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Events 4.12

240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York. 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland. 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day. 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships. 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain. 1807 – The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli. 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse. 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw). 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. 1900 – One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule. 1910 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched. 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. 1927 – Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. 1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history. 1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed. 1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England. 1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death. 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin. 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. 1961 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1. 1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. 1980 – The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed. 1980 – Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed. 1980 – Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF. 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago. 1990 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. 1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris. 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred. 2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104. 2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency. 2010 – Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28. 2013 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali. 2014 – The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.

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Chapter 5: The Bigger Picture

A/N: WOW! Y’all are so sweet and amazing <3 Here is Chapter 5. Tension is building, kinda. This is so s l o w burn that it’s hurting me. I kinda want this to be about more than just a romance tho? Especially in the beginning, but I am working on the other chapters, and where it is heading, I promise! Bare with me haha! Also I have no clue if those maps exist or if that’s even a thing. I’m just making it up, but it could be right haha. 

I practically dragged JJ through the front door of the Chateau. “What’s all this about Y/N” JJ finally asked as you both walked through the kitchen. I pulled my keys out of my pocket, fiddling on the keyring, finding the small golden key. I held it up to JJ, rattling the other keys, a smile plastered to my face. “A key? How exactly is that supposed to help us Y/N?” I rolled my eyes in response. I turned to the door, just on the side of the living room. 

My dad’s office. 

As long as I could remember, I was never allowed in there for extended periods of time. I would wander in some late nights when he left the door cracked, or to bring him a glass of water and a snack. I could see him now thinking back, hunched over the desk, glasses low on his nose, pen in one hand, the other holding the map that he was marking up. 

“Ah. Y/N. Taking care of your old man, making sure I stay alive I see” and he would chuckle, but I didn’t. I left, and days later her disappeared, he was killed all because of that stupid shipwreck, just like my brother. 

I rummaged through a few things, pulling binders down and looking through the first few pages. JJ looked over at me, honestly worried. I mean if I was watching someone else in my position I probably would be too. I know I probably looked crazy, I was grasping at short, short straws. It was all because I was not ready to give up on my brother just yet. I found the binder labeled “Ship maps”. I pulled it out and handed it to JJ. Okay, maybe this was a little far-fetched, but it was something. 

JJ took it carefully out of my hand. He hesitantly looked at me before looking down at the map, slowly unfolding it. I started to tap my fingers against the table. My nerves were on edge as JJ looked between the map he was unfolding and me. His hand reached down to cover mine that was tapping at an annoyingly fast pace. I bit my lip as he looked over the map. 

He furrowed his brows and looked up at me. “What am I looking at exactly?” He questioned. I laid the map out on the table. I couldn’t blame him, if my dad had not been into this stuff I wouldn’t know what was happening either. 

“Okay so here,” I pointed to one of the lines that were on the page, and traced it down the coast of North Carolina, to where it landed in a port in Charleston, “is the route that the ship was recorded to talk, based off of the sonar and the GPS in it. Ya know, the kinda thing that the bigger, hauling, cargo ships have? For the long trips?” I finished looking for the key. 

JJ slowly nodded his head looking at me. He could tell I might be on to something, he just was not quite sure yet. I flipped up the side of the map, just the first panel, and it showed an elaborate excel table, filled with numbers and symbols. “Here” I pointed to one of the highlighted symbols along the path that I previously traced, “Is…” I took my other hand to skim the table to the side, trying to find the matching color and symbol. “Ah. Here.” I tapped the symbol in the table, JJ leaned closer to me making my breath hitch involuntarily, we were so close, we were touching, practically no space between us. “See here it says that this ship reached 35.1146° N, 75.9810° W, on Saturday, May 14th, 2007, at…” I followed the line with my finger, 16:45” I finished my rant. 

“Okay.” JJ breathed out, his brows still knitted close together. I could see the worry in his eyes. At this moment I could not see it, but he thought I might have been going crazy, things are starting to get to me.”Y/N, this is great, but I don’t know what this has to do with John B.” He sighed. “But I'm not gonna lie, a girl who knows her way around the ocean, the commanding voyage out to sea, boss babe style, kinda hot Y/N” JJ joked, trying to lighten the mood and his worry, then he realized how close we were, but he didn’t move. 

I let out a laugh. It felt natural, which was nice. “I'm being serious JJ,” I said, still laughing and pushing his shoulder back. 

“Whatever you say,” He paused. “Princess.” I rolled my eyes looking back over the map. “What does all this mean though? How is this map, from before we knew what the Merchant was, going to help us find John B?” 

“Ah, you have to think bigger JJ. You see if we can get the coordinates of the Phantom’s last signals, where it was found, or where it could have been between last night and when they pulled it up, we can cross-reference that, with any boats that may have come through. If we can somehow get a map from any of those larger companies, maybe the ferries, hell we might even be able to get it off the internet. We can see if any boats came around then start from there?” I said, but it sounded like a question. “I know that it’s barely anything, but it’s something JJ!’ I continued rambling. “If the ships picked up JB and Sarah, pulled them on board, then  maybe…” I didn’t know how to finish the thought. I looked up from the scattered maps to JJ. 

JJ stared blankly at the maps then up at me. He both put his hand on the sides of my face and just looked at me. He probably thought I was crazy, that I was losing my mind. “You’re a genius Y/N” He then placed a quick dramatic kiss on the top of my forehead. “Seriously, I never would have even thought to look into any of that.” He stepped back. I was slightly taken about by his actions had we always been this touchy with one another when John B was around. “So where the hell do we start Nancy Drew?” JJ said, rubbing his hands together making me laugh. 

“The ferry would be a good place?” I said shrugging my shoulders. “But I haven't exactly thought that far ahead” I laughed a little, and saw a smile still on JJ’s face.

“Then we’ll start at the ferry’s office!”  JJ said moving out of the office. I looked up and around the room. At all the research that my father did. All the books that line the walls, the maps hung up, all of it. I wanted to get rid of it. My skin felt hot and I could feel it turning red. I gripped the table tightly, hoping the anger would pass. A picture frame on the wall caught my attention. I lifted it from the hook it was sitting on. In the frame was a picture of the Royal Merchant, labeled and matted. Stuck on the outside of the glass, covering the lower corner of the Merchant was a picture of the three of us, John B, my dad, and I. It was taken a few summers ago by our neighbor, we had come back from a long day out on the boat fishing. I felt tears start to form in my eyes. My back was facing the door so I didn’t see JJ enter the room. He came up behind me, putting his hands on either of my shoulders. He looked down at the photos in my hands. 

I reached one hand up to wipe a stray tear. I was so sick of crying. “I can’t believe that a shipwreck from the 1800s made me lose two of the most important people in my life.” 

“I know” JJ spun me around to look at him. “You have a plan,” He said smiling

“We’ve got a plan” I corrected him. “Actually, before we head out on this chase, do you think you could help me with something?” I said softly. 

“Anything,” JJ replied. The worried look still in his eyes.  

“Can you help me clean up here?” I looked around at the mess, from when I got here, and the mess that I had just made. “I don’t know, I just want to clean it up, lock the door, and not think about it for a while,” I said, starting to fold-up maps. 

“Of course.” JJ smiled starting to close up binders and arrange them on the shelf. “If  you were going to use me as a maid Routledge, you could have at least bought me one of those cute costumes?” 

I pretended to gag. “JJ that is an image that I did not need in my head.” 

“You may not have needed it, but I bet you’re enjoying it.” He winked in my direction. I felt the blush creeping back onto my face. 

“In your dreams J,” I said with a laugh. 

CH 6

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Building Legacy Wealth Through Apartments & Commercial Real Estate Investments.

Legacy Wealth Holdings is a trailblazer in the commercial real estate investment world. We are headquartered in Cleveland OH and invest in apartment buildings nationwide by joint venturing with local operators and passive lenders. Our investment strategy is simple: only invest for cash flow, only buy at wholesale prices, and create (never speculate) appreciation through value-add improvements and sweat equity.

Legacy Wealth Holdings was launched in 2009 as a socially conscious real estate investment company. Founder Tim Bratz was drawn to real estate because he saw the long term benefits of a solid investment.

Tim began his career in the competitive New York City real estate market working as a broker leasing ground floor retail units. Here, he saw the true potential of real estate to transform lives. Although Tim was limited in means, he spent his time reading, attending workshops, and networking with accomplished entrepreneurs learning that being resourceful was the ultimate path to becoming successful.

With this knowledge, Tim embarked on building his real estate company in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had relocated in search of a better quality of life. Arriving in 2008, after the real estate bubble burst, Tim quickly adapted and using a credit card, increased his limit and then wrote himself a balance transfer check to acquire the cheapest property he could find. 

Armed with his personal investment and plenty of sweat equity, Tim transformed a rundown duplex and turned a profit on his first deal. He then took those proceeds and reinvested them, while seeking private capital to expand his growing company. 

Today, Tim still uses this formula for success, which all starts with being resourceful and having the right mindset. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jay Conner (00:02): Well, hello there! And welcome to another episode of Real Estate Investing with Jay Conner. I’m Jay Conner, your host. Also known as The Private Money Authority. And here on the show, we talk about all things that relate to real estate investing. Single family houses, commercial deals, self storage, land, small apartments, big apartments, flipping, rent to own, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. We also talk about how to get your deals funded without relying on local banks or mortgage companies. How to sell houses fast. How to automate your business. To where you’re running your business and your business isn’t running you. And I have fantastic guests here on the show. Today is no exception. But before I introduce my guest today, I’ve got a free gift for you to check out. And that is if you’re looking for more funding for your deals, particularly here in the midst of COVID-19 and you don’t want to rely on banks, mortgage companies, or any kind of traditional funding, then I have got an on demand, free training for you right now on the internet.

Jay Conner (01:14): It’s only about 60 minutes long, but this training will show you the five easy and quick steps to get the funding for your real estate deals. Again, without relying on your, any of your own money, your own credit, et cetera. So you, after the show, you can check it out at www.JayConner.com/MoneyPodcast. That’s JayConner.com/MoneyPodcast. Well, my special guest today began his career in real estate in the competitive New York city. Can you believe real estate market? And he was working as a broker leasing these ground floor retail units. Well, in that experience, he saw and learned the true potential of real estate that can really transform lives. Now, although he was limited in his means and the amount of money that he had available to him at the time, he spent his time reading, attending seminars, networking, and hanging around very accomplished entrepreneurs, which by the way, is good advice for all of us.

Jay Conner (02:23): And he was learning that being resourceful was the ultimate path to becoming successful. What do you mean by resourceful? He’s going to tell us. So with his knowledge he embarked on building his real estate company and empire in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had relocated in search of a better quality of life. Now he got in Charleston back in 2008. Wow! After the real estate bubble had burst and he quickly adapted and he was using a credit card, increased his credit card limit, and then wrote himself a balanced transfer check to acquire the cheapest property he could find. We’re going to get him to tell us that story about how in the world he was able to use a credit card to buy his first house at only 23 years old. Well, anyway, armed with his personal investment and a lot of sweat equity. He transformed a rundown duplex and turned a profit on his first deal. Then he took those proceeds, reinvested them, and while seeking private capital to expand his growing company. Well, my special guest is the CEO and founder of Legacy Wealth Holdings, which was a real estate investment company that acquires and transforms distressed apartment buildings into high yield assets for their own portfolio. So with that folks, I’m so excited to have as my guest today, my friend, fellow mastermind member and real estate investor, Mr. Tim Bratz. Welcome to the show, Tim!

Tim Bratz (03:56): Hey, I appreciate you having me here, Jay! Excited to be here, man. I always looked up to you and I’m super pumped to be here and be chatting with you and sharing some knowledge with your audience. So appreciate you having me, man.

Jay Conner (04:08): Absolutely. Well, I’m so excited to have you on, because I mean, in just a few short years, you’ve got such a wide variety of experience. You have put your portfolio. I mean, my lands! Your current portfolio exceeds 4,000 units and is North with a valuation of about more than $350 million, Right?

Tim Bratz (04:32): That is correct. It’s kind of crazy. Right?

Jay Conner (04:35): So I’m not going to ask my questions in logical sequence. I’m just going to do stream of consciousness with you. How long did it take from you starting in commercial, doing commercial deals to going to a portfolio of 4,000 units? I mean, is that a 10 year stretch? Is that a five year stretch? What is that?

