The Investor Shed Podcast

Shaun is great on the job site and less great at the paperwork. Nick set him up with an AI assistant on a 12 dollar a month server that has access to his email and Facebook and is rebuilding his CRM and invoice history. Jeremy compares it to the nine hours he spent getting OpenClaw into Gmail. Shaun has not actually used it yet.

Our 1099 agents have mostly not worked out, partly because we've been the cool bosses and partly because in Idaho you can't treat a 1099 like an employee. So Nick wants a W-2 salesperson with a simple expectation list: 20 to 30 contacts and one or two appointments a day. Jeremy asks whether burning 50 grand a year is worth it. We already burned 30 grand on mailers we never followed up on.

Everyone says the market is crashing. Nick and Jeremy pull the August numbers for Spokane: median price down 2.7 percent, sales down 3.5 percent for the month but up almost 5 percent year to date, and about 3.2 months of supply. Not exactly violent. Then a detour into AI, which we swear is the last time.

Nick tricks journey into working and called it a podcast. Enjoy.

The conversation covers the impact of seasonality on real estate, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by winter months and holiday periods. It also delves into the behavior of buyers and sellers during these times, as well as the strategies employed by real estate investors to navigate seasonality. The conversation delves into the concept of timing the market versus time in...

Kellogg craftsman. Under contract summer 2025. Seller no-showed closing. Paid interest before it even closed in Feb 2026. $13.5k rehab turned into ~$50k (roof and a rotten deck). Listed May at $379k. Day-two offer $345k. Passed. Forty-plus showings. Missed a $355k investor counter. Appraisal: $345k. Same number as the first offer. Quirky floor plan plus an emotional tie. He used to live two doors...

Nick walks Jeremy through the new Grokbot app after a year of building custom AI systems the hard way. Download it. It has its own virtual computer. You click “teach a task,” do the work once on its screen, and it learns the workflow. Connectors for Gmail, Calendar, QuickBooks, Canva, Robinhood, and a bunch more. Or skip the connectors and just log in like a human. No VPS. No Mac Mini. No 40-hour...

Sorry this episode dropped late Trace. Nick talks about how his AI is finally making him some money.

Nick and Jeremy catch up on a big week. Jeremy finished a triathlon and turned 39 with Frosties and a trampoline park. Nick shares two new business ideas and a fresh house flip. First up is a septic pumping company planned for early 2027. Low competition in North Idaho and Eastern Washington, one truck to start, AI systems, and a built-in pipeline through real estate agents. Second is Blazar Opera...

Gaelan Evans from Sandpoint joins Nick and Jeremy to break down how real estate agents and small business owners can build custom AI systems that actually run parts of their business. He started out designing ski gear, hit the usual entrepreneur roadblocks, and found AI was the real unlock. They cover the gap between basic ChatGPT chats and agentic setups that connect to your Gmail, phone, Drive,...

Real results from the AI systems this week. We got organic Google leads, including a multi-million dollar listing opportunity. The custom site and CRM are ranking and bringing in actual inquiries. Spam gets filtered automatically. One simple voice command (“Can you take care of that email from Josh?”) produced a full interest payoff breakdown PDF in minutes that used to take 45 minutes by hand. Al...

We built a full website live on the show in about 14 minutes using AI coding agents. Nick bought investorshed.com that morning, dropped a simple prompt into Grok, and watched it research BiggerPockets, design a clean North Idaho focused investor site, and code the whole thing. Free accounts, off-market deals, better calculators, pro directory, podcast hub, and admin tools. Claude then audited the...

Nick rebuilt his entire business stack with AI coding agents in two weeks. He replaced QuickBooks with NickBooks, ditched Go High Level for a custom CRM, and built his own RV park management system. Total savings: over $300 a month. He is now back to working deals full time while the systems run in the background. We break down exactly how he did it with Claude Code and Grok, why web chatbots kept...

