218: Unlock Your $150M+ Real Estate Empire in Under 10 Years
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Welcome back to The Richer Geek Podcast! Today, we talked with Mike and Bo, who figured out how to build a real estate business worth over $150 million in less than 10 years. They'll share the important steps, useful tips, and the right way of thinking to make it big in real estate. You'll learn how to find good real estate deals, understand the market, and avoid mistakes. This episode is your guide to changing your money future through smart real estate investing and building wealth.
In this exciting episode, you'll hear from Mike and Bo, friends who've become successful real estate investors. They'll tell us their "secret recipe" for fast growth in real estate. From their special way of finding deals (looking at distressed, divorce, and estate sales) to using money wisely to grow their investments, they explain how working together made their money success even bigger. Forget about slow, normal ways to get rich in real estate – learn how to quickly build a large real estate collection and become financially free!
In this episode, we’re discussing…
Work Together to Grow Faster: Mike and Bo show how their friendship and different skills helped them achieve much more in real estate than they could have alone.
Focus on Money Now and Good Deals: Their main plan is to buy properties that make money right away and find assets that are priced low (often by looking at distressed, divorce, or estate sales) to get the best returns.
Use Other People's Money Wisely: They learned how to use loans early on and built trust with lenders, which allowed them to get more money to grow their business quickly.
Take Action, Don't Just Think: Mike and Bo stress that it's important to start doing things and learn as you go, instead of just studying and being afraid to make a move.
Put Business Money Back In: They used the profits from their other businesses to buy more real estate, which helped their wealth grow faster and faster.
Help Others Succeed in Real Estate: Mike and Bo now offer advice and even partnerships because they want to help other people become financially free through real estate.
Resources from Mike & Bo
Text or Call Mike and Bo at (928) 605-4335 | Instagram | Mike & Bo, LLC
Resources from Mike and Nichole
Gateway Private Equity Group | Nic's guide | Franchise With Bob
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Mike Stohler: Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Richer Geek Podcast. We have two guys, Mike and Bo, they've been best friends for 25 years. Mike and Bo started doing business together in 2015, and boy that's less than 10 years and they've done a lot. They started purchasing buildings together in Texas.
Partnership catapulted their success together. The duals founded multiple eight figure companies, Houston Motorsports, Kort Industries, Mohave Storage. Since the partnership began in 2015, Mike and Bo have built a portfolio of 43 companies, ladies and gentlemen, over $150 million in commercial real estate.
What in the world did you guys do? And how did you do it? Mike and Bo, welcome to the podcast.
Bo Kort: Yeah. Thank you very much. Appreciate you having us on.
Mike Stohler: My goodness.
Bo Kort: 2015 comes out, we're embarrassed because we were best friends for 25 years and we shot the shit about business, but he was selling furniture and I had a bread distribution company and a swimming pool construction company.
And we just talked business all the time. Talked about real estate, talked about all the things that young entrepreneurs do on their back patio. But we never did anything in partnership. We were both thinking about it, but no one ever came to the table with it. But once we did, it was like rocket fuel, right? So, Mike and I are the same.
Mike Stohler: What was the rocket fuel? What was the success? What was the synergy?
Bo Kort: Honestly, it was Mike and his brother who always did business together, and then they had one partner that they dragged along into their partnership. And I think once he finally just said, "Hey guys, I'm just faking it."
You guys are all real about it, but I'm faking it, trying to act like I'm as excited about every little deal. I'm gonna call it quits and step out. And then once I saw that happen, I saw there was an opportunity. And then Mike and his brother DeanO, who's in Texas said, "Hey, we're looking at a building, are you interested in jumping in on something?"
And I owned a little bit of real estate, but we always talked about it. And then once we did and we realized the synergies . We just started going. And so, we took down probably over 200 different properties in less than 10 years.
Mike Stohler: It's crazy and you're doing it with basically no seed.
Bo Kort: Yes.
Mike Stohler: It's your own capital. Talk to us about why you didn't want to do a syndication, because a lot of people try. But it seems like you did it so fast. When I first started, I made my own money, but I have to keep it for two years. Build it up, put lipstick on it, sell it, take that little bit extra cash, leverage it. And it was like, it seemed like a very slow process.
Bo Kort: It was above our pay grade a little bit. We just didn't understand how to do it. We're in a small town community. We didn't have YouTube, we didn't have all the coaching that's out there. We didn't really recognize any of that.
Mike Merrigan: Didn't know it existed.
