Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast

Who is going to hold you accountable when you don’t have a built-in accountability system as you did at your 9-5? Making that jump into the entrepreneurial life is awesome and amazing, but without a boss standing over your shoulder, many entrepreneurs just struggle to accomplish anything. Working with Gavin for years allowed us to set up a few systems for our coaching students to help them stay on track: time blocking and scorecards. Just having someone standing behind them, calling them up, and reminding them to take action helps them move forward toward their goals. Since when has anyone, on any training ever, said that making one offer a week is going to get you ten thousand dollars? When we work with our coaching clients, we teach them the kind of effort they need to put in to get massive results. Listen, you can set up all of your marketing and your VAs to do a large part of your business for you. But you, and the effort you put in, are the engine that makes everything run. Gavin is going to give you a f

If you want to increase your chances of closing on your leads, then you need to be able to position yourself to whatever offer is going to be attractive to a seller. Gavin Timms is going to help you learn how to recognize a motivated seller, and then show you how to adjust your offer to match the motivated sellers’s needs. In the course of your conversation with the potential seller, there are four pieces of information that will help you understand how best to position your offer. You need to ask questions to understand: —The situation the seller is in —The time frame the seller has —The price that they want —The condition that the property is in You’re just there to have a conversation with the seller, so you don’t need to worry about transitioning to a hard sell. But you also don’t want to waste the seller’s time. When you find out the four key parts that will impact your offer, make your offer and move on. You can’t predict if the caller will say no, but he can’t say yes if you don’t give him the opportun

Wholesaling in your own area may not be working out, and you know it’s time to spread out to other markets. Finding leads on the internet has made virtual wholesaling incredibly accessible for anyone no matter where they’re at in the world. 99% of the homes you’re looking for can be found for free on just three websites. I’m going to break down my process for how to find leads on: —Zillow —Redfin —Facebook Marketplace Each site offers a little different information and requires a little different approach, but with some of my favorite tools, you’ll be able to scrape enough information for your VAs to follow up on these free leads. Once I find the information on a property, I send three pieces of marketing to the property owners: a text, an email, and a ringless voicemail. My Simple Lease Option class is going to give you the resources you need to turn these leads into deals to add to your real estate portfolio. What’s Inside: —How older listings can help you find motivated sellers. —Why I stopped using Craigs

If you started doing one deal a month for the next year, how much money would you make? What would it look like if you could retire with a passive income of $5,000, or even $10,000 a month? I’m going to walk you through a recent lease option deal I did in Nebraska so you can see the possibilities that exist even in small towns. If you’d like to know more about lease-option deals, my webinar Simple Lease Options will teach you everything you need to know, including the three secrets you need to know to make it happen. You’ll learn: 1. How to get more motivated seller leads for free 2. How to talk to sellers and negotiate with sellers 3. How to advertise and find tenant buyers You don’t even need to take out a mortgage or send lowball offers to make these simple lease options work. There are hungry buyers and sellers out there looking for a transaction engineer like you to help out their housing situation. My webinar is going to provide you with all of the tools you need to get started building your real estate

It wasn’t until I learned to become the reluctant buyer that everything changed. This radical change in my approach made me more approachable to sellers, and let them feel comfortable chatting with me about my property. My challenge to you: Talk to five sellers a day. Now, if you’re scared to death to open your mouth and talk to sellers, I’m going to go over one of my scripts that will help you flip the script on a seller and just have a conversation. Inside my Simple Lease Options course, I also have another script for you to practice, and I’ll teach you: —How to pick a market —How to do the marketing —How to make the offer —How to talk to sellers —How to negotiate If you want to buy some houses, then you have to be making offers. And every offer starts with a simple conversation. Let me help you have better conversations and make better offers. What’s Inside: —I found that negotiating lease option deals was easier than negotiating cash deals. —How can I gain more confidence calling back sellers? —Questions

