
Chris Koerner
@mhp_guy • 183,184 subscribers
Owns 8 RV parks w/ investors + 7 companies. DFW & LDS. Get my favorite 260 biz ideas for 2026, with tactical launch plans included: https://t.co/VH2ZSGrmzT
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I did something kind of insane. I just spent millions of dollars on dirt. 231 acres, 45 minutes from my house in DFW. In this post: why I bought it, how I plan to make money on it, and exactly what I paid. Here's the story. A couple years ago my buddy Jeff bought a ranch. And ever since, I've been watching his boys drive out there. Move a bulldozer around. Drive a skid steer. Bring in the cows. Build a burn pile after the storm. I admired that. I feel so strongly that having your kids learn to work hard is one of the best things you can do as a parent. And it's also one of the hardest. I think they're correlated. The harder things you do as a parent are also the most important things you do as a parent. I have four kids. I want them to have opportunities I never had, and I don't want them to be soft. A ranch is the greatest hard work simulator ever invented. Fixing fence in the July heat. Feeding cows when it's 37 degrees. Hauling hay. That will change a kid. It'll build something in a kid that no app ever will. They say business isn't personal. It is personal. This was an emotional decision first. But I'm a capitalist and an entrepreneur, so here's the financial side: DFW is adding 150 to 200,000 people a year, growing north and east. This ranch is 57 miles from downtown Dallas, in the path of growth. Worst case, my family gets a ranch that we love. Best case, the Metroplex crawls to my fence line. We started out looking at 50 to 100 acre parcels. Then I realized something: one day I'll feel stupid for not buying more land at only $10K an acre this close to Dallas. So we went bigger. The ranch wasn't distressed. I still negotiated almost $400K off the list price. Here's how: I uploaded the seller's appraisal to Claude. It caught that their comps were 60 acre parcels and mine is 231, and bigger parcels are worth much less per acre. It picked also apart the whole appraisal, caught a bunch of other stuff, and wrote my negotiation replies. My $20 a month subscription saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars. Another hack: My wife got her real estate license, represented us herself, and gave back 2% of her commission at closing. $50K off. Then I shook the seller's hand and promised this never becomes a neighborhood or a data center. That handshake is one reason he picked me over the developers. Relationships matter. So how am I gonna make money on this? A few of the plays: - The previous owner keeps ranching it on a grazing lease with me. He keeps spraying, mowing, and maintaining the fences. I collect a check. - There's a 2,400 sq ft shop on the property, already rented out. Another check. - Grass-fed beef under the 888 brand. A quarter cow sells for about $1,500 at roughly 40% net margin. And you don't need to own land to do this. ButcherBox doesn't own a single ranch. - A YouTube channel documenting everything. If it gets to a fraction of my main channel's size, it covers the entire ranch payment. Zero ongoing expenses. - Farm stays and campsites. Right next door is a tiny home community doing $17,000 a month on 20 acres. I have 231. - Maybe an Airbnb over the river with a plexiglass floor. Septic near a river is tricky, but everything's figureoutable. - I’ll use my own dozer instead of hiring one. Companies charge $200 to $500 an hour. Used dozers go for $10 to $30K and I’ll hire young guys to operate them and expand the pond for much cheaper. - Ag exemption. Property taxes on a ranch this size would be $45 to $50K a year. Mine are about $1,500. I don't plan to flip this. I'm building a barndominium out there, then eventually a house. I plan to own it for the rest of my life, and hopefully my kids and grandkids after that. What did I pay? $2.35 million. My wife and I got married on 08/08/08. So this is 888 Ranch. Three eights in a row make a great cattle brand. One last thing. If you've ever listened to the podcast, watched a video, or started a business because of something I shared: you are part of the reason I was able to buy this. I mean that. Thank you. I'm documenting all of it on a new YouTube channel, 888 Ranch Your learnings compound just like money does. Come watch mine. 888 Ranch site-- 888 Ranch Youtube --
Chris Koerner1,895,729 görüntüleme • 10 gün önce

