Focus and You Will Succeed

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By Tamera Aragon

“Success is a tireless expenditure of narrowly focused energy”
– Author Unknown

The definition of Focus: A condition in which something can be clearly apprehended or perceived.

Do you agree that it can be very difficult to get focused on what it is you would like to accomplish in this life? Do you get pulled this way and that depending on which way the wind is blowing that day? This may be because you are not “narrowly focused”.


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In working with so many students for real estate training and coaching, I have found the lack of ability to focus and stay on task to be the number 1 reason for not just failure, but also for some not even getting to the point of doing the real estate investing business. They don’t even get to the point of trying to invest in real estate because they stop. People often lose focus.

For example, a student, (lets call him Johnny), commits to coaching with complete confidence. His personal goal is to make $10K in the next 60 days in real estate investing. Johnny starts listening to the trainings and going through the motions, focusing on his goal for maybe a week or 2. Then Johnny hears about a great training on how to buy Silver for cheap (or some other investing strategy that is also good). So Johnny buys that training and starts listening to that training too. Buying that training has now taken the focus of the real estate training, committing him to failure in both goals!

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Focus is crucial to success.

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
Qui-Gon to Anakin, Star Wars Episode I

It’s so easy to blame external circumstances for failure, when in reality the reason for our failure is this missing link; Narrowly focus energy on a single goal. People get too spread out trying to accomplish too much for too many. The only blame for lack of success is that someone went on to something else by their own choosing and decision. Focus is a choice.

Not only is focus important, but focusing on only one goal at a time key to your success. Trying to accomplish multiple goals spreads out your focus, and makes it less likely that you’ll complete any of them.


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How To Stay Focused

Even with only one goal, maintaining focus can be difficult. Therefore, you need to find ways to keep your focus on that goal.

Some good examples that work for me:

1. Read about your goal as much as possible, on websites and blogs and in books and magazines.
2. Post up picture of what you want on your wall, refrigerator, and computer desktop.
3. Send yourself messages using an online calendar or reminder service.
4. Tell as many people as possible about your goal and post your progress on your blog.
5. Have a time each day to work on a single goal, with a reminder in your schedule each day to do only that for a period of time, no exceptions.

Maintain your focus on your goal, and you’ve won half the battle in achieving it.


TAMERA ARAGON

Tamera Aragon is a professional online entrepreneur and has bought and sold over 300 properties, establishing her as an expert in the real estate investing field. Since 2003, she has purchased over 10 million dollars in real estate and currently holds properties all over the world. Tamera’s focus is on the booming Foreclosure market, buying Pre-foreclosures, REOs and Short Sales. Tamera who is a noted Author, Success Trainer, Speaker & Coach, shows her passion for helping others with the 17 websites she has created and several specialized products to support fellow investors throughout the world. When Tamara is not busy running her website, she is very involved with her Fiji joint ventures and investments. Tamera Aragon is one of the few trainers and coaches who is really “doing it” successfully in today’s market. Tamera’s experience has earned her a solid reputation in the industry as well as the respect and friendship of many of the top national real estate investment and internet marketing experts. Tamera Aragon believes her success has garnered her the financial freedom to fully enjoy her marriage and spend quality time with her children.


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Tresa Todd’s Women’s Guide to Real Estate Investing Without Fear of Her Future Debuts #1 on Amazon

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Tresa Todd, host of the #1 largest women’s real estate investors conference in the Nation, “WREIN Live,” and founder of the Women’s Real Estate Investors Network, proudly announced the debut of her Women’s guide to real estate investing at WREIN Live over the weekend, driving her book Without Fear of Her Future, to the #1 spot in the Real Estate Investments category on Amazon.

Without Fear of Her Future is an informative how-to, focused on Tresa’s own experiences becoming a successful investor and advocate for women in the real estate investing industry.


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Tresa provides step-by-step knowledge featuring real estate investing strategies, how to find and fund your deals without using your own money, success in designing short term rentals, and so much more:

Tresa said “This book is jam packed with my experience getting into this industry later in life, my wins, my struggles and everything I’ve learned along the way to help you on your journey into the world of real estate investing.”


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With the release and impact of Without Fear of Her Future, she hopes to meet professional women exactly where they are, providing them with easy to understand real estate education so they can become financially confident and create multi-generational wealth for their families.

