Why Do I...
by Ron LeGrand

I get a lot of questions why I do some of the things I do, which seem a little odd to downright crappy to some, so a fax I recently received from Dan Kennedy, who gets the same questions, triggered me to write about it here.

Will it make you rich by next Thursday? I doubt it!

Will it serve any useful purpose at all? I don't know, but it will kill any curiosity you may have and it's probably a better use of your time than watching Deal or No Deal or Dr. Phil.

So here we go in no particular order...

1. Why do I refuse to have personal email? This one's easy. It's a huge time waster and I have a PA who does all that for me so I don't have to. She prints out the emails addressed to me and deals with most before they get to me. The ones that do go right back to her with a scribbled note that takes seconds then it's her time consumed to reply, not mine. I don't type and my vision is poor so it's hard to stare at a monitor and I don't have the patience to deal with the worthless, time wasting load of crap emailed to us every day. I don't need to carry around a laptop to lose or break. I never need an electric outlet to charge up my pen and it's nice to have a moron repellant, (Tish).
   
   Ask yourself how much more time you'd have every day if emails were out of your life. Everyone I've convinced to try it loves it and will probably never go back.
   
    
2. Why do I force people to go to our boot camp before I'll let them submit deals to us? Cause we simply don't have the time, patience or resources to train people over the telephone who won't get it in a classroom. We tried it. No more. 99% (Ninety-nine percent) of the submissions were worthless time wasters and the people who know the least take it the hardest when we tell them their deal is crap. Since they can't define a deal they have a hard time coping with it and sometimes think we have it in for them. The Heritage Development Group staff work tirelessly to screen the deals, increase our efficiency and manage the 23 properties we did close with students. This stuff ain't easy and we're forced to choose who we work with and we choose committed people only. No training, no commitment. Sorry if you don't agree, but there's the rules. It's all my fault cause I made the rules.
   
    
3. Why do I still spend a lot of my time teaching when I don't have to? Get this one a lot. What else would you have me do? How much fishing can a guy do? I'll kill my share of fish, but it's certainly not a full time job. Should I go to the beach and get a sun tan? I'd rather have a root canal. How about I stay home and chase Beverly around the house? She's 62 years old for crying out loud. She's easy to catch cause she don't move fast and I almost forgot what to do when I do catch her. Maybe some honey-do chores around the house? Shoot me first. I've got two full time caretakers for that. You wouldn't have me put them out of work would you? How about golf? Not a bad idea except I can't see where the ball lands so when I hit those long straight drives I don't know where to go find the ball. Many I never find and I'm sure it's not because they're in the water or woods, but somehow they come up missing. Besides, if I break 100 a party would be required and I hate parties.
   
   I teach because it's still fun. When it isn't fun you won't see me and that time won't be in the too distant future. I didn't sign up for this job for life, but as long as it is my life and I love it, I'll keep at it. My choice. No other reason.
   
   Besides, how many millionaires can I make on the golf course?
   
    
4. Why do I make myself visible and available when I teach and not go hide like most speakers? If I needed to hide from the very people who pay my bills I wouldn't want to be there. Anyone who hates people that much shouldn't be among them.
   
   I happen to enjoy the conversations with intelligent people and know some of those short talks change people's lives.
   
   I'm aware of my responsibility as a teacher and role model and you can't do either in a cave (or a motel room).
   
   I'll confess sometimes I get weary of people making excuses for their failures and my temperament for whiners is very short, but I've spent a lot of years studying people and try not to judge based on first impressions. I've seen some people do very well with not much to work with and odds stacked high against them. I've seen others with all the tools and advantages who can't get off dead center and get anything done. Some people are fun to work with and others are a drag. I've learned to let none of it bother me and my skin is so thick it doesn't get a second thought. Too much to do. Nothing gets me down for long. It's the fun people and the great success letters that pump me up. Hard to imagine life without them.
   
