Real Deal REInvestor Network

In a sense, MeetUp online is a portal for bringing together people who are interested in certain things.  I want encourage you to use MeetUp Groups to find local influencers and groups.  You can use existing meetup groups or use the Meetup website for that. For real estate groups, you can also use my website. It’s a great tool for this. Traditionally, real estate investors have been able to connect with other investors and influencers through their local Real Estate Investor's Associations.  This is one of the ways that my good friend and business partner, Rick Melero, moves and shakes in areas where he's never been. 

He shows up and people know who he is, and they know who his students are because he has given them specific exercises to do to connect with these influencers.  If there's not already an influential group in your area, there is a lot to be gained by stepping up and starting one—mainly a lot of influence in your local area among real estate investors who are glad to see something of that nature organized. 

So if there isn’t a group in your local area, this is your opportunity. Start one! Use MeetUp to find local influencers. This works not only within the real estate industry but within all industries, whatever your interest or passion is, you can use it.  If you're interested in real estate and you really want to fill that local influence space yourself, it would also benefit you to start a group within our group on Real Deal Community website.  Just start a group within our network and build your own network within ours. Would I be happy if you did that? Sure, I'd be very happy if you did that. That'd be great! 

Some of our network members have been brought into our internal discussions and planning on where we're taking The Real Deal Community social network for real estate investors site, how we're by the end of the year planning for this to be a minimum of 30,000 real estate investors and professionals in the network. Do the math that's a minimum of 600 within every state if you do a simply divide by 50. Those 600 people not only will be in that state but they'll also be in your group. 

For example if you're in North Carolina, start North Carolina Real Group. If you're in Wisconsin, start Wisconsin Real Deal. If you're in Illinois start Real Deal Illinois and so on, do that and we will have every reason to help you grow that in your local area. 

I hope that you see how you can use the Real Deal Community and MeetUp to find local influencers. The real point is to get connected with influencers by getting plugged into an existing group or by starting your own.   

Antonia Martinez needed money quickly. She had only a few days to come up with back rent or risk eviction. Martinez decided to put her holistic studies to the test. "I had been training back then with a spiritual teacher. We had been working on a technique for focusing and harnessing power to help bring the object of thought into manifestation."
Instead of concentrating on the $1600 she needed, Martinez focused her energy on keeping her New York City apartment. She says she did not worry about how or when she would get the cash. Four days later, odd jobs presented themselves and she was able to accumulate enough funds to pay off the menacing landlord.
Martinez, now a doctoral student in metaphysical science, says she was not surprised by her fortunate outcome. In addition to being a scholar, she is a practicing spiritual counselor and founder of HealingSpirit.com (http://www.healingspirit.com), a website that aides people in their spiritual growth, so she knows firsthand the power individuals have in attracting prosperity.
People from many religions -- from evangelical Christians to New Age followers -- believe money is a spiritual force that can be obtained by all who properly seek it. Therefore, many believe that the road to prosperity must traveled in a spiritual manner.
"Money is a medium for the exchange or transformation of energy." Martinez says and adds, "It’s not the source of spiritual, creative power nor is it the ultimate goal." She explains this by saying that most of the time people don’t really desire money, better yet, they wish to attain a lifestyle that they think only money can buy.
Just as magnets attract steel, so too can thoughts lure riches.
In the classic self-improvement manual Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill wrote: "…the subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse or a negative or destructive nature just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive constructive nature."
Essentially, what dynamic thinkers realize is that every individual has the ability to control the distribution of wealth from within. To explain this in a non-spiritual way one must only study the laws of physics: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This vital law of gravity also applies to mental thoughts.
Just as the Bible states that one reaps what they sow (Galatians 6:7), a person can cultivate riches with positive thoughts and actions. The following are spiritual methods a person can use to increase their income and have a more abundant life. Use one or all of these techniques to attract prosperity.
Prayer
Want to finally pay that credit card debt off or replace that old clunker with a brand new car? There is a simple yet effective way to make financial goals materialize: Just ask! It is not selfish or wrong to ask God for monetary blessings, if the money will be used for a good purpose. "Abundance is the natural state of the universe," Martinez says and adds, "It is not wealth that is ungodly, it is selfishness."
Visualization
Imagination is the key to success. If one can imagine themselves being successful, they are already on their way to the top. Martinez advises people not to worry so much about attracting money, it’s more important to focus on creating what one hopes to experience by having money. Martinez says visualizing is important "because it helps you establish clearly in your mind the reality you are trying to create."
Positive Action ( Act As If )
Don’t wait to be a millionaire to give to a favorite charity, do it now! Positive action or acting as if is a very important process in realizing one’s financial goals. By acting as if one has already received their wishes, one is demonstrating faith. "If you act it out, even the smallest part of it, you embody it," Martinez reveals, "If you embody it, you can manifest it." So next time bills are delivered, don’t wait till the last minute to pay them. Write checks happily and confidently, know that money is in abundance.
Affirmation
Inspirational author Shakti Gawain writes that affirmations are one of the most important elements of creating the reality one desires. Most people aren’t aware of the words and ideas that run through their minds, but Gawain writes that those stream of thoughts are "the basis for which we form our experience of reality." By affirming we "make firm" what we say. It is therefore vital to declare positive words about the existence we wish to create. Concentrate on one affirmation daily and repeat it often.
Examples:
"I am being blessed with prosperity now."
"God provides me with everything I need."
"I am growing more financially prosperous daily."
"The universe is abundant, and I shall have what I need and desire."
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Viewing infomercials on real estate can be quite exciting; seeing how individuals claim to have made millions in real estate; starting out with no money down, bad credit, no credit, and no experience. It makes you want to pick up the phone and order right away. Before you do, hold on a minute. The truth is, watching an infomercial is not real estate education and should not be seen as educational at all.

