Backyard Honey vs Store Honey – You’ll Be Surprised

Guys, I just finished recording a podcast with Ariforn who is a real estate agent and he does he makes honey all by himself. A real entrepreneur recorded a special episode coming up. It's going to be amazing. Even if you don't want to watch the full episode, which I think is very interesting to hear how the bees are made, the differences between real honey and fake honey um and a little bit about the real estate uh market currently. Um, I want to tell you that he made a code Weber on his website. So, you can get your honey for Rashuna and you can get 10% off whether you order through him or you order through the website. Put in code Weber and get 10% off of your honey. That's my gift to you guys for the new year. All the best. Enjoy. >> Ready? Okay. Welcome to another episode of Positivity. I'm super excited to bring on today. I got invited here today. Um he's hosting us Rabari Rabari Feficorn who is known as one of the biggest and first real estate agents in Tom's Riverver first and foremost. He does real estate together with his wife but I think even more Bant is for the Donna B honey um which is I became a huge fan for two reasons. So So winter I love it because it I put it in my tea and it's just delicious. And summer I love it because um it's very good for allergies because the bees carry in themselves pollins that help for the enzymes that help for the pollen uh allergy. This is very good. So I figured is the perfect time for people especially when there's it's going to be a fully loaded. People should know what they're eating and also I want them to know the difference between a bucketshan which is a syrup and it's not even honey. >> So Ari, a pleasure to be with you today. Thank you. We know each other for a while. >> Welcome to >> welcome to Donna B apiary. >> Thank you. >> Apiary has mentioned a farm like like a a far bee farm. size of apiary heist where you have beehives and um >> they do their job. They do what they do. So I have an apiary, a small apiary in my backyard which I have >> right >> uh about it's about eight, seven or eight hives right now, >> right? >> I have different places. I have different backyards. I have different farms. Um total about 35 to 40 hives total. >> Wow. >> That I manage >> right. >> Um so basically been a realtor as you said that >> right >> and as a hobby >> take care of bees because of pollination. I planted a garden in Sinjavox and I was talking to some farmers. How do you make it grow? How do you make the things grow better? >> Yeah. And we talked about pollination about bees and I got fascinated by the whole the whole prosp the whole the gun's idea and and people don't even understand they don't not they don't understand because they don't just don't know Buddha's what what's the the the importance of what the bees do mention first of all mention bees the bees that mention The bees that come into the sik, they eat a little of your honey. They eat >> mainly what they eat is insects and flies and fish and they they come they fight for your food, not for the honey. >> The bees was the honey inside the house or inside the sika because their food is from the flowers and only if there's live flowers, they're not going to come into the flowers as if there's live flowers that has nectar, they will come. That's that's where they'll go. They will not sting you for no good reason. They will not sting you if they're not close to the hive. Only when they want to protect the hive, that's that's when >> you could get stung from from them. >> Oh wow. >> So >> yeah, the controversial >> I'm sorry >> of a bee bite. People are so afraid of a bee bite. >> And you know it's nothing. It's nothing not more than a cut, >> right? People not afraid of a cut, >> right? >> Of a sting of a because it hurts. Yes, it hurts. >> How many times have you gotten a bite? >> I got stung a lot. >> And what do you do when it happens? >> Nothing. Nothing. In the beginning, I used to like get stung and it blew up >> right >> for a day or two. It only hurts for 20 for 10 minutes, 20 minutes. It hurts. >> Okay. >> Then goes away. So all it's becomes like a mosquito bite itches you know. >> Yeah. >> Instead of blues big deal it goes away after a day or two goes away. By now I don't even get uh I don't even get nothing. Just I take out the stinger and >> is it true that when a be is started right away? >> Not right away but yes it will die because >> it only has one stinger something. >> It has one stinger. Nine. Oh, everybody has one stinger. The the honeybees stingers like barbed wires. >> So once he stings you and the stinger got in skin >> Yeah. >> it gets stuck in there. >> Okay. >> And the stinger stays by you. [Applause] the other bees smooth uh needle. >> Yeah. >> And they could sting you >> over and over again. So that that's why it's scary. But but the other yellow jackets and wasps and these kind of things. >> But from honey bees, you know, like they know they're