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More than thirty million Americans are currently unemployed. Many of them do not have several months of cash reserves for emergencies. And many are turning to real estate as an opportunity to help them no longer rely on their employer for all of their income. Some desire to break from the corporate world and become professional real estate investors.  It’s tough to do when you’re broke.  Real estate takes money. But the great news is, it doesn’t have to be YOUR money. There is a river of money flowing from buyers to sellers. Today we are going to teach you how to dip a toe in, and then wade out into that river with your buckets in hand. How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know wher

Today we conclude the conversation we started last time with Dr. David Janssen. We are talking about personality types, learning styles, and other characteristics that create our Divine Design. What does this have to do with real estate investing? I’m glad you asked. If we know ourselves well, we will know there are certain things we shouldn’t try. But that’s ok, because there are a lot of other options out there for us.  As we know ourselves we begin to understand why other people act the way they do and gradually we come to accept then appreciate and then deeply value those differences. This is a vital step in maturity. Master this and you will unlock relationship secrets that can set your life and your business on fire.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to quest

“Know Thyself.” If you can do this, you have a much better chance of succeeding in life and work. You also have a much better chance of knowing, valuing, and relating to other people. To know yourself is the beginning of understanding the differences and learning to value those differences. In just a few moments we are going to join a recent call we did for the Flipping America REIA. Our guest is Dr. David Janssen, a specialist in the area of personality make-up. His theory is something he calls Divine Design which is a combination of personality, learning styles, training and experience, upbringing and environment, and much more. Truly a fascinating call and while we were going along, I was trying my best to show you how understanding your own tendencies can help you select (or NOT select) certain real estate techniques or strategies.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our Natio

Would you ever consider investing with someone who has never lost money on a deal? That would certainly get my attention. I can’t make that claim - I’ve lost money on a few. But today I’m going to have on the show a young man who so far is batting 1000. He’s never lost money on a deal. And he’s been at it for awhile. Blake Templeton is an international motivational speaker, author of the new book ‘The Solomon Way’, With 14 years in business, and 300+ transactions, not one single investor has ever lost money. They are on track to have $100M under management within the next 12 months. I’ve never had someone do this on the show either, but Blake is going to tell us how the wisdom of King Solomon is a model upon which  to build a Financial Fortress We are also going to discuss his  3 Dimensional Investment strategy, talk about what that means and how we can use it. All this and more coming right up.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingameri

It’s OK to start small. But if you start well, and build disciplines around expenses, cash flow and reinvestment of profits, your business will grow and grow until it becomes a juggernaut, which is an unstoppable force, not a bad guy in Marvel comics.  Jason Pero was born and raised in Erie, PA and attended college at nearby Westminster. After college Jason began a sales career in pharmaceutical and medical device sales. He started his real estate investing career in 2001 when he and his wife purchased their first duplex. He built a portfolio of real estate rental properties while working a career as a medical sales representative. He was able to leave his job in 2012 as the portfolio grew to nearly 300 units. Currently Jason owns around 900 rental apartments. He is the President of his local landlord Apartment Association and a frequent guest on podcasts and occasional speaker at real estate investing conferences. Jason enjoys coaching and mentoring both seasoned and beginner real estate investors. He contin

Today we conclude the presentation from last time about how to build your personal network. Plus I have a bunch of questions from you and I’m going to give you some answers.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial Bay Mountain Capital, lending in the southeastern region FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarteronline.com The online course “Show Me the Money” bit.ly/dealfundingcourse 56firedome Coaching Course: Six Months, begins July 8, reg $5967, use code hopflipjump for 50% off for a limited time.  Announcement

They say your Network is your Net Worth. That may be true and if it is, building your network could be one of the most important things you will do. If you make yourself attractive or credible enough people will reach out to you. I’m going to show you how to accomplish this and no, it’s not a diet and workout lesson. I’m also going to talk through the steps and key principles for intentionally growing your network with the kind of people that will help you grow your net worth. How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicF

Today we are concluding our conversation with Chris Larsen about how to make a million dollars in real estate. There are multiple paths. We’ve laid out a path in single family and in multi-family for you, but there are other options as well.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial Bay Mountain Capital, lending in the southeastern region FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarteronline.com The online course “Show Me the Money” bit.ly/dealfundingcourse 56firedome Coaching Course: Six Months, begins July 8, reg $596

Your life is a combination of repeated tasks and special projects. Repeated tasks include all of your regular weekly, daily and monthly routines. These are essential to your life and while they may have some variety (i.e. beans instead of fish for supper), their repetition minimizes the need for special or extra-ordinary intervention from your brain. Special projects are those things that interrupt or supplement the normal routine. Weddings, major purchases, moving, special events, and business launches are examples. At work you will have a similar combination of routine activities that keep the business moving forward and special projects that might start something new, improve some routine process, or be some other type of one off or seldom repeated set of tasks. These are projects.  You have projects at work, you have projects at home. You HAD projects in school, but hopefully at some point you learned some basics of project management so you can now avoid the mediocre results of deadline-induced all-night

They say there are two inevitabilities in this life: Death and Taxes. We won’t tell you that you can completely avoid taxes, but you can minimize them with the right strategies and there are some cases where you can avoid taxes all together. The Self-Directed IRA is our topic for tonight and in a few moments we are going to show you how you can make a million dollars or even more in your Self-Directed IRA and not pay taxes. Mike Ventry is joining us. He is the Director of Business Development for American IRA, one of our sponsors. We are joining the call in just a moment and will proceed with limited commercial interruption as we cover this important topic.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from