Those claiming to have secret formulas or insider information are simply attempting to entice you into buying their products. In fact, most information can be found by visiting your local courthouse or reading the daily newspaper. There are no secrets in real estate investing -- you find property, you purchase it and resell it, rent it, or hold onto it.

The real secret is finding the RIGHT property in the RIGHT location, at the RIGHT price. This information does not come from watching a television show, but from experience. While real estate classes can help you learn the basics, learning hands-on is truly the only way that you can learn real estate from the inside out.

It is essential that you start out learning the basics from a reliable source. This can be through schooling, a mentor/coach, online classes, or real estate agencies who offer training. If you participate in any type of accredited classes, they will tell you that the chances of finding a $300,000 home that you could purchase for $3,000 is simply not out there. Opportunities like this do not exist and if they did, people wouldn't be talking about it, they would be out there investing in them instead of trying to sell $500 information packets on HDTV.

Where Do You Begin to Learn Real Estate?
When it comes to learning the business of real estate, you have many options -- local and online classes are held frequently. Real estate mentors take on students and teach them from the ground up. The amount of education you require depends on what you need to pass the real estate licensing exam. If you have no knowledge, of course, you will need more instruction than someone who has worked in the field, or has more knowledge of how the real estate business works.

If you are an outgoing person who likes to talk and participate in discussions, local classes or online classes with Mastermind groups might be better for you. If you haven't come out of your social shell yet, online classes may be the way to go for you.

Regardless of how you choose to learn real estate, don't waste your money on get rich quick schemes -- they simply don't work no matter how inviting they may appear. You can be successful in the real estate market, but it takes time and work to achieve your goals. There is no magic CD or training course -- there are no insider secrets or undiscovered resources. It's all about knowing what to buy and when to buy it and you can't get that from an hour long infomercial.
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Dominick Corey / Cherry Pick Reo's

If you are an REO industry insider, chances are you have heard the term “Daisy Chain” more than once. So what exactly is a “Daisy Chain”, you ask?

According to Webster’s dictionary, a “daisy chain is a string of daisies with stems linked to form a chain”.

These days, it seems like everyone in the real estate or lending industry is trying to get their paws in the pie, and get in between sellers and buyers so they can make a fee.

Everyone seems to claim to be direct with a seller who has “tape” or a buyer who has millions to spend. What ends up happening is that the sellers and the buyers are often kept apart as a result of too many middlemen and brokers getting in between, and trying to get a piece of a commission.

When this happens there can often be as many as 3 or 4 middlemen in between a seller and a buyer. This creates the “Daisy Chain.’

