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Tampa REIA Fishing Charter on May 10, 2019
Posted on April 29, 2019 by
Friday, May 10, 2019 from 9AM to 5PM
for Only $87 for Full Day!
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Price includes: Fishing Charter on a 75 foot Boat from 9AM to 5PM. Rod, Reel, Bait and Fishing License. Food, drinks and Snacks are sold separately on the boat. Parking is $6.00 extra for full day.
Get There by 8AM: You should arrive by 8AM at the latest. Some of us are meeting there at 6AM to reserve a spot on the back of the boat. You must come early to reserve a spot on the back of the boat as well since we cannot save spots. If you arrive late, the boat will not wait.
Breakfast @ 7AM: We are all going to have coffee and/or breakfast at the Salt Cracker Cafe at 7AM which is a couple of buildings down in the Marina Building.
BYOB: You can bring a cooler on the boat with beer but in Cans ONLY no glass bottles and your own food if you wish.
What We Can Catch: GAG Grouper, Red Grouper, Sea Bass, Mackerel, Hog Fish and Snapper among other fish as well.
Bait: The bait that is provided is cut bait and sardines. You may purchase extra bait before you enter the boat but you must bring your own aerated bait bucket if you plan to do that.
Sea Sickness: We will be going out 15 – 25 miles and would suggest you get some Dramamine pills, a wrist band or Ginger Pills if you get sea sick.
Get Together After Fishing: At the end of the trip we will go down to either Cooter’s, Crabby Bills or back to the Salt Cracker Café so they can cook up our catch of the day!
Special Thanks: We want to offer special thanks to Tangie Cousins of Foreclosures & Probates Daily for putting this Fishing Charter together for us. Thanks Tangie!
at 727-446-7666 to RSVP
for Only $87 for Full Day!
Tell Them Your with Tampa REIA
Tampa REIA Fishing Charter on November 12, 2016
Posted on November 1, 2016 bySaturday, November 12, 2016 from 9AM to 5PM
for Only $82 for Full Day!
Tell Them Your with Tampa REIA
Call Now to RSVP!
Price includes: Fishing Charter on a 75 foot Boat from 9AM to 5PM. Rod, Reel, Bait and Fishing License. Food, drinks and Snacks are sold separately on the boat. Parking is $6.00 extra for full day.
Get There by 8AM: You should arrive by 8AM at the latest. Some of us are meeting there at 6AM to reserve a spot on the back of the boat. You must come early to reserve a spot on the back of the boat as well since we cannot save spots. If you arrive late, the boat will not wait.
Breakfast @ 7AM: We are all going to have coffee and/or breakfast at the Salt Cracker Cafe at 7AM which is a couple of buildings down in the Marina Building.
BYOB: You can bring a cooler on the boat with beer but in Cans ONLY no glass bottles and your own food if you wish.
What We Can Catch: GAG Grouper, Red Grouper, Sea Bass, Mackerel, Hog Fish and Snapper among other fish as well.
Bait: The bait that is provided is cut bait and sardines. You may purchase extra bait before you enter the boat but you must bring your own aerated bait bucket if you plan to do that.
Sea Sickness: We will be going out 15 – 25 miles and would suggest you get some Dramamine pills, a wrist band or Ginger Pills if you get sea sick.
Get Together After Fishing: At the end of the trip we will go down to either Cooter’s, Crabby Bills or back to the Salt Cracker Café so they can cook up our catch of the day!
Special Thanks: We want to offer special thanks to Tangie Cousins of Foreclosures & Probates Daily for putting this Fishing Charter together for us. Thanks Tangie!
at 727-446-7666 to RSVP
for Only $82 for Full Day!
Tell Them Your with Tampa REIA
Ugly is the New Pretty
Posted on June 8, 2015 by
Warm weather is finally upon us! Time to get ready for those Summer vacations – trips to the beach, cookouts, swimming, boating, golf, tennis, and everything else that we love to do outside when the weather is warm.
Of course, if you live in the South, Southern California, or a place like Phoenix, you’re used to having nice weather all year ’round. And I hate you. :)
But if you’re like me, and live in a place where you get all four seasons (yay), you can appreciate how the change in weather can also trigger a change in perspective.
Long intro aside, there’s something that I’ve been noticing over the past few years when it comes to marketing…
Ugly is the New Pretty!
