7/22/2009
Tampa, Florida
Good evening all my invester friends! I had to share my excitement with you all tonight. Today, was the first day of the rest of my life. I bought Dean's book a few weeks ago after seeing his infomercial one morning while I was getting ready for work. My wife and I read a chapter every night religeously and last night we finally finished the book! I immediately ran to our study to get started. You know how Dean loves to use the phrase "take action"...well, that's what I did last night. I told my wife, before we even start to put our system together, let's see if we can find ONE deal really quick just to practice on some of the material we read. So I went to Craigslist and clicked on the Tampa link for Real Estate. The first link I clicked on was a house for sale in a really nice neighborhood near to mine. After I started researching the history of the house, I realized that the asking price was 21K lower than the FMV and that sparked my interest. I went to the county appraiser's website, and zillow and a bunch of others to get a good idea of what the house was worth. The house had last sold for $140K in 1999, and they are asking $220K. The FMV currently is $241K on all the sites I checked out, and most of the houses in the neighborhood FMV was $280K plus, so I knew something was up with this house. I wrote down the phone number in the ad and since it was late, I decided to give them a call at lunch today to find out more. So today at lunch, I took action! (Thanks Dean). Come to find out from talking to the young man on the phone, the house was vacant and they had been trying to sell the house for over a year and a half. They said they had an agent in the beginning, but she didn't even try to market their home and so they decided to rent it out since they moved out of state to California. He said it was becoming a nightmare to manage the sale of the house and was practically begging me to take it off his hands. I told him everything Dean said to say in his book and he was very interested. He said he didn't care how the house was sold and how much money I was going to get off the deal, just that he wanted it off their hands. It was like a classic story Dean would share in his book...and it took me only 1 minute to find the deal by accident. So, now I have 21,000 in equity to start with at least and I'm pretty sure I have more room to play with....the only problem...I don't have a buyer's list yet!! haha I got so cought up in taking action, I almost forgot I needed a buyer So, that's my goal tomorrow is to get my buyer's list going and trying to find some cash investors that may be interested. We're on our way Dean! Look out!
Mark & Victoria
Good for You that you're taking ACTION! that very few other people never do. I know you will find your buyer and make this deal happen! I want to welcome you and your wife to DG fam as well. Don't hesitate to ask any questions, many are more than willing to offer their suggestions or find you the correct answer or solution to any of your problems that may arise. Looking forward to reading your journal as time goes on. God Bless in your REI.
"I will NOT BE BROKE! ANYMORE!"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent,
the Merciful.
22.He is Allah besides Whom there is no God: The Knower of the unseen and the seen; He is the Beneficent, the Merciful.
23. He is Allah besides Whom there is no God: the King, the Holy, the Author of Peace,the Granter of Security, Guardian over all, the Mighty, the Supreme, the Possessor of greatness. Glory be to Allah from that which they set up (with Him)!
24. He is Allah: the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner: His are the most beautiful names. Whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares His glory: and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
Great Job! It just goes to prove that if if you take action and do the things Dean has written out for you. You can really do this. That first step is over for you...it just keeps getting better.
Good luck and I look forward to reading your journals and how this story is going to end.
Carpe Diem~ Stacey
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I had to stop and write a special note in my journal for all those of you that read this and need some encouragement! I came down with the flu on the night after I setup my first ever toll free business phone number with COA!! My SSSMDM (Sift Sort Screen Mean Dean Machine) is now operational! I took a few nights to read over the documentation of how to setup the service to your liking and find out the difference between the main greeting, etc. and how to setup unique IDs so that we will know how and where the customers that are calling found the advertisement. It's very cool! I also figured out that recordings take some time and aren't as easy as reading from a word document that you've prepared. My advice is just to make an outline of what you want to say. Download a nice voice recording software that you find on
So don't worry about little mistakes, because with this format, it's harder to detect them. So, now I have a menu system that will prompt the customer to enter their 3-digit extension (code), which will then send me an e-mail when they leave a message after they've heard my greeting. The first one I'm advertising is a "Stop Foreclosure Hotline". I hope to have it operational by this weekend. I will post my first update to this journal with my first caller to tell you how it's going! Stay tuned! This takes time. My wife and I are both professionals and by the time we get home everyday + a 40 mile drive home, it's very difficult to get motivated to do this, but we're not going to give up! And don't you either! We're going to do this!
Google that allows you to cut out the sections that you don't want or where you messed up. Can be a little tricky to splice the two good areas together, but it works! Third, when you want to save the audio file to a phone format, they require a special kind of wav called ULAW. It's a much simpler version of sound and when you play it back, it sounds like you're listening to a phone message