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Manufactured Houses and Million-Dollar Dreams: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Real Estate

Title: “Manufactured Houses and Million-Dollar Dreams: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Real Estate”

Episode: 213

On this episode of Profit First for REI podcast, we have Brandon Richards. He has been in real estate for nine years, focusing on wholesaling and manufactured housing.

He talks about the lessons he learned on his investing journey, the quickest route to success, and his semi-traditional way of real estate investing.

Listen as he talks about these topics and more about wholesaling and manufactured housing. Enjoy the show!

Key Takeaways:

[00:54] Introducing Brandon Richards

[02:50] Brandon’s favorite exit strategy

[05:05] Starting their real estate journey

[06:50] The ups and downs of real estate

[08:20] Why do lots of real investors live deal to deal?

[11:49] Not the typical wholesaling

[18:24] Hardest lesson as a real estate investor

[23:46] The quickest route to success

[25:55] Connect with Brandon Richards

Quotes:

[05:28] “We knew we wanted to get into real estate, but we didn’t know what it looked like.”

[18:33] “I had a good amount of equity. I had decent cash flow, but I chose the wrong areas. They are in tertiary markets.”

[24:13] “What makes real estate easier for me is having access to private money.”

Connect with Brandon:

Website: https://www.instagram.com/fearlesspursuitoffreedom/ 

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Transcript:

Speaker 1 (00:00):

Getting directly into the cash flowing aspect of it. Yeah, I mean, you can make a million dollars a year wholesaling houses, easy peasy, but now you’re paying $350,000 in taxes and you got a nice bank account. But if you stop working and you get hurt or injured, whatever, then that stops.

Speaker 2 (00:21):

It all goes away.

Speaker 1 (00:23):

Yeah. Cash flow.

Speaker 3 (00:26):

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Speaker 2 (00:53):

Hey, we’ve got Brandon Richards on the Profit first, REI podcast today. Talks about some good first steps, no matter if you’re down the road, real estate investing or if you’re just starting out of what he wishes he would’ve done. Some lessons learned along the way. He literally talks about a story about a dumpster fire, just trying to help you make more money, spend it in the right place and keep more of what you’re making. So he definitely helps you with some of those first steps and gives you a different perspective, even if you’re in the trenches, a different exit strategy that I don’t think a lot of people are doing that you might want to add to it. So enjoy the episode. Brandon Richards, excited to have you on the podcast today here. I’m looking forward to diving into this. I got your biography. I’ve been on your thing in the past on your podcast, so I’m excited to go into this because a lot of people respect you in this space, and we’re a part of a lot of the same networks and groups, so thanks for being on the show today.

Speaker 1 (01:44):

No, I appreciate it. Thanks for the invite.

Speaker 2 (01:46):

Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, okay, let’s dive into this real estate investor. You’re a lot of the people that I know in the space that we know in the space. So just tell a little bit about your background. So if people don’t know you or have never listened to your podcast, so that way they can get to know where you are.

Speaker 1 (02:03):

So my wife and I, we’ve been in real estate for about nine years. We got into it semi traditional way. We knew that real estate is where we wanted to go. It’s how most millionaires have made their wealth or they put money in real estate, one or the other. But so we knew real estate was the avenue. I went the realtor route, then I went the wholesale and then flipping, and then now we’re kind of doing a little bit of all of it, kind of a hectic mess, but currently we’re concentrating on a lot of wholesaling and I placed manufactured houses, double wides on land.

Speaker 2 (02:44):

Cool. What would you say is your favorite exit strategy that you’ve done over the years?

Speaker 1 (02:51):

Probably the manufactured houses, the new ones, just because it’s very strategic and there’s no unknowns that can’t be really dialed into a procedure versus a flip. You pull out a wall, you never know what you’re going to find. But on these manufactured houses, it’s pretty straightforward. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:17):

And are you building those, did you say? Or what are you doing with the manufacturer or are you just finding them, buying them and then renovating ’em?

Speaker 1 (03:24):

No, so the manufactured houses are ordered from separate manufacturers. We’ve ordered from Clayton, Avco, Schulte, a couple of them. But yeah, we order ’em for the manufacturer. So I’ll buy a piece of land, either raw land or one that has a property on it that isn’t livable and I’ll tear it down and then we put the new one on there.

