Perspective from Operating in 9 Major U.S. Markets
Mitigating Risk When Flipping in Challenging Areas
Stepping Up Volume as a Fix & Flip Investor
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From Commodities to Real Estate
Steve Werner originally started out as a Commodities Trader then Hard Money Lender before landing with DAWGS. In this episode, Steve and talk about how to find profitable fix & flip opportunities in a tight real estate market where much of the inventory needing repairs is being snapped up by owner occupants willing to do the work and live there. There is still TONS of inventory available in many cities, especially where I’m currently flipping houses: Atlanta, Philadelphia, & Chicago. That huge inventory, just like any investment, does present some risk. Steve and I discuss exactly how to deal with many of those risks to ensure the house comes out retail ready in the end.
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How Mark Paid Down his Student Debt While “Keeping” his Payments
Why Dave Ramsey’s “Pay Off Debt at ALL COSTS” Strategy is Flawed
How to Invest the Same Dollar Twice
Benefiting from Your Own Financing Source
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A Different Take on Investing Your Money
Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think different about banks, Wall Street’s abuses and from financial uncertainty. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt, Mark discovered a way to pay off that debt, while still retaining the money he was spending on the payments. Mark’s the co-host of Not Your Average Podcast, where he shares strategies for investing in real estate, saving & paying for college without going broke, and creating an income in retirement you can’t outlive. Mark works with people who want to grow their wealth in ways that are safe and predictable, to become their own source of financing, and to create tax-free income in retirement.
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Developing VIP Buyer Relationships with Agents & Wholesalers
How to Buy Deals & Build the “Inside Track”
Deal Killing & Relationship Killing Mistakes to Avoid (for Buyers)
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Thousands of Off Market Deals
I’ve been buying off market deals since 2006 and have since closed well over 1,000 myself. During that time, I’ve been on both sides of the deal: the wholesaler (similar to the agent’s position) and the buyer (the one fixing & flipping). Here’s the back story: I always dreamed of fixing & flipping houses-ever since I was a little kid on my dad’s job sites. I used to be his helper-first he was the electrician on other investors’ flips & new builds, then he was the investor on the flips. In a similar way, when I got into the real estate business, I first began by wholesaling deals to investors with the money to close, then eventually I became the buyer myself.
When I was wholesaling, I saw how many deals were sold to buyers a single time-then never again would we cross paths. And then there were a few buyers who became repeat buyers, getting a phone call or text on deals before anyone else in the world knew it existed-before the email or any craigslist ads were posted. Those repeat buyers had a specific strategy for developing that relationship with me.
So when I became the buyer myself, I looked back over my experiences as a wholesaler and made sure I behaved the way the repeat buyers behaved with me. Why? Well I was interested in created relationships with the agents and wholesalers who still bring me deals to this day. So I created this extra special REI Diamonds Show episode to give you, the wholesaler, the agent, or the buyer interested in repeat business spanning years, the roadmap to create these VIP relationships to do repeat deals in your market. Ready to check it out?
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Analyzing the Data from More than 4 Million Properties
After listing his own apartment in Santa Monica, California on Airbnb and discovering the potential of the short term vacation rental market, Scott began amassing a portfolio of units. At around a dozen, he realized that there are likely good and bad markets for this product and began compiling data to figure out where the best markets were located. This led Scott to build Airdna, the world’s largest source of data available for short term vacation rentals.
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Moving Up from Flipping Houses to Flipping Multi-Family
Matt started out buying a duplex outside of Philadelphia with a $30,000 private loan. He has since built an empire including a portfolio of rental houses, a house flipping division, and most recently a multi-family value add division buying and stabilizing properties throughout the U.S. He has a cutting edge method of raising capital allowing him to quickly commit and fund millions of dollars in just a few weeks.
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How to Fund that first Deal (it IS the hardest deal)
Sources of Deals
Guiding You through the First Few Deals
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From Flipping Houses to Funding YOUR Flips!!
Ryan is a longtime real estate investor who had been named the “Real Estate Rookie of the Year” and “Best In State” in Utah by the time that he was 22. After becoming an investor, he soon found that it was difficult to obtain funding for his investments quickly, let alone from reputable lenders. With that in mind, he founded Do Hard Money, a hard money company that offers safe, reliable funding to investors via peer to peer lending.
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Best known as the leader of the controversial, secret real estate club, “DealMaker Society,” Matt Skinner is a DealMaking expert, apartment investing expert, real estate magnate, and the host of the live TV show, MattSkinner.TV. He’s founded multiple successful companies, although most famously Empire West Investments and DealMaker Enterprises. Over the years, he’s share his penchant for real estate, real estate investment, and business as a university lecturer (most recently Harvard University) and lead multiple real estate investment groups throughout the United States.
Matt says, “I’m all about teaching people to reach their full potential through real estate. Real estate has been a passion of mine for about 20 years now and it’s allowed me to do things and live a life I never thought was possible. I’ve also come to realize that it can give ANYONE the leverage to BE anyone they wanted to be, DO anything they ever wanted to do and HAVE anything they want by using real estate as their vehicle, regardless of their level of passion. I’m about helping other unlock that potential that they’ve yet to realize they have and break their believes that you have to have money to make money, be educated/smart, or have a license to make money in real estate.”
Matt is the host of the Alt Investments Podcast which features experts in Real Estate, Crypto Currency, Gold & Silver, Start Ups, and Technology. He is also an expert speaker on topics concerning apartment building investing, sales and sales motivation, and identifying undervalued properties.
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Step 1 in Scaling an Off Market Deal Investor Business
Huge “AH-HA” moment for me and Diamond Equity Investments
The Power in Automated Follow Up Systems
Best Ways to Follow Up with Sellers in 2018
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From Wholesaler to Software Developer
Dan Schwartz began his career in the Baltimore, Maryland region. A newly minted marketing major, he sought out a partner with real estate knowledge and together they grew a volume wholesaling operations which eventually led to his next venture: Founding Investorfuse. Investorfuse is one of the leading CRM, or Customer Relationship Management systems available in the real estate investor marketplace.
Dan has a passion for helping the overwhelmed real estate entrepreneur work smarter and earn more by setting up effective systems. After launching InvestorFuse, a lead management workspace for real estate investing, he’s helped bring the power of automation to hundreds of happy investors and has built a strong community around the technology. When not working or investing, you’ll find Dan traveling, drumming, or helping other entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
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