Private Money: Terms You Should Know

Private Money: Terms You Should Know

Private money is key to successful real estate investing. And I’m not just talking about borrowing some dough from Uncle Bob for that rehab project and then returning it to him when the project is done. That’s fine, but if you’re serious about the REI business, you need to be a bit more savvy about…  Continue Reading

Inside Commercial Investing

I often talk a lot about fix and flips because that is mostly what I do and I love teaching that investing strategy… My real estate investing business is mostly rehabs and rentals. For the past 5 years or so, I’ve been building a big-profit portfolio of passive cash flow. So today, let’s talk about…  Continue Reading

The 12 Step Private Money Process

Many people have been asking me on our social media, blog and in our member sites how I can get all my deals funded with private money and NEVER use any of my own cash or credit. The first thing I tell them is that they must know what the investment alternatives are in today’s…  Continue Reading

Simple 7 Step Plan for Success with Private Investors

Many of my students use my lending company, Freeland Lending, to fund their deals, but I really encourage them after they get a few successful flips under their belt to eliminate the middle man (ME) and save themselves some cash. There are several important little pieces to the real estate investing puzzle that you need…  Continue Reading

3 Ways to Get Your Deals FUNDED

We know that there are multiple different ways to get real estate financing. The problem is that most real estate investors have no clue these options exist. They are tricked into thinking they need their own CASH or bank financing to fund their deals. They are lead to believe that they must WHOLESALE properties for…  Continue Reading

Strategic Real Estate Coach Radio: 155 Ways to Meet Private Investors

In this episode of Strategic Real Estate Coach Radio, Josh Cantwell discusses 155 different people, places and referral sources to raise private money from. It starts from knowing who is in your sphere and where you can start to get referrals from. You can approach these people to have them buy a house from you,…  Continue Reading

7 Steps to Prep for a Fast Fix and Flip Real Estate Investment

Nothing sucks up money and eats into profits like a house sitting vacant so it’s an enormous mistake to buy a house and then have it sit for days, weeks, months before the repairs and work gets done. Trust me, I’ve made this mistake before and all of a sudden I’ve spent $1500 just on…  Continue Reading

10 Must-Knows About Buying Real Estate Investment Properties at Auctions

If you’re interested in buying real estate as an investment, you should know the local MLS isn’t your only option. Real estate auctions are growing in popularity, especially for people looking for a bargain. Experienced investors often buy properties this way, but technology has simplified the process and has made it less intimidating to new…  Continue Reading

Did you get the package I sent you in the mail?

  Just wanted to find out if you received the letter and FREE DVD I sent you a few days ago. Did the US Postal Service drop it in your mail box? The reason I ask is because the good ‘ol US Mail service… as you know… can be a bit sluggish at times. If you…  Continue Reading

[New Training] Protecting Your Principal Part I

As some of you know, I have been getting a lot of questions from students lately about advice regarding becoming a private investor. I am starting to get a sense that we need to create and offer a training specifically for private investors, private lenders and self-directed IRA investors. I am working on creating a…  Continue Reading

[8 Steps] How to Become a Successful and Confident Self-Directed Private Investor

Lately I’ve been noticing a trending question among my students – they have been telling me they have some extra cash on hand or in their self-directed IRA accounts and need some advice on what to do with it. This question really got the wheels turning in my brain and I decided to create a…  Continue Reading

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What do Josh & Cleveland Whiskey Have in Common? [Private Equity Case Study]

506(c) SEC General Solicitation For those of you that are local Clevelanders like myself, maybe you caught the article in the Plain Dealer this weekend regarding Cleveland Whiskey launching a new website as a portal for accredited investors. More and more companies are doing this. It is EXACTLY how I’ve been raising money for the…  Continue Reading

Are You Still Sitting on the Fence?

