Look around, who are the five people closest to you? What is their net worth? How is their attitude? Do they uplift, edify, and push you? These are questions that our Best Ever guest will ask today on the show. Be alert and open minded as you hear her tips on creating a power team that will revamp your personal and business goals, while maintaining a steadfast focus.

Best Ever Tweet:

Everything that you do, your words, your thoughts, your belief systems plant seeds into your existence

Dawn Oree’s background:

• 3 Ways of Making the Law of Abundance Work in Your Life

• Been teaching the Law to business people and non-business people

• The Abundance Summit in San Diego in March

• Say hi to Dawn at www.dawnoree.com

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Wondering why dollars are leaking from you bank account every month? A drip here and there will impact your net operating income MASSIVELY; we are talking hundreds of thousands, even millions, down the drain! Today’s Best Ever guest is a water conservation expert, and she has saved billions of gallons of water for countless property managers across the map. You will hear a couple water saving tips that will crank your multi-family investment’s cap rate up a notch, don’t miss out!  

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We have found that in the apartment world, it’s especially difficult to change tenant behavior.

Katie Anderson's background: 

• Founded Save Water Co and was named Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2015 for her water conservation work

• Focusing on the apartment industry, she has performed water audits in over 150,000 apartment units nationwide conserving just under 1 billion gallons of water and providing big savings towards owners’ and residents’ bottom lines

• Say hi to her at http://savewaterco.com/

   

   

   

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While dining at a restaurant with her friends our Best Ever guest gets her first call from a motivated seller, and only after mailing number two! She felt prepared enough…but the deal wouldn’t close so easy. After an agonizing eight months of back and forth texts and emails, she was able to get not one, not two, but four signatures! You won’t believe what the spread potential was on this deal…listen in!

Best Ever Tweet:

Don’t just learn, you gotta get out there and actually “do”!

Kim Handelman's background:

• 25 years in advertising experience at top NYC ad agencies

• Based in Gilford, Connecticut  

• Just closed on her 1^st wholesale deal that was quite an experience

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Welcome back Best Ever listeners to episode 2 of the 4 part Commercial Crowdfunding series! Today we hear from Patch of Land’s Mark Slowman, who has extensive history in commercial real estate. He covers EVERYTHING from underwriting to multifamily deal analysis. Think you know how to buy an apartment complex? Are you aware of the owner’s performance or the DSCR? In that case you better tune in…also, hear why Mark shares that “cap rates” don’t tell you everything!

Best Ever Tweet:

You have to make sure the property is appropriate for the market.

Mark Slowmann’s real estate background:

• Started in public accounting
• Worked with a couple large real estate groups
• Sourcing and negotiating loans from the borrower standpoint
• Commercial real estate expert

   

   

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Today’s Best Ever guest set out to raise money to fund…well, just about everything! From business start-ups to breakthrough inventions, he has been the key to business execution. Our Best Ever guest is a big player in the note buying game; he’s able to acquire a note package for UNDER half price…he’s also going to share 12 ways to profit from note deals…you MUST see his article here: http://ezinearticles.com/?12-Ways-To-Profit-From-Non-Performing-Real-Estate-Notes&id=9153373

Best Ever Tweet:

Know what you’re buying before you buy it.

Christopher Winkler's real estate background:

• Manager of Silverwood Capital, LLC, a real estate investment firm specializing  in discounted residential distressed and toxic assets

• He has over 30 years in raising venture capital, sales, marketing debt mediation and collection practices

• He has helped raise over $20 million in private equity for early stage companies

• Based in Costa Mesa, California

• Say hi to him at www.silverwoodllc.com 

    

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Our Best Ever guest is perfecting syndication. He is putting together large scale multi family deals with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY! Structuring deals that are more complex, our Best Ever guest began flipping…and found it wasn’t for him. As a sponsor, his offers for the bigger deals are backed by one thing the majority of investors and syndicators would hesitate to include, hear how he closes! 

Best Ever Tweet:

Be very careful with your own money; be even more careful with somebody else’s money.

Ryan Dunigan's real estate background:

• Raises money and invests in apartment buildings in Arizona

• Has syndicated 188 units and manages another 29 units for a 3^rd party

• Based in San Diego, California 

• Went to school at Colorado State and big snow boarder

   

   

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Starting at age 27, our Best Ever guest made an easy $8,000 return on his first fix and flip! His tenacious 30 offers a day with the help of a determined virtual assistant gathered big returns. One of his most noteworthy investments was a single family residence he was inches away from selling…but before he completed the wholesale transaction, his mentor gave him a better idea…you’ll be on the edge of your seat once you hear how it turned out!

Best Ever Tweet:

Be persistent, you’re the only one really who is going to control your destiny.

Ehab Shoukry’s real estate background:

• Two-time air hockey world champion who has worked in corporate America for the last 15 years

• Dabbled in real estate at 27 but got serious this year and has purchased 8 rentals in four months

• Target price range is $55,000 with monthly rent around $1,100 to maximize cash-on-cash return

• Based in Houston, Texas and say hi to him at www.rockethousebuyers.com 

   

   

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Still curious about where to get started in real estate investing? Here’s a hint…learn and focus! Joe shares five steps to jump into the world of REI…Be aware that there are NUMEROUS ways to invest, and Joe encourages the Best Ever listeners to narrow your focus through exploration, observe others that are successful in the same niche, and reciprocate services. If you are craving change, then you won’t miss this show!

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We’re not after a particular monetary goal, we’re after the time, and spending the time the way we want to spend it.

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“We’ve been in houses that looked like murder scenes,” shares our Best Ever guest…she gets into the nitty gritty of extensive house cleaning. Starting as a REALTOR in a foreclosure rich market, she saw the potential of large scale “haul outs” and “clean outs”. Hear her worst house that her crew tackled and what methods they used to renew the home from top to bottom.

Best Ever Tweet:

We’ve been in houses that looked like murder scenes!

Sasha Allen’s background:

•  Founder of Swept Away Property Clean Outs
• Based in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Been in business for 3.5 years
• www.Sweptawaycleanouts.vpweb.com  
• Loves photography and takes pictures of people in everyday situations
• Cleaning and real estate investing

   

   

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Excited for a new goal, idea, or inspiring concept? Take Joe’s advice to go a step further than “eureka!”…create an action plan! Joe shares his experience developing the Best Ever show; from a few downloads, to now over 500,000, he expresses the importance of a well-constructed plan. You too can create and build anything from square one, and as a matter of fact, Joe wants to hear about it! Pull out a pen and 90 page notepad…Joe has a challenge for you, and we all want to know your results!

Best Ever Tweet:

Do things methodically and consistently every single day for 90 days, look back and then see where that’s got you.

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