    
5. Why would I prefer a good old fashion country meal to a seven course meal in a fine restaurant? Several reasons actually. First, seven course meals take too long and I have no patience. My butt gets numb after about 90 minutes in a chair and dining is no longer fun.
   
   Second, I'm already overweight, (a little). More food means more weight.
   
   Third, it all goes to the same place and many times the simple food tastes better than the fancy food. I was raised in a simple family and sometimes strawberry shortcake was our dinner. I'm a redneck and no amount of money will fix that and what's more I don't want to fix it. I have no need to impress anyone and truly don't care if anyone is shocked I'm not a connoisseur of fine foods. I hate wine too. It makes me sleepy, gives me heart burn and tastes like crap.
   
    
6. Why do I get ten times more done than most people? The biggest reason is delegation followed closely with time management. Tish actually does most of the work or delegates it to others. My role in most tasks takes seconds, sometimes minutes, rarely hours. When your involvement is minutes you can get a lot done. When you try to do everything yourself it's hard to get anything done, i.e. my previous discussion about email, and what you do accomplish is more minutiae than meaningful tasks.
   
   I have a planner that allows me to keep up with the promises I make and those made to me and all the daily activities required to be a mover and shaker. Without the planner, I'd be a promise breaker like most people. With it I can set it and forget it until it's time to act.
   
   The planner also gives me a place to record my ideas before they're lost and I do just that. If you don't most will pass and never become reality. The Financial Freedom Network was one of those ideas I jotted down. Now it's reality. Get to Business Management boot camp and I'll teach you what it takes to make people think you're a genius. It's not really hard. I'm no genius. I just act while most people talk. Of course it's a lot easier to look smart when you have smart people around you, and I do. Try to remove the dead wood and upgrade the people you hang around and pretty soon you'll be smarter and get more done.
   
    
7. Why would I rather work than go on vacation? Most people take vacations because they need the stress relief and their job or vocation is boring or they do it because they think they have to. Vacations provide excitement and something to look forward to, a way to have fun.
   
   Well, I have all that stuff without leaving home. There's never a dull day, some more fun than others and some I'd rather skip, but no need to find something to look forward to. I look forward to every day and my stress is relieved by getting things done and moving mountains. I'm only bored when I'm trapped into doing things I'd rather not do like gambling or sightseeing.
   
   Of course, I travel a lot, and getting away from home isn't an issue. I'm gone a third of the time. I can get into sightseeing if the sights are interesting, but I'd rather be actively involved in something, like fishing or diving.
   
   Beverly can sit in front of a video poker machine for 16 hours a day. After 16 minutes I'm ready for a pill. Bores me to tears. At least with fishing I get to kill something and then eat it. It's a man thing. When I get on a boat something dies.
   
   To me, working is fun, it's my stress relief and I'm always on vacation. Why interrupt that with sightseeing. Send me a post card with the pretty pictures.
   
   People without a mission don't understand missionaries. They call us workaholics because we appear to always be working. Doctors advise us to take a vacation for stress relief. Perhaps they should; what a stressful job they have.
   
   I'm proud to be a workaholic and feel no need to explain or apologize to anyone for it. I'm never bored, usually having fun, enjoy what I do, look forward to every day and can pretty much go anywhere I want anytime I want. What will a vacation do to improve that?
   
   Now Beverly doesn't necessarily agree with me on this so I go on vacation when she says it's time. When you've been married for 41 years you learn to do what you're told.
   
    
8. Why do I keep buying property when I have all I need now? Because it's exciting, I don't do much of the work, my wealth expands, and it keeps quite a few people working. I'll admit there are times when I feel overwhelmed and ask myself the same question. It's a lot of responsibility I could do without and a lot of debt I'd rather not have, and one day soon, I hope to get out of both without shutting down acquisitions.

But, as I just explained, I'm an action junkie. A mundane life without the thrill of the chase and new mountains to climb just doesn't appeal to me and probably never will.

I'll admit I'm not normal and proud of it, but its fun to be me.

