garage with a little a little roof over across the top of it, something for inserts or something like that. That needs to be fixed though. I mean, it's still there. It's just doesn't look like it wants to be there very much longer. And it's got the garage has got a little pull-down staircase that you can go up, you know, and store stuff up there in the top of the garage. So it's like a two-story garage, I guess. And it's it's a big garage. It's you can get two cars in there. And what else is really cool about this house? It's just a cool place. I mean, it just looks cool. Got the pond, it's probably not even a football field away.

SPEAKER_01:

It's probably does it have fish?

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, it's got fish. Mostly it's got a lot of turtles and we've got ducks. I've got like 12 Muskoke ducks out there on it.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

They're really cool. Yeah, I was thinking about turning it into a duck sanctuary, but I decided I didn't want to do that. I think I would have to stay here. I was gonna build a little deck out there and I'm not going to. I don't want to now. It was just one of my pleading things that I could have done out here if I wanted to stay out here, but I don't want to stay out here. I haven't had a car in like a year, and I can't get anywhere. Can't get a job because I can't because I don't have a car.

SPEAKER_10:

Right.

SPEAKER_09:

Because I can't get to work. And then we don't really have a great big transit system out here in Oklahoma. This is a small town. I'm probably about three-quarters of a mile from one of the largest Walmarks in the United States. So, I mean, it's not e I don't even think it's a mile away, but it feels like you're way out in the country out here.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, it looks fantastic. So I want to buy it.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, but here's the issue. I can't give you 80.

SPEAKER_09:

Why not?

SPEAKER_04:

Because I can't base my I can't base my decision off of what the neighbor was gonna do. I gotta base it off of what I I gotta I gotta feed my my kids, and the way that I do that is is by by being intelligent on what I can pay and what I can't pay on properties. But I can be pretty close. I can be close. So let me let me ask you a question though. What do you need in order to be able to move? And do you have a place to go if we were to do this?

SPEAKER_09:

No, I don't have a place to go. And that I mean, that was like part of the uh the thing that I was looking for. It's like because I I need enough to get a car. If I can get a car, I can get a job.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, I mean, you should get plenty to be able to get a car. I mean that that's not a problem.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, definitely, but I need enough to get another place and I don't want to live necessarily live here in Oklahoma anymore. Right. Really tired of the town, and I've I mean I was born here, but I wasn't raised here. I graduated from school in Tulsa and lived in California, you know. I just know there I know it's not like this everywhere. So and I don't want to be here anymore.

SPEAKER_02:

Right.

SPEAKER_04:

So my son if he ever gets out of jail, which I don't know if he will, but so if I buy the house, normally I when we buy houses, we need them vacant. So how long would you need to get prepared to move out?

SPEAKER_09:

Well, if I had to uh get everything out of here, see this this other guy that was gonna buy, I mean they were gonna and they'd make a boo-hoo if I could if I left everything in here too. I was gonna leave a lot of stuff here and he was gonna, you know, get rid of it or whatever. But he'd make money off of selling everything out of here. If I had to get it, get rid of everything out of here, I'd need money for storage or enough money to get a place. Get uh my sister and her kids are bulkers, so all I'd have to do is tell them to come on out here and get it, and they'd probably clean it out in two days, two or three days, knowing them.

SPEAKER_04:

So if we closed and I gave you like five days lease back, which means you can stay in the property for five days, we hold some money back at title until you move out. Um, would that give you enough time?

SPEAKER_09:

Yes, that would be great. That would give me enough time to get another place, even if it was still here, and get, you know, and then I'd still have enough. Because I'm taking half of whatever I get and I'm putting it in a some kind of investment. I would decide which one yet. Plus, I've got Bitcoin that I can't get to because I can't get a phone that'll keep enough security and keep my sister out of it and everything.

SPEAKER_00:

You have Bitcoin that you can't get to?

