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Diary of notes building a $10 million real estate venture from 2001 to 2010.
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I started keeping detailed notes in 2001 jotting down how I found my first rehab project in Baltimore, Maryland, how I found an investor willing to put up all the money, how I struggled to learn the construction process and how I made a whopping $9,500 for 9 months work. Over the next 9 years, I documented:
How I bought houses at foreclosure
How I bought a 20,000 square foot office building
How I flipped contracts
How I raised private equity using a Regulation 504(d)
How I learned to subdivide land and sell lots
How I invested and owned 15 college rental properties
How I invested in section 8 rentals
How I bought a vacation home at the lake and tried the vacation rental business
How I bought tax certificates
How I bought an industrial piece of land and changed the zoning to residential
How I turned that land into 63 lots and when the market collapsed...a 193 unit apartment project
How I made and lost millions of dollars in the most wide ride in real estate history
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