going to die. So they're not going to sting you for not. >> Oh wow. So, so the importance of the bees is >> everything that grows everything an apple, a peach, a pear, anything nuts, almonds, walnuts, anything that nuts, fruits, vegetables, the savak, there's a flower. If you if if you ever realize is the nice flowers. So the flower before the fruit or whatever the fruit is is there's a flower the flower falls off and the the fruit now there is two kinds of flowers there's a flower that will bear fruit and flower that will not bear fruit >> right >> and um sue inside the flower is do pollen pollen is one of the the foods was the bees essence essent pollen and nectar >> mhm >> so the P. So they go into the flowers to to forage. So they go pick nectar. Nectar and pollen the pollen from the flower that does not bear fruit with a flower that does bear the fruit. They have to mix together. >> Yeah. >> In order for that, that's called pollination. It's pollinated. In order for that fruit to kind of vaxon, it has to get pollen from the other flower into this flower. So how does that happen? >> Right. >> The bees when they go jump from one flower to the next and >> they don't care which flower it is. This is the one that does have the fruit or doesn't have the fruit. It's the same pollen >> but it has a different function the pollen but it's the same thing. And their body Yeah, >> it's a body of wings and the body and as they go and they take and they put it onto the and that helps. So if there would not be pollination nothing would grow. So talking to farmers what what you say maybe you rent some bees >> right >> and most of the big farms that's what they the the the the money that is being made in beekeeping is from renting out your >> bees >> bees to farmers >> right bees >> so the can the bee shop the bees >> that's right you order bees online and uh it gets delivered keep the box >> a few thousand bees and you can start. I mean, you take a nam course and you learn how to do >> have to set in the back. You have to you have to set up the hive and you have to >> you have to baby it because >> bees have a oh it's a whole kingdom and a whole system it's they frames in each high in each box. So box, dry boxes and the it's often and they go up and down and whatever the queen goes and >> the queen is the mother of all bees. >> Wow. >> And when you buy a box, it comes with a queen bee. >> You you you buy a queen bee and you buy a bunch of workers. >> Okay. >> So she does nothing all day but lays eggs. >> Wow. >> And in of the frame the honeycomb is hexagon boxes. >> Okay. bunch hexagon, >> right? >> And how do they do it? This is and they do it so perfectly. >> Okay, >> they figured out that in hexagon if you do hexagons six, you can fit the most in that in that space. So if you have the space like this. >> Yeah. >> If you do circles corners, >> okay, you do >> squares that hexagon is used to the maximum potential of every >> every inch, every little piece of space. >> Unbelievable. >> So they make these hexagons. They use that to put in the honey. They use that also for the queen to lay the eggs. So, the queen can lighten. She has the the ability to lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. >> Oh, wow. And from when she lays the eggs till when it's born as well. >> 21 days. >> Wow. >> So, the females is 21 days. The males is a little is 24 days. >> Males lay eggs. >> No, the female bees that are born. >> Yeah. It takes 21 days. >> She lays all the eggs. only one queen in in the hive. She's the mother of all the bees. She lays males and females mostly females cuz the females are the workers. The males and plane they have one job only >> and which is mate with a queen. >> Ah, >> okay. >> Very interesting. >> But not not often. >> Only one time. >> Oh wow. Why? after after after he mates with a queen one time drops that >> mamas. >> Yes. >> Okay. Wow. Imagine for us, huh? >> That is that is >> impressive. Very interesting. >> And he doesn't make >> that's that's the title. >> And he does not mate in the in in the hive. The hive is pure. >> Yeah. They where do they mate? Outside the hive. >> Outside the hive. >> Mamesh. So, so, so there's different reasons why they will replace a queen. >> Yeah. >> And a queen is born a queen. >> Okay. >> It's not born. It's not they take one beam. Okay. The guys aran queen. >> So, how >> it's got to be different how it's born a queen. >> When the queen lays the eggs and they decide they need a new queen, they will take one of these eggs and they will feed this egg with a different kind of a food. Wow. >> That will turn when this and it takes only 16 days for this bee to be born >> and it comes out a nicer bigger >> a big bigger >> wow >> a nicer queen a queen now >> and what happened to the old queen >> after the queen is born well either e either they there's few reasons why they will replace the queen and we'll go into this in a second. >> Mhm. >> After the queen is born she's a virgin can