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1118 » Where to Get the Money for Your Land Deals with Reid Kurtenbach
April 6, 2022 By Joe McCall Leave a Comment
One of the biggest questions we get is how to find the money to buy vacant land. There's a big difference between working with a lender and a partner. Borrowing money and taking on debt isn't the same as a partnership that's funding your deal. Reid Kurtenbach is a successful land investor who also funds deals for others through his company, Parcel Funders. Reid likes to think about his firm as the copilot, but the investors are running the show.
Reid walks us through his process on how he selects properties and what tools and sites he uses to list and sell them. The average turnaround time for his deals is between 30 and 90 days. One of the biggest mistakes land investors make is not doing their due diligence on a property before buying it. It's important to have boots on the ground who can help you determine things like soil issues and legal access. The advantage of working with a company like Reid's is that you get access to his resources and knowledge to get things done right while turning a profit. To learn more, head to his website linked below.
How Reid got into land investing and started his company, Parcel Funders.
The biggest mistakes land investors make and how to avoid them.
Tools and sites Reid uses to do deals and run his business.
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Joe: Welcome. This is the Real Estate Investing Mastery podcast. Hey, Joe, here. Welcome to the Real Estate Investing Mastery podcast. Glad you're here. It's going to be a treat. We're going to be talking to a friend of mine named Reid. And we're going to be talking about funding for your deals, specifically for your vacant land deals. I've been talking a lot about vacant land. It's my favorite thing right now. I'm doing a lot of deals were helping coach people how to do vacant land. And one of the biggest questions that we get is, you know, Hey, where am I going to get the money to buy these lots? I know we can buy them for twenty five cents on the dollar, but what if I don't have twenty five cents on the dollar to buy three four five lots? Well, we're going to be talking to a guy. He's not a lender. He's a funder. And that's a big difference in the land business. You want to be working with partners. You don't want to be taking on more debt. You understand what I'm saying. There's a difference between borrowing money and having a private investor that you have to pay back and then partnering with somebody that can partner with you on the deal. So I think I like the funding part of it, but I like the JV partnering part of it better. And our friend today, Reid is going to be talking about that. All right. So I'd want to just jump right in. Normally, I say that this podcast is sponsored by so-and-so, but I just want to jump right in. If you're watching this live right now on YouTube and Facebook, say hi in the comments. Let us know you're there. And if you have any questions, please let us know. Let's bring on Reed. How you doing, man?
Reid: I'm doing great. Thank you for having me on the show. I really appreciate it. Just excited for the weekend. It's Friday, so yeah, super happy.
Joe: Yeah and thanks. I was introduced to you by, I think, mutual Facebook friends. And the more we talked more kind of other friends, we find out that we actually have together. So you've been in the land business for a while and we were talking about one of the things that you do. You're successful in the land business, but you're also lend. Not sorry, you don't lend money on deals, you fund land deals. And I want to talk about that. But first, let's rewind a little bit. Talk. Tell us about your story. How did you get into land investing and what about it interests you?
Reid: Yeah. So I go way back, but I started out investing. I got the investment bug as soon as I was in college and did all kinds of strange little businesses. I actually created a business called computer educators, where I taught senior citizens how to use their computers. And that was a great business repeat business because a lot of seniors have a hard time retaining the information. So I loved it. It was like my first taste of entrepreneurship, grew that business and then decided I want to have something more tangible. And I realized that I was trading my time for money. So what I decided to do was go on bigger pockets and I found a gentleman on there that was buying and then selling manufactured homes on payments. So he was seller financing them, and I started investing in those homes and started buying them, wholesaling them, sell, selling them to park owners and selling them retail as well. And then through that process, I started buying them with land. And occasionally I would come across a manufactured home that was on land, but the manufactured home was just not salvageable. It wasn't anything that we could keep, so I would tear down that home and then we would turn around and resell the land and the profit that we made on the land I was just blown away with. So we started investigating a little bit more about, OK, do people actually do this for a living? Is there a way to make money by buying vacant land and then turning around and reselling it for a higher amount.
Joe: How many years ago was this?
Reid: Oh, This was probably twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. And then we really started getting into it in 2019, where we started finding land deals. But I took a little bit of time to really explore all the different education out there. I felt like if I was going to dove into it, I really wanted to make sure that I pushed on it. So I took a lot of different trainers courses in the land investment world, and then we quickly found out that it just it wasn't our flavor or we didn't have an appetite to start sending out mail and doing other types of prospecting to find sellers that wanted to sell their land. So we thought, Well, let's do what we do in other our other businesses where we try to find an operator that is really, really good and then we find their deals. And so we started doing that and then it just kind of grew from there. So we really got into it around 2019. And so far we've done I think we're almost up to 300 deals now, 300 deals. That's awesome. Yeah. So and hopefully a lot more here soon. But it's just been a good roller coaster.
Joe: There's a lot of advantages to being the bank, although it's different than a bank, you're not lending again. And let's ask, let's just talk about that right now. What's the difference between lending and funding a deal?
Reid: Yeah. So we're taking more risk. Think of us as more like the partners, I think of us more as your copilot, but you're running the show. So all of our investors run the show, they run the deal, but we're not charging them any sort of interest or anything like that. It's purely a percentage of the net. It split, so after all, expenses are paid once we resell that property, we take a percentage of the net profit. We don't charge them anything up until that point. And that means that if we can't sell the property well, we're the ones that are on the hook because we spent the money to acquire the property. We're paying for all the expenses. So taxes always anything in regards to the acquisition of the property, the purchase price, closing costs on the front end. So we cover all of that.
Joe: Yeah. And the great thing about working with a funder like you is when somebody brings you a deal, if you don't partner with them on the deal, then it might not be a deal they want to buy, right?
Reid: Yeah, we go through a lot of underwriting processes and we just looked at a deal recently today that we called back the investor and said, Hey, did you know about the wetlands? Did you know about this other issue with access? And he wasn't clued in on that. And we said because of these reasons, we don't feel comfortable going forward with it. If you want to proceed forward with it, you're welcome to. Here's all the information we got from the county. Here's all the information that we got from a broker, but we just don't feel comfortable for it. And I think he appreciates that second pair of eyes. Yeah. And if he decides to go forward with it, we were just like, Let us know how it goes because we're not always right. We make mistakes too, but we want you to be as well informed as possible because if you're going to use your own money, we want you to be safe and we want you to continue doing deals in the land business and not let one deal take you.
Joe: All right. So I want to ask you some questions about what is your minimum criteria on a deal? Are there certain parts of the country that you will not land on or will or? So let's talk about it. What are some of your minimum criteria?
Reid: Yeah. So as of right now, this has been a little bit. It changes over time depending on how the market's doing and so forth, but nationwide will look at any property in the US. We'd like to see properties that are a fourth of an acre larger. We'd like to see that it has legal access wetlands. We want to see twenty five percent of the property be in wetlands or less floodplain. It really depends on where the property is located. I mean, in parts of Florida, you're just going to be encountering floodplains. So. But if the market says that most buyers don't care about that when we resell it, then we're flexible on that. We want to see a purchase price of a million or less than $10 or less. Yes, yes. But generally, most of the deals that we're funding are between. The average is between 50 and thousand, but we just funded a deal recently for I think it was about 160000. So but most of the time, once you get over 100000, we found that the sellers are a little bit more sophisticated or not able to hit those those profit margins that you're looking for. And then the minimum profit spread on the smaller deals is about 5000. On the bigger deals, we like to see at least 10 or higher and we want to see people. We want to see our investors buying the properties at 50 percent of market value or less. We'll go a little bit higher if we see that it's just a homerun deal where we can just turn around and sell it really quickly. But most of the time, we want to leave some spread in there or some room to be able to if the market changes, or if we didn't see something ahead of time when we were acquiring the property. We want to give that room to people to lower the price because we're all about the velocity of our money. We want to move it as quickly as possible, usually within 90 days or less. How many days, 90 days or less. But generally, what we're seeing on average with most of our deals is between three and four months as a sale period type from despite, you know, acquiring the property. So the funding of the deal to the disbursement of the proceeds and then I think that's about it generally.
