Chris Koerner
@mhp_guy • 185,056 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 Koerner2,031,280 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Koerner2,232,458 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
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 Koerner2,286,329 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
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 Koerner3,130,883 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
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 Koerner690,617 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Trust me, these 7 words will save you a whole lot of money and headache: Never ever ever buy a Samsung fridge.
Chris Koerner1,047,859 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
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 Koerner1,172,857 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
I just talked to a guy who makes $50,000 a month subleasing semi trailers to truckers. He doesn't own a single trailer and he literally started with zero experience and a $4,000 insurance policy. His first client was his uncle who needed a trailer and didn't have good credit. Eli found a company that would lease him a 53-foot trailer for $350 a month. Deal! He charged his uncle $180 a week. Took a deposit. Billed weekly. The subleasing company didn't charge him until 30 days later. So he pocketed cash from day one. A few months later he had 10 trailers out generating $7,500 a month recurring. All from Facebook Marketplace posts USING STILL IMAGES. This is not rocket science, ya'll Most deals closed over Facebook Messenger. Six years later he had 300 trailers rented out across five states and was netting $50,000 a month with two virtual employees. Eli ran the whole operation from his phone. In this episode Eli: - Walks through the exact Facebook Marketplace posts that got him 25 new clients a month - Shows how he structured contracts to protect himself when trailers disappeared - Gives me the names of companies you can sublease from today - Breaks down the exact unit economics on every trailer I love stories like this!
Chris Koerner83,014 Aufrufe • vor 14 Tagen
I just talked to a guy who makes $421,000 a year net profit from a laundromat. In Hamilton, Ohio. Population 60,000. He opened it during COVID. First quarter after grand opening he was already on track for $400,000 a year. By year four he crossed a million. His biggest machine does six to seven turns a day at $22 base price. That one machine makes $30,000 a year in profit. It paid for itself in 12 months. Even crazier his utilities run under 10% of revenue because the equipment weighs the laundry and uses the exact amount of water it needs. His name is Tyler. He runs four laundromats across Ohio His prices are at or below the old laundromats in town and his equipment is top notch. Customers come in, see the equipment, and never go back. In this episode Tyler: - Breaks down the startup cost and the five-year payback math - Shows me the free laundry weekend playbook that ramps revenue to six figures in 90 days - Tells me why they built next to the best laundromat in town on purpose - Breaks down the commercial laundry play that adds $100,000 a month from hotels and fire departments Tyler Purcell - Laundry & Finance was awesome!
Chris Koerner152,156 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen
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 Koerner1,234,146 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
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 Koerner4,276,731 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
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 Koerner636,559 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
This is an outdated take and I’m living proof. Here’s why.
Chris Koerner595,374 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
I just talked to a guy who makes $27,000 a month doing something any of us could do with a phone and Go High Level. 90% profit. Aaron was a receptionist at a siding company when he noticed the business relied on one massive relationship. A bigger siding company down the road sent them hundreds of leads every year. Free referrals that kept the whole operation running. He thought, if one relationship is worth that much, what if I could replicate it? So he started cold calling roofers and siding companies. Making introductions for $150 each. Just connecting people who should already be talking to each other. Then he made a pivot that changed everything. Instead of calling business owners cold, he started texting them with a project in hand. His response rate jumped from 5% to 15%. Now his business is simply "referral pipeline building" He texts 200 custom home builders asking if they need an electrician. Gets 2 to 4 who say yes. Qualifies the projects. Then texts 100 electricians saying he has those jobs ready to bid. 10 to 15 electricians reply within hours. He calls them all and closes the deal. One painter got 4 bids worth $17,000 to $64,000 within 48 hours of one text campaign. Paid Aaron $6,000 upfront. It's stuff like this that no one wants to do, that REALLY works. In this episode Aaron: - Walks through his exact cold texting scripts - Shows how he pivoted from appointments to delivering projects upfront - Tells me why Go High Level is the only software he needs - Gives me the ROI math that makes this a 1000X value for his clients Imagine if you just went out there and tried to replicate this... Whats the worst that could happen?
Chris Koerner73,277 Aufrufe • vor 21 Tagen
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 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten