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It’s hard to deny that the market is shifting, maybe even changing. If you are hoping that you can just coast through it, you may need to start thinking about how you can take your existing skillset, and make it work for whatever comes next.
Josh Perez is the Principal Broker of Synergy Mortgage Group and is an investor.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How can you change with the market?
- What might be on the horizon of the market?
- What’s next for the industry.
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Transcript:
So how do you track new business? You constantly don’t have to chase it. Hi, I’m Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It’s your job to remind them. Let’s get started
What’s up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast. Books were you turning on the news, what the hell’s going on? What we’re gonna be focusing on this week’s episode is the next opportunity. If you tuned into our last show, we’re talking about switching up which direction the market is headed, and we’re chatting about, I believe it’s gonna be a seller’s, or I’m a real estate agent, I’m concentrating on seller seller seller sellers, because I believe that we’re going to start to see some distressed I think that things are going to hit the fan. And I don’t know how bad I don’t know if I don’t think it’s gonna be repeated 2008. But I do know that there is going to be something that happens, how bad I don’t know, but just you just have to turn on the news and see what the fuck is going on. Because it is insane. And a lot of things don’t make sense. So what we’re gonna be doing today is I want to bring on a mortgage broker, because I’ve been in the States, he’s in Canada, but whatever happens in the US goes to Canada. So I wanted to bring someone on from an outside perspective, off of what they see in our US market, what they’re doing. But he’s not just a mortgage broker, he’s also an investor, he does a lot of his investing in the state. So he’s got a good eye for seeing where opportunity is. And, again, I’m bringing the freakin cowbells adapt, or you are going to get your ass kicked, you have to adapt right now there’s no questions about it. Lead Generation marketing, you’re gonna have to do two to 3x more than what you did in the past business is not going to be easy, you’re gonna have to hustle. Welcome to the real world. 90% of the people in this business lenders and agents included have never seen a distressed market before because we haven’t been in one in 10 plus years. No one knows what’s gonna happen. That means the vast, vast majority of everyone in this industry has no fucking idea what to do when a shift occurs. That my friends is a big opportunity. All right, so we’re gonna bring on introduce our guest, Mr. Josh Perez. He’s with Synergy mortgage up in Canada. Josh, how you doing today? Once you go ahead and introduce yourself to the show. Tell everyone Hello, and a little bit about yourself.
Hey, Mike, thanks for having me. Super excited to come and chat with you. And yeah, see, you know, the whole lot of crazy things going on in real estate and in the world. It’s kind of been a steady theme over the past few years. Yeah. So you know, I’m a mortgage broker, a real estate investor, since 2010, was when I bought my first investment property. I was working in banking at the time. And then, you know, doing investment planning, retirements, mutual funds, as well as credit I just found after I bought my first investment property, I just wanted to soak everything up that had to do with real estate and building wealth through real estate. It’s been, you know, it’s been one of the most proven paths of building wealth over over time. And so, you know, I became very passionate about what you know, could do for me and my clients. And so, you know, after a few years of getting into real estate investing, I made the transition to mortgage brokering so I’m just only working in mortgages, with real estate, you know, we’re helping, you know, for most people, and not just Canada, US North America, buying a home is a huge financial milestone. It’s also you know, typically the biggest purchase, you’re gonna make biggest debt you’re going to take on, and also real estate being a huge opportunity to build wealth. Myself, my team, like we’re super passionate about helping people with that and what it can do to help people achieve and accelerate reaching their financial goals worked with a lot of partners in the space, real estate agents and helping them kind of tap into, you know, the education side on how we can just help so many more people with their financial goals and to fight inflation, the cost of things being so expensive these days, we often think about, you know, how do we save and cut here but, you know, we also I think, think equally need to think of how do we help grow this column of our finances right, and that’s, you know, acquiring assets income producing assets. So, that’s a big part of what we do. You know, I’m, you know, haven’t stopped investing in real estate since 2010. Started with, you know, duplex triplex got into apartment buildings. You know, 2020 Canada is kind of a tough place to to be like, like Mendoza, isn’t it? Yeah, it’s not motherfuckers crazy
up there. Mr. Trudeau. Guy’s a nutbag. And yeah, I don’t know if anyone is sort of like Biden here. Nobody likes him.
