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The Secret Sauce of Real Estate Investing: Insights from Martine Richardson

Title: “The Secret Sauce of Real Estate Investing: Insights from Martine Richardson”


Episode: 235



“I’m okay with sacrificing now for a greater future.” 


In this episode of the Profit First for REI podcast, we have Martine Richardson. She has been a real estate investor for about ten years, from being a full-time employee with no money and no time freedom.


Martine shares practical steps on getting out of the rat race and her experiences on her real estate journey. Listen and enjoy the show!



Key Takeaways:


[00:50] Introducing Martine Richardson

[02:40] Before entering the real estate space

[07:10] Sandwich lease option

[11:31] Buy and hold

[14:04] The Power of Holding

[15:55] Two ways to know how much money you need per month to live comfortably

[19:34] Mid-term rentals

[28:14] Martine’s advice for real estate investors

[30:45] Connect with Martine Richardson



Quotes:


[07:13] “Sandwich lease option agreement, when you are leasing a property and you have the option to purchase it in the future.”

[13:49] “I’ve always been like a long-term thinker. I’m okay with sacrificing now for a greater future. Me holding made complete sense to me.”

[28:23] “Many people are stuck in the analysis-paralysis stage because they want to know everything about how to do something… I would encourage people to learn the first step and take action on that first step. Learn the second step and take action on the second step.”



Connect with Martine:


Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedominc 


Tired of living deal to deal? 

If you are a real estate investor or business owner who is tired of living deal to deal and want to double your profits, head over here to book your no-obligation discovery call with me. Either myself or someone from my team will hop on a short call with you to get clear on your business goals, remove any obstacles holding you back, and map out a game plan to help you finally start keeping more of the money you work so hard to make. – David



Transcript:


Speaker 1 (00:00):

I’ve always been a long-term thinker. I’m okay with sacrificing now for a greater future. So me holding made complete sense to me and now that I’m, I wouldn’t say I’m on the other side just yet, but now that I’ve been holding things for quite some time, I’m really seeing that power of holding that equity that you’re building, that appreciation that you’re getting. People are paying your mortgages down for you while you’re cash flowing. To me, it just makes complete sense. Why wouldn’t you do that? I think it’s just a lack of education.

Speaker 2 (00:38):

If you’re a real estate investor who’s sick and tired of living, deal to deal, then welcome home. Hear from everyday real estate investors just like you, and discover how they’ve completely transformed their business by taking a profit First approach. This is the profit first for REI podcast, where we believe revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. It’s time to start making profit a habit in your business. So here’s your host, David Richter.

Speaker 3 (01:05):

Today we have Martine Richardson on which she’s a real estate investor. Been in this space for about 10 years, and she teaches what she’s learned along the way, but she gives practical steps of if you want to get out of your rat race, how many deals does that really mean? And she breaks it down into long-term, midterm rentals, short-term rentals, like if you’re wanting to buy and hold properties, give some really good practical advice. So I don’t care if you’re way down your real estate journey or just starting, she’s going to help you at least with some of the actual practical steps of getting out of your own rat race, which I really like a lot. So please listen to her and she gives a secret sauce of what has helped her along the way in her real estate investing journey. Hey. Hey everyone. It is David Richter, the Profit First RI podcast. Have Martine Richardson here today. Super excited. I met her I think several years ago when I was living in Richmond. Super respected in her area. She does a lot of great things, helping a lot of people in the real estate space, but also real estate investor herself. Her journey has been pretty awesome. So I’m super excited, Martine, to have you on today.

Speaker 1 (02:08):

Well, thank you so much for having me on, David. I’m really humbled by being on your podcast, and I really hope that my experience that I share with people, that they take action on it and they add some value to their lives.

Speaker 3 (02:23):

Yeah, that’s what I want from this is actionable advice for people to be able to go out there and get help. So tell people a little bit if they don’t know who you or what you’re doing or what brought you down the real estate space so that way they get a little frame of reference before we get into the meat and potatoes.

Speaker 1 (02:40):

Well, cool. I’ll just, I guess give a brief synopsis of my story. So I’ve been working since teenage years and things of that nature, and I always thought when I got my degree that I’d have a job that I loved. Grass is greener on the other side. So I got my degree in finance. I started working a job in the DC area. I live in Richmond, just a frame of reference about two hours away, but my advisor told me to go to dc. Apparently they have lots of connections there. So I got a job there, and it turns out I still hated it, okay? I wasn’t making enough money. I didn’t have the time freedom that I wanted, and it just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I ended up getting fired from that job, and it sucked. At the time, I had bought a car and stuff while I was there and I’m like, oh man, how I’m going to afford this car.

(03:38):

But anyway, I ended up moving back to Richmond. My dad, he noticed the entrepreneur bug in me. So he said, you ought to get into real estate investing. And I said, well, how am I going to do that? I don’t know anybody successful at that. I don’t have any money. How’s that going to work? And he was like, oh, you’re smart. You’ll figure it out. So he was right. I did figure it out. So I started just hanging around people that not were at the goal. That was a little bit too intimidating for me at the beginning, just people that were hungry. We wanted more out of our lives. We wanted to do more. And someone gave me a book called How to Quit Your Job in 19 Weeks by Sean Terry. And that book, they talked about wholesaling, and I really didn’t do much with it when I first read it.

(04:29):

Remember that car I told you about when I worked that first job out of college? Well, that car got repossessed, and when that car got repossessed, the next day I started taking real estate seriously, because in my mind I thought, well, if I could just make enough to get the car back. So that started my journey and to get into real estate, and it just opened a door for me that now I focus on buying, hold investing because it really is the path to wealth. If I could start over again, I wouldn’t have done wholesale and I would’ve just went straight to buying hold. But you live and you learn, right? But I’m hoping that your listeners learn from my mistakes and you go straight for the gusto.

Speaker 3 (05:16):

Okay? So you would’ve done it differently and gone the buy and hold route instead of wholesale upfront. Now you hear a lot of people say buy and hold, you have to have money for that. So do you buy it creatively or do you have a lot of money when you came into it? I mean, I don’t know, you gave the car story, so I don’t want to assume anything though, ever. I want to hear your side of it, of getting

Speaker 1 (05:39):

To buy home. So I was able to build my rental portfolio that now bought my freedom by using other people’s money, and I learned that along the journey. So the reason I got into renting properties, because this is my bread and butter, is I accidentally became a landlord, to be honest with you. And the reason I say accidentally is because every time I spoke to someone, I went in their house, I would ask them, Hey, do you want a cash offer or would you take payments? And most people would say, I want the cash offer. Well, I went in one house and he said, I’ll take the payments. And in my head I’m thinking, you’ll take the payments. Nobody takes the payments. So I said, well, let me see how I’m going to structure the deal so I can make you an offer on that. And what I was really mean was, let me figure out how to do this because nobody ever takes the payments.