Joe: All right. So your average deal you lend or you fund is about between 15 to $30000. We find deals less than that. Yes.
Reid: We'll look at a lower amount. We funded a deal for 500 bucks recently and we were just like, why? Why do 500 with us? But the investor just wanted to start the relationship with us, and we're like, Yeah, sure. And the numbers made sense. We just thought, Well, you can fund this yourself. And yeah, but I just want that second pair of eyes. So, OK, that sounds great. We'll just do it nice.
Joe: And so somebody, let's give an example here, OK, let's say a property is worth $10000. They can sell it for $10000 and they get a contract to buy it for $2500. So it's about 25 percent of the value. And let's say it's a two acre lot. It has dirt, road access and it's in Florida, the north central area of Florida. All right. So it's worth ten grand. They're buying it for 2500. They want the money for this deal. It's too little under two acres. So what? What would you do then?
Reid: We would do it if the numbers make? I mean, the numbers make sense there because it's a $7500 profit spread, and then it generally require the investor to sell with a broker or through a flat fee MLS provider. And even when you're doing that and you're paying for drone footage and paying for professional photos. Anyone with a property is looking. I still see that $5000 spread there, potentially. So if the numbers look good, which from the sound of it, it would work. I think we would do that deal.
Joe: So you would you require a flat fee broker or something you want a realtor to list it? Is that right?
Reid: Either a realtor or a going through a flat fee MLS provider, just because we we want to see as many eyeballs on our property as possible. And what we found is that if you don't and you just kind of go the route of Land dot com or putting it up on Zillow on your own, there's at least the way that we've seen Zillow work lately is that there's two taps. One is just the general tab when you see a land listing, and then there's the other tap and no one knows to click on that other tab. So your listing is really not looked at unless it's going through a flat fee MLS service for if it's going through a realtor. But sometimes the realtor fees can be up there. So on this one, I would think that at least a thousand dollars would have to be offered to either a buyer's agent or two or biggest 10 percent is not going to motivate someone to list this property. I've just talked to so many brokers that are like, Yeah, if it's a fishbowl, and probably they shouldn't say this, but a lot of times they just say, I'm not going to share that or I'm not going to show my buyers this because I'm not going to get paid enough. So we to get on the sale side, we try to incentivize as much as possible by giving a really high buyer's agent fee. Or we give, you know, if it's if it's small like this, we'd probably just say, Hey, we'll give $1500 a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars. But that's that's again, a decision that is made by the investor. And we just give our two cents and we're a sounding board. But we've just done a number of deals thus far where we know what's going to move a property and what's not or enticing what's going to entice an agent to go ahead and do this.
Joe: Yeah, I've heard that. We see that sometimes, too. It's just hard to get properties on to Zillow to begin with. And then if you do, it's in that other tab, which is a for sale by owner tab and no one ever clicks it. And the great thing about doing a flat fee listing, and you can do it for ninety nine bucks, right?
Reid: Yeah, and go to cheap, cheap.
Joe: Broker less dot com is one of them. Yeah. And for 99 bucks, you can get it on the MLS and go on Realtor.com and Zillow. All of those sites. So, yeah, super smart. But you just got to make sure you're factoring in some money for a realtor commission. So you want to see minimum profit spreads of about five to 10 grand on the deal, right? Yes. Yeah. Had you move your properties an average of three to four months, do you ever fund a deal to somebody that wants to hold it for cash flow, like for a longer term fund?
Reid: We have been doing some subdivide. And those are a longer term period. But as far as the cash flow goes, we haven't encountered that yet. It's not something that we would be opposed to because we have cash flowing rental properties. So we're all we're completely open to that. But most of the time, the investors that are approaching us want to just do a quick flip and they're looking to build that treasure chest of money so they can continue sending out more mail and getting more deals.
Joe: Yeah, that's a nice thing about I call it wholesaling, right? When you're wholesaling, land your quick flipping it or whatever, quick turning it. You can use that money to pay for more marketing. You can use that money when you do find a good deal that cherry pick the best deals for yourself, right? And just take them down yourself.
Reid: Yeah, exactly. And we have some investors that say, Hey, you know how for the larger deals and you guys do fine, but for the smaller ones, I'm going to do it myself. We have others that figure one investor that has come to us several times and I'm like, You're doing like twenty twenty five deals a month. What do you need us for funding? And he's always telling us, Well, if I have enough money to fund my own deals, I'm not doing enough deals. So he just wants to put all of his money back into marketing. And then he doesn't mind that we take us a little bit of a cut of each one of his deals because he just figures he gets more and more deals because of all the marketing that he does.
Joe: It's not the cost of the money, it's the availability of it.
Reid: Yeah, yeah.
Joe: All right. So what are some of the biggest mistakes you see land investors make, let's say, beginning land investors? What are some of the biggest mistakes you see people make?
Reid: I see that they go off of active for sale comps rather than sold comps. They don't call the county to determine if there's any soil issues or if there's any issues with wetlands or floodplain. They don't really look at legal access. Sometimes they don't call a broker that is their boots on the ground to say, Hey, what's the value of the property? They're just simply going off of maybe land dot.com or Land of America or one of those. And those sites are great for a gauge of pricing or they go off of price data, but sometimes that the cost they use are completely inaccurate. We had one come up where an investor was comparing a property. I was in the middle of an island to all these other properties that were on the outskirts of an island which were waterfront. And he was also comparing it to farmland. And so it's very different and his lot was super skinny compared to his others lot. So or I've seen some investors go off of go after regular shaped parcels and think that they're going to fetch the same amount of money as maybe one. That's your typical rectangular square type property. Those are some of the things that I've kind of seen that most investors make mistakes on.
Joe: So not good access. They are not calling the county about soil issues or looking into wetlands and flood, whether it's in a flood zone or not. But it's interesting, you say, calling a broker. Is that something that you require people who bring you deals to do or is that something you yourself?
Reid: We do it. We don't require the investor to do that. It's something that we think that they should do, but that because you learn so much about a property by having an experienced broker on the ground. Now, if we're talking to an investor that has a county that they target specifically and they've been doing it for several several years, or they just have a lot of experience with that county, they should know their numbers and that's different. But if it's someone that is, you know, taking the shotgun approach where they're basically mailing out to several different counties throughout the state or several states, they can't possibly know all the ins and outs of the pathway of development and what's going on in that county. So we always feel that we've we gather and get so much intel from someone on the ground that knows what's happening and is a land focused broker, not a residential broker, but a land focused broker. And that's the other thing, too, is sometimes I've seen investors just reach out to a couple of brokers that are really geared towards selling residential properties or residential homes or single-family homes versus land. And I think they're different, you know, the way that they value properties and so forth. And there's so many things that are land specific broker will know about when it comes to wells and who to go to for surveys and what the expectation is around. If you need to do a protest or not, when you turn around to resell the property, those things you kind of want to know ahead of time because protests aren't too expensive, depending on where you are in the country. But it's an added expense and you really want to make sure that you understand all the things that the buyers are going to want you to do before you go ahead and buy the property. Because if you know that they're going to expect a protest, why don't you negotiate for factor that into your numbers ahead of time? And if the property doesn't work well, what do you know? Did you ever pay for the property at that point?
