All Forum Posts by: Don Spafford

Hello David,

My wife is a Realtor, I just recently started on BP and we haven't set up a profile for her just yet, she has experience working with investors when we were in Omaha. She is available to show anything in the Eastern Idaho area, Idaho Falls & Rexburg and everything in between. This entire Eastern Idaho area is growing very fast and there are some good deals to be had in housing and rentals.

If interested let me know and I can get you her info. She would be happy to help you and your friend find what you are looking for.

Don

Thank you so much to the BP community. It is great to find a place where people are willing to share their knowledge and experience. I would be greatly interested in finding a mentor/coach that can help me get started. If we are able to find a great property and help guide me through the whole process, I am willing to split the profits 60/40, the mentor getting the 60, possibly even more if needed. Or if there is anybody already working on a deal, particularly in the nearby Idaho Falls area that I can just follow and learn what you are doing, that would be a huge help and I can return the favor in any way I can, whether it be sharing proceeds from a future deal I find or running errands for you, I'm willing to do just about anything to be able to learn from someone with experience. I am a fast learner and a dedicated worker. I will not disappoint.

Thank you so much! I look forward to learning with people and hope to great some great help from excellent mentors to get me started right to avoid costly mistakes.

My name is Don Spafford, my background is in investments, my wife, Maria, is a Realtor and I have been essentially working with her for many years learning with her. We have been interested in real estate investing for many years but did not have the capital or knowledge on how to get capital to do it. I grew up in Omaha, NE and received much knowledge in investments the Warren Buffet way. My wife is from Paraguay but moved to Omaha to marry me in 2001. We moved from Omaha to Idaho Falls, ID in 2015 to help care for my mother who suffers from MS. Maria had to start over her Real Estate business in Idaho Falls and we decided it would be a great time to finally start investing as well. Our needs and priorities have changed and we want to focus more on investment properties as a main source of income to have time to spend with family and to help our parents.

We recently attended a seminar presented by Fortune Builders and we were very interested in doing it that way, but the up-front cost was more than we wanted to take on, especially with the moving expenses we already took on and the marketing expenses we are paying to get my wife's business running here. At that seminar I met another investor who is using Bigger Pockets and referred me to look into it.

What we need is some guidance on how to acquire private lenders to do rehab deals and we also want to acquire commercial apartment buildings to generate passive income and be able to leverage the building to acquire other buildings. I enjoy the training videos and podcasts, but it helps to have personal contact.

We both have the determination and the knowledge to make this all happen, but what we lack is someone to help us get it done, to show us the ropes, so to speak. If we can get help to get a good start, and a place like this to ask questions and get good answers, we will be able to achieve our dream and be able to give back and help others do the same.