**Official March Goals Thread** 15 posts by 14 users

Posted: 03/01/2008 at 12:10PM

Okay everyone, March is here! I hope you all were successful in obtaining your goals in February!

As I'm sure many of you know, goals are the foundation to success. Goals help us keep focused, motivate us, and give us something to pat ourselves on our backs about at the end of the day (or month). Without goals we are just wandering around in the dark, hoping to stumble upon success.

One aspect of goal setting, that is vital in its effectiveness, is recording or verbalizing them. Tell people about them so you will be, in a sense, held accountable for them. This will help motivate you.

Write your goals down so you see them everyday. I have a white-board in my bedroom with my yearly and monthly goals written on them. I see them every day when I wake up and every night when I go to bed. This kind of auto-suggestion has been studied and proven to be an effective way to get things done. Stay positive!

This thread will be a way for everyone to record their goals. Record them in this thread and revisit it often. Read the goals of your peers and people you look up to.

Ready...Set...GOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

Last Month's Big Achievers

nrconnor: On the very last day of the month nrconnor reached his goal of finalizing his first wholesale deal. He also locked up his next deal.

FtMyersMike: FtMyersMike acheived his goal of finding and participating in the local REI group.

awarunn: I almost had my first deal but it fell through when the homeowner who I was going to negotiate the short sale with stopped communicating with me. Though, I did achieve my goal to get my direct mail campaign up and running. yaya...

Please update us on how you did on your goals so I can include you in this section next month!

Posted: 03/01/2008 at 09:31PM

As a background I am a real estate agent in Aspen, Colorado.

My goals for the month of March:

1) Get at least 1 contract for a vacation club membership opportunity I am working on. $1.5m price tag

2) Get a high end listing in Aspen that I have been working on for 2 months. $24m-$30m price tag

3) Get into to this position or better in the search engines for the search term " Aspen Real Estate" :
Google #10 currently #11
Yahoo #3 currently #4
MSN #15 currently #25

4) Complete and launch the re designed skirealestate.com website

5) Find a company to re-design my blog and integrate with the website

There is another 100 or so goals but these are the main ones.

Posted: 03/02/2008 at 01:42PM

First off, let me state that this is awesome that you make these threads each month. I say all the time to just about anyone that will listen, to set 12 goals each year (1 a month), rather than New Years Resolutions. But the key is not only to WRITE down the goals and make them specific and detailed, but to also tell someone else. Use that person as an accountability partner. Locally you can use REI Groups for this, but if you don't have that, this site is awesome!

My Goals.

1. Select new site to build a community playground. I build public parks and playgrounds to give back. I have done many of them through the years, time for another.

2. To finalize the transition of my personal bookeeping records into Quickbooks (I have always been week with taxes as I had an accountant in the family)

3. To continue to Learn, Grow and Give Back without pretense.

4. Place 4 properties under contract. (A little low but March is a tough month as March 15th is the fun date of taxes in corporate world)

Posted: 03/03/2008 at 06:22PM

Here are mine.

Sell our Gnarled Oaks Property (been 2 months)

Rehab completely and try to sell quickly our Royal Villa property

Get in contact with at least 5 new buyers (for my wholesaling side)

Try a " We Buy Houses" ad in the Greensheet (local classified 'penny saver' type paper)

Posted: 03/04/2008 at 08:58AM

1) Buy and wholesale the 4-unit

2) Buy one additional property (rehab or wholesale)

3) New logo and website completed

4) Attend bootcamp and evaluate 3 projects

5) Receive at least 10 new responses from direct mail campaign

Posted: 03/05/2008 at 02:37PM

My goals for March are as follows:

1. Sell my first Flip. This will continue to be my #1 goal until it is finally out of my hair or in my case scalp.

2. Put the finishing touches on the plans I'm going over on the new duplex I just purchased. If I can't get this done for 40k, then I need to make a decision within 2wks if I have to move on. Long story here.

3. Further my eduction on real estate investing by reading 2 more books. One of them is Cash Flow Quadrant and looking for a second book to follow, suggestions on this would help...

4. Look for another rental that my wife and I can invest in ourselves to get her motivated in OUR new investing career.

Posted: 03/06/2008 at 08:39AM

1. Read (or listen to) one RE book.

2. Attend local REI meeting.

3. Add 500 listings (see sig).

Posted: 03/09/2008 at 12:24PM

1. Find 3-5 active buyers in my area, this means I actually have to actively find them and talk to them. YIKES!. Currently ZERO

2. Aside from finding buyers I want to network with 3-5 fellow like minded investors. It's really tough when you feel like your all alone.