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Brian Evans is a full time real estate investor, educator, and author. He has been investing in real estate since early 2000 and sees no end in sight to his investing career. He invests in all types of real estate from singly family homes to multifamily and commercial. He has bought and sold countless properties using techniques such as: short sale, seller financing, subject to, option, lease option, wholesaling, retailing, round robin, self directed Roth IRA, private mortgage loans, etc. Brian is without a doubt a committed entrepreneur and real estate is his favorite vehicle for building wealth. He is a huge proponent of personal education as he is an avid reader of books on real estate, entrepreneurship, and other business ventures. Brian can honestly say that he’s started at the bottom and worked his way up. He is a firm believer that you are never too young or old to learn new things, and make positive changes in life.
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March 8th
How to Minimize Personal Risk in Real Estate Investing
Similar to keeping one’s emotions out of the equation, minimizing personal risk also has a lot to do with how you interact with a particular client. Sure, there is an asset protection side of minimizing your personal risk but that is the subject for another day. What I’m referring to here is the tendency for [...]
March 5th
Exit Strategies and Professionalism
Ability to Understand Exit Strategies
There’s an old adage that you make your money when you purchase real estate. That said, when do you actually get paid on most transactions? Sure, it’s when you sell, and that points to mastery of exit strategies, as a fundamental skill required for all real estate investors.
The good thing is [...]
March 3rd
How to Analyze Deal Potential
Real estate is a people business but will ultimately always come down to the numbers. For the new investor, and especially one who doesn’t think much of their math skills, this can be a daunting proposition. I remember thinking this way a long time ago and, for every investor, overcoming this obstacle is both essential [...]
March 1st
Skill Sets of the Real Estate Investor: Communication and Examination
Ability to Explain Complex Processes Clearly
As a real estate investor, it is imperative that you recognize and respect that your knowledge of the business makes you fairly unique. Most of your clients and many of your peers will not have the same knowledge as you and you need to be ready to properly explain things [...]
February 26th
Skills of the Real Estate Investor: Creativity and Negotiation
Creativity
Creativity in real estate is one of those unsung skills that can easily and effectively set you apart from your competition. Note that I’m not referring to creativity in the artistic or ‘left brain vs. right brain’ sense. Creativity in real estate means being willing, able, and committed to out of the box thinking, and [...]
February 24th
The Skill Sets of a Real Estate Investor
It’s no surprise that certain skills will benefit you as an investor. That said, it does beg the question, ‘What are the skills necessary to be a successful real estate investor?’ You may have your own ideas on this and I have mine as well. Some of what I present will seem logical and some [...]
February 22nd
The Attitude of the Real Estate Investor - Continued
Flexibility
A significant and important part of an investor’s attitude has to include flexibility that allows the investor to work with a variety of situations they experience. Flexibility is generally an admired trait, and perhaps better stated, a lack of flexibility is often a negative. Flexibility is not just having an open schedule in which to [...]
February 19th
The Attitude of a Real Estate Investor
How important is attitude in the world of real estate investing? It is extremely important, so important in fact, that it can make a huge difference in the overall profitability of your organization.
The typical reference to attitude that you’ll hear is heavily laden with emphasis on how it always needs to be positive. ‘Stay positive!’ [...]
February 17th
Story Time – “My First Mentor in the Business”
When my retail coffee shop business failed, I knew that I needed to pick a direction to go from there. My choices were, (1) pursue the passion that I had acquired for real estate from my books, or (2) go find a 9 to 5. Well, since I wasn’t married, didn’t have children, didn’t have [...]
February 12th
The Education of the Real Estate Investor - Final Comments
Personal Coaching/Mentoring
One of the single most valuable pieces of education you can get as an investor is to work one-on-one with someone who is more experienced than you. Someone who has been there, done that. This can often be arranged for a fee. However, do not expect this to be inexpensive, remember, you are paying [...]
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