There are two common ways of going about buying a property. One is by applying to a conventional financial institution and the other is through seller financing. If you prefer to walk the latter route, then this episode is just right for you. Tracy Z Rewey of Diversified Investment Services gives the lowdown on seller financing. Covering two sides of the spectrum, Tracy discusses how you can get started in seller financing whether you’re a buyer or a seller. She taps into finding buyers and getting a note originated and acquiring properties to create notes. She also talks about teaching people to understand the time value of money and put interest to work for you as an investor.

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Note investing requires a number of different software tools—from email apps and CRM to marketing apps and much more. In this podcast, host Dan Deppen talks about the main programs he relies on for his notes business. He then shares some of the changes he is making, as well as the tools he is switching out. Finally, Dan goes over some new things he is testing that you may not have heard of yet. Tune into this great episode!

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Note investing may come across as something very technical to those who don’t know the inner workings of its transactions, and this could be a determining factor when deciding to invest or not in the industry. With the rapid growth of technology, it’s no surprise that Paperstac, a technology that’s made for the note industry, came to life. Brett Burky, the Cofounder and Marketing Director of Paperstac, joins Dan Deppen on today’s show to introduce their product. Brett talks about how their technology can help take away all the hassle you’d have to go through when you decide to get into the mortgage note investing. Don’t miss this episode to learn how you can go from researching an investment opportunity and screening the investment, all the way to purchasing from the comfort of home.

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Have you ever looked for a particular real estate service but found too many companies to choose from or really don’t know where to go? In this episode, learn about the one bag for all your real estate services with BAG. Dickie Baldwin is the CEO of Baldwin Advisory Group. With Dickie’s 40 years of experience and tons of vendors, sellers, and buyers contacts, he decided to help people fulfill their real estate needs easier and at a reasonable price. Join Dan Deppen and Dickie as they dive into the broker price opinion and the services found on the Baldwin Advisory Group website - from the property inspection report to title searches and everything in between.

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Whether you are looking into something to invest on for your retirement or simply considering a good investment to put your money on, then try looking into buying notes. To help us learn more about note investing, host Dan Deppen talks with real estate investor Justin Bogard of Bright Path Notes. Justin discusses his experiences in the business and offers some tips on buying notes in different states he already went and shopped at. Don’t miss this episode to discover why real estate investing could be the best way to grow your money.

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The biggest mistake that newbie investors make is not properly doing their return on investment calculations before jumping headfirst into anything. Return on investment (or ROI) calculations should be the yardstick by which you measure all potential investments in order to properly assess their worthiness in the long term. David Putz, a Managing Member at JKP Holdings, joins Dan Deppen to discuss the nature of these calculations and what techniques to incorporate in order to perform them thoroughly. ROI calculations can be tricky and vary from person to person, but at the end of the day, once you've sunk your teeth into those fundamentals, you could be on your way to a bright investing future.

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• Talking to a Florida real-estate attorney, Erin Quinn
• Good thing about licensing requirement in Georgia
• “Security deed” and “mortgage” is not interchangeable in Georgia
• Smaller investors are much more attentive, involved in their files
• Differences working in Georgia and Florida
• Total process in Georgia from demand letter to sale
• Time frames in Florida
• Statute of limitations in Florida
• Bartram case sets the rule that each payment is a different default
• Florida’s foreclosure rates now
• Market crash is gonna happen although not as big
• The major cities in Florida was in zombie development

• Talking about the Fusion Income Fund
• The goals are capital preservation and income
• What Fusion Income Fund is not
• Reasons for an income focus
• Comparison to other fixed income rates
• Comparison to other real estate investments
• What is the opportunity that we are targeting?
• Borrower profiles
• The strategy that we’re gonna be employing
• Buying different types of notes
• Financial model for the fund
• Why this is a good time for a particular strategy
• Why foreclosure rates have been kind of flat over the past year
• Total loan delinquencies going back the last almost twenty years
• Subprime mortgages have come back
• Ninja loans now nina, no income no assets
• Strategies for actually acquiring loans
• Putting together a model that is able to execute on
• Overall systems and processes
• Some additional resources
• Put all that together into a fund
• The thought processes leading up to the fund
• How it gets deployed
• Investing process, how it works
• Interested in learning more?
• Q&A

• Webinar about cutting deals with borrowers
• Different strategies for non-performing notes
• Note Investing decisions that you end up making in this process
• Case 1 in Ashtabula, Ohio. Possible exits and foreclosure option
• Actual offers and results for Ashtabula, Ohio
• Case 2 in Shelby, Ohio
• Forfeiture instead of foreclosure for Case 2
• Forbearance, TTP, Mod
• Sometimes all of the preplanning goes out the window
• Case 3 in Norwalk, Ohio which has a better chance to reperform
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• Interview with Frank Barile of Sottile and Barile
• The new rules and regulations in Ohio
• Ohio Revised Code1322.07 law adds licensing requirement
• Second law is the Ohio Revised Code Section 1349.72
• House Bill 103 amends the current statute
• Land contracts may become extinct in Ohio