The Note Closers Show Podcast Vol. 1

Goldman Sachs strikes again. They’re generating a close on another large portfolio of nonperforming notes from Fannie Mae. They bought a tremendous amount of 11,000 loans with $1.64 billion in unpaid balance. What does that mean to us? What does this mean to Goldman Sachs and what is the overall underlying ripple effect across the note industry? You’ve got to realize is Goldman Sachs got banged up...

Something everybody struggles with is the aspect of going bigger in your business. We all want to go big and do big things. A lot of the real estate seminars or gurus don’t prepare you to do big things. They prepare you for the one-off asset and they’re not helping you in the long run to really go big. They’re not helping you scale your business. Scaling is very important and you need to be focuse...

If you’re working on note deals or foreclosure or just an investor looking for a very knowledgeable attorney to help you out with things related to the real estate business, you might want to seek out Shawn Yesner. Shawn is a bankruptcy lawyer with twenty years of bankruptcy and real estate experience. Shawn hosts the Crushing Debt podcast where he interviews realtors, mortgage originators, as wel...

In May 2017, the Federal Reserve published that 44% of Americans would not be able to pay a $400 unexpected medical bill. Anne Marie Hollands from Quest IRA talks about the basics of Health Savings Accounts and how you can take advantage of it for unexpected medical expenses. Anne Marie explains basically the HSA works as a plan where you can pay for your medical expenses tax-free. In order to qua...

June 30th is a National Social Media Day. It’s important because of the fact that everything is all based on marketing these days. If you’re going to be successful at something, it all starts with marketing. You could have the greatest product you, the greatest idea, but if you don’t know how to market or how to use marketing to move that product and get the word out with whatever product, service...

We are all responsible for our own success. Some people always look for somebody to blame for not having success in real estate. You got to know you can’t have success without failure in any type of investing. If you’re in a position of not having the type of success that you want and you’re not in the place that you want to be, you have two choices. You can either just continue along that same pa...

One of the great things about traveling abroad is you are able to take in some of the advantages and disadvantages of travelling. There’s always the good, bad and ugly part of travel when you take a long, extended vacation. When you’re in the note business, it’s important to make sure everything keeps running. The beautiful thing about being in the note business is you don’t have to be here to hav...

Gail Villanueva and Cody Cox discuss some things you could do when life throws you curve balls, because in life, sometimes you have to be Semper Gumby. If you aren’t flexible and adaptable both in life and in the note business, then it’s going to be very difficult. Curve balls can happen sometimes, both as personal and professional events. From a note perspective, you go through training, you buil...

Everybody out there is good at something and they know something that they can share to the world through their network of people. That should be an easy one, but another thought is what you do not know. Think about something that you don’t know, then do the research and learn how to do them. Eric Hyde and Katie Moton talk about different ways you can market yourself. Eric proves his point about h...

In the note business, the primary intent is to let the borrowers keep their home and happy about their choices. When you’re a nonperforming first note holder, you are first in line, you have a lot of flexibility going there, and you have a lot of options that you could provide the borrower to ensure that they can keep their home. Patty Ped of Aider Financials shares it’s more challenging to provid...

When it gets down to it, people want to see numbers. They want to know how notes are doing the return on investment. They want to know the real world situation. Eric Hyde and Gail Villanueva break down a case study on a note deal that Eric calls Paying in Dayton. They talk about the marketing that went behind it, the finding of a JV partner and what that entails. In the note world, there are not a...

It’s very easy to look at other real estate investing sometimes as a zero sum game where I win, you lose, or vice versa. That’s not always the case in notes. In the note business, you can positively help someone’s lives at the same time that you can earn a return for yourself and a return for your investor. Another thing is there’s a very high degree of camaraderie. You meet and work with a lot of...

Just starting out? A lot of folks getting into the note business will go ahead and commit to getting the free online training courses, listening to the podcast. That only gets you so far. It’ll give you a 40,000-foot view of what the note business is about. But when you get down to it, there’s so many moving parts in a note transaction. It can just make a complete left turn on you if you’re not ca...

