8 Life Lessons
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | No Comments
Yesterday, on my “Life Lessons” webinar, I took a totally different angle. I didn’t teach a “SYSTEM” for making money. Instead I focused on the “Life Lessons” I’ve learned while forced to be away from my businesses. These are the concepts that make a business worth working at and fighting for. When you aren’t allowed to work you realize that working is a privilege, not a nuisance. I love what I do and I do it well. Being forced to be away from work and my family was very difficult.
Along the way I’ve learned 8 Life Lessons, plus 5 “underground” lessons.
Watch the webinar below to get the full insider’s view.
Here are the life lessons I learned along the way:
1) Be Daring
2) Expect the Best Outcome
3) It Only Take One
4) Time To Grind
5) Go Overboard
6) T.V. is the biggest waste of time in human history
7) Acidic Vs. Alkaline Body
8) Prepare Like Hell
9) Only Systemize Perfect Systems
10) Don’t Paint Yourself In A Corner
11) Track and Measure Everything
12) Do What You Love
13) Outsource and Delegate for Cheap
Advice for 2012:
1) Spend as much time raising money as you do finding deals
2) Focus on the distressed property market
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- REOs
- Short Sales
- Lease Options
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3) Brokerage is leading the way
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- Generate leads online (we generated 300+ leads while I was in the hospital)
- Recruit Agents
- Give the Agent great sales training
- Agents find the best Investment deals
- Cherry pick the investment deals (short sales, REOs and lease options)
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After you’ve watched the video, take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey – it will only take you a few minutes.
Life Lessons Learned from Cancer
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | No Comments
Hey,
I’ll be starting up the “Life Lessons” webinar in a few hours.
Wanted to make sure you jumped on the call with me.
Register here
2pm: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/981473490
9pm: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/484867226
On the Strategy Session webinar I will:
1) Tell you a little more about my fight with pancreatic cancer and the life lessons I learned along the way that have radically changed my view of life and business.
2) Show you how my 5 businesses were able to run without me while I was out with almost no “hiccups”.
3) I will personally take lots of LIVE Questions from you about whatever you want to talk about.
4) Tell you where I’m focusing my energy as a real estate investor in 2012.
5) Show you how Internet Marketing is changing the way I run my real estate companies.
6) And some other important and cool stuff….
Register here
2pm: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/981473490
9pm: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/484867226
Also fill out this survey below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/thurswebinar
See you in a few hours
Josh
You And I : Strategy Session This Thursday
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | No Comments
Hey, I’m starting up my day and I have a lot to get done so I’ll keep this pretty short.
I’m doing a Live Strategy Session webinar this Thursday at 2pm and again at 9pm.
Register Here
Thursday February 2nd 2PM EST :
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/981473490
Thursday February 2nd 9PM EST :
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/484867226
Over the past few months, as I discovered I had cancer and have gone through the healing process, I’ve felt very disconnected from you. To be honest I’ve had my mind “in other places” if you know what I mean.
Now that I’m almost healing up I want to reconnect with you and see how I can help you in 2012.
So I planned a live webinar for this Thursday so we can reconnect.
On the Strategy Session webinar I will:
1) Tell you a little more about my fight with pancreatic cancer and the 8 life lessons I learned along the way that have radically changed my view of life and business.
2) Show you how my 5 businesses were able to run without me while I was out with almost no “hiccups”.
3) I’ll will personally take lots of LIVE Questions from you about whatever you want to talk about.
4) Tell you where I’m focusing my energy as a real estate investor in 2012.
5) Show you how Internet Marketing is changing the way I run my real estate companies.
6) And some other important and cool stuff….
As I plan for the ½ half of my life and how I can serve you along the way, I’d like to know a little more about YOU, YOUR GOALS, and plan a course of action to help you get there.
Please fill out this survey profile below so I can better understand what you are excited about and where you want to go.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/thurswebinar
Then also make sure you register for the webinar so you and I can reconnect and push forward to massive success in 2012.
Register here
2pm : https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/981473490
9pm : https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/484867226
Talk soon
Josh
P.S. [WARNING] The webinar may not have the energy that my webinars usually have. I’ll admit, I’m still moving a little slower than normal and don’t have the energy I used to have since my surgery. BUT I will still rock the house and give you all I have.
See you Thursday!
