Real Estate Investing Blog

When you’re getting started as a real estate investor, a mentorship program can help you to reach your goals. After all, when you’re working with a real estate investment mentor, you will find that you are in a position to learn more about the types of investment opportunities that are out there, to help you to evaluate deals to determine whether or not they will help you to reach the goals that you’ve set for your business and, perhaps more importantly, to learn a bit more about what you can do to finance your real estate investing business.

When you’re involved in a mentorship program, you’ll find that the biggest advantage is the ability to learn from mistakes that others have made in the past; rather than seeking the wrong types of financing (and ending up paying a whole lot more for a property), you’ll be able to learn about what does work. If you’re having trouble deciding whether or not you should be looking at simultaneous closings, you’ll be able to work with a mentor who’s had some experience and can help to point you in the right direction.

Simply put, a real estate investment mentorship program will go a long way toward helping you to build your business, to focus on and reach your goals and to develop the success that you’ve been looking for.

When you make the decision that you’re ready to move into a career of real estate investing, it means two things:

1. You have finally gotten past the stage of coming up with a new excuse for why it isn’t the right time each and every time you think about real estate investing.
2. You are ready to start looking into a mentorship program that will help to ensure your success in real estate investing.

The challenge, of course, when it comes to finding a mentorship program for real estate investing is that it can be difficult to know what to look for. Here are some thoughts:

• Make sure that you’re looking into real estate investing mentorships with those who are successful in the field
• Take the time to ensure that when you sign up for a mentorship program you will be getting personalized attention. If you participate in mentor calls, make sure they are ‘live calls’ giving you the opportunity to ask questions.
• That you are placed to a small group of individuals not 500 callers at a time.
• Be sure that the mentorship program that you’re looking into is for people who are committed to success. Why settle for looking into mentorship programs that just anyone can participate in?

It’s important to make sure that you’re going to get the attention that you need and that you will be working with someone who wants to see you succeed as you pursue real estate investing.

I invite you to the ForeclosureMillionaireClub.com mentoring program as your place to find all this criteria met.

That is the question I get asked most, whether folks send me an email or they pick up the phone and call.  And my answer to this question has evolved, with Richard and my investing experience, and with the real estate trends of our times.

As most of you know, hind-sight is 20/20.  And after eight years of real estate investing and four years of working with the best in the business and training numerous real estate investors, I can tell you that ‘your formula for success’ depends on your individual goals and your individual situation.
So, for me to give you, or anyone, a definitive answer – I would really need to spend some time with you individually.  However, there are some basic ideas that every investor should be considering.  So, I’ve decided to do a short series on ‘Where do I begin?’

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