Yeah, so I found myself you know, moving to places that were a little bit more free. And yeah, I found myself in Florida had some close family ties there, you know, fortunate to be able to work remote in my line of work and so kind of planted there for two months in early 2021. And said, Listen, I gotta I gotta Spend more time here, I want to bring my family and people close to me down here. So I bought a place helped my parents buy a place. And then just what you know, people in real estate, do they start to kind of look around in places?
Would you say that when you do your loans, you do it from an investor’s mindset, versus a traditional residential mindset? Because most let’s be honest, most most lenders, it’s at least consumer friendly. They’re gonna think a realtor lender, their commodity, and you just want to get a loan most lenders, right? But if you’re coming from an investment mindset, that could be a value add, how do you play that in your business? Because I think that’s where the markets going, I think everyone is going to be very investment conscious. People will slowly start buying on emotion, and they’re going to start using the numbers again, like they did in the past. So what is your How do you approach that?
Yeah, so no, really good question. I think, you know, going deeper with the purchase of a real estate purchase is super important. Yeah, I need a loan today to close on this property to buy it right. But what are your plans for that property? Do you plan to stay in it for the rest of your life? Most people that’s not necessarily plan or how it’s gonna play out, right? Do you plan to add value to renovate the place? Like, is there an opportunity to create some upside and equity in the place and potentially talk about, hey, listen, if you do this to the property, boom, that’s like, that’s a source of capital, you can eventually tap into, and when done correctly, help kind of build wealth or put it elsewhere, if you’re investing it, potentially in real estate again, so investors, you know, kind of realize this, this concept of, you know, buying properties that might be a little bit distressed, or have upside in the sense of, you know, bringing a dated property to something that’s more modern and improved increasing rents. And then usually the money you spend on renovating or improving a property when done correctly equates to a number that’s higher than what you spent on it. Right. And so for a lot of people who don’t have unlimited sources of capital to keep, you know, putting money down to buy property, they use one property to to leverage to purchase the next one, right? So that that first purchase so for a homeowner who maybe that’s not their immediate plan, you we try to go deeper with you know, what are not just your your homeownership plans or purchase plans, but like, what else do you have going on in your world right now? How can use this opportunity to help you slowly build wealth and build a roadmap to accomplish some other things financially? So we just go deeper with kind of questioning and purposes of why why this home? Why this price point? Why this neighborhood and then just try to inform them and educate them with all you know, the opportunities that can come with real estate, to help them in their family moving forward.
So how would a realtor though, what do you believe a realtor should be doing in this market? Because I think you’re on I think agents need to be investor friendly. Most of them aren’t. Most agents don’t even have an investment property they own yet alone, working with an investor advising them how to cap rates, cash flow, and all of these other things. So how would you as a realtor adjust to this market is I don’t know what’s doing in Canada, but things have slowed down here a little bit. In most markets have slowed down. We’ve seen a depreciation, but it’s still busy. It’s so weird, because it’s still there’s lack of inventory. So things are still selling, although the prices have come down a little bit because of inflation rates all the above. So so so odd. It’s such an odd time. It’s such an odd market.
