Real Estate Investing: Putting The Why Into Your Real Estate Investing

One of the main reasons that newbies to real estate investing never get their investing business off the ground is because they never take the time to figure out why they want to be investors. As a newbie investor you must build up enough reasons why you must succeed. Your reasons for wanting to succeed will serve as your light at the end of the tunnel when the inevitable obstacle shows up on your path to real estate success.

When you are laying out your reasons for why you want to become a real estate investor be sure that the reasons are your own. You cannot find success in life if you are trying to do it for somebody else or to impress somebody else. I know this idea may seem foreign, but many newbie investors simply stop their investing business after telling their friends and family that they are becoming a real estate investor. These newbies did not actually want to become investors, instead they wanted the respect and pride that they thought real estate investing would bring.

A strong enough why can get you through almost any challenge that the real estate investing world throws at you. Take about 10 minutes every morning as your real estate investing business is getting off the ground to review the reasons why you wanted to become an investor in the first place. This review session will keep you focused on the outcome stemming from all of your efforts.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: 10 R's of Life Roles (Part 1)

The second of the 10 R's of life is roles. Not all people are familiar with their roles that they play in life. In fact many people don't even know that they fall into certain roles with certain people or certain situations.

Roles are the essentially the way your character plays out in a particular area of of your life or with a particular group of people. For instance you may be a very powerful person at work because that is your role but when you get together with your family you become a bumbling idiot. Most people are completely unconscious of the roles they play.

Roles are the way you "play the part" of what others expect of you. If other people respect you and think your a leader, then without thinking your role becomes that of a leader. On the other hand if people expect you to be an idiot, and you prove them right, even just a couple of times, then your role becomes that of an idiot.

Not all roles are bad, but it is very helpful to know the roles you fall into. What are your roles:

• At Work (Are you the office clown, the high powered executive, or the gossip?)
• At Home (Are you the enforcer of rules, the push over, or the one who is hard to get along with?)
• With your parents or in-laws (Do you keep acting like a child, are you still mommies little boy or girl? Are you still a screw up to your in laws?)
• With your friends- Are you the party animal, the gossip, or the tough one?

The trouble with roles, is that when you start falling into roles, it is very easy to become unconscious to reality. You just start "Playing your part" without any real thought as to why. Take some time to inventory the roles that you have for yourself when relating to others and then eliminate any of your roles that seem unhelpful.

A word of caution. People will want to keep you in your roles, after all, you falling into your role helps keep their world together.

To start breaking your unhealthy roles, begin by picturing in your mind what your new role will look like. How will others react to your new role? How will you feel in your new role? How will you carry yourself in your new role? What will you do differently in your new role? Then when the time comes to actually perform your new role in the physical world, you simply need to do what you have already done in your mental world.

In the next section about roles we are going to talk about the roles that we have for other people.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: The 10 R's Of Life

Thank you for being here. I have always enjoyed learning and helping other people, I hope you pick up a idea or two from here.

The first R we are going to talk about is resistance.

My definition for resistance is mentally not accepting "what is". Keep in mind that the difference between resisting and actually changing something, is that changing something must include the possibility of taking action on your part. Many of the thing that we resist cannot be changed, they simply "are what they are".

Things you may say to yourself or others while you are in the process of resisting are:

• It shouldn't be like this
• This isn't fair
• I can't believe this is happening to me

Another area of life to look for resistance is complaining. Things like:

• Isn't this weather nasty
• I wish it weren't raining
• That meeting was too long
• I wish I were somewhere else

Can you see what I mean by mentally not accepting something for what it is? We act as if when we change things in our minds, that our reality will somehow change. Resistance is the root of much unneeded mental suffering in our culture.

Why do we resist? Well in most cases resistance gives us a temporary feeling of being right, while whatever is truly happening is wrong. "I am right, the weather should really be more like this", "The church service is going to long, it would be better if it we X minutes". In both cases the things that are happening are going to happen either way, so why put yourself through the suffering?