My Personal Battle with Pancreatic Cancer [Part 1]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | Uncategorized | 36 Comments
Monday November 21, 2011; sometime around 5:15pm ET
My wife, Lisa Marie, was sitting in a quiet room on a conference call with my surgeon who had just stepped out of surgery. My dad was next to her taking notes. “Lisa, the cancer was as big as a basketball. This was one of the most complicated surgeries I have ever done. However, I want you to know we got it all out,” Dr. Walsh explained to my wife.
“I had to take out Josh’s entire stomach, his gall bladder, his spleen, 75% of his pancreas, and 25% of his liver. Lisa, he lost a lot of blood. We had to take an artery out of his leg and put it into his liver. Josh is going to be in a lot of pain. But, I want you to know we got it all out; that’s what’s most important. Right now he’s in ICU on a breathing tube. He probably won’t wake up until tomorrow.”
The surgery was 9 hours long and my surgeon was exhausted. Dr. Walsh would later show us the bruises on his hands from removing my basketball-sized mass of cancer.
This all took place exactly 9 weeks and 2 days ago – three days before Thanksgiving.
Before I tell you the story of how I’ve battled pancreatic cancer over the past 9 months, I want you to know why I’m finally telling you what happened.
As I sit and write this, I keep thinking just how blessed I am. I’m not upset that I got cancer. I’m not mad that I was chosen for this. I’m not looking for sympathy.
I ALWAYS look for the positive lesson in everything. I have a lot of great things going on in my life for which I am very grateful. This fight has taught me a number of new lessons and reminded me of some lessons I’ve forgotten. Over the next few days I’ll tell you about the lessons I’ve learned as I put my life in the hands of strangers who save people’s lives for a living.
Today, I’m cancer free. I’m recovering and doing better every day. I’m more humble now than I’ve been in my entire life. I’ve been brought to my knees. Without the help of so many people, many of them strangers, I may not have made it.
Over the next couple of days, as I tell you about the doctors and the surgery that saved my life, I hope you realize how fortunate and blessed you are even when things don’t go your way. Sometimes it’s hard to see just how much so until we are put to the test.
I’ve been put to the test. Maybe you’ve been put to the test.
I believe it’s the lessons we learn along the way that make the experience worth going through. Getting cancer, having major surgery, battling an infection, sleeping in pools of sweat, getting the chills nearly hourly, having dozens of sleepless nights, and losing 40 lbs was all worth the experience because of the lessons I’ve learned over the past 9 months.
I’m a completely different man. I’m more patient and more humble. I move slower and I do less. But the things I do, I do very well. My relationship with my wife has never been better. I appreciate her more than ever. I realized how much I need my family and friends and how important they are to me.
With the support of my amazing wife, Lisa Marie, my parents, my family and friends, today I am cancer free. I do not have any chemo, radiation or additional treatments scheduled. I am already nearly 100% recovered. I’m back to work as of this week.
Still, I feel overwhelmed by this entire experience.
Now if you’d like to hear how this unfolded I’m going to back up a little bit so I can try to put this into perspective.
Sometime in late July/ early August, 2011
I was at home playing with my two girls – tackling them, tickling them, playing Superman and airplane. It’s one of my favorite things to do. When we’re done playing and I’m lying on the floor looking up at the ceiling fan, I have my hands crossed over my stomach. I’m in good shape – I’ve lost 20 lbs. over the past 2 years – so my stomach collapses in when I lay down. I feel the right side of my stomach and it’s flat. PROBLEM – the left side isn’t. There is a lump and it feels hard as a rock. It’s about the size of my fist.
I call out to Lisa Marie. “Hey Honey, check this out. I feel a lump or something in my stomach.” Lisa walks over, looks and says, “Oh god, what is that?” I don’t know, but it’s not supposed to be there. I did know that it couldn’t be good.
We knew that I should get this thing checked out as soon as possible. BUT, we immediately agreed that it would have to wait. You see, Lisa Marie was 8 ½ months pregnant with our third child and first son. My son, Dominic, was going to be born in a few weeks. We already knew that he was going to have serious complications on the day of his birth.
Dominic’s doctor had discovered a “black mass” in his neck during Lisa’s 18 week ultrasound back in May, 2011. They didn’t know what it was exactly – maybe a cyst, maybe a tumor. Maybe it would go away. It didn’t. Each time we went for an ultrasound throughout the summer, the mass was bigger. Lisa’s doctor had been a high-risk OB-GYN for 35 years and had never seen this before. Dominic’s due Sept. 10.
The diagnosis for Dominic was our first priority. Lisa and I talk about this “thing” in my stomach over and over – several times a day, every night. There was no way I was putting myself in front of my wife’s pregnancy and my son’s birth. We decided to wait until after he was born to address my health issue.
