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In this episode of Between Two Doors, Randy Akins brings together Harley-Davidson culture, Air Force service, country-road perspective, and North Texas real estate. Known as The Riding Realtor, Randy shares how motorcycles, hospitality, sales, and service shaped the way he helps buyers and sellers feel clear, prepared, and cared for.
Listen as Randy and Nate talk Paradise, Wise County, Tarrant County, country living, buyer goals, timing the market, and why real estate is still about helping people achieve their dreams. Connect with Randy Akins at United Real Estate Dallas through https://randyakins.unitedrealestatedallas.com/index.html. Between Two Doors features conversations with real estate professionals who help buyers understand the people and places behind the move.
Listen as Randy and Nate talk Paradise, Wise County, Tarrant County, country living, buyer goals, timing the market, and why real estate is still about helping people achieve their dreams. Connect with Randy Akins at United Real Estate Dallas through https://randyakins.unitedrealestatedallas.com/index.html. Between Two Doors features conversations with real estate professionals who help buyers understand the people and places behind the move.
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All right.
If you love Harley-Davidson
and real estate,
you are going to be in for a treat today.
Hello everyone.
I'm Nate Carver,
your favorite mortgage guy, and our guest
today on Between Two Doors is Randy
Akins.
Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome
to Between Two Doors.
Hey, Randy, how are you?
Good, Nate. How are you?
I'm doing good.
Getting ready for the 4th of July
this weekend.
So we got a lot of cooking out and fireworks
to set off, and
Someone, somewhere out there
today has ten fingers, and
after the weekend,
they probably will have less than ten.
I saw that too.
Today, it's like,
yeah, there might be some people come
Sunday who may not have all ten digits.
I hope not,
but statistically, yeah it's there.
Well, welcome to the podcast.
You are, you've got
some great branding,
and I definitely wanted to,
highlight that and tell me, Harley
Davidson motorcycles.
So first, I just want to thank you
for having me on today.
I appreciate you reaching out.
Motorcycles
have just become a passion again.
I, rode dirt bikes when I was a kid.
When I was in the Air Force,
I totaled a crotch rocket.
Two years
later, bought a fully dressed motorcycle.
It was a Honda.
And then, after I got married,
no more motorcycles.
And so.
So, I guess my wife gave in
because I only have one kid at home still,
so she's 15,
but, we, I purchased
my motorcycle last year, actually,
right out a year ago.
Okay. And.
You know, I just love getting out.
It's a chance to clear your head,
and it's probably because the wind blows
through one ear and goes out the other.
I don't know,
but it is, a great time to reflect.
Great time to pray.
And a great time
just to get in your thoughts.
And so I, ride my motorcycle to closings.
I ride my motorcycle,
I've got saddlebags.
I put my drone in my saddlebag,
go out and drone a property.
I go to closings on my motorcycle.
So I try to incorporate that
as much as I can
to reach out to the motorcycle community.
Yeah.
What style of motorcycle
did you get?
So it is a cruiser.
Cruiser?
Everyone knows motorcycles.
They know it's a cruiser.
And that's what I like to do, you know,
I'm too old for speed.
Outgrew the speed.
And now,
my favorite time to ride
is on these country roads.
County roads?
Yeah. And where my where my speed.
Maybe 40 to 45 mph.
It's not too much wind; I can just take
in the scenery, the sights, the smells,
the sunsets.
It's just an awesome time.
Nice.
Does your wife ride, too?
Every now and then.
She's scared.
Yeah.
Hey.
So when I found out, you know,
with your branding with Harley-Davidson,
and then we got this scheduled,
I went down to Harley-Davidson,
shop over in McKinney, Texas.
And there's a particular bike
that I've always liked.
It's the Softail.
Yes. And,
I got on there, and guy came over,
start asked me a whole bunch of questions,
and he basically,
I don't know, I just I describe it
like getting fitted at a shoe store.
I they knew what they are talking about
there.
Right.
And so, had me
sit on a whole bunch of bikes
in, in and up until I don't remember
what it was exactly.
I love the Softail
look. That motorcycle is fantastic.
But they fit me on.
They sat me on another one ultimately.
So I had a full comparison,
I guess, of how your body adjusts,
I guess.
And,
there was one particular bike in there.
Man, it fit like a glove.
Fit like a glove. How?
