EP 310 – Ohio And Michigan Foreclosure Laws with Franco Barile

NCS 310 | Foreclosure Laws

  Whether it’s a nonperforming first or a contract for deeds, if you are buying assets in the Ohio and Michigan markets, real estate attorney Franco Barile is your go-to person. Having partnered with Tony Sottile, Franco has taken full advantage of the business side of the real estate legal game. Between them, they have four licenses under their belt for Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky doing title and collateral reviews. They have a full … Read More

EP 309 – The Hurricane Effect

NCS 309 | Hurricane Effect

  When the floods happened, when the hurricane rolled through Texas, there were somewhere between 45,000 and 75,000 household affected by it. That number is increasing. That’s the hurricane effect. What does that mean? It means there’s an opportunity for us as note investors, if you like Texas notes, to reach out to the banks, reach out to the servicers, reach out to the mortgage companies and mortgage bankers to see if they’ve got anything … Read More

EP 308 – Syndications with Joel Block

NCS 308 | Syndications

  Master your craft and master the money. Bringing the money to the deal is where the magic is. You’ve got to master both of those to understand and identify opportunities in the market, not only for yourself but also to understand what your investors are looking forward. However, most people don’t understand how to raise capital to buy real estate. Joel Block from Bullseye Capital, LLC says that’s what they teach people. They’ve put … Read More

EP 307 – Ten Note Commandments

NCS 307 | Ten Note Commandments

  There are a lot of different rules you have to keep in mind when you’re buying notes because there’s a lot of moving parts to the note business and lots of nuts and bolts. There are a lot of them, but these are probably the ten biggest ones you need to keep in mind when you’re looking at buying distressed notes. This is just a start to get more information to understand things a … Read More

EP NNA 17 – Choosing Markets

NNA 17 | Choosing Markets

  Choosing markets is one of the scariest things that people do. Let’s face it, if you’ve been in the note business for longer than six months, you find that not every market is created equal and not every market has the same foreclosure time frame. Most don’t even have the same inventory levels. Choosing a market investment is like buying a monopoly. You’re not going to be buying Park Place or the railroad stuff, … Read More

EP NNA 18 – Steps To Building A Blueprint For Success

NNA 18 | Blueprint For Success

  Nobody is an overnight success. We make a lot of mistakes but the important thing is to learn from our failures. If you love what you do, just keep pushing and pushing to go up, make things happen, and don’t take no for an answer. Find a way to make it work because perseverance does pay off. Scott recounts his life story of how he rose up in the note business out of nothing, … Read More

EP 305 – Adapting Your Business Models with Jay Tenenbaum

NCS 305 | Adapting Your Business Models

  The market is constantly changing back and forth with pricing. Prices five years ago are different than what they are today. Scott interviews note and real estate investor, Jay Tenenbaum, about his business models and how he has adapted his note business as the market has changed. Jay has been involved in notes for almost five years now, and keeping borrowers in their homes has been his mantra. His business has evolved multiple times. … Read More

EP 306 – Mistakes, Multifamily And Raising Capital with Tyler Sheff

  Trying to come up with a way to reduce taxes, Tyler Sheff started researching how to do that legally. The only thing he came back with was buy real estate and hang onto it. That’s what he started doing. Scott interviews real estate and note investor, Tyler Sheff, about some of the mistakes that he has made over the years, along with the multifamily market and raising capital. Tyler is a successful real estate … Read More

EP 302 – Walk the Walk Before You Talk the Talk: A Guide to Closing Deals

NCS 302 | Closing Deals

  There’s a sudden rise in self-proclaimed talkers who don’t walk the walk. This has been occurring in the note industry more often, which makes it an alarming threat to actual real players or genuine newcomers off to a good start. Bear in mind that business is always evolving. Factors include pricing changes, market conditions, foreclosure laws enacted, and things get delayed. The only way of truly understanding this on an expert level is to literally be … Read More

EP 303 – Hustling in the Big Easy with Jonathan Burden

NCS 303 | Distressed Homeowners

  Hustling in the Big Easy ain’t easy. In order to conjure money out of thin air, a note investor has to have a big heart for helping people. You can’t be in the business just for the money. When you’re dealing with people who are literally facing foreclosure, sometimes days or weeks out, you can’t afford to be heartless. A lot of homeowners will appreciate it if you helped them to stay in their house in … Read More

EP 300 – Lessons Learned From 300 Episodes

NCS 300 | Note Closers Show Lessons

  When Scott first started this show, there was this NoteMBA podcast with Chase and Robby, both of whom did a tremendous job. Flash forward to this moment, they’re no longer doing their podcasts on a regular basis. It’s sad, of course, but in celebration of the Note Closers Show’s 300 episodes, Scott reminds you of the sheer amount of opportunities out there. We all start little. The idea is to stay consistent and focused to … Read More

EP 301 – Facebook Hacking For Your Note Business

NCS 301 | Facebook Hacking

  Most of you are used to using Facebook to market, to post a picture, to post a cat video, to watch Scott’s webinars, to do a Facebook live video, but there are some other really cool tools that can be found with Facebook to really grow your business, to raise capital, to find asset managers, especially with the customize audience aspects. Who is your custom audience going to be? If you don’t have a … Read More