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In this episode, Rob is deep in the AI rabbit hole — and it's getting expensive. After burning through his entire monthly Claude allotment by Monday building three bots simultaneously, he racked up $500 in API overage in two days doing "minimal" work. His solution? Order a second Mac Mini, run it headless under his desk, and spin up a second $200/month Max plan. Chris and Rob get into why the busi...

In this episode, Chris and Rob swap Mother's Day stories — one involving a perfect embroidered sweatshirt, the other a broken play that turned into cold coffee, canceled reservations, and a lesson in never giving your wife too many options. Then the conversation pivots to deals: Rama Capital's 20-unit is heading into final negotiations with a failed roof, a shot water heater, and original 1928 gal...

In this episode, Dylan recaps the wildest golf story of the year — slicing a drive into a moving truck, tracking down the driver, and footing the bill on a Silverado windshield repair that ballooned past $500K in damage (and then broke again days later). From there the guys dig into debt — the psychological weight of payroll anxiety versus the strategic case for taking on debt to grow faster, and...

In this episode, Dylan recaps his Sedona baby moon — a spa day with no phones, a hike called the Birthing Cave (yes, it looks exactly like you'd think), and a sound bath with what can only be described as a hippie Carrot Top. Then the conversation goes deep on AI: Dylan reveals Indigo Construction now has two AI assistants, Kira and Iris, with Kira taking live inbound calls and running full estima...

In this episode, Chris returns from a solo trip with his wife to Riviera Maya — zip lining, ATVs, and swimming through a crystal-clear cenote cave with stalactites hundreds of thousands of years old. The conversation turns personal fast: why date nights and couples coaching matter more than people admit, the men's work Chris is diving into with a new therapist, and the brother dynamic he's only ju...

In this episode, Chris and Rob go two-on-two while Dylan sound bathes in Sedona — and cover more ground than expected. Rob finally cracks the code on getting his 17-year-old to take her driver's permit test after a forgotten PIN and a stranded Saturday do what two years of asking couldn't. Then it's all business: Chris gives a live update on the 20-unit deal with earnest money 30 days from going h...

In this episode, Dylan feels his baby girl kick for the first time — and responds by reading her a book through the belly. It's baby season all around: a partner's wife is being induced mid-recording, and Rob's sales team is quietly celebrating a teammate's paternity leave. Then things get interesting. Rob pulls back the curtain on the foreclosure auction world — courthouse steps, trustee sale lis...

 In this episode, Rob's Sub2 meetup is about to be standing room only — 150 people registered for an 80-person space — and the guys break down why Pace Morby's Creative Nation Tour turned a real estate event into a room where actual deals were closing in the crowd. Chris just got back from Squad Up Summit in Denver, where it snowed after a 75-degree dinner at Casa Bonita. Then Dylan drops some num...

In this episode, Dylan finally makes it back from Hawaii — just barely — after a once-in-15-years storm dumped two feet of rain on Maui, stranded flights, and turned a family vacation into a survival mode situation with twin four-year-olds and toilet paper earplugs. Chris recaps a Legoland daddy-daughter trip where they arrived late, left late, and somehow squeezed in seven rides. Then the convers...

In this episode, Rob's daughter brings up a memory he wishes she'd forgotten — the birthday where a deal took priority over being present — and the honest conversation that followed. Then Chris's son Tanner finally gets his cast off after four weeks, revealing everything you never wanted to know about what happens inside a cast on a four-year-old. Plus — the guys get into the real cost of doing ev...

In this episode, Dylan's in Maui and Chris and Rob are holding it down — talking about Rob's daughter's first job at Pizza Hut, a canceled order, a bathroom breakdown, and what it actually means to care about doing good work. Then the conversation shifts to the real cost of buying multifamily that looks great on paper: Chris tours two properties and discovers that spreadsheets don't tell you about...

In this episode, Rob is counting down the days until his daughter graduates — and the unexpected calm that comes with it. Dylan's baby is making herself known at 20 weeks, and the guys get into the strange, emotional math of how much time you actually get with your kids before they stop thinking you're cool. Then the conversation pivots hard into macro: Portland's cratering multifamily permit numb...

In this episode, Chris, Rob, and Dylan get into the messy, real, unscripted side of building — as dads and as investors. Chris shares how a taekwondo class next door to a Pilates studio might be the parenting hack nobody talks about, and the guys go deep on the age-old tension between engineering your kid's future versus just shepherding who they already are. Then the conversation shifts to Rama C...

In this episode, Chris sits down with Matt King — CEO of GoBundance, family office operator for David Osborne, and a man who built everything he has by chasing proximity to greatness before he could afford to. Matt shares the locker room moment that rewired how he thinks about wealth, why service is the Trojan horse to knowledge, and what it really means to give yourself permission to pursue the l...

In this episode, Rob opens up about one of the hardest weeks of his family's life — saying goodbye to Cheeto, the cat his daughter named at age four and loved for 13 years. The conversation gets real about how kids process loss, what parents get wrong, and why letting them witness the hard stuff might be the greatest gift you can give. Then the mood shifts: Rama Capital has its first multifamily d...

In this episode, Chris, Rob, and Dylan break down one of the wildest real estate meetups they’ve ever experienced — a 500+ person event packed with investors, networking, and unexpected moments (including a surprise appearance that changed the energy of the entire night). From hidden surprises to tough renovation decisions, they break down what can go wrong, and how to make it work anyway. If you...

In this episode, Chris, Rob, and Dylan each pull back the curtain on what they're actively building right now — and why none of it looks like it did a year ago. Rob opens up about transitioning out of his drywall business, selling it to a key employee, and going all-in on fix-and-flips with a goal of 10 deals in 2026. Chris shares the vision behind Rama Capital and why the team shifted their buy b...

In this episode, co-hosts Chris Merz, Robert Harden, and Dylan Scandalios introduce themselves and the podcast that started it all — a show about being dads, husbands, and entrepreneurs in the real estate world. They share how a local investor meetup brought them together, trade stories about growing up, starting families, and what happened to their businesses the moment kids entered the picture....