When you establish the minimum criteria for your deals, that will help you establish a baseline for every deal you come across. Any property you offer on has to cash flow, and it has to have the fundamentals in place. But sometimes, I get it, you get excited about an interested buyer and you just want to make a deal happen. 9 times out of 10, the seller’s going to have unrealistic expectations. That’s normal, and you should be ready to move on if they can’t budge. Make your offer anyway and follow up, but be brutally honest if the deal just isn’t going to work for you. Don’t waste their time, but don’t waste yours either. 99% of your deals are going to come from the follow up. Make the offers, and then circle around and follow up. When you let the buyer motivate you, you risk the chance of losing sight of your minimum criteria. If you want more help getting ready for the recession, my newest book Recession Proof Real Estate Investing is going to provide the blueprint you need to pivot in this market. Availabl

“Winning has a price and leadership has a price,” Michael Jordan says. But are you willing to pay that price? Jordan’s recent documentary “The Last Dance” really inspired me to think about what role leadership played in his team’s success, and I wanted to share some of my favorite takeaways from this movie. Listen, if you want to be a champion, then you’ve got to work harder than anybody else. That kind of statement seems like a given, but when you listen to Jordan, you realize that he puts new meaning into the word “hustler”. I’ve had leaders and teachers that I respect, and they were always ones that pushed me hard. There was no easy “A” in their class, and honestly they were kind of mean. But I learned more, worked harder, and really earned that “A” in the end. What kind of standard are you going to hold your team to? If you’ve got standards for your team, are you meeting those standards yourself? And what kind of leader are you going to be? What’s Inside: —How Michael Jordan’s generosity shaped his team’s

Coaching clients Chris and Joe sit down with Gavin Timms today to share how their combined talents have given them far more success than their efforts on their own. From starting this year with $120,000 in credit card debt, to the giant hiccup of COVID, to building their team out enough to make their first hire, Joe and Chris have had a wildly successful year. Joe and Chris were able to lay a solid foundation for their real estate business together by creating a solid CRM system, but they needed some help to scale up their business. Gavin shares how he was able to analyze their system to help them see where they were coming up short. This is the coolest thing about coaches; they take what you have and help you fine tune it. You can really see the work Joe and Chris put into their business before they hired Gavin on, and now with a real estate mentor, they can move past the “hustle” portion and into the “building a business” portion of their company. After some amazing 6 figure months, Joe and Chris are lookin

99% of sellers are going to say no to you the first time you make an offer to them. They just want to sell their house, and your lease option looks like it could complicate their life. What you’re looking for is a motivated seller, and finding one is why I’m telling you to stop quitting! If you’re in this business saying that you’re going to send a thousand postcards “Just to see if it works”. No! For crying out loud, give it six months. Give it some time. It is not an overnight success kind of job. In a 12 month period, we analyzed the 58 deals that we did. 4 of these deals were an immediate yes. 54 of these deals came from an average of 5-6 follow ups. That means months of time dedicated to following up.If following up is the most important thing you can do in real estate, if it netted us 54 extra deals, then how can you possibly follow up if you only give yourself a month to succeed? I get it; money might be tight right now. If you’re looking for ways to find success through the recession, my book Recessio

Gavin talks with Gigi, one of our coaching clients, about her new passion for real estate. A doctor by trade, Gigi was already busy, but she had goals that couldn’t be reached on just her doctor’s salary. When she saw the chance to sign up for coaching, she jumped so that she could have someone help her fine tune her approach. Gigi is someone who loves to get out and explore everything that life has to offer, and she brings this same go-getter attitude to her real estate business. We’ve been careful to tailor her schedule around her two demanding jobs. Because she’s a doctor, physical health is an important part of her well-being, and she prioritizes true balance in her life. But you can hear her passion and excitement for how real estate is changing her life. You’ve heard me say it a million times, but the most important part of your real estate business is making offers, making offers, making offers. One of Gigi’s first deals happened because she followed that golden rule, even when it seemed like a ridicul