Speaker 3 (06:37):

Yeah, that’s great.

Speaker 1 (06:39):

So I went to a meetup. I said, Hey, I went in someone’s house and they told me they take the payments. I don’t even know how to structure the deal. They showed me how to structure the deal. I presented it to the seller. We went back and forth a little bit on negotiating, but what I did was a lease option agreement. And then I ended up doing a sandwich lease option agreement. And by doing that, I started getting checks for work. I did a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (07:07):

What the heck is a sandwich lease option before you keep going if people don’t understand that, what’s that?

Speaker 1 (07:13):

So a sandwich lease option. So a lease option agreement is when you’re leasing a property and you have the option to purchase it in the future. So what I did was I did a lease option with the seller, and then I found a tenant buyer or a tenant, whatever you want to call ’em, that was also going to have a lease option with me. And I made the spread in between. So specifically this seller, he wanted me to put $500 down for my option fee. I believe I was paying him, I think $400 a month. This is way back. So these prices are low, but it was $400 a month, and then I was going to buy the house from him for $35,000. Now I still own this house, and I did a lease option with someone that wanted to come into this deal and he put $5,000 down.

(08:10):

He paid $700 a month, and then he had the option to buy it for $60,000. And at the time, 35 was kind of high, just to be honest. I mean, you’re familiar with Richmond. It was not in the best neighborhood, but the power, I’m glad I did that. It opened my eyes. I wish I would’ve known more about borrowing money from other people at that time to structure deals. But that house, as I told you, we got it for 35,000. The house is worth $240,000. Now why are we selling real estate? Why are we selling?

Speaker 3 (08:54):

Right? Yeah. Wow, that’s incredible. And it sounds like it kind of fell into your lap a little bit. What you don’t want just the full amount, you’ll take the payments. That was great. I think something else too that was key was you went to a meetup, you had a group of people, they were able to take that deal too to be able to present to them and they helped you. So has that been big on your journey, the groups, the meetups and that

Speaker 1 (09:19):

Type of thing? Yes. I’d say when I was first starting out, I didn’t really, I mean, I looked for a mentor to help me, but I wasn’t really getting the guidance that I was hoping to get from the person. But what really helped me learn how to this business and doing things was listening to podcasts and also going to meetups. Because when I first started, it took me a while to get a deal and I would just keep listening to podcasts to try to understand what I needed to do, because I started with direct mailing and when I would direct mail people, they would call. I would be afraid to answer the phone. So I would call ’em back. I was going through all the motions, and then I would get maybe one or two calls from my 50 people that I mailed, and I was like, man, this doesn’t work. But as I listened to podcasts, I realized I wasn’t mailing enough people. I wasn’t mailing them often enough. I learned what I was doing wrong, and then I kind of got to a point where I was like, well, it’s no way. All these people on these podcasts are lying. These people, everybody’s on this podcast saying they’re making money, they’re doing deals, they’re doing that. It’s no way they’re all lying. I’m just going to stick with this until it starts working for me. And then I did, and it works. Consistency was key.

Speaker 3 (10:47):

Yeah, no, that’s awesome. And then you took the action and then you saw it work out in your own life once. I like how you said that too. The podcast gave you the eyeopener that it wasn’t what you were doing, it was just skewed that you didn’t know that you had to do more, that you had to go out there and it was a numbers game and how many times you’re hitting them. That’s really good, where a lot of those people that have gone before have tested a lot of that stuff. So it sounds like you took their test and made it your own, which is good. So then how did you come to the conclusion or when on your journey that wholesaling though can be good for cash? The real monies and the wealth is in the buy and hold. When did that click?

Speaker 1 (11:32):

I’d say that that clicked shortly after me getting that house with the guy that would take the payments, but I still didn’t understand how could I buy a property if the seller wasn’t willing to take payments. I didn’t know that yet. So I ended up going to different conferences and now I’m hearing about people investing their retirement money into deals that I have already. So it just got me thinking. I’m like, huh, let me find out more about this. Because really, to be honest with you, the secret sauce and being able to get money for your deals is you have to know how to get deals. You have to know how to put somebody’s money in a safe position so that they feel comfortable lending you on that deal. And then also you have to build great relationships with people and explain to them how this process works so that they feel safe, comfortable, you want to give them a good return and things of that nature while you’re building what you’re building, you want to make it a win-win for everybody.

Speaker 3 (12:38):

Yeah, no, that makes sense. So then it sounded like going to those other places opened your eyes to that, and then did you start getting more deals then that you were able to take down to buy and hold from there?

Speaker 1 (12:51):

When I figured it out, I was taking them down, David. People were like, why aren’t you sending out any wholesale deals keeping them? That’s why.

Speaker 3 (13:01):

That’s great. So how long have you been doing that then on your real estate journey? That was that a year ago, two years, multiple years?

Speaker 1 (13:09):

No, it’s been a while. So I’ve been doing real estate in total for 10 years now. It took me two years for me to get a deal, but when I got a deal, I got five of ’em at one time. Oh, wow. So it was amazing. Yeah,

Speaker 3 (13:25):

When it rain to port.

Speaker 1 (13:27):

Yeah, right. It was just like, man, it’s a drought. Not anymore. But I’d say maybe, I don’t know if an exact date of when exactly after, but I’d say maybe a year or I’d say like a year after that, I started really keeping them myself because it just made more sense. And I’ve always been a long-term thinker. I’m okay with sacrificing now for a greater future. So me holding made complete sense to me. And now that I’m kind, I wouldn’t say I’m on the other side just yet, but now that I’ve been holding things for quite some time, I’m really seeing that power of holding that equity that you’re building, that appreciation that you’re getting. People are paying your mortgages down for you while you’re cash flowing. To me, it’s just makes completely sense. Why wouldn’t you do that? I think it’s just a lack of education.

Speaker 3 (14:26):

And you like to teach people about their freedom number or how do they get out of their rat race? So how did you discover that? Or did you already know that inherently? Or did you know that you, that’s since you’re a long-term thinker, how many houses you need or how’d you come up with that framework?