Joe: Okay, good. Talk about how you find these brokers. How do you find a good broker to call?
Reid: So I really will look for I'll go to. There's a couple of different broker websites like Ryland, I think dot com and then we'll just go on Zillow and a couple of other popular websites Land dot com to just see which are their most active brokers in the area. And there's a couple well known brokerages out there that just focus on it. And so we first start out there and I've made some contacts just through finding land deals throughout the United States with my wife, where we just already have a list of all the brokers in each one of the states that we fund the deals that. And we kind of go back to them and say, Hey, is this within your region and go from there?
Joe: All right, nice. What are some of your favorite hot areas right now, some of your favorite areas to find deals in?
Reid: I like the areas I like the south southern regions I like. I guess what I would say is I can't give you specific dates because I'm under an NDA. But what I will tell you is I like funding the different states that have barriers to entry, so perceived barriers to entry. And so I think there's certain states that maybe have high taxes or they're a little bit more rural or they they're just more prone to, you know, having to go through a title attorney. So then there's a perceived expectation that there's going to be a higher cost with that. And so I like those type of states. Any states that are really well known are not being taught during this time. Throughout the land investment courses, I think a lot of people gravitate towards parts of California, parts of Arizona. I think you could still make money there, but I think it's it's interesting to explore elsewhere.
Joe: Nice. Some of your people that are bringing you the most deals, what are you seeing in terms of marketing that's working the best for them? Or are they just making blind offers or are they making neutral letters? I see a lot of guys doing texting right now to find their deals. What are you seeing?
Reid: I see a mixture of all of the three and I also see range offers. We get it. So when we're finding all these deals, we're constantly getting letters from different Olin investors. And so what I'm seeing more of a trend of now is a range of. And people are saying, OK, well, if you know, if you feel that your property does well, basically what they do is they just say, Hey, I can pay X amount per acre between this amount and this amount. But if you feel that your property has some unique characteristics to it, then give me a call and we can talk through it. And a lot of times, I think the smartest investors are understanding that just like in the single-family world, which I think most people know that if you're coming from that world or from commercial is that it's all about rapport and building up that relationship with the seller. And so I think early in the days of late investing, you could just shoot out different offers and then it was kind of a numbers game. But I'm seeing more and more people figure out, OK, well, if I cold call, if I spend the time on the phone with these, these land sellers, maybe I can get a better deal where others are interested in doing that. It's just more of a numbers game. So I think you just have to have your own technique.
Joe: And then kind of the last campaign that I did, I send out a neutral letter told them on their text or call. Our 24 hour record recorded voicemail, so they knew calling this number. It was going to get a voicemail, which in the houses I've done that. It's gotten a lot more responses by doing that. And then we immediately text them back. And this last campaign we did 30 two hundred letters. We have five properties under contract, four of them. All right. Three or four came from texting them back. So we got their information looked real quickly at what Price told us to offer. Looked at Zillow looked at, you know, how does this feel? Is this feel good or whatever? And then we sent them an offer in the physical mail, but we also texted them a link to the PDF of the offer and said, Hey, listen, check this out. We just sent this in the mail to you and let us know what you think. And we started a dialog by text going back and forth, and then if they have a question, we call them and talk to them on the phone. But it's amazing to me. It's kind of a combination of different campaigns, but you're absolutely right the more you can talk to people and be like a real person. One guy told me I offered three grand. He wanted, Oh yeah, and he was had some questions. So I got on the phone. I talked to him and he said, Well, listen, I bought it for five grand a few years ago. I said, Well, jeez, you know, you should probably just listed on the MLS. You know, you should just sell it with a realtor or something. You can get more. He said, Well, no, I said, I can't do that, and I said, Well, if you don't mind me asking why? Was just asking questions. And he said, Well, my daughter's getting married in a few months, and I need the money to help pay for the wedding. I said, Well, you know, you could listen with an agent, but if you want like a solid guarantee that you're going to get the cash and we're going to close, you can take my offer. I think I offered thirty two hundred or something like that, but I would have never gotten there unless I hadn't gotten on the phone with him and asked him, What are you gonna do?
Reid: Have you find the motivation, right? I mean, I think that's key, and I think most of the sophisticated sellers are sophisticated buyers or investors and single family or commercial world. They that's what they're trying to figure out is what is the pain point? What is the problem that I can solve for the seller and coming to that resolution, it may not always be money, it may be something else that they really need. There's been situations, at least on their manufactured home side, where as we still continue to buy manufacturing plant where people need, you know, they're looking for continuous income. And so maybe they don't want the cash, they want to do a seller financing deal. And so I've run across those situations to where it makes sense, and they wouldn't have known. I wouldn't have known that if I just gave them a lowball cash offer, because generally on the manufactured home side, I'm willing to do three different types of offers. One is a lowball cash offer, one is a mix of seller financing and cash, and the other one is just a higher offer. That's just all seller financing. So I think you get that when you get on the phone. And also I'm starting to see more of follow up to in the land investment world. It's more of a that I mentioned a shotgun approach where you don't really go back to that county for like a year or so. But I think more investors are realizing, well, maybe it takes a few touches for them to see because there's more and more people that are getting into this land investment space. And maybe it's the letter that you send out because I remember I'm in a mastermind with a couple of other land investors, and one of them was kind of upset because he said, Hey, I've I've made up to this person a couple of times, and then I found out that this other person that had mailed out then got it and I was like, Well, it's just your letters and everybody else is, we're conditioning that seller say, Oh yeah, maybe I should take that amount, even though I think it's too low. And so I think that's why follow up is key because you're just representing your brand more. And the more you mail, the more you're in front of them and they think of you rather than anybody else.
Joe: Now that's really good. All right. Let me ask you some more questions when you actually close on the deals, how does that work? Do you do you help with the closing because you're funding the deal? How does that work?
Reid: Yeah. So it's it's pretty simple. We are basically as soon as we decide that we're going to fund the deal, we send over a funding agreement. That funding agreement essentially maps out what the terms are arrangement and then we're instantly connected with the. Attorney or title company that the investor wants us to work with, and if they don't have one we work with, we just suggest one to them and then we're completely in communication. Same page. And then when it comes to us reselling the property or with with them reselling the property, the agent is keeping us in the loop as well, or they're keeping us in the loop if they're going through a flat fee MLS provider and then the title company, we're all connected as well. So pretty simple. We're just it's we're pretty much partners, but again, we're not. I hate to say that we're backseat partners or we're in the backseat. We are generally more so in. We're like a copilot. One of our investors referred to us as his board of directors. He can't come to us if he has questions, but generally he's in the he's he's in the pilot seat and we're just there to give him advice and tell him and strategize with him if we have issues with selling that property.
Joe: Yeah, well, that's smart, too. So you do require them, not you don't allow self-closing. Right?
Reid: We've done it a few times and every time that we have, we've got burnt. So generally, there's always something that comes up that we didn't know about or the the investor didn't know about. We're still open to it, but we've just found and most of the other investors that we work with just would rather go through a total company or title attorney.
Joe: So and do you what do you tell that student to do to go find one local in that area? Or is there a title company that you can use?
