Did my first deal

I am sooooo happy, I finally did my first deal, after seeing our fearless leader Dean on tv and ordering his
Awesome book How To Be A Real Estate Millionaire in 2008,4 years ago when I started my journey . I think most people would have quit but not me.I knew I could do it.But I did not think it would take this long.I've heard the first one is the hardest to get and then it gets easier.I hope that's true. How did I do it? Not by myself.I found a mentor coach in Los Angeles and started taking Action.We work together and make offers, it was a short sale, we put it under contract for $155,345 with a 3,500 deposit and The Realtor called me and said your offer was approved.Cool...Then started marketing the property to find a buyer, a wholesaler called and said she had a buyer for us. we got a non-refundable deposit from the buyer $5000. This is key! when they want to back out of the deal.We sold it for $166,000. Turns out we know the guy, we saw him at another property a few weeks earlier.We called escrows and found out its very hard to do a back to back close here in CA. No more A to B - B to C. So how the heck did we close it? Buyer became our private money lender for a day.
Ask escrow to secure a Deed of Trust. Basically put a lien on the property and Quit Claim yourself off of it. Then Give the buyer a Grant Deed at the closing. when Our buyer wanted to back out, we said no because "if you do that you will lose your deposit". He was mad... but so what "Just close the deal and let's be friends again". And so we did. Now let's go get Deal number
2. You can do it guys just keep going. don't quit.
Bryan