He lost everything. Now he makes up to $1M/year flipping brownstones

Mark O'Brien: So it's been two and a half years that I've been waiting for permits. You know it's landmark. [...] No, it's it's a lot of work of architects, engineers getting u soil bearing bearing tests. You know, they've got to break up the the foundation down below in the in the cellar and I can show it to you and then they they want to see where is my neighbor's foundation, where's the footing, where where's my footing compared to their footing. [...] It's the cost to carry it. It's And time will kill every deal. And and often it does.

Mark O'Brien: This two things that I do. I like to go onto the roof. I like to finish or three things. The roof, the cellar, and I widen the staircase. So you can kind of tell that I the there's more of a gap because brownstones are notorious for being a little dark in the middle because there's no windows in the middle typically. So I widen the staircase and I put a lot of light and a bulkhead on the top so you get light down the middle [...] I also think it's important to get as much usable space as you can. As much as this will be finished and this is basically free square footage because you know in terms of Floor area ratio, they don't count a base because it's below grade.

Sam Parr: In terms of money, this business was a pain in the butt and I don't think it made that much money. I'm going to give it a three. Basically, I think that he probably does something like $500,000 to a million dollar a year in income, but that's on a good year. On a bad year, he probably can like lose money and it and it was just a lot of work for that amount of money. Second machine, can it run without him? And he has a team of people that he uses in most of his projects, but he's really like the catalyst for this whole thing working. I'm going to give it another three. And for moat, the biggest moat here is I don't think people are crazy enough to do this, but anyone with enough money could probably do it, and there's a lot of people in the city who can. I'm going to give it a two. So, what does that sum up to? An eight. So, the business score, an 8 out of 30.

Sam Parr: For pride, he was very proud of what he was doing. I was actually proud for him. I thought it was amazing. I'm going to give that one a nine. [...] Now, people, I met some of his co-workers, some of the guys doing work. It was awesome. They were really cool and lovely. I'm going to give it a seven just because some of the people who he sells his properties to, I probably don't want to hang out with some of those folks. And now, freedom. I'm going to give this one a five. The reason I'm going to do a five is because each project has an end date. So, he could take some time off if he wanted to, but when he's there, like in the thick of it, it seems like Saturday and Sunday is included. He's always on the phone like dealing with regulations and things like that. So, the lifestyle score gets a 21 out of 30.