Yeah, we’ve found here and I pay attention to a lot of markets in the US like there’s, you know, with the with the run up over the last, I think, was listening to Barry Habib, who’s a great resource. Yeah, last, I think it was like around 12 years, it’s just been steady appreciation in real estate, you know, nationally in the US, and we’ve had like ultra low interest rates. And now in the last, you know, in the last, you know, 1218 months, we start to see a run up in rates, the cost of boring, has increased dramatically. And, you know, the price of real estate hasn’t really come down to the point where like, that increase in borrowing costs is like matched the deal you can get on the house. So, you know, conversations, you know, 12 months ago, were largely about, you know, helping people who cost of goods and inflation is already running rampant. But now, cost of borrowing was kind of a lagging piece, that now is just only exasperate grading the problem of affordability right so it’s just, you know, for realtors and other professionals in the space, you know, my biggest recommendation is like, don’t you got to be there for your clients. There’s there’s not like they need to be heard. Sometimes there’s opportunities where you can help them sometimes it’s just providing them with context and perspective of what all their options are and there might not be any good ones, but making sure you’re there for them to so that they know they’ve exhausted everything that’s possible or Okay listen, this is an opportunity right now when rates are you know 5.99 But if rates come down to like 5.25% for your situation. This is where we can kind of take advantage of it, where we can free up, you know, a few $100 a month in cash flow, pay down some other debt that we’re carrying, but not right now. And so we built kind of a roadmap of what all our options are, you know, I know, we didn’t ever plan to sell this house, but you know, how has that conversation, you know, come up, and just having some hard conversations, you know, with clients who you know, might be suffering, just be there for them. So that was a big part of the year, and then you know, those people will always remember that you were available for them to help and share your expertise and educate when there wasn’t a transaction there for you to, you know, potentially close, I found that, you know, most of our, you know, we’re in the relationship business, most of my business is referral based and has been for the last, you know, 910 years. And it’s, you know, not every conversation is going to be one that leads to immediate sale. But listen, you know, we’re, again, I was being to it earlier, like buying a home or an investment property, it’s like the biggest purchase, someone’s going to make the largest debt they’re going to take on, we want clients to take it seriously. And we should take it seriously too. And that might involve quite a few conversations before and after helping someone and being there for them. And they’re going to remember that and tell their friends, their family, their co worker that hey, every single time, you know, there’s a there’s a rate announcement happening. Yeah, I know, Josh, and I had the same conversation last time. But you know, what my wife is, you know, has anxiety about this thing, or when the news pops up, or social media or friend talks about it. It just, we get concerned. And we just, you know, you’re you’re the kind of, you’re the person, that’s the kind of the voice of reason, or at least laying everything out for us once again, going back to the fundamentals of our plan. And so that that’s been a big part of the last year and now is like rates have, you know, hopefully kind of stabilized a little bit and come down a bit, since what we hope that peak is, there’s just no lack of demand for real estate, okay. And so even though transactions have been largely down in both Canada and the US like, majorly, it’s not for a lack of wanting, like people’s goals, for homeownership and building wealth, and real estate investment haven’t changed. It’s just, you know, the fear, the fear piece, right has scared people to put them on the sidelines. And also just the cost, the cost of boring doing business are increased, right, so margins are thinner, and opportunities need to be vetted a little bit more, and I’ve just found on our end of things, you know, I look at my kind of my conversion, you know, my conversion over the last, you know, six, seven years hasn’t swayed from, you know, 30, to 38% of leads into closing, right, and what I’ve noticed in the last six months of conversion has gone downward to about 20%. Just because the sales processes a lot longer people’s appetite. And just you know what, when rates were, you know, in Canada, they’re a little bit lower than the bottom of the US, you know, one and 2%. I mean, it was tougher to find reasons not to borrow money to do something with it, then, to actually find the reasons of why it’s justified to borrow, borrow money to invest, do that home renovation, throw a pool in the backyard, go invest buy two, three properties, because capital is so cheap, and the cash flow you’re going to generate on that it’s going to pay all the bills. But when things change, right, the math is a little bit different, people are spooked, they gotta look a little bit harder, they gotta try a bit harder. They gotta build, you know, their power teams got a little bit be a little bit stronger in terms of the resources. So right now, I think, you know, long answer to your question, is that, yeah, I think opportunities are coming. They’re not crystal clear just yet. But you know, there are a lot of different macro economic things that we’ve seen happen over the past couple of years. So we’re seeing, you know, wars, we’re seeing bank collapses, you know, this money printing has just been unbelievable. In supply we’re seeing now we’re seeing some things happening to do with, you know, oil and currencies that, you know, I don’t think we’re just starting to see, we haven’t really seen anything, actually, except for dialogue around some of the BRIC countries now coming up the dollar with, you know, trade and oil. And there’s going to be some big implications of that, right. And while you know, supply and demand with, like, the demand side of real estate, is stronger than it’s ever been. There’s gonna be some macro economic factors that come into play that might shift the whole dynamic of supply and demand and pricing and costs of boring. So it’s gonna lead to opportunities, right? One way or another is just you want to have the people around you to be the right resources to help you identify and present them to you, along with you, you know, investigating what might be there for you to invest in for you and your family to take advantage of for the next five to 10 years. In my books.