Speaker 2 (03:47):

Okay. So then you said that’s one of your main exit exit strategies today, correct.

Speaker 1 (03:53):

That, yeah. Main and not necessarily fun, but favorite, I guess. There’s typically more profit in it, and like I said, there’s no unknowns. Yeah. Predictability. Yeah, it’s easy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:08):

Yeah. Awesome. And then where are you now? What locations? In case people are near you?

Speaker 1 (04:14):

Yeah, Flagstaff, Arizona, Northern Arizona where we get snow. So right now I think it’s like 40 something degrees, but this morning it was 23 when I woke up.

Speaker 2 (04:26):

Wow. You don’t think about that.

Speaker 1 (04:28):

Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it.

Speaker 2 (04:29):

Right. Is that typical for where you live

Speaker 1 (04:33):

In the winter time? Yeah, we’re at 7,000 feet up here, elevation. Ah, okay. Yeah, so we’re in the largest standup Ponderosa Pines in the United States, and we just got one giant mountain and yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:48):

Okay, there you go. Well then you said you got into real estate nine years ago with your spouse and it was a traditional route. What made you guys even go down? You said you want to do real estate, did you hear it somewhere? Did you read the Purple book like Rich Dad Porto, what you push down that road?

Speaker 1 (05:06):

Yeah, I’ll to think about it. So I did read the book. So when I first got into it, me and my buddy were doing similar things. He owned a glass shop, I owned a carpet cleaning franchise, and we were just solopreneurs doing, doing the nine to five basically, but working for ourselves. And we knew we wanted to get in real estate, but we didn’t know what that looked like. And I was living at Flagstaff at the time and just going through a divorce. And so when I moved away I must’ve been on BiggerPockets and saw something about wholesaling and I was like, well, what the hell is that? Yeah, no money in flipping houses. So that’s the avenue I wanted to approach at that time. So we moved to Texas. I moved in with my girlfriend and I brought my two kids with me. We lived off of her teacher salary for a while, probably over a year before I even got one realtor transaction going. And it was probably, I dunno, a year and a half before I had my first wholesale and really found out that real estate was what I wanted to pursue longterm.

Speaker 2 (06:22):

So then you stuck with, it seems like it’s panned out for you that you’re still in the real estate game now. You’ve got

Speaker 1 (06:27):

Helping.

Speaker 2 (06:28):

Yeah,

Speaker 1 (06:28):

Yeah, just like everybody else, there’s been a roller coaster months and years. But yeah, it’s been great.

Speaker 2 (06:34):

Okay. Yeah, I hear that a lot, right in the real estate space, the rollercoaster up and downs. So then let’s talk a little bit about that, if you don’t mind. The rollercoaster up and down during that time, did you ever want to get out of real estate during the months that were pretty low?

Speaker 1 (06:52):

You cut out for a second there, but you said, did I ever think about backing out or getting

Speaker 2 (06:57):

Out of it? Yeah, getting out of real estate,

Speaker 1 (07:01):

No, because I haven’t had a job since I was 24 ish, 23 maybe. So it’s been about 13, 14 years and I don’t know that I could do it, honestly. I’ve just been solo out here on my own for so long that I just don’t know if I could do it, but I didn’t really have a backup option, so I never really took it seriously even though I was like, crap, I might have to get a job.

Speaker 2 (07:30):

Okay. No, I just wondered because a lot of people go through those ups and downs. Some people it’s like, oh man, do I even want to stay in it? So then around what time did you read the book Prophet First?

Speaker 1 (07:44):

It was about the time you did a podcast. So that was probably four years ago roughly.

Speaker 2 (07:49):

Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:50):

Yeah. Awesome. So it’s been a while. I need to jump back into that. I was going

Speaker 2 (07:53):

To say jump back into it.

Speaker 1 (07:55):

I think I have it right. It’s right here somewhere, but yeah, I need to read it again,

Speaker 2 (08:00):

Right? Yeah, I think a lot of people do in this day and age or this climate in the real

Speaker 1 (08:05):

Estate, especially now. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 2 (08:07):

Right. The sun’s shining. It’s easy to make the money when it’s not, where are you going to get it? Right. So then let’s talk about that. Why do you think a lot of real estate investors live deal to deal?

