All Forum Posts by: Caten Murphy

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting in person at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

We are very excited to have Carrie Lique as our speaker this month! Carrie is the Managing Attorney at McNaught and Clements, PLLC in the Lake Norman and Mooresville offices. She is also a licensed attorney in the state of Florida. After graduating law school in 2007, Carrie was selected as one of the youngest women to serve on the Mecklenburg County Bar Association Board of Directors for a 3-year term. She has been a licensed attorney for 15 years and her primary focus has been real estate transactions.

Carrie will be diving into laws, procedures, and popular legal topics that real estate professionals need to know. We will be covering topics such as when and how to use certain contract clauses (and the cautions with doing so), changes in real estate laws coming down the pipeline, and things you probably should/should not be doing in your business 🫣. Carrie also regularly presents to real estate professionals on mobile home investing (and its cautions), estates, encroachments, and more; so come ready with that list of questions while we have an expert's with us!

We look forward to seeing you guys next week! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

 Hey there! Here is the link for February's: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/1171938-febr...

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, February 21st at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

We are super excited to have Sam Wegert as our speaker this month! Featured on The BiggerPockets Podcast (Episode 560)— he has a FASCINATING story and SO much knowledge to share.

Sam, also known as the CoLiving Guy, is an entrepreneur, a coach, and a real estate investor focusing on CoLiving. He is passionate about CoLiving and providing people with a more affordable housing option that is also clean, quiet, and safe. Because of CoLiving, he was able to retire his wife and himself at 23 years old. Together, they own 8 short-term rentals and 150+ CoLiving doors. Sam is now transitioning into a passive role in his business to focus on coaching other people achieve financial freedom through CoLiving.

Sam is a wealth of knowledge and is going to take us through multiple important lessons he's learned along the way to hopefully help speed up all of our learning curves. Some of those lessons include:

•How CoLiving and house hacking are the quickest ways to financial freedom (with way less of a landlord headache).

•How he has systemized his real estate business into a cash-producing machine.

•The property management policies that help keep him, and his tenants, happy.

...and more!

As always, this is going to be such a valuable opportunity to get inside an expert's mind and gather some amazing tips, so make sure to set aside some time to be here and come prepared with your questions!

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Hey Everyone, Happy New Year!

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, January 17th at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

We are kicking the new year off with a topic that is essential to all of our businesses - funding our deals! This month, we have Julie Bunyea from BD Capital coming to speak with us!

BD Capital is a direct lender specializing in fast and creative solutions for immediate real estate investor financing needs. They were founded in 2015 with a mission to transform the current private lending landscape by offering a family office environment with competitive lending parameters for fix/flip, new construction, bridge and DSCR loans for residential investment projects.

To date, they have funded hundreds of loans and service all their loans in-house through their construction, accounting, sales, underwriting, and management departments, so you will always get the best service.

This is going to be a good one; we look forward to seeing you guys next week! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, November 15th at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting in person at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

As we are nearing the closeout of the year, we are excited to bring back one of our most-asked about topics: all things private lending!

Our very own, Tom Murphy, will be discussing how to raise private money, how to present to investors, and how to keep them coming back! Additionally, he will share his experience lending to other investors, what he expects, what he does to protect himself, and how to make more $$$!

Tom has over 18 years of experience in high tech sales to companies like Apple and Microsoft and began investing in real estate in 2017. He began lending to other investors via his Self-Directed IRA and has been teaching others how to do the same. Tom, his wife, and his daughter have flipped 15+ properties and are now focused on building a passive rental portfolio. He is very experienced on both sides of the equation when it comes to private lending and has many lessons learned to share with the group. Also please feel free to come prepared with any questions you have about private lending!

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Caten Murphy - Maverick Property Group

(704) 614-6699

[email protected]

This month, we are getting back to the fundamentals of business and mastering COMMUNICATION. Now before you click out of this email because who wants to hear that boring "C" word, hear me out:

How much easier would making an offer to a seller be if you knew exactly what language and order it needed to be presented in to get a YES?

How much more efficient would hiring + training be if you knew exactly which personality characteristics excelled in that role (yes, this includes VA's too!)?

Wouldn't it be pretty cool to understand how to build rapport with anyone from a seller to a potential PML easily and effortlessly? (Psssst: It’s not about finding commonality with the other person or even getting the other person to like you).

