Think And Grow Rich In Michigan Real Estate Part 3 - Who do you mastermind with?

I heard Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, speaker and an extraordinary entrepreneur tells this story during a seminar I was attending in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“ Tony Robbins and I got to talk to 9,000 doctors at Nassau Coliseum. It’s late at night. He’s finished. He’s has been brilliant. He’s 32 years old. He’s just made $131 million on his infomercial the year before. It’s 12:45 at night, and we’re back at the hotel, right before he’s going back home to California in his Lear Jet.

And I said, ‘You know, you’re making over 100 times what I’m making. I’m missing something because we’re teaching the same principles. What am I missing?’

Tony asked, ‘Tell me who’s in your mastermind dream team?’ I said, ‘Well, they all make a million dollars a year.’ He said, ‘There’s your problem.’ I went, ‘Whoa! Tell me about yours.’ He said, ‘Everybody makes over $100 million.’

I said, ‘I got it.’

The next day, Jack Canfield and I got 4 billionaires to join our mastermind.”

Networking without purpose is a waste of time and energy. Most Michigan real estate investors are obsessed with collecting business cards yet never ask the most important question – well actually the only question the should ask of everybody they encounter of doing deals in their Michigan city,

“ How can this person help me grow my business?”

Napoleon Hills wrote about the enormous value of mastermind – a group of people who meet on regular schedule, share a common goal, and are like minded and open to sharing what is working and honest about telling other members of the mastermind on what are the flaws on their strategy.

You want to be in a mastermind group. Period.

It will speed up your business. It will open your eyes to opportunities that you never even knew existed in your business. You will be able to bring what is working in your business – a killer ad; a strategy to using the Internet to find Short Sale deals; a voice mail script to find private investors – and let your fellow members of the mastermind improve that killer strategy to 100%, 500%, even 1000% in front of your eyes, instantly.

Dollars, the mastermind group for landlords in Oakland county, who own minimum 10 units, is great example of like minded people meeting once a month under one roof and discussing what is working, what does not works any more and improving each other businesses.

I cannot even imagine not being involved in a mastermind group. If I had this when I started, it would at least shaved off 2 years of making mistakes and wandering in the wastelands of doing wasting time, doing dumb deals and would have ended up couple of hundred thousand dollars more in my bank account.

It all came eventually but if follow Money Loves Speed then being in a mastermind is the jet fuel that would propel your business faster and much higher in a very short order.

Find a group of people who share the same goal in life as you. Join in the Mastermind with them. Follow the schedule; be open in admitting mistakes and not be angry when they critique you because your fellow members do have your best interests at heart.

You will get what you want out of your business in a very short order.

Oh, and you will end up richer too.

I formed Mark Ijlal Inner Circle – my mastermind group for Michigan real estate investors who buy and sell bank foreclosures without using their own money – for that very purpose. Yeah! It helps my members a lot to get cutting edge strategies and get hands on mentoring from me but it is also fun for me to hang out with like minded, ambitious, driven real estate investors in Michigan, every month.

I keep them on sharp.

They return the favor.

A killer sword needs both edges to be razor sharp to cut without fail; over and over again.

Where do you go, month after month, to get your blades sharpen up?

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Why immigrants are 4 times are more likely to become millionaires than born Americans, why change is hard but good, a different way of looking at giving and much more in less than 15 minutes...

Nido Qubein is one of my favorite motivational speaker. One of the reason is he is fellow immigrant. Came to America with $50. I landed with $243 and change in my jeans pockets at Metro Detroit airport. Taught himself English one word at a time. From there Nido went on to become one of the successful public speakers of our generation. Presently Nido is Chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company and the President of High Point University but he is also the most inspiring speaker you will ever hear.

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Did it ever happen to you? Walked into a busy gas station to fill up your car, saw a line of cars waiting to fill up their own tanks right behind you, the store inside full of people, you look up at the high high gas prices and you say to yourself....

Man it would be nice to own one of these suckers... I wonder how much it cost to buy one of these?

I confess - I had envy in my heart couple of times too when walked into busy gas stations in Metro Detroit towns, wondering how much were these guys pulling in every month?

I mean when you look at how much money the big guys - Exxon, B.P., Shell - are making - you gotta assume that owning a gas station got to be a sure fire bet. No matter what happens - people need to fill up the gas tanks. There always will be a need for this.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

There are right now, 92 gas stations in foreclosure just in the Metro Detroit area. You actually lose money. Yes that is not a typo- you actually lose money on every gallon of gas you sell after you take the credit card processing charges out.

