Chris's 30 Days to Real Estate Cash

Merry Christmas to you too Linda!

I heard from 3 out of 6 realtors, e-mailed the 3 realtors that I haven't heard from yet.

1 of the realtors sent me some deals, I need to review them, at first glance nothing jumped out at me. The other 2 realtors need some more time (due to the holidays). None of them have given me the list of cash buyers yet.

My map has shipped, so I hope to get it soon. I may just got to AAA tomorrow to pick up a map to use in the mean time.

I am continuing to read more of the book, marking it up, highlighting and tabbing the pages that have tasks to do.

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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Notice that in ALL of Dean's book, he starts off with setting goals. Let's call this your dream. It's important to keep your dream in front of you at all times. Get pictures of your dream, maybe get a magazine or book about your dream. If it is a car, or a house, go look at one, drive it, touch it, smell it. The better the picture of the dream in your mind, the better your chance of achieving it.

You may be think, ahhhh dreams, who needs them! Just tell me what I need to do. Well, before you can achieve anything you need to have a dream or goal that will pull you though the tough times. That is what successful people do, and that is what you need to do to be successful!

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P.S. I almost forgot....normally I run in the morning, but it was raining today so I rode my bike and put the TV on while it pedaled. Guess who was on TV, none other than Dean Graziosi, it's been a while since I have seen him on TV! What a way to start the day!

Thank you for starting your journal, I use to read many of your posts and I am looking forward to hearing about your success. Best wishes and congrats to getting off to a good start.

way to start a new chapter...i am also looking forward to following your journey and who knows maybe we can work a deal !! i can feel it....you have got it going now !!!
jay

Your welcome, I hope to inspire a few people to follow along with me!

Jay,

Thanks Buddy!

I look forward to seeing how this goes also! Always open to working a deal with anyone, especially a fellow DG member.

I look forward to working with you on the Ca$hflow Investment Club!

Well this week one. Having a little trouble trying to get a hold of 5 realtors this week, must be the holidays. So I didn't want to wait, I remembered seeing a couple of realtors that were members of my local REIG (real estate investors group). I checked our message board and found the contact information for 2 of them. I sent them both e-mail and they replied right away. They are both Keller Williams agents (hmmmm...I wonder if Keller Williams encourages agents to join the local REI clubs?).

So I need to get going these two new agents working on my tasks, I am going to e-mail for now and follow up with them on the phone Monday. I will not have a list of cash buyers until Monday.

Well, I couldn't help myself, I finished Dean's book! I now have it full of highlights, notes, tabs. As I get to the next page of the blueprint I am going to add tasks. I am tempted to move on to the next page before I finish the fist one! I'll hold back for now, not much will happen on Christmas Eve anyways.

Which reminds me....Merry Christmas Everyone! What is Santa bringing you this year?

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"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."

Dale Evans

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Keep it positive! I know it is hard, and most people don't think that way. Keep feeding your mind with positive, read books, listen to CDs (http://www.nightingale.com/) and spend time here at DG.com. Think of where you want to go, not where you are, or where you have been.

Paul McKenna Ph.D. "Change your life in 7 days". It's different than the rest...worth checking out...I got mine on amazon.com... Are you putting any Bandit Signs out or just waiting for Realtors? Everyone that is advertising "We Buy Houses" in my area is on my buyers list...it's finding the properties. They are either in foreclosure, need a short sale...we need a way to get these properties faster. So much out there and so many people needing help!
Barbara

Thanks I am adding your suggestion to my wish list now....

OK Back....

I am not on the Bandit signs yet, I want to focus on the right areas, so I need to know where people are buying. I have done bandit signs in the past (not correctly) so this time I want to do it right! Dean's latest book spells in all out in "black & yellow". Once I gear up all the marketing I will use multiple avenues, realtors, bandit signs, ghost ads, flyers, business cards, etc....etc...etc.

yes, lots of people out there need our help.

