Dean Graziosi Weekly Video Blog #102 -

Its Imam again Dean.Just watched this weeks blog again,please have Philly in your schedule of finding the great deals.You've done started me getting up at 4am to get a jump start on everything.I can tell that the people that I see the most dont think Im going to make this happen,but who cares.You make me feel successful and I have'nt even done a deal yet.I know its right around the corner, and its on after that.Thanks Dean!!!

I am a Newbie and everyday I come here, it seems you come up with ways to help us succeed. I can see you have a heart of Gold.

I live in Northern California and I am trying hard to get into the Success Academy. I will be looking for future developments on how we can qualify to participate in this. Count me IN!

Thank you again.

Salvador Torres

Dean and Team,
I am grateful to you all that you are sharing your expertise, experience, knowledge, and wisdom with me.
I would like to be able to use this to get greater income and wealth for purposes I have embedded deep down in my heart. I am excited to hear what you have come up with because I know there is an abundance around us and we can use it to help others and ourselves. I'm claiming Proverbs 10:22. The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

What a fantastic idea! We would all make money working together like that. who's idea was it? what is the rate you will loan at? what info do you need from me in order for you to accept my application? Taking it to the next level is always a goal of mine.

Dean, I always et so inspired when I watch your videos. Thak you

Hey Dean,
I am so grateful for these blogs. They really are very inspiring. My biggest problem is my fear. I want to be successful at this but I have a tendency to hold myself back. I have been doing that for 51 years and I am tired of what I have attracted because of not fully believing that I could be successful. As a result my wife and I have some real finacial struggles. It is all my fault. She is a saint for putting up with it. I have had your book for a year and a half wanting to make a change, but I haven't. Now life is forcing me to look at other alternatives. I am scared but I trust you even though I don't know you. Thank you for your inspiration. As obe won said to Luke Skywalker, "Use the force Luke." Hopefully I can trust your positive force to guide me through this because this is way out of my comfort zone. You seem like a good guy. May the force be with me! Thanks and God bless!

The fact that you and your team are willing to help, gives me new hope and determination to succeed, as an investor, in the ever changing real estate market. Can't wait to hear and see what's next in building of my future!!!

The fact that you and your team are willing to help, gives me new hope and determination to succeed, as an investor, in the ever changing real estate market. Can't wait to hear and see what's next in building of my future!!!

AGAIN DEAN, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW THIS IS GONNA WORK, SOUNDS REALLY EXCITING, PESONALY ALL THAT YOU DO DEAN FOR ALL OF US IS VERY MOTIVATING, THANK YOU.GOD BLEESS U.

I think you are so amazing to do this (not only this, but everything you do) to help people becoming successful. I look forward to more details!

Thank you:)

Long over due dude let's get started

Great Blog... I'm interested in being a part of a brain storming session! I'll premice that: Just sold my place in Simi Valley, CA. Closes on 11/19. Moving in a room one week at a time for about two weeks/Dec. 1st target, then moving to Phoenix. Once I'm squared away there it is DG ALL THE WAY - FULL TIME. That says it all. Circumstances and an injured leg had caused two (not one but 2) false starts on my part. Ran into cash flow problems and so I decided to sell the house (beautiful double-wide mobile home in a gorgeous park). Can't have renters so I couldn't flip it under market to an investor, or I would have. I'm selling at 61% under market value in an all cash deal. With all that in mind, decided to change my my Phoenix, AZ move to December, verses Feb. 2011. A fresh start with some money behind me and little or no hassels to distract my energy. Only positive people who believe in me, no NEWS - especially after the elections and those negative TV ads - and focus.

I already have isolated some buyers for assignment deals to get the party moving, using both Dean and Matts advice (and that great monthy conference call). Already been in contact with R/E Agents to meet with ASAP in greater Phoenix! My new goal is to find a property in 30 days or less after my arrival. Afterall, I've already been doing the back end work in seeking buyers and will kick in the automated and other support within 72 hours of my Phoenix arrival. Thereafter, 2 deals a month. I believe that is realistic, even if I make mistakes here and there. I'm giving this 100% of my time: Told my long time girlfriend (yes, in Phoenix)that we'll still be mostly on the telephones and see eachother here and there on the weekends... AFTER MY FIRST DEAL! Before that, just pretend I'm still in L.A! I'll be at Starbucks in Avondale on WiFi a lot and after I have 3 decent deals behind my belt, then I'll buy a house for myself using the DG techniques.