Speaker 1 (14:45):

Yeah, so in terms of freedom number, I’d say that I’ve used it somewhat. I’ve been more so thinking of cashflow, how much money do I need? I’d rather look at it from that standpoint. I try to see if I can maximize the amount of cashflow I’m getting from a property by renting to a different type of renter and things of that nature. But yeah, I know it just really helps with planning, doing a freedom number. So for people that are wondering, what is this freedom number you guys are talking about? And basically it’s a frame of reference so that you can know how many properties that you would need to retire or I mean, maybe you don’t want to retire, maybe you like your job, maybe you just want to have a little bit more freedom to do the things that you do. So I want to take us through this exercise if it’s okay with you, David. Yeah, for sure. To kind of just help people to say, okay, well what is this?

Speaker 3 (15:46):

Well, I want it too, so take me through it, just like you would take anyone through it. This is good.

Speaker 1 (15:52):

Okay, well, cool. So it’s two ways that you can decide that how much money you need per month to live comfortably. So one way is you can use your W2 income and you have to add some taxes and insurance to things that your employer might be paying for you. And as long as you’re not living above your means, you can use that as a frame of reference of how much cashflow you

Speaker 3 (16:26):

Need. Big caveat there, as long as you’re not living above your means,

Speaker 1 (16:30):

Right? You have to say that first because then that’s how much cashflow you would need. But a more detailed approach is you can write out everything that you’re spending money on each month. This one might be a little more accurate. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like it. So you can put out your mortgage or your rent if you’re renting. I wrote a list to make sure I didn’t forget things. Utilities, credit cards, any loan payments, like car loans. Don’t forget your groceries. Gas, don’t forget fund money. You’re not going to want to quit and just sit around the house and do nothing. You want to have some fun.

(17:16):

Don’t forget those. In insurance and taxes, we live in the great USA. We have to pay those things, right? Yes. Investments, savings, education, daycare or school for your children, things like that. I said education because I think you talk about the different buckets that you can have different accounts that pay for different things. And when I read your book, David, I was just like, man, this is eye opening here, but I know that you can have different accounts for what you pay for. So when I say education, I’m specifically saying this is the amount of money that you’ve budget to go to conferences to pay for books that you want to read, to continue your self education. Because as we evolve, we need to evolve with our education and learning more things. So write out all of those things and see what they are. Let’s just say for easy sake that what you need is $10,000 a month, $10,000 a month, and you’re free.

(18:22):

Okay? So let’s just use average regular cashflow. I mean, I like to get a little cream of the crop for the cash flows, but let’s just say an average cashflow. A lot of people will say that after you pay your expenses on a property that you should be making at least 300 bucks a month from their rent. So if that was the case, if you took that $10,000 and you divided it by 300, that means you need, it says like 33.33, three properties. So 34 properties, right? 34 doors. Or you can decide that you want to rent it to a different type of tenant. You don’t necessarily have to rent to a long-term tenant. So I know I do some midterm rentals. I don’t do all midterm rentals. I like to diversify some, but I do some midterm rentals. And the midterm rentals usually make double what a regular tenant would pay. So

Speaker 3 (19:27):

I’m a midterm rental if someone doesn’t know what a midterm rental is.

Speaker 1 (19:31):

That’s a great question. So a midterm rental, it’s like a short-term rental, but my stays are at least 30 days. What I do is I target people that are coming into town for work. So I know a lot of people have talked about traveling nurses or I have a guy right now that he’s in town because doing a construction project or I just have a lot of people that come into town for work and they need to stay for a month or more, but not a year. They don’t need to be a long-term tenant, and they want it to be furnished. They don’t want to pay bills. So it’s like a short-term rental except for they stay longer, but you still get some pretty high cashflow,

Speaker 3 (20:16):

Whereas long-term rental for you, would that be over a year then that they’re staying or a year?

Speaker 1 (20:22):

Yeah, that would be a year or more. So for a long-term rental for me would be, I would just be providing the house really. They pay their own utilities, they furnish it. It’s just like a regular rental property. So I have a property, I’m going to use it for the example, so it can be real for people. I have a property that if I were to just regularly long-term rent, it would be $1,800 a month for the rent.

Speaker 3 (20:48):

Oh, like gross rent? What? That They’re paying gross

Speaker 1 (20:50):

Rent. Okay. And let’s just say that that’s making the 300 minimum for that for easy. So you’re actually bringing in your pocket after you pay your mortgage taxes, insurance, 300 bucks a month. But when I midterm rent this place, it makes $3,600 a month. Now you have more expenses. You have to account for that. You have to pay utilities, you have to pay the cleaning fees. Hopefully you’ll charge a cleaning fee so they can pay it, but you have some extra expenses. So let’s just say for this example, the extra expenses are $500. So that additional 1800 minus 500 is 1300 plus the 300 that you, if it were a regular long-term rental, that’s how much you would’ve been making. So you’d make $1,600 a month if you were to midterm rent per property, for instance. In that case, with your $10,000 that you would need each month, all you would need is seven properties.

Speaker 3 (21:58):

Yeah, that’s a lot less than 33 or 34. That

Speaker 1 (22:01):

Is a lot less. But you have to assess the risks with that, because remember, when covid start, when covid happened, the world stopped. The people that really felt it were those short-term rental people in the midterm rental.

Speaker 3 (22:18):

Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:19):

Yeah, yeah. Short term and midterm, I sorry, Internet’s messing up.

Speaker 3 (22:24):

Oh, no, no, it’s not. That was me interrupting you. So you’re good

Speaker 1 (22:30):

Because people weren’t traveling. I mean, unless you were like a nurse and you were in the covid ward, as I call it, you were staying home. So I’d say yes, you can make more return, but there is more risk. So for me, I like to have a balance of the longer term rentals and the midterm rentals, but when you do it this way, it seems a lot more attainable of what you need to do. And you have a guide, so you’d say, I need seven properties, which that seems kind of low, and I feel like because they’re all midterm, maybe I would say maybe 10 or 15 just to be a little bit more safer. But when you look at it this way, you need seven properties or you only need 10 properties. It seems a lot more attainable than me saying, well, I got to get a hundred doors before I could quit.

(23:28):

And this is just so you can continue to live the life that you’re already living. And now that you have all this found freedom, what would you spend your time on? Maybe you want to go buy more. Maybe you just love this and you want to keep buying more, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to. You can spend more time with your family. You can spend more time doing your hobbies or things that you love. But yeah, it just helps really put into perspective that it really doesn’t take much for you to be free if you start working towards it.

Speaker 3 (24:01):

And I like how you gave people the option where you got into it, will the seller take payments? Can we do a lease option? Can we do this creative stuff? And then you got into using other people’s money to fund your deals. So it’s like, then it, it sounds like you were able to ramp up faster once that was unlocked too, which was very cool. Right.

