Guess who is responsible for this current recession/depression …

The “too-big-to-fail” banks.

– they are responsible for all the current foreclosures

– they are responsible for stealing trillions of dollars from taxpayers

– they are responsible for the current 25% real unemployment rate

– they are responsible for the utter and complete corruption of our political system

– they are responsible for 90% of the current suffering in this world

And they have stolen TRILLIONS of dollars from (you) the American people.

“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will
have to be fought sooner or later, is the people versus the banks.”

- Lord Acton

So what are you going to do about it?

If someone walked up to you, punched you in the face, and stole your wallet … would you let them get away with it?

Here is the simple solution to bankrupt the “banksters” …

take your money out of their freakin banks

Close your account, and move it to a small local bank or credit union.

I’m doing it tomorrow, along with thousands of other people.

Check it out …

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I could say more. But that should be enough.

A revolution is under way, my friend. Usually I stay quiet about these things. But enough is enough.

Together, we can bring The System to its knees.

Preston

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The richest and smartest people in the world go where the money (and women) are easy. They’re really pretty lazy. They refuse to fight uphill battles. Rather, they opt to slide down slippery slopes of joy. And joyness.

Now that the market has decided to go “Charlie Sheen” on us we need to take a closer look at what we are doing here. We need to make sure there isn’t something “easier” out there than dealing with the standard “motivated seller.”

It turns out there is.

Before the market took a nosedive, our “I Buy Houses” classified ad in the Tampa Tribune was one of like thirty. But now? We are one of only four.

Where did everyone go?

I was just interviewing one of the nation’s top wholesalers who told me he is currently spending ZERO dollars on seller marketing. He used to spend $8,000 a month. Where are his leads coming from?

Everyone is switching to REO Bank-Owned foreclosures.

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And there is a reason for that.

Ever since the last stimulus package was unrolled, banks have been giving away their inventory of foreclosed homes like unwanted clothes to goodwill. And they are able to do this for good reason. A reason which you will learn very soon.

We recently picked up a house from a bank for $2,500 smack dab in the middle of Tampa. We flipped it immediately for a $20,000 profit.

You can do the exact same thing … if you know what you’re doing.

How would you like to be the recipient of some of these “rag tag” houses? Well you can. Easily. You simply have to know where to stand in line and how to claim your fair share.

Up until now, investors have been paralyzed with fear when it came to flipping REO (bank owned) houses.

The biggest obstacle? Non-assignable contracts. Banks don’t like wholesalers. Whoever’s name is on the contract must close (with their money) on the deal.

Obviously this is not the game we play. Using your own money is for morons with no brains. Rich people (even billionaires) do not use their own money. We use the moronic people’s money. : – )

But what if there was a way to sneak your buyers in to close on the property for you right underneath the bank’s nose? And what if that way was totally and completely 100% legit? You would want to learn this tactic I’m sure.

As a “problem solver,” which is what you as a real estate investor are, you need as many tools in your tool belt as possible.

There is no such thing as “knowing enough.”

The very best in our industry never stop growing and expanding their repertoire of investing strategies. I just watched as Than Merrill devoured The Short Sale Kid’s entire home study course on a recent plane trip. Than is already a master of short sales. In his words, “if I can get just one new tip from a course … it pays me back thousands of dollars.”

Unfortunately, the step-by-step process for doing these REO “double closes” would take much more than this article to explain. But you can get your feet a little wetter with this new video I just posted that goes into more detail.

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Does the old way of “motivated seller marketing” work?

Absolutely. We still do it every day.

We have direct mail campaigns… and classified ads… and ppc ads… and a host of other strategies in place at all times. But we are also doing REO’s. We are “both/and” kind of people. Either/Or thinking is for the small minded. Large souls want it all.

You can have it all.

Starting right now.

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I’ve said it once, and now I’ll say it twice.

Flipping houses (contracts) is so easy that it may as well be standard curriculum for 1st graders. They should teach it right before finger painting.

As a matter of fact, I’m going to test finger-painting mailers to sellers just to prove my point.

Why is it that some of you won’t even buy a course if it so much as smells like it isn’t more complex than quantum physics?

