Buying mobile home parks can be a profitable business but, of course, you also need to know how to make it profitable. Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you how to the perks of mobile home investing and a success story of how he doubled the value of a park.

Best Ever Tweet:

Own the land. Not the homes.

Jefferson Lilly’s real estate background:

-        Co-founder of Park Street Partners based in San Francisco, California

-        Focused on the mobile home park investing in select markets in the US

-        Owns 5 mobile home parks with an aggregate value of $4,500,000

-        Say hi to him at http://www.parkstreetpartners.net/

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Know about land banks? Neither did I...until I spoke to our Best Ever guest on today’s episode. Learn how to profit from land banks and what the heck they are.

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Best Ever Tweet:

Find a niche nobody else is doing.  

Jeremy Tillotson’s real estate background:

-        Founder of DreamMaker Properties based in Fort Wayne, Indiana

-        Been a real estate investor since 2007

-        Own 5 homes and roughly about 30 vacant land parcels

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Welcome to the Future. 

It’s one thing to predict the future. It’s another to predict it THEN give actionable advice on how to take advantage of the prediction.

In episode 2 of 4 of our Best Crowdfunding Crash Course Ever series, today’s Best Ever panel discusses the future of crowdfunding AND what you should do about it in order to grow your business. 

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Best Ever Panelists:

-        Jason Fritton, Co-Founder and CEO, Patch of Land

-        Jorge Newbery, Founder and CEO, American Homeowner Preservation

-        Steve Cinelli, Founder and CEO, PRIMARQ

-        Lew Feldman, Partner in Goodwin Procter’s Real Estate Capital Markets Group 

Here’s the futuristic stuff you’ll discover in today’s episode…

-        Bold predictions about the expansion of crowdfunding

-        The two things that could kill all the crowdfunding momentum

-        How states will help lead the way to new crowdfunding legislation

-        The billion dollar lesson from the original crowdfunding platforms

-        The rise of international investing and its implications

And, if you didn’t hear listen to Episode 1 of this series that gives you answers to EVERY crowdfunding question then go check that out now!

Want a treatski?? Unlock the Top Ten Answers to the Top Ten Questions asked about crowdfunding by downloading it for FREE here: http://landing.patchofland.com/white-paper-top-ten-answers-to-the-top-ten-crowdfunding-questions

This episode is bought to you by our Best Ever sponsor, Patch of Land.

Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at  www.PatchOfLand.com

Hear directly from an auctioneer as he gives you his Best Ever advice to be successful at an auction. Going Once…Going Twice…Let’s go!  

Best Ever Tweet:

Remove the emotion and know your price point.

John John Genovese’s real estate background:

-        Owner of Malama Auctions based in Hawaii and specializes in Real Estate auctions 

-        Host of the popular podcast called Fundraiser Solutions which helps nonprofits improve the quality and financial results of their events

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares how to evaluate office space to buy and the keys to being a successful real estate broker. If you’re curious about learning a new side of the real estate business from someone with a proven track record then listen up, my friend.

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Best Ever Tweet:

Talk less, listen more.

Troy Golden’s real estate background:

-        Senior Director at SCGroup Real Estate based in Oak Brook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago)

-        He’s a commercial broker who specializes in representing tenants for office space

-        Founder of Greater Oak Brook Business Leaders and authors the Oak Brook Office Report (www.oakbrookofficereport.org) voted the top commercial real estate blog of 2014 by theBrokerList

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Sponsored by Patch of Land - Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at www.PatchOfLand.com

Learn how the mantra “funding = freedom” has catapulted today’s Best Ever guest’s career in real estate. He shares with you a ton of tips on how to raise private money and busts up some myths about private money.

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Best Ever Tweet:

If you have access to money you are a deal magnet.

Josh Cantwell’s real estate background:

-        Chief Executive Officer at Strategic Real Estate Coach based in Cleveland, Ohio

-        Bought and sold almost 700 properties in 25 states

-        Strategies include rehab, rental, foreclosure, pre-foreclosure and short sale

-        Primarily focused on raising capital and doing larger real estate deals

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares how to buy good cash flowing properties and shares with you what NOT to do when buying an investment property.

Best Ever Tweet:

We can create and re-create ourselves over whenever we want.

Shannon Murree’s real estate background:

-        Real Estate Investor Agent who is based in Ontario, Canada

-        Over 10 years in the industry and her expertise is in working with investors buying and selling single family and multifamily properties

-        Won the Top Investor Agent award in 2013 by the Canadian Real Estate Magazine and the Real Estate Investment Network

-        Say hi to her at http://investinginbarrie.com/

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Today’s Best Ever guest answers one of the most commonly asked questions I come across. She also tells you how to be successful as an agent should you choose to pursue that path.

Best Ever Tweet:

Don’t get your real estate license just to dabble.

Carla Cross’s real estate background:

-        Author of six books and over 20 productivity programs including, Up and Running in 30 Days which is used by new agents to launch successful careers

-        She is based near Seattle, Washington

-        She has interviewed hired and trained thousands of new real estate agents

-        Carla has been published over 300 times in major real estate publications

-        Say hi to her at http://carla-cross.com/

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There are ways to get economies of scale with small apartment buildings and our Best Ever guest shares how you can create that economy of scale and make money with them.

We also talk about creative financing to do deals with no money of your own.

Best Ever Tweet:

When you’re making a decision stick to the math.

Lance Edwards’s real estate background:

-        Author of How to Make Big Money in Small Apartments

-        Multifamily investor who has done deals ranging from 3 to nearly 300 units

-        Active investor since 2002 and is based in Houston, Texas

-        Say hi to him at www.bigmoneyinsmallapartments.com

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Welcome to the Best Crowdfunding Crash Course Ever presented by Patch of Land. In today’s episode you get EVERY answer to EVERY question you have about crowdfunding. And…if we don’t answer it on the show then tweet your question to Patch of Land - @patchofland.

Who we’re talking to today:

AdaPia d’Errico, Chief Marketing Officer at Patch of Land

Here’s a nibble of just some of the answers you’ll get in this episode…

-        How all your money is ALREADY RAISED – you just have to qualify yourself and the deal

-        Knowing when it’s the right time to use crowdfunding for your deals

-        Why a little bitty 8% stat will blow your mind

-        Differences between all the types of crowdfunding platforms

-        How crowdfunding platforms make money and the fees you can expect to pay

-        How quickly the underwriting process takes to get approved

-        The paperwork you’ll need in order to get approved for a crowdfunded deal

Want a treatski?? Unlock the Top Ten Answers to the Top Ten Questions asked about crowdfunding by downloading it for FREE here: http://landing.patchofland.com/white-paper-top-ten-answers-to-the-top-ten-crowdfunding-questions

Oh, and BTW, did you know that Crowdfunding is an acronym!?!? AdaPia enlightened me about that during our conversation. It stands for…Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act.

This episode is bought to you by our Best Ever sponsor, Patch of Land.

Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at  www.PatchOfLand.com