Real Estate Expert Robert Irwin Says "Buy Real Estate NOW!"

My friend, Dan Auito just published what he calls the Real Estate Encyclopedia of 2011.  The actual title of the book is "Be a Real Estate Heavyweight: 95 Experts Show You How".  Amazingly, he published it all as a pdf and has given it away FREE.  Really.  You don't even have to give up your email address to get this from him.

I got it late yesterday.  Dan cautioned me that it is not the kind of book you sit down and read through.  Rather, he told me, it is a reference volume where you look in the the table of contents to find the topic you need to read up on and then you go to that section.

After perusing the table of contents, I came back to the Introduction, written by Robert Irwin.  I have five books written by Robert Irwin about real estate finance on my bookshelf!  The guy is a legend and one of my business heroes.  I have learned more about how to approach creative financing from him than almost all my others sources combined.

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When I read his introduction, I thought that he must have written it for this blog.  He even references lemons.When I read Robert's intro, I thought, this is exactly what I have been telling people for a while now.  Perhaps they will actually listen if they hear it from someone else as well.

So, I have excerpted a portion of the introduction and share it here with you (my emphasis added in places).  So, without further ado, listen to the wisdom of a true real estate heavyweight, Mr. Robert Irwin.

As Dickens wrote, it is also the “best of times,” so, too, are there great opportunities. I’m speaking, of course, of real estate investments. For those with the gumption to make lemonade out of lemons, there’s never been a better time to invest in property.

The U.S. population is growing by about 3 million a year. That’s an enormous rate of increase and all those people need some place to live. That means that hidden beneath the falling prices is a huge pent-up demand just waiting for a stable market to unleash itself.

Further, and something every investor should pay special attention to, is the ratio between housing prices and rental rates. (After all, the lifeblood of real estate investing comes from rental income.) The traditional relationship between rental income and housing prices is about 20 to 1.

During the housing bubble that lasted roughly between 2000 and 2006, that ratio went as high as 33 or 34 to 1. Rentals are once again approaching the “magic”20-to-1 ratio.

Perhaps most important of all, the price of housing has reached its long-term trend line. If you were to chart housing prices from the end of World War II through today you would see a saw-tooth generally upward trend (at about 5 percent a year), then a huge spike up that was the housing bubble, and a dramatic pitch downward, that is today’s slump. But at the end of that slump, you would see the trend line just where it’s supposed to be as if the bubble hadn’t even come along….now, they are roughly where they should be, given 70 years of history.

[educated stock investors call this the “support” line. TS]

For the investor who has the foresight and the gumption to see clearly when others are lost in the fog, this can be the best of times. Once again it’s possible to buy property at a reasonable price. Finally sellers are willing to negotiate reasonable terms. Once more, you can step in and make money—potentially big money—by buying low, holding, and eventually selling high.

I can’t tell you when, but I firmly believe that in the future real estate prices will not only return to their former highs, but will exceed them! I believe that those who have the courage and foresight to act when the market is down will reap enormous benefits when it eventually turns up.

It’s all well and good to get enthused about making your move into the real estate market when it’s down. But how do you learn the mechanics of doing it? Where are you going to find out how to get the financing you need, learn to determine true values, uncover the location of suitable properties?

You can’t just look at the rules of the past. Time has moved on and the rules have evolved. What’s needed is a strong resource to give you the information you need to make an informed investment. What you need is a guide to today’s opportunistic real estate market.

Robert Irwin

So, now you have heard from more than one person. I have been saying for some time that NOW is the time to invest in real estate.  If you wait until the newspapers say it is the right time, ALL the smart money will be moving out of it by then.  NOW, you are hearing it from an expert who has been doing this for most of my adult life.

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I have been successfully investing in real estate in the Charlotte area since 2001.  I have weathered this financial chaos because of the common sense rules I use for investing.  If you are looking for a guide to help you take advantage of today's real estate market, look here.  Be warned, my experience and knowledge is not FREE.  I paid dearly for both my knowledge and experience and I cannot afford to give them away to anyone.  Besides, if I gave them to you for FREE, you wouldn't value what you received.

If you would like your own copy of Dan Auito's amazing, FREE encyclopedia for real estate, just follow this link.

Robert Irwin is one of America’s most respected experts in all areas of real estate and the author of more than 60 books in the field. His Tips and Traps series for McGraw-Hill have sold millions of copies. He is a real estate broker, contributing editor to numerous magazines, and reliable leader for investors, home buyers, and sellers.

