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Ep 466: Creative Finance In Under 30 Minutes With Chris Prefontaine
February 12, 2024
Ep 466: Creative Finance In Under 30 Minutes With Chris Prefontaine
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In this episode, the special guest was Chris Prefontaine, a real estate expert from New England. Chris discussed his approach to real estate, focusing on buying and selling properties without using banks, employing methods like owner financing, lease purchase, and subject to existing financing. He mentioned the shift in his business approach following the 2008 financial crash and talked about his coaching business, which is part of the Inc 5000. The conversation delved into creative financing in real estate, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions to structure win-win deals and the significance of terms over price. Chris also talked about his preference for off-market deals and avoiding transactions with agents due to their general lack of understanding of creative financing. The episode covered various aspects of creative real estate transactions, including structuring deals with no down payments, managing seller expectations, and the importance of persistence in real estate success. 0:00: Chris Prefontaine's Introduction (0:00 - 0:30): Host Daniel Martinez introduces Chris Prefontaine, a real estate expert from New England specializing in creative financing. Creative Real Estate Strategies (0:34 - 1:10): Chris discusses his real estate strategy, emphasizing buying and selling properties in New England without using banks, focusing on owner financing, lease purchases, and subject to existing financing. 0:50: Impact of 2008 Financial Crash and Shift in Business (0:50 - 1:10): Chris shares how the 2008 financial crash impacted him and led to a shift in his business approach, including the start of his coaching business, now recognized in the Inc 5000. 9:00: Approach to Real Estate Deals and Agent Interactions (9:00 - 9:50): Chris explains his preference for off-market real estate deals and his approach to working with real estate agents, highlighting the challenges with agents who are not familiar with creative financing methods.www.smartrealestatecoach.com Text 📱 210-972-1842 Text 📔 "Course" to learn how to make 6 figures on one land deal. Text ✴️ "Hive" to get added to weekly meetings. Text 🍎 "Apple" to schedule a 1-on-1 call with Anthony & Daniel. Text 🛬 "Land" to join The Million Dollar Land Mastermind 🔍 Need Inbound Real Estate Leads. https://www.hiveleads.io/ 🔍 Follow Us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbulcrC4WbOy5Fzu0eWzNVQ/?sub_confirmation=1 🔍 Follow Us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hivemindcrm/ 🔍 Check Out https://www.hivemindcrm.io/ 🔍 Check Out Our Land Mastermind https://www.milliondollarlandmastermind.com/landmastermind 🔍 Pick Up All Event Recordings here. https://thehiveislive.com/recording 🔍 Follow Us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@hivemindcrm?lang=en 📍Join the FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/137799891494707 📍 Check us at Join Us! https://thehiveislive.com/ Help support the show. https://anchor.fm/hivmindcrm/support

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your host Daniel Martinez today I have a
special guest Chris
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Prefontaine he says he's from New
England but what part of New England uh
Rhode Island right now Daniel Rhode
Island Rhode Island all right so one one
of the first I always like to ask I know
you've been doing real estate for a long
time you're doing coaching let's kind of
jump right into the meat and the sauce
we got we're on a short timeline today
and we're going to make it work so tell
us 30 second commercial I know you got
Creative Real Estate Strategies.): Chris discusses his real estate strategy, emphasizing buying and selling properties in New England without using banks, focusing on owner financing, lease purchases, and subject to existing financing.
this down what you do who you are and
all that jazz yeah yeah we buy and sell
we family company buy and sell property
in the New England area we only buy it
on terms we don't use Banks that's
Creative Real Estate that's owner
financing lease purchase subject to
existing financing and then that took
that was after the crash by the way
because after the crash it was
devastating for me after the 08 debacle
and then we got started getting demand
for coaching on this and now we we coach
this all across North America and when I
say we coach this Daniel we do deals
with students in the trenches very big
difference from just buying some course
and now we've hit Inc 5,000 three years
0:50: Impact of 2008 Financial Crash and Shift in Business (0:50.Chris shares how the 2008 financial crash impacted him and led to a shift in his business approach, including the start of his coaching business, now recognized in the Inc 5000.