Your only hope of making money is to lure the customer into the store and sell them pop, chips, candy, cigarettes and lotto tickets - that is were the money is.

Now does it makes sense to you why so many gas stations and especially all the new ones kind look like small supermarkets with really nice interiors and store layouts?

Owning a gas station means in Michigan right now; working 50-60 hours a week, standing up on your feet, putting a mortgage / business loan on your head that you personally guarantee for anywhere between one million to two million dollars and check this out....

After you have sold a million bucks worth of gas and chips - you will be lucky to take home $60,000 per year before taxes.

Turns out that my envy was misplaced.

Because if this is what it takes to pull $5,000 per month - working from sunrise to sunset, stuck in a store, doing the same thing overand over again, signing my life away in a debt note - heck; I can wholesale flip a house and get the same check - month after month in Michigan.

My brother in law owns a gas station; my next-door neighbor who is a very good friend of mine owns a gas station - these numbers are fact of life for them.

I know another gas station owner who actually owns 12 of them in Metro Detroit - his employees steal around $50,000 worth of gas and supplies every single month.

Once in a while I want to have a "real business" - you know have a place with a sign in front of it with my name; have dozen of employees; have staff; have bunch of people running around; and then I see the "reality" of these big businesses and I am happy that I have a business where I can flip one house and get a check, which is better and bigger than owning four gas stations in Michigan.

I was wrong to envy these gas station owners.

They should envy us.

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Las Vegas was hot.

Arizona was hot.

Florida was hot.

Now they are not.

I hear whispers on the Internet about New Orleans / Biloxi being the next boomtowns for real estate investors.

I see websites dedicated to selling “paper” – purchase agreements NOT keys to condos that were supposed to build one day in some of the above cities and make their investors rich and now nobody wants them anymore.

I have recordings of my AM talk show, The Real Estate Warrior Show, somewhere in my basement where I have callers telling me that you “cannot go wrong” with Florida. 5 billion baby boomers were supposed to move to Florida and that would have made Florida the richest real estate market in the history.

Russell Conwell wrote a great story called the Acres of Diamonds long time ago about a farmer who sells his farm and goes out in the woods looking for diamonds. He never finds them and dies broken hearted and broke. The family who buys the farm from him discovers a huge mine of diamonds underneath.

Moral of the story – 100% of the time when we are looking for an opportunity and we think that it is somewhere else; it is typically right in front of our noses.

It is not the “place” that needs to be changed but “us”.

People are flying in from California, every two weeks, buying, fixing and selling bank foreclosures in Michigan. My voice mail gets messages on a regular basis from out of State investors inquiring about the HOT HOT HOT Michigan foreclosure market, half of the leads hitting our member sites / ads are coming from out of State.

Genuine interest and dollars buying Michigan foreclosures. Some from here. Some from places elsewhere and YET I have idiots emailing me crying about losing $800 per month negative cash flow because they bought a condo in Florida which has been vacant for 18 months now and the market is declining further even more.

Money, real money, is made every day in Michigan in real estate. I know real estate agents who are moving 200 houses every year to first time home buyers. I know a new guy, a buddy of mine, who is moving 6 of them, in the $250,000 to $300,000 range every single month. I joking asked him how is Michigan economy doing? He replied his wife is not happy with him unless he brings in at least $30,000 per month back to her every month. That by the way is his "bad month". You don't even want to know what his good months look like.

Yet there are another 100 agents sitting in his office crying the blues saying nobody is buying houses.

R-I-G-H-T!

Don’t want to fix houses? How about flipping them to other investors who do? Got one of my guys closed on his first deal on Tuesday; found a short sale; negotiated it; flipped it without touching. The other guy is happy because he got a killer deal without looking. My member is happy because he got a check and killer confidence.

By the way the banks accepted his deal #2 and deal #3. Nora told me that she did not like his deal #2 so she asked him to nix it. Deal #3 on the other hand – oh mamma, bring the smelling salts on. That is a hot one.

On the day of the closing, as he was driving to the title insurance company, I talked to him. He was nervous, first deal is like first date, asked me who to calm his nerves. I suggested heavy swigs of a good red wine.

But jokes aside – the theme in all this – the confidence, the contacts, the killer black book, all come from doing a deal; getting a check with your name on it; taking a picture of yourself with that check; depositing that check and giving yourself a big pat on the back.

Then doing deal #2.

