If you only had one hour a day....

Vincent, I can't wait to see what this thread brings to the family. I don't have any advice to add at this time. I'll take what the thread offers and start applying it to my daily hour.

and building your buyer's list. Then you can present other investor's deals to your buyers even if you don't have a property under contract. But, spend time on building YOU.

View my link here for what I mean by that: http://www.deangraziosi.com/real-estate-forums/everything-else/114468/su...

Break your week into 3 workdays and dedicate the first to Building your buyer's list, one to your networking, and one to building YOU for success. (See Dean's blog on that here: http://www.deangraziosi.com/content/weekly-video-blog-83-dean-back-huge-...

Also, do this exercise, its revealing. (Mine was pretty funny when I had 2 kids in diapers and was homeschooling all 4 while doing REI ) http://www.deangraziosi.com/content/weekly-wisdom-146-painless-trick-fin...

I would determine the level of investor activity in my area and see if it is feasible to wholesale in that area. Since time is at a premium, you don't want to waste it where there is no low hanging fruit. Every city is different, every city goes thru different cycles. Someone will post "I put out 50 bandit signs and got no calls in 3 months" while someone else posts "I put out 50 bandit signs and get 3 calls a week." "Your Town Your Real Estate Profits"...Your town doesn't have to be where you live. As one investor I know says, "Live where you want to live. Invest where the numbers make sense."

The amount of knowledge that you will learn from Deans books will far surpass any other time used toward the REI business. Thats an opinion of course, but Im sure a lot of people here would agree.

Ps. I think hes got ways on here now to get a couple of them for free...

Sean Bearden
Shui the Builder

....and building a buyers list. That thing is worth its weight in gold!!

Sean Bearden
Shui the Builder

is only a small part of being successful in this. You can read 100 books, but if you don't work on changing YOU and your mindset, you won't make it. I start all my interns with a couple months of MINDSET training. While reading books and such, but unless you build the mindset you're not going to be ready for the obstacles you will need to overcome. We ALL have them, and there is no getting around them except meeting them head on and taking the bull by the horns.

Yes, read the books, join the success academy, get the knowledge, but don't neglect the need to work on your self

Your netWORK is = to your netWORTH!

You're building your foundation when you start out; make it STRONG.

This is great stuff, everybody!

Michael, I'm glad you jumped on here! My goal is to bring the knowledge and experience of the REI vets together with the new investors to create a chemical reaction!

Tammy,

That's awesome about homeschooling your kids! Now you can teach them real estate investing as an elective when they get older! I was homeschooled as well.

Vincent

You can buy all the gear to exercise but with out taking the actual action to get out and exercise its just a thought or a dream, follow through and take action so you can grow, the seed has been planted now you need the rain and the sun through action to make it grow.No one said it ways going to be easy and thats half the fun to see what your able to do and sticking to it making changes when needed to get there.No one plants a seed and have a full grow tree the next day, it takes time, effort and action, oh how you will grow and its really fun, Jim

Great point, Jim!

to find a great deal and put it under contract!
Take different routes when you drive to and back from places you go to anyways, and look for abandoned and distressed houses; then mail letters to sellers. Ask your realtor for expired listings and listings that have priced reduced, say 'as is' and then put in as many offers as you can within the hour!

Once you have a great deal under contract, you'll have many buyers knocking at your door!

Wishing everyone success,

Hi all.
You have the chance to do great stuff, WE ALL DO. I'm not an expert by any means,yet. But, it's so cool to go to a place where you can ask about what your needing, or what you should do- or just support someone in what they want to do.
If I had an hour, HUM.....

Watch a few of Deans' videos
Look up more REIs
Write my seven levels

BUILD A BUYERS LIST

Run some ghosts adds
Check out Craigs List
Do some homework

BUILD A BUYERS LIST

Find some sellers
Read one of Deans' books
Drive my target area(s)

BUILD A BUYERS LIST.........

I will always be...building my Buyers List.

THIS JUST A FEW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.............

Use that hour, everybody!!

If I only had 1 hour a day I would ...

Build one heck of a team to get the work done! Spend your hour a day for the first few months putting a team together ( Agent, Interns, bird dogs, Title Co., Mortg rep, etc...) that can do all you need done.

Building a POWER HOUSE team will enable you to spend that hour a day sipping iced tea and doing something you enjoy.... Like learning all you can about REI

Well said, Carol! Well said!