in a row so that that piece of our
business is growing while we still do
deals in the trenches oursel and stay
current and that's your coaching
business is part of the Inc 5000 yeah
amazing amazing how does your lead flow
come in is that through ads or through
social media marketing podcast all the
above I was going to say all the above
but but when someone starts just to
focus them we have a service that will
feed them daily live feed of expired
list things that didn't sell with
relatives for sale by owners for rent by
owners and then if someone says yeah
great but I'm kind of more aggressive
anymore we'll start working on Niche
lists like free and clear homes there a
reason we can talk about that later
super super lucrative and other other
Niche lists like that to make make sure
they do and I say we a virtual assistant
will call these lists not us okay then
we'll take the people that say yeah yeah
yeah give have give me a call so you're
providing them data as soon as they sign
up just to get leads in found yeah they
pay for the service but it's peanuts
it's like $60 a month it's not our
service right it's a third party okay
okay but the whole thing is that you're
trying to and this is I think the the
the thing about coaching and students is
to get them into momentum as quick as
possible yeah it's key we we obsess over
this one we have a bunch of metrics but
we obsess over the metric of what we
call ttfd which is time to First deal
because to your point if they get
rolling quickly especially on our three
payday deals which are very lucrative
they're not leaving and so that's why we
obsessed over that versus okay what can
we sell this month it's not that it's
about how many deals can we do and how
quickly okay so how does Okay so time
the first deal is is very important
metric to you so you're giving them
leads are you giving them you do like
weekly trainings they get a course yeah
so there's a basic online course and
then depending on what program they want
weekly group coaching or weekly group
coaching and unending like literally no
limit how many times they can access
their coach if they're doing deals it's
it's as needed oh the reason why I'm
asking this because I I do coaching I
have students well so I'm trying to get
them my my my metric that I'm keeping
track is is uh when they hit six figures
so I don't know it's not necessarily the
first deal because they can hit it in
one deal but it's like the first time
they hit yeah it's cool though it's it's
a good it's a good metric all right
let's talk about creative Finance
because I love Creative finance and I
think I think you do too so let's let's
let's break down creative Finance for a
person that's never even doesn't know
what that means yeah so I'll try to go
third grade level my brain just assume
certain things so you peel me back if
you need to it means you're not going to
use a bank first of all let me be very
super clear because I I got crushed by
the Banks after8 and said I'm not doing
it again never I'm not signing a
personal guarantee ever and you can do
that for even your own house never mind
what Daniel and I do so that means owner
financing this building I'm standing in
is a mixed use building it doesn't have
to be residential which is what I teach
this was a free and clear building no
mortgage we structured owner financing
with the owner it was principal only
payments for a while I made it to him
instead of a bank if you knew to real
estate listening and then because he was
conventional real estate guy he said
principal only like he couldn't even get
his armra on that or his head so then we
went 18 months and then we advertised
the balance so he get his way and I get
my way but I hammered principal at the
beginning that's very important so owner
financing this one way second way for
newbies which is great is lease purchase
our agreements literally Daniel have a
$10 deposit built in so you could tie up
all kinds of property like you go you
can get to a million dollars say on 10
deals or all three paydays that we teach
and you spent a hundred bucks literally
100 bucks because you're not taking
title least purchase to control that and
then the third way we do buy it just
like going to financing and that's
subject to existing financing and the
reason it's creative when you said
define it it's all these deals I'm just
telling you as you know the 10,000 foot
view there's always a deal after the
deal after the deal when you can
restructure these things I call that
wealth stacking like changing it up a
little bit but think about sub2 right
now subject to existing loan if you're
new to this you buy someone's home you
take ownership in whatever entity you're
doing according to your attorney but
then you're the seller stays on the loan
as the guarantor we're seeing two three
4% like in the last several months we're
buying homes at that rate I I don't know
when that's going to happen again right
on the conventional Market but that you
can do that right now which is pretty
cool okay so let's uh are you doing and
you mentioned the lease purchase lease
options are you doing like a master
lease purchase with a a Master Lease
built in or is it just a straight lease
option with a purchase agreement we have
a great lease option when we're doing a
residential house like I've done some
Master Lease things on on commercial
