The Note Closers Show Podcast Vol. 1

Jennifer Dagenhart, VP of portfolio management at We Close Notes, discusses some fun and exciting case studies they did on re-performing notes and their due diligence. Jennifer manages a huge chunk of the portfolio, especially on the stuff they bought in the last year, and they usually get about 70% of them re-performing with the borrowers. If you’re not an investor and don’t understand what it is...

Portland firefighter, Neil Clasen, has been real estate investor selling off rentals for the last fifteen years. However, he wanted to look for cash flow rather than long-term deals so he sold off his business and got into notes. He said he likes helping people and the note business cash flow gives him the opportunity to make some money and also to help people who are willing to work with him. He...

If you have been in the note closing industry, you know that it is a number’s game. In the last 30 days, how many individual posts have you done on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest? How many videos have you published in YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook? All the numbers that you get from these questions will immediately tell you how well are you doing with your business. Long-term success is...

Note Camp Provides education for people about the note closing industry. It also helps a lot with planning how we can help investors for the next six months. We want to see attendees doing more marketing, not just during the event, but going forward for their own businesses. Note Camp teaches note closers to step out of their comfort zone and share their strengths and weaknesses, how they find the...

Even with social media dictating the pace of how people are messaging each other these days, people still read their emails because it is still the best way to communicate to people from a business standpoint. Your database is your number one tool for marketing if you’re a real estate investor or entrepreneur and sending out emails consistently to your database is the key to success of closing dea...

Starbucks Coffee has 8,000 branches all over the world, making it an interesting case study for marketing. Having nine people run their social media generates $22M of company revenue for 300,000 plus employees and they are using the same Instagram and Facebook app that you use to attain this huge amount of marketing. It doesn’t matter if you are a solopreneur or a startup investor, you are going t...

Quest IRA has always been holding weekly classes on IRA investing that can help you go from point A to Z really fast. This April, all these crash courses will be in a one-day self-directed IRA bootcamp. Nate Hare, Quest IRA Executive VP, explains that the event will teach different creative strategies that most people don’t know are available. Even if you haven’t heard about self-directed IRAs, Na...

When you go to an event, the best thing you can do is learn as many tips as you can from the speakers as well as from your fellow investors that are in attendance. There’s always something you can learn whether it’s a small meet up or big event, people are there to share ideas, knowledge and experiences, and you need to become a sponge that absorbs it all as much as you can. Levering events to gro...

A lot of people love their jobs, while others not so much. Whether you do or you don’t, having income from different sources starts to add up. Whether it’s for boosting your retirement or it’s directly correlated to your current job. Finding balance between your job and your passion is always a challenge, more so if your side job is closing notes. To separate your job and passion, the best thing y...

Gene has done a great job of putting together a solid note business plan that has allowed him to focus on his notes business and step away from his full time job. From a hot shot driver, he turned into a hot shot note investor and has successfully turned his note investing his hobby into his full-time income. Gene’s focus is on vacant and non-vacant single family homes, following a business model...

It is rare to see an attorney with multiple licenses, especially if he has ones that are very difficult to be bar certified for. This is why Scott Smith, Owner of Royal Legal Solutions, is considered to have the royal touch in real estate investing. He has been a lawyer and a real estate investor for over a decade which helped develop and sharpen his strategies to protect assets from lawsuits usin...

If you had the chance to meet your idol, but you had to play hookie at work to be able to do so, will you do it? In every business, you need to take risks because you never know if playing hookie now and would get you to be painted as a hero later. Most of the time, you will be both hero and hookie, especially if you’re going to do it to meet Tom Hopkins. Learn the story of a successful person wil...

For a note investors who’s on top, it’s always good to look back on the path you’ve taken ten years ago and realize that it was the road less traveled. You got off from college with a degree that got you the job, you married your college sweetheart, bought a car, and then unexpectedly things turn south. The path may be unclear but you never stopped walking because from these failures will come the...

One of the key differences of self-storage to other commercial assets is that fair housing laws don’t apply to them because nobody’s living in them. There’s no need to go through the eviction, foreclosures and wait long for lead times to get your money back. Terri Garner and Alia Ott Carter have been in the self-storage market since 2009 and their key to success is being able to connect with peopl...

For you to win the note closing game, you need to make the shots, but before you can make the shots you will need to practice. March madness and the note business are pretty much the same because you don’t have to be the big hedge fund or the guy who buys a thousand assets. All you need to do is to be the best at what you do. Being good at closing notes means being consistent with follow ups, send...

Note investors who have been buying in Florida for the past decade have been making a lot of profit now that the Florida hot market has rebounded from the dropped values. A lot of players have recently come in, but Brent Garrett believes that the note game in his area is still where it’s at since ten years ago, except now, everyone knows how big of a market it is. He shares his process of buying n...

Focus is everything. 80% of your income comes from 20% of your actions. You can get to where you need to be as long as you keep working toward it and you are focused. So what do you do to help you clear your head? How do you keep your focus on your long-term goals? Scott discusses the difficulties and ruts that real estate investors often fall into and shares some of the things that can help you i...

When starting your own company, you can put in low capital and still be profitable the whole time. Rick Allen and TJ Osterman from Paperstac share how educating yourself and knowing everything you can about the business will steer you away from trouble and get you on the right path. Their business has evolved from fix and flips to notes to owning property and now investing. By being a lending inst...

Scott interviews note and real estate investor, Martin Saenz, on his journey through note investing and why note education is so important to avoid making mistakes. Martin is also the author of Note Investing Made Easier. Love the show?  Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Note Closers Show community today: WeCloseNotes.com The Note Closers Show Facebook The Note Closers...

Trying to build credibility by doing deals with your own funds before you borrow someone else’s money is a big misconception. There’s nothing wrong with self-funding a deal, but if you’ve got a limited amount of funds invested in a deal and don’t follow up on raising private capital, you can’t make bids once a good offer comes around because you don’t have any more funds to use. Scott shares some...

Everybody starts from somewhere, whether you’re a broker who lost it all and worked hard to get it all back or a high school graduate that transitioned from being a janitor to construction worker, who now owns an LLC. One thing about transitions is you need to build confidence which is the biggest hurdle for Anthony. People still see him as the construction guy and not as a note closer. He realize...

One of the most important tools a note investor has is a huge database that he can pull out leads from. Conducting phone calls, sending out emails and having a LinkedIn profile will help grow this database, but there is a faster way to this. Banking Blitzkrieg is an investors program hosted by We Close Notes that pools in 20 people who will be making phone calls to a list of asset managers on a re...

Anne Marie Hollands of Quest IRA discusses how you can put your money into work by opening self-directed IRA accounts either in real estate, private lending, or other investment vehicles. Anne Marie also shares their upcoming events and what they’re doing with education to help clients engage and build their financial goals. They regularly do free classes about notes, commercial deals, flipping, a...

Scott shares some of the biggest nuggets and the latest trends that he took away from the 2018 Traffic and Conversion Summit held in San Diego, CA. The summit mainly focused on marketing traffic and conversion, basically how you can look for traffic and convert that into deal flows and funding sources. One of the most striking techniques highlighted was using live videos to attract attention, gain...

Nowadays, with the internet making the world smaller and any place accessible at your fingertips, any business can be done from anywhere, including real estate. Lindsay Gordon of Silver Capital Bay was conducting her real estate business out of Philadelphia before she decided to transition to Puerto Rico and gained the ability to finance her dreams with her note business. Lindsay shares the highs...