The Note Closers Show Podcast

Many people are interested with real estate investing. However, not many get to fully enter the industry because they don’t have someone who can guide them with the right knowledge. To help with that, Roger Blankenship from the Flipping America podcast talks about the current real estate market and working with new real estate investors. He covers topics like disasters and how it would affect properties and fixing and flipping houses. Teaching people how to buy outside of their home market, he talks about the important role of relationships with real estate agents. Going further into his own work, he shares about his podcast, meeting and helping people, sharing information, and the online courses he is offering.

Bob Zachmeier talks about his take on owner financing and working with private investors to fund his deals and help them buy more groceries. As a real estate broker, he gives great insights and advises for those people that are looking for their IRAs and even those still exploring this industry. He offers a great analogy using buying groceries to impart that knowledge better. Sharing the hiccups he experienced along the way, he inspires people of his creative ideas that continue to create opportunity. Lastly, he highlights how helping people help themselves is what truly makes the job all the better.

The commercial market is where you most want to be at the moment and we’ve got the break down of all the important insights and information about it. Scott talks with commercial note investor and co-founder of Dandrew Partners, LLC, CEO of TheCommercialInvestor.com, and co-founder of ACPARE, Sal Buscemi, about the commercial market and where opportunities lie. He discusses the usual mistakes investors and buyers tend to make in investing in commercial loans and offers some tips on how to do better, from investing in single-family units to multi-family and more. He also gives inputs on how to raise a capital by highlighting the importance of gaining confidence in talking to investors and other experienced people while giving out his pitch book.

On this episode, Scott talks with Elijah Whites from Serving Social about the proper mindset when it comes to being an effective marketer. Elijah is the CTO and an executive of Google Partners program at Serving Social, LLC where he has had the opportunity to work with highly influential companies across numerous industries, increasing brand awareness through technology, which he lays down one by one with us - from uploading and optimizing photos on Google Maps and Bing, to putting up your content on social media. He further details the ways we can upload video content right from the set up behind the camera to the way it is published on the feed. Ultimately, he has discovered new and creative ways to place in the midst of all these marketing strategies that helps you plan on how people perceive your business.

How do you buy a house without the money? This question is quite left unanswered and often pushes people away from pursuing real estate. Fortunately, you have an existing financing in place with Subject to Deals. Scott talks about owner-financed notes with owner financing expert, Grant Kemp. Exploring more on that, they distinguish the differences you must take note of and the things you must be wary about before diving in. Grant gives tips on how you can find these deals while exploring the due diligence, paperwork, and the RMLO. He rounds it up by sharing his thoughts on some of the biggest mistakes people investors make with owner financing, putting to mind the role played by social media.

Scott interviews Keith Baker from the Private Lender Podcast about private lending and some of the things to consider when becoming or working with a private lender. He shares some things people might not know about the business—how being a lender to real estate investors is a business loan between two individuals and what they can do with their 401(k) to self-directed IRA. They gush about Ron LeGrand while giving some insights on how to do private lending. He shares what he likes about private lending and its difference with bank loans. Learn as he gives the risks to stay away from and tips on taking care of your investors. Finally, he pushed forth the importance of saying no as he provides some insights on what makes a deal attractive.

At some point in our business careers, we will face a number of clusters that prevent us from just moving forward. And sometimes, we become oblivious to them that we can’t find our way out. As note investors, it helps to look back at ourselves and figure out whether we ourselves are holding the business down. So Scott discusses the importance of untangling the "Christmas lights" that we all face and how to eliminate the confusion that we all face from time to time as note investors. He talks about the basic things you can do to avoid the cluster when you’re just trying to get rock and rolling, asking us to ponder into ourselves as well as giving great tips on building your lists in this business.

It’s so easy to get drowned with other people’s opinions that you find yourself building your success around what they think. You forget about your own set of goals and reasons why you’re here in the first place. But listening to everyone won’t do you any good. Nobody is walking in your shoes but you. You alone can determine your own success and how to achieve it. Here, Scott discusses the importance of judging your success on where you are at and not where others are at in their business. Learn how to be honest with yourself and take action, overcome your struggles, and find success in your own lane.

Investor with a background of structural engineering, and managing director of Equigrowth Capital Mortgage, Chad Urbshott talks about note investing in Canada and how the mortgage markets differ from the US. He discusses about how they deal with the limited banks around while giving us a look into the deals he closed as well as ongoing ones. Talking about how he conducts business from the North to the US, he shares about finding his team members. He also talks about his bread and butter in the note business, whether it’s cash flows or flips and fix, plus how he goes about funding transactions and marketing. Lastly, he answers some questions from the audience and provides great advices for those budding investors out there.

The last third of the year tends to make people lose sight of their goals and slow down. By September, school starts; October is for Halloween; Thanksgiving happens on November; then December is for Christmas. With all of these things happening each month, it becomes easier to get distracted and this undoubtedly harms your business. Scott discusses the importance of finishing the final few months of 2018 strong and moving into 2019 on a roll. Think about your GSD (Get stuff done). Revisit your schedule and recommit to it. Finally, grab the many networking opportunities the next couple months offer and connect with as many people as you can so you can finish 2018 strong.

The advancement of technology has made it possible to connect to more people than you could every before. In the business side of things, it provides you an outlet to create more deals and reach out to your clients. Technology in notes is the new media outlet and that your smartphone is the tool that can be very handy for when you need marketing. Scott shares some of the cool technology features that WCN is working on to help you get more deals closed. He goes and discuss about how technology has changed the way we deal with business while creating more opportunities to be smarter with communication. Technology and smartphones are the future and we have to embrace it in order to move forward.

Life is a series of making failures and learning from them. Sometimes, we have the best people that can help guide us through all of these ups and downs. They are our coaches who continually inspire and push us to become better and to reach our goals. So Scott shares how the coaches of his past have helped to shape and mold him for today. Calling on to people who have created an impact on his life, he shows how we are the product of our coaches and imparts as well the things he has learned from them. He shares to us the importance of being coachable and to not fear failures, especially in the note business where things can become unpredictable.

A common misconception by people about short sales is that it happens fast, that they can close a deal by tomorrow. As a result, many jump in without thinking of the processes it entails and end up getting scammed. Scott talks with realtor and short sale expert, Melody Medley, about short sales in today's real estate market. Giving the 411 about it, she covers the market value according to the condition of the property, processes of selling, equator, timeframe of the negotiation aspects, listings, and fees and financials.

A mastermind is a great venue to see people get together and share information. Scott breaks down some of the highlights from the Dallas Note Mastermind and the Quest Expo. Highlighting the key aspects, he talks about social media as a place to meet and connect with people and also about podcast as a great tool to propel your business forward while giving you some statistics to prove. Finally, he gives some great insights about dealing with assets. Discover the beauty of attending mastermind events.

A mastermind is having a group of people coming together working towards common goals. Scott discusses what is in store for the upcoming Dallas Note Mastermind in Texas that marks the 20th Note Mastermind meeting. Scott talks about getting people together who are closing deals and helping them through the event to take that next step in their business. He also dishes out on what separates this mastermind from others, giving us insights on what and who to expect. At the end of the day, this mastermind is a venue for people who have similar interests with one another to close on deals while learning at the same time.