Flip This Wholesaler

Hola Ladies and Gentlemen!

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend.  I also hope you didn’t forget my Valentine’s Day present for tomorrow…

My gift to you is this Reader Mail video that I just threw together.  And when I say “threw together” what I really mean is that it took me 4.5 hours to make because Windows Movie Maker hates my guts.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

Later Alligators!

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If you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube channel yet, you can do so by clicking here, then clicking on the yellow “subscribe” button above the video.

Hi Guys and Gals!

How was your week?  Everybody making lots of offers and lots of money?

All is well over here in Tampa, minus the fact that I haven’t seen the sun in about 4 days, and also, I’m FREEZING MY ASS OFF.  I know many of you are buried under seven hundred feet of snow and are without electricity and you probably want to crawl through the computer and strangle me when I complain about it being fourty effing degrees here, but I can’t help it.  THIS WEATHER BLOWS. It’s no accident that I live in the Sunshine State, so I feel entitled to complain.

Anywho, enough about the weather- let’s talk real estate, shall we?

I thought I was going to be writing a post today about a new REO deal that I just got under contract, but that ain’t happening, apparently.  I’ve actually been negotiating with the bank on this particular deal since last week and thought it was in the bag.  The house has been on the market on and off  for over two years.  Two. Years. Seriously.  It’s currently listed for $25,000 and my initial offer was $12.2k.  The house is a piece of crap located on Piece Of Crap Street, but I’ve got a buyer who happens to like this little area and he’s looking for something in the el cheapo price range, and this dump fits the bill…

So, anyway, I offered 12.2k, all cash, no contingencies, with a 3 day closing.  The bank came down from $25k to 16k on their first counter, which was quite shocking, in a good way.  Nine times out of ten when they come off their list price that much right out of the gate, they will come down more.  So, I countered back at 13.5k last week and have been waiting and waiting for a response.  I already ran the deal past my buyer, who said he would be interested at 20k-ish.

I finally got a call back from the agent yesterday letting me know that they got a full price offer and asking  if I was interested in coming up any more.  HAHAHAHAHA!  Yeah, no thanks.

I figured it was a wholesaler who put it under contract, so I checked Craigslist a few hours later, and sure enough, the property was listed with a nice little 7k markup.  There’s no way in hell anyone is going to pay that much for that property, so I expect to see it hit the market again in the next 3-10 days, depending on how long the inspection period is.  I already let the agent know that I’m still interested, and I’ll be checking in with her every couple of days so she doesn’t forget…

Aside from that, I’ve got a few other deals I’m working on with my wholesaler buddies, but nothing under contract at the moment.  I’ve also got a few out of state buyers that are looking for deals in Tampa, as well as some of my local buyers who have been calling me looking for houses.

And that’s about all I’ve got for now, folks.  Gotta run- time to make the doughnuts.

Have a great weekend, Everyone!

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Things are not going so well for Chef Steph. My Scallops Parmesan turned out disastrous and had to be thrown away. Seriously, it was that bad.

Ewwwww.  I can barely look without gagging a little bit.

Hello Guys and Gals.

I hope you enjoyed the weekend and the Super Bowl.  Hopefully you were all rooting for the Saints.

So…..how many of you guys read the Book of the Month?

I ended up ordering it from Amazon because they didn’t have it at the library, and both Borders and Barnes and Noble didn’t have it in stock either.  I didn’t order it until late in the month, and was worried I wasn’t going to be able to finish in time, but I ended up tearing through it in one sitting as soon as it arrived.  The book was only 121 pages, but was crammed full of awesome information.

I spoke to Shae about the book before I read it, and she told me she wore out her highlighter going through it.  I did the same thing.  When I got finished, almost every single page had something circled or highlighted.

For those who didn’t read the book, it is broken up into five sections, each one representing one of the five pieces to the life puzzle: Philosophy, Attitude, Activity, Results, and Lifestyle.

I’d say my favorite section in the book was chapter 3, which focused on the “Activity” piece of the puzzle.  Following is an excerpt from that chapter, where Jim is comparing those who are struggling in their businesses and lives to those who are super successful. He then goes on to answer the question- “Why are we not all doing better than they are?”

