Around the time my partner Nathan and I were assembling our expert panel for April's REIA he had a great idea. "Let's have Kris up in a couple months". When he said Kris I knew who he was speaking of. Kris Kirschner of course! See, my close friends and I have a storied past with Kris, a positive one of course.
*WARNING...This is going to be a long story*
6 years ago or so I heard a commercial on 97.1 f.m., a new FM Talk station at the time. The commercial was talking about becoming rich through real estate investing. I think that I had 1 rental unit at that time, a duplex in Mt. Clemens. It was with a different partner, another long story. Anyway the radio blurb had my attention. I didn't catch the website so I called the radio station. The girl that answers had no clue, she told me she would have someone call me back when she found the right person.
About 2 days later I got a call from the head of advertising, so I was told. She said that the website was http://www.mireic.com/ i believe. This was before cable internet, so I cranked up the old dial-up. A few minutes later I was on the site. I think that the cost for the seminar was $379 for two people, which happened to be Fortune Makers in Troy. I was so excited I called my partner at the time. He said "Those seminars are get rich quick crap". Funny thing is he actually had Carlton Sheets on tape!!! So as he was also a pseudo mentor to me I was deflated and half-heartedly agreed with him.
Little did I know that my now friend, Wendy Patton, got my mailing address from the online form I filled out. I started receiving mailings about real estate investing seminars from Wendy every other month or so. I decided to take matters in my own hands and sign my partner and I up for an 8 hour Friday with Robyn Thompson, The Rehab Queen. We arrived at the seminar at 8:00 a.m. with fresh SBUX in hand. Wendy kicked off the day with her usual excited and positive opening. Around 9:30 Robyn started teaching us about rehabbing. My partner made it til lunch, 12:30 or so. "This crap is for the birds" he blurted.
So I had no choice but to leave after lunch and head back to our new rental to work. Funny at the time he said that education was for the birds, not many uneducated closed minded people Soar With The Eagles, do they?
For the next 9 months or so life went on status quo. Go to work, save some money for my next down payment, and work on my rentals on my day off. then my life changed forever. My wonderful direct mailing friend Wendy Patton sent me another advertisement for Fortune Makers Seminar. Fortune Makers was a huge deal in Michigan a few years ago. the first year I was there there was around 700 attendees. For 4 days investors, and real estate processionals alike were networking while learning from the top real estate speakers in the nation. So I filled out the form and paid around $399 for two attendees.
The next day I told my partner what I did. he freaked out and told me that I was crazy and he wasn't paying for half. that's when I knew that our futures would take us down different paths. So I still decided to attend with another fiend from work. We watched and learned from 20 or so different speakers and 1 truly stood out to me.
Maybe it was the fact that he grew up on 6 Mile and Gratiot. Or the fact that he wore a blue suit and didn't have any sensational selling lines. What it really was that intrigued me was the fact that he said "You can buy as many houses as you want without getting mortgages!" Then he brought a couple regular looking Joe's up on stage to brag about how many deals they've done using his system.
One of them happened to be my now partner and co-founder of the REIA, Nathan Mayes.
So when Nate said let's have Kris come and speak, I knew that we were in for a ride.
My sites to visit:
http://www.reiaofmacomb.com/
http://www.weoffertoday.com/
http://www.prettymihomes.com/
This blog was originally posted on another blog that I was writing. I have decided to "move" them all over to here. So for the next few posts you will notice that the dates will not coincide with the post time.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Millionaire Michigan Man Comes Home To Share His Secrets
Experts Answer Tough Questions
2 non-profits Are Better Than One
Habitat For Humanity changes lives period. With volunteers building homes, and Great Americans donating property and building materials more families have a place to sleep at night. I met the Director of Macomb Habitat Daniel Wiiki at the March REIA of Macomb Mega Event. I was sitting in my office one day thinking about how we as an organization can start 'giving back". So I decided to give Mr Wikki a call ans see if I could offer him a free table and a chance to get in front of the 125 people that were at our meeting to get his message across.
When he took the stage I saw a passion an organization that usually you see in an owner operator. He spoke about Habitat's mission, and called volunteers to action. I'm not sure how many did sign up to help, but I believe there was quite a few.
Sometimes in life we have to take a step back and ask ourselves how lucky we are to be here. We all take things for granted. Whether it's Freedom, the right to vote, or our better half cooking us dinner.
www.PrettyMichiganHomes.com our homes for sale. www.WeOfferToday.com where we buy houses, or take over payments www.REIAofMacomb.com Michigan's Premier Real Estste Investing Club
This blog was originally posted on another blog that I was writing. I have decided to "move" them all over to here. So for the next few posts you will notice that the dates will not coincide with the post time.
The Notebuyers Teaches how to buy Pre-Foreclosed Notes
March 29th Donna Bauer spent her evening at The REIA of Macomb an lightening us on the power of buying notes. "You don't have to buy the house, just the note". Donna preached to us. The benefits are compounding.
Donna was in South Carolina the day of our event. She was seeing her son off to Iraq for his third tour. As most of us would be an absolute nervous wreck, Donna's professional attitude and positive nature showed through like the sun through a thunderstorm.
Our club was absolutely a buzz about the opportunities discounted notes can bring us. In a city that talk of foreclosures, foreclosures, and more foreclosures, Donna taught us all that sometimes there's a better way, buy the note.
My sites to visit:www.PrettyMichiganHomes.com our homes for sale. www.WeOfferToday.com where we buy houses, or take over payments www.REIAofMacomb.com Michigan's Premier Real Estate Investing Club.
This blog was originally posted on another blog that I was writing. I have decided to "move" them all over to here. So for the next few posts you will notice that the dates will not coincide with the post time.
We Hit The Nail On The head
He told many stories, and quite a few of his old friends showed up to cheer him on. He has an extremely competant and strong team behind him. If there is one thing that I learned from him it is the importance of a strong team. Ralph was quite the celebrity in person. He certainly helped our membership and brought in some new visitors.
My sites to visit:
http://www.prettymichiganhomes.com/ our homes for sale. http://www.weoffertoday.com/ where we buy houses, or take over payments http://www.reiaofmacomb.com/ Michigan's Premier Real Estste Investing Club