Reid: We found that there's more mistakes that happen at the national level because they're not. And it takes longer. That's just our experience that, you know, maybe other people have other experience, but we generally like to support local businesses in the area that we're buying the property in. And so we try to find a local area and generally that investor is doing a lot of deals in that one county. So if they can build rapport with that local title company, they can usually get like an investor rate do, like a hold open policy and it's just cheaper for the cheaper for them. So they like that.
Joe: All right. Cool private money. Somebody who wants to do what you're doing. I know you can't give away your industry secrets that I might know, but I'm assuming you're not using all of your own money, right? You probably brought on some private lenders of your own. So if somebody is looking at this thinking, well, dang, maybe I need to get some private lenders and then I could fund my own deals. What would you say to them? Would you say? Yeah, you know, it's I wouldn't do that. Are you or what?
Reid: Well, right now we use our own capital. We've had some people approach us. But as of right now, for all of our land deals, we primarily use our own capital. We have had some family and friends that have said, Hey, we'd like to fund some of these deals for you, but we put them more into our other businesses at this point. So I think from a private money standpoint, if you can find friends or family that are willing to do it, that's fine. The one thing that I would do is still seek legal counsel. One thing that I've just learned is that you want to have everything in writing and you want to make sure that you're you're following all the state laws. And if it's family or friends, you just I guess for me, it's I always think about what what would happen if things went sour. I don't, you know, in the beginning, everybody thinks it's very rosy and stuff. But I've been in situations with partners and so forth in the past and other endeavors. And when we needed to split or something like that because of a disagreement, you know, sometimes they don't take it so well. So I think it's really important to just lay everything out. Go to, um, counsel or use another lawyer legal service to just draft it correctly, and especially if you're going to deal with friends or family or just anyone. I would. I'm always kind of the type of person that airs on being as cautious as possible when it comes to that. But it's definitely it's definitely an avenue to take that. The one thing I would say about finding is that it may look pretty passive. Yes, it can be. But if it was as passive as they thought it would be, then we probably wouldn't be talking right now. Because if I just if I didn't underwrite any of the deals with my wife, we probably I know we would have made some very, very costly mistakes because we get deals all the time that don't make sense to fund. And I know that there are some people that just are willing to just write a check. And then what happens when you lose money? I'm in it. I mean, my wife and I want to do this for the long term. This is not something where we're just going to do for a year or so and then just be tapped out because we made some bad deals. Yeah.
Joe: So I'm looking here at your website. Can I give the domain out? Is that OK?
Reid: Yeah, of course.
Joe: Parcel funders dot com, right? Mm hmm. Yes, sir. You got the right one. That would have been embarrassing. So talk a little bit about your funding fees.
Reid: Yeah. So we we offer transactional funding, and that's just essentially short term funding provided to our investors who purchased and quickly resell a property within the same day. So flash funding, double closing, that's a five percent. Fee as of right now, and so that's five percent of the funding amount and then the joint venture funding it refers to just went to like us and the investor come together to undertake a project and we pool our resources together. So they're pulling their resources, the actual property, our resources, the money and then a combination of our knowledge. And so essentially, it's the way that we've structured our fees is that it rewards the investor the quicker that they sell. So our fees are start out lower and then gradually increase, the longer it takes to sell that property. So from three to 30 days right now, it's 30 percent, 30, one to 90. It's 35 and then so forth and so on, and it ratchets up. But generally, most of our investors are in that 30 one to 90 day period to resell that property.
Joe: Yes. And so the split, if it's three to 30 days, is 30 percent to the funder you seven percent to or 70 percent to the investor.
Reid: And that's, after all, the net profit. And I think when you're looking at, there's a few other funders that are doing deal funding and the land space. And what I think is really essential is sometimes it can, you know, depending on what people say and how they structure their fees. You really want to ask them when you're vetting that funder, you want to say, what fees do you actually cover? Do you do you cover the cost of the realtor fees and so forth? Because some, depending on who you talk to, they may or may not cover the cost or the marketing expenses, is what they call it. So I think when you're trying to compare apples to apples, it's really important to really ask those type of questions that them as much as they're going to get you, because at the end of the day, you want to go with the funder, that's not going to leave you at the closing table and get cold feet and say, Yeah, I thought I could do this deal, but I ran out of money or I just don't feel comfortable. And then you're kind of left holding this deal in your hands and you've got to fund it and you've made a commitment. You got maybe like nine days left to fund it. We've dealt with a lot of investors in that situation where they've come to us scrambling, saying, Hey, I had someone, a friend or a family member or even a funder that I thought was going to do the deal with me. They said that they would end and now, you know, they just came back and said, I don't have enough money. I don't feel comfortable about it or some other excuse. And we've had to scramble to help them. Luckily, we've been able to help all of them, but that's just something that's very uncomfortable and I know what I would feel like if I was in their shoes.
Joe: Oh, I can imagine. Yeah. So your website does say here the funders fee is the amount percentage of the total funding amount or net profit that partial funders receives. So you are receiving 30 percent of the net profit if it's done before 30 days. Yes. Cool. Talk about the loyalty program. What's that?
Reid: Yeah. So this is a little bit different. This is where we're pretty unique. So the more deals essentially that you do with us, the cheaper it is from a funding perspective. So once you do a total of. And it ranges. So there's bronze, silver, gold and platinum. And so essentially, if the amount of deals that you do with us equal twenty to thirty nine thousand dollars in funding or total net profit. So that's how much partial funders makes up the total number of deals that we've done. Then you get two and a half percent or two hundred and fifty dollars off of each deal that you do with us. And that would be for a 12 month calendar period. So that's essentially and then it kind of goes up from there. So it goes to forty to seventy nine thousand this five percent or $500, whichever is greater. And so forth and so on. So and it it's a 12 month calendar, so it's from January to December. But this is something that I've heard from a lot of our investors that, you know, some people will say, Well, if you do five deals with me, I'm going to give you a break. But I felt like that was a little wishy washy. I thought, No, we need to do something where if you do five deals or one deal with us, it really comes down to how much money we're taking in from a funding fee. So this kind of levels the playing field and because we have some investors that do like two or three deals, maybe four deals a year, and each one of the deals gets between 60 and $80000 net profit. So if I said you got to do five deals with me and then you'll get a break, that doesn't really make sense when another person is doing one or two deals with me, that makes that amount of money versus someone that does 10 or 15 deals with me. And it's a smaller net profit. So we tried to level the playing field that way.
Joe: I'm looking at your testimonials here and a lot of these guys I know, I've seen them, I've had them on my podcast. Some of them or I've got a Facebook group. Yeah. Was that? David Van I can never pronounce van siskowski.
Reid: Yeah, I always mess up his last name. I just call him David.
Joe: Eric, I've seen him at a boot camp before, and I'm not. Yeah, he's a good guy. That might have been one of the Jack Bosch boot camps. Well, very cool. I love it. Your website again is. Parcel funders dot com, I'm going to put that on the website here in the video right here. I mean, does any of you all if you're watching this right now on Facebook or YouTube? Hopefully I spell this right.
Reid: One thing I do mention too is that we do have a referral plan too. So anybody who comes to us through you or anybody else. We offer two and a half percent or two hundred and fifty dollars in credit, whichever is greater or cash. If once we've actually closed that deal with that investor. So yeah, and that's unlimited. So there's no cap on that. So we don't have it as a too high of a fee because we we really don't want to incentivize people to just refer us people if they're not a fan of our service. We really want people to vouch for us if they do enjoy it, because I've seen it go in the opposite direction where people are making so much money from just referring people, they're just like, Well, whatever, I don't care about any anytime that we refer people to a different service. They're truly ones that we've used and we vouch for them completely.