Peace,
Ron

 

Avoid real estate career pitfalls.

With the economy in distress, Ron has had many of his students tell him over the last few months they are afraid to take action.

Between his own mistakes and those he has heard time and time again from other people, he has discovered the 11 most common reasons why people don’t succeed at this business.

Ron will be doing a special, no-cost online training event where he outlines each of these crucial mistakes and how to overcome them.

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Seems like there's always somebody telling us we should get a physical check-up every year or so, but how about a financial check-up? Ever had anybody call wanting to schedule you for a financial check-up?. If not, and you haven't had your financial check-up lately, then it's time for one. Here's a simple, little test to see if you pass or if you need a prescription for what ails you. Let's suppose you finish school, play around for a couple of years, and at age 20, you settle down and get a "real job." Using the example below, plug in your numbers in place of the ones in the example. First, you need to figure out what your present net worth is (No cheating or fluffing).

Example:
Present net worth $100,000.
Present age 40
Subtract 20 (age you started working)
Answer 20

Divide the answer (20) into your present net worth ($100,000), and we see in our example that you have accumulated an average of $5,000 for each year that you've worked. Now, how do your figures rate? Are you satisfied with your answer? If not, what are you doing about it? Maybe now is a good time to ask yourself this question. "If I do the same things this year, as I did last year, where will I be next year?” If you don't like the answer, then it's time to make plans to improve your score. So what can you do to improve your financial health? Let's go over a couple of ideas that have worked very well for me.

Regardless of what kind of job you have, how well you like your job and how much that job pays, you need to have something producing income for you that doesn't require you to be there. You should have cash flow coming in if you're sleeping, fishing, on vacation or too sick to work. If your only source of income is from your next pay-check and you lose your job (very possible these days), how much cash flow will you have coming in? If you lost your job tomorrow, how long could you support your family on what you have now? If you have a serious surgery like I did, how long could you be out? These are serious questions you should ask yourself, and if you don't like the answers, start making plans now for your financial future. So, what to do? "Hire" some "employees" to work for you. And what's the best kind of employees you can have? DOLLARS!!!

I consider every dollar I invest another employee working for me. With proper management, each employee works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They never call in sick, they never go on strike, and they never complain about working conditions. Best of all, I don't have to worry about all that HR crap or hear that they don't get enough vacation.  Here is another good thing about my employees... they never have to worry about being "downsized" either. But if I get lazy, or don't do a good job of managing my employees, my income will decrease and maybe even stop. So you need to develop good financial discipline and good management skills in order to get the most from your "employees." Let me tell you what you can do to obtain that financial freedom you deserve.

I am holding a five-day Quick Turn Real Estate School in Chicago from September 9-13.  This is the last time I will be in Chicago, so if you live close, you might want to make reservations today instead of tomorrow.  If you don't live near by, you can fly fairly cheap these days.  Round trip on American Airlines from Dallas to Chicago is $236.  Just check it out at lowfares.com.  You say you can't afford to come, but I tell you my friend, in today's world, you can't afford NOT to come.  To register today, go to http://www.RonLeGrand.com/MEZ090901 or call 1-800-567-6128 (M-F 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. EDT).  After you have attended my class and you apply what you have learned--you have to apply it for it to work--do the math, and I am confident that you will be more satisfied with your results.

 

Avoid real estate career pitfalls.

With the economy in distress, Ron has had many of his students tell him over the last few months they are afraid to take action.

Between his own mistakes and those he has heard time and time again from other people, he has discovered the 11 most common reasons why people don’t succeed at this business.

Ron will be doing a special, no-cost online training event where he outlines each of these crucial mistakes and how to overcome them.

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Webinar Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009
Webinar Time: 9:00 PM Eastern
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Why People Fail
A series of No B.S. Articles from Dan Kennedy

The Billionaire's Secrets: OPM, OPR and OPC
(You may need them now, more than ever.)

