by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I love to talk about real estate. I always say, “If I don’t talk about it, how will anyone know what I do?” If the person you are talking to isn’t selling right now or doesn’t know someone that is selling, they eventually will. I want my...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I met with a woman in Fort Smith, AR who wanted to move back home (somewhere in Indiana), and she was very ready to leave. Her time frame to stay in the house was about a week. When I met with her, she showed me the property. It was a fairly small home with some very...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
[Editor’s note: This is Mike’s third Success Story and his best so far! Read his first two: Three Deals in Two Weeks After I Quit My Job and Real Estate Renovations in New Brunswick, Canada] This is my latest success story. I hope it motivates you. This...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I’m thirty-six years old and bought my first mobile home park two years ago. It is eight acres with thirteen mobile homes and a mini-storage. I told the owner I would give her the full asking price of $200,000. I knew that would get her interest. After checking...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
In less than ten days, I sold two of my three mobile homes for cash. For the first one, I made a purchase agreement with the seller for $1,000 on the condition that I give him ten weeks to wait for a place to open up in senior housing. I started advertising it for...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
This is for all of you lurking on this site. This is a “get off the couch” (GOTC) story for you all. Success Stories like this one got me off the couch, and I hope my story will help you. Forty-five days ago, I talked to an unmotivated seller who told me...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I hope my little taste of success will help other people get going on their real estate investing career. I was like most of the CRE Online visitors. I slaved over the articles, success stories, and message boards over and over until I practically memorized them. I...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I had a seller call on one of my signs in San Diego. The house was in a “not so great area.” I decided to set up a three-year lease option for market rent and a $30,000 discount in price. I marketed the property hard for four weeks, but was not able to...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
Anyone can do this with just a little “want.” I am a full-time real estate investor. In all honesty, against what everyone told me NOT to do I did anyway. And this is where i am now. I took the plunge before my first deal was under contract. I am 24 years...
by Brandon Reynolds | Jan 30, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
Let me start by saying that I paid $3,400 for a “class” in real estate investing that turned out to be nothing more than a 30-minute per week phone call covering the very basics. Thankfully, the trainer mentioned several websites for self-study. CRE Online...