Speaker 1 (24:21):

I think a lot of people, I think most new investors biggest mistake is that we start with wholesaling because we don’t have any money or we are using our own money to fund the deals. And both of those things limit you. When you start using other people’s money to fund deals, your possibilities are limitless. It’s a lot of people out here. It’s pretty much how much can you handle If you’re getting them really bad, you might not want to do a lot of them at one time. You might get overwhelmed, but yeah, your possibilities are limitless.

Speaker 3 (24:59):

Let me ask you this then. I know you said if you would go back, you would just focus on buying and holding, but do you say that I would go back and just do that and only focus on that? Or would you focus, or would you have an active stream along with your passive stream? Or do you like the one route?

Speaker 1 (25:22):

I think having an active stream is nice, but I don’t think I would’ve made my active stream selling houses.

Speaker 3 (25:30):

Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:32):

My or selling paper. I would’ve would’ve found something else to be active for, to have some active money, and I would’ve kept every single one.

Speaker 3 (25:44):

Okay. Because buying at the wholesale price and then you’re being able to buy and hold it. Yeah. That’s really good advice. I also like two, when you took us through that, the process, there’s a lot of variables. It depends on how much you really need on a monthly basis. If you need less than 10 K, that’s less doors. But if you need more than 10 K, maybe that’s where the midterm, short term, do you want some of those more active type properties, but they’re able to net you more as well, so you don’t have to have as many, or do you go the long-term route? There’s like, I like how you set that up because you gave people the option short-term midterm, and you’re going to have different cash flows. And like you even said the risk factor as well too, because midterm, short-term, if a covid type event happens again, that gets shut down more than long-term, or I don’t know if there’s a vice versa to that where long-term will get shut down, but midterm and short term are still great.

(26:41):

So it’s like you just have to evaluate a lot of things. And then you took us through that freedom number formula, making it just real simple. It sounds like it just takes a little bit of work there. Sounds like you just sit down and write out what you really want, and then if you want to get nitty gritty, what you really have spent money on, you have to look at. So do you track that any certain way? Do you use spreadsheets or There’s a billion of those. I feel like personal finance, bank software type budgeting tools or whatever. So do you use something for that when you help people?

Speaker 1 (27:16):

Well, I am just using spreadsheets right now. I know that there are some nice softwares out there. I will say when it comes to technology, I’m okay, but not the best. And I mean, I leave, I guess a lot of the softwares to the people that their expertise is that my expertise is buying and holding and doing the spreadsheet. Yeah, I do what I got to do so I can have an idea where I need to be. But when it comes down to keeping the books and all that stuff, I leave that to the professionals.

Speaker 3 (27:55):

Yeah, I understand that for sure. Cool. Well, this has been really awesome. So I guess before we go into how people get ahold of you or what’s the next step with you, is there any other advice or maybe your hardest lesson that you’ve learned in real estate up to this point?

Speaker 1 (28:16):

I could give some advice, which I’ve noticed when I see people. So a lot of people are stuck in the analysis paralysis stage because they want to know every single thing, every single scenario of how to do something. And a lot of the times those scenarios don’t even play out. I would encourage people to learn the first step and take action on that first step and then learn the second step and take action on the second step. And the reason I’m saying to do it in this manner, because you’re going to learn so much more on the journey than you could have learned in a book anyway. And I don’t know about people that are listening, but I know me personally, I like to get paid while I’m learning. So if I’m taking action, I’m getting paid while I’m learning. So I would just encourage people to do that.

(29:10):

And then also just try to get around the people that are already where you want to be. And I know that that’s intimidating because you’re like, well, what can I offer these people? Try to add some value. And the best way starting out that you can add value to people is do some work for them for free. Help them out. These people are busy and you’re going to learn so much that can help your business. So I’d say in terms of where you can find those people, try to find those local meetups. A lot of people are way more experienced, and you’ll start finding out way more events and places that you can go just by being around them.

Speaker 3 (29:52):

Awesome. So what I heard was learn to earn and earn while you’re learning. I like how you added that into it. And then also that network, you got to build that network. Your network is your net worth. A lot of our good friends, Jim Ingersoll and a lot of the good people there in the Richmond area say that. And I just think that’s really good. Great advice. And if this has been an awesome episode, I love this one, focusing on those numbers. Yeah, this has been great. Making sure you’re really working towards a business that serves you. I like how you broke down the different rentals and all that just, and like you said, your secret sauce. Get the deals in the door and then you’ll figure out what to do with them and how they fit into your overall plan. This is good stuff. So Martine, how do people take the next step with you, whether that’s a website or a program, what do you have?

Speaker 1 (30:45):

Okay, cool. So you guys can connect with me on my group and Facebook. It’s called the Freedom Inc. And basically we talk all things, buy and hold investing. It’s three questions that you’ll have to answer. It’s very simple. Just your name, email, and are you buying and holding or do you want to buy and hold because we want to make sure we keep our community specifically on that. And then also for anybody that’s serious and they’re really interested in getting into this and they need some help, I want to help as many people as I possibly can. And I’m no big coaching company where I have a sales floor that’s going to go look at this. I’m reviewing all of these things myself. So you can text me, you can text me at 8 0 4 4 9 5 1 3 3 3, and I’ll help you as best as I can.

Speaker 3 (31:41):

Awesome. Well, Martine, this is great stuff. And if you’re out there listening to this, you need to take action on what you’re saying. And if you’re like, I’m just like Martine and I do not like the backend stuff, all the numbers, and she was telling me to go and gather the expenses. If you need help with all that, reach out to us@simplecfo.com. We’ll make sure we lead the people to do that for you and help you connect with people like Martine. So that way if you need some extra help, we’re coaching as well. But we’re a financial leader that comes in to help you gather all that stuff up that you don’t like to do. So that’s simple. cfo.com. Martin, again, thank you for being a great guest and providing a ton of value with actionable steps today.

Speaker 1 (32:21):

Well, thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (32:24):

This episode of The Profit First for REI podcast is over, but there are plenty more where that came from. Are you ready to learn how David and his team can help implement the Profit First system in your business? Schedule a discovery call@simplecfo.com right now. We’ll see you next time on The Profit First for REI podcast with David Richter.


Title: “Profit First Strategies with Jay Conner: The Power of Private Money”

 

Episode: 242


There are 15 reasons to love about borrowing private money over traditional money. One of them is making your own rules for your private money.

 

In this episode of Profit First for REI podcast, Jay Conner, a nationally renowned real estate investor and the king of private money. He talks about how private money works.