Tim Bratz (04:59): First started studying real estate and learning about it in 2005 when I was in college. I became a real estate agent 2009 or a 2007. Invested in my first property in 2009. Bought my first apartment building at the end of 2012. And it was an eight unit building.

Jay Conner (05:17): Wow. You answered my question. That’s fast!

Tim Bratz (05:21): Since I bought my first apartment.

Jay Conner (05:23): Yeah. And now you’ve got 4,000 doors or units, right? Yeah. That is amazing! So let’s start with, let’s start with your journey. Tell us your story of getting into real estate and how it has progressed your journey. And how has it grown.

Tim Bratz (05:44): Yeah, I think we all want it to go faster than it usually does. Right? And that was not any different in my case. I was going through college 2003 to 2007 when the market was going crazy before and everybody’s making money in real estate. And I was a money motivated kid at the age of 20 years old. So I had one of these painting companies in the summer rent a bunch of crews with my friends. We did a bunch of landscaping also. And then I interned for one of the largest home builders in the country and just realize I wanted to be a real estate investor, but I thought everybody got started in real estate and owning real estate by becoming a real estate agent. And so I’m from Cleveland, Ohio originally, but I moved out to New York city cause my brother was living out there at the time.

Tim Bratz (06:23): And after college I got my real estate license and I started brokering just like you had mentioned in the opening. Commercial and retail offices and retail spaces in Manhattan. And I, listen, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was just kinda like doing the labor of going and finding, you know businesses that wanted to expand and then handing them off to somebody who knew what they were doing or finding a landlord who wanted to lease their space and then handed them off to somebody that they knew it was doing in our brokerage firms. So I was just really the workhorse, right? And so I knew enough that when I closed my first deal, it took about eight, nine months to close it. And it was 400 square feet.

Tim Bratz (07:06): And we signed a lease for $10,000 a month on this retail space. 12 year lease term, 4% annual increases. And I started doing the math and I’m like, Holy cow, this landlord’s gonna make almost $2 million from doing something once. And they’re gonna get paid on it for the next 12 years. Like I’m on the wrong side of the coin. I need to be owning real estate instead of brokering it. And so I moved down to Charleston, South Carolina for better quality of life and some good weather. And when I got down there is when the market crashed and everything was crumbling. And I was going through all these courses and seminars and learning as much as I possibly could. And when I was right, when I was about to pull the trigger on buying something that, you know, the market crumbles and I was like, I just showed up to the party and everybody’s leaving.

Tim Bratz (07:50): Right? And so nonetheless, nobody was giving money to a punk 23 year old kid. Who’d never done a deal before in the worst housing economy ever. And I had to get creative. And I think a lot of people say, Hey, I can’t do something because I don’t have the time. I don’t have the money, I don’t have the knowledge, I don’t have the resources. And I heard Tony Robin say, one time he goes, resourcefulness is the ultimate resource. You’re resourceful. You can find time and money and knowledge and all the other resources. And I think that’s something I’ve always kind of done is I don’t let somebody tell me I can’t do something. I asked questions about how can I do something. I think when you ask good questions that leads you down a path of getting good answers. It’s like Google, right?

Tim Bratz (08:35): I could Google search restaurants in Ohio. It brings up every restaurant in Ohio. And then I could Google search restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio, and it refines it to only Cleveland, then Italian restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio, it refines it even more. And so the more defined of a question that I think you asked, more definitive answer that you’re going to get. So I said, Hey, I can’t get money from the banks. I can’t get money from traditional lenders. All my friends are drunk in bars right now, cause they’re all 23 years old at the time. And not they’re blowing all their money at the bars. And nobody’s gonna lend me money. Like how can I get access to capital that I already have access? And I thought, well, I have a couple thousand dollars saved up in my bank account.

Tim Bratz (09:17): That wasn’t enough. But maybe I could get my credit card company to increase my limit. And I called them up and I said, Hey, I’m about to make a big purchase. Are you guys willing to increase my limit? And they said, how much do you need? I said, $100,000. And they said, absolutely not! Like, you’ve been a great customer for about 15 months, but that’s just not gonna happen. And I said, all right, well, how much are you going to give me? And they give me 15 grand. One five. And so I found the cheapest house in all of Charleston. This is after the market tanked in 2009 now. And I bought it essentially with a balanced transfer check on my credit card, bought it for $14,000 and put on sweat equity

Jay Conner (09:57): To make sure everybody understands, tell them about it. What is a balanced transfer check? Cause we’ve probably got some listeners that might want to use that strategy.

Tim Bratz (10:05): Well, it was, you know, it’s essentially something that credit card companies use in order to say, Hey, go from your MasterCard over to visa. And if you transfer your balance over to us, we’ll let you, you know, give you a balanced transfer check to go write a check over to your MasterCard. And then we’ll just put that balance to overhear on your visa. And so I don’t know if they still do it. I haven’t used one in a while, but that was like a big thing back in 2008, 2009. And so I was able to get my credit card limit increase. I got them to send me these perforated checks and I just wrote it to myself instead of like transferring a balance or anything like that. I just wrote myself a check for $14,900 and I maxed out my credit card.

Tim Bratz (10:48): I put all that money in my bank account. And then I went and bought this house. It was, they were asking 25 grand. I got it for, I offered 12, right? They came back at 20. I came back at 14, we ended up cutting a deal on it. So, and then I personally did all the work, you know, of YouTube and how to change out carpet and light fixtures and plumbing repairs, and all this stuff. And I turned around and sold it. And a little over a hundred days and I made about $14,000 on it net. And I was like, I don’t even know what I’m doing. I’m making money, the worst housing market ever. So then I got into wholesaling, right? Wholesaling. I learned a little bit more about that. And I met amazing people in wholesaling who had money and were buying deals from me.

Tim Bratz (11:27): I could make a couple of bucks on it. And eventually what happened was they said, Hey, this kid’s got a decent work ethic and he knows how to find a good deal. Hey Tim, I can’t, I don’t have the bandwidth to take on more projects myself, but I still have more money. How could I lend you money? We just come up with some sort of like equity split on the deal. And that’s how I started doing several deals. Probably. I don’t know, the first 250 deals I did with some sort of equity split with private investors. And so, built up a small portfolio and ended up moving back from Charleston, South Carolina, back up to Cleveland, Ohio, and partnered up pretty much exclusively with a couple of guys who had a traditional business, made a lot of money in it and invested with me.

Tim Bratz (12:09): And so from 2012 to 2015, built up a portfolio, I don’t know about 130, 140 units in Cleveland. That’s when I bought my first apartment building. That partnership though went South in 2015, 2016, and we ended up liquidating everything. So I had to press the reset button on my business and it’s not exciting to do when you can. You know, I think that takes a lot of work to kind of get the, get the plane off the ground. And I’m like, Oh man, I got to start all over. But really it was a blessing in disguise where it allowed me to really spread my wings and do some other stuff. And people came out of the woodwork saying, Hey, man, I want to wanting to partner with you and want to do some deals with you. I’ve been wanting to lend you money.

Tim Bratz (12:50): And it just, it opened me up big time. Started to got into a mastermind for the first time in 2015, and that was just like mind boggling the opportunities that, and the connections that came from that. And so I liquidated my whole portfolio and in August of 2015, I started building my current portfolio. Although they took all my property away or not took it all away, but we liquidated all. They couldn’t take the insights, right? They couldn’t take the mindset, they couldn’t take the information. And I think that’s a really a key piece of once you learn, you get educated to how to do this stuff, you could do it over and over and over again. So I started from scratch and in August of 2015 and here we are five years later and I have a $350 million portfolio. It’s 90% apartments. And about 10% of some other asset classes. Office, a little bit of mixed use like retail. I have several self storage facilities. And a couple of vacation homes too.

Jay Conner (13:46): So really these 4,000 units, you’ve built all that in just the past less well, less than five years?

Tim Bratz (13:54): Yup. Just shy of five years now.

Jay Conner (13:56): So you’re starting from scratch. Well, you’re not starting from scratch, cause you still own the real estate in between your ears. Right. And the experience you’ve got, et cetera. So tell us that story. How do you start from scratch? You know, looking for and attracting capital. So, you know, I’ve done a ton of that myself. I teach it myself. I really want to hear your story. So how do you start raising the capital and all these commercial deals? How do you start finding the deals? And then if you can keep it to the 30,000 foot level, what’s a structure of a deal look like? How do you structure a deal? And I’m assuming you’re looking, at this portfolio, this portfolio were those all existing apartments, et cetera, that were distressed and you turn them around?

Tim Bratz (14:48): For the most part, we do a little bit of new construction also, but most of it I’d say North of 70% of it is definitely existing property. Maybe 75%, 80% is existing.

Jay Conner (15:02): Let’s start with raising the capital. What’s your strategy on raising the capital? Cause that’s a lot of capital.

Tim Bratz (15:09): Yup, we’ve raised. I mean, I have, and I don’t raise money from institutions or hedge funds and REITs and stuff like that. I raised money from individuals, right? Somebody who’s got a hundred thousand dollars in 401k or some entrepreneur who just exited their business and they’re sitting on a couple of million bucks.

Jay Conner (15:24): Yup. That’s what I do.

Tim Bratz (15:25): That’s everybody that I raise money from. They’re easy to work with. They’re too busy to complain or like breathing down your neck about what’s going on with the deal. As long as their checks hit and their deposits are made. They like going back to doing what they’re really good at and they understand leveraging other people’s efforts. And they’re really good at making money. They’re not that good at investing it. So they put it with somebody who does know how to invest it and then I can help them deploy it, make a good return. So here’s what I found because I’ve done a lot of different things. I had a big turnkey business. We were flipping about a hundred. Like when I get out of that, that past a business partnership, I went back into wholesaling and I got into like turnkey of flipping houses because I needed to build up my cash reserves again. And so while I was doing that whole process, I learned that there’s some people, there’s essentially two types of investors out there, that are looking for two different types of returns.

Tim Bratz (16:18): One is like a debt return, which is a very predictable, I deploy my money and I make 12% return on my investment at like clockwork. And I invest a hundred thousand dollars with somebody. I make a thousand dollars a month and I make 12% annual return on my money. That’s great. It’s very predictable. There’s no surprises there. And, but at the end of the day, they’re not building wealth, right. They’re making a good return and their army of money has a bunch of other soldiers now that they can then redeploy and they can make more and more money. And that’s one way of doing it. And then there’s other people that I found that like the equity investment side, where there’s equity upside, they can sell the property, double their money, but there’s also equity downside where they could lose money.

Tim Bratz (17:01): And there’s not a lot of predictability in consistent monthly payments in that regard. So I’ve realized there were two types of people, two types of investments. And there wasn’t really anything in the middle. When I started doing on the single family side is I started structuring the way that was a no brainer. I said, Hey, listen, I’ll pay you either 12% on your money. Or 15% of the profit, whichever is greater. That’s a no brainer. Worst case scenario make 12% of my money and potentially there’s equity upside in this thing without any downside on the equity. So that was a no brainer. And then when I started investing in apartment buildings, I did something similar. I realized that I couldn’t pay somebody 12% cause we’re talking about big dollar amounts and it would really eat up the cash flow, especially on these not performing apartment buildings that are heavily distressed.

Tim Bratz (17:51): So what I ended up doing is I offered a little bit less, you know, 8% to 10% fixed return on their investment. And my whole model is based on flipping houses, right? Like I never went to a course. I never on commercial real estate. I never, I didn’t get a real estate degree from some Ivy league school. My grandparents didn’t know what a bunch of commercial real estate I just learned about it from the school of hard knocks. And so what I ended up doing was I took the formula of, I gotta be all in for 65% of the after repair value. And that’s what I needed to be able to buy and renovate these houses for in order to sell it and make a profit. I took that exact same philosophy and formula and put it into apartment buildings. So in apartment buildings, very predictable of what it’s going to be worth because it’s all based on the income approach, not on sales comparables.

Tim Bratz (18:35): So I know what it’ll rent for. I know exactly what the expenses are. And so I can just figure out if I improve it and I get a fully occupied, put good management in place. It’ll generate this much money of net operating income. And in that area, it’ll appraise it, this sort of cap rate, which is kind of like a multiple on the NOI. And so it’s very predictable. If it’s gonna be worth $10 million, I need to be all in for six and a half million. If it needs a million dollars worth of work, I need to be able to, my maximum allowable offer is five and a half million dollars. Does that make sense? So the difference is I don’t sell the property. I turn around, I refinance it. So I’ll go to the you know, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or an insurance company or CMBS.