If you listen to what we’re talking about, we’re talking about repositioning your business like the days of you going out there man, I can help you get in a car and go help you find the jungles of your dreams like those are fucking done. What we’re talking about is repositioning and approaching your business like a financial planner, but for real estate, focus on the investment side, keep people out of trouble and talk them out of buying more houses and you talk them into it. And that positioning alone will help build your authority. If you look at his numbers right there, he’s converting half is converting about 40% less than he was a year ago, and would be in the show. So what you have to do, you have to work twice as hard, you have to market twice as hard, you have to create twice as much content, because the transaction count is down. And every indication right here is, is going towards like, Hey, you have to analyze the investment aspect of it. Like, and it’s you have to be investor friendly. You guys in these markets and investor friend doesn’t mean only working with investments, it means stop selling people houses, or homes and start selling them wealth. There’s a difference in how you position your business. And if you’re just a typical realtor, you’re just a typical lender that can get them the standard rate than anybody can, you’re just a fucking commodity, you have to reposition and you have to own a niche, the niche I’m screaming from the rooftops right now is investing. The reason for this is that investors are not going to be emotional about a purchase, they’re not going to sit on the sidelines, they’re sitting on the sidelines right now waiting to pounce, and all of those investors are not going to buy one or two properties, they’re gonna buy three, or four or five, and they’re gonna keep fucking buying them. And then you’re gonna get a listing on the other side for the ones that are turning them over quickly. So what I’m screaming here, and why we have Josh on this on this call is because everything he’s talking about is telling you what skills you need to develop to obtain market share to obtain transactions. And the last in this community, the vast majority, a lot of people who go out of business, if this shift happened, it’s already happening in the lending world out here, I could tell you guys we used to do about, we used to script and distribute videos for lots of lenders, we lost almost all of them. And that’s because they’re not transacting, right, they have to cut costs. Right. So when you know this is happening, there’s a big opportunity here. And the opportunity is is that we know our current competition, whether you’re a lender or agent, your peers are losing transactions, and many of them are going out of business. That’s an opportunity for you. Right? But ultimately, what are people going to look for in this next market? Who is the agent that can actually go out there and analyze and say, Well, look, the other rate today is 5.25. But due to inflation, and we know that do that, that the recession is, is here that rates traditionally go down, according to Barry Habib, and you need to know this stuff, guys, because these are the conversations people are gonna have I could tell you in the last crash, no one talked about its highest and best. Everyone talked about, give me the fuck out of the situation. And you got to get that traditional mindset out of your head the highest and best, highest and best, get that out of your mindset. Because in a distressed market, no one cares about highest and best, they care about what’s best for them. That’s not always the highest price. Sometimes that’s involving them selling more conveniently. Sometimes it’s involving them doing a 1031 exchange. Because it’s an investment. Sometimes they’re going to be asking you to hey, is this a good investment, and that’s going to be bringing its property to its highest and best use, which means you need to know the zoning laws, you need to know opportunity. You need to know cost. You need to know investment costs. You need to know rehab costs. Because anyone who’s going to hire you, you are going to ask these questions. And if you can’t answer them, I’m going to Redfin with a flux of difference.
Yeah, the opportunity to to work and help families with investing in real estate is is so sky high, because you said it earlier is you know, once someone buys one, one rental property, and if it’s cash flowing, working out for them, they’re just gonna want to keep doing it. Right. So you rarely meet an investor who buys one property and stops there. And I think one thing that gets missed for people who aren’t, you know, in tune or educated on real estate investing is just like, the two most important pieces with with real estate when done correctly leverage and control. So, you know, typically, if you have $100,000, okay, you can buy $100,000 worth of stock or mutual funds or bonds. But with real estate, you know, when you’re looking at buying a rental property, most places the general rules candidate us are if you have $100,000, and you’re buying investment property, you can buy a $500,000 asset 20% down. Yep. So $100,000 in the stock market gets you $100,000 worth of stock mutual funds in real estate, it’s 505 times your investment, why that’s important. Dollar rising the math, okay, so we’re not here to kind of like speculate on you know, appreciate but but if you look at it this way, okay, if over a tenant like you take one year, okay. 5% appreciation on that on that $500,000 house. So if that house goes up 5% $25,000 $25,000 divided by your 100,000 investment. That’s a 25% rate of return on your initial capital 5% and appreciation equals 25% on your capital. The stock market, if the stock market goes up 5% 5% On your capital, you need to actually get a 25% rate of return in the stock market to generate 25.