For those of you who don't know-- In my obsession with continuing to grow my knowledge and our business(es), I decided to get my Master Certification in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) in 2021. Never heard of it? Promise you're not alone there! Long story short, NLP is an extremely powerful set of tools which allow us to think, communicate, and manage ourselves and others more effectively so that we can DO more, BE more, and HAVE more in our lives.

This, paired with understanding the DISC assessment, have become critical in helping us to build rapport quickly and effortlessly, uncovering a person's communication styles and speaking in their language for faster results, presenting our offer in the right order, and hiring and training employees and VA's.

This month, I am going to be diving into some JUICY tips I've learned over the years that we now use in our business (and also every day lives) that have been MAJOR keys to sales, closing, communication, and negotiating.

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Caten Murphy - Maverick Property Group

(704) 614-6699

[email protected]

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, September 20th at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting in person at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

We are super excited to have Matt Ruggiero as our speaker this month! Matt is the COO at Better Path Homes as well as a licensed broker for his own firm. Before getting into real estate, he studied mining engineering at Virginia Tech and worked at underground salt mines as a project engineer; pretty cool huh?

In 2016, he got his real estate license with the idea to buy his own rentals, but fell in love with hunting for deals for investors. In 2019, he joined forces with Stephanie, Jeff, and Zach and became Better Path's COO. He has grown the company into a 100 property/year new build and 200 property/year wholesale company with 12 employees and a group in the Philippines.

Matt is a wealth of knowledge and is going to take us through MULTIPLE important lessons he's learned along the way to hopefully help speed up all of our learning curves. Some of those lessons include:

• -Scaling your business and what it takes to not collapse once you cross the next threshold
• -Finding your niche
• -The process behind high volume and why their transaction team is so successful
• -How to JV with Better Path and why you would do so
• -Market outlook

As always, this is going to be such a valuable opportunity to get inside an expert's mind and gather some amazing tips, so make sure to set aside some time to be here and come prepared with your questions!

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Caten Murphy - Maverick Property Group

This month's Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup is Wednesday, August 16th at 6:30 pm and we will be meeting in person at Sabi Asian Bistro in Davidson (Exit 30) at 130 Harbour Place Drive, Davidson, NC 28036!

We are super excited to have David Hall as our speaker this month! After working in the telecommunications industry for 30 years holding roles in product development, product line management, and tech support; he retired and turned his focus to building a large real estate portfolio. To date, he has built said portfolio to over 40 doors in the Hickory-Newton-Conover and Charlotte areas.

David will be taking us through the pros and cons of multi-family investing, his experience investing in multi-family real estate, how he finds and analyzes the properties, lessons learned throughout the process, and some case studies on his deals.

I think it's safe to say most investors wouldn't mind adding some multi-family properties to their portfolio, so what better way to learn than from someone who is doing it successfully and locally?! This is going to be such a valuable opportunity to get inside an expert's mind and gather some amazing tips, so make sure to set aside some time to be here and come prepared with your questions!

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Caten Murphy - Maverick Property Group

We are super excited to have Danny Crowell as our speaker this month! Danny has been a real estate investor for over 40 years and he has quite the resume to back it up. Here's a little peek into Danny's real estate experience:

-He currently owns four companies that combined, flip between 25-30 homes a year while managing several groups of contractors at a time.

-He has flipped numerous business, including a grocery store, several convenience stores, a weight loss center with tanning and aerobic, and a personnel agency.

-He previously owned 2 mobile home dealerships and was 50% owner of 19 mobile home parks in 8 states with approximately 1,400 units.

-He created a lease/option company which acquired over 300 homes while simultaneously developing a credit repair company to assist buyers.

PHEW, right?! Danny is truly a wealth of knowledge and we feel confident there is immense value for everyone in this conversation. Please do yourself the favor and set aside some time to be here to listen and participate in everything he has to share!

We look forward to seeing you guys this month! Please feel free to bring anyone you think may also enjoy this!

Caten Murphy - Maverick Property Group

(704) 614-6699

[email protected]

Hi All! We will be away on our annual family beach trip over what would normally be our scheduled meetup date, so, there will be no Lake Norman Real Estate Meetup in June. We will pick back up strong on July 19th! We look forward to seeing everyone then and if you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to reach out here or at (704) 614-6699.

Happy summer and keep crushing it!