Dawn Rickabaugh, broker/owner of Note Queen Capital Funding, buys seller-financed notes across the country and helps others get started investing in notes. As a real estate broker specializing in alternative closing strategies, she arms her clients with the tools they need to make more money and close more transactions. She is dedicated to liberating and empowering buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals in today’s market. Learn more as Dawn discusses how she uses notes and … Read More
EP 272 – Policing Your Business As A Note Investor with Eric Hyde
California policeman by day and note investor by night Eric Hyde from AW Notes discusses his journey and biggest nuggets in his first twelve months as a note investor. Eric joined the police force because he wanted to do something in his career where he could help people, which he also found with note investing. He’s done some performing notes, joint ventures, and a few wholesale deals initially to get his feet wet. Eric discusses … Read More
EP 269 – Social Media Survey: The Numbers Tell Your Story
If you have been in the note closing industry, you know that it is a number’s game. In the last 30 days, how many individual posts have you done on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest? How many videos have you published in YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook? All the numbers that you get from these questions will immediately tell you how well are you doing with your business. Long-term success is built with daily increments that … Read More
EP 268 – Note Camp Recap
Note Camp Provides education for people about the note closing industry. It also helps a lot with planning how we can help investors for the next six months. We want to see attendees doing more marketing, not just during the event, but going forward for their own businesses. Note Camp teaches note closers to step out of their comfort zone and share their strengths and weaknesses, how they find their deals and how many can … Read More
EP 264 – Leveraging Events To Grow
When you go to an event, the best thing you can do is learn as many tips as you can from the speakers as well as from your fellow investors that are in attendance. There’s always something you can learn whether it’s a small meet up or big event, people are there to share ideas, knowledge and experiences, and you need to become a sponge that absorbs it all as much as you can. Levering … Read More
EP 258 – The Road Less Traveled: Embrace The Suck, Fail Forward And Get On Top
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 6 – ROI Calculator: A Must-Have In Your Note Investing Toolkit
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 228 – Past Note Investing Tactics Still Useful Today? A Back To The Future Episode
Back in the day, note investing had no platform to launch from, that’s why for most real estate investors it was considered the wild west of the business. This idea has clearly been lifted with the note investor’s population growing by the day. But just like the movie Back To The Future, we need to learn how note investing tactics were done in the past so that we can learn and improve. A few years back, … Read More
EP 224 – Become An Information Sponge With Continual Learning
Going out to do what you need to do for your business and being yourself while doing it is one of the keys to stay motivated to achieve your goals. One other key is to step away from work for a while and just absorb the knowledge and experiences you’ve been getting. And even at this point, continual learning will still prove very useful for note investors whether they struggling to close deals or not. … Read More
EP 223 – Madison Management: Doing The Legwork For Investors with Shante Duffy
When investors are buying a note in certain states, it is a relief to know that there are licensed service providers on the loans for that note. But most investors don’t have the knowledge to contact borrowers the right and legal way. What Shante Duffy at Madison Management does is ask for instructions and let investors make the decisions for themselves. And with these instructions, they do all the legwork and keeping all the information … Read More
EP 217 – The Rental Business Exit To The Note Business with Pari Thiagasundaram
Having a rental business have its rewarding aspects with its passive income, but always having turn-over tenants can make it tedious. Pari Thiagasundaram experienced the same thing and wanted to make a rental business exit but still stay in the real estate. As a network engineer, he still needs to put in 40 hours a week in work, so dealing with his landlord duties just didn’t seem productive to him. With the Note Closers crew, … Read More
EP 214 – Cause Driven Goals Bring More Growth
2017 is about to end and we’ve all hit goals we were shooting for when the year started. Now that your cups have been filled, find your cause driven goals, you charity or organization you want to be part of and fill start filling the cup of others. Don’t think that donating toys is a simple thing, because Scott Carson has filled ten carts full of toys to donate for the Toys For Tots. This … Read More