Note Night in America

The best movies are those that offer a variety of great lessons. Scott talks about the blockbuster movie, Avengers Endgame. He talks about the life lessons he learned from the characters of the movie, and examines particular movie details and notes some specific parts that are applicable in real estate investment. He also breaks down each character and highlights some of their positive and negativ...

A brilliant business marketing strategy is repurposing content. In this digital era where technology is everything, it’s about time to be out with the old and in with the new. Today, Scott reveals the three tools he uses to redistribute his content in various social platforms and grow audiences. Note investors and entrepreneurs love to market but don’t like to do all the work after. These distribu...

How do you leverage LinkedIn for your note business? In today’s time, people always opt for Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube to build authority and create their influence. Truth be told, most CEOs spend their time on LinkedIn. In this episode, Scott breaks down some of the effective ways to use LinkedIn in your note and real estate business. LinkedIn is underrated but discover the advantages of pos...

The Traffic & Conversion Summit is the largest marketing event in North America with over 6200 attendees. Now on its tenth year, T&C focuses on leveraging your media and marketing to raise capital and close deals. Scott breaks down some of the coolest tools, tricks, and productivity hacks from the summit to help you discover and learn what best suits you and your business. Moreover, Scott...

Some investors may have come into the industry without having any background on marketing. As we all know, the note business requires you to market yourself and your business in order to succeed in it. You will have to make presentations, speak at an event, or even just talk to your potential clients. Overall, you will need to ace your marketing skills. Scott gears you up for that as he shares abo...

A perfect note business varies for each one of us. Identifying what you need to do and what to focus on will help you create one. Defining success, having a business plan, delegating, and seeking advice are some of the things required in order to achieve it. Also, never forget family because that’s the greatest asset you can have. Provide them the things they enjoy and communicate as well in order...

People are overwhelmed with a lot of stuff to do, like attending so many workshops and subscribing to people they think will help them what to do in their lives. However, in reality, they just create confusion in your mind. It is vital for everyone to focus on the game plan since this will align to where our path will be. Learn to remove distractions, eliminate the noise, and work out on the block...

Getting approved for funding is nerve-racking and this is totally relatable. Merrill Chandler, the founder and CEO of CreditSense, exposes the formula to become fundable. As an expert in this field for over 25 years and the genius behind fundability optimization, Merrill discusses the details of his upcoming Boot Camp Intensive and the overpowering bonuses it offers. He reveals the three secrets t...

Most of us know our destinations and yet we’re clueless as to how to actually get there. The question is do we really know where we want to go or have we figured out the goal that we want to accomplish? It’s a series of questions but it all boils down to determining what is your why. Discovering the purpose of achieving the success that we want to attain and ensuring that it is strong enough to kn...

Time is money, especially in business. In this digital age, we have seen automation assisting us by freeing up our time to actually do more. JD Bates, creator of NoteProz and CEO of FiveSigma, takes us into the systems he has put in place for note investors to grow their business more. Acting as an all-in-one CRM, he shows how the service and platforms he made allow investors to manage and add ass...

No matter how much you stay positive in your life, there will always be a number of people you encounter that brings out the negative. As the year kicks off, it is time to make ourselves invincible to these people. On this episode, Scott discusses some of the “grinches” that you need to avoid and how to deal with them around the holidays. Scott dives deep into the multiple faces of the Grinch and...

There are so many great applications and tools online that sometimes it becomes overwhelming just to find the right ones for you. Others can be misleading, while some are just difficult to operate. On this Note Night in America, Scott breaks down some of the technology hacks that have helped him save time and money while also helping make his team more productive. He features applications that can...

Not all of us have all the time in the world to build our wealth. Sometimes, we even find ourselves in a very long and tough journey. George Antone – thought-leader, best-selling author, and lifestyle entrepreneur – breaks down some of the financial hacks he and his students are using to help build stress-free wealth in six hours a month or less. Calling it hacking finance, he gives out a great wa...

The most important thing in the note business is finding notes. Yet it is probably the most difficult thing there is to do. The thing about banks is that they sell notes and continually generate them. Brecht Palombo discusses some of the ways to use Bank Prospector to find banks with bad assets. Brecht walks us through a proven three-step system for sourcing bank direct notes from institutions. Wi...

It is the quarter of the year, yet many of us have brain lock thinking we can’t make offers until we have investors. On this Note Night in America, Scott breaks down some of the ways to attract and market to investors who have IRAs. He talks about working on your e-mails, taking that e-mail list, and grabbing that opportunity to connect with investors. He also gives great inputs on how you can max...

For the last couple of weeks, banks and lenders have been evaluating their books. This means an opportunity for you to take advantage and take action and get them on your side. Scott breaks down some of the ways to contact bank asset managers, be that through e-mail lists, LinkedIn, or Facebook. He shares great tips on how to effectively reach out – the best day and time to do it – as well as what...

The future may be unpredictable, but the good thing is we can always prepare for it. Scott discusses what he believes the future will hold for the note business, his business, and what’s in store for you. Scott ponders on the question, “Where is the note business going to be in three years?” and gives a view on the possibilities of what may happen – from licensing and foreclosing, to market values...

There are plenty of note deals and private capital to go around. On this episode of Note Night in America, Scott brings on Joel Markovitz to go through some assets that can be closed on by Halloween. Joel is the Client Relations Manager from the Singer Law Firm. He dispenses some great advice and insight on what to look out for and what to expect when doing note deals, and touches on some things h...

Every business owner knows that raising private capital works at the heart of their businesses. It is what sustains it and enables them to connect with people. However, this can be quite a struggle. Scott discusses some of the easier ways for raising private capital and expanding your audience to attract investors with funding. He shares how you can get interested parties to engage in conversation...

About a decade ago, a cartoon showed foreclosures as this huge wave hitting Wall Street and made a lot of bankers panic. What happened also is a lot of the note buyers vanished. They stopped buying because the paper wasn’t worth what they were used to paying. That’s what sprung up with non-performing stuff that we’ve seen over the last ten years. However, that wave is going to hit again, and you’v...

Markets change. The note market is completely different than what it was ten years ago. It was a little Wild Wild West back then. A lot of stuff has happened in the last ten years that’s been exciting. We’ve had our ups and downs just like anybody else, but it’s been an amazing rollercoaster ride. As you look back in history to see what’s going on in the housing market trends, you’ll realize that...

So many of you out there are struggling to send an email to your database. You could be scared of the act in general or that no one will show up. Other times, you might think that it’s not worth it, but the truth of the matter is that if you’re not sending emails now, you are hurting yourself. Scott discusses the importance of email marketing and breaks down some of the easiest hacks to help you g...

Bringing home the bacon is what we all want. However, that’s the only place we are usually at – wanting. We think about how good it is but not really getting up and going for it. Maybe the solutions are all too vague and not doable for you. Scott breaks down some of the easiest things to do to help you bring home the bacon in your note business. From the first step of simply getting up,followed by...

We all have passions and things that we want to do. We want to pursue both passion and profits and there are things that we want to do big, but oftentimes we don’t know how to get there or we don’t know how to take the steps to get to where we ultimately want to be. We’ve all heard about the idea of chasing our passion, but that’s not always true. Chasing your passion could steal your focus away f...

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 b...