Bo Kort: We didn't know it existed, to be honest.
Mike Merrigan: Our last jobs, we were 18 years old, so the only way to get rich was to join a rock band or be an old guy. Now you look online and go, you got 12-year-olds driving Lambos. It wasn't that way. You know what I mean? It was like the only guy that could be rich would be a doctor, a lawyer, and he's the old guy wherever.
And then the other young people, those were rock stars, right? That's the way I grew up. Then I got into the video store business with a cousin and bought him out a year later and opened up a small chain, went to car washes and laundromats after that. I loved the cash type businesses and going from retail location to location, hunting locations, moving locations.
My brother and I realized, Guess what? The only guy that's totally happy is the guy with the lease and coming up with another guy that's got another good idea, " Sign here on the lease." We want to be the happy guy. So we realized young, hey the landlord. And when we went out looking to be the landlord, we looked at strip centers above our pay grade.
We found an old light industrial building in Texas City, Texas. Revamped that, made it into a business and just bought another one and another one. And that's how we got started, just finding undervalued properties that we could refurbish and then put a tenant in there. And we've kept basically every one of them since then.
All of them cash flow, we won't buy anything that doesn't, so then we can stack 'em like cordwood. because they don't cost anything after you take the down payment. We've had successful businesses. Actually had a couple fortunate gentlemen that were older guys of the past that were like hard money guys.
They took a liking to us. We learned that game real quick and got good at it.
Bo Kort: Yep. And once you give them their money back, they're wanting to throw it back at you. Every time we got the return back, we would just the BRRRR method, we would buy these things, fix them up, lease them up, take it back to the local community bank, get the hard money, lender their money back, and the minute you get it back to 'em, they want to give it to you tenfold.
That's what allowed us to scale. But we have multiple businesses too. We took every dime out of them and threw them into every bit of real estate that we could . We stayed at the blackjack table till late at night. That's what we say, " We doubled down."
Mike Merrigan: Because real estate's slow. You don't live off your real estate. If you think a lot of people think. "I wanna own pizza, real estate, I'm gonna be rich, I wanna go golfing." You buy a bunch of real estate, you're gonna be broke. You better have something to feed it. You can buy one, you can buy two, but if you buy 40, you're broke, if you're using your own money. We didn't know anything about syndication or funds. It was above our pay grade.
Bo Kort: Yeah. Every time we sat down with somebody to talk to them about syndications or funds, they didn't own all of their real estate. And we were scaling as fast as we could.
But one thing that was different, we always sat down with people going, give us a silver bullet like, "How do you do it?" Then by the end of the meeting, they would go, "What are you guys doing? I don't know that I would wanna do a syndication. You guys are doing it. You own a hundred percent of your stuff. You're buying it 30 to 50% under value and it's cash flowing in 90 days. Screw my business model. I'm gonna go with yours. Who's your hard money lender?"
Mike Stohler: Yeah, exactly. What's the difference? You've had a lot of different types of businesses and some say it's those businesses that give you, where you have a membership or you have this recurring revenue. Car washes the laundromats, those things where you have a membership and you're getting $40 a month, no matter if they come zero times or a hundred times . How important is that? Or just having one lease?
Do you have both where you're doing the one lease guys or you have some that are recurring?
Mike Merrigan: The recurring feeling that you're talking about to me, the first time I realized in the city we live in, it penciled to have the laundromats open 24 hours. Coming from a retail background, when I realized I was sleeping, making money. That's when it really hit me. And then I get that same fuzzy feeling when I know rent's coming every single month. I'm getting ready to head to Austria next week, and if I decide to stay for three months, there's still checks coming in.
That's the feeling. Whereas I come back and every one of my businesses might close, if I'm gone in three months. But I know that the real estate will be there. That's the love for real estate.
Mike Stohler: I've got the sign above my desk: " Build a life you don't need a vacation from."
Bo Kort: Yeah, that's a good one point.
Mike Stohler: That's exactly what you're saying. I keep harping on this about real estate. I do hotels, they do other types of businesses. You have to understand that there's just not one type of asset. But what does it all have in common?
It's a function or a type of real estate. God's not making any more of it, so you might as well buy as much as you can. I'm buying a hotel in Spain. I was there for two weeks, and didn't have to worry about anything because I've got people.
Mike Merrigan: Just you saying that, and that's what you're on this podcast. So we have a coaching program and that's what we teach. The saddest part is when I have a 50-year-old guy come in here because we had an open-door policy, and that's how we got into social media. It's just local business people coming in.