Joe: Nice. All right. Anything else, any any other services that you would do? I'm looking at your website at the bottom here. You have a newsletter, you have some other partners that you guys partner with. I see your land. It's a transaction coordination company. That's a good company fabric. I've heard really good things about it. They only do maybe three or four different states, right?
Reid: Yeah. Yeah. There unfortunately, are not in all the states, but I know that that they're working on that.
Joe: And are you Jesse Kwong is real good guy. Great website. Yeah. What is REI optimize?
Reid: That's by Callan. And she's she's awesome. She basically has a program where she's taking all the different pieces, the land business and completely automated it. And so she offers a course that talks through that. And so I'm a big fan of what she offers there. Nice. Cool.
Joe: All right. You got a lot of other really good resources here, of course. Seth Williams from RE tipster. Super good guy. Yeah, yeah. What is entitle and flip?
Reid: That's Mike Marshall. So he used to be a county planner, and so he's the guy that I go to. If I have questions about subdivide and how to turn a property that may look a little bit overpriced on the get go. But you can subdivide it. You can do all kinds of things with entitlements to the property. And so he's he's kind of the expert that I found in the space.
Joe: Nice. And then one more question. Sure. Supercharged offers. What is that?
Reid: Yeah, A.J. So she basically has a system in place where she helps land investors and also investors and commercial real estate and single family, where she'll help automate the prospecting side of the business. And she creates a website for you. She takes care of all of the mailings she does. She's very big in the metrics, so it's if you haven't heard of it, you should check her out.
Joe: Yeah, she was going to be on my podcast and so we had to reschedule. I'm not sure what happened, but she's going to be on Zoom calls. Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ask you about other companies. I'm asking you about all these other things.
Reid: But that's that's important because I think these are all tools that we recommend to the investors that we work with and if they need it. And so I want them to. There's a lot of noise in the industry and I want them to be able to get the best tools possible.
Joe: I love your website, by the way. It's very friendly. I was looking at it the other day on my phone. How did he do this? Is there? And then I'm looking now at it on a on my browser, on my laptop and this it's really nice and smooth. Did you build it yourself or had you broke it? Yeah.
Reid: So we did it in about a week. I went, Yeah, basically, it's it's based off of. So we use Zoho for all of our businesses. And this is Zoho site. So it's not. The site really adds a Zoho site. Yeah. And so we yeah. So we put it together in about a week. I have a really good web developer. We make a lot of changes to the thesis. There's a lot of limitations with Zoho side, so it's definitely not perfect. But yes, Zoho site and it's we're happy with it. I'm really surprised. Yes. I know it wasn't that expensive to put it together. I mean, I've got other websites that are thousands upon thousands of dollars, but this one is fast and then everything integrates with our CRM and all the other tools. For me, I'm all about systems and trying to get everything, so it's streamlined and so that's interesting.
Joe: So that's sort of like Zoho on the back. And those of you don't know, Zoho is kind of like Podio in a certain sense where you can build your own database, right? Or Air table or something like that.
Reid: Yeah, Zoho. Think of it more like Google Workspace. It's a competitor to Google Workspace, and I really like it because with Google Workspace, you have to integrate with all. These other different products like Counly and stuff, and already has a bookings application, so if you pay for zero one, which is that's what this one is, it's basically thirty seven bucks per user per month, which is cheap for all the different applications that you get. I mean, you have Zoho Sign, which allows you to do digital signatures so you don't have to use like a DocuSign. I know I sound like I'm promoting them, but it's I really like it. Their support could be better, but they've they've every I mean, no company I have found is perfect. So but it gets us everything that we need.
Joe: Let me ask you one more question about Zoho, because I geek out about this stuff as well. Yeah, I've heard it's a great CRM and a lot of people are using it on the house side of things, right? But for inbound and outbound calls and text messages, does it have like integrated phone capability where you can make and receive phone calls and make and receive text messages?
Reid: Yeah. So they have zoho voice and they are working on bringing texting to it. It's not there yet, but you can use a third party solution and we already use one now called Ringio. And that's the solution that allows you to do texting from the CRM, as well as making phone calls for uninvited.
Joe: So you can make. You could send texts from inside the CRM.
Reid: Yes. Yes you can.
Joe: And then when they respond to that text as it go inside of Zoho. Yes. Wow. And what was that called again? Ringio? Yeah. This podcast has gone off the rails.
Reid: Hopefully, it's been viable.
Joe: Yeah, I see it here. Salesforce and Zoho vault this super cool. Yeah. All right. Well, this has been very good. Thank you so much Reid. Parcel funders is the website. All right. Forget about all those other things we just talked about. Go to parcel funders dot com. This is something that I'm recommending now to all of my students and friends that are wanting to get the land business. You need somebody to help fund your deals, right? And if you're looking for maybe a board of directors in a certain sense, right, then read at parcel funders, is the is the man? What's your wife's name, by the way? Don't mind me asking.
Reid: Her name is Hayley, and she's the brains behind the operation. She. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And she's and actually she owns the company. So definitely female owned and she's she's the brains of the operation. She's great. And just one thing. I think what's really important to when you're working with a funder is that you want to understand, are they treating it more like a transactional relationship or is it something that can grow into a friendship? And for us, when we look at doing deals with people, there's always a conversation that we have about what's your why? What are you? What's your ultimate goal? Where do you want to head? Because it's not just money for us, like we want to see how we can share what we're doing from self-directed IRA, self-directed 401ks, whatever we're doing and the from a long term generational wealth building side, as well as what we're doing in the land finding space. We want to share all that with them because and our connections, because we want to see them grow. And so for us, when I was just real quick, I went out to San Francisco last year and I met one of our investors and had lunch with him. And then another investor flew out to Denver because he was going to a wedding and we were like, Let's grab some pizza. That's the type of relationship that we want with our investors. It's not transactional for us. It's it's more than that. Yes, money is involved, but we've learned so much from our investors and hopefully they learn something from us. Nice.
Joe: Reid Kurtenbach from parcel funders dot com. Go check it out, guys. And thank you again, Reid, for being on the show and say hi to your wife, Hailey.
Reid: We'll do all right. Thank you.
Joe: Take care, everybody.
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Congresswoman Jahana Hayes to Speak at Middlesex Community College Commencement
May 14, 2019 (Middletown, Conn.) — United States Representative Jahana Hayes of Connecticut's 5th Congressional District will be the commencement speaker at Middlesex Community College. Ceremonies will take place in Middletown on Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 6 p.m.
"I am so delighted that U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes will be our commencement speaker this year. Her personal story as a single mom, college student, high school teacher, and now as a member of Congress, is one I'm sure will inspire the Class of 2019 and all who attend our graduation ceremony. She has a passion and unifying presence that represent all we are trying to do at MxCC to be a community of compassion and civility," said Steven Minkler, the college's Campus CEO and Dean of Academic Affairs.
Congresswoman Hayes, a Democrat, was elected to represent the 5th District of Connecticut—which includes the city of Meriden—in November 2018. She is the first African-American woman to represent the state of Connecticut in the United States Congress.
Hayes first garnered widespread attention while serving as a teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury, when she was selected as the Connecticut Teacher of the Year. She went on to earn the distinction of being named 2016 National Teacher of the Year, leading to an invitation to the White House by then-President Barack Obama. In her capacity as National Teacher of the Year, Hayes traveled the country and the world as an ambassador for public education engaging all stakeholders in policy discussions meant to improve outcomes for students.
