All Forum Posts by: Joe Evangelisti

Thanks Mark- I even take it to the next level and block family night and date night with my wife. It's a lifesaver!

I just got back from meeting with my mastermind group in Florida and this was a group of half a dozen high level high achievers… and when you look at our schedules, you’ll see that we each are SWAMPED with stuff to do.

Now certainly not all real estate investors want to work at that level. Some people just want to invest in turnkey cash flowing properties and not deal with the motivated sellers or the contractors. If that’s your goal as an investor, that’s fine – and the easiest thing to do is just make sure you’re signed up to get email updates from me and you’ll get a chance to take part in the turnkey cash flow deals that I have from time to time.

But some of you reading this want to go big – you want to flip properties, or you want to be more of a hands-on investor, or you want to create a gigantic empire, or you want to provide turnkey cash flowing properties to others. There’s a lot to do in a day so how do YOU master your time?

Here are 7 strategies to help you:

1. Find your best time to work. You might have the full day ahead of you but we each have a peak time that we can operate in at our most effective and efficient. For me, it’s fairly early in the morning, after the kids leave for school. I can usually get more done in that time than most people do all day.

2. Work with a good team. If you try to do everything by yourself, you’ll hit a ceiling pretty quickly. Find good people that you like to work with and bring them on board. Show them how you like things done and give them to the tools to make that happen.

3. Learn. Never stop learning and growing. You might know enough right now to do the kind of deals you want to do but there’s always an opportunity to learn more. That’s one of the reasons I teach others through my site TheFlipKing.com – it’s because as I teach, I push myself to learn.

4. Set big goals. If you just want to “do deals” all day long, you’ll “succeed” by doing any form of effort. But that’s not how you should set your sights. Rather, you should create goals that inspire and challenge you so you rise to the occasion to make them happen.

5. Push yourself. We live in a society that is focused on ease and convenience, and the people who want to make things easy on themselves will never get very far. My mastermind group pushes themselves and each other HARD. Pushing yourself beyond what you think you can do is the only way to get where you want to go.

6. Over-commit. If you find it challenging to get things done, make a lot of promises to other people. When we make commitments to others, we’re less likely to break those commitments. So make a lot of them to other people and you’ll push yourself to deliver.

7. Strike a balance. Within all of these things, you still need to make sure that you find a balance, including time to step away from it all to collect your own thoughts, as well as time to spend with your family. This will keep you grounded and remind you what’s really important.

ACTION STEP: When you create your schedule each week, make sure you have this list nearby so you can make sure that you’re not just managing your time but mastering it.

http://theflipking.com/time-management-is-a-myth-heres-how-to-master-your-time-as-a-real-estate-investor/

Hi! It’s Joe Evangelisti, host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio.

If you’re making offers, you’re probably doing it wrong.

For many investors, the hardest part of real estate investing is sitting down with a seller to tell them how much you will pay them for their property.

Chances are, the offer you make is going to be lower than what the seller was hoping for. You know that going into the offer and you break into a sweat when you give the number because stating your offer is the beginning of an uncomfortable conversation.

If that’s how you feel, you’ve been doing it wrong.

In this blog post on The Flip King, I’ll show you a powerful formula that increases how many offers get accepted

It’s easier than you think. It completely eliminates the uncomfortable conversations. You turn into a SUPERHERO. And sellers see your price as much more reasonable.

Click here now to see the “offer formula”

Make this small change in your offers and you’ll see an increase in your offer acceptance. (Combine it with doing more offers and you’ll see a DRAMATIC increase in income next year!)

Joe Evangelisti
Host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio

PS, The offer formula is really simple, but it’s very very powerful. It’s a game-changer if you use it right. Click here now to find out what it is

Hi, it’s Joe Evangelisti, host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio.

Today is Thanksgiving. It’s a time when we gather with family and friends and to intentionally be thankful for the good things we have in life.

Sure, our lives might not be perfect but as investors we have the opportunity to create the lives we want for ourselves… and that’s something we can be very thankful for!

I wanted to reach out to you today and just tell you how appreciative I am of you. The fact that you’re reading this means a lot to me. I hope I continue to earn your trust with great ideas, tips, and strategies to help you grow your real estate investing business.

In the weeks to come, I’ve got some really cool things in store that I can’t wait to share with you! Keep reading these emails, keep reading my blog posts, and keep listening to my podcasts because there are some business-building GOLD in the coming weeks that I think you’ll love.

But I’m sending this email to just say “thank you”…

… thank you for being a loyal listener/reader.
… thank you for your feedback (emails to me, comments on my blog and on my Facebook page).
… thank you for engaging, listening, and sharing me with other investors you know.

Joe Evangelisti
Host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio

PS, Go enjoy some time with your family. Feel gratitude for everything you have and everything you’re aspiring for. And stay tuned tomorrow because even though most people are taking the day off, I’ve got something really cool to share with you!

Imagine driving a beautiful high performance car. You sat in the comfortable seat, your hands gripped the wheel perfectly, and the engine gave a throaty rev when you pressed down on the gas pedal. Your task is to drive this sports car as quickly as it will go… but you have to drive in complete darkness.

How well do you think you’ll do? Yeah, you might get a few feet down the road but eventually you’ll discover that this isn’t the wisest way to safely drive this car at top speed!

Well, here’s the bad news: This is EXACTLY what you’re doing in your real estate investing business. Your real estate investing business is the high performance car – the tools and strategies are available for you to use. Unfortunately, you can’t see outside of the car.

Why the darkness? Well, it’s the way you’re thinking. The only thing that has your attention is the stuff that you can see inside the car. You can’t see beyond the windshield to what’s outside. You don’t see where you’re going; you can’t steer the car and react to the way the road twists and turns.

This illustrates the classic problem that most real estate investors face in their business: They’re so focused on the small things – and on small thinking! – that they don’t look beyond their business to the road outside. They miss the big thinking.

Here’s what small thinking looks like:

• You blame external sources for your problems
• You are focused on doing just a few things instead of taking massive action
• Your limiting thinking holds you back and you end up only doing a few deals at a time… maybe a couple of deals a month at the most
• You try to find the cheapest or the free ways to do things

Small thinking is focused on just trying to get the next deal done with the least amount of work and expense to you.

While doing a deal with the least amount of effort and cost sounds like a good idea, it may actually be hurting your business!

A better option is big thinking. Rather than trying to do your next deal with the least amount of effort and expense, big thinking says: “How can I do the next 100 deals systematically and profitably, in a way that sets myself up for an even stronger future?”

That’s a totally different thought process. Big thinking aspires to a longer-term goal that pushes you harder than you think is even possible, and it accepts the fact that achieving this goal will take work and money.

But don’t miss this: I’m not suggesting that you just spend MORE HOURS working and MORE MONEY on the same things that you’re currently purchasing. Big thinking requires a fundamental change in how you work and how you spend (INVEST!) your capital to do deals.

Here’s an example: Small thinkers try to scrimp and save their way to doing the next deal and they may try negotiating with the seller as hard as possible to get the lowest possible price for the property and then they try grinding down the contractor to get the cheapest deal.

On the other hand, big thinkers invest wisely to build systems that automate most of the process. They negotiate a win/win price with the seller because they know the seller will tell others about the great selling process; and the investor will make sure the contractor makes enough money to feel rewarded so they’ll want to work with the investor again.

This is a massive shift in thinking… and it all starts in your HEAD!

Hi! It’s Joe Evangelisti, host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio.

One question I get asked a lot, especially by newer investors, is whether they should be doing their own rehabs or outsourcing it to a contractor.

This question is funny:

...Ask one person and they’ll tell you “control your costs and make sure it’s done right by being your own general contractor.”
... Ask another person and they’ll tell you “scale your investing by hiring someone else to do the work for you.”

Both make sense, so which one should you do?

I have an answer, and it might surprise you, but it’s a little more involved than just a simple yes or no. Click here now to check out the blog post

My recommendation is based on my own experience (it’s exactly how I’ve run my investing business) and will keep you from burning through a TON of money and time and totally spinning your wheels... although you might be surprised by it.Read about it here

Joe Evangelisti
Host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio

PS, There isn’t really a wrong way to do it but if you do it differently than the way I’ve described, just be aware that you are opening yourself up to some long-term risks. Find out what those risks are

Do this if you want to do more deals...

What would it be like if you could do another deal each month? If you're doing one now, how much better would it be to double that deal-making productivity and start doing 2 each month?

What if you could do 3, 4, or even 5 deals each and every month?

If the possibility of doing more deals and making more money each month appeals to you then you'll love what I have to share...

(and if the idea of doing more deals and making more money each month DOESN'T appeal to you then why are you even reading this???)

I want to share with you the braindead-simple step-by-step strategy you can use -- regardless of the market you're in -- to start doing more deals today. Click here right now to read it.

This strategy is 3 steps long and works no matter what kind of deals you want to do. I use it daily in my business to find multiple deals.

(This is exactly what I use to acquire properties from retired downsizers who are looking to extract the equity they built up in their homes... but you can use it for many other types of opportunities, from probates to tired landlords to foreclosures to divorced owners... whatever target market you work in).

If you aren't doing as many deals as you want to be doing, check this out right now.

Joe Evangelisti
Host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio

PS, Too many investors THROW AWAY money on marketing and they do it totally wrong. I'll show you how to do it in a way that makes sense and makes money right here.

Rapport is SO powerful. When you have rapport with someone, they’ll want to work with you because they know, like, and trust you. So create more rapport with everyone you meet and you’ll do more deals, you’ll do more profitable deals, and you’ll have a lot more fun along the way.

This week on TheFlipKing, I’m talking about building rapport to help you do more deals. And in this blog post, I want to show you the simple 3-part strategy to creating instant and long-lasting rapport with anyone you meet. Use this strategy to connect more effectively with sellers, buyers, private money, banks, tenants, contractors… you name it!

Rapport strategy #1: Make a genuine connection

It’s easy to approach investing as a numbers game by thinking, “the more sellers and buyers I get in front of, the more deals I’ll do.” While this is technically true, you’ll actually do more deals by getting in front of sellers and buyers and building a genuine connection with each of them. It’s not just about putting in a few minutes of facetime and moving on… rather, it’s about meeting them and becoming genuinely interested in them. Even if they’re not ready see full post here.