Dominic was born via an emergency C-section August 17th, and after several days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit we brought him home.
September 7th 2011
A couple of weeks later, he was struggling to breath in the middle of the night. The cyst had gotten bigger almost overnight. We could see the cyst bulging out of the side of his neck. We rushed him back to where he was born at the Cleveland Clinic. It was 1am. He had emergency neck surgery to remove the cyst and half of his thyroid. He had a 4-inch incision in his neck, but would be fine.
Monday, Sept. 19th, 2011
I received a call at 8:30am. The woman on the other end of the phone said I had to come to the hospital immediately. She wouldn’t tell me why, other than something showed up on the CT scan that I had on Saturday September 17th. But what? I got ready to leave the house and told Lisa I had to get to the hospital now. She started crying.
I walked in to my doctor’s office at 9:15, nervous about what I would hear. As I sat down to wait I thought, “What could be wrong?” It was obviously something serious; otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting here.
My doctor walked in and immediately said. “I need to show you something. He pulled up my CT scan on his computer screen. “Mr. Cantwell, do you see this large grey area here? This isn’t supposed to be here. This is a mass and it’s really big. I’m sorry to tell you, Mr. Cantwell, but you have PANCREATIC CANCER.”
My heart sank. My head fell between my hands. My thoughts immediately turned to my son who was in the ICU at the Cleveland Clinic, and my wife who was recovering from her emergency C-section and home alone with my two baby girls. Dominic was three weeks old and on a breathing tube. He had just had the mass in his neck removed 6 days prior.
What was I going to tell Lisa?
My son is in the hospital recovering from surgery. My wife is home recovering from surgery. Now I had just been told I have pancreatic cancer.
This would be anyone’s worst nightmare. It was my real life.
Over the next few days I’ll fill in the blanks on how my battle with pancreatic cancer was won and how the doctors saved my life. I’ll also continue to reveal to you the lessons I’ve learned along the way. Maybe some of them will help you along your journey.
Even You Won’t Be Able To Qualify for a Mortgage Any Time Soon
Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | Bank owned, Commercial Real Estate Investing, Foreclosures, Real Estate Investing, Short Sales, Wholesale properties | No Comments
The other night I was lying in bed reading an article that blew me away…
It’s called “Prime Mortgage Borrowers: Then vs. Now.”
It was comparing the prime borrower in 2007 to the prime borrower RIGHT NOW.
Check out how ridiculously easy it was to qualify for prime only a few years ago…
In 2007 Requirements for a “PRIME MORTGAGE LOAN” to buy a house were:
- Loan Values up to 125% of the property value
- Meaning you could borrow $200,000 on a house only worth $175,000
- Debt to Income ratios of up to 45% of incomee
- Minimum FICO Score of 620
- e1 Past W-2
- 2 months of fallback reserves
- Employment corroborated one month out prior to closing
Fast forward to the requirements to buy a house TODAY:
- Loan Values max out at 80% of house value
- *Which means buyers have to put down at least 20%*
- Debt to Income levels are lower at 33%
- Minimum FICO is 680 to 720
- 2 YEARS of W-2s must be provided
- 12 months of fallback reserves must be available
- Re-verification of employment within 10 days of closing is required
- A foreclosure, short sale or deed-in-lieu must be at least seven years old
So what does this mean for us investors exactly?
Well according to watchdog credit rating agency DBRS…
“Based on the minimum FICO score, maximum loan-to-value (LTV), and the requirement that a foreclosure, short sale or deed-in-lieu be at least seven years old, it is likely that most of the U.S. population will not be able to qualify for a mortgage any time soon,” DBRS says.
“Consequently, DBRS expects the housing recovery to continue to lag for many years to come unless there is a loosening of underwriting criteria by the major lenders,” the DBRS concluded.
This changes the game for investors, big time.
If you’ve been following the free material I’ve been sending you about how to profit from recent housing trends with INSTANT CASH INFUSION, you realize this information from DBRS mightily supports the investing strategy Instant Cash Infusion is built on, and will allow investors like you to thrive for the next 2-5 years…
But only if you know how to sidestep the new bottlenecks of banking. Without available credit, we must invest in strategies that do not require bank loans for ourselves or our buyers.
So I am hosting a webinar to show you EXACTLY how to thrive in today’s market – that will instantly put $500 – $20,000 in your pocket in as little as 16 days.