Who are these People in the Daisy Chain?

The typical culprits in the Daisy Chain are real estate agents and mortgage brokers. Many of these realtors and mortgage brokers have come upon hard times, and their usual source of income has been reduced or wiped out entirely as a result of the real estate melt down.

As a result, they often think getting involved in brokering REO pools will be a fast way to make money. The reality is that very few ever close any deals and most end up wasting their time as well as others’. Don’t get me wrong, many of these brokers are smart, well-meaning people, but unfortunately, they end up creating the Daisy Chain and make it difficult for real buyers and sellers to connect.

Daisy Chain Sample A typical Daisy Chain might look like this: Wealthy individual from New York (lets call him Bob) decides that now is the time to buy foreclosed homes. He has 5 million available to purchase, he goes on LinkedIn and finds someone who has “real product direct with seller.”

This person it tuns out is realtor somewhere in South Carolina and has a Hotmail email account (first bad sign). The truth is, the realtor doesn’t have the direct contact, but knows someone else (lets call him Joe) from LinkedIn or another web site who swears they are direct.

Joe is direct, but the person he is direct with, Joe never really vetted to make sure they really have the producted to sell. Lots of paperwork gets signed, non- disclosures and noncompetes, commission agreements before Joe (seller) can speak to Bob (the buyer).

Assuming this paperwork gets signed, there is about a 50% chance an actual call takes place. If there is a call, there usually will be the buyer and seller and all the middlemen on the call. What happens after that unfortunately is almost always nothing.

The reason nothing happens is because no one bothered to really see if the buyer and seller were capable of producing. Avoiding the Daisy Chain If you are a seller or a buyer the best thing to do is to deal direct with other sellers and buyers.

Easier said than done, but try to stay away from middleman unless they have been in the industry of brokering foreclosed pools or notes for at least 5 years. If they have not, ask them to prove to you that they have transacted deals in the past.

This will at least show that they know what they are doing and have been succesful in the past.

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Dominick Corey / www.CherryPickReos.com

Are you considering using an outsourced answering service for your real estate business?

I have used answering services for multiple businesses. If you are looking for a company to take your incoming calls, so you don’t continue to paper your car with bright yellow sticky notes and take calls from sellers on your cell phone while you’re sitting in the Wendy’s restaurant bathroom “taking care of business”, I would recommend it. People ask me if there is a best company and I think there’s plenty of options that can do you right. I’d say consider talking to PAT Live, especially if you are in the real estate business, and have experience with their service being excellent.

You can also consider whether a live answering service is really what you need, or if you want you can implement a ‘phone tree’ system such as those enabled by two companies I’ve used regularly GotVmail, or ifbyphone. These services have an automated ‘phone tree’ of options, some of which when pressed by the caller will lead to you live on the phone, some to recorded information, and some can easily be diverted to a call center as discussed before should you desire. Regardless, this solution will cut down on frivolous calls reaching you-- or calls with questions that can easily be answered with recorded information (like “where is the property?” or “what is the lockbox code?” or “if I don’t pay my rent can I still live here?”).

I have used call centers to take calls from my marketing campaigns to the foreclosure list and its very effective. They have operators on staff that can take your calls and email you immediately when you get a message that meets your pre-set "don’t bother me unless it's X, Y, or Z" criteria. The benefit is they manage all of the operators and train them for you so you don’t have to do it.

I’ve also worked with answering services for event registrations, order taking, and appointment setting.

There’s a drop in effectiveness a lot of times when we the business owner let someone else do something for us – because often we can do it best, right? But that drop in effectiveness is often countered on the other side with a great increase in efficiency. That’s because while the call center is taking and screening calls, you the business owner can simultaneously be focusing on other priorities.

Note here that I don’t recommend that you send calls to an answering service that you can’t train them what to say. If you’re new, talk to your incoming calling clients yourself and get comfortable with it, find out what the best questions to ask are and the hot buttons. You can then teach others what to say and when and how once you know how to do it yourself. Otherwise, you’ll get mediocre results with an answering service and your money is better spent elsewhere.