Tim Bratz (19:16): And I’ll get a loan once the property is stabilized, meaning it’s fully occupied, good managements in place. And then I’ll put a loan on it for 70% of that new value. So if I’m all in, it’s worth 10 million, I’m all in for six and a half. My new loan is 7 million. That means I’m able to pay back my investors able to pay off my short term construction loan. And I just put longterm debt, fixed interest rate debt in place. And now all my chips are off the table. Right now we can just sit on this thing, let the tenants pay rent covers all the operating expenses covers all the debt service pays down our mortgage property appreciates over time. And that is how real wealth is built. So when I, when I got into apartment buildings, I took my investors and I just, I started paying them 8% to 10% of a fixed return while their money was invested.

Tim Bratz (20:03): And then they get all their money back at the time of the refinance. Let’s say it’s 18 months later. And then I give them equity in the deal forever. Even though all their money’s back in their own pocket, they keep maybe 20% of the deal forever. And so that then incentivizes them where now they see me as a longterm partner. They see me as somebody who’s like, you know what, if somebody dangles a 12% carrot in front of their face, they’re not going to go with it because they’re like, no, Tim’s my partner. Right? I have equity and deals with him that we’re gonna be partners for the next 10 years. And it allows them to just keep on rolling their money forward with me, where they make a good fixed return. Plus they have the equity upside and it’s a win-win all around them.

Jay Conner (20:43): So do you structure the deal with your private lenders? Are they investing in a fund?

Tim Bratz (20:51): Yeah, so it’s not like a general open-ended fund. Every deal that I do, every apartment building I buy is its own investment, a registered sec investment with the federal SEC, Securities Exchange Commission. So every deal I do is its own. It’s its own entity, it’s its own registration. So I only raise on a deal by deal basis. So people aren’t, you know, it’s not like a stock where it’s or a mutual fund where it’s spread across many different properties. It’s a single property. So one, two, three main street will be owned by one, two, three main street, LLC. Here’s what the numbers are on one, two, three main street. What it’s going to look like, and what’s going to generate for income to the LLC. And then the investors, they invest in that LLC and they’re actual equity owners in the LLC. So they get a K1 at the end of the year and yeah, works that way.

Jay Conner (21:43): So you raise capital for its own project every time. Right? So, does most of your capital for a project that you’re looking to do, do most of those funds come from existing private lenders that you might have recently paid off from a refinance deal?

Tim Bratz (22:08): Yeah, so you know, we were joking about it before we kind of came online and we said, Hey, you’re either deal heavy or you’re money heavy and very rarely both at the same time. Right? So I think, I think the most important thing you can be doing as a real estate investor, the only three activities that matter are Sourcing Deals, Sourcing Money, and Refining your Operations. Right? If you’re doing those three things at all times, those are the revenue generating activities that you need to be focused on all the time.

Tim Bratz (22:40): So we are always sourcing deals. We are always sourcing money. And we are always trying to refine our operations and tighten up that ship. And so, sometimes we have a refinance and we’re heavy on liquidity and we can roll all of our investors into that new project without having to raise any outside capital. Other times, like we got a bunch of refinance that were supposed to pop during this whole COVID mass. Right? And they all got delayed. And so now they’re all looking good, right? Knock on wood. But there was a timeframe where we were still buying some deals early part of this year. And we had these refinance that were supposed to pop it didn’t. So we had to raise a bunch of outside capital. But you know, it also happens where somebody invest with you in one deal, they have more money set aside. They want to diversify across multiple different assets, multiple different properties. And a lot of our existing investors came in on all those other projects, knowing that there are other funds are going to be pretty liquid over the course of the lateral this year.

Jay Conner (23:40): So, when you’ve got a project that you’re getting ready do, what’s your, the logistics of getting the word out to, like when you’re raising new capital? And what’s your funnel look like? Like with me, my funnel is all the time educating. In fact, you may have heard me saying that in the past time, I’ve never asked anybody for money. I raised a ton of capital without asking for money. I educate and I teach and once they get taught and enlightened and they know about self directed IRAs and they know about private money and how the program works, if they’ve got investment capital or retirement funds, they’re going to be chasing me. Right? But where do you go and what do you do?

Tim Bratz (24:28): Yep. So I’m very active on social media. So if you follow me on social media, I know we’re connected on social media. You’ll see me always talking about buying apartment buildings. How I structure the deal. What the returns look like for the overall project. When you’re syndicating capital, you gotta be very careful to stay in compliance with the SEC guidelines. You can’t just go out and tell people, Hey, I’ll pay you 12% because it’s not secured with a first lien position on a property. So because of that, you can’t go out and just generally solicit, you know, and as soon as you take two investors and put them into a single deal, you’re creating a security. So it needs to be registered with the SEC. Does everybody do it? No. Do I do it? Yes, because I have a lot of eyeballs on me cause I do the education stuff too.

Tim Bratz (25:13): But I think educating people is the purest way of showing what you do, how you do it, and just naturally building trust and building relationships with people. And confidence and respect that they respect you as the authority of private money. Right? And so those are the two keys in order to raise capital. You need somebody’s respect and you need somebody’s trust. If you don’t have those two things, it’s gonna be very, very difficult to raise money. And educating people, whether that’s through social media or through formal courses, creates both of those things. You’re spending time with them. They know you, they know your core values, they know what you’re all about. And you’re obviously teaching, you’re standing up in front of the stage. You must be an authority. You must be an expert at what you do.

Tim Bratz (26:02): So there’s a lot of respect that comes with that as well. So I think the whole education piece is a genius way of doing what you’re doing. So I do some of that on social media. I do have, you know, a coaching platform on teaching investors, how to scale from residential into apartments. And that generates a lot of capital. But I also just hang out in masterminds and I hang out with people who have capital who have money, who are really good at making money, but not good at deploying money. Right? Like most entrepreneurs are really, really good at making money. And then they blow it on stupid stuff. They’re not good at saving it. They’re not good at investing it. So I’m able to come in and be like, listen, man, you buy as many liabilities as you want, but first you gotta buy assets, right? Like here’s what system, what the process looks like to generate real wealth instead of just getting rich, let’s get you wealthy. And so that’s, that’s what I do.

Jay Conner (26:50): Yeah. You just said that you know, you just hang around people, that’s got money and you know, I’ve been saying for a long time, the more money you wallow in, the more sticks to you. So I planted this and I also teach people to go where the money is. You know, sometimes they’ll say, Jay, you know, you talk about your warm market or relationship money. All my people are broke. I don’t know anybody with money. Well, wake up and smell the roses. How about let’s go meet some people that’s got money. And so obviously along with the education piece, networking is critical. Networking is critical to you know, to speak to the point of what you just said. Well, Tim, we are just about out of time, but thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show here.

Jay Conner (27:38): And I know that there is a percentage of my audience that would like to follow you and learn some more from you. So let me ask you for two things. If people want to learn how to get into commercial investing themselves and learn from you and your education company, how would they, where would they go to learn more about that?

Tim Bratz (28:00): Yeah. Well, I appreciate it, Jay. Thanks again for having me, man. And again, I appreciate all the value that you continue to put out there and your abundance mentality. So thanks for having me here. Yeah, if you guys want to connect with me, I’m very active on social media. Find me on Facebook and Instagram. And follow me, connect with me, send me a friend request there. And then my website is LegacyWealthHoldings.com LegacyWealthHoldings.com. And you can learn more about the coaching side of things and how we can potentially do deals together. I’m always buying properties, selling properties, joint venturing on projects. So if you guys come across a good deal and want to talk about something or just need some insight, I mean, we’re happy to support and offer education any way that we can. So yeah, appreciate you having me, man.

Jay Conner (28:44): Absolutely! And for everyone that is listening in on iTunes, Google play and our other audio platforms, the spelling of Tim Bratz, his name, of course you got the TIM. But his last name, if you’re looking for him on social media is BRATZ. That’s TIM BRATZ. Well, Tim, I look forward to seeing you at our upcoming mastermind meeting, which hopefully is going to be in person. I haven’t heard the definitive word on that yet, but in any case, it’s been a pleasure to have you on, man. I appreciate you so much.

Tim Bratz (29:17): Thank you! Thank you for having me. Take care.

New Speaker (29:19): There you have it folks. Another show. I’m Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority. Wishing you all the best! Here’s to taking your real estate investing business to the next level. And I’ll see you on the next show.

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Events 6.17 (after 1930)

1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. 1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. 1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. 1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces. 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. 1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. 1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land. 1953 – Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others. 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. 1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. 1971 – U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs. 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process. 1985 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct. 1989 – Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people. 1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. 1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. 2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

NASCAR is niche. A recent Morning Consult survey of the sport’s fans found that they’re much more male, white and Southern than other sports fans are. It’s a subculture status that some fans have relished but which NASCAR itself seems eager to shake — in the last two years, its TV ratings bottomed out after peaking in the mid-2000s, according to SportsBusiness Journal. They’ve declined for six years running, in fact. Since the mid-aughts, the sport has actively sought to expand its fan base — seeking race venues outside the South, for example — and in doing so, sometimes drawing the ire of its core fans. “We believe strongly that the old Southeastern redneck heritage that we had is no longer in existence. But we also realize that there’s going to have to be an effort on our part to convince others to understand that,” then-NASCAR President Mike Helton said in 2006.

Like so many institutions in American life, the sport was grappling with what its place would be in a more diverse county and culture.

So when the NASCAR Cup Series’ only Black driver, Bubba Wallace, called for a ban of the Confederate flag earlier this summer, saying “No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race,” NASCAR readily complied. It had already formally asked fans to stop bringing the flags to events in 2015 following the murders of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist. President Trump weighed in on NASCAR’s decision, tweeting that its flag ban was to blame for its “lowest ratings EVER!” (ratings are actually up following the flag ban).

But according to the Morning Consult survey from June, 44 percent of NASCAR fans agree with the president and said that fans should be allowed to bring the flag to races. Only 30 percent were fine with the ban. And at NASCAR races in June and July, Confederate flags reappeared. Not in the stands, but high above them; a group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans rented planes to fly the flag over the racetracks. The group’s leader, Paul Gramling Jr., told the Columbia Daily Herald that “The Sons of Confederate Veterans is proud of the diversity of the Confederate military and our modern Southland. We believe NASCAR’s slandering of our Southern heritage only further divides our nation.”

Gramling’s statement about the “diversity” of the Confederate army and his use of the term “modern Southland” speak volumes. Enslaved men were conscripted as soldiers and servants in the Confederate Army — they were hardly volunteers for the Southern cause — and Gramling’s “Southland” conjures the image of a cohesive nation, as if the Confederacy, which existed for less than five years, had not been decimated long ago.

The SCV and NASCAR’s oblique tussling might seem like a fringe issue in an election year when a pandemic and an economic crisis imperil millions of lives, but their divergent visions of what the culture of the American South is — who it’s for and of — embodies much about the political and cultural climate in which we find ourselves. Trump and NASCAR are in similar positions: overly reliant on a slowly shrinking, mostly white base. NASCAR is trying to expand its audience in order to stay relevant; Trump is not. The sport has realized something that the president can’t seem to grasp, which is that overt shows of racism turn most Americans off.

Electoral politics has played a role in normalizing on a national level the kind of neo-Confederate views that the SCV — and Trump — have condoned and promoted in recent weeks. You don’t have to have grown up in the American South to have thought that the Confederate flag was inextricably tied to what the SCV calls “Southern heritage,” but which really means a particular slice of Southern white culture. Going back decades, blocks of white votes in the South have been courted aggressively by non-Southerners who have played to the culture that has grown around these symbols and a particular nostalgic language about the Confederate past. During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan, a California governor of Illinois birth, appeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi — where Freedom Rider activists were famously murdered in 1964 — and gave a speech about “states’ rights,” which was read by many as euphemistic in the most loaded way possible, given the context of the place. The country had gotten comfortable with delicate work-arounds like that — the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about states’ rights. For decades, parts of the country have tolerated a semantic category that blandly normalized a strain of white resentment at the Confederate defeat. Sometimes the language is more blunt, of course: the War of Northern Aggression, “the South will rise again” or “It’s only halftime.”