Up in the air. It's a bird, it's a plane – no, it's SuperDan. By the time you read this, I will have flown to four cities and presented my 'no-fail follow-up seminar' and autographed books for four groups in L.A., Chicago, NYC and Orlando. And boy, are my arms tired. At age 20, this might have been fun. It still beats working for a living in a job. But it is annoying every time I hear politicians, particularly a certain recent presidential candidate, demonizing me for my success and suggesting that the Grand Canyon gap between my high income and others' low incomes is evil and must be narrowed by government theft. In a recent episode of Gene Simmons' show, his daughter ruefully said to him, "I think I'm taking on your work ethic." To which he said, "Good."  I'm afraid I'm NOT the kind of Kool-Aid® the no-work-crowd wants to drink. I drive them away from Glazer-Kennedy with this kind of talk. I'm not sorry. And now that an overly generous economy has turned irritable and more demanding, and businesspeople and salespeople are having to dig in and work, I'm hearing a lot of whining. Most salespeople haven't worked in ages. I was comparing notes about this with a friend last week and neither of us could even remember the last time we were "prospected" by a salesperson, followed up on by a salesperson we've previously bought something from. There's crying in the car business, but no salesman or dealer from whom I've purchased new cars in the past 5 years has contacted me.  There's mass exodus of real estate agents in surrender, but none I've purchased a property from has contacted me to sell me another. Retail: from the clothing store in my hometown where I spent $1,800 in my first visit two years ago...from the clothing store in my other home city, where I spent $500.00 on first visit...from a store in Vegas where I spent $2,000 on cowboy boots , no salesman has attempted contact.  May they all be fired. May they all starve. 

Yes, in my WEALTH ATTRACTION book, I write in-depth about liberating yourself from the Work-Money Link. But I never said: don't work, period. Nor did I suggest resenting it. I talked about injecting leverage into the equation, as many ways as possible: better customer or client selection; premium prices or fees with higher profit margins; better systems, delegation, outsourcing; smart use of media in place of manual labor; smart time management; money wisely invested. But I never suggested any or all of it as a substitute for work. I presented it as an enhancement of work. It would be more accurate, I suppose, to talk about breaking the strict hours for dollars link.

Leverage. So I want to promote my books. To do my four events in four cities in four consecutive days I used a chartered jet costing over $45,000. Sure, I could have flown commercial for a fraction of that cost; if careful and not choosy about routes and time, for as little as $3,000. But not done in a four day window. Done this way to minimize consumption of one of my most valuable assets, my time. Besides, I got InfusionSoft to pay for it. When self-made billionaire W. Clement Stone talked about "OPM" – Other Peoples' Money – I listened very carefully.  Plus, I tapped into InfusionSoft's lists, and laid the burden of logistics on them. But this also allowed me to tap into Glazer-Kennedy lists and media in a different way, providing Bill with a way to serve Members, promote to non-Members, and support our Independent Business Advisors in four major markets at zero out-of-pocket cost. I created "banked leverage" with current or prospective publisher(s) by doing promotion few other authors could or would do. I hear you: "but I'm not an author and not interested in promoting books, so this doesn't apply to me."  You wish I would talk about YOUR business – be it selling insurance or installing draperies or blacksmithing.  But this is the way of all Renegade Millionaires: they're masters at creating time efficient promotion for themselves and their businesses, with someone else picking up the tab.  OPM, OPR, and OPC: other peoples' money, other peoples' resources and other peoples' customers.  But make no mistake: it's not about avoiding work. In those four days, I did four days of hard, high pressure, exhausting work. But I'm leveraging it every way I can.

The WHY PEOPLE FAIL articles are provided by Dan S. Kennedy, serial entrepreneur, from-scratch multi-millionaire, speaker, consultant, coach, author of 13 books including the No B.S. series (www.NoBSBooks.com), and editor of The No B.S. Marketing Letter.

