Success using Cherif Medawar’s Strategies

I wrote this article in an effort to explain to my students how to get rich, stay rich, and keep on growing. This is how I lead the way and manage my business and investments.

There are six strategies that I use, teach, and help others to apply:

1. Commercial Real Estate:

My strategy is to find vacant commercial properties and put them under contract. Then I get national tenants to lease long-term, using a NNN lease, with corporate guarantees. I get a good deal by purchasing the property vacant, and its value goes up significantly as soon as the tenant signs the lease.

I hold a large portfolio of single-tenant buildings in the Caribbean and around the U.S. I hold two intensive 4-day retreats (in Puerto Rico and Cancun) every year to train my students on how to accomplish the same strategy anywhere they wish.

2. Discount Mortgage Notes:

I deal directly with banks AFTER they foreclose on properties and hold them as REOs (bank-owned or Real Estate Owned inventory sitting in their non-performing assets department).

I buy these properties directly from the bank or their assigned asset managers. I then fix them and resell them by carrying the financing. I make sure the monthly payments with principal, interest, property tax, and insurance (PITI) are equal to or less than the neighborhood rent for similar homes. The buyers that acquire these properties are usually people with steady jobs, but they often have bad credit. So the opportunity for them to get a home at the low current market values—along with an opportunity to rebuild their credit while accumulating equity and potential gain from the market recovery—is irresistible. We sell the homes and I carry the mortgage notes at 8% for a 30-year amortization.

For instance: A home sold for $60K in Jacksonville, Florida at 8% for 30 years will have a principal and interest payment of $440 a month… or $5,280 a year. I then resell these mortgage notes at a huge discount to the student/investors. Such a note gets sold at almost 62.5% of its face value—making the student’s investment less than $38,000 and bringing them a return of 14% secured against real estate. We even keep the deed and do not transfer it to the new homebuyers until they pay off the loan through payments (or refinance/resell after a few years).

3. Students learn in the classroom:

1. 1. How to analyze the value of each note.
2. 2. How to buy it and keep it in their retirement account.
3. 3. How to run it as a business and not only make huge profits. but get a lot of tax deductions.
4. 4. How to resell the notes for a huge profit along with the cash flow.

I even offer an opportunity to those who could not afford a $38K note to get into the program by purchasing a wholesale license and assigning my notes to other investors—getting paid on each note they assign. I then take the licensees’ opportunity to another level by holding a free presentation every other month. So all they have to do is bring their contacts/prospects to the presentation… I will do the sale and if their prospects buy a few notes, the student gets paid $1,000 on each note. Any future purchases by their contact represent more money in their pocket (as residual income). Eventually, they can earn enough to buy and sell their own notes.

This is one of the easiest and least-expensive programs to get into in the U.S. I continue to evolve and improve it. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 families have been placed in these homes. And hundreds of student investors have invested their money and earned high returns—all secured by real estate.

4. My Private Fund:

I set up a private fund in 2009 and filed it with the SEC. It is called MIGSIF (Medawar International Group Secured Income Fund). The accredited student/investors (those with a net worth of over $1 million, not including their home) can invest their money with me (as little as $25,000). This opportunity presents very little (if any) risk since their capital is all secured against all the properties in the fund.

I have a strategic alliance and a powerful relationship with a great team of professionals in California. Together, we buy properties for all cash at the California foreclosure auctions for huge discounts. We focus on San Francisco and San Mateo counties (Northern CA) because that area has the most affluent buyers in the country, the highest education, and highest down payments (Asian buyers). We rehab these properties, stage them attractively, and sell them for all cash within six months. We handle approximately 10 properties at a time with an average price of $600,000 each. I pay returns of 10% to 12% per annum. The entire program is hassle-free and any investor can withdraw their money with a 90-day notice.

This is the highest-cash-flow-paying fund in the U.S. It has extremely high liquidity and costs no fees to join, manage, or withdraw the funds invested. It is an all-cash fund set up specifically for my accredited student/investors to profit from.

I also offer an opportunity for my graduate students (of the special wealth retreats) to create their own fund called a Fund of Funds. They can invest their raised capital into my fund, make a spread of 2% to 5%, and get into the game of syndications. Once they accumulate enough capital and experience, they can branch out on their own.

5. The Syndication Business:

I teach people how to start their own syndication by grouping investors together and getting them into a commercial real estate opportunity. It is the same concept as raising money for any business venture. Doing partnerships, joint ventures, or larger-scale syndications is one of the best ways to get into the big profitable deals with less risk and more rewards.

I do special events once a quarter to train my student-investors on how to apply this unique and powerful method. Hundreds of licensed brokers in real estate consider syndication the best way to combat the current down market with hard-to-obtain bank loans. In addition, it is the best way to capitalize on the low prices and huge potential that exists today and in the foreseeable future.

6. Securities Trading:

I trade the stock and option markets actively, making over 30% a year. The style of trading I teach is simpler and more powerful than any other in the market. Unlike any other program or teachers out there, I show my own trading account with several millions in it. I actually demonstrate the results and often trade live when I teach. This proves to them that this is real and I have done it for years. (These trainings usually take place during private wealth retreats in a resort in Cancun, Mexico where I spend part of the year with my family.)

7. Business Leadership and Profit Growth:

I teach business development strategies that apply to executives in corporations, professionals with licenses, and entrepreneur/business owners in any field. In the past, I worked for a globally-well-known billionaire as his right-hand man. I was the executive in charge of his real estate holdings and worldwide business empire called Olympic Resources. Then I worked as an executive for several hotel chains (mainly Hilton Hotels) to transform their hotels, resorts, and casinos into more profitable operations. I was a professional broker both in the insurance and real estate businesses. I was also a professional national speaker.

Currently, I am involved in several businesses. These enterprises range from angel investing—where I am on the advisory board of a unique high-tech company in Silicon Valley—to a retail clothing company to an international silver jewelry design and wholesale business. I also keep growing my training, education, and investment companies to service the student investors that aspire to be more, do more, and have more of what they deserve.

I get yearly returns on my money of 30%-plus a year. In some business models, it is not unusual for me to even double my returns in relatively short periods of time (depending on the business model and market). I hold special training events to help executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs reach their potential—both personally and professionally.

Many student-investors find it beneficial to not only learn directly from me—a true successful practitioner who likes to teach in person—but to invest alongside me in any of my business models. This allows them to grow with less risk, less hassle, and at higher and faster rates of compounding returns. And they can do it with almost zero taxes by using the proper tax code and investment set-ups.

Despite all these endeavors, my biggest success continues to be in commercial real estate. In some of my deals, I have literally achieved infinite rates of return with endless streams of income. There is never a dull moment. And in everything I do, each deal is more exciting than the last.

If you have an interest in the training or investments visit us at www.CMREI.com. OR you can contact my Vice President, Ashlee Jones, at [email protected]. From there I can call you.

Thanks!