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, well, yeah. I don't really want to get to it right now. I'm pretty sure I'm sure they do their best to steal it. I've got my seed prices and everything. I invested in Bitcoin back in 2009 when it very first came out, and then I invested in it again in 2014, and then I invested some more in 2018.

SPEAKER_00:

How much how many Bitcoin do you have?

SPEAKER_09:

Um I don't want to tell you.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, there's the answer to all your problems.

SPEAKER_09:

I know it, but I can't get to it. I don't get into it until I, you know, until com people disappear over Bitcoin. I mean Yeah, I mean my friends and everybody to invest in it when I was doing it. I was on that one of the first email lists when Nakamato's and whatever his name was first started, all that.

SPEAKER_04:

You do know one Bitcoin's worth ninety four thousand dollars today, right?

SPEAKER_09:

Yes. I think I'm pretty sure I've got six of 'em.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. When when are you gonna go get your money?

SPEAKER_09:

Well, when I can get a phone and I can get the right kind of encrips on it and get my computer running back up and again. See, I've got a sister that is and her boyfriend that are scandalous. Scandalous, and they have done everything in the world to I mean, she's even said that. She even said that to me. She knows she goes, you know, people have disappeared for Bitcoin. People have been murdered over Bitcoin. And now that's another reason I want to get out of here, is because it feels like everybody's just turned into you know, greedy, greedy sons of bitches.

SPEAKER_04:

Yep. That's the world for you.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, sister's been trying to steal my identity or impersonating me and stuff.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, the good news is is that you you got on the phone with someone today that doesn't want to steal your Bitcoin because he has his own Bitcoin, and um, I'm gonna turn your electricity on and I'm gonna buy your house.

SPEAKER_09:

So Oh my god, you really yeah, let's do it. You know, I just got on my knees about an hour ago and prayed to God.

SPEAKER_04:

There you go. God is good.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_04:

God is good.

SPEAKER_09:

It's just amazing that you would call right after I prayed for help.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, listen, here's the thing. God answers our prayers, but sometimes it's not the way that we anticipate. See? You know that you got on your you got on your knees and you prayed to God, but the good thing is is you didn't ignore my ad and you filled out a form. You said, Hey, I need to sell my house, otherwise I would have never called you. So God gave you the opportunity and you you jumped on it, and here we are. So let's let's get down to the the brass tag so I can tell you what I can do. Because like I said, I can't do the 80. Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. Okay. Well, you know, just the convenience of the moment is one in the hand is worth two in the bush.

SPEAKER_04:

All right. I love old sayings like that. So now listen, here's here's what I can do, okay? And I want to I want to explain how our process works, okay? So you understand. I'm gonna send you a contract. If you agree to the contract, which all it's gonna say is that my company is buying your house for the price that I'm about to tell you.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

And then I'm gonna put on there that we're gonna close on January 9th.

SPEAKER_09:

January 9th, okay. Because that would be good.

SPEAKER_04:

I can surely I can get something together by and then on January 9th, and then you would have till probably January 14th to get moved out. Okay. Okay. Close on January 9th. But the way it works is that we're gonna come out to the property after you sign the contract, we're gonna inspect it, make sure everything is good, we'll meet you, we're gonna take some pictures, do all that stuff. And then after that, once we do that inspection, we'll let you know, yes, we're good to move forward, or hey, it needs more work than what we anticipated. This is the price we need to be at. And you could either say yes, or you could say no. Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

So I'm pretty sure I'll say yes. So because otherwise, that's you know, they'll just find me out your frozen popsicle.

SPEAKER_04:

We're gonna get your electricity on. Don't worry about it, you ain't gonna be a frozen popsicle. So that being said, like I said, I cannot do 80. I need to be at 60.

SPEAKER_09:

I can't do 60. I can't do 60. I mean, it's worth more than that. It is truly, trust me, it's worth more than 60.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

It needs some work, but it's not gonna, I mean, it's not worth it. Even if he bulldoze the house down, the property alone is is worth more than that.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay. If you're at 80 and I'm at 60, what can you do?