I walked out of there
without a motorcycle, I don't know, but,
it's like they tried hard to
get me to buy that day, and I'm like.
I've, I can't today.
It's so.
Can't pull the trigger.
Well, you know, a lot of people
don't think about that,
but it is like fitting for a shoe.
Yeah. One is, you know, what's your plans?
How are you going to ride a motorcycle?
Are you going to take,
you know, long trips?
Do you need luggage or a place
to put luggage or
clothing for overnight stay?
Are you just going to be
what they call a cafe racer?
You're just going to go up to the coffee
shop, you're going to go to a restaurant,
or do you have that need for speed?
Are you going to want some kind of,
you know, a Suzuki, you know,
just like a racing motorcycle
that just screams, you know?
So it really depends on the style.
And a lot of people
don't think about, you know, seat height
and that type of thing, too,
because you're right, you're
going to be standing on your tippy toes,
or you can be standing
flat-footed at a stop, you know, so
it is like fitting a shoe.
Nice, nice.
Let's see.
So we go we go way back.
Our families have known each other.
And there was a huge gap in life
when I, I didn't see, you know, sudden
you showed up in Texas.
So tell me, tell me your life journey
where you started from.
And, I guess where we met
and then where you are now.
So, I'm
originally from Nashville, Tennessee,
and, grew up there, went to high school
there, grew up in a real small town
right outside of Nashville.
That's where all the country music
singers live.
And then went in the Air Force, stationed
in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina, and tough duty station
and then, after my,
tour in the Air Force,
I went back to Nashville.
And at that time, I got into bartending
and restaurant
management, that type thing.
And then at that point, I met my wife
and we dated for
six weeks and then got married
July 27th.
We will be married 37 years.
Wow. Good for you. Give you all.
Wow. So, we were in Alabama.
We got transferred to Alabama,
stay there maybe four years,
and then got an opportunity
to come to Dallas and, transferred
with a company to Dallas in sales
and, from there, kind of hopscotch
around the few little,
you know, areas inside the metroplex.
And then in 2020,
we moved out to Paradise, Texas,
in Wise County,
and we moved in the country.
I'm an hour from Fort Worth.
And we absolutely love country living.
Yeah. Three acres.
I've done the goats, I've done chickens,
I've done a
lot of different things. And,
they make
better neighbors in the neighborhood
sometimes to me.
What what let you,
Why did you join the Air Force?
You know, I really didn't have a choice.
I, there was no college in the future
for Randy.
Not meaning,
that there, you know,
that I couldn't get into college.
I just mean the.
There wasn't an opportunity.
Meaning one. My family.
I left home when I was 17.
I was still in high school
when I left home.
And, my option was struggle
or, you know, go into the military.
And so I chose to go in the Air
Force, to one
buy some time.
And I recommend it for everyone.
If you're to me, it makes more sense
to graduate high school.
Either work somewhere
or go into the military,
maybe for four years
because it to me, at 18, 19 years old.
Yeah.
I don't know if you really are ready
to make a decision on what you want to do
with your life. Right?
So it gave me four years to sort that out
and gave me time
to put in some self-discipline and to mature.
Yeah, yeah.
As fellow veteran,
I can totally identify with that.
And, I think that was one of the,
the big key reasons
why I, why I enlisted because I figured
I was going to get some time
figuring things out, grow up a little bit,
get a roof over my head,
an income and some food.
Right. And so, yeah, in there.
It's kind of like prison,
except not behind bars.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
And they gave me a gun.
And they gave me a gun.
Yeah. Are
you sure y'all want to do that?
What's something
from your four years in?
What?
Is there something that you took away
from the military
that you still see in your life today?
It's just,
you know, being on time,
being respectful of other people's time.
Yeah.
And, just that self-discipline to.
Yeah.
You know, to do, you know,
if I say I'm going to do something
unless I, passed away in between the time
that I'm supposed to be
there, I'm going to be there.
And so I think it help also develop you
to become a man of your word.
Yeah.
Good.
So, Harley-Davidson, let's jump in.
We touched a little bit on it.
When did you first, like,
did you grow up on bikes?
Did you your first bikes?
Motorcycle. When was that?
I was,
one day my dad came home
and he brought home a Yamaha
60 motorcycle, and it was a little enduro.
It was orange and white, and,
I rode that thing every day.
We had a big field behind our house
that somebody owned that
let us kind of build us a little track on.