But I remember one of my suppliers came in from the furniture store. And a lot of people question what we do. We're a small town. "What are you guys doing? What are you guys doing?" As he's asking me, I realized I've had a relationship with this guy for a long time with furniture.
He is a salesperson to our chain of furniture stores. And then I look down, he's scared. He's 50 and the day he quits working, which now he's tired. When I knew him when he was 30, he was never gonna get tired.
He's had a few family issues so I imagine he doesn't have enough tank, saved up that he would like to have a duplex or a fourplex or a 10 plex that he should have bought when he was 30 and he didn't.
And now he is wanting to know, "How can I get caught up?" I would hate to be there. So you've got a TSA job. Don't be entrepreneurs like us. Keep your TSA job. But buy yourself a duplex . Buy yourself something because in 15 years you're gonna be glad you did.
Bo Kort: Even if you pay retail for it.
Mike Merrigan: Pay retail. We buy 30% of value but if you don't do anything, you're miserable. You should have bought a fourplex at retail back in wherever. Back in 2024, buy it today, pay too much. Forget the interest rate. Forget the price. Buy it, get it paid for. And in 20 years you'll be going, "Thank God, we did it."
Bo Kort: Yep.
Mike Merrigan: Done.
Mike Stohler: You marry the property and date the rate.
Mike Merrigan: Yes. That's true.
Mike Stohler: The rate will change. I've got a dozen or so houses. Every single one of them, I paid market for it because I knew that the rents were higher than the mortgage.
Mike Merrigan: There you go.
Mike Stohler: And the only way that I could ever get in trouble is if I had to sell. But if you don't ever have to sell, who cares what the price is and what your payment is.
Bo Kort: Yeah. Don't be all about cash flow.
Mike Stohler: It's all about cash flow. Before we get into the coaching, what was it like knowing that, talking about your friend, you really never have to retire. You can own real estate at 85 years old. Just have people run it for you.
Bo Kort: Yep.
Mike Stohler: What was that feeling? " Wow, I'm not just a number anymore. I control my own destiny." And they could be whatever I want.
Mike Merrigan: I think for us, honestly, we don't pat each other on the back. I'm speaking for both too because I know we are both so grateful for what we do have, but we're never satisfied. So there's no day.
Bo Kort: We nailed it. We're not killing, look at us.
Mike Merrigan: It's no day like we're hungry today. The meeting was in between busy stuff right now.
But that's what we love to do, and it's from our last jobs when we were 18 years old, and I've never worked a day in my life.
Bo Kort: Yeah.
Mike Merrigan: Ever.
Bo Kort: We love what we do.
Mike Merrigan: When I leave the house, I can't wait to run to work and I can't, and then to go home, I gotta lie a little bit. I'll be home in a half hour and I know it's gonna be 45 to an hour. It's just because I like what I do.
Mike Stohler: Yeah.
Mike Merrigan: The hardest thing I do is go home. At work, I'm king. So we love it.
Mike Stohler: It's a different type of inspiration. In talking about this, we're gonna have a lot of listeners here and they've listened to a lot of my podcasts about real estate and the different types of the assets and different ways of getting involved, whether it's just being an LP. But one thing that I've really talked about is, like I said prior is, don't get started unless you have coaching. You're going to spend money some way, whether it's spending the money and failing.
Or spending the money and educating yourself. Let's talk about your coaching. What is your website and what are they going to find once they click on it?
Bo Kort: It's mikeandbo.com.
If you go to @mikeandbo on Instagram, that's the best way to find us. Also, you can text us at (928) 605-4335. And if it's not Mike or I returning a call, it's gonna be someone on our acquisition team to lay out exactly what we do.
One thing, before I get into it is: we own a bunch of businesses. We own motor sports, furniture stores, and swimming pools. Whenever we are selling anything, we always try to provide the best buying experience. But I can say in all of these businesses that we own, when you buy a swimming pool for me, a couch from Mike, a motor sports side-by-side from our motorsports company, the value is in what you make of it.
But when you get on our coaching call, the education that you get from that coaching call it's just priceless. And I want it for everybody. I want it for my family, I want it for my friends. Not everybody's gonna understand it, but at some point in time, like Mike said earlier, that 50-year-old friend, he needs it and people need it.
If you're not doing that, you gotta be doing something for your future. The point I'm trying to get across is just the value that it's gonna bring to somebody is just tremendous. As long as you do something with it. If you're using it for entertainment, you wanna get on a coaching call just to hear Mike and I talk about the shit that we do, and you're never gonna do it. If it's worth it to you, then do it.