A great way to gauge if you are resisting is to ask yourself "Is this something that I can change", If the answer is yes, then ask yourself "Am I willing to do what it takes to change it". If the answer is NO to either of those questions then you are in the process of resisting.

Once you can spot yourself resisting, you don't need to start an argument in your head, simply observing the act of resistance without being caught up in it will be enough to stop the suffering.

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Real Estate Investnig Guide: Class We Have A Guest Today.....

Do you feel sad, guilty, hurt, fearful, happy or any other number of emotions? Now let me ask you, does the “you” that notices those emotions feel that way? I am guessing that you may be scratching your head now. “What do you mean the me that notices, aren't I me?”, you might be asking. Of course you are you, but has it ever occurred to you that the real “you” is the one who notices what is going on with your emotions.

Stop for a moment and look at the things that you might say to other people, things like “I feel a bit depressed today”, or “I feel great”. When you say things about yourself feeling a certain way, who is the one that notices how you are feeling? If you are depressed, is the person within you who notices the depression, depressed as well? If you stop to notice, that person within who notices these things is more like a neutral 3^rd party. Somewhat like the man who came into your 3^rd grade classroom just to observe the class. The man who sat quietly at the back of the room just taking notes.

This observer is the true you, the you that is not effected by the externalities of the world. The you that is not subject to the faulty beliefs and programming that started the moment you arrived in the doctors arms.

The you that can shine light on every event or happening in your life. The light being true joy, unbreakable joy, the joy that has no opposite. The true you is unaffected by pleasure. You see pleasure comes with a price, the yin and the yang if you will. While joy has no other side to it's coin. When you toss the joy coin you get joy on both sides, much the opposite of the pleasure coin, that when tossed is either going to give you great pleasure or great pain.

To experience the true “you” more often, simply slow down and begin paying attention the observer sitting quietly at the back of the classroom in your mind.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Taking Action For Investing Success

You have read everything thing available about real estate investing. You have spend countless hours visiting the real estate investing forums. You have invested thousands in real estate investing courses. Now what? Are you doomed to the same destiny of most information junkies? Are you going to become the divorced marriage counselor? The counselor who knows all about how to save marriages but could not save their own.

So what will determine your success? Honestly it is pretty simple, so simple that it can be summed up in one word action. Taking action is what separates the men from the boys on the playground we call life. So what constitutes action? By my definition, action involves any movement in the direction of you goal or purpose on a visible plane. Now your thinking “Visible plane?”. By visible plane I mean doing something that can be seen, rather than simply thought. Thinking is great but without action, thinking will take you no where. A simple way to remember the power of action is to use the word ACT.

Action
Compensates
Tremendously

Action compensates tremendously, do you see the power in that? Taking action in any direction is truly the only way that you can ever get closer to reaching your goals in life. Even action that is completely wrong teaches you a lesson that could not have been learned by simply thinking. When Albert Einstein was asked about his thousands of scientific failures, he simply said that he successfully found thousands of ways not to do something. Each perceived failure moved him one step closer to success. Without action none of the failures would have happened, but neither would his success.

The only sure way to never succeed in as a real estate investor is to do nothing at all. Show me a man who went bankrupt while trying to become a real estate investor and I see potential. Show me a man who has knows it all, but has done nothing and I see a overweight dietician.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Using Real Estate Investing Forums

Real estate investing forums can be a great way to gain knowledge for getting a start as a real estate investor. In fact I would recommend visiting and gathering information from as many real estate investing forums as you can on your quest toward becoming a real estate investor.

I would like to offer a few tips on using real estate investing forums most effectively. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Watch out for anyone who uses absolutes. By absolutes I mean to say, watch out for people who say things like "It's always this way", "That never works" or "This works everytime". Most people in the forums mean the best but they fail to mention that "This has been my experience and your experience may be different"

2. Watch out for advice that is given from people who have only read about real estate investing rather than doing any actual investing. These people can typically be spotted because they will miss many of the fine details that go into the transaction. Instead they repeat only the things that everyone else has said rather than adding their own new insights.

