After I retired, I searched for club to join but I couldn't find any... Any suggestion?

I just spent 3 days (7 hours a day) at a big real estate event and here’s what hit me. They broke the whole game down into 3 roles: Finder The dog on the bone. Calling homeowners, chasing FSBOs, digging through every crack in the market trying to find real deals at 60 cents on the dollar. Their job is to feed the Operator. Operator The flipper. The one in the chaos. Hiring contractors, buying materials, lining up the money, paying everybody, dealing with inspectors, buyers, lenders, drama, delays, all the shit that has to be handled just to get one house sold. Funder The money. Private lender comes in, looks at the numbers, decides yes or no, wires the funds, and then goes back to their life while the Operator sweats it out. When the deal closes, they get paid and look for the next one. Everyone in that room—attendees and coaches—kept pointing to the same “endgame”: 👉 Be the Funder Be the Funder Be the Funder And I’m sitting there thinking: I’ve been doing a version of this for 20 years… but louder. Because the note business is the Funder on steroids. We’re not funding one or two flips, getting cashed out, then letting our money sit around hoping for the next “good deal” to come along. It's also a race to the bottom. The operator is always looking for the cheapest money. Why borrow at 12% when I can get it for 7 or 8 or 6. Those are crap numbers. As note investors, we buy the paper. We buy groups of deals. We control the income stream. We work them out, restructure, modify, foreclose when we have to, and get paid from multiple directions. Some notes pay my retirement accounts for 20 years tax free! My family business can comfortably work 5–6 deals at the same time. Any more than that and yeah, we start to go a little bonkers—but in a good way. That’s leverage. That’s control. That’s being the Funder with way more options than a one-off flip. If you’re tired of only swinging a hammer or chasing leads and you want to see how the “Funder on steroids” side really works, drop a 🔥 in the comments or message me “NOTES” and I’ll walk you through how this model actually builds long-term cash flow.

So I was offered a deal where I lend $25k for 30 days and get back a 10% return. If it goes past 30 days It goes up 5% to 15%, if it goes past 60 days it goes to 20%. Every 30 days it goes up 5% until 120 days it gets to 35%. If it goes past 150 days the land that is attached gets assigned to me. This is vacant land with this transactional funding. Another deal is for a rehab in Colorado. 55k for 90 days, 55k out $80k returned. Is anyone else seeing deals like this?

Are these the ideal investments for retirement? I used to trade my time for dollars but I knew there was a better way. I started reading everything I could which took forever (back in the day). It really started to click for me when I got new friends. My old friends had no desire to become wealthy. Sure they all wanted a million dollars but were not comfortable stepping out of their comfort zone of punching that clock for that "steady paycheck." My new friends talked about positive cash flow interest rates financial calculators and internal rates of return infinite return Wow! It was a whole nother vocabulary a whole nother world and I had to become another person. I remember the first time I introduced myself as a real estate investor. I felt uncomfortable especially when they asked how many properties I owned. Oooops! If you are interested in rentals please comment below!

Has anyone heard of this Intelligence software? I had a demo done for me this morning and I am blown away with the data! Watch this 7 minute video and let me know if you want to share this with my company. Works well in Puerto Rico as well as in the states. Data derived from title companies and county records. WOW that's all I can say!