All Forum Posts by: Craig Garrow

@Justin Allen The first books I ever read were by Dirk Zeller. Try “Success as a Real Estate Agent for Dummies.” Lots of really good, practical information. I also absolutely love the Millionaire Real Estate Agent, by Gary Keller, but I found that a lot of the best parts of the book went over my head for the first few years I was selling. I read it over probably 3 years in, and was amazed at how good it was. Then, I just read it again and it opened my eyes to even more good stuff.

@Grant Grimshaw It’s a great tool. Sales is the name of the game! Finding Grant changed my life and business for sure!

@Matt Brooks You bet. Best of luck to you!

@Matt Brooks No worries! And yes, I’m a Broker who works under another Broker. I’m in my 8th year, and my Broker has been in business for 40. I could open up my own shop, but I do believe there is a good referral base here, as long as some goodwill in the community.

@Matt Brooks No, but I am an Associate Broker in a situation where I could likely “take over” the business someday. I thought of pitching the idea of becoming 50-50 partners until such a time when my Broker wanted to retire, then work out a slow “buy out,” likely paid by referral fees.

@Matt Brooks How about forming some sort of partnership?

@Leonard Nester I think the SBA has a 10% down loan. Or maybe you could try to combine this with some owner financing? Best bet is to look at the financials and make sure the numbers work. See if the owner would finance until you could get 2-3 years of tax returns and then try to get bank financing after that.

This is a cool idea. I’m in a 50-50 partnership with somebody on a small self storage facility. We’re looking at doing another one and this guy has way more cash than me, so I might kick in 20-25% of the purchase price, then manage the property for “free” and keep using my equity payments to buy in for the next 25% until we reach 50-50 on that one.

Just looking to see if anyone either has a hard copy they would be willing to sell, or a link to the pdf version of this? Thanks!

@Russell Brazil I feel like there is. I think having access to his connections alone has a value to it. I think he will stay on until he physically can’t work anymore, so there would be a decently long transition period.