3. Take in as much information as you can, then draw your own conclusion. Once you have taken in enough info to come to your own conclusions then it's time to get to work. Don't mistake the process of gathering information as the goal, instead keep in mind that gathering information is a means to an end, rather than the end itself.

I hope these ideas about real estate investing forums will help you move along on your path to real estate investing success.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Directing Your Inner Publicist (Part 1)

Do you have a publicists? For most of you I am sure that your immediate answer is no. If you have ever seen a celebrity in a bind, it should come as no surprise the way they send their publicists out to put a spin on bad deeds that they have done. The job of the publicists is to spin bad stories to the public in order to preserve a celebrities reputation.

We all have our own inner publicists, except our publicists don't put a spin on the just bad things we have done. Our inner publicists put a spin on everything that we do including the good things. Without proper direction our inner publicists will far to often put a negative spin on things that are not negative at all. The problem with our inner publicists is that they rely only on our past experiences to give our current stories a new spin.

For instance maybe you just found out that you missed out on a promotion at work. Immediately after learning of this, you subconsciously turn things over to your inner publicist. Instead of spinning the story in a good way back to your conscious mind, your inner publicist informs your conscious mind that you have always been a slow learner and you really didn't deserve a promotion anyway. Can you see the problem here? Without proper awareness of thought your inner publicist will always base your current happenings on past experience, even though the two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor and internet marketer from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Wholesaling Real Estate: Is Wholesaling Real Estate For You

Real estate wholesaling is without a doubt the lowest risk, and highest paying way to invest in real estate.

Real Estate Wholesaling Is For You If:

1. You dont' like the risk associated with traditional real estate wholesaling- Traditional investing methods involve owning a piece of property and hoping that it increases in value. Meanwhile your losing sleep because of a plummeting real estate market, or you have to deal with pain in the a$$ tenants.
2. You don't have piles of cash to invest or no cash at all-Many of you want to become investors because you want money, not because you already have money. Traditional investing is next to impossible without money....Not real estate wholesaling though!
3. You live in an area where housing prices are flat or falling quickly-Since real estate wholesaling does not require you to buy anything.....You can easily make stress free income, in any real estate market.
4. You don't have credit, or you have bruised credit!-Just because life has handed you some tough luck, doesn't mean that you should be banned from real estate investing forever....Real estate wholesaling requires no credit.
5. You have no experience as a real estate investor-Real estate wholesaling is the perfect way to break into the real estate investing business. Since wholesaling is a risk free, and requires no cash and no credit, there are no barriers between you and the success that you deserve.
6. You could use an extra $5,000-$30,000 a month-Wholesaling real estate is without a doubt the highest paying and lowest risk way to get started as a real estate investor....Real estate wholesaling truly allows you to write your own paycheck.
7. You would like more time to spend doing the things you love-Real estate wholesaling provides you with full time pay, for doing part time work. Does it get any better than that!....No risk, full time pay for part time work, no credit needed, and no cash needed....need I say more?
8. You like the thought of real estate investing, but hate the thought of tenants-Right now I have over 35 rentals, let me tell you unless you have a "turn excuses into dollar bills converter" I would suggest wholesaling any day over being a landlord!
9. You hate the traditional 9-5, lever pulling, a$$ kissing, sucking up thing....that some people call a job!-Okay this one is my hot button.....I don't know about you....But, God did not put me on this earth to trade my time, my esteem, and healthy years slaving away doing something I don't enjoy.
10. You aren't the smartest guy in the world-I have to admit this is one of the reasons that I enjoy real estate wholesaling so much. I am not that smart, but I can make alot of money as a real estate wholesaler.

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