Dirty Deeds

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...

What happens when you buy a $130,000 property and discover mid-lawsuit that it was appraised at $2.3 million? In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Southern California investor Ellis San Jose — a veteran deal-maker who built his career finding deeply discounted real estate and "paper" (notes, liens, and mortgages) that nobody else wanted to touch. Ellis breaks down...

Willy Numbers built one of the most unconventional real estate businesses in the game — and in this episode of Dirty Deeds, he breaks down exactly how he did it. Willy is the founder of Reverse Flip, a strategy that flips the traditional wholesale model on its head. Instead of locking up a contract and waiting weeks for title searches, Willy buys the deed first, solves the problems on the back end...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits down with former FBI agents turned private investigators, Sean and Larry Baker, to pull back the curtain on some of the wildest and most complex real estate deals happening behind the scenes. From tracking down elusive property owners and navigating prison communications to leveraging advanced investigative tools and human intelligence, this conversation...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits down with Michael McCall — a real estate entrepreneur who’s built a multi-million-dollar operation by mastering sales, systems, and scale. Michael breaks down how he went from grinding nonstop to building a company that runs without him, the hard lessons behind firing yourself from your own business, and why most operators stay stuck as the bottleneck. Th...

In this powerful episode of Dirty Deeds, we sit down with Manny Cash, a San Antonio-based investor whose journey from a 17-year-old Venezuelan immigrant to a successful real estate entrepreneur is nothing short of miraculous. Manny shares the high-stakes reality of arriving in the U.S. with only $1,500 and a student visa, eventually facing the terrifying choice to stay illegally to fulfill his mot...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, we sit down with Jesse Burrell, a founder who successfully navigated the journey from a lean real estate investing operation to exiting a massive $40 million revenue software company. Jesse shares the raw, unfiltered story of his early days in Phoenix, where he transitioned from an acquisition rep to netting $1 million in his first year on his own through a mix of f...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits down with Nick Perry to break down what it really takes to build a scalable business without burning yourself out. Nick shares his journey from being broke, sleeping on an air mattress, and grinding through 11 months without a deal, to building a real estate company that has generated over $33 million in profit and now runs without his day-to-day involvem...

In this episode, we sit down with Jeremy Mercer of Matador Realty Investments to unpack the realities of distressed commercial real estate—specifically industrial deals most investors don’t know how to touch. Jeremy shares how he built a $300M+ industrial portfolio by focusing on value-add opportunities like vacant buildings, mark-to-market leases, tenant bankruptcies, zoning battles, and overlook...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with legendary investor Dave Dey — a 27-year veteran with over 2,000 real estate transactions under his belt — to unpack how he’s turned some of life’s toughest situations into creative, profitable deals. Dave shares his journey from humble beginnings and missionary roots in India to living in a weekly motel with five adults and three dogs, t...

In this episode, Eric Cline breaks down how elite sales process—not real estate expertise—is what actually drives consistent deal flow in wholesaling and distressed property acquisitions. After losing a $9-figure business exit and writing a $7 million settlement check, Eric rebuilt from scratch by applying repeatable call-center sales systems to real estate, funding 118 deals and generating $2.6M...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, we break down why traditional real estate models like wholesaling, flipping, and land deals are struggling in today’s softer market—and why distressed property acquisition continues to thrive regardless of market conditions. Logan Fullmer and Lucian dive deep into how buying property at a true fraction of value creates flexibility, downside protection, and real marg...

This episode dives deep into real-world distressed real estate investing with Brandon Schwalm, a high-volume operator who’s built an 80+ property pipeline by solving complex probate, tax, and title issues most investors avoid. Brandon breaks down how he transitioned from traditional wholesaling into deep distress deals, sharing wild stories—including probate battles, fractional ownership, long-ter...

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fulmer sits down with Matthew Ingerson to break down how he and his partner quietly built a highly profitable real estate operation in North Georgia by buying well, staying disciplined, and solving real problems for sellers. Matthew walks through scaling to nearly 50 properties in a single year, buying deeply discounted homes in the $30–40K range, and turning...