What does that mean? It means that a lot of the usual, conventional, traditional marketing pieces or campaigns that USED to work for many years… simply don’t work much any more these days. Read More→
Rehab Jungle in Short Sale Land
Posted on April 7, 2015 byThere are times when we are going to purchase a short sale and then rehab the property for a higher profit. During the rehab on the property, I take my partners shopping. We go to Home Depot and look at all the items I normally put in my cookie cutter houses and I show them why I have chosen each and every product. Then they get to pick their own products and we discuss the price differences to analyze the affect on our profit. It is really fun shopping for an entire house in Home Depot, but the bottom line is to save money. After our trip to Home Depot, we will head over to the cabinet shop if it is a higher end property and we will pick the cabinets and handles. Then we are off to the granite company with a piece of floor tile and a cabinet door so that we can match our granite throughout the house. I call this program my Mentor Program as I bring everything I have learned and taught through my Real Estate Junkie course to my students. By the time we are done, it’s been a “power-shoppin’ day!”
I always recommend that you have a Pro Account at Home Depot which gives me an automatic 10% off everything and if you are a member of a REIA group, you can save another 2% so … working with me already has saved you the cost of a new kitchen on the rehab or more. Read More→
Busy Season? Don’t Lose Your Mynd!
Posted on December 6, 2013 by“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” ~ Henry Thoreau
I love the holidays! But they can be pretty tough to navigate, what with parties, church and synagogue events, school happenings, gift shopping, cooking, work, and everything else I’ve got to manage. Thank goodness for my iPad, because otherwise, I would forget about Grandpa Bill’s annual Christmas Luau. And that party is a hoot!
We’ve talked about applications for getting organized before. Well, I’ve found a new one I think you’ll like: “Mynd” calls itself the “calendar with a brain.” That might be taking it a little far, but it’s pretty darned smart.
The best applications can integrate with other apps to make your life easier. What do I mean by that? Well, let’s say you’ve got an appointment with your lawyer at 3:00. When you made the appointment, you put it into your smartphone’s calendar. (You did do that, didn’t you?) On appointment day, your calendar sends you a reminder, and you’re ready to get in the car and go – but you don’t remember where her office is. If your apps aren’t integrated, you’ll have to exit your calendar, go into contacts, and find your lawyer’s address and jot it down. Then you’ll have to exit contacts, get into your GPS application and enter the address. What a pain in the neck! Don’t you wish your calendar could just talk to your contacts list and fetch the address for you? Well, that’s exactly the kind of convenience I’m talking about. Read More→
What’s the Difference Between Yield and Return?
Posted on April 5, 2013 byRecently, an investor asked us to explain the difference between “yield” and “return.” When Kim and I first became real estate investors, we asked this exact same question.
Yield and return are different ends of the same stick.
A yield looks forward – it’s looking into the future. It hasn’t happened yet. It’s what you project your investment dollars to earn each year for the life of the investment.
A return looks backward – it’s looking at what your investment actually did. There’s no guesswork about what you made because everything has already happened.
To better understand yield, let’s look at an example: You buy a 12-year-old, two-bedroom, two-bath mobile home in a park. Your all-in purchase cost is $2,750. You sell this home for $8,500 with the following sale terms: $500 down, with monthly payments of $275, at 18.63% interest, for 39 months. Read More→
Why Real Estate Investors Need Constant Training
Posted on March 11, 2013 byKim and I are teaching a financial calculator course later this month (February 23, 2013). Yesterday, an investor called to ask whether he really needed to take the course. I explained that a contractor’s most important tool is a hammer, a NASCAR driver’s most important tool is a racecar, and a real estate investor’s most important tool is a financial calculator.
After a bit of discussion, the investor said he’d pass on the course because it would be a waste of time. Out of curiosity, I asked how many real estate investing seminars he attended each year. His answer wasn’t surprising: NONE!
Here’s the funny thing: Even though I teach a financial calculator course, want to guess where Kim and I are this weekend? We’re in Vegas attending Gary Johnston’s Money Not Math seminar – it’s a three-day intensive financial calculator course.
I already can make a financial calculator sing and dance. For years, I’ve taught folks how to use them. So why do I “waste my time” taking financial calculator classes? Seriously, I want you to answer this question! Read More→
Which Type of Real Estate Investing Deal Has The Highest Yield?
Posted on February 9, 2013 byWhich Type of Real Estate Investing Deal Has The Highest Yield?
Our bank savings account is earning less than 1% interest. It’s not even keeping up with inflation. Meanwhile, Kim and I did a Lonnie Deal a few weeks back and we’re getting an eye-popping 50.38% yield on our investment. If you’re like us, you believe it makes better financial sense to get a higher yield versus a much lower one.
So what’s a Lonnie Deal? Basically, it’s when you buy a mobile home (that’s right, a trailer) in a mobile home park for cash and then sell it on time. Hey, in 2008, I had the same soured look on my face as you do right now as you ask, “Trailers? Seriously? Are you kidding me?”
Back then we were getting tons of calls from folks looking for $500-per-month housing. We couldn’t help them because our single-family houses rented for between $800 and $1,400 per month. I remember telling Kim that because of the huge demand for $500-per-month property, we needed to start doing Lonnie Deals.
