My House Survived the Fire. California Wouldn’t Let Me Fix It.
16 homes burned to the ground on Carbon Beach. Grant's was the last one standing — because it’s concrete.
Then California spent 19 months fighting him just to restore the smoke damage. No footprint change. No expansion. Just put his house back the way it was.
They forced core samples. Then FEMA said the house was “6 inches too low” and wanted him to raise the entire structure. Cost went from ~$12 million to fix… to $60 million.
This isn’t about safety. It’s about control.
In this conversation with Adam Carolla, Grant breaks down:
• Why wood homes up and down the coast were destined to burn
• How the Coastal Commission and FEMA are functionally seizing private property
• Why single-family homes are one of the worst investments in over-regulated states
• The coming wealth transfer and what extreme regulation actually produces (garish wealth next to third-world poverty)
Watch the full story and tell us in the comments: Do you really own your house… or are you just renting it from the government?
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Chapters:
0:00 16 homes gone… mine still standing
1:17 “I’m blessed… and it’s concrete”
2:05 75-year-old timber + salt air = tinderbox
3:08 19 months for a simple restore (no changes)
4:08 “It’s communism, man”
5:10 The car analogy: Do you really own anything?
6:00 They won’t even let me build a pickleball court
7:00 Core samples, FEMA, and the 6-inch $60M demand
9:00 Haves vs have-nots on Carbon Beach
10:28 The greatest wealth transfer in history is coming
#GrantCardone #MalibuFire #CoastalCommission #PropertyRights #RealEstate #California #10X #CardoneCapital
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Amen….
Amen bless
Light
It’s the same way all over the country some people just have shittier parents than other people do 😂😂😂
This is why I rent.
How come there are houses standing directly on a beach by a sea? Is seems strange, and roads with cars behind. I have never seen such a thing.
Get your passport and travel the world. You will be surprised.
@GrantCardone, The regulatory bodies do know what they are doing. They just don’t care about you or me or the people down the street. They have their own priorities. So many of these bodies are run as fiefdoms and deep state. .
Got my SPCX15X$ at ©0.3 and it’s already run ning to ©1. Total life saver!
🎉Concrete🎉Steele🎉
I do have a question. For someone with less than $100,000 to invest, How would you recommend we enter the market. I’m looking to study some traders and copy their strategy rather than investing myself and losing money emotionally. What’s your take on this approach??
Big thanks to Alex L Orloff ~ really appreciate him. he’s honestly one of the smartest and most supportive mentor I’ve ever learned from. His mindset and the way he explains things really helped me a lot.
You’re spot on. I actually made the switch to a momentum-heavy strategy a couple of years back after my self-managed portfolio started lagging. I was holding too many “stable” large caps that were essentially dead money. Alex helped me transition into a mix that included XMMO and some high-conviction growth plays. My account went from roughly $250k to over two million in less than two years just by staying on the right side of the trend.
Getting a financial advisor at a brokerage will do, bc it means professional investment management, trading services, weekly reports, and no extra fees. Not for beginners alone-but it saves you from YouTubers nonsense and daily hopium.
I’d recommend Alex L Orloff since he always gives market analysis and tips that are really helpful..
Yeah, financial advisors could make a lot of difference, particularly in a market such as this. Stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over 950k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of transfer in this downtime if you know where to look. I have been using an FA since 2019, and I return at least $321k ROI, and this does not include capital gain..