As I mentioned last week, I was invited to speak at the monthly meeting of the Portland Real Estate investment club this past Thursday.

The Darling Bride, Sharon and I went down and I talked about the opportunities in the Probate field for about 1 ½ hours.

Many of the club members were not aware of this unique arena and were very excited to hear about this relatively unknown segment of real estate investing.

After the meeting, I stayed around for while and met with many of the members and I was pleasantly surprised and happy to talk with those who were already successfully using my strategy. Many mentioned how much they appreciated the simplicity and low cost of my information.

Over the past couple of years, I have received several requests to speak at REI meetings around the country but I have had to turn all but this one down.

Why’s that you ask?

It all has to do with the low cost of my products.

You see each REI club shares in any revenue that is generated from the sale of the speaker’s products at that meeting. Many of these clubs are 501C3 non-profit corporations and this is one of the ways they generate revenue for the club.

So by the time I pay my airfare, my hotel, my living expenses and then share my sales with the club, there’s an excellent chance I’ll loose money.

While I make every effort to provide my products at a very reasonable price, trust me, losing money is not in my business plan.

The Darling Bride reminds me of that quite frequently.

So even though I thoroughly enjoy speaking before the clubs, I won’t be joining the circuit any time soon………not unless I decide to raise the price of my “Seminar-in-a-Box” to $997.

Think I’ll just keep my low, low prices for now!

http://www.BuyProbateProperty.com

Earlier I mentioned talking with many of my students who were successfully using my strategy. I also got a nice email from another student last week. Here’s what she said.

Ron,
I have my first probate deal in hand…super rough property so I am opting not to hang on to it, and am wholesaling it to another investor putting approximately $7000 in my pocket. *happydance* Yeah! Thank you so much for your book, and your follow up with me on my XXXXXXX market. Definitely tough here to get the info, but with enough effort, it can be done.

Jen

Now if you notice, I had to delete the state that Jen’s state. She asked me to do that so that she doesn’t create her own competition and out of respect for her request, I did so.

But here’s the interesting part.

Some of you have written me and said it was impossible to use my Probate strategy in this western state.

My answer has always been “Yes it’s a little more difficult but I know it’s doable as I already have one person who has figured it out.”

Now I’ve got second person who is making money where others have given up.

What a great example of the quality of perseverance!

Jen stuck with it and know she’s putting an extra $7,000 in her pocket.

That’s got to help in this tight economy.

For those of you who would also like to create an extra $7K or so for yourself, here’s where you can get your own personal blueprint:

http://www.BuyProbateProperty.com

By the way, for those of you looking for more information on my low cost workshop this weekend, check out my blog:

http://www.BuyProbateProperty.com/blog

Enjoy your week!

As everyone knows, the mortgage business today does not even resemble what it was just 1 ½ years ago.

Without a doubt the #1 issue facing Probate investors (and all Real Estate investors) today is,

“How can I get financing for all the deals I am finding?”

Many of you have written to me explaining your concerns about this problem.

Now in 2006, I wrote a book called, “Make a Flippin’ Fortune” on what I call guerrilla financing. In it I described how I had been financing my deals without using banks. I had developed what I called Private Money Systems.

So when folks wrote and asked about financing, I would recommend this book.

While the information in the book was still relevant, it became apparent it needed an update. So earlier this year, I sat down to write a newer version.

Whenever I decide to write a new book, I always research and buy any material that is currently available to see if there is any new information I need to include.

I located what I thought were some pretty good resources from one guy but I was blown away by what I was going to have to pay to get what I wanted.

He wanted $1600 for the two books I thought I needed.

$1600??? You’ve got to be kidding!

I’ll skip that purchase, thank you very much.

About that same time, I had coffee with a friend of mine, Trevor Mauch. Now, Trevor is also a real estate investor so naturally our conversation centered around what each of us was doing.

I told him about my research and the shocking prices some were charging for their products.