According to the 2010 census, 55 percent of the country’s Black population live in the South. While the region is still nearly 60 percent white, its Black and Hispanic populations are significant, and while traditionally rural, diverse, growing cities like Atlanta and Charlotte have become important business hubs. North Carolina’s Research Triangle region boasts the sort of academic power and national draw often associated with the Northeast Corridor’s Ivy League. NASCAR’s bid to diversify, geographically and otherwise, is in keeping with the modern South’s changes.

But strong vestiges of the racist Confederacy have held on in the region. Mississippi removed the Confederate stars and bars from its state flag only last month, becoming the last state in the Union to do so. While the majority of Americans — 52 percent — favored the removal of Confederate statues from public spaces, according to a Quinnipiac University survey from June, 52 percent of those from the South opposed removal, the only region of the country where a majority supported keeping the statues.

In the midst of a floundering campaign, Trump grasped onto Southern white culture — that particular strain of it — as a way to pull his head above water. A large base of his support does indeed lie in the South, as has been the case for all recent Republican presidential candidates; Bill Clinton won Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia in 1996, but no Democrat has since. Trump ran a race-baiting campaign in 2016, and his 2020 campaign has continued to play on long-standing tropes of racial fear, like violent “liberal Democrat” cities. Ironically, his use of federal law enforcement officers in Portland, Ore., is about as far from states’ rights as you can get.

But Trump seems to be speaking to the SCV types and not the more “mainstream” white voters he actually needs to win. The SCV, for what it’s worth, is more than the “historical, patriotic, and non-political organization” that its website says it is. Its branches have donated to Republican politicians and it controversially purchased the Silent Sam Confederate statue that was torn down at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In other words, the group is representative of the types of (white) voters who are Trump’s ride-or-dies.

But Trump has misjudged — or refuses to see — that much of white America is changing how it thinks about racial issues. A Monmouth University survey from June found that 49 percent of white Americans thought police were more likely to use excessive force against a Black person, up from only 25 percent in 2016. A Morning Consult poll from May and June of this year found that 49 percent of white Americans supported the protests unfolding across the country, and 54 percent of suburbanites supported them (white people are the majority in 90 percent of America’s suburban counties, according to Pew Research Center).

Someone seems to have leaned into Trump’s ear and told him he needs these white suburbanites in order to have a fighting chance of winning in November. Last week, he called on “The Suburban Housewives of America” — as if harkening to a membership organization from 1955 — and said that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would “destroy” their American dream by promoting affordable housing for all in the suburbs. In Trump’s framing, by hoping to diversify the suburbs, Biden would destroy the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream.” A majority of Americans in a Pew survey conducted in 2019 said Trump had made race relations in the country worse, and while white, Black and Hispanic people still differ in their views on racial issues, it’s clear that recent events have brought greater racial awareness to the forefront of white Americans’ minds.

Republicans are increasingly worried about Trump losing a state like Ohio — once thought solidly in Trump’s camp — in large part because of the president’s diminishing support in suburban areas. (I wrote at length about this Ohio suburban phenomenon back in 2019.) His embrace of the racist totems of the white South — which large swaths of the white South itself eschews — could now potentially cost Trump with the Midwestern or Northeastern (whatever you want to call Pennsylvania) voters he needs to hold onto in order to win.

Trump, a New York City-born pol who doesn’t quite seem to “get” the ‘burbs — and has never been a particularly subtle political thinker or communicator — crucially misunderstood that the muscular Southern racism the Confederate flag has long represented doesn’t work in the white suburban realms of respectability anymore. That cohort — Republican and Democratic — absorbs and displays its biases more mutedly in 2020. Trump, who came to political power riding a wave of racist conspiracy theory — it was only fair to ask questions about whether the first Black president was actually American, wasn’t it? — now suddenly seems ill-equipped for the political times.

He forgot that most of the country requires a modicum of plausible deniability in its dog whistles.

[ledenews]

Erikka Storch: 2024 Cycle in West Virginia 'Definitely Will Be Different'

Who has election fatigue already? With some candidates announcing their 2024 intentions either just after the 2022 election or early in 2023, more than many years. It seemed nearly weekly, candidates were announcing their intentions for 2024 and filing pre-candidacy paperwork. This year, 2024, could be a pivotal point in the West Virginia political landscape, so allow me to explain. Since 2014, Republicans in the state have held and grown the majority in both bodies of the Legislature. Several other constitutional offices have also been held by Republicans. In past elections, there was merely a desire to have all ballot spaces filled with one candidate. This year, there will be several primary races, and many are saying the primary is where the race will be determined. Let’s start at the top, where Governor Jim Justice is one of three currently filed for U.S. Senate. The filing period opened last Monday, January 8, with U.S. Congressman Alex Mooney and Janet McNulty (both Eastern Panhandle residents) filing the first day. The Governor filed on Wednesday with much greater fanfare and is said to become the Republican nominee. More on this race coming. Former state lawmaker Erikka Storch served in the House of Delegates for 13 years before resigning to take a new, private-sector job in the Wheeling area. For the second Congressional District – quite possibly the only state with the second district north of the first (insert eye roll here) – there are three Republicans and one Democrat who have filed so far. With just under two weeks to go, who knows how many will get in this race. The most well-known name of the four is current Treasurer Riley Moore, grandson of former Governor Arch Moore. In the First Congressional District, it is believed Republican incumbent Carol Miller will file, while two Democrats have already filed in hopes of replacing her. The Governor’s race is not at all a quiet one. Currently, three candidates have filed for the seat now held by term-limited Governor Justice, including Poca resident Mitch Roberts and Secretary of State Mac Warner lining up the “elephants,” and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams as the Democrat nominee. Several other candidates have been fundraising and are definitely going to enter the Governor’s race. First of these are former Delegate and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Moore Capito, the son of Senator Shelley Moore Capito and grandson of Governor Arch Moore; the current Attorney General, Patrick Morrisey; and Chris Miller, son of Congresswoman Carol Miller and grandson of Ohio Congressman Samuel L. Devine. It will be interesting to see how the next couple of weeks play out regarding this race. In the race for Auditor and Commissioner of Agriculture, all candidates filing to date are Republicans. In the Secretary of State race, our current Secretary of State’s brother, Kris Warner who is also the current executive director of the State Economic Development Authority and past Republican Party Chair, has filed as has political pundit, Thornton Cooper as the Democrat nominee. It will be interesting to see if other candidates file for these races. All judicial races are non-partisan, but this will be the first election cycle for the recently formed Intermediate Court of Appeals. No candidates have filed for Attorney General in the Mountain State … yet. Storch remains in communication with many lawmakers in Charleston wand will continue to offer her insights during the current regular session. Getting closer to home, W.Va. Sen. Ryan Weld, 1st Senatorial District, has filed for re-election with no challengers in the primary of general filing as of January 12. There have been no filings in the Second Senatorial District but W.Va. Sen. Mike Maroney is expected to file for re-election, and challenger Chris Rose is expected to file, as well. Rose has been pretty active on his social media page but had not filed candidacy paperwork by the end of the week. After a great deal of thought and reflection, W.Va. Sen. Donna Boley has filed for re-election with no current opposition. In the House, all local incumbents have filed: Pat McGeehan in the first; Mark Zatezelo in the second; Jimmy Willis in the third; Diana Winzenreid in the fourth; Shawn Fluharty in the fifth; Jeff Stephens in the sixth; Chuck Sheedy in the seventh; and David Kelly in the eighth. Willis and Sheedy each have a Democrat opponent currently, and Kelly has a Republican challenger. It is believed that both Winzenreid and Stephens may pick up a primary opponent or two, as well as possibly a general challenger, as neither has been on ballots before. I understand there are people watching closely now that the Legislature has gaveled in for the second term of the 86th legislative session. The next two weeks will definitely be an indication of how these legislators are perceived, but with the filling period ending with the wrap of the third week, it will be interesting to see if any votes with any true meat are cast during that time. It is an interesting time to be in West Virginia, and this election season definitely will be different than most. Follow the filings here, and follow Lede for more discussion as the filing period progresses. Read the full article

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Sunday service had just ended, but Noah Tillman-Young called his small congregation back for another prayer. Shots had been fired at a rural church just down the road — a church a lot like theirs.

As his 30-some parishioners stood in a circle asking God for protection, something changed for the pastor of Joyful Heart. An act of mass violence in his Stockdale, Tex., church was no longer unthinkable. Ten miles away, 26 people were dead at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, the deadliest shooting at a house of worship in the country’s modern history.

That night, Tillman-Young and parish leaders held a vigil for their neighbor church. The next day, they decided to arm their own.

“It’s nothing you ever imagine could happen, but when it hits so close to home, you have no choice — you can’t ignore it and you have to prepare,” Tillman-Young said. “It’s the reality that houses of worship are increasingly becoming targets.”

With a new team of private security officers and an armed corps of volunteers, Joyful Heart joined the wave of small and midsize places of worship adopting security measures to gird against the rising threat of violent attacks.

'This community will heal': A small town mourns an enormous loss Residents of Sutherland Springs, Tex., grappled with the mass shooting that took 26 lives from the community in November 2017. (Alice Li/The Washington Post) While there is no definitive tracking of shootings or other attacks on houses of worship, several researchers and the federal government have documented a significant rise in targeted acts — particularly those with high death tolls.

FBI statistics show a 35 percent increase in hate crimes at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques from 2014 to 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. The nonprofit Faith Based Security Network found a 60 percent increase in “non-accidental deaths” at such sites from 2014 to 2017. And of the 88 people killed in mass shootings at places of worship since 1966 — defined as incidents in which four or more people were killed — more than half the deaths came in the last five years, according to The Washington Post’s mass shootings database.

This spike has prompted several state legislatures to write or revise firearm laws to make it easier for people to carry guns in houses of worship.

Since the Sutherland Springs shooting in November 2017, lawmakers in 14 states have introduced 40 bills, according to a Post analysis using Quorum, a database of state and federal legislation. Several are still being debated and six have been enacted, from Louisiana to North Dakota.

In the first weeks of 2020, legislators, most of them Republicans, have introduced 13 bills allowing armed security in places of worship. The flurry of lawmaking began just days after a gunman killed two people in late December at a church in White Settlement, Tex., before an armed volunteer shot and killed him. The volunteer’s action won praise for a state law that allows parishioners to carry firearms.

Laws under consideration in Florida and Missouri would allow anyone with a concealed-carry permit to bring a firearm into a religious building. In New Jersey, a proposed law would allow houses of worship to select one person to carry a handgun for security. And in Virginia, Republicans have introduced four bills to repeal a law that bars the carrying of weapons in a place of worship “without good and sufficient reason.”

Experts say that churches, synagogues and mosques, with their typically welcoming environments and looser safety measures, can make for easier targets, especially as businesses and schools ramp up security. But more places of worship are turning to surveillance equipment and armed guards, especially volunteers from the congregation, who blend in and save the parish money, said Carl Chinn, president of the Faith Based Security Network.

Chinn and other security consultants said they’re getting more inquiries from nervous congregations. Business is always busier after a shooting, and Chinn said recent incidents were “a wake-up call.”

“Churches are waking up to the fact that the way to stop a bad person with a dangerous weapon is a good person with a weapon and training,” he said.

Gun-control advocates balk at the idea that more weapons will create safer spaces, and others suggest that armed security — especially volunteers — may actually bring more risk.

“Whenever firearms are present, there’s always room for error and the possibility that the guns which are intended to protect become liable to endanger,” said James Densley, a criminal justice professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. “Arming parishioners so they can make the kind of split-second decisions that police get wrong worries me a little bit.”

But Chinn, who has tracked the use of deadly force in churches since 1999, said he hasn’t seen an instance in which innocent people were hit by a volunteer’s gunfire.

“There’s risks anytime you have defenders,” he said. “Of course, the risk is that innocent people might get hurt. But here’s what I tell people: That has not happened. We shouldn’t get wrapped around the axle of ‘what ifs.’ It’s not even comparable to the number of times people were hurt and nobody was there to protect them.”

Security teams can minimize the risks by training often and schooling themselves in more than firearm marksmanship, said Steve Padin, a retired police officer who is a chief consultant for the Watchman’s Academy, a church security firm.

The volunteers that Padin sees, mostly men, often have a background in the military or law enforcement. And when they don’t, Padin said, they need to learn to think like those who do.

A well-trained security guard should be versed in de-escalation and disarming tactics, be able to recognize suspicious behavior and be ready to act quickly, said Padin, who travels the country training security teams at churches and synagogues.

“You should not get to the point where you have to use a firearm,” he said.

