Note Night in America

Choosing markets is one of the scariest things that people do. Let's face it, if you've been in the note business for longer than six months, you find that not every market is created equal and not every market has the same foreclosure time frame. Most don't even have the same inventory levels. Choosing a market investment is like buying a monopoly. You're not going to be buying Park Place or the...

If you’ve never been to a note investing workshop, you may not know where to begin. One thing you always have to remember is once you make an offer and it’s accepted, it’s important to do due diligence. Due diligence, simply put, is making sure you’re getting what you’re paying for. You get as much information as you can about the property and fully investigate it for potential issues, including g...

We’re all, at different stages of our lives, struggle on a regular basis with things. One of the biggest things we’re always struggling with is finding focus. It’s a constant work in progress because we’re always dealing with the shiny object syndrome. We’re all struggling with a variety of different things to get things done. You’re not supposed to have a perfect balance wheel with everything. Wh...

A successful note investor is like a professional baseball player who uses five of the best tools in his arsenal: somebody who throws, catches the ball, plays defense pretty good, runs the bases, and with his eye trained on the ball like a hawk on its prey. And when it comes to real estate and note investing, scoring base hits and home runs early on can boost your financial standing among your pee...

No leader is a jack of all trades. You need to identify your one cause if you wish to successfully lead your tribe. Learn how to delegate tasks with efficiency, in such a way that the company’s vital responsibilities are evenly spread all throughout your tribesmen, freeing you up to envision bigger plans for the future. The world needs more leaders than followers these days. Every time when there’...

We’re all real estate investors of some sort, whether you’ve done a thousand deals or are looking to get started. Note investors are a big percentage of who we deal with, and building your note business plan is one of the most important things you can do. We all start somewhere and a lot of people don’t have any type of business background, and that’s why it’s even more important to have a busines...

No portfolio is too big or too small. That’s Madison Management’s company statement. Office Manager Shante Duffy talks about the services their company offers. They primarily handle loan servicing and asset management. They understand that as a note investor, you have to start with one note, test the waters, see how it goes, and move up from there. What separates them from other servicers is that...

There are a lot of very basic blunders that unfortunately most people just don’t know and nobody’s ever sat down and told them how to avoid these things. Most people that come into real estate don’t have the marketing and business background. Scott Carson talks about the ten basic blunders that we see people make, especially in their first year or two, in real estate. These are things he believes...

Finding a deal is always a big step for any note investor. There is also the temptation of buying from hedge funds because that means there’s less work to do. Reaching out to private sellers is a good move, too, but their assets are always the leftovers of other investors and can be overpriced at times. The secret to sourcing note sources is through public records where most information is free. T...

To keep in line with their goal of helping 10,000 note investors, We Close Notes invented the Note Funding League which is a list of assets made available to those who want to make a deal off of them. This time partnering with the Singer Law Group, all cases are solid with handful of flexible ones. With the breakdown of these performing notes and REOs, note closers are expected to close within sev...

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...

The best thing about attending events, other than getting off the chair and out of the office, is meeting people and getting new ideas. There are always lessons to be learned from the people that you meet at events. It’s best to dial your list down to three big doable things that will change the way you run your business. One of those big things is to have an up and a down funnel for your business...

Raising private capital doesn’t happen overnight. It is a process that begins with building relationships with people around you. This networking move also creates value for the product or service that you are offering to the client. Integrity and authority comes in when you start sending hello letters to your database, sharing case studies that show you know what you’re doing. Marketing yourself...

If you want to find deals that are worth bidding on, the key is to do pre and post due diligence. While most note investors paint this task demanding and time consuming, when you start breaking down assets things move a lot quicker. One primary strategy is removing the states and cities you have no information about or simply don’t want. This will allow you to look into cash flows and payment hist...

Real estate entrepreneurs and note investors are defined by their marketing skills because this can take your businesses to the 10X levels. However, most entrepreneurs these days are spoiled brats who think they are doing a lot for their business by being active in social media rather than doing the things they need to do in the field. Note closing is similar to MMA where investors start as conten...

For a note investor to get 50 deals and make 50 offers, they need to have an idea of their due diligence right up front. The thing is, due diligence is one of the processes that takes a good chunk of time for a note investor. But JD Bates created the software NoteProz to help them save time doing due diligence with just a click of a button. This speed-up in the process is a huge help to get bids u...