"At 14, My Mom Used Me to Smuggle Drugs. At 24, I Built a Real Estate Empire. | Cameron Burke"

"At 14, My Mom Used Me to Smuggle Drugs. At 24, I Built a Real Estate Empire. | Cameron Burke"

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with one of the most unlikely operators in the land game. Cameron grew up in the back seat of cross-country drug runs, used as the family decoy because a kid in the car made the trip "look right" to anyone watching. He had to tell his future wife what his mom did for a living she didn't believe him until his mom went to prison three months later. Most people would let that story define them. Cameron built a 14-agent team in Oklahoma and started flipping land deals other investors won't touch. He breaks down the exact playbook: how he buys a $345K personal home for $225K with nothing wrong but a busted pipe, puts $5K into it, sells above asking 30 days later, and pockets six figures — on a deal a realtor handed him. How he splits a 26-acre tract into three exits before he's even closed. Why his wife is the reason 90% of his properties sell above asking. And why he's convinced the deals don't care if the market is slow — they only care if you bought right.This one is a masterclass wrapped inside a Scorsese movie. The kid who was bait turned into the operator who calls the shots. If you're tired of competing for clean houses with 40 other buyers, this episode will rewire how you think about where the real money is hiding.

The CPA Who Tells Real Estate Investors to STOP Hiding From Taxes

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Bill Dimmick — the CPA and tax partner who's been quietly behind some of the most successful real estate operators in Texas. And his advice goes against almost everything you'll hear from a guru on the internet. Bill's core philosophy: don't let the tax tail wag the deal dog. He breaks down the warehouse story that should be required listening for every investor — his client built the property for $6M, got offered $13M before a single tenant moved in, and took the cash. Six months later, the warehouse is still sitting empty. If he'd held on chasing the lease, he'd be down $500K in interest payments. Instead, he's got $6M earning 3.5% in the bank and just had the best six months of his life. Then there's the profit fade problem Bill sees every week — the investor who calls excited about a $50K deal that quietly becomes a $19K deal by closing. Bill's solution? "I save the email. Now I got their stuff in writing." A masterclass in operator accountability. If you've ever talked yourself out of a deal because of the tax bill, or talked yourself into a worse deal to avoid one, this episode is going to rewire how you think about money in real estate. This is the rare conversation where the CPA isn't the boring guy in the room — he's the one telling you to pay the damn taxes and take the cash.

How Clayton Allen Hunts Elephants in Fractured Heirship

In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan sits down with Clayton Allen, a 36-year-old real estate investor from Marshall, Texas who's spent the last eight years quietly building a distressed property business in the deep East Texas pine country. Clayton breaks down what he calls "elephant hunting" — going after massive multi-heir land tracts with hundreds of owners, some dating back to Texas land patents from the 1830s — and shares the deal that took him from $275K all-in to over $1.5M in lignite checks, oil and gas minerals, and surface value. He walks through how he finds these deals, why the Universal Partition of Heirs Property Act is his secret weapon, and the wild story of buying a mineral interest from a guy fresh out of prison that ended with Clayton buying him a car with a court-ordered breathalyzer installed. The conversation gets into why Clayton is now pivoting from elephant hunting to "singles and doubles," the mindset shift required to scale from solo operator to a real business, and a memorable take on why marrying young and finding a partner who believes in you is one of the most underrated business moves an entrepreneur can make. If you've ever wondered what it looks like to play multi-generational mental chess for land nobody else can untangle, this one's for you.

He Bought a $1.88M Property for $45K 4 Days Before the Auction

He came in as an acquisition guy. A year later, he owned the business. Here's what happened in between — and the $750K deal that proves it. Mauricio Chakra started as an acquisitions rep — no real estate background, no idea how probates worked, just a guy from sales who figured it out by picking up the phone. Now he runs his own distressed property operation, closing commercial deals, cracking defunct LLCs, and navigating three-probate title chains most investors won't even look at. This episode is a full year-in-review. Logan and Mauricio break down a 3.5-acre commercial deal on San Antonio's outer loop — bought four days before the tax auction for $45K from a wealthy Nashville businessman who "never wanted to hear the words Bexar County again." They got an LOI for $1.88M in three days. Walk-away profit: $750,000. What else they cover: How to read a seller in the first 7 minutes and know exactly what to offerWhy you don't need to know anything before you pick up the phone Defunct LLC strategies: affidavit vs. revival vs. buying the entity (and why one of these is a trap) Three-probate title chains and how an underwriter's opinion matters more than the law The real reason partnerships work — and why JV deals beat seller finance every time Why analysis paralysis kills more deals than bad markets The student who waited 13 months, then closed a $500K equity deal on his first try Two years in. Multiple six-figure deals. This is what the grind actually looks like. Subscribe. Share this with someone still on the fence about picking up the phone.

Dead Bodies, Blazed Trees & Boundary Lines: The Real World of Land Surveying

Most real estate investors skip the survey or wait until they're closing — and that's when they find out the property isn't 125 acres, it's 103. Or the fence has been in the wrong spot for 40 years. Or there's a cemetery on the back corner. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Kort Breaux, owner of West Star Alamo Land Surveyors, to pull back the curtain on what a land survey actually involves — and why it's one of the most undervalued tools in a real estate investor's toolkit. What we cover: What a boundary survey actually delivers (it's way more than measurements) Metes & bounds vs. platted lots — and why older San Antonio neighborhoods are harder than you'd think The step-by-step process from order to final PDF How surveyors deal with deeds from the 1800s described in varas, chains, and "ride north and smoke four cigarettes" Real case studies: a 20-acre deal with an unmarked cemetery, a Caldwell County neighbor dispute, a warehouse with a 15-foot line problem, and a woman paying taxes on an acre that TxDOT took 50 years ago How a surveyor's affidavit can fix decades of bad deeds — fast Why CAD and Zillow acreage is not your survey How surveys are priced (and why your realtor's $1,000 estimate is wrong) The ethical and legal responsibility surveyors carry — same licensing rigor as engineers West Star's survey of the Alamo and Mission San Jose Connect with Kort Breaux / West Star Alamo Land Surveyors:Search: West Star Alamo Land Surveyors | San Marcos & San Antonio, TX Connect with Logan Fullmer:INSTAGRAM: Logan_Fullmer FACEBOOK: Logan Fullmer Subscribe to Dirty Deeds for the most interesting, messy, and profitable real estate deals on earth.