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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
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