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What is Your Why? Investors Contemplate Life, pg. 34
They may even sign up with one
of the local or one of the traveling
mentors / gurus. They attend allot of
the networking groups for investors.
They may look at several properties,
but have never pulled the trigger to
actually buy one. They talk a good
game, but are more of the posers than
the doers.
Then you have the 1%. Yes, only
1%. The statistic that I heard many
times is that the top 1% of all real
estate investors make 98% of the
money. My experience proves this
out. We have trained thousands of
people, while we have one of the in-
dustry highest success rates for those
that have attended our training (allot
of our students ended up buying
houses), yet very few of them have
the dedication that is required to truly
be successful.
To be a successful investor, you
must know What Is Your Why? Why
do you want to become an investor?
Are you doing this to escape a boring
and a mundane life? Are you doing
this just to become rich? Why do
you think that you want to be an
investor?
put 30,000+ miles on your car / truck
each year? Are you willing to work
when it is 105 degrees in the summer?
When it is thundering and raining?
How about when it is 5 degrees and
snowing? Or icing?
Are you willing to clean out dirty
nasty houses? Dealing with flea
and bed bug infested houses? Drug
houses? Are you willing to clean dirty
kitchens, with food left over for weeks
or even months? Scrub toilets that are
just plain nasty and disgusting?
Are you willing to listen to the
most heartbreaking excuses and still
ask someone to get out of the house?
Are you willing to spend thousands of
dollars on lawyers taking houses back
when the seller uses the law to avoid
paying their mortgage payments and
yet do not want to move out? Are you
willing to be discouraged, wonder if
you will ever buy and or sell another
house again, feel like a total failure?
And still get out of bed each morning
and do what has to be done?
Are you willing to work hard? Are
you willing to work 6 days a week,
and sometimes 7? Are you willing
to work on the holidays? Are you
going to be available to do business
whenever your clients are ready?
(My definition of an entrepreneur is
someone that is willing to work 100
hours a week so you do not have to
work 40.) Funny, they do not show that part
of the business on television, do they?
If you cannot answer, “absolutely,
sounds like fun” to each one of these,
then real estate investing is not right
for you. If you can think of anything
else to do that would allow you to
reach your goals, then my best advice
is forget being a real estate investor
and pursue that other avenue. If, on
the other hand, you cannot imagine
doing anything else, then perhaps you
might have what it takes to be suc-
cessful.
Are you willing to fail more times
than you succeed? Are you willing to
be discouraged and disappointed? re
you willing to spend hours and hours
in your car each day? Leaving early
in the morning and get home late
in the evening? Are you willing to Real estate investing is a marathon,
not a sprint. If you do investing right,
it is not a get rich quick scheme.
Working our model, you can become
a millionaire in a short period of time,
if you are willing to work hard enough
and run the business in an honest
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manner. But only if you know your
Why. And only if your Why is strong
enough.
For me, I love helping people. In
our company, our first and primary
goal is to always put our clients first
and do whatever we can to help them.
We buy houses that people are trapped
in, giving them the financial freedom
move on without the burden of their
mortgage. We then sell those houses to
good families that desire to have a part
of the American Dream, owning their
own home, but cannot get a mortgage
from a bank (for whatever reason).
We help investors by realizing their
dreams of becoming a successful
investor. And last but not least, we
donate the first ten percent of all our
profits to charity to help those less
fortunate.
That is my why. That is what yanks
me out of bed every morning, excites
me to make each day as full as I pos-
sibly can, with me ready to contribute
and help as many people as possible.
Of course, along the way we make
enough money to become financially
comfortable, but our Company never
makes money our number one prior-
ity. And I think that is what makes us
successful. What is Your Why?
Grant Trevithick,
after a successful
career in EDS and
AT&T, is now the
owner of Owner Fi-
nance Homes LLC
and Owner Finance Academy LLC.
Owner Finance Homes LLC operates
throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area
in Texas, buying houses and selling
with owner financing. Owner Finance
Academy trains people to become real
estate investors using owner financing.
The Company is accredited by the
Better Business Bureau with an “A+”
rating.

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