Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast

A couple of times a year, we put together an accountability challenge for real estate investors who are ready to stop being eternal students. We see so much amazing success coming out of these challenges, and we want you to be a part of it. We’ve heard story after story of students who’ve finished the challenge and made their money back (and more!) because they closed $14,000 contracts by the end of the challenge.Now is the time. You’re never going to know everything. That fear that you feel, it’s normal. You could go through a million scenarios to try and work through your fear, but you’ll never be prepared for the infinity of scenarios that are possible. Our 5 Sellers a Day challenge works because we hold our students accountable to their numbers.Don’t worry about the cash, the closing, the contracts, or any of that stuff. When you get to that point, we’ll help you. Inside our challenge, you’re going to get:—Coaching calls on Mondays and Thursdays—Support inside a Facebook group—Inspiring stories from fello

I want to show you how you can be a Realtor and make even more money. But you’ve got to do it just right or you can get in trouble with the local real estate commission office. That’s why I teamed up with Alicia Sierra, a real estate investor and local Realtor who’s all over this niche. She’s going to help you find and build better networks so that you can make an additional $3,000-4,000 a month.When I figured out what the buyers were buying, I tripled my business in just a few months. I literally stopped marketing for seller leads, and just started spreading the word that we were looking for deals. That completely changed everything for us. We stopped wasting our time for tire-kicking sellers that weren’t serious about selling.Alicia loves working with buyers for investment properties, especially BRRRR buyers and short-term rentals. She’s out there looking for underpriced or overpriced that is poorly marketed. And she’s busting her tail providing value in Facebook groups to connect with buyers who are ready

Does it seem like every single home you offer on is sold in just a few days? Everyone swears that there are no homes to buy, but I’m here to blow that myth up for you. I’m going to show you how to find unsold homes on Redfin, scrape the available data, and then send out mass emails to Realtors.Why does a house linger on the MLS like moldy cheese forgotten in the back of the fridge? Sometimes the sellers are just asking too much for it, and it gets overlooked every week until it’s pushed to the back where buyers just learn to ignore it. Using GMass, I’m going to show you how to send out mass emails to Realtors who are desperate to unload these stinky, overpriced houses.You’re going to see how I get tons of information that makes it easier to reach out to sellers, including the:—Owner’s name and mailing address—Estimated equity of the property—Last time the property sold—Realtor’s name—Realtor’s email and phone numberThere’s a reason that all of my emails have an unsubscribe button at the bottom of them. Mass e

Your first real estate check, no matter how big or small it is, is going to be the sweetest check you’ll ever cash. When Gavin closed his first deal and got a $1500 check, it wasn’t the amount that he loved. It was the confirmation that wholesaling could absolutely work for him.After Cornelius realized that he was completely priced out of his local market, he tried to branch out. But he just wasn’t getting the return on his marketing dollars to justify the money he was pouring into his business. Plus, he was trying to work around the edges of his already full life and he just couldn’t stay up on his leads consistently.Gavin and I get it. It’s hard to build a real estate business when you have a family and a full-time job. That’s why we love the virtual wholesaling business.Hear how Cornelius networked within our Facebook group to plug in the right players into his new and improved business system. In just under two months, he had a breakthrough that landed him 2 signed contracts and 2 in escrow. But the bigge

The only thing that ages well in real estate? It’s those perfectly ripe old leads. They sit and mellow out in your CRM, and now they’re ready for you to come back and check on them. I’m going to show you some simple campaigns to run to follow up on your old leads using some of my favorite software tools.I’m going to walk you through a few workflow automations you can make inside of REI Simple that will make it so much easier to make sure that none of your leads go rotten because you lost track of them. I want to give a little preview of everything we’ll be covering in our Live Marketing Class. We’re going to expand our marketing in the class to look for:—Vacant properties—Properties with liens—FSBOs—Facebook MarketplaceAll the sweetest kinds of leads with sellers who might be overextended or ready to get rid of a property that’s only giving them a headache.And of course, we’re going to be following up on old leads in live phone calls. Listen to real and unscripted conversations that can help you see just how

Your speed to income is directly proportional to the number of offers that you make. (Read that again...) If you would like to learn how to work closely with us, to get our help setting these systems up, go here: https://www.5sellersaday.com/​ or here: http://reinetwork.com/systems

I want to take the guesswork out of finding the hottest zip codes in your market. In my Live Marketing Class, I’m going to go in-depth on how I do my research, and I’m going to show you how I find Realtors, buyers, and sellers so you can build out your local network.I’m giving you a peek today into how I find active real estate investors, but sign up for my Live Marketing class where I’m going to:—Call buyers live to find out what they want.—Set up marketing campaigns inside REI Simple.—Follow up on dead leads and see if I can warm them up.This masterclass has over 7 hours of real estate marketing training. For $97, you’ll have lifetime access to watch Gavin Timms and me lay out a marketing strategy that any real estate investor can take and apply to their own market.Get the recordings of the Marketing Class at LiveMarketingClass.comWhat's Inside:—How I use ListSource to scope out markets and find the hot zip codes.—My super secret backdoor way to get into the MLS and find the agent of a property.—Don’t waste

