In this episode, Rob is deep in the AI rabbit hole — and it's getting expensive. After burning through his entire monthly Claude allotment by Monday building three bots simultaneously, he racked up $500 in API overage in two days doing "minimal" work. His solution? Order a second Mac Mini, run it headless under his desk, and spin up a second $200/month Max plan. Chris and Rob get into why the businesses actually winning with AI aren't cutting people — they're amplifying them. Then it's a preview of the next Portland REI Meetup, a sneak peek at guest Arie Van Gemeren and his 300-400 unit pre-war portfolio, and a rabbit hole on whether MLS data could be the final unlock for a truly automated underwriting tool.

In this episode, Chris and Rob swap Mother's Day stories — one involving a perfect embroidered sweatshirt, the other a broken play that turned into cold coffee, canceled reservations, and a lesson in never giving your wife too many options. Then the conversation pivots to deals: Rama Capital's 20-unit is heading into final negotiations with a failed roof, a shot water heater, and original 1928 galvanized plumbing pushing the case for a price reduction — while a brand new 150-unit opportunity lands out of nowhere with return metrics that actually work. Chris breaks down why scaling up changes everything from property management fees to your credibility as an operator, and why getting that first big close might be the only thing standing between Rama Capital and any deal they want.

In this episode, Dylan recaps the wildest golf story of the year — slicing a drive into a moving truck, tracking down the driver, and footing the bill on a Silverado windshield repair that ballooned past $500K in damage (and then broke again days later). From there the guys dig into debt — the psychological weight of payroll anxiety versus the strategic case for taking on debt to grow faster, and how each of them actually manages it personally and in business. Then Chris breaks down why his team just had its best month ever in a down market, why "the off-season" is really just a chance to do things differently, and the uncomfortable truth that every home-buying decision — no matter how data-driven it looks — ultimately comes down to emotion.