If you are someone that’s working a full-time job, but you want to do real estate full-time, then gather round because I have ten things you need to get straight before you strike out on your own. I worked as a civil engineer building power plants while I built up my real estate investing business, so I know a few things about making that jump into full-time investing. Don’t freak out your spouse by making that jump blindly. If you want to get your partner on your side, then you need to be prepared for the amount of hard work it takes to have your own business. Not having that regular paycheck can be one of the scariest issues your marriage has ever had to face. I’m going to be honest about some of the preparation I didn’t take before I quit. I wasn’t always the hardest worker when I was at my W-2 job. Don’t be like me. You’re going to quit and work harder than you ever have in your life, but it’s going to be worth it. As an added bonus, I’m including some of my favorite books about entrepreneurship and minds

If you’re a student of the housing market, you’re going to be able to see the trends before they happen. Whether you’re a new investor or not, you absolutely need to be networking with veteran investors who can steer you in the right direction. Masterminds, courses, groups, and conferences are going to connect you with the best real estate investors out there. As a Navy pilot, Bill Allen started casually buying a rental house at every station, and today he runs 7 Figure House Flipping. Last year he bought House Flipping HQ, and for the last four years he hosted one of the premiere real estate investing conferences Flip Hacking Live. With a YouTube channel, a podcast, and a busy real estate company, Bill has a lot to say about where real estate is going right now. If you’ve hit a wall in real estate investing, Bill wants to help you figure out how to climb over, walk around, or jump over that wall. October 15th, 16th, and 17th is your chance to hear million-dollar investors give up their exact strategies that

I know from my courses that only 3-5% of people actually take action. Maybe they’re afraid of success. Maybe they can’t imagine what their life would look like if they became an afternoon golf playing real estate investor. But I’m here to tell you that this stuff works. My sons recently made $23,000 on a land deal, and they’re only teenagers. I just collected a check from a wholesaling partner for some minimal effort on my part. But look, these kinds of paydays don’t happen overnight. I put in the work and built the systems that let me take the afternoon off and relax. If you need some extra real estate education or just some encouragement, I’ve got you. Sign up for my emails for some of my greatest teaching moments. Purchase my book REI Secrets, a book sometimes called the Tool of the Titans book for real estate investors. It’s possible to make a great income without investing $40k in a college education, and I’m here to prove it to you. Invest in a little REI education and learn how to make money while you’

Without a partner, Willie G made a good living buying and selling vacant land. But when he combined forces with his new partner Paul, Willie was ability to scale his business up big time. Now, they close between 55-65 properties a month, and his profit margins are hovering around 83%. I’ve been flipping vacant land with my boys lately, but Willie G takes it to a whole new level, so I had a lot of questions for him. I know some people specialize in infill lots, while others only want rural lots, but Willie’s criteria is a little different. He’s making offers for twenty cents on the dollar. In any niche in real estate, you’re going to offend someone when you make a crazy low offer like that, but Willie has so many leads that he never worries about someone getting mad about his lowball offers. In this podcast, Willie is hugely generous with his answers. No one else is buying and selling vacant land quite like him, so he and his partner created The Land Investing Pros to help other real estate investors learn the

What kind of barriers do you put up in your mind about investing in real estate? Dani Beit-Or could see from Israel that investing in U.S. real estate was a great deal because of our “mortgage miracles”, and he started investing in American properties before he’d even immigrated here. Mortgages like we casually use in everyday banking are not the norm in Israel, but they’re not the only difference in real estate investing that Dani experienced. He coaches other Israeli investors on the four main differences between real estate here and there, including: —Language barrier —Terminology language barrier —Rental deposits and time expectations —American culture When Dani’s analyzing a deal, he has a minimum criteria, and he’s not married to the one percent rule. For him, the financial performance stands on three legs. It’s not just about appreciation or the amount of rent. He wants to know: what is the financial story of each property? When he obsesses over the worst-case scenario, he misses out on decent deals. I