On the “No Banks Needed” Tell All presentation I’ll be revealing to you…
- 4 simple, fast, safe and easy ways for you to make money that don’t require any banks whatsoever
- How my students and I have been perfected these strategies since 2004
- Why since late 2011 and now into 2012, these investing techniques are even better poised for you and I to prosper from because of the current shifts in the financial markets
- How you can profit from every type of property, right now. Houses with equity, houses with no equity and no default (which are most common) and overleveraged houses in foreclosure (short sales)
- These leads are everywhere and require little to no marketing costs on your part to obtain. As I said earlier they are the most common lead type I get into my business. In fact, in the past, I used to throw these away. Not anymore
- You get paid within 60 days. Often in as little as 16 days. No waiting for 7 months to get a short sale approved and flipped or a house rehabbed and sold
- You pocket between $500 to $20,000 without needing a loan for any of it
- The critical set of forms you must use to execute all these techniques for faster payouts How buyers will fight over these properties you will control because they don’t have to qualify for bank loans. Not to mention the 80 – 100 million hungry buyers who cannot qualify for a bank loan. I’ll show you how to flip them over to the buyer for a very handsome fee
- One technique with three ways to make you money. You can make some cash now (between $500 to $20,000), cash flow each month (between $100 to $1,000) and then cash out down the road (between $7,000 and $40,000) without ever owning the home
Instant Cash Infusion is the quickest, easiest way to make money in real estate with no money, bad credit, and no loans for you or your buyers.
And isn’t that what you’re really looking for?
Listen, I care a lot about you and your future. This is stuff you need to know to be successful. If you let this kind of information go unnoticed, your real estate investing business will never get off the ground or you’ll waste hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars doing the wrong things.
Get on the webinar to learn how to fix your cash flow challenges now, with a quick $500-$20,000 in as little as 16 days.
Josh
P.S. Make sure you’ve read my free ICI Survival Guide. It contains tons of important information that you need to know in today’s real estate market.
This makes $7k per deal with no experience and no competition
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | No Comments
Hey – I wanted to share this with you before it’s gone…
This is hands down the easiest and fastest way I’ve seen for anyone to make money in Real Estate. It’s PERFECT for today’s market too.
I have two friends, Matt, who’s my golfing buddy, and Lou who are making $5K-$10K profit with NO competition on each deal.
My friend Lou will tell you exactly how to do it now…
Enjoy,
Josh Cantwell
P.S. I’m trying to get Matt on a webinar this Sunday to explain how he makes $7k on average per deal. I’ll let you know what he says.
I’ve watched Matt do deals on the golf course with an 8 iron in one hand and his cel phone in the other. He closed 5 of these in December.
Get Up And Go Self Mastery Series – Part 3
Saturday, January 7th, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | 1 Comment
Ideal Average Day Time Manager
Are You Living Your Ideal Average Day?
We’re almost done with the first week of the New Year… how are you doing sticking to your New Year’s resolutions?
One of the reasons I love coaching is that I get to share the tools and techniques that I use every day in my personal and professional life, with great success. This is one of those times.
If you’ve been following my emails this week, you’ve already started using my Get Up & Go time management tool. I know that, if you are, you’re already seeing changes that you can begin making today to better control and manage your life. Doing this is going to give you better outcomes in every facet of your life.
In this third part of the series, I’m going to introduce you to an Energy Audit. By understanding your energy, you can better understand how to focus your energy. Focusing your energy will lead to success in every facet of your life.
In addition to focus, you’ll learn how to prioritize your day to eliminate time-wasters or things that are not efficient.
Why am I spending so much time telling you about this concept? Because I want you to succeed. I want you to be the best person you can be. I want you to maximize your days and focus on the things that you love, the things that make you happy.
It is my gift to you.
You are all very important to me and I appreciate the insight, comments and success that you each share with me and my team.
Wishing you much success, love and happiness in 2012. I’m going to have a ton of great stuff to share with you, and I can’t wait!
To your success,
Josh
Get Up And Go Self Mastery Series – Part 2
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 | Real Estate Investing | 1 Comment
Here is a link to the Harvard Business Review I talk about in the video.
Also, here’s the Ideal Average Day Time Manager, both FREE FOR YOU!!!
I love this time of year for more reasons than I can list here. Not only did we come off the holidays where I got to spend quality time with my family and friends, but I was able to reflect on my business and get ready to knock it out of the park in the New Year.
Doing this gives me a huge advantage because I’m taking control and am holding myself accountable for my own success. Where do I start? That’s what I want to share with you here.