The weather is improving. Pretty soon there will be footsteps on the ground, a whole lot more than they are today looking for houses to buy. Get moving if you intend to buy your first foreclosure this spring. Don’t wait till October to make an offer.

Get moving.

The Quick Start 2007 Bootcamp, 3 days with me, is happing April 27-29. There is a $600 Early Bird Discount expiring April 15, midnight. REO’s, Short Sales, Flipping to both homeowners and investors, and doing it all without using your own money – painstakingly detailed system that you can cut and paste in your Michigan city the Monday after the bootcamp. Details are found here.

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Think and Grow Rich in Michigan Real Estate, Part 2 – Getting and Profiting From ‘Specialized Knowledge':

1. A young couple walks into your just renovated house that you bought from a bank months ago in Sterling Heights, Michigan. They love the house. The only problem is that they have bruised credit. 9 out of 10 banks that they have been too have said NO to them for getting a mortgage. They have decent jobs, but bruised credit. There is a Michigan based lender actually in Sterling Heights that can get the job done, give them the mortgage, despite their bad credit, give them a low interest rate that they can afford – do you know the name of that lender?

2. There are banks that work exclusively with real estate investors. They are called Hard Money Lenders. They will lend you the money to buy and fix the house. 100% No Money Down Flipping. Most of them have horrible terms to the point if you pick the wrong one; and don’t know what questions to ask your potential Hard Money Lender – you will not end up making any money by the time you are done paying them their share. There are a few of them which have great terms for Michigan real estate investors that you should be using to buy and fix foreclosures without using their own money – do you know who these “good” Hard Money Lenders are?

2. If you want to play the game and play it to the point where you have access to over a million dollars in the next 18 months to buy and sell foreclosures in Michigan – there is a specific strategy that could be used in Michigan to achieve exactly that. Do you know what that strategy is? And more importantly how to execute it properly?

3. The Internet is becoming one of the most powerful forces in the world of real estate. I was fooling around with it five years ago – to find deal partners, wholesale houses, flip houses, even flip apartment complexes to other real estate investors who don’t live in Michigan. Do you know out of millions of websites – which ones are ideal for a new real estate investor in Michigan and which ones are a complete waste of time?

4. Last Quick Start Bootcamp I had a brief chat with 2 smart real estate investors who can flip bunch of more houses than they already do but are not doing it because their potential wholesale investors don’t know where to go and get the money to buy the foreclosures from them.

So they are good at finding deals and they can flip these houses without even touching them ONLY if their investors knew how to get the money. What I taught them will NOT only work for them to finance their own deals but they can also send their own investors to these resources and now flip more houses fast. In a way I taught them how to make their own little private bank in a matter of a day. Do you know how to pull that off without effort, all the time, at will?

The list goes on and on. Napoleon Hill talked about the shortcuts to success and wealth starting at getting “specialized knowledge” not the regular ho-ha that everybody knows.

Cardio-vascular surgeons make more money than regular physicians.

It could not be truer than in real estate investing. There is literally a whole different world out there. This is NOT about buying a house to live in for yourself and selling it after 2 or 3 years and may be you end up making some money.

Here is an another very simple strategy that some people have heard of; very few actually use it and do anything with it. I discovered it by accident and have used it over and over again even outside real estate investing in my other business to great profit.

I am sure that you have heard of buying and selling real estate using the money in your self directed IRA or individual retirement accounts such as a ROTH IRA or Traditional IRA even SEP’s. Well that is wonderful and you should be doing it to build a seven-figure retirement nest egg.

But there is a bigger picture here too – like using this “specialized knowledge” of how to use a self directed IRA to buy and sell real estate in Michigan – you can literally, overnight built a horde of deal partners / private investors who will line up, fighting to fund foreclosure buy and fix deals for you.

There are two ways that you can get “specialized knowledge” that Napoleon Hill wrote about in Think and Grow Rich as one of the principles that the very successful use to build and grow their wealth.

1. You can start doing things on your own and learn by trial and error. After all what is wisdom but knowledge that comes from making lots of bad decisions and learning from them.

2. You can find somebody who has the “specialized knowledge” and get it from him or her, neat and clean, fast.

Both ways are good. Pick the one that suits you and do it.

I follow #2 in my own business. Simply because I don’t have time to waste. It took a while to figure out what I wanted to do in my life and business and now I know – I don’t have time to screw around and learn things on my own.

