All Forum Posts by: Gary Harris

Hey @Jamir Wise Welcome to BP!  You heard correct in that there are tons of opportunities within real estate.  Familiarize yourself with a few ways and try them to see what you enjoy the most.  What you think you will like and what you actually like may be different.  Good Luck.

Gary

Hi

@Ryan Laue I'm an investor that resides in Northern NJ and invest throughout the state.  We should meet up to see what our individual goals are.

Gary

Welcome @Nicholas Dinis I'm a rehab investor here within New Jersey.  I'm an Army guy so I won't hold you being a Marine against you:)  I rehab homes throughout the state and I believe New Jersey is a great state to invest whether you're a buy and hold guy or a rehabber.  Just let me know if I can help you out.

Gary

Hi @Hien Dang 

I actually wasn't insinuating that you didn't want to pay anything.  I was actually making my counter points to William Jenkins' comments.

Do you want a one on one learning environment for Rehabbing houses?

Do you want to physically walk through several rehabs in progress so you can ask as many questions as you like?

Do you want access to this experienced Rehabber for an entire year?

You will learn about the financials of these current deals along with my future deals within these 12 months.

After a few months...if you want to do a deal yourself I will assist you in locating a deal and finding a GC to do the work. If you need even more help...I will get the house under contract and close on it and we will work out a split of profit that we agree to.

Stop making excuses...stop reading the same books....stop listening to the same podcasts.....finally take action

Email me today [email protected]

Gary

Do you want a one on one learning environment for Rehabbing houses?

Do you want to physically walk through several rehabs in progress so you can ask as many questions as you like?

Do you want access to this experienced Rehabber for an entire year?

You will learn about the financials of these current deals along with my future deals within these 12 months.

After a few months...if you want to do a deal yourself I will assist you in locating a deal and finding a GC to do the work. If you need even more help...I will get the house under contract and close on it and we will work out a split of profit that we agree to.

Stop making excuses...stop reading the same books....stop listening to the same podcasts.....finally take action

Email me today [email protected]

Gary

Do you want a one on one learning environment for Rehabbing houses?

Do you want to physically walk through several rehabs in progress so you can ask as many questions as you like?

Do you want access to this experienced Rehabber for an entire year?

You will learn about the financials of these current deals along with my future deals within these 12 months.

After a few months...if you want to do a deal yourself I will assist you in locating a deal and finding a GC to do the work.  If you need even more help...I will get the house under contract and close on it and we will work out a split of profit that we agree to.

Stop making excuses...stop reading the same books....stop listening to the same podcasts.....finally take action

Email me today [email protected]

Gary

Hi @Tricia Watts and Everyone.

The majority of people on BP will tell you to offer something to the investor for them to mentor you.  I will tell you that in my opinion the experienced investor you want to get mentored by....to be blunt more then likely doesn't need your assistance.  There are two primary ways to work with an experienced person and really get something out of it.  Firstly, put some money into one of their deals so you have skin in the game.  You would get a return on your money and learn along the way.  The second way to get involved, you and the mentor write out an agreement as to the hands on types of items you want to learn about and the fee you will pay to learn alongside them.  Most experienced investors get asked to mentor people every week, mainly because it's been repeated on BP a plethora of times for newer investors to try and get started.  I don't blame people for trying...but the individuals you want to learn from will more then likely want a financial benefit for their time and effort.  If they are mentoring correctly....there will be plenty of time and effort on their part.

Gary  

Just my thoughts here....I would love if all the people on BP that say just find a free mentor, or my favorite, see what you can do to earn the mentorship for free would actually mentor people for free themselves.  The experienced investors to be blunt...don't need a brand new person getting involved in real estate to try to "help" the experienced investor.  The volume of people that want something for nothing is astounding. Can you start to invest in real estate on your own without a mentor...absolutely, but when you're new it's nice to have someone you can rely on.  I did when I started and I wouldn't have changed that for anything.  I totally agree in giving a name or phone number or even some free advice every once in awhile, but what the majority of people are asking for is to basically teach them everything the mentor knows if not just do it for them....all under the guise of "doing my part" and giving back.    

If you don't have a few thousand dollars to give an experienced mentor and you want one... then you are absolutely not ready to get into this business.  Or even let's say you don't have to pay those couple thousands up front and you pay monthly which I think is very reasonable.  There's a big difference between reading books, listening to podcasts repeatedly, asking for advice on this site where the responders don't have a truly vested interest and a mentor that you're paying that has an absolute interest in your success.  Out of the several people that have asked me for help...9 out of 10 say they want to take action, but there hearts aren't 100% into it.  This is a hard business...it makes sense to have someone on your side that you can call, meet in person, walk properties together, etc.  It is a better proposition to pay a flat fee then to give away part of the equity in your deal.  Trust me...when it comes time to sell you will want every dollar of that profit because you will have earned it!

Gary   

- Experienced New Jersey Investor with ongoing deals throughout New Jersey seeks $65,000 from private investor(s)

- This specific deal is located in Ocean County New Jersey and has already been closed on

- Investor will pay interest payments monthly 

- HML's need not respond

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