EP 260 – Playing Hookie To Meet Tom Hopkins

NCS 260 | Playing Hookie

If you had the chance to meet your idol, but you had to play hookie at work to be able to do so, will you do it? In every business, you need to take risks because you never know if playing hookie now and would get you to be painted as a hero later. Most of the time, you will be both hero and hookie, especially if you’re going to do it to meet Tom … Read More

EP 258 – The Road Less Traveled: Embrace The Suck, Fail Forward And Get On Top

NCS 258 | The Road Less Traveled

For a note investors who’s on top, it’s always good to look back on the path you’ve taken ten years ago and realize that it was the road less traveled. You got off from college with a degree that got you the job, you married your college sweetheart, bought a car, and then unexpectedly things turn south. The path may be unclear but you never stopped walking because from these failures will come the success … Read More

EP NNA 8 – Simple And Effective Ways Of Sourcing Note Sources

NCS NNA 8 | Sourcing Note Sources

Finding a deal is always a big step for any note investor. There is also the temptation of buying from hedge funds because that means there’s less work to do. Reaching out to private sellers is a good move, too, but their assets are always the leftovers of other investors and can be overpriced at times. The secret to sourcing note sources is through public records where most information is free. This way, you find … Read More

EP NNA 7 – Note Funding League: Performing Notes & REOs

NCS NNA 7 | Note Funding League

To keep in line with their goal of helping 10,000 note investors, We Close Notes invented the Note Funding League which is a list of assets made available to those who want to make a deal off of them. This time partnering with the Singer Law Group, all cases are solid with handful of flexible ones. With the breakdown of these performing notes and REOs, note closers are expected to close within seven days from … Read More

EP 257 – Score Big in Self-Storage with Terri Garner and Alia Ott Carter

NCS 257 | Self-Storage

One of the key differences of self-storage to other commercial assets is that fair housing laws don’t apply to them because nobody’s living in them. There’s no need to go through the eviction, foreclosures and wait long for lead times to get your money back. Terri Garner and Alia Ott Carter have been in the self-storage market since 2009 and their key to success is being able to connect with people. Whenever they are given … Read More

EP NNA 6 – ROI Calculator: A Must-Have In Your Note Investing Toolkit

NCS NNA 6 | ROI Calculator

The most important tool any note investor should have is an ROI calculator. With notes, ROI calculators come with a set of rules so that you don’t kill every deal when you over-analyze everything. They differ for rentals, fix and flips and owner financing. One of the biggest and simplest rules is to pick two or three states when you’re just starting because you will have more problems than you can deal with if you … Read More

EP 256 – March Madness: Make Your Shots And Win The Note Closing Game

NCS 256 | March Madness

For you to win the note closing game, you need to make the shots, but before you can make the shots you will need to practice. March madness and the note business are pretty much the same because you don’t have to be the big hedge fund or the guy who buys a thousand assets. All you need to do is to be the best at what you do. Being good at closing notes means … Read More

EP 255 – Flourishing On Florida’s Gulf Coast with Brent Garrett

NCS 255 | Florida Hot Market

Note investors who have been buying in Florida for the past decade have been making a lot of profit now that the Florida hot market has rebounded from the dropped values. A lot of players have recently come in, but Brent Garrett believes that the note game in his area is still where it’s at since ten years ago, except now, everyone knows how big of a market it is. He shares his process of … Read More

EP 254 – Overcoming Obstacles And Killing Squirrels

NCS 254 | Overcoming Obstacles

Focus is everything. 80% of your income comes from 20% of your actions. You can get to where you need to be as long as you keep working toward it and you are focused. So what do you do to help you clear your head? How do you keep your focus on your long-term goals? Scott discusses the difficulties and ruts that real estate investors often fall into and shares some of the things that can help you in staying on track and … Read More

EP 253 – Surviving And Succeeding The Evolution Of The Note Business with Rick Allen and TJ Osterman

When starting your own company, you can put in low capital and still be profitable the whole time. Rick Allen and TJ Osterman from Paperstac share how educating yourself and knowing everything you can about the business will steer you away from trouble and get you on the right path. Their business has evolved from fix and flips to notes to owning property and now investing. By being a lending institution, they now make money out of putting … Read More

EP 252 – The School of Hard Knocks, Financial Education Classes with Martin Saenz

NCS 252 | Financial Education Classes

The note investing market is getting a little tighter and the competition is getting steeper. Martin Saenz encourages new note investors to take advantage of all the conferences and networking events to find hedge funds as well as putting in work like making phone calls and blasting emails to your database, all of which can lead to better opportunities. Matt’s key advice is to immerse yourself in training and workshops every chance you can get it. Financial … Read More

EP 251 – Stop Choking Your Note Business with Your Own Money and Start Raising Private Capital

NCS 251 | Raising Private Capital

Trying to build credibility by doing deals with your own funds before you borrow someone else’s money is a big misconception. There’s nothing wrong with self-funding a deal, but if you’ve got a limited amount of funds invested in a deal and don’t follow up on raising private capital, you can’t make bids once a good offer comes around because you don’t have any more funds to use. Scott shares some tips and nuggets on … Read More