Thomas Edison, inventor and innovator, leader and entrepreneur, one of the greatest minds in the history of the human species, once said:

“I only hear and I forget. I see and I may remember. But I do and I understand.”

Edison’s quote here is an eloquent and simple manner of expressing a singularly inarguable fact, a fact that high achievers have always known: the best way to grasp new information and turn it into new results, skills, and the completion of goals is not just to learn new things but to apply them.

There’s no secret, human beings can definitely learn by hearing, reading, watching, seeing, and analyzing…but when it comes to getting results you simply cannot learn better than to learn by DOING.
 
You learn best by doing. So do I.

Think of how you learned as a child.

Remember how you mastered your mother tongue, the way you picked up the trick to tying your shoes, how to get your parents’ attention when you were hungry, sleepy, or cranky, or think on the trial-and-error scared-but-joyful minutes and hours of your first couple of bicycle rides. Did you read how to do those things from a book and then just magically have the skill? Or did you learn these things by doing them, and in the practice get feedback on how to get better, until eventually you could do it without thinking?

That’s why the best trainings of any kind are interactive, and that includes learning “how to” information or new skills, both in school and on the job. When you set out to really learn something, whether it’s the science of building rockets like the teenagers in that favorite inspirational movie of mine “October Sky”, or how to get results for a real estate business through internet marketing like the members in my free apprenticeship for aspiring real estate investors, finding what works to best train the human brain isn’t about just seeking more information. And while we all love to have fun and live life, the purpose of seeking knowledge to ‘hear’ and to ‘see’ as Edison would say, is certainly not to just entertain us.

If we want to get the most out of any powerful training or information designed to help us gain new competence (skills) and confidence (ability), then we need to take what we learn and immediately apply it to the real world through a practice-first and practice-often approach that allows the continual trial-and-error feedback loop we receive back from our efforts to give us much-needed data for the improvement of our success ratio.

That’s why the best education, whether it’s an academic course in school, or a training “how to” information such as those currently for sale in today’s world to teach you how to make more money, marketing tactics to get more customers, information on how to buy and sell properties, or  the specific strategies professional real estate entrepreneurs use to build wealth in real estate, or anything else, should be structured as a “learn by doing” experience. It should be an experience that, like we learned as children, that will literally take you by the hand and regularly stimulate your response, ask for your input, and channel your ability to take action on what you’re learning.

Any serious investor sets real estate goals on a regular basis… here’s my take on setting these real estate goals.

Effective goals are the key to being successful in the real estate business. Without goals, it’s like you are that hamster on the wheel or a ship without a rudder. Let’s face it. If you are planning a long car trip, you wouldn’t do it without either bringing a GPS with you or plotting your trip on a map. If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to get there? Once you know where you are going, you have got to have a plan.

I went through elementary school, high school, and some college, but they never really taught me how to set goals. They told me I needed to set them, but was never taught how to.

In my opinion, in order to lead a truly full life you should have lots of money, a wonderful relationship with God, a great family life, and you should be healthy. Though note that nobody is perfect, including me.

As far as business goals are, only you can tell yourself how to set your goals.Here is how I set up my own goals. I set my business goals in two different ways. Income, (how much money I want coming in on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis), and deals (how many deals I do). I look at my results in two different ways. I look at how many deals, and the average dollar amount per deal.

As far as personal goals, they can be relationship goals, family goals. Maybe you want to spend more time with your kids. Maybe you want to lose some weight. Whatever it might be, there are both personal and business goals to contend with.

To make a goal effective, it really needs to be written down. There was a study done at The Harvard School of business that was started some time ago. They had three groups: a group that had no real goals, a group that had goals, and a group that had goals and wrote them down. The group that had goals, made 2 to 3 times more money per year than the group that had no specific goals. The group that wrote their goals down, they made 10 or 15 times more money than the group that had no goals. So, it’s critically important that you write your goals down.

I’ve even heard of stories about people that wrote down a five-year plan, stuck it in a drawer somewhere, and never looked at it again until later, and were shocked that they had hit every goal on their list. So, write those goals down. Statistically, you are much more likely to hit your goals if you write them down.

Go ahead and search online for a goal setting template, or even make your own document up for yourself. I suggest you print it out and write it out. There is something about actually writing your goals down, that ingrains it in your subconscious.