 

Jay helps you get your money from private lenders and will share with you the mindset that will get you money in the door without you ever having to worry about it. 

 

Listen and enjoy the show! 

 

Key Takeaways:

 

[01:01] Introducing Jay Conner

[05:00] Introduction to private money

[08:30] The Great News Phone Call

[11:23] Why don’t you use your own money?

[13:18] Maintaining relationships with private lenders

[15:40] Private money vs traditional money

[22:05] Things that make them want to recommend you

[25:18] Advice for real estate investors

[29:01] Connect with Jay Conner

 

Quotes:

 

[07:34] “If you are talking about private money and raising private money with an individual and you got a deal for them to fund, you already sounded desperate.”

 

[12:07] “If you want to scale your business, private money is the way to go.” 

 

[16:05] “In this world of private money, we make the rules. We set the interest rate, we sent the length and all of that.”



Connect with Jay:

 

Website: https://www.jayconner.com/book-details/ 

 

Tired of living deal to deal? 

If you are a real estate investor or business owner who is tired of living deal to deal and want to double your profits, head over here to book your no-obligation discovery call with me. Either myself or someone from my team will hop on a short call with you to get clear on your business goals, remove any obstacles holding you back, and map out a game plan to help you finally start keeping more of the money you work so hard to make. – David

 


Transcript:

Speaker 1 (00:00):

I got 15 reasons I love private money over traditional money. I won’t share all 15, but the biggest one is it puts you in the driver’s seat. The traditional way to borrow money is you go to the bank and get on your hands and knees and you’re begging and chasing. Well, they are making the rules right? Like the lender is making the rules. But in this world of private money, we make the rules, we set the interest rate, we set the length of the note and all that.

Speaker 2 (00:34):

If you’re a real estate investor who’s sick and tired of living deal to deal, then welcome home. Hear from everyday real estate investors just like you, and discover how they’ve completely transformed their business by taking a profit First approach. This is the profit first for REI podcast, where we believe revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. It’s time to start making profit a habit in your business. So here’s your host, David Richter.

Speaker 3 (01:01):

We have Jay Connor back on the podcast. I love Jay Connor. He helps you get your money, the money from private lenders and that whole framework and process, but he does it from a passion and a place of heart. And servant Teachership. I feel like he goes out there and is a servant teacher of how private money works. Listen to this episode. He gives the magic question he tells about desperation and private lending, and I thought his perspective was so good, and then ultimately the mindset that will get you money in the door without you ever having to worry about it. So listen to this episode. Can’t wait for you to get value from it. Thank you for being a listener of the Profit First. RII podcast. Have a great episode. Hey, here’s the profit first RI podcast. Really excited to have Jay Connor back because he’s the came of private money. And this is where I love to go into this topic because I don’t care what kind of business you’re in, you probably need help with this, but especially if you’re in the real estate world, this comes up all the time at every event I’m at with every conversation I have. So we’re having the cane here talk about private money today. So Jay, thanks for being on the show.

Speaker 1 (02:07):

Hey David, thank you so much for having me come on here to talk about my most favorite topic. Of course, that being private money. And why is that? Because private money’s had a bigger impact on our real estate investing business than any other strategy that we’ve implemented in our business.

Speaker 3 (02:24):

Why did you go down that road though? I mean, you teach this all the time. You’re helping a ton of people, like anyone I’ve ever talked to that works with you is like he taught me how to do and I got money and it actually works. So I mean, how did you even go down that road where it made a difference on you and then you wanted to get it to others?

Speaker 1 (02:43):

Well, I actually backed into it. I didn’t do it on purpose. So here’s what happened. So my wife, Carol, joy and I, we’ve been investing in real estate, single family houses, other real estate full time here in eastern North Carolina since 2003. And here’s what happened. From 2003 until 2009, David, all I knew to do in my real estate investing business was rely on the local banks to fund my deals. I mean, all I knew to do was go to the bank, get on my hands and knees, put my hand underneath my chin, raise my skirt up so they could look at all my personal financial statements and stuff and actually beg to get my deals funded. That’s all I knew to do. And so I had a big wake up call in January of 2009 after being in this business here in Eastern North Carolina. I called up my banker.

(03:38):

I told him about these two deals I had under contract in Newport, these two single family houses. And David, I learned like that over the telephone that my line of credit had been shut down with no notice. My banker, his name was Steve, and the bank was bb and t at the time. I said, Steve, what in the world are you telling me? My line of credit is shut down. I got two deals under contract. You gave me no notice. Why is the bank closing my line of credit? He said, Jay, don’t. There’s a global financial crisis going on right now. I said, no, but now you just gave me a global financial crisis. Financial crisis, yeah, I ain’t got no way to fund my deals. And I got ’em under contract. So I hung up the phone and here’s what happened, David. I sat here and I asked myself a very important question.

(04:27):

And so I’m going to share this question with your audience right now. This question I’m going to share with you will help you solve any problem you’ve got. I don’t care if it’s business, financial, career, health, relationships. I don’t care what your problem is. By the way, David, these people going around and saying, any problem, you got some opportunity I want to throw up. I didn’t have no opportunity. I had a problem of not funding my deal. So here’s the question I asked myself. The question I asked myself was, Jay, who do you know that can help you with your problem? And when I asked myself that question, I immediately thought of my good friend Jeff, who lived in Greensboro, North Carolina at the time, and he was investing in real estate. And so I called him up and I told him what happened. And he said, well, Jay, welcome to the club.

(05:18):

I said, what club? He said, the club of the bank shutting you down and losing amount of credit. They shut me down last week. I said, well, how are you funding your deals, Jeff? He says, well, have you ever heard of private money? And I hadn’t. So Jeff told me about private money. He told me about self-directed IRAs and how people can use their retirement accounts and funds that they currently have and move them over to a self-directed IRA company and then loan that money out to us real estate investors, either tax deferred or tax free depending on the type of account they’ve got. Well, that just opened up my whole world. I’d never heard of that. And so what did I do? How did raise $2,150,000 in less than 90 days after being cut off from the bank? Well, here’s what I did, and here’s the secret sauce I put on my teacher hat.

(06:10):

So I put on my teacher cap, which is my private money teacher cap, and I just started teaching people in my own network what private money is, how they can earn high rates of returns safely and securely. And what’s interesting, Carol, joy and I, we got 47 private lenders right now. Not one of them had ever heard of private money and private lending. Not one of them had ever heard of self-directed IRA companies and what a third party custodian is. That’s important by the way, to establish a relationship with a self-directed IRA company because over half of my private lenders are using their retirement funds. And if I didn’t have that relationship to introduce them to move their retirement funds over, I’d be missing out on over half of my private money. So how did I go about raising all this money when I was cut off from the banks?