Not only has Sandra been able to succeed in the highly competitive Atlanta market, but she’s started to branch out into virtual wholesaling. Her drive to make real estate work for her is so inspiring, but she realized that she’d gotten to a point where her hustle couldn’t overcome the deficiencies in her business.If you have a hundred leads, and you only get around to calling 50 of them, then how many leads do you really have? Without a system in place to call and follow up on every lead, Sandra was wasting both her time and her marketing dollars. After 18 years in real estate investing, she knew she needed a better system.We can’t take credit for Sandra’s success. She is a seriously hard worker, but she needed a little guidance. She was still personally scraping lists together when she should’ve been outsourcing this work. But she didn’t know the first thing about training a virtual assistant. That’s where Gavin was able to start building out her team.Sandra’s been doing creative financing deals for years, s

Quick entry for today: we’re doing another 5 Sellers A Day accountability program. We’ve done this a few times before, and we’ve had a great turnout. A lot of you guys already know what you need to do. You already know how to make offers, how to submit contracts and you’ve already bought all the courses you can buy to help your real estate business. You don’t need another course. You already know how to do deals. What you need is someone who will hold you accountable.Gavin and I always drive to this point: this business comes down to marketing, talking to sellers and making offers. And some of the most successful students we’ve ever had are the ones who decided to stop being professional students - those who decided enough learning; it’s time to start DOING.Your speed to income is directly proportional to the number of offers you make. If you’re still struggling to make money, it inevitably means that you are not making enough offers. So, starting next week, we’re opening a new 4-week program where we hold yo

For three years, I was a course junkie. I bought every real estate course that I could find, and just immersed myself in education mode. But I never took action. What I was really doing wasn’t “learning”; I was trying to avoid taking action toward my goals.Who have you made a commitment to? You’ve been working nights and weekends trying to get your real estate business off the ground, but you’ve also come up with hundreds of excuses about why you’re not succeeding. You feel the temptation to quit despite all of the time and money you’ve invested in yourself and in your business.You can’t quit! Stop feeling sorry for yourself. If you’re looking for an excuse, I promise you that they’re easy to find. Excuses stand like obstacles in your path to success, and you have three options. You can go over your obstacles, go around your obstacles, or bust through your obstacles. So let’s take a minute to bust through your excuses, and send you out ready to tackle your real estate business again.What's Inside:—Perseveranc

In the summer of 2020, Josh Howard saw that his work with Central India Christian Mission could be enhanced if he was earning more money on the side. However, he didn’t want to add a full-time W-2 job to his already full-time non-profit work. He was also living and working in India already, so any work he picked up would have to work around an international schedule.By August, Josh had started marketing for his virtual real estate investing business in the Indianapolis market. His initial success felt amazing, but his business system was so unorganized that he felt like he was burning the candle at both ends. That’s when he reached out to Gavin Timms for help to structure his business in a way that supported his work/life balance.Josh’s “why” for real estate is a big one. Blessings others with his ministry work make his real estate investing that much sweeter. If you’re interested in JVing on a deal in the Indy market, or if you’d like to connect with Josh to work with Central India Christan Mission, you can

As an active-duty military member, Brent Bowers needed a side business that could be run even if he was deployed. After trying to build a rental empire in high-priced Colorado, Brent realized that land flipping would better meet his needs. Today he flips land all over the country with his teams, and he coaches other real estate investors as they invest in passive vacant land income.The first time Brent went looking for sellers, he accidentally mailed out to the county held tax lien list. That’s the list that no one wants, but his response rate was crazy good. And he loved that the whole process of flipping land has less to worry about and negotiate. It’s nothing like flipping houses where every house has a secret, and boy are you going to be broke when you find out that secret.Generous with his knowledge, Brent answers in-depth land flipping questions including:—How do you determine where you’re going to market?—How do you find a list of vacant land?—How do you determine the value of the property?—What’s the

Doing hundreds of deals a month sounds awesome on paper, but how much money are you really netting? When one deal costs you three thousand bucks, your entire profit can be eaten up by your marketing costs.We want you to get brilliant at the basics, and the basics in real estate boil down to marketing. That’s why Gavin and I are teaming up to teach you how to get your marketing done for you in spite of you. In our Live Marketing Class, Gavin and I are going to:—Teach you how to open up a new market.—Talk to Realtors, brokers, and sellers LIVE so you can see real conversations.—Follow up on old leads—Show you how to train your real estate VAs to take over the marketing.In marketing, what worked last year may not work today. In today’s post-COVID world, Gavin and I are going to show you the marketing that’s currently bringing us, buyers and sellers.For $97, you can watch over our shoulders as we deep-dive into our marketing strategies. Register online for this all-day Live Marketing Class on February 20th. We’ll