We bought our first trailer on September 19, 2008 in Bartow County, Georgia. Our all-in purchase cost was around $5,500. We sold it on November 9, 2008 for $16,900 with the following sale terms: $500 down, $16,400 loan balance for 75 months at 18% interest with monthly payments of $375. Our yield on this deal is a jaw dropping 81.22%! Read More→
Financial Calculator – A Wealth Builder’s Most Valuable Tool
Posted on January 6, 2013 byYou’re probably asking “Are you really gonna talk about financial calculators?” and thinking: Yawn, yawn, yawn – wake me when it’s over!
Here’s the thing: Our real estate investors group is geared for experienced investors. To master creative deal structuring and financing, we all need to know how to speak the same language. A great communication device that accomplishes this task is a financial calculator.
Remember, a financial calculator is about MONEY, not math! Knowing how to make it sing and dance is critical to achieving financial freedom. I promise, once you know how to use a financial calculator, your real estate investing world will never be the same. Plus, you will be head and shoulders above most any investor you meet – including the so-called gurus!
Let’s use a financial calculator to answer this interesting question: Can you become a millionaire by delivering pizzas part-time for five years? If you think you can’t, then you’d be W-R-O-N-G! Read More→
The 8 Benefits of a Real Estate Transaction
Posted on November 3, 2012 by
One of the best real estate investing teachers in the country is Pete Fortunato. What makes him so special? Pete knows how to creatively structure deals in ways that make impossible deals possible.
Before Pete became one of our primary teachers in 1999, Kim and I did all of our deals the same old way. We’d find a house, apply for a mortgage, close with an attorney and then either sell or rent the property. Bottom line: If we couldn’t get a mortgage, we couldn’t do the deal. We felt like we were buying a Model T Ford from Henry Ford. Mr. Ford used to tell his customers, “The Model T comes in whatever color you want – as long as you want black.”
One of our biggest real estate investing ah-hah moments happened at our first Pete seminar. He flashed a diagram of a house up on the screen. The thing making this house different was that each room represented one of the eight transactional benefits of a real estate investing deal. The eight benefits are: Growth, Income, Amortization, Profits, Management, Security, Tax Benefits and Use. Read More→
Uncovering the Secrets of Marketing To Motivated Sellers
Posted on October 3, 2012 bySeveral years ago, I attended my first real estate seminar and decided this was the business for me. I could do it in my own time and at my own pace and still make money. Considering I was still working a full time job at the time, this seemed to be just the scenario I was looking for. One of the things they taught us in those seminars was that finding truly motivated sellers was going to be the cornerstone to this business because without motivated sellers there simply are no deals to be made.
After spending a number of years in sales prior to becoming a real estate entrepreneur, I knew that when the prospect contacts you first, you have a much better chance of making a good deal. At the time I didn’t have a lot of money to work with and needed to make every marketing dollar count.
I discovered the same theory applied to working with motivated sellers. A motivated seller is the key to all good deals, and if they contact you first, this significantly increases your opportunity to make a profitable deal. There are lots of opportunities for those who want to find sellers, and some are more labor intensive and time consuming than others. Learning to influence motivated sellers to contact you first will increase your profits immensely, help you make better deals and most importantly save you valuable time. Read More→
The Chaos of Foreclosure Morning
Posted on July 3, 2012 by
Most mornings I’m at my desk and working by 4:30 a.m. This is especially true on the first Tuesday of each month – this is the day Georgia’s foreclosure properties are auctioned off.
If you’ve seen Kim and me at the auction in Bartow County, we usually look calm, cool and collected…everything under control. Just wish you could see us a few hours before the auction starts – the picture is VERY different!
Foreclosure morning is chaos around here. Papers are flying around, computer keyboards click furiously, our foreclosure book is flipped through continuously, and the phone rings incessantly! It truly is something to behold.
As an example, let’s look at what happened the morning of last month’s foreclosure auction. Read More→
How Many Sellers Have YOU Seen?
Posted on July 3, 2012 by
A few minutes before this month’s real estate investors meeting began, I asked, “Who has done an interesting deal this month?” About 20 people milling around stared at me blankly. No one said anything. Crickets.
“So no one has done any deals this month? This is great news,” I said. A lady asked, “Why is this great news?” I answered, “Because we’re about to have our first ah-hah moment of the night.”
I asked each of the 20 people, “How many sellers have you met with in the past month?” Altogether, the group had met with at total of ten sellers – ten sellers, that’s it.
Next, I asked, “What’s the real reason no one has done a deal in the last month?” A guy answered, “We haven’t seen enough sellers.” “Exactly!” I exclaimed. Read More→