Note that there is a difference between dreams and goals. That’s really what the difference is with writing them down. If you just have dreams in which some day you want to do this and some day you want to do that, it’s not really a goal, it’s just a dream. That is why the next step is that you need to make your goals very, very specific.

You don’t want to just say, “I want to be rich”. How rich? You don’t just want to say “I want to get a new car in the next year or so”. What kind of car? Go ahead and look at the cars right now. Put it in your mind and subconscious that that car is happening. Instead of having a goal that you will get a car in the next year, make it specific, right down to the year, make, and model. Don’t just say, “I want to make a lot of money or do a lot of deals in the next 12 months”. Make your goal specific, as in how many deals you want to do a month or how much you want to bring in a month.

Goals have to be measurable. You have to be able to measure exactly where you are in conjunction with your goals. As you are tracking your goals, you need to be able to see exactly where you are.
Goals also have to be believable. It’s one thing to say, “I want to do 10 deals a month”. If you’ve only done 2 deals in the last 12 months, saying you are going to do 10 deals a month might not be doable. You might fall behind and then not be able to believe that you will ever meet those goals.

Also, remember that you can’t make your goals so easy that there is no challenge either. They have to be enough of a challenge that you have to work hard to get them, plus something that you believe. But, if they are too hard, you are going to lose faith that you can hit them and it will take the wind out of your sails. So, make sure they are believable and that you are going to stretch to reach them.

They also need to have a deadline; however you set it up, per month or per quarter. Per year, I think is too long. State a specific time line with a deadline written down. Your goals need to be measurable, believable, written down, specific, and they need to make you stretch. Every month your goals need to be a bit bigger.

And be honest with yourself. Reassess yourself as you go. I set my goals by month, but every 3 months I go and I see exactly where I am. At the end of 3 months, if I’ve hit my goals and I’m way ahead, I will adjust accordingly.

Another thing that I think is really important is that you tell others what your goals are. It’s just like writing them down. It’s going to put it into your subconscious a little more, to give you more chances, statistically, to hit your goals, by reminding yourself. You are also going to lose face. If I tell my Wife what I’m doing the next few months, and I don’t get anywhere near it, I’m going to be embarrassed. So, I feel it’s important to tell people what I’m going to do, even if they never say anything to you, or don’t care, you know that you told the world what you are going to do. You can even join a Real Estate Mastermind Group and tell them all what your goals are. Then they can hold you to it, because that’s what Mastermind Groups do for each other.

A good example of this is what happened to me the first year I joined a Mastermind Group. I went to a 3 day Mastermind Event that Summer and sat in the audience and set my goal to be a speaker at the event the next year. And not only did I set my goal to be a speaker, but I went on to the companies’ website that hosts the event and I posted that I was going to be a speaker the following year. It was actually posted on their message forum, and every other time I posted on their forum, I put under my name, “Speaker, Next Year’s Convention”. And guess what? I did speak next year at that convention.

Then what you want to do, once you have all of these processes going on, you want to do something to remind yourself of your goals. Go back once in awhile and take a look at the goals that you wrote down. Post something on the refrigerator to remind you of your goals. Several years ago, I ran a sales company and we had a goal board in my office. All of the people were paid on commission, so the better they did, the more money they made. I always encouraged them to bring in pictures of what they want. Be it a car, a vacation, a bracelet or something. I told them to bring in a picture and put it on that goal board so that every day, when you are sitting at that desk, you see that picture. I have my own goals posted at my desk. So, do something to continually remind yourself of your goals.

In conclusion, your goals need to be written down, specific, measurable, believable, set up a deadline for yourself, reassess your goals on a regular basis, be honest with yourself, and tell other people what your goals are. You will for sure be much more likely to hit those goals!

So there is how I feel real estate investor goals should be set!

Nick Cifonie

Nick is the host of Real Estate Investor TV Online, you can get loads of articles, videos, and more from Nick at www.REI-TV.com .

STAND OUT!