I truly consider this tool my secret weapon for success, and I want to share it with you so you can realize the same results I have seen.
I hope you took the time to watch the first video in this Get Up & Go series… I talked about some truly life-changing concepts. If you missed it, check it out here.
In the second part of this series, I’m going to outline some specific action items that will get you on the road to optimizing your time and energy. You will find more time in each and every day, and give yourself the opportunity to get more out of your life and business. Who can’t use more time in a day?
Yep, I’m giving you homework. I urge you to take the time to complete it thoughtfully because it will help set you up for success in 2012. You will realize positive changes and benefits if you follow the steps I’ve outlined.
Trust me when I say this technique has changed my life and given me more time to focus on the things that mean the most to me, every day.
I have a few more things to share about this, but first I want you to focus on this exercise.
To your success,
Josh
Don’t avoid the 900% increase in foreclosure activity in 2012
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | Commercial Real Estate Investing, Foreclosures, Pre-foreclosure, Real Estate Investing, Short Sales | No Comments
2012 is going to be HUGE.
Up to 9 million homes may enter foreclosure in 2012 period,
versus one million in a typical year.
This will send shock-waves through the stock markets and world economy.
It may well be the “dark ages” for homeowners and lenders alike…and the wave of mortgage re-sets will continue in a relentless onslaught…with no mercy!
This can equate to 500 billion in lender losses…
Check out this chart from a huge Euro Bank that shows when
the resets are happening for all the exotic mortgages:
As you can clearly see, we are entering the last (HUGE) wave
of foreclosures right now. All of these resets will cause
foreclosures in 2012.
CLICK HERE to find out how to make money from this
situation
The ARM’s, Option ARM’s, Subprime and Alt-A will be the main
casualties – but will spread into the prime classes too!
The “Too Big to Fail” banks are under the gun for the shady
practice of “robo-signing,” which covers a wide range of
foreclosure paperwork abuses. This serious “mess” has
launched massive legal probes around the country, including
an investigation led by an angry hive of state attorney
generals which reportedly could end up costing banks upward
of $20 billion in settlements to ripped-off foreclosed
home-owners.
The big lenders will be in the “hurt locker” and desperately
seeking investors willing take distressed residential and commercial
properties off their books…as soon as possible!
As you know, 60% of all Option ARM and ALT-A mortgages that
were originated in the “Sand States” -California, Nevada,
Arizona, and Florida began to adjust in 2009. And I’ve got
news for you…
It’s not over yet by a long shot…
In 2012, it’s going to go through the roof, impacting the
entire nation with pre-foreclosure and foreclosure activity.
Many of the major lenders will hold vast amounts of toxic
foreclosures…and are on the edge of extinction. They are
doing a wild spin into C-, D- and finally E- credit ratings
– and that’s end-game.
This massive shift has created a huge opportunity for real
estate investors in 2012. Now is the time to tap into this
massive opportunity.
Go here to get the rest of the story.
Do not ignore this opportunity or you may regret it for the
rest of your life.
Happy Holidays,
Josh
PS: If you’re like me, you’re busy with last minute Christmas shopping. Take a quick break and go here to watch a video that explains the entire situation. It’s a must see.
Are You Converting Every Lead You Get?
Friday, December 16th, 2011 | Commercial Real Estate Investing, Foreclosures, Pre-foreclosure, Real Estate Investing, Real estate short sales, Short Sales, Wholesale properties | No Comments
Earlier this week I told you about this amazing eBook I put together about Sales Mastery for Real Estate Investors. Did you download your free copy yet? If not, you can still get it here.
There is more that I want to share with you (after all, it is the season of giving!).
Today, I want you to download and listen to this podcast where I go into a little more detail about sales mastery. As with the eBook, this podcast is completely free – just sign up for a free account when you get to the Top Real Estate Investor blog and you’ll be able to download it.
Now you don’t even have to sit down to read how to become a master at converting every lead into a sale. Learn how to do it while you’re driving in your car or working out at the gym… no excuses!
You’ll learn about…
- Overcoming objections – what to say, when to say it, how to ask questions and how to present yourself.
- I will remove all the intimidation from talking to realtors or sellers.
- Converting a prospect to an appointment and then converting an appointment to a contract.
Join me and real estate coach and sales expert Dan Doran as we walk you through the art of selling, the art of conversion.
Never fall down again… learn how to soar into the New Year with this free podcast.
Talk Soon,
Josh
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