The first way to make fast money in real estate I call the "Wholesale/Retail" Approach. I talk about them together because theyre so closely related. Theyre similar because the type of houses youre buying and the way youll but them are the same. Only when you sell do you see the difference. When you buy these houses youre looking for bargain basement prices. And I dont mean what "conventional" thinking generally accepts as a bargain, like 90-95% of value. No. You couldnt make the money you deserve. Thats a fools game, waiting only for the passage of time and inflation to build up the value of the house. And over the passage of time, you get conventional returns! Hardly superpower wealth achievement! You buy houses for 40 - 50 cents on the dollar Houses you can even buy on a credit card. (Thats right, Ive done it!) Believe me, there are literally thousands of them in every
city and town. Shortly Ill tell you how to find them in
your city, but now for a few examples
Wholesaling Lets talk about wholesale first, because its involves doing a deal you may not have thought about. Most people dont, but its the basis for our free enterprise system. Its just that most people havent thought about it in terms of real estate. Here you treat residential property as inventory that youre selling through a distribution network, to a jobber or store, to the customer... Or maybe even more like a car dealer. You buy the property at one price, you may or may not do a little fixing, and you sell it at a higher price for a profit. Dont need loads of economic theories to do this business. You are looking for another jobber, one who likes to do the retail work and dont worry, this is where the majority of investors spend their time. Although some do it more creatively and profitably then others! (You will join this fortunate crowd with the special insiders knowledge you get from the Wholesale/Retail Cash-Flow System.) Instead of selling to someone whos planning on moving in and living there, you simply sell to another investor. The investor does any necessary fix up work and then either holds and rents it or sells it (what we refer to as retailing) to a home owner. In wholesaling you actually function as a broker. The title of the property doesnt even ever have to pass through your name! Youre a matchmaker, using your knowledge and your "resources" to help the two parties a seller with a problem and a handyman fixer-upper/investor. I say your resources, because you dont have to have any! (Believe me, finding buyers for good deals is even easier than finding the properties!! More about this later.) "I recently bought and sold a house right near where I live. The owner was anxious to sell, but I had no idea how anxious. On the phone he wanted $30,000, so I agreed to take a look. The house looked pretty good outside, but needed about $12,000 worth of rehab. I offered him $17,000 and he didnt even hesitate when he said yes. Ill be closing tomorrow, and I already have a contract to sell the house to an investor for $30,000. Thatll leave me with about $12,300 profit for about 8 hours of work."
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Almost instantly I suddenly got successful. I found out there were more sellers wanting me to solve their problems than there were hours in the day. I got pretty good at this approach pretty quickly. I became the "matchmaker," writing contracts on properties and "flipping" them before I ever closed on them. I got what was left over (the difference between what I agreed to pay and what my buyer agreed to pay me.) usually $3,000 - $8,000 per deal! Incredible! You can make this much money, this fast, this easy! And its not illegal, fattening, or immoral!
Retailing is the business of buying a house at one price and selling it at another higher price. The difference between the sell price and your buy price is your profit. Simple. Simple? No. At least most people dont get it right. Most people listen to greedy owners and conventional minded real estate agents, title company personnel, and attorneys. Believe me, once you learn the simple but factually business way to run your business, youll have these people tell you again and again you cant do exactly what youre doing. Something as simple as buying a property appraising for $120,000 for $110,000 will get their envious attention. Youre "supposed" to pay $120,000. "Ive made approximately $110,000 in the last 8 months by buying wholesale and selling retail. The even better part is its the easiest work Ive ever done! Because of you Im rocketing toward my goal of financial freedom at a rate that a year ago I never would have believed." (James Bleifus, Scottsdale AZ) (By the way, please dont take what Im saying as indicative of all real estate professionals you will find the more creative ones and they will become members on your team. But most, by training and practice, are "conventional.") "Find em, fix em, flip em, forget em!" My philosophy on retailing is simple: find em, fix em, flip em, forget em! Buy one of these ultra low-priced "distress sale" houses (and youll soon see theyre all around you), make it pretty and livable, then waste no time selling it retail and pick up a quick $10,000 - $25,000. Dont panic about the fixing-up part! Im no fan of fix-up either. In fact, its a waste, or at least a misuse, of your valuable time. You shouldnt be putzing around the house when you can better use your time finding another high profit deal. There are plenty of other people who enjoy and make it their business to lay and plaster sheetrock, to worm around with the filthy plumbing, replace broken glass, and throw up a high quality but very affordable paint job. I created a foolproof written checklist-system that factors in all the necessary repair costs, and developed special methods to get these repairs done by somebody else and still make exceptional retail profit! You can too! The latest development of these forms are included in my materials. Now That Youve Got The Basic Idea Behind Wholesaling And Retailing, Let Me Show You Some Real-World Examples Of Each Type of Deal And The Kinds Of Money You Can Make! Youre probably wondering about the casual way I talk about finding houses, or "flipping" them. Sometimes I forget that most people only experience one or two real estate transactions in their lifetime. Usually these are lengthy, confusing situations that leave them with very little desire to ever buy a house again, unless they absolutely have to. It doesnt have to be that way in fact, it just plain isnt that way. A few examples How bout a few wholesale examples first? These come from my files of thousands of successful students. They call me almost every day and I love it! -- excitedly sharing with me how much money theyre making so quickly, easily, and with zero risk!