eggs. >> Okay. After a few days, like after a week, when she can fly already, she leaves the hive. She leaves over a pheromone, like a smell in the hive, >> okay? >> To let everybody know that there is a queen. The queen is coming back. >> Okay. >> The queen goes out for a week, two or 3 weeks, up to 30 days. She could be out there and she's looking for the male bees. >> Ah, >> to get mated. >> Right. Now, the male bees when they're born, >> they do nothing. They don't clean the hive. They don't protect the hive. They do nothing. They don't make honey. They do nothing. >> Okay? >> They just like zeticoon, >> right? >> After after a while, they leave the hive and they fly. It's called the community of drones. >> The males are called drones. Community of drones. And so, >> and they're waiting for a queen to come to be mated. >> Yeah. And there's a queen that flies by. They mate with a queen and after mating, you can see there's videos of them. They fall down and they die. >> Wow. Fascinating. Okay. So, in in the actual beehive, they sit there and they all give out honey and they protect it and they fill it up. name over many many months sometimes or weeks or whatever. >> And then what do you do afterwards? >> Okay. So, so when they go out and they forage, they bring back nectar. >> Okay. >> So, they they they add into the nectar like the sea enzymes, >> right? >> And they bring it back to the hive. And but when they bring it back is very runny, watery. The honey, >> the nectar, nectar has a lot of moisture in it. >> And if you shake it, it's >> okay. >> So, what they do once it's full >> Oh, they put a cover. Yeah. >> When it's full, no. >> Yeah. >> Before they put the cover, they they produce heat and and and ventilation to evaporate. It see all the moisture >> in the >> nectar until it becomes honey. >> Okay. It's so sticky, right? >> It's sticky, >> but they cover it with with a sheet of wax as it should stay forever. It should stay there, right? >> They they put it they put it away forever. Vince Mafen, >> they make so much honey, a lot more than they need, right? >> But that's what it is. So guy, >> honey is their food. >> Honey and and pollen. >> Pollen. Okay. >> Nectar and pollen. these two things. This is our food. >> Okay. >> But they make so much more than than they need. >> Just like when we work, we work a lot more and connect on the bank >> because you know for the next for the next >> Exactly. >> So there's different flowers, different seasons, >> right? >> As you can see here, look at this. Look at this. Look at the colors of the the the difference of the two colors, >> right? >> Is this? >> Yeah. This is from spring flowers and the spring flowers is like a flower like this traditional the golden >> this would be this would be more oh yeah right right >> but this every season every time every year every spring this is a spring honey >> right >> every spring one year it's lighter one year it's darker one year it's more amber one year it's less amber >> as you can see over here. This one here is also last year's spring bamboo. >> The blueberry blueberry is different different flowers that give out different color, different um taste. It doesn't taste from it. It's they're all wild flowers. All flour, >> right? >> Honey from flour, but different flowers. So basically so the the the wild flowers that's why different wild flowers which is two different seasons. >> Oh flower blueberry flowers. >> Now blueberry flowers is the blueberry farms they rent beehives from beekeepers. >> Yeah. to pollinate >> from blueberry. >> The blueberry the blueberry trees. >> It's a blueberry flavor. It's 100% natural blueberry flavor. >> Natural. No, it's not from blueberry flavor at all. >> This is just the honey. I lying. It's from blueberry. >> No, it's from blueberry flowers. >> Wow. >> So, the flavor tastes from blueberries, >> right? >> Because they don't take it from the blueberries. They take it from the flowers. >> Unbelievable. >> So, it's a nectar. It does. It does have a little bit different taste than this one, but because every flower has a different taste. >> Unbelievable. So, so, >> so the raspberry >> raspberry should do orange blossoms to do eucalyptus do all kinds all kinds of different flowers. Now, let's say there's a farm that has 25 acres, 50 acre, 100 acres of apple trees, right? >> Yeah. >> And you put down your hives over there, they're not going to go elsewhere. They have enough over there. So, that's that's going to be from a blueberry farm, it's going to be blueberry, from eucalyptus, from orange grove, from that's that's that's the difference in the diff in the different mention was that they infuse the honey with different flavors, but that's that's very exact. So again, sole they're basically a sticklehive you call a stickle wax. >> A stickle honeycomb. >> This honeycomb also a honeycomb. This is the hexagons. Bunch of little hexagons. Do around the honey. And once it's it's uh it's sticky, it's honey. They