Imagine standing in front of someone you need to impress (a date?, investors, potential clients, home-sellers?) with complete confidence. We’re not talking about false bravado or an over-inflated ego disconnected from reality. We’re talking about confidence that comes from preparation, skill development, knowledge, experience, and a thorough understanding of your weaknesses and what you have done to address them.  Confident people do better in business and in life. They generally report a higher level of happiness and life satisfaction. Some people just seem to be brimming with natural confidence. It’s tempting to think they have always been that way, but life experiences and choices shape each of us into the person we are. No one is born more confident than anyone else. The good news is you can gain confidence at any stage in your life. It’s never too late to learn the skills, begin the behaviors, and see results. Realistic confidence is not necessarily connected to your looks, your weight, your brains, but

We continue today in our conversation about Creative Deal Structures with Don Derosa. As we left off last time we were about to have a pile of wisdom and experience laid on us. In a few minutes I’m going to start the recording up again - I’ll back it up a little bit so you have some context, but Don is going to share some key principles with you about getting these deals done.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial Bay Mountain Capital, lending in the southeastern region FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarte

In the coming months we are going to see a bump in the number of distressed homeowners who need an offer “right now.” Many homeowners do not have enough equity or the ability to discount their houses low enough for there to be an opportunity for an investor to make money. Unless you know how to creatively structure deals to minimize your cash outlays. That’s the topic for the next couple of episodes. Don DeRosa buys a dozen or more houses every year and most of the time he buys using a creative deal structure. He’s joining us today and next time to talk about how this is done.  We will be talking about subject-to, mortgage wraps, lease sandwiches, and other options that will allow you to not only say yes to more deals, but get more sellers to say yes to your offers.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or y

Today we conclude the conversation with Ramon Tookes and John Durham on the topic we titled, “Some Like it Hot”. We are looking for hot markets, hot products in those markets, and hot deals. We also took a number of questions from the audience during the call and we are sharing it all with you here. The first two installments from this call were part of the previous two episodes. You’ll want to listen to Episodes 369 and 370 at some point. We will join the conversation in a few moments. Then we have some news updates and some of your questions, which we will address.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us

We are continuing the conversation today with Ramon Tookes and John Durham on the topic we titled, “Some Like it Hot”. We are looking for hot markets, hot products in those markets, and hot deals. We also took a number of questions from the audience during the call and we are sharing it all with you here. We will join the conversation in a few moments. This part two of three parts. If you missed the beginning of the conversation be sure at some point to go back and listen to Episode 369.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: b

I believe every meeting we hold and every call we conduct provides great information that you need and want. We almost always, in my humble opinion, we hit that mark. I take pride in the fact that this show is carefully researched, thoughtfully constructed, and reasonably presented to add incredible value to the life of anyone interested in real estate investing. But occasionally we move the needle from really good to amazing. And that’s what happened on a recent call with Ramon Tookes and John Durham. The topic was “Some Like it Hot”. The conversation was informative, inspirational, entertaining, and long. The call went on for a record two hours - the longest in the brief history of the Flipping America REIA. There’s so much content here I think it will fill most of the next three episodes of Flipping America. Brace yourselves America, we are going to hear a quick message from our sponsor Civic Financial and then it’s on to the call.    How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from

We continue today the conversation we started last time with Mark Dolfini and Tom Zeeb. We are talking about the recovery after the coronavirus shutdowns end and where we think real estate will be. Mark is a buy and hold investor in Indianapolis and Tom is a wholesaler in Washington DC. It’s tough to predict outcomes from something unprecedented like this, but we are going to try anyway.   How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial FlipStarter Online! www.flipstarteronline.com Announcements: The Flipping Ameri

The economy can’t stay closed forever. And when it reopens it might not open all at once everywhere. Many experts now are beginning to believe that real estate will lead a resurgence that could impact the entire economy. What shape will it take? We are joined today by my good friends Tom Zeeb and Mark Dolfini. These are high volume investors from Washington DC and Indianapolis respectively and they will weigh in on this important topic.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinancial FlipStarter Online! www.flipsta

We sometimes take technology for granted in our world. I’m not going to turn this into your daddy’s talk about how he had to walk to school every day 5 miles, uphill each way in rain or snow. But I will tell you that when I started in this business TVs were not flat and phones didn’t take pictures or send emails. Yes things have come a long way and this is not just to tell you that I’m old or I’ve been at this a long time. Both of those are true, but the point is, technological advances make it easier for us to do our jobs as real estate investors. I hope i don’t get to the point (as I know some of my friends have) where I say “I just don’t want to learn another new technology.” That statement ultimately deprives us of conveniences and advances. Besides, one way to fight dementia is to keep learning and keep the brain active. So there.  Today we are joined by technology whiz Nick Baldo. Nick started young - just out of college in his hometown of Buffalo, NY and hit the ground running with today’s tech. In tim

We continue the conversation today about whether it is time to buy, to sell, to hold, or what to do. My guests are Gordon Catts and Chris Larsen. This is the second and concluding portion of the conversation. If you missed the first part, be sure to download Show number 364 and give it a listen when you can.  Later on I’m going to reveal the top six months for home sales in the United States. If we have time we have a few questions from the audience to deal with as well.  How to contact us www.RogerBlankenship.com. Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1. Leave your message or your question.  Email your questions to questions@rogerblankenship.com. Please always tell us where you are from. We like to know where the show is being heard. And let us know how you found out about us if you don’t mind.  Sponsors American IRA: www.americanIRA.com Civic Financial: bit.ly/CivicFinanc