For additional information see links below:

Book: http://www.withoutfearofherfuture.com/book

Website: https://womensrein.com

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Is It Worthwhile Investing When Interest Rates Are Higher?

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By Adiel Gorel

Many investors are asking, now that interest rates have gone up by 2% relatively quickly, and home prices are up significantly from a couple of years ago, whether buying single-family rental investments is still something to consider.

The main point, at the heart of the matter, is that we can get a 30-year FIXED rate loan when buying single-family homes (technically 1-4 residential units) in the United States. This point is so dominant, it supersedes any other consideration. Surprisingly few investors seriously take this dominant factor into consideration.


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For some who have read other materials I have written, the following is a bit of a repetition, but it’s well-worth understanding this point fully. The 30-year fixed rate loan does not usually get its due as an amazing financial tool that should be utilized by any savvy investor who can get it.

For many foreigners, it is incomprehensible that in the US we can get a loan that will never keep up with the cost of living for 30 years. During that period, essentially everything else DOES keep up with the cost of living, including rents. Only the mortgage payment and balance (which also gets chipped down by amortization) do not keep up with inflation.

You can talk to many borrowers who have taken 30-year fixed rate loans and after, say, 14 years, realized that although there are 16 years remaining to pay off the loan, the loan balance AND the payment seem very low relative to marketplace rents and prices. The remaining 16 years are almost meaningless, since in many cases (statistically and historically) the loan balance will be a small fraction of the home price and not very “meaningful.” Just to get some perspective, most other countries on Earth have loans that constantly adjust based on inflation. Both the payment and the balance track inflation all the time—usually with no yearly or lifetime caps as adjustable loans have in the US.

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The power and positive effect on one’s financial future gets magnified when you consider that in 2022, we are still in a period in which interest rates are very low. While investors cannot get the same favorable rates as homeowners, it is nevertheless quite common nowadays to see investors getting a rate of between 5.75% and 6.25% on single-family home investment properties. From a historical perspective, these are very low rates. Most experts think that, in the future, mortgage rates will rise further. From a historical perspective, even 7.5% is considered a relatively low rate. These days, you can “turbo boost” the great power of the never-changing 30-year fixed rate loan by locking in these still-low rates, which will never change. If in the following years interest rates indeed go up, you will feel quite good about having locked under-6% rates forever.

Once you have gotten your fixed rate loans, two inexorable forces start operating incessantly: inflation erodes your loan (both the payment and the remaining balance), and the tenant occupying your SFH pays rent, which goes in part towards paying down the loan principal every month. These two forces create a powerful financial future for you.

Many of us have been “spoiled” during the COVID Pandemic that started in 2020. The Fed lowered rates to the very lowest point in the history of the US. Homeowners could get loans at 2.75%, and even a bit less. Investors could get loans at 3.5%, 3.75% or 4%. Happy times.

Recently, rates rose quite quickly. Homeowners now get loans at 5% or slightly more. Investors get loans at about 6%, depending on credit. It feels like the sky is falling, but it’s important to retain the historical perspective. These rates are still historically very low. Recall also that currently, inflation is at 8.5%. Inflation is your “best friend” when you have a fixed-rate loan, since it constantly erodes the true value of your payment and remaining loan balance. Getting a 6% FIXED rate loan when inflation is over 8% is quite favorable.


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The 30-year fixed rate loan is so meaningful in changing your future that it works well over the long-term, almost regardless of the interest rate. Obviously, the lower the rate, the better. However, by way of an example, when I began investing in the 1980s, interest rates on mortgages were at 14%. Every single investment home I bought back then (and I always made the minimum possible down payment) started out with a negative cash flow. Nevertheless, it was clear to me that since the loan was FIXED, the payment would remain the same, but everything else would keep up with inflation. That meant, to me, that within a couple of years, the negative cash flow would turn into break-even, and a couple of years after that, it was likely to turn into a positive cash flow. A couple of years after that, the cash flow was likely to be a stronger positive, etc.

Those notions came to fruition exactly as I had seen them. I started celebrating every time one of my homes got to “break-even.” I knew that from then on, the cash flow would be evermore positive, on average, as the years would go by. Even with 14% interest rate, the system worked. Those homes changed my financial life enormously.