And I would collect.
You know, a lot of people listen to this,
man, I can relate to this, but,
I would collect returnable bottles
that people throw out
the windows of their cars.
At that time, gas was $0.75 a gallon.
And so I would collect enough bottles
to go buy a gallon of gas
so I could ride my motorcycle.
And that's nice.
Yeah.
That I can really from
there moved up to a larger,
you know, enduro to a 175.
Then my dad got rid of the bikes
out of nowhere.
You know, he just said, hey,
I need to get these back to your uncle,
sell them back to your uncle.
You know, and then I didn't ride again
until I got,
the Kawasaki GPz
550 when I was in the Air Force.
And, that thing was fast.
I mean,
you know, 120, 130 miles an hour.
I was always doing speed.
Right.
But the day that I totaled it,
I was doing 35.
Which is a good thing.
Yeah.
It didn't kill me. No.
What?
Someone that doesn't own a bike.
And we'll get into real estate here
in a little bit.
But for someone who doesn't own a bike,
a Harley, how do you.
What do they not understand?
I don't think they understand.
Just the freedom of,
being in the element,
you know, and that can, you know,
the element can be tough, too.
I mean, it can be rain.
It can be, you know, cold,
but it's just being out there.
You are so much more aware
of your surroundings
versus riding around in a steel cage.
Yeah.
Because the car, with windows up
isolate you from the nature
and the outdoors, whereas
a motorcycle,
you're thrust right into the middle.
You know, I can smell
if somebody is smoking some brisket.
I also can smell that dead
skunk on the road.
I think, you know, any kind of roadkill.
So, just the smells,
the feels, you know, the the wind.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Here.
Lately, it's been really windy,
and I don't really like to ride
when it's really windy, but,
you know, I turn music on and just.
It's a it's a getaway.
You know, one of the things
that I found out in my life
that's important to me is, alone time.
And that just gives me alone time.
Yeah. I'm by myself
and that's a big value to me.
It lets you clear your head.
Well you use
the opportunity
to solve a lot of problems too.
Favorite place you go or ride.
Yeah. What. Okay.
Favorite place to ride?
And then
what's your dream ride?
I mean, is there a place out there
you just gotta go cruise?
So there's,
My favorite ride is in the in the,
evening around sunset.
Because Texas has a beautiful sunset.
Unfortunately, it's warmer
that time of the day than it is,
you know, for a sunrise.
Right.
But again, it is mostly going
to be your county roads.
I don't ride in the metroplex.
I don't ride with all those cars
and people distracted with phones.
I ride where a deer might jump out
in front of me
or possum on the road or whatever.
But curvy, you know, hills.
I call them twisties.
County roads.
That's my favorite
road. Now, my dream ride
would be in the,
we went to San Francisco last year,
first time to go to California,
and all I had ever
heard of was bad things about it.
But, but I really enjoyed it.
And I want to go back and we went from
San Francisco over to Santa Cruz.
And there is a Redwood State Park
that you can go,
and it actually goes over some mountains
and then over to the coast to the,
you know, to the west coast.
That is the most beautiful road.
There was a ton of motorcycles,
tiny little sports cars,
you know, doing the driving,
going really fast.
I wanted to do that.
That would be a dream, a dream run.
Yeah, I can imagine.
Oh. I have to get do that.
How do you get to do that? Yeah.
And then there's Tail of the Dragon
and, you know,
East Tennessee and North Carolina,
and it's a strip of road
goes through the mountains,
but there's over 100
turns in like 30 miles.
And so it's a really famous place
to ride.
So both of those would be on my list
to do list.
All right, all right, all right.
So you've learned a few different hats
from military, restaurant, sales.
What got you into real estate.
You know,
it's I
had a friend that was in real estate,
and she used a, phrase
that I really don't like.
I never have liked it. And it was, Randy,
You can sell ice cubes to an Eskimo,
and I just.
I don't like that phrase because it's
all about sales and not helping people.
But, she talked me into
getting my license, and I got my license.
And I know that real estate is a tool
that can be used
to help people achieve their dreams,
whether they're selling or buying,
relocating, downsizing.
It's just something
to help people achieve.
And just like in the restaurant business,
in the military,
it's service related.
And that's probably my why.
I like it.
Now you
you met your wife six weeks later.
Y'all were married.
Yes, sir.
You've been you're coming up on what
anniversary?
