Dirty Deeds

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.

From Prison Gangs to 5 Businesses: The Joey Stacks Story

Joey Stacks didn't just grow up on the wrong side of the tracks. He grew up inside the track. East Side San Antonio. Organized crime. Meth labs. FBI raids at age 8. Prison at 17. By 22, he was moving half-kilo bricks through Austin's nightlife scene — until the task force came knocking. But this episode isn't about the fall. It's about what happened after. Two prison sentences. Six years total. A son born while he was fresh out with a monitor on his ankle. A fence-building business that outearned everything he ever made in the streets. And a moment on a job site in Terrell Hills — orange chicken in hand — that changed everything. Joey Stacks went from confirmed gang member to Discovery Channel feature, supplement company, construction business, clothing line, and father of five. This conversation goes places most podcasts won't. What prison actually looks like — riots, zip guns, and race politics nobody talks about Why the "bad guys" get paroled and the good ones stay locked up How he tracked down a trafficked teenage girl using one Instagram photo and Google Maps The moment fatherhood hit him like a freight train and he crushed his last cigarette for good Some people read about this life. Joey lived it — and built something real on the other side. Dirty Deeds. Real stories. No filter. 🔗 CONNECT WITH LOGAN FULLMER:▶ Instagram: @logan_fullmer Facebook: Logan Fullmer 🔗 CONNECT WITH JOEY STAX:▶ Instagram: Joey.stax Facebook: Joey Stax ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

"Just Me" Turned Into 13 Heirs: The Messy Truth of Florida Probate with Al Nicoletti

It's just me," the seller said. By the end of the phone call, there were 13 siblings. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Florida's high-volume probate and curative title attorney Al Nicoletti to break down the deals most investors run from — and why the messiest title "train wrecks" are hiding the biggest paydays in real estate right now. If you've ever walked away from a deal because of a missing heir, a phantom mortgage, or a landlocked lot, this is the masterclass you've been looking for. Al reveals the "Ever-Ever" questioning technique he uses to flush out hidden heirs BEFORE they blow up your closing, why Florida is the "Wild West" of public records compared to Texas (and how he pulls death certificates in 24 hours), and how to run the juice vs. squeeze math to decide if a $12k spread is actually worth a Quiet Title action. Logan and Al also break down how to sell a property in weeks even when formal probate drags on for months, plus how to untangle the triple-stack nightmare of Probate + Guardianship + Squatters on the same deal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH LOGAN FULLMER:▶ Instagram: @logan_fullmer 🔗 CONNECT WITH AL NICOLETTI:▶ Website: alnicoletti.com▶ Instagram: @attorneyalnicoletti ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Real stories. Real numbers. No fluff. Whether you're a full-time wholesaler or a W2 earner looking for a technical edge, this episode gives you the exact blueprint to handle Florida probate like a pro. #RealEstateInvesting #Probate #Wholesaling #DirtyDeeds #LoganFullmer #AlNicoletti #RealEstate #TitleIssues #FloridaRealEstate #QuietTitle