All Forum Posts by: Beka Shea

Ok, I'm about to blow up the forums with this question - I'm looking for a Driving for Dollars app update. We're about to roll out a D4$ campaign to a bunch of people on my team and I want to get the best app possible. Who here has used Dealmachine? The Driving for Dollars app? Go D4D?

I'm looking for something that will map, geotag, and export to CSV for mailing purposes (also love the built in mailing from Dealmachine idea, but if I have 10 people sending me the same lead, I'm not sure I want them to get 10 DM postcards.)  Would love for the data to be cloud based so that I can see the leads real time.

Ok, I'm about to blow up the forums with this question - I'm looking for a Driving for Dollars app update. We're about to roll out a D4$ campaign to a bunch of people on my team and I want to get the best app possible. Who here has used Dealmachine? The Driving for Dollars app? Go D4D? 

Ok, I'm about to blow up the forums with this question - I'm looking for a Driving for Dollars app update. We're about to roll out a D4$ campaign to a bunch of people on my team and I want to get the best app possible. Who here has used Dealmachine? The Driving for Dollars app? Go D4D? 

Ok, I'm about to blow up the forums with this question - I'm looking for a Driving for Dollars app update. We're about to roll out a D4$ campaign to a bunch of people on my team and I want to get the best app possible.  Who here has used Dealmachine?  The Driving for Dollars app? Go D4D?  Looking for candid feedback on each.

But seriously.  I'm part of a mastermind now and it's great.  I didn't even know these things existed; I stumbled across it.  Now I have been researching what other ones are out there and would love insight on any of these types of organizations that people know about.  Maybe I should start another thread on this and see what the BP community comes up with.  I've found GoBundance and Collective Genius and 7 Figure Flipping.  What else is out there that I don't even know about?

Let's start a GoBundance for women!  Woot!  Surfing retreat in Costa Rica is our first trip, amiright? :)

I've never worked with, but had a good discussion with Jamie Tritz from American Financial Network.  She does Philly area and 203k loans.  Hope that helps!

This discussion seems to be made up of 2 groups of people, so I'm going to present a 3rd.  The first group is the skeptical investor group who thinks that you can get all the education you need from free online sources, or local groups.  The second group are Renatus students and affiliates who have gotten great value out of the system and are defending it.  I'm not affiliated with Renatus, I AM a skeptic, but I think that slamming all paid education as fake gurus is silly.  I'm a mechanical engineer and a former military officer, and I'm now a full time investor who will likely do 40 deals this year.  I tell you that so that you know I'm intelligent and experienced.

I think that you can definitely take local and free resources and become a very successful investor.  That's how I started.  Doing that got me to buying and selling a rehab every month last year.  At the beginning, I paid and attended a guru seminar for $3,000 that was all upsell.  BUT, the content I got also helped expand my brain.  This was before I ever heard about "gurus".   So that experience was a wash, and worth the money.  Fast forward a few years, and then, because someone that I trusted very very much told me to spend a whole lot of money to join a real estate mastermind group with him, I took my game to an entirely new level this year.  So if you are out there, searching for a group to join that will help you level up, keep searching.  I'm not going to name the group I'm in, so don't ask.  I'm not pitching for them, I just want to say that you're not alone in your desire for help.  But I will tell you that the ONLY people these things work for are people who are ready to mentally commit to some serious growth and discomfort.  Just paying the money doesn't ensure success.  And you should be at a point where that amount of money isn't your last dime, because you're going to need some reserves while you grow.

@Lenny Machin these guys are right. Building lots require a good amount of due diligence, including perc tests, zoning rules, unpaid liens. But these hurdles are doable. The more of them you can figure out before putting it on the market, the higher the value of the lot. You could start by getting a soil scientist out to evaluate the land - he won't know exactly what it'll perc for without doing the test, but he will likely be able to tell you if it's a dead deal right out of the gate. And a title search costs about $150 where I'm at and will discover any unpaid liens/taxes/HOA. Then I'd give the township zoning officer a call and see if they know of any reason why you couldn't build on that land. While I want to build a pocket neighborhood eventually, I have to admit I'm too swamped in my other investing work to even consider that right now. :)

@Joey Smajd - I was reading through this post and surprised to see the LP customer service comment.  I've been with them for about a year and hands down, Matt at LP is one of the best customer service guys ever.  I'm pretty technology dumb and he is always taking care of my random requests (especially getting me set up with emails and getting everything to feed into investorfuse).  I can't comment on I/C, since I've only used LP, but it's kicking *** for me.  Obviously marketing is a multi-pronged thing, but we are getting webform and phone call submissions, and setting up the sites was great (love the smooth clean look).