Congresswoman Hayes' story is one of achievement despite the odds and overcoming the obstacles that life can place before you. She has been quoted as saying that "education saved her life" and is a fierce advocate for ensuring that equitable access to educational opportunities exists for all students and families.
She is a graduate of Naugatuck Valley Community College, Southern Connecticut State University, the University of Saint Joseph, and the University of Bridgeport.
Since 1966, Middlesex Community College has provided high-quality, affordable, and accessible education to a diverse population, enhancing the strengths of individuals through degree, certificate, and lifelong learning programs that lead to university transfer, employment, and an enriched awareness of our shared responsibilities as global citizens. A part of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, MxCC offers more than 70 degree or certificate programs at the main 38-acre campus in Middletown, MxCC@Platt in Meriden, and online.
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As humans, we take the most amazing things for granted. We are tiny specs in this enormous universe, and yet we still walk this earth without batting an eye. Being human, our many abilities range from walking, communicating, breathing and seeing. Sight, one of the most interesting of our abilities, is used to interpret light as color. People see so many beautiful colors on the regular, from the purples and reds of a beautiful sunset or sunrise, to the yellows and oranges of fall trees. This is one of the most amazing human capabilities, but if you were to ask someone on the street why humans can see color, and how this process happens, they probably wouldn't know.
Color is one of the few most used descriptors in society, yet not many stop to think how this complex concept may happen. When growing up, a child learns a few basic things; how to count, how to sing the alphabet, the names and sounds of a few animals, and colors. They learn that apples are red, or that the sun is yellow. What they don't learn is that items don't really have "color", but that their surface absorbs some wavelengths and reflect others, and this is thanks to how wavelengths and the cones in the human eye work together. Of the large spectrum of wavelengths, the human eye can only pick up a tiny portion as color. Each wavelength on this visible light spectrum corresponds to a specific color we see, with violet and blue corresponding to shorter wavelengths and red corresponding to longer wavelengths. White light, like the light people pick up from the sun, is actually a combination of all of these colors. When light hits an item such as an apple, all other waves will be absorbed by the apple, while the waves that correspond to the color red would reflect, and bounce off of the apple. The human eye would then see this and send a message to the brain telling it that the color is red. When there is less light around there are less waves for the cones in the back of our eyes to pick up, making the colors seem muted or nonexistent.
Colors affect our lives every day in traffic lights, emergency signs, and poisonous animals. And although we have 3 cones in our eyes, that isn't the case for all animals. It has been proven that there are animals with a different amount of cones in their eyes, allowing them to see a different range of colors, or in some cases, more colors that humans could even comprehend. For example, some insects can see ultraviolet light, which cannot be picked up by human eyes at all. With more people aware and interested in how these eye cones work, there could be a way to somehow see these unknown colors that human eyes can't sense or help fund research to help find a cure to colorblindness, which is caused by cones not working correctly. With so many who don't have the same privilege of seeing all the colors of a rainbow, more people should think about why we see color, and how important it really is.
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Halit Eke, Nisan Dag clinch Antalya Film Forum fiction project prizes
Source: Antalya Film Festival
Halit Eke's oil smuggling drama No Land and Nisan Dag's When I Am Done Dying, a youthful romance set against the rapping culture of Istanbul's historic Sulukule neighbourhood, have won the top prizes at the fourth edition of the Antalya Film Forum.
The industry programme, aimed at supporting the development of Turkish film projects, ran Oct 22-26 during the Antalya Film Festival under the directorship of respected Turkish producer Zeynep Atakan.
A total of $97,000 was awarded across 15 award categories.
No Land and When I Am Done Dying received $8,415 (30,000 Turkish Lira) each in the fiction pitching platform category
A contemporary drama set against the backdrop of the oil fields of southeast Turkey, or Turkish-Kurdistan, Eke's No Land revolves around a young farmer who gets involved in stealing oil from the installations that threaten his family's land and livelihood to pay off his debts.
The film is produced by Ziya Cemre Kutluay at Istanbul-based b.i.t. arts, whose previous credits include Onur Saylak's refugee-trafficker drama More, which premiered at Karlovy Vary this year.
"Oil theft, or oil smuggling, is not a common issue and has not been visualised like this before so I'm very excited to be working on this project," said Kutluay.
When I Am Done Dying is set against the backdrop of Istanbul's Sulukule neighbourhood, one of the poorest areas in the city which was traditionally home to the local Roma community.
Dag, whose previous credits include award-winning Across The Sea which sold to Amazon, will tap into Sulukule's vibrant rapping scene for this impossible love story tale between a young boy from the neighbourhood and an upper-class girl.
The project grew out of a documentary, Dag made on the Sulukule rapping scene for MTV, which led to her teaching animation to children in the neighbourhood.
"Sulukele is one of the most dangerous slums in city. It is mostly Muslim and very conservative but there is a very prominent Hip Hop sub-culture, especially among the young generation," explained Dag, who wants to cast the main roles out the neighbourhood's Hip Hop scene.
"These kids will be doing a rap battle on a street corner but then if they hear a call to prayer at the mosque, they will stop to pay their respects."
Muge Ozen of Solis Film, who is a 2017 participant in the Eave producers workshop, is producing with US producer Jessica Caldwell on board in an associate role.
Other prizes
The $28,000 Work in Progress prize went to Sefa Ozturk Colak's debut feature Trust about a married couple whose marriage is put to the test when the wife's former partner resurfaces in her life. It is produced by Serkan Acar and Dilek Aydin.
In the documentary pitching platform category, the winners were Tayfur Aydin's 12 Years Later and Serdar Kokceoglu's Mimaroglu. Both projects received a $8,415 award.
12 Years Later is set against the backdrop of the Kurdish border city of Sirnak, which regularly witnesses clashes between Turkish forces security forces and Kurdish separatists.
It revisits a group of young adults some 12 years after they took part in a cinema and theatre workshop, in which they expressed their ideas about war and their future, to see where they are in their lives today. Actor-turned-producer Mevlut Akkaya is lead producing.
Kokceoglu's Mimaroglu explores the life and work of late Turkish musician and electronic music pioneer Ilhan Mimaroglu and his peace activist wife of 51-years Gungor Mimaroglu. It is produced by Esin Uslu and Dilek Aydin.
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In the projects looking for producers category, aimed at projects in the early stages of development, Ismail Doruk's romantic drama 60 Days and Tugce Aydın's The Life of Madame X, were each awarded $14,025.
In 60 Days, Latif and Semiha's arranged marriage hits complications when the bride is discovered not to be a virgin on her wedding day.
Under Turkish tradition, Semiha could be returned to her family in disgrace but to protect her from the wrath of a violent brother, Latif agrees to go ahead with the ceremony and then divorce 60 days later on the basis of incompatibility, but then he truly falls in love.
The Life of Madame X delves into the secret backstories of personal items belonging to non-Muslim women who lived in Anatolia in the early 20th century.
In the short film work in progress category, Semih Gülen's Hit Me Baby, following a young female boxer as she tries out for Turkey's national team, won the $1,402 prize.
The city of Antalya's Sümer Tilmaç Antalya Film Support Fund award, worth $28,051 and aimed at encouraging film shoots in the area, went to Emre Akay's thriller The Hunt, about a young woman on the run from a violent husband and his friends in a fight for survival in a patriarchal society.
Some 200 international industry professionals attended this year's edition of the forum including Paris-based producer Cedomir Kolar of A.S.A.P, Jerusalem Film Festival artistic director Elad Samorzik, script and project development consultant Claudia Landsberger at Baseworx For Film, UK producer Cat Villiers and Dutch producer Raymond van der Kaaij of Revolver Amsterdam.
