Flip This Wholesaler

Greetings Blogosphere!

I’ve got a brand new Reader Mail video for you guys…

The question I answer in this week’s video came from my Facebook wall a few days ago:

Here’s your answer, Ramell…

If you have questions or comments, speak your mind below!

Have a great weekend!

Hola Ladies and Gents- I hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

I’m heading out to Vegas on Thursday to do some strategerizing with the Divas, so this week is going to be pretty crazy for me!

Anywho- as I mentioned in my last post- I’m holding a Repair Estimating Training/Workshop this week, and I wanted to post the information for you guys in case you aren’t on my email list.

If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you probably know that I kind of suck when it comes to estimating repairs, and since I get lots and lots o’ questions from my blog readers about how to do it, I thought I would bring in an expert to teach you.

So, starting tomorrow night at 9pm EST, fix and flip expert Jerry Norton is going to teach you how to estimate repairs on potential deals within 15 minutes or less!

Say Hi to Jerry, everybody!

As someone who has closed over 200 deals in the last 3 years alone, Jerry has the repair estimation process down to a science and he’s going to show you the exact process he uses to make an average of 100 offers every month, while spending only 2.5 hours/day analyzing properties!

He has so much information to cover, that we decided to break the training up into two sessions- one tomorrow night- Tuesday  2/15 @ 9pm EST,  and then the second one Wednesday night, 2/16 @ 9pm EST.  (You’ll only need to register once).

We’ll be doing a Q&A session after the call tomorrow night for those of you who have questions after his presentation, and on top of that,  Jerry has agreed to give everyone who participates in the 2 part series a free copy of his personal Rehab Estimating Checklist!

We only have 100 lines available for the call, so if you want to secure your spot, you need to do it ASAP.

You can click here to sign up.

Oh, and as a thank you for registering, you’ll receive a copy of an interview that Jerry recently did where he explains how he has been able to close an average of 50 deals/year in one of the worst markets in the U.S. (Detroit).  The interview is 25 pages long and crammed full of content.  It’s yours just for registering.

Click here to grab your spot!

See ya tomorrow night!

Helllllllooooooooooooo Dear Blogosphere!

Long time no post.

Geeze it’s been so long I don’t even know where to begin…

I guess I first should wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  I know it’s kinda late, but better late than never, no?

I went up to St. Louis for the holiday to see my sister and nephew, and my Mom and Dad were also there, so I got to see them too.  It snowed while I was there, and even though I thoroughly detest winter and all of it’s accompaniments, it was actually kind of a pretty snow (never thought those words would escape my fingertips).  I took some pics of the pretty snow as well as of the family…

Casa de Sister

Pretty, no?

My sweet nephew Trevor reading/listening to The Night Before Christmas book my Mom made for him

My Dad made this beautiful rocking horse for Trevor.  He was scared of it, but hopefully it will grow on him.

Jack the Dog aka Santa’s Little Helper in his festive antlers.

Auntie “Steph-a-me” and Little Man.

Pop and Son in their festive holiday antlers

Mom, Dad, Sis, Me.  (If I look kinda tipsy in this picture, it’s because I was).

So, anyway, that was my pretty white Christmas.  Ho Ho Ho.

Then when I got back to Tampa I caught some sort of flu or cold or something like I do every year around Christmas time, so I spent a few days in bed.

And then I’ve taken the last few weeks to do some soul searching.

Hehe.

Just kidding.  I haven’t really been doing any soul searching.  I’ve just always wanted to say that. Makes me feel like I’m in a soap opera or something.  Or a cheesy romance novel with Fabio on the front cover.  He can’t believe it’s not butter.  Teehee.

Anyway.  What I’ve really been doing these last few weeks, is kind of cheating on this blog by spending lots o’ time creating content for my other website, which has taken off quite swimmingly since we launched it about a month ago.  We’ve got over 100 members signed up already (including two of my blogging pals Carey and Steph), so between writing content for that blog, creating wholesaling training modules for the members, and then answering questions in the forum- I haven’t had a whole lot of time to do much else.

Apparently I totally suck at multi-blog-tasking.  Is what I’m trying to say here.

Oh, and speaking of having multiple blogs, I’m also putting the finishing touches on my personal blog that I’ve been procrastinating doing for about 6 months or so.  It’s not going to be about real estate or business or anything serious- it’ll just be me horsing around (imagine that) and taking pictures and attempting to cook (Chef Steph in the hiz!) and other fun stuff.  It’ll be totally different from this blog where I’m all serious and proper all the time.  Heehee.  I’ll post a link to it once it’s up and running, which should be in the next week or so.  Ish.

As far as my wholesaling business goes, I’ve kind of switched gears from aggressively pursuing deals to a more passive strategy that basically consists of doing deals that fall in my lap.  I’ve built up quite a network over the last 4 years of both wholesalers and buyers, so for the time being I’m just putting the two together if something comes my way.

I’ve alluded to this several times since I started my blog, but for those of you who missed it- my ultimate goal is to take off and travel the world (and blog about it).  In order to do that, I need me some passive income streams flowing into my bank account, and unfortunately, the wholesaling business model that I have been working for the last four years, is anything but passive.  I know there are people out there who have automated their wholesaling businesses (or so I’ve heard), but mine is about as hands-on as it gets.  So, my focus for 2011 is to work on building up other sources of income that are much more passive, while still doing any JV deals that come across my desk.