Nobody is going to give you 2 extra Gold Stars at the end of your life because you “did it all by yourself”. I have no interested in knowing if somebody will think more of me just because I “learned” it all by myself. . I just want the things done and get them done fast.

Money Loves Speed.

So when it comes to learning new things in my business – I am always in a hurry. Never sitting relaxed on the sidelines writing a plan to learn it in the next 3 years. Been there and done that.

And looking back wasted at least 2 good valuable years where I could have made more money with considerably less stress but I was too hard headed back in the days to realize that far more smarter people have already come before me and I can “get” that knowledge without making costly mistakes and wasting time.

One of the things that I hear on a regular monthly basis when I am teaching the Quick Start Bootcamp (next one is on April 27,28.29; details herethere is $100 Gift Certificate expiring April 15, 2007)to other Michigan real estate investors is one of the student will get a hold of me during a break and they will tell me that “I wish I came here 2 years ago when I started – I would have made double the money and not wasted two years making wrong choices.”

Every month, this sentence is repeated. Over and over again.

Michigan is the midst of Hurricane Foreclosure right now. The upcoming sub-prime mortgage crash plus some other factors – the next 3-4 years are a buying opportunity likes of which will probably not repeat for a long time.

If you are done talking about the business and want to start doing it – get the knowledge and start. Your fist deal will pay for it 15 times over. But you get to keep the knowledge for the rest of your life and get to teach it to your children and grandchildren.

I intend to do it when my children grow up. What better gift a father can give after all than the knowledge that will make sure that they never have to work for anybody and they can have the keys to the vault – money at will; income on demand.

And I will teach my kids the most important specialized piece of knowledge that I got after running my business for six years now:

Money Loves Speed!.

P.S: If you are coming to Quick Start 2007 than beware we are almost SOLD OUT! For April 27,28,29 in Troy, Michigan. It is a small room – 15 students max and there is a $100 Tax Day discount that EXPIRES Midnight, April 15. Any questions regarding the Quick Start 2007 Bootcamp? Call Nora at 248-462-7029.

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Think and Grow Rich in Michigan Real Estate Part 1 – How To Become An Accurate Thinker In Your Michigan Foreclosure Flipping Business:

You recently met a contractor who will put sidings on your house and will paint your foreclosure once the other rehab is done. You think the guy is wonderful and everything is going to turn out just fine.

You are an OPTIMIST.

You are about to go and meet a private investor for the first time. You have done 4 deals so far – three of them got big checks; fourth one turned to be O.K. – you made a mistake in buying to expensive of a foreclosure in your Michigan city. You are confident that the guy is going to laugh at you once he realizes what a chump you really are. You don’t bother to put together an Investor Credibility Kit or anything resembling that. You know that there is no reason to spend time and energy doing either one.

You are a PESSIMIST.

Both of these other labels are true and dangerous – may be it is fun to swing in these two extremes in our personal lives but when it comes to running a business especially a small business like buying and selling bank foreclosures – one of the most valuable traits you can develop is to become what Napoleon Hill identified as a common trait in hundreds of extremely successful people when he was researching Think and Grow Rich – the ability to think accurately.

Not become an optimist or a pessimist – but an accurate thinker.

Here is my own accurate thinking in everything I do in my businesses:

1. I know that this new contractor I just meet this morning is reliable. He looked hones, talked straight, is a family man (showed me the pictures of his kids), gave me a quote that looked reasonable and complimented me twice on my car and my technique of carrying a digital voice recorder everywhere I go.

So what? My accurate thinking says that I should still ask for three references, call all three, make sure that the guy delivers, on time, under budget, all the time from these there previous customers of his. Ask him to sign an agreement (Paul Mueller and David Schmidt, Ijlal Inner Circle members have put together a killer agreement to be used for controlling contractors – we all use it now) that will insure that the things are going to happen according to my plan.

The optimist will hope that things are going to work out because the guys look trustworthy. The pessimist will stay up night dreading the contractor to steal money from him and not finish the house on time. The accurate thinker who read Think and Grow Rich will do the above to make that things are going to happen as planned and sleep peacefully and will have a house done on time and in budget.

2. I want to partner up with John to buy and flip a house. I have known John for over three years now and in these three years we have become good friends. He is fun to hang out with, likes to go restaurant hopping, reads books, his wife and Nora have become good friends, I have been to his house for his kids birthdays, he has been to mine for ours. I believe John to be a good person. Period. He has been hounding me to do a deal together and play bank / partner for half of the profits.