37. 37.
Audience, what's the secret or your, your,
your opinion or advice on on a
on a great marriage.
You know, marriage is always work
and it's something
you constantly have to work on
and in the relationship,
you know, there always has to be a hero.
And the hero is the one that says,
I'm sorry or I was wrong or whatever.
And it's to not be selfish.
You know, that's really a secret to
to a marriage is caring for that person.
There's times that it's been tough,
but there's been times
that it's been easy.
And probably the secret
is before you say "I do,"
you really need this?
Think about I will.
And that means, you know,
when it does get tough
that you're not gonna, you know, bail out.
You're going to stick
to that covenant of marriage.
And that's what I think keeps,
you know, people that have been married
for a long period of time.
It wasn't just a ceremony,
it was a covenant.
So you're,
you're living out in the country.
Is is it
fair to say real estate in the country.
Is that a niche for you?
Is there are there?
Specific areas. Or.
I don't know that I really have a niche.
I, I've done,
you know,
one of my like like my second transaction
I ever did was a commercial transaction
selling commercial property.
And I mean, I was, I was
new. I mean, I had only been a realtor
for maybe six months.
Yeah.
And, I went and I had a really,
really good broker at the time I was
this is back
when I was with Keller Williams,
and I went and talked to Liz about it
and asked her if she wanted to
bring someone else in on, on this
because it was a commercial.
And she just looked at me
and she said, Randy, you're a smart guy.
And she goes, you can do this.
You're you're capable of doing it,
and you can do a commercial,
you know, some some,
brokers won't let someone new,
do a commercial deal.
But I've done commercial.
I've done residential
in the city, Fort Worth, Keller.
Tarrant County, Dallas County.
And then I've done,
out here in Wise County, I've done
raw land.
I've done,
of ranch and Farm and Ranch.
I've done leases.
You know, I never thought
I would see myself doing leases, but
I just did a commercial lease last week.
And so I don't know that
I really have a niche.
But I do kind of
specialize in properties
that are hard to sell.
I had, I've had two properties
recently
that I've sold that are listed and sold,
and both of them had two dwellings on
and one was seven and a half acres,
and the other one was 21,
almost 22 acres, right.
That had two dwellings.
So that's a that's you know,
you've got to find somebody
that really wants 2 to 2 houses, right?
You know,
I don't feel a lot of people does.
And both of them sold, you know, within
four months, in today's market. So,
I think
that's probably something
that I kind of specialize in is properties
or that not distressed,
but properties that are,
out of the ordinary.
Right?
A little bit unique there.
Yeah, I see it on the lending side.
Not very often.
So you're right, those
those are going to present some unique,
I guess
a smaller pool of buyers versus
someone that's just looking
for single family,
residential, three bedroom, two bath and.
Exactly, exactly. Yeah.
It's kind of like people, pools,
you know, everybody's.
What's your opinion on pools? Well,
it depends.
Do you want a pool or not? You know that.
You know, that's what you're you know,
that's what you're looking for.
The number of houses that have pools
is obviously a lot less so.
Right.
I don't, you know, my house that we live
out here in the country, we have a pool.
And when I bought the house,
I that was the one thing I that was
the one know for me on the property
we're currently currently in,
because pools are expensive
and pools are, labor intensive.
Yeah. And the,
you know, a lot of
people
think it attracts people to buying a home
if there's a pool, you know,
not necessarily because
5050 has one half.
People may want a pool, half may not.
And so you just took out half of,
you know, the buying the buyers
that are out there.
Right.
Tell me tell me about Paradise, Texas,
and the surrounding areas
that you serve people.
And listening to this podcast.
I mean,
they could be anywhere in the country
if they're moving to Paradise.
What do you want them to know?
Paradise is a,
very family oriented,
community that's a very tight community.
The the school system is unique here.
They do have the
Ten Commandments on the wall.
I made sure of it.
And their classroom,
the my son was
he was in, kind of
sent my private school,
but also did some homeschool,
and we moved out here and he was adamant
he wanted to go to public school
and he wanted to play football.
Well, at that time, this community,
he was one of two black kids in a,
in the school district.
You know, my my family
consist of one biological son,
one adopted son and two adopted daughters.
And so James went to the school
and the community probably was a,
you know, was almost like the movie
blindside.
You know, he got to my parents,
they bring a black kid into,
majority black and white school,
and he goes and plays football.
