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Life doesn’t usually go as planned. We don’t put “big mistakes” in our three year plans. And NO ONE had “global pandemic” in their business model for 2020. But this doesn’t mean we forget we have a business to run and mouths to feed. Tough things happen and the tough power through them. The economy has been battered. Most of us are staying home. Business is definitely NOT normal. This is a good time to reflect on our goals for 2020 - how they have been affected, how our priorities might have changed, and what we need to try to accomplish for the remainder of this year. On this call we are going to talk about what we need to be thinking about and planning to get us there.
Lewis Carroll said, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” In his inimitable style, Yogi Berra said “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” Let’s start laying the groundwork to not end up “someplace else.”
Let’s rethink our priorities, reset our goals, and renew our commitments to get there. I’ll be sharing with you some of the goal setting secrets behind my book, “GMS Planner”. I will show you pages from the Quarterly Planning Retreat, and then let everyone on the call download them and do their own “retreat”. You’ll learn:
-to celebrate everything you can - including the lessons learned through difficulties and challenging times.
-the value of adjusting course. Life throw’s curve balls, we adjust our swing and still get base hits.
-how to break down our goals into manageable milestones.
-how to translate those milestones into action steps
I’m also going to give you the weekly planning page I use to manage all of my business and income streams. No April Fools joke here - it’s yours for just listening in.
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Real Estate Investing QuickStart
Announcements:For many years now I have been following from afar the exploits of Motley Fool. Founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through their website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services. They believe that investing is empowering, enriching, and fun. As part of their service they have a section dedicated to real estate, a paid service called "Mogul" and a free service called Million Acres. We are fortunate to be joined today by Deidre Woollard, editor of MillionAcres.com.
Deidre is a writer and editor with two decades of experience covering all aspects of real estate from luxury residential real estate to the latest in proptech. She created the "Ask A Realtor" feature at Realtor.com and has led marketing and communications at top residential real estate brokerages. Real estate investing is a family tradition; she comes from a long line of landlords, renovators, and contractors currently invested from Massachusetts to California. She has an MFA in Writing from Spalding University.
We are going to talk real estate, coronavirus and whatever else comes to mind. I hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don't mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial
FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarteronline.com
Announcements:Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian and actress who was one of the seven original cast members for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). In her routines, Radner specialized in parodies of television stereotypes, such as advice specialists and news anchors, and in 1977, she won an Emmy Award for her performances on the show. She also portrayed those characters in her highly successful one-woman show on Broadway in 1979.
Radner's SNL work established her as an iconic figure in the history of American comedy. She died from ovarian cancer in 1989. Her autobiography dealt frankly with her life, work, and personal struggles, including those with the illness. Her widower, Gene Wilder, carried out her personal wish that information about her illness would help other cancer victims, founding and inspiring organizations that emphasize early diagnosis, hereditary factors and support for cancer victims. She was posthumously awarded a Grammy Award in 1990. Radner was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1992; and she posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda RadnerFor many years now I have been following from afar the exploits of Motley Fool. Founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool helps millions of people attain financial freedom through their website, podcasts, books, newspaper column, radio show, and premium investing services. They believe that investing is empowering, enriching, and fun. As part of their service they have a section dedicated to real estate, a paid service called “Mogul” and a free service called Million Acres. We are fortunate to be joined today by Deidre Woollard, editor of MillionAcres.com.
Deidre is a writer and editor with two decades of experience covering all aspects of real estate from luxury residential real estate to the latest in proptech. She created the “Ask A Realtor” feature at Realtor.com and has led marketing and communications at top residential real estate brokerages. Real estate investing is a family tradition; she comes from a long line of landlords, renovators, and contractors currently invested from Massachusetts to California. She has an MFA in Writing from Spalding University.