Speaker 1 (08:21):

I think it’s many things. I think one of the primary driving factors is marketing and consistent sometimes as when you’re doing all of it as taking intake calls, you’re doing appointments, you’re managing the rehabs, you’re also the guy sending out the letters. When you’ve got a deal or two underway, you kind of pull off a throttle and you pull back on your marketing or you forget your marketing or you delay it a few weeks because you’re too busy and then the cycle lets off and the deal flows slows down.

Speaker 2 (09:01):

So it’s that consistency. So consistency in marketing, consistency in everything to get it up and running. So is that why you like doing the manufactured home because it can have more consistency that predictability and able to not have those surprises as much?

Speaker 1 (09:17):

Yeah, and I don’t have to hire licensed plumbers, electricians. That makes sense. So I just pull building permits. The setup guys are licensed setup, they marry, the two have together, they connect the two electrical sides together, the HVAC and the plumbing, and then my ground crew who does my pad will tap in my sewage and everything on the outside. So I don’t ever have to go searching for new contractors. It’s just these three people that go there.

Speaker 2 (09:51):

That makes it a lot easier. So then what about the acquisition? It’s like obviously you just order the manufactured home, but you have to have someplace to put it. Is that the marketing to try and find a place to put the manufactured home or what would you say is the consistency on that front?

Speaker 1 (10:09):

Yeah, so I’m just looking for land or crappy houses. So the ones I know that need to be torn down, they’re just the old school driving for dollars. So if it looks like I can get it for a dollar amount that is worth tearing it down, then they’ll get a letter. But outside of that, it’s just Poland County records for all raw land and mailing it.

Speaker 2 (10:28):

Okay. So it’s raw land. Is it, I guess to put a manufactured home on, is it sometimes always rural areas or is it sometimes in suburban areas or what would you say for that?

Speaker 1 (10:40):

My first one was out in a rural areas north of Williams, close to the Grand Canyon, and it was on an acre, and that one was rural enough to where it only had a PS power, it had no water or sewage. So we had to put in a cistern tank for water and they bring in their water and fill it up, or you could hire a company and a septic system. So we had to put in a fairly expensive septic system there.

Speaker 2 (11:09):

But typically are they in rural places like that or can you put ’em wherever you tear down if you’re driving for dollars, where do you drive for dollars in the city or type thing?

Speaker 1 (11:20):

It’s zoning.

Speaker 2 (11:21):

Okay.

Speaker 1 (11:22):

Yeah, it has to be for it. Yeah, so we have areas that are single family only, they won’t allow manufactured, and then there’s zoning that allows for both. And then there’s zoning that only allows for manufactured. So just paying attention to the zoning.

Speaker 2 (11:36):

Paying attention to the zoning, yeah. Okay. So then you do the manufactured homes and you do wholesaling as well too. So is the wholesaling just typical single family

Speaker 1 (11:47):

Residences? Kind of semi typical? So again, I’m still finding land. My buddy’s an infill developer. He builds brand new spec homes, so I find all of his land for him. I’m also the broker on the sales side, but I say not typical wholesaling because I have wholesale hotels, motels, storage facilities, warehouses, mobile home parks, quite a bit of different things.

Speaker 2 (12:18):

Do you target those things or do they come in just when you blast a list out and you’re just trying to get marketing and leads in the door?

Speaker 1 (12:26):

Nope, I target ’em.

Speaker 2 (12:28):

Okay. So you like doing the not specific single family houses or just not targeting those two?

Speaker 1 (12:35):

Yeah, the single family has gotten to a point where I’ve just about seen it all. I’m sure I’ll run into more things, dozens of things in the future, but there’s nothing that’s not ultra unpredictable at this point for me. So it’s gotten kind of boring and it’s easy to get done with the crew that I have. And so you’re aware I joined investor fuel cashflow, so my goal moving forward is to get into larger commercial deals and multifamily deals, and the easiest way to do that is for me anyways, I feel like is just to force the incoming calls and figure out if it’s something that I can pull off or wholesale.

Speaker 2 (13:11):

Okay. So then now when you target wholesale, is it mainly those weird type of deals that you’re going after? The hotels, motels, the storage facilities?