The first few times that Gavin got on a coaching call with Steve and Coco, he could see that Steve was really not into real estate investing. He was just depressed because he couldn’t see how it could ever possibly work for him. The problem for Steve, and it’s the same way for a lot of investors, is that he hadn’t built a real estate system that worked for what he was best at.For most of 2019, Gavin worked with Steve and Coco to help them build a system heavily supported by VAs that moved anything tech-related off of Steve’s plate. If you put Steve on the phone, he can talk to anyone and get their life story out of them. But if you put Steve in front of a computer, he might accidentally break it.By 2020, Steve and Coco were able to build out three teams, and only a month into 2021, they’ve been able to close 5 contracts. Gavin’s strategy as a coach was to find out how to support Steve and Coco so that they could focus on what they do best: talk to sellers.No matter how discouraged he got, Coco reminded Steve

I don’t want your success to be stopped by a little thing like a proof of funds letter. I just learned about an online lender that will help you quickly get approved, and I’m going to show you just how easy it is by literally doing it in front of you.As a wholesaler, you don’t have to get a mortgage to buy a property. But you do sometimes need a pre-approval letter to look more professional and credible. Make your wholesaling offer stand out when you add a legit proof of funds letter showing that you should be taken seriously as a real estate investor.That being said, here are a few points to keep in mind:—Better.com requires you to have more than a 620 credit score. If your score is less than that, find someone you can partner with on your deals who has a higher score & use their proof of funds letter.—You can use this on your lease option AND your cash offers.—There isn't a date on this Proof of Funds / Pre-Approval Letter. You can use it as long as you want - or for at least a few months. You don't hav

I don’t want you to get hung up on finding a seller when you’ve just found the perfect deal in a virtual market. Using Propstream Joe, real estate websites, or social media forums or groups, I’m going to show you almost a dozen ways to complete your transaction before that perfect deal is snatched up by another wholesaler.One of the best and easiest methods is to simply find the Realtor of the property and call them up. Ask them:—Do you know of any flippers in the area?—Are they looking for more properties?If you have to start digging deeper, Propstream Joe is a great tool to turn to. It’s one of my favorite ways for finding flippers, active investors or non-owner occupied homes. I’ll also show you how I use both Zillow and Redfin to find landlords, property managers, and local wholesalers.Figuring out how to quickly connect with sellers can help you find the perfect boots on the ground partner to move your property and make more money faster.What's Inside:—How to find flippers using Propstream so that you ha

Kat and Bill are beginning real estate investors in Nashville, Tennessee who are just beginning to figure out the best system to get their business off the ground. Luckily, Gavin Timms is a master at figuring out how to fix a system’s weak spots and maneuver investors into a position where they’re working smarter.When you pick up the phone to talk to a seller, you want to know if a seller wants to rent out the property or sell it outright. So as you talk to them, you’ll ask them questions that give you a good idea of their motivation and situation so that you can position yourself to best help them solve their problem. Gavin and Bill do a role play so that Bill can see just how easy this is to do. You’re just having a conversation with a friend about their house.So far, Kat and Bill have focused on learning all of the marketing strategies themselves, but they’re getting ready to transition over to using a VA. This will require them to pull back while at the same time creating clear boundaries around what the

With hedge funds willing to pay well above the local price to acquire the exact kind of house in their criteria, it can be tempting for wholesalers to jump both feet into working with them. Gavin Timms is here today to give you the lowdown on how to profit from a relationship with a hedge fund without getting burned by them.Because hedge funds have lots of money to purchase houses in bulk, it seems like they might buy every house that you put in front of them. But Gavin’s been shorted by a hedge fund that backed out of a huge deal when they ran out of money before the end of their funding cycle. It left Gavin with over a million dollars in inventory, and sellers who’d been promised better prices than normal.Gavin’s going to give you tips on:—How to find hedge funds—How to understand what motivates them—How to protect yourself with better contracts—How to make a relationship with them workSelling 500 houses at once sounds like a dream for wholesalers, but being on the hook for 500 houses when a buyer backs out

My partnership with Gavin Timms has been great for my coaching business because I love the networking and Gavin loves creating the systems that support our students. The best kind of partnerships are a win-win for both parties, but it might take a couple of tries to find a partner that lifts you up instead of drags you down.Some of Gavin’s best partnerships reflect the same collaboration that we have together. He likes working on the operations side, so he prefers partners who are happy to get on the phone and lock up a deal. When he met Melissa, one of his newest partners from Alabama, he knew she was the one when she said that she was going to call a seller until they said yes. That’s the kind of energy he loves!Expanding into a new market means you’re going to need someone inside that market to be your eyes and ears. Just like you’re checking a new partner out, they’re getting a good look inside your business too. As you’re building trust with your new partner, you absolutely have to deliver on your promis

Draw three columns on a piece and paper and then ask yourself: “Where am I right now? What kind of headspace am I living in?” Think about your goals, your job, your family, and everything you’ve got going on right now, and write it down in one column on a piece of paper.Then, think about your dream life. Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself in a few years? Write down all of your plans in the third column, and dream big.You’ll see that there’s still an empty middle column. That blank space is everything that has to happen to move you from the first column to the third column. In this episode, Gavin talks about the systems, partners, and team that you need to put in place to move towards your goal.There are no one-size-fits-all real estate investor model. You need to find out which real estate method works for you, whether that’s fix and flip, wholesaling, BRRRRs, rehabbing, owner-financed deals, or whatever. The sky’s the limit!Gavin is going to share some of the solutions he shares with his clie