You’re sadisticly attracted to “systems” that Albert Einstein, Ron LeGrand, and Albert Schweitzer (teamed up in a VIP mastermind) would struggle to comprehend and implement.

Why do you insist on making this whole real estate thing harder than it is?

Check One:

______ You’re just a complicated individual in the first place. Complexity makes you happy. Broke, but happy. Sorta. You and I do not hang out ever unless I have to for some reason. And I don’t have to do ANYdarnthing. So we never hang out.

______ You’re wired for mediocrity. Making things difficult ensures you’ll never succeed, which is what you subconsciously want in the first place. Since it is subconscious, you don’t even know enough to be able to consciously check this one. So don’t do it. Even though you should.

______ You are scared to succeed. In your mind, that is simply too much responsibility. Again, this is quasisubconscious so I don’t really know how you can check this one without simply Christmas Treeing this little quiz.

______ You hate money. Just admit it. We all have at this current moment EXACTLY what we want. If you really wanted it, you’d have it.

______ You’d rather be smart and “right” than RICH. We most certainly do not hang out ever. Even if I have to. I don’t like you.

“You can either be smart, or rich.” – T Harv Eker

Some of the dumbest people I know are filthy rich. Myself included.

So how dumb are we really then?

I don’t have a “formula” for making offers to give you. I don’t use one. Never have.

Do you want a formula? Or do you want bucketloads of money?

Your success lies in becoming a big person. Not in fancy formulas.

Here is all I do to get rich and stay rich flipping houses. Take it or leave it …

I take massive action on everything I do. Massive amounts of marketing. Massive amounts of offers. Massive amounts of deals. Massive amounts of DEPOSITS IN MY FRIGGIN BANK ACCOUNT.

I don’t cry over lost deals. I couldn’t care less. There’s fifty more where that one came from.

I offer approximately 50% of ARV on almost everything. If that number ends up being high, I simply renegotiate with the seller.

I make so many flippin offers it would make your head spin like Beetlejuice.

I do everything I possibly can to get someone else to do all my work for me. Including sellers, buyers, title agencies, realtors, VA’s, assistants, etc.

I spend 75% of my life simply doing things to improve my overall mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual state. Money flows in naturally as a result.

Too simple for you? Then go somewhere else. Go do short sales or something painful and time-consuming like that. My world is for people who want to actually enjoy their lives, not stress themselves out to death because they have absolutely nothing else to do.

Get this through you head – YOU ARE NOT YOUR CAREER! There is more to life than work!

Your goal should be to get as much money as possible – as easily as possible – so that you are free to pursue your life purpose.

There is a white hot product on the internet that can help you do just that.

Make a hundred offers. Contract on a few deals. Make $20,000-$50,000.

If you can’t do that at least once a month… then just keep trying. If you still can’t do it… then keep trying some more. And if you STILL can’t do it then maybe this simply is not your calling. Go try something else. You’ll find your niche. I promise.

Make it happen.

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- Preston

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“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings.” – Proverbs 22:29

Stand before kings? Sounds great!

But how does one get “skilled in his work?”

American children were taught for 100 years that all we had to do to be successful was listen, take notes, remember what we were told and repeat it accurately when asked.

Americans call this silliness “education” and we guard the concept fiercely, obstinately and ridiculously.

The worship of college runs deep in American families. To question college or to criticize it is to brand yourself a heretic.

But college is no longer a religion among employers.

A comprehensive study released by the Harvard Graduate School of Education on February 2, 2011, suggests that America’s “college for all” mindset may be doing more harm than good. According to the study, Americans place too much emphasis on 4-year degree programs when 2-year occupational programs would better prepare students for today’s job market.

Fifty years ago 30 percent of the jobs in America were “white collar.” The white collars enjoyed more prestige, had more opportunity and made more money than the 70 percent who were “blue collar” laborers.

College, we were told, was the difference.

Flash forward half a century; 30 percent of the jobs in America today are “white collar,” just as before. But only 15 percent of today’s jobs are “blue collar.” The remaining 50 percent are jobs that didn’t exist half a century ago; jobs that require specialized training but not a 4-year degree.

And since there aren’t enough people trained to do these jobs, our skilled “no collars” are paid wonderfully high salaries because employers are begging to hire them. The nocollars make higher salaries, in fact, than two-thirds of the 30 percent whose collars are white.