It’s Time to Pull the Trigger If you’ve been on the fence about whether or not to attend our exclusive live event, the Flip & Fund Summit taking place in Dallas, Texas in just two short weeks – now’s the time to make the decision! Is the cost an issue? Or timing? Whatever it is…  Continue Reading

Taking a Leap of Faith

How to Fund Your Deals By now you know that my business is 100% automated – and I have no problem teaching my students the EXACT blueprint I use to be successful. Let’s walk through the process of how to get your deals funded by raising private money through our Freedom Funding program. Notes – This is…  Continue Reading

Create Your Own Personal Bank to Fund All Your Real Estate Investments

10 Advantages of Self-Directed IRA’s in Real Estate Investing Did you know the US Social Security Administration defines financial security as those people who have $3,000 per month of recurring income at the age of 65? Unfortunately, only approximately 5% of Americans achieve this and are able to retire at the age of 65. We…  Continue Reading

Great Real Estate Investments Sell Themselves (And How to Find Real Estate Investments)

TWO NEW REAL ESTATE INVESTING CASE STUDIES FROM JOSH CANTWELL: Today I’m going to walk you through two brand new personal case studies we have of homes we sold in record time last week and yielded a profit of $86,000. I knew this spring selling season was going to be hot, but so far I’m blown…  Continue Reading

Hidden Rules of Private Money / YOUR work ethic / We are a team?

As some of you may know, my background prior to real estate was in financial advising. I thought about the people I used to help by put their funds into the stock market, annuities and mutual funds. Shortly into my career in real estate investing, it sunk in that I could be using a lot…  Continue Reading

8 Key Ways Pros Market to Private Lenders to Fund Real Estate Investments

Here are 8 powerful marketing tools for recruiting private money to fund real estate investments. If you’ve been flipping houses for any length of time you’ve probably learned that borrowing money from private lenders is the best way to fund real estate investments. But the big questions are how do you find these lenders? Then,…  Continue Reading

What You Should Know Before Trying to Raise Private Capital for Real Estate Investments

Don’t Be Intimidated by Federal Laws Affecting How You Raise Private Capital for Real Estate Investments. Here’s a Look at What’s Involved. Leave it to the federal government to beef up the red tape quotient. It seems no matter where you turn when trying to raise private capital for real estate investments, there is just…  Continue Reading

What You Should Know About Raising Private Money to Invest in Real Estate

Learn the best ways of raising private money to invest in real estate while avoiding the pitfalls. One of the first considerations when you’re trying to raise private capital is, do you want to advertise for private money or not? A lot of private lenders are going to have money in their retirement accounts. They…  Continue Reading

Teach Your Private Lender the Best Way to Fund Real Estate Deals

Does your private lender know how to fund real estate deals? Show him how it’s done and make points in the process. Most active, full-time real estate investors are interested in recruiting private lenders so they don’t have to use their own money to fund real estate deals. These lenders are typically not big time…  Continue Reading

Foundations for Success in Real Estate Investing – What You Should Know

What do the top real estate professionals say about the path to success in real estate investing? There are some very concrete steps the dedicated investor can take to put them on the road to success in real estate investing. This is not brain surgery; in fact, it’s not very difficult at all. If you’re…  Continue Reading

Strategic Freedom Funding Blows the Lid off Real Estate Investment Lending – Strategic Real Estate Coach

Real estate investment lending firm Strategic Freedom Funding has it all – up to 100% financing, project guidance and liberal credit for solid deals. Why should you take a good look at a real estate investment lending firm? Because if you’re like most people involved in real estate investing, you’ve got a huge problem. It’s…  Continue Reading

The Private Lender in Real Estate Projects: What You Need to Know So You Get Funded (and Not Thrown in Jail!) – Strategic Real Estate Coach

Looking at the role of the private lender in real estate investment projects… What do you need to know so you can do it right? One of the most important aspects of investing in real estate projects is working with a reliable private lender for investment capital. But finding those sources, and understanding the laws…  Continue Reading

The Other Side of Investing in Real Estate – Lending Money – Strategic Real Estate Coach

Find out how investing in real estate – by funding projects – can be just as lucrative, and often much more so, than the project itself. There are folks out there today who are making a fortune investing in real estate. But they’re not flipping houses or buying rental properties. These are the men and…  Continue Reading

The Wealth-Building Secret Of The 1%

Back in 2000, Robert Kiyosaki released his best-seller Rich Dad, Poor Dad. This book changed the way millions of people think about money… and really opened their eyes to the importance of passive income. Only problem is… it never really told you how to achieve it. If you’re an average person without millions in the…  Continue Reading

How to Raise Cheap Private Money for Your Real Estate Investing Deals

Raising capital is not a matter of marketing, or overcoming objections. It’s about knowledge, understanding how money works and understanding how the money you’re going to borrow from private lenders gets put into play. On top of that, it’s about understanding what else is out there that you’re competing against. When you meet with private…  Continue Reading

