Has anyone used Hipster Investments?

[Elizabeth Garcia]

Hi everyone,

I’m curious to know if anyone has had first hand experience using Hipster Investments to buy TK properties?  I see the founder, Ali Boone, writes a lot of articles for BP, but I haven’t been able to find any information on her company in the forums.  I would appreciate any feedback.

[Ali Boone]

Oh, well hi everyone! I guess I should set one of my keyword alerts to be “Hipster Investments”… I didn’t even know there was a post about my own company until the last post just tagged me. (Warning: long response coming….I’m a little late to my own party so it might take a minute to catch-up)

I’m absolutely happy to answer any questions, disclose anything anyone wants to know, and respond to anything.

To give you a short on my exact place in this turnkey world… I started out as a turnkey buyer myself, long before I even knew all the companies out there. (sorry @SAJ to burst your claim I’m not a turnkey buyer). When I was a buyer of them for myself, I was so excited about them that I was telling everyone under the sun about them and since people hadn’t heard about turnkeys, they all wanted to know more and a lot of people I told ended up buying for themselves. As this continued, I was finally told that if I got my real estate license I could accept referral fees on people’s purchases. I did this solely as a side gig while I was working my corporate engineering job. After I had started my own casual real estate blog not too long after, BP found me and asked if I would start writing for them. Suddenly traffic levels got huge and everyone asked who I had bought through, so I told them. End of story.

I do make referral fees for my referrals, but let me make something very clear. I have had just about every TK provider and TK company offer me referral fees to promote their properties, and just about all of them offered me substantially higher referral fees than I currently make. However, I vowed in the beginning that I would only refer people to opportunities that I personally invested in myself. To this day I still don’t refer anyone to anything I haven’t been directly involved in myself.

Even if you message me directly, you will never hear me pitch or sell anyone on anything (I’m actually the worst salesperson on the planet, guaranteed). I don’t pitch or sell anything in my forum responses, in my articles, or anywhere. I can’t even tell you how many people I’ve told that they shouldn’t buy a turnkey (two people just earlier today, in fact). I don’t even offer property or resource information unless someone asks me for it. So if anyone feels in any way that I’m only a marketing salesperson, I’m very sorry you feel that way.

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