The Optimist will say that this is truly one of these dream win-win situations. I know where to go and find bank foreclosures in a Michigan City without effort. He can finance the purchase and rehab and is willing to go to the house and manage contractors. I will put the pieces together to sell the house. I say lets do it and do it now before he changes his mind or finds someone else.

The Pessimist will say that I should not trust anybody to do what he or she is saying they will. I know that John is just playing nice to learn from me. He probably will steal money from me during rehab or worse never show up to manage the house once we start fixing it thus wasting my time. The pessimist says that this is going to go down bad and I should not bother with it.

Accurate Thinking teaches me that I should take John me with me to a lawyer, explain what we are trying to do to him, draw up a cookie cutter agreement just for that deal that outlines exactly what is going to happen and each other responsibilities, draw up an agreement with the help of the lawyer in an hour, and we both sign it.

Accurate Thinker in me says that this deal can work out if I truly help John to see the bigger picture – all the future deals we can do together and make lots of money. So I go overboard and help him, teach him more than what is required of me so he is overwhelmed with gratitude toward me.

I also tell Nora to talk to his wife and paint her the same bigger picture – lots of future deals, lots of future checks with her name on them, but this deal has to work perfectly – so she will make sure that John shows up, on time and does what he is supposed to do.

3. You need to raise private money – around $250,000 to start with a target of $500,000. You tell pretty much all of your friends, family members, acquaintances. They all politely tell you that it is the single worse idea that they have ever heard. Not only they have no money to give you but also the whole idea of investing in real estate well actually investing in anything is terrifying for them.

They like the idea of somebody else taking money from their check and stuffing it in their company stock on every two Fridays. No hassle; no headache; off course they are losing their shirts investing their 401K in the market but hey we live in an imperfect world! Right???

The Optimist in you says that these people just need a little time. So you decide to wait for six months and go to the same people all over again. You genuinely believe that your friends and family will come around once they have listened to you several times. You decide to wait for them to realize the error of their ways and show up one day on your doorstep, apologetic and with checks in their hands.

The Pessimist in your says that the reality is that NOBODY IN MICHIGAN has money. Period. The State of Michigan is going to hell. Everybody is broke. Your friends, family member and acquaintances included. So first there is nobody who has money to invest in real estate in Michigan and play your private partner.

Second even if you could find somebody – why would they trust YOU? After all everybody knows that deep down inside you are chump! The best thing for you is keep going back to mortgage lenders, keep putting credit inquiries on your credit report, or worse sit on the sidelines while all the good deals are scooped by other Michigan real estate investors who were probably born to rich parents.

The Accurate Thinker, the person who read Think and Grow Rich and got it, will say that actually talking to friends, family and everybody else was nothing more than “practice”. They said NO – fine. Most like somebody making $70,000 a year and living in the Michigan suburbs does not have too much to invest any way. They are wage earners NOT savers and definitely NOT investors. But it was a good practice run, worth the 2 hours it took.

But now you, my accurate thinker, are ready for the real thing. You pick up the March 5, 2007 issue of Fortune Magazine and notice that on page 83, Mapping America Millionaires, they have Michigan as having 190,871 households with $1,000,000 (one million dollars) in investable assets i.e., everything but the primary residence.

You say to yourself – would it not be cool to get the list of these folks in my Michigan City so I can talk to them and nobody else since they are true investors and not wage earners and show them what I have done during my last two deals?

Turns out that there is a way to get that list. Turns out that there is a method to put together a document that will blow the heads off these folks. Turns out that once you do sit with them and talk to them– a large number of them is going to smile and say, “ Do you know how long we have been looking for somebody like you?”

The Accurate Thinker will find out where to get that list, how to put together a killer Investor Credibility Kit and do some really simply but overlooked things that will insure that pretty soon he or she will have a list of private investors fighting to partner up with them to do real estate deals – big or small.

Being sunny or being gloomy is a waste of time for any Michigan real estate investor. Becoming an accurate thinker will enrich you and get you what you want out of your business without stress and with speed.

I am an accurate thinker; by choice. Sometime I am labeled by people who don’t know me well as a “cynic” because on my insistence on being prepared for most eventualities. I typically smile, don’t argue with them, and keep on doing what I was in the first place.

You should become an accurate thinker too. It is one of the greatest traits that Napoleon Hill identified in his works. If it worked for Henry Ford and Thomas Edison – I am sure that it will work for you and me too.

Part 2 of Think and Grow Rich in Michigan Real Estate coming soon.