with a couple units but let's talk
residential Simplicity yeah lease
purchase agreement with an honor before
date the day can be cashed out they
being the seller and then we exit all of
these with a rentown program with the
buyer we've got about a two to 5%
default rate that's way above what
anyone else is doing in the industry
with this from what I understand because
we qualify very strictly the buyers we
want them to get to the Finish in other
words are you teaching your students to
rap for cash flow or to to keep for like
portfolio like rentals yep great
question so I that sort of comes into
that wealth stacking where when someone
gets the five or six property like okay
Daniel let's look at this now you've
you've solved your cash flow needs let's
say assumably and we say all right great
so now let's take some of these sandwich
leases and let's try to turn them into
sub two now we don't have an end date
let's take some of these sandwich leases
or two is where maybe the sellers do
some money and let's try to Discount
that from another deal coming in so
there's all kinds of things we can do to
keep these deals 20 or 30 years or cash
them out in two or three depending on
what you got going on in your life right
financially absolutely no I I I love
Creative Finance I love what you're
teaching how many students have you
pushed through like this this like phase
one part of this education because I
think your metrics going down the line
is always going to trickle down but like
how many people have you put in have
gotten their first deal that's that's
huge I have a couple things so we track
we don't Lop off the outliers right so
I'm going to give you numbers of
everyone we're at a little over a
thousand people that have gone through
the qls home study course I don't know
how far but know we broke that and
that's the online course because if
you're gonna do anything with us you go
through that you either do it with us or
you go on your own and do it but you go
through that course yeah called Quantum
Leap system qls okay out of all the
people about 24% of those end up joining
us locking arms and becoming what's
called an associate and they're doing
deals in the trenches with us as you and
I saying about the weekly calls and
everything else we do out of those that
have come in I don't what that comes to
almost 300 83% of those are what we
consider active and active is they show
up they don't massive goals necessarily
that's their business but they show up
to weekly calls they they send their
weekly reports in they're doing the work
according to their goals and then we
have an alltime number that we're trying
to get to one and that is deal per
student now that might sound crazy
because some people do 15 deals but but
some people come in the community and do
one and go hey this is great I got a job
and one deal made me you know 100 Grand
so we're at like 6 we're not at one yet
but again it's something we obsess over
and when I tell all the coaching people
we're in a mastermind we're like I don't
know 200 businesses like you and I and
they go that's really good so we're
trying to get to one on average on
everyone has ever come in including
people that quit right yeah yeah yeah
you gota make up you got to make up for
because this is one thing I think that
not everybody fits into the mold and not
everybody's going to catch it but you do
want to make sure your your metrics are
as best as possible because I think it's
one of those things that if you can
really home I think I I love that you're
you're very like kpi oriented because it
shows that you care about the numbers
and you care about each student
individually even though there's even
though you there there a lot of people
there's there's metrics to everybody in
trying to keep you might try you're
trying to help everybody
win yeah I talked to a guy last night
literally on Zoom he's a he's a like an
equity looking at growing with us and he
Approach to Real Estate Deals and Agent Interactions
said What attracted me to you guys many
months ago was that you sort of have
best practices for you care about people
he said that's evident and he said too
many people in the industry don't and
this is a guy that wasn't in the
industry so so that to your comment very
important there's too many people just
want to sell stuff and keep moving yeah
yeah no I think it's good it's good it's
good metrics it's good systems um I I
love I love the community aspect of it I
think the community aspect of it is
insane it's very
undervalued this is this is I think the
I I can't know the answer to this one
but are you marketing the sellers
yourself yeah we still buy and sell oh
yeah okay are you are you marketing
though we just use the system I told you
list VA calls we follow up we don't we
don't spend any money on marketing the
reason is I know a lot of people teach
it and I like it but the reason is when
I was new coming out of the crash I had
10 cents I didn't have 10 cents even so
if you said buy a list or do a i' be
like I can't do that so then I I don't
want to burn people with that but once
they get in they can play around with
postcards and things like that which
I've done in my career but I don't make
it a standard way I get my business
absolutely so I really want to dig in on
this because we started doing the same
thing and we almost follow the same