Tom Sheppard is the author of "Fire Yourself: Get the Job You Want" available from XLibris Press. Tom has been successfully investing in real estate since 2001 while working part time. In 2008 he left a six-figure job as an enterprise project manager with a major national bank to manage his real estate business full-time. His goal is to help 100,000 people find peace of mind by finding quality, affordable homes. He is currently looking to expand his network of funding partners who are helping him achieve this goal. If you would like to know more about how you can Do Well By Doing Good (TM), go to www.CharlotteWealthPartners.com

New Newsletter

Diamond Finder

Tuesday March 27th, 2012 Vol 1.2

Things are breaking wide open for us here in the Charlotte Market.  I have just begun my “Tired Landlord Campaign” and we already have 16 properties we are looking at.  And guess who brought them to the table????  My #1 student apprentice – Lori!!!

Way to kick it Lori!

So what is my “Tired Landlord Campaign”?  It is really simple!  I am reaching out to landlords to find out if they are sick of all the hassles of toilets, termites, and tenants.  I offer them a better alternative!  I convert them from being landlords to being bankers.

When was the last time you called your banker and said, “hey dude, the tenant hasn’t paid the rent yet, so I’m going to hold off on sending you the mortgage?”  The answer of course is “Never!”  Or, have you called your bank and said, “Hey man, the roof needs to be replaced so I’m going to pay to get that fixed and then I’ll send your payment next month.”  Of course not.

Landlords get silly calls like that all the time – “hey man, my mother was sick and I had to pay her emergency room bill, so I can’t pay the rent this month.  Is that Okay?”  And worse than that, when the place is vacant, they still have to make the mortgage payment.

Like the old Calgon Bath Beads ad, I offer to take them away from all that landlord crap.  Instead, they can be the banker – going to the mailbox and collecting checks each month, regardless of what is happening with their old property.

So, if you know anyone who is tired of being a landlord, send them my way.  If I buy their house(s) I will definitely give you a piece of the action.

Tom S.

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Become a celebrity apprentice!

Would $5,000 to $10,000 a month make a difference in your life?  If so, you’re in luck.

I have never done this before, and I may never do it again, but I am taking on 5 people into an apprenticeship program with me.

If you want to learn how to invest in real estate in the Charlotte market, then there is really no better way than to become one of my apprentices.

There are three ways to get where I am today!

1)    You can do it all yourself – go out there and start making offers and trying to make money in real estate.  Trust me when I say this is the way to get hurt really badly.
2)    You can do what I did – invest tens of thousands of dollars to get a solid education in real estate investing and then go out and start buying and selling real estate.  This is much better than Option #1, but you can still get hurt pretty badly (ask me how I know that) and you will have invested a lot of time and money before you ever start making any money at all.
3)    You can do what I finally did that turned my business around – you can hook up with someone who already knows the business and is willing to take you under their wing and teach you what you need to know to be successful in real estate investing.

I will help you build your own real estate investing business from the ground up.  And, you will make money while you learn.  I will teach you how to find great deals and I will take you by the hand and move you through the whole process to make your deals happen.  Heck, I’ll even go to the bank with you to cash your checks! 

You are probably asking yourself – why would Tom do this?  Doesn’t he worry that he’s creating competition for himself?  The answer is that competition doesn’t worry me.  There are so many great deals in the Charlotte market right now that I cannot possibly even find all of them, much less do all of them.  There is plenty and to spare.  Besides, I learned a long time ago that I really enjoy helping other people succeed.  So, if you have dreamed of making money in real estate like I do, now is the time to act.

You don’t have to quit your job either.  You can start this part time.  Once the checks start rolling in, you may decide it is time to get out of the corporate rat race – or you may decide you like having all that money coming in on the side in addition to your paycheck. Either way is fine.  Both models work well.  I know, I have done both.

I'm currently accepting new apprenticeship applications. I will not be accepting everyone, because to succeed in this business you have to be a go-getter.  Also, I have a limited amount of time available to teach and coach my apprentices, so the openings are very limited. 

Click below to read more & apply now ...

www.coaching.thomasksheppard.com

Weekly Wisdom Shot

We are living in the dash – no I am not talking about the hectic pace of our lives. 

If you visit a cemetery you will notice that the headstones have a birth date and a death date, usually separated by a dash.  That dash between birth and death is our life.  It can be nothing more than a dash, or it can be filled with meaning and significance.  The choice is up to us.

Highly Recommended

In May of this year, I am going to Texas for one of the only events that can pry me away from my business – Mega Partnering V.