will cover it with a sheet of wax. I was and that's it. You can this could be chewed as a gum, >> right? >> Could be swallowed. >> Oh yeah. Cobing in the wet. You >> mention mentioned they said it could be swallowed. Um some people will just spit it out, chew out the the the honey. It's delicious. The most delicious honey. >> But you take this and you basically you basically cook it up or you >> No, no, no, no. It's not cooked. It's raw honey. >> The basically drink settles the honey. >> So what I do is Yeah. So do different different kind of honeycomb frames. The honeycomb frames that you can cut the other honey from frames that I'm that built to get honey like this out. So what you do is in those frames shave tar the the the cover and then you put it into like a centrifuge as an extractor >> as it spins the honey all the honey and that's how we get this kind of honey >> bottles jars >> right yeah it's the production you made A beautiful, beautiful Zach. You the bikes are on a beautiful packaging. They host beautiful boxes, a gift box. And I know people are very into this, especially that's the season rasha, >> right? >> Um how the you I think you did everything alone among the labels, the >> my passion, >> right? >> You know, it started out the MS started out as a uh challenge. >> Yeah. farmers, you know, like you should get some bees honey from a beekeeper honey. >> 100%. Same here. By the way, >> buy the other honey. >> I agree with you. After you have this honey, you can never eat storebought honey ever again. Oh, in tell us what the difference. The difference is first of all this is this is raw honey real raw honey that you know that it's raw raw honey you don't know it comes from from Chile or from India or what kind of you don't even know if it's honeyact from where you live >> oh right that's for the >> it is local >> for the allergy from where you live allergies local means from the same region Right? >> Like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, we all have the same flowers. Florida do undermined flowers, undermining polls. In California do undermining flowers, different polls. So it's always best to have from your own. That's for the allergies, for the allergies. But as taste, so 70% of the honey in the world, 70% of the honey that's sold is fake. >> So meaning whatever >> corn syrup sugar and coloring and and and to mimic honey. >> Wow. Which it makes sense because they sell a jar of honey forg takes for 12 bees their whole life. They live like six weeks their whole life. Literally their whole life for 12 bees to produce one teaspoon of honey. >> Teaspoon. Wow. >> So a a jar like this probably a few thousand bees had to work their whole life >> to a jar like this, >> right? And that's why this cost whatever like 304, right? It's a premium premium honey. >> Yeah. Yeah, we sell them for $25 >> and and at $25 the they say if you'd have to pay minimum wage for the bees to produce a bottle of this would be $100, >> right? Right. >> Okay. So, so, >> so you're saying >> it's a guy because I always say look, >> if you look at the honey from this year, honey from last year, the honey from a different year, >> the spring honey, the summer honey, beginning of spring, later spring, it's always different. >> Wow. >> It's not exact same shade. >> Correct. the honey decoys in the store. >> I big >> every year, every time for the last 20 years, in the next 50 years, it's same color, same shade, same taste, same alice. >> Unbelievable. >> How is it? So, it must be a a recipe. >> Exactly. >> Now, again, 100% pure honey. >> 100% honey. But it doesn't say what kind of honey from bees or or something they >> make 100% real recipe honey. It's like natural flavors. Alice is natural. >> Exactly. It's 100% pure. It's 100% honey. Touch bees for the bees and where is it coming from? >> So you started this as a hobby. A farmer challenge as a challenge and it became a hobby. You know, it's a lot of work. A lot of work. I'm not going to deny it's a lot of work. >> Uh became a hobby and then became my passion. I I love the honey and I love what I'm I actually like it's it's it's not and I say I'm in love with the bees. >> Yeah. Yeah. You enjoy it the connection with the animals. >> When when I I spoke to you before I was actually in my other farm. >> Wow. And I had two hives open and I was like checking them and I was like making sure they don't have diseases and and putting in treatment for one of them. And >> Wow. How do you know if they have diseases? >> Um you you you there's tests you got to you you got to run you got to check them the whole time. >> Wow. >> Verommites. They do have verommites but how much verommites? If they have too many verommites they will become they will get diseased. I lost last year six of my hives because I didn't I I took care of them, but I obviously probably wasn't didn't do such a good job in checking checking them before the fall or winter. >> You give them medicine. How do you know if something