Are you seeking better ways of maximizing a conference’s value? Attending these events can be a lot of fun, but you want to make sure you’re extracting their maximum potential. Don’t just waste precious time and money going around and not really getting anything out of it. Make a game plan ahead of time! Grab a pen and paper, and write down your goals for the event. What do you really want to acco...

Your note investing horror story happens more often than you think. Problems with vendors, deals and other people in the note investing industry can really affect your quality of life. But even the ugliest of stories can contain valuable nuggets of wisdom to be used for next time. Learn how to pick the most effective solutions for common problems in note investing with Chris Seveney of 7E Investme...

Staying motivated in note investing can be difficult at times. How does your inner wound manifest itself in your life? Maybe you’d be passionate about new goals but later lose interest in pursuing them. Maybe you’ve always felt like your lack of confidence is keeping you from getting there. Here’s the thing: it’s all in your head. It’s your subconscious saying that you don’t deserve to succeed, an...

It might sound odd, but the only way to succeed in marketing for note investing is to be willing to fail. You’re not going to be an expert at it right off the bat. You’re just not. No matter how many exit strategies you have, things can still go wrong and that’s okay. What did you learn from it? How can those insights be used to give you an edge next time? Learn how to pick yourself up and move on...

Girls at a young age get the most positive attention for being good students. Upon reaching adolescence, the need for acceptance and to feel valued kicks in. Girls then become very risk averse. They don’t want to step over the line at all. It becomes kind of a habituated behavior to not take risks. Now as adults, can women ever succeed in the high-risk world of note business? How do we compete wit...

Looking to get into the note business? Guest host Patty Ped talks about successful note investing for industry newcomers with Chris Seveney of 7E Investments. If you’re a borrower in need of multiple options with the opportunity to stay in the home, then Chris Seveney is your guy. Located in Washington, DC, Chris specializes in the acquisition of first position nonperforming and performing notes....

Everything in life has risk. You talk about your business risk, if you want to play it ultra-safe and put all your money in a bank account, it will be guaranteed that you’ll get that a principal back, but you’re running a risk of inflation, decreasing its value over time. If you want to try the stock market, there is risk in the stock market as well. There’s risk in buying bonds. There’s risk if y...

Things don’t always go perfectly. You’ll find people are very willing to answer a couple questions, and then they lock themselves away and they’re just trying to figure out ways to put one over on you. In note investing, you will most certainly encounter the note from hell. Bill Griesmer and Gail Villanueva talk about their various experiences in note investing, share some things that new note inv...

100,000 downloads! Congratulations, Note Closers. Nine months – have we been on air that long? Nine months of sharing expert real estate and note investing advice, of sharing personal triumphs, experiences, tips and tricks to making it in the note investing battlefield. And we could never do it without our listeners, our extended family. From when we started this podcast over a year ago just...

The real estate evolution is underway. People aren’t showing up as much as they used to when it comes to real estate investment clubs. Well-established groups are seeing a decline in attendance. It’s hard to put butts in seats at events and that’s unfortunate – but there’s a lot of contributing factors. One, you’ve got to work constantly to market to people and to communicate with them. A lot of i...

When it comes to your grandchildren’s future education, it is never too early to plan ahead. With Quest IRA, grandparents can be listed as limited power of attorneys for the accounts, actually do the investments, and set it up for their grandkids. It’s an ingenious solution – and Ingrid Chavez and Anne Marie Hollands convey their company’s vision brilliantly. Quest IRA administers IRAs for the pur...

Let’s face it: no matter how it’s phrased, nonprime is still subprime. With the recent appearance of nonprime mortgage lending, it is important to examine what it means to the real estate market and note markets. The subprime mortgage lending industry suddenly vanished after the Great Recession, but is now getting reinvented – get this, with a really original new name for it: nonprime. Right now,...