At Beth Tikkun Messianic Fellowship in Akron, Ohio, Vic Agosta and his small team of volunteer security guards huddle outside the sanctuary before Saturday service. They all carry guns, and every weekend they pray they won’t need to use them.

Agosta helped form the team eight years ago, when the congregation of 200 was growing quickly. Agosta, who is a lineman for a power company, doesn’t have a background in law enforcement or the military like some of his fellow volunteers. But he does have family in the pews, including a daughter with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair.

“Just the thought of someone coming into a service of ours and opening fire on us,” he said. “My daughter couldn’t run for cover.”

In Ohio, places of worship must give permission before attendees can bring in concealed handguns — a restriction that Agosta, a Second Amendment advocate, supports.

“I think you should be able to carry a weapon, but I like the control that private entities have, like churches or places of business, to say who can and cannot carry,” Agosta said.

His church asks congregants to leave their guns at home and trust in the security team.

“We don’t want you to carry,” Agosta said. “But we’ll protect you the best we can.”

At Grace Fellowship, a small born-again Christian church in suburban Omaha, Greg Eckert runs a volunteer team with four other men. He’s recruiting more volunteers from the church’s 97 members, but some have trouble passing his test. It has two questions: Will you give up your life for the congregation, and will you kill for it?

“It sounds like a silly thing to ask for a Christian believer, but God doesn’t lay down for that stuff,” Eckert said. “There were people in the Bible who had to kill at God’s command. If they can’t answer yes to that, I don’t want them.”

He requires his team to practice shooting once a month, and he tests their accuracy four times a year, keeping their bullet-pocked targets on file and dated. In Nebraska, only designated security personnel are permitted to carry concealed handguns in houses of worship — and only if the leadership has given permission and informed the congregation.

“I don’t believe any church should be just an open-carry-type situation,” Eckert said. “But I don’t think it would be prudent to have a law that you could never carry in church, either.”

Outside New York City, which has its own gun laws, New York state has no laws prohibiting firearms in places of worship. And parishioners are better off for it, said Jim Woods, the head of security at the nondenominational Niagara Frontier Bible Church, not far from the famous falls. He’s one of 10 volunteers who greet newcomers at the door, keep an eye on the parking lot and carry a weapon.

“Years ago, it wouldn’t even have crossed my mind [that] you would need to defend yourself in church,” Woods said.

One of the most notorious attacks at a place of worship was the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where Ku Klux Klan members detonated dynamite, killing four children and injuring 22 people.

Since then, attacks at places of worship have been divided into two categories: hate-fueled assaults and those related to domestic violence. Both types are increasing in frequency and deadliness, said Densley, who also co-founded the Violence Project, which tracks mass shootings.

In 2012, a neo-Nazi killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, south of Milwaukee. Three years later, a white supremacist hoping to start a race war killed nine at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. And in 2018, anti-Semitic online screeds were connected to the man accussed of bursting into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and killing 11.

These were some of the deadliest and most high-profile shootings at American houses of worshipBut more common are shootings that are extensions of intimate-partner violence or domestic disputes, like the massacre in Sutherland Springs. In those cases, Densley said, the shooter is usually a member of the congregation.

“We’re often afraid of the stuff we don’t know and don’t understand that’s outside of us, when really the biggest risk is right in front of us,” he said.

At Joyful Heart Church, the new security measures have also inspired Tillman-Young and his wife and fellow pastor, Allison, to look inward. They’ve spent more time getting to know their members and their families.

“When you’re in the community, you see those red flags, and you see them before they come to a head and get ugly,” he said. “That kind of intentional connection, that relationship, showing people love — it helps to prevent that kind of stuff.”

But more than looser gun laws and armed guards, Tillman-Young said it’s his faith that makes him feel safe.

“We’re packing,” he said, “but we’re also packing the power of God and trusting in God to keep us protected.”

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From factories to corporate parks: Morris County and the wealth belt

From the Civil War through World War II, cities generated the vast majority of the Garden State’s wealth, thus attracting the lion’s share of investment and skilled workers, as well as its factories, commercial establishments, and entertainment venues.

In 1909, the City of Newark alone employed over 20 percent of the entire state’s population and was the source of one-fourth of all wages earned in New Jersey.

After World War II, new home construction gravitated towards cheaper and more abundant suburban land. While most heavy industry remained anchored in large cities, by the 1960s companies began opening satellite offices, or moved their headquarters to suburban office parks.

This migration away from urban cores resulted from numerous factors, including changing manufacturing trends, lower property tax rates, and rising inequality and social unrest.

Passage of the National Highway Act of 1956 further encouraged residential and business development away from cities and into previously agricultural land.

As suburban counties attracted new businesses and workers, the construction of Interstates 80 and 287 helped create a suburban “wealth belt” from northeastern to central New Jersey, which benefited from all aspects of America’s post-industrial economy.

From the 1960s through the 1970s, Morris County’s corporate parks manufactured electronics, petrochemicals, aviation instruments, and pharmaceuticals. During this period, the “wealth belt” grew to employ 50 percent of all workers in the state. Overall, 2.1 million individuals now worked in Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Somerset, Union, Middlesex, and Monmouth counties.

Warner-Lambert was the first corporate enterprise to move its headquarters to Morris County, relocating from Brooklyn to Morris Plains in 1947. Here, the company developed and manufactured medical devices and consumer products such as Listerine, cough syrups, antacids, chewing gum, mints, and other products, generating sales of $1.25 billion in 1970. By 1983, its staff of 3,000 made it one of the county’s largest employers.

The Mennen Company found its start as a Newark drugstore, opening in 1878 on the corner of Broad Street and Central Avenue. The small business made a name for itself marketing high-quality talcum powder, sold in a convenient metal container with a shaker built into the lid.

As the company grew, Mennen moved its headquarters in 1953 to a modern Morris Township facility that manufactured deodorant, shampoo, aftershave, fragrances, and baby powder. Mennen remained a family company through the early 1980s, and prided itself on valuing its 2,000 employees as much as the quality of its products.

The Thomas Leeming Company began as a small manufacturer of antiseptic and analgesic ointments originally developed by Parisian Doctor Bengue. Leeming purchased the rights to market it in the United States as Ben-Gay Ointment.

After moving to Parsippany from Union City in 1958, the Leeming Company merged with Pfizer in 1961. By 1982, Pfizer sales surpassed $100 million, with products ranging from medical products to Barbasol shaving cream to Visine eye drops.

A series of mergers and acquisitions in following decades made Pfizer one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, with 2018 revenue of more than $53 billion.

By 1980, the list of companies migrating westward from New York City to establish headquarters or satellite offices in Morris County included: AT&T, Exxon, Nabisco, Silver Burdett Co., Weichert Realtors, Artisan Electronics, Allied Chemical and Dye Corp., and 40 other Fortune 500 companies.

Through this decade these companies created more than 173 million square feet of office space in suburban north and central New Jersey.

Corporate parks and light manufacturing defined Morris County’s industrial base for decades, even as individual companies merged with larger corporations, or continued to pursue new manufacturing technologies and alternate labor forces elsewhere.

Some businesses, such as Weichert Realtors, Novartis, and GAF Materials Corporation, continue to operate in the area. The site of other longtime companies, like Morris Township’s Mennen facility and Honeywell campus, have found a new life as mixed residential- and retail developments.

Sources:

Joseph A. Grabas, Owning New Jersey: Historic Tales of War, Property Disputes, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014

Maxine Lurie and Richard Viet, eds. New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, 2012

Dorrianne R. Perrucci, Morris County: the Progress of Its Legend, Woodland Hills, CA; Windsor Publications, 1983

The collections of the North Jersey History & Genealogy Center, Morristown & Morris Township Library

The Changing Landscape of Morris County is on view through 2019 in the F.M. Kirby Gallery on the second floor of the Morristown & Morris Township Library.

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Show Archive

11/20/10 - Bruar Falls - Brooklyn, NY w/ Hannibal Montana, The Armchairs, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire

12/12/10 - Public Assembly - Brooklyn, NY w/ Hannibal Montana, Lilith Velkor, Gung Ho!

1/6/11 - The Outer Space - Hamden, CT w/ Grown Ups, Wess Meets West, Good Citizens, Midair

1/10/11 - Party Expo - Brooklyn, NY w/ Athletics, Hightide Hotel

3/16/11 - Arlene’s Grocery - NY, NY w/ Gates, The Republic of Wolves, The Francis Flute

5/3/11 - Church of Boston - Boston, MA w/ Bent Knee, King Orchid, Good Citizens

5/15/11 - The Charleston - Brooklyn, MA w/ Gates, Hannibal Montana, Suns

6/25/11 - Lit Lounge - NY, NY w/ Labirinto, Calls

7/23/11 - The Acheron - Brooklyn, NY w/ Hannibal Montana, Slim Charles, Zvoov

9/25/11 - Kearny Irish - Kearny, NJ w/ Old Nick, Pilots in Orbit, Morning…

11/11/11 - Canvas Clash - Boonton, NJ w/ The Soviet, Au Revoir, Winter Wives

12/3/11 - Waffle Office - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Marloneisha, Damascus, County Drop

12/17/11 - Richie B’s - Holbrook, NY w/ North End, Calls

12/23/11 - The Vaj Majal - New Brunswick, NJ w/ County Drop, The Bewilderness

1/6/12 - House Show - Westfield, NJ w/ Our Daily Fix, Oswald

1/14/12 - The Court Tavern  - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Old Nick, Gates, Minor Motion

1/27/12 - The Bing Arts Center – Springfield, MA w/ Gates, Chalk Talk, Black Churches, White Savages, Avely

1/28/12 – Hudson River Coffee House – Albany, NY w/ Gates, Accents

3/10/12 - The Chocolate Factory - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Marloneisha, Westover

3/11/12 - St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY w/ Sleepmakeswaves, Hannibal Montana, No Grave Like the Sea

3/12/12 - Milkboy - Philadelphia, PA w/ Sleepmakeswaves, North End, Mi-ke

4/13/12 - Crossroads - Garwood, NJ w/ Chemtrail, Vows, Avoider, Black Water

4/20/12 - The Box Fort - Allston, MA w/ That’s Rugby, Strange Mangers, White Savages

5/18/12 - Maxwell’s - Hoboken, NJ w/ Chocolate Bread, The Embracers, Morning…

5/19/12 - Crossroads - Garwood, NJ w/ Gates, Let Me Run, Old Nick, Colony

6/9/12 -  Freehold VFW - Freehold, NJ w/ gates, Athletics, Old Nick

6/17/12 - Buffalo House - Garfield, NJ w/  Au Revoir, Athletics, Secret Plot, Wess Meets West

6/21/12 - House Show - Westfield, NJ w/ Pilots in Orbit, Our Daily Fix

6/22/12 - Make Music New York - Brooklyn, NY

6/23/12 - The Note - West Chester, PA w/ Pilots in Orbit, North End, Old Nick

7/25/12 - Spike Hill - Brooklyn, NY w/ Hannibal Montana

8/10/12 - Reverb - Reading, PA w/ Hannibal Montana , North End, You, You Dark Forest

8/11/12 - Paradise Lost - New Brunswick, NJ w/ The Nico Blues, Pilots in Orbit

8/12/12 – Mahall’s – Lakewood, OH w/ Gates, Dinner and a Suit

8/13/12 – My Dad’s Place – Detroit, MI w/ Gates, Sunlight Ascending

8/14/12 – Plainwell Community Center – Plainwell, MI w/ Gates, Tiger! Tiger!, Good Weather For Airstrikes, The Westbound, Counselor

8/15/12 – The Subterranean – Chicago, IL w/ Gates, Like So, Droughts

8/16/12 – Coffee Nation – Bloomington, IL w/ Gates, The Knitted Cap Club

8/17/12 - Mote Park – Piqua, OH w/ Gates, The Orphan The Poet, Fall Kill The Calendar, States Away, Set The Stage

8/19/12 - The Auction House – Audubon, NJ w/ Gates, Take One Car  

8/20/12 - The Batcave - Montclair, NJ - A Film in Color, Babytown Frolics        

8/23/12 - Studio @ Webster Hall - NY,NY

9/13/12 - Don Pedro’s - Brooklyn, NY w/ Gates, Suns

9/14/12 - The Chocolate Factory - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gates, Suns, Marolneisha

10/3/12 -  Spike Hill - Brooklyn, NY w/ No Grave Like The Sea, The Summer Pledge, Oceanographer

