WHAT IS YOUR WHY? GRANT TREVITHICK
Wow, if it were that easy, I would
want to jump into the game as well. It
surely would beat having to get up
each day and head into an office,
attend meeting after meeting, make
nice with an incompetent boss, do all
my work, and then go home and do
the same thing every day for the rest
of my life. That does not sound like
fun… so perhaps we can escape this
trap by being a real estate investor.
After all, I can make as much money
as I make in a year doing 3 to 4
houses, at least according to the television shows.
Then you have the 1%. Yes, only 1%. The statistic
that I heard many times is that the top 1% of all real
WRONG!
estate investors make 98% of the money. My
experience proves this out. We have trained
Virtually every real estate investor that I have ever met
thousands of people, while we have one of the
only talks about the glamorous part of the business.
industry highest success rates for those that have
They only talk about how much money they make and
attended our training (allot of our students ended up
how much fun they are having. First off, most of the
buying houses), yet very few of them have the
ones that do the talking are the ones that have never
dedication that is required to truly be successful.
bought or sold a house (at least according to my
experience).
To be a successful investor, you must know What Is
Your Why? Why do you want to become an investor?
The reality is there are two types of real estate
Are you doing this to escape a boring and a
investors: the normal real estate investor and the
mundane life? Are you doing this just to become
successful real estate investor.
rich? Why do you think that you want to be an
investor?
The normal investor attends allot of classes and reads
allot of books or online. They may even sign up with
Are you willing to work hard? Are you willing to work
one of the local or one of the traveling mentors / gurus.
6 days a week, and sometimes 7? Are you willing to
They attend allot of the networking groups for
work on the holidays? Are you going to be available
investors. They may look at several properties, but
to do business whenever your clients are ready? (My
have never pulled the trigger to actually buy one. They
definition of an entrepreneur is someone that is
talk a good game, but are more of the posers than the
willing to work 100 hours a week so you do not have
doers.
to work 40.)