“The answer might well be that we do not work at achieving our goals, and they do. We do not take all that we are to the marketplace and put it to work.  They do.  We do not stay up late at night developing new plans to achieve our dreams and work hard day after day to make those dreams a reality.  They do. We do not learn all that we possibly can about our industry and our markets.  They do.  We do not make every effort to get around the right sources of influence, to associate with those people who can help us to achieve our goals.  They do.  While we are dreaming about the promise of the future, they are doing something about it, and they are doing it with a consistency and with an intensity and a level of commitment that would put many of us to shame….”

I typed that paragraph out , printed it, and tacked it on the bulletin board next to my desk to serve as a constant reminder of what I need to be doing if I want to achieve the level of success that I am looking for…

So, what about you guys?  What did you think of the book?  Anything in particular that really resonated with you?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about it…

Oh, before I forget- next month’s choice for the Book of the Month will be Get Off Your “But” by Sean Stephenson.  I actually heard about this one from Julie Broad on one of her video guest posts for MustKnowInvesting.com.  Thanks Julie!

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I got my Fan Page badge working again- it’s over there in the right sidebar. If you haven’t become a fan of Flip This Wholesaler yet, I’d love for you to do so!

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Have a great week Everybody!

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all having a great weekend so far!  

Are you getting ready to cheer on your favorite team in the Super Bowl? (Or as I like to call it- the Stupid Bowl. Hehe).  I’m not a big football fan (at all), but I do like to watch the commercials.

While all of you are eating chicken wings and drinking beer, I’ll be answering phones at my brother Niko’s pizza shop in Clearwater.  This is always a real good time, as you can imagine.  The phone literally rings off the hook for like 3 hours straight, and the majority of the people who call are hammered, don’t have a clue what they want to order, and can’t be heard over the 685 people screaming in the background.  It’s awesome.

So anyway, I told you earlier in the week that I had a guest post coming up from Justin McClelland (I call him Mr. Hustle, btw), which I had meant to post on Friday, but I felt so inspired about giving away the Douchebag Award that it didn’t happen.  So I’m bringing it to you today, on this lovely Stupid Bowl Sunday.

If you aren’t already a reader of Justin’s blog, I recommend you add him to your blog roll.  If you look up the word “Hustle” in the dictionary, I’m pretty sure you’ll find a picture of him staring back at you.

Please give a warm welcome to Justin as he talks about 8 different ways to find buyers for your wholesale deals (it’s broken up into 2 videos, as it exceeded the YouTube time limit)…..

Thanks Justin, for doing the videos for us!

If you guys have any questions or comments about any of these strategies, please feel free to ask away- we’ll both be happy to answer!

Enjoy the Stupid Bowl, Everybody!!

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If you decide to order pizza during the game, don’t forget to be nice to your order taker. Also, it’s helpful if you figure out what you want to order before you call. Just sayin…

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Don’t forget, The Flip This Book Club will be meeting back here tomorrow at 8pm sharp!

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Do any of you tech-y guys out there, have any idea why my Facebook Fan Page badge decided to break? I had to take it down today because this is what it looked like in my sidebar:

Then when I went to Facebook to try and get new html to put in the text widget, it looked like this:

Any advice would be appreciated- thanks!!

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I’m going to be in pizza-order-taking hell for the rest of the day, so if I don’t respond to comments or emails ’til tomorrow, that’s why.

Amanda McNall- Author of MLSWordSearch!

Congratulations Amanda McNall, and thank you so much for plagiarizing this article that I wrote for the BiggerPockets Blog!  I can’t tell you how excited I was to see it posted (verbatim) on your blog yesterday!!!!

That’s totally awesome, because I secretly love spending my time writing content so that random lazy assholes on the internet can steal it and then try to pass it off as their own!

Way to go Amanda McNall- plagiarizing rocks!

I mean, what’s the point of spending time writing your own articles or paying someone to write them for you, when you can just head on over to the BiggerPockets blog and steal content from someone else- FOR FREE!!!! Woooooohoooooo!

So, without further ado, Amanda McNall, I’d like to present you with the esteemed Flip This Wholesaler Douchebag of the Month Award!

Keep up the great plagiarization work, Amanda McNall- you’re making the douchebags of the world a proud bunch!

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I’ve written 25 other articles on BiggerPockets- please feel free to steal those, too.

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Don’t forget to hit me up on Facebook- I have over 3000 contacts, which provides a great opportunity for you to spam affiliate links on my wall! I enjoy that almost as much as getting my articles ripped off!

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Is douchebag one word or two? My spell checker tells me it’s two, but Lord Google says otherwise…

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Photo courtesy of BrooklynSucks.com

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Have a great weekend Everybody!