Speaker 1 (13:24):

It’s about 70% single family right now. If I’m thinking about my actual direct mail to 30% commercial assets, anything from again, storage family or storage apartments and mobile parks primarily.

Speaker 2 (13:38):

Okay. Then do you see wholesaling those as easier or harder, better profit, like doing the commercial type I guess versus single family?

Speaker 1 (13:50):

I don’t think it’s any easier or harder. It’s pretty similar in my opinion, but it is more money on the wholesale side and they’re kind of fun. Yeah, they’re kind of fun. I like it. For

Speaker 2 (14:01):

Those types of deals that aren’t the typical single family, is it mainly assignment or double close when you wholesale?

Speaker 1 (14:09):

I’m wholesaling those. So assignments of contracts versus double

Speaker 2 (14:12):

Closing versus double closing. I was wondering too, I know that all depends on your area sometimes and the title companies and that, but I’m wondering if you’re actually assigning the contract or if you had to double close on some

Speaker 1 (14:25):

Of the Yeah, it’s all been assignments and mostly because again, it’s my buddy that I’m assigning to the ones that I’ve done, so it’s somebody I can trust and it’s easy. If I were to find a new buyer, then I would probably double close until I gained that relationship.

Speaker 2 (14:44):

I was going to say, if someone’s out there, it sounds like number one, find a buddy like that

(14:50):

Bring the deals too, like reverse wholesaling where you’re just finding the deals and then bringing it to him and assigning it. But if you were to find a new buyer, you’d probably have to double close it until you built that trust factor. Okay. No, that’s cool. So I think that’s something if you’re listening to that you could take away from right there. I kind of like that too. Would you say that’s the same thing on the single family side? Would you have to double close for a lot of ’em until you assign, or is it easier to just assign for you?

Speaker 1 (15:20):

Sort of. A lot of wholesalers will mitigate that potential risk with requiring a non-refundable earnest money or down payment or whatever they want to call it. So they’ll make ’em put five or $7,000 in title unless something in title search arises to mitigate that type of risk.

Speaker 2 (15:39):

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. And then from there, it’s getting the money closed, then going out, doing it again, but it sounds like you as an investor are trying to get more consistency of like, Hey, this is the rentals or commercial deals, or that type of thing, because what are you wanting the consistent cashflow or becoming an investor? Why the change from the manufactured wholesale and now you’ve enjoying this mastermind group, just wanting the thought process behind it?

Speaker 1 (16:08):

Yeah, it’s definitely cashflow driven. When I moved to Texas and I got it all started, I bought some apartments out there. I had some storage, I had a couple of duplexes, a few single families, and when I moved, I found that for me, fairly burdensome to manage and they weren’t great assets either, so I didn’t envision keeping them long-term to begin with. So I sold those and I’m just looking to get back into it now that I’m back out here.

Speaker 2 (16:38):

Okay, that makes sense. So it’s like something new then getting back into it, want the consistent cashflow.

Speaker 1 (16:45):

Yeah. Yeah. We’re in a tricky market because up here we’re selling duplexes for 1.1, 1.3 million. It’s stupid. Yeah. Yeah, it’s

Speaker 2 (16:57):

Pretty, I mean, is there a market for that? It sounds like up there for the duplexes, usually an investor buyer and not a owner occupant. So is that why you say you’re in kind of a different market, like

Speaker 1 (17:09):

We’re able to

Speaker 2 (17:10):

Sell these duplexes for a lot?

Speaker 1 (17:12):

Yeah, it’s crazy expensive. So the cap rates don’t work, and especially with the interest rates, it doesn’t pencil out either way. So I’m looking outside of our area right now.

Speaker 2 (17:23):

Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Very cool. Well, you’ve got quite the wide experience there. And then you originally said you jumped into it with your wife. Did she involve today in the business still?

Speaker 1 (17:36):

Kind of. So in the beginning it was bandit signs, like old school newbie wholesale stuff, bandit signs. We were putting out bandit signs together. We were handwriting all of our letters together. And then finally we got out of the ban of signs and then we found a mail place to send our mail out for us. So now she does just our bookkeeping essentially.