Of course, when rates went down, I refinanced. First, I refinanced down to 12%, then came the magic “single digit” time, when I refinanced to 9.95% and was ecstatic about it.

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I have thousands of investors’ success stories that I hear all the time. One small example is the Silicon Valley engineer who bought 16 homes, then 13 years later saw his loan balances were under 30% of the home values, despite there being 17 years still remaining on the life of the 30-year loan. He sold 4 of the homes, paid his taxes, and used the proceeds to pay off the small remaining 12 loans, retiring on the strength of 12 free and clear homes. Many of these success stories, including his, are from people who started buying when rates for investors were between 7.75% and 8.25%.

Many investors are also taken aback by the price increases that took place during the Pandemic. They feel they are being hit by high prices AND higher interest rates.

One very important thing to remember is that while I am writing this (May 2022), inflation is at 8.5%.

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Some people are concerned about starting out with only a break-even, or a very slight positive cash flow, when making 20% down payments. They have gotten accustomed to starting out with a healthy positive cash flow, even with a mere 20% down payment, during the super-low rates era. However, the INITIAL cash flow is just that: initial!

As time goes by, the mortgage payments remain the same. However, rents rise, on average, with inflation. These days there is a huge demand to rent single-family homes in the suburbs, with a yard and room for a home office. There is more demand than supply in the rental space, and rents are going up quite furiously across the nation. Even if rents only rise with inflation, inflation these days is quite high. Either way, the cash flow gets better and keeps getting better as the years go by, while you build equity in the home, changing your future.

I look at these investments as long-term. They will very likely change your future, but they need 10, 12, 14 years to get to the desired result. At the beginning, the “cash flow” that has the most meaning is your own income: the income from your W-2 job, or your small business, in addition to what your spouse may earn as well. THAT is what pays for your food, transportation, utilities, and kids’ expenses at the present. In the future, when the rental homes can get you to retire powerfully, the equation flips and then the rental homes will provide the very meaningful “cash flow” you can retire on, as I describe in the example above.

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The mistake many new investors make is thinking that they MUST have immediate large positive cash flow at the outset, despite not really needing it, since they generate sufficient “cash flow” in their jobs. This thinking may create a situation whereby an investor never gets started. Possibly a book the investor had read might have put the idea in their head that initial cash flow is the primary thing to look for. Ten years later, I see people expressing great regret at never having started due to these notions. Some people resort to buying inferior properties in inferior locations, seeking a “better initial cash flow.” Buying bad properties usually doesn’t end up that well.

Today, as in any time I have seen, is an excellent time to acquire single-family rental homes, finance them with the astounding 30-year fixed rate loan, and then letting time pass while inflation does its thing.

We will talk about it in more detail at our upcoming quarterly event, complete with a Q&A.


ADIEL GOREL

Adiel Gorel has more than three decades of successful real estate investing experience. As the CEO of ICG (International Capital Group) Real Estate, a world-renowned real estate investment firm founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1987, Gorel has helped investors utilize one of the most powerful investment tools—single family rental homes. He teaches people how to have fun with a process most find complex and speaks about the importance of securing a strong financial future for retirement, business investing, and college education.

Through ICG, he has assisted thousands of investors, from novice to expert, in purchasing over 10,000 properties to date. He is also the author of Remote Control Retirement Riches, and Invest Then Rest: How to Buy Single-Family Rental Properties, which includes numerous investor reports describing their real-life investing experiences. He has also authored Remote Controlled Real Estate Riches, Discovering Real Estate in the U.S. and Life 201.

Gorel has been featured on NBC, ABC, in Fortune Magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, and numerous radio shows showcasing his no-nonsense, insightful approach to rental single family home investing. He speaks worldwide and throughout the U.S., sharing his knowledge on a variety of topics including securing a powerful financial future, investing in single-family homes, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, and related subjects.

ICG has established an infrastructure to support investors in many metropolitan areas in the U.S. Gorel owns many properties himself.

To this day, Gorel supports individual investors via planning, assistance in remote home buying, and property management issues resolution.

