Dirty Deeds

A Houston church's pastor passed away, nobody could find the church's paperwork, and $38,000 in back taxes had its land headed to a tax sale. Four days before the auction, the church took Derek Wells' cash offer. He drove through a Texas blizzard with a cashier's check on the day his son was due to be born, and nine days after listing, the lot sold, netting about $80,000 in under 3...

Land flipping used to feel like shooting fish in a barrel. Now it takes 20,000 to 23,000 texts to land one contract. Seth Williams of REtipster and Mike Balcom, co-founders of Stride CRM, break down what's changed in the land business, and how AI is changing how land investors work. Mike's team now spends about $9,000 to $10,000 in marketing to acquire each deal, and the competition is sma...

Commercial real estate investing can create opportunities beyond traditional residential real estate, but finding the right deal comes down to understanding your market, your numbers, your basis, and your risk. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Colin McClellan, a commercial real estate broker and partner at Lando Realty Partners, to break down how investors can find, eva...

Robert and Cullen didn't come from real estate. One runs a patio cover company in Lake Charles, the other drives for a power company in Arkansas, and they've been best friends for 20 years. They still work full-time jobs, spend 10 to 15 hours a week on curative title, and have closed six to eight distressed property deals since September, including one where they paid $22,000 for two acres that sa...

Casey Roberts spent a decade building giant 3D-printing robots for the U.S. government — machines with arms long enough to print a foundation to quarter-inch accuracy. In January he walked away from it. By February he was in Logan's class, and by month four he had signed just under a million dollars in adjusted sales price equity across six deals, with a first-deal spread near $80K on about $5,000...

She refused to read the sales script. She's not a salesperson, she told her husband she just calls people, tells them the truth, and closes. Then Erica looked a man dead in the eye and told him he was going to die with his properties and sink with the ship. He got off the phone… and signed his $1.9 million portfolio over for pennies. Anthony and Erica Hernandez left the grind of wholesaling be...

Jesse Burrell is back on Dirty Deeds, and this one covers a lot of ground. We talk about his path from wholesaling and house flipping to building Batch Leads, Batch Skip Tracing, and Batch Dialer — and the wild, chaotic story of the actual night the deal to sell to PropStream almost didn't get signed in time. From there we dig into what he's building next: a life insurance agency helping everyday...

Anyone can teach you how to get into a deal. Matt is back on Dirty Deeds to talk about what comes after — the phase where the real work becomes managing cash, building a team, and having the discipline to walk away from deals other people would kill for. In this episode, Logan Fullmer and Matt dig into the operator's side of curative title investing: why "the best deal you ever did is the...

Kurt Marker paid for flight school by lifeguarding, teaching surf lessons, and parking cars. He bought his first duplex on a $48,000 salary — selling his own car just to qualify. Today he flies Gulfstreams, advises high-net-worth clients on private jet acquisitions, and just closed his first industrial flex space development for roughly $3 million in profit. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan F...

Caleb Fairclaw hit rock bottom before he ever found real estate the way he does it now. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, he sits down with Logan Fullmer for one of the most honest conversations on the show — from leaving the trades during the pandemic, to a real estate boom that collapsed overnight, into the darkest stretch of his addiction, and through the rehab stay that turned his life around. E...

Before he built one of the most powerful data platforms in distressed real estate, Tyler Austin was a military and cyber warfare operator — running open-source intelligence and hunting people down for the government. Then he made $350,000 in a single quarter finding dead owners and messy title deals, and never looked back. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Tyler, founder...

When a distressed real estate deal is stuck — deceased owner, missing heirs, a messy title no one can cure — Stephanie Shepherd is who investors call. Known as a "breakthrough specialist," she's built her name on the research side of the business: skip tracing, heir hunting, family-tree building, and untangling curative title problems most people walk away from. In this episode of Di...

Cody built an 8-figure net worth in his 20s. Lost 90% of it in the Great Recession. And came back with a land development model so different from everyone else — Lennar, DR Horton, and KB Home are buying his deals instead of competing with him. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Cody Bjyugan — 24 years in land development, operating nationwide from one office in Scottsdale, Arizona. Cody has never fa...

Anthony Pappas bought 75% of a beach house near Galveston, Texas for $15,000. The property was supposed to be vacant. He sent a locksmith to change the locks — and he called back and said: I hear somebody in there. I'm not going in. That's a normal week in the messy deeds business. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Anthony Papas — a former land flipper and apartm...

🚨 Most investors buy distressed properties without ever pulling a title report. That's how you lose everything. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Alex Goldavosky — founder of Pro Title USA and one of the most battle-tested title experts in the country — to expose exactly what's hiding inside messy deeds, broken title chains, and properties with liens most invest...

Most people peak once. Mikey Taylor has peaked four times and he's not done. Pro skateboarder. Brewery founder who sold to Miller Coors. Mayor of Thousand Oaks. And now one of the most unconventional commercial real estate operators in the game building ground-up multifamily developments and converting dead big-box retail into cash-flowing self-storage facilities while most investors are still...

What if the deals everyone walks away from are actually the best ones? Colin Murphy figured that out a long time ago and he's been running his entire operation from Madrid, Spain for over two decades while investors in the same U.S. markets can't figure out why their deals keep falling apart. The secret? Messy title. Broken chains of ownership. Properties with legal problems so tangled tha...

Matt is the co-founder of SmartSkip.io and a real estate investor who built his entire business around finding the people everyone else gave up on. Dead owners. Absent heirs. Disconnected numbers. Broken family trees. The kind of skip tracing that most people don't even know is possible and that unlocks the deals with the biggest margins in the game. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with one of the most unlikely operators in the land game. Cameron grew up in the back seat of cross-country drug runs, used as the family decoy because a kid in the car made the trip "look right" to anyone watching. He had to tell his future wife what his mom did for a living she didn't believe him until his mom went to prison t...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Bill Dimmick — the CPA and tax partner who's been quietly behind some of the most successful real estate operators in Texas. And his advice goes against almost everything you'll hear from a guru on the internet. Bill's core philosophy: don't let the tax tail wag the deal dog. He breaks down the warehouse story that should...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits down with Clayton Allen, a 36-year-old real estate investor from Marshall, Texas who's spent the last eight years quietly building a distressed property business in the deep East Texas pine country. Clayton breaks down what he calls "elephant hunting" — going after massive multi-heir land tracts with hundreds of owners, some dating back to T...

He came in as an acquisition guy. A year later, he owned the business. Here's what happened in between — and the $750K deal that proves it. Mauricio Chakra started as an acquisitions rep — no real estate background, no idea how probates worked, just a guy from sales who figured it out by picking up the phone. Now he runs his own distressed property operation, closing commercial deals, cracking...

Most real estate investors skip the survey or wait until they're closing — and that's when they find out the property isn't 125 acres, it's 103. Or the fence has been in the wrong spot for 40 years. Or there's a cemetery on the back corner. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Kort Breaux, owner of West Star Alamo Land Surveyors, to pull back the curtain...

Joey Stacks didn't just grow up on the wrong side of the tracks. He grew up inside the track. East Side San Antonio. Organized crime. Meth labs. FBI raids at age 8. Prison at 17. By 22, he was moving half-kilo bricks through Austin's nightlife scene — until the task force came knocking. But this episode isn't about the fall. It's about what happened after. Two prison sentences. Six...

It's just me," the seller said. By the end of the phone call, there were 13 siblings. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Florida's high-volume probate and curative title attorney Al Nicoletti to break down the deals most investors run from — and why the messiest title "train wrecks" are hiding the biggest paydays in real estate right now. If you&#39...