"We bought the property from a bank for $13,500. We sold it the next day for $21,500 as a wholesale deal to another investor. Retail value: $60,000. (Profit $8,000 in 1 day!) and we never even took title!" A cool $8,000 is not too shabby for a single days work, is it? These deals are out there. You can find them. Everyone in the deal was happy. The bank was glad to get this property off their hands; Dan was thrilled to make $8,000 for one days work; the fixer-upper investor was ecstatic, hes going to make a fortune! You can duplicate Dans success. What about success in the retail aspect of quick-turn real estate? You can flip these endlessly, safely, and securely for fat fast cash profits!
"Using your System, I found a nice house needing no repairs (did you get that?.. NO repairs!) which we were able to purchase for $50,312 with only $5,000 down and the seller financing the balance. I sold the house within two months and netted $26,416. (On 1 house!) Thats more than I made the previous year working."
Go ahead Ask the obvious. Why didnt the owner sell it himself for full retail. He probably just didnt know how to properly market a house, was frustrated. John, however, had learned how to market the house. You have knowledge that other people dont have! And he got paid handsomely for using his knowledge, wouldnt you say? Most people are afraid theyll pay too much or wont know how to accurately figure their actual expenses. Because this is probably the single biggest concern when considering a property, Ive reduced it to a simple formula. In fact, Ive created special copyrighted worksheets that ensure you youll never, never, never, never, never, never, never get into a property without knowing exactly what your profit will be ahead of time. And if you do miss, youll miss on the low side, meaning you potentially stand to make even more money out of the deal than you anticipated. You receive the right to copy and use these without limit in the Wholesale/Retail Cash-Flow System.
"My motivated seller was a woman who got one of the flyers Id put out in the neighborhood and called me. The bank was foreclosing on her house and she wanted to liquidate without any signs going up in front. All she wanted was to end up with enough money for a trailer. I estimated the house needed about $18,000 worth of work and offered her $49,000. Within six months we had the house completely repaired and sold it for a profit of $38,000." You can make simple transactions like these several times a month in only a few spare hours each week. Heres how simple and easy it is: when I travel to various cities around the country, to do one of my hands-on "Boot Camps," one of the things we do is actually go out and look at houses, do our figuring, and actually make offers. Well often look at ten to fifteen prospective houses in a single morning. And well buy some. And, quite often, sell or flip the properties right there. If we do it in a weekend, imagine what you can do! To make this idea even clearer in your mind, let me relate a story of one of my Cash-Flow Graduates one of those "Go Getters" who shows what its all about: "About six months ago, I attended Rons weekend Boot Camp and actually bought two houses during the Boot Camp. I wholesaled one for a profit of $2,000. I fixed up the other one and retailed it for a $30,267 profit. It took a few months to do the work " (Greg Hitchcock, Georgia) Greg learned how to practice wholesaling and
retailing and used them both right away. It just goes to show you
how easy it is, even for a totally new student whos never
done anything like this before, to equal or exceed their former
salary. By doing a quick wholesale deal followed by a retail,
Greg made $32,000 in less than 5 months! The Secrets of Buying the Wholesale/Retail House Remember, I said the type of house you want to buy for either of these methods is the same. Basically, youre looking for the super-discounted, must-sell bargain. The seller must be highly motivated to sell, for whatever reason (there are as many reasons as there are sellers!). The reason they must sell doesnt matter what does matter is your ability and willingness to solve their problems with a win-win solution. The seller wins by getting out from under a house they cant afford to keep, you win by getting a sellable commodity at a price low enough to let you make a very healthy profit with very little effort. Will every seller just lay down and take any offer you present? Of course not! The point is, youve got to control the direction of the entire deal from the very start, if you want to control the money you will be receiving. Notice, I said, will be receiving. There wont be any guesswork in how much profit youre going to make youll know it before you make your offer! And, to make doubly certain you profit, you simply call the hotline service we give you at no extra charge (though, of course, it costs us plenty!). When you first get started, youre bound to have plenty of questions, concerns, and just plain motivational issues Well guide you through them all! But consider this The truth is, you dont