And it's funny, he actually played
the same position in football.
He protected the blindside
on the offensive line,
and he just had the
ability to get to gain friendship.
He could write the book on how to win
friends and influence people,
but,
he was at a school, like I said, that
didn't have many, black
or African American people.
And by his senior year,
he was voted homecoming king. Wow.
And like I said, it's a small school.
His graduating class,
I think maybe had 90 students.
And so it's just a,
it's a farm community,
a lot of horses, a lot of cattle.
So you got you either rope
or you raise cattle.
One of the two
or neither, like me, you knew real estate.
But, that's kind of the community.
Surrounding area.
Springtown in Parker County, one of the
fastest growing counties in the state.
You've got Jack County, you've got,
Wise County, which I'm in.
Denton is pretty close.
One of the, you know, towns that I've,
I've sold several,
listings was, Alford, Texas.
And the reason is because
it's it's right on 281 to 87.
That brings you right into Fort Worth.
So you're not far off the beaten trail.
Now if you want the fishing community,
the fishing life,
the lake life then you got runaway Bay.
So the county in this area
offers everything except for,
you know, sandy beaches in the Gulf,
you know, or,
or, you know, Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
But it has something for everyone here.
Nice.
Sounds so fantastic.
Would you tell
what would you tell people that are,
waiting or for that perfect quote unquote
perfect time to buy?
What would you tell them about a home?
I would think I
would say you need to do your homework
and know exactly what you're looking for.
I think a lot of people
get into starting this process
and looking at a lot of stuff,
but they really don't
have their goals in place.
But if you know
exactly what you're looking for
then it's it's probably out there.
The the second thing that I would
probably say is
don't worry about the interest rates.
You know, people are so you know and Covid
you know, the interest rates were down.
You know my interest rate on
my house is 2.75.
Those days are gone.
You probably never see him again.
Right.
In year I mean back
when we bought our first house in the 90s,
we had what they called
a good, good interest rate.
Guess what you think it was.
Oh gosh.
It was probably somewhere around ten.
Nine, nine, 9%.
And that was a good interest rate.
Yeah.
Well, we're hovering at, you know, five
and a half to six,
you know, on extra strength.
And that's that's fair to me.
It's not. Yeah.
It's below the average.
You know it averages like seven
somewhere right above seven.
But yeah we're you know mid to upper 80s.
Yeah. Stop waiting is my advice.
Well and you look at appreciation in homes
in the, in the Texas
market certainly in North Texas market
where you're at
you waiting a year
can cost you
what it's going to cost you, the equity
you could have gained.
But definitely you're
now you're paying for
a home that's appreciated in value,
and you're going to
that's going to reflect in your, your,
your mortgage payment,
or require
a higher down payment by the same house.
So that's a place and we.
You know, we bought
where we
go, where
we live, we bought where we live now.
And, about a month
and a half
after we had purchased the house,
the realtor called me out of the blue
that sold us the property.
And of course,
I was the buying the buyer side.
And she said, how did you know?
And I said, what are you talking about?
And she goes, do you know what the equity
in your house is?
This is two months
after we bought the house.
It was it was like a 40% increase
in the equity of the home.
So I mean, just right away.
And so.
Like you said, if you wait,
you will miss the equity
as the prices continue to climb on.
You know, real estate,
whether it's a new purchase
or whether it's an existing home.
Yeah. Wow.
I want to shift
gears a little bit because,
I mean, you you've been building
relationships across
a lot of different walks in life, and,
you and your wife do some pretty,
I think pretty spectacular.
Tell me, tell me about Chosen Ones, and,
we'll we'll come back.
We're going to do a whole podcast on this,
but tell me, I guess the 30,000ft
view of of what The Chosen Ones is.
So Vicki
and I, started the adoption process
through, foster care, where we found out
that you could get children of all ages,
but even babies through foster care.
And if you were the foster parent,
then you had the first choice
of whether to adopt.
And so at that time, we only had one
son, our oldest son, Spencer,
and he was an only son.
My wife didn't have any more children,
and we decided to seek other avenues of,
enlarging our family.
The, during that process,
we saw and found a need
for families that go through that process.
One of those being just just support,
emotional support,
for the foster families.
The other was,
you know, I'm a sales guy,
and I know that if I can take, away
an objection or address
an objection early,
then I'm more likely
to come to a good result in a close.
