BTM126: Tech Giant Money Partner For Flippers & Landlords with Ross Hamilton
Ross Hamilton started investing in real estate in 2001 at 19 years of age and has personally owned or partnered in hundreds of real estate investments around the US. In his early 20’s, using the profits earned from his real estate investing business, Ross founded ConnectedInvestors online platform. The Connected Investors platform has grown into a real estate investment marketplace and the premier social network of over half a million real estate investors.
His platform is the first company to build a private money marketplace that allows real estate investors to easily get loan offers from multiple private money lenders by simply tapping a few buttons. The tech company facilitates over $3B in fix and flip and buy and hold funding requests each month.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Ross’s transition from BMX to Real Estate
- The emergence of Facebook for Real Estate Investors
- How Ross linked up with the CEO of LendingTree
- How Connected Investors grew to hundreds of thousands of users
- Where to find the best/cheapest private money
- What else to look for in a private money partner
- How to become a private money lender
- How to get private money lenders to fight for your deal
- If you should find funding 1st or the deal 1st
- As a brand new lender, how you should price yourself
- Amazon and Real Estate
- How to find deals in todays market
- Hyper Targeting deals (cheatcode)
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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BTM 55: How Friends and Family Can Fund Your Next Real Estate Deal with Jay Conner
Jay Conner has been buying and selling houses for 14 years and has been involved in over 52 Million dollars in transactions. In the past 7 years, Jay has completely automated his 7-Figure Income Business to where he works in his business less than 10 hours per week. He is a leading expert on Private Lending, once raising over $2M in less than 90 Days in private money while cut off from the banks. He is also a contributing author to the best-selling book Real Estate: Getting Deals Done In The New Economy.
On today’s episode, we talk with Jay about his journey into private lending for real estate investors. You’ll learn what exactly private lending is and how you can leverage this method in your own real estate investment deals. Jay talks about his transition from investing in mobile homes to single family homes. You’ll learn how Jay raised $2,150,000 in less than 90 Days with his simple system anyone can duplicate. Lastly, Jay shares the advantages of private money vs. other types of lending for real estate investors.
The advantages of using private money as a real estate investor:
- You make the rules (you set the interest rate, terms, etc.)
- There’s no limit to the number of private lenders you can do business with
- Not regulated by the commissioner of banks (not an institution, only individuals)
- Get multiple checks on every deal that you do
- Your credit score has nothing to do with how much private money you can get
- No need to worry about your verification of income (you can be broke and jobless and still get private money)
- Easier to do business with private lenders
Key Points From This Episode:
- How Jay was introduced to the concept of private money
- What is private lending and how can you use it for your real estate deals
- The different ways you can attract private lenders
- The “magic private money question” every real estate investor must know
- How to better position yourself to raise more money
- The advantages of using private money vs. other lending types
- How to buy properties using creative financing for your deals without going through the bank
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode
Jay’s Website: Jay Conner
Favorite Book: University of Success
Favorite Lifestyle Design App: Simple Crew
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