Melissa's Success Journal

Melissa's Success Journal

Hey everyone-

Just left the EDGE 2013 event! WHOOO! So much great information and opportunity in an AMAZING 3 days. I was brought to DG thru my significant other Jeff(who is amazing-by the way) about 6 months ago when he started as well. We relocated to NW Indiana and have been doing this full time. I was a Licensed RE Broker in Washington State before coming to the Mid-west and have always known that Real Estate was "my calling". I am an entrepreneur thru and thru and have tried many other avenues and self-implemented programs to find my way in being independently secure but none of them seemed to fit my goals and ended up being a burden rather than a joy. WELL that has changed.

Doing RE has been an exciting and fulfilling part of my life for many years. From building my own home to selling real estate to now becoming an investor-I know I am on the right path. Since moving to Indiana in Jan we have completed 9 deals and have 3 pending.(3-wholesale, 3-fix-n-flip, 3 buy-n-hold).

I am excited about moving forward with the additional information from this past weekend and can say that ALL the presenters offered something to move us forward. That being said-Jen's presentation touched me the most.

Let me back up a bit and share a bit about me. I grew up in a typical middle class family, had all my needs met and a great family and home life. My dad worked and mom was home. We were a close nit family and still are today. Where’s the struggle in that right? As I got older and moved out on my own I found myself, more often than not, doing what I thought others wanted me to do or what was the accepted Norm and left myself feeling a bit lacking in many areas of my life-there lies the struggle.

I got married welcomed 3 children into my life thru adoption and had a wonderful step son. I was happy for some time. But as it does-life happened and there were some negative life changing occurrences and decisions we could not recover from that caused my marriage to vanish. I felt defeated and like a failure.
BUT I knew I was meant to do something big and something that would not only affect my life but the lives of others in a positive way.

I began to revamp my way of thinking and sought out ways to move my personal life and professional life to the next level. I began to see things in my past as not problems but challenges that needed to be solved and overcome and began to see that I deserved to be happy in my skin and be happy with who I was. It was at that point I got my RE License. My first year in the Biz I was Rookie of the year and did over 1M in Volume. In an effort to move my business and my life forward I came up a plan to market the heck out of my self and push life forward. Little did I know there was a greater plan for me ready to unfold.

I posted an ad for good old fashioned home Sellers on Craigs list and got one response. It was a Guy who had just gone to an investment conference and needed a realtor to help him build his business. I was eager to do the work he needed and promptly got him what he needed because I thought he could be my BIG BUYER, My WAY out of the life I had been struggling thru. LOL little did I know that the light he would shine in my life would like a path and take me on a journey that would and will change my life for the better.

Anyway, we worked together for several months and realized that we were like minded in several areas of our lives and that RE was a way for both of us to create the changes we needed to move forward in our personal and professional lives. We continued to work together for several months and he became active in the IE portion of Deans-program in November of 2012.

He relocated to the mid-west and I followed a few months after and we have been running full speed ahead ever since. SOOOO Needless to say that Craigs list ad brought an amazing man into my life who I am proud to say today is my business partner and a wonderful part of my daily life.

What I enjoy most is seeing the excitement and happiness we get from doing what we LOVE. We have time to do what we are passionate about as well as an opportunity to make a living and that is-to me- one of the true meanings of life.

This past weekend has brought all the things we have been working on together. It’s been like looking at all the puzzle pieces on the table, understanding the concept of the image we are to put together but not really seeing the box top to know what your supposed to be completing... but now I see that box top and the end result and we are ready to put those pieces of that puzzle together.

We enjoyed all the presenters but as I said earlier Jen slapped us both in the face hard and mine especially. Her message about personal struggles and feeling unworthy of greatness resonated with me. Although I have not faced many of her struggles I still have felt boxed in by others standards for me. I have been saying yes to so many "other" standards and was saying no to myself and my self-worth. Jens pursuit for self was like a neon sign and made me see and realize one very significant thing--- I DO DESERVE TO BE A SUCCESS! Thanks Jen

We have goals set for the next week-one garage door at a time- and big goals for the next year-so watch out cuz here we come!

Thanks everyone !

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


mnusbaum

Congrats on your success so far. I would appreciate it if you can share how you got these deals done. were they fsbo or from mls?