Use curiosity to gain attention. People will go to untold lengths to scratch that itch: “Sorry, that’s classified”, wear a crazy t-shirt with your value proposition, pass out buttons that are irreverent but funny like Dustin Mathews with his “Are you Dirty?” buttons that market his speaker newsletter “Dirty Talk” or make it easy to follow up with you with a site like www.IMetTony.com  (what would REALLY be cool is to hand out business cards with a link that says “IMetTony.com” at a seminar event and have a pre-loaded PERSONALIZED video welcome message that is tailored to attendees you JUST MET at the event…that people you hand out your card to can watch on that website after the event when they go home!).

Stay Present in the Here and Now

"Stay present" is a term in Personal Development. Minimize your distractions by not scheduling any outside appointments. I feel certain most of you have lives so keyed-up, hectic, and jam-packed with activities that... truthfully... you only have a fraction of your attention to give to any one thing at any one time. Fight that instinct. Stay present! When you’re networking on the look out for potential joint ventures then THIS is where the money is TODAY, right now, right here.

Decide What You Want to Accomplish Before you Step Foot in the Room!

I use the "5-5-5 rule" at seminars. No, that's not for Domino's pizza delivery. I look to discover 5 income and lifestyle-increasing concepts or strategies to apply immediately in the next 2 weeks. I look to find out from presenters or other attendees 5 books to read to grow as a person and an entrepreneur in the next 90 days. And most importantly I looks for 5 people to follow up with in the next 2 weeks days to work together this year.

I say anything beyond that is icing on the cake!

Whatever you look to accomplish, be specific and plan it out!

Bring Your "A" Game!

lot of organizations can give you networking opportunities on a local scale, but few can connect you with like-minded entrepreneurs at the highest level. If you get the chance to attend high-level networking events then make sure to bring you’re a game!

You're Where the Fish Are! Fish…

If you’re outgoing, passionate, friendly, and a good listener, I can definitely tell you that it’s possible to meet someone who might strike up a friendship with you and gladly agree to become apart of your network or a potential JV partner just about anywhere.

Take Full Responsibility for Your Success!

When you point your finger to someone else, literally the physical metaphor is that there are three fingers pointing back to you. Try it. We are where we are as a sum total of all the decisions we have made and the actions we have taken to that point. If you don't like where you are, realize now that blaming other people or circumstances is a victim's mentality.

Winners take full responsibility for their success.

As the editor of a free real estate investing newsletter, it’s no wonder that I receive a lot of requests from beginning and experienced real estate investors both on where to go on the web for free information on real estate investing. While researching on the internet, visiting real estate forums, and reading articles written by experts can be a great use of your time, I’ve gotten tons of value over the years subscribing to a number of free real estate investing newsletters.

 There’s a lot of junk out there though, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Here’s the first key for me: finding just a couple sources that bring you solid information you can trust. Here’s the second key for me: kill the interruption addiction of email by using time-blocking and maybe even email filtering so that you read and study the emailed materials you receive only at specific times you’ve set aside.

Before you do ANYTHING ELSE, it’s important that you create a special folder to store the landslide of free information on real estate investing and real estate investing tips you’re about to receive. Open a new folder in your email program and title it: ‘!Real Estate Investing Newsletters’.

(Special tip: Make sure to put ‘!’ before the ‘R’ so it’s at the top of your folder list—where it belongs!)

This way, once all the free information on real estate investing begins to flow into your email inbox you can sort it and access it later and more importantly find it when you need to apply it! If you use Gmail or Outlook you can even set up ‘filters’ or ‘rules’ in your email program so that when messages come in from specific senders you can count on your email program accessing that message, labeling it or putting it into a folder for easy retrieval, and then archiving it out of your sight. That way, you’re not interrupted when it comes in, and can read it – and the many messages from the same sender you receive and those from similar senders you’ve tagged in your email program-- later at a time you have set aside for your studying and staying abreast of the market.

If you’re anything like the millions of people each day trying to find these answers you’ve likely searched – in frustration-- quite some time to find powerful strategies to help you and your family get to the next level financially...and I understand if you’re likely unhappy with the ‘solutions’ that you’ve discovered thus far.

If so, you’re part of a large and growing group of people who are looking for answers to very common financial challenges.