I've come out of a entrepenurial background, having started 6 companies in my life (4 small, 1 larger (TV Production Company & Ad Agency; sold in Washington State in 1982), and one failure (truly, the best lesson of all). Went on to designe merger & acquision deals in the Silicon Valley, CA in the 80's through early 90's. Then life went on and now here I am at 60 (61 in January), unemployable, starting over! While I have some retirement, not enough and not interested. And from here on out it's DG all the way. It's that simple and a lot of words for a comment to this blog; however, this comment is my testimony to Dean and all you who read this. Doing this is the most fun I've had since being a professional musician and on the road for 10 years in my 20s (I still play harmonica professionally) and since I discovered the joys of owning a corporation! I fell in love with the "corporation" as I did with my "guitar" when I was younger. So I'm excited to the max. You've got to "love" what you do, add to it a higher, selfless purpose and feel it not as work but as play. Oh, the efforts are all work as we all know, but it's got to be consuming, like acting or learning your instrument. I don't know if Dean will ever read this comment, but somebody out there will and know that every "no" is one more closer to that "yes", that against all odds is only somebody elses notions of why they can't do something, that age is relative like time, according to Einstein. And know that all limits are in your mind.

So yea, next year at this time if there is another brainstorming session, I'll be ready to bring some ideas to the table because creativity is something that becomes part of you and can develop into a "skill".

So now I've put it out here in a blog for all to read... kinda like writing a song and exposing yourself. I've got to make good on "realistic" goals. Using everything - every gift - that comes through Dean, the greater DG Family and the like. Can't wait to see what else you, Dean, and your collegues and friends come up with. It's more like a butterfly crossing your path when on a trail in the "Enchanted Valley" in the Hoe Valley in Olimpia State Park. You can imagine the beauty of a place titled "Enchanted". It might be cold outside but you've got a very warm feeling!

Put me on the list. Ofcourse I'm interested - Thanks

I live in central florida and purchasing real estate here is very tricky. Laws are different from other states.
It would be interesting to see if Dean's team could use the program in Lakeland, Florida

Glenda Yeager

You're the best, even if I haven't done a deal yet this will help a lot of us. Keep up the good work.

Dean, you're simply the best. I really look forward to learning everything you have to offer in knowledge of Real-Estate. Thanks, Dirk Cristle.

lets get it started thanks dean

I only just bought your books last week & I am excited to get started. My biggest concern in getting started is the funding needed. I have very poor credit & this would be a wonderful way for me & others to get started or as you said in your blog to raise individual's business' to another level. Just one question. Have you considered allowing some of your more successful students to invest in this oppurtunity as well. I'm just thinking that if I were further along in the program I would like the oppurtunity to help some new students get going by helping with funding issues like mine. I'm glad that you're such a generous person & it encourages me all the more to get myself going & not let the neh-sayers discourage me.

Hi Dean and family,

I'm really excited about this. Ed and I have not made a deal yet but we still keep working at it. I hope that we will be making deals soon. Can't wait for this since we are Newbies!!!!

Sherri and Ed

keep me posted, i am interested.
been trying to find funding w/o success.
robert

Dean,

Sounds very interesting and it should provide the extra confidence for people to get into their first deals.

Thanks
Ray C

Hi Dean,
Thank you again for the great blog you're sharing every week. It's been awesome seeing you & the never ending support you are giving everybody in the DG family.
Please count me in your next level of brainstorming, just let me know how i can help.
carmen

Looking forward to what you and Matt put together for us.

Great blog Dean. I am back in good health and ready to get back into the game. Will be finishing up on my Success Academy now and ready to check out your new idea. Want to hear more, more and still more.

Nothin to it but to do it!!!!!

Wow, this sounds so great, you are doing so much to help your students and I really appreciate , your sincerity, I can`t wait to hear details....
Thank you once again...

You keep out doing yourself with each blog.There is not much left to say that hasn't already been said.It must be awesome to be able to help so many people like you have done.Having read barm,pfrern,ytyp and the think a little different course I think it's time to move my butt and put it in action!That combined with this site there is no way I can fail.May God keep blessing you for all you do! Silverhound

Dean, Thank you so much for keeping us all motivated. You're amazing. It's great to know you're out there every day thinking of new ways to help us. Right now that's all I feel I need to get this going, motivation and confidence from someone experienced. I can't imagine anyone would not be interested in working with you or Matt to better our business. I'd be there in a second, just say when and where. See you soon.
-Allison

Thanks Dean for helping us getting there. This is very exciting.

-Pierre

Dear ljmaldonado,
I have felt that way too at times. I've known that the RE investing is my path especially after connecting with Dean. (it was a expensive road to get to him) Here's a story he has told that really moved me and I believe can help us move forward.

He was a very shy kid whose parents were not too interested in providing a stable environment for him. But he had his grandmother who every day told him "you are beautiful and you can do anything". I have not had that kind of love in my life but I say that to myself now while I'm looking in the mirror. It's kind of hard at first. But we can be our own "grandmother". The support, strength, tenacity and abundance of this world is yours right now. Start there and take baby steps.

Dean,
I know this got too long, so don't publish it, but please do read it. I hope it helps you understand part of the difficulties in folks "getting started" on doing deals. I'm one of them. And there are thousands (millions actually) with very similar stories. So I think it may pertain "among us." It's just no one's talking about it. We're all cheering each other on and keeping a positive outlook. But there is an elephant that can't be ignored, and it DOES slow down the process.

