HUNTERS TRANSFORMATION AS A REAL ESTATE ENTREPRENEUR
In the early 1980’s I read three books by Robert Allen. (Creating Wealth, Nothing Down and The Challenge) After reading those the seed had been planted for my future career. I was working in the family business from the time I graduated high school in 1978. For 20 years I stumbled along selling auto parts to other mom & pop automotive shops and I thought it was great. I bought my first house in the early 1980’s from a motivated seller. I got the antique furniture and lots of other stuff left on the property. I negotiated a lower down payment as well as a lower monthly payment. I thought my greatest accomplishment from this deal is that I owned my home and that I would never have to pay rent again. Little did I know that this house was going to be the first of many in my real estate career. I continued to work with the family business until February 1997 making a whopping $300.00 a week take home pay and working anywhere from 12 to 15 hours a day. I had already bought 3-4 houses at that time but still hadn’t made the break. In late 1996 I cashed a check for $43,000.00 from a house I had controlled for some time. At that time I decided with my future wife’s help that I was going to do real estate full time and not follow in my fathers footsteps as I had been doing for the last 20 years. In late 1998 I joined CFRI and was introduced to Ron LeGrand. I bought several books and tapes while attending one of his one day training events. I read the books and listened to the tapes for months. As I started my quest of being a transaction engineer of buying and selling real estate, it just so happened that my father approached me with a judgment letter with a foreclosure sale date set for only 5 days away. With all the training I had I was in a position to save my own fathers house. I worked with the bank and stopped the house from going to sale and then put the property into a trust. Bottom line was that I saved my parents home that they had lived in for 20 years as well as the $50,000.00 equity that had accrued over the years. Now I knew without a doubt that this stuff really worked.Over the last 8 years I have continued going to seminars, boot camps and telling everyone I knew that I was buying and selling homes. Eventually I started getting the deal of the month at local real estate meetings and people started to really know my name in the business. Now with over 100 deals negotiated and closed I am still loving this business and I am continuing to buy and sell real estate. I have trained others to do what I do which includes but is not limited to commercial buying, lease options, subject to’s, short sales, forbearances and cashing checks as large as $300,000 plus on one deal.My wife Debbie and I now live in one of the homes that I negotiated a short sale on. It is just one of our Dream homes that we have today. I can’t express to you enough that this business really works and that God has really blessed us along the way to financial freedom.
I have encountered a rare life that has all the enjoyment of the past the present and the future. I have learned from my past. I enjoy today. The future is a vision of what can be in stored for me. I believe that I was inspired to do great things while I am here and help others in my path. I am blessed with a beautiful wife and two children that warm my life. I have many talents that keep me into today the one I like best is interacting with people and watching and learning from them every day." Have a Fantastic Day" Enjoy life and go for it!!! take a risk.
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