"The Forum is the catalyst for early interaction with the international film industry. It is an area of the festival that is a driver for the Turkish industry in the international market," commented the Antalya Film Festival's artistic director Mike Downey.
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Members of the reserve forces will continue to deploy to Iraq as part of this force package and we expect to issue around 290 call-out notices in order to fill some 220 posts during the TELIC 12 roulement period. Prior to their deployment and on completion of their mobilisation procedures, the reservists will undertake a period of training and integration with their respective units. For the majority, their deployment to theatre will commence in May and most will serve on operations for six to seven months, although some may have shorter tours. The reservists will predominantly reinforce regular units and perform a wide range of activities, including force protection duties, intelligence and logistic tasks. We also expect, as part of this commitment, up to 50 members of the sponsored reserves to be in theatre at any one time.
Force levels will be kept under review and we will look to make further reductions over the course of the TELIC 12 deployment if conditions allow and on the advice of commanders on the ground. I will, of course, keep Parliament informed of developments.
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Ministry of Defence: Northern Ireland Garrison Restructure
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Baroness Taylor of Bolton): My right honourable friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Bob Ainsworth) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
In May 2006, my predecessor announced the future garrison structure for Northern Ireland.
As part of our longer-term planning, we have decided to relocate 230 Squadron RAF, currently based at RAF Aldergrove and equipped with Puma helicopters, to RAF Benson. This will establish a coherent Puma force on a single site, enabling the improvement of Puma force capability. It will also entail the relocation of RAF support personnel and a reduction in the civilian personnel required at Aldergrove. We expect the relocation to be completed by the end of 2010.
The relocation of 230 Squadron will free up significant facilities at Aldergrove. It is therefore our intention to relocate 38 Engineer Regiment, which will move into Massereene Barracks, Antrim, later this year, to Aldergrove as soon as practicable following the departure of 230 Squadron and to dispose of Massereene Barracks thereafter. A number of civilians will be offered the opportunity to relocate with the unit, but there will be a reduction in civilian personnel associated with site-specific activities.
These changes will not impact on our commitments in support of the civil authorities in Northern Ireland. Aldergrove will remain a military flying station for the Army Air Corps for the foreseeable future. The RAF will continue to utilise Northern Ireland airspace for training and a limited number of RAF personnel will remain in joint or specialist appointments in units within Northern Ireland. The relocation of 38 Engineer Regiment demonstrates our longer-term commitment to retain a base at Aldergrove. The ongoing relocation of 19 Lt Bde to Northern Ireland, announced in January 2006, demonstrates our longer-term commitment to basing in Northern Ireland.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): My honourable friend the Minister of State for Pensions Reform (Mike O'Brien) has made the following Statement.
New regulations on the calculation of pensions transfer values were laid on 11 April. The regulations come into effect on 1 October 2008.
The regulations build on the very useful dialogue that we have had with the pensions community about the way in which pensions transfer values should be calculated.
The regulations are largely as we consulted on. However, the requirement that every assumption used in the calculation should be a "best estimate" has been changed in order to make the calculation more straightforward. The new requirement is that the assumptions, taken as a whole, should lead to a "best estimate" of the amount of the unreduced transfer value.
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What secrets will be revealed in May?
If you had the opportunity to learn the inside story of one of the great numismatic mysteries, what would it be?
The 1913 Liberty Head nickel?
Perhaps the 1884 and 1885 proof Trade dollars?
How about the 1933 $20 gold pieces?
If you chose the third option, you are in luck.
The Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists has arranged a talk – two actually – on the story of the 1933 Saint-Gaudens $20 gold pieces.
The first will be given at PAN's spring dinner at 7:30 p.m. on May 10 at the LeMont Restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The second will occur at 10:30 a.m. on the following day in the PAN Coin Show Lecture Area at the Monroeville Convention Center.
Speaker will be Greg Weinman, the man who managed for the U.S. Mint the years' long court battles over legal ownership of 10 1933 gold $20s in the possession of the family of Israel Switt, a Philadelphia jeweler.
The family sent the coins to the U.S. Mint for authentication in 2004.
They were declared genuine, but the Mint seized them.
The family of Switt's daughter, Joan Langbord, sued the Mint and lost, appealed and won, and then lost again on further appeal and denial of a final appeal to the Supreme Court just last year.
This drama ran for 13 years.
Weinman, who is the senior legal counsel at the Mint, was there for it all.
He joined the Mint in 1997 after having served six years as senior attorney at the Internal Revenue Service specializing in public contracts and licensing.
The Mint has contended all along that the Switt coins were stolen.
However, one gray area existed because the Treasury granted an export license for one so Egyptian King Farouk could buy the coin in 1944.
Perhaps it was a World War II wartime expedient to keep a political leader happy. Perhaps it was a slipup.
However, the export license has allowed the Farouk specimen to be owned legally.
It was sold for $7.59 million in 2002, making the 10 Switt coins unbelievably valuable – a sufficient motive to try to legalize them.
The 2002 sale concluded a six-year legal wrangle that saw the proceeds divided between the government and British coin dealer Stephen Fenton, from whom the coin had been seized in 1996.
Many coin collectors rooted for the Langboard family to win the legal battle over the coins, but they did not prevail.
What will Weinman reveal that is new?
Those who go to his talks will be first to find out.
The broad outlines of the story are well known.
In March 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a Proclamation prohibiting payment of gold coin. This resulted in the melting of 445,500 1933-dated but never issued $20 gold pieces.
The Mint says only two pieces lawfully left the Mint. These were given to the Smithsonian Institution in 1934.
After a 1933 double eagle appeared at auction in 1944, a Secret Service investigation led to the recovery of nine stolen pieces that also were subsequently melted.
Another piece – the Farouk coin – was recovered in 1996, with that case ending in the unique settlement under which it was monetized and issued by the Mint.
Weinman will discuss and answer questions about the 1933 double eagles, the history, the litigation and the Mint plans for the preservation and display of these historic national treasures.
It is inspiring to know that these coins indeed will be preserved and will be put on display.
It is even more inspiring to see an organization like PAN take the initiative to provide such a talk for the benefit of all hobbyists who can attend.
Well done, PAN.
Buzz blogger Dave Harper won the Numismatic Literary Guild Award for Best Blog for the third time in 2017 . He is editor of the weekly newspaper "Numismatic News."
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Q: protocol-buffers: string or byte sequence of the exact length Looking at https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#scalar it appears that string and bytes types don't limit the length? Does it mean that we're expected to specify the length of transmitted string in a separate field, e.g. :
message Person {
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}

A: The wire type used for string/byte is Length-delimited. This means that the message includes the strings length. How this is made available to you will depend upon the language you are using - for example the table says that in C++ a string type is used so you can call name.length() to retrieve the length.
So there is no need to specify the length in a separate field.

A: One of the things that I wished GPB did was allow the schema to be used to set constraints on such things as list/array length, or numerical value ranges. The best you can do is to have a comment in the .proto file and hope that programmers pay attention to it!
Other serialisation technologies do do this, like XSD (though often the tools are poor), ASN.1 and JSON schema. It's very useful. If GPB added these (it doesn't change wire formats), GPB would be pretty well "complete".

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A Defense that has been wasted on a 4-4 team
Monday, November 02, 2015 / by John Steigerwald / / Inside Access, Pittsburgh Steelers / 10 comments
MONDAY BUZZ COLUMN
Remember when that Oakland Raiders game looked like a guaranteed win?