Thanks for stopping by, and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all my DG friends out there!

Well today is officially a holiday and Christmas continues later today at my family's house!

I should hear from 3 of the 5 realtors today with a list of cash buyers and some potential properties. One of the realtors sent me 5 deals, none of them looked to promising. Oh...I just realized that my "Set for Life" system includes cash buyers. I downloaded the list and will go thru it to figure out the target areas, types of properties and purchase values. Can't wait to see how this pans out!

I am going to call the other two realtors on the phone today. I also received an e-mail Christmas Eve from one of the realtor offices that I hadn't heard from offer to help me, one of the realtors that I got in touch with from my REI club is from his office.

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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Paul Tillich

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If you ever need to find the owner of a property I got some great tips from my local REI group, I posted it here:

http://www.deangraziosi.com/real-estate-forums/title-searching-and-other...

I just want to share something I just did....

I went back to one of Dean's old weekly wisdom's:

http://www.deangraziosi.com/content/weekly-wisdom-145-bunch-new-and-exic...

I did this for all my goals....WOW..is this powerful. If you have not done this STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW AND GO DO IT!

This is the MOST IMPORTANT TASK YOU CAN DO TODAY!

Chris, as I was completing this task (chapter #1 )I know that it was one of my missing pieces to success. It is a great exercise and thank you for sharing and your post!

We started with real estate but followed a personalized modified plan. It didn't work as well as we had hoped so are working the 30 days cash plan. We put up bandit signs and got our first call within the hour! So here is a little tip that has helped us a lot; go to Google Voice and get yourself a free telephone number for your local area. You have it forward the calls to whatever phone you wish (we us my cell) and you also get an email with the written message that you received. We put this # on our flyers and signs as well as craigs list adds etc. We have a couple of bird doggers who put up our signs and give us information on vacant homes, for sale by owner, and for rent signs. Don't forget to call those for rent signs. They may be interested in selling one or more of their properties or be interested in buying more. Remember the best deals are not going to come from realtors but those deals that are not listed or known by anyone. Talk to everyone about real estate. I met a nice man in the grocery store who complained about the squirls from the vacant property invading his. He just happened to have the address and know who the lender on the property was.

Yes the holidays are a hard time to get in touch with many. But the winter is the best time to get deals on properties, especially in colder areas. Get yourself on linkedIn. There are so many investors using that tool and you might as well get their contact information.

85% on the work you do in real estate should be building your buyers list!

Hope these tips help.

Keep up your great work!

dhilsman wrote:

Chris, as I was completing this task (chapter #1 )I know that it was one of my missing pieces to success. It is a great exercise and thank you for sharing and your post!

Great advise!

Yes, I use google voice, that way I am not putting my phone # out there, I have it set to go to voicemail while I am at work, actually a good way to handle calls, is not to take them all day. Pick a time of the day to return calls, that way the calls are not interrupting what you are focused on at the time.

I called the two realtors that I found on Christmas Eve, got voicemail for one (followed up with an e-mail also), I spoke to the other one. He seems a little rough, but he is a realtor, contractor and investor, so he knows the game. Says he knows how to find deals but only wants to work with serious investors. He wanted me to bring him a proof of funds and sign an agreement with him. Not sure I want to do that. He did send me over some "deals" that I need to evaluate.

Still waiting to hear from the Realtors with the cash buyers. I do have the list from "set for life" that I am going through.

I may sneak into the next page a little while I wait so I am not wasting time.

I am a member of the "Ca$hflow Investors Club" on facebook. We hold weekly Skype conference calls on Mondays. The group is made up of mostly DGers, both experienced and new. We share knowledge with each other. It is great to associate with like-minded people!

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Albert Einstein

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Two phone tools that you should not be without: Google Voice (https://www.google.com/voice) and Skype (http://www.skype.com). Google voice will give you a free phone # to use in conjunction with any other phone (home, cell, etc), plus it transcribes voice mails and sends then via e-mail or text. You can use this # on your marketing material. Check it out.

