Joe here from the REI In Your Car Podcast, and today's episode is a bit different—it's an exciting announcement! We're hosting the Do Deals Workshop in St. Louis on May 17-18, and trust me, you won't want to miss it. This two-day workshop is limited to just 30 participants, where you'll learn from seasoned pros Brent Bowers and Ray Zhang, alongside yours truly. We are gonna dive deep into real estate strategies, marketing techniques, and negotiation skills as we guide you through making offers on real deals. And get this—if you land a deal during the workshop, we'll fund it and partner with yo ..read more

Would you like to learn how to buy land for super cheap? In fact, how to buy land with nothing down? I'm going to show you how to do that right here, and it’s so easy. I’ll show you how I find vacant land and buy it, whether you’re using cash or owner financing. You can use these strategies if you're using land as an investment or if you're using land for your own personal reasons. These are my favorite ways to find these kinds of deals. The number one rule in real estate is not location, location, location. It's make offers, make offers, make offers, and make a lot of them. Make the cash off ..read more

Paul do Campo joins me here to talk all about following up. If you get the right systems in place, you can convert 30 to 40% of your dead leads into deals. We’ve all heard that the money is in the follow up, but nobody really understands how to do it. Paul walks through the exact system he’s created for investors. Paul’s system is a whole different arsenal of tools that can save you from chasing those pesky manual tasks that can really drain your time. Paul demos how his system helps you draw in leads by using problems and solutions and how you can customize different sequences to fit unique s ..read more

Jared and Foster are back here with another update, and they’re doing an amazing job. They’ve got a full pipeline, and their numbers are looking fantastic. So far, they’ve sent out almost 8,000 postcards and made 25 offers, not too shabby. Here, I go over some of the questions they have as they work on closing more deals. One of their issues was in dealing with a property in significant wetlands with poor access and I walked them through how to handle it.  In our call, we also run through Jared and Foster’s numbers and stats. I share how I like to put together offers and handle objections ..read more

Have you ever wondered how you could find, hire, and train really good virtual assistants to run your business for you? How do you outsource your business to someone else? Here, I’ll show you how to do it. When I was starting out, I was going through a vicious up and down roller coaster of not getting enough leads. The VA I hired not only helped me get more leads, but they also pointed out a better way to do it. Hiring VAs is pretty simple and there are three things your VA should be doing for you: all of your marketing, updating your CRM, and handling your follow up. I walk through all of the ..read more

My good friend Tom Krol is known for taking massive, imperfect action. In your real estate business, the mindset stuff up in your head makes up 85%, and the remaining 15%, if that, is the tactical stuff. Tom’s here to fire you up to stop making excuses and to start taking action, even if it’s not perfect. Tom shares some of the key markers that you see in successful people in this business, like what differentiates a beginner who's doing deals from a beginner who's still struggling. A lot of people hire coaches to get results. The education you receive is super important, but in the end, what ..read more

I was doing a coaching call recently with my land coaching clients, and some of them asked me how an assignment works on a land deal. Some people may want to do a land deal, but they're worried that they don't have the money or can't get access to the money to double close on it. Much like when we're wholesaling properties, sometimes it’s easier when you can do an assignment and then sell that contract to somebody else for a higher price. You could also assign the rights to that contract to an end buyer.  Some people say in some states it's illegal, immoral, and fattening to do assignment ..read more

I’m in the Business Vision Workshop right now and I want to talk about something real quick. My dad was a janitor growing up but he had this incredible entrepreneurial streak – obviously, I took after him. He owned his own janitorial services business and whenever he would hire people, he has this 2-step formula for training people. —Step 1: They would just watch him do the work —Step 2: He would watch them do the work And then they would be on their own. But they would learn the tricks to being more efficient to do the work. I love that analogy of watching somebody do it and have them watch y ..read more

I've done a lot of deals over the years. Almost every deal, if not every single deal that I've ever done, I've always partnered with somebody else. If you don’t have a ton of money to invest in marketing or you don’t have enough time, partnering with someone else who has those things and splitting the deal makes all the difference. And you don’t need to make them a formal business partner, you can simply do it on a deal-by-deal basis. When you can partner with other people, you make more money. You can do more deals and you can make more money faster than you could doing it on your own. Isn't ..read more

We’re back with another segment of my Do or Die series with Jared and Foster. If you’ve been keeping up with us so far, you know it's been exciting. Foster has been working really hard on the leads that they're getting, and they're doing very well with their direct mail strategy with postcards. We're averaging a little less than 1% response rate, which should go up soon because Foster will soon be leaving his day job to flip land full time!  Those first months in your real estate business are always the hardest and it can feel like you’re plowing through concrete. It takes time to build u ..read more