In this podcast, Martine is joined by Attorney Shymane Robinson to discuss investment strategies. Her work experience will bring top tips with building wealth through accumulating wealth, protecting wealth, and transferring wealth

Aside from being an attorney, she is also an investor and the founder of Investor Bakerie, a platform where they provide recipes for women on how to get wealthy on purpose. 

You'll get her tips and advice on how to wholesale like a boss, making sure you manage your sales and your profits. Along with that, you'll learn top tax mistakes to avoid when wholesaling,  and how to invest and make your money work for you. 

Learn as much as you can. Start from one and go from that! 

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Today, Martine is joined by Laurie Patterson, who started out as a realtor and then she ventured into entrepreneurship. She thinks what’s coming is going to be worse than the recession in 2008 if we continue with this lockdown. Laurie reminds us that depending on how you've positioned yourself well determined whether this recession will be a liability or an opportunity for you. 

Laurie encourages everyone to dive into your market and find out what’s going on and be willing to pivot. Your willingness to change your strategy to match what you need is the only way to survive. She stresses to each of us to not spend your time worrying about what you lost. 

Laurie stresses some things we must know during this time:

1.) You can’t predict when the market will crash. You better have those cash reserves so you’re not sweating it, at least 6 months.

2.) Since the unemployment rate has jumped to an all-time high there will be opportunities in "subject to, owner finance, and lease options" coming soon. 

3.) Do not just have the purchase agreement, you have to have power of attorney, you should have a financial statement pulled out by the homeowner and ask them about the house and their financials. You do not want to take a sub to when there’s a potential of them filing a bankruptcy in the next 3-5 years.

4.) Start marketing to those people under forbearance. You can possibly take their property over Sub To or lease option them.

5.) Be economically smart during this time. It’s better to put money into a house than a car right now. In 10 years the car’s going to be worth nothing while a house you can sell it for more.

Today Martine is joined by Andrea Stakes. Andrea is a young successful wholesaler who dropped out of dental school to pursue a real estate business.  

Andrea worked with and organized Martine’s staff and brought another virtual assistant to generate more leads to her team. 

Andrea got into virtual assistant training because of her past mistakes when starting her own real estate business and hiring her own virtual assistants. She realized you can’t buy your way to success. She failed her business and felt sorry for her virtual assistant so she passed her on to her friend. She continued training her virtual assistant and then more people came to her for the training and she realized it’s what she does best.

The process of hiring:

• Requirements (stable internet connections, valid IDs).
• Interview with her virtual assistants.
• Final interview with Andrea.
• Interview with Andrea’s clients.

The process of training:

• American culture.

• Cold call mindset.

• Understanding their role in the business.
• Accent training.

If you give your virtual assistants respect and consistent training your efforts will be reciprocated. 

Support groups – Having someone they can talk to when there’s an issue.

Keeping virtual assistants engaged – Make them feel empowered.

Highlights and opportunities – Make their failure an opportunity to grow.

If you’re an investor or a business owner and you want to grow, you need to have good people. 

Not everyone needs a virtual assistant. As a business owner you have to make sure you are ready. If you look up and find yourself working too hard in the business and feeling like you don't have any more hustle left to finish projects, it might be time for a virtual assistant. 

Nakiya Pitts- short term rentals 

People aren't traveling, booking are going away

Today, Martine is joined by Nakiya Pitts, an investor who primary focuses on a portfolio of short term rentals. This lucrative market got tough as the pandemic begin because travel was banned and staying anywhere other than your home was frowned upon.

Many entrepreneurs understand you are not a true entrepreneur until you've had to shift, pivot, or transition your business a few times just to survive. Instead of allowing the deficit to hit hard, Nakiya moved the company quickly to provide the same solution, just to a more ideal market. To fit the times and maintain their properties they began opening their doors to college students who were put out because of the pandemic but couldn't get flights home and needed to stay in town for the long term. 

In this episode, Nakiya opens up about how she knew when to shift, how they decide how to price the rent during this time, and who she's learned from when it comes to creating cash flow off of short rentals.

This episode is eye opening and proofs that you can still make money in a down turn as long as you are able to shift your product or services to provide a solution to current problems many face. 

RESOURCES LISTED IN THIS EPISODE:

Coki Housing LLC www.cokihousing.com [email protected]

Short-rental education:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvwmrPfn8ff-rTlc9YoH7Bg

https://youtu.be/DaaCFGHOPQA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXaGl7DGyzvVXDwyyBoE0Gw

https://www.facebook.com/nana.nyarko

Coki Housing LLC www.cokihousing.com [email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvwmrPfn8ff-rTlc9YoH7Bg

https://youtu.be/DaaCFGHOPQA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXaGl7DGyzvVXDwyyBoE0Gw

https://www.facebook.com/nana.nyarko

 "It's so important to stay close to the campfire, stay close to people on fire. "

In todays remarkable episode Martine is joined by real estate Investor, Sheveir Ross. Sheveir opens up about making a ton of money in real estate after watching HGTV shows and getting to a point where she really thought she made it. She was 26 yrs old and had never seen this amount of money before.