When I told him the $1600 price tag I had uncovered, his jaw dropped open and he immediately gave me the name of a fellow he that he knew could help me.

When I got back to the office, I got on the phone and called Trevor’s friend who, for now, I will call Mr. X.

In talking with Mr. X, it took me about 3 minutes to realize this guy was an absolute expert on Private Money and nobody knew about him.

He told me he had done over 100 transactions in the last couple of years and on every single one he had used private money.

Now let me stop for a moment.

For those of you who may not be exactly clear about what using private money means, let me tell you what you don’t have to do with Private Lenders.

No loan application,

No two years taxes,

No paying 14 different fees that you have no idea what they are about,

No waiting six weeks for approval,

No getting turned down and starting with another lender,

No explaining a hick-up that appears on your credit report from 5 years ago,

No paying a broker a 2 point loan origination fee only to find out later the lender had also paid him another 1 ½ points rebate that was revealed on the HUD-1 but didn’t appear in the credit or debit column,

and here’s the biggest NO of all,

NO 20% DOWN!

NO 10% DOWN!

NO 5% DOWN!

With Private Lenders, there is 0 DOWN! Yes, no money down.

Can you see some benefits here folks?

So back to Mr. X.

After talking with him for an hour, it became apparent this guy was an absolute goldmine of information about Private Money and how to get it.

So being the shy and retiring person I am, I said,

“Hey Mr. X would you like to teach my subscribers your system?”

And he said, “No problem Ronbo, you can count me in!”

So that’s what I’m doin’.

I’m bringin’ in a ringer and we’re working together.

On Saturday, May 16th at 9AM Pacific, Noon Eastern Mr. X and I will be conducting our “Private Money Millions” workshop.

Notice I am calling this a workshop, not tele-seminar, not a webinar but a workshop.

Why? Because this is just like a workshop that you would pay a ton of money to fly to, stay over night, be taught the material, be given a workbook, hop back on a plane to race home only to arrive at work exhausted on Monday morning.

NOT!

Yes we are going to teach you everything necessary to you started in your own Private Money program but you get to learn it from the comfort of your own home.

Heck you can even be in your PJ’s and we’ll never know!

Now let me make one final point. This is a teaching workshop.
This is not just a teaser where for an hour we give you some hints about what we know and then try to jack you up for a $2000 course if you want the good stuff.

We may offer some additional learning tools to you but they will not be necessary for your success.

When we finish the 2 hour workshop, you’ll be ready to go because in addition to the live workshop, we are going to have you download a 48 page pdf called “Private Money Millions” so you will have something you can print out and hold in your hands.

This will be your reference manual.

In addition, you will receive an mp3 recording of the call that you can use to re-listen to the call as many times as you like.

So to re-cap, you get the 2 hour workshop, the 48 page pdf, and the
mp3 recording.

I’m sure your next question is going to be,

“OK Ronbo, you already gave me some idea what others are charging for this kind of info but your nuts if you think I’m forking over any $1600. Maybe you haven’t been watching the news lately but some of us are not Wall Street bankers! You’d better make this reasonable or you can count me out!”

Remember I told you I had a book I offered on guerrilla financing?

Well that book sells all day, everyday for $59.95 and I get tons of emails all the time telling me what a great resource it is.

So when I sat down with Mr. X to talk about price, he said one thing that absolutely blew me away.

He said, “Ron, let’s make our fee so unbelievably low that price is not an issue for anyone”.

As most of you know, I am always upset with the teachers who charge these outrageous prices so when he said that, I knew I had partnered with the right guy.

So we are charging a low, eye-ball popping sign-up fee.

Want to see it? Here’s the link,

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CLb8V&m=1cosbJyrvNT1Vj&b=XLuLyIYwBE4xzQICMZTLSg

Now I am giving you plenty of lead time because we all have busy lives and I want you to schedule this in.

Two final points,

We are recording this so if you have a schedule conflict, just sign up and you will receive the mp3 recording as well as the “Private Money Millions” book. All you will miss is the live workshop.

