Creating the San Francisco Bay Real Estate Networking Summit

J. Martin shares his story about how he became the founder/host of the SFBay Real Estate Summit and how he funded his world exploration through real estate. Here are some of the topics we discuss in this episode:

• $85K Passive income with a furnished rental business and other rental investments
• He started a meet up in San Francisco and Josh Dorkin from BiggerPockets contacted him
• After the 2012 BiggerPockets summit he copied the speaker list and called everyone
• Replicate what people want
• A lot of REI clubs are pitch-fest with profit sharing
• Contact me with an iTunes review or referral to a new listener and I will let you know who to stay away from
• Speech or topic meeting appeal to new members
• Open circle
• Don’t be an ask-hole, always add with value
• Think what the potential mentor needs and do it
• A lot of people what to be active when they really want to be passive
• In every interaction try and add value
• Give away info and value to see who are the sharks out there
• There can be value to talking to people who do completely different type of investing thing using the same tool
• IP Targeting to target certain people
• Before an event look people up and see who you want to meet
• Have a goal of what you are looking for and what you have to give
• Make the initial contact to follow up later
• Just realize that everyone else is there looking to people just like you
• In today’s market J Martin is realizing that he can’t travel and purchase to properties and is traveling
• He likes to deploy capital when the odds are best in his favor
• Funding & Deals work in inverse