The State of Real Estate - My Journey

[John Liapis]

Hello all,

I decided to start a new thread to keep a record of my thoughts, actions, and goals. I initially got started back in march when I came back from Greece. I was over there for eight months and started my venture into real estate.

I initially got started with Sean Terry's Flip2Freedom Academy. I went in it with hesitation and I am glad I did. He doesn't teach what specific areas to target, how to negotiate with a seller, how to structure deals. Only that you can make a boatload of money, doing wholesaling. I don’t doubt that it’s possible, but he makes it sound like you can make over 100k a month in short order.

Right now, I’ve been slowly listening to the podcasts. Specifically the ones dealing with wholesaling and marketing. I’m itching to get started.

I have been slacking off a bit lately, and I felt I needed to change my routine to get myself back on track. I plan to update this thread once every two weeks with progress updates and goals.

So my plan right now; is to save money until February to do marketing. I don’t have unlimited funds, I work a full time job and the winters here in Chicago are brutal. When that time arrives, I will start my marketing. I’ll be buying a list from listsource targeting absentee owners, hitting 1000 homeowners at once. And I plan to hit them at least 3 times.

I’ll also sign up for a live answering system such as patlive. I believe that will bring more deals as I know people are more willing to talk to someone who will answer the phone straight away.