I just talked to a 17-year-old who made $3,500 in two months flipping couches He picks up couches for $60-100 and sells them for $400-1200. Puts maybe an hour of work into each flip. Here's the playbook: 1/ Only uses KSL Classifieds. 2/ He filters for listings within 10 miles, looks for poor quality photos and "moving sale" urgency language, 3/Messages sellers and asks: "What's your lowest price?" 4/ He snaps a photo in the driveway, runs it through ChatGPT image generation, and lists it same day with AI-generated backgrounds that make it look like it's sitting in a $2 million home. In this episode he: - Breaks down his exact negotiation script to talk sellers down hundreds of dollars - Shows how he uses ChatGPT image generation to skip the staging step entirely - Gives the three red flags he looks for in listings that signal a deal - Tells me why poor quality pictures are his biggest buying signal - Gives his math on why he won't drive more than 10 miles to pick up a couch anymore Bentley taught a full masterclass in this episode! Check it out
Chris Koerner76,438 görüntüleme • 1 gün önce

My buddy made millions reselling overstock items. I wanted his secrets! So I flew him from California to my house in Texas. The challenge? $10k in profit in 10 days. The items? 87% off Costco appliances + outdoor furniture returns. YT version in replies. Here's how it went:
Chris Koerner684,092 görüntüleme • 19 gün önce

This guy makes $130k/month live-selling $8 used shirts on an app. He lost a $30m real estate portfolio in the crypto crash. Now he's back. He buys pallets of unsellable retail inventory for $.50/unit. Sells them in 15-second auctions. Mostly by himself. His Achilles? Impulsivity. His superpower? Zero pride. He works harder than anyone I've ever met. He used to sell everything on eBay. Then he discovered live selling. Now eBay is only 30% of his business and shrinking. He's growing 20% month-over-month. His biggest competitors? Asian women running the same playbook. He's a jacked 30-something CrossFit competitor. He's made and lost millions several times. He'll likely do it again. What should you take from this? 1. Do whatever it takes to provide for your family. 2. There's a zillion ways to get rich. 3. Learn to sell and you'll never go hungry, even if you make stupid decisions.
Chris Koerner2,231,525 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

This guy charges $10,000 per install and does it all from a van. He doesn't even have a proper website. Just posts videos of his work and the leads come to him. What is it? Tree nets. He installs custom nets in trees across Sacramento. A handful of jobs per month at $10K each and he's printing money. I have not seen anyone else is doing this at scale. This is brilliant. The market is wide open If you're okay being 100ft up in a tree to get your work done, this might be a good gig for you.
Chris Koerner2,286,140 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

Trust me, these 7 words will save you a whole lot of money and headache: Never ever ever buy a Samsung fridge.
Chris Koerner1,047,668 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

This is rad! There's 450k salons & barbershops in the US As a salon owner it would give me an edge on my competition & allow me to take a higher % of revenue. Let's say I save 2 minutes per client. That's at least one extra client per day, everyday. That's tens of thousands In extra revenue per year Or it'd allow me to hire staff and step away. Scrape every salon in your city & start selling these installs. More revenue to owner = no brainer offer.
Chris Koerner3,130,592 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Have you ever been to a silent disco? Neither have I Apparently they quietly make bank ;) I know a guy running one doing $300k + / year It's just the equipment to start and he said you can break even after 1-2 events. They run ads, but 90% of their events come from just cold calling churches and schools and offering his service. Two things to note here: 1) This is what I like to call "familiar but unexpected". People are familiar with parties, they aren't with "silent discos". 2) Ads don't solve everything. Sometimes you have to pick up the phone.
Chris Koerner36,564 görüntüleme • 3 gün önce

