Ok, I apologize for my lack of attention to writing my thoughts of late, but as they say…”I’ve been really really REALLY busy and well time flew by!”

So here is a quick update as to what I’ve been working on:

Websites for partners and clients

I have been working feverishly to get several websites launched.  Some are partnerships, some are just friends, and others are just clients.  Be sure to check out some (read some as all of them) and let me know what you think.

Real Estate Sites:

www.WholesalingGenius.com

This is a site that I am working feverishly on with my good friend Capt. Pete Gauthier.  He has created an incredible system (one that me and my partners use in our real estate business) to get you started in wholesaling real estate.  The site is not only a storefront for his products but also a link for anyone who wants to hear him speak and keep tabs on where Pete is hiding out.  To go with it, we have also created the Wholesaling Made Simple Online Training intro package as a sort of intro to Pete and his methodology in wholesaling.

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Want to know what upsets me.  Well, a lot of things really, but seriously it’s when people get taken advantage of.  When predatory “experts” prey upon people’s hopes.  Honestly I am not talking about any specific guru out there in this instance, yet I continuously hear the horror stories of people putting their trust in “Gurus” who have the solution for a price making every promise they can under the sun to make the sale…then coming up short (often way WAY short).

Now I used to be one of those types who might have followed the P.T. Barnum approach to business (“A sucker born every day…”) but not anymore.  There are a LOT of people going through rough times right now.  Rough times often equates to people in search of hope, willing to spend their last dollars or even worse sacrifice paying their bills in hope that they might get rich as the “Guru” promises.

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Today I had the pleasure, no the honor, to meet a gentleman whose home I was looking to purchase.  This gentleman has lived in the home for 20+ years and has a size-able amount of equity in the home with mortgage payments under $500.  Living there has given him a content life.  A decent life with a solid job (one which he had for 27 years!) that payed him well enough to enjoy the comforts he needed while supporting his daughter.

Then real life happened to this real person.  All it took was for that comfortable job to go away to spin his life out of control.  He reached out to one of my companies (Simply Sold Home Buyers) looking to see if he could perhaps start over and be free of his debt by selling us his home.  You see even though his payments were low, when you have zero income coming in…your reserves can go away very quickly.  With mounting late payments, potential foreclosure looming, and his life starting to spin out of control, he turned to us just to explore the idea of a new beginning.  Needless to say nothing looked very positive in his life at this very point.

You see when things go dark in ones life, it is easy to get consumed by that darkness.  Hope becomes a distant memory.  Optimism turns to pessimism.  Joy turns to misery.  And doubt rules your life.  You begin to doubt your abilities, Read the rest of this entry

I get asked this question a lot, which sort of surprises me. Recently I had one of my clients’ say, “Dan, what exactly is the Investor Lifestyle?”

“What do you think it is?” I quickly replied.

“Honestly, I imagine that it’s living without worrying about paying my bills, enjoying time with my children, and going to exotic places for vacation.” she said after thinking about it for a short time.

“Well there you have it; that is the Investor Lifestyle.”

I went on to explain that I can not define her Vision of what that Lifestyle is, nor would I want to. To be honest, the Investor Lifestyle is completely personal. It is self defined. For some of my colleagues it means having thousands of loyal students learning their craft (real estate investing or otherwise), while some want to have the expensive car, big house(s), and fashionable clothing. But that is not everyone’s Vision, for quite a few it simply means doing something that they love (which could actually be their job, but not very often!) or just having the choice/freedom to live each and every day to its fullest.

Living the Investor Lifestyle is all about choice. That choice is defined by the individual, not the environment. Those of us who live it decided at some point in their life Read the rest of this entry