The April Quick Start 2007 Bootcamp is now scheduled and taking enrollments. Dates are April 27,28,29, location is Troy, Michigan. Details are here. There is an additional $100 Gift Certificate that you can use toward your enrollment before Tax Day 2007 (April 15). Only 10-15 students max.

What I teach has Accurate Thinking fused deep into it. Can’t help it – that is how I think about everything. And since you want to become an accurate thinker – you would be happy to know that there is a 100% Risk Enrollment Guarantee – sit in for an entire first day; don’t like what you hear; get 100% refund plus $250 Gift Card for Gas. I have been told that gas prices are going up. I never pay attention to gas prices. It is a waste of time and energy but I believe most people do so it is a good “accurate thinking” guarantee. :-) Once the 10 spots are gone, the door will close for the month. Details are here.

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So let me tell ya about my weekend:

1. Had a talk with a Michigan real estate investor who has sold 85 pieces of land – bought and sold – using Ebay to real estate investors all over USA in the last 12 months. Gave him a tip on using another popular site to bump his sale price. Learned something extremely valuable about buying and selling pieces of land from him; a market that I virtually know nothing about till Sunday.

2. Had a talk with 2 very sharp Michigan real estate investors who have 20 short sale deals in the pipeline right now. They are working on a brand new technique to fix credit for their first time home buyers that should speed up the process of going from bad credit to “decent enough” credit by half or more. Don’t have to tell you that you can flip more foreclosures this way.

A large part of the first time home buyer market has bruised credit. Know how to fix credit and fix it fast can help you sell more houses in Michigan no matter where you live. Taught them some advanced level strategies to building their own mini little private bank and a giagando list of wholesale investors in a matter of weeks on Saturday.

3. Had a conversation with Rodney Townsend, Ijlal Inner Circle member and a very very sharp real estate investor, who is currently doing a short sale in Romulus and he wanted to pick my brain on how to flood his ROTH IRA with the profits from his real estate deal even he just opened his ROTH IRA

What came out on the conversation was let the ROTH IRA buy the second lien for ten cents on the dollar – once the house flips, the ROTH IRA will get a large chunk of profits from the retail flip. So that got me thinking about real estate notes but I am too busy right now and cannot distract myself into something new. Well I meet another gentleman on Sunday who is running an entire business, buying and selling notes in Macomb County. I am going to take him out to lunch next week, shut up and learn from him.

4. Took Nora out to dinner last night to Andiyamo in Bloomfield Hills. There service is beyond extraordinary no matter when you go there but last night was a little different. One of the mysteries in life that I cannot solve is why majority of real estate investors in Michigan real estate pretend to be secret agents?

Majority of them don’t tell anybody who they are, what they can do for them, actively seek out help, and network with purpose instead of collecting business cards? They should go to Andiyamo in Bloomfield Hills and let Amber wait on them. I eat out a lot and this is the first time in five years that I have walked out of a restaurant, and next morning I still remember the name of the person who waited on us.

You know why that is? Because she must have told me her name 6 times; specifically asked us to come next time and ask for her at least 5 times; told us that she is going to take care of us the next time when we come there at least 4 times.

When was the last time you told anybody what you do or want to do in real estate in Michigan?

My weekend was extraordinary but that is the fun of teaching Quick Start 2007 Bootcamp for three days. Somebody asked me where does all my energy and enthusiasm comes from? They were surprised that standing on my feet for almost 10 hours every day, three days in a row, with virtually no breaks, staying late every day till 7:30pm to talk to the ones who stayed back – I am still flying high.

I told her that it comes from being surrounded in a room full of smart Michigan real estate investors who want to start and grow their businesses, from talking to investors who come from all corners of Michigan and bring their invaluable experiences with them so I learn something new too because every time you teach; you learn something from your students too.

The last three days were plain awesome. You should have been there. The next Quick Start 2007 is on April 27, 28, 29. Half of the seats (I teach small groups 10-15) are already spoken for so do stake your enrollment if you are coming before the doors are closed again.

It is 3 days intensive, one on one with me, no outside speakers, no home study courses or other expensive seminars to buy. 100% focus on Michigan real estate and how to make it all work for you in 2007. As usual there is a 100% risk free enrollment guarantee – sit in for the whole first day; don’t like what you hear; get your tuition back plus I will toss you a $250 Gas Card for your inconvenience. Simple as that.

I had a great time this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I hope your weekend was as fun as mine.

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