So in that, and you said that perfectly but that’s what that conversation is the conversations that are going to start happening in the kitchen tables across the countries, Canada do any United States and that’s that’s the conversations that need to be have. And it’s too often that like, and I see it every day, because because most let’s be honest, like the average Asia I don’t know what is in Canada and the United States us six houses a year. Like that’s it like a very comparable, it’s, it’s it’s insane. It’s like, first I don’t know how you can only sell six houses a year, you have to be closet agent, like you literally have to hide for six for 12 months to only sell six houses a year, like you’re gonna walk past 40 5060 100 people they’re gonna be in the market, just over the course of three months, you got a loan go year, the only sound sticks out. So that’s another show, right?
Well, that’s like, you know what I heard a quote, I have a lot of realtor partners and colleagues who are with Keller Williams, I know that they’re one of the biggest brokerages I’m pretty sure in the US. And I go to a conference there every year. And I remember Gary Keller mentioned a quote that like for me, because I’ve invest in real estate, like I get it, but it just kind of opened my eyes even more and then I hope it did for I’m sure it did for a lot of people’s, like, every great investment deal. Has through the hands of at least one real estate agent usually. Yeah. So like, they could have had the opportunity of buying it. But it passed with their hands, they looked at it or they didn’t look at it. They weren’t capable or didn’t understand or realize it but like every great amazing deal typically is passed through someone’s hands and it’s just like, why does that have to be the case? You know, what, like, not everyone has unlimited capital, but it was just like, that’s that’s a funny concept right? If we know the return of something an opportunity that’s there like why don’t we try to take advantage of it or work toward being in a position to be able to take advantage of it
right so we have a total perfect story so like we have a seller lead generation we set seller appointments and a different business for those are interested in that that’s called owner advocate agent.com owner advocate agent.com And we give sellers multiple options to sell their property so we give them a fix and list program a bridge loan a cash offer a sale leaseback and we have an offering our offering is like the Expedia of real estate, you know, pick your five, six different ways to sell your house, you pick which one is right for you, they’re all gonna have different knots, they’re all gonna have different time links and processes. It’s just based upon the goals you want. So we’re selling through options. But yesterday we get a we get a we send out a lead and the lead that house is owned outright. It’s worth 350 He only owes 87,000 on it. And the lead goes specifically says hey, I don’t want to be he goes I don’t want to relist with a realtor, I just want a cash offer. I’m gonna move down to Tennessee and I’m gonna fucking retire, guys is done. He’s 87 years old, he eases over it, you know, this is a perfect investment opportunity for a investor, right? So in the lead up to the agent, agent goes, doesn’t even like didn’t follow up with the investor yet. I’m like, Dude, what are you doing this like goldmine. And he’s just like, he wasn’t approaching it. Like, why didn’t I just buy this? He’s approaching it as a listing agent. And he was about to not even call the person because they said, Hey, I don’t want to talk to a realtor. Would you rather make a $7,500 commission on the $300,000 house? Or would you rather make about $75,000. And it’s that mindset, and you’re right every single year, and I don’t come across them anymore, because I’m no longer really practicing in San Diego, but Chicago, like, gosh, you’re you guys are just naturally going to come across a home run one to three times a year. Naturally, that’s without even looking at just because you’re in the business, right? Yeah. And the question is, do you have the skills to take that fucker down yourself? That’s what it comes down to? And if you don’t, why aren’t you going out and finding them? And why aren’t you going out and doing that? Why don’t you learn this? Why don’t you go and meet guys like Josh or partner with people or go and hire grant cardones coaching company or whatever, go there’s millions of freakin education out there. You guys can learn this stuff. It’s nothing you go to college for I promise you that you learned from other people that are doing it. And then guess what you have? Because here’s what happens like Josh was me. And you were sitting there having a kitchen conversation. And you’re telling me about how many doors you now need 90 doors and just the fact you said Yeah, I have 90 doors. I’m not even fucking interviewing anyone else. You’re going to talk through experience based upon what you do. And then the positioning from that instantly you have my respect. So I own 90 doors and here’s how I finance all of them. Because I’m all about cash flow. Are you interested in cash flow, Mr. Seller and Mr. Buyer? Well, yeah, well, here’s what I did in my scenario, and then here’s what I would recommend doing in yours. You have the track record to do that. And I could promise you that there’s not too many mortgage brokers out there that Oh 90 doors that put positioning as you’re selling a totally different product and service, you are no longer a commodity, you are an expert.
