Well, the smartest thing to do is to just get some of my free material.

If you like it, you’ll probably like my services.

If you don’t like it, you won’t.

But I think I’m supposed to do the whole “self aggrandizing biography” thing now so here goes:

I started my “real estate” career in 2001 by selling houses as a real estate agent.

At that time, I was selling houses to investors and soon discovered that the bigger opportunity was on the other side of the desk.

I got into real estate for the income potential. That’s it.

But, that potential is far greater as an investor than it is as an agent.

I’d done an Internet search for “how to become a real estate investor” and came across an ad for a “real estate investing college.”

The course was $22,000.

I must have read the sales letter for it 10 times and spoke to the sales rep 20 times, not to mention listening to the 100’s of family and friends’ nay-saying opinions before I bought it.

I met my wife at this college, by the way.

Damn good ROI from day 1.

It was a good program, and somewhere there was one sentence that said something like, “You can make big bucks by modifying mortgages and flipping properties without ever owning them.”

My 38 year old brain translated that to mean, “I don’t need money or credit to do this… just work the bank for a seller, and then find a buyer” …which is exactly what I set out to do.

This was before banks started to frown on the practice and placed all kinds of hurdles in the way.

Anyway – it kind of worked. Kind of.

Did I make money?

Yes. Actually, a good amount

Was it harder than doing it the “right” way?

Yes. And, it took a long time.

Anyway – by sheer luck, I discovered old seminar recordings about creative offers and financing.

I bought them, listened to them, and was blown away.

Then I bought old books about creative real estate investing and read them.

Then I bought books and courses on the “how” real estate has created more wealth for more people than anything else, and I read them.

And after a few years of trial and error, I finally started to achieve real success in real estate.

I was mailing letters, sticking ugly yellow signs in the ground and attending every networking event I could find, and when I escaped the rat race (created enough monthly passive income to exceed my monthly expenses), I decided to start teaching people how I was doing it.

And that’s how I got my start as a “real estate guru.”

But, it was never the intention. I didn’t like the label “guru” much, either.

…and when I discovered that just about everything I was teaching could be found with a simple Internet search (as long as you had some time, patience and knew where to look), and then after years of teaching I discovered that knowledge doesn’t necessarily equate to power in the way the ol’ cliche suggests…

I quit the “guru biz.”

It’s “applied knowledge” that really equates to power.

So, the new business morphed into giving the “knowledge” away for free, and charge a premium to “apply the knowledge” for my clients. Yep, DO it for them — now that’s powerful.

Fast forward to today and I’ve got customers and clients all over the country with both part-time and full-time real estate investing businesses.

I’m the “go to guy” for people that have made large investments in other programs that failed to deliver the power, because… the power doesn’t come from the “knowledge” they purchased, it comes from the “implementation” of that knowledge. That’s what we do.

Ironically, a fellow educator recently hired me to help their company provide better results for their clients.

It’s not uncommon to see my competitors in the audiences of my live events, either.