“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings.”

And he will do it without a collar.

Meanwhile, our universities graduate exactly 10 times more psychology majors each year than there are jobs for psychology majors. But these bright-eyed innocents are never told, “There will be a job for only 1 in every 10 of you. The rest of you will have to find some other way to make a living.”

I’m betting you know at least a dozen young adults with college degrees who are struggling to find work today. Am I right? But the problem isn’t that there aren’t any jobs. There are plenty of jobs for people with the right skills. These “educated unemployed” simply chose a course of study for which there is no demand in today’s workplace.

James Michener grew up poor, joined the Navy, earned more than 100 million dollars as a writer, was lavished with honorary degrees by the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities, then left us with a singular piercing observation shortly before he died in 1997: “If our military capacities were in as much peril as are our intellectual capacities, the nation would be taking gigantic and immediate steps to repair the deficiencies. It is scandalous that we are not taking equally huge steps to reverse the decline in our basic educational adequacy.” – This Noble Land, p. 99, (1996)

But Michener wasn’t referring to traditional education. Michener understood what it takes to become “skilled in your work:”

“I feel almost a blood relationship with all the artists in all the mediums, for I find that we face the same problems but solve them in our own ways. When young people in my writing classes, for example, ask what subjects they should study to become writers, I surprise them by replying: ‘Ceramics and eurhythmic dancing.’ When they look surprised I explain: ‘Ceramics so you can feel form evolving through your fingertips molding the moist clay, and eurhythmic dancing so you can experience the flow of motion through your body. You might develop a sense of freedom that way.’” – This Noble Land, p. 193

Michener – a man who stood before kings – believed form and freedom to be the factors that differentiated those who were skillful from those who were not.

What form of education will you suggest to the young people who look up to you? Will you give them the freedom to do something other than “go to college?”

Uh-oh. Did that question make me a heretic?

Roy H. Williams
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Aahhh …

A day for love.

A day for romance.

A day for suicide (if you’re single). ← don’t do it. there’s reason to live. This blog isn’t one of them.

And, most importantly, it’s a day for the government to sit back, laugh, and watch the American Idiots scramble around like madmen, spending money they don’t have on people they slightly love …

all because they said so

Ironically I have a love/hate relationship with our United States government.

Love, because I respect them as the most amazing marketers this world has ever known. I wish I could get 300 million+ people to do what I said like that. WOW would this world be a way more interesting and very much more dangerous place.

Hate, because I have an aversion to people wearing suits and lying to me while they’re wearing them. And they wear lots of suits and do lots of simultaneous lying. It’s like … “look, lie to me. I don’t care. But at least take off that suit. It’s annoying me. Lie to me like a normal human being.” Ya know? You know.

So the government has declared that February 14 “thou shalt be guilted into spending money on roses, candy, cards, balloons, and dinner … or we’ve programmed your partner to hate you for a year.” Whether you actually mean any of the gifts and love letters is totally irrelevant. Just do what you’re told. Drone.

Love is a free gift. But not on February 14. On February 14 love costs an arse load of money.

I was about to boycott today until I realized that my fiancé was firmly under the “trance”.

What’s a boy to do? Break a heart in the name of truth, justice, and all that makes any sort of reasonable sense in this effed up world?

I don’t think so.

I’m down $9,000 so far. And it’s early.

You know … I could just write her a nice home made card, steal her some fresh flowers from my neighbors yard, and cook her dinner. She’d probably be happy.
But no, not me. I have helicopters and actual cherubs involved. My concierge has Cupid on speed dial. I am not messing around. If I’m gonna be conned into spending money, then gosh darn it I am going to SPEND it, son.

I adopted the “go big or go home” motto back in 1981 when I was 6 and built a soapbox car with a V8 engine and 19” spinner rims (to impress a girl of course). I’ve pretty much stuck with that ever since.

So … the government got me. Yay for the government. Congratufreakinlations. Are you happy? No, you’re not. You’re BROKE. But enjoy my money anyways. It all gets back to you somehow anyways.

How about you? Did they get you? Post below. Whoever got gotten the worst gets a dozen roses sent to their house from me personally. lol. Just for the heck of it.
Ready??? …. Amuse me.