by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 12, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
As Lonnie might say, “That’s good ’nuff.” As John Behle might say, “Better than walking due west ’til your hat floats.” As Ed Garcia might say, “Pretty good for a young bull.” As Ron LeGrand might say, “Beats...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 12, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I thoroughly enjoy reading about other newcomers’ successes and figured I’d share ours. I’ve read and thought about real estate investing for many years and never took action. My wife and I both work full-time and have two kids under three. We...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 12, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
A few months ago, I purchased Ron Legrand’s, Quick-Turn, Fast-Cash Real Estate, course from this site. I studied it, then tried to apply it. After a short time, I gave up. It wasn’t until about a month ago that I gave it another try. This time, I struck...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
One day while playing with my computer, My wife and I stumbled on to the CRE Online website. We read everything we could on the website and chose to order the book, Deals on Wheels by Lonnie Scruggs. We figured this was a good place to start and couldn’t believe...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
Our story starts five years ago when we started a bowling publishing business. At first, the business grew, and did quite well for the first 3-1/2 years. Then the bottom started dropping out. As the industry slowed down, we lost advertisers and, of course, revenue. It...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
It all started about a year and a half ago when I decided it was time to own my own home. I did not want to pay a lot. I am a painter by trade and know many people in the other trades. I looked for a while and found a house. I bought it for $27,000. It had vinyl...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
First I would like to thank everyone who shares their secrets and ideas on this incredible site. I have found a wealth of info almost every day. A Realtor who laughed at me when I was first getting going in real estate investing (and told me I’d never, never...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
As many of you already know, I started my real estate investing venture on June 21, 1998. At that time I had not done one deal. I was going through a very difficult time in my life and went for broke. I quit my job, I had no money, and I had bad (but improving)...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
In less than three years, we have gone from nothing to owning 26 mobile homes that are owner financed and a mobile home park with another 25 units. We have done all of this using less than $2500 of our own money. The rest was OPM–other people’s money. We...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I enjoy reading the Success Stories on CRE Online, and I would like to share this one with the other readers. I track all the bank foreclosures in my area (Baltimore City) of which there are about 350-500 filed every month. Of these, only about 5-7% have enough equity...