Jeremy just had a baby boy, so we kicked off the show with that good news before diving into the brand new Trump Accounts. These are game-changing retirement accounts for kids that anyone can contribute to, no earned income required. We break down the $5k annual limit, the $1,000 government kickstart for recent births, compound interest magic, and how to set one up fast through the app. Perfect fo...

Post-4th of July about AI in real estate. Most folks use chatbots daily, but few dive into agentic tools. AI isn't wiping out jobs; it's making people way more productive. Nick built a custom QuickBooks replacement over a weekend with Claude, saving big on fees with full customization. Other wins: better bots, video presets, and faster client visuals. Prediction: expect to manage more and do more,...

Nick and Jeremy talk about the big AI mistakes Nick made while building tools for his real estate business. From context overload and spinning wheels for months to finally figuring out projects, custom instructions, handoff files, and building a solid AI transaction coordinator. If you're a real estate investor, agent, or small business owner using (or wanting to use) AI, this episode will save yo...

Nick and Jeremy shoot the breeze on this episode of Investor Shed. We talk 75 Hard resets, Father's Day Meta glasses with John Cena voice mode, real estate fix and flips, staging timelines, and why Jeremy only shoots when houses are actually ready. We dive into trending real estate media, authentic content vs overdone edits, the 33 touch marketing plan, DISC personality types for better client com...

Nick & Jeremy break down the crazy news of Elon Musk hitting trillionaire status, the massive SpaceX IPO, Tesla FSD, and why we're both going long on these companies. We talk real talk on day trading vs buy-and-hold, SpaceX building data centers in space, and Nick shares updates on his new book The AI Real Estate Operator . Lots of lessons for real estate investors, agents, and anyone thinking...

Nick Beveridge and Jeremy Kitchen dive deep into practical, real-world AI tools that are saving serious time for busy real estate investors, agents, and small business owners. No fluff — just actionable use cases you can implement today. We break down how to connect your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Drive directly to AI models like Claude and Grok. Watch Nick demonstrate: Pulling together tangled e...

Nick Beveridge and Jeremy Kitchen break down the completed fix and flip in Post Falls. We cover exactly what the property cost to buy at $335k, the hard money loan details, the $73k out of pocket rehab, and how it all shook out to about $75k profit. We walk through what worked, what we would do differently, staging tips, basement build out, contractor strategies, demo lessons, and why this was a s...

Nick and Jeremy break down the AI agents Nick's running right now, including a new fitness coach built with Hermes that's keeping him honest on 75 Hard through photos and voice notes on Telegram. He walks through how Grok's OAuth support dropped his costs from hundreds a day down to basically nothing on his regular subscription. OpenClaw, Hermes, the real estate bots like Kyle and Katie, all of it...

Nick breaks down the best first AI project for any small business owner with years of messy client data. He used AI to mine old phones, emails, texts, and Facebook to clean up and grow his real estate CRM from about 4,000 sloppy contacts to 8,200 with real notes, addresses, and history. This is the exact process he ran and what worked (and what didn't). Also covers why a clean CRM makes scaling an...

Nick walks through the full 9-year saga of Big Creek RV Park in Osburn, Idaho from buying a 23-space RV park for $145K with zero experience, through years of bad management, building a bathhouse and laundry from scratch, finding the right on-site managers, and finally getting it to appraise for $925K and refinance out of hard money. This is the story of the last piece of that $1.85M loss recovery....

Nick and Jeremy break down how to stop starting fresh AI chats every time and actually use Projects the right way. Nick shares how he built ongoing Projects for his real estate business, podcast clips, cabin builds, and even a finance advisor that knows every deal he has. They cover context bloat, hallucinations, custom instructions for real pushback instead of fluff, and practical wins like auto-...

Nick and Jeremy break down how they are actually using AI to run their real estate businesses smarter. They talk about turning one podcast into weeks of social clips with Opus Clips and Claude, test Jeremy's new AI phone agent Kyle that qualifies leads, and share real results from cleaning up 15 years of client data. Jeremy also explains why he ditched his old Prius for a Tesla, the real costs, se...