My good friend JT Foxx has been hosting Mega Partnering events for the past several years.  I have been to every one so far and they just keep getting better and better.  It is the only event that I will plan my vacation around.

If you want to meet with hundreds of successful people in a setting that is designed to help you network successfully, then you cannot afford to miss Mega Partnering V.

If you want to know more, just follow this link: https://foxx.infusionsoft.com/go/mega5prime/thomassheppard/ 

I have been to every Mega Partnering JT Foxx has hosted so far. Each one has been better than the one before.

Testimonials & Questions

So, last post I promised a testimonial here from Bob Yon of New Dream Home Solutions in Salisbury, NC.  Yesterday, he sent me a video testimonial.  Follow the link here to his video testimonial.

www.tomsheppardreviews.com

Laughter Doeth the Heart Good

A lawyer is standing at the gates to Heaven and St. Peter is listing his sins:

1)    Defending a large corporation in a pollution suit where he knew they were guilty
2)    Defending an obviously guilty murderer because the fee was high
3)    Overcharging fees to many clients
4)    Prosecuting an innocent woman because a scapegoat was needed in a controversial case

And the list goes on for quite a while.  

The lawyer objects and begins to argue his case.  He admits to all of these things, but argues, “Wait, I’ve done some charity stuff in my life also.”

St. Peter looks in his book and says, “Oh yes, I see.  Once you gave a dime to a panhandler and once you gave an extra nickel to the shoeshine boy. Correct?”

The lawyer gets a smug look on his face and replies, “Yes, yes!”

St. Peter turns to the angel next to him and orders, “Give this guy 15 cents and tell him to go to Hell!”

Well, that’s it for this edition of the Diamond Finder.  Here’s hoping you are able to turn all your adversities into advantages!

Tom S.

Tom Sheppard is the author of "Fire Yourself: Get the Job You Want" available from XLibris Press. Tom has been successfully investing in real estate since 2001 while working part time. In 2008 he left a six-figure job as an enterprise project manager with a major national bank to manage his real estate business full-time. His goal is to help 100,000 people find peace of mind by finding quality, affordable homes. He is currently looking to expand his network of funding partners who are helping him achieve this goal. If you would like to know more about how you can Do Well By Doing Good (TM), go to www.CharlotteWealthPartners.com

Tips on Getting Started in Real Estate

Recently on LinkedIn my friend Matt asked the question:

"Anyone have any good tips on how to get started in real estate investments? Myself and two friends are looking to get going, but aren't real sure where or how to start."

In less than a month he had more than 80 comments.

I found it amazing how many of those comments weren't tips, but instead were offers to sell him an investment opportunity.  I am including a few here (edited to remove last names, investing links and other information).

To his credit, James, the very first responder was at least selling education:
James  said,

"Hi Matt, I don't have all the answers but I do provide a real estate investing learning center on my website at http://www.proapod.com/LearningCenter.htm you might find helpful. Good luck."

I don't know if James' teaching is any good, I haven't checked out his site.  But at least he was offering to educate Matt before trying to convince him to throw tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, or more, into real estate before being sure Matt would know the difference between an REO and an Oreo.  For that reason alone I left his link intact when I quoted him above.

Dylan, the very next posting, offered 

"I am a developer/contractor who puts together investment opportunities.... If you would like to be contacted when I have a project ready for review just send me your email."

Dylan didn't mention to Matt that development is the most risky form of real estate investing and is one of the quickest ways to lose everything.  Yes, there can be great rewards, but with the rewards there is risk - and if you don't understand the risks, then you are gambling.

Subranshu offered Matt several services and properties all in India. And then came back later to offer him more, and more properties.

Investing far from home is a recipe for disaster, even for experienced investors.  When you invest, there is always an element of chance or risk.  When you invest far from home, you are often totally unaware of the very local risks that abound.

When you invest close to home, you know the neighborhoods.  You know the local market.  You know the local ecomony.  You see it everyday when you go buy groceries or read the lcoal paper.

Unless you are going to go live in the far-away market for six months or a year before investing (in which case it now becomes a local market for you) then you are investing in ignorance and the education you get will be much more expensive than it needs be.

Manish came on looking like he was taking the moral highground, but advised Matt not to listen to anyone but him, which sounds like a dangerous avenue to me. 