is wrong? >> You have to first stop. >> No. No. First of all, also you take there's a way to to to to test and see how many veromites you have. Mhm. >> Verites clinomite ticks mit for the bees. >> Oh wow. >> And the bees get diseases from that. So there is veromites always but depends how many and this affect the honey and this can affect the men just like it kills the bees and if there's no bees there's no honey. >> Correct. >> Wow. >> If they don't work they don't you don't get honey. So, so you have to test to see how many verommites you have. If you have like two, three uh them like 300 bees, which is like a couple of bees and like this around in a shaker. Some people do it with sugar. Some people do it with alcohol. So, you kill a few hundred bees. You shake it very and then the the mites fall down and you see the tiny tiny hardly see them. Tiny little red dots >> and you see you count how many red dots you have. If you had two, three, you're okay. If you had six, seven, you have to start treating them. >> If you have 15, you're being overrun. You have to treat them. >> How do you treat them? You spit steppers that kills them. >> Different uh like u medications like they they have to walk on that for for two weeks and different different system different things. So entrepreneur because you're a legend backyard and from their home and they they don't achieve to sell. You have a beautiful website. You're selling honey all year round >> and you're selling the many moistas. You're selling thousands and thousands of units. >> Basically basically I like to say there's always a second chance. Okay. >> Or a third chance. And always you never give up. So this this whole thing I started when I was you wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't believe how old I am. Not I don't know if I should say that in public, but you know what? I'm not embarrassed with my age. >> Okay. >> I'm 66 years old. >> No, I did not know that. In the past, I did not imagine that. Okay. So I'm saying in public, >> right? >> Okay. Even though I said I said >> to people that I'm 49, but >> yeah. >> So at 60 61, I started something new. >> Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. >> I became a realtor at 55, you know. I started >> Wow. >> So there's always a second chances. Never never give up. >> Right. >> So this was a a challenge which become became a you know a hobby. It became a passion and when I do things and I do almost everything myself all the time. >> Mhm. >> You you watched me. >> Yeah. >> I had I was searching. I want my honey to be because it's a premium honey. It's a special honey. Besides, it's a delicious delicious honey. I've It's It's funny for me to say that. I've tried so many different honeys also raw honeys and I can't I can't uh cuz it's mine maybe I don't know but really it's a delicious honey >> right >> I need it to be I wanted it to be something special not something that you can buy just go walk into Walmart >> and you pick it up you walk into >> any grocery store to gourmet glut you pick up a honey >> so if so you started selling it >> searching Yeah, >> I was searching until I came up with this bottle. >> This jar. >> This jar like >> and I had to look all over the all over the place for it. >> It's not it's not available anywhere. >> I found here there found one supply. That's it. >> The reason I went with this jar, first of all, it's a beautiful beautiful jar. >> Right. >> The honey shows very nicely in it. >> Correct. Besides for that rashuna, you open up this jar, you don't have to spill it into a dish. >> You can just pass it around. Yeah. >> This this itself is beautiful on on the on the yonder table. >> Right. Correct. >> Very smart. I didn't think about that. >> You don't have to. And also it has a wide mouth, wide opening. where you can dip the dip the apple dip anything that needs to be dipped in the honey correct gets dipped in the honey. >> Wow. >> So you have like a wide mouth >> beautiful jar that sits on it's like a honey jar that sits on the table. >> Correct. >> And it's a honeypot. >> Has even the two handles on the side. The honey pot. >> This is a real honeypot. So it's beautiful. >> Then I had to come up with a design. I had to come up with a label. So how am I going to label this? I tried tried all kinds of labels. I couldn't find a label because this because the shape of it, you can't put a label on it. >> Right. >> On top. That's only the only place was on top. But I still need to put the different uh different varieties. So I sealed it like this with this. Uh >> yeah, it's beautiful from someone because Honey, >> correct? >> Because it's how come, by the way, how come how come if honey comes from bees, how can you eat the honey? >> Okay, >> because the bees only when they forage, they bring the nectar, they put into a special stomach where it does not get digested and they come back and they >> spit it out and they pass it to another bee, the other bee to another bee and then