10/13/12 Don Pedro’s - Brooklyn, NY w/ Hannibal Montana, Perhaps, North End, Noxious Foxes, Time Columns

10/15/12 - Delancey CMJ - NY,NY w/ Spirit Animal

11/30/12 - The Meatlocker - Montclair, NJ w/ Arrows in Her, Ola Madrid, Tony Clark

12/1/12 - SUNY Purchase - Purchase, NY

12/3/12 - The Meatlocker - Montclair, NJ w/ Koji, Dads, Community

1/25/13 - The Court Tavern - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gatherer, Arrows in Her, Marloneisha

3/3/13 - Tamanny Hall - NY,NY w/ Hanmon, Slim Charles

3/16/13 - Bonfire Nation - Mansfield, Ohio

3/18/13 - Garden Bowl - Detroit, MI w/ Reverend

3/19/13 - The Donut Hole - Muskegon, MI

3/20/13 - Township - Chicago, IL w/ Atalanta

3/21/13 - The Sound Cellar - Chesterton, IN w/ Kellam, Goods, Party Moms

3/22/13 - The Well - South Bend, IN

3/23/13 - Kopec’s - Pittsburgh, PA w/ Modern Baseball, My Captain My Sea, Relationships

4/19/13 - Asbury Lanes - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Penfold, Gates, Athletics, Owel

4/20/13 - The Court Tavern - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gates, Owel, D’arcy, Eyeswan

4/25/13 - North Star Bar - Philadelphia, PA w/ North End, Signal Hill

4/26/13 - The Batcave - Montclair, NJ w/ North End, Signal Hill, Au Revoir

5/29/13 - Pandora’s Box - Quebec City, QC w/ Gulfer, Echos from Jupiter

5/30/13 - Casa del Popolo - Montreal, QC w/ Gulfer, Atsuko Chiba, Beyck Fantom

5/31/13 - Monkey House - Winooski, VT w/ Cloudeyes

6/19/13 - The Court Tavern - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Hidden Hospitals, A Balance Between, Ghost House

6/23/13 - Maxwell’s - Hoboken, NJ

7/21/13 - Asbury Lanes w/ Northern Faces, Let Me Run, Ghost House

7/25/13 - Casa del Popolo - Montreal, QC w/ Gulfer, You’ll Live, Discord of Forgotten Sketch

7/26/13 – Artspace - Peterborough, ON w/ Gulfer, You’ll Live, Light Company

7/27/13 – Sterling Lofts - Toronto, ON w/ Gulfer, You’ll Live, New Armour, Sleep for the Nightlife

7/28/13 – Indigo Plateau - Kitchener, ON w/ Gulfer, New Wings, The Ednas

7/29/13 –  Castle Empress - London, ON w/ Gulfer, Kingpin

7/30/13 – Coach and Horses - Windsor, ON w/ Gulfer, Red Red Run

7/31/13 – Warehouse show - Detroit, MI w/ Gulfer

8/1/13 – Wayne Manor - Kalamazoo, MI w/ Gulfer, LVL UP, Caust

8/3/13 – GnarFest - Chicago, IL w/ Joan of Arc, The Reptilian, Tiny Moving Parts, Foxing, Joint Chiefs of Math

8/4/13 – The Sound Cellar - Chesterton, IN w/ Gulfer, Joint Chiefs of Math, Analecta, Chin Up

8/6/13 – The Firehouse - North Manchester, IN w/ Gulfer, Grey Gordon  

8/7/13 – The Summit - Columbus, OH w/ Gulfer, Graves, Every Episode Ever

8/8/13 - Relax it’s Just Coffee - Mansfield, OH w/ Gulfer

8/9/13 – Space Paul’s - Rochester, NY w/ Gulfer, Barbarossa

8/10/13 – Ithaca Underground - Ithaca, NY w/ Gulfer, Cattle Drums

8/11/13 – Hong Kong Gardens - Philadelphia, PA w/ Gulfer, Gir Scouts, Joint Chiefs of Math

8/12/13 – That’s How I Beat Shaq - Virginia Beach, VA w/ Gulfer, Trust Fall

8/13/13 – Charm City Art Space - Baltimore, MD w/ Gulfer, Time Columns, Kitsune Rad

8/14/13 - The Court Tavern - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gulfer, Holy City Zoo, Pilots in Orbit, Owel

8/15/13 - The Batcave - Montclair, NJ w/ Gulfer, Gates

8/16/13 - The Space - Hamden, CT w/ Gulfer, Oshwa, Giraffes? Giraffes!, The Guru, Strange Mangers

8/17/13 -  The Elevens - Northampton, MA w/ Gulfer, Giraffes? Giraffes!, The Bulletproof Tiger

8/18/13 - Cambridge Elks Lodge - Cambridge, MA w/ Gulfer, Giraffes? Giraffes!, The Bulletproof Tiger, I Kill Giants

8/19/13 - Geno’s Rock Club - Portland, ME w/ Gulfer, An Anderson

8/20/13 - Jenke Arts - Burlington, VT w/ Gulfer, My Dad, The Para-medics

10/25/13 - The Court Tavern - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gates, Prawn, Attikas Arras

11/9/13 - Suburbia - Brooklyn, NY w/ Tiny Moving Parts, Safety

11/15/13 - Brandeis University - Waltham, MA w/ Gates

2/14/14 - The Democracy Center - Cambridge, MA w/ Hit Home, Strange Mangers, Quarrels, I/O

2/15/14 - TC3 Student Center - Ithaca, NY w/ Hit Home, why+the+wires, Barbarossa

2/16/14 - Heirloom Arts Theatre - Danbury, CT w/ Hit Home, The Box Tiger

2/24/14 - The Stanhope House - Stanhope, NJ w/ O’Brother, A Balance Between

2/28/14 - Friends & Lovers - Brooklyn, NY w/ Slim Charles, Bandladeafy, Arrows in Her

3/11/14 - Area 52 - Pittsburgh, PA w/ Narrow/Arrow, Be Still, Cody, Partly Sunny

3/12/14 - House with No Name - Columbus, OH w/ Narrow/Arrow, I Mustache You A Question, Brat Curse

3/13/14 - The Well - South Bend, IN w/ Narrow/Arrow, Infinite Buffalo

3/14/14 - Waffle Haus - Grand Rapids, MI w/ Narrow/Arrow, Suns, Moses, Odd Dates

3/15/14 - Township - Chicago, IL w/ Narrow/Arrow, Suns, Evasive Backflip

3/16/14 - Blind Bob’s - Dayton, OH w/ Narrow/Arrow, Silent Lions, Sport Fishing USA

4/10/14 - The Batcave - Montclair, NJ w/ Living Room, What Moon Things, Aviator, A Film in Color

4/11/14 - Suburbia - Brooklyn, NY w/ Living Room, What Moon Things, Banquets, Placeholder

4/12/14 - The UAG - Albany, NY w/ Living Room, What Moon Things, Softpowers

5/26/14 - Asbury Lanes - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Old Gray, Frameworks, Bad Kisser

6/18/14 - Shea Stadium - Brooklyn, NY w/ The Ambulars, County Drop, Life Eaters

6/26/14 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA w/ Sleep In, Abilities, Dryjacket

6/27/14 - The Loving Touch - Ferndale, MI w/ The Summer Pledge (last show), The Anonymous

6/28/14 - FEST FEST - Muskegon, MI w/ Empire! Empire!, Dowsing, The Reptilian, Narrow/Arrow

6/29/14 - Gnarnia - Chicago, IL w/ Hodera, Bathing Resorts

7/1/14 - Hampton’s - Columbus, OH w/ IMYAQ, Every Episode Ever

7/2/14 - The Stone Tavern - Kent, OH w/ Homies, Us, From Borealis

7/3/14 - The Pallas Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA w/ The Guru, Naked Signal

7/18/14 - Studio at Webster Hall - New York, NY w/ Pentimento, Have Mercy, Gates

8/11/14 - The Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NY w/ Big Awesome, Lions, Brightest Color

8/13/14 - Wunderloft - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Alex G, Elvis Depressedly, Pinegrove

8/23/14 - The Mercantile - Dublin, IE w/ Tides of Man

8/24/14 - Static - Swansea, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/25/14 - Sanctuary Bar - Basingstoke, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/26/14 - Non Zero’s - Dundee, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/27/14 - Hard Rock - Glasgow, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/28/14 - Temple of Boom - Leeds, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/29/14 - Craufurd Arms - Milton Keynes, UK w/ Tides of Man

8/30/14 - The Garage - London, UK w/ Tides of Man

9/1/14 - El Diablo - Lille, FR w/ Tides of Man

9/2/14 - Cafe Video - Ghent, BE w/ Tides of Man

9/3/14 - Au Chat Noir - Paris, FR w/ Tides of Man

9/4/14 - JuHa West - Stuttgart, DE w/ Tides of Man

9/5/14 - Disorder - Wroclaw, PL w/ Tides of Man

9/6/14 - GMK - Budapest, HU w/ Tides of Man

9/7/14 - The Shelter - Cluj-Napoca, RO w/ Tides of Man

9/8/14 - Das Bach - Vienna, AU w/ Tides of Man

9/9/14 - Beatclub - Dessau, DE w/ Tides of Man

9/10/14 - L’Entrepot - Audun Le Tiche, FR w/ Tides of Man

9//11/14 - Canadian Cafe - Tours, FR w/ Tides of Man

9/12/14 - Club Kamikaze - Mechelen, BE w/ Tides of Man

10/1/14 - St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY w/ Living Room, Caravela, Bethlehem Steel

10/21/14 - Cameo Gallery - Brooklyn, NY w/ Pins, September Girls, Mannequin Pussy, Amanda X

10/30/14 - Asbury Lanes - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Pianos Become the Teeth, Gates, Frameworks

11/7/14 - Democracy Center - Cambridge, MA w/ Marietta, Sports, Au Revoir, Quarrels

11/8/14 - Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC w/ Marietta, lovechild, Gulfer

11/9/14 - Icehouse - Cohoes, NY w/ Marietta, lovechild, California Cousins

11/14/14 - The Nursery - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Wedding Dress, Pinegrove, Dollys

11/15/14 - Bourbon & Branch - Philadelphia, PA w/ Wedding Dress, Static Mountain

1/3/15 - The Bomb Shelter - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Gatherer, Hodera, Lake Effect

1/9/15 - Palisades - Brooklyn, NY w/ Pinegrove, The Most, Nine of Swords, Ther

1/10/15 - Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY w/ Slingshot Dakota, Runaway Brother, Crazy & The Brains

2/27/15 - The Banana Stand - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Runaway Brother

3/8/15 - Lakehouse Studios - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Dollys, Pinegrove, Catchabatcha

3/14/15 - People’s Warehouse - Pittsburgh, PA w/ Homies, Highdeaf

3/15/15 - Mustache House - Columbus, OH - Narrow/Arrow, It’s A Secret

3/16/15 - The Ottawa Tavern - Toledo, OH w/ Narrow/Arrow

3/17/15 - The Quad - Grand Rapids, MI w/ The Cardboard Swords, Moses

3/18/15 - Tiger Room at CS3 - Fort Wayne, IN w/ Free Throw, Metavari, Fucking Panthers

3/19/15 - Friendzone - Chicago, IL w/ Mothlight, Winter Classic

3/20/15 - Bonfire Nation - Mansfield, OH w/ Narrow/Arrow, Molly’s Worst Enemy

3/21/15 - Everybody Hits - Philadelphia, PA w/ Ghost Gum, Thin Lips, Cool Points

3/29/15 - The Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY w/ LITE, The End of The Ocean

4/11/15 - Ground Zero at RPI - Troy, NY w/ Hodera, Prince Daddy & The Hyena

4/17/15 - Peace Cafe - Southington, CT w/ The Most, Queen Moo, Messes, Lovely

4/26/15 - Communiversity Arts Fest - Princeton, NJ

4/30/15 - Marlin Room at Webster Hall - NY, NY w/ CHON, Diveo

5/1/15 - The Stood at SUNY Purchase - Purchase, NY w/ The Most, Pinegrove, Tri-State Era

5/16/15 - Aviv - Brooklyn, NY w/ Ishmael, Zula, Slim Charles

6/5/15 - In The West - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Invalids, No Stranger, In Angles, Use Big Words

7/5/15 - Cameo Gallery - Brooklyn, NY w/ Gulfer, People Like You, Wild Pink, Living Room