 

Google Adwords Secrets Revealed - Webinar with Greg Cesar (Google Czar)

• A simple way to get super cheap, high volume, high converting traffic for any offer you promote
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• How to use domain name bidding to get in front of red hot customers ready to buy
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From The Desk Of:
Ron LeGrand

All,

I'm writing to you shortly after returning home from a quadruple bypass surgery on July 31st.  I'm okay.  Please save the flowers and for God's sake, no candy.

I didn't intend on having open heart surgery.  It never crossed my mind as I opted in for a heart catheter. 

I had no idea 24 hours later I'd be in recovery with my chest cracked open and metal staples where I used to have chest hair and it would be 5 days later before I'd breathe fresh air again.

Sometimes life has some nasty surprises in store for us and things change with the blink of an eye.  Maybe for the better, maybe for the worst, but change is inevitable.

So what are the lessons here?

There are several that I'll note and I'm sure some I didn't.

1. Could you be down for 30 – 60 days and survive financially?  Perhaps even longer.  If not, what can fix it?  The answer is cash and/or cash flow that doesn't involve you much.  You know, the kind we've been discussing ever since we met.  What are you doing that has a chance of succeeding?
    
2. To whom do you listen?  Are you a heart attack waiting to happen and know it but refuse to address it head on?  You may not get a second chance.  To be honest, if I weren't pushy and unwilling to listen to advice that doesn't sit right with me, I would have listened to my old cardiologist who suggested I have another stress test after I complained of chest pains.
   
   You see, I had one last year and passed, so I knew that wouldn't help and may even kill me with the exertion.  Walking across the airport was becoming an obstacle.
   
   I insisted on a more conclusive test and agreed to a heart catheritization, which is a camera in your arteries and, if necessary, stints to prop open the plaqued areas.
   
   Listening to advice I knew was wrong for me could have easily killed me even when it came from someone as qualified as a cardiologist.
    
3. Can you accept major change when it comes (and it will) and deal with it?  It will take a strong person to navigate through life's mine fields.  Some things you control and some you don't.

Some would say my heart problems were not my fault.  I'd say that's bullshit.  It's all my fault, and I know exactly what caused it and knew it well before it happened and chose to basically ignore it.  Who else is there to blame but me?

The crap you eat will kill you.  We all know this, but choose to continue because to someone who lives to eat, not eats to live, it's a major change to eat right consistently.  It's hard, very hard.  Good food is one of those things you look forward to and build your day around.

Well, my doctor made it crystal clear on my way out the door.  He said you have two choices...and only two.

One – Do what I ask you to do from today forward and probably live.

Two – Do it your way and most certainly die. 

Then he followed that up with "I appreciate your business and would like to keep you around awhile, but rest assured, I have no short supply of self indulgent, overweight people with heart problems to operate on.  Business is booming.”

Now, I must confess that left me very little room to negotiate.  In fact, I didn't even know how to respond, so I simply said "Yes Sir!"

By the way, you'll never know what truly bad tasting food is until you've been hospitalized.  It'll certainly make you appreciate all non-hospital food.  One of my nurses told me it was their number one complaint, yet there is no intent to fix it.  I truly ate nothing rather than the foul smelling stuff they called food.

The next time someone you like gets hospitalized, here are a couple tips:

1. They do not want to talk with anyone during recovery.  Visiting them may be like using a baseball bat on them.  It may be unpleasant and downright punishing to them.  Think of their suffering, not your guilt.  Stay away!  Trust me, they won't miss you.
    
2. Don't send flowers.  They can really stink up a room to the point of nausea.  Besides, the room is small, no place to put them.  Here's a tip...send fruit instead.  A nice fruit basket has no odor and may be just what the patient needs to combat hospital food.  I lived on it for two days.  It's all I wanted and became a welcome guest, not an unwanted pest, and there was nothing to lug home when you leave.
    
3. Don't call the patient and expect a return call.  You might say they don't have to answer, but then you'd be forgetting most people's cell phone controls their lives and they will answer and even if they don't, it's something else for them to worry about.

Send a card, stay away and don't be a pest.  That's my advice, which I probably would have challenged prior to being a patient.  Do with it as you will.

