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Most People Don’t Take Advantage of Getting Rich Quick…Will You?

Jason Hanson
2 min read

Almost nobody gets rich quickly in the real estate business. You will probably get rich slowly like most of us. You will make $5,000 off a wholesale deal, $30,000 off the back-end of a lease option, $10,000 from another wholesale deal and $50,000 from a pre-foreclosure. Making this money takes time, but once you get good at this business the money slowly begins to add up.

Have You Caught Fire Yet?

However, there comes certain times throughout your real estate career where you “catch fire”. For one reason or another you will catch fire and you’ll get more deals than you can possibly handle. This happens in spurts and I’ve experienced it multiple times.

Perhaps it will be a call from a landlord who owns 25 houses and wants to dump them all. Or maybe you just sent out a direct mail letter that’s getting an awesome response rate and the leads just pour in.

Now, when this happens guess what? Many investors freeze up. They get so overwhelmed that they do nothing and just bury their heads in the sand. I know this for a fact because I’ve witnessed it with new investors and I’ve had to convince them to snap out of it.

You see, when the floodgates open, this is your chance to get-rich-quick. You never know when you will “cool down” so you need to take advantage of every deal that comes your way. I don’t care if you have to work 80 hours per week and seven days per week. While you have the magic touch you need to milk it for all it’s worth.

Do You Know When to Take a Vacation?

And when I say milk it for everything I mean it. These days I get the majority of my deals from referrals. Often I will get my referrals from people who are too overwhelmed or uneducated and they don’t know how to handle everything or they don’t want to work a little extra to make more money. Just the other day I got a call from an investor who was going on vacation and wanted me to handle some deals for him. Can you believe that? He is passing off thousands of dollars to me at a time when he is “hot” to go on vacation (I know this investor personally and he’s moving and shaking right now).

So what do you do when you “catch fire”? Well, take it one deal at a time and get organized. First, get a folder for each deal that you’re working on. Next, get out your calendar. There are seven days in a week, so that means you could have seven meetings with sellers each week (Yes, seven meetings. You have to temporarily sacrifice now, if you want the good life in the future). Also, if you don’t understand a deal don’t forget to call upon your network of more experienced investors to help you out (I wouldn’t try and involve them in the deals, just pick their brains for information).

Don’t Squander Opportunities

Listen: I don’t know how many other ways I can say it. But when you get in the groove, don’t let anything stop you. You might close 15 deals in two months and then it could be another three months until you get your next deal. And that’s when you take your vacation or relax…when things are slow.

I guess it just ticks me off to see people squander opportunities, or to be too lazy to take advantage of them. So, when your “hot period” happens just roll with it, with everything you got. And don’t be stupid and take a vacation, or cancel a meeting with a seller because it’s your bowling league night…

Note By BiggerPockets: These are opinions written by the author and do not necessarily represent the opinions of BiggerPockets.