7/7/15 - The Bomb Shelter - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Hodera, ROMP

7/8/15 - The Treehouse - Albany, NY w/ What Moon Things

7/9/15 - Relax It’s Just Coffee - Mansfield, OH

7/10/15 - Annabell’s - Akron, OH w/ From Borealis, Kitchsy

7/11/15 - Tires - Detroit, MI w/ Gosh Pith

7/12/15 - The Quad - Grand Rapids, MI w/ Moses

7/13/15 - Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL w/ Space Blood, Evasive Backflip, Rhone

7/14/15 - Lookout Lounge - Omaha, NE w/ Natrually the Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses, Super Ghost, Bed Rest

7/15/15 - Gillie’s - Kearney, NE

7/16/15 - 7th Circle Music Collective - Denver, CO w/ Iluminado

7/17/15 - Music Garage - Salt Lake City, UT w/ The Great Interstate, Sound of Satellites, The Wasatch Fault

7/18/15 - The Crux - Boise, ID

7/19/15 - The Victory Lounge - Seattle, WA w/ Detlef, Walter & Perry, Chung Antique

7/20/15 - The Know - Portland, OR w/ The Hague, Outerspace Heaters

7/21/15 - Caldwell Park - Redding, CA w/ Belda Beat, Derive

7/22/15 - The Honey Hive Gallery - San Francisco, CA w/ Wander, Floral, Strawberry Girls

7/23/15 - Frank’s Place - Fresno, CA w/ Chyna, Where Sea Meets Sky, The Unending Thread

7/24/15 - Bonnerhaus - North Hollywood, CA w/ Pretend, 100 Onces

7/25/15 - The Ecelectic Room - Anaheim, CA w/ Hollow Ran

7/26/15 - Rouge Bar - Scottsdale, AZ w/ Sideyard

7/27/15 - Duke City Sound - Albuquerque, NM w/ CRTTRZ, Tides

7/28/15 - 1919 Hemphill - Fort Worth, TX w/ Halfsleep, Covet, Cleanup, Biscuit Head

7/29/15 - Dan’s Silverleaf - Denton, TX w/ Halfsleep, Covet

7/30/15 - Murphy’s - Memphis, TN w/ Churchkey, Monticello, The Cloth

7/31/15 - Exponent Manor - Nashville, TN w/ Shy, Low, Tsuynyu

8/1/15 - PG - Evansville, IN

8/2/15 - House Show - Knoxville, TN w/ Lions

8/3/15 - New York Pizza - Greensboro, NC w/ Cepheus, Greaver

8/4/15 - Strange Matter - Richmond, VA w/ From Fragile Seeds, Guana 415, Winning the Loser’s Bracket

8/6/15 - The Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY w/ The Velvet Teen, Caravela

10/10/15 - Nowhere, USA - New Brunswick, NJ w/ Pinegrove, Palehound, Glazer

4/2/16 - The Studio @ Webster Hall - NY, NY w/ Tides of Man, Covet, Kodiak

4/13/16 - Aviv - Brooklyn, NY - Weatherbox, Enemies

4/30/16 - ‘Ol Yeller - Boston, MA w/ Floral, Leaner, Herietta

5/7/16 - J House - New Brunswick, NJ w/ El Americano, Hannibal Montana, The Planet You

6/2/16 - The Studio @ Webster Hall - NY, NY w/ Tiny Moving Parts, Prawn, Free Throw

7/8/16 - Sunnyvale - Brooklyn, NY w/ The Island of Misfit Toys, Broken Beak, Sharpless, For Everest

7/14/16 - VFW - Hasbrouck Heights, NJ w/ Speedy Ortiz, Spowder

7/22/16 - La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC w/ Gulfer, The Reptilian, Black Love

7/23/16 - Le Sous-Sol Du Cercle - Quebec City, QC w/ Gulfer, The Reptilian

8/15/16 - Hangar - Dublin, IR w/ Gulfer, Yonen

8/17/16 - House Show - Cardiff, WL w/ Gulfer, Pipedream

8/19/16 - ArcTanGent Festival - Fernhill Farm, Britsol, UK

8/21/16 - Stereo - Glasgow, UK w/ Totorro, Dialects

8/22/16 - Temple of Boom - Leeds, UK w/ Totorro, Lost Ground, Vogons

8/23/16 - Gulliver’s - Manchester, UK w/ Totorro, Lost Ground

8/24/16 - Bodega - Nottingham, UK w/ Totorro, Alright the Captain

8/25/16 - The Hope & Ruin - Brighton, UK w/ Totorro, Waking Aida

8/26/16 - Sanctuary - Baskingstoke, UK w/ Totorro, Waking Aida

8/27/16 - The Old Blue Last - London, UK w/ Totorro, Waking Aida

8/28/16 - The Exchange - Leicester, UK w/ Totorro, Waking Aida

9/3/16 - The Mercury Lounge - NY, NY w/ Gates, Rare Futures, Athletics

10/22/16 - AMFP - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Dollys, Toy Cars, The North American

10/24/16 - DC9 - Washington, DC w/ Drop Electric, This City Called Earth

10/25/16 - Leftovers - Roanoke, VA w/ Dead Broke, The Head, Fujian

10/26/16 - Cory’s GC - Charleston, SC w/ Catholics, Well

10/27/16 - Eventide Brewery - Atlanta, GA w/ Bear Girl, Stay the Sea

10/28/16 - A&M Theatre - Panama City, FL w/ The Burl, Omibozu

10/30/16 - FEST @ Dirty Nelly’s - Gainesville, FL

10/31/16 - New Freedom Studios - Orlando, FL w/ Hodera, Secret Stuff

11/1/16 - The Odd Room - Charlotte, NC w/ Sinai Vessel, Ivadell, Hodera, Secret Stuff

11/2/16 - The Odditorium - Asheville, NC w/ Pictures of Vernon, Hodera, Secret Stuff

11/3/16 - The Litterbox - Blacksburg, VA w/ Hodera, Secret Stuff

11/11/16 - The Studio @ Webster Hall - NY, NY w/ Owel, The Soil & The Sun

2/16/17 - Alphaville - Brooklyn, NY w/ Tancred, Lilith, Yucky Duster

2/22/17 - Backyard on Bell - Denton, TX w/ Halfsleep, Terra Collective

2/23/17 - Mount Moon - Austin, TX

2/24/17 - El Rey Theatre - Albuquerque, NM w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

2/25/17 - The Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO w/  Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

2/27/17 - The Blue Note - Columbia, MO w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

2/28/17 - The Castle Theatre - Bloomington, IL w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/1/17 - Mercury Ballroom - Louisville, NY w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/2/17 - Park Street Saloon - Columbus, OH w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/3/17 - Anthology - Rochester, NY w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

¾/17 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/5/17 - Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/7/17 - The National - Richmond, VA w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/8/17 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/9/17 - Zydeco - Birmingham, AL w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/10/17 - New Daisy Theatre - Memphis, TN w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/11/17 - House of Blues - New Orleans, LA w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/13/17 - Alamo City Music Hall - San Antonio, TX w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/15/17 - Tricky Falls - El Paso, TX w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/16/17 - The Rock - Tuscon, AZ w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/17/17 - The Observatory - San Diego, CA w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/18/17 - The Observatory - Santa Ana, CA w/ Dance Gavin Dance, CHON, Eidola

3/21/17 - Seventh Circle Music Collective - Denver, CO

3/22/17 - O'Leavers - Omaha, NE w/ blet, Bed Rest

3/23/17 - The Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL w/ Droughts, Snort, Naga, Enhasa

3/24/17 - Witch House - Grand Rapids, MI w/ Moses, The Reptilian

3/25/17 - The Rockery - Detroit, MI w/ Moses, Lemix J. Buckley, Alchemists

6/15/17 - Milkboy - Philadelphia, PA w/ gates, Head North

6/16/17 - Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA w/ gates, Head North

6/17/17 - Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY w/ gates, Head North, Caravela

6/18/17 - Monty Hall - Jersey City, NJ w/ gates, Head North

6/20/17 - Songbyrd - Washington, DC w/ gates, Head North

6/21/17 - Double Happiness - Columbus, OH w/ gates, Head North

6/22/17 - Hoosier Dome -  Indianapolis, IN w/ gates, Head North

6/23/17 - Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL w/ gates, Head North, Wet Mouth

6/24/17 - Local 432 - Flint, MI w/ gates, Head North

6/26/17 - Mahall’s - Lakewood, OH w/ gates, Head North

6/27/17 - Mr. Roboto Project - Pittsburgh, PA w/ gates, Head North

6/28/17 - The Waiting Room - Buffalo, NY w/ gates, Head North, Alleys

6/29/17 - House of Targ - Ottawa, ON w/ gates, Head North, Midnight in Kansas

6/30/17 - Sneaky Dee’s - Toronto, ON w/ gates, Head North

7/1/17 - The Middle East - Boston, MA w/ gates, Head North, Gauntly

7/7/17 - APMF - Asbury Park, NJ w/ Adjy, Toy Cars, Fire is Motion

7/8/17 - The Sound Hole - Philadelphia, PA w/ Adjy, Shya

7/9/17 - The Space - Hamden, CT w/ Adjy, Jelani Sai, Mineva

7/11/17 - Takk House - Albany, NY w/ Adjy, Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Dikembe

7/12/17 - La Vitrola - Montreal, QC w/ Adjy, Bas Relief

7/14/17 - Pianos - New York, NY w/ Stage Kids, Invalids, Via Luna

8/11/17 - Gullivers - Manchester, UK w/ Vasa, Chiyoda Ku, Britney, Poisonous Birds

8/12/17 - The Fox & Newt - Leeds, UK w/ Vasa, Irk

8/13/17 - The Exchange - Stoke, UK w/ Vasa, All the Best Tapes

8/14/17 - Bodega - Nottingham, UK w/ Vasa, Merrik’s Tusk

8/15/17 - Broadcast - Glasgow, UK w/ Vasa, Adult Fun

8/17/17 - Arctangent Festival - Bristol, UK

8/20/17 - The Hope & Ruin - Brighton, UK w/ Bearded Youth Quest, Patchwork Natives

8/21/17 - Birthdays - London, UK w/ You Break You Buy, Lost in the Riots

8/22/17 - Firebug - Leicester, UK w/ Tricot, Ash Mammal, Zyweth

9/9/17 - The Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY w/ The Fall of Troy, Morus Alba

9/28/17 - Ramapo College - Ramapo, NJ w/ El Americano, In Angles

10/3/17 - 11er - Frankfurt, DE w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

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10/5/17 - Naumanns - Leipzig, DE w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/7/17 - Magdalenzaal - Bruges, BE w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band, Slow Crush

10/8/17 - The Fleece - Bristol, UK w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/9/17 - Rebellion - Manchester, UK w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/10/17 - G2 - Glasgow, UK w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/11/17 - The Flapper - Birmingham, UK w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

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10/13/17 - 4Ecluses - Dunquerque, FR w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Bamd

10/14/17 - Alte Hackere - Karlsruhe, DE w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

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10/16/17 - Modra Vopice - Prague, CZ w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/17/17 - D.K Luksus - Wroclaw, PO w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/18/17 - Hyrdozagadka - Warsaw, PO w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/19/17 - Durer Kert - Budapest, HU w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/21/17 - Hear the Change Festival (Argo16) - Venice, IT w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/22/17 - Batofar - Paris, FR w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

10/24/17 - I-Boat - Bordeaux, FR w/ Sleepmakeswaves, The Physics House Band

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7/8/18 - Musica - Akron, OH w/ Narrow Arrow, Ola Mesa, The Grievance Club

7/9/18 - Subterranean - Chicago, IL w/ Monobody, Snooze, Merit Badge

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7/11/18 - Dempsey’s - Fargo, ND w/ Grazing, Breakup Haircuts

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7/21/18 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA w/ Covet, The Illustrative Violet

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4/19/19 - Brooklyn Bazaar - Brooklyn, NY w/ Delta Sleep, Hikes

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7/16/19 - Elsewhere Rooftop - Brooklyn, NY w/ Covet, Holy Fawn

7/17/19 - Space Ballroom - Hamden, Ct w/ Covet, Holy Fawn

7/18/19 - Great Scott - Allston, MA w/ Covet, Holy Fawn

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7/24/19 - The Masquerade (Purgatory) - Atlanta, GA w/ Covet, Holy Fawn, Crispin Wah

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MEET: Jenna Mohr

JENNA MOHR is a cosmetologist and hair stylist living in NYC. (Instagram / email: jenammohr@gmail.com)

CATHOLIC ARTIST CONNECTION (CAC): What brought you to NYC, and where did you come from?

