Jake Fikse

| FIKSE BUILD CO | Building in Georgia | REALTOR | Hater of Pocket Doors | Amateur Triathlete | GSP Owner x2 | Wife guy

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@PatCarino @TannerBuilds Literally tore a mockup down with the excavator and threw it in the dumpster on my first commercial project. (750 bed student housing).

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

Don’t skip step 1 and 2 and try to go to step 3

[Cole Ruud-Johnson @coleruudjohnson]

The ideal real estate business:

-- $500K+ in net income from a primary driver (Flipping, Wholesaling, Etc)

-- Lean team & low overhead, but the ability to step out and still have the business function.

-- Secondary home-run focus after the first two happen, aiming for one home run per quarter. (Development deal, great flip, high-profit wholesale deal)

-- Keep the deals that everyone else wants. Don't buy the deal yourself that no one wants; buy the deal that everyone wants from you.

-- Build your brand locally. Social media, meet-ups, events. We get a ton of deals yearly from agents + our brand with no marketing cost.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@TannerBuilds And having the freedom to choose when you work during the week…for 120 hours 😂

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@TannerBuilds That hunt club is going to go hard with some cedar accents. Used sea salt in a bathroom, looks great but exterior feels weird to me.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@CollinJHumphrey I think my local plumber would prob charge me $400+ and one of my labor crew guys would charge me $200 and materials are like $10-$20. Can rent a Propress for $85 and DIY it myself 😂

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

When I framed our basement my wife was so confused 😂

[Collin Humphrey @CollinJHumphrey]

Ask someone who doesn’t know much about construction or tools to bring you a square.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@CollinJHumphrey What’s your preference on go board vs Kerdi vs redgard?

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@FrontierBDesign The only difference between government housing and market rate is the capital stack.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

“Modern apartment living”

And it’s just a 3 story hardie siding building with surface parking in a C class suburb of Atlanta on 4 lane road with LVP and quartz counters.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@oh_HOLMES I’m have zero clue what he was using but it looked pretty old so seems like even a used one will do.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@oh_HOLMES Buy one of those fancy microphones etc too! I paid a guy $400 to come locate a pinhole leak in my water main. Took him 20 minutes to find.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@jamesonhaslam @bobbyfijan Met a few guys who use this yesterday. You can trigger it on and off for different situations. If you’re worried about it listening without you triggering it, I’ve got bad news about your cell phone.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@CollinJHumphrey Dude, the amount of dumb messages you will get from lowballers is not worth your time.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@CollinJHumphrey @irentdumpsters I gave out 4 today.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@BlueCollarInvr I almost got a 7.3 🤤 congrats!

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@CollinJHumphrey Dude you ever build them in a teepee ring? We used to stack wood that way at the camp I worked out. Big 6’ ring slowly getting tighter as it goes up. So awesome when it’s done.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

@robbiehendricks Marry the right person.

Even if you do all of the above right, if you marry the wrong person and it ends up in court, you’re pretty much done.

[Jake Fikse @FikseJake]

I was going through a pair every 6 months. Great for walking high rise concrete slabs all day, but there would come a day where my knees or my back would be on fire. 2 day ship myself a new set because the sole was shot. 2-3 pairs/year minimum.

I have had some blundstones last me 6 years. Maybe a good alternative.