SPEAKER_02:

Can we go to 70?

SPEAKER_09:

Because trust me, when you see it out here, and if you I mean, except for the you know, the mess it's in right now, you know, it I'm talking about the yard, like like I couldn't keep it all mowed up this, you know, all three acres, and I, you know, so I just picked a little area right around the house to keep up. Because I had a all I had was a push mower. She took all my she took all my yard equipment and mowers and weed eaters and everything. So I just had a push llama that a friend was letting me use most of the time.

SPEAKER_04:

Right. So here's here's what I'd say about the 70. I'm okay with sending you a contract for the 70, but I need you to not be surprised, because I am pretty good at what I do. Do not be surprised if we come back and we say, Eleanor, we need to be at 60.

SPEAKER_09:

What what if it's what if you come out here and you decide that it might be worth more than 60 or 70?

SPEAKER_04:

Then you're going to be extremely happy because I'll give you 70.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

So, how do I get your electricity turned back on?

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. I just I just give you my account number and I give you a number to call, and you just, if you have a card, which I'm sure you do, you just tell them how much of it you want to pay on this.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, wait, so when you say it's prepaid, what does that mean? You're giving them like, if you give them$100, you have electricity until you use$100.

SPEAKER_08:

Right.

SPEAKER_04:

How long does that normally last you?

SPEAKER_09:

Well, um I'm pretty frugal when I'm, you know, when I'm here by myself. I'm pretty, it's just me and my dog. And we he's been here since he was here when grandma was alive, so if that tells you anything. So$100 would probably last me over two or three weeks. Over two weeks.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Probably not three. So they raised the prices this last couple of weeks. See, our our electric company is mafia run. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. But they raised the prices up because it got cold.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

Which is tells you anything how they are.

SPEAKER_04:

So all right. Do you have access to your email right now?

unknown:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay. I'm going to write up this contract. I'm going to send it over to you. Let me let me double check I got your email correct here.

SPEAKER_08:

I was going, what? Yes. All the letters.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. Alright. So give me a few seconds here. I'm going to write up this contract, send it over to you so we can go over it together.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh no, I'm not letting you off the phone.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04:

If I let you off the phone, you might not answer the phone again, even though I'm going to pay your electric bill.

SPEAKER_08:

What's your name?

SPEAKER_04:

My name is RJ Bates.

SPEAKER_08:

RJ Bates. Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, um, everybody calls me Penny.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_09:

My nickname because I was named after my grandmother. She was still using it all my life. So because I was born on the 4th of July, so I was called Penny. Doesn't have anything to do with Eleanor, but Eleanor is my legal name on my birth certificate, which I can show you right here.

SPEAKER_04:

I got you.

SPEAKER_09:

Everybody calls me Penny if you if you want to.

SPEAKER_04:

Penny. I like it.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

My name is Robert John, but everybody calls me RJ.

SPEAKER_09:

Really? Robert John. My son's name is Jonathan.

SPEAKER_04:

Yep.

SPEAKER_09:

Brother's name was Robert Joseph. I guess the signal.

SPEAKER_01:

And I'm technically the third.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh, really? Well.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

That means there's three more of you?

SPEAKER_04:

Well, two, two more, two more. Um, real quick, is uh is your last name.

SPEAKER_02:

Eleanor Cloud. What's her name?

SPEAKER_09:

And my when I got divorced about six or seven years after I was divorced, my ex-husband decided that I couldn't use my married name anymore. And somehow or another it got into the divorce papers, but I hadn't to go back to my maiden name. Well, he thought my maiden name was from my first marriage, and I went all the way back to my birth certificate. So there wouldn't be any confusion anymore about my name. He got into my investments and two inheritances that I was supposed to get from my godmother and my dad. But I've been stuck up here for when I was taking care of my grandmother, it wouldn't matter how much money I had. You know? Because that's what I would have been doing no matter what. And so I wasn't really worried about a whole bunch of stuff like that. Plus Alzheimer's is a horrible disease. And she had it for nine years. And we were out here mostly by ourselves. And we got through everything okay. Like I said, she lived till she was almost 100. I don't know how long people thought she was gonna live. My mom acted like I was keeping her alone. But grandma and I were real close. We did our best out here. And she was where she wanted to be.

SPEAKER_06:

And and you know, and that so what really concerned was all that, and then it became a really big job because mom and Nikki weren't helping them a lot, if at all.

SPEAKER_09:

And then I was consumed with watching her lose her mind, kind of bent mine a little bit there for a while. It took me a while to kind of come out of it. Like I said, I probably slept for a year. She only slept for about three hours at a time. And she was very gracious. She wasn't a horrible, mean Alzheimer's person. She was very gracious all the way to the end. Um she left it out here. So that's what I would have been doing anyway, which is why I didn't fight back on all that stuff. And and uh and then when I I don't know, I guess she I thought she was gonna live forever. I didn't really think anything through about what I was gonna do afterwards. So I've just been dwindling, dwindling.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, I unfortunately, as part of my chosen career path, I I do have to to deal with these situations fairly often. And um don't don't feel bad about it. Yeah, I mean it's just it's part of life. I mean, it's you take care of the elderly, and then sometimes you end up in a bad place, you know.

SPEAKER_09:

And I guess I thought she was gonna live forever because I sure didn't make unique place. She kind of made a deal with me when she first started getting sick, and it was like, you know, it's like she got enough social security that we could both live out here pretty comfortably, you know. Because we're not extravagant, we're not going anywhere. And you know, we live on her own social security, and I could stay out here with her, take care of her, because she did not want to go, and I wouldn't let her go to a nursing home or something like that. Because with Alzheimer's, they truly they truly can do anything to them that they want. And then some. And so uh, you know, that's what we did.

SPEAKER_10:

All right.

SPEAKER_09:

We stayed out here for nine years and and she never got really, really physically sick until, you know, there at the very end. So it was work, but it wasn't any kind of work that anybody would cry about doing, you know. It wasn't all right.

SPEAKER_04:

So we got two things we gotta do, Penny.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

First thing, I need you to go check your email so you can look over this contract and make sure we're in agreement.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay, I have to check it on my phone. All right.

SPEAKER_04:

Just put me on put put me on speakerphone so you can still yell at me.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay, hang on. Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_02:

I can.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay, hang on.

SPEAKER_09:

Are you still there?

SPEAKER_01:

I am.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

So you should see an email from RJ Bates that says purchase agreement fourteen hundred, blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. Now I'm in my mail. I have to turn on my sink. I've got to turn it off because I've only got too much debt.

SPEAKER_10:

Trust me, trust in the state code.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh, there it is. Okay.

unknown:

It's coming up.

SPEAKER_09:

Right, babes. It's taking a minute to load, but it's coming.

SPEAKER_01:

No, you're all right.

SPEAKER_09:

It'll die when the I you know it'd probably die right when it gets dark.

SPEAKER_04:

What, your phone?

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, because I can't charge it up.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, we're gonna get your electricity on. We gotta hurry up though before your phone dies. How much battery you got left?

unknown:

Oh, I got 45%.

SPEAKER_04:

All right, you're good.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay. Titanium investments.

SPEAKER_10:

You got the legal prescription, okay. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

I got pictures on my phone right now that I was sending to that other guy.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, you can send them to me when we're done with this then.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay.

SPEAKER_10:

Okay, that's where they adjusted purchase price is.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay, what's it mean by Because I owe three years on or two years on back taxes, it's coming up on three. But that's what I was tell that's what I was trying to tell somebody. I said about the burden the hand is worth doing the bush because if I don't pay those taxes, then I won't, you know, I won't have anything.

SPEAKER_01:

So the back taxes would come out of the 70 at closing. So do you know do you know how much that is?

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, it's about three thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_02:

So you would get sixty-seven.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

You know, I'm really at a point where like I said one bird in the bush is worth two in the hand or one in the hands. It really is, because I mean that's down what uh it's getting down to hole. So that would come out of that. Okay, what's that mean? A signable contract.

SPEAKER_04:

An assignable, well, first of all, all contracts are assignable. But what it means is is that I can assign my rights to purchase the property to another entity or to another person. So if I wanted to assign my rights to buy this house for$70,000 to Walmart for$80,000, then Walmart would buy your house and they would pay me$10,000 and pay you$70,000.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay. Is that right? I mean, it happens all you make your money in it.

SPEAKER_04:

It happens all the time. I I've done it about twenty five hundred times in my life. So you're you're in good hands.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_10:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

Some people what they do is they'll go and they'll say, Hey, I'm gonna buy a house from Penny for$70, and then they'll assign the contract to themselves for ninety, and then they'll go borrow ninety thousand from a lender, so they make twenty thousand the day that they bought the house.

SPEAKER_09:

That's what I think my neighbor was gonna do.

SPEAKER_02:

Pro probably.

SPEAKER_10:

Okay. Okay, you've already signed it?

SPEAKER_02:

I signed it on my side, yes ma'am.

SPEAKER_08:

So is the one required field just my just your name. Okay, that's what the required field is?

SPEAKER_02:

Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Man, I was really hoping you guys would pay the taxes on that. That could be like young payment on something.

SPEAKER_04:

But the beautiful thing is is I'm gonna pay your electric bill.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_04:

I am gonna give you a warm house to sleep in tonight. And a way for you to keep your cell phone on.

SPEAKER_09:

Right. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04:

Thank God I called you today and did not tomorrow your phone would be dead tomorrow. I know right all right I have to set up with Penny you want to know what's hilarious? So I I teach a lot of people how to to do these conversations right and and I like I've at this point I've taught thousands of people how to do real estate. And one of the biggest issues that we run into with people in your situation is getting a hold of them. Because life life is happening to you where you took care of your grandmother you've run out of money you need to sell your house you gotta hit a reset electric electricity's turned off you you need this right you need to sell your property right now and hit a reset on your life and on our side people get frustrated when they start calling you and you don't answer the phone and I tell them all the time I'm like put yourself in in Penny's shoes where like you don't know what's going on in her life. You don't know the reason why she might not answer the phone. You don't understand that maybe it's because she doesn't have electricity and she can't charge her phone. Like there's so much that goes on and so I always try to tell people when we're in these situations where we're trying to help someone like you out we have to be extremely reasonable and listen to what's most important to you while also taking care of our business and so it's just this was such a great phone conversation to to have with you to be able to see everything that's going on in your life and hopefully this this piece of real estate really does change the trajectory of your life to where yes you can go get a car and a job but also so you can just go get that damn cell phone so you can get your Bitcoin out because you got your you got your future sitting there in the Bitcoin you need to go get that but hopefully this is the the reset button that you needed right here.

SPEAKER_09:

That would be great yes because I just I I just need enough to stand I mean because I'm 62 years old and I mean I'm a young 62 you know I'm not an old 62 I'm a young 62 So if I can just land on my feet I'll be okay but I just can't I can't get I just can't seem to get a jump start right now and it's just been a it's been very frustrating and it's boiled down to no help. I don't have very many much family left and the ones that I do have don't really have a big concern about my welfare obviously they're more into trying to get something than not.

SPEAKER_04:

Yep. So well Penny I'll tell you what I learned a long time ago that it's a lot more fun to go through life always caring about other people and not ever expecting anything in return. Yes that's true it's like what's the what's the what's the purpose in everything that we do if you're not always trying to help somebody lift somebody up it's one of the greatest joys I have in life I love doing this stuff.

SPEAKER_09:

Yep a lot of people don't know that feeling that you get when you do something like that because they've never done it.

SPEAKER_04:

You know what's crazy?

SPEAKER_09:

If you have done it you know that feeling and it's it's a it is a good feeling.

SPEAKER_04:

You know what's crazy is I wasn't even supposed to be on the the phones today because I'm the owner of the company so I don't really do this very often but but today um an owner of a company reached out to me and he asked me if I would if I would call leads today and and do this and I said yes. What time did you say you prayed to God earlier it was probably an hour not even an hour before that's crazy.

SPEAKER_09:

I I talked to you I mean I literally got on my knees that's crazy. Yep everything happens for a reason is your last name is the my god my legal godfather's name was Bates really yeah what was his name Jerry Bates I don't know a Jerry we got John's and he was born here in Oklahoma he was my dad's best friend he was there when I was born and I was there when he died and we knew each other our whole lives and he loved me a lot that's awesome all right so on the contract all you need to do whenever you're ready click on that seller's name scribble in your name and then hit finish and then we'll be done on that and then we can move on to the electricity okay I clicked it okay now I'm gonna try and sign it with my finger now because that's my legal name.

SPEAKER_08:

Right I got it there it's not very pretty but there it is.

SPEAKER_04:

Mine wasn't pretty either so you can't read hardly either one of them no and then up at the top right corner there should be a finish button there's an insert button. Okay do that okay and then now there should be a finish button okay required fields are done tap continue yes okay well that's not fun anymore let me see I have an edit and a clear so did it insert the signature down there yep it's there look at the top right corner does it say finish or submit it has a hundred percent and I got that and then it's got a little arrow there What are the terms of service?

SPEAKER_09:

Hold on I think it's coming through on my end 'cause if it's showing you that that means you should be done okay I don't suppose you could send me a card, could you?

SPEAKER_04:

Don't get crazy now. All right. Right it didn't it is not saved yet. There's what is it saying on your screen right now? Okay there it goes oh did it go to it says thank you for submitting your signature oh well then yes it yes it is good okay so now that we've got that done what we're gonna do is my team's gonna take over from here so you're probably going to hear from several different people um they're gonna reach out to you tomorrow they're gonna want to get those pictures from you we're gonna send this to the title company title company is gonna want to get information from you um but let's get the electric bill we can worry about what's gonna happen tomorrow later um all right so you said that I need do you know the phone number that I need to call and well I've got to look it all up though usually I I can't find my little notebook that had all the exact things all written in there and because I usually you have to usually I go down and pay it at Walmart but like now I don't even have a ride to Walmart so I've got to find it in my other book which shouldn't be do you know what the name of the company is yeah it's uh Public Service Company of Oklahoma Per Public Service Company of Oklahoma all right uh I had it all on my other phone and I got a new phone the other not too long ago and um I knew I was just like a yakity yak. All right pay my bill pay as a guest if you don't want to create another PSO and I'll just read off that account number the last four years have the account uh three four or four three two two I know that because we just paid some on it the other day but I could just pay online as a guest right because all I need is uh let me see I just need your electric account number phone number that's all I need oh okay and my phone number is yeah it's what I called you on right you've got my number done you can't yeah yeah I could do that hold on I got it all right and then I just need the uh the electric account number my brain is not even working I can't even think right now because I'm so happy I think I'm happy I am happy happy happy I have been living on my pinch chance for the past this year mostly mostly this this year except for when I was working so I have been back to zero I've got all my points that's not good and I'm okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Hey no and I'm so sorry no you're good things to be doing right now then me doing this I'm not broken I'm saying up left anymore especially since I haven't been working deleted a bunch of messages off my phone and I had to send a message to my sister but I deleted all those because I was done with her just hang on it is in here I got the number you can call up the PSL too hang on I don't need them all the time but for some reason I've needed them all day long today.

SPEAKER_04:

No you're good this little book is almost so worn out I found my little book I guess I probably knew where it was all along I just didn't want to find it before okay my account number is nine five eight three five one two four three two two nine five eight three five one two four two two yes and it's a pay by phone and if that's what you're probably gonna do. No I'm doing it right now you are yeah make sure it's on the pay as you go so they'll turn it on right now okay I don't know how to do that yeah because I have an outstanding bill of 200 and something so I had to go to the pay as you go so they'll let's keep your electricity on because I was on the after class after that's when I had a job and then when I didn't have a job I went to the pay as you go let me see if there's a pay as you go on on here um these abil changes pay in person never miss payment payment assistance payment assistance that's just if they uh if you get on the feet fork something or another here which I've never been able to get on to I think that's my sister but it's called pay as you go right right usually it's down there there's usually a little button under pay pay my bill right usually it costs like a dollar eighty five when you call oh yeah I sold the dollar eighty five yeah that's plus right so if I pay as a guest I don't know how you pay as a as a guest I've never I've never done that but so it says but if I pay them surely you could call them like does it automatically just come on you don't have to tell them like hey turn it on to go it comes on right when right like when you hang up or right as the money goes in otherwise it would go to the bill that the outstanding bill right you just want me to call them I think I should call them that's I'm sorry are you sure that if I call it right now it's gonna turn it on though because it says payments made after 4 p.m eastern which was an hour and a half ago it would be on the next day so is it gonna turn it on tonight? That's not on the page as you go all right but if I call this one eight if I call this one eight hundred number that's the number one eight hundred something or another to make a payment uh okay so that's um yeah that's the number I call I've got another number too all right give me that number one eight eight eight three three three four zero two six all right or or let me give you this other number too I've got both of them one eight eight eight two one six three five two three and you have to give him my phone number my Lomar and that account number all right let me call him real quick pay on pay as you go all right let me call him real quick and I'll call you back all right thank you so much you're welcome Penny bye bye okay bye-bye you guys are just along for the ride at this point this is we're gonna call this the J Dub special welcome to PSO's Customer Solutions Center this call may be recorded for quality assurance I'm not welcoming my CSA in a few words please tell me why you are calling pay as you go welcome to American Electric Power Automated Payment Service please make sure you have your electric account number and payment information available hey Penny it's RJ AK Moneluia AK Mon thank you so much you're welcome you're not gonna freeze tonight you sold your house reset button I hope so I hope so I'm ready for a reset there you go we're up here we're off to a good start so go enjoy your your Tuesday night you can say some uh praise Jesus prayers night and thank god that uh he connected Us. I appreciate you trusting me and giving me the opportunity to help you out. I know I like to do a lot of crazy things. And so I tell people all the time you shouldn't just give sellers money. But in this scenario, I think it was the right thing to do.

SPEAKER_09:

So oh, thank you so much. You don't know how much this means to me. Well, don't keep going.

SPEAKER_04:

Like I said, thank you for giving me the opportunity. And uh my team will be reaching out to you tomorrow with the next steps. And like I said, there'll be an email that gets sent to the title company. They'll want to reach out to you and get some information. But uh, we're gonna get the process started and get you taken care of, okay, Penny?

SPEAKER_09:

All right, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_08:

Thank you so much. I'll ever talk, I'll talk to you again all right.

SPEAKER_04:

Probably not.

unknown:

Really?

SPEAKER_04:

Probably not. But you have my cell phone number, so you can my team does a lot. Like I said, I I really don't do a whole lot. This was this is definitely a God thing.

SPEAKER_09:

Um Okay, well, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04:

You're you're welcome, Penny.

SPEAKER_09:

I hope I talk to you again sometime.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, you've got my cell phone number, so you can you can reach out to me. You can send me a text. I'll how about this? I'll make sure when we when we buy your house and you get that money, I'll call you the day of closing, okay?

SPEAKER_08:

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes, all right. All right, Penny. I appreciate you. Enjoy your night, okay?

unknown:

Thank you, RJ.

SPEAKER_04:

You're welcome. Bye bye.