"dont need any book/ any course/ or dont let any investor here take any of your profits or have them be equity partners. Depending on your criteria, and cities, states you want to invest, I will give you a free consultation on how to exactly invest whereabouts to get everything done A-Z. Developing is dangerous, as its not a buyers market, its a rental market. I am not trying to sell anything, I am a simple investor. A sole investor with portfolio of over 30 units. All acquired in one year. Not using any investors money. But I was able to leverage properties i bought to acquire more. I will be more than happy to show you the way. Stay out of other countries, do areas you know!!..msg me I will be more than happy to assist you or help you."

I suspect Manish is not being totally honest when he tells Matt not to buy any books or courses and instead just listen to him.  If Manish hasn't gotten any good education, then it is only a matter of time before his mistakes catch up with him and his whole real estate empire will go down in flames.       

I know from personal experience that there are many people offering real estate training that is actually worthless.  Most of the "gurus" are selling strategies that they used five years ago to get rich.  Then they quit buying real estate and started selling their program.  Five years later, the program doesn't work in today's market, but their sales pitch is perfected and they keep bilking people out of $2,000 to $5,000 a pop for their "bootcamp."

Even worse is when their "bootcamp" turns out to be a pitch-fest where they keep brining in other "gurus" to sell you on even better ways to make money in real estate.  Before you are done, the $5,000 course you attended has given you a $25,000 balance on your charge card that you will play hell trying to pay off, because you are spending all your time in course and don't have any time to implement what you learned.

In spite of all that, paying $5,000 to learn a srategy doesn't work, can be better than losing $100,000 on a house you bought and cannot sell because you didn't know the right strategy for today's market.

Antonio let Matt know he is

"looking for investors, buyers, funds for new projects. Excellent investment opportunity for development projects in ... Philippines."  

Then, he proceeded to make several posts offering a variety of investment opportunities.  He even make a very compelling argument citing several points about why it is a good idea to invest in his market.

See my comments above about Subranshu, 'nuff said.

Terry offered to sell Matt discounted bank notes.

Now, I have to say, I have worked for a home lender and am a Certified Cash Flow Consultant with the American Cash Flow Institute and I wouldn't dream of offering to sell someone a bank note without educating them first.  There are two very good reasons for this;

1. It is ILLEGAL.  Clearly Terry either is ignorant of Securities and Exchange Commission regulations or he doesn't care. A bank note is a security and is therefore a regulated investment.  To sell regulated investments you either have to be a licensed broker or be exempt from the securities laws.  If you don't know what it takes to be exempt, then you are certain to breaking those laws and a very unpleasant conversation with government agents is looming in your future.   
2. It is bad business to sell a bank note to someone who does not understand the risks.  If you buy a bank note, you better have a very good understanding the real estate that backs the note and the person who is paying the note, as well as the terms of the note.  If you don't know those things, you WILL get taken. 

It looks like Joe is trying to get Matt to buy properties for no money down in Canada.  I find that fascinating since so many Canadian investors are flocking to buy real estate in the US and they tell me that many of the most important real estate laws are very different in Canada than the US.  Offering to sell me real estate in Canada right now seems to be like swimming against the current.  My stock investing coach tells me "the trend is your friend until it ends."  Sounds like Joe is bucking the trend.

Owen wants to help Matt find properties.  Good for you Owen, but if Matt is just getting started then he probably doesn't have a clue about how to tell a bad deal from a good deal.  This sounds like a setup to me.

Cheryl said,

"Hi Matt! I have some places you can check out at your leisure! We have access to Investor Opportunities in Phoenix/Arizona, Chicago/Illinois, Atlanta/Georgia, and our 1st. International Local . . Seaside Mariana/Nicaragua! These Webinars are FREE and are on your time . . . any time! All you have to do is click on the provided Link and  . . then sit back and enjoy!"

Cheryl gets a trifecta. 

1. She offers investments to someone who is new. 
2. She offers investments in far away places to someone who is new.  And,
3. She offers to educate the new investor on why doing these foolish things is actually a good idea.

Well, I could go on an on, but hopefully you can clearly see why I felt strongly enough to write this column.  What I pulled out was representative of a large percentage of what Matt was told.

If you have waded through those few select comments, I hope you have gotten the same feeling I did that for a new investor to through out a question like Matt did is like throwing out chum for sharks.  You will soon have more interest from hungry predators than you know what to do with.

In all fairness, a few people offered Matt some good advice.  Some experienced investors recommended programs that they have found to be good investments.  Some recommended Larry Goins, others touted Robert Kiyosaki's group.

Having spent in excess of $200,000 on real estate education, some of it wasted and some not, I recommended to Matt that he reach out to Phill Grove at Love American Homes.

