Always Moving Forward!

[DaVon Brooks]

This is post is not about a closing or a super productive marketing plan. This post is really designed to remind everybody to stay motivated and moving forward with the next step to YOUR idea of success.

I started researching REI around Fall 2014. I immediately encountered Wholesale, and was hooked by the idea of low to no money down strategies to earn money in REI while learning about the rest of REI. Biggerpockets came in my google search for info on how to Wholesale and then I joined this awesome community.

Needless to say, I started reaching out to people, reading the articles and guides on here and listening to podcasts. I amassed a pretty comprehensive understanding of Wholesaling and even mentored a few other investors and friends, but...I never closed a deal! I had a business plan, a marketing strategy and the courage to contact strangers and ask them to sell their home for a discount. I work retail sales so people don't scare me. Lol

My major issue was the lack of mass and consistency of the action I was taking. I drove for dollars but wouldn't send mailers to every house, then I'd stop driving then start again. I bought a list (a not so great one) of target sellers and started writing MORE mailers and sending, but I didn't structure it. I was doing enough to say that I WAS doing it but not enough to actually close any deals. My biggest issue was and still is marketing. Not how to do it, but the money and time needed to do it.

So, I thought to myself, find a partner and get this done! I built a Marketing Campaign proposal that would exchange funding for a 50% cut of the profits from the campaign. I pitched to a developer that had seemed super eager to work with me, face to face. Then I never heard back. Lol. I was stuck again.

Today however, I joined the REIN! That means more people to meet and more connections to be made and proposals to pitch! I feel like a success because I finally did make a "larger" monetary investment in my future in REI. Still no deal! But this commitment to steps forward feels right.

I'm staying in the fight! You stay in it too!