But at the same time, if somebody does something with it. A minute ago, it just set you free, man. It feels so good because in the early years that stress, that strain, we talked before the podcast about just those years of you owning this type of asset and that type of asset, and then you said that you got clear and you said, "Hey, I'm doing hotels." What did I say to you? I was like, "How did you get there?" Because we're squirrels.
Mike Merrigan: I'd have to hire you as a coach, and then you'd show me how. But if I don't hire you as a coach, I'm an idiot because when we started out, there was no such thing as coach mentorship. There was nothing like that. I was 19 years old and I had to join the Rotary Club to find some badass guys that I wanted to hang out with, and I did it at 19 years old. I was asked to join the Rotary.
Bo Kort: He was in Rotary with my dad, literally. I was still in high school. This dude's in Rotary, 19 years old, and my dad's probably 45 at the time. He comes home and he is this young guy named Mike Merrigan. He owns those video stores in town. He's 19 years old. . He's in Rotary. I'm like, "What's he doing with all you old cats in there?"
Mike Stohler: Yeah, that's funny.
Bo Kort: But you're looking for mentorship, you're looking for direction. Our coaching call is cheap. It's pennies on the dollar, but the knowledge that we give to people if they're gonna do something with it, will save them thousands, if not hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of dollars if they take the advice and they do something with it.
Mike Merrigan: Yeah, exactly.
Mike Stohler: Are you teaching them how to buy a house or are you teaching them how to be an entrepreneur? What are the steps and what is your program?
Mike Merrigan: What we do is we try to determine where everyone's at.
Because everyone's at a different level. Someone signs up, they might already have their first fourplex or first duplex or we talked to a guy today, he had a bunch of 30 homes that he had done. But honestly, he goes, it's him and his wife and they were well put together.
But all these homes and all the repairs, the margins are shrinking. It's hard to keep everything going with all the leaky fossils and everything. We've done all those, but light industrial is what we truly love and that's what we like to coach.
We own 50 storage complexes. But guess what? As soon as we got in, not everyone was chasing those. Everyone's chasing storage. The prices went crazy. We haven't. We don't buy those anymore because the low hanging fruit's gone. We did vRBO, got into that until everyone else did. But one thing we don't run into is a lot of people are light industrial.
And everybody knows that you turn on social media, they're talking about how it was so overlooked. Those service, careers of the plumber. The AC guy, the tile guy, whatever it is. Now, even the hedge funds are getting involved in those types of companies blowing it up. We leased to those guys.
One acre, 3,000 square foot steel building, fence around it. Put their 15 trucks in at night stack the acs or the tile or the drapes or whatever they're selling. They got a small office and a restroom. Guess what? They go back and forth. So all those service businesses that are blowing up were the guys that leased them.
Bo Kort: What we teach is actually from A to Z. Being a commercial real estate investor, they can apply for duplexes, quadplexes, multifamily, whatever you wanna apply it to. A lot of the concepts are the same. And a lot of people don't realize that. Even like the gentleman that we talked to, him and his wife today.
They've got it dialed in. They just need to turn the direction that dialed towards commercial as opposed to residential. And we can teach them how to do that. They've already got the policies or the processes and procedures and staff to be able to do it. They just don't have the education, they don't have the background, they don't have the years of experience that we do.
We show people how to acquire those properties, how to negotiate them. The BRRRR method of getting them fixed up, the more dilapidated that it is. We love it. We buy it 30% to 50% under value. Get its value added to it, get it leased up, take it back to the local community bank. They'll get you your money back, and you can just do it over and over again.
And the next thing you know, you got 200+ buildings. It's just a snowball effect.
Mike Merrigan: We call it the 3 Ds. So what we teach, the majority of our properties come from one of the 3 Ds is either distressed piece of property, divorce, or death.
And we're very patient and so we just circle back around. Every single piece of property on planet Earth is gonna change hands, so might not change hands today. So we just build those relationships, come back around, ask if we can see you in 60 days or six months or a year, we circle back and ask them again, did life change?
But we're building those relationships with those guys. A lot of people don't understand that this country is full of, I'll say, male, female, but a bunch of old guys that ran their machine shop, ran their business out of their steel building. Money is not the issue. They've made enough and they live conservatively.