Also, and this is absolutely true, I have a fixed number of lines.
It’s 250 and this message is going out to over 9000 of my subscribers. There is no doubt in my mind this will sell out and I have no ability to increase the number of lines.

Don’t dilly-dally and get left behind.

Here’s your registration link again.

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=CLb8V&m=1cosbJyrvNT1Vj&b=XLuLyIYwBE4xzQICMZTLSg

See you at the workshop.

One of the unexpected benefits that I have received from my Probate business is the great feedback I get from many of you.

Yesterday was “We’ve got your back, Ron!” day.

Why do I say that?

Because I got two separate messages telling me about claims some of my competitors are making about the results you will get from buying their “How to Make Bazillions in Probate” material.

One instructor’s marketing copy said he was “making millionaires across the nation with his strategy”.

The other asked if you would like to start earning “$50,000 to $100,000…..(and more) on each and every deal”.

WOW! Where do I sign up? These guys must know something I don’t?????

In my 13 years of working in the Probate field, I’ve never made $100,000 on even one deal, much less many of them.

Now in all fairness, I must tell you I do have one student who made over $100,000 on a deal but even that one had unusual circumstances.

The estate had six houses in it and he was able to get them all and after selling each of them, he netted a total of a little over six figures.

Nice payday!

But I think it would be a little less than honest if I were to put that in my marketing material as an average deal that you too can do each and every month.

Possible……but not probable.

So when you read these extravagant claims, just remember they are made to set the stage for you to make a very large purchase price for their course(s).

Almost always you will find you’ll be asked to spend between $1500 and $10,000 on e-books, courses, membership sites, boot camps, videos, tutorials, coaching programs etc. etc.

They may start you off with a small initial price but they’ll march you up the ladder until you run out of credit card.

I hope you haven’t already been hooked.

I’ll always remember the lady who FedExed me the entire set of notes from a 3 day seminar she had just attended on Probate.

She paid $3000 plus travel expenses to attend and she was so mad about the lack of clear content and the number of “must haves” that were being sold at the seminar that she went out and copied each and every page of the power point presentation and sent it to me.

This was after she had bought my manual, read it in one afternoon and went to work immediately.

She said she was distraught she had not found my book earlier and saved herself the $4500 she had spent on the seminar.

She said she learned more in the 4 hours it took to read my book than she had in the 3 days at the seminar.

So my word of caution to those of you who are considering spending lots of dough with one of these “gurus” is do your homework.

Spend some time Googleing the courses you are thinking about buying. See what others have to say about their experience.

Here’s my final litmus test:

Pick up the phone and try to call them.

See if you can find someone in their office who’ll answer.

If that doesn’t work, send them an email and see if you get a response.

If neither of these works, you might ask yourself how sincere these folks are in training you if you cannot even contact them.

So anyway, thanks to the two of you who mailed me yesterday. Maybe my little rant today will save a few of you folks from credit card purgatory.

By the way, for those of you who would like to learn my Probate strategy and not spend a fortune, here’s where you can check out the various learning tools I offer:

http://www.BuyProbateProperty.com

One last thing I almost forgot. My phone number,

Toll Free, 866.879.8893.

Call us and you will probably get The Darling Bride, Sharon.
She’ll be happy to help you with your order.

One thing she won’t do is promise you you’ll be a millionaire in six months. But the upside is you won’t spend the next two years paying off your credit card bill either.

Not our style!

By the way, by tomorrow I should have the final registration details together for my “Private Money Millions” workshop to be held on May 16th.

You’ll be the first to know.

Watch for my email.

And yes, we will record the workshop but it will only be available to those who have signed up.

You won’t want to put off registering as I certainly expect this workshop to fill up quickly based upon the number of emails I have received on this hot topic.

One last thing. I’ve been invited to speak to the Real Estate Investment club of Portland on Thursday night, May 7th. If you can make it by there, stop in and say hello.

I’d love to meet you.