Real Estate Coaching – 40k Flips Testimonials

Greetings again from SREC! We got hundreds of new students flocking to our 40k flips product and here’s what some of them are saying: Click Here To Find Out More About The Program: “The person you are talking about is Josh Cantwell. I have already paid $1000.00 to hear this and it was worth every…  Continue Reading

How to Raise Capital for your Real Estate Investing

Raising money is not a matter of marketing but rather about knowledge and competition. There is a legal side to the real estate investing market yet that is not something that should scare you away from these profitable transactions. You don’t need a law or finance degree to achieve success with real estate transactions if…  Continue Reading

How To Raise Capital for Your Real Estate Transactions

Raising capital is not a matter of marketing, or overcoming objections. It’s about knowledge, understanding how money works and understanding how the money you’re going to borrow from private lenders gets put into play. On top of that, it’s about understanding what else is out there that you’re competing against. When you meet with private…  Continue Reading

My Life in Real Estate – 3332 Marmore Avenue

Check out this video. I’m at the location of a property that I’m considering buying. It’s a small bungalow in a nice neighborhood south of Cleveland. This turned into a short sale lead – the current owner is underwater, and owes $135,000. My offer on the house was $30,000, but the bank BPO came back…  Continue Reading

My Life in Real Estate: Rehabbing Bank Owned Properties, {Case Study Heights Drive Part 2}

I’m back with another installment of “My Life in Real Estate”, this time checking in on one of my most recent rehab projects – 193 Heights Drive. This is part 2 of this case study. Part 1 I recorded 2 months ago and we showed you this house when we first started the project. In…  Continue Reading

3 Ways To Fund Your HUD Home Purchases

Lately I’ve been telling you about some incredibly easy yet profitable ways to purchase HUD homes for pennies on the dollar. This is a tool that every smart real estate investor should have in their arsenal because it’s a great way to generate consistent profits – there is no shortage of HUD homes to purchase….  Continue Reading

The True Cost Of Private Money For Real Estate Deals

Let’s discuss the True COST to YOU if you choose not to have access to private lenders and the money they have available for you to close your real estate transactions. If you’re brand new to real estate, it will cost you your confidence because you will likely be too scared to make your first…  Continue Reading

The Private Lending Mastery Secrets That Most Real Estate Investors Will Never Know

Click Here to register for Thursday, Oct. 6th, 12pm EST (9am PST) Click Here to register for Thursday, Oct. 6th, 9pm EST (6pm PST) Click Here to register for Saturday , Oct. 8th, 1pm EST (10am PST) Click Here to register for Sunday, Oct. 9th, 1pm EST (10am PST) How would you like to learn…  Continue Reading

Top 5 Keys to Understanding Private Lending

Private lending is the absolute key to unlocking the door to successfully completing real estate deals. Why would you want to use a private lender? You are able to get money from individuals more easily, more cheaply and on better terms than you can from institutions. In real estate, where you may only need short-term…  Continue Reading

Legally swipe your competition’s private lenders (video for ya)

Have you ever seen a real estate investor in your town closing a bunch of deals… … and you’re sitting there wondering how they’re funding their deals?   Well, this video that I found last week shows you how you can literally (and legally) *spy* on your competitors to see who their private lenders are…  Continue Reading

Money Available = Overwhelming Response

All this week I’ve been telling you how you can get the funding you need for any real estate deal you do… regardless of your current situation, income, assets, or credit. Last night Jason “The Money Man” Medley shared how YOU can access this list of thousands of active private lenders nationwide that are ready…  Continue Reading

Confidential List of Money in Your Area.

You already know this, but when it comes to real estate everything is easier with cash …buying REOs, auctions, short sales, FSBO deals and everything in between. That’s why I’m focused on raising as much money as possible and so should you. Imagine having access to every private lender in the nation, and in your…  Continue Reading

Are You Shaking The Money Tree?

Take a minute to sit and think about how many different ways YOU can profit from real estate. It’s mind blowing really. Honestly, it often feels like there are too many. When I first got started I felt lost and confused. I didn’t know what deals I wanted to go after. I got paralyzed and…  Continue Reading

Lost Profits and Mike Tyson

Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: 1. You negotiated a great short sale discount. You can buy it for $221,500 and have it sold for $264,000. The “C” buyer is getting a conventional loan. The “C” lender says the seller must be the owner of record and hold the property for 30 days….  Continue Reading