In todays rendition of Top Blogs I am going to focus on Investors who have made it. Not only have these inspiring people become what most of us want to be, they are sharing all that valuable knowledge for free on their blogs. Some may be selling an eBook or a course, but if you hang around their blogs long enough they will spill every bit of what is in their product out to you for FREE! These are not …
Some Personal Updates
Probate Monday Updates I’m struggling with how to continue Probate Mondays since I’ve reached the end of Ron Mead’s course. The natural thing to do would be to only write updates on my probate investing on mondays, which is what I think I’m going to do. That way I can have an all inclusive update of the past weeks milestones instead of posting dribs and drabs of it every few days. I like that approach, what do you think? Foot …
Top Blogs: 5 Top Up and Coming Investors
I am going to be putting together a short series of posts that will list some great real estate investor blogs. These blogs will surely make it to your rss reader. Initially I was just going to make one giant list, but upon further analysis I realized that by breaking up the list into smaller sub-categories it would put proper focus on what each of these amazing blogs bring to the table. Top 5 Up and Coming Investor Blogs I …
A Book About Me??
Well not really. I have been asked though to be a part of the creation process of a book about developing an internet business while working a 9 to 5 job. I will be one of 5 to 6 people who will work through the process of developing that internet business. The experience of the participants will act as case studies for the book. This is something of great interest to me and I would have bought the book even …
New Probate Lead
Short post today, just wanted to fill you in on the new probate lead I got. I got a call from a guy who when he left a message said that if I were to make an offer he’d surely accept it. So I called him back and tried to get more information about the house and gauge to see his real motivation. He was not a real talker and it was tough for me to pull information out of …
My Goals for This Year
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how I want to set my goals up this year. The process has not been easy by any stretch of the imagination. In the past years I’ve thrown out some lofty goals in an effort to push myself to new heights. I even set 6 month goals, 3 month goals and weekly tasks in order to help myself stay on path. The year would start off great. One task after another would get …
Getting closer!
Momentum is a wonderful thing. There are times during my road to becoming a real estate investor that I have no idea which way to go or what to do next. Those are the times when fear and procrastination are at the fore front with me. However, when you talk to people, take action and keep moving forward momentum takes over and before you know it you’ve reached new heights. Ever since some good friends of mind encouraged me to …
Short Sale Commissions
I was talking with Nick Johnson last night about a comment I made in a previous post about giving my short sale leads away to someone else for a referral fee. Since my focus is not short sales, and to be honest I want nothing to do with them I was more then willing to give my leads up for a small referral fee. This however is a great example of why networking and having a group of like minded …
Calls Calls Calls!!!
I figured out the secret to getting your phone to ring off the hook from sending out mailers. This is something none of the pros will ever mention, heck, I bet they don’t even know about it! Do you want to know? Well I’m gonna tell you. Have foot surgery! From Sunday evening to Tuesday afternoon I”ve had 6 calls from my mailers, yes 6 calls. That might not excite some of you who are sending out 1000s of mailers, …
First Meeting of the NNJREIG
Not sure if there is an official name for it yet, but last night Bruce and I joined about 10 other real estate investors in the back room of a diner to meet, network and talk about REI. I’m going to dub this the Northern New Jersey Real Estate Investors Group…Sound good? It was good to see Bruce again, as we have only really talked on the phone since meeting about 2 years ago at the flippinghomes.com forums. I …
Realtor Key and MLS Access is Mine!
Wow! It only took me 3 months from graduating real estate agent class to officially get signed up with the NCJAR and get my MLS access and my realtor digital key. For those thinking that is crazy, I have to admit that some of it was my fault… Working a 9 to 5 job made getting to the RE Commission’s office between 10am and 3pm a mite difficult Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years made me lazy Plain stupidity But alas …
Probate Monday #11 – Rinse and Repeat
With all the setup, preparation and action that’s been accomplished so far I am now at the point of Rinse and Repeating until I get a deal. The main thing I’d like to impress onto anyone following along is to stay consistent and develop a routine that can be easily followed and repeated. Here are the steps that I will be taking each month from now on… Step #1: Build my probate mailer lead list. However you have decided …