When the NFL schedule came out in April it was obvious to everybody that the Steelers had a tough one.
Six games in the division are never easy, including the two games with the Browns.
Then there were the trips to New England, Kansas City and Seattle and home games with the Broncos and Colts.
That home game with the Raiders on November eighth was one of the few games that got marked with a W.
The Raiders have a quarterback and they are looking every bit as much like a playoff team as the Steelers right now.
They beat a pretty good (so far) Jets team 34-20 on Sunday and Derek Carr threw for 333 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions.
Latavius Murray had 113 yards on 20 carries and is averaging almost five yards per carry since coming into the league last season.
So, the Steelers' defense isn't getting a break this week
But then the Steelers' defense hasn't been the problem, has it?
Remember when everybody agreed that the Steelers were going to have to score at least 30 points a game to make the playoffs?
They scored 43 against the 49ers in week two but could have won if they had scored just 19 and 12 points were five more than they needed to beat the Rams in week three.
Would have beaten the Ravens in week four if they had scored 24.
Only needed 24 to beat the Chargers on the road in week five.
Twenty-five was 11 points more than they needed to beat the Cardinals in week six.
Would have beaten the Chiefs with 24 in week seven and would have beaten the Bengals yesterday if they could have scored 17.
If there is an award for Defensive Coordinator of the First Half of the Season, it has to go to the rookie, Keith Butler.
It's too bad that a lot of what he has done to this point has been wasted on a 4-4 team.
Obviously, that 30 points a game idea became unrealistic when Ben Roethlisberger left the Rams game with a knee injury.
But he played Sunday against the Bengals and again the defense did what nobody thought it was capable of doing in August. It shut down one of the best offenses in the league.
So, now what?
How does a wild card sound?
Forget the AFC North. If the Bengals go 4-5 in their last nine games, they'll finish 11-5, which is the record it took for the Steelers to win it last season.
How do you like the Steelers' chances of running the table in the second half and finishing 12-4 without Le'Veon Bell?
Which brings us back to the Raiders.
Remember December 2009, when the Steelers were coming off a Super Bowl and struggling with a 6-5 record and lost 27-24 to the Raiders at home?
Some guy named Bruce Gradkowski was the Raiders quarterback that day and he became the first Raiders quarterback to throw three touchdowns in the fourth quarter since Ken Stabler in 1979.
He threw the last one with nine seconds left.
It was the moment when everybody knew it wasn't going to be another Super Bowl year. The Steelers finished 9-7.
If the Steelers drop to 4-5, it might be the moment when we know that this isn't going to be another playoff year.
And who would have thought that the Steelers would start the second half of their season depending on their defense to keep them alive?
Even without Bell the Steelers have enough offensive weapons to win but beating the Raiders looks like a much tougher proposition now than it did three months ago.
– If the Steelers don't make the playoffs, it will mean they've gone five years without winning a post season game. They haven't gone that long since before Chuck Noll showed up in 1969.
— Steelers safety Mike Mitchell did a nice job of proving that he's as stupid as Pacman Jones on Sunday when he took a stupid taunting penalty.
— You can blame Ben Roethlisberger's terrible game on rust, but where was the rust on the 80 yard, 7:14 TD drive on his first possession in four weeks? I think it was a bum knee more than rust.
— As usual, there is a lot of post-game discussion about Mike Tomlin's clock management. The Steelers had enough time left in the final two minutes to put together a touchdown drive and failed.
– If you get a chance, check out Colin Kaepernick's post game press conference after the 49ers loss to the Rams on Sunday. Check out his hat. Then try to imagine Ben Roethlisberger, after the loss to the Bengals, going with the same look. Not exactly the look of a leader of men.
John Steigerwald
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May is a big birthday month for our family. We started out with my little sister turing 8 and being baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was given the assignment of playing the piano and giving a talk on the Holy Ghost. We were 10 minutes late... #facepalm. All ended well and we gorged ourselves on food, as always. In the middle of the month, Sadee turned 3. We opted to only have birthday parties on even birthdays (instead of every year) to avoid going bankrupt on "Pinterest" parties that I can't help myself from throwing. She had specific requests for cake and the color of the candles, which we easily pulled off. Three-year-olds are easily impressed! At the end of the month, I turned 25. The day was beyond perfect and could have lived that day a million times over. We spent the whole day outside in the garden, I wore a new dress, ate at my favorite restaurant and stuffed myself with my favorite ice cream. Pretty sure I'll choose the exact same things next year. I like plans and predictability, it's kind of my thing.
On top of that, we celebrated my sister-in-law graduating from Nursing School and celebrated by eating at a fabulous Mexican restaurant, we (meaning my husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law) painted the heck out of our new house, cut my hair, played in the rain and mud, celebrated Mother's Day, ate lollipops, played in the warm sun, graduated from Joy School, went to swimming lessons, attended the Payson Temple Open House, prepared for Girls Camp, bought furniture, welcomed a new baby into the family (our niece) and pulled weeds. I'm telling you, it was busy, busy, busy!
Looking back on that month, I can feel immense gratitude for the flexibility and patience of both my husband and my children. We were pushed harder than we thought possible and came out stronger because of it. It's true when the scriptures tell us that we must taste the bitter to enjoy the sweet and feel sorrow to appreciate the joy. Earlier this week AJ and I FINALLY sat down and watched a movie after the kiddos went to sleep. It was such an enjoyable privilege that I forgot how to enjoy. We even went out to an outdoor play the next night. It was nice to feel normalcy in our lives once again and to soak in a little bit of husband/wife time.
Life sure has a funny way of working itself out.


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Winning over hearts can't be done on an empty stomach.
Winning over hearts in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina can't be done on an empty stomach.
Residents of the three early presidential primary and caucus states have become accustomed to the quadrennial candidate wooing ritual at diners and local businesses. A select few have even become unofficial regular haunts for presidential candidates who come to meet local folks over local fare.
The Red Arrow Diner is one of them.
Nestled in Manchester, N.H., the restaurant has become a political institution in its own right. ABC News got an inside look at the campaign landmark visited by famous politicians and celebrities (like Matthew McConaughey).
"It is the place to be...a diner in any community is the focal point," explained Carol Lawrence, owner of The Red Arrow Diner. Lawrence said the popular eatery became a regular fixture on the campaign trail in 2000.
So, who leaves a good tip? Bill Clinton, apparently.
According to Lawrence's "political waitress," Elaine Boule, the former president bought all the patrons coffee and left her a handsome tip during a visit campaigning for his wife's 2008 presidential bid. Clinton even gave Boule the campaign pin off his lapel.
"I think I'm going to start wearing it, maybe she'll come back in this year," Boule added of Hillary Clinton, now the current Democratic front-runner for president in 2016.
Lawrence admitted she was pleasantly surprised that Hillary was "so gracious" during the visit. "[Hillary] looked you in the eye when she spoke with you -- a lot of them don't," she explained.
One thing the 2008 Clinton campaign wasn't a fan of: Red Arrow's tradition of "de-virginizing" first-time customers.
Normally, employees ring a bell to announce a patron's inaugural visit and the customer gets a sticker announcing he or she has been "de-virginized" from the diner. But not Hillary.
"Her aide called and said, 'Listen, we have a request: You cannot de-virginize Hillary Clinton,'" recalled Lawrence. "And I was like, 'Are you kidding me?' It was pretty funny."
ABC News' Arlette Saenz, Michael Falcone and Tom Thornton contributed to this production.


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