similar framework not necessarily the
same but similar framework and we
stopped marketing over a year ago so
we're not because we do deals with our
students and that's where our lead flow
comes from because yeah we rather do
deals in the trenches with our with our
people so we stopped actually marketing
two sellers directly and then we car
more
on the education side teach and educate
and teach them how to fish love it love
it very similar we have similar
mentalities with this yes because I I
think the the biggest thing is that when
you teach when you teach them how to
fish they can go they can go fish the
rest of their lives they don't they
don't necess need you anymore and that's
I think that's the all in all goal when
it comes to People Like Us is that they
go if you teach them how a fish they can
they don't whenever they get it and they
they got it down they're just they're
gone you said something real important
because I scream about this when once
you you learn creative no one can take
it from you it's a skill life and you
can and should be buying your own
property that way your own house if you
just learn it and buy your own house
every three or four years you have a
huge win absolutely and you can go and I
I want I want to hit on this is that
other people's speed and acceleration
doesn't have to be your speed and
acceleration go at your own pace go slow
figure it out do it right and get get to
that end goal over time and distance
because this is a long-term Play You and
I in sync so on this week's calls I make
a list of what I'm doing on the calls
each week right okay this week with my
highest level group I said hey guys just
just a quick reminder for you we're in
January and I said very similar to yours
but here's how I word it I said your
success has zero to do with whatever
else in the community is doing and it
has zero to do with what you where you
are now it has everything to do with
where you are now compared to where you
were last year so just work on that and
don't beat yourself up they like oh okay
A little light bulb so I agree with you
no it's amazing and and this is for
example sake is there like a student
that comes to mind that went from zero
to 100 super fast and what what does
that look like cuz I think it it's a
that person has the tools and
capabilities to accelerate and not
everybody has to build those like some
people just come with it installed on
them so this is like a outlier so what
does the outlier look for look like in
your in your coaching yeah and and I'm
glad you said outli because I don't want
to ever give the impression Yep this is
the norm you come in this what you're
going to do no this okay so Brian in
Chicago comes to mind and there's others
but Brian Chicago comes to mind because
when he first came in he was an elevator
salesman he was on the road for Years
hated being away from his son and said I
want to learn this I want to leave my
job he left his job in nine months but
what Brian did is you didn't listen to
me right away because he listened to me
in every other way except for this he
didn't want to buy sub2 or on France he
was a little afraid of it so he did all
leases he did his first eight deals got
over 800 Grand and pay day one twos and
threes meaning this spread out and was
able to leave his job again eight deals
10 $1 each which he Chuckles and said I
really didn't give him 10 bucks on every
one of them but $80 to tie up that with
$838,000 in Payday accumulated that's
that's pretty cool and then he left his
the job that quickly I think his
original goal was either a year or two
when he did it in nine months okay
that's amazing I think I know what your
paydays are but let's cover your paydays
one two and three and what what does
each one do to kind of I didn't know
what they are but yeah no and this came
out of the crash right so I came out of
the crash going you know what I'm done
do the trans actional thing I just want
to I want to create someone well and we
trademark that in US here's how it works
the buyer comes in who's a true buyer
now they're not a rented with some pipe
dream they're a buyer that needs a
couple more years of tax returns to get
financing or whatever their thing is so
that's payday one our family company the
communities all over the place and
sometimes bigger we're in the lower end
is around 26 Grand or 28 grand P2 is the
spread between my underlying debt to the
seller or the bank and what I'm
collecting from the tender buyer o is
around 308 bucks we're very low the
community is closer to a grand a house
per month and then payday 3 is really
cool because it's all the principal pay
down you accumulated to the deal
especially if you did owner financing
principle only and then it's the markup
and then all three of those paydays
total for us around 78 Grand for the
community 45 Grand low high of quarter
of a million like my guy in California
Rusty's also a coach now he was a p a PE
teacher for 23 years and left that and
now he's a coach with us but he does he
does you know a million is normal for
him so his paydays are always six
figures because of the price range so
that make sense the way I did it yeah
absolutely absolutely let's talk about
principal only and terms you ask for
when you're asking for a seller because
there's so many ways to create a woodwin
scenario and a lot of buyers are stuck
on price and like I think I always think