First and last: Thank you. You are an amazing man... always thinking of ways to make things better, simplifying processes - and always trying to help. This new concept sounds like it could be a logjam-breaker, and may dissolve a difficult path for many of us. Or it may just make life easier for those who are already doing fine. As Sandy points out, it depends on access.

Sandy Kline's comment may be more common than most of us realize. It seems most of the heavy-hitters go back to getting their start before the 2008-2009 crashes that took life savings and discretionary money from most of us. (I'm not saying their lives were easy. I know their stories, and yours.) And I'm certainly not saying this is a difficult time to invest in real estate; I KNOW this is a GREAT time to be doing REI. What I AM saying is that most of this country's middle-class lost their "lives" between 2008 and today. So, for example, I don't have a company or a job anymore. I don't have investments or savings anymore. I'm a smart business person but there is 1 job for every 3000 people. I had a small amount left after the Lehman Bros coup, and I've been living on those remnants which are now gone. I'm guessing I don't have an 810 credit score anymore.

I've been living on what remained of my money - using credit cards for "Everything-DG," including SFL - to try to jump on the the REI train as fast as possible. I want Matt to tutor me more than anything; but I can't join the Academy because there is a cost. Understandable, but I'm out of money. At this point, I have no idea how I'm going to pay rent or bills in December. So it's real simple. I have stepped off the ledge. And I won't give up. But I'm terrified.

So Sandy, I know what that "terrified scream" inside feels like. And I want you to know there are many of us out here. We don't realize how many of us there are because no one's talking... We're all reeling and dumbstruck by what's happened to us. I just wish we could all get together and create a kind of gestalt life that works for each of us within the whole. In fact, that's what Dean seems to be doing for us to a great extent.

So DG, keep on doing what you're doing! You're keeping hope alive.
And forgive some of us who may seem slow to start. In any business one moves along faster with mentorship. But some of us don't have the money to join the Academy or go to special trainings or to jump out there and get an easy loan. Some of us have to start like Carole S. did and just liaison sellers and buyers. And we are taking steps. It just takes us longer to register on the radar.

We're all trying to stay upbeat and positive because we know that "We Can Do It" is the only fuel that will move us forward. And we SO appreciate you, and what you do and do and do to encourage us! So please know we're not dragging our feet, we're not uninspired or not being courageous. It's that some of us have lost all financial safety. We're feeling like deer in the headlights - or as Sandy said, as though we may actually become homeless, after having had a good solid life just a moment ago. Some of us don't have the financial ability to use all your wonderful resources, or to work alongside those heavy-hitters, or fly to educational, highly-inspiring meetings. We need those things and desperately want them. But we spent on what we could do and some of us actually have no more, at this time.

Maybe the Academy's mentors who are millionaires could start a scholarship fund, or just take certain folks without pay - (perhaps unemployed folks who lost their jobs from companies closing down, lost their life's pensions or 401Ks and also don't have a well-paid working spouse or a trust fund) - to provide us with a bit of time in the Academy, just to get oriented and ask periodic questions. Or just to have someone guide us through our first two deals. Something.

Case in point:
I have friends with three commercial buildings in OK. They want to sell them. I don't even know how to find out who in the DG family is buying commercial properties in Tulsa, or anywhere in OK. Through SFL? If I were a member of the Academy, I'm guessing one phone call to my mentor would get this moving. I could quickly pass these on to the right person(s) within the DG family... and perhaps get 1-3 deals made that would provide a fee. But I'm not a member of the Academy so I have to find the time to research this myself.

I have another friend with a house in an outstanding location in Santa Fe, and one in Taos. These aren't fixer-uppers; they're newly-renovated and ready to either rent as high-ticket rentals, or flip. I say flip because the owner's prices are (easily) $75-100K below what they could sell it for right now. (The owner is asking $450K because it gives him a "fair profit." The house next door to it sold for $850 and is being renovated. and the one up the street needs renovation too and sold for $650K.) In a year or two, that house will be $200K more than the current price, based on city location alone and the houses around it. Does any DG Family REI want that kind of property, or does everyone only want trashed houses? Seems to me investors would want this kind of instant-rental/instant-profit deal, requiring no work.

These owners are not greedy and are moving on to other things. They both say they'd LOVE me to bring in real buyers so they don't have to deal with MLS redundancies. Potentially I could make money on all 5 of these - they're simple and there are no unknowns. But I don't have any inroads to the right buyers for these, even within the DG Family!

So THIS is an example of one problem for people who can't throw money at success. And there are lots of us. For me, right now, it's not about HOW to begin... it's about WHERE can I quickly find the buyers that specifically pertain to these two situations in their locations - ready buyers in other states. Do we have buyers within the DG Family that would take these properties in a heartbeat? I would think so, but I don't know. If YOU know, please tell me!

And, if not, well, at least please keep doing what you're doing... keep giving us more info and more ways to move forward... so that, whatever the situation we're in, none of us will give up, and none will be left behind!

Sempre Mille Gracie.
K.