He holds a master’s degree from Stanford University. His professional experience includes being a Hewlett-Packard research engineer, as well as management and director positions at Excel Telecommunications, and several biotechnology firms. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Compelling Reasons Why You Should Invest in Real Estate

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By Lloyd Segal, President,
Los Angeles County Real Estate Investors Association

If you’re considering investing in real estate, looked it up on the internet, read about it in books, attended some workshops, and perhaps ask a friend or two, you already know that you should no longer wait and get started today. But if you’re still struggling to figure out why you should invest, this article will highlight some of the most compelling reasons in the hopes of addressing your concerns and finalizing your thoughts about venturing into this brave new world.


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1. Appreciation

Over time, the value of real estate rises (sometimes fast, sometimes slow). This is due to “supply and demand,” a fundamental economic concept, which I’ll address separately. With respect to “demand,” our population is steadily increasing and does not appear to be slowing down any time soon. And until further notice, people prefer to live indoors. As a result, more and more people looking for a place to reside means more demand for housing. So the demand for real estate is gradually increasing. And, according to basic economics, as demand increases, prices rise in response. With respect to “supply,” they are simply not making any more land. So land increases in value with limited supply. Similarly, they’re not building enough houses on that land to meet demand. So the value of what already exists increases. Plus, improvements in the surrounding region also increases value. As a result, the value of real estate appreciates over time.

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2. Control

When it comes to real estate, once you’ve paid for the property and met all legal criteria, you own the asset outright and have practically unlimited control over it. You may immediately alter the asset’s value, improve the property, increase cash flow, reduce expenses, and increase the rents. So unlike stocks and bonds, you are not at the mercy of the market or corporate executives. You are in control and can increase the value of your asset.

3. Equity

The difference between the current market value of your properly and the balance of any mortgages encumbering your property is called “equity.” The more equity you have the better. When you invest in real estate, your property’s equity grows over time in two ways. First, as you pay down your mortgages every month, your equity increases. Second, as the value of your property appreciates over time in the marketplace, your equity increases.


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4. Diversification

Diversification is an important strategy to mitigate risk, particularly if you’re putting a lot of money into various investments. Most experts advise diversifying your portfolio so that you don’t lose everything in one fell swoop if the market in which you’ve invested suddenly goes downhill. Real estate is a great asset to put your money – and it’s a lot safer and more stable than a lot of other options, like stocks or bonds.

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5. Inflation Hedge

Today, we are dealing with inflation. Although all investments are affected by inflation, real estate is always a good hedge against inflation. Creating products and services is typically more expensive due to normal inflation. They must either increase pricing or accept lesser earnings. In contrast, real estate is a natural inflation hedge since it has no link with equities or corporate profits. Plus, any inflation costs are frequently passed on to tenants.

6. Conclusion.

If you’re still on the fence about real estate investing, hopefully I’ve given you a few compelling reasons why investing should be a wise decision for you. Keep in mind, as with any investment, there is always some risk involved. However, if you want to take advantage of all that real estate has to offer, you should be investing now. Remember, don’t wait to buy real estate – buy real estate and wait.


Lloyd Segal

After practicing law for over 30 years (specializing in real estate litigation), Lloyd Segal assumed the leadership of the Los Angeles County Real Estate Investors Association in 2017 from the late Phyllis Rockower. Lloyd is an author, real estate investor, mentor, public speaker, and landlord. He is the also the author of four real estate reference books, including “Stop Foreclosure in California” (Nolo Press), “Stop Foreclosure Now” (American Management Association), “Foreclosure Investing” (Regency Books), and “Flipping Houses” (Regency Books). The Los Angeles County Real Estate Investors Association is the oldest (1996) and largest investor group in California. In his role as President, Lloyd is busy expanding LAC-REIA’s events and programs for members and real estate investors. For more information, visit www.LARealEstateInvestors.com

What Makes a Good Real Estate Note?

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By W. J. Mencarow

The value of a note ultimately depends upon the economic conditions that support the value of the property.

An owner-occupied single family house in a good neighborhood located in an area with a long-term stable economy is the best collateral possible. It is further enhanced by a payor who has an excellent credit record and unblemished payment history.

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Less desirable collateral, in descending order: owner-occupied (owner lives in 1 unit) duplexes/triplexes; non-owner-occupied single family houses; non-owner-occupied duplexes/triplexes; other non-owner-occupied multi-family units; improved land; commercial (non-industrial) properties; resort properties; subdivided but unimproved lots; raw land (some buyers would use a slightly different hierarchy).