Come 2017, she lost everything she made. She had to go back to a full time job, she even started to convince herself real estate and full time entrepreneurship wasn't for her. She suffered from imposted syndrome after making money in the industry and loosing it all, she felt like the ultimate failure. 

Sheveir mentions on her journey the first time, she'd always heard about peoples successes but not people failing. While in her job, she stopped listening to personal development, stopped praying, and stopped hanging around people who were successful and wealthy. After a year she started to realize something was missing. 

Sheveir felt called to rebuild what she once created so she went back to the basics. She started listening to podcasts and audiobooks again and one step after another led her to building her network and attending industry events again.

She was relieved to hear that most millionaires all hit the low of lows, this really helped her realize she was in good company. These low moments are part of who you are, they are here for your breakthrough. Sheveir realized the second time around that your excuses can either be your excuse or your reason. 

Make sure to follow Sheveir Ross on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/sheveir

Things got crazy fast, right? Current events such as the coronavirus can have effects on the real estate market whether we would like it to or not. But Martine covers some ways to continue to run your business, avoid slowing down, and double down in different ways:

1.) Building your reserves

2.) Build relationships because more people should be answering the phone

3.) Leverage properly used can help you scale quickly

Most importantly, Martine challenges us all to consider using this time to helping people because this has put a lot of people in stiff positions and the reasons most of us jumped into real estate are now here. So find a way to give, contribute, or help out locally.

Full time employment is already hard for a lot of us, when you add juggling children to the mix it becomes a lot more difficult to handle. 

Today, Martine is joined by wholesale queen, Sis Shaneka. Even though Sis Shaneka was built for hard work, she felt like she was constantly at a disadvantage in corporate America every time her children were sick.

In July 2018, Sis Shaneka finally decided she had nothing to loose by taking a leap to go after her first deal. Her decision alone made her relentless as she was tired of her current circumstance. So just a month later, she closed her first deal. Sis Shaneka scaled her business from 0 to 6 figures without a team and starting out only working a few short hours a day. 

Her advice to women starting out is clear, use your confidence in every room and don't waste your time on excuses. If you're struggling to get your first deal or feel like you're at a stand still this episode is everything you need to hear!

For decades, most of us have been taught that in order for you to be considered a successful business owner you must have a physical office. We are just now entering the time of believing that a multi-millionaire dollar operation can be run virtually and from the comfort of your own home.

In this episode, Martine is joined by Gabby Evans, real estate investor and friend who secured the office space and grew a team promptly as she enter real estate. Martine and Gabby discuss the difference between both options, the pros and cons, and why both of them work and which one might be the best option for you. The key to starting a business is understanding that the purpose is to do it the way you see fit and know that the outcome is not based on a cookie cutter approach, such as, having a physical office or doing things the exact way someone else does. 

Make sure to follow Martine and her guests on IG:

https://www.instagram.com/doitmovementpod/

Are you also wondering how all of these real estate investors have hundreds and thousands of dollars in cash laying around to invest in properties to buy and hold or renovate? Seems like everyone is doing it but how?

Not everyone starts in wholesaling, and mostly no one starts with tons of cash! In this episode Martine breaks down every question you may have around raising private funding. From low interest bank loans to private funding to rolling over self-directed IRA's it is actually too that there is money everywhere that you could use to invest in your next real estate transaction. 

If you are looking to take big leaps in the real estate industry you must learn how to raise private funding, and Martine gives you A - Z on everything you need to know to do so.

One of the easiest things to overlook when building a business and obsessing over revenue and closing deals, is the contracts you use and operating agreements. Most people go down to the bank, then the courthouse, and online to get their LLC and bank account set up in one day and find themselves operating business the next. 

In this episode, attorney CC Moreno, helps us understand that if your handling multiple real estate transactions from wholesale deals to rental properties you MUST have multiple LLC's. She also uncovers that your operating agreement and LLC documentation must be a priority and NOT something you overlook. It is no longer about "if" you get sued but a matter of WHEN. CC Moreno helps us understand the easiest way to not loose millions in the real estate industry is by prioritizing some very simple contracts.

Whether you are in the building phases or have been around for years, none of us are interested In loosing millions due to simple oversight. Do not miss this episode about the true liability of having incomplete contracts supporting your business. 

Make sure to follow Martine's guest, CC Moreno, on IG for more information:

https://www.instagram.com/ccmorenoesq/

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