Thanks

Best Of luck

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TC
Miami Florida

"If you are not doing something that help the universe or God or your family, or YOU, is that something you should still be doing?"-Dean Graziosi

"Each day do one thing to get you closer to your dreams because if you do today what others are not willing to do, then tomorrow you can do those things that others are only dreaming about doing!"- Joe Jurek

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TCMIAMI

Good Morning-

We implement several different methods of locating properties. We follow Deans program pretty close and use bandit signs, MLS, Hand out business cards, look up vacants, FSBO.....

Thru our efforts to locate buyers we have developed relationships that allow us to locate properties for out of state buyers as well. We have buyers at our local RE investment club and some that we have found from our bandit signs.

We work with them to find out their desired criteria for a property, what their exit strategy will be and what they want to spend ALL-IN(meaning Purchase and Rehab). We locate properties thru our methods and if one fits the criteria of a buyer we present it to them with all the info needed for them to make an informed decision.

If you are wholesaling be sure that your wholesale fee is included in the amount you tell your end buyer so there is no surprises on closing day.

All in all if you have not read the 30 Days to Cash Book here on this site-its free- Its what we did when we got started and I encourage you to do the same!

Good Luck and feel free to message us any time we are happy to help!

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


mnusbaum

Thanks for explaining out everything for me. Great info you shared and I'm glad I learnt something new today from you.

Best Of Luck

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TC
Miami Florida

"If you are not doing something that help the universe or God or your family, or YOU, is that something you should still be doing?"-Dean Graziosi

"Each day do one thing to get you closer to your dreams because if you do today what others are not willing to do, then tomorrow you can do those things that others are only dreaming about doing!"- Joe Jurek

Follow me on my road to being a BILLIONAIRE http://bit.ly/1q7aOFX
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Learning something NEW EVERYDAY

you quite welcome-

Do one thing everyday to educate yourself and move your business forward.

Looking forward to reading about your successes.

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


Holiday Momentum

keeping your business moving forward during the holiday is just as important as keeping it going during the rest of the year.

Keep up the marketing strategies you are using and set our NEW YEAR up to be a strong beginning.

End the year on a high note !

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


Merry Christmas Everyone!

Jeff and I have been so blessed this year with good friends, good business and a wonderful year together growing our lives and business. We hope that each of you have had a wonderful year as well. I wanted to share with you some year end thoughts:

The Holiday season/end of the year is not just a time to give gifts-they are a good time to reflect on the past years accomplishments, shortcomings & ones self worth. Look at where you were at this time last year and see how far you have come to be where you are today. Life is filled with challenges that weigh us down. Its understanding what you can control and remedy what you can control that is important. Understand that we cannot control everything and may not always get what we want. In fact we are given what we put out to others and what we deserve back at that point in our lives.

We can only judge ourselves and look inward to who we are as a person and relate that to the level of happiness we have or do not have. We cannot blame others for the lack of success we have obtained over that last year whether it be personal or professional. If you are not where you wanted to be at this point in your life look inward and make the changes needed to get to the next phase of your life. Do not rely on another to make your life better or make you happy because if you do not love yourself its hard for others to love you back. Recognize your strengths and grow from that starting point and this upcoming year will show you more growth and happiness than you imagined.

Jeff & I are not a NEW YEARS RESOLUTION people but we believe in setting goals and doing what is needed to meet those goals. We continually engage in personal growth activities, hang out with like minded individuals, take time to grow together and apart... all this for both personal and professional growth.

2014 will be an AMAZING year for us and we hope that success finds you as well both personally and professionally.

Merry Christmas!
Jeff & Melis

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


All Systems Automated-GO!

Hey all back after the 2017 EDGE- Joined the Platinum Group of OBM and Jeff and I are already seeing added results from the new strategies we are using just from this last weekend.

Matt, Cody, Sean, Joe, Trent, Chad M, Chad B, Wakefield's and Rhodes, John, Roberta, and of course Dean. So much GREAT information and not just about Real Estate. mindset, getting out of your own way.... Ah the list goes on

We have been doing this FULL TIME since 2013 and with over 200 transactions closed its been a ride. Neither one of us work outside of our investment business and we have rode high months over 100K and months were we had nothing. It's all about consistency. Something even we struggle with at times but this year is the year of automation. Getting our system set up to run FOR us not US running our system.

I hope everyone else had a Great Time this weekend as well

Hugs
Melis~

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You Deserve to be a Success!

Jeff & Melissa
Heflin Properties LLc
NW Indiana


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