And most men
think financially
when it comes to adopting a child.
That's immediately
where their their mind goes.
Women.
It's more about the heart,
the feelings, the blessings list off
while the man's stressed out.
How are we going to feed
another mouth type thing?
And so,
also, there was a huge need for foster
children.
And I met foster parents
in the state of Texas.
And so we started recruiting
through our church
and recruiting
and recruiting quality families,
well Chosen Ones became
what it is because of the support
that we're able to offer
beds, clothing, shoes,
you know, most kids in foster
care come with water in a Walmart sack,
and it's usually two sizes too small.
So we have a warehouse and a store
that has clothing of all sizes,
and that's nice stuff
because we sort through it.
We have food.
We're a partner with the tenant area
food thing.
We're a pantry.
So we have food, we have formula, we have
baby food, we have snacks, proteins.
We have everything.
We have baby beds, car seats,
bouncy seats, all this stuff that
families can come and shop for
free.
Wow. Where does that look?
It's in Fort Worth.
It's in, It's right at the edge of Fort
Worth
and north and,
Hurst right there.
Right at the loop.
And it's close to Northeast Mall, and it's
kind of centered in Tarrant County.
And so we serve that community.
And then, five years ago, we,
also brought in,
enrolled in community care, and that is
pregnant
moms, moms with children under 36 months.
They get the same benefit
that our foster families get as well.
And we're able to take
and serve more people.
And I think, you know,
the last time I checked, we served
probably somewhere in the neighborhood
of 40,000 kids, last year.
Whoa, Randy,
I did not know this about a year.
If we can help somebody.
Yeah. And here's the funny thing.
Vicki has been talking to me and talking
to me, and, she has a dream.
And there are a lot of kids
that when school's out,
they don't get to eat much. Yeah.
You know,
they get the free lunch at school,
but there's kids in our
and our country and our state
and then our communities that are hungry.
And so Vicki wants to buy
an old ice cream truck
and convert it into a mobile snack truck.
Yeah.
Where we can take it to the community
and not give it to the parents.
We're going to give it to the children
so that they have something to eat.
Last week, we had one of our partners,
sent an email to Vicki
about an experience that she had.
And these two boys
saw her unloading these dry food bags,
brown paper sacks,
and he goes, ma'am, what's in those bags?
And she said, food.
And one of the boys said, well,
if we help you unload these,
you think we could get a food bag?
We didn't have any food all we can.
And so that's Vicki's
dream is to get a truck.
And go out into the,
these community,
these underserved communities
and provide food for the kids.
For you. All.
You know, it's not the kids fault
that they're in the situation there
and it's the parent.
And we don't want to give it to the parent
because you know parent like
sell the food, or trade it for something.
We want to put it in the kids
hands where it will be,
you know, consumed.
Right?
Yeah, I do
in the, in my little community.
I live, you know,
over in Van Alstyne right now, the,
a girl
every year I did garden, big garden,
huge garden.
It's a lot smaller.
I spend all my free time and,
I give a lot of it away.
A lot of, you know, I planning neighbors
and all that we share
in, but, you know, every year,
pretty much a bumper crop.
And, I'm committed in my sphere of
in circle, my sphere of influence.
If someone's hungry, I've got food.
You know, it's not prime rib.
Okay, I figured out how to grow a prime
rib yet.
It's.
Yeah.
When I do, I will,
you know. Many of them.
Many of them, but,
and what a wonderful thing
you're doing. Wow.
We're about running out of time.
I want to hit you up with some,
some rapid fire questions, and,
and then I'll will, I'll we'll get into
how people can find you.
So real quick, Harley or pickup?
That's a tough one.
It have to be
because of where I live in the farm.
You don't have to be a pickup.
All right? And that disappoint you?
Don't be fair.
You do already have a Harley, so, Okay.
Mountains, beach or hill country.
And a mountain. That's definitely.
All right.
Coffee or sweet tea?
Coffee.
All right.
Being from Tennessee,
what's your favorite meal from?
Tennessee?
So we had this thing called,
There's two haven't
had either in many, many, many years,
but one would be fried corn.
And that is field corn.
It's not sweet, but it's got bacon grease
and all this stuff in it.
Yeah. Absolutely.
And cook it in an iron
skillet. It's amazing.
And then the second would be
my mom used to make,
we always had a garden
and she used to make tomato gravy.
