Why Real Estate Clubs?
Your Local Real Estate Club May hold the Answers!
By Jimmy V. Reed
So why spend your hardearned money going to a local real estate club? And which clubs should I attend? Why not just search out all my questions on the internet? Even better, there are so many YouTube videos out there. I can just learn everything that way. Well, all I can say is Good Luck!
You see, real estate investing is a business and yes you can learn a lot of things online. However, not everything online is as it seems to suggest. I’ ve been investing for nearly forty years in Fort Worth, Texas. I have seen a lot of investors come and go. And all were supposably real estate experts. The key to knowing who the real experts are is knowing what they have survived! See, there are still a lot of getrichquick folks out there but it’ s now harder to spot them. With today’ s technology, they all seem to be experts because they are so savvy at social media marketing.
Many of todays gurus are all social media sensations with hundreds of thousands of followers and video views. But have they really got the experience you need to survive the everchanging real estate market?
Well, that is where your local real estate club comes in. You see many clubs will bring in local experts and national experts in certain fields of real estate investing. These experts can give you the knowledge in specific areas based on their experience in real estate. Now the other side to this is, is the club a good club? Are they bringing in the Warren Buffett’ s of real estate or someone who has been in it a few years and made a lot of money selling you their trainings? Now I am totally for good training, and no it’ s never free. There is always something downstream they are going to hook you on that costs money. Now I say this just so you understand trainings can be great, just know they do cost. I prefer to know right up front so I can focus on what they are selling and how or if it can help me.
That’ s life. People pay to go to school to be surgeons, architects, pilots etc. Would you want a pilot who learned everything online to fly you across country? Your flight will be his first real life experience of flying, in the air! How about brain surgery from a doctor who learned online, and you are only his 5th patient ever! I don’ t think so. I want the person with the most reallife experience doing all these things. The same goes for real estate investing. I want those who have survived the ups and downs of real estate investing to teach me what to do and when. I want to learn how to avoid the pitfalls.
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