And that’s, you know, what, how we’ve positioned our business our team is being like, teaching by doing right. And and I think it’s, I’m just passionate about it, because I can see how how real estate investing can build wealth. And the fortunate thing that, you know, mortgage brokers and realtors have in their business is like, you know, we’re not selling like widgets, or pens, we’re actually involved in something that is super, super meaningful to the large majority of the population, homeownership building wealth, you know, and a lot of times, it’s just comes down to go in deeper with your clients and explaining, okay, people talk about building wealth or generational, but like, what does it teach person? Is it being able to retire at all, or retire? living life on your own terms, travel, pay for your kids education, pay down debt, pay off your mortgage faster? What is it to you helping a family member in need? Right? So there’s just such an opportunity that it’s okay, if you don’t understand real estate investing right now. But don’t put yourself in a box and say, I don’t do that you have to do that, whether it’s for clients, or for yourself and your family, you’re right in front of you. It’s so easy, and it’s not complicated. That’s the thing, right? Oh, 90 doors? Well, it’s, you know, it’s been very purposeful over the last 12 years, and also the real estate investment community, at least from Canada. And I’ve started getting involved in the US and we have one of our big educational groups that have just migrated to the US right now. You can hit me up for that as well. And I’m happy to make some connections in a few different states. But people in the real estate investment community are usually very open books and willing to share and very much of a pay it forward mentality. So we have so many opportunities to lean on those resources to to learn and educate if you’re not there. And then you could pass that on to your clients. But even if you don’t want to do that, do it use it for yourself. Because like I said, the leverage piece. The other thing that’s often forgotten is, you know, every month that you know, like, so you have leverage, right. So so the appreciation factor is nice, okay? If you can achieve it long term, which you should. And next, you know, principle pay down. So this is another concept, every if you have a renter in a house or two renters, right, and the total rental income, that total rental income is at least breaking even with the expenses you have on the house. Keep in mind that every month your mortgage is getting paid down, getting paid down, so So the tenants are paying down the mortgage for you and every month that your mortgage goes down 500 or $1,000 a month, that’s 500 to $1,000 a month more of equity you have in your house. So on a typical mortgage amortization schedule, every year like at rates. So when rates are in like the two to 3% range on that investment property, what that pay down equate equated to was about nine to 10% per year of equity game. Now, depending on where you’re at with your rates, if you’re in the four or five 6% range, that pay down factor is about three to like somewhere between three and 4%. So you do nothing every year. Okay. And if you just broke even, you’re making today about 4% per year. Okay, that’s not including appreciation. And then there’s cashflow cashflow, you can determine before you pull the trigger and buy, you can ask you can see what the rents are, or you can estimate very closely what something can rent for. So if you know you’re buying a house at 400 $500,000, and you’re going to collect $1,200 A month times two units $2,400 We work and these are the things like these are the conversations we’re a part of with our clients. well in advance. So client comes to us, hey, never invest in real estate before. What can I do? How can I do it? Where do I get money from it? Will I get cash flow? Can I payment, we’re here to map it out and illustrate every version of what’s possible for you. So that there’s no kind of guessing after you get the keys and get your first month. So it’s all pies the best, highest and best the other main thing so we talked about, you know, leverage so the concept of $100 Gets you $500 of real estate $100,000 downpayment gets you 500,000 in real estate. Now, there’s principal pay down someone else paying down the mortgage for you, and there’s monthly cash flow. So every month few $100 Maybe $1,000 a month, positive between your rental income, your expenses, those are three different ways that your rate of return. So over the long haul, like when you hear people sometimes Grant Cardone other people saying, Oh, I’m getting 25 to 40% annually on my investment that is a real number. That’s real when you add in appreciation, cashflow and principal pay down. We talked about you know, a 5% appreciation equals actually a 25% rate of return Okay, if you’re taking a five or 10 year period, I think that’s a reasonable number to work off of, then you add in, you know, two to 5% in cash flow, and then you add in four to 10%. At different times and principal pay down, you’re easily there. So that’s, that’s massive over a long period of time. This is this is why investors when they understand this concept, and it only takes you know, a couple of conversations, and we’d like to dollarized things, right, I don’t like when we talk just all these percentages verbally and through these, I want to show you in dollars with dollars that you have access to the math and I find that when you illustrate these things, it can be a lot more powerful. One gets into one property. This is why we have clients that by four or five, you’re educating