really know what the owner is willing to sell for, until you make the offer. Most buyers just P.F.A. (Pull From the Air) some offer based on the sellers price. Dumb! If youre going to make a genuine offer to purchase, you must be able to calculate your real costs, include your profit, and offer according to those numbers. Unless you don, you could easily pay thousands of dollars more than necessary. The real point is, youll waste time and money by trying to figure what might be acceptable to the seller. Your job is to decide what you will offer (based on what you want from the deal) and then make that offer. And the real secret of making money in this business is to do that dozens and dozens of times a week. The number of deals you close will be a direct result of the number of offers you make. How simple can it get? Ive bought over 1,400 houses, and not one was bought without first making an offer. And friend, these deals are just not that hard
to find or to do
Whenever I run ads, my phones literally
ring off the hook with callers wanting to sell their home and
people wanting to buy a home. You can find these deals
everywhere. Read on and learn
Where To Find The Great
Wholesale/Retail Deals There are dozens of sources in your area waiting for you or anybody with the knowledge and skills to solve their problem. And theyre more than willing to let you make money doing it! Here are some sources you can find in your own home town that will "kick in the afterburners on your flight to financial success in real estate:
In fact because Im really a lazy man at heart I currently find about 75% of my wholesale/retail deals through agents. They have access, you probably know, to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), and they can zero in on the houses I want. Once I show them how to pick out the pearls, they bring me all the prospective properties I can handle! Believe me, they do! The more I buy, the more they make!
Another opportunity, one that's especially good right now, is real estate auctions . . . by that I mean auctions where the lender has already foreclosed on the house and is faced with the task of liquidating or getting rid of the property. With VA, HUD, FDIC, FNMA, finance company and bank auctions, you're dealing with a third party that just wants to get rid of a headache.. .even if it means a loss. For as little as $500 earnest money, you can bid on a property and get it under contract for 50 cents on the dollar or less. But, don't forget: in all of these examples we're talking about finding houses to turn quickly... and we prefer to do so before actually having to buy the property. So, for a small amount of money, we can bid and win control over an entire property, and have a couple of months to "flip" our interest in it to another investor, before the closing date comes around (or make agreements to buy it ourselves if we're planning to retail). How much can we make doing this? $2000, $3000, $5,000 or more. What's in it for the other investor that we "flip" to? With one of my students, one of his first properties was flipped to him by another Cash-Flow System grad, who made a quick $17,000 without ever owning or even touching the property . . . Then Steve made another $16,000 by fixing and selling it. They both got what they wanted. You see, there's plenty of room in a deal like this to allow the second party to make a paycheck, too. After a few repairs, he can retail the property and pocket an additional $10,000, $20,000 or more in net profits. Everyone wins! The bottom line: other than small earnest money deposits, you just don't need cash to profit handsomely from Real Estate auctions. I never miss one when they happen in my area. You should concentrate only on properties you can buy for next-to-nothing, plain and simple. Don't fall in love with a house (or a car or a boat or any other major purchase, for that matter). s a Cash-Flow System Specialist, you need to find the houses that aren't perfect, the ones that need more than a little cosmetic help ... The houses nice young couples would never get out of their cars to even look at, they're diamonds in the rough. The result: You bid against fewer bidders and you take home more profit. There's all sorts of things you'll want to take advantage of when it comes to these fantastic foreclosure possibilities . . . unfortunately, most of the information you get from these government agencies and financial institutions is about as helpful as those books on taxes that the IRS writes. I've learned along the way how to really use these resources and believe me, there are some incredible secrets, like:
Just by reading the classified ads you can find sellers who are fed up. These are people who are motivated. You know: "Must Sell"; "Sacrifice"; "Owner will finance"; "Owner desperate"; and, two of my favorites, "Divorced Must Sell" and "Transferred". Ads that tell you the seller has had enough. They're ready, willing, and able to do whatever is necessary to move their house. So call them. Go see the property. Make an offer. Or, better yet, make several to the same seller!