So money's not the problem. They just don't want to even list it. The weeds grow up, it starts rusting. We knock on the door, send them a letter, call them, "Hey, are you doing anything with your building?" Let them know. We're great guys. What we're gonna do to that building, we're gonna keep it carrying on your legacy. People get emotionally attached to their buildings and we try to buy them from them when they're ready.
Mike Stohler: The ladies, gentlemen that are listening. You may own residential and think that, " I could just switch it industrial, I don't need the coaching."
And I can tell you people, when I went from multifamily to hotels, it's " Ah, it's just people."
Mike Merrigan: No.
Mike Stohler: Not even close. Ladies and gentlemen, good for you, if you own residential fourplexes fixed and flips Airbnbs. When you get into commercials, what does commercials mean?
You're owning a business. You're not owning a residential, you're not a landlord per se. It's a huge difference. So please get some coaching, whether it's with Mike and Bo or through the internet.
Mike Merrigan: I'm on the board of directors of a local community.
I'm also on the loan committee. Before I was and I, six or seven years probably, but before. It was always like a mystery. What happens behind the curtain? You know what it is? It's a group of people at a table like this that wanna loan you money. Once I see behind the curtain, and that's what we also coach, every single thing is negotiable from the purchase price to the escrow fees to the extension.
Every single thing. Once you get past the point and know how to ask, you can ask for anything. Interest rate, payoff, penalties, everything is negotiable. But most people don't realize that. So that's how we can save you so much money in real life. I'm on a loan committee. One person comes in, "Hey, here's a loan."
It's one point. The next one comes in an hour later. There's no point. Why are there no points? We just decided not to give. You mean that was negotiable? Oh, this one's two points. Interest rates are not, the four loans are on the table.
They're all four different loan rates. Guess what? They just negotiated with the lady or the guy before it even gets to us, and then we approve it or don't approve it, whatever. So everything's negotiable. We teach you how to negotiate on the purchase price when you're going into the beginning, we teach how to negotiate on every single thing to save as much money as you can.
Mike Stohler: Are there different packages that you guys have? How long is the coaching?
Bo Kort: The best part about our coaching is, it truly is for everybody. If there's somebody that just has the desire, and they just want to get educated and they're at the very beginning and they have no money in their pocket.
We will partner with you if you have the hustle to get out there, identify properties, bring them back to us, we'll help you analyze them, and then we'll give you either a little spiff off of it. Yeah. Or we'll actually partner with you on it.
And you got more money than time and you just don't want to actually beat the streets and do the phone calls and do all of this stuff that we do, but you want to partner with us and you wanna put some capital into it so you got some return and some mailbox money down the road.
We coach you up and teach you how it's done. What we call a 5K cowboy, somebody comes in, pays us $5,000, we will walk them through the whole process of how to do it. We get on a biweekly phone call to work through the process of negotiations, getting it financed every aspect, signing that lease, making sure that it's triple net.
We just walk you through the whole process. Now, for 5,000, for us, it's not enough. But the opportunity to possibly partner with some of those people that they fall short on the capital. Mike and I got it. We'll take care of it for you. They fall short on the management of it. We got it. We got management teams.
They fall short on the acquisition side of it. We have the team to do it ourselves and in life you realize you can only do so much with your own two hands, and so sometimes you need to partner with people if you truly want to scale and you wanna get to that next level. You talked about it beforehand, it's your team.
Yeah, but we're just building a bigger team across the country. We just partnered with a guy this week. We closed on a 69,000 square foot Coca-Cola distribution center for $400,000. We bought it for $5 a square foot. The young man brought it to us. He's 24 years old. He owns 25% of a building that the day that we closed on it, it was owned by Coca-Cola.
They just want to get it off the books. They're not a real estate company. They're selling sodas, so they just wanted to get it off the books. So we were able to take down the property. This young man had 25% of this deal the day we closed. It's worth 1.7. Now, once we get it fixed up and we get a tenant in there, it's gonna go to at least 2.7, possibly 3.5, depending on the lease that we signed for it.
But it's just because the young man's got hustle and he was on our coaching call for like six months, and he's a killer. And this is the first of many properties we're gonna do with this young guy.
And he put together the value add. So he sent videos today, he's got a crew out there painting the outside of the building.
They're steam cleaning, they're doing all the things necessary. He lives 30 minutes away. He already had some small experience in owning a few small homes. And so he was ready to step up to light industrial, so perfect fe and we found a great deal with them. And that's working out. So right on.
Mike Stohler: Yeah.
American Dream.