Skype is another great tool, you can also pay for a plan to get unlimited calling for very cheap, if you go this route you can also pay a little extra for a local phone #. I have used this option when I am working outside of my state, and be able to have a phone # from the area I am working.

I use Skype for all my phone calls when I am home, it shows my cell phone # on the caller ID. You can also record calls (check the local laws) and play them back later so you can see how you are doing.

Get a good headset to use (I use Logitech USB Headset H530) they are fairly inexpensive and will enable you to take make calls hands free to you can take note. They are also great to use as headphones when listening to on-line content.

Good job on continuing to take action. Also, thank yopu for the google, skype and Ca$hflow investors club on face book info. Just added 3 new things to my to do list .

Well, I heard back from all the realtors, but only 2 of them followed directions. As the book says, get rid of those who are slow or do not give you the right information. One of them wants a proof of funds before they give me the list of cash buyers, imagine that!

So, I have some work to do, I am going to plot all the cash buyers on the map. I ended up finding a website that had a zip code map that I am using. I have never looked at it this way, but does give you a good graphical overview of where all the cash sales are.

Once I get that done then it is one to page 2! Can't wait. One of the issues I have had in the past (well there are a number of them, but I will only talk about the one for now), is staying focused on the task at hand. I would read something that I liked and go do that, so I was not really working on the right thing. The great thing about Dean's latest book is he maps out the steps in order for you to follow. So stay on course and don't try to run ahead!

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"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Pablo Picasso

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I am going to reinforce what I said above. I think one of the things that is most difficult as a new investor is picking a path and sticking to it. I know from my own experience I would be going down a path and there would be a big tree or a stream in the way and look over and say, hmmmm, that path looks easier. I think the most important thing is to pick a path, and stick to it no matter what. Once you MASTER that path, then try blazing a new trail, but keep the other one maintained also.

Thank you for your insight! I too have to stick to a mapped out plan or I will do most of all plans and complet very little. Thank you Chris!

this is so powerful! I remember reading your journal when I first joined this site, and it inspired me to take action; and now this...it is really awesome! I too keep forgetting that Dean has already given us the recipe to success; I just need to follow the instructions without deviating!

I will be following your lead, if you don't mind....

Valerie

Well, of the 5 realtors that I contacted, only one of them completed the tasks correctly, so guess which one I am going to work with. So now that I have completed the first page of the plan, I am onto page 2. Here are my tasks for the week:

1. Map the homes purchased with cash
2. Relate homes to buyers names
3. Get the buyers addresses from county records
4. Have business cards made, start handing them out
5. Develop my "elevator speech"
6. Write standard letter for buyer prospects
7. Send out letters (once I have the addresses)
8. Find one or more local REI clubs and check them out

I already have some of these tasks complete. My new map came in yesterday, it is laminated, so I can use dry erase markers on it!! The biggest part of this list will be getting all the addresses of the buyers. I also started mapping the buyers, but now i can transfer to the new map I have.

One note: make sure you have your realtor run both single family & multi-family.

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everyday, before I start working on my business I clear my head using a "Tapping Technique". If you have not heard of it, you can find out more here:
http://www.rogercallahan.com/thankyou-sb3.php

I can tell you this, because I have made this mistake myself!

yes, I can writing this journal for two reason. One to keep me accountable, and two to hopefully encourage others to follow my footsteps. I am not perfect by any means, no on is, but one thing I am is persistent. I am going to keep swinging and I know that one day I will hit the "grand slam". You can too!

Valuni wrote:

this is so powerful! I remember reading your journal when I first joined this site, and it inspired me to take action; and now this...it is really awesome! I too keep forgetting that Dean has already given us the recipe to success; I just need to follow the instructions without deviating!

I will be following your lead, if you don't mind....

Valerie