Due to the current regulatory environment in the U.S., industrial properties, gasoline stations, even properties with underground oil tanks have many hidden liabilities. Notes secured by such properties should be avoided. Cooperatives, time-shares, mobile homes and personal property are not real estate and by themselves are not adequate security for notes.

The higher the investment-to-value ratio, the riskier the note (ITV = amount paid for the note + senior lien balance/market value of property).

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If there is little or no appreciation in the property, the loan-to-value ratio is a barometer of the likelihood of default. Notes on property purchased for $1,000 down or less often default. The higher the downpayment, the better.

An amortized note is more valuable than one with a balloon, since the payor may not be able to make the balloon payment.

The single most powerful financial aspect determining the value of a note is the amount of the monthly payment. For example, all else equal, a 10 year note with a large monthly payment and no balloon is worth more than a 10 year note with a smaller monthly payment and a balloon.

A note in the first lien position is more valuable than one in the second lien position. Third lien or lower notes are worth very little.

A second lien note with a huge balance first lien should be avoided. In case of foreclosure, the owner of the second lien would have to make the payments on the first.

A seasoned note (one with a payment history of several years or more) is better than a green note (little or no payment history).

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The payor’s credit history is important to help determine the character of the payor and likelihood of default, but it is not infallible. Everyone, even those with the best credit, can lose their incomes, have medical emergencies or suffer other unforeseen catastrophies. The best use of a credit report is to identify a potential bankruptcy candidate.

Again: The value of a note ultimately depends upon the economic conditions that support the value of the property.


Copyright 2022, The Paper Source, Inc. and W. J. Mencarow.
W. J. Mencarow is president of The Paper Source, Inc.

New Online Investor Summit, May 21st, 2022

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Attention savvy real estate investors, it’s time for another informative Realty411 Virtual Investor Summit. This spectacular online event will unite both new and accredited investors as well as top-notch educators for a wonderful weekend of learning, motivation, and networking.

Be sure to register now for our NEW VIRTUAL Investor Summit on MAY 21st, 2022 – 9 AM to 4 PM PT.

Guests will learn from top experts ready to share important knowledge, strategies, and insight. This event is Live and Interactive. Sorry, no video replays will be made available later as we want to keep this unique experience exclusive and exciting.

Joining us for this special Virtual Summit will be experts from around the nation, and Canada, ready to share their secrets on in-demand topics, including:

  • identifying and buying in solid rental markets
  • diving into multifamily units and growing a portfolio
  • scaling a real estate investment business
  • brokers: become a Top Producer in your city
  • commercial syndication strategies and advice
  • how to raise private capital for all your deals
  • rehab techniques and secrets from professionals
  • private lending education and implementation
  • plus, how to transition into a new real estate market
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Relax and Recharge in Your Mental Hobby Shop

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By Dan Harkey

Most people have a place they go to or an activity they engage in that helps them move into peacefulness, serenity, and resolve. They can spend time happily away from exterior societal pressures. I refer to that state of being as their Mental Hobby Shop, which will help them to exclude all the extraneous life pressures and extraneous violations of their sovereignty. Each of us needs to define where our mental hobby shop is located and conscientiously try to spend more valuable time there.

Here are a few examples of preferred hobby shops:

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  • Garage tinkering: Time spent in the garage with things like bicycles, cars, or motorcycles. There is nothing like washing and waxing a bike to take you into another world. How about repairing something, organizing useless stuff, or inventing something useful?
  • Golf and active sports: Time spent on a golf course, tennis court, or workout facility. How about riding horses or cruising on a street bicycle or mountain bike?
  • Personal activities: Time spent with individual activities such as painting, scrapbooking, reading a good novel or playing a musical instrument.
  • Family: Time spent with family and pets at a picnic or outing where life’s daily pressures are minimal, and enjoyment is paramount.
  • Outdoors: Time spent walking on a trail, park, or beach. Being outdoors has excellent therapeutic value. Getting close to nature is always rewarding. I have enjoyed walking in the rain on the beach with a raincoat.
  • Vacations: Great time to explore, whether at local parks, national parks, or leaving on a jet plane. How about a local harbor getaway or an extended cruise ship vacation?
  • Camping retreats: Time spent camping, with a BBQ, or RV with friends and family.
  • Tranquility: Reading books, listening to tapes or videos that reflect positive thoughts rather than anguish, disgust, or pain. There is no need for intensive inquiry or into searching for meaning. That includes avoiding watching news that portrays our circumstance as an inevitable Armageddon. Just positive thoughts!
  • You are helping others: Volunteering for various activities that help others without expecting a financial return.