I told Matt,

"I encourage you to look at what Phill Grove provides. He gives you a good understanding of a variety of proven strategies instead of just beating on one horse (that might be dead in today's market). And his training is a very good value.

Once you have gone through his materials, like Charles suggests, pick one and do it until you master it before worrying about adding on to your toolbelt.

The gurus will keep tempting you with "earn $10,000 a month do this" and next month it will be "earn $10,000 a month doing something else." Focus is key."

If you are wanting to get started in real estate here is the best advice I pulled from all those responses to Matt.  I say it is the best based on my own experience of more than a decade of investing in real estate and being personally acquainted with many of the leading "gurus" of the real estate today.

• Set realistic goals:  Greed kills.  Setting goals that are too high makes you an easy mark for every get-rich-quick real estate scam out there, including gurus and grifters.
• Start part time: if you cannot make money investing in real estate part-time, then you won't make enough to live on doing it full-time.
• Invest in a good education.  Find a real estate training program that someone who you know is successful recommends.  Of all the courses I have taken, I recommend Phill Grove's Training.
• Take that education and follow the program exactly.  Adapting it to your own understanding will almost certainly result in failure.
• Do it immediately.  Don't wait for more education.  Take that first program and start doing it right away.
• After you have mastered one or two related strategies, then feel free to continue purusing your professional education with other training.
• Implement before learning more.  Don't sign up for any other courses until you have spent three to six months implementing and mastering what you learned in the first course.
• Invest close to home.  Some of the most successful real estate investors I know have made all their money buying and selling single family homes within 50 miles of where they live. And considering that some of those are in Ohio, then you know I am not talking about people living in real estate "hot spots."  Many people will try to convince investors to buy far from home.  In most cases this will result in a very expensive educational experience that will leave you poorer and wiser.  I know.  I have been there and done that.
• Get a good coach or mentoring program.  The best one I know is www.TopOneCoaching.com.  They are focused on your success instead of just trying to upsell you some additional training. They operate all over the US and have coaches with a wide variety of skills to help you learn real estate and business.  They require that their coaches spend 90% of their time actually doing what they are coaching.  That way you don't get someone coaching you from a manual - they are coaching you from what they know is working today.  In the interest of full disclosure, I was recently appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Top One Coaching.
• Network with other successful investors and learn from them.  Your local real estate investment association (REIA) is one source.  However the quality of investors you find in your REIA is highly variable.  Some of the folks there are sharks looking to make you their next meal, others are talkalots - they talk about real estate but don't do any actual deals.  If you want to connect with one of the best networking events for serious and successful investors and bussiness people in the US, you cannot get any better than Mega Partnering. JT Foxx is the mastermind behind these events and he is launching his fifth event right now.  I have attended all four previous events and they are AMAZING.  If you attend and make any effort at all, you will find yourself networking with millionaires.

If you want to invest in real estate, right now is one of the best opportunities in more than eighty years.  With home values down, and unemployment beginning to falter, the window of opportunity is starting to close.

Working with an experienced investor as a partner is one of the safest ways to learn the realities of investing in your market.  If you are looking to get into real estate investing, contact me.  I have a network of successful and experienced investors that reaches across the whole country and even to places on the far side of the world (like New Zealand, Australia, and China).  I will be more than happy to introduce you to one or more of them so that you can have a chance to work with the best instead of getting taken like the rest.

Tom S.

PS: For all those who were eagerly throwing investment opportunities at Matt:

In the US, real estate is considered a security and selling investments in real estate is a regulated activity.  To stay inside the law, no one who isn't a licensed securities broker can legally offer you an investment in real estate if you are not one of their friends, family, or associates who they have known for more than 30 days and had at least 3 conversations that did not involve investment offerings.  All these folks who were eagerly throwing "money making opportunities" at Matt were breaking the securities laws.

Exceptions are if they are doing a private placement (which requires a private placement memorandum) and they know that you are a "sophisticated investor" or a "qualified investor."  Both are terms with specific meanings defined by the SEC.

For all of you who were ready to give Matt a "deal" and take his money, I recommend that you go to www.acowgill.com and sign up for Alan Cowgill's bootcamp on Finding Private Money.  He teaches you how to do it while staying inside the boundaries of US law.

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WOW, SHOCK and AWE!

WOW!

It is Monday and I am still in shock and awe of what the Info Renegades, Jeff Vacek and Ken Preuss did for us here in Charlotte this past weekend.

I will tell you now what I told them after the class.