They say…

“I’m looking to retire faster, easier, and with more income…”

“I’m looking to take control of my financial future…”

“I’m looking to save money for a new home or child’s future education…”

“I’m looking to leverage my existing assets to create more passive income…”

“I’m looking to get better returns on my investments by investing in real estate…”

“I’m looking to build wealth for my family, as hands-off as possible…”

Do you, too, ask these questions of yourself?

The truth is…

 

How we spend our time directly affects our quality of living. This article I wanted to encourage you to do something extremely important: invest time to read the best free real estate investing newsletters out there.

You CAN find free information on real estate investing!

Here’s how you find the best free real estate investing newsletters to subscribe to, so that your valuable time isn’t wasted, and you can get the information you need.

Go to your favorite search engine right now and search for “free real estate investing newsletter”.

You’ll find quite a few results!

As of writing this article, there were 134,000,000 results just from www.Google.com alone.

Here’s a few tips to help you sift through a lot of the stuff that won’t help you, is too difficult, is too costly in what they recommend, or is too commercialized (i.e. they’re only trying to sell you).

Look for free real estate investing newsletters that:

1. Key in on specific techniques or areas of real estate you’re most interested in

                (i.e. commercial real estate, beginning real estate investing, foreclosure real estate investing, etc)

2. Give case studies of specific successes and how you can duplicate them (look for their archives, or their blog where archived email alerts, newsletters or lessons sent out to subscribers often end up later)

  Connect you not only with the provider of the newsletter but also other readers

                (networking is a powerful tool in real estate investing)

 4. Is produced by someone that sells something but doesn’t require you to buy it

(if you live in a capitalist system you understand that you often get the most value from something that is free when the people providing it have something they sell for you to look at in exchange)

 5. Offer differing perspectives and articles from different experts and students both

(while I’ve learned a lot from free real estate investing newsletters produced by one-man bands, there’s often a limit to what one person can teach you!)

 6. Are connected to a website with additional resources or offline resources besides the newsletter

 Once you subscribe to a few free real estate investing newsletters, you’ll find out pretty quickly which ones are for you, and which ones aren’t.

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People tell me that it seems like I get more done in business than a lot of people, and I think that’s an element of systems, delegation and outsourcing, and technology. Plus, I’m pretty driven. But even if you drive in the slow lane here’s a couple simple tips that can help you pass Gramps who ran off the road on the emergency lane trying to get around your putt-putting along.

Seriously, though, getting things like the two pieces of advice on systems I’m going to teach you here can be a big push towards working more ON your business rather than always just IN your business.

First is Ringcentral which is a business that can provide you with an 800 number and they can direct your phone number anywhere you want it to go based on various rules. For example, if you’re in your office, you can have it ring in your office. If you go out on the road, you can have it go to your cell phone. If you want to be available from 2pm to 5pm and unavailable before and after you can do that, sending callers beforehand to an answering machine that says they can leave a message which you may get and respond to or they can call back between your stated hours of availability for the best chance of reaching you live. You can get your voicemails sent to you as email attachments—or even get them transcribed and read them as text. You can also forward specific extensions to specific people you delegate to based on certain ongoing needs in your business. So you can have several "departments" some of which are never used but when they are it ain’t you getting bothered with the "I can't find the lockbox" question because if someone calls your office and chooses that option you never even find out about it as the system routes that call to the right person on your team who handles that.

Second is fax through email. I hate fax machines but in business some documentation gets done by faxes, that’s just the way it is. I like to tell people to have an efax setup for your business because you need to have a dedicated fax line that is always on when people fax you things—and most home office fax machines don’t have a dedicated line. You don’t want the offer on that property to come in when you are yakking with Aunt Martha, do you? What if they never get an error or re-send?

I use Efax and have also heard OneSuite or works great. Its very reasonable and is always on. Your faxes get emailed to you as a pdf and it’s very easy to use. You can also use this line as a scanner too- just fax stuff to yourself. No muss, no fuss. I like getting faxes in my email because I never lose them. I just set up a filter or rule in my email account to automatically label incoming faxes “Faxes” and then I won’t lose it. Hard to say that about all that paper floating around your house, isn’t it?

Say, what’s the deal? Where IS that awesome recipe for chili you promised to write down and send me anyway? Can you just fax it to my email?