of like the commercial buyers like I
want $5 million for my for cap and like
okay
so what what the what what are terms
people can use in
please do your own research after this
because I don't think we're going to
touch the surface on this but like what
are some things you can negotiate up
front to make a sweet deal for you on
your other paydays that you negotiate on
the back end yeah I'm with you I'm not
CAU up on price at all and I do look at
comps but I don't get too caught up and
I just want to make sure they're
realistic because if I can get my term
I'm golden so a couple things first of
all you get all this because we can't do
it to your point all of it today but you
for the listener you get all this by
asking questions yep because people say
me how do you convince these people and
then I'll talk about the pay the hell
you do that so you don't you ask
questions and you try to either solve a
problem that they can't solve or
accomplish a goal they weren't
accomplishing in the conventional Market
they're free and clear they don't have a
problem they want to accomplish a goal
like this building was free and clear
that I'm in and he wanted tax in estate
planing so he wanted on a financing so
so you find out that first what are you
trying to solve for if you think you can
solve it there are things like I I treat
it like a seesar I say to the seller
okay I got three variables here it's
kind of a seesaw and there might be five
but I'm trying to limit them I have
price I have term and I have monthly
what's the most important to you I want
my price all right great and then I so
then I I know I just got to push the
term out right because if I do principal
only payments I'm gonna make up any
increase in any premium in price in a
few months based on my monthly so that's
I position it if they bring up I don't
know let's call it uh let's let's say
they bring up interest because I don't
want to pay interest so I didn't bring
it up and they bring it up so then I
just say okay we got four things it's
kind of a quadrant we got interest down
price and term what's most important I
can't give all that's not fair we got to
have a win-win here and they get that
it's like common sense so what are the
two top for and we'll see if I can work
on the other two what's the fifth one
would be down payment because we don't
do down either so don't bring it
up okay so I had a uh I was on I'm a big
fan of Twitter and I was commenting
about how we just picked up $1 and a
half million dollars of seller financing
on one property from we do land and uh
people like oh you can't do that like
like I I screenshot the picture of the
contract and there's there's an interest
rate box and it's blank like oh why'd
you leave that blank like oh don't worry
about that if you don't mention it they
don't ask true yeah assumptive so here's
a way to say it too hey Daniel's myell
hey Daniel say it's I don't know
$600,000 then I'm Gonna Make You monthly
payments against that I didn't say
interest I didn't even say principal I
said I'm Gonna Make You monthly payments
against that so when I send him a note
that says 1,500 a month principal only I
said yeah that's what I told you it's
common sense but
if so you could turn into a hybrid
though let me just say this quickly this
building like I said he was a landown
one of the biggest in the area so he he
got it and he was a math guy but when I
said principal only he almost fell off
his chair so I said okay let's do this
and that's why I structured what I call
a hybrid all principal for 18 months
take the balance then amortize it at his
rate we are both happy
win-win yeah because you can knock down
a l this you can knocked down a lot
because you can make those payments
extra big on the front end just to make
your your amortize
Even Flow yeah and they like it because
it's cash flow for them that's all they
see oh big number and I actually built
in every August they give him another
five grand TOS principal but that's all
that was it was hammer and principal do
you ask for uh annual terms what sorry
annual
terms like instead of 360 payments
versus 30 payments so one pay per year
never I haven't done
that okay I'm tracking with you okay I'm
just saying I'm asking if you done that
because if I I learned this from
somebody but is keeping people like
mailbox money but if you separate the
mailbox money across the year they get
desperate because then youate that so
you so you do how many payments instead
it's 30 annual payments like instead of
360 monthly payments you do 30 annual
payments so pay them once per year got
it yeah I like that for a lot of reasons
oh yeah see light
bomy I I don't know who I learned this
from I heard it somewhere but it was a
this that's uh they get mailbox money
but they're separating how often they
receive the mailbox money yeah and that
that alone is powerful love it it's good
stuff I love Creative creative is so so
fun and there's no end it's never boring
right it's never boring never boring one
thing I really want to hit on is what
you said is gauging questions a lot of
people Overlook that part of it they're
like oh I'm just
gonna just kind of throw my offer out at
it if you ask gauging questions you can
construct and create the offer that's
going to work to make you get that deal
together together together are you doing
