My Situation

[Chris Briscoe]

If this is in the wrong place, please move it to where it belongs.

My situation is as follows.

My life has been a successful track of backwards. I always jump into stuff the backwards way.  It's been happening since I was in High School. I usually don't find out it's happening that way until it's far too late.  Just poor info and late discovery , both led by desire. 

I have always wanted to dive into real estate as the whole scenario of owning real estate for income just makes sense to me. Due to my own idiotic repetition of mistakes in debt building, I decided to push forward into REI while working a full time job. Saw some flipping shows on HGTV(I know, I know), started finding videos on youtube on REI and how it's done and that led me to what is considered evil according to the podcasts. I bought into a guru program. I won't say which one for now just to keep them out of the discussion. But the program is a 50/50 deal up to a certain money amount. I actually don't have a problem with the setup for what they provide.

Of course, about 4 days after I signed up with the program, I found BP. Waaah, waaaaaaah. I. Wish. I. Knew. Sooner. Again.......backwards. I'm not upset about getting into the program, but I am upset that I could've found this wonderful place sooner had I just tried a little harder. I'm only 6 weeks into the program.

My goal is now to get done with my part in this program as quick as intelligently possible.  I'm a show me person. I cannot read something and turn it into reality. It used to make me mad in school when aptitude results would come back in "reading comprehension skills" as below average. It made me mad because I didn't understand what I was reading. Go figure. So things like marketing, totally confused. I believe I'll have no problem talking to sellers as I'm pretty good with people. I believe getting funds for a deal will be fairly easy in the beginning as I have excellent credit. I live in good ole boy country and know SEVERAL people in trade skill areas(paint, roofing, hvac, construction) and I believe finding reliable help for the physical part of the business will be relatively easy. But the nuts and bolts part of getting marketing going eludes me.

I'm in North Georgia and would love to hook up with some other investors to pick their brain on some marketing ideas. Don't get me wrong, my program has a whole plethora of marketing schemes but like I said, I'm a show me guy. I need to physically see it done.

Anyways. That's my setup. feel free to comment/advise/bash away. And thanks for reading.

[Ethan Atkinson]

Hey Chris, I don't remember in my last post to you about the Atlanta REIA if I talked about how I used to work in Gainseville. I managed a bunch of properties and love that town. An amazing rental market area. If out of town folks need a good place to invest this is one of those hidden gems because of Atlanta. I like the area because the population can be self sufficient without Atlanta. Meaning the people can also stay in town and work instead of drving to Atl. That's where your marketing focus should be. I also love a good excuse to come eat downtown. We can meet sometime and I can fill you in on who the biggest wholesaler in town is and how you might be able to blow him out of the water. I even have a few properties we can discuss about trying to flip.