me like you’re teaching me but you’re also demonstrating your expertise. talk’s cheap guys, you got to have the experience or the skill set to demonstrate. And that’s ultimately comes down to there’s a, I think just knowing your market highest and best, like, I’ll give you an example in in California, crazy Governor Newsom passed a zoning ordinance because it was like a big housing crisis. And it basically removed all r1 zoning, which basically means that if you have a single family home, you could pop in like two or three Airbnb ease on it. So there’s some people making killer cash right now. Now, I told you guys are gonna have to work harder in this market. So I’m gonna give you a fucking really easy one, I’m going out and I’m finding all the irregular lot sizes, okay, that Airbnbs can fit on multiple of them all residential properties. And then I’m going to cross check that data with distress, I’m gonna see which of those people have high credit card debt, which of those people have been in the house for long, and which of them have a shitload of equity, how old they are, and all of it, and then I’m going to fucking door knocking or cold call them with an offer. Because the same thing happened when that switch to cannabis in California and those right when I moved here, and I remember that that time, they just switched to zoning. So and there are so many people that didn’t realize overnight, that their land value just because of the zoning change literally shot up to seven figures because you can now grow cannabis on it. And and the people who made a lot of money in that were the ones who knew the zoning laws, and they would go out and buy the property. And then they could turn around and flip it easily for probably a million dollar profit because the zoning what you could do with it in the future. So knowing highest and best use in your market, not just on the property in the cosmetics and adding a bedroom adding a bathroom, but the zoning to it, what can you do with it? This is what’s gonna be required to survive in these markets, I firmly believe that every real estate team will eventually be a hybrid investor offering. I think that that’s the future real estate. I don’t think I think commissions are gonna get compressed, eventually. They already are in many areas. And with that, you’re gonna have to think a little bit smarter. But what if you had to buy an arm into your team or your brokerage even as a mortgage broker? You’re doing it right now? You’re not starving Are you know, the rates dip right now and you have a slow six months? Do you? Are you really going to be affected? Because you have 90 doors? No, five?
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I’m talking about yeah, that’s, it’s just, you know, it’s building for tomorrow, you don’t know what’s around the corner. You know, everyone has, you know, different values or obligations and family and stuff like that. But it’s always just thinking about, you know, what’s happening today, it’s not going to be what things are, like, you know, tomorrow, next week, next year, so you got to plan for the unexpected, and a big thing for me that kind of wrap my head around, you know, constantly wanting to do more in my mortgage business or real estate investing was framed before and it was just like, listen, like if you have opportunities that are available to you as a result of you know, you working to educate or your resources and your circle, and you’re not taking advantage of them. Like are you really responsible? Are you responsible to the people within your business? Like, are you are you putting off opportunities that could help you know, some members of my team because there’s more revenue that can come into the company? If I told you know, my wife or kids five years from now, hey, yeah, you know, what I could have? I could have earned or grew our net worth by X amount. But you know, I just
didn’t we could have had a vacation home in Florida kids, but I just decided not to, they’d be pretty pissed at you probably right now. No, he’s
fine. Like, you know, sometimes people are like, oh, you know, I’m good. It’s slow, but I’m okay. I’m happy. Like, what? Why should I want to do more uncomfortable a things can change. That’s the number one thing, right? And number two is like you know, think about your family. Think about the other people maybe putting yourself in position and be able to help a family member in need. And maybe that will motivate you a little bit more if you’re content with your current situation. Think about the other people around you that you care about. And it should be you should look at it as your duty right I think CARDONE says it to success is your duty. Well, if you look at it a little bit deeper as like, you know, not everyone has opportunities in front of them to pursue that can help build wealth. A lot of us do have that, especially working in real estate, the right in front of us everywhere. It’s just a matter of building your team and resources and want wanting to learn and grow. That’s the key part.