off Market on Market how do you deal
with agents if you're creating creative
Finance how does that work how do you
how do you work that and piece that a
disclosure for agents listening I was an
agent for 18 of my 33 years in the biz
so this is not a shot at relatives but I
tried not to ever deal with them because
they don't understand it and they get in
the way I didn't want to have my
brokerage so I get it I just didn't
understand what I understand now
so most of our stuff is off Market
because remember it's either well a fizo
is on the market technically but I'm
saying with an agent so it's either an
expire that came off with an agent a
fsbo's on the market a fsbo by Nature
thinks what they can sell they wouldn't
be a fsbo so I know when I make that
call you're not saying yes today but I'm
figuring out if you're motivated I'm
gonna put a follow up in the future
that's a caveat there whereas an expired
it's like yeah I I didn't sell it I'm
frustrated so that's a different lead
and then the femp own is a totally
different lead because they just
frustrated landlords they're n them
market and then the niche list the free
and CLA is definitely not in the market
typically unless you on accident run
into one right but if I buy a list of
free and
CLA lot large percentage are not in the
market if not all so mostly off Market
that's that's good that's good we're
we're mostly on Market so we
do we're do the opposite this is one of
the things I I love about this
conversation is that Chris is Right
Daniel's right whoever teaches something
totally different they're right too all
these all these things work it's just
how you work it and I think the the
however you learn and practice and do
you can take a very and this is this is
why I love real estate you can take a a
like a manipulation of whatever you're
taught and make it your own and totally
kill it in a totally different sector
yeah and and you can combine and and
here's what's neat Daniel and I could be
in the same zip code never not run into
each other never compete with him I say
that to say that you know this now
because the way you answer that I
responded but it's the it's the
prosperity mindset I have a prospect
yesterday he's talented guy he's coming
he came from a tech and he's been on his
own and he wants to join our community
and his his only concern he told me was
that one of my coaches and the guy Rick
I talked about who know I didn't talk
about this show I had done so many shows
today he was in the government a
government job for 30 years and just
left in May to come full-time and he
said I'm concerned he's near me and I
just wanted to like slam the phone down
because you can't how many deals do you
need if they're 100 Grand deals really
how many deals do you need 50 a year no
just two one or two and you straight and
most light work yep so don't worry if
you're listening have Prosperity mindset
if anything if Daniel and I in the same
Market we're probably gonna collaborate
on some cool deals We're Not Gonna step
on each other yeah I I love the
collaboration part of it because a lot
of people and a lot of rich people that
are in the real estate game for a long
time they're very abrasive they pull out
the the lawsuit card they pull out the
attorney card they pull out all these
different things to try and be abrasive
and try and fight that collaborative
thing but the collaborative people what
I've seen kill and knock out everybody
else outside the market and if you're if
you're competing with a collaborative
group of people you're gonna lose every
time agreed you're gonna lose every time
this is man this is such a good
conversation I I think we talk for an
hour about
this stu okay so you're not talking to
agents you like doing direct to soner
aling direct to seller marketing are you
teaching to do virtual or if they're
belly to belly do they do belly belly
conversations how do they kind of build
that internal Rapport how are you
teaching to teach the internal rapport
with the sellers directly yeah prior to
covid not going to the house was
difficult now it's accepted so we'll
we'll do properties we haven't seen let
alone walk through I hav't se maybe a
picture of it but are there cases
especially with some agewise some some
older people face to face this is
important for some people right I'm I'm
just saying if you have like I got a
call I got a referral in Florida I'm in
Rhode Island I just got this last week
so for me it's simple I just do the
whole deal but I just have somebody to
be boots on the ground and go go over
there for me to look at the house not to
go build report I did all that on the
phone no problem at all you and people
say well what if I don't have boots in
the ground we didn't have boots in the
ground when we started in the state of
Connecticut about uh this is back in
like 16 so we put an ad out we were
looking for someone that could go to the
house and give us the the look right you
know we got we know we attracted with
those ads not knowing we would Builders
and home inspectors oh home inspector
okay so I said send them it's better
than I'm gonna do and then they gave us
a report and we did everything over the
phone with the seller it was the best
thing we fell into an
accident Builders and home inspectors
they answer the ad and they said they'll
do I'll do a walkth through I'll provide
your report I think we G him 250 bucks