I love reading about the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts because as their families went through great economic crises, they adapted their businesses so that they could make even more money. In the Great Recession, I learned a lot about failure, and in my newest book Recession Proof Real Estate Investing, I’m going to share the lessons I learned so that you don’t make the same mistakes. If your plan is that you’re going to be able to refinance forever and keep pulling money out of your house to pay your bills, that has the potential to be a terrible idea. In the last Recession: —I was ignoring the fundamentals. —I wasn’t saving money for unexpected expenses. —I was ignoring the importance of cash flow. —I was ignoring the possibility of vacancies. You can’t ignore the fundamentals. When you make a decision based on appreciation or speculation, you’re going to get burned. If you’re going to recession-proof your business, you have to build it on real estate fundamentals. Included in my latest book is the bonus

Now is the absolute best time to get started in real estate because housing can’t go up forever, and eventually the prices are going to come down. So where are the new opportunities? Huddle up because we’re already seeing some of them show up. Looking for opportunities is a lot like the book Who Moved My Cheese? When you see a change in the market, then you need to be looking for where the market is shifting to. Right now it looks like the housing in New York isn’t so hot anymore, but where is the cheese moving? Where are the new opportunities if they’re not in New York? In the last recession, I was throwing away a lot of leads that didn’t have any equity. And I realized, as I was doing this, that I couldn’t be a one-trick pony in the wholesaling world. I had to find a way to stop wasting my leads. The cheese was moving, and it was moving away from being able to rely entirely on wholesaling as my only strategy. If you want to know the number one way you can do more deals than anyone else, it’s this: answer yo

I spent three months writing Recession Proof Real Estate Investing and you guys are definitely going to want to get your hot little hands on it. It’s an incredible deal. There are four different PDF books included, and they cover: —Where the new opportunities are at in this recession —How to make multiple offers —Finding buyers (so important in a buyers’ market!) —Why the money is in the follow-up I’m giving you the actual marketing pieces that I use, and you’re going to want these because marketing for buyers is so important right now! I’m including the mind maps that inspired this book, and I’m walking you through Redfin, Zillow and other sites showing you how I look for houses and buyers on these sites. Included in the book is the bonus Wholesaling 101 class that I did with my good buddy Gavin Timms on how to wholesale deals from A to Z. And if you already have my Simple Lease Options course, I will be adding Recession Proof Your Business as a free bonus for that course. There is no audio version, but ther

We were definitely due for a correction anyway, but this COVID thing has just accelerated it. A downturn is inevitable, so we’re going to help you prepare for that downshift in the economy. Currently, the housing market seems strong, but it’s only strong because inventory is low. You need to get ready so that you’re ready for the coming wave of foreclosures, and you absolutely need to be able to offer more than just a cash offer. My newest book Recession Proof Real Estate Investing has everything you need to make multiple offers to a variety of sellers, including: —Mind maps and videos —My spreadsheets —Multiple calculators that will help you figure out better offers —Plus my course Wholesaling 101 I want you to succeed as you pivot in real estate. So skip the mess at the post office and download my pdf book for $7 directly from my website REIProof.com. If you love this book (and I hope you do!), don’t keep it a secret! Please like and share this website with them. What’s Inside: —The 4 or 5 things you can ne

There are two rules that I want you to remember as we navigate through this crisis: 1. Time is your friend. 2. Emotion is your enemy. With those two rules firmly fixed in your mind, you’ll be able to invest in real estate with confidence. And when you set out to make the buyers win, the sellers win, and the private investors win, you’re going to win too. If you want to recession proof your real estate business, I’ve just published my newest book Recession Proof Real Estate Investing. Based on a mind map and some videos that I did, this book will teach you everything you need to know to make it through this recession. This is one of the most important books I’ve ever written, and you cannot get this on Amazon. For $7, this pdf book is only available on my website, REIProof.com. If you’re going to navigate this crisis and find the opportunities (and they’re there!), then you need a strategic roadmap that will help you ignore the fear and emotion that you’re feeling. Download my book and let me know how it’s hel