Speaker 2 (17:56):

Okay, cool. So she’s still tied to it, but now it’s more of just Well, she sees the important stuff, she sees the money flowing

Speaker 1 (18:02):

Through the Yeah, she’s making sure I’m not buying too much things or, yeah,

Speaker 2 (18:07):

Yeah, yeah. No, that’s good. That’s good. I like that. Well, then you’ve been in real estate for a while now. You’ve done a lot of different types of deals and seeing that as results, what would you say has been, I dunno, maybe the hardest lesson you’ve learned as a real estate investor?

Speaker 1 (18:24):

Man, probably, probably all those rentals I had back in Texas really? And those were bought, right? I had a good amount of equity. I had decent cashflow, but I chose the wrong areas. They were in, what do they call ’em, tertiary markets. So it was pretty far outside of Dallas. There’s the main city of DFW, and then there’s outlying cities where I lived, and then there was outlying city where I bought the stuff. And man, it was just, I don’t want, without being rude, just it wasn’t the right market for me. It was hard to get a tenant that would pay on time. We had a lot of older people, a lot of drugged up people. So we had three deaths while I owned it. We had somebody set my dumpster on fire. It was a nightmare. It had a giant cold tree.

Speaker 2 (19:23):

It was literally a dumpster fire.

Speaker 1 (19:24):

Yeah, yeah. It was a drug deal gone bad. Somebody put a mattress out there, and then on my camera, I see this drug deal going on at night and the cops show up. They figured out on his way out, he lights the mattress and burns the whole dumpster down. It was pretty dumb.

Speaker 2 (19:43):

So you’ve learned the location and the type of people that you want in your rentals now, and that’s probably made a decision on where you’re going today. Do you own any rentals today or any of those? No. Don’t own those anymore?

Speaker 1 (19:58):

No. So those ones started at, when I took it over, the rents were four 50 month to month, and I got ’em up to six 50, some of ’em, 700 a month. So I was able to bring the income up, but it’s still just, just not good tenants and it probably a screening issue. So I didn’t train my manager very well. So there’s a lot of things that were definitely placed on me, but yeah, it came down to bad area too.

Speaker 2 (20:24):

Yeah, it sounds like I used to live in northwest Indiana. It sounds like Gary, Indiana rents where

Speaker 1 (20:31):

Could happen. Yeah, I’ve been to

Speaker 2 (20:32):

Gary a month and six 50 a month and that type of thing, so sounds like that type of area. But yeah, it’s all about getting the right person in the place. Sometimes a bad tenant is worse than no tenant and nothing coming in, especially if they’re whitening dumpster on fire or drug deals going down and all that stuff. So

Speaker 1 (20:52):

Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, there’s all kinds of stories in that one. I was going to

Speaker 2 (20:56):

Say, we could probably just tell stories the whole time here.

Speaker 1 (20:59):

It actually burned down this year. Half of it burned down. The current owner when they bought it, I don’t know what happened. I don’t know the story, but it’s currently on Facebook marketplace as a wholesale, they’re trying to find a buyer and I don’t know what the situation is, but they haven’t bothered trying to fix it up. So I don’t know if they scammed the insurance or I don’t know. But it’s still half burnt down a year later. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:23):

Wow. Now they’re probably trying to pay someone to just take it off their hands,

Speaker 1 (21:28):

That type for half of what they paid me for. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:31):

Oh wow. Yep. Fun stuff. Yeah. Okay. So then leads into this question. If you started your business over from scratch again today, is there anything different you would do or anything you’d put in place or systems or I don’t know, what would you do different? Starting all over?

Speaker 1 (21:50):

I don’t know. My mind went straight to, I would go straight into wholesaling if I was starting over. My assumption is that I was broke as well. So wholesalers would be where I would go.

Speaker 2 (22:04):

ATM up and running.

Speaker 1 (22:08):

I don’t think the way I started was wrong or a negative thing, but it’s not necessary. You don’t have to clearly have your license. It’s not necessary, although it’s benefited me over the years to be able to have a supplemental type of income when things did slow down on the wholesale flipping side. So that’s been nice. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:31):

Awesome. So that’s what you would do. You’d go into wholesale, you then have the supplemental income, probably buy rentals in a better area if you’re going to go into rentals again, start somewhere there then. Okay. Then any other advice that you would give someone who’s, let’s do two people, person who’s getting into real estate and then the person who’s already in real estate, been in it for a while. Would you give it the same set of advice or would you give different advice for someone who’s either new or down the road?