till it goes gets into the into the honeycomb. >> Right. >> So, >> I don't think that going to happen. When I placed our order on the website, you literally go and you pack that order. >> No, I have No, I >> I stock up. >> Right. Right. >> I stock up. >> But we stock up, but you send out the order. It's It's still very personal. Yes. But I see you selling it in a lot of stores. >> So he delivers >> a lot of stores. Some stores. Yes. >> I remember seeing it in Refresh and Bar Park. Leam. I saw it >> two years ago. Last year. Two years ago. >> I saw it in aisle 9. N >> media client. Yeah. >> Nine in Jackson and I had it in Gourmet Glatt. I hope to put it into more stores this year. >> If I run out, I run out. >> Right. Which you probably had already at times. How can >> many time many times that this this variety ran out? I had to wait for next year. >> Correct. Yeah. So, >> exactly. Last year I sold this this I made this a beautiful corporate gift. >> Okay, >> give a kick. >> This beautiful corporate gift. It's a box of flavors. >> It's a nice box, >> right? >> Well, this year it's going to be a white white box. Same idea. White box. >> Um has five different jars, different other um under the varieties. ified varieties which you get to taste each one, >> every one. Plus, it has a piece of honeycomb in it. >> Correct. It's beautiful. >> I saw last year I had >> I sold out a lot. >> Wow. >> I sold out. I could have sold more double. >> Wow. >> This year I I am right now in the in the process of putting together these these uh kits, >> right? um as many as I can. >> Right. >> Wow. >> It's not going to be so much. So I I suggest whoever wants honey to just go out and get the honey. Besides, >> you need 20% more honey than average. >> Besides besides the honey, >> the bees produce the honey. The honey flow that they produce honey is the month of May. >> Ah, >> and maybe half of June, maybe it's May of June. That's it. >> Mhm. Wow. Was it the rest? The rest they prepare >> they they will they will produce but the honey flow on those buckets of honey is mostly May and June. >> Wow. >> If you remember this year May you give it in cult. ah >> most of most of the month >> and June most of the month >> so it wasn't hot the flowers the most of the honey is the flowers that grow in May and in June >> wow >> so the flowers and the bees did not go out to work because you can't stand on scaffold on a scaffold when it rains >> so they wouldn't go out to work in the rain and if it's cold they sit inside Right. >> So the production was a lot lot less than last year. >> Um >> so whatever I have I will be selling. >> Exactly. >> First come first serve. Once it's sold out it's sold out. We have so this is gifts. We have >> other gifts. We have a pack of four of our different varieties. >> Give a cake. >> Beautiful. These are nice 5 oz jars each one. >> It's nicely It's nicely packaged. And these are the the big jars, the 10 oz jars also. Three >> different flavors. >> Beautiful. And nice thing about this packaging and I went a lot of thought goes a lot of thought goes into whatever whatever I do because I don't know I I am that's me. >> I'm a perfectionist or whatever it is. So, let's let me show you. I'll take out the jars because I want to get this out. So, this this here is special matazoy that you can have all three on. And this is like a tray. >> You can pass it around like this. Wow. >> Open up all three and then everybody wants whatever you want. Whichever one you want. >> Come around thinking. >> Come around thinking. And it's like beautiful. >> Wow. >> It's very nice. >> It's very nice real estate. >> Yes. >> You bought your house here in Tom's River from from the first people. When we moved there was about 70 >> 70 families >> 70 to 80 families in Towns River. Yeah. >> Wow. Um you bought your house for obviously a lot less than what it's worth right now, but you went into selling houses. So two questions. Um why did you get into this industry? And second of all, is it still worth buying now in Tom's River? >> So why did you move first of all? Um it's a long story why I moved at at one point my wife wanted to move to my and I didn't like to move to man and um we still had the so he still needed to yeshiva in in bar park >> and but we had a small apartment we had to move somewhere we had to buy something so actually we bought something in Brooklyn for a million dollars. Oh wow. Okay. >> And it needed another million dollars to to to to liveable, >> right? Okay. >> So, we came to visit someone in Lakewood and we drove around and we saw this beautiful house here. It's for sale by owner. We saw a sign. We came in just to look to get ideas of what to make in our house >> and my wife says, "I love it." >> Right. Was it relatively cheap? is in I guess according to Brooklyn >> according to Brooklyn it was >> pennies >> according to whatever it wasn't cheap this area that that I bought these houses >> were never cheap >> right >> they weren't like $400,000 $500,000 started at $7 $800,000 even million dollars in those in in 2016 2015 2016 like 10 >> 11 12 years >> precoid yeah >> which is which is was a lot money. But that's what that that what the price is here compared to Brooklyn in pennies, >> right? >> I bought for a million dollars. I had to put in another million dollars and this was under a million, >> right? Two acres and >> two acres and a and a pool in the back and and everything. So >> yeah, >> it it made it was a no-brainer, >> right? >> So we bought this house and we moved in real estate. I was at the time like semi-retired. Let's let's say it was was in between. I had worked for for Buzz Electronics and I >> Oh, wow. >> I was in between. I'm not you know like my kids were all married. I wasn't going to >> whatever >> take another job. >> Right. So when did you decide? >> So we moved to to Tom's River and people started asking us questions. Ah, >> and you know like how is it over do you right really like it is boring? >> Yeah. >> So just come out once and take a look and but I warn you if you come out once you're not going to go back. >> Yeah. You might fall in love. >> You fall in love. So I had family everybody came and mish went crazy. Yeah, we started asking questions as a realtor and as a realtor >> and I said we have so many inquiries, so many people are asking us and my I had a big um uh how do you call it circle of influence which people a lot of people knew me. >> Yeah. >> And asked so many questions. I I took we went out and we both got licensed to sell and we started selling we sold very very nicely. >> Right. Are people still buying now? A lot >> people are still buying. Not as much. The therooklyn. >> Oh wow. I didn't know that. How can it stop? Somehow at one point see precoid you know co because do compared to Brooklyn was migilh >> you buy a house like this for7 $800,000 that's fixed up and you move in >> and and in Brooklyn got for under 1.5 and $2 million >> right >> so it made sense right >> but now these houses also went up to over a million way over a million 1.2 from Brooklyn for over a million. >> What's the art of understanding what kind of house somebody needs? >> Like you dealt with so many clients with some gold cuff and a hose. >> So, so, so it's not the art of understanding what person needs, it's the art of understanding a person. >> Mhm. Right. Allocation. You need to you need to get to know >> there's a certain art of understanding the person what the person who the person is what the person is >> right >> cuz nobody kind of got nobody is >> right >> okay I am somebody else >> I am who I you know >> and is it worth on a on investment aspect is it worth buying some People say rent is best because the mortgage you're paying so much especially when the rates are high. That is not true. That is not true because mortgage rent is going to cost you the same rent. Every penny that that you pay rent >> it's towards the end >> is flushed down the toilet, >> right? >> You have nothing at the end of the day goes 5 years, 10 years, all this is gone. If you buy, you pay more maybe, >> right? >> But every penny that you pay, not every penny, but a big chunk of that goes into your >> in real estate into your in into Exactly. >> Right. >> the value the value goes up and and also down you're paying down your your debt, >> right? >> It's a mortgage from from $500,000 as you pay. So you have you save that money, >> right? Right. savings. Look at that. >> And and and rental is goes to the >> right. Nice. Very nice. Okay. >> The the the challenge now with with real sex is it it I'm not going to deny it. It's very it's been murderous last two years. >> Yeah. >> The prices went up high and they're not coming down. And they're not going to be coming down. >> The interest rates might come down, >> right? Well, the price of the house is >> the prices of the house are very high and the interest rates are so high. So, people are sitting on the fences. The people are not selling because >> he needs to buy something else. >> Yeah. >> And if you go someplace else, he's going to have to pay something for >> Yeah. >> the same amount for something smaller. So, they don't sell. >> Nice. Um Okay. Um AI, that was amazing. Um, I'm going to put all of AR's information in the description if you want to reach out regarding honey. If you want to also order Khan straight to the website, Alice is available. And I'm also going to record a little bit now behind the scenes to show the bees and how the honey is made. And we'll post it as bonus content for the premium members. A reminder to like, share, and subscribe. Like the video. Thank you for the people that make super likes. Thank you for the people that are members. Thank you for the people that share it and comment. It means the world to us and um it's beautiful to bring you content. It's a pleasure. Extra shout out to all the people on that listen on the hotline. 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