Meet Natalie. She makes six figures a year working one to two hours a week. She has no experience in hazardous waste disposal. No experience in landscaping. No experience in catering. But she won contracts in all three industries. Her first deal netted her $800 profit per pickup over five years. That's $10,000 net profit every year for making a few phone calls and submitting one proposal. Her second contract paid her $11,000 profit in two weeks. Her largest contract was $962,000 over five years. Her subcontractor charged her $700,000. She pocketed $262,000 for work she doesn't even do. What is it? Government contracting. She bids on jobs on sam . gov, finds subcontractors to do the actual work, and captures the spread between what the government pays her and what she pays her subs. The government is legally required to spend money with small businesses. You don't need experience. You don't even need money. You just need an LLC and an internet connection. In this episode Natalie: - Breaks down how she won her first contract bidding on something she'd never heard of - Shows me the exact AI prompts she uses to analyze 20-page government solicitations - Tells me why contracts under $350K don't require any past performance - Gives me the playbook for finding hungry subcontractors who actually deliver Why aren't more people doing this? Full episode links below.
Chris Koerner1,171,214 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

This guy bought a $300 inflatable movie screen on Amazon as a Christmas gift for his family and turned it into a $100,000 a year business at 80% profit margins. He just booked a $10,000 week. His startup cost was literally that Amazon gift. This is backyard movie theater rentals. But here's where it gets really freaking cool. Derek realized movies can't start until 9:30 PM in Texas summers because it doesn't get dark until then. That doesn't work for seven year olds. So he built the world's first indoor air conditioned inflatable movie theater. Full carpeting. LED lights. Four window AC units he bought off Facebook Marketplace for $150 each. He charges $1700 for it. His outdoor packages start at $375 and scale up from there to $1500. Then he added LED dance floors because kids kept dancing after the movies ended. Those rent for $3,000 and he'll have it paid off in eight rentals. In this episode Derek: - Breaks down how he went from unprepared at his first HOA event to a $10K booking week - Shares how he sources equipment from Alibaba and Facebook Marketplace - Tells me why his best clients are people sitting on a few acres who don't blink at price - Gives me the exact package structure he uses, from $375 starter to $1,700 indoor This one is awesome. Check it out.
Chris Koerner636,061 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

I just talked with a guy who's buying old driving ranges and turning them into cash cows. And giving Top Golf a run for their money. - 8000 members across multiple locations - $20/mo membership (not including food and bevs) - 12 million balls hit per year in each location This guy Is completely reinventing driving ranges. Move over self-storage bros, theres a new asset in town. Completely blown away. Check this out
Chris Koerner1,233,272 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

This is an outdated take and I’m living proof. Here’s why.
Chris Koerner595,112 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

True to my ADHD, I can't stop thinking about businesses that can be built off the back of my ranch. It's a gift... and a curse. I didn't buy it for the business opportunities. Nor did I buy it for the content. This has genuinely been a dream of mine for years regardless of how I monetize it. But because I can't help myself, I made a full episode breaking down - All the numbers - How I did it - How I plan to monetize it - How I used Claude to save me TONS of money - Everything in between Most importantly, I break down how you can use a lot of these ideas without ever owning a ranch yourself. Enjoy!
Chris Koerner26,935 görüntüleme • 4 gün önce

Cy Porter posts home inspection videos on social media, and one of the country's largest homebuilders is suing him for it. They said he should be disciplined for his "harassing, falsified, and bullying" videos. Meanwhile, his business is booked 14 months out.
Chris Koerner4,276,365 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

From Amish to Making $65K/Week Flying Drones This is Mike. Mike started a drone deer recovery service in Ohio and made $50,000 in his first 10 weeks. Four years later he's doing over $32 million a year selling thermal and agricultural spray drones. He breaks down exactly - How he got his first customers - The economics of spray drone businesses (70%+ profit margins) - Why this might be the biggest untapped opportunity in blue collar entrepreneurship right now. Mike was awesome. I know you'll like this episode.
Chris Koerner635,033 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

This 25 year old mom makes over $3k/day selling custom photo magnets. She was at home with a toddler while her husband was working 2 low-paying jobs. They were B-R-O-K-E. Then she starting making custom photo magnets at farmer's markets and weddings. She was doing 6 figures/month by month 6. Her first year she did $1.63m with 40% profit margins. For her first time ever she told everyone exactly HOW she did it on The Koerner Offie. YT link in the top comment.
Chris Koerner681,981 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce