Newbie wholesaler in need of mentoring in Baltimore MD

[Cassie Johnson]

Hello my name is Cassie and I have been to numerous seminars for flipping houses and wholesaling. I am very interested in wholesaling to start and would like some guidance from experienced active wholesaler in the Baltimore MD area. Please reach out need to really get out there.

[J Scott]

Originally posted by @Cassie Johnson:

Thanks anyways for at least asking and expressing your concern on whether or not helping with advice would take away from your pockets. Happy investing

I have over 17,000 posts on this website with advice (and probably the highest vote/post ratio of any long-time member of the site).  I have written tens of thousands of articles, blog posts and emails to people providing help, support and mentorship.  I spend hours a week having lunch/coffee/drinks with prospective investors who are looking for advice or want to pick my brain.  And I've spent thousands of hours personally mentoring about a dozen other investors (free of charge), who between them have done hundreds of deals and have made millions of dollars.  

So, despite your insinuations, I'm pretty sure I can't be accused of being stingy with providing information.

If you're going to ask someone to spend their time, effort and risk of competition in order to help a stranger who is offering nothing in return, you shouldn't be surprised when you don't get many responses to your post -- and the responses you do get are along the lines of what I wrote.

That said, I'm going to offer you some free advice that you're welcome to consider or ignore...you're choice:

The best way to get someone to volunteer their time to help you is to build a relationship with them first, or at very least to offer something in return.  The people I have spent time with and mentored have started the relationship by offering to take me to lunch or offering to help out on a project of mine or offering to do research for me or offering some other skill they have.  They didn't initiate the relationship by asking me give them something without offering anything in return (though I get those emails about 25 times/week as well).

The types of investors you would want to help you are the types that get dozens of requests per week for help.  Do you think they mentor everyone who asks them?  Or course not.  It's not that they/we don't want to help everyone; it's that we don't have the time/energy to help everyone.  We'd rather help those that are willing to make it as much about us as they make it about themselves.  But, when someone comes along and makes it about "me, me, me," it's easy to just ignore them and move on.

While you might think my response was harsh, notice that I at least responded.  Nobody else did.  And likely nobody else will.  Because those of us who have been around here for months, year or the better part of a decade realize that there are two types of people out there -- those who want something for nothing and those who are happy to earn the help they need.  

My recommendation is to start thinking in terms of the second group -- those are the people that I, and others, are happy to spend time, energy and money helping.