{"id":50213,"date":"2013-11-07T00:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=50213"},"modified":"2023-04-11T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:17:07","slug":"2013-11-07-bp-podcast-043-shaun-reilly-flipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2013-11-07-bp-podcast-043-shaun-reilly-flipping","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started, Making Offers, and Crazy Properties with Shaun Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s episode of the BiggerPockets Podcast we sit down with real estate investor <strong>Shaun Reilly<\/strong> to talk about a wide range of topics &#8211; from getting started while living in an expensive area to wholesaling, putting in offers, flipping houses, buy and hold, and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>This interview was a ton of fun to do and there are so many great nuggets of information that anyone who listens will walk out with skills they can apply to their real estate investing business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/bpp43-shaun-reilly-podcast-transcript-getting-started-offers-properties\" target=\"_blank\">Read the transcript for episode 43 with Shaun Reilly here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen to the Podcast Here<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=BIGPOC1313202329\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>In This Show, We Cover:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>How to start investing when properties are <strong>super expensive<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43638 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BiggerPockets-Podcast-_-Real-Estate-Investing-and-Wealth-Building-9.42.11-AM1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"BiggerPockets Podcast _ Real Estate Investing and Wealth Building 9.42.11 AM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>benefits<\/strong> and <strong>pitfalls<\/strong> of investing in condos<\/li>\n<li>How Shaun got his first successful flip from a <strong>failed wholesale deal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Investing in real estate with a <strong>credit card<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shaun&#8217;s<strong> direct mail campaign<\/strong> &#8211; and how he got the list for free<\/li>\n<li>Tips on <strong>working with real estate agents<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Offering on <strong>HUD<\/strong> Properties<\/li>\n<li>Offering on <strong>hundreds of properties<\/strong> to see what sticks<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>mistakes<\/strong> Shaun has made in his real estate investing<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> craziest property anyone on our show has ever purchased<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>And more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Links From the Show:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"BP Podcast 038: Unique Strategies for Buying Real Estate with Travis Daggett\" href=\"\/renewsblog\/2013\/10\/03\/bp-podcast-038-strategies-buying-real-estate-travis-daggett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BP Podcast 038: Unique Strategies for Buying Real Estate with Travis Daggett<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Books Mentioned in the Show:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a9oIeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rich Dad Poor Dad<\/a> by Robert Kiyosaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a9uZ9H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rich Dad&#8217;s CASHFLOW Quadrant<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Robert Kiyosaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a9vikH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rich Dad&#8217;s Guide to Investing<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a9vikH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!<\/a>\u00a0by Robert Kiyosaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a5UGaC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nothing Down: How to Buy Real Estate With Little or No Money Down<\/a>\u00a0by Robert Allen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aibyL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change<\/a> by\u00a0Stephen R. Covey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/15zj1tj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getting Things Done <\/a>by Robert Allen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tweetable Topics<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t focus on simplistic things that are easy to do but are not effective. (<a href=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/cyGai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The key to buying troubled properties is buying them at the right price. (<a href=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/0Qcff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There are two kinds of real estate investors &#8211; \u00a0those who make a lot of money and those who give up too soon. (<a href=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/D0wAe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Connect with Shaun<\/h2>\n<p>Shaun&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/users\/smreilly\" target=\"_blank\">BiggerPockets Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shaun&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blogs\/2125-reilly-real-estate\/category?category=8952\" target=\"_blank\">BiggerPockets&#8217; Member Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shaun&#8217;s Lead Gen Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rre-homes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.rre-homes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s episode of the BiggerPockets Podcast we sit down with real estate investor Shaun Reilly to talk about a wide range of topics &#8211; from getting started while living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17340,"featured_media":119659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biggerpockets-podcast"],"acf":[],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}