Speaker 1 (23:00):

Yeah, it’d be probably the same advice that I’m working on giving myself right now is getting directly into the cash flowing aspect of it. Yeah. I mean, you can make a million dollars a year. Wholesaling houses, easy peasy, but now you’re paying $350,000 in taxes and you got a nice bank account. But if you stop working and you get hurt or injured, whatever, then that stops.

Speaker 2 (23:26):

It all goes away.

Speaker 1 (23:27):

Yeah. Cashflow. The

Speaker 2 (23:28):

Cashflow, the recurring revenue. Getting into that, where would you say someone would need to start to go down that road? Would it be a book, a mastermind, a meetup, just go out and do a deal? Where would you say, in your opinion, the best way, the quickest path to action to make that happen?

Speaker 1 (23:48):

That one is tough. So the route I took was, man, I learned a lot on BiggerPockets back when it was not so much of a pitch fest in there, YouTube, and then it was a lot of networking and being around the right people. But nowadays there’s a lot of really good books that can be found for wholesaling. But on top of all of that, I’ve found that the easiest, well, what makes real estate easier for me is having access to private money. So if you can build those relationships early on, then it makes the scaling a little bit easier so you can do the whole bur method.

Speaker 2 (24:27):

That makes sense

Speaker 1 (24:28):

To get into that. Yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 2 (24:29):

So finding private money, do you have a favorite source? Is this friends and family? Is this going to a meetup? Is this joining something? I don’t know. Where would you say the first step is there?

Speaker 1 (24:39):

Yeah, I was never around money, so nobody in my family has a tremendous amount of money, although that’s a good source for a lot of people I do know, but it’s going to be networking. Awesome events, masterminds, if you can get into ’em. Yeah, that’s mostly networking. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:59):

Well, there we go. There’s the first places to go, but awesome. I just want to get your opinion in the trenches. You’re doing it day in, day out. A lot of people listening are either wanting to get into it or they’re in it and it’s like, okay, what experience from what you have and they glean from. So I think this is really good. Number one, think about cashflowing assets, and if you’re just starting over again, wholesaling, getting the ATM and the money up and running, so you can pour it into cashflowing assets and then networking. Go out there, find the people. You’re going to always need money in the real estate investing arena. So make sure you have the private lenders and I love that. It’s like either Masterminds or network meetup.com or this through your local. That’s a good place to start as well too. So this, it’s been really good. I want to make sure that if people want to follow you or you get in touch with you or whatever you might need, if you’re looking for private lenders or whatever, how do people get ahold of you?

Speaker 1 (25:54):

I wish I had a website, but I do not. So probably the best place right now would be my Facebook. I’m pretty active on there. And Instagram, if you’re on Instagram, I’ve transitioned my Instagram from personal to mostly business right now.

Speaker 2 (26:11):

What’s the handle? You’ve got a handle for Instagram, do you know it off the top of your

Speaker 1 (26:14):

Head? Fearless Pursuit of Freedom. No. Fearless Pursuit of Freedom. Yeah, like my podcast. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:20):

Awesome. And then you’ve got the podcast too, and that’s the name of it. Give it one more time for people.

Speaker 1 (26:25):

Yeah, it’s the Fearless Pursuit of Freedom podcast.

Speaker 2 (26:28):

Is that on everything? They can just it Apple, Spotify, all this stuff that people a podcast on. Very cool. Well, there you go. Well, if you like Brandon here, go check him out there. If you want to get in touch with him, that’s how to get in touch with him. Then he’s got his podcast as well, which is great. And I just want to make sure, if you’re listening to this and you’re making money and feeling broke, make sure head over to simple cfo.com. I want to make sure you’re keeping more of what you’re making, because I think Brandon gave you a lot of good first steps of how to make money and what are the best things from his experience of to stay away from and to get into and what to be thinking about. So just want to pair that yin and yang there. Head over to simple cfo.com. Remember to make profit a habit in your business, not just an event you’re looking forward to in the future. So Brandon, thank you so much for providing the value here and for being a great guest on the Profit First RI podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:19):

Appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (27:21):

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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.

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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.