Oh, yes. My mom too. Yes.
I know you're talking about,
Nice.
Yeah, that's that's some good stuff.
Favorite Texas barbecue?
Probably, Cooper's barbecue.
Cooper's. That's good, that's good.
Let's see.
Favorite place that you've ever visited.
Would probably be, Saint John's new.
We call it New Foundling.
But up there, they call it Newfoundland
new. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Morning, Ryder. Sunset. Ryder.
Sunset.
Sunset. Nice.
Do Palo Duro Canyon some day.
I want to be nice.
Just random.
I get a wealth of useless information.
So the the Indiana Jones,
the Last Crusade,
they finished up that whole movie,
and I believe post-production.
The, Spielberg wasn't happy
with the end of the movie, and they were.
So you got to go out.
You got to go to powder Keenan.
So they did the sunset riding off
into the sunset scene on the horses.
Yes, I'm. Connery, and here's Ford.
That was filmed
at Powder Canyon.
So they took. Yeah.
You know, I mean, they were done
with the movie, but they regrouped.
Everybody went out there,
did the shoot for that, and, you know,
probably one of the best movies
ever, in my opinion.
Yeah, I didn't I didn't know that.
But, you know, out in this area,
especially in Texas, you know, Taylor
Sheridan's done a lot of filming and stuff
with a lot of things, you know,
and in Spring Town, you may run into Billy
Bob Thornton downtown Fort Worth.
You could run into,
you know, one of the actors and things.
There's just a ton of filming, around,
you know, this
area of the metroplex
kids.
And it surprised me
that that was filmed there.
Yeah.
Well, Randy, you're thriving.
You're serving your community.
You've got a wonderful,
organization,
a nonprofit organization helping,
and you got a great branding
with the Harley
Davidson in your in your,
your real estate business.
Your guy's going to show up
on the motorcycle when someone's in
and help them find their next home,
and then
that's pretty cool.
How best, what are the ways
that people can get Ahold of you
if they're looking to move to, I guess,
Wise County, Tarrant County, Texas.
What's the best way they can get?
Get Ahold of you.
So they can always call you knight
in real estate or office in Dallas.
I've never been there.
Here. It's nice.
But, you can always call there.
You can always call me direct.
And (817) 800-3917.
You can find me on Facebook.
I have several pages.
Randy Akins' real estate group.
I also have, The Riding Realtor. So.
And then look for me.
I'm on a waiting list of a billboard.
I'm going to,
I've got my eyes on the billboard.
It's going to have a nice house
in the background I sold this year,
and then me in the forefront with my bike
standing beside my bike.
And, you know, it's funny,
one of the things I learned in
real estate was to be
top of mind for people,
and people aren't
going to remember Randy Akins,
but for some reason.
Right.
The Riding Realtor sticks.
Yeah. My wife
and I can walk into my men's group
on a Wednesday and there's like, hey,
there's The Riding Realtor.
You know,
I know it sticks because I hear it.
And so, look for The Riding Realtor.
Call me, I'll serve you.
I served our country with honor,
and I'll serve
families exceptionally.
All right, all right.
I'll put the links down below.
Wherever you're consuming this.
I'm also, I'll link up
Chosen Ones as well,
so that people can learn more about that.
And we're definitely gonna come on,
do another podcast just on Chosen Ones.
There's a huge conversation there. So.
You can have Vicki on that one.
Okay.
Yeah, bring Vicki in on that one. Okay.
We'll do it.
Man, Randy,
you think you know someone.
I love what I do.
I'm a mortgage lender.
I get this podcast
I get to host.
And it gives me an opportunity
to go deeper, and uncover things
I didn't know about my Realtor friends,
and my friends in general.
And so I just want to thank you for
being a guest on Between Two Doors podcast.
Well, thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
And, I was really excited when I saw you
and you said, you know,
and then I got an email from you,
that you'd like to do this.
And so, I'm, I'm really excited.
And hopefully people
get to know a little more about me
than just my name on a card.
All right, there you go.
And that'll wrap it up for us for your,
Wise County, Tarrant County.
Look up Randy, The Riding Realtor.
And as always, I'm
your host, Nate Carver.
Your favorite mortgage guy, Between Two Doors.
If you need any kind of lending
advice or guidance,
you can always reach out to me directly.
Thank you, Randy. Thank you.
Have a good day.
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