And then in a couple of years (or sooner) I’ll be off to explore the world.  I haven’t ironed out all the details yet, but what fun would it be if I did that?  :)

So anywho, that’s my story in a nutshell, Ladies and Gents!

I’ve got lots of cool stuff planned for this blog in 2011, and I promise not to disappear for a month ever again.  Well, unless R-Fed finally proposes to me and whisks me off to an island somewhere in the South Pacific.  Then you might not hear from me for awhile.  But I’ll be back eventually.

Alrighty then.  I’m Audi 5000.

Later Alligators!

P.S.
Hi Mom and Shae and Julie!
Thanks for the kick(s) in the ass!

P.P.S.
My new favorite Google search that led someone to this blog:

P.P.P.S
Flip This Book Club is still alive and kicking!  It’s just a little bit late because I have been an irresponsible blogger for the last month.  I’ll have Shae’s review of Tribes posted next week, and we’ll also pick a book for next month.

Holy Moly, I can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks since I last posted!

Like I mentioned previously, I’ve got quite a few things going on this month and I kinda feel like a chicken running around with my head cut off. But in a good way. Actually, I don’t think having your head cut off is ever a good thing, so never mind.

So, last weekend was the big trip to New Orleans with my mastermind group, The Flip Vips. We had a great time, and also managed to get some awesome brainstorming sessions in while we were there.  And I also managed to spill an entire beer in my purse Friday night, ruining my cell phone in the process.  Which was awesome.

Anywho…I took some pics for your viewing pleasure….
(Note: if we’re friends on Facebook, you’ve probably already seen these. Sorry.)

Dinner at Antoine’s Friday Night

Old menus dating back to the early 1900’s.  Cool.

Steve Cook holding our dessert: Baked Alaska.

Inside the Baked Alaska. Mmmmmmmmm.

And then we hit Bourbon Street.  Look out.

Me pretending like I know how to play the git-tar (and smoke a cigar), with fellow Flip Vip Steve Cavanaugh.

Huge Ass Beers to Go.  What more could you ask for?

Say Cheeeeeeeeese!

JP posing under his sign

Cafe Du Monde.  I am ashamed to say I did not get a beignet here.
Instead, me and Ken Holmes opted to head across the street for (another) beer.
Sorry Shae.

Ken, Steve, JP, and Shaun.  Nice hat, JP.

Me, Shaun, and Brian horsing around.

Brian getting some late night pizza.

Heeeeeeeeeheeeeeeee.

Pizza for all.

The Lady VIPs: Me and Christina Ferris.
(No idea what I’m laughing about here, btw. Perhaps the fact that my cell phone is sitting at the bottom of my purse covered with 4 inches of beer?  Because that is truly hysterical when you stop and think about it).

We met bright and early the next day to do some brainstorming.  (Probably shouldn’t have stayed out until 5am the night before.  Stupid hindsight).

Law and Steve.

Dinner at the Gumbo Shop Saturday Night

Shaun doing “magic” tricks on Bourbon St.

Bird’s eye view of the mayhem down below

The mayhem down below.

Fritzels, the coolest jazz cub EVER.  This band was effing AWESOME!

THE END.

Oh wait.  Not quite.

On the flight home, the dude sitting in front of me kept invading my personal space, so I bit his hand.

Sort of.

Heeeeeeeeeeee.

So anyway, that was my trip to New Orleans, in a nutshell.

It took me a few days to recover, and then I spent the rest of the week getting ready for the launch of me and Julie, and Shae, and Susan’s kick ass new website: DivaMoneyClub.  We opened the doors yesterday after five months of preparation, so that has been keeping me very busy.  (If you haven’t signed up yet, and want to do so, you can click here to join).

And then I’m heading up to St. Louis next week to spend Christmas with the fam.

And then I’ll be back in Tampa preparing for the ass kicking that I’m about to deliver on 2011.

And that’s all I’ve got for now, folks.

10-4, Over and Out!

Greetings guys and gals!

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

I’ve been working my tail off since Friday trying to get everything squared away before I leave for the Big Easy this Thursday.  I’ve actually never been to New Orleans, so I’m pretty excited to check it out. Especially the food. And the jazz. And the beignets. And the beer. Hehe.

I’m hoping it won’t be too cold there, but I’m guessing since it’s supposed to get down into the 30’s in Tampa this week (boooooooo!), that there’s a pretty good chance of me freezing my ass off there as well.

Anywho, as I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been trying to get Ron Mead aka The Probate Guy aka The Grand Poobah of Probates (I actually just made that last one up, but I think it has a nice ring to it), to do a call with me and teach you guys how he has been profitting from probates (dead people’s houses), for the last sixteen years.  We were originally planning on holding the training in January, but it looks like we’re going to be able to do it this coming Wednesday December 8th instead!

Click here to register for the training.

For those of you who aren’t already familiar with Ron, he’s been working in the probate real estate niche for the last 16 years, and to say that he knows a thing or two about this topic would be a gross understatement.  I’ve had the chance to speak with him on the phone a couple of times, too, and not only is he extremely knowledgeable about probate investing, he’s also a heck of a nice guy.

Here’s a little video he recorded for you guys to introduce himself….

The event will take place this Wednesday December 8th at 9pm EST, and we only have 100 lines available for the call, so if you want to get in on the training, make sure to register now before they’re gone. Click here to reserve your spot.

See ya on the call!

Later Gators.

P.S.
Someone found my blog Friday by Googling “I am a wholesaler and I make a shit load of money.”

Hehehe.