I have spent tens of thousands of dollars attending training events all over the US.  Of all those expensive, 3 day classes this was the best one for teaching both the principles behind what needed to be done and the practice of how to make it happen.

There are no teasers here.

I have gone to three-day events, where I paid thousands of dollars and found that what I was taught was either just enough to whet my appetite for the real meat (for which I would have to pay for a follow-up class), or that what I was taught was working several years ago, but not today.

Jeff and Ken teach what they are doing in their business today. 

If you were invited and didn't show up, you missed out on an amazing class.  If you want to learn how to tap into the power of the internet for your marketing efforts, these guys are the real deal.

They taught us four different models we can use to make money with digital products and they taught us how to make them a reality.  They didn't just give us warm and fuzzy ideas with unbelievable promises, instead they gave us practical, actionable instruction with realistic expectations.

I am so excited to apply what I have learned from them.  Like so many others, I have heard the promises of how I can use the internet to get paid for what I know.  Others have told me to do this or that, but they never told me how exactly I could accomplish what they told me and more, how I could set it up right so that I could actually make money doing it.

Only recently was I able to get my ecommerce site, www.APlusResults.com up and running correctly after several years of bumbling around, and I was able to do that after spending about an hour going through materials that Jef and Ken gave me on a thumb-drive when I first met them earlier this year.

Now, thanks to their instruction, I can sell some of the digital products I developed over the years while helping people learn to Get and Keep the Job You Want (TM). I created them and delivered them by hand to my coaching clients.  Other than that, they weren't available to anyone except my coaching clients who were paying me hundreds of dollars for each session with me.  Now, I can make them available to a everyone without having to charge them hundreds of dollars for my time or run myself ragged with printing and distributing them.

Of course, after this weekend, I realize I will need to revise a lot of what is happening in my storefront, but it will be all to the good.

I was so impressed with the value and integrity that Jeff and Ken deliver that I told them I would promote them whenever and whatever they do.  I admit it...

I have become a Raving Fan of the Info Renegades.

And, as if giving us amazing content wasn't good enough, they WOWed us by bringing in JT Foxx and Dr. Nido Qubein to speak with us.  Admitedly, JT Foxx wasn't at the top of his game.  He was too ill to catch his flight to LA and was trying to recover in his hotel room.  But his mentor, Dr. Qubein threw down a challenge to him to see if he could still deliver high quality, high content, high value instruction even when he was feeling terrible.  So, instead of just trying to recover and recuperate in his room, he came down and gave us about two hours of high octane material that he hasn't put in front of the room before.

Of course, I cannot say enough about Dr. Qubein. He is currently the President of High Point University in High Point, North Carolina and the Chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company.  On top of that he is on the board of directors of several major corporations (Dots, LazEBoy, BB&T, and others).  If you have never had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Qubein speak, then you have missed one of the wonderful experiences this life has to offer.  I can say that I have been able to sit with him for hours in several different settings and I cannot hear him without coming away transformed and inspired to go from success to significance.

While he was there, I was pleased to have the opportunity to present Dr. Qubein with a copy of my new book, "Fire Yourself: Get the Job You Want, A No BS Guide."  He read an advance copy and allowed me to publish his comments on the back cover of the book.  He said,

“If everyone applied these principles consistently, it could affect dramatic change in the workplace yielding greater results and productivity. Results rule, and this book proves that.”

It still stuns me that this entire, three day class was mine for just a $100 seat reservation fee, which they refunded to me, just as they promised! What really kills me though is how many people I know right here in the Charlotte area who could have really benefitted from this and they didn't take action. There was a couple there who flew all the way from Australia just for this class!
I will say it again, if you have a business that does any kind of internet marketing and you have a chance to attend one of these events with Jeff Vacek and Ken Preuss (The Info Renegades), you definitely need to make the investment of time and money even if you have to go Australia to do it.

Ken and Jeff do regular webinars where you can learn some valuable information from them and learn how you can attend one of their upcoming classes.  They were kind enough to allow me to post a link here to their site where you can register for their next webinar.  If you click it, it will take you to their site.

Enjoy,
Tom S.

Yes, I Wanna Learn More About the Info Renegades

Tom Sheppard has been successfully investing in real estate since 2001 while working part time. In 2008 he left a six-figure job as an enterprise project manager with a major national bank to manage his real estate business full-time. His goal is to help 100,000 people find peace of mind by finding quality, affordable homes.   If you would like to know more about how you can do well by doing good, contact him at Tom@CharlotteWealthPartners.com or go to www.CharlotteWealthPartners.com