JENNA MOHR (JM): I moved to NYC after college to start a new job as a tax accountant in Midtown Manhattan almost 4 years ago.  I came from Charleston, South Carolina, where I was ready to take a position at a local firm and live a comfortable life eating lots of great food, listening to local music and enjoying cheap libations with friends.  Living in New York and working as a hairstylist had always been a dream of mine; but as time progressed, I grew to accept the notion that my dreams might end and not materialize into reality.  

A friend from high school, who was studying accounting at Clemson University, mentioned that his classmate had just finished an internship at a firm in NYC that was hiring.  We were able to get a hold of the recruiter, and the rest is history. Now, I am living out my dream working at a Big 4 accounting firm to pay the bills and going to Arrojo Cosmetology school part time, contemplating what my next move will be.  I would love to style/cut hair in the film, theater or print industries and am excited to explore those avenues once I graduate in February. I have close to no free time and eat mostly Cliff bars, but, hey! Living the dream!

CAC: What do you see as your personal mission as a Catholic working in the arts?

JM: I have never contemplated the term “Catholic artist” until answering these questions, but I suppose I can call myself one now.  I definitely define myself as a Catholic but feel that I am growing into the term “artist” since I had to convince everyone around me in New York that I was an accountant first until I started cosmetology school in September 2018.  Now my mission as a Catholic cosmetologist is to help bring out the innately good and beautiful in whoever I am working with.  Although my profession as a cosmetologist is seemingly aesthetic only, I have come to discover that how you treat the individual you are working with and make them feel, regardless of what they end up looking like, is where the value is. Being in this profession, I have realized how truly selfless I need to be in order to give of myself to the client. As a result, I feel that my faith has strengthened because I recognize that only God and his grace can give me the emotional energy I need to make whoever is sitting in my chair to feel like the best possible version of himself/herself.

CAC: Where have you found support in the Church for your vocation as an artist?

JM: Sister Virginia Joy with the Sisters of Life!  I first met Sister Virg in middle school where she was the assistant soccer coach and also a high school academics/college admissions counselor.  I told her how I wanted to be a hairstylist but that my parents wouldn't let me and said I needed to get a 4 year STEM degree instead.  Throwing in the towel, I thought I may study engineering but Sister Virg challenged me to not give up on my dreams.  She helped me to to devise a plan where I could study accounting, specifically tax since it is seasonal nature, and then pursue cosmetology down the road in the "off seasons".  My sophomore year, she told our soccer team she was moving to the Bronx to become a nun.  Fast forward almost a decade and I also am moving to New York and reconnecting with Sister Virg. She helps to keep me Catholic by inviting me to Catholic events throughout the city and I have even gone to the house to style one of the mother's hair for a gala.

A special shout out to St. Patrick's in Midtown because I have the opportunity to go to daily mass and confession at one of the most beautiful churches in the country and arguably the world.  Also, it has been a safe haven for me where I would go to nap during my lunch break during the gosh awful tax seasons where it was not unusual to leave the office before 2AM for months at a time.

Finally, reading the daily liturgy has given me the daily courage and reminder of what it means to be Catholic.  Through daily readings, I have discovered one of my favorite passages where Jesus wakes the young girl up from the dead saying, "Talitha koum", or "Little girl, arise".  This phrase is my own personal, "YOU GO GIRL!", from Jesus.  I got it tattooed on my finger (highly advise against finger tatts, they fade and will look a little silly) as a reminder to keep pushing and pursuing my dreams.

CAC: Where have you found support among your fellow artists for your Catholic faith?

JM: I don't know a lot of Catholics or a lot of artists but Renee Roden (the editor of the newsletter!) has been instrumental in supporting my art and faith.  She asked if I would like to be one of the featured artists on this blog.  When she asked, I think that is one of the few times where I really felt like an artist and more importantly, a Catholic artist.  She has invited me to plays, readings and is always excited to explore art and our faith.  I am incredibly grateful for a friend that shows so much gumption for a world that I love and admire so deeply.

CAC: How can the Church be more welcoming to artists?

JM: My first reaction is: how can the two be separated?  The Church and the arts have so much in common and both are all about exploring, discovering and seeking truth in some form.  I think if we look at it from that angle the Church will naturally be more welcoming to artists.  Seeing that my free time is limited, I am not aware of a lot of "happenings" in the city; however, I think if parishes hosted open mic nights or other art forums and extend it to the general community that people would be receptive.  I understand that Church and religion can seem scary and rigid but I think a forum that allows people to express themselves free of judgement can create a bridge to a safe space that the Church needs to extend to the outside community.

CAC: How can the artistic world be more welcoming to artists of faith?

JM: I think it is a 2-way street!  The outside world, particularly NYC, can seem scary to a law-abiding Catholic.  However, these safe spaces, created through art forums can help to bridge those gaps.

CAC: Where in NYC do you find spiritual fulfillment?

JM: I am a parishioner of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral; however, I have been attending St. Cecilia's in Brooklyn lately due to its proximity to where I live.  I highly recommend both!  While Old St. Pat's is the cool, hip place for young folks to be,  St. Cecilia's, at a fraction of the size, has also been great and just as welcoming!  Both have beautiful music and the priests are very kind, welcoming and give great homilies.  If you are in Brooklyn, you should definitely check out St. Cecilia's, us Catholics are out here too!  

(Side note, St. Cecilia's is close to McCarren Park, Graham Avenue with so many cute places to eat and stroll around. I am currently answering these questions at FourFiveSix an outdoor bar with eclectic decor and food inside.  Only a 2 minute walk to St. Cecilia's and they have WI-FI!)

CAC: Where in NYC do you find artistic fulfillment?

JM: I like to sit at the park and listen to my thoughts and take in the sites.  I love North Brooklyn Farms in Williamsburg (you should visit since it will be closing soon!).  You can see the Manhattan skyline and the old Domino sugar refinery factory, my favorite building in the city, is located there as well.  I love the industrial look that parts of Brooklyn has to offer.  I think a lot of that architecture and scenery influence the styles I like to create as a hairstylist because it is all about embracing the imperfections and bringing them to light in a romantic and beautiful way.  

Due to my schedule, I haven't had a lot of opportunity to join many other extracurricular activities outside of work and school; however, I believe there is so much to be inspired by in our everyday lives that may transpose into another medium.  You never know what may trigger an idea for a new hairstyle; it may be a building, a sign, someone on the subway, construction sites throughout the city, even a podcast!  

CAC: What is your daily spiritual practice?

JM: I read the daily readings/reflections from the Laudate app on my phone on the way to work every morning.  It is a great way for me to set the tone for the day. Sometimes I will go to daily mass and/or confession at St. Patrick's.

CAC: What is your daily artistic practice?

JM: Right now, my daily artistic practice is going to class every evening.  On the weekends, I may do hair for my friends.  In the past, I have gone to a music festival to braid hair. I love music and the performing arts in general so I was very excited to be in a setting where I could experience both!

CAC: Describe a recent day in which you were most completely living out your vocation as an artist. What happened, and what brought you the most joy?

JM: I love cutting and styling hair.  I enjoy challenging myself, learning new skills and most importantly, seeing a client's reaction when they are feeling the LOOK!  I am actually surprised by my most recent day in which I was most completely living out my vocation as an artist.  I braided my friend's hair this past weekend.  I was nervous because I am not super experienced with braiding add-ins (adding additional hair so that braids can be longer/fuller/more colorful, etc.) or working with natural hair.  I was satisfied with the outcome and enjoyed the process but there was still plenty of room for improvement.  What caught me by surprise was my friend's reaction.  She was so grateful and excited that I was open to learning and pursuing a skill, being able to work with multiple hair types, particularly natural hair types, that is so under served in the beauty world.  I am realizing that my sense of fulfillment, as far as living out my vocation, does not need to come from a high-profile job but can emerge from small encounters and bring a massive impact to myself and the client.

CAC: You actually live in NYC? How!?

JM: Friends of friends, my alumni group on Facebook, and the good Lord! This is the first time I am renewing my lease since I've lived here and I couldn't be happier! For one apartment search, I posted on my Facebook alumni group to see if anyone was looking for a roommate and reconnected with a girl I had interned with years ago for Charleston Fashion Week! Whenever I was searching, I think it was very helpful to start with the resources I had - friends of friends, alumni groups, or anybody I knew that was already living here.  The options can be very overwhelming but I found that using my current network, as small as it is, to be very beneficial.

When I first moved here, I wanted to be in Manhattan so that I could ensure I was able to navigate life and get to work.  Then I discovered North Brooklyn Farms and Brooklyn and cheaper rent and I've been moving further east ever since.

CAC: But seriously, how do you make a living in NYC?

JM: I became an accountant first and got my CPA.  It was brutal. I know that my vocation is to be a world class hairstylist ideally in film, theater or print.  However, I wanted to make sure I had a practical course of action to get there that would allow me to pay for my education and support myself in the city.  My plan A started with my plan B.  It took years of discipline and I know that I am coming into my vocation a little later than most; but Hey, look at Sarah! God's timing can be worlds different from ours; but patience, practice, discipline and most importantly faith has helped me to reach and keep striving for my goals. How much would you suggest artists moving to NYC budget for their first year? I think the important things to consider are transportation, food, rent, laundry and maybe a flight home to see mom every once in a while.  If the budget allows, you may consider a gym membership that has a shower...you never really know the quality of the apartment you are about to be living in or the responsiveness of a landlord.  Having a gym membership proved to be very helpful when my bathroom was out of commission for about a week. After that, you really need to tailor it to your lifestyle and figure out how much you want to spend.

CAC: What other practical resources would you recommend to a Catholic artist living in NYC?

JM: Find a good coffee shop or cafe! Some of my favorite coffee shops are closing due to increased rent prices so if you have a local coffee shop that you love, keep loving on them!  These types of places will also host great events for artists and can be a great way to connect with others with shared (or different) interests.  I love working outside as much as I can or to find a space with great natural light.  I have enjoyed North Brooklyn Farms, Domino Park, McCarren Park, Little Skips, 19 Cafe, Bushwick Grind, FourFiveSix and runs along the east river through Williamsburg into Greenpoint or across the Williamsburg Bridge.

CAC: What are your top 3 pieces of advice for Catholic artists moving to NYC?

JM: GO TO CHURCH (and confession)! Even if you feel like you are losing your religion as an adult, stay open to God's grace.  I think NYC is an incredibly challenging place to live - spiritually, financially, emotionally.  If anything, allow the church to be a quiet place to sit and find solace in the silence, and let the Big Guy do the rest.  I love going to confession in the city, because nobody knows who the heck you are!! It's such a weird and liberating sensation knowing that the guy behind the screen may never see you again.  Also, I have had some of the best confessions of my life at St. Patrick's in midtown.  You would think that it could potentially be an assembly line of people expecting a dry, one-size fits all confession and absolution; but it could not be more the opposite!  The priests will make jokes, advise you on your life, provide tailored insight and give you a penance that will make you feel awesome.

Make friends with the non-Catholics and non-religious.  I am a cradled Catholic and love my faith but God gave us free will and I want to use such an incredible gift and what better way than to learn about others who do not share the same beliefs as you.  I recently met a man who said that he has always wanted to be religious.  He considers himself spiritual but his parents never took him to church and religion is something he has always wanted to explore but didn't quite know how.  These kinds of people need you in their lives.  You don't need to turn them religious, or Catholic, but being there and listening is sometimes all it takes.  I try not to tell people that I am religious or go to church because realistically, it can scare people off sometimes.  However, some of my friends that I have become close with in NYC say that they admire that I still practice and have even asked if they could come to church with me.  We are just mediums for God's art; sometimes we just need to show up and he will take care of the rest.

Call mom.  Like St. Monica (also my mum's name!), our mothers are likely worried sick that we are turning into delinquents hustling in the city.  Let her know you are doing OK, brushing your teeth and still going to Church.  And if you aren't doing those things, call mom anyway and tell her you love her and thank her and then try to go do those aforementioned things.

If you know anyone looking for a hairstylist please don't hesitate to reach out! I am new to the artist world and would love to become as immersed as possible in my spare time while I am waiting for school to finish in February 2019.

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