(07:02):

I led with a servant’s heart. I led with education. And here’s a really, really important point. I separated the activity. I separated the conversations of telling people what private money is and how they can earn high rates of return safely and securely and having a deal for them to fund. You see, desperation has got a smell to it. And when you talk about is that not true, David? Yeah, very true. So if you’re talking about private money and raising private money with an individual and you got a deal for them to fund, you’re already sounding desperate and you’re not even trying to sound desperate. So we don’t talk about deals and when we’re first exposing somebody to how they can earn high rates of return, we talk about private money. So how do we separate those conversations? Well, when someone has told me that they’ve got, let’s say they’ve got $150,000 they want to invest and get high rates of return conservatively, I’ll say, great, I’ll put your money to work for you just as soon as possible.

(08:11):

I don’t talk about a deal upfront. If they’ve got retirement funds that they want to get higher rates of return on, I’ll introduce ’em to the self-directed IRA company that I recommend. They’ll get their funds moved over. And so here’s what happens and here’s the magic sauce, David, I give ’em and I call ’em up with what I call the great news phone call. What in the world is the great news phone call? Well, the great news phone call is not a pitch. I’ve never pitched a deal in my life ever since I started raising private money in 2009. I pick up my handset with my cord attached to it here in North Carolina and I call some of your, don’t even know what that is. And let’s say, David, let’s say you’re one of my private lenders. So I’ll put my phone right up here and you’ll answer the phone and we’ll have a little chitchat and I’ll say, Dave, I got great news for you.

(09:06):

I can now put your money to work. I got a house in Newport with an after repaired value of $200,000. The funding requires 150. Closing is next Tuesday. You’ll need to have your funds wired to my real estate attorney next Monday. I’m going to have my real estate attorney email you the wiring instructions end of conversation. Notice I didn’t ask If you want to fund the deal, of course you want to fund the deal. You’ve been waiting for the phone call. I’ve told you the program. I’ve taught you the program, you know what kind of rate you get, what the maximum loan to value is, the program that I’ve taught you. And so now you’re waiting for the good news phone call, which I just gave you. And in addition to that, if you as my private lender, if you’ve moved your retirement funds over to a self-directed IRA company, you ain’t earning any money until I put your money to work.

(10:04):

You moved it at my recommendation. Now I’m ethically bound to put your money to work. You ain’t earning any money until you actually put her to work. So again, we separate conversations, we leave with a servant’s heart, we educate, and by the way, David, these people going around saying don’t just get the deal under contract. The money is show up. I want to throw up where is the money going to show up? Is it just going to rain out of clouds or something? No, get the money lined up and you can get it lined up fast. Just like me. There’s always going to be deals.

Speaker 3 (10:38):

Yeah. Oh man, that’s really good stuff. I love how you went down that road and it helped you personally. Now you’re just teaching a lot of people. I love that magic question. Who do you know that can help me with my problem? It’s that who, it’s not always the how. It’s the who did I know, and in that point it really helped you. I also run into a lot of times, I don’t know if you see this, where there’s someone who’s like, I could save a couple interest points if I just use my own money versus a private lender’s funds. What are your thoughts on that of always taking down your own deals versus going out there and putting the work into getting a private lender?

Speaker 1 (11:17):

Sure, I get that question all the time. They say, Jay, you making all that money? Why don’t you use your own money to invest in real estate? Why are you still borrowing private money? Well, here’s the answer. If you’re just going to do one deal, that’s a great use of your money. That’s a fantastic use of your money. But do you want to scale your business? I mean, right now we’ve got seven different projects going on, single family houses simultaneously. Well, I don’t want my money buried in seven houses or projects simultaneously, which here in our local market can easily be over 3 million with the prices of our homes. So if you want to scale and really, I mean most people have got a bottom of the bucket in their checkbook. So if you want to scale your business, then private money is the way to go. Another answer to that question is, do I want to pay myself 8% or do I want to use my money for something else,

Speaker 3 (12:22):

Right? Yep.

Speaker 1 (12:24):

So that’s a couple of answers to why I use private lending and why I’m still using 47 private lenders,

Speaker 3 (12:33):

Which is great. I love what you said. If you want to scale, it can run out of cash real quick. If you just keep using your own money where a lot of people have to choose between, okay, paying some percentage points or sleeping at night, and it’s like, I think I like your option a whole lot better, especially if you’re looking to grow. But I like how you said that one deal. That’s okay, but if you are looking to be a real estate investor, this is something you’re going to have to go down that road. Now, last time I asked you some questions about the private lending process. I don’t think I asked this one though, is how do you maintain a relationship with that many private lenders? You’ve got 47 people in your network that you call up with the good news call. So is it like how do you maintain a relationship with all those people?

Speaker 1 (13:22):

I mail ’em checks.

Speaker 3 (13:25):

I love that. That’s a great answer. Oh man. No better way to keep a relationship there.

Speaker 1 (13:33):

I mean, they love getting money in the mail, right? Yeah. They love mailbox money, so I mail ’em checks.

Speaker 3 (13:41):

So you mail ’em checks. So you’ve built a good enough business where you can keep 47 lenders busy and their money active.

Speaker 1 (13:50):

Well, to be totally transparent, I mean, it is a juggling act to tell you the truth. I mean, there’s more money than there is deals.

Speaker 3 (14:00):

Yep.

Speaker 1 (14:01):

There’s more money than there is deals. And so we got 47 private lenders. Some of them have got $30,000 with us, some of ’em have got a million dollars with us. I can’t buy a house for 30,000, but I can use 30,000 for rehab money. You can use private money, borrow private money in a junior position, you’ve got to disclose that. But I can put private money in a junior lien. But what comes into play there is what we call total loan to value. So I’m not going to be borrowing more than 75% of the after repaired value. I didn’t say the purchase price 75% of the after repaired value. But let’s say back to that example that we just talked about, David, where if I’ve got a after repaired value on a home of 200,000 for easy figuring, I can borrow up to 150,000. That’s 75% of the after repaired value. But if I buy it for a hundred thousand, which I do all the time, 50% of the after repaired value, I can have a private lender in first position at a hundred grand. I could have another private lender in second position at 50 grand. So add a hundred to the 50, now one 50 divided by 200,000 after repaired value, I got a total loan to value of still 75%.

Speaker 3 (15:27):

Yeah, I love that. And it seems like private money gives you flexibility and

Speaker 1 (15:32):

Options. Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (15:34):

Yeah, that makes sense. A hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (15:37):

Oh, absolutely. Flexibility is where it’s all at. I got 15 reasons. I love private money over traditional money. I won’t share all 15, but the biggest one is it puts you in the driver’s seat. The traditional way to borrow money is you go to the bank and get on your hands and knees and you’re begging and chasing, well, they are making the rules, right? The lender is making the rules. But in this world of private money, we make the rules, we set the interest rate, we set the length of the node and all that.

Speaker 3 (16:14):

I love that. Flexibility is the ultimate play in real estate. You want to have flexibility and you want to be able to have that. So I love what you teach. Who is the person that you’re trying to teach out there? Is it the person that’s done one deal a thousand deals? Who are you trying to help the most with your business?

Speaker 1 (16:33):

Yeah, that’s interesting. At my live events, which is called the private money conference, and my live events, we have about 60% or so have already done deals. They’ve already done deals. They want to scale their business. They are real estate investors wanting to scale their business, and about 40% are looking to get their very first deal. So I’m helping everybody. I mean Stu and Harriet Baldwin from New York State, they enrolled and joined my mastermind membership community and they already had a portfolio of a hundred houses. They’d already raised over $2 million in private money, but they wanted to see how I went about it. Well, just one webinar that I recorded with them brought in 1.2 million in additional private private money. So I’ve worked with real estate investors that are brand new and those that are also seasoned to help them get more private money ready to go for their business.

Speaker 3 (17:33):

I love that. It sounds like a lot of people out there need private money, and even if you’re just getting started, if you don’t have the funds to do that first deal, like you mentioned, you do that first deal, that one deal at a time, it might be okay, but this sounds like a great spot where if you’re getting into it or if you’ve got lots of stuff going on, this could be another way to make sure your company can keep running without what you ran into with the banks back in 2007, eight or oh nine. Would you say that’s true as well?

Speaker 1 (18:04):

Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, I’ve met very, very few people. In fact, I can’t even think of one. I haven’t met any real estate investor that says, I got enough money.

Speaker 3 (18:20):

Yeah, me either.

Speaker 1 (18:22):

I can’t use any more private money. However, David, you are looking at one right now. I got about almost $2 million right now, what I call sitting on the shelf waiting to be deployed. And I tell you what, I’ve had new private lenders come into my world that want to invest and just to prove to them that I can perform. I’ll take the new private lender’s money and pay off a current private lender, refinance the deal so I can get their money to work for ’em, right?

Speaker 3 (18:53):

Ah, yep, that makes sense. I like that. As you grow and scale, you might run into that issue and you make one lender a little bit happy. I mean, at least they’re getting paid off, but then they probably come back to you and say, I want you to put my money to work again. Do you have that come up a lot?

Speaker 1 (19:12):

Quite frankly, when I pay ’em off, they’re not happy.

Speaker 3 (19:17):

That’s why I said just a little happy, maybe a little bit.

Speaker 1 (19:20):

But when I pay ’em off, they’re not making any money on that money. In fact, with a new private lender, I’ll get ready to pay ’em off cashing out on a deal and I’ll call ’em up and say, Hey, just want you to know that you’re going to have a check coming in the mail from a real estate attorney’s trust account. We’re paying off this house. And they’ll say, Jay, can’t you just keep the money? And I’ll go, no, I can’t keep the money unless I’ve got your money secured by a property because we do not borrow unsecured funds. Now, here’s maybe a little advanced strategy for some folks, but I do substitutions of collateral or loan modifications all the time. If it’s a small amount of money that a private lender’s invested 30, 40, $50,000, and we use it for rehabbing a property. So when I’ve got another property I’m getting ready to start on, I’ll substitute the collateral and keep that 30 or $50,000 note in play. So they keep earning money on that money, but we will substitute the collateral just to a different project that we’re moving to.

Speaker 3 (20:25):

That’s awesome. So then sounds like you have a good problem. It’s like, I want that. Well, I think a lot of real estate investors would rather the problem, I have too much money versus I’ve got these deals and I can’t fund them. So I really like how you teach people that and where it could snowball into this, where it’s like, I’ve got 47 private lenders, I’ve got to go out there and get the deals for ’em. Absolutely. And I really like that. And

Speaker 1 (20:50):

For goodness sakes, you don’t start out with 47 private lenders. I started out with one, right? I started out with one and then that quickly became two and three and four and five because private lenders tell other people what’s going on. So I haven’t actively attracted private money for years because our current private lenders just keep sending us people. In fact, day before yesterday, day before yesterday, I got a phone call from the mother of a good friend of mine, his name’s Craig, lives in Newburg, North Carolina. Craig had told his mother about this investment thing that I got going on and she had never heard of it, which is really funny. I’ve been doing it now private money since 2009. So she calls me up and she says, Hey, my son’s been telling me about this investment thing you got going on. Tell me about it. So word of mouth gets around very, very quickly when you start doing business with private lenders the way I do.

Speaker 3 (21:53):

Yeah, I like that a lot. So in order to get people to talk like that, what are the biggest things that you do for your current private lenders that makes them want to recommend you?

Speaker 1 (22:07):

Well pay ’em on time.

Speaker 3 (22:08):

There you go. That’s a big one. Sounds like that would be a really great place to start.

Speaker 1 (22:12):

Pay ’em on time. But I also have three times a year I put on a party for our private lenders at the Dunes Club. So we have three times a year a VIP reception over at the Dunes Club on the beach, and it’s just an evening of private lenders getting together and we have a good old time and I feed them and give them all the soft shell crabs they want, and I tell ’em to bring their friends with them.

Speaker 3 (22:42):

Yeah, that’s awesome. So number one though, that anyone can do at any stage is pay people on time. So actually pay, would you say, what about communication? I hear that come up sometimes too. How do you do a good job on the communication with your private lenders as well?

Speaker 1 (23:03):

Well, it must be good enough. They never go away,

Speaker 3 (23:06):

Right? Yeah, that’s the big things I hear.

Speaker 1 (23:10):

Here’s one thing I have not delegated as far as communication. I personally, I mean my relationships with my private lenders are very, very important. So I personally pick up the phone, pick up the phone, and call my private lenders when I have got a deal for them to fund. I do not delegate that out. I could

(23:37):

Delegate that out, but I don’t, when I got a deal for them to fund, I’m the person on the phone keeping that relationship When I’m getting ready to pay them off. I don’t have a check just show up in the mail. Of course they got to sign a payoff instruction letter if a different closing agent is closing it for a buyer. But before any of that happens, I personally call ’em up and I tell ’em that we’ve got that property sold. We’re getting ready to pay you off. Or I’ll call ’em up and I’ll say, Hey, we’re getting ready to pay this property off, but I will keep your note open so you can keep earning money. I’m just going to substitute the collateral. We got some documents we’re going to email to you for you to sign and send back the communication. I’m personally involved in putting their money to work and letting them know when we’re cashing out and where they are on the deal.

Speaker 3 (24:31):

That’s awesome. Then since it’s the profit first I podcast here, I love this concept of the private money because you need your cash in your accounts. So to be able to run your business, do those things, and then setting up a separate account just for your private money lenders, so it makes it easier to do what Jay just told you to pay them back, to pay them back on time to be in good communication with them. So now this has been really good. Do you have any other advice before I ask you? How could they work with you? How can they get in touch with, because I know this is something that is needed desperately, that I send people your way all the time. I know I trust you to help people, but any other last minute advice here that you would give to the real estate investors listening to the podcast?

Speaker 1 (25:18):

Sure. I appreciate you asking that question. It’s going to be very hard to own a lot of real estate

(25:26):

Until you own the real estate between your ears. So what do I mean by that? People ask me, how do I start? How do I start raising money? I can tell you how you start raising private money. You get your heart right, you get your mindset right. So what do I mean by that? Well, what do you do? You lead with a servant’s heart, you lead with education, you put your private lender money hat on, you private lender, teacher hat on, and you leave with education, don’t pitch deals, and you really, really are concerned about the other person and realize, part of this mindset is realize you’ve got an opportunity to change people’s lives, right?

Speaker 3 (26:11):

That’s so good.

Speaker 1 (26:13):

We’ve got countless people that are particularly in their retirement years, that have thanked me and Carol Joy for making a difference in their retirement years to where they can, I mean, they don’t want to touch their principal. They want to live off of their principal investment. So they’ve been able to travel, go see grandkids, do all this stuff that they couldn’t do otherwise until they got involved in our program. So just know that you’ve got a way to really make an impact on other people’s lives. And lemme tell you another part of mindset. It ain’t about reaping. It’s not about reaping. It’s all about sowing. It’s all about sowing. I can’t be reaping all that private money and deals until I have sown and given and led with value first. So how you sow is how you’re going to reap.

Speaker 3 (27:08):

Yeah. Oh man, this is so good. I’m glad I asked that question because I hear the passion in your voice and I hear that you really care about the people you work with, the people that have private money lenders out there, you care about that relationship. I love what you said. Get your heart right, get your head right. I also think, like you said too, that if they don’t have that desperation has a smell. So if you’re out there, you’re desperate and you’re just going out there, then you won’t have people like you have that want to keep coming back, that want to continuously invest in you. So that was, I think, the best advice that you could give right there. Get it between your ears and get your heart right. I absolutely love that. And just to recap too, I love your magic question.

(27:55):

Who do you know that can help me with my problem? Then one day you’re going to wake up and you’re going to be like Jay, and you’re going to be helping other people with their problem. I’ve got money. I want to put it somewhere, and you’re the able to get them to where they can be. Desperation has a smell. I love that. And then honestly, I love that pivot. You are like, it’s not about the reaping, it’s not about the interest that I’m making or the profit I’m making for the deal. It’s more about sowing those seeds and ultimately you’re changing lives. That’s why you get private money, and it’s like that interest that you’re paying them is twofold. It’s like you get to sleep at night, you’re not using all your money and you’re getting to help someone else get a return that they wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else or in someone that they trust as well too, and that’s a little bit more tangible than the stock markets or all this other Bitcoin, some of that stuff that’s floating around out there. So this has been awesome. So how do people then, Jay, take that next step with you? Do you have a book? You talked about an event. What can people do?

Speaker 1 (29:01):

Absolutely. Well for your audience, David, I’ve got two gifts. First of all, I finished writing my book Where to Get the Money. Now, this is not a ebook. This is a book book that we actually send in the mail Autographic where to get the money. Now the subtitle is How and Where to Get Money for Your Real Estate Deals Without Relying on Hard Money Lenders or Traditional Lenders. It’ll walk you through step by step how to get all the private money you would want. Very, very easy to read. It’s $20 on Amazon, but you can get it for free. Being David’s audience, just cover shipping. You can go to www dot j Connor, J-A-Y-C-O-N-N-E r.com/book. So I’m an er, not an or. So that’s j Connor, J-A-Y-C-O-N-N-E r.com/book, and we’ll three day priority mail it out to you. Now, in addition to that, I’ve got an upcoming $3,000 per ticket live event right around the corner. But for your audience, Dave, I’m going to let everybody come for free with a measly $97 registration fee. This private money event. You can check it out at www.theprivatemoneyconference.com. The private money conference.com. That’s coming up right around the corner in June. Get on over there. Registrations are open, and I’d love to meet you in person at the private money conference.com.

Speaker 3 (30:31):

Awesome. I’m excited about that too. I love what you’re doing and you’re solving a big need that we hear all the time. Just like all people always needing to sharpen their acts when it comes to private money, you graciously have also invited me there to speak about Profit First. So I’m excited to get to tell people about that so they can get more private money and be more confident and not be desperate when they go and ask for people. So I’m really excited about that as well. So make sure we’re going to put those links there, but make sure either get his book or go to that event. I cannot endorse Jay Moore because I know how many people he helps, but then he also has the heart. You heard it right here. That’s how he wants to help you too. It’s very much a heart and a mission and a passion for him.

(31:13):

So Jay, thank you for coming on, for sharing your wisdom, your knowledge today. If you are listening to this episode and you feel stuck like, what the heck is going on? Where is my money? I don’t know what to do. I’m a little bit nervous to go out there and get private money. I can’t keep my own house in order. That’s where you could go to simple cfo.com where we can help you walk you through that process. We’ll link you up to Jay too. If you need private money or need to learn about private money, this is who we recommend. I recommend Jay to many people, so make sure that if you need that help you go to simple cfo.com. But Jay, again, thank you for being on the show and sharing your wisdom here today.

Speaker 1 (31:51):

David, thank you so much for having me. God bless you.

Speaker 2 (31:54):

This episode of the Profit First for REI podcast is over, but there are plenty more where that came from. Are you ready to learn how David and his team can help implement the Profit First system in your business? Schedule a discovery call@simplecfo.com right now. We’ll see you next time on The Profit First for REI podcast with David Richter.