Yes, sir. Exactly right. Yeah. Man, it gives me shivers when I think about yes. It's gosh dang, I wish you guys were around back when I was in my twenties, but nobody was.
Mike Merrigan: That's what we say, the same thing. We would've had somebody talking to Frankford own right now because I just didn't know what we were doing.
I made mistakes. Didn't even know you could ask for help in my family. You didn't ask anybody for anything except for the ketchup. I didn't ask my dad anything. He didn't tell me anything. You had to watch him. Just don't do that or do this. But as we get older and on the internet, you can ask anybody anything and get advice and then follow the vice of experts.
You don't have to use us, but use somebody. Somebody.
Mike Stohler: And that's just it. Most of us grew up in the family of, " No, you graduate college, you go work for someone for 40 years." You get your watch, you got social security, and sit back in your lazy boy and watch sports. That's life.
Yeah. And I was like, eh.
Bo Kort: So thankful we didn't follow that path. I would be so disappointed in myself. Yeah. But today I'm proud and we always feel like we're not where we want to be. We're constantly chasing the next deal or the next situation or the next level.
But I'd be so disappointed.
Mike Stohler: It's addictive, isn't the guys?
Mike Merrigan: It's addictive.
We're deal junkies.
Mike Stohler: Deal junkies. Ladies and gentlemen, you go through this coaching with Mike and Bo and all of a sudden, this light bulb goes off and it goes off with me. And all of a sudden it's oh my God.
It's like building a life where you don't need a vacation from you. It's like, I can work while I'm renting an RV in any state, any country, I could do anything. And I'm like going, "Yes, this is what it's like. You have to go through coaching, you have to have a mentor, I still have business coaches and people get me straight up here once in a while.
Bo Kort: First of all, it's not for everybody. You know what we do and what you do. It's not for everybody.
And some people do just follow us for entertainment, so that's okay too. But if you are gonna be interested in getting involved in real estate or business entrepreneurship, there's a point where you just gotta take action and figure it out later. And I have, we have people that read a lot of books. I have nothing against that.
But at one point in the 15th book, what are you doing? How many books about golf are you gonna read before you go golfing? No one's ever read 15 books about golf and now I'm gonna go down there. You gotta get wet, jump in the deep end and figure it out. The thing is, if you start with a duplex and you got a head on your shoulder and a decent job, you're not gonna lose everything.
You might have a bad month or whatever, but you're gonna be okay. And the thing is, you're never gonna know everything. But with people like us, people like yourself, guess what? We're gonna help you along the way. Let's go. But you gotta jump in and figure it out later. Because you're never gonna know it all.
And then most people don't do it 'cause they're afraid.
Mike Stohler: The important thing that my business coach said, he goes, "Look, there are fears, but you have to understand the fears aren't real. It's all in your head.
Mike Merrigan: Yes.
Mike Stohler: I teach a lot of seminars around the country and I see the same people.
I'm like, " Yeah, I remember you from last year, and how many deals have you done?" "Well, you know, just one more seminar. I'll be ready." Yeah. And I'm like going, "The hardest part is just getting out of your own way."
Bo Kort: You gotta get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Mike Stohler: Excuses, excuses are real to you, but it's not a fact.
It's not on the outside.
Bo Kort: Good point.
Mike Stohler: Where else can people find you guys?
Bo Kort: DM us on @mikeandbo on Instagram. Also shoot us a text at (928) 605-4335. One of those two avenues is gonna be the quickest response. We'll get back to you right away. We're not under high pressure.
We like to advise. We're not for everybody like Mike said. But if you do have that passion to get into real estate in any way, shape, or form, I guarantee we will bring you some valid value. And we enjoy doing it. It's nice making money, but it's fun changing lives and helping people out.
Mike Stohler: That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, money is not the goal that will come. It's the why. It's freedom. Mike and Bo, thank you so much for coming on the Richard Geek Podcast. You guys have a blessed day.
Mike & Bo: Alright, man. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time.
Absolutely appreciate it.
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ABOUT MIKE MERRIGAN & BO KORT
After being best friends for 25 years, Mike and Bo started doing business together in 2015. They started purchasing buildings together in Texas. This partnership catapulted their success. Together the duo has founded multiple eight-figure companies - Houston Motorsports, Kort Industries, and Mohave Storage. Since their partnership began in 2015, Mike & Bo have built a portfolio of 43 companies and over $150,000,000 in commercial real estate. They are involved in 14 different industries - motorsports, industrial fabrication, specialty services, construction, and self-storage.