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My Mental Hobby Shop consists of the activities.

  1. My garage: Time spent tinkering in my garage, maybe even having a beer, and listening to classic rock or country music.
  2. Out on the road: Time spent with my motorcycles and electric bicycle, washing, waxing, checking the tire pressure, or riding out on the road. Just head out on the highway, looking for adventure. Where have I heard that before? Much like being in the movie, Born to Be Wild, only with much less wild at my age. I may head out for a destination to meet my buddies who belong to the 4-B Club. 4-B stands for bikes, buddies, beer, burgers, and discussing buddy things.
  3. Walking: on the beach, around the harbor, through a delightful park, or around the neighborhood. 3 to 4 miles is my goal. I get sunshine, vitamin d, exercise, a nice breeze, and peace of mind. After a shower, I feel great.

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Identify where your Mental Hoppy Shop exists and conscientiously spend more time there. Life will be more rewarding where your state of happiness dwells. Happiness creates renewed energy and motivation, stimulates creative thought, and feeds overall physical and emotional health. The key is to detach from work-related issues and societal pressures and stop reading and listening to mainstream news propaganda.

News media outlets spew news full of sensationalism followed by a barrage of advertisements. The news is designed to sell you something and to create strife about how terrible everything is. Of every one-half hour segment that someone watches mainstream news, only about thirteen minutes is considered news, although the content is always filtered through an ideological kaleidoscope. Then ad nauseam advertising segments follow for about seventeen minutes.

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Within mainstream news, the commentators and the guest experts consistently deliver the narrative as subscribed to by the media company. FOX, MSNBC, AND CNN present material from an opposite perspective. Experts will work within an approved framework for acceptance and consensus-building, rather than seeking truth. Experts will act to ensure job security, cultivate kindred relationships, expand their careers, and seek more notoriety.

Little independent critical thinking and unbiased scientific analysis can be found in the mainstream media. Those who want actual and truthful content can find alternative news sites and information sources online.

Yes, turn off the toxic tube and cell phone! Yes, turning off is difficult to do for a few of us who are extroverted, outgoing and task oriented. Those folks tend to be direct, decisive, driven and demanding. But they can also become addicted to staying connected and watching 24/7 biased propaganda news.


This article is intended for educational purposes only and is not a solicitation.

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This article is an overview for a general educational purpose only. The information presented should not be relied upon without the advice of counsel.

Dan Harkey is a contributing author to Weekly Real Estate News and is a Business & Financial Consultant. He can be contacted at 949-533-8315 or [email protected].

Real Estate Money Finding Summit

Dear Fellow Investor,

I wanted to personally invite you to our next live training event titled “The Real Estate Money-Finding Summit”.

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Over 16 of the world’s greatest real estate investors and experts are coming together to share their insider secrets for getting all the loans, lines of credit, government grants/credits, and private money you’ll ever need to fund all your deals.

No serious real estate entrepreneur should miss this…

Hope you can make it!

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NEW VIRTUAL Investor Summit

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Attention savvy real estate investors, it’s time for another informative Realty411 Virtual Investor Summit . This online event will unite investors and educators for a wonderful weekend of education, motivation, and networking.

Be sure to register now for our NEW VIRTUAL Investor Summit on APRIL 23RD AND 24TH, 2022 – 9 AM to 2 PM PT.

Guests will learn from top experts ready to share important knowledge, strategies, and insight. This event is Live and Interactive; no replays will be made available.

Joining us for this special Virtual Summit will be experts from around the nation, and Canada, ready to share their secrets on in-demand topics, including:

  • identifying and buying in solid rental markets
  • diving into multifamily units and growing a portfolio
  • scaling a real estate investment business
  • brokers: become a Top Producer in your city
  • commercial syndication strategies and advice
  • how to raise private capital for all your deals
  • rehab techniques and secrets from professionals
  • private lending education and implementation
  • plus, how to transition into a new real estate market
  • AND SO MUCH MORE!

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