Happy Tuesday Everyone! We are 30 days out from a LIVE production featuring @Maria Ingle of EXP! Thank you @Maria Ingle for stepping up to lead the South region of San Diego County as the Commercial Real Estate SME! For January 30th, 2026 the following SMEs (aka 9 LIVEs) will have production control over that LIVE show according to the attached screenshot of the 30 day Leaderboard: - @Christopher Astillero - @Jean Anagnos - @Martin Magana - @Erica Traulsen - @Nicole Turner - @Tracie Hasse - @Ryan King - @Roger Lee - @Michael Harris The "LIFEline" thread on LinkedIN for the LIVE will be at https://www.linkedin.com/messaging/thread/2-OWMyYmE5Y2YtYmEzNC00ODA0LWEwNjEtNjJlZGFlOTRlZGQ5XzEwMA==/ THANK YOU all for your contributions and participation! Coach RU @Ruben Austria @Emerson Pacete @Johana Austria

Happy Weekend All! 30 more days until LEARNin Local REIA is official!!! Before that day I would like to fill up our San Diego network with the Personaliies, Producers and Promoters for every zip code there is in San Diego county! Please review the Google Sheet and comment in order to "stake your claim" in our network!!! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ftH2Jvpvnf8Ii_NPhRUHgXzit9NBgjnmbXGAXoJS7iY/edit?gid=0#gid=0 FYI, we are still looking for "Region Leaders" for the South, North Inland and North Central areas of San Diego county to be LIVE on Jan 30, Feb 6 and Feb 13th. Please comment or DM if you have any questions! Coach RU

WEEK 6 — How to Build Wealth Beyond Your First Real Estate Investment Region Focus: North Inland San Diego (Poway, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos)LIVE Date: Friday, December 19, 2025 @ 11 AM PST Top 3 Lessons for Aspiring Investors From Property to Portfolio Growth Learn post-purchase strategies — manage, refinance, or flip After acquiring your first property, the real work begins. This lesson focuses on deciding whether to hold, refinance, improve, or sell based on cash flow, equity position, market conditions, and personal goals. Investors learn how post-purchase decisions directly impact long-term wealth, risk exposure, and scalability. Reason for growing portfolio – cash flow, higher rate of return, leave a legacy for family, increase tax right offs. Do you have the personality to be an investory? 1st Personality is important it takes someone who is wiling to do the research and patience to acquiring the best investment property. Choosing the right real estate agent is key. Someone who has been in the business and a seasoned professional. They have their own investment properties and understand the benefits of buying more property. It’s sometimes looking for a needle in haystack to find the right property to fix up in todays market because thousands of people are looking for the same thing. Lots of competition. 2nd Are you a risk taker? Most small business fail within 2 years. Are you willing to take that risk? Are you willing to work hard. Do you the time, the personality, the patience and can you do your own maintenance? Are you a do it yourselfer? 3rd Economics must fit. Analyze each property meticulously! Will it generate enough money, PITI (increased insurance cost) Will there be enough rent to cover the mortgage so there’s no negative. Maintenance is key. You have slumlords who just don’t want to pay for maintenance because it’s too expensive and they don’t have the finances to keep up with deferred maintenance. Is the rate of return adequate? Will the money that I put in the property get the rate of the return that I need. Figure out your revenue, budget and expenses. Double the expenses on your estimate and make sure you have the funds to cover just in case there’s a slab leak, major roof repairs, HVAC, electrical, plumbing etc.

@Christopher Astillero @Tracie Hasse @Nicole Turner @Martin Magana @Ruben Austria @Maria Ingle @Erica Traulsen @Roger Lee Any events that you would like to promote this Friday, please feel free to post the links in the comments. Thanks!

I'm looking forward to the ugly sweater party on Wednesday night. I look forward to seeing you all.