There are other sources of deals, but I learned early on it was much getting the deals to come to me when- ever possible. I'm referring to creative marketing techniques that do the work for you. In my opinion, this is one of the most vital, and overlooked parts of most businesses, including real estate. The on-going flow of the business is generated right here. For example, remember classified ads? Well, reading ads and calling these sellers is just one great way to find properties. They're looking for a deal-maker. . . someone like you! So, what if you could have them so interested, that they'd call YOU up instead of the other way around? Well, why not? I mean, would you rather spend a couple of hours calling sellers cold from ads you read in the paper, or sit in your hammock with your portable phone and take calls from people who already have decided that they want to sell to you? Is that too hard? So, let's just say that, in addition to reading the classifieds and calling a few sellers, we also run some small ads with our own trigger words. Some terms like: "I buy houses", and "fast closings"; or, maybe, "cash for your house", or, "save your credit"; "any condition/any price" is a good one, too. I don't just stop at ads, although these alone are enough to get your phone ringing off the hook and a buyer/seller list filled up real quick. I also use several other methods like...
These are along the same lines as your ads, but with a little more detail. They don't have to be extremely fancy, just have your local quick-printer help you out. Then hire some kids to put them out in neighborhoods. You know, 200 or 300 a week or so. You'll be amazed by the results. I have had sellers call me up from flyers two and three years old. It's simple and it's cheap. In fact, I give you my most productive ads and flyers in my extensive course.
Why not tell what you do on your cards? Use the front and the back. Again, use the same ideas as in the classified ads you'll be running. Pass them out to everyone. When you talk to real estate agents, give them several. Pin them to bulletin boards. The more you get out there the more you have opportunities knocking on your door. I've included a prototype in my System.
When I see an overgrown house or a vacant house, or find out that someone out-of-town is involved in a piece of property (renting or selling), I like to send them a letter. It's a simple form letter, but in it I let them know that I'm a Real Estate Entrepreneur and that I do buy houses, and if they are interested in or considering selling the property, please contact me. I include some of the key phrases we've already discussed, like "quick closings", "cash for your house", etc. In fact, my Wholesale/Retail Cash-Flow System includes the very same letter that got me a $16,000 profit on a house last month. These are just a few of the excellent resources
and techniques I've discovered to get great deals and build up an
inventory of houses to turn for instant cash income. Naturally,
the more of these methods you use, the more houses you'll find.
There's just not the space in this single report to cover all of
these in the kind of detail I'd like. That's why, several years
ago I began putting my techniques and resources into complete
courses, so that those who seriously want more, would have
someplace to turn to continue their education. Believe me, I
would have given my right arm to have had a source this thorough
to guide me and direct me through those early years. I learned,
even then, that... The Price Of Ignorance Is Always And, indeed, the cost of the education I can provide you is modest compared to the tens of thousands of dollars simple, dumb mistakes have cost me and others... mistakes that are absolutely avoidable with proper training. Here's just a sampling of what you can learn from my experiences
This is the powerful System that got me where I am today, and I still use it, every single week. What I like most about it is the fast cash, and little or no out-of-pocket expenses, plus I can literally do this part of the business without ever leaving my desk! That's right,
Imagine how much you can make if you're in decent health and have a few hours each week you can devote to it! Many people like this part of the business all by itself, but there's a great companion business out there: the business of Non-Qualifying Seller Financing . where sellers literally bankroll your deals and give you their equity, just because you're able to solve their problem. I'll cover that in the next section. After that comes the world of Lease/Options and Options where you take control of lovely houses in gorgeous neighborhoods and create several paydays without using money or credit. Sincerely,
Ron LeGrand
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