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181: Finding Deals & Scaling in a Competitive Market with Lauren Hardy
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
English - June 30, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 16.3K ratingsInvesting Business Education estate finance invest investing wealth flipping realestate rentalproperty rental property Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Let’s be honest: It can be tough to find a great deal in today’s competitive real estate market. If you find yourself in that situation, you are going to love today’s show! Today we hear from Lauren Hardy, a house flipper and wholesaler in the highly competitive Southern California market who overcame a rough beginning to scale her business to several deals a month. You’ll love Lauren’s honesty about quitting her job too early and her straightforward approach to finding deals, evaluating a market, and creating systems that allow her to work and live a full life. And grab some scratch paper — this is definitely one show you are going to want to take some notes on!
In This Episode We Cover:
What to do when you hail from an expensive location
How Lauren got started in real estate
Her very first deal
Why she loves condos
Things to consider when investing in condos
How she quit her job — and failed
How she spent $25,000 — and got no deals
Lauren’s tweaks to her direct mail marketing
How she scaled to 2 to 3 deals a month
How Lauren’s business works
How she uses Podio to make her processes easier
How she estimates rehab costs
What exactly cash for keys is
Flipping shows vs. flipping in real life
How she funds her deals with hard money and private money lenders
Where is she going with her business
How many hours she works in a week
And SO much more!
Links from the Show
BiggerPockets Webinar
ListSource
REISource
Google Earth
Darren Daily
BiggerPockets Udemy Course
Books Mentioned in this Show
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor by Amanda Han
Building Wealth One House at a Time, Updated and Expanded by John Schaub
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren Hardy
Tweetable Topics:
“I love what I do, so it doesn’t feel like work.” (Tweet This!)
Connect with Lauren
Lauren’s BiggerPockets Profile
Lauren’s Facebook Profile
Lauren’s Instagram
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let’s be honest: It can be tough to find a great deal in today’s competitive real estate market. If you find yourself in that situation, you are going to love today’s show! Today we hear from Lauren Hardy, a house flipper and wholesaler in the highly competitive Southern California market who overcame a rough beginning to scale her business to several deals a month. You’ll love Lauren’s honesty about quitting her job too early and her straightforward approach to finding deals, evaluating a market, and creating systems that allow her to work and live a full life. And grab some scratch paper — this is definitely one show you are going to want to take some notes on!
In This Episode We Cover:
What to do when you hail from an expensive location
How Lauren got started in real estate
Her very first deal
Why she loves condos
Things to consider when investing in condos
How she quit her job — and failed
How she spent $25,000 — and got no deals
Lauren’s tweaks to her direct mail marketing
How she scaled to 2 to 3 deals a month
How Lauren’s business works
How she uses Podio to make her processes easier
How she estimates rehab costs
What exactly cash for keys is
Flipping shows vs. flipping in real life
How she funds her deals with hard money and private money lenders
Where is she going with her business
How many hours she works in a week
And SO much more!
Links from the Show
BiggerPockets Webinar
ListSource
REISource
Google Earth
Darren Daily
BiggerPockets Udemy Course
Books Mentioned in this Show
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor by Amanda Han
Building Wealth One House at a Time, Updated and Expanded by John Schaub
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren Hardy
Tweetable Topics:
“I love what I do, so it doesn’t feel like work.” (Tweet This!)Connect with Lauren
Lauren’s BiggerPockets Profile
Lauren’s Facebook Profile
Lauren’s Instagram
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices