by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
In January 1997, I found myself on the streets without a job and very disillusioned with the prospect of going back to work in corporate America. I had become accustomed to my life as a road warrior sales guy tipping the income scales at about $95,000 per year with...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I promised JP Vaughan I would share my first deal, so here it is. I started visiting this website about three weeks ago and learned everything about doing this deal from the people on this site. I didn’t have any money to buy a course, so I just lived on this...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
After getting engaged two months ago, I realized that I would like to buy a house some time in the future for my new family. I have had terrible credit for a few years now due to poor money management and reacting poorly to situations that life has given me despite...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
My father was surfing on the net around the first part of 1997, and he ran across this website. He thought Lonnie Scruggs had some good ideas and bought Deals On Wheels. In June of 1998, we bought two mobile homes in a park that were side by side. One was a 1974...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
While flipping through a real estate ad a few years ago, I noticed a repo for sale in just the neighborhood I wanted. I immediately called my broker and we set off to see it. We couldn’t get in. His key wouldn’t work. Apparently the locks were not modified...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
While fellow CRE Onliner, John Holt, and I have graduated from college, we thought this title was appropriate since we both went to the same college, graduated at the same time, and even roamed the halls of the same science building. However, we never met until CRE...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I found a nice 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 2 car garage ranch house in a nice neighborhood that was going into bank foreclosure. For the last four or five months I had been sending the owner postcards and letters. I called him and even knocked on his door a couple of times,...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I would like to take the opportunity to share my first success story with my fellow investors. It is a story of how I did a lease option with a military transfer. Having been in the military myself for the last fourteen years, It didn’t take long for me to...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I can’t believe the deal that fell into my lap a couple of months back. I was helping my parents sell their home “for sale by owner.” At the open house, an interested buyer said he was interested in the larger home, but they needed to sell their...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 9, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
After reading Lonnie’s two books three times [Deals on Wheels and Making Money with Mobile Homes], I was really anxious to try my first “Lonnie Deal.” I traveled around a couple of mobile home parks in May, and finally spotted a run down, overgrown...
