A Two-Day Ride-Along
Houston
Immersive Experience
With Mike & Bo

Get in the truck with us.

This is not a seminar. There are no slides and there is no stage. For two full days you ride with Mike, Bo, and DeanO through the buildings they own in Texas City and Houston, sit in the office while real deals get decided, drive the streets where the next ones get found, and meet the operators, lenders, and developers they do business with.

Thursday
Oct 22
Arrive, Texas City
Friday
Oct 23
Day One
Saturday
Oct 24
Day Two
Sunday
Oct 25
Fly Out
October 23 & 24, 2026  ·  Texas City / Houston, Texas
To reserve a seat, call (928) 897-5162
I.What It Is
You're in the truck, not in a seat.

Most real estate education happens in a hotel ballroom with a microphone and a slide deck. This is the opposite. We put a small group on one bus and run our actual business in front of them for two days. You see how we find a building, what we paid, what the rehab cost, who the tenant is, what it pays every month, and where we got it wrong. Then you watch us do it again on live deals in the office.

Twelve seats at most. One vehicle. Real business. Long days.

II.The Two Days
Here is exactly where you will be and what you will be doing.
Thursday, October 22 · Arrive

Fly into Houston on Thursday, October 22 and check in at SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Texas City. The bus picks up from the hotel both mornings, so everyone stays in the same place. Plan to fly home Sunday, October 25.

Day One
Portfolio Immersion & Office Workshop
Fri · Oct 23
  • 8:00 AM
    Pickup & Breakfast
    Bus leaves the hotel. Breakfast together at Waffle House on Palmer Highway in Texas City, in our own reserved section.
  • 9:30 AM
    The Highlight Reel Tour
    Seven to ten buildings we own, including the Golden Rule portfolio. At every stop you get the whole story: how we found it, what we paid, what the rehab cost, who the tenant is, what it cash flows, and the lesson. Wins and failures both.
  • 12:30 PM
    Lunch at DeanO's Office
    Ordered in. Nobody leaves the room.
  • 1:30 PM
    Office Workshop, Until We're Done
    Live deal decisions on properties we are working right now. Broker and owner calls scheduled for while you are in the room. Two or three properties analyzed on screen. DeanO on how we pick a market. Zachary on the VA team and the deal pipeline. Denny on self-storage. Bring your own portfolio and we review it.
  • Evening
    Open
    No formal dinner. Rest, or keep the conversation going with whoever is still around.
Day Two
Field Execution, Network Access & Panel
Sat · Oct 24
  • 8:00 AM
    Driving for Dollars
    Coffee on the bus, then DeanO's own route through South Houston and the Pasadena to Hobby corridor. You identify properties live, pull the data in the field, and talk to owners. Anything worth chasing goes straight into the pipeline with Zachary.
  • 10:30 AM
    Houston Motorsports
    A tour of a dealership doing more than $100 million a year in revenue, and the real estate play underneath it. Next door, the story of a storage property that pivoted to parking.
  • 12:30 PM
    Panel & Q&A
    Mike, Bo, DeanO, and Houston operators we work with, including a hard money lender and a flex developer. Bo runs the whiteboard. You ask whatever you want.
  • 2:00 PM
    Mixer & Catered Meal
    On site with the partners and their network. Catered. There is no cutoff time. It ends when the last conversation does.
One VehicleNo SlidesReal BusinessLong Days
III.What You Get
Four things you cannot get from a course.
01
The Buildings, Opened Up
You stand in front of buildings we own while the person who bought it tells you the whole deal, including the ones that went wrong.
02
Live Deals, Not Case Studies
You sit in the office while we decide on properties we are actually working, and you listen to the broker and owner calls as they happen.
03
The Route
You drive DeanO's own sourcing route and work it the way we do: spot the property, pull the data, talk to the owner, hand it to the pipeline.
04
The Room
The lenders, developers, and operators we do business with in Houston, in one room, over one meal, with no cutoff time.
IV.Who You Ride With
The people who run the portfolio run the two days.
Mike Merrigan
Lead operator. Tour commentary, the stories behind every building, panel.
Bo Kort
Lead operator. Whiteboard, negotiation, and the Q&A.
DeanO Merrigan
Texas City operations. Property tours, the driving route, office host, deal analysis.
Denny Sixbery
Self-storage across Arizona, Nevada, and Texas.
Zachary Neal
The VA team and deal pipeline demo. Logistics for both days.
Houston Partners
Lenders, developers, and operators from our Houston network join for the panel and mixer.
Closing day at the title company
Partner payout
Partners on site
Walking a deal with partners
Sellers and partners at closing
Partners courtside at the game
V.The Holdings
These are the kinds of buildings you will be standing in front of.
Industrial warehouse with yard
Industrial acquisition, aerial view
Warehouse acquisition
Industrial flex building
Texas City industrial yard, aerial view
Arcadia Business Park warehouses
Mohave Storage, Fort Mohave
Mohave Storage, Bullhead City
$200M+
Assets Under Management
1.65M+
Square Feet
151
Buildings
5
States
The Companies Behind The Portfolio
Edge Investments Mohave Storage Whiteboard Partners United Mattressland HMS Golden Rule Aquatic Aquatic Construction
VI.Who It's For
Operators and investors, not spectators.
You have capital sitting idle
You sold a company, inherited, or changed careers, and the money is losing ground while you figure out where it goes. You want a guide with a track record you can verify, not an internet personality.
You own rentals and want out of the toilet business
Two to fifteen units, tenant calls all day, a couple hundred dollars a door after everything. You know commercial is the move and you want to see how it actually works.
You wholesale and want to own
You already find deals. You want to stop assigning them and start keeping equity, and you want to see how the operators on the other side of your contracts think.
You hold a few commercial properties
One to five buildings and a plan to grow. You want to see how a team runs a portfolio of a hundred and fifty, and where the next building comes from.
Partners on site at Mohave Storage
Seats Are Limited and Screened
October 23 & 24. One bus. No spectators.

We keep the group small so everyone gets time in the office and on the bus with the partners. Every seat starts with a phone call to make sure this is the right fit, and if it is, we hold your spot and send the details. Call the number below to get started.

Call (928) 897-5162