The good news is I'll have 30 days to catch up on my reading and writing which started before I left the hospital.

If you want to know anything about sharks, I'm now an expert after spending two full days watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  I'm also pretty good on the reign of Egyptian Pharaohs dating back to 3000 B.C.  All valuable information I'm sure I'll use someday.

I'll continue to be on my scheduled calls.  I can't run or fly, but I can talk.

Peace,

Ron LeGrand

 

Website Suck, Squeeze Pages Rule

Just watch this video, and tell me it's not one of the biggest breakthroughs you've had this year when it comes to the growth of your business.

You'll meet a couple of guys who are killing it marketing their real estate businesses online, and raking in more money now (in today's market) than ever before.

They're using a little-known scarcity tactic to get oodles of people to look at their houses in a 48-hour period.

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2-Day Multiplying Your Income Streams Workshop - Chicago

This Is Your Personal Invitation To Join My Good Friends, Brian & Lynette Wolff, At The Multiplying Your Income Streams Workshop In Chicago on August 22nd and 23rd...These are a few of the things he has told me you'll be learning:

Session I - Making Big Money Without Money Or Credit
Session II - The Art of Prescreening
Session III - Making A Quick Fortune In Foreclosures
Session IV - Where To Find The Best Deals Even With Hot Competition
Session V - How To Increase Your Net Worth $1 Million In One Year With Commercial Property
Session VI - Where To Get The Money To Fund Your Deals
Session VII - Are You Running Your Business, Or Is It Running You?
Session VIII - Handling A Personal Financial Crisis
Session IX - Ten Keys To Your Success
Session X - Selling Houses Fast In A Slow Market
Session XI - How I've Been Making A Seven-Figure Income Every Year For The Last 10 Years, And Why It Has Almost Nothing To Do With Real Estate

Details: http://www.MultiplyingYourIncomeStreams.com/MEZ090811-MS

Only When The Student Is Ready Can The Teacher Appear
Part 3 of 3
By Ron LeGrand

Here is the final letter of our 3-part series. This is my response to my granddaughter's letter to me requesting I teacher her how to become successful in real estate. If you missed part 1 or part 2, you can view it on the blog at:

Part 1:
http://www.ronlegrand.com/blog/client/index.cfm/388/2009/7/21/Only-When-The-Student-Is-Ready-Can-The-Teacher-Appear-Part-1-of-3

Part 2:
http://www.ronlegrand.com/blog/client/index.cfm/388/2009/7/28/Only-When-The-Student-Is-Ready-Can-The-Teacher-Appear-Part-2-of-3

And now for my letter:

From The Desk Of:
Ron LeGrand

I will address your letter in writing simply because you may want to keep it for future reference to read on bad days, and there will be plenty.

You say you're not smart.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Being smart has nothing to do with scholastic achievement.  It's about possessing the ability to think and reason and make decisions that benefit others first before yourself.  Smart has nothing to do with money, but it is very closely related to the ability to earn it.

You are smart, but do need work on improving your reasoning and decision making ability. Fortunately, time and practice can fix that at no monetary cost to you.

You say you want me to teach you and you're ready to learn.  That's good news to me because until you are, there's nothing I can do to make you.  Only when the student is ready can the teacher appear.

However, talk is cheap. A lot of people say they are ready but their actions don't confirm it. Most cave when it comes time to do things differently and learn new actions that make them uncomfortable.

You have two choices in life.  You can either think or labor for those who think.  It sounds like you'd rather be a thinker, but it will require some evidence that's true.

You are correct in assuming that if the customers you talk with can make money, you can too. But hope and envy is not a strategy. Money comes from action properly applied.

Obviously, I'd like for you to be in a position of not struggling to pay your bills and getting assistance from us.  It will require income to fix that, and I'd agree you'll never achieve it at a low paying job swapping hours for dollars. It's what I teach others and it would please me to see you become a good example.  If you can make it from where you are to some level of financial maturity you'd be an inspiration to many.

You say you want to be smart like me.  What you don't know is I only got smart from a lot of years being in your position.  You weren't around when your grandmother and I were eating off paper plates with plastic forks, living in a cheap apartment with cracks in the walls and roaches everywhere.

The days when we had to buy groceries daily and borrow a car to go anywhere out of town and get a loan for $50 from her dad to buy a TV are never discussed with you.  You'll never know how sheltered your 20 years on earth have been because you've never really suffered adversity. Certainly not your fault, but as you've already learned, it can be a mean, unforgiving world if you're left to fend for yourself.

For many, these economic times are going to get worse and the easy street of the past will close down. I'm happy to put you in a position to learn as long as the training is used and you don't quit the first time you hit an obstacle.  There is no business without them.

You're inner strength, commonly referred to as smarts, will come from your ability to push forward until you succeed.  If you don't, only frustration will be the end result.

You can do real estate if you want.  It may seem complicated to you in the beginning, but so will anything new.

The easiest way to make money is to wholesale a junker.  You can learn that from 5 CD's you can get from Andy.  After you've listened to them, I want you to write down and present to me your plan to proceed.  I'll then help you do only the items necessary to get you're first check, which should be $3,000 - $5,000.

If I see good progress, I'll make arrangements to send you to the boot camp in New York and advance you the travel cost. Notice there is no gift mentioned here.

You and Chris will sign a note for all costs plus 10% interest plus another note to GPI for $2,500, which is the standard employee cost.  All to be paid back from future deals.

I'll be teaching the New York event, so you're fortunate to be in this rare position and how you handle it will dictate your future.

The good news is I've helped thousands get where you want to go. The bad news is I didn't do it for them.  They did it on their own with my instruction and support.  You will do the same.

Sincerely,
Grandpa

 

2-Day Multiplying Your Income Streams Workshop - Chicago

This Is Your Personal Invitation To Join My Good Friends, Brian & Lynette Wolff, At The Multiplying Your Income Streams Workshop In Chicago on August 22nd and 23rd...These are a few of the things he has told me you'll be learning:

Session I - Making Big Money Without Money Or Credit
Session II - The Art of Prescreening
Session III - Making A Quick Fortune In Foreclosures
Session IV - Where To Find The Best Deals Even With Hot Competition
Session V- How To Increase Your Net Worth $1 Million In One Year With Commercial Property
Session VI - Where To Get The Money To Fund Your Deals
Session VII - Are You Running Your Business, Or Is It Running You?
Session VIII - Handling A Personal Financial Crisis
Session IX - Ten Keys To Your Success
Session X - Selling Houses Fast In A Slow Market
Session XI - How I've Been Making A Seven-Figure Income Every Year For The Last 10 Years, And Why It Has Almost Nothing To Do With Real Estate

Details: http://www.MultiplyingYourIncomeStreams.com/MEZ090804-MS

 

How to Use Easy-to-Implement Web 2.0 Strategies to Turn Up Your House Buying and Selling Machine

On this CONTENT packed internet training, you will discover:

>> Why it is absolutely vital to implement certain EASY to USE technology and how it can immediately turn into HUGE profits.

>> A detailed study that will blow you away that proves that 8 out of 10 buyers are using the internet to find properties.

>> How to get your properties HUGE exposure to sell them at lightning speed on the Internet.

>> Tips on how powerful video can change your business and the 2 main Pitfalls most investors make when using it.

>> Why you need to learn the power of blogs before your competition does.

>> What the ONE WORD is that if used correctly will allow you to have the lifestyle and fulfill the dreams you have always wanted to achieve.

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Webinar Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Webinar Time: 9:00 PM Eastern
(8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/123025114

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Webinar Date: Thursday, August 8, 2009
Webinar Time: 12:00 Noon Eastern
(11:00 AM Central, 10:00 AM Mountain, 9:00 AM Pacific)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/766096923
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