Guest Blogger David Tilney: Are You Hiring the Right Tenants?

I have a friend in Colorado Springs who owns a bank. Several years ago I complimented him on his employee retention. My banker and I both understand that his most important assets walk out of his bank each night to go to their respective homes and that his job is to get them to come...

IC Elesson: Deal Analysis of the Month

This month’s deal evaluation comes from FastTrack member Derek Christian, with whom I spent some time last week going over the success of his first 4-family deal, in a borderzone area in Cincinnati called Price Hill. Derek chose the unusual asset class of 4-families for the same reason that most people avoid it: it’s a...

Why I’m a Great Wholesaler, and How You Can Be, Too.

 When I started wholesaling real estate around 15 years ago, I was exactly like you probably are today—scared to make lowball offers, uncertain that I’d be able to sell my deals, and perfectly willing to fritter every day away designing logos for my business rather than dong the scary work of making deals and selling...

Inner Circle Form of the Month: Creative Finance Flowchart

The awesome thing about creative finance is that it’s…creative. With a cooperative and motivated seller and a little knowledge about technique, you can put together all sorts of cool deals with low or no money down, flexible payment terms, no qualifying—all kinds of cool things. HOWEVER, one of the biggest issues I’ve seen Inner Circle...

How Wholesaling Changes (and How it Stays the Same)

I’m doing a 1-day class on how to build a $10k a month wholesaling for Cincinnati REIA on June 24th in Cincinnati. It’s just $99 for members ($129 for non-members), and you can register HERE. Wholesaling real estate seems like a pretty straightforward strategy. After all, what could be easier to understand than “find a...