Archive for July 2017
How to Be a Successful Wholesaler
Posted on July 10, 2017 byWholesaling is probably one of the easiest, yet most deceiving aspects of Real Estate out there. There is no shortage of people sharing how to be a wholesaler from online courses to packages to free videos. When looking at all the information available on the subject, how does one know which information is correct (including this article)?
As someone who has run a wholesale group in our market now for over four years, I am going to share with you the qualities required to be in my opinion a successful wholesaler. Our team has the privilege of being well connected and knowing most of them in our market. Having wholesaled tons of properties and observed others doing the same, here are the qualities you will want to have to be a successful wholesaler. Read More→
What Seems to Be Holding You Back?
Posted on July 10, 2017 byOver the years I have heard every excuse you can think of why real estate investors today aren’t busy buying houses. One thing I know for sure is that the biggest reasons why most real estate investors are struggling to buy real estate are:
- Fear
- Lack of Knowledge
- Lack of Money
- Less Than Good Credit
Let’s talk about “Fear” first. Fear is probably the biggest reason many inexperienced real estate investors don’t have more success doing deals and why many walk away and give up and look for other ways to make money. I know for myself, when I started learning to buy real estate, I had no money and poor credit, plus I had no training. This caused me to be afraid to make any kind of offer to buy real estate. Read More→
Avoid the Certainty of Poverty
Posted on July 10, 2017 byHad a good conversation with an investor friend about the financial collapse of Greece. The country is so broke that not only can it not repay its loans, it can’t make its note payments either. What’s Greece’s solution to this financial meltdown? They want to borrow even MORE money!
It’s crazy for anyone – including a country – to believe that the way to get yourself out of a financial hole is to dig it even deeper! Yet that’s exactly what Greece – and way too many American families…and America herself – is doing.
Jack Miller, my long-time teacher until he joined the other angels in heaven, taught us how to avoid the certainty of poverty. He also shared what he had learned from Warren Hardin: It’s inconvenient to be physically alive but financially dead! Read More→