We are going to talk real estate, coronavirus and whatever else comes to mind. I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial
FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarteronline.com
Announcements:Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian and actress who was one of the seven original cast members for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). In her routines, Radner specialized in parodies of television stereotypes, such as advice specialists and news anchors, and in 1977, she won an Emmy Award for her performances on the show. She also portrayed those characters in her highly successful one-woman show on Broadway in 1979.
Radner's SNL work established her as an iconic figure in the history of American comedy. She died from ovarian cancer in 1989. Her autobiography dealt frankly with her life, work, and personal struggles, including those with the illness. Her widower, Gene Wilder, carried out her personal wish that information about her illness would help other cancer victims, founding and inspiring organizations that emphasize early diagnosis, hereditary factors and support for cancer victims. She was posthumously awarded a Grammy Award in 1990. Radner was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1992; and she posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda RadnerWe are continuing today with our panel discussion titled "Next Steps for Investing During a Real Estate Pandemic." with our guest panelists, Jeff Holst, Darlene Coquerel, and Michael Green. Show number 349 was part 1. This is part 2. And Next week we continue this series with "Don't Just Survive - THRIVE" and we will be joined by Rod Kleif and Kathy Fettke. We continue now with the call recorded Thursday, March 26, 2020.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don't mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
Real Estate Investing QuickStart
Announcements:We are continuing today with our panel discussion titled “Next Steps for Investing During a Real Estate Pandemic.” with our guest panelists, Jeff Holst, Darlene Coquerel, and Michael Green. Show number 349 was part 1. This is part 2. And Next week we continue this series with “Don’t Just Survive - THRIVE” and we will be joined by Rod Kleif and Kathy Fettke. We continue now with the call recorded Thursday, March 26, 2020.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
Real Estate Investing QuickStart
Announcements:You hear a lot of talk about deal marketing but how does it actually happen? At some point, every single family real estate investor ought to try and speak with actual homeowners who need to sell their home. Short of bidding at the courthouse foreclosure auctions with a wad of certified checks in your pocket, this is the best way to buy property. And because you have the opportunity to use creative deal structuring this could possibly be the best way to purchase property. But you have to find the sellers, right? If you drive up and down a street and pay close attention to the houses you may be able to tell some things about the occupants. Do you see what we might call deferred maintenance? That could be a sign that the owners are struggling financially right now. You may have someone willing to sell their house. Vacant and abandoned properties are pretty easy to spot. But there usually aren't clear indications of other life situations that could be leading people to sell. This includes but isn't limited to divorce, bankruptcy, inherited houses, job transfers and other things. Interestingly, many of these life situations have a way of becoming public knowledge. If there is a divorce, there is a civil case. If the house is inherited, there is usually a probate process. And if the information is public, there are professionals who can gather this information into a list and sell it. That's what a list broker does. Today on the show we are joined by my list broker, who prefers to be called a Marketing Consultant, Karen Anderson.
Karen is a Leading Direct Marketing & List Consultant based out of Houston, Texas. Raised in a "Real Estate and Oil Family," in Los Angeles, CA, she graduated from Belmont University with a Bachelor's degree in Business – Concentration in Marketing/Statistics.
She began her career as a Sales and Marketing Executive in a IBM Affiliate - Software Systems company, wherein began her drive to develop innovative database formulas for success.
In 2000, seeing how her parents were real estate investors requiring better databases for marketing, she took her statistics & marketing expertise into the list industry where she became a pioneer building unique marketing list programs for all real estate investors nationwide.