Folks, if you’re not going to events, like I I in oh seven, when I did it all the short sales it was most successful I’ve had in my career, I forced myself to learn that. And because I saw the opportunity, and I learned it for two to three years, I was going to every conference and it took a while to learn. But the result, the end result of that was like we made millions of dollars. Like, you have to want to learn and educate yourself. But we’re telling you guys what to learn and educate on is the skill set, go deeper in real estate, don’t just sell it, don’t just sell loans, invest in loans and invest in do it yourself. But if you can’t get there to do it yourself yet, you still need to know about these terms, cashflow, highest and best use. You need to know credit financing programs to leverage debt, you know, big things like there’s a ton of investment friendly programs that are out there. Right now. I don’t know if they have them up. And I think that loans are a little different Canada in the United States. But there’s there’s a lot of asset based loans that are meant for investors that you can leverage.
Yeah. commercial, commercial, like the average. Yeah.
And if not just me, there’s a ton of private money. And you probably have all of the private money right on your Facebook feed. Like if you just reached out and just went to some of your friends, like, why can’t you start syndicating deals? It’s not hard to get the money, you just have to actually try it. But it all starts by educating yourself. Where would you suggest people where did where did you get learned about investing? And then we’ll get the show wrapped up? If you want to give any people some final advice?
Yeah, you know, in Canada, it was a group Real Estate Investment Network, I promise you you Google real estate investing or honestly, I’m always a big advocate of getting introductions from people I know. So anyone in your circle, if you’re in real estate, you have to know someone whose real estate investing, go ask them first, you’ll also you also build a deeper connection with that person as a result of expressing that you want to learn more, right? I guarantee you majority of those people, when you ask them will be happy to share plenty of resources with you, you’ll get an immediate connection. So that’s where you go online YouTube, there’s you know, a few pretty good follows you know, Grant Cardone is a great, great follow, I’ll share, maybe I’ll send you some notes of some of my top people in real estate investing, but I mean, talk to the people,
I’m gonna have to pay for that. What are you talking about, I’m gonna have to pay to buy a course, you can’t pay, I can’t pay $500 To buy a course, that’s not a good investment of my time. Instead, I’m gonna go to college and rack up a $40,000 debt that I’ll never pay back.
Like, that’d be a great episode, the college comparison. Yeah, like
books, investors, people selling info, Spy it, they’re not selling info, if they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Yeah, there’s some fake fake people out there. But it’s pretty easy to spot them out and just start learning that the reality is, is that like, you’ll buy many courses, and you’ll pick up a little golden nugget out of each one. My only goal with events and buying courses was like, if I could just get one thing out of this, I’m thrilled. And there’s always one thing and every bit of information that you buy, otherwise, that information has been
sold. Every, every single time you pull something from events, that’s a big piece, but talk to your own circle, use Google, you’ll have you know, my contact information, I’m willing to share my own, you know, resources, you know, a lot of them in Canada, a lot of them in the US to starting fresh in the US when I came down here a couple of years ago, got a great community that’s growing with that have you know, we’re aligned with our goals, a lot of great real estate agents, investors, community, the group that I’m part of wealth genius here is now when I think like nine different states and they’re growing rapidly, I’m actually coming down to Ohio, in June for a boots on the ground events. So basically, they will walk through a bunch of sample investment properties that might you know, look attractive that are currently on the market, get to know the city in a few different areas. So looking forward, and they’re doing that all over the country actually so interesting.
Well appreciate it Josh. Why don’t you tell everyone where they can find you give them your handle really quick or where they can connect with you and we’ll get this rep. Yeah, best.
Thanks for having Mike. It was a pleasure. Best place to reach me is on Instagram underscore Perez Josh. You can also reach out to me by email Josh at Synergy mortgage group.com
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