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I've personally made $117,200 using the lease option strategy on my last two deals. I'm interested to see how many people have actually made money using lease options to sell property.

Please list your experiences with lease options in this thread for anyone who is interested in doing lease options as a strategy to see some real world results from actual investors from this forum.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with my favorite investment strategy!

Jeff

I feel for you, alot of people are suffering right now. As the bible says "this too shall pass."

Jeff

I highly recommend this book too. Another good book by Harv is "Speed Wealth," these books are great for getting inspired to take action. If you can ever make it to the Millionaire Mind Intensive, you should do it. It's a 3 day live seminar that's actually worth a few thousand bucks. This seminar will change your life forever. It inspired me when I needed it and I've made at least an extra 6 figures just from what I learned at the MMI.

I love Harv Eker and would highly recommend anything with his name on it.

Jeff

I just read Investor Champ's advice and agree with it wholeheartedly. I've started new businesses that enountered lots of resistance from friends and family, until I made over $2 million, then they weren't "concerned" any more, lol

Jeff

Any fear that your friends and family have is probably based on their lack of knowledge. This could be corrected if they were able to learn the same cool strategies that you learn by reading books, courses, tapes, online, etc...

The problem with this is that most of your family members probably aren't interested in Real Estate investing. There's nothing wrong with this, not everybody enjoys sports, music, etc.. So if your family members aren't interested in Real Estate investing, they won't learn enough to understand what you're doing so they won't be afraid of what you're doing.

The best thing for you to do is to keep your investing progress to yourself most of the time. Only tell them when you actually make money on a deal. You're probably boring them with details they aren't interested in anyway.

Another thing to look at is how successful your family members are in this area. It doesn't matter how much you love and respect them, if they aren't successful investors you shouldn't be taking investment advice from them. This is the same as taking diet advice from someone 200 pounds overweight, it just doesn't make sense.

It can be uncomfortable for people to see you succeed because it forces them to deal with their own inadequacies and failures.

My best advice is not to share info about your investing with family members that are over protective or critical. Just love them for other reasons.

Jeff

Hello Bigger Pockets Community!

My name is Jeff Allen, and I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pa USA.

I've been casually interested in Real Estate investing for the past 10 years. During the past 2 years I've become a serious investor. I'm working with a mentor names Mark Chambers who has taught me a lot, and helped me to be a better investor.

The Real Estate investing techniques that I have experience with a using lease purchase options (a.k.a. rent to own) & flipping houses. I deal exclusively with residential Real Estate.

I'm looking forward to participating in this community and will be glad to help anyone in any way that I can with the knowledge that I've been fortunate enough to accumulate. I also look forward to learning more form all of you!

To All of Our Success,
Jeff Allen