$5,000 can turn into $25,000 with Real Estate. Yes, it takes time, how else do you expect to make a return. Real Estate deals help you to compound your money investing in someone else's deal and it's not always a $500,000 or $300,000 investment that's needed from you. This specific deal pictured is on Emerald on Chicago's Southside. You can work with smaller numbers to compound. So instead of that money going from $5,000 to $4,100 to $2,400 dollars, help your account go from $5,000 to $6,100 to $7,800 and over time $25,000. You can learn to invest with experienced investors.

For Sale By Owner can be a good lead source. These are owners actively looking to sell, they might be mean but they are trying to sell!!!!! This example is using Zillow, although Redfin is similar.

I just turned 35 on May 20th and I took a lot of time out to reflect on my life. A lesson I keep thinking on and really trying to live is “The Gap and the Gain.” Not sure if anyone heard of Dan Sullivan , his not in Real Estate , just business mastery although this lesson I think is huge in real estate because you don’t get wins easy and a lot of it takes a lot of time. Many people live in the Gap, Always thinking how you could do better , at this age I should be making so much money, I failed at this and am I really any good at what I do. All of us ask ourselves this question. We look at the ideal as something we can reach. You can not reach the “Ideal” , everytime you accomplish anything your “Ideal” becomes a better and more perfect vision. I lived my whole life in The Gap , wondering why I haven’t accomplished more. A huge mind-shift for me recently , probably about the last 8 months is “The Gain.” The Gain is the mindset of continually looking back at your past and appreciating and enjoying what you’ve done so far. It’s the vision of all you’ve accomplished throughout the years that’s made it possible for you to do what you do now. Everything that’s happened that’s allowed you to work with the people you now have the privilege and opportunity to work with. - keep learning and working and you’ll have equity ownership in a Real Estate portfolio. Read 10x is easier than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy. I also liked The Gap and The Gain - a little less , although both books go over this concept. Pick up and read it Or listen to it on audible like me.

Banks will lend you $200,000 on Real Estate with no money down when you House Hack a property. This is when you live in one unit and rent out the other unit. This leverage can change your life, imagine your controlling a $200,000+ asset with no money in and collecting a rent check. Real Estate provides leverage that other investments don’t. That’s why it creates more millionaires than any other investment. Do you want to find your own deals to invest or would you rather invest passively into other people’s deals.

I want to answer some of the questions for me focused on talking to investors and raising capital and how you can frame your talk with investors. People I connect with - For me I think I will connect best with single family investors. I am one myself and I understand how it is a struggle and how multi family can be a solution to consolidate their investments. Also, technology workers and consultants. I worked at a company called Avanade that is a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft, my time there I believe 7 years I worked on teams with technology workers. I think they will be a hard group to get to invest , as they are very cautious and analytical but I believe once they invest they will be low maintenance and mainly want to see the reports and email updates. How to separate myself from the competition - I can speak about how I begin in single family and working on investing in multi family. I believe I can connect differently knowing the struggles of investing. Track record - I will work on connecting with experienced investors like Brian and Steven to use their track record for credibility. My goal is to add value to General Partners to strengthen our relationship. Building Trust - I think a huge way I can build trust is to stay in the game. Years of promoting , speaking and teaching real estate over time will help for me to build trust.