After working for a large list corporation for several years, she established and became owner of a more intimate and customized list direct marketing business. She is passionate about researching and creating pre-built list models targeting motivated buyers and sellers. She assists clients from list sourcing, developing direct mail templates and assistance with fulfilment. She also offers additional consult and marketing service designs.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don't mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
Real Estate Investing QuickStart
Announcements:You hear a lot of talk about deal marketing but how does it actually happen? At some point, every single family real estate investor ought to try and speak with actual homeowners who need to sell their home. Short of bidding at the courthouse foreclosure auctions with a wad of certified checks in your pocket, this is the best way to buy property. And because you have the opportunity to use creative deal structuring this could possibly be the best way to purchase property. But you have to find the sellers, right? If you drive up and down a street and pay close attention to the houses you may be able to tell some things about the occupants. Do you see what we might call deferred maintenance? That could be a sign that the owners are struggling financially right now. You may have someone willing to sell their house. Vacant and abandoned properties are pretty easy to spot. But there usually aren’t clear indications of other life situations that could be leading people to sell. This includes but isn’t limited to divorce, bankruptcy, inherited houses, job transfers and other things. Interestingly, many of these life situations have a way of becoming public knowledge. If there is a divorce, there is a civil case. If the house is inherited, there is usually a probate process. And if the information is public, there are professionals who can gather this information into a list and sell it. That’s what a list broker does. Today on the show we are joined by my list broker, who prefers to be called a Marketing Consultant, Karen Anderson.
Karen is a Leading Direct Marketing & List Consultant based out of Houston, Texas. Raised in a “Real Estate and Oil Family,” in Los Angeles, CA, she graduated from Belmont University with a Bachelor’s degree in Business – Concentration in Marketing/Statistics.
She began her career as a Sales and Marketing Executive in a IBM Affiliate - Software Systems company, wherein began her drive to develop innovative database formulas for success.
In 2000, seeing how her parents were real estate investors requiring better databases for marketing, she took her statistics & marketing expertise into the list industry where she became a pioneer building unique marketing list programs for all real estate investors nationwide.
After working for a large list corporation for several years, she established and became owner of a more intimate and customized list direct marketing business. She is passionate about researching and creating pre-built list models targeting motivated buyers and sellers. She assists clients from list sourcing, developing direct mail templates and assistance with fulfilment. She also offers additional consult and marketing service designs.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
Real Estate Investing QuickStart
Announcements:We've talked a lot on this show about using free resources to perform property analysis. If you are a hobbyist or just breaking in to the business and have a limited budget, you should check out our information on that. But as soon as you have some money to spend for your deal research and analysis, you should look into PropStream. This program is going to help you reach more leads, book more appointments, and close more deals with less work:
You will be able to create your own custom marketing lists, mail from within the program, import lists you've received from other sources and analyze them and get the most current and thorough picture of the property possible. PropStream's Director of Marketing, Burton Alicando is going to join us in a few minutes to talk about this ground-breaking software.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don't mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
www.flippingamericacomps.com
Announcements:We’ve talked a lot on this show about using free resources to perform property analysis. If you are a hobbyist or just breaking in to the business and have a limited budget, you should check out our information on that. But as soon as you have some money to spend for your deal research and analysis, you should look into PropStream. This program is going to help you reach more leads, book more appointments, and close more deals with less work:
You will be able to create your own custom marketing lists, mail from within the program, import lists you’ve received from other sources and analyze them and get the most current and thorough picture of the property possible. PropStream’s Director of Marketing, Burton Alicando is going to join us in a few minutes to talk about this ground-breaking software.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
www.flippingamericacomps.com
Announcements:It's hard to find an opportunity to talk about anything OTHER than the pandemic right now. This week we begin mentally taking control of our destinies by making a conscious choice to move forward while taking every precaution recommended by local state and federal authorities. We will make progress mentally, virtually, and this will translate soon to real life.
Thursday night we did a second call in our series on real estate investing during a pandemic. Our guest panel was Jeff Holst, Darlene Coquerel, and Michael Green, three prolific investors and mentors with a high volume of flips and rental properties between them. We discussed a number of questions facing landlords and house flippers and dug in to find ways we can continue to make a living in real estate during these challenging times.
How to contact uswww.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page!
Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia
Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica
Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437) ext 1. Leave your message or your question.
Email your questions to [email protected]. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don't mind.
SponsorsAmerican IRA: www.americanIRA.com
Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFunding
Real Estate Investing QuickStart
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