wow see when we do that we always get
agents agents agents always are the ones
doing the walkthroughs for us as long as
you again I'm going to throw a little ow
here like if you call me in my agent
days I also did new construction stuff
so I I could be able to help you not I
wasn't like in the trenches Builder but
I knew enough some you just got I mean
some agents you know they got to try to
sell the house one their one house a
year and let alone give you a home
inspection but some of them are good and
it's always the conversation so we
always pitch them to do like a Bo and
then we tell them to do a Bo and then if
we bought the property would happen to
be the listing agent nice and that's how
we work reciprocate yep we have agents
don't get me wrong with the agent thing
I just don't want to call one on the
market we have agents that understand
what we do and if they're gonna have a
property expire they go oh man and they
refer us and they get a nice residual
because we paying on our payday or they
down the road say ah man they didn't
want to pay a re agent or they're upside
down they can't afford me if they don't
come out of pocket so you know those
things if it's out of their box they
will refer us that's a good thing I I'm
we're coming towards the end I'm going
to head you with a good question how do
you overcome a large amount du that a
seller wants creatively to cover like a
balance up to where they might have
$50,000 worth of equity or larger how do
you come up with that to make it cash
flow through your paydays because
sometimes it's hard to create a down
payment from your R buyer to cover that
am okay so we try to and we do on 98% of
the deals if I had to pick a number if
they have Equity they're getting it on
the back end as a balloon with no
payments and no interest in between now
amazing the underlying debt is so small
that the payment's tiny we don't mind
struction some quarterly or something
like that but that that would be
different Rick just did two what he
calls hybrid deals where he bought them
sub two there significant Equity above
that so so did some more financing on
top but no payments and no interest on
both his deals and these are nice houses
they just wanted to wrap it up and they
trusted him to be done with it so you're
doing a backend balloon or quarterly
distributions to cover that amount and
that could be proportion from cash flow
or some type of third party loan or even
yeah it could be that deal it could be
you could Bor private if you had to but
none of my students do it could be you
have five or six deals going you pay
days of flowing and you know you can
pull some money out of those yeah you
can get super creative what is a quote
that is yours or somebody else's that
you resonate with the say that again so
I'm tracking what is a quote that is
yours or somebody else's that you
resonate with I I always butcher the um
I fet who said the C the the persistence
quote but
persistence I forget the quote it was a
was it a Roosevelt quote or something
persistence is more important than
Talent education blah blah blah blah
blah okay okay didn't I do that really
well that was the best I've ever
heard you get a long day of interviews
you that's the best quote I'm coming up
with no and this is one of I'm gonna
finish on this note but it's one of the
things where if you if somebody has
skills and you're consistent you're
gonna beat them every time that's that's
where I that's that's the persistent one
yeah yeah that's just the bottom line
all right so where can people find you
online we got smart realestate coach.com
I think this has been a great
conversation I wish it was longer but I
think this is I I tell you what get me
on an encore in six months or whatever
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Daniel Esteban Martinez

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I have been an entrepreneur since 2018. I come from a regular home just like most people. My dad worked on the roads in the Chicago area for over 30 years. He always taught me to work with my brain, instead of my body. Your body can only take so much abuse. I learned so much from my father. He always pushed me to work smarter and not harder.

I have owned and operated a trucking business for 2 years. I started learning real estate in 2019. Fell into the Data & Skiptracing business in 2020. My partner Anthony & I started Hivemind in 2021.

I have done a ton of different jobs coming up from painting, to door-to-door sales, telemarketing, truck driving, and loading trailers. What I learned most is that I want to stay in the digital business space. The leverage you can have delivering digital products to the marketplace can yield limitless possibilites.

I started The List Guys in 2020. It is a data and skiptracing service. We provide seller and buyers list nationwide. My clients have been getting great results and I am proud to help people killing it.

I started the Hive in 2021 with my partner Anthony Gaona. It is a real estate and business mastermind. It also comes with a all in one CRM, that can host unlimited websites and users.

Starting